Today's featured shit

I mentioned to my boss that I was only going to be out of town December 11-21, but I had requested the 11th to the 22nd off. My boss approved it, but now my boss wants me to be in the office on the 22nd because I won’t be out of town.

So I am going to take nine days off, work one day, and then get the next two business days off (12/25-26) because they are company holidays.

And because it is the day before a holiday, we will only work half a day anyway, and I am going to spend the whole day reading nine days of e-mail, which I was going to do anyway.

Part of me hopes I don’t get either job so I can stick around and get a free day of vacation. Of course I will give back the 22nd and work it. I provide some sort of security to my boss by being online, I guess, even if I am not actually doing any work (not that I would ever do that).

Vegetarians that smoke.

We’re always told to adopt pets instead of breeding the ones we have, but we’re never told to adopt people instead of breeding our own. Granted, we don’t need to euthanize human children at this point in time, but there are still plenty of kids out there that need a good home.

Perhaps if they were box-trained….

“In the political debate that is raging today in the United States, our view is that both sides are quite wrong. The administration’s argument for building democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan misses the point that the United States cannot be successful in this, because it lacks the force to carry out the mission. The administration’s critics, who argue that Iraq particularly diverted attention from fighting al Qaeda, fail to appreciate the complex matrix of relationships the United States was trying to adjust with its invasion of Iraq.”

Yes. Someone finally gets it!

If you’re interested in joining a $5/week winner-take-all no-point-spread NFL pick ’em league, send me an e-mail. There’s about 40 people already in it, so the money is pretty good.

It is much less meaningful when inflation helps cause it. Iran, for example, will have 5 percent growth this year, but inflation in July alone was 10.4 percent.

Granted, the two don’t numerically cancel each other out, but when prices nearly quadruple in a year, 5 percent economic growth is not nearly as big of a deal.

A coworker was losing it, because she was testing software for the company, and she was e-mailed an attachment. She opened it and got an error message, so she replied and said as much to the person she was testing it for.

The person wrote back and said, “don’t open (the attachment). Double-click on it.”

What a bitch! That’s the same damn thing. In fact, I am sure that that is what she did the first time, because who right-clicks on an attachment and selects “Open”? No one.

Nirvana won with six on the back of a concert rebroadcast on Live 105 Sunday morning. Lots of fours, including Pussycat Dolls, Tears for Fears and All-American Rejects. Next radio game will be Vegas, tentatively scheduled for December.

She was the hot black chick on NewsRadio and is now the hot doctor on CSI: Miami. I was doing research for an eBay auction, and it says that she was born in 1957! Wow! I hope 48-year-old women look like that when I am 48!