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Stuff You Really Don't Need To Know
Tuesday, 2005 July 5 - 11:59 pm
... but this entry could be the summation of my entire life.

There was a message on my voice mail when I got to work today: "Walter, this is Seymour... tell Sam to give me a call." We have no one named Walter, Seymour, or Sam at our office. In fact, I think you'd have to travel back to the 1950s to find a Walter, a Seymour, and a Sam all in the same place. They'd all be wearing short-sleeved white shirts with navy blue ties, and glasses with thick plastic rims. They would work for General Electric.

In the background of the voice mail, I distinctly heard the sound of Bob Barker on "The Price is Right". That gave me a mental image of "Requiem for a Dream". Poor Seymour... I hope he finds Sam soon, before his life goes to crap.

I did end up going out to dinner tonight with the lovely Natasha. A couple of other people came too, so it REALLY wasn't a date. Still, I gave Natasha the line about her face launching a thousand ships, and she seemed flattered. The next step? I'm going to take her out somewhere nice, like the Magnolia Grill. Not that I think there's any chance that we'll end up dating... but my friend Dan and I agreed, Natasha is the sort of person you just want to have around, because of all the hotness.

Dan and I went out afterwards to a bar in Cary. This was probably one of the most happening bars in the sleepy bedroom community that is Cary, because at midnight, there were TEN CUSTOMERS there. Four of them were even women. Two of them were straight. We think. But the most important thing? PINTS OF GUINNESS FOR $2.50. I don't care what kind of bar it is, or what kind of town it's in: IT'S $2.50 GUINNESS.

I flirted for a bit with an attractive waitress, Kendra. But I knew it would never work for us. "Ken and Kendra"? That's just too cutesy.

Someone on the on-line dating service named her profile "AprilShowerFace". Does that sound like a porn movie title, or what? And there's another girl that says she's "not a skank". I would hope that was a given, but you never know, I guess.

My electricity is going out tomorrow. There was a note on my door saying the power will be out from 8:00 AM until 2:00 PM. What that means is that it's unlikely I'll be awake before 2:00 PM, because there's certainly no WAY I'll be up before 8:00 AM... and with all my alarm clocks knocked out, the only thing that will wake me is the sensation of having to pee... and even that's not always reliable.

Melissa* is talking about not going to BlogHer. That would a travesty, and I'm going to do whatever I can to fix that, assuming I ever get out of bed tomorrow.

*Don't go to suburbanbliss.net. Someone else bought the domain and Melissa no longer writes there.
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Comment #1 from TravisTidmore (Guest)
2005 Jul 6 - 12:13 pm : #
This has to be my favorite blog of the last couple of weeks(I know this because I just read the last couple of weeks of blogs all at once)

First off I can actually see Walter, Seymour, and Sam walking to work in their short-sleeved white shirts with navy blue ties, and glasses with thick plastic rims, carrying their metal lunch boxes and ready for another workday ahead of them. Maybe your phone has some sort of time travel device that allows it to pick up old phone calls (too bad the whole price is right noise throws off that possibility)
AprilShowerFace, not only sounds like a porn title, but one of those sick, fetish titles to boot.

What's up with the electricity being off for 6 freaking hours. Seriously are they completely rewiring the entire neighborhood?
Comment #2 from Nicholas (Guest)
2005 Jul 6 - 4:09 pm : #
I've gone along with wrong number callers when they don't mention a name. Recently I was asked to bring my chain saw when I come over, I said OK and hung up.

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