thursday was not my best day. on my way to bank i received a speeding ticket, the first one in about 20 years. then at the bank the manager wouldn't cash a cheque payable to me and the lovely mrs myskin even though she had endorsed it. i was in a foul mood after the speeding ticket and used my favorite word quite loudly so he said that he would "work with me" to resolve the problem. it took a few minutes but it was resolved and i was on my way.
after arriving home i discovered that my desktop computer would only give me a black screen. no matter how much i threatened to thrash it, it just wouldn't work. i was forced to fire up the emergency netbook i purchased when sonny left town. a quick phone call to sonny didn't resolve the problem. i have to wait for sonny's next trip to town for a proper diagnosis. there's a good chance i'm paying for my past sins of file sharing.
i hate using little keyboards so the fast food princess set me up with her old desktop until things get resolved. it's old and only has 1 gb of ram so things are running quite slowly. using a different computer is prompting the financial institutions i deal with to ask me lots of questions to which i forget the answers i provided years ago resulting in phone calls, lots of time put on hold and having to kiss the arse of several strangers working at call centers.
i'd happily go buy a new desktop but the old one has a lot of important stuff on it. until it's declared deader than a doornail i'll wait for a visit from sonny. so far i get the impression he doesn't share my sense of urgency. so it goes.
and just for good measure i re-injured a pulled groin muscle whilst doing some stretching exercises last night. i had a 15 lb weight in each hand and was letting gravity work it's magic while touching my toes. it's a great way to stretch but it's also easy to over stretch.
any r.l. burnside fans out there?
i love you sons of bitches.
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You need the fingers of a marmoset to type quickly on a Netbook. I'm surprised you couldn't remember the answers to your questions. Don't they ask you stuff like the name of your first school?
i always get my mother's maiden name wrong. it's a long story but she has 2 of them.
Sounds pretty shitty...hope the week ahead turnzout better.
Booooaaaa. Boo Thursday. There, Thursday's gone. He won't dare come back. At least not for a long while.
And I immediately had Bob Dylan in mind when I saw your post title. But I'll take R.L. Burnside. Oh, yeah!
well, that sucks..I can never remember my favorite dog, my first boss, or my childhood hero..never..did I use nate or did I use bill?..did I al down or did I put the drunk? did I put my daddy down or h.allan smith?
pain in the fecking ass.hope this gets worked out soon, before you snap on someone and bip them into a coma...love you too.
ted - if things don't improve i always have my sledgehammer to cure the computer problem.
jayne - i found r.l.'s version on the soundtrack of big bad love. it also has tom waitts long way home.
yellowdog - answering those questions is like hiding your stash. you give an answer people won't guess or hide the stash where people won't look but you also outsmart yourself.
anonymous - you sound like my buddy billy cook.
Ooops. Sorry 'bout that. My calendar broke.
I can't remember the answers to most of those security questions either. I haven't been having the best of times lately either but your Thursday really sounded crappy.
Maybe you should have tried to outrun the cop, think of the adrenaline rush and excitement!
I have a netbook that I travel with but I really don't like typing on it. Beats the tiny touchpad of my phone, though!
That shit seems to come in waves, doesn't it. You must have walked through a Chakra of bad Karma. You should have checked your horoscope before you ventured out.
alan - does that mean you're unstuck in time?
tex - cops are like the borg, if you run from one the whole feckin collective will swarm after you.
secret - i don't know how people use phones for all that stuff.
robert - i've been the victim of a series of bad accidents. it might be time to lock myself in the bat cave for a week.
after arriving home i discovered that my desktop computer would only give me a black screen. no matter how much i threatened to thrash it, it just wouldn't work.
Boy, deep post, at least to me. Two times in the last couple of days my notebook showed a black screen when I fired it up in my camper that is out at Granny's now while I help him finish off the Hotel so he can get it open again.
Quite by accident, the first time it did that I noticed a cabinet magnet that was on the table and it was next to the USB port, I moved it and the screen lit right up.
The next night it was a magnet strip on my casino card that was by the port and moving it allowed the screen to light up. Hell, I guess you shouldn't even put your wallet by your laptop.
I use a full size keyboard and mouse on my laptop. You should buy a memory stick (they hold a lot of shit) and move copies of the stuff on your old computer to it and then you can move them to a new computer when you have to.
I was in the bank twice today but don't have time to tell about it now other than the one young lady likes to blow shit up but a couple years ago while installing a blasting cap in a tree it went off and sent her and her bf to the hospital.
But hey, they took down the tree. :-)
I really should do something about getting my hernia fixed.
anonymous - you sound like my buddy billy cook.
This is true but it wasn't me that left that comment, I don't do anonymous comments, if I have something to say others deserve to know who I am.
I'm just home for a short time but I'll try to get a new post up tomorrow.
Dear Billy,
I had an entire YEAR of what your one horrible, terrible, awful day was. I can't believe I survived it.
"There is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Oh, so this is what she means..."
Suck it up, buttercup... or I'll send the locusts after ya.
billy - i'm pretty sure it's a computer problem since it freezes every time i fire it up. probably a new hard drive and about 2 hours of work for sonny.
shaw - what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. easy for me to say.
have you tried turning the spaceship upside down?
anonymous - locusts!
i eat locusts and shit butterflies.
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