SHUT UP, BUSH

Bush is droning on on the TV set. I hear 'blah blah blah blah blah' shut up, shut up, shut up, I'm so very very very sick of listening to you drone on and will it ever end? Five more days of this nincompoop.
So... today at work, same old same old. We had: grilled pork chops, rice, and broccoli casserole.
sounds good, no? I actually let my guard down and got excited about the new special... and I ordered it. I had cleaned the soda fountain nozzles so I felt comfortable with pouring a small coke and then sat down to eat the fresh (well, brought from the store within the hour) pork chops, fresh broccoli, right-out-of-the-brand-new-bag cheddar cheese in the broccoli; and the just-boiled rice.
It smelled really good and I thought it might be a good day with a decent meal. Well...the pork chops were dry as unbuttered toast, and tough as leather. The rice was good, but who eats rice all by itself? The broccoli casserole was good. There was no gravy... so I somehow got through the two pork chops and the dry rice and saved the broccoli cheesy casserole for last so I'd have something good to remember.
lol it was crap, what did I expect?
(I didn't make any of it ).
well, at any rate, it was free and I got stuffed full of protien.
OMG, BUSH IS STILL TALKING... guh.
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SO: I get home and get on the treadmill. I go a mile and a half at a pretty fast clip, listening to my ipod (gotta get some in-the-ear earbuds, those default ipod earbuds fall OUT). I get off the treadmill and do some JUMPING JACKS, believe it or not (after running a mile and a half jumping jacks seem ... easy), then fifty sit-ups. By this time, I'm ready for a shower and to sit down and rest. I do so.
I check my messages. There are TWO from my brother. OF COURSE there would be.
the one day I don't check them before leaving work.
He wanted me to come to his house after work. So... I get dressed and head up there.
I get there and in his driveway sits the Cavalier he's been trying to get from the dealership where he used to work. Somehow today he got in and got the Cav; and towed it home on a trailer. He got the Cav off the trailer, and despite setting the handbrake and putting it in gear it rolls off down the driveway..towards the very busy street he lives on.
His truck is still running, so he throws it in neutral. He runs after the Cav... and it goes across the street and up the hill on the opposite side of the street, then down again and up the driveway, etc until it loses momentum and he catches it.
Somehow, there is no traffic on his street and the Cavalier is ok. He puts a concrete block behind the back wheel to hold it and heads toward his truck... which has idled itself through the chain link fence gate, into the boat trailer, pushes the boat into his brand new garage.
I KNOW the idle on that truck is set way too high and I've mentioned it... it's high enough to push a boat a car length!
In another stroke of pure good luck, the boat is ok, the boat trailer is ok, the garage is ok.
However the front of the truck ... the grille... will not be ok. Mind you, this is the truck that I was driving in '03 when someone ran into me and wrecked the front end, and my brother had to rebuild the grille and front... wasn't my fault but I WAS drunk at the time.
And now because I didn't check my messages before going home and wasn't there when he needed me, the grille needs replacing, again.
he did take full responsibility for the mayhem, but he also said he wished I had been there to prevent the whole scenario...
*SIGH*
he was in pretty good spirits about the whole thing though. We put the tow rope on the Cav and I 'steered' it (as well as you can with no key in it) and we got it put away properly where he can charge the battery while getting a key made.
This car is a free car. Someone left it at the dealership. We don't know if it runs. I assume it does... we assume it got fixed before it got parked and that the owner never came to claim it. My brother has been in a long process with the insurance company to claim the car as abandoned, and now it's his... and soon to be mine.
It seems to be a decent vehicle, 111,000 miles on it, it's a 95, and the engine looks fine.
Came home and sat down to the laptop and got an e-mail from 'tommy's pizza' ... I'd applied for a pizza maker position and tomorrow I have to go by there and they'll let me toss a couple of pizzas to see if I have what it takes. I LOVE those kinds of job interviews. They give me a dough patty, I pat it out, stretch it and toss it and make a pizza.
I had a good 'two tray' time when I was working at Dominos'... (you gotta make two trays of pizza dough into pizzas as fast as you can) but that was...two decades ago!
lol
So... I'll give it a shot. It's a real upscale pizza place. We'll see what happens.
Nothing to lose.
so Bush is finished with his last speech and My Name is Earl is on and I finally get to rest.