Monday, November 26, 2007

Tofurkey

Isn’t that a fun word to say? Tofurkey! TOFURKEY! If I were 7 I’m sure I’d say it over and over and over. Or if I was a blogger. Heh. Tofurkey!

I had some over the Thanksgiving weekend because my sweety and I have given up meat.  Multiple videos about how animals are processed like non-living factory parts really turned us off. We were apalled at how inhumane people can be, so we’re not going to contribute money to those atrocities anymore. Ideally we should become vegan since egg-laying chickens and milking cows are also horrifically abused, but I don’t think I could go that far that fast. I don’t think I could give up eggs, cheese and *gasp* ice cream. Besides, without that stuff, I’d be stuck eating nothing but beans and tofu for protein. I have nothing against beans or tofu, but every day? No thank you.

Back to tofurkey. (TOFURKEY!) So we tried this stuff while everyone else had turkey. It was all right. It comes as a prepackaged rounded ball, kind of like unsliced deli turkey, but with the stuffing already inside. The stuffing itself tastes very much like your standard Thanksgiving stuffing. But the “meat” itself wasn’t that great. It was mostly the consistency. Have you ever had extra firm tofu?  It was like that, except even harder. Instead of making the consistency like tender turkey, it was more like overcooked chicken. What a disappointment. It could have been a fantastic product if only they would not press it so hard. Such a shame. I was so looking forward to calling it Tofurkey Day instead of Turkey Day.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Maybe I should go into music video production

Because this new job is from 9am to 6pm, I eat breakfast at home before leaving (rather than eating my cereal at my desk).  That way I can fry up an egg to balance out the cereal. Anyway, I usually watch TV while I’m eating. This morning I saw a music video for some song I’d never heard of by Feist called “1234”. It’s a cute little song. My sweety says she likes it a lot, and was surprised I’d never heard it before.

So we’re watching this video… WTF… and my sweety is thinking the same thing. What the hell is this? It’s a bunch of people running around inside an empty warehouse in what I assume is a series of loosely choreographed “routines”. There’s some people wearing yellow, some wearing green, purple, etc. I suppose it’s kinda cute in a rainbowy, elementary school kinda way. But these are adults. We’re watching this video thinking, “Somebody got paid to produce this?” It’s like it was created by a volunteer parent for a troop of fourth graders.

And then, get this, on my way to work this morning, I hear it on the radio for the first time. That stupid video was inserted back into my head. Good grief. 1234…

Monday, November 12, 2007

Catching up with The L Word

What a wonderful relaxing weekend. For once we didn’t have to visit anyone, buy anything or go anywhere. And people pretty much left us alone. Which meant we were able to spend hours cuddled in the bedroom watching DVDs.  We were finally able to rent Season 4 of The L Word. Since I don’t have Showtime, we had to wait until it came out on video in order to watch it.  If you haven’t watched it yet, then you should stop reading since the rest of this post contains spoilers.

First disappointment - they got rid of Carmen. Come on. She was cute, didn’t have bizarre issues like most of the other characters, and was quite a hottie to boot. They got rid of her and decided to replace her with some ghetto girl from the hood who acts worse than most of the cholos I see around LA. Can you see my eyes rolling? Please can we just have a normal character to keep the rest of the crazy cast grounded?

Second disappointment - Only 12 episodes? Come on! I feel cheated. I waited this long and the entire set didn’t even last us the weekend. Boo.

However I am quite glad they decided to cut down on the number of whacko head trips from Jenny’s demented mind. Seriously, I had to fast forward through too many of those last season. If I wanted artsy fartsy, I’d go to a freaking museum.  It’s kinda cool sometimes when she says the things that everyone is thinking but is too polite to say, but her behavior is just inexplicable sometimes. So she’s now floating out in the open ocean without paddles (and likely without her mind as well). Will she disappear? One can only hope. But probably not. She’ll come back to civilization with some new epiphany and a new set of head trips to share with everyone. Ugh. Jenny, get a therapist already.

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

The bitter with the sweet

No I haven’t been consumed by the fires, but I have been consumed by work.  Ugh. It went from being really laid back to “oh my god we have ten million things to do in a week!!!” As is the nature of the web development business, we often don’t get all the information and content we really need until it gets really close to the deadline.  The bastards take their time, change their minds a thousand times about everything, and then expect us to magically pull a working website out of our asses by their ridiculous deadline. And because this site is supposed to be ready for some convention, the deadline is tighter than my pants after Thanksgiving.

Normally we can push back and say, “Nuh uh, you gave us this crap late, so we have to adjust our timelines accordingly.” Not this time. This time, we had to work long hours AND come in on the weekend. Friday I worked 12 hours. Saturday I worked 10 hours. Sunday I worked 7 hours. Not. Fun. At all. Of course the company doesn’t mind doing that to us because we’re salary, so no overtime pay. *grumble*

On the bright side, the company’s Christmas party this year is going to be in Las Vegas, and they are paying for everyone’s room for one night at the Mandalay Bay! Woohoo!  I’ve never stayed there before, so it should be fun. I wonder if it’s as shiny on the inside as it is on the outside?

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