Archive for the ‘WTF?’ Category
I am being hunted.
For the last 3 nights, I have been terrorized. Every morning when I get, I am finding a new mosquito bite. I know it’s a flippin’ mosquito because I’ve seen it buzzing around. But when I try to kill it, I lose sight of it. She’s a smart one, she is.
I Googled the lifespan of a mosquito. This thing apparently can live up to 100 days. All it needs is a stable foodsource, and well, that’s me. I’ve tried to go Elmer Fudd on it, but no luck. It’s hiding well. I feel like it’s studying my every move. And it definitely know the layout of the house by now. I have to face facts: I need to outsmart it. Damn.
I called my Mom and she told me to put out a dish with water and dishsoap. I’m not sure what this is going to do. Do they drink it and die? Bathe? I don’t know.
Anyway, I just need my roommate to come back from his out of town trip. Once he’s back, hopefully the mosquito will turn on him. And I have no doubt that he won’t rest until he kills it. I, on the other hand, am ready to hit the sack. So, hopefully the mosquito doesn’t feel like snacking tonight.
but if you’re keepiing score, Mosquito 4, Dave Q. 0. But if I kill it tonight, it will be worth 5 points. 
-Dave Q.
This was a crazy weekend for me. It started off with a project at work that should have started at 9pm and lasted 15 minutes. Well, the 15 minutes part was accurate, but due to another scheduled upgrade, I didn’t get done until midnight. That sucked. But that was just the beginning.
On Saturday I went to assist with the arrival of evacuees from Hurrican Gustav to San Antonio. I work every now and then with a company out of Ausitn that does RFID tracking. To explain that, the people being evacuated are tagged with a wristband that contains a very small radio antenna. This allows the government to track the departure and arrivals of the evacuees. Think of it like tracking a UPS package, except that in this case UPS is the State of Texas, and the package is the evacuee. Got it? The info on the tag is useful since it contains important info like the person’s name and various medical info. Here are a couple of pics of some the people arriving at the hangar of the Air Force base we staged the operation from.
I worked 29 hours straight monitoring our system and scanning tags of evacuees. My buddy Horbi helped us out. I worked from 7am Saturday morning until 11am Sunday morning when Horbi came to relieve me after he returned from getting some sleep. I was glad he was around. Leave it to Horbi to keep things light.
Well, after he relieved me and I went home, that is when things really started sucking. When I got home, I started vomiting. And didn’t stop. From noon to 9 pm, I vomited about 7 times. I wish I were exaggerating.
So Labor Day I spent recovering. And my friend Cynthia (the owner of the Austin company) spent the day hangin’ with President Bush at the Texas OEM office. Nice. I wonder if he asked her to say hi to me for him. Anyway, I feel much better now. But I have to say, I feel like I gave back to the community with the work we did this weekend. Makes you feel good. Anyway, with all the other hurricanes developing in the Atlantic, they told me to be ready for more.
-Dave Q.
Remember the New Kids on the Block? Yeah, unfortunately, me too. Well, apparently they are planning a comeback. Seriously. Although, I can’t say I blame them. They obviously hear all the crappy music that is on the radio right now and think ‘Hey! We can do that!’. Good luck gents. Should at least be easy money from the curious. You know the type, the ones that can’t look away from a gruesome train wreck.
These guys made me miserable 20 years ago. I have two sisters that adored these “singing sensations”. They would listen to them non-stop at a high volume, which naturally drove me to suicidal thoughts. And then there were the posters. And possibly some t-shirts, but I can’t be certain. I guess I blocked that out. You know. Trauma.
Anyway, I’m sure my sisters will be scouring StubHub.com to get a deal when the NKOTB tour hits their area. Until then, they will just have to HANG TOUGH. Ha! Get it? ‘Hang Tough’? It was one of their songs I think. Aww to hell with you.
-Dave Q.
Ok. I’m having a hard time digesting this one. I’m not saying it’s fake. But I can’t believe 100% what I’m seeing. And it’s not just because the elephant draws better than me. Any thoughts?
-Dave Q.
Car washes across San Antonio are about to get busy.
Yesterday afternoon, it basically started raining dirt. The sky turned from a blue to a kind of yellowish tinted color, and then it drizzled. And that basically put mud everywhere. I’ve never seen anything like it before. As you can see, it left a nice layer of dirt on the surface of my Jeep after things dried up.
I guess I should be happy, considering the Jeep was a little dirty to begin with. Now no one can say crap to me, since pretty much everyone is going to have “wash me” written by finger on the back of their vehicles.
According to the local weather experts, the cause of the rain coming down like this was a combination of ash and dirt in the air from a big fire in central Mexico. Way to go, Mexico. You never stop impressing me.
-Dave Q.
BTW, I know the begining of the video sounds bad with all the wind blowing. But I blame Mexico for that weather phenomenon, too.
Check out this video of Chris Berman going bonkers. I found it by accident. I was actually searching for new “sharking” videos. How Chris Berman came into the equation is anybody’s guess.
Just thought I would share. Now… back to my original search.
-Dave Q.
Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you haven’t
TruTV, which used to be Court TV, has announced that they will air a new series called ‘Man vs. Cartoon’, in which normal everyday morons people try to replicate in real life what they have seen in a cartoon. Yes, you read that right. I don’t blame you if you don’t believe me, but you can read about it here.
So basically my expectations go something like this. Joe Idiot puts on some roller blades and straps an ACME rocket onto his back, waits for a roadrunner (or something of comparable speed) to run by, lights his fuse on the rocket in an attempt to chase said Roadruner, and basically kills himself. That’s when the family of Joe Idiot show up with an attorney and sue TruTV, which eventually leads them to again change the name of the network. But this time they change the name to reflect the ownership, which is now the family of the victim. You guessed it. TruTV is now IdiotTV.
But all that being said, I will probably watch it. I just want to see if they are actually going to drop an anvil on someone’s head.
-Dave Q.
It’s pretty obvious to me that with the Clinton campaign pulling this crap about Obama and the Muslim garb he was photographed in, that they are in official desperation mode. Can’t say that I am shocked. Nor should anyone else be. Anyone with a clue should have the knowledge that Hillary Clinton cares about only one thing: Power. And Barack Obama is the biggest obstacle for her to reach that power. So, with that in mind, she will do anything it takes to win the presidency. Not because she gives a rat’s ass about you or me. But because she thirsts for power.
This goes to show how out of touch Hillary Clinton and her henchmen (sorry. Henchpeople. Have to be politically correct here.) are with the average American people. We are sick of politics. And we are sick of these kinds of tactics. If people already don’t hate Hillary enough, this just adds to it. I already despise this broad, so my disgust with her couldn’t grow anymore.
Man I hope she loses. I hope she loses badly.
-Dave Q.
