My dear friends

[UNCLEagent]

here on Cinescape and in Canada, too!

I'm home sick today.

And bored shitless. Sure, I suppose I could write all my Christmas cards and get them in the mail before the 2pm pickup.

I suppose I could eat some breakfast.

I am doing laundry - for kicks. But after watching the washer for ten minutes - I realzed not much action was going to happen there. Maybe I'll go check in after the spin cycle.

I just wanted to say I love you all and leave you with this advise from the heart.

Do frequent backups.

Really.

I went to go print out my Christmas mailing labels, only to realize that they were on my old fried HD from this past summer.

Do it now - burn a backup disc.

I'm off now to fold my socks...

[Outsydr]

You mind your own damn business!!!!!

[Queen Mae]

I'm home sick today too!!

And as I stare at the piles of clothes in my bedroom and the copious amounts of dust bunnies gathering on my hardwood floors, I stop and think... should I vacuum? Should I put the piles of clothes where they go? Should I finish my Christmas cards? Should I meditate? Should I avoid the gingerbread? Should I sit on the couch and watch the entire season of Pushing Daisies?

[UNCLEagent]

You could post pictures of you!!!

I hope you get to feeling better soon - the thing I HATE about being sick is, realizing you SHOULD just stay in bed. But you know all that stuff you could (should) be doing is ideally waiting for you. I did little yesterday and and am thinking - "Damn! I could have gotten so much done!" Now I will have to waste my weekends doing the stuff such as you describe.

Good news - I am on card number five!!!!

[neglet]

I thought I had finished my holiday shopping, but I still have to pick up something for the mother-in-law. And take my son shopping for his grandmas. Urgh. Is there anything worse than taking a 13-year-old boy shopping the week before Christmas when he has no idea what he wants to buy, hates shopping in general, but still feels he should be picking out presents? At least I'll get dinner out in return.

[UNCLEagent]

LOL

I tried this one on my 11 year old son last weekend.

It was fun!

After three grueling hours of shopping with him at the mall, I said we have one last stop to make and I needed his help picking out a perfect gift for a friend of mine.

I dragged him into Victoria's Secret - where he immediately bolted for the exit.

[Nostromo]

Is there anything worse than taking a 13-year-old boy shopping the week before Christmas when he has no idea what he wants to buy

Yes. A 13 year old boy who knows what he wants to buy and, knows you can afford it. :wink: Good luck negs.

Unc and Queen M - hope you get better soon. Buckleys! It tastes so bad you forget what ails you. :) N

[Jakester]

Unc, that's my sister you're talking about!

[UNCLEagent]

Well, no shit!

That's why I knew we couldn't leave it up to you to ask - that would be just too weird.

Even for here.

[mckracken]

get well soon Uncle Agent... by the way.. whats Cinescape? LOL! gosh I havent heard it called that name in a long long time.

[UNCLEagent]

Cinescape, you ask?

Well, it was magical place - far away; long ago.

Kinda like this place, but with a lot more good ol' fashioned flaming!

good times.....

I just got my cards all filled out, addressed and stamped.

yay achievement.

You know? They say living in a city changes a man.

Been a suburbanite all my life and I learned to play by suburbia's rules.

Now, my house is on a busy downtown street in the city of Portland. I see buses, cars, and shopping carts all day long. I like seeing and knowing there are always people close by.

The mailbox (big blue drop-off one) is a half a block down the street across the intersection. And today, I just didn't give a rat's patootie. I wanted those cards in the box before the 2pm pickup.

And I'm feeling kinda shitty. Not THAT bad - just sorta WTF-ish.

Normally, I'd get dressed and leave the house and mail my stuff off all proper like.

Today, I just sorta felt - WTF. I just put on my robe and walked down the street, not caring either way. It felt good, actually. Liberating!

Must be the fever...

but yay! Cards DONE! Shopping DONE! Tree TIED DOWN and not falling over anymore! Printer - plugged in!

