At War With The Chemicals
Contrary to popular belief, I’m a fairly optimistic person. No seriously, it’s true… I wake up in a good mood most mornings, knowing the day ahead holds many exciting possibilities. And I believe, in my heart, that things will work out to our benefit.
Oh, I get irritated by the small stuff, like bombastic kielbasa-eaters who stop at the bottom of interstate entrance ramps with their blinkers on. But when it comes to the big stuff, I’m confident (naively or not) that everything will be just fine.
For the past couple of days, however, my brain chemicals have been conspiring against me. I’m in some kind of funk. I feel like I’m spinning my wheels here, and have even been considering major life changes. A mid-life crisis flare-up? Perhaps. But also a reality I’m forced to deal with (dammit).
But, you know, this ain’t Oprah, and I don’t really want to wallow in it. Sheesh. Next thing I know, I’ll be filling up one of Nossy’s vaginal hot water bladders, and napping the day away with a thumb plugged into my ass.
This doesn’t fall under the heading of “major” life changes, but I’m considering an adjustment to the Surf Report delivery system. These long updates, I’m now convinced, are not the way to go.
They’re too scattered, I believe, and cover too many subjects. Plus, I think they’re probably daunting to new readers. I can imagine myself stumbling across a site for the first time, and encountering a big totem pole of ridiculousness. I’d make a mental calculation, and realize it would probably take me five full minutes to read all that stuff. And five minutes on the internet is a long time.
So, starting next Monday I’m going to begin experimenting with shorter updates posted more frequently. That might mean two or three updates a day, or four, or sometimes just one. It’ll all depend on what’s going on at the time.
They’ll be more focused that way, and more bite-sized and accessible. I know we’ve all grown accustomed to the four big updates every week, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best course of action.
And no, I’m not going to start linking to news stories and videos of bears playing hockey, and that sort of thing. It’ll still be “a journal of sorts updated every once a while.” Just a little here, and a little there.
Any opinions on that? A good idea? Or do you give a crap, either way? Let me know.
The good news? If it doesn’t work, we can just go back to the old way of doing things. It’s not like it’s going to knock the Earth off its axis, one way or the other.
The T-Shirt Lady (finally!) called this morning, and said our order is ready for pick-up. And without prompting, she said, “They look awesome!”
I’m going to pick up the shirts tomorrow, hopefully, and will get them in the mail to everyone as fast as my sausage fingers can process the orders.
One sad note… She told me she “lost two during curing.” I don’t know what that means, but can imagine her coming home to her husband at night, with a tortured look on her face.
“Honey, what’s wrong?” he’d say.
“I lost two today, Jim. …During curing. They were so young, and so innocent.”
“Oh God, I’m sorry. But please don’t blame yourself. I know you did everything in your power.”
Or something like that. In any case, the shirts are completed, and I’ll post a picture of the finished product, ASAP.
And here, for the fifty-seventh time, is the order link.
A woman at work heated up a Tupperware container of something for lunch a few days ago, and it smelled really good. I asked her what it was, and she said, “scrambled eggs and pot roast.”
WTF? Is that an accepted combination? I’d never heard of such a thing. And who cooks scrambled eggs, then eats them hours later? The whole thing was baffling to me.
It’s a funny thing, though. The shit looked and smelled really good. And I experienced a twinge of lunch envy.
What’s the most unusual thing you’ve seen a co-worker eat for lunch? I’m looking for weird combinations of things, especially. Use the comments link below.
Back during the summer I walked into the break room, and a woman was sitting in there eating corn on the cob. She was in the middle of the room, all by herself, eating corn. In front of her was a paper plate, with two already-depleted cobs piled onto it, and nothing else. For some reason, I thought that was a riot.
Share your stories, below.
Also, for research purposes, please tell me what other “online journals” (I refuse to say blogs) you read on a regular basis. You know, after stopping at the Surf Report, of course. I’d like to know.
And that’ll do it for today, my friends.
See ya tomorrow.
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http://tanjents.com/
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Third! Niiiiice.
More to follow.
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Rat farts !!!
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wow… 4th? 1st time top 10 for sure
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I read theonline journal of a pathetically bad novelist, not because it is good, but because it is so wonderfully bad. It’s hard to sort out the pompousness from the plain old bad writing. I know this makes me a bad person, but I’m okay with that.
