It took me 2 1/2 freaking hours to travel 30 miles to work because of 2 inches of snow. I listened to 3 fucking Green Day albums during one commute. I could be pushed over the edge by the slighest provocation. No one (Smokey) better push my buttons until I calm down. I will thrash them to within an inch of their life.
No one better ask me for any fucking money today at work. They will get their head bitten off.
I can’t wait for my 3 hour commute home tonight when it is really snowing.
Stop crying. I was in a traffic jam in Manila last week where thousands of cars, hundreds of Vespa scooters and bycyles and a few dozen 3-wheeled vehicles came together in a torrential rainstorm in one of the most harrowing moments of my life. At one point, I said to my terrified co-passengers that if we got out of the car alive, it was God’s hand that guided us. It’s all relative, my friend.
Sunny and 70 in the land of free houses today.
Mikein AZ
FU
Oh yeah, and a Mercedes threw a tire at me yesterday, the WHOLE FUCKING TIRE! Even here in the dry non-frozen tundra there’s mayhem.
Robmu1
Just out of curiousity, do you live in the Philippines or are you there on business?
I recommend Conspiracy of Fools on audio book (unabridged) It rhymes nicely with what is going on today.
Jmarz – I was there on business.
Jeez, what a cry baby… We had a good old fashioned Florida thunder and rain front go through last evening, I slept like a baby with the rain pattering on the roof.
This morning, I got up, had some tea and a muffin, commuted from the kitchen to the office in about 15 steps. No traffic, no snow, no lost temper and my biggest decision now will be when do I want to stretch out and take a nap. And this, of course, is a Wednesday..
Am I a member of the FSofA or what?
Enjoy your commute home, Jimbo….
Muck
You prick. And I mean that in the best way possible.
12 to 16 inches of snow expected and I’m stuck in this pigsty of a city.
To add to my building anger, the fire alarm in our building went off and we had to evacuate the building into a sleet storm outside for 20 minutes. Administrator’s blood pressure is rising. He could blow at any moment.
Robmu1
Interesting. Are you in the import business?
Robmu1 is in the import/export business. His real name is Art Vandalee.
Jmarz –
Nope – I work for a manufacturer and we were looking at a big shared services center there.
My James how rude. I want you to know that it was so chilly this morning that I had to wear a light jacket to walk the pup. Damn that Al Gore. Actually, I realized that if I keep my coffee cup on the window sill, it keeps the coffee warm all day.
Admin –
Stop by my house for a beer when you get off the Blue Route at 8:30 PM I washed Avalon’s dish and you can pick it up.
I just got to work. Since its a balmy day around +30, I decided to X-country Ski to work. So I sympathize, since instead of my normal 5 minute commute in the car, it took almost triple that to 15 minutes.
RE
You know, I never heard anyone with an MBA use that kind of language. Most of what MBA’s say are loaded with “perhaps”, “maybe”, “the odds favor”, “could”, “should”, “might”, “possibly”, “conceivably”, “it could be”, “for all one knows”, “it may be”, “perchance” and other gems of wisdom and posited bullshit.
However, judging from all the other jungle animals you must deal with here, I will neither take offense or offer any further probative evidence as to your stress, looking out the window at that beautiful Winter scene spread before you..
(You might want to pack a sleeping bag and some groceries before you leave to go home this afternoon and you might think about a scenic cruise through the 30 Blocks just to see it relatively white for a change!)
You seem to be indicating that now would not be the optimal time for me to lay out my opinion of Ron Paul’s politics.
If Ron Paul was in my office, I’d kick him in the balls.
I pass a DOT electric sign on my way back from the shop to my house. Today it warned me of the dangers of talking on the phone while driving. Last week during an ice storm, it warned me that Ice & Snow made the road slippery. Thanks MDOT! After driving here for 27 years, I would have NEVER figured that one out.
The reason I brought this up, is that every time I see that sign, I always think of you Admin.
But, my commute is now 1.5 miles, so I don’t think about it long.
Sorry for your pain and frustration.
That freaking sign said 24 minutes yesterday. Actual driving time was 44 minutes. Pretty good for government generated data.
Another tip for parents from my Manila traffic experience – your 10-year old son should not run out into traffic to jump into the 10 inches of water that accumulated on the highway after 5 minutes of rain; this may be dangerous as thousands of cars are busy ignoring traffic signals – oops, there are no traffic signals! There are no lanes, either, so get the hell off the fucking highway.
This is what your sign should have said Jim:
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See! See! Even sweet Avalon can’t figure out how to post an illustration on this damn website.
Muck’s solution to not being able to post a picture:
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ummmm….Muck, didn’t my photo show up for you? I can see it. Maybe there is a glitch.
How to post a photo in your comment:
1 – right click on the photo
2 – click on “properties”
3- highlight the Address url code, then right click and choose “copy”
4 – Go to TBP site and click on the blue “clicking here” link right under the “submit comment” button
5- On my computer a yellow message bar appears at the top that says “This website is using a scripted windows….”, so if you have that you need to click on the yellow bar. Then click on “temporarily allow scripted windows”. Then you must go back down and AGAIN click on the blue “clicking here” link located under the “submit comment” button. But not every computer has this security feature, so if you don’t have it you can skip this and go to step 6.
