Hmm, it appears I've allowed my blog to lapse again! Ugh, I hate when I do that...
Well, the ending of Denise's visit went fairly well. We had dinner at a murder mystery mansion, which was reasonably entertaining but not worth the cost (I'm glad we went, but I don't want to go back). We had dinner the next day at a Bethesda restaurant called Jaleo, which I've eaten at a few times in the past. The menu is Spanish tapas, and we had a good time sampling a wide variety of dishes -- including shark, which neither of us had ever had before and greatly enjoyed.
Denise then flew home on Monday evening, which was, unfortunately, an unpleasant affair for her due to the weather and some unpleasant seatmates. I also got a verybad scare when the phone rang at 2:15 in the morning and Denise's mother told me that Denise had not arrived at the airport, that the airline had said she never got on the plane, and that a plane on that route had crashed, but that she wasn't sure whether it was Denise's plane or not. Fortunately, after a couple more phone calls and a great deal of fretting, Denise did indeed show up, and I was able to get back to sleep.
The rest of the week went by rather uneventfully, except for a conference on Wednesday that even managed to make the subject of Mobile & Wireless Security boring. I saw two films yesterday, "Terminator 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean". "T-3" is fairly good, "Pirates" is great.
No particular news yet on the job hunt... I'm doing all the usual stuff but have had only one bite so far from a company that wanted a NetWare expert with years of hands-on experience and wanted to pay only $35K per year, which is ridiculous. Even so, if I'd had the skills, I might have taken them up on the job just to get out of my current one and continue the search for a "real" position. Unfortunately, I don't know NetWare, so that option is out. (I don't know where this company thinks they're going to find a NetWare person for the kind of salary they're offering, either. $35K is what you pay an administrative assistant, not a systems administrator.)
Posted by Zathras at July 13, 2003 05:28 PMAm I the only one that finds the mental image of Parrish dressed up as Britney "Oops, I did it again" Spears a bit disturbing? ;)
Posted by: Moggy at July 14, 2003 03:14 AMHuh?? Yes it does, now that you mention it.
Where did that question come from?
WAIT!! Nevermind! I don't want to know!!!
>
:)
Posted by: Matt at July 14, 2003 07:00 AM?!?!?!?!?!?!
How da f*ck did you come up with that image?!?!?
I'd rather see Sam Donaldson dressed up like Cyndi Lauper.
Posted by: Shaw at July 14, 2003 05:21 PMI'd rather see Ernest Borgnine dressed up like Ashley Olsen.
Posted by: Sparrow at July 14, 2003 05:49 PMOh, hey, that reminds me! Anyone else ever see that movie where Marlon Brando dresses up in drag? I think it's called "Missouri Breaks." What a bizarre movie.
Posted by: Sparrow at July 14, 2003 05:49 PMLike, when has Brando NOT been bizarre? "Da Horra! Da Horra!"
One of my fav. websites is Brandoland:
http://www.geocities.com/wcleere/streetcar.html
Check this part of the site out - Brando and FOOD:
http://www.geocities.com/wcleere/brandoland/snack/snack1.html
Atkins diet it is not - makes my stomach hurt just reading it!
Posted by: Shaw at July 14, 2003 06:59 PMMoggy keeps telling me that I'm incredibly good-looking, but I think even she would have to admit that I don't have what it takes to do the "bare midriff" look. At least, not without receiving any response other than revulsion.
Posted by: Zathras at July 15, 2003 03:52 PMWell, the mental image of Parrish going Britney Spears style was because of the title to his blog entry -- "oops, I did it again" was a big hit of hers a year or two back, wasn't it?
No, I don't have to agree that he can't do the "bare midriff" look. It would make no sense for him to be revolting while only baring his abdomen, but not while stark naked. I don't find him revolting then, so... ;*)
Posted by: Moggy at July 15, 2003 04:59 PMHey! When did you ever see me naked?
Posted by: Zathras at July 15, 2003 06:36 PMZathras: "Hey! When did you ever see me naked?"
Well, you know my interest in tiny easily-hidden cameras... *whistles innocently*
Posted by: Moggy at July 15, 2003 07:03 PMI've HEARD him get naked . . .
Posted by: Shaw at July 15, 2003 10:39 PM*Heard* it? Er...okay, dare I ask what it sounded like?
Posted by: Moggy at July 15, 2003 10:56 PMIt was the men's public bathroom at college. What do you think it sounded like? Sounded like every other men's bathroom . . .
tinkle tinkle tinkle...
of course, being that it was a college in VT., there were often sounds of:
PUUUUKE
The worst was when two of my friends got so drunk on a sat. nite that they had an all nite hangover - me and all my dormmates listened to them puking all nite in stereo. Real bad.
Posted by: Shaw at July 16, 2003 12:14 AMAh, but you said you heard him get naked (which I interpreted as "undress"), not heard him use the toilet. *grin*
Posted by: Moggy at July 16, 2003 12:37 AMIsnt that the same thing?
Posted by: Shaw at July 16, 2003 05:30 PMHmm...well, no on two points:
1. Undressing would come before using the toilet, not simultaneously -- unless there's some really interesting gymnastics going on. *snicker*
2. Most people (particularly men that are going to urinate) don't take all their clothes off to use the toilet...
I dunno! I didn't look! I don't do those things! That's why I only heard!
