Sabre Dance

Along those lines, MTV has officially given up on the music video now that everyone can download them from iTunes and watch them on their cell phone. I wonder if a name change is in order (NMTV - "No Music TV")

Well, IMHO you don't deserve either the snow or the nine reporters. We here in the "Blizzard Capital of the Northeast" can certainly sympathize. Whenever the ol' lake effect machine cranks up, you can bet Jim Cantore will be standing on top of an 18 foot snow pile telling the rest of the country how bad it sucks to be in Buffalo. My condolences...

Hmm...kind of like a cross between Barrage and the Archies. Great harmonies, but I think I could only listen to them once or twice a week. My doctor says I have to limit my sugar intake. :lol:

No Sabres games for more than a week, OSP still owns the team and it's still winter. At least we don't live in NYC or Boston... :)

New T-shirt slogan: "I followed this team for forty years and all I got was this lousy President's Trophy....." :D Happy New Year to all...and hope for a better Sabres team in 2011-2012!

Serenity now!!

I was out one Friday night a few years back at my favorite watering hole. It was a day or so before Halloween, so there were occasional customers coming in the door with costumes. After a while, I looked over at a nearby table and there were three guys sitting there; two were in street clothes, but the other guy had this really hideous-looking mask on. I continued to check out the guys mask, and then saw that he was drinking his beer without taking the mask off. Wow! I though, "This guy's got some really excellent zombie makeup on!" I walked past the table on the way to the john and then realized that the guys wasn't wearing makeup - he must have been in a bad fire, as one of his hands was scarred as well. I felt so bad thinking the guy was made up for Halloween, I bought a pitcher of beer for the table. Then I skulked out of the bar feeling hugely guilty......:(

You know, I have enough other things going on in my life that I can't afford to watch this boring, predictable group of slackers play another game. I wouldn't even care if they were losing games by a goal or two as long as they played an exciting, up-tempo game with lots of scoring chances. But, they are the least entertaining group of players to don a Sabres' sweater (of any era). Snore. I'm still a fan, but I believe the word "disenchanted" would be an accurate description. Maybe I'll rent a movie tonight. Or do laundry. ZZZzzzzzzzzzz......

I bought a new recliner last Friday and have been waiting for the delivery folks to call and schedule the delivery. I finally called them only to find out that my sale guy never forwarded them the paperwork. Wait until I get hold of the sales guy.....:pirate:

I would say that I threw my back out again, but if anyone from work saw me riding around on my motorcycle, there would be ###### to pay. I'll go to work, but I won't like it.....grrrrr. :angry:

As the weather for the rest of this weekend is going to be GORGEOUS, I decided to take tomorrow off. When I went to put my name on the calendar, I discovered that my backup had already beaten me to it. So, I must work in his place tomorrow, despite the fact that I have more seniority. (Well, he did request the time off first, but it still bugs me).

Governmental "support" units whose sole function is to create new ways for us to waste time and money meeting their requirements..

No hockey for 3+ months... No Stanley Cup for 39 seasons. No girlfriend for.....well, too long. ...but, tomorrow IS Friday.

I just had to buy a new dryer a few weeks back, and now my mattress is shot (backaches for the last week). I'm just going to flip it over for now, but soon I'll have to cough up another big chunk of change to get a new one.... Grrrr.....:wallbash:

Women appear insane to men only because they operate with an entirely different system of logic than men. Women do not understand how men think, either....they just don't worry about it as much.

My complaint is team officials that place a steaming bowl of doo-doo in front of you and then spend the next twenty minutes trying to convince you that it is beluga caviar.

Went to Starbucks the other day - bought 2 lbs of coffee beans and a latte. Came to $28.74. I handed the "barista" $30. I had planned to put the dollar and change in the tip jar anyway, but the clerk handed me the coins only, not the dollar. I was going to ask for the buck, but I looked at my receipt and she rang up it up as $29.00 cash tendered. So, how do you hand a clerk two bills (a ten and a twenty) and have them interpret it as $29.00? So basically, there is an extra dollar in the till. Maybe making up for an earlier boo-boo? Anyway, not real happy about that deal. Good thing that Starbucks coffee is so expensive that I only go there once or twice a month...:angry:

Indeed - I started wearing my Harley jacket despite the fact that the bike will not come out of winter storage until all of the salt has been washed off the roads (so, prolly not 'til April....grr.) BTW, nice looking bike...the pic is too small for these old eyes to discern what brand/model. OK, got a closer look - is that a BMW? Very nice - I had an R1200CLC, but now I have an Ultra Glide.

Seeing as I've asked Santa for the exact same thing for the last five years and he hasn't delivered, I think he must have lost my address. It can't be the naughty/nice thing, could it? I'm good to my mom, my job is helping to cure cancer, I don't have a dog to kick and I brush and floss every day. Maybe next year I'll just ask for socks..... :(

Why do half the drivers on the road seem to be in such a rush? I was the second car in line at a red light this AM and the car coming up behind pulled around me into the right lane. (Apparently waiting behind two cars would have been too much of a delay). THEN when the light turned green, the car in front of me gets the jump on Mr. Hurry-up and gets away from the light first. Hurry-up then cuts me off trying to get back into my lane because there is a car parked a half-block from the intersection (which he could see from the right lane). So, Hurry-up almost causes an accident so he can get one car length closer to his destination. Almost makes me want to go out an buy a Humvee..... :angry:

Doesn't it bother you that the purpose of quick-service restaurants is simply to take your order and make your food and they manage to screw orders up an inordinately large number of cases? Go to Mickey D's and ask for three Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, one without tartar sauce and see what you wind up with in the bag when you leave....

Just about everyone has had a lousy job during their youth - it is how well you perform it (and act as though you love it) that prepares you for later life. My first job paid pennies more than minimum wage and was about as bad a job as you can get (think "Dirty Jobs" on Discovery Channel - I won't even mention what it was). Not only did I do it, I acted as if it was the best job on earth. After a while - bingo! A promotion. I wound up being head of the department before I left. My complaint is that many of the young folks in these fast food-type jobs don't even bother to try to communicate properly (or don't know how). I went to a drive-through a while back and instead of, "Hi -welcome to Jiggy's Pork Rind Emporium! May I take your order?" I got, "Yeah?" How does one respond to "Yeah?"

I'm too tired to complain...wait - that's a complaint! Illogical, illogical. This does not compute*7$%&..od_-

Snow in the forecast when there are still lots of green leaves on the trees - please, not another October Surprise! Whatever happened to Indian summer? Freakin' weird weather..............

Our group's grant is up next year - we've reapplied for a new one, but the preparations that we have to go through for the site visit on top of our regular work (which has also increased to make the numbers look good for the grant proposal) are burning me out faster than a VW tail light bulb :) . I took a week off at the beginning of September and it already feels like that was six months ago. Our site visit is in November, so perhaps when the holidays arrive, things will finally begin to slow down. I'm already considering asking my Harley dealer if they have a sales job open (except that because the economy sucks, not many people are buying motorcycles). Oh,yeah - the weather has sucked so bad it's been almost two weeks since I last was out on the bike. Lately, riding's the only thing that has put a smile on my face...... Is it Friday yet?