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I've already blogged about my exploits on the jewish dating scene. Now I've been introduced to the Lavalife scene and I must say, its actually not that bad of a service. Geeky... of course but pretty interesting at the same time because this way you don't need one spec of confidence to talk to smokin' hot chicks. Not that I'm lacking in that category... but all you do is browse the ladies in whatever age range you prefer and send them cheesy smiles and get them in return. Membership is free (I swear I don't work for them) so it's the perfect idea for people of the new millennia who don't have the time, nor desire to hang out at bars, etc.. just to play the bullshit 'flirt from across the room games' that we all know I can't stand. The main issue with this site is that guys have to pay up the ASS to be able to talk to these sweet honeys. Grimm was correct though.... if it was made easier for guys to send messages to the ladies than it would be just as bad of a saussage party as the clubs.... and MY GOD we don't need yet another sausage fest.

For right now I refuse to spend a penny on this method of dating because seriously, how long can a relationship last? Think about it, people get addicted to checking to see if anyone else has sent them a smile or a message, etc... so they can't help but respond or reply to that person and get partially involved with them. Actually, rather than creating a dating/relationship service, I think they've created a mass infidelity service which allows people to engage in casual anonymous sex and move onto someone else because there was one more 'smile' sent to their Lavalife inbox.

Then again.... casual anonymous sex???
Sounds like a GREAT service to me!!! :)

what's up with that?

We all talk about the 'old days' and how we're all 'old school idirect' but it doesn't have the same emotional effect until you actually speak to someone who wasn't your co-worker but feels the same way as you do.

I shall explain...

I'm at work, contemplating different ways to injure myself on the job so I can sue them, make millions and not have to work here anymore, when suddenly I receive a phone call. "Technical Support" as I've coined for my "You're making me do work you asshole" greeting to the customers. Its a customer who's modem isn't responding and is getting some funky new windows error code. So we go through the usual troubleshooting and through my persistence and attention to detail, we figure out the problem and get the modem working. The customer is grateful and asks for my name. I tell him, "jcloth", he pauses... asks my longevity with the current company, then goes, "you wouldn't happen to be one of those old school idirect guys would you?" to which I respond, "why yes I am".

He starts telling me how no internet service was better than old school idirect. How idirect used to run seminars and you could "go in with no clue and walk out with some idea of what you were doing". He also mentioned that he didn't like the direction the company took post take-over. To which I also replied, "I totally agree with you".

Darksyde was the first one I told because at the time it was him running the show and I figured he'd get a warm fuzzy feeling inside.... and wouldn't mind hearing the story either!

Now I think that was the perfect 'pick me up' to be able to finish the rest of my day... but also a reminder of how far I have fallen. I'm back to doing THIS again. For now though... I shall try to ignore it and go on with my day.

...in closing I'd like to tell you all that I had that MIKEY dream AGAIN last night!!! *wink*

Has anyone else come across this... cars mysteriously in the ditch or stuck in snow mounds when the weather and/or road conditions don't appear to be a factor?

I get a laugh about this every day on my way to work. Admittedly the roads in my region are being totally destroyed by this years winter, but none are so bad that they force you into the ditch.

I just don't understand how its happening though. Black ice or light snow makes sense, but not 100% traction on clean pavement.

**clearing throat**

what's up with that?

Feb 23rd @ 9:30am I find out if there is anything that can be done to fix my shoulder. Left one specifically for now. The right shoulder is next on the agenda.

I have been living the last 2 years or so with my arms by my side, unable to participate in anything that might require any extended shoulder rotation. Can't swim, so the pool at home is useless. No baseball... can't reach out to catch the ball and especially no hockey because I can't rotate my shoulders to take a slapshot and any sort of physical contact as it makes the shoulder go 'dead' so to speak.

Most would shy away from surgery, but I'm 100% pro-surgery!
I've taken that route on my knee twice and feel better having done so, otherwise I'd be even more of a cripple than I am already.

Here's hoping he says 'surgery' because I've already warned the Doctor that I wouldn't accept any answer that would require me to just live with it because it is inoperable.

....and especially now with an already crushed heart, I'm in no mood to accept bullshit answers from anybody that can cause me further pain

...I was so bored at work that I decided to e-mail someone that I saw on a jewish dating site to see if they'd be interested in having a date.

Now I only knew the username and just assumed that she, like everyone else, has an associated @hotmail.com account along with it. The mail hasn't bounced back yet, so who knows if I'll get a reply? The username was so typical '20's chick with the same username on every free @domain.ext website' around.

If I didn't win her over with the description of myself, I'm sure the e-mail address will all by itself howaboutadate@picturepile.com.

Who knows... maybe ->THIS GUY<- just found the secret to finding a lady!!

The weather 'round these parts isn't making the prospect of an early spring very realistic. There's snow.... **HOW MUCH SNOW IS THERE??** ....there's so much snow that even my partially plowed driveway is full of snow again. Grimm can vouch for the amount of snow on my driveway!!

Anyhoo...

Since there is so much snow... and the wind was pretty strong around work it made for treturous driving conditions. Well, treturous for the morons who were taking the corner on Commerce Valley at anything above 20km/hour. At least six cars spun out with two or three driving into the curb and one going right over it. One guy made it look so casual too!! He does a 180 and instead of turning the rest of the 180 and continuing in his original direction, he continued on the way he was facing after the spin out, as if that was a planned 180/u-turn. His spin ranked in the top three for sure. I still like the moron on the cell phone who paid no attention to the fact that his car wasn't turning when the wheel was. The building security guard was in his truck outside our office watching the whole 'who will spin out' game along with us.

