There will be an appliance exodus this weekend! The washer and the refrigerator are leaving the garage! I might just get around to re-arranging the tools and hanging the kayak too.

As I was typing that I am noticing it is the start of scar season. The season when all the scars on your body get more obvious as your skin dries out and whatever sort of tan you might have had fades completely away. The ones on my hands are getting more obvious by the day. Time to find some hand lotion I guess.

I finally have a gripe about working at St. Thomas, for those that don't know me well you are thinking...you've only been there 3 months what can you ggripe about, for those who know me better, you were wondering what took so long. There is a chronic problem in Aquinus, and John Roach Center (my building and the adjacent one). The problem is simple, and easily fixed. The problem is the vending machines don't get maintained near well enough. I can safely say that more days than not the machine has its correct change only light lit, and more importantly by a factor of two to one there are more days without diet pepsi than with. Doesn't the person from the local pepsi distributor know that they would sell more soda if it didn't sit empty for weeks on end? I don't like pepsi products in general but I will drink them when there is no coke available. This is an all pepsi campus so there I go I guess...but would it be so hard to keep the machines filled?

I think it's official I am untrainable.

You know sometimes I regret having a fast temper... not too often really, because usually almost invariably once I stop venting my spleen it is gone. I am no longer mad, whatever it is is history with me, and within 24 hours it is ancient history. The downside to this is I have on occasion gotten to venting my spleen without thinking things all the way through. What this leads to is me being all pissy about something that makes no sense. Like say being angry about asking the wrong person for information and then not getting it. Well DUH....ask the right person, get a prompt answer. The worst part is when I have done the same dumb thing multiple times been told at least twice that it was dumb.. and I keep doing it. Some days I wonder if I am even trainable. On the up side I got yelled at. Well as close as one can get in e-mail anyhow, and that usually gets through my skull. If not, and you know what I am talking about, and those who know what I did dumb probably do, and you see me being an idiot again can you at least remind me I am doing things the hard way again before I waste a bunch of time and piss people off while getting angry myself again? Please? I don't want to keep fouling up.

One of the greatest things about my new job has to be the easy availability of lunch. I have never been a good lunch packer. I forget. I don't do it. Yeah..occasionally I remember to bring leftovers but not often. Most jobs this means every day you get in your car and you drive to a restraunt and you get lunch, or you skip lunch all together. I used to do both. Now because I work on a college campus I have access to several food outlets, all within 100yds of my building.

Today I learned that the soup at the grill is not as good as the soup at the faculty staff dining room. The soup at the grill seems to be just standard Sysco soup, fac/staff soup appears to be made in house. I will have to remember this. They do make a mighty mean grilled cheese sandwich at the grill though.

What happened to Rod Stewart that he is selling an album on TV made up of lounge music. Complete with orchestra behind him. Couldn't he have just faded into obscurity with his dignity intact?