Carrot Cake Doesnt suck!

Hey there. Well had a pretty good Easter. Woke up in time to watch Diana search for Easter Eggs. I hid them last night when i was half asleep. Oh there's a new edition to Batman team up/Spiderman cartoon Sundays. There is also an iron Man cartoon now as well. Yee ha. I'm not a nerd at all!
Went to my moms house for dinner. Made a pretty good discovery as well. Carrot cake doesnt taste like carrots! Kath made a carrot cake so i decided i would try it. Holy crap carrot cake is awesome! How many times can i use carrot cake in one blog? Ok I gotta get some sleep. I have a long day of getting yelled at ahead of me. Hope everyone had a happy easter!

The Alchoholic Adventures Of the Three Amigos

A lot of you don't realize this but I'm an author. As a matter of fact its the 20th anniversary of the novel i co wrote. Now you may be asking yourself was this novel ever published? The answer: no. In 1988-1989 Myself and my friends Colin and Scott decided we would chronicle our adventures. Our adventures of course back then consisted of drunken weekends out. Yes any time we went out and drank we would write a chapter about it. Where did we type up the novel? Why in our high school's computer room of course. I gotta be honest if anybody tried to read the thing they wouldnt get a lot of it. There is a lot of "in jokes." Yes 50 pages of in jokes about drinking,strip clubs and even an Eddie Money concert. We titled the thing "The Alchoholic Adventures Of The Three Amigos". Every couple of years i dust off the thing and re read it. It still makes me smile 20 years later. One memorable chapter recalls how one of the preppy kids wanted to be in our novel. We told him he couldnt be unless he drank with us. His reply? Ok I've never gotten drunks with skids before. We didnt take too kindly to being called skids. Colin decided if we were skids than we must be drug users as well. So we decided we would smoke a joint with this sockless kid who dared to call us skids. The thing was-we didnt do drugs. Colin poured some oregano into a bag and rolled it up with rolling papers. THe funny thing was? The kid swore to everyone he was stoned. Alrighty then. I can't believe i drank so much back in those days. It was crazy. At least i have a book to remember those times.

A conversation with a nut bar

So today i spoke with a customer who gave me one of the craziest conversations of all time. He rambled on for 15 minutes just randomly saying whatever came to his mind i guess. I wasnt able to actually bring up his account and what i was able to determine was he was mad that his sister wasnt able to ever get through to his phone. He was able to recieve calls from everone else in the world and could call anybody. He was told by a tech that problem was probably with his sisters phone not his. He disagreed with that, Anyhow here are some random quotes from the call

"my sister is important she hangs out with the multi millionaires"
"someday i will drive my deloreon to New York"
"i told my sister to call me if my dad dies. I'm going to shit and piss on his grave"
"my sister couldnt reach me so she had a policeman come to my house. I was mad because i missed out on a meeting with my pistol trainer"
"my pistol trainer says i should sue you guys"
Then he asked for a huge credit because his sister's phone could never reach him. I told him i wasnt applying a credit for a problem that was clearly with sisters phone. To this he replied:

"Then i will hire a 400 dollar an hour big shot lawyer to sue the pants off you guys. My sister needs to get through to me"
Just then his call waiting was ringing
"Thats my sister now"
Hmm apparently by some miricle she can get through to his phone now.
"anyhow i gotta go so tell your bosses I'm going to sue you"
By this time i want to check out the guys account and note everything.
"sir i need to note your account that youre going to sue us,i need your phone number"
"look it up in the book" I don't have a book and even if i did i have no idea who I'm speaking with. Then he hangs up. He was probably going to jump in his deloreon with his pistol trainer and Doc Brown and find some nice grave to urinate on. I love my job!

Amigos Forrever!

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It was a horrible day. I went to work in the rain and came home in the snow. A customer held me up on the phone at lunch. A customer held me up when i wanted to come home as well. None of that matterred when i checked my e mail. I got some awesome news. My friend Scott (who you may recall as one of the Amigos) wrote to me and let me know he's coming to Canada this summer. I'm pretty happy with this news. I havent seen him in 10 years. I felt myself tearing up a little (in a good way) when i saw he would be visiting. He's ne of my best friends. Since he was last here i got married and had a kid and he and his wife have had 3 daughters. Finally he gets to meet my family and vice versa. Wow ten years is a long time. I was starting to worry that I'd never see him again. I can't wait for summer. Long live the Amigo's! Also please enjoy a picture of my mullet from 1993.

