Huge success.

I'm drinking some afternoon coffee. What, you say, you never drink coffee in the afternoon! Today I'm making an exception because I'm drinking coffee out of my brand new Aperture Laboratories coffee mug! Wait a minute, it's not the Aperture mug, it's the Black Mesa Research Facility mug. My bad. Sorry. If you've ordered anything from Valve Software you might know why I'm so excited. I ordered the mugs (and WCC t shirt and Orange Box soundtrack cd) monday morning at 7:17am. Here I sit less than 60 hours later drinking from my new mugs. w00t! Valve got the stuff to me in about 53 hours. I even chose the "free shipping" option when I ordered thinking the stuff would be here maybe next week. Boy was I wrong. Valve kicks ass when it comes to shipping your merch to you. I'm going to get another t shirt for a co-worker just to be sure the uber quick shipping wasn't a fluke.

Oh and if you love Portal, please email Valve and beg them to release GLaDOS spheres and Weighted Companion Cube Christmas ornaments. I did. I'd buy at least two of each one. If they get enough emails on the subject Valve might actually listen and give us the ornaments we so covet.

Summer sucks.

I hate summer. Heat and humidity suck. Oh wait, it's not even summer yet. Then why in the hell is it 100 degrees! WTF?? Add all that dew point and stupidity, err humidity, and it's 105 out there. It might cool off to 87 tonight. Oh yippie. The AC is cranked up (or would that be down?) to Arctic Ice levels. I saw some polar bears in the basement. Even the pup won't go outside. Yeah, it's that hot. It's all Al Gore's fault. If he hadn't invented Global Warming and the Internets this wouldn't be happening and it would be a proper 75 degrees out there.

Tagless shirts

Tagless shirts? You know, the new shirts without that annoying neck tag. That tag that digs into the back of your neck first causing itching then burning until you go insane and practically rip the shirt in half trying to pull that freaking tag out?? I hate those dang neck tags. Now they have tagless shirts. Yay you'd think, no more annoying itching burning from those useless tags. You'd be wrong, so very wrong. Those so-called tagless shirts are a lie! They're not tagless at all. They've moved the tag to a new location and made it 1/4 the size it used to be. Now it's a stealth tag waiting for just the right moment to strike. A waist level tag is still a tag and it digs into your skin like a scalpel. The new tags are sharper and itchier, they go from itch to burn in seconds leaving a red rash in their wake. They're stubborn too. They don't pull out as easily as the neck tags. You can pull and tug and try to rip them off with your teeth but you'll leave a hole in your shirt. Go on, I'll wait while you try. See? A ripped shirt! AAARRRGGGHHHH!. Tagless my Aunt Fanny! Time to write some letters of complaint! They'll just send me coupons for more stealth tagged shirts, you watch. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!

Chili

I made a huge pot of chili today. Who wants some? It's a nice chunky one with cubed beef (none of that ground beef garbage), black beans and home grown jalapeños. Yum. You can blame any typos on Abby. It's difficult, at best, to type with a JRT sitting on your lap and licking your fingers.

Say hi to the nice people Abby...... l oo , 'ffffffff,jkkkkkkkkkkk mmmmmmmmm mmmmmm