05:14 - Thursday, May. 05, 2005
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plenty of work for me this week! i knew i'd get more hours!

well, because of all the negative responses i got yesterday to my question about the "all in one" printer/scanner/copier, i aint gonna get one, even though it does look snazzy! but i aint gonna do it! specially after reading tree response!!! i can read the TENSION! in her comment! DONT DO IT! she writes!!! of all the comments i got on this, it was unanimous! majority rules! yay!! thanks, everybuddy!!!

in a silly attempt to cut down on coffee consumption, im not drinking my usual 100 weight, 98 octane john wayne brand style coffee, but regular strength, like the tea ya get at dennys. BLAH! i've had 3 cups already, and im still dragging ass... zzzzzzzzzzzz

i was a shoe shine boy when i was a rug rat! back in 1968 i learned how to shine shoes. there was a few kids shining shoes. we would go into the bars and i was allowed into the "special clubs" that only certain people were allowed to go into. these were called social clubs, but there was nuffin social about them. what went on there, stayed in there. and ya kept ya mouth shut, too! i made a lot of money shining shoes, i charged just a quarter, but when i went into the social clubs, i made lots of paper money! and i ran errands for these guys too, from the social clubs. so it helped out. next thing i knew, all of a sudden, i was the only kid in the neighbourhood shining shoes. it was only years later that i figured out why. one day, to make more money, i came up with an idea. downtown there was a string of titty bars, and i went in them to shine shoes. heres the scam. all i had to do was make believe i was a deaf mute, and i was good to go! i made a mint! the drunks all felt sorry for me, and since i was downtown, no one from the neighbourhood ever seen me! so i was making a lot of us cash to bring home, and no one questioned where i got all the money from, it kept us in soup! even though by this time, my parents were divorced, and my mother didnt work, the rent was always paid, and we ate good. and when we went to the welfare office, we got what we wanted without yelling! and the social workers stopped coming by too. so all was well! then one day we moved out of the brownstone that we lived in for years, and we moved across town to a nice house with a yard, and my mother married my uncle, and my brother went to vietnam, and got shot down, and i went to school, shined shoes, and ran errands.

every day, i write this when i wake up, and i never know what im gonna write. i dont have a clue as to why i remembered all this when i sat down here. i had a shitty childhood for sure, but i survived, and grew up. i wonder where i'd be today if i had done more then just shine shoes and run errands. well, knowing what i know now, im happy things ran in my life the way they did, and i never got into trouble with certain people cause i kept my mouth shut. and now all those people are long time gone, and im still here. someone been looking out for me.

yesterday, i registered into the journal con forum, and there was a section there where it sez to introduce yourself, so i posted a lil introduction about me and this daily drivel, and what this page is about. and some friggen moron made a snide comment to me about it! what a pure asshole he was! so piss on it! i aint gonna let it bug me. it was not anyone from diaryland, i know that! just some shitball with nothing else to do, he really showed his intelligence yesterday. but he can say what he wants to say, i never been to one of these conventions before, and i know that some peoples children have no class, i just hope that when i go, i will meet people there that are nice, and not fucked up. i know you guys that read my stuff every day are NOT fucked up. its the udders i worry about. i am a lil squirrely about meeting people live and in person to begin with. these days people in real life tend to look at me different. true facts. i have a bi polar disorder, and i am well aware that i percieve things different then normal people. i just hope that i fit in. im committed to going to this, and my mind is made up. i paid my 79 bucks, and watch out, here i come!!!
but thats 6 months down the line. i dont do well in social situations, and im like my pal yarnsmith i do better online than in real life! im actually quite shy, really, until im hanging around with ya for a while, then i open up. another thing im concerned about, and that is, i know people there will be drinking alcohol. and i know that i will be interacting with some of you who drink. and i know how i act around people who are drinking, i do not like it. but thats MY problem, not yours, it is a MAJOR pet peeve for me, i know you all are NOT alcoholics, and can handle ya stuff, and adults do drink in social functions. i just hope i dont piss anyone off. i just wanna solidify my friendships by meeting you guys in real life. and have FUN too!!!

That's right. It's Cinco de Mayo! It's probably a long shot, but if anyone's really interested, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day. That is actually September 16. Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico's victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Ah, screw that.

We should take a moment to give America some well-deserved credit. We may not manufacture anything here anymore, except overpriced, poisonous prescription drugs. We may not be able to put together a car or a TV or a DVD player worth the loose change in Louie Anderson's couch. But there is one thing that America still knows how to do: Take the minor holidays of other countries and turn them into excuses to get hammered drinking that country's local beer.

Also today, Tony Blair and his Labour party put themselves on the line in elections in the United Kingdom. Both Blair and his party are expected to maintain their majority, and, once the election results are in, Blair is also expected to resume his post up President Bush's ass.

While you're pushing back shots of Cuervo, swing by your local Borders and pick up Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's book, "Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork." The 5-foot-11-inch Huckabee, who recently made headlines by remarrying his wife in a "covenant" marriage, slimmed down to 170 pounds (from 280) simply by changing his diet after he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I don't want to say that Huckabee was fat, but when he sat around his family's one-room shack and outhouse in Little Rock, he sat around his family's one-room shack and outhouse in Little Rock.

And finally, also on this day in 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, traveling into orbit aboard the Freedom 7. You may remember Shepard from the famous golf shot that he teed up on the moon in 1971, a drive which still holds the Milky Way Galaxy record at 1.2 million miles and counting.

BREAKING NEWS FOR OUR CRACK WHO DID IT AND RAN, INK! NEWS TEAM! THIS SHIT JUST HAPPENED!!! LONDON - Two small makeshift grenades exploded outside the British Consulate in New York early Thursday, causing slight damage to the building but injuring no one, officials said. The blasts occurred at 3:50 a.m. as voters were going to the polls in Britain. In London, Britain's Foreign Office said there were no provisions for Britons to vote at overseas consulates. Police spokesman Noel Waters said the grenades had been placed inside a cement flower box outside the front door of the midtown Manhattan building that houses the consulate. After piecing together the shrapnel, police determined the devices were toy grenades that had been filled with gunpowder. Officers estimated that one was the size of a pineapple; the other the size of a lemon. The blasts shattered a panel of glass in the building's front door and ripped a one-foot chunk from the planter. The department's bomb squad was at the scene and streets were closed in the area. The building has retail shops on the lower level.

Your SAT Score of 1428 Means:

You Scored Higher Than Howard Stern You Scored Higher Than George W. Bush You Scored Higher Than Al Gore You Scored Higher Than David Duchovny You Scored Higher Than Natalie Portman You Scored Lower Than Bill Gates

Your IQ is most likely in the 130-140 range

Equivalent ACT score: 32

Schools that Fit Your SAT Score: Amherst College Dartmouth College Williams College University of Pennsylvania Columbia University

Designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel introduced her first perfume in 1921. She gave it the name "Chanel No. 5." According to Chanel, she jumped straight to number five because it was her lucky number. To add luck to the fragrance, she introduced it on the fifth day of May, the fifth month. Chanel No. 5 became the world's best selling perfume.

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