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For my fellow Eastern Pennsylvanian mall haters: there is now a Five Guys in the King Of Prussia mall, so you too can enjoy an excellent burger while looking at stupid xmas crap in a mall.
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Good Afternoon Surf Reporters………
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Top Ten Baby!
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8th!!
A woman a work regularly eats cottage cheese and tuna (mixed together). Never allow anyone to heat frozen crab cakes from Sam’s club in the microwave. They make everything smell like, well, dead fish. Yuck.
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Welcome to my life.
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Ok. Now for reals. I read Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish. Religiously.
I woot every morning– and today we are wooting off!
Sometimes I actually have to take notes, Jeff, on your longer posts, so that I can remember all of my comments (jewels I calls ‘em). So, let’s try this.
More goof off time for me:).
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This is the only journal besides Elyse Sewell’s Live journal that I read al the time. I only read hers cause she eats the weirdest stuff cause she models in Japan, China & Korea. Plus she is hilarious.
I used to work with a guy who lifted weights all the time and he would put three cans of tuna (in water) straight out of the can and half of an onion in a skillet and cook it till the water was gone, then he’d put it in an air tight container and bring it to work heat it up in the microwave and eat it at 10, 12 & 2. Supplementing it with protein shakes at 8 and 4. Freaking the worst smell in the history of the world, since he ate sooo much protein he had the worst farts ever. I was so glad when he decided to go work somewhere else.
Nasty.
Jeff write what you want when you owant and we’ll read it, end of story. Do what works for you.
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http://thebrendandonnelly.blogspot.com/ occasionally makes me laugh out loud (disturbing fun with photoshop). if you open the page, search for “moniqua” — very good stuff. a lot of his stuff would fit under “further evidence”. it’s also an example of several short posts throughout the day.
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As soon as I become Emperor (I want to be called Jorge the Terrible and remembered as a benevolent despot) anyone, and I mean anyone who hits the bottom of an on-ramp at a speed of less than 65 MPH (weather permitting) will be flogged. Anyone who stops for any reason other than stopped traffic ahead of them will be charged with attempted murder and summarily executed.
And I’m not in a bad mood at all. But it happens. Perhaps it’s the weather.
Next, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Change is bad. I’m quite happy with the format, thanks.
And if a new potential surf reporter feels that an update is too long to read well then that’s their loss. They’re probably members of Oprahs book club and reading short works of unbelievably depressing fiction.
As a side note to GDTN, I got a few hundred pages into Wally Lamb’s “I know this Much is True” and couldn’t take it anymore.
I am now certain that everything on Oprahs list is basically written to encourage readers to take their own lives.
Anyway…
One of my many quirks is a dislike of having lunch at work. I think it’s because I spent some many years on the road that I got very used to, and comfortable with, solitary meals, often eaten in the car.
For that reason I don’t generally see people eating odd things.
Douglas Adams wrote about the Holy Lunching Friars of Voondoon and explained how their order believed that lunch should be a religious experience. Were I ever to take religious orders, it would be as a Lunching Friar. Therefore I declare eggs and beef stew heresy and demand the eater of Satan’s Goulash be excommunicated from the break room until a proper penance can be performed.
The online journals that I read daily (or at least as often as they’re updated) are:
The Dilbert Blog (really excellent, I swear)
and the journals of the following Surf Reporters:
Kathleen
Evil Twins Wife
Misselle
And I visit other Surf Reports from time to time as well, like Tiff and Brenda Love and Trinamick.
And for the record, my comments on their sites are usually as long, if not longer.
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at my former place of employment, there was a janitor (we called him the giraffe) that went through a phase of eating 5-6 large sweet potatoes.
every day.
he’d pop them in the oven in the morning, then eat them for lunch. it was amazing.
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Feetie jammies for grown-ups….TOP NOTCH!!!
Anything fish related in the work microwave is a bad idea.
I read some of those ridiculous celebrity blogs, just because making fun of rich people makes me feel better about my life.
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There was a guy at work, (borderline SPECIAL) who brought a raw chicken breast for lunch…he was on a diet…and put it in the microwave for his desired amount of time. Seems he was in a hurry and decided he’d eat his chicken “medium rare.” We passed the rest of the afternoon listening to him violently vomit in the men’s room. Once he didn’t make it that far. Good times.
