Inside The Perimeter

Not to mention the dirty laundry, stacks of unopened mail, and general disarray that has entered my life over the last year.

Just Say ‘No’! But I Can’t
Last night was supposed to be my first complete night at home in weeks. I have so much shit to accomplish around the house I couldn’t possibly go out again, right? That was the plan until my friend Glenn called and offered the suggestion of eating dinner at the Universal Joint in Oakhurst. I love UJoint but don’t go there often so the choice was easy — “SURE!”

I returned home in time to do some of the needed cleaning and laundry, but not much else, other than tv watching that is…

Baby I Can Drive My Car
This new commute is teaching me a lot about myself.

• I don’t have the balls to ride my bike to this office
• Marta will never been my only means of transportation to/from work, especially if I am going to sweat on the train.
• I like my old routine (okay, I knew that already)
• Pennies are useless, and yes Stacey, I still think we need to stop producing them. You can’t use them for Marta, or the toll booth on 400, the will continue to collect in my car until I get frustrated enough to dump them.
• Podcasts are great and they are even cooler in my car. But now I think that I need to buy an iPod that can hold my entire music collection.

Random Las Vegas Image
I am slowly getting pictures up to my Flickr account (My account name is InsideThePerimeter if you can imagine that). Here is one from the Las Vegas strip. I like it not only for the Welcome To Las Vegas bit and the name of the liquor store, but because the Starbucks sign had been removed. Take that MegaCorp!

IKEA, UKEA, I Still Haven’t IKEA
“When to go?” Should I really be going to IKEA when I don’t want to spend any more money or acquire any more furniture? Do you see how I torture myself?

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - driving for a new today
Current Music - Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code Podcast For 02-Aug-05
Website Of The Day - IKEA inspired, Trump priced, but I still love Modern Contemporary design.

Off to read other blogs….

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Fourth Place Is The New Third Place
A skeleton staff of Meet The Hashers went to the trivia sandbox known as Johnny’s Pizza last night. Sadly, we didn’t bring most of our brains with us. Yours truly missed three sports-related questions (well, really two sports-related questions and one NASCAR question). Somehow we managed to be in first place at halftime and also going into the final question. Unfortunately, the person who answered the final question (not me) was talked out of his original answer and we ended up in fourth place. However, the team that finished in third place failed to adhere to the Must Be Present To Win rules and we claimed the $10 consolation prize — which is rougly one pitcher of satisifying Sweetwater 420 at Johnny’s.

We Live In A Fucked Up World Part II
Have you ever paid attention to the advertisements on television for new drugs? Yesterday while listening to the Braves’ game I heard a commercial for a drug called Ambien. Ambien is a drug intended to help one overcome insominia. However, read the safety information for the drug.

AMBIEN is the #1 prescribed sleep aid in America*

*IMS Health, National Prescription Audit Plus, MAT December 2004.

Important safety information: AMBIEN is indicated for the short-term treatment of insomnia. There is a low occurrence of side effects associated with the short-term use of AMBIEN. The most commonly observed side effects in controlled clinical trials were drowsiness (2%), dizziness (1%), and diarrhea (1%). When you first start taking AMBIEN, use caution in the morning when engaging in activities requiring complete alertness until you know how you will react to this medication. In most instances, memory problems can be avoided if you take AMBIEN only when you are able to get a full night’s sleep (7 to 8 hours) before you need to be active again. As with any sleep medication, do not use alcohol while you are taking AMBIEN. Prescription sleep aids are often taken for 7 to 10 days — or longer as advised by your doctor. All people taking sleep medicines have some risk of becoming dependent on the medicine.

Yes, one of the “side effects” of this sleep aid is drowsiness! WTF?

Hell’s Kitchen, Thankfully Over!
Well, the grand finale of Hell’s Kitchen was last night.

I am a sucker for many reality shows, and for some reason cannot stop watching them even when I know how boring they are (which says a lot about me).

Today I am hating the player, and perhaps even the game. I didn’t care for the way that Michael played the game. I thought that his intentional omission of crab from the crab risotto while Ralph was in charge of the kitchen was completely Bush League. I guess it goes to show you that cheaters can prosper. To make matters worse it the way the final prize was changed from “owning your own restaurant” to “being an apprentice under Gordon Ramsay in London”. Meh!

Tuesday == CD Day
I’m not really excited about today’s drops for CDs. Not being a fan of Faith Hill, I am going to have to pick Michael Penn,’s “Mr. Hollywood Jr, 1947″ for my CD Pick Of The Day. Most people have heard of Michael Penn, but don’t know why. His biggest hit to date is “No Myth” (known by most people as the “Romeo in black jeans” song).

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - eh, notsobad
Current Music - MacCast Podcast from 21-Jul-05
Website Of The Day - Behold the power of Cheese.

Off to read other blogs….

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]

Raleigh North Carolina, or as I like to call it, “Atlanta Lite”. I am sure that the residents of that area would go tell me to fuck myself if I said it to their face. Here is their opportunity to do it in print.

Dance Like No One Is Watching
I can only imagine that was the motto of the guy we saw dancing at a dive called Sadlacks Heroes near the campus of NC State. For the unitiated (as I was), Sadlacks is not a venue where dancing would normally ensue; it’s a small sandwich joint with a small patio area and an eclectic group of patrons. To this guy’s credit he came prepared to dance with short pants, knee pads, and a towel. Did I mention that his dancing resembled more of an epileptic seizure than “normal” dancing? At points during the night he managed to get himself into ideal limbo position, getting so low that the shoulder blade sections of his white t-shirt had turned black from scraping up against the concrete floor. I tried this position the next day and nearly snapped my forty-year-old legs in half before giving up.

My Sixth Sense
Last week when playing poker I jokingly predicted the card being passed to me in a game of Anaconda. Lucky guess, I know, but it humored me.

On Saturday my friends and I brunched at a place in (or around) Raleigh called (I think) the Sunflower Cafe. It was noon, and the place was one of those order at the counter, wait for you name to be called, former-Hardees, type places. While standing in line I noticed that they had a Special of the Day sandwich that appealed to me, so I told my friend Lisa that I had figured out what I was going to order. About the same time an elderly couple standing behind me started talking about how good the Special sounded. I then whispered to Lisa how the people behind me were going to hate me because I was going to order the last of the Specials. (remember it was only noon) Low and behold as the girl passed my order to the guy making sandwiches, he told her “That’s the last one.” and she erased the Special from blackboard. I was glad that I didn’t receive the cane whacking that I fully expected to receive.

Hold It Right There, Buddy!
We lived in a fucked up world. Here is a picture of a set of stairs that are next to a LA Fitness near where I work.

What are they going to do if I try to go up and down the stairs fifty times just for the hell of it?

The Next Grand Experiment
With the exception of the New York trip, I am going to try and force myself to eat lunches in the office for the entire month of August. Here are the perceived benefits

• Money Savings - On average I spend $6 a day on outside lunches. Certainly I can do better than this by eating in.
• Weight Loss - I belong to the Clean Plate club, so regardless of the amount of food placed in front of me I shove it all into my pie hole. I think that I can convince myself to make smaller portions in the office.
• Time Savings - My longer morning commute has caused me to get into work later than I used to. Later in means later out, therefore if I am eating in the office it shouldn’t take me as much time to consume lunch.

Wish me luck, I will need it.

And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood - Marta’d out
Current Music - Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Kings of Leon — “California Waiting”
Website Of The Day - Help fix the world by reporting broken things to This Is Broken.
Monday Morning Weigh In - 200 pounds

Off to read other blogs….

Cheers!
Paulie [eatl/ga]