Goodbye 2008

Okay- time for one last blog for 2008. I thought about posting some of my new year's resolutions and starting a conversation about that, but I haven't sorted out all of my resoultions yet and something better came along.

Today at work they gave me a webcam to set up with the hopes that we can use it for future training sessions between the Milwaukee and Plymouth offices. I tried a conference with another trainer and I guess the video of me on their end looked pretty good, but the video of them on my end wasn't working as well. The pixels or gigazitz or mega-hurts were off, so they ended up looking like burn victims.

Anyway, playing with the webcam some more, I took these sweet pictures. Here's me in my cubicle. I think you can see on my wall that I have earned one Schrute buck. Probably because of my hard work setting up a webcam.

In the picture below, Batman stopped by to check on my progress. "How goes it, citizen?" "All's well Batman, thank you for asking."

Wow, a visit from Batman at work! I'm glad I came in today. There are a lot of people out on vacation, and look at all the fun they missed.

Okay, that's it for 2008. Thanks to anyone who reads my stuff. See ya in '09.

My new friend of the day

I went to the grocery store after work to get food for my guts. The checkout lines were pretty long and while we were waiting the guy in front of me turned around to face me, pointed to one of the many magazines that had Jennifer Aniston on the cover and said, "How could you stop sleeping with THAT?"

I was kinda surprised, and replied, "Ummm... I'm not Brad Pitt."

He gave a "Nyu-HYUCK!" kind of laugh and turned around. Hooray.

Then he turned back around and looked over my food, pointed at it and said, "You're like, totally organic!"

I'm not sure what item or items in my cart made him say that. Was it the Cinnamon Toast Crunch? The 2 liter of Sprite? The frozen package of chicken nuggets? I did have a can of corn, so that was probably it. I just shrugged.

There was a short pause before he pointed to his own food (2 items: a roasted chicken and a loaf of bread) and said, "I can make SIX MEALS out of this!"

I pointed to my Cinnamon Toast Crunch and said, "I can make six meals out of THIS."

He gave another "Nyu-HYUCK!" and that was the end of our exchange.

7 songs

Still thinking about the "Month Mix", but I'd like to introduce you to the "Pretty Strong Week Mix". Haha. Get it? Okay.

Thanks everyone for providing ideas. Feel free to still contribute in the comments. I think I changed the settings correctly so now I think anyone can post without a problem. I'm hoping the linking to the songs works and they'll open up in your media player okay (crossing fingers), I'm trying some new stuff here. The Tori Amos link is to a YouTube video since I don't have it as an MP3 to link.

Track 1- Sunday Sun, Beck.
Track 2- Manic Monday, Reliant K (cover)
Track 3- Ruby Tuesday, The Rolling Stones
Track 4- Wednesday, Tori Amos
Track 5- Thursday's Child, David Bowie
Track 6- Pizza Day, The Aquabats
Track 7- Saturday Night's Alright for Fightin', Elton John

I know Pizza Day is the only one that doesn't have the actual day of the week in the title, so I almost didn't go with it. But I did because (A) The Aquabats are awesome, (B) I wanted this mix to be fun, and (C) IT'S THE BEST DAY OF THE WEEK!

Long December

The other day I had the headphones on while working hard in my cube, and Pandora played "Long December" by Counting Crows. Hopefully not an ominous start to the month. But it made me think that it'd be kinda fun to make a 12-track mix of songs with one track for every month. I thought of Greend Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends", Foo Fighters' "February Stars", and, of course, Guns N' Roses' "November Rain".

That's about as far as I've taken it, but thought I'd put it out there to see if anyone has any good ideas for the "Month Mix". Or, heck, add seven tracks for the days of the week if you want: Cure's "It's Friday, I'm in Love", Orgy's "Blue Monday"... though I don't think they actually say "Monday" in that song. I wonder how many songs are out there about Tuesdays and Thursdays?

Anyway, not sure how many people actually read this blog anymore, but feel free to play along and comment with song titles if you think of any.