Sep 2006
NASCAR done rotted my brain!
My employer launched a new product line today. Those
crazy mortgage folks decided maybe with the downturn
in the housing market that there might be "gold" in
car insurance. They launched automobile insurance in
a quicky, kitschy, silly way today.
One of the many features of this launch was decorating the cafeteria. Lots of logos and checkered flags and race cars. All things we should be associating with safe and responsible driving among our future insured!
Wait, that is not the funny part, that is just corporate life.
The funny part was inside my brain. As I was walking out of the cafeteria with my morning caffeine I passed under a piñata of a racecar. It had a number 29 on it.
So. What was the next "word" to enter my conscious thoughts?
"Harvick"
NASCAR done rotted my brain!
Next thought?
Them colors is all wrong, someone has to update that paint!
Curse you, Jason Jones!
One of the many features of this launch was decorating the cafeteria. Lots of logos and checkered flags and race cars. All things we should be associating with safe and responsible driving among our future insured!
Wait, that is not the funny part, that is just corporate life.
The funny part was inside my brain. As I was walking out of the cafeteria with my morning caffeine I passed under a piñata of a racecar. It had a number 29 on it.
So. What was the next "word" to enter my conscious thoughts?
"Harvick"
NASCAR done rotted my brain!
Next thought?
Them colors is all wrong, someone has to update that paint!
Curse you, Jason Jones!
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Walls are primed
Arcade Site recovery
My arcade habit has all but died here in the desert.
I did get a nice William Multigame. It is still
working great. I also snagged a Frogger, but I have
not gotten it running.
I had to shut down the Cedar Rock Arcade because my supplier stopped making shrouds.
As depressing as this all is, I am reorganizing the arcade section of melchman.net after the crash that caused melchman.net version 3.0 to be here. It will be a bit cleaner than the old version. I am trying to tie in better with guide.melchman.net/arcade for the common stuff. I had blurbs on each game as a concept, not the actual machines I restored. I would like to find and recover those.
Well, it is fun reliving my arcade restoration career at the very least.
I had to shut down the Cedar Rock Arcade because my supplier stopped making shrouds.
As depressing as this all is, I am reorganizing the arcade section of melchman.net after the crash that caused melchman.net version 3.0 to be here. It will be a bit cleaner than the old version. I am trying to tie in better with guide.melchman.net/arcade for the common stuff. I had blurbs on each game as a concept, not the actual machines I restored. I would like to find and recover those.
Well, it is fun reliving my arcade restoration career at the very least.
Dr. Chuck Intervention
Dr. Chuck is a friend, bLogger and countryman. See
his new badge link on the home page. Dr.
Chuck care for music and radio much like Pete at
ickmusic. They have very
different areas of special interest, but the
same depth of interest.
Dr. chuck is suffer from techno lag.
We need to help Dr. Chuck.
This is a shameless plea for comments, but it is time for an intervention. Dr. Chuck, sit down and listen up!
DO NOT REORGANIZE YOUR CD COLLECTION!
Rip them into iTunes. You can organize and reorganize there using playlists, categories and genre. Store your polymer and aluminum is a nice comfortable scratch-free case library. You can even go retro and get the cases that look like books and put them on the shelf like your very own encyclopedia set.
Dr. chuck is suffer from techno lag.
We need to help Dr. Chuck.
This is a shameless plea for comments, but it is time for an intervention. Dr. Chuck, sit down and listen up!
DO NOT REORGANIZE YOUR CD COLLECTION!
Rip them into iTunes. You can organize and reorganize there using playlists, categories and genre. Store your polymer and aluminum is a nice comfortable scratch-free case library. You can even go retro and get the cases that look like books and put them on the shelf like your very own encyclopedia set.
Fifth Sign
Sign #5
There is nothing a little exercise can't cure!
She really did utter that phrase. I am now living with a crazy woman! She was apparently feeling a little blue a few evenings ago and decided WE needed to go for a walk.
WE walked for half an hour. About 8 minutes in she announces, "Wow, I am feeling better." "I had a really rotten day and was just not happy." "Now I am up and moving and it feels great!"
"You know, there is nothing a little exercise can't cure!"
Without thinking a muttered something like, "Cancer!" "I bet exercise doesn't do a damn thing to cure cancer!" Then I thought, "Paralysis, heel I bet you can't even exercise, how could it cure it?"
Wow, I am a pessimist.
Fourth Sign
Sign #4
My health food is too fattening.
My trainer recommends < insert brand here > , it has less sugar and fat than the healthy, crunchy nearly indigestible stuff I have asked you to join me in eating. It is very similar, but not as sweet.
If I am chewing and grinding up cereal that resembles the stuff I formerly considered to be the shell, not the nut then DO NOT take away the sweet reward!