[TrixieB]

Poor Unc and Queenie!! All sick and stuff. Although, I wish that I had a day to do stuff around the house instead of spending all day working then running around trying to finish up the Christmas shopping and doing all of the errands. Hope you both feel better soon.

Oh and Unc, I haven't put your card in the mail yet, so don't expect it before Christmas. Sorry.

[mckracken]

UncleAgent shall we call you...."The Dude"? thats great... I drove through Oregon once... didnt stop. came down I5 through Washington, didnt stop. oh wait...
thats not true... we stopped in Klamath Falls for a little while.
I pumped my own gas and got arrested for being a law breakin' tourist.... just kidding....about getting arrested.

[UNCLEagent]

McK - it's cool. You see, you're from out of state, and as such - you can be trusted to pump your own gas.

Here in OR - we're too fucking stupid to be trusted to pump our own. I drove in the heat of the Arizona desert for a quarter of a century, pumping my own gas. I never ONCE blew up a gas station, or burst into spontaneous combustion. Never once.

But here in Oregon, we're special - in a small schoolbus sort of way. We are one of two states that do not allow untrained civilians to pump their own gas. Nope.

I just love waiting in a long line, as one lone guy strolls from car to car, taking care of business. And I just love handing my card to several of these questionable looking characters. High turnover position - no skill or training, or aptitude required. Yup.

People have been trying to get the law repealed for decades. The defense is lame :

1) we have bad weather and it's dangerous to trust people handling their own pumps.

Really? Washington to the north has worse weather and I don't recall reading about stations blowing up...

2) WE have many elderly people and its dangerous to force them to pump their own gas.

Really? Huh. I suppose Arizona and Florida are really in trouble?? Can't an elderly person CHOOSE to use full-service?

3) It's a state mandated jobs program. Not requiring full service as the only option would place hundreds of unemployable folks back on the streets.

True.

BTW - full service is a crock. just try asking one of these guys to check the tires, the oil or clean your windshield.... Riiiight.

So glad you didn't get arrested McK - just be careful the next time - okay?

[UNCLEagent]

thanks Trixie!!!

I appreciate your getting me a card, and I don't mind waiting until after the 25th just so long as all the cookies you are baking me make their way here by Sat!

*smooch

[Jakester]

Yeah, Jersey is the other "no self pumping" state (I know...I did it on purpose). I believe that they have a different rationale, though, so fugghetabowtit. Of course, they are also the State of No-Left-Turn. I fucking hate that. "Oh look! There's the store....it's 50 feet to the left of us, but it'll take us 15 minutes to get there because the next cloverleaf is three miles away!"

[UNCLEagent]

NO LEFT TURN???!!!!

Please... explain. :popcorn:

[Jakester]

Seriously..if you want to turn left, you need to continue past your desired destination until you can exit (via right-hand exit) onto a cloverleaf that will dump you out on the other side of the road, merging with traffic There are signs on the cloverleafs to tell you where you need to go if you just wanted to make a left turn.

There are some residential places where you can make left turns, but any time you get to a business district...NO LEFT TURN.

[UNCLEagent]

Fuck. wow

I have never, ever heard of anything that fucked up. 'cept for this one chick that dragged me to a country bar for dance lessons swearing it wasn't country - "That's not country!! It's ALAN JACKSON!!!"

Oh.

I was back home by nine.

[Jakester]

You should've gotten some serious head for even lasting that long. "Course, I expect that Nat doesn't see anything wrong with Alan Jackson...nor Traz.

[UNCLEagent]

Not even a hand job....

[Bill_the_Pony]

I think mustaches are creepy.

A mustache immediately reminds me of 70's gay leather clones.

Ironic, eh?

Apologies to anyone with a mustache.

[UNCLEagent]

Seem to work just fine for Ron Jeremy.

[TrixieB]

thanks Trixie!!!

