Sunday, March 05, 2006
Here to there...
How are we feeling today? I feel ok. I was tired as hell last night. Too much working, I guess. Then I went to Wal-Mart. That will tire anyone out. So then I went home, put away the stuff I had bought, checked my email, and by the time I went to sleep I was dead to the world. I slept like a log all night into the morning. Then I got a call from a friend of mine.
“Hello,” she said.
I said, “Uhgrhh…hello…uhhh,”…except it sounded a lot more croaky. See, I am not what you would call a “morning person”. I do not function well that early in the morning. Let’s face it, I was barely conscious. I told her later if you call me in the middle of the night I am not going to be coherent. She said it was 9am. I said, yeah, but I went to sleep around 3am and I wasn’t waking up to damn near twelve, so that is the middle of the night for me. It was also made known to me that I am rarely coherent as it is, so what is the difference what time I am called? I had to agree with this, unfortunately.
When I am tired, what I do is make me some coffee. I know it is not right to love inanimate things, and I don’t love coffee, but I likes it bunches and bunches. There is not much in this world as great as the smell of fresh brewed coffee, except for the taste in the morning. When the hot liquid slides down your throat while the aroma fills your nostrils, it is just heaven.
That reminds me, I have to clean my coffeemaker. It is not filthy but they say that you should clean it to remove minerals and such every so often. I don’t use fresh, clean, spring water like they say you are supposed to do on the package of coffee. Sorry, I don’t live next to a mountain spring in the woods where I can get the fresh untouched water. I have to use fresh tap water. It’s not that bad for tap water. I do have a Brita filter pitcher but I keep forgetting to buy a new filter. So that doesn’t help at all does it? Then again, if I was a coffee connoisseur, I would fresh ground my beans after removing them from a hermetically sealed package so that I could get them at the peak of flavor. Uh, no. Who the hell has the time or effort to go through all of that? And people do! The same people who are all snobby about wine and beer and other alcohol.
I don’t know the difference between Chateaux Le Fete and Boone’s Farm Wine, and I honestly don’t have the cash to learn. I mean, sure, given the time I would like to have it shown to me what the difference is between a good wine and bad. I suppose I could impress a woman at a fancy restaurant or know what to bring to an elegant party but those are not exactly pressing concerns for me at this time. It is the same with sushi. I would one day like to know the difference between a well prepared dining experience and bait. Is it a priority in my everyday life? No.
I do however enjoy the coffee. I really don’t drink as much of it as I could because if I did, then I think that it wouldn’t be as special as when I drink it in the morning. I also think that it might start to limit its affects on me which would suck. I like the rush of caffeine that I get. I think that de-caffeinated coffee is probably the work of the Devil if not a massive conspiracy by some foreign government to make Americans drowsy and less productive. I wouldn’t put it past the Chinese or maybe the Portuguese. What’s up with Portugal anyway? They been kind of quite lately don’t you think? I bet they are hatching some deep dark plan over there. I mean, can you name the last time you heard anything about them? Can you name a city in Portugal? I am just saying that is mighty suspicious.
I don’t really have anything much to do this weekend. You know besides some cleaning and some laundry. Hopefully, I can get down the steps where I live to get to the laundry room without breaking my neck. Why should the fuckers shovel the snow off of the damn laundry room steps anyway? Everyone knows when there is snow on the ground that dirty clothes magically clean themselves. That will save me $2.50.
I do have the Johnny Cash movie to watch. I will probably do that. I can let you know what I thought of it. I don't watch the Oscars so I won't be making any predictions but you know that damn gay ass cowboy movie is going to win. I am voting for the movie "Crash". And if Terrence Howard doesn't win for "Hustle and Flow" then you know that Hollywood is just a bunch of fucking stupid morons. Well, we know that already but you get the idea. When "GayVille Mountain" wins you will know it because Crappywood is just trying to say, "Look at us, we love the Queers. We are also so cool that we can give a movie about two guys buttrocking each other the Oscar even though the movie is just your standard lovers that can never be movie. If it was a guy and a girl it would be straight(pun intended) to video."
What you have to do is rent or buy the movie Hustle and Flow. It is a good movie. It is like a version of Rocky, with a pimp. If you remember though, Rocky was a collector for a loan shark before he got his break to fight Apollo Creed. And now that I just got to use the name Apollo Creed in my Rant, I am happy. I think I am going to put a picture of Apollo right here at the end. I am going to Google images.
Oh, yeah. That kicks ass. Well--time to go. Got some drinking to finish. Laterzzz…