That was some damn good entertainment getting close to post-work hour.

chica and I are out last night for one final night of some chitty chitt bang bang before she heads off to Malaysia.

We're at Jack Astor's near Square One.
Well at least I am... she's doing her usual "being late" thing. Patiently I sit for 20 or so minutes while being bothered by the waitress for drinks and anything to get her a sale. Bloody annoying.

Finally she shows up. Of course there was some touching and feeling.... even some from behind, or 'backwards' as chica called it.

Anywayz..... the main issue....

We're enjoying our meals and in scanning the room I see a group of kids (17 or 18 years old) sitting at a table. One of them is standing up and looking straight down at the table. I'm like, 'wtf is he doing?'.

Then I realize, he's got a FUCKING DIGICAM and he's taking a picture of the FUCKING DESSERT he's going to eat.

I say "pardon?"

I snapped... BAM, right in the kisser... tell him, "how's that for digicam pics of your fucking dessert that you'll upload and waste someone's HD space with?"

Ever since I've been the champ.

what's up with that?

my internet connection is going down more often than a presidential intern

what's up with that?

what's up with that?

I just fucking deleted my entire site!!!

Its even worse than it seems, because not only did I delete the site itself, but I deleted the mirror of the site first, then accidentally deleted the site.

Oh my god I feel like an idiot.
I actually have a strange feeling in my stomach :(


Oh well... its giving me a laugh at least!!

what's up with that?

Feb. 13th at 12:00am 'fpos v3.0' was put in place to handle the web traffic for my site. Almost seamless... except for a few permissions issues and that one other site hosted on fpos that I totally forgot about until later this morning :) ...but its up and working great!!

There's still the matter of a RAM swap between fpos and new-fpos but that can happen whenever, no biggie really.

I'm actually pretty proud of myself for setting up this system as quick as I did. Sure it took a constant nagging to Sinned ... but hey... I never claimed to be an expert of the penguin.

I thank god I kept logged conversations between Jacky and myself, otherwise this would have taken hella longer than it did. I'm also proud of the fact that it APPEARS that I have setup a box roughly as secure as Jacky setup for me with the original fpos. Here's hoping he actually made it secure :)

Do me a favour and DON'T test it!!

Now there's just the matter of finding myself another P3 system to run as a backup for new-fpos and the original fpos can go back to being a personal PC for someone else, cuz I don't think I'll need to be nerding it up that much to keep three penguins laying around all the time. Plus... my room can only get so hot until I can't sleep anymore!

--Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction

No good man... they're not on the level.

Who invented this 'instantly developed' photography and may I cause he/she some pain for doing so? Well... likely he :)

Running a picture site... (and what's becoming a fairly popular one at that. bashtard.com / picturepile.com. Your choice!) I find it almost impossible to find any quality pics to upload anymore. There are SOOOOOOO many sites that have pics taken by college students, husbands and wives... or just random people of complete and utter pointless shit.

Look, I've taken yet another pic of a shaming that looks EXACTLY like every other fucking shaming pic that has ever been posted.

OR

This is a pic of my girlfriends tits/ass/pussy and its just as firm/saggy as every other fucking pic that's ever been uploaded before. "You like?"

OR

Shit, I just burnt my burrito. That's gotta be worth taking a pic and wasting HD space on somebodies website.

Back in the good ol' days with a normal camera, you'd try and make sure the pic you took had as much meaning as possible, cuz you only have so many of them and it would suck to waste film on a pic of someones crotch (which I'm famous for). Then, a few days or maybe a few weeks later when they are developed, you look through them and decide if two or three are worthy of scanning. But then, cuz the scanning process sucks and takes forever, you end up with only one pic scanned and decide to upload it in haste because the whole process took so long.

But nowadays... that entire step is gone so why not take a picture about absolutely everything and upload every fucking picture you take? Its your right as a camera owner to show people every single second and folly in your life because you can now 'capture' all those moments.

My suggestion is to reduce the memory for all of these cameras to maybe 1MB and people would be so annoyed with having to delete or save pics constantly that they'd actually take quality pics. Pics worthy of being on the pile. That or they'd never upload again and my site would suffer :)

Either way.... sent by the devil I say!

what's up with that?

what's up with that?

This is pretty strange. I'm sure all of my DEVOTED readers have noticed that the blog posting has come to a screeching halt. Even the "what's up with that?" blogs are hard to come by nowadays.

It makes no sense to me because I'm the guy people bring along with them for my ability to talk about anything. If they don't want to have a silent evening, they bring me. I even initiate conversations with women that friends like because they're too damn shy. As of yet, not one lady has said "wow, I like you instead because you weren't shy". Damn women!!

Most people stop blogging because it has somehow become 'passé' to them and they then convince themselves that they didn't have any fun writing what they did or that its a useless effort. Others, such as a former co-worker just flat out HATE the idea completely. Not me though, I just... have absolutely nothing to say. Bloggers block if you will.

I enjoy writing, I've always liked it... so again... why has this happened? I'm so out of ideas of what to write about that I'm writing about why I can't think of anything to write about. Which is actually quite close to my response of the "there is nothing to talk about" line people pull sometimes. My response to that is "lets talk about the fact that we have nothing to talk about".

See... now I'm just rambling.

hmmmmm.... pondering.... meh.. whatever.
Maybe the next blog will be about something.

In closing...

(When this began)
I had nothin' to say
And I'd get lost in the nothingness inside of me
(I was confused)
And I'd let it all out to find
That I'm not the only person with these things in mind
(Inside of me)
But all the vacancy the words revealed
Is the only real thing that I've got left to feel
(Nothin' to lose)
Just stuck
Hollow and alone
And the fault is my own
And the fault is my own