a rising trend (much to my dismay) has appeared in the form of a new age chain letter on instant messenger. i am still receiving copies of that stupid one that says they will shut down my instant messaging services if i dont comply. what the hell is wrong with you all. do you have any idea the impossibility of aol being able to tell if youve sent a particular message to three different people on your buddy list. dont be ridiculous. that being said, i have recently propagated a similar message because it would be stupidly easy to prove wrong. for those of you lucky enough not to receive it here is what it said:

"this is a ribbon for solders fighting in iraq pass it on to everyone on your buddylist and pray.Something good will happen to u to night at 11:11 PM. This is not a joke some1 will either call u or will talk to u online and say that they love u do not break this chain Send this to 13 people in the next 15 minutes go".

now, unlike most chainletters, there was no ludicrous consequence for not sending it (bad luck in bed, hit by a drunk driver, etc). also, there was a very definite time limit which allowed me to see within a matter of minutes that it was total bullshit. admittedly, kayla said she loved me, but she was 2 minutes late and she had mentioned to me that she would do it basically to try and foil my whole operation. some may say that her clock may have been different from mine, well with this exerpt kayla admits to having missed it blowing that theory to hell:

sugarplum696 (11:21:50 PM): shit i missed it
sugarplum696 (11:21:52 PM): I LOVE YOU
Whitetrashkateer (11:22:52 PM): nobody said it
Whitetrashkateer (11:22:57 PM): that thing was full of shit
sugarplum696 (11:23:01 PM): i just said it!!!
Whitetrashkateer (11:23:06 PM): too late
Whitetrashkateer (11:23:24 PM): it said it would happen at 11:11 and that time came and went
Whitetrashkateer (11:23:26 PM): you blew it
sugarplum696 (11:23:27 PM): hmph
sugarplum696 (11:23:33 PM): i was two minutes late damn me

not to mention aol time clearly puts her "i love you" at 11:21:52 PM nearly 10 minutes passed the prognosticated time. in short, stop sending these absurd "chain messages".

that clam chowder i ate for lunch today was gross. i am paying for it now.

my boss almost got beat up by a man closely resembling stone cold steve austin today for tampering with some machinery. stonecold the machinist was angry.

i ate my chemicals.

while doing a routine experiment plating copper onto circuit boards i was splashed in the mouth with a blue liquid. in the blue liquid was sulfuric acid(h2SO4), which everyone knows is bad (acid in car batteries), hydrochloric acid(HCl) also bad and copper (Cu). now you might think that copper isnt too bad because hey, pennies are made of copper. however pennies are only 2.5% copper basically to give the color and the rest is zinc. pure copper is not too tasty a chemical as you can see on the MSDS (material data safety sheet) here. my mouth still kind of stings and my lips feel like they are going to melt off. try and avoid coming in contact with any and all of these chemicals.

nice to see my computer is hard at work still. it has updated to regular time or daylight savings time or whatever happens in the spring. for some reason it had totally slipped my mind that the clocks change. who set up that stupid system anyway. who cares if it bright out at 6 when no one is awake.