| Apparent Day |
[Feb. 14th, 2006|08:03 am] |
So here is another holiday, yet distanced far from the stoic remembrance of Groundhog Day. Valentine's Day is, apparently, the celebration of romantic love. It seems specific to romantic love, not familial love nor the love of camaraderie. Yet this, the most blatant and supposedly strongest and longstanding of bonds, must entitle a holiday to remind one that he is engaged in it.
This is a common thread for this region: a series of ritual-rituals for sensations and duties which we are all supposedly expected to keep ever-present regardless. There is a celebration for patriotism, for thankfulness, for ecological stewardship, and for remembering the importance of religious figures. Yet, one would assume that the followers of the lapin and the rotund German would hold their figures in high esteem all-year-round, not just overnight. There are holidays reserved for the hard-won dignity of the Irish and the Mexicans, who spend the rest of the year ignored at best, and vilified at worst.
In fact, the only common thread within all of these holidays is the imbibing of alcohol, a practice most people of this region partake in regularly, regardless of commemoration or hoopla. I assume there will be alcohol supped on this night as well, and all of the coital trappings inherent. Perhaps if alcohol itself were given a holiday, it would fall into disuse the rest of the year as well. |
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| Laughing Out Loud! |
[Jan. 30th, 2006|09:24 pm] |
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| | 400 points! | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Killroy is the best! | ] |
This evening Tina and Brandon went to the Qdoba, and I told them to use my Qdoba card. Now I am in the neighborhood of 400 Qdoba points, also known as one-third of a quesadilla! They received nothing for their efforts!
First I make the fool of Mogul, and now this, forever proving I am the master of sly devilry. |
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| Do No Be Bamboozled By The Mineral Shards I Possess |
[Jan. 30th, 2006|10:58 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | Defaced cleaning product | ] |
I am a simple man with simple needs, and I am rarely in need of a particular tool, device or other bit of folderol. So when I go to the area Home Depot with a list of one item, I expect to find that particular item in short order, and then perhaps return for a similar item in a different size.
Yet, I am greeted with nothing more than incompetence! Asking an attendant where one could find ten augmentive transponder coils (I only needed seven, but one never knows), he impudently asked me whether they were "those little porcelain butterflies that go into plants to check the water"! I do not have to tell you how wrong he was - either he was woefully incompetent as an attendant, or he was trying to shill a poorly-selling gardening product in January! I excused myself from the conversation, but not before upending an entire display of Simple Green in disgust, and purchasing a hose clamp to clamp a hose.
I would prefer not to obtain my reactor components from the Dutch, but how can one be expected to purchase locally when faced with such chicanery? |
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| Pah. |
[Jan. 28th, 2006|11:27 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | Reading my electronic mail | ] |
I received the following electronic mail:
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Subject: Away on vacation.
From: mysticstackshack@peoplepc.com
Date: Sat, January 28, 2006 10:23 am
To: KILLROY
Thank you for contacting The Mystic's Tack Shack. I will respond to your e-mail as soon as possible. Until then, be sure to visit these websites!
http://www.covecrystals.com
http://www.mooncavecrystals.com
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I never initiated an electronic mail with you, mysticstackshack! Do not reply "as soon as possible", or at any point following "as soon as possible"! Were I interested in cove or moon cave crystals, I would obtain them myself! This pathetic attempt at mineral solicitation ends now! |
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| Refutable intentions |
[Jan. 28th, 2006|11:03 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | Standing in an airport | ] |
This morning I was standing in the exact triangulated epicenter of an area airport to assess its security, as I am oft wont to do, when I spotted a couple on of the departure deck, presumably in the process of departure. Their embrace lasted a longish amount of time, and the area woman was dressed in business class attire, suggesting she was about to leave for a business trip of an extended period. Instead, another elder woman greeted the couple, and, after a moment all three left the airport.
What is to be made of this? Why would the couple commit to such a longstanding embrace when neither was to leave? Is it possible that the younger woman arrived before I did, and their embrace was intended as a greeting rather than a departure? Was the elder woman a mother-in-law, and the embrace was intended as a form of sympathy and support for the onslaught of terror she would soon unleash?
I have attached a tracking device to the bottom of the elder woman's baggage, and will elucidate any further details here. |
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| An Interesting Anecdote |
[Jan. 27th, 2006|04:30 pm] |
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| | Sitting on a park bench | ] |
I sat on a park bench today, at the opposite end of an elderly couple. As I did so, the couples' edge of the bench jutted upward ever-so-slightly, though the man acted with a churlishly exaggerated expression as though I had shot him several feet upward. After I glared back, his presumed spouse cautioned him against exhibiting such bizarre behavior.
I do not have a weight problem; I am of the optimal weight for my stature. The bench itself was poorly-constructed for weight compensation, though this is hardly a problem of mine. |
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| I now have a membership card. |
[Jan. 27th, 2006|10:52 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | attendance at an area eatery | ] |
Today I purchased a quesadilla at the area Qdoba faux-Mexican eatery. I was given a card with a point system attached. My quesadilla earned me 89 points, with the entree threshold being 1,000 points.
I have been advised to purchase chips and salsa on my next visit to vastly improve my point totals, though I find it a nominal win, as chips and salsa come at a large markup over the at-cost pricing. |
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