There Is No Reason to Fear Me

U.S. soldier sings Jimi Hendrix Along the Watch Tower while in Iraq...very powerful.

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ok ok i know i am not the avid user i once was, but i am in desperate need of a joost invite, can anyone help me out?

Toshiba has announced a new 51GB HD-DVD Rom disc at this year's CES, beating Blu-ray by 1GB. Thats strike two for Blue Ray today!

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An American scientist has revolutionized the way we may look at energy. He has developed a technology that allows water to be used as an alternative fuel source.

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if you haven't seen it this is for you, well at least in susie's case
http://www.geek4ums.com/viewtopic.php?p=4728#4728

if you haven't seen it this is for you, well at least in susie's case

please i need people to come with me, leave messages

well my mechanical luck continues,

I broke my little cheap 20" bike, after getting a flat on the way to drop off my rent, I ditched the bike and ended on top of it smashing the crank and ruining the spokes. Well seeing that i am going to need about 80 bucks to fix a bike brand i have never heard of, and the non compliant cheaply designed part must be speacial ordered I decided to buy a new bike....

I wanted a Haro but no one deals them here and the one brand the bike shop sells, I am against, and they are too expensive, so I went with my child hood favorite, Mongoose. Its beautiful and red and has a three peice crank (so if this one breaks its a bit easier to replace) the only thing I am not sold on are the wheels, but i can always replace those once they cave.

20,000 songs, 80 Gigabytes and straight from the factory in China,

Justin has his new ipod

Where was I,

Oh yes Joe!

Joe had just moved into a new office, with a pretty cute office mate, Liz. He lost his old office to the bosses daughter, Jen. He managed to save his prized posession the red stapler, without getting fired, and was looking forward to starting afresh in his new location.

Liz was sitting at the far end of the table. Joe hated nothing more than to be invited to a function, and be more than one chair away from the one person he knew at the gathering.

However, knowing no one else, Joe seemed to just be staring at Liz the whole time. It funny, and may only be a romantic guy thing, but seeing how a girl acts in a social scene, noticing her laugh, her smile, the way a girl leans in to hear a joke, and then bounces back in her seat to laughing when the punch line hits... a guy can crush over a girl pretty easy in that situation.

Now what joe didn't realize was that jill and racheal were having a conversation with joe for the past ten minutes. Girls luckly are used to guys being quiet, so they didn't notice his mental absense till just now. The look at the objject of his interest, then trade smirks...

"She's quite a catch, and still out there, if you konw what I mean" Jill said, looking directly at the fourth order of salsa the waiter was bringing out.

"Yeah, and her last boyfriend was a complete dog, so you'd be a major improvment." chimed racheal

"What oh, oh, no i was, just uhhh, I was just blanking out."

"Yeah right, guys don't blank out when sitting at a table of girls, and if they do they are not usually staring at something eye level."

This is true, guys usually blank out right around the cleavage area, and just ponder for a while...

"besides that little grin gives everyting away."
"yeah just ask her out"
"ohhhh yeeeahhhhh, she loves sushi"
Joe didn't know which girl was say what at this point they were talking to fast.

Joe: "I am not, I, I just moved in and just met her, and that would be weird...."
"well i will take that as an admitance to the fact, and we will assist you in your love life" Racheal said, shaking hands with Jill as if they jsut made a deal on a used car.

'this is not good' Joe thought. 'there is no stronger kill to a potential relationship that two girls "helping" out..... crap, I just used the word relationship, see its already screwing me up.'
Joe suck rather low in his chair, jsut waiting for the check

So after what seem like like a really long "walk" back to his office, Joe sat down at his new desk. I was just like his old one, but this one looked like a dogs chew toy, all torn up and scuffed.

"Bob liked to pretend he was a drummer, i was so glad when he got caught with the bosses daughter." Liz threw out the remark like throughing a frizbee to stevie wonder not even expecting a response.

"What, oh, no its no big deal, I guess I am just feeling like I am being demoted."

"So thats what you think of this side of the office?"

"HaHa no, i mean, I," Fuck joe always seemed to be in this twisted bickering flirtation spiral with Liz. "I just do alot of nerdy computer stuff, and am used to a nice desk, and a solo office to get my work done. I never really leave my office."