I appreciate your getting me a card, and I don't mind waiting until after the 25th just so long as all the cookies you are baking me make their way here by Sat!

*smooch

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA Cookies!!!! :lol::lol: Baking!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :lol::lol::lol: ME?!?!?!?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :lol::lol::lol:


sorry... that was funny!

[UNCLEagent]

Shouldn't you be in the kitchen instead of wasting precious time online?

Those cookies aren't going to bake themselves, you know?

[TrixieB]

I really don't bake. Just ask the little Trixster. She, however, makes wonderful pies.

[Bill_the_Pony]

Seem to work just fine for Ron Jeremy.

Super Mario? :confused:

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a209/starbuckzero/RonJeremySuperMario4-717393.jpg

Worked for him back in the SEVENTIES, maybe. :rolleyes:

I was thinking more of the stereotyped Tom of Finland Clones.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/PhilipGardiner/028-006.jpg

That's the only Tom of Finland image I found that could be posted here. :rolleyes:

[UNCLEagent]

Wow.

I don't think I'll ever be able to touch a Nintendo Joystick quite the same again...

[chemikillgod]

Thank God for small favors. I can pump my own gas AND make left turns. Awesome.

[tstone]

Towns where you can just walk around downtown and see cool stuff, awesome. Annapolis is like that, I just found out.

Lots of quaint shops and restaraunts and just down the street, the Naval Academy.

I recommend.

Get better, Unc n' Mae.

[UNCLEagent]

Thanks, T

Sounds like you are enjoying stateside. :)

[tstone]

It was awesome!

I'm now back in Germany, enjoying my last few months. My tour is up in April. Announcement coming as to where I'm headed next...

[UNCLEagent]

Hope it's a place you want to be.

Just found out that the office cutie I've been flirting and bantering with is a Colonel in the Air Force reserves and she's leaving for Hawaii next month. Tough assignment!

[tstone]

Yup, I've got a broadcasting buddy troop there. But, the major Army formation there is subject to going to the desert. However, when they aren't away...tough duty indeed.

I'm angling for a posting in TX for the next three years, but that will likely also mean time in the desert sometime in that period.

After that, I hope to go to Washington DC...

[UNCLEagent]

If you make it to DC, I can recommend an awesome pub that specializes in varieties of killer chili served in a bed of pasta!!! My sis lives there and I visited for the first time in July and met up with Trixie there. I love the city!

The Smithsonian Air Space museum is incredible, as are the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Spy Museum rocks and so does the Ford Theater.

Wonderful city. Good luck with your stations!

[spammityspam]

Man, don't come to Texas. All the bases are in the asscrack of nowhere. I think they do it on purpose.

[tstone]

Yes, but they aren't that far from some cool places and events, and I've friends and family there...

[UNCLEagent]

I went to work today, grabbed some cookies and came back home. That's my day.

woot

[TrixieB]

I went to work today and spend most of it redoing work that I had already done because the idiots in charge of the project didn't give me the correct instructions 2 months ago and they are just now realizing that it's wrong!! AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! !!!!!!!!!!

[UNCLEagent]

You're creating your own special brand of Job Security!


Now.... if you had baked me cookies and sent them, I wouldn't have had to prematurely drag my weakened, sick ass out of bed and drive all the way across the city to pick some up.

But... it's okay.

Really.

Yep.

*cough

*wheeze

Now.. please excuse me..... :puke:

[Woodwraith]

You're creating your own special brand of Job Security!


Now.... if you had baked me cookies and sent them, I wouldn't have had to prematurely drag my weakened, sick ass out of bed and drive all the way across the city to pick some up.

But... it's okay.

Really.

Yep.

*cough

*wheeze

Now.. please excuse me..... :puke:

Woops! So much for the cookies. Looks like he just tossed them. :D

Oh, and something else I know about Oregon, they like to use the guy in front of them as breaks. Every fourth car you see will either have a scrunched front end or rear end.