Fire Drill Last week at work our fire alarm went off. Rather than just darting off in a panic, I gathered my laptop and shoved it in my bag, zipped it up, grabbed it and my purse, and got up to leave. Imagine my surprise when I stood up and saw that a few people from my department were just... standing there. One of them looked at me and goes, "Do you know what's going on?" Now let's take a minute to look around. The other department in our room is leaving. The alarm is blaring. The flashy strobe light things that say "FIRE" above them are flashing. Hrm. Let me think a minute. "It's a fire.... you need to leave." *sigh* Some of my cow-orkers scare me.

Atlanta Daryl and I left Friday to head to Atlanta for an anniversary vacation. We stayed at a Radisson. I was, frankly, very disappointed. Daryl called and asked before we left if they had high speed internet, and they said they did. However, when we got there, there wasn't. There was no breakfast available. The wallpaper was peeling. The carpet was threadbare and coming up at the edges. The carpet in our room was stained, and so was the floor in the bathroom. The tub drained slowly when we showered. The room wasn't as bad as I'm making it sound, but for a Radisson, I expected a lot better. Plus, every night, and Sunday morning, there were church services in the Ballroom on the first floor of the wing we were in... and Sunday morning we woke up to the extremely loud sounds of bass coming from their service, all the way up to the forth floor. The first day when we drove out there, we just had enough time to get some supper, and get settled in. We had dinner at The Italian Oven. That night we watched a few episodes of the first season of Coupling on the DVD player we brought with us. The next day we went to the Little Five Points community to go around to the shops and such. That night we went to a comedy improv show at Dad's Garage, which was a lot of fun. Sunday we packed up and came home. All in all it was fun. The whole point was to have time alone with each other, away from family and home. Mission accomplished.

Interesting News

Toni Lynn Lycan, 44, of Vancouver, B.C., Canada, was playing music when her neighbor, Allen M. Haines, 27, banged on the ceiling to get her to turn it down. Lycan allegedly yelled that if Haines had a problem with her music he should come up and talk about it. But as he climbed the stairs to her apartment Lycan leapt off her bed and slammed down onto the floor, apparently to "bang" back at him. The impact broke both of her legs. (Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal, Vancouver Columbian)

I wonder if I bang on my ceiling enough to get my neighbour and her demonspawn child to shut up, if she would eventually do this...

And here's an interesting article I found from mid-October:

Joseph Alan Logan, 46, of Pinson, Ala., was mighty upset when the University of Alabama football team lost a game 34-31 in double overtime. Then his son, Seth, 20, asked him for a car. Investigators say Joseph, still in a rage, put a gun to Seth's head, said he was "going to blow your [expletive] brains out" and pulled the trigger. He missed. "He claimed he was just trying to scare his son," a sheriff's spokesman says. "I know we take football serious in the South, but that's crossing the line." (Birmingham News)

I'm not even going to comment on this one. It speaks for itself.

Drug Raid I know its a bit old news, and I meant to mention it earlier... but I was pretty outraged by this news article. Basically, armed police officers and the K9 unit burst into a high school, weapons drawn, and ordered students down on the ground, hand cuffing some, while they searched for drugs. And they didn't find a thing. No drugs. No weapons. No arrests made. All of this over alleged marijuana dealing in the hallways. The principle and the police officers involved all think that bursting in on scared students with weapons drawn was a justified reaction.

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Friday Five Wow this is going to be hard...
1. Using one adjective, describe your current living space. Noisy.

2. Using two adjectives, describe your current employer. Distant. Non-profit.

3. Using three adjectives, describe your favorite hobby/pasttime. Addicting. Entertaining. Time-consuming.

4. Using four adjectives, describe your typical day. Lazy. Last-minute. Eternal. Computer-generated.

5. Using five adjectives, describe your ideal life. Affluent. Indolent. Unaccountable. Hedonistic. Journeying.

Now a little explaining. For the first one, by noisy I'm referring to my upstairs neighbours and their little demon child. In the second one, by distant, I mean far away, not like... uncommunicative. For the third one, I am, of course, describing EverQuest. For the forth, by computer-generated, I mean that most everything I do is on the computer. And finally, the last one, I mean I want to be rich, lazy, do whatever I wish, and travel around the world. And by hedonistic I don't mean the pervy way, I just mean the pursuit of pleasure in general.

Glenn Fine, you want your honourable mention, here it is! Friday night Robbie and I popped over to the place that I happen to know Glenn works, a couple miles from my house. I spotted a guy that matched what I knew, and I knew for sure when I saw his name tag as we checked out. As we left I stopped and leaned on the counter and said, "I know you." That got me a weird look! Then Robbie goes, "And she knows where you're from!" I said, "Yup, you're from Pennsylvania, aren't you... I knew it." I think we freaked him out. Fun times!

