after office hours drinks

It is always best to drink with people who do not know thier limits (assuming you too are not one of those people, and for morality's sake you are not the type to take dramatic advantage of such a precarious situation).

Thin burgers on a generic gas grill, chips, pasta salad, a couple dozen burned out co-workers, beer, and drinks mixed by non-professionals that contain ridiculous amounts of liqour and little else. This makes a successful party amongst co-workers.

Surely there is drama...
Shirly brings her boyfriend even though she slept with Russell 16 days ago. Russell then sizes up a fellow who doesn't even know he's being scrutinized mercilessly.
The two young professionals that have been emailing on company time share meaningful glances across the way. There is always a third soul noticing this take place and remains silent though envious.
The guy who has slept with nearly half the staff schmoozes and boozes and tries not to notice that he remains at the same fork in his life's road that he has been ignoring for the last 6 years.Of coarse there is always a new girl full of trust at these things willing to offer him more denial in exchange for a breifly entertaining mistake.
Lovers that have parted ways fake knowing smiles that, "Jez, I hope no one finds out what we did"
The boss drinks with the peons and curses in socially acceptable yet still suprising fashion. Everyone enjoys this outburst of profanity.

We are out of mustard.

hot water returns to my pipes

for the first time in 9 days I took a shower in my apratment that did not entail shivering during and after the cleaning of my body and folicles. It did spit out some (what i assume was) rusty water just as I turned it own.

The shower itself was a glorious affair. I shampooed, I soaped. I took my time, and hit all the important places. some of them, twice.

However, this was still not enough of a boost to get me to work on time.

It should be noted I did shower everyday in the last week, save sunday. I used the ice faucets to wash my hair and scrubbed myself clean the first 3 days. I showered in a Hilton hotel on saturday. Abstension sunday. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I got clean in the yellow confines of my preacher's house.

God provides.

brain freeze

My apartment is devoid of luxury. The hot water heater is the latest thing to go. Some time, late Tuesday is stopped heating water that is piped into my small flat.

There are 3 spigits in my home: Kitchen sink, bathroom sink, shower head. In the past weeks there has been a developing problem with these devices.

First, and even when the cold nob was turned the faucet would run 20 seconds worth of warm water. Then it would get cold.

Now all the water is cold.

I needed to shower before work. It was too cold to shower in that water, but I have quite a tuft of hair on my head so I decided to wash it in the shouwer and cloth wash the rest of my outer self.

Initial rinse was fine. Cold, but doable. I scrubbed the 2 in 1 Dove product in my hair. I looked in the mirror at myself because it is not often one gets to see themself with such sudsy follicles, and it was all the visual I hoped it would be.

Then came the tricky part, rinsing it out. This takes longer. I have think hair, and it require some hand squiggy work. and all the hair has to be rinsed out. about 45 seconds into this process my head got the same sensation I had given it early tuesday evening. The feeling one gets when they eat ice cream too quickly and the skull seesm to shrink.

For the record I blame the neighbors upstairs for the whole mess.

Eats

I brown bagged it. And I had done a good job: carrot sticks, granola bar, 2 reese's eggs, 1 6-pack of peanut butter on cheese crackers, a pouch of ruit snacks, and an oatmeal cream pie. Lunch is at 12:22.

Normally, I eat some of my lunch in the morning because I do not usually eat breakfast. So I started out with the Oatmeal pie and about 8:49am. This is an early start. A minute or so later the bag of carrots had been consumed as well. The Reese's eggs got eaten next, and the fruit snacks and granola bar were gone by 9:05.

I found myself in the Burger King parking lot at 9:18. I went inside, and I ordered the new 10000 calorie Enourmous Omlette Sandwich meal ($4.99 plus tax).

The reasoning behind this choice in two fold. Anytime (with the avalanche of Dieting programs and healthy concious activists) that a food service thumbs its nose at the public and says, "We like fat, calories and cholesterol, and you will too" i am intrigued. After seeing the film "Super Size Me" I had not eaten fast food in over month. I broke the fast. I was mad hungry and these times called for extreme measures.

Secondly I was hungry, very hungry.

I ate the sandwich the hashbrowns and downed the OJ (you know for Vitamin C) in 11 minutes. I was still not satisfied. Also the sandwich would be better with either a biscuit or crossaint type of bread around it. The sesame seed hoagie bun seemed dry and out of place at breakfast.

The sandwich gets 2 thumbs up (out of 5).

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We join the meeting already in progress

Meeting Leader (aka undeserving authority figure): "We must decide on the point in question after the formulation of the team framework as it applies to the leadership structure. The issue concerns whether or not there is an authority on the team would be the official officially in charge of the daily goings on in the summer."

Concerned Traditionalist:"Well speaking as a parent I say there just has to be someone we can all point to and say they are the cheif administrator."

uneffected voice #1: "It is always best to have one ultimate power in any organizational system"

uneffected voice #2: "The buck must stop somewhere"

Other Oldhead:"rebellious outsider, we would like to hear your opinion"

rebellious outsider:"I do not think you can have a team following the concept just outlined and passed not half an hour ago in this room, then turn around and say this person is the true person in charge. It undermines the very purpose of its existance"

Willing Imperialist:"I recall a time when I thought differently, and I appreciate your opinion, rebellious outsider, but age and guile has given me insight into the matter of the way things really are."

rebellious outsider: "OK I understand that, but does age and..."

Willing Imperialist:"And that is enough of a majority to decide things for tonight."

The outsider goes on the tell the truth
The power absent that eveing blasts him for revolt.