These are current musicians I find sexy in one way or another. (And a pretty cool commentary that I know my wife won’t mind me posting this)
Sarah Balliet - Murder By Death
Shonna Tucker - Drive By Truckers
It looks like another busy week at work. I will try and post this week but I am keeping up with getting some things done over at Last Chance Dinner. Here is some music you should check out other than these videos.
Two Cow Garage
This Bike Is A Pipebomb
Murder By Death
I don’t want to bitch. I really don’t. So I won’t. I already have over here. So I won’t repeat myself today. I will just post this and leave it be. This and Lone Star is how I am making it through right now and as far as I am concerned that is pretty pathetic.
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And yes (artist current as of this post but may change) Jason Isbell’s music is enough to get me through today. That and the promise of a bar tonight with old friends. I love my friends and my wife. I couldn’t do what I do without them.
I was ill today. I mean puking, wretching, sleeping drenched in cold sweat kind of sick. It was not an amusing day. I am feeling less like tha tnow and more like myself but I am tired even after having slept all day. I spent the night not throwing up but only barely and this morning the stomach spasms won out over my willpower. I have been home all day which means losing a day’s worth of pay. I am upset about staying home but not because of that. I have a job where I feel like a member of a team and have responsibility that matters to me. When I am home like this I feel like I am letting down my team. I know they would want me to stay home but I still feel like I am letting them down. I also feel like I am letting my wife down being home and not doing anything. So staying home for me is a huge deal. It’s not the pay, I can afford that hit, it’s the feeling that I am letting everyone down.
The upside is that between drifting off and sweating my sheets to drenched I caught up on The Black Donnellys. NBC are fools for taking that show off of the air and just adding more mindless drivel. Of course it seems that networks never agree with me on borderline shows. Firefly got killed and myriad other shows I liked over the years and yet crap like ER is still running. Of course I am just rambling due to a lack of anything better to do and my being weak enough not to be able to do much of anything at the moment.
Oh yeah I also want to bitch about Waffle House. The WH chain has long been one of my favorite places to eat. Last night me and the missus went to grab a late dinner and get out of the house for a few minutes. I ordered the same thing I always order, a bacon and mushroom omlette, it arrived and I began to eat. I then noticed it had no cheese. The waitress was as confounded as I and went to grab the cook who informed us that omlettes do not always have cheese. While I know that, technically, an omlette is used to describe a specific way of cooking eggs I have never once been served an omlette sans cheese. In fact not a single omlette on their menu is without cheese. The cook was frankly rude about the issue and even when it was pointed out that all their omlettes have cheese he was flip about it. I was offended. The waitress was a sweetheart and charged me for the cheapest omlette on the menu and I tipped well. However I will not enter that WH if I see that man behind the counter. I can understand if he thinks people want omlettes without cheese and I can be convinced to order things in a different manner. I cannot, however, stomach being told that I couldn’t have ordered the same thing every time I go in because it would have been served in the manner in which he served it to me.
That’s just last night!
Friday I was talked into trying a co-workers favorite Mexican eatery. This is Las Rosas on Kingsland in Katy, Texas. I went and was open minded even though Las Mananitas is the best Mexican around for my money. The salsa was pretty good. The chips however were seasoned with a roach. It was a small roach cooked right onto the chip. I almost lost my lunch and I hadn’t even begun to eat. They discounted the entire bill 25% and then gave us a single check even though we had said we wanted separate checks. They rbought back checks with the discount all on one check. Then they got it right. It took over half an hour to get the checks sorted. This was not the end however. I logged into my bank account to see what I could spend on the missus for Mother’s Day and found myself overdrawn. A bill did hit that I wasn’t expecting but that is not the problem. The problem was the 9.83 charge (higher than the cost of lunch) from Las Rosas and the next charge of 31.49 from Las Rosas. I was, needless to say, seething. I called up and the manager was pretty rude about the deal and even though they gave me cash to replace the money the damage was done. I will not be caught dead in that joint again. You couldn’t pay me to eat there. In fact I am going to be posting my experience on any site that reviews eateries that will accept the review. I will also be filing a complaint with the health department. I do not cotton to joints that treat customers that badly. I would have argued about the bill, as I didn’t want to pay because I couldn’t even finish my lunch, but in the interest of treating my co-workers fairly I went along with the group discount. In retrospect I should have raised hell but hindsight is always 20/20.
My absence has not been voluntary! I am working a lot right now and the policies at work have prevented me from posting however I setup a whole moblogging thing so I can post via email. That way I can update when it’s thick at work and when I just don’t have time from home. The upside is that everything is going great. I am part of a great team at work. I have projects coming out of my ears. I am staying busy finally. It’s been a good couple of weeks. I am really getting into this job. Playing poker with the boss and a bunch of coworkers helps a lot as well. Anyway expect regular updates again. I am not dead. As an aside you can always visit the gallery at http://gallery.usr-bin-mom.com (too lazy to make it a link today). I am back off to spend time with the kiddos.
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