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I want to pave highways

I think I would like a job paving asphalt interstate highways. Yeah, it looks like really tough work slinging asphalt with the heat and the fumes and such. But you only work like one day a month!

In Lakeland, they have one lane closed in each direction of I-4. In one night they put down several lane-miles of final friction: two lanes eastbound, one lane west. Then they put up barrels and construction signs to close off the incomplete lanes and left it. It’s been a week. Is the construction company holding the state ransom for the rest of the work or what? Sitting in traffic costs me money. It costs us all money.

Perhaps artificially increasing demand for gasoline ultimately raises prices for crude oil… which in turn increases the cost of the asphalt and the markup for the construction company. How’s that for conspiracy theories?

Shine Hola

There’s an auto detailer up the street from here (Kennedy and Westshore in Tampa) called Shine Hola.

I love bad puns. Hair places always use them in a name. There’s one on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando called “Hairgazm!” In Jacksonville I used to go to a place called “Hair Today [gone tomorrow].” Not so surprising that I’m now bald.

Please Flush the Urinal

If you think you’re saving water by not flushing, you’re mistaken. The first thing I do when I walk up is flush so I don’t have to inhale the fumes from your waste.

Speaking of bathrooms, why is it the mens and ladies rooms are still separate (in this country)? Everyone is behind a partition anyway. Are women threatened by peeing in a stall beside a man? What about gay and lesbian folks? Should we have a third bathroom option for you? Do you feel just as “threatened”? It’s a silly waste of resources.

Potential New Server

A week or so ago I received an email from Sun Microsystems about their new promotion for the Sun Fire T2000: A sweet “eco-friendly” webserver. 60-day free trial. Ok, I’ll bite.

I filled out the application and didn’t hear anything for a week. After a couple of emails back-and-forth it appears they are going to ship one to me. Naturally, I’m trying to find a way to pay for it so I don’t have to send it back at the end of the trial. This is where you come in:

I’m going to be redesigning my web hosting site and restructuring the pricing levels.

I’m probably going to offer (low) fee-based big email accounts here at proteinspill.com. You’ll be able to get your very own proteinspill.com address with at least half-a-gig of storage. I’ll let you use that for offline backups too.

a few other tricks up my sleeve that I’ll publish here when ready

If you currently have a website somewhere else *seriously consider* moving it to me. This is a wicked little box and you want your account on it. I promise.

April Fools

My last day in Monorails will be April 1. Isn’t that appropriate?

Happy Birthday Tracy

I feel odd today. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m operating on like 2 1/2 hours sleep right now. Maybe it’s just the Monday Blues.

Yesterday was a good day, though I got started late. I had to do laundry so I couldn’t meet Tracy at work like we planned. We managed to have a decent lunch at Beaches and Cream–and that reminds me:

What exactly is the purpose of the cast member dining discount? Is it a benefit? Seems to me it was originally created to get cast members to visit these establishments so we can sell them to our Guests. 20% of my check is supposed to be advertising, right? Well then why has it become so difficult to actually get this discount?

Tracy and I got to the Beach Club and walked over to Beaches and Cream and waited. There was nobody standing at the host(ess) stand. About 10 minutes go by and Larry comes out. He takes my name and hands me a remote, says it’ll be 10 (more) minutes. We wait. We’re seated at a table and Rachel (I think) takes our order. Several minutes go by and she brings our food to the table. We eat and she brings the check.

Now before I go on… what does this experience sound like to you? Table service?

I present my ID and she says, “Oh, we don’t do the discount here.” Ok, I say, and to Tracy I start bitching. Rachel cuts in and says, “We’re considered Quick Service here.” Right. Reread that last paragraph.

Beaches and Cream does have a Quick Service counter for ice cream on the other side of the restaurant with a separate entrance. I however am not in that area. I was served at a table. I’m getting tired of being fucked with this discount. (Last week Tracy and I went to Biergarten at Epcot and were screwed because I ate before 8pm. Food was good though, as always )

Anyway, after our late lunch we went on to Fantasia Gardens. I’m happy to report that I did receive the proper discount there. We played on the Fairways and I sucked hard. It’s been at least 5 years since I’ve putted any sort of course and I’ve never played the Fairways before. I didn’t bother to check my score. We went to Ghirardelli’s (an operating participant and they appreciate cast members’ business too) for dessert. I took Tracy home and we napped before I had to get ready for House of Blues.

I met Tracie, Matt and Kellen there. It was a slow start, but I had a good time. At one point I went upstairs to use the mens room and saw a girl show her tits to a bartender. She didn’t walk away with a free drink, so I’m not really sure what she was trying to accomplish. heheh.

Use the Restroom!

What is the deal with people who can’t hold their poop all of a sudden? In the past couple of weeks we’ve had a number of incidents in the trains where our lovely Guests are taking a dump in the monorail! It happens when it’s not particularly busy–so they didn’t have to wait in a long line and the ride is only 4-5 minutes. They couldn’t make it to a restroom? We just call custodial and they come out and clean up. I’m suspicious.

Rubberneckers

Technically I was rubbernecking to get this photo, but I have a blog to post to. I did it for you!

You know it’s bad when there are two helicopters hovering above the Interstate

Each day of my new gig I’ve left my house a half-hour earlier than before. Today was 06:15. Thursday should be 06:00. Maybe I’ll make it with no delays. Hahahahaha. I encounter traffic at mile marker 17 to 12 usually and until today I had no idea what it was: People are watching workers install a guard rail in the median. The rest of the traffic is as expected but it’s not so bad at 7am.

I’ve been learning quite a bit already at the new job so that has me excited. They have a set of very large applications written in PHP and they have an interesting way of dealing with all the code and presentation. If you’re lucky, you’ll see some additions here that take advantage of my new abilities.