"Wow, I would die. I couldn't stand being in here for eight and a half hours a day" (side note for those not in the office world... the governing body of fair wages decided a couple of years ago that lunches are required, must be atleast a half an hour, and shold not be on the companies billable time, so you are now legally supposed to be there for 8.5 hours for full time, but who the fuck does.)

"I just never really thought of being anywhere else"

"You must really love yoru job"

"Not bad"

"Well over here we are mostly accounting, 20 of use in all, and we need breathers so we usually go out for a big lunch, I am sure you'd be welcome in, if you could 'tear' yourself away."

Jesus 20 people going to lunch, thats too much,that can not be just a half hour, Joe thought.

"Yeah I guess I could join ya :) " Joe gave the nicest, yet fakest smiles he could pull off.

"Fine, its a date"

Joe for the first time looked up from his computer, liz was red and pretended she needed some credit bills or something.

Liz's office was clean, and very very oraganized. She had a crappy desk, covered with photos of what seemed to be her family, a red clock that would match his stapler (shit my stapler it was still in the office)

"Hey Hey!" Liz said, "what brings you over here."
"Moving in. What you didn't know our relationship was moving so fast?"

Liz looked flustered for a second, then snapped into a more office 'I'm working' posture

"You should watch it, this is the ladies corner, wosre rumors have started off with less."

"Aw Liz it wouldn't be that bad. Ha Ha"

She seem to read his face whether he was coming on to her, or just insulted her, sarcasm is so hard to read.

Joe also was quiet for a good amount of time, realizing he was making quick jokes with a woman who he realy knows nothing about.

"Well" Joe exploded from the silence, " I forgot my stapler, I'll be back."

"Oh no, actually they brought it, its right next to the monitor." Liz said,grabbing an m&m from her little candy dish.

"Um no thats not my stapler."
"Well its a perfectly good stapler."
"No its not i will be right back"

Joe shot out of the office, raced back through the halls, thinking no, no, no please not my stapler. Joe suddenly was reminded if the movie "Office Space" which to him was more of a documentery than a comedy.

Joe bursts into his office forgeting that its no longer his, to find a woman, just finishing buttoning a blouse up...

"EXCUSE ME!" the woman said

Oh shit the bosses duaghter, "um hi I just forgot my stapler,"

"Oh well I asked the HR guys if they could give you a new one, red is my favorite color."
she began petting the stapler like the bad guys in a spy movie with thier cats.

"Oh well, actually that one was a present, and I wouldn't want to make them mad, just giving it away..." Complete lie he stole it from the person who occupied that office before him, but fuck her.

"Well we couldn't have that." She looks mornfully at the stapler, and then hands it over like evidence at a crime scene. Barely clutching the bright red stapler. "I'm Jen by the way"

FUCK FIRESTONE IN THE ASS WITH A PINEAPPLE

I took my perfectly well running car to firestone to get an oil change, where mysteriously both my CV joint boots were COMPLETELY CLEANLY ripped off. And I asked them to check my rear tire it was low. They did and found a nail, wanted to replace the tire for $120 PLUS labor but i should replace both rear tires as the other one was bad too. And they wanted over 650 to replace the CV joints and would take over 3 days to do. so a 20 dollar oil change turned into a $1000 dollars to fix nothing but rubber componets.

Fuck that I decided to get a second opinion.

Went to the mexican area down from my office, where a mechanic at a gas station said he has had many people coming to him with CV promblems from Firestone. And my office mate told me he heard from a mechanic friend that is a common scam for mechanics to cut the CV join just to make some cash.

The guy replaced both CV's in under an hour (including delivery time) with labor for under 340. And my tire THAT I JUST PAID 30 BUCKS TO FIX was still leaking. So he sold my TWO tires for 120 with free install.

FIRESTONE FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU OWE ME 340 FUCKING DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!!!

Joes life will be posted later today

So Joe goe sto his desk, sits down, and notices something different, but can't put his finger on it. he feels really uncomfortable, and figures he jsut not awake yet. So, he gets some coffee.

Ha, Black one sugar, perfect. Or as perfect as you can make the crap coffee the office buys.

well enought with that. let get back to work

Joe sits at his desk and puts his coffee down and reaches for his mouse. Further, Further, he looks down. no mouse. wait, no key board. no speakers, monitor. He stands up in confusion. He bends to his knees and looks under the his desk. Nothing resemebling the once slow and crappy CPU that used to sit under his desk like the troll bridge asking for money (but in this case data). WTF?