I also read Michele Malkin everyday.
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New Format: Cool. To be honest I don’t care about the packaging, it’s the content that I come back for. Slice it up into little bite-sized updates, or use the current omnibus format, it’s all the same to me. I wouldn’t worry about putting off noobs: the rest of us came and stayed so it can’t be too daunting. To be honest I can’t even recall how I got here….It not like I just decided to Google West Virginia Surf Report or anything that obvious. Perhaps from Cruel Site of the Day linking to the Walmart game? I also seem to recall the first update I read being about you and the Secrets digging some hole in the yard? I can’t remember, but it’s been at least 5 years….
Food: My assistant had a sweet potato on her desk last week that she heated and ate as a snack at break. I’ve never really seen sweet potatoes as snack food, but live and learn.
Other Sites: I check out FARK, My Confined Space, What Would Tyler Durden Do, and 4chan/b/ (plus a bunch of news sites) on a daily basis. I also visit Violent Acres, Post Secret, The Onion and The Inner Swine regularly. In the past I was a regular at Rotten.com and Consumption Junction, but there’s only so many photos of prolapsed rectums you can see before you become desensitized. It was a sad day when I realized I no longer found that funny.
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XXish!!
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I also enjoy What Would Tyler Durden Do. And Jezebel.
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Lew in Bama: Where I work we have a policy that heating fish in the microwave will get you fired. Yesterday someone heated salmon and the whole office stunk. The owner of the company was sniffing around like a bloodhound.
It’s not as oppressive as it seems: We do have a lot of clients in the office, and you can’t have the place smell like Dachau..
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For the shirts that were “lost in the curing Process”, I’d say that probably means they got hung up in the dryer and burned. I work at a t-shirt place and it’s not uncommon for a t-shirt to come rolling off the dryer conveyor in flames. The production floor of a t-shirt shop is generally staffed by drug addicts and convicted felons, so mishaps are daily. As an unconvicted felon, I’m limited to working in the art department.
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I’ve been reading for years. The format is excellent, however, it’s your online journal and regardless of how it’s presented, I’ll still continue to read.
I try to occasionally check various online journals of other Surf Reporters,
but no further than that.
Sounds like you want to experiment with a Twitter-like format.
Small blasts of information, here and there.
“Oh, I get irritated by the small stuff, like bombastic kielbasa-eaters who stop at the bottom of interstate entrance ramps with their blinkers on.”
Re: Poor driving practices:
Please tell me why, while sitting at a red light, does a driver have his (or her)
turn signal blinking, when they KNOW the light will not be turning green for the next one to three minutes? Why must we sit behind you while you *blink* *blink* *blink* your lousy life away?? If you do this, I hate you, no apologies.
STOP IT. We’re goin’ blind here. Put your damn signal on when the light turns GREEN. Thank you.
I feel much better now…time for my meds.
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Jeff,
I really prefer the long-form updates. I feel that I might miss something if I have to check back several times/day. At my last job,the head of IT heated something up the smelled like equal parts fish and ass. Unbelievable!
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WVSR Cam…..Got’s ta get me one of them chairs!!!
Seriously…that thing is bad ass!
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Daswede (The Blonde Goddess) if she ever comes back
Evil Twin’s Wife
Buzzardbilly
No accent Yet
Other Kristen
Jorge
Fork You (WV area Restaurants)
West Virginia Hot Dog Blog
Weirdest food: anything from a school cafeteria.
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My world will be blown, BLOWN off its axis.
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I enjoy the current format., but do what’s comfortable for you. However, you can’t tell an Eninen story in a short format. It just ain’t possible!
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2 t-shrits missing? her and her hubby? I wonder? as far as changing the format if you are tired of entertaining us just say so because I too dislike change just for change sake. taco w/catsup a guy I know eats this 1-2 aweek bad drivers, anyone slowing down to let someone on or over on the x-way
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i say NO to the proposed new format… i’ve been reading for 6 years and counting, and part of the charm of TheWVSR is the format. Changing it would be like Dolly Parton minus the boobs. Or, um, something like that.
