run for the border

yesterday andy & i both left our offices early so we could get down to gt campus and tailgate. we got there around 3 and saw no evidence that there was going to be a football game. we parked and set up some chairs, drank some beers, and NO ONE WAS tailgating anywhere around us. kids walking to/from class were looking at us funny. we thought maybe we had the wrong day. i mean how awesome would that be, two working adults just hangin' out drinking some beers under the magnolia trees next to the health center just for the hell of it...

and then we got this brilliant idea to hit up taco bell after we left the game. i was pretty pumped. i try to limit my intake of taco bell but it is so delicious and so when i go there i get really excited and order a lot. and i love the hot sauce. i really do. andy & i went inside rather than cruisin' the drive-thru for the very purpose of getting a lot of sauce. they don't give you enough when you ask for it at the drive-thru. so we ordered our food and i guess it was late so the staff locked the door. i saw andy grab a handful of sauce packets and when we got our food i totally forgot to get a bunch of sauce for myself. by the time i realized this i was already outside and of course locked out of the taco bell. i wanted to go to the drive thru but there were tons of cars in line and andy wouldn't have it. i was so pissed and honestly i didn't even wanna eat my treats because no sauce. oh it was horrible. but the food was good. and then this morning i felt funky, and i wondered why we had thought that eating taco bell at 10:30 would be a good idea. because it's *never* a good idea.

andy will never win

so there's this game my family & i play when we travel - basically if anyone in our group sees anyone he or she knows and can address this person by name and be recognized, he or she wins $20 from the person who initiates the game. if the initiator wins, everyone else who has agreed to the game pays a portion. the game begins only after someone has stated the rules. usually this person is smart enough to initiate once we're away from the home base. sometimes the rules vary, but hopefully you get the idea. a very cool example: my brother saw this dude he knew (the mgr at moe's in dalton) at the top of a mountain in aspen, colorado. we were taking a break from shredding the pow and saw him in a tiny pizza shack at 11,000 feet. we were pretty shocked, and my uncle paid him like 50 bucks or something. so now whenever andy & i travel i always try to get him to agree to the game. we were in the airport in cancun mexico yesterday and i found myself right next to this dude i knew from tech (we had a mutual friend and i used to spend hours copying his code). pretty weird. andy bought me $20 worth of mexican souvenirs. i don't think he wants to play the game anymore.

i'll post a link to the pics from mexico. it was a short trip.

poo

andy and i are watching the colbert report (like, right now) and he just mentioned this awesome story about inflatable feces. i usually pay close attention to news headlines, but this one escaped me somehow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7558129.stm

homage to yardsaleaddict.blogspot.com

this past saturday andy and i went to a bunch of yard sales in the vinings/buckhead/smyrna area. i mapped about 12 of 'em out on thursday night and friday afternoon with the help of craigslist, ajc classifieds, and the "my maps" feature of google maps. with andy's gps and my printed map in hand we were ready to spend saturday morning driving around northwest atlanta looking over people's junk.

unfortunately we got a late start (after 9am). but we really weren't looking to buy anything anyway so it didn't make much of a difference. we found a cluster of sales that weren't on my pre-planned route that were puny and we didn't stop. we hit one estate sale in the bunch. it was probably the worst stop of the day, only because my expectations were high since the last estate sale i had been to was really kickass. this one was grungy, and the lady running the sale hadn't even bothered to clean up and organize anything. it was way too obvious that someone had recently died. *shudder.* i did manage to find a prize for my mom buried in a box with a bunch of old books and random stuff. she will be pleased.

the last stop of the morning was the coolest yard/garage sale ever. this sale ruled because:

• all items were either clearly displayed on a table or neaty organized in boxes
  
• items were clean and in good condition
  
• home owners were friendly and willing to negotiate prices

the only thing that sucked about this yard sale was that it started on friday, and we didn't show up until around 11am on saturday, so most the good stuff was gone. the homeowner had all this really cool historical stuff like bayonets, books, and civil war memorabilia. he also had collectibles and other useless (but awesome) stuff. andy saw a metal pencil sharpener that was shaped like a toilet but didn't buy it because it was three dollars. big mistake. i wish i had gotten a picture of it.

i don't like random-ass babies

the people that run this google blogger site are mocking me with photos of babies when i log in... and you know how much i love random babies. yikes. here's a screenshot:



i heard an audio clip on the bert show (q100) of anderson cooper talking about how bad "living lohan" is. i tried watching it when it first aired and it was so bad, and i love those kind of shows. but this one sucks so bad. good ol' anderson cooper shares my sentiment:




*this video may be hard to watch/listen to if you are annoyed by kelly ripa. waaaaay to perky for me*

wednesday

it drives me nuts the way magazines are numbered: ads aren't numbered, and some features don't show the page number. i swear i was thumbing through "people" trying to find p. 119 for like 5 minutes.

and speaking of "people" magazine, the special issue with brad & angie and the brood came in the mail to our office yesterday. this issue has a 19-page family album. it's so stupid. kinda made me nauseous. for one, i don't like babies (or photos of babies). i also know that brad & angelina's babies and future babies are and will be good-looking, so i don't really need to see them. if these children were albino, or really fat, or conjoined twins then i'd probably wanna check that out. oh and one of their adopted kids, maddox, has a blue mohawk. i think he's like 5. i can imagine angie/brad suggesting to the stylist that maddox get a blue mohawk, you know, so other kids will think that he's cool, just in case they forget who his dad is.

so i bought a used ibook before i realized my ipod nano doesn't work with 10.3.9. can i borrow 10.4 from someone? anyone? i'm also bummed because an upgrade will make photoshop go bye-bye. oh and i still need to sell my acer. wanna buy it? i'll make you a deal!