I get a call from my Dad today. He says “I have bad news”. First, don’t preface a sentence with that , unless someone is dead. Because the person you’re talking to always thinks that anyway.

If you haven’t guessed by now, no one died. My Dad calls me and proceeded to tell me that the old HQ building has been leased out to someone. That building has been sitting empty for 5 years, and the 6 month stretch that we need it to stay that way, someone leases it. Son of a bitch. Now we have 30 days to get all our shit out of the building, and we don’t know where we are putting it.

Compound this news, with my boss asking me this morning to find out what kind of insurance my wife has at her new job because he doesn’t want to pay for her anymore, and that makes a shitty morning.

Then, I go home at lunch to take the next step in getting my Dads site uploaded and completed, and I can’t remember the god damn password. Now I have to go home after work and have him call me and give me the information I need, take care of what I need to do, then go to his house to finish everything up.

This day sucks so far.

Two silver linings today have been that Kel went and looked at her new car, and they have one in the state that they are going to try and get for her. And that I made a great bet online. I am a member of ExplorerX. A Ford Explorer enthusiast site. The admin and founder of the site is from Jersey. I made a bet with him that the Pistons would win tomorrow nights game, and the loser has to have their picture taken holding up a sign that says the other team is better. I sure hope the Pistons win.

Today is the day, according to that popular chain letter that went around, that no one is supposed to buy gas. The letter states that by not buying gas today, the oil companies will lose a ton of money. Not true. The oil companies won’t lose anything.

This letter should be called National Shoot the Messenger day since the gas stations would be the only ones to take a hit from this….or would they? Let’s say that we as a people could get together and skip getting gas today, what would that do? Nothing. We’d still need gas tomorrow. Again, assuming that America as a whole has the capacity to ban together like this, the surge of fill-ups yesterday would be enough to overwrite anything that we were trying to do today. This concept simply will not work. We live in a world that is so dependant on oil for everything, that we are at the mercy of the oil companies. Accept it. Your little chain letter boycott isn’t going to do shit, so let it go. This brings me to my next point.

People please, for the love of God, do not believe everything you read in emails! Just because someone types it into an email, doesn’t mean it’s true. If you forward a message to 7 million people, Microsoft is not going to send you 7 million dollars. For some reason when people read the phrase “it works! I didn’t believe it till I tried it” they can’t help themselves. My favorite are the ones that preface the email with “can’t hurt to try”. Yes it can. These emails are garbage spam, and you’re contributing to the problem. Nothing really neat happens after you forward the message4 times….because it’s just a spam message!

People don’t send me these emails anymore. The last few I’ve received I replied to all on how I felt about them. It was funny, especially when people would contact the original sender asking who I was, and why I was so mean and angry, lol. But the fact remains, if you buy into that email crap, you deserve a little ridicule.

Now, copy this entire message and paste it into an email. Send it to 6 of your closest friends or Moe’s hand will come out of your monitor and slap you like the three stooges….nyuk nyuk nyuk