Other “online journals” I read:
canjunboyinthecity.blogspot.com
redactedblog.blogspot.com
http://www.rickygervais.com/thissideofthetruth.php
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I live two minutes from the office, so I can eat at home. But occasionally I come back to find my boss dipping his tuna on wheat in a carton of yogurt. That is wrong on so many levels.
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I like the long format but its your sitte, the content is what I look forward to everyday. The only other site I read on a regular basis is http://www.michaelyon-online.com/.
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Okay-
A.) I also have been in somewhat of a funk lately- It could just be the million inches of snow that keep falling here in Wisconsin
B.) I prefer the long update- I’m with 2Tall on this. I don’t want to have to worry about missing the good stuff just because I don’t check all day long- Plus it would mess up all the fun in the comments sections because we always have to start over.
C.) I have a co-worker who brings in whole acorn squashes and cooks them in the nuker for like 15 minutes, and then cuts it in half, scoops all the guts out and eats it like a grapefruit- weird.
D.) I am guessing that the 2 shirts that were lost are probably those long sleeve shirts Knucklehead and I were expecting. Oh my… another year with no Christmas joy.
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i also enjoy yhe current format but will continue to read no matter how you want to dish it up for us. BC, or Boss Cunt as she is so affectionatley called, eats all manner of wierdness at her desk, which is less than a full wall from mine, and we share a microwave…Oh well, someday when Wally graduates with his RN I will be able to tell her to fuck off!
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For whatever it may be worth Jeff stay off the alcohol.
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Also, I am in a funk, and like Tadpolegal blame the shitty midwest winter and lack of sunlight. Happens every year. To be redundant, if only Wally will graduate so we can get the hell out of this godforsaken town!
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Someone once laughed at me for eating a piece of cheese all by itself. I guess that is sort of strange, but dammit – I love cheese!
A guy I knew in college used to make “garbage stew” – once I came into his house and saw a pot of mysterious red goop that had (among other things) a lobster claw and a can of cola bubbling away in it. And I mean the ENTIRE CAN. Yes, I think he was somewhat “special” but now he is a children’s magician.. or something. It scares me too much to contemplate.
I like the journal, but as someone who reads a whole lotta writing for a living, randomness doesn’t phase me in the least. Especially in blogs. But you do what you want, Jeff. I will read it.
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One word: Lottery
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Where I used to work we weren’t allowed to make popcorn in the microwave. EVER. Thought it was wierd until I burned some at home and realized that it smells just like skunk farts.
There was an Aisan fellow at that same place who would eat what looked like mucus for lunch. Brown mucus, with little bits of white rice stuck to it. Absolutely disgusting.
As to the online journals: I read ETW, ME (!), Biff Spiffy, Wordnerd (when she posts), Trina, Kenju,,,,aw man, I read a ton of stuff from people I discovered here. Also “Go Fug Yourself” and “Cake Wrecks.” And Fark. It’s a wonder I have time to work.
For what it’sworth – I like the long-form post. Can’t imagine what a cluster phenomenon commenting might be if you went to several shorter ones, and reasing through lots of posts to get the entire specturem of awesome commenter input for the day would be exhausting.
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I read other surf reporter’s blogs, like Tiff, Jorge, Evil Twin’s Wife, etc.
Putting eggs and roast together should only be done in a burrito, I think. My wife is on this weird popcorn mixing kick. The other day she brought me a bowl of popcorn that had crumbled jimmy dean sausage mixed in it. And she’s mixed popcorn with raisins (yuck), parmesan cheese (not bad), melted velveeta that you had to eat with a spoon. I don’t why she’s doing it. Maybe she hopes to stumble on the perfect mix and start a new trend. Maybe everyone will be mixing green beans into their popcorn a couple of years from now.
Huntsville Alabama has the stupidest drivers on earth. They don’t know how to use the turning lane, for example. They pull to the wrong side so that if you’re also trying to turn you can’t see oncoming traffic. And they have idea what a “fast lane” is. They’ll meander all over the place, going 10mph below the speed limit.
The new format sounds fun.
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been in funk too
mite be ass-trological
my birthdate12-01-54, is near yours
must be moon in uranis time
could have something to do with fact everyone i know that is in hospital on my birthday croaks
2 funerals in last 4 days
several other friends and family in past years
the people at work refer to my crabby days, when i usually try to avoid as many people as possible, and try to not let on how grouchy i am,as my ”drop kick a puppy days”
if anyone asks i tell them to find me a cute fuzzy 1 fast
i havent dont that yet…..
