So I have my new toy. Now I have to spend many hours getting lots of software installed. It is so sleek and quiet.
Tonite is Lost. The best show on television. Maybe I’ll skip work tomorrow…oh wait…important day, so I can’t. Bummer. Maybe next Monday.
I really wish that one outdoor cafe would ban smoking. The village loves to smoke. Here I sit at one of the newest and most “progressive” places in town, and the smokers are everywhere (4 out of 7 tables). Really disgusting. Since they are responsible for a good chunck of our taxes, why can’t we just start killing them all?
Since a few cigarettes a day are deadly, why can’t we just put a small explosive device in every other cigarettes? Life would be so much better. Plus, the fireworks going off around us would make this an entertaining place.
C-Ville, BAN SMOKING TODAY. BAN IT. NOW. It has been discussed several times, but our lovely city council keeps trashing it since they think it would not be good for the village. All the places that have banned smoking are now healthier, and business is better than before. BAN SMOKING IN THE VILLAGE.
I’m still waiting. Any day now. My guess is Tuesday. It got loaded on a FedEx truck at 9:24 AM on the 22nd in Sacremento, CA. If you drove straight from there to here it would take about 40 hours. Since FedEx people never sleep…
The Fins are such a pleasure to watch this year. Wins are even more fun than losses 
Michigan is miserable this year (by Michigan standards). Michigan State is rolling along though. They sure can score a lot of points. Looks like a Go Green year, rather than M Go Blue.
I keep wondering why I leave my house. Venturing out in to the village leads to rapid depression. Today I wanted some milk. It is 6:05 PM, on a Sunday. Ugh. That means that only cousin-loving locals are wandering around listening to hillbilly-esqe tunes blaring out of a 12 million dollar marshmallow. You would have thought one bike rack could have been installed for that amount of money, but I guess that would have blown the budget.
Meanwhile, back to the milk. Since stores only care about SUV driving breeders, the only affordable milk in walking distance had already closed. Why do stores here close so early? Because the breeders are home preparing their breeder results for another day where they can be “the smartest and best student at the school.” In this day and age, all breeder results seem to be the best. No child left behind, so all children can read three letters, but not complex things, such as the word STOP (such as when it is written in white on a red sign).
Since I don’t feel like loading up my SUV with “special ones” I think about biking over to a big store. That would be fine, except for the fact that this village never bothers to put in any bike lanes, and since locals can’t even read a STOP sign it is rather dangerous on the road. They seem to think a biker is just like a raccoon; road kill if they can hit it first.
I’m now down to my final option. The cig stores. Locals love cigs. Cheapest cigs in the country. Breeders love cigs. Breeders love giving cigs to kids. The only person in the store at this late hour (remember, it is just after 6pm) is the person behind the counter. She is smoking a stick. Mmm….cigs. Smoke. Cancer. Gotta love them cigs. In any other part of the country that is civilized I’m sure that smoking in a 7-11 is illegal, but not here. Virginia is for cigarette lovers (an old Virginia saying).
I migrate to the milk area and get a half galloon of skim. At most other places this would run around $2.25. There is no price indicator anywhere in the area, but since I need it, I choose to buy it. $4.89 + tax.
Price for milk: a few bucks. One minute in the store with someone from Charlottesville: life reducing. Nothing priceless in that story.
I really have to learn to never leave my house or my office. Stop looking at the village. By not looking around at all this week I hope I’ll get cheery enough to post some photos.
I got to work at 7am. I got home at 7pm. My a headache kicked in by 2pm. It hasn’t gone away yet. Maybe placing the order for my new (refurbished) 1.42 GHz iBook will make me feel a bit better.
I should have it within a week. I hope Apple doesn’t pull a sneaky move and announce a new one tomorrow (the 2nd day of the Apple Expo in France). Fingers crossed.
Always good to spend money while you have it 
This is one of the first views you get when you enter Mt. Rainier National Park from the west. It was a perfectly clear day with just a bit of nip in the breeze early in the morning.
I snapped the photos for a few other tourists, so I figured I would actually get myself in one photo on this trip
I’m hoping to get some photo album software on the site in the next week or so. Stay tuned…
Yowsa…my bill for my fun 10 day vacation rolled in via snail mail yesterday. Ouch. I guess this is why people don’t take many vacations. New Balance: $4181.21. I wonder if I should start working at McD’s in the evening.
Or…maybe I should buy a new iBook. Options abound. Live for the moment, or save for the future?
Sunday evening. I think I’ve had a headache since I got back from vacation. C-Ville is true misery. I’ve started to notice that the only people that like C-Ville are the ones that have lots of kids. They never deal with anything other than schools and other parents. They don’t take time to notice what a miserable place this is for anyone that is NOT a breeder. How much longer can I last?
This tiny low-tech village has given me a permanent headache. Maybe the far above average temperature/humidity is doing that to me. I wonder if I’ll get to turn my AC off by the end of the week (slim chance of getting below 84F). Almost 90 today. Is this still July? Maybe the fact that much of the US now has HD cable. Our cable company has said that will never happen here. Maybe the local TV stations would let us get national feeds from a satellite provider. No, they don’t want to do that. They think their 4 Watt stations are better than those from cities.
My team got to spend 1 week as an undefeated team after going 4-12 last year. It felt good. Today they were brought back to reality, but it is actually a decent reality. They are no longer a joke. Despite the loss full of errors, they are still tied for first in the AFC East. Go Phins. At least Michigan and MSU rolled along this weekend.
Now I think I’ll go back to looking at the local news. Racial crimes at UVA, guns dropping out of pants at UVA greek parties, date rape settlement cases from UVA, bomb scares at police station, building a 12 million dollar amphitheater for outdoor events without a single bike rack, and all the other fun local stuff.
My neighbors are moving. I hope someone decent moves in. Bad seeds can ruin an apple, and bad neighbors ruin life. The percentage of good vs bad here in C-Ville is not giving me hope.
I think I’ll just curl up on the couch and dream of other cities…
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