6- Finally go up to the url box and paste your photo url, then click “OK”. Your url should appear in the comment box.
Its easy right? Try it right now.
The best part is that sometimes you can go through all of those steps and for some reason your photo still might not show up. It can be a little glitchy.
did it work?
Yeah, the image plugin on here is evil. It lets the photo show up for me on my computer but on the kids’s computer it doesn’t show up. Darnit, it was funny too.
Avalon, have one of your kids do it for you …
THC – I know, right? They could definitely do better then I can
Avalon, first hello! And I can see your photo..very funny
That freaking sign said 24 minutes yesterday. Actual driving time was 44 minutes. Pretty good for government generated data. – Admin
Isn’t that about the same percentage difference as unemployment and GDP stats? Wow, maybe they are at least getting consistent in their presentations.
SSS
Nice giblets
Here is Avalon’s picture. I don’t get the humor.
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@avalon: First, thank you. I have copied and pasted your gracious instruction to a stickie to try in a minute. Second: You have to remember that at my age, everything is difficult to do. Even thinking and trading repartee with your sweetie is sometimes more than even I can do.. Thanks again and I can the see, on the second try, your version of picture (and the one Jim posted) on my Imac too.
I even see the humor therein especially from Jim’s point of view. Is Admin sleeping on his sofa in the office tonight or will he be home before it’s time to go to work?
Muck
They are calling for blizzard conditions in the next few hours. I convinced my boss to let everyone leave at 3:30 before conditions deteriorated. It only took me 45 minutes to get home. I’m safe and secure.
The 2 1/2 hours of listening to Green Day on the way to work provided me the inspiration for a new article I will start tonight. There isn’t much to do, other than think when you travel at 10 mph for 2 1/2 hours.
Muck’s self-portrait…..
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Muck’s self portrait.
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Is it safe for me to start mfkg RP yet?
Hi TeresaE – thnx, Jim fixed it to make it bigger.
Muck – thats how I do it but I’m sure others who are more computer savvy have better ways to do the picture thing. I was being sarcastic when I said it was easy 🙂
Give it a shot, Smokey. Admin’s home and seems to be in a much better mood than this morning, when he looked like this.
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My worst driving experience ever was being caught in a traffic jam on the interstate in
Washington DC. Per Murphy’s Corollary (law = anything that can go wrong will, corollary = at worst possible time), I came down with a severe case of sudden onset diarrhea. My options were very few – I was heading to the airport, I had a passenger, and the only patch of green in the concrete wasteland was the median strip. Fucked was I. So, in a superhuman effort, I clamped the glutes together and held on for dear life. After what seemed to be a lifetime (probably 30 minutes) I was able to exit the highway and immediately spotted a public toilet. I hopped out, told the passenger to circle the block until he saw me, and did a world class duck walk toward the toilets. As is the nature of these things, all went well until my hand hit the stall handle (which was fortunately vacant). Let us just say that the men’s room needed major fumigation, and I left my shorts in the bathroom bin.
So don’t whine to me about your delay. It could have been much worse. I kid you not.
Glad you’re home safe and whatever else it was you said you were. Too bad cause I just posted a whiz-bang scenario on “Blizzard has Arrived” that painted a somewhat different picture of your predicament.
Enjoy the evening and tomorrow may be another fun day in Philly..
PS: Avalon, your instructions failed on step 2. I will put an article with illustrations on FSO and try copying it and pasting to TBP. Jim sez it’ll work but we all now how he stretches the truth sometimes. Thanks anyhow. Since Jim had it so easy this afternoon, I’d hit him up for a massage with candle light an a good glass (or two) of wine..
You could relocate to a small village in Alaska, but then what would you have to bitch about?
Just sayin….
Muck, I see your self-portrait above – its a very nice picture.
Admin–Two inches of snow? I can’t contain my laughter. hahaha Where I live we can get 1-2-0r 3′ of snow in a storm. There are Flat Landers, yahoos, who have 4 wheel drive and think that that will do just fine, who come to realize that their car or truck moves better on four wheels than on the roof.
I put on studded tires on all four wheels in the winter even tho I have all wheel drive. Added insurance!
Better stopping, better starting, and better turning.
We know how to drive on sno and ice because we have so much of it. I’m reminded of a story.
In the middle of a snow storm a guy walks into a doughnut shop for a dozen doughnuts and the proprietor asks him if his wife sent him in. The guy replied, “You don’t think my mother would send me out in a storm like this, do you.”
Admin–Eat a Snickers bar. You’ll be your charming self in no time.
llpoh @ 6:16 PM: Been there. Traveling while sick and gambling on a fart and losing. Not fun, my friend…
Admin – things can always get worse. Don’t curse the gods or they will. Have that Snickers bar and chill. In the meantime, we are all here for you. You got this… 🙂
Wait. This is an ancient post. Just noticed. Wierd…