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I’ve ate corn on the cob at work several times. At a factory I worked at the matinence use to bring in bushels of corn and they would soak them all morning in the sink. Then by lunch you would just pop one in the microwave and steam it in the husk. The whole bushel would be gone in a day. Of course I live in Ohio and we’re all corn freaks here.
My hubby had someone bring in fish to eat at work and after they heated it up they had the break room to themselves.
I read a ton of “journals.” Woot, Natilie Dee (when she posts), Sweet Juniper, Notes from the Trenches, Dooce, The cookbook Junkie, waiter rant, and some celebrity ones to also make myself feel better about being a non-celeb. Ha!
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Yep, Tadpolegal, it’s gonna be a cold Christmas what with our elbows exposed and all.
I used to work at a Korean company. I don’t know WHAT they used to heat up in the microwave, but my friend and I walked in one day and she said “jesus, what died in here?” really loudly. The Korean women that were in there I think understood THAT much English, and we fell over ourselves laughing.
Happy Tuesday, Surfers!
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I’m on the fence here Jeff. I’m sure you’ll do fine with the shorter “blog-like” style and if that helps eleviate your funk more power to you.
But …
One of the best things about the WVSR experience is that you’ve always encouraged rampant commenting and you’ve built quite the community. Sure – some of the old-timers hardly ever speak up anymore (wordnerd, metton, buck, and lakrfool – I’m talking to you) but we know they’re there and occasionally willing to dispense with the wise-ass words of wisdom we’ve come to expect from them. I can happily say that the comments on this site are the only ones I read thoroughly each day and my day just isn’t complete without reading Jorge’s way-too-damn-long comments here
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I have to agree that I like the longer format blogs. It’s nice to be able to just sit and read a piece and then the comments – all together. I have a feeling with smaller updates, they would be harder to string together and agree with my fellow surfers that the comment sections would be hard to follow. Having said that though, Jeff whatever decision you make is fine. Just keep the laughs coming!
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Bill in PA – “Please tell me why, while sitting at a red light, does a driver have his (or her)
turn signal blinking, when they KNOW the light will not be turning green for the next one to three minutes? Why must we sit behind you while you *blink* *blink* *blink* your lousy life away?? If you do this, I hate you, no apologies.
STOP IT. We’re goin’ blind here. Put your damn signal on when the light turns GREEN. Thank you.”
No, please don’t. If you’re turning left and it’s a multilane road with several lanes going straight at the light and you’re turning left, put your blinker on ASAP, so I don’t pull in behind you thinking you’re going straight, only to find out later you intend to make a turn left across opposing traffic and I’ll have to sit behind you while you wait for a gap.
I hate people who put their blinker on at the last minute in multilane junctions. Your blinkers are there to let others know what you INTEND to do, not that your DOING IT ALREADY.
Thank you.
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Jerry in WV and I used to work together at a large law firm here in Charleston. The firm librarian was the ultimate tree-hugger/vegetarian/metal farter. She ate garlic pills all the time and literally reeked of the stuff when you were near her. We were having a staff lunch meeting and everyone was there except her, although she was expected to attend too. Somebody asked where “Marie” was and our Administrator replied “who the hell knows, she’s probably over in the park, picking her lunch”. Had to be there. I think I cried, laughing so hard.
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Oh yeah, I would prefer one sentence updates, so you can update every 10 minutes. And a comments link for each update.
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Dogberryjr,
Could you please direct me to the online journal of the pathetically bad novelist? Or do you want to keep it a secret?
I forgot to add a page that I read daily, or almost daily.
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
http://curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com/
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I once witnessed a coworker preparing what appeared to be the run-of-the-mill peanut butter sandwich… Until… he opened up a can of sardines and started placing the headless fishes onto the peanut butter blanketed white bread.
Oh! But it didn’t stop there… He then lathered mayonnaise on the other slice of bread to complete the Dan-wich of grossness.
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Eugene B. Sims, what? No marshmallow fluff, bacon and bananas?
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I read James Lileks’ ‘bleat’.
I like the blog the way it is, but willing to give a new version a try.
