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Looks like syndication has been broken for a while, at least since I updated to MT 4.0. If you can read this and you're not looking at my site, then it's obviously been fixed. :)

Testing MT 4.0

Update: Guess it works....

Update #2: Fixed comments. Now I just need to fix this funky-ass stylesheet.

We all knew that Shadow was big. But, now it looks like he's big time.

Thanks, Cute Overload!

I went to Subway this morning with Leslie. I had a coupon for two foot-long sandwiches for $8.99.

When I was reading the fine print, Leslie wanted to know why I was laughing. It said, "BACON EXTRA."

Testing the Azure client.

Here's a riddle:
You go to a restaurant, and on the list of food items, you see: "8 oz. Guacamole With Chips $3.35." What do you expect to get?

Yesterday, I was at Baja Fresh, a kind of healthier Mexican fast food restaurant. They make everything fresh there, and since I'm a guacamole snob, I generally cannot eat it unless it's very fresh, which it is there. I ordered a bean and cheese burrito and "8 oz. guacamole with chips." You follow?

I get my food, and come to find I didn't get any chips with my guac. I go to the guy at the counter and was like hey give me my chips. The guy *proceeds to argue with me* over whether or not it's supposed to come with chips. He goes on to say, "you have to pay extra for chips, and you didn't ask for them." To act like he was doing me a favor, he "gave me some chips for free."

Very annoyed, I sat down and looked over my receipt. It said on the receipt: 8 OZ GUAC $3.35. I went back to the counter just to inform the guy, and explained that it says on the board above his head that it's $3.35 for 8 oz guacamole with an emphasis on the WITH CHIPS. I pointed out that I did indeed pay $3.35. He proceeds to continue to argue with me, and eventually says that next time, "I need to ASK for chips" with my order that's supposed to come with them anyway. What a douchebag. Did I mention I've ordered this item about 6 times in the past and never had a problem? So, obviously this guy is full of crap.

So, that's my story of stupidity for the day.

This will be my only political post. Anybody who knows me knows how I feel about things, and I'm not going to bring it to this blog.

If the election proved anything, America is united on one front: they sure hate those fags. It's pretty obvious that America is still not progressive enough to accept gays outside of the ones they see on television (or in girl-on-girl pornos). I can just see some slack-jawed hick in Kentucky saying, "uh-yup, them guys on Queer Eye are sure a hoot!" while at the same time rallying their drinking buddies to go beat up some seemingly fruity guy in their neighborhood.

But, really. If Oregon of all states can't pass a gay marriage ammendment, you know something's wrong (granted, that state had the smallest margin of any of them, only about 1.3:1). As far as Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah, I'm sure nobody's surprised. Even by the almost 4:1 margins in those some of those states.

What I found especially funny was last night on West Wing when the congressman was proposing a ban on ALL marriage. Seemed very apropos.

Ok, so I may be stupid for sitting here in a restaurant blogging this from my sidekick, but... There's a cock bite here sitting across from me who brought his own fast food burger into this awesome pizza restaurant and is eating it. That's so wrong on so many levels...

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IM conversation:

Talk about feeling powerless, being told you carried on a conversation and not remembering a damn thing about it.

No wonder I felt like such crap this morning. Stupid work calling me at 1:40 in the morning. >_<

Here's an immensely abbreviated story about what happened with the SPORKY.

The SPORKY was making lots of noise. The clutch was slipping. The transmission grinding. Figured it was time to get a transmission diagnostic and clutch replacement.

Diagnostic was done. Verdict, the main shaft's ball bearings exploded getting debris into the transmission ruining the 1/2 gear cluster, and bending the shift fork. This was to the tune of nearly $2000 to fix. How did this happen? The dealership said it had to have been a manufacturing defect.

Our service rep contacted the Zone Manager who said no way in hell would they cover any repairs (since the car had over 100,000 miles, regardless of if there was no possible way we could have caused the damage).

After two weeks of spinning our wheels (no pun intended) with Honda's customer relations, threatening to sue, and even visiting our car at the dealership to witness the carnage, and a review by several higher-ups at Honda, the Zone Manager finally agreed to cover the cost of fixing the transmission (we'd be SOL for replacing the clutch, which was fine as far as I was concerned).

Why it had to be such a huge production for something that was obviously a manufacturers defect (ball bearings encased in plastic and grease, and inside an aluminum transmission case self destructing from something that I did, yeah right). Just because a car has more than n miles doesn't automatically release the manufacturer from any and all liability. If Leslie hadn't been all over them like she was, who the hell knows what would have happened.

By them at least fessing up to the problem and doing something about it, the anger has subsided. But, the whole situation still was awful.

I am in hell!

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To my LJ syndicators, if this takes a dump, my apologies. I upgraded to Movable Type 3.1 today.

I promise it's not a conspiracy to fill your friends' list with my drivel all over again.

Shadow, our big, gigantic 18 lb Maine Coon was sitting on the floor, and Katzen, our little 8 lb calico came over to him. She licked his face a few times, then decided to bat him in the head and walk away.

He literally started crying after that. His eyes were filled with tears. I felt so bad for him.

Yup, Katzen's deffinitely back to her normal self. -_-