Mulligan's I was pleasantly surprised when we went to Mulligan's Thursday night and Larry Diemer from The Don't Be Brothers was there. It was a fun night!

Friday Five
1. What food do you like that most people hate? Ummm... I don't know. What do most people hate? I know what my step-daughter hates that I like. Mushrooms and tomatoes. Hrm. I like tofu. Not just plain tofu, but like, cooked in stuff. I like spinach and turnip greens.

2. What food do you hate that most people love? Watermelon. I hate watermelon. Nastiness.

3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you? There's a lot of them, but the first one that comes to mind is that Sex in the City chick. I think she's fugly.

4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find attractive? Hmmm... I don't know. This is going to sound silly, but when I was in high school I used to like Drew Carey. A sense of humour has always turned me on more than anything else.

5. What popular trend baffles you? Oh my god, there are so many. Just glancing over the friday five responses are making me go "amen!" to what a lot of people put. Most "popular" music these days baffles me. You know, the boy- and girl-bands. SUVs; I hate SUVs. People that drive while talking on the cell phone; Yes, I do it sometimes, but I try to pay more attention to driving than talking, and I'd rather not talk and drive unless I'm stuck in traffic. People that live their lives by their cell phone; It's like it's attached to their hand. Get the fuck off the cell phone! White boys (from small towns especially) driving around with bad (is there good?) hip-hop blasting out of their radios and saying shit like "Sup dawg" and "bling bling" and who knows what else. Reality television; My god, will it ever end. And like so many other people that answered the friday five... big baggy pants down around your knees. What. The. Fuck. I just don't get this. Personally, I think it makes you look like a tard that doesn't know how to put on your own clothes. But that's just me.

Friday Five Yeah, so it's a bit late. I was busy that night.

1. What was your first Halloween costume? I don't remember for sure, but I think it was when my mother used to dress me up as a clown when I was a kid. White face paint, red nose, and everything. Bleh.

2. What was your best costume and why? I don't think I've ever had a really great costume or anything. But I think my favorite is, of course, kitty ears and a tail!

3. Did you ever play a trick on someone who didn't give you a treat? Nope.

4. Do you have any Halloween traditions? (ie: Family pumpkin carving, special dinner before trick or treating, etc.) When I was a kid my mother used to always make such delicious pumpkin. I don't mean pumpkin pie or anything. Just pumpkin diced, and cooked in a pot with lots of butter and lots of sugar. So bad for you and oh, so very good.

5. Share your favorite scary story...real or legend! Definitely The Bell Witch, from right here in good ol Tennessee, and from the very county I live in. Even Andrew Jackson is caught up in the tale. The descendant of Mister John Bell, is, I believe, the owner of Austin & Bell funeral homes, right here in my own little home county. Check out the site. I've always found the story pretty interesting.

Asshole! Today, Robbie and I went to Opry Mills to see Lee and Maggie. Lee is in Job Corps now, and they had sent him and some of his fellow job corps friends to the mall for a day out. Unfortunately, I had the distinct displeasure of seeing Dave, Maggie's husband, again. Dave. I can't describe Dave in one small blog entry. He's mental. I mean, he thinks they are after him. He's definitely an authentic paranoid. He's also been arrested, once, for spousal abuse. I think that was the only time he ever hit her, but I'm also sure that he's mentally abusive. Anyway. Today, after most people had left, it was just me and Robbie, and Maggie, Dave and Lee. Robbie's never met Dave before, and I bet he wishes he hadn't met him still. Lee was talking about winning a CD player, and the conversation turned to winning, and Robbie said something about "well, Bush didn't really win the election" or something along those lines. Dave proceeded to call him a "communist bastard" and told him that if he "wanted to live off the government," he should move "over there". Where, exactly, "over there" is, I'm not really sure. Then he also said that he bet we voted for Clinton. Barring the fact that when Clinton was elected, neither of us were old enough to vote. God, I hate that guy.

RHPS Halloween night Robbie and I went to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Belcourt Cinema in Nashville. That was my first time to actually see it on the big screen. I've seen the movie. I know a lot of the audience parts. I've seen the stage production of it. But I haven't seen it in the movie theatre. So I guess that makes me a virgin. But I still refused to go up to be sacrified. Nyah. The actors that played it out, on the stage in front of the screen, I have to say were not that good. For one, Doctor Frank-N-Furter was a woman, and a rather chubby one at that, totally unlike Frank. What the hells the point of a female dressed up as a female I ask you! Riff Raff also was a woman. The person that played Columbia couldn't dance for shit. She just sort of... stumbled around stage. And the girl that played Janet... was about 3 times the size of the Janet in the movie. The guys that walked up and down the isles shouting the lines for the audience were good, and one of them was also Eddie. Well, even though they were not that great, they had fun doing it, and that's the important part. We had a lot of fun there, and I enjoyed seeing it that way for the first time.