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Bill in PA, I am with Limey. I am not trying to start something, but the late turn signal is maddening when you are lining up in a lane that goes straight or left.
Jeff, I like the long format, but I will also continue to read no matter what you choose.
And I also enjoy Jorge’s journal, and check in on other Surf Reporters occasionally.
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If a shorter, one topic format would be better for you, I’m all for that. The current format is good too, so I’m just gonna roll with this one.
I read TONS of other journals – most of the Surf Reporters (at least the ones I know have “journals”), and assorted others just out there…
I once worked with a very obese man who tried many, many fad diets in order to shed some poundage. Once, he tried the Egg Diet. A dozen eggs a day. That was it. He’d go use the restroom about 45 minutes into the workday and the stink would just waft out into the general work area. He didn’t stay on that diet long, thank goodness. However, he always smelled like dirty ass. Always.
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i am also with limey – if he hadn’t said it, i would have.
yes, it’s annoying to watch the blinker (it’s hard not to), and i am also annoyed when i have to listen to my own blinker, but if i pull up behind someone just to find out that they’re going to turn left after all, little clouds of steam poof out of my ears….
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Jeff, I hope you feel better.
Working at night may be part of the “not rightness”.
I’ve worked 1530~2400 and 2330~0800 shifts before and they can be brutal.
Exercise & sunlight might help.
If I need a laugh I read Something Awful,
Philadelphia Lawyer ( http://www.philalawyer.net ),
Bad News Hughes ( http://domesticatedshithead.blogspot.com
and Match.com (I’m single once again….)
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http://www.roundisfunny.com This is from the guy that brought you Rock and Roll confidential.com
http://www.thedanzatap.com
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…my 2 cents…
i like the current post shedule the way it is…i don’t get to check in often so one large read 4 days a week is groovy by me…well now that i think about, if you changed it i’d still get one large (catch-up) read.
weirdest food combo: fritos dipped in cold cream of mushroom soup…dude was straight dippin outta the can.
…also i read NO other ‘blogs’…you’ve ruined me jeff! i’m jaded towards all others, i’ve tried but they just aren’t as good.
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it has become a punchline in my family about strange food combination egg rolls and scrapple
Honestly I threw up a little just thinking about it but son and man both said “oh I’d eat that”
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DearJeff ,
as a new fan I have already had to live through a web format change, a T shirt change, and now you want to deliver one minuite sound byte blogs! I am on the wrong side of 40 and your whole appeal is that you are the real deal! Lately not enough rants & too many questions! What the hell you are still the best blog out there!
sincerely
Ariana Huffington.
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I work with a really nice guy who had some heart related issues and as result, eats all sorts of healthy crap like broccoli and salmon. Now it would be cool if he would just take the salmon and maybe stick it on some bread with mayonnaise and eat it like that, but no, he must stick it in a bowl with broccoli and other healthy crap and heat it up in the microwave.
Now don’t get me wrong, he knows it smells so he jokingly goes around yelling “stinky fish, stinky fish” to warn people, but what are you supposed to do, leave work?
And this isn’t a once a month type of deal, it is several times a week. I should add that this gentlemen does not appreciate foul language so it is not uncommon for him to whence when people walking by the snack area will yell stuff like, “Who Fucked?” or “Morning, ladies.”
It is really, really bad. Seriously, I have seen unsuspecting women hurry to the restroom to douche. Okay, I just made that up, but it is really horrendous.
But I guess there is nothing really odd about salmon and broccoli.
Anywhoo, I am a follower of numerous journals as time allows including ETW, and as somebody said, if she ever returns, the Blonde Goddess. Why the heck I follow “journalists” from West Virginia (and PA) is beyond me. Of course, I also follow several Texas based writers probably of no interest to you folks.
I like the current format of longer posts with numerous topics, though I confess, I liked the old format better. But I won’t stop coming just because you decide to post more often.
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Limey and Raleigh Polly, I agree on your turn signal application under those circumstances. I would keep my signals flashing in a highway situation.
I neglected the to mention our congested 2 lane roads are often parking lots, at when I’m sitting in a clog of traffic, in a perfectly safe position, I don’t need to be staring a someone’s BRIGHTLY FLASHING BLINKER at a dead stop for one to three minutes. I put the sun visor down at night while stopped in traffic.
