Man, this video is so sick. The skaters are awesome, Julian Bah has lost his mind again and I think this is the best music I’ve heard on a skating vid.

I’d really like to get into aggro inline before I’m too old to even jump over a curb but I have a bad feeling there’s like a 99% chance I’d break something.

What’s been goin on lately folks? Here’s my wrap-up in succinct form cause I’m an hour past my 2 AM bedtime. Conjunctive adverbs be damned.

I watched The Office tonight. Man I love that show. I think it takes me over an hour to watch a thirty minute show because I’m in love with my TiVo eight second back button. Although the comedy is not so much in what they say but in the inexplicable stuff, my favorite quote of the night was “Karen: You can’t give paper clips to a baby, he could swallow them. Creed: Oh it’s ok, I’ve got tons of them.” I also caught Scrubs for the first time in a while but sadly I don’t remember laughing once. :-/

Oh, and speaking of TV, I’ve developed this bad habit of sleeping with the news on lately. Aside from the disturbing experience of waking up to Headline New’s Seeking Solutions With Suzanne, I have a hard time falling asleep without some network newsperson lulling me there. Ladies, I guess I can only hope that the sound of Anderson Cooper’s reporting turns you on cause that’s who’s going to going to talking us to sleep at night. My last girlfriend wasn’t too keen with the whole tv-on-while-we-sleep thing but sadly I’m dependent. I need help and if you’re a cute 5′4 girl-next-door type I challenge you to break me of the habit :)

Have you ever worked a twelve hour day after one-too-many spruce flavored beers the night before? Yeah, that was me today. Not fun, not funny. I met a nice girl at the aforementioned white dog cafe last night, but I have to admit my mind has been other places lately. Maybe I’ll give that distraction a call soon since I’ve been thinking more and more about her for two weeks now. (but we all know I probably won’t, right?). Anyway, the important question here is why was I drinking Pine-Sol flavored beer last night? That’s the last time I take a beer recommendation from Eric.

Does anyone happen to have a Mitsubishi 3000GT transmission that they could spare? I was oh-so-close to buying a plasma TV last Thursday but unfortunately that grand was ill-fated to go somewhere else. My car was making this real bad metal-on-metal sound so I took it into the garage on Tuesday. $700 later I learned that the clutch pilot earning went and allowed all sorts of nasty stuff to bounce around inside my transmission case. The official word from the garage was “we fixed the pilot bearing, but it did some major damage to the syncros on your transmission. Honestly we have no idea how the car is still running, but I’d just drive it until it dies and then decide if you really want to put a new transmission in it.” So great, now I’m driving a car on hospice care. I’m hoping to find a rebuilt transmission, but that’s gonna cost me another fifteen hundred in parts and labor. Maybe I’ll find one under the Christmas tree this year. Or maybe I’ll get a bonus for all the overtime I’ve been putting in at work and buy one myself. (but I’m not holding my breath on either).

I’m a little miffed about this weather we’ve been having. I swear the day I bought two new jackets (one in white, one in blue, I couldn’t decide) it got warm and hasn’t been cold since. They’re kinda like spring-fall jackets so when the temperature plummets next week I’m pretty much destined to be F’ing cold at the cost of looking good. And in addition to that I’m really looking forward to snow since I can’t wait to try ski boarding this season. I was going to go with snowboarding this season (or as the cooler-than-me kids say “riding”) but I figured I may as well stick with what I know. I hear the inline to ski board transition isn’t as bad as one would expect. And for the “I’m cool too” record, in Europe the act of inline skating is also called “riding.” So you can suck it Petersen.

And as a side note I wrote this whole post on my Tablet PC. I installed Vista RTM this past weekend and I have to say I’m enamored with the new handwriting recognition. I write stuff that even I can’t decipher and Vista does wonders with figuring it all out. I have a bad feeling that Tablet computing will never go mainstream but man do I love browsing digg on my computer that feels like a book. Do yourself a favor and make sure your next laptop purchase is a convertible. UPDATE: For some reason my tablet has been pegging at 100% CPU usage lately. And the most frustrating part is that taskmrg.exe is the offender. And even worse I can’t find anything on the internet about it.

Ok, well so much for succinct. Peace out girl scouts. I’ll be back no sooner then when blogger’s remorse sets in. (to B-town Bill … was that the correct usage of “then?” I can never figure out the “then” “than” usage)