...yes you heard me right. That was full blown sarcasm.

On my way to my friend's house today, I tried to roll down both of my windows. Since they were still frozen shut even though everything else had the snow melted off (back window, front window, moon roof...), they stuck in place.

The motors however, did not... in fact they kept trying to run long after the clips broke off of the window regulators. It's a great sound really, one that I will never forget. The clip breaks, the motor spins (pulling the part that holds the window, those clips, out of alignment), and the window stays in place (for now) until the snow melts and then the windows will probably fall down into the door.

Just like the passenger window did the first time the clips broke, during an all employee meeting for AT&T Wireless years ago...

Oh well.. at least this part is still covered on my Volkswagen warranty. I'll be contacting the dealership on Monday to have these fixed. Great.. like I have all the free time in the world to waste on this.

Yeah... well... have fun reading...


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Labels: adventures in bothell, bitch killa, car, thoughts, weather

Often I find that my friends ask me what it is that I am doing. Occasionally, if the situation and maybe even the magic in the air is right... I can respond with this catchy phrase:

"I'm Housin."

"Well what's that? I don't understand..."

"Well sweet child, housin' is by definition the best thing you can do with your life. Quick, read here before you waste another moment!!!"

Also, for those who are interested... the term was coined in this song: I'm Housin

Ahh yes, now let me tell you about how I was "housin" today.

It's no secret, I live in Everett, WA and we had a mild snow/wind storm last night. I say mild compared to the storms we had earlier this year as this storm was nowhere near the magnitude of the last occurrence.

Moving forward... I decided to leave the house to mail a bill and grab another coffee. Upon returning to my street, which was at the time covered in ice, I see a little child in his yard. I'm going to guess and say that by the kid's size that he was probably about four or so.

I decided to show off for this kid, so I start to play around with the e-brake to cause some sliding over the ice. Now normally this wouldn't have been an issue, but given that I had a coffee in one hand, a cigarette in the other, and I was driving the car with my penis... I lost control of the car. Long story short, I ended up in this poor kid's neighbor's front lawn.

As soon as I can subdue my laughter, I realize that I've probably caused some damage to the "previously lovely" plants in this person's front yard. I put my coffee in the holder, ditch the cigarette out the window (hell yeah teach by example mother fuckers!!!), stop exposing myself to my steering wheel and I back out of this person's lawn planter area in front of their lawn.

I continue laughing and driving home and arrive in a record 2 seconds as my house is only about 3 or 4 houses down from where this incident took place. I am welcomed by a group of older kids running around with air pellet guns and shooting each other all while managing to stay in the exact area that I have a strong desire to park my car in.

As I get closer to the driveway, the children scatter. I'm guessing one of two things happened here... the children were either taught by their parents to respect other people's property (which I'm thinking isn't likely in this day and age), or they saw my stunt up the street which left no doubt in their little minds that I could and would take them out in half a heartbeat if needed or maybe even for sport.

Either way they made the right choice and bloodshed was once avoided once more.


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Labels: adventures in everett, bitch killa, car, weather

Well we certainly had some interesting weather right before the Christmas rush this year in the Puget Sound area. On the news they made claims about the storm being something like the worst we had seen in 50 years!

I have to admit that at first I was very skeptical, but after seeing some of the aftermath first hand... hell, I almost feel like we had our own mini "Katrina" up here (I am in no way trying to compare the two, Hurricane Katrina was obviously much worse than our pitiful little storm, so if you had any thoughts about complaining, you can go fuck yourself, if you still want to write an email, please do.... you can find a link to my email address in the menu on the top right under Contact > link) and I can definitely say that there is a ton of cleanup work yet to do.

Check out the following pictures from my mom's property...

Here we just have a random large branch that broke off of the tree above and almost took out the phone and power lines that come in on this corner of the house:



These next two pictures are a pair, the first shows the top of a tree that was forcefully "topped" by the wind and came crashing down through a bunch of Wisteria and an arbor that the plant was growing across:




The rest of these pictures are of the arbor but to the left to show more of the top of the tree that fell and then from a bit further away to give you more of a full picture of the destruction:



So bottom line, lots of chainsaw work in my near future. The really lame part is that the arbor had been there for about 7 years or so, and the vines growing over it were super healthy. Definitely sad to see it go this way....

Labels: changes, puget sound storm, weather