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The only other blog I read is:
http://tanjents.com/
And she is the one who got me reading you.
I’m also with Pagan and thinking it has been too
many ?’s and not enough rants.
I also like the current format but am willing
to see what you got to offer with the other format.
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Do whatever makes you happy Jeff. I will always be here for you. I usually read Fark and Blabbermouth.com every day. My work has a firewall on virtually everything so I am limited. I have to read WVSR at home.
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I am a fan of http://boobsinjuriesanddrpepper.blogspot.com/. I also visit Wordnerd, Tiff, Biff, Evil Twin, Blonde Goddess and Trinamick (when she posts).
You can post whenever you like, Jeff. I usually land her (on average) every Saturday morning around 5 am – and read an entire week at a time.
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Oh man, by the time I read all the comments, I’ve usually forgotten what I was going to say. Happens a lot here.
Anyway, as a few have mentioned, I miss the Blonde Goddess! I read ETW, too and a few others from here, but my bloglines feed has like 70 blogs (luckily they don’t all update everyday), so it wouldn’t be good to list them all here
Popcorn and parmesan is a great combo!
I forgot any other comments I had in mind. Probably the funny ones.
I wouldn’t mind more frequent updates, and I love seeing you pop up on Twitter from time to time.
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Love the long post and longer comments, we are mostly not of the MTV generation and therefore able to pay attention to things for longer than…… look shiny things…..what was i saying?
It is your site, do as you please, but we like it just fine. Don’t move our cheese.
I worked it a linen manufacturer in Seattle where we had to ban the Asian ladies from bringing lunch, as the various combinations of Kim-chee, fish stew, and other assorted far east foods would waft throughout the place and lodge in the linens. Linens that stink like Kimchee and dead fish are harder to sell. Just in case you were wondering.
Peace
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I dig the long prose format myself. I’m in either way.
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Obviously Jeff is feeling some stress and I think it’s a good idea for you to try a new format. You make everything so seem so easy. I mean, but seriously. You’ve got a large family, a job, a long commute, bills, etc.. You’ve given me more laughs in the last 7 years than anyone and you’re entitled to a break and do whatever the fuck you want. Who cares what these hungover drones think anyway? They’re the ones clamoring for that fucking Cat that plays the piano on Youtube. And has like 2 million hits I might add.
I hope you feel better, bro-hammer!
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@ Jason In for a penny, in for a pound, right? Here you go, have a look: http://williamhazelgrove.blogspot.com/
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Working with a vegan and several Chinese, I’ve seen my share of ‘interesting’ lunches – some of which I could not identify and was too afraid to ask. The soupy bowl of seaweed comes to mind. One of them had a soy milk maker/fermenter in his office that always sort of scared me.
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Hey Jeff…I’m a new reader to the site, and I just have to tell you how much I’ve enjoyed the snarkiness, ridiculousness, and pure foolishness…keep up the good work!
As for lunch concoctions…I’ve been known to eat peanut butter/candy corn sandwiches for lunch…if that doesn’t put you in a sugar coma, nothing will…
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The only “journals” I read reflexively right now are the WVSR, Do The Math, Penny Arcade, and Thus Spake Drake, a fellow Rhapsody playlist blogonaut.
Like others, I also drop in on assorted surfers’ sites when the mood strikes or they leave a particularly compelling comment.
And I will agree with Jason: one of the finest applications of scrambled eggs I have ever encountered is the chourizo and egg burrito. Works any time of day.
And one more: like ETW I once worked with a young man who could have driven mini-bikes professionally for Guinness, if you catch my “drift”. Every morning he came in with a full plastic 7-11 coffee cup the size of a small trash can. And every morning after an hour or so he’d go into the only men’s room on the floor to make a new Jackson Pollock painting all over the porcelain and stink bomb most of the floor back to the Stone Age. Good times!
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Jason, I would bet that the drivers in Jackson, Mississippi, are worse. The other day I courteously moved into the left lane to allow a driver to merge (what a concept) and the idiot right behind me blew by me in the right lane to keep the poor guy from merging onto the interstate. My favorite is when they put on their right turn signals and then turn left, or vice versa. Even worse than no signal at all.
Liver and cabbage in the microwave is pretty revolting, but it’s amazing how bad burned popcorn can smell.
