Not as good an idea as it sounded. It’s not bad, but the vanilla ice cream flavor is close enough to the Mr Pibb (Pibb Xtra to be exact) that it’s a cup of nothing, really. Or maybe the flavors are opposite, the way a base and an acid of the same strengths make water. Hmmmm.

In possibly related news following one woman shopping is not even the same thing as following three women shopping.

Next blog: self-tattooing.

GPOYW: My jaunty new scarf, originally uploaded by JW Doom.

Do you like it? Do you love it? All the hepcats will want them next season!!

Paint booth, originally uploaded by JW Doom.

Every work place should have a giant vacuum hose.

I used puff pastry instead of making my own pie dough because, yeah, right.

And they still look tasty after resting under foil overnight. The bottoms are a little soft but they’ll firm up in the fridge between now and lunch.

From WTF with Marc Maron Episode 227, transcribed by me, any emphasis is mine.

I’m so fucking sick of people that preach positivity. It’s making me nauseous.

All you people that, you think you’re positive. Let me tell you something, negativity and positivity are almost exactly the same in most cases, they’re coping mechanisms. Neither one imply that you’re a better person, or a more decent person. The people that actually preach this idea of positivity, “Hey man I’m positive, I’m not negative”. They’re doing the exact same thing.

Positivity implies intolerance 90% of the time. That means you’re just like, “Hey get the fuck out of my space, man. You’re negative.” I know negativity can be draining, I know negativity can be bottomless, and there’s not a lot you can do. And I know that positivity can be bullying and intolerant and arrogant in its way, because you think you’re a better person. Because, “I’m just doing everything I can to be positive, which means excluding negativity from my life”.

Where’s the empathy there? Where’s the caring? There’s no caring, you’re not putting better things out into the world, you’re just coping in a different way. And being a little bit more easy to be around. But you’re no better.

It doesn’t make you a decent person to be positive. It’s just a different type of denial.

Edited for clarity. Quote starts about 0:02:29

Someone at work finally realized that the building I work at doesn’t need five people. Duh.

Starting next week then I’ll spend the last half of the week at one of the other FIVE buildings, including occasional trips to the one in (boo) Troutdale and (BOOOO!) Vancouver. I’ll be using the company truck for those, although they’ll need to teach me to drive a stick for that.

This is borderline crappy. This building (which I’ll refer to as the Flagship) has the nicest facilities. It could have been worse, I could have been shifted to the other side entirely or even laid off. The variety will be nice but that’s offset by how long it will take me to learn the other buildings as I’m being bounced around.

I hope I get that backpack toolbag I put on my Christmas list. Gonna need it.

GPOYW: Argh!, originally uploaded by JW Doom.

Look, I’m working on a computer. Fuck.

GPOYW: Whew!, originally uploaded by JW Doom.

Working entirely too hard.

This was at Burgerville.

Tap the Coke and you get this:

Where you can add flavored syrups. Cherry, vanilla, lime.

Okay, I’m nerding out. Still, cool ass shit at the ‘ville.

Interesting point of view, edited for clarity by me.

George Bush, the last George Bush we had, was the first cable TV president. He was the first president that was only president to the people that voted for him. He did not give a fuck about the people that didn’t vote for him. Obama is actually trying to be president to the whole country, and there’s a lot of compromise to being president to the whole country. Hopefully by now he’s learned his lesson.

In a weird way our complaints about Obama is because we miss Bush. We miss the guy who didn’t give a fuck about these other people. Bush didn’t give a fuck about us, he really really didn’t. And we kinda want our own. We want revenge, we don’t want justice. That’s the problem with the Democrats.

WTF with Marc Maron Ep 224 (about 1h 16m in)