Posted by: Shaw at July 16, 2003 07:22 PMSure you didn't look... We believe you. Of course we do. *gd&r*
Posted by: Moggy at July 16, 2003 07:32 PMI didn't!!! I swear . . . just heard
Posted by: Shaw at July 16, 2003 08:16 PMSpeaking of which, anyone here knew that the Cyndi Lauper song "She-bop" was about female masterbation? Someone told me that 2day - felt like part of my childhood was evil in disguise
Posted by: Shaw at July 16, 2003 10:28 PMYeah - I didn't know at first, but the line 'better stop or I'll go blind' gave it away.
She sort of makes fun of it with the line "I don't even understand" about all the "bopping".
Next, someone will have to bring you up to speed about David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel" - (Its about a guy taking his transvestite gay boyfriend out in drag, and he gets 'outed', has a fight, tears his dress, etc.), not about a rebel girlfriend - "how could they know?" (that he was in drag).
I wouldn't call it evil necessarily - many pop songs are just one big double entendre :)
Posted by: Matt at July 17, 2003 12:20 AMWHAT?!?!?!!!!!!!!
I don't even wanna know what "John, I'm only dancing" is all about.
Ok - this is wrong. I'm starting to think her "Goonies R Good Enuff" song is about child molestation. All these innocent safe=havens from my childhood...ieee
Posted by: Shaw at July 17, 2003 02:53 AM> Speaking of which, anyone here knew that the Cyndi > Lauper song "She-bop" was about female masterbation?
First of all, Shaggy, it's spelled "masturbation". ;-)
I didn't know that when the song first came out -- wasn't until much later that I learned that was the case. Of course, Lauper's extraordinarily poor elocution didn't help matters much.
Lauper said that she wrote the lyrics in such a way that the younger would think it was about dancing, whereas the adults would know better, which explains such lyrics as, "Hey, hey, they say I'd better get a chaperone/Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone." *grin*
When I was younger (when the song first came out), I was one of the ones who did think it was about dancing. One of my favorite radio DJs, a guy whom I called and chatted with on the air occasionally, once played the song on the air and said, "Hey, what's this song about, anyway?" I called him, and he played the song line by line, and we analyzed it together on the air, with me trying to explain why I thought it was about girls dancing. I wish I had a recording of that conversation to listen to again... I'll bet it would be hysterical now all these years later. *chuckle*
I've been to very few rock concerts in my life, only about three or four... Cyndi Lauper was one of them, when I was about 19. Pretty neat show.
Posted by: Zathras at July 17, 2003 01:00 PMHey - didn't know masturbation was THAT important to you (enough for me to spell it right) :-)
I finally got around to looking at the lyrics last nite - I swear to god, I thought the "danger zone" was, uh, something else. Like a video arcade or something . . .
The video for it was all about burgers and dancing and Captain Lou Albano chasing after her. I didn't know, I swear...
I'm seriously wondering what the hell "Goonies R Good Enuff" really means now...
Posted by: Shaw at July 17, 2003 05:42 PMI mean, you know, when you're done with work you go to the "Danger Zone" arcade and play video games.
Posted by: Shaw at July 17, 2003 05:43 PMSorry, Shaw, I think these lines (from "Goonies R Good Enough" which I immediately confess I've never even heard of, let alone listened to) sound quite suggestive:
"Oh it's not real if you don't feel it"
"Unspoken expectations"
"Ideals you used to play with, they've finally taken shape for us"
"You're startin' to feel the push and pull"
Yeah, totally innocent. Right. *grin*
Posted by: Moggy at July 17, 2003 06:02 PMHOLY CRAP!!!!!!
It's from a friggin' children's film!!! :(
What's next -
Posted by: Shaw at July 17, 2003 07:22 PMthe friggin song was in a nintendo game for crying out loud!
Posted by: Shaw at July 17, 2003 09:50 PMSpeaking of screwing with memories of an innocent childhood, have you been here?
http://www.codehappy.net/bmemories/
I checked it out, but I barely can find much there - it looks like it just started.
There are some childhood memories I wanna forget about...like the bad cars my ma and pa used to drive.
The Le Car
Datsun (we are driven :/)
An old Caddy-Ambulance
etc.
Ok - one thing though: my pa did have an old Volkswagon bus that was really cool. Sure it only had AM radio and there were holes in the bottom of the floor (which was kinda cool, seeing the street passing from under you - that and if you needed to make an emergency stop you can put yer feet through the floor and do a Fred Flinstone). My dad cried the day when the great VW bus was delared dead by a mechanic and was taken away by tow truck; he was a tough guy, and he didn't cry much at all
Posted by: Shaw at July 18, 2003 05:38 PMI have to admit, crying over inanimate objects isn't something I've ever really understood...
Posted by: Moggy at July 18, 2003 05:52 PMWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT??!?!?!
THAT WAS A VOLKSWAGON VAN!!!!! NOT JUST ANY VAN!!! IT WAS PART OF HIS LIFE!!! HIS HEART!!! HIS SOUL!!! HE HAD IT FOR OVER FIVE YEARS! HE LOVED THAT MACHINE LIKE NO OTHER MACHINE!! IT HAD CHARACTER!! ! CHUZTPAH! IT WAS A LIVIN' BREATHIN' VAN!!
Posted by: Shaw at July 18, 2003 07:41 PMgood god. Did I just write all of that?!?!?
Posted by: Shaw at July 18, 2003 07:41 PM