See ya, Suckers,

I hope you all enjoy me being on vacation!!!

Winners and Losers,

Not much to do this afternoon after my friend left, except sit around and wait for the weekend to end, so I can get back to hanging that 52x34 duct in the hot sun.

I keep looking to see if Tommy Thompson has dropped out of his joke presidential run, after his dismal showing in the Iowa straw poll like he said he would. It seems pretty unanimous that the big winner was former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Here is an interesting take on his second place finish. It reminds me of Mark Green challenging then losing to Doyle for the Governorship and the seat he gave up in congress to run for governor went to a democrat. Ha ha double loser, how's Tanzania?

Obama (R-IL)

Clinton is always the candidate that the media is trying to say is the safe candidate. I've never believed this and now there is a poll that proves that I was right. Obama ranked 3rd amongst republicans, that's pretty impressive for a member of another party.

$.27,

Today I got a $.27 an hour cut in pay and a Packer schedule in my check. So everything evened out in the end.

AFL-CIO Debate,

This is why Edwards is my favorite candidate right now.

Kucinich had a good line about China.

Getting fair trade is a bipartisan winning issue. I wish more of the candidates would endorse it. My main issue with the lady in the race is this issue, it would make it very hard for me to vote for her.

Skinny Lions,

ABC started this new bit tonight were they show popular Internet videos. It's about time they embraced the Internet instead of fighting it. Anyway the first video they showed is this awesome nature video. It's a little long (8 min.) but I promise you won't be bored. And make sure you keep watching there are more twist in this than a Hollywood movie and you won't believe the ending;

The Fat Man's Hands,

I work with this really fat guy. He has central air in his house and still has to put a window unit in his room to be comfortable in the summer. Anyways we had to move our break tables around at work and I ended up sitting next to him. One day he poked me in my side just below the armpit. I jumped back as a "what the fuck are you touching me like that for" reaction. He interpreted this as I was ticklish. Now I might be a little ticklish, but that was certainly not why I jumped back. Apparently he tried tickling the guy he was working with while his arms were in the air cutting something. The other guy wasn't ticklish at all and apparently didn't have the same reaction as I did, all he would say is "I'm not ticklish." Then the fat man started in on how I was looking like shit (tired) every morning and would tug on my shirt sleeve to get my attention because I was trying to ignore him. Now I'm not a morning person and I have been told I don't talk all that much at work. I really don't have all that much in common with my coworkers and although they say they want to hear what I think, I know they really don't. So I tend to keep to myself, not to the point of being antisocial, just a little less than everyone else.

But this fucking fat guy kept it up with the comments, the tugging of the shirt was becoming every day and the tickling was maybe once a week. Now mind you the comments he was making weren't my concern. It's just I don't come from a background where it is considered normal for a fifty something year old guy to tickle a thirty one year old. Last week was hot and he proceeded to give me an extra hard time on Tuesday, I realize he was only joking around, but it had gotten past the point were it was acceptable and I was very irritated. That night I went running with the dogs (staying up late drinking red dog) and the next morning was in such a condition that I just didn't want to deal with the fat man's shit or his creepy hands. I thought of calling in, but I just don't do that. Instead I took a cue from a drunk I worked with last summer. Whenever he was really hung over he would just take his break alone. It also just so happened that I was moved to the first floor the day before and right behind the area I'm working is what will be the parking garage, a parking garage that was about fifteen degrees cooler than anywhere else in the building that day. Certainly cooler that our morning break area on the fourth floor were the sun still shines in during our break. So I sat down there for break and lunch, it was nice. It was cool, quite and creepy hands free, just what my hangover needed.

Anyone that asked, I said I was just hung over and it was too hot on the fourth floor. But I also heard that the fat guy realized that he went too far. The next day was hot again so I sat in the garage for break once again, but returned to the fourth floor for lunch. The temperature Friday was much more tolerable so I took both breaks upstairs. Now the fat guy doesn't give me a hard time and keeps his hands to himself. Problem solved. I hope.

MySpace,

I was recently trying to look around MySpace and had to sign up to go where I wanted to go, but that ended up being a hassle anyway so I ended up not doing anything with. The very next day I got an email from a lady wanting to date me. She said she liked my page, mind you my page at that time (and still now for that matter) consisted of my name, literally that was all there was. So she was basically saying I like your name. Well that was pretty suspicious, but she was also using someone else page. I can't figure that one out since it was pretty easy to set up. All I have to say is you won't catch this predator Stone Phillips, that's not my cup of tea. Then some other scantly dressed girl wanted to be my friend. When I looked at her page it looked like she was just promoting her porn site. I denied her and got a new request the next day from her. Wow this girl really wanted to be my friend. I don't know how she had so much time since she moved in between request, at least her listed location did. I had to give her the spam mark.

MySpace is a weird concept to me. I must say I'm not sure I get the draw. But saying that I will probably add to my page to maybe help me if I ever get anything published. So if you want to be my friend here I am. Maybe I will even get a picture up soon.