He rises slowly and looks for any sign of a thief, but who would steal a computer. Joe thought "I personally would have gone for my sweet red stapler first." but the swingline hadn't moved.

He walks out of his office and across to the bosses office.

Even though Joe frequently visited the boss, it was like stepping into another building, another company. The crap blue mat carpet, was a rich soft gold, and fresh clean paint, and instead of black chairs and Ikea desks there was a mohagony desk, and nice leather chairs, which obiously never really used all that much.

"Umm.. boss... I dont uhhh,"
"Ah Joe! hows it going, yes office has been moved right."
"Well My compputer is gone. Wait Moved whats going on."
"Oh well my duaghter is now going to be working here, fresh out of college, and I figured shoe could have your office. We moved your computer, since it is all you really need. To Liz's office. You will share that office with her."
"But what about all my supplies and chair and"
"Oh well we want to keep all that stuff here as it matches the rest of this area well"
(this was bullshit but it was nice stuff)
"we have all new stuff for you waiting in you new office."

The boss turns around in signal of "get the fuck out of here. Joe flips him the bird in his right pocket defiantly. Then goes searching for Liz.

So Joe comes to work not thinking of the week before, where the evil girl left him to hang in the hallway for another whole 5 fucking minutes for another elevator.

He has completely erased the trauma from his mind. Walking into the lobby he reaches to push the the button, when a cute little finger beets him to it. He follows the fingure to the hand, up the arm, past the shoulder and to the face of the mean girl who he now was remembering to hate. His "sorry for bumping into you" smile was slowly fading into a "why the fuck are you talking to me?" frown.

She seemed to do the same, and when Joe notice this, "why did you leave me out to dry" spurted from him mouth. "leave me out to dry" WTF fuck says that any more, unless your Barney from How I Met Your Mother (good show FYI).

She, with out even needing to ponder the obsurd choice of phrase responded like a kung fu master with chopsticks attacking a fly. "you should watch who your eavesdropping on."

"What?"

"The boss was chewing me out over shirt "revealing too much" and you just snickered as I left."

"Hmmhmm" Joe slighly let out a giggle, cause if that was the case, she apparently didn't learn her lesson, nice rack he thinks, but back to the arguement. "Well, yes I sit across from the boss, but she is always bitching at someone, so i brought my heaed phones. I have been listening to Dane Cook all week. I laugh my ass off all the time. He's a "bamf""

She began to turn red, but the funny thing was .with the make up on, her cleavage became more pink than her face.

Joe realize he was staring so he quickly looked up, like a marine snappnig to attention.

"I'm Liz" she said extending her hand

"Joe"

"Bing!" elevator

So Joe is a man, a man who works in a firm. The firm? not important! the job? even less neccessary. Joe sits at his corperate cubicle and listens to his ipod while typing away dilegently. He is typing, yeah, typing quickly, while listening to some random cute funny snippet of auido file. He giggles. A girl passes. He is un aware.

Yes. 5 oclocke works done. Thank god! he thinks cause the job in which you know nothing about sucks. shut of his pc. Put his very sensitive weakling Ipod in tish super protective case. leaves the headphones on the desk. snatches his keys and a walks triumphantly to the elavator where said girl was just entering...

"oh Hold that please!!!" he begs in a plea for this will minimize his work experience by 5 minutes.

She stares. NO, snarls in his direction. An then smiles as the doors just close in Joes face.
Why? why does she hate joe?

Stay tuned.

Well as we all know corprate america is not exactly happy with people over using the internet. That being said, AIM is not allow here, but MSN welcomed. Go microsoft and thier preadded software.

Adam and Ari are already on to talk to me, but if you wanna chat i will be on using my school email address. so please get on and talk to me.


Work is good, pandora gets me through the day. OAR on the radio right now.

I felt bad, I got my brother all hooked on playing this video game Oblivion, he was all excided, but (CHRIS A. READ THIS) the geforce 5500 is not supported by the game only the 5700 and above. Well he was so excited, so he went and bought the x1600pro 512mb for 200 bucks. I felt bad and i never got him a graduation present from highschool, so I got him one of those gaming keyboards, with the W A S D, repeated in larger buttons in red like an extra numpad. Its pretty "BA" I'll let you know how it works out.

Sorry I don't post much. I don't get to this page much, cause I try to make other's priorities higher than mine, but I need to be selfish and write about myself.

That being said I have nothing to write about.

Reply to make me feel noticed :)