Diana is seriously my hero

Why is my daughter my hero? At 4 years old she is obviously a braver person than me. The other night we were headed to my mom's house. Diana fell asleep. We made a stop, she woke up and the poor kid coughed and threw up everywhere. The brave thing? She didnt cry. Not once. I have to admit-to this day when i throw up-even at age 39-i cry a little when i throw up. Its the worst feeling in the world. Part of the reason i don't drink anymore is i can't handle the hangovers. The throwing up part was too high a price to pay for a night out drinking with the gang. SO turns out Diana has a bit of a cold. She's been really cool taking her medecine and getting rest. She totally rocks!

Why Didnt you just put the bunny back in the box?

Hey just thought I'd blog a bit more today. By the way it's my 50th blog of 2009! Ah Whoo hoo! This time I want to thank Nicholas Cage. Why am i thanking good ol' Nic? Well earlier i mentioned the film Con Air. This film came out in 1997. At the time i had cut my hair really short to impress a girl i had a crush on. She said she thought i would look good if i cut my hair short. The bad news was it didnt get me the girl. The good thing was i got rid of a mullet i had at the time. Back then there was no technical term for mullet but yes it was short in front and long in back. Anyhow what does this have to do with Con Air? Well that summer i went and sat the movie. Not only did i become a huge Nicholas Cage fan but because he had long hair in the movie-I vowed i would grow my hair out. And Grow it i did-all one length. It's been pissing my mother off ever since. I remember her one time saying why don't you cut it short,you'll never get a girlfriend with long hair. The thing was-i never had a problem getting a date with long hair. I never once had a steady girlfriend with short hair. Kath never had a problem with it either when we met. SO i say thank you Nic Cage for a kick ass movie and for giving me the courage to grow out my hair. Bravo Nic!

In the End, Wagon Rides make it all better

Good day and welcome to April.I gotta admit March ended kind of shitty.Our dvd player died last week. Hoping to find a new cheap player. We do have a dvd player in our computer though. If i really wanted to i could go to the basement where we have a vcr set up. I have been hankering to watch either The Last Boy Scout or Con Air. Also sucking since last week-one side of my mouth is killing me. I have a wisdom tooth that actually came in about 10 years ago. I wasnt covered at the time so couldnt afford to get it out. It never really hurt so i never worried about it. However once and a while i will get a piece of popcorn or something logged into my gum behind the wisdom tooth. It takes forrever to get it out. This time i just have not been able to get whatever is in there out. I have actually been debating about finally getting the tooth out.


Now the moment i know you've all been looking forward to-stuff about work that has pissed me off. First of all because it has been so dead we have all been forced to take hour lunches. I know that doesnt seem like a big deal but in two weeks i have so far lost 3 hours of pay because of that.

Also i snapped at a co worker. He's this young, know it all nerdy kid who is hopped up on energy drink and never shuts up. I try and ignore him but he seriously never stops talking-ever. So I'm on the phone with a customer who is just screaming her head off in my ear. Her room mate has added her name to an account and because of that we won't let her get a new account in her name. She cant even get access to this account because she doesnt have her room mates information. She wants to complain to a supervisor. I advise nicely maybe she should speak to her room mate as her room mate added her name to the account. So after yelling at me for a good fifteen minutes she hangs up. Then i notice the know it all kid is standing right behind me and he picks an arguement with me saying I'm wrong. Not a good move junior. I'm already in a bad mood about the call not a good time to dump salt in the wound. He starts yelling at me saying that the room mate isnt responsible for anything owed on the account and I'm wrong,blah blah blah. My friend Anna starts telling the kid that I'm right and he's wrong. End of discussion right? Wrong. Nerdy Macgee decides to go to a supervisor about this. What the hell. First of all this wasnt the kid's call and it really isnt any of his business. He comes back and starts yelling told you I'm right! I have no idea what he told the supervisor but i've been there seven years now i think i know about our companies policies. I didnt feel like dealing with it anymore so i just told the nerd to drop it. I go back to the next call and i still hear him talking about it. Whatever. Anna tells me he drinks so much energy drink that he might as well be on cocaine. Oh well.

Anyhow sorry to ramble on this time. I am off today and in kind of a good mood. The weather has been so nice lately that i have been taking Diana on wagon rides. Its good exercise and cheers me up. It makes me smile when she starts yelling yahoo! like a mini Bo Duke. She wont say yee haw though. So we're going to head out soon and then maybe we will walk over to the grocery store for some ice cream. Kath is off work tomorrow so we get to spend the whole day off together. I think we are going to go to my mom's house.