Nick's Retort of the Day
Where I go to rant & rave
Rants
Assumption
May 1st
It’s one of those things we’re all guilty of: assumption. Using what knowledge we have we assume that we know enough to go in to a situation and give our advice or opinion. However, assumption is probably more like fortune telling.
Take for instance an incident that happened not 20 minutes ago in my neighborhood. Some random guy, most likely from the house behind my neighbor, comes racing around the corner in his Explorer, parks half-assed in my neighbors driveway, flies out of it and begins to start pounding on their door.
After no one answers, he decides to go over to the other neighbor and beat on his door. This time that neighbor answers. The man accuses him of allowing his dog to bark all night. At this point the neighbor yells at the man letting him know that it’s not his dog that was barking and he can go shove a “boner up his ass.” After exchanging some other pleasantries, the man gets in his Explorer and hauls off at probably 50 mph through the neighborhood.
This is a prime example of why you shouldn’t assume as you may have a boner shoved up your ass. I’m just sayin’.
Traffic and Armageddon
Nov 17th
So with the movie 2012 being released I’ve figured that it’s going to be strictly about bad drivers. Because the way I see it, with drivers being as bad as they are now, the trend would indicate that they would get worse as time goes on. And since it looks like a daily degradation of driving skill, 2012 will be the year when people forget totally how to drive and kill each other
Duh....
Zombie email accounts
Nov 13th
Okay, so it would appear that I’m on a roll today… my back hurts, and now I find that some random-@$$ person from Latvia signs up for my blog… My first reaction was excitement. I thought, “Wow, someone is actually starting to read my blog!!” Not that my blog is much to look at, if I’m honest, but it’s mine… :)
After some searching for this random ass email address, I find that this person has signed up for hundreds of other blogs too… all within the last few days… IT’S OBVIOUSLY A SPAMBOT! I was pissed! I will not have my blog mined by some spam bot… DEATH TO SPAM BOTS!!!
Love to my peeps.
Being tired sucks
Nov 13th
I hate being tired… it seems like I’m always tired. When will I catch up?
Sometimes, Work Sucks.
Oct 26th
Don’t get me wrong… I’m extremely grateful for having a job… extremely… but, some days it seems that work just really bites the big one. Especially when I get brought into something that I didn’t start, but then it’s my fault because I was involved… man I hate that. I can’t/don’t want to be more specific than that… I’m just irritated is all. Meh.
Back Pain
Jul 16th
I hate that my back hurts. I don’t know why it hurts, but it hurts really badly. So… I’m ranting about my back hurting… don’t hurt back!
Morons and their cars
Jul 10th
It always gets me when some wad parks their car across a few parking spots. Of course they’re probably thinking, “No one will hurt my car now.. I’ve taken up 2 1/8 parking spots so there’s no room for them to get my precious.”
Really, I think this makes people who do this more of a target. I mean, come on.. the parking lot is nearly empty anyways! It’s like you’re sending out the message, “Hit me!”
I get pretty picky about my new cars and understand the feelings that motivate this type of behaivour… Cars will get banged up, it’s inevitable. Life goes on.
Bad weather, poor air quality and slave labor
Jul 9th
So this is probably a pointless rant because there isn’t much that can be done about it… anyways.
I am completely fed up with the fires around Sacramento. The air quality has been worse this year than I remember in the past. The smoke in the sky nearly cripples your lungs and to make matters worse, you can’t just drive up the hill* to get out of it. Also, it’s going to be 110 degrees today, 108 tomorrow and 100 degrees after that. Hopefully we won’t have a super heat wave like we did a couple years ago; wish we had a pool.
OOoooo… I am also angry that they would make my friend work in a building with broken A/C on one of the hottest days of the year. Talk about slave labor. Any humane business would send their employees home until they could fix the problem. Perhaps buy the employees some ice cold water, or fans… something!
*up the hill – A phrase commonly used by Sacramentians to describe their journey east on Highway 50 or 80 in to the mountains.
Drivers, ugh.
Jul 1st
People really need to get with the program and spend more time paying attention to the road than just paying attention to themselves.
Sacramento/Mather, CA