Jeff, yours is the only online journal I read every day. I read a few local and sports-related ones, and I check out The Onion every week. You might have a case of SAD, considering the time of year. You should feel better after the solstice. If not, check out the pharmaceuticals.
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I don’t know about any one else but whiskey flavored condoms is just down right wrong. Matter of fact, any flavor to condoms is down right wrong.
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Long format with comments intact is part of what makes this place great.
I worked for a guy that went on the atkins diet. He’d have a slab of steak or pork or something in the fridge every day, microwave it until it was leather, and eat the whole thing. The diet worked for him, but he had to eat a handful of vitamins every day. Plus he exuded a very distinct odor. I could smell him from down the hall, and he could no longer lurk over my shoulder undetected.
Popcorn and fish should never be microwaved at work, especially not together.
I NEVER read ‘online journals’ until I found the WVSR. Now I’m addicted, mostly to other Surf Reporters – Tiff, Wordnerd, Kenju, Renn, Brenda, Trinamick… it occurs to me you’re the only male ‘online journalist’ I read regularly. Hmm. Also surf Fark a bit.
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“Liver and cabbage in the microwave is pretty revolting, but it’s amazing how bad burned popcorn can smell.” Those two items should never be cooked together nor heated up in microwave. Indian food has got my top ticke for food that smells. My cube sits adjacent to one of the many breakrooms in our building and at 4 o’clock, someone always goes in there and burns a bag of popcorn and I have to smell that until I leave. Thankfully , the air handler is right above my head so I just go over and turn on the AC and it sucks out the bad smell eventually.
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BTW, all the Surf Report girls are excellent. Especially Tiff, shes got my vote. I can’t get through the day with out the these journals. Somebody has to keep reminding me that I’m not the olny one who thinks like that.
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I generally don’t read blogs. But I found out about this one after reading the guy’s book about his experiences as a contestant on Jeopardy! (the gameshow). At the time, I had passed an audition for the show and hoped to be called up for it, but it never happened.
http://www.bobharris.com/
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at work we’re forbidden from bringing peanut based foods… due. to. allergies.
also i won’t use the microwave and firmly believe that they should be banned. they only lead to nasty food smells wafting through the office.
also at some of my old jobs i’d never eat in the caffeteria. always ate alone because of people eating nasty food.
and not all of it was weird… i’m talking about porkchops or chicken that just smelled rancid when microwaved.
we also had one woman who would bring a whole “soup mix” of produce… turnips, dill, potato, huge carrot and would microwave that in a bowl with some water every day….
fucking rude if you ask me to eat your gross food and ruin everyone’s lunch.
blogs i read:
eviltwin’s wife, cute with chris (cutewithchris.com) and expectnothing.com
back in the day when i had my speakeasy site and greasypants i used to read a whole bunch of now-defunkt blogs like cananopie.pitas.com and unclebob.diaryland.com, drew.corrupt.net (natalie dee’s husband)…. but nowadays most blogs are crap.
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Whatever happened to “Eating Eggs with Bill Oates”?
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Dogberryjr,
Thanks for the link. He reminds me of a friend I had in Texas. He claimed to be a pool shark, but was really just a drunk that always got his ass kicked at pool.
This guy tries really hard but it’s just not there. He loves the words “disembodied” and “oligarchy”, did you notice that? And he’s obsessed with the bailouts.
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Hmmmm… I’m late to the game on this one. New format couldn’t hurt. It gives us more to comment on and read throughout the day… but either way is good to me.
Aside from TWVSRI keep up with Tucker Max, The Sneeze, Stuff White People Like. That is all.
Several girls here at my office only eat raw tuna… that’s about it. Other than that it’s usually me who gets the commentary on my food. The occasional tofu, or veggie loaf, or meatless (pick your dish) usually get’s strange looks and people convincing me I’m insane and one person in particular who likes to use my meal as a segue into a 5 minute dialogue about what she does and does not enjoy eating.
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just last week I came across an abandoned can of beverage… and the beverage was a non-alcohol jack and coke drink.. crazy.. no-alchol but articially flavored to taste like a jack and coke.. who drinks that at work?
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http://www.boredatwork.com
http://www.perezhilton.com – yeah, i’m a sucker for bs.
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