I’ve won myself an express trip back home.

Apparently, my body wasn’t quite ready for my glorious return to work and has rebelled against me. I’ve been waking up about 10 – 15 times per night with some pretty nasty back spasms (and let me tell you… those are wheeeeee, fun!!). So I came home early yesterday and am still home today. I’m going to see if there’s any way to work halftime for the next week or so. I’ll try to ease my way back in, rather than rushing headfirst into a normal routine (thereby giving my back a chance to heal).

On the automotive front… I still don’t have my car back. The Ford Fecal they gave me hurts my back (again.. I hate EVERYTHING about that car…. the seats, the noise the turn signals make, the controls… EVERYTHING!!!). There’s been no word on when they might have my car ready, but then again, they may be replacing the glass where it was scratched up by the tinter (and I may become the next King of England).

         
The king has an impressive “staff”!

Link of the day: Royalty free ways to kill yourself (I am sooooo punny!)

Though it’s nice to be back at work, I think I may have pushed it a bit when I returned.

I probably moved around more yesterday than I had in the previous two weeks, and I can feel it today. Heh… I may be taking another week off.

In unrelated news, I had lunch at Jack In The Box today (as Eddie ditched me and I was on my own… bastard!). I tried one of their new “supreme salads”… the Southwest Chicken.

It’s that damn good!!!

Grilled chicken, black beans, roasted sweet corn, pepperjack cheese, cherry tomatoes, and red onions… all on a bed of lettuce. It came with southwest ranch dressing (a little spice kick) and some spicy corn chip things to sprinkle on top. It’s also friggin’ huge (I’m stuffed!). Get one! It’s WWBD tested and approved!

In other news…. well… there is no other news. You’ll have to settle for this lame link I found while frantically searching for something lame to link to. Enjoy!

Because I miss my car: Yellow Cars!

In the continuing (and somewhat boring) saga of my car problems, a new chapter is born:

The dealer kept a promise!

They came out to my work today with a rental (they’re paying for it) and drove off in my car. I gave them a complete list of the issues and all my contact info so they can get a hold of me. Hopefully they’ll have it for me soon.

The car the got for me to drive is a Ford Focus.

Words can’t begin to describe what a piece of crap this thing is. The ride sucks, the interior sucks, the turn signals make the same sound as a rock stuck in your tire would make if you were driving slowly. Basically I hate it, but at least I have a car to drive.

My first day back at work has been interesting… I’ve got a lot of catch-up to do, and I’ve been accosted by nearly everyone I’ve walked past (because I’ve been MIA for 3 weeks). Hopefully things will settle down in the next day or two.

Link of the day: The Matrix Reloaded.

There’s a reason for the link… first you need to do something:

Go to the high bandwidth version of the matrix site, click on the yellow button, click on the grey square next to the “low bandwidth” button, click the green square that is revealed. Click the panel to access it.

Now enter the binary code 01101111 to get into hex mode.

Convert 0xA3B1A428 to binary and enter it in the hex access panel (that would be 1010 0011 1011 0001 1010 0100 0010 1000).

Or… you can just click here to download a 43 meg model of the Nebuchadnezzar (but only if you’re a lazy bastard).

In a surprise twist of fate…. the dealer is actually doing something about my car.

I decided yesterday that I didn’t want to wait till tuesday to talk to a manager, so I called them and got transferred to the manager on duty, Ken Roberts. After explaining the whole situation to him, he told me that he didn’t have the authority to do anything (then who does?), but he would take my complaint and information, and call me back today by noon.

He called at 9:30 this morning.

They can’t do anything today (it’s a holiday and everything is closed), but they are going to rent me a car tomorrow and bring it out to where I work, then take my car back to the shop. He said they would keep it until they were absolutely positive it was perfect in every way, then drive it to where ever I am and deliver it to me. They’re also going to detail it for me (as there’s brown crap splattered on the inside from whatever they use to adhere the tint to the windows).

While I’ll believe it when I see it… it looks like things are moving in a positive direction here. More to follow.

And now… the links of the day (courtesy of Eve… she rocks my world:
Buy a painting… now with more vulva!
Unixsex – it’s ok to love your computer… just don’t luuuuuv your computer!

So it’s around 2:30 am, and I’m sitting here drinking Hooch Hard Orange and reading websites of shallow people (unlike this website, where I know exactly how useless I am).

Life is good.

A side note about my car… I called the bastards back to fix what they missed (read: everything) and they promised to pick my car up this morning and have it back to me tonight. 10:30 am came… no pick up. 11:30 arrived and I got a second helping of the same (I called and left a voicemail). 1 pm rolled around, no call back. 2 pm, another call made and another dejection received in the ether of computerized answering systems. I did try calling the number that their service manager called me from on Friday (which is apparently his home), but the phone was answered by a little girl who informed me that daddy was at work (so I know he got my messages). By 5 pm, I finally resigned myself to the inevitable conclusion: They’ve been paid and that’s good enough for them (I can go to hell).

Fuckers.

Of course, it’s the holiday weekend, so I’m going to have to wait for tuesday to roll around before I can get a hold of anyone important who works there. At this point I don’t want them to fix it… I’ll take my money back and go elsewhere to have it done (like they’ll really give me my money back… oh-man… I crack myself up!)

On the brighter side of things… the little sister and her new husband came over tonight for dinner. We burnt dead meat on the grill and watched the mother of all thunderstorms roll in while drinking margaritas and making fun of the people who live behind us… great times!!

There is no link… you’ve already gotten two.. don’t be greedy!

Oh.. one more thing… I’m changing my link on the email back to something serverside. Apparently I had my hotmail account locked down so that if you weren’t in my address book, I didn’t get it (and I have an empty address book). I tried turning that filter off, and immediately got 57 emails on how to enlarge my penis, get rich on real estate, and look at some skags webcam. So… if you sent me a message and haven’t replied… that would be why (send it again to the new address… I’ll get it this time).

*sigh*

Tomorrow’s big plan: more of the same (I lead the rock star life style!)