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good lord. i get in trouble like its my job. yes thats right, strike # 3 occurred last night. YES!

joes mom is a fox

whenever i get less lazy and begin to post the pictures from new years i have been mulling over what i should title them. here are some of the choices i have: Big N' Tasty = Too Big and Not Tasty; Two Hot Chicks Making Out and Other Good Things That Happened; Me Being Tough and Other Things That Aren't True.

i sort of mentioned it in a later blog, but to clarify, the last 6 or 7 blogs were all prewritten in notepad because i was unable to publish them for nearly a week as anyone who checks this would now. i apologize but it has caused me significant trouble to remedy the problem and i hope you all enjoy it. by they way, some of the links i sent to people already because i liked them so much and was too impatient to wait till the site got fixed.

joes away message said it all for me on saturday: Auto response from FOREVER27JD: l wish more ppl would sign on so l dont have to read the same away messages over and over, dont you?

i decided to see if i could brighten up peoples days, by smiling at them. about 7/8 of the people returned my smile with an icy glare, and the other 1/8 just ignored me. actually i made that up too. but i tried it with 4 people and nobody saw me.

ok, so being wicked bored at work i found a ton of good stuff online. if you are as bored at home as i am at work, click on these. by the way, blogger has been down for a day and a half so this is all being written on Notepad, and will be copy and pasted to mattio's lounge when it becomes less stupid. i realize that if you are reading this, then all of that has happened but i thought i should explain why i am bored at work if it isnt even a weekday or posted at 930 pm or something. anyway, this is a good game. pretty hard once he gets a few in him. this site made me laugh outloud several times. it reminded me of you jeff. this is a sitethat i saw as a link somewhere and i cant vouch for how good it is but it has a cool domain name. this thing provided me with a surprising amount of fun. now for the grand prize winner. i spent about 6 hours of my day at this site or at links found at it. the story of jd8 was found here. hey jeff, remember that time you got drunk and people wrote on you? it could have been worse. atleast nobody did this. ill let you find your own favorites but here are some good ones: picture #1, picture #2.

while riding on the T this guy glared at some stupid tourists and told me, "you can totally tell who is from Boston by how they ride the T". he was so right. these jerks kept stumbling back and forth and talking about how the driver was crazy and needed to learn how to drive. not to mention they checked the map about every 4 seconds telling each other how many more stops. idiots. we went around a curve and one of these tourists rammed into me. "ah gee sorry, im not used to riding on the T". i replied "no problem, im not used to having my face elbowed into the window" (saturated with sarcasm).

at lunch today we (me, eric, and this machine shop guy larry) went to some small irish pub in Newton. eric is a comp. sci. major coop and larry is the kind of guy who looks like he should work in a machine shop: grease stained jeans, full beard that is out of control, flanal shirt, etc. anyway, all of the waitresses were cute little irish chicks, none taller than 5'2". they liked us and kept shoveling beers down our throats. it was real fun till the bill came. actually i made some of that up. i didnt have a single beer, but the other two guys did.

ah yes another family holiday has passed. i usually have to endure three of these a year and they seem to get worse every year. i have decided to spend my last day at work wasting time on the computer (big surprise). the worst of the big 3 holidays, as i have recently decided to call them, is thanksgiving. while there is the bonus of getting a guaranteed 2 days off from school/work, there is nothing to do the entire day except watch football and try and avoid awkward conversations with my family. this is how i spend most of the holidays, hiding in places i think no one will find me and generally walking away mumbling when anyone tries to start talking to me. i have taken the last few minutes to formulate a list of the pro's and cons of each holiday: Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. i actually spent no minutes formulating no list, and will do it as i type it. EASTER: pros: an enormous meal, small amount of gifts, candy, usually a smaller portion of my family there, on a sunday so i can often find someplace to go as an excuse (ah gee, i gotta go, i got work/school/appointment tomorrow). cons: pawning off jelly beans which my family for some reason never remembers i hate, looking for the last 12 eggs that nobody can remember where they were hid in the blistering cold, seeing my family especially my uncle rick and his crazy wife and kid, no extra vacation days awarded. THANKSGIVING: pros: an enormous meal, tryptophan (the chemical in wine and turkey responsible for making you sleepy after consumption) giving me an excuse for my tiredness and general anti-social behavior, guaranteed 4 day weekend, football games give me another activity to do while not talking to anyone. cons: seeing my family, being wicked tired after the huge meal, no presents, no excuse to leave, almost everyone related to me within a 4 state radius there to ask me the same questions about college. CHRISTMAS: pros: tons of gifts, enormous meal, ludicrous amounts of cookies, pies, and candy, the potential for a huge vacation, playing with the toys, fuller agenda (stockings, breakfast, lunch, gifts, pie, dinner, cookies) make the day go by faster. cons: being fake nice when you get stuff you dont want or already have, the potential for a tiny/nonexistent vacation, dealing with driving in the snow (more on that later), looking like a cheap jerk when you get presents from people you didnt give one to.

so, as most people who talked to me know, i was slated to work on the 26th. my plan was to collect my loot from christmas and then catch a bus back to boston on christmas day. i didnt, however, plan on the ridiculous winter storm. christmas eve we opened the family gifts, with my mom, brothers, sister and her boyfriend. the next morning we did stockings (we had to wait till santa came), then went to my brothers apartment to get stuff from my dad. for the 3rd leg of the journey we had to go down to charlestown to my aunts place. we arrived around 12 and did normal christmas things (ate, opened gifts, ate, played with toys, ate). by around 4 i noticed that there was a fair amount of snowfall and that it was coming down pretty good. my brother offered to give me a ride to the bus station so i packed up my stuff and we were off. Rte. 12A was a nightmare. we passed about 4 cars off the road and went no faster than 20 mph the entire time. my brothers honda prelude has about 3 inches of clearance and since most of the roads were unplowed it was an eventful evening. all told we got about 2 feet of snow and got stuck 4 times. pushing his car usually worked but when it didnt, we'd flag a passing tow truck who would offer his services. one in particular we were gonna pay but instead we gave him 3 cookies and he was happily on his way. the biggest surprise of all was yet to come. we rolled into the bus station a few minutes early and saw the happy sign on the door: All buses to Boston until 10:30 on the 26th have been cancelled due to poor weather. great. so much for work. we went back to my brothers place with some newcastle's and watched officespace. the next morning i packed up my toys and took the sold out bus to boston. needless to say carrying 3 suitcases full of stuff was a little annoying. since my boss wasnt here yesterday, and he has already signed my timecard there is no need for him to know i missed work. i win. merry christmas dick durkot. you just payed me to watch movies. i left a window open in our room and it must have been windy cause everything is everywhere. atleast today is my last day of work. classes on friday HOORAY.

i can only leave stupid ones, what the hell