Annette and Kenzie are returning from Florida tonite. In fact I have to go pick them up at the airport at 9:30. Right now it's 7:30, got a couple of hours. I just ordered a Papa Johns pizza which is called a White Pizza. It looks interesting, has garlic and ricotta cheese on it. Yum. There use to be a similar pizza called the Bianca pizza at Uno's Pizza that was awesome. But they stopped making it about 10 years ago. It was so good that I never forgot it. So I have high expectations for this slice of heaven..
I took Thursday and Friday off and worked on the house and my condo. Removed the popcorn from the hallway and bathroom ceilings at home. Popc orn ceilings -- the shortcut of home buliders and the bane of home owners. It's a bitch to take down. Requires a hand sander overhead. Wore me out. Full of dust and sweat. Not a pretty sight. Had to go back and mud over the whole ceiling, sand again and then paint. I started laying the Pergo flooring at my condo. Looks real nice. Got about 75% of it done and ran into a topographic problem. I'm in the hallway and on the last row. Problem is that in order to "snap" the boards together you're required to angle the board into the adjoining board. But the last row needs to sit under a couple of door frames. So I can't angle the boards. Need to figure out how to pull this off without bending space. Any topographic math wizards out there? Anyway the floor looks kick ass so far. Talked to the guy who lives below me and he's pissed off because he can't sell his condo since the market is tanking and the association won't allow us to rent the units. He's going to pursue getting a renter and calling him his brother since that's the loophole (can rent to family members). Not sure how risky that kind of move is. He also said he's going to look into trying to force a vote to repeal that rule. From what I hear that association is made up of a bunch dickhead nazis. Good luck.
Ok Papa Johns, 30 minutes and no pizza man yet! I've been watching a comedy called It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Very much like Seinfeld. A group of young people who are self-centered that own a run down bar. It's not as well written as Seinfeld but still funny. I think it's running on FX, not sure. I found the first 3 seasons on the internet sites. Almost through season 2. I finished watching the first season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. It's a British show starring Billy Piper (Doctor Who's companion who was named Rose). It was entertaining, soft core porn, interesting storylines. I guess it's edgy material but I can see it running out of drama quick. I've been watching a Nova special called the Ghost Particle (aka the Neutrino). I thought I knew most of the lay science on the neutrino. Guess again. Interesting particle. I would say it's a misbehaving particle if anything. Doesn't really fit right with the standard model of quantum particles. Oddball, sticks out like a sore thumb. Which makes me think scientists still aren't close to understanding the basis of matter. Did I hear somebody say string theory? I listened to a good audio book called Feynman's Rainbow. One thing I got from it was the idea of string particles came from the result of and experiment performed in the late 60's involving crystal matrices. When they would fire a neutron into a lattice (by the way this is way overgeneralizing) the resulting energy distribution of the scattered particles did not look like the collisions were with point particles but with a particle that resembled a string. So there is some physical basis behind string theory after all. Did not know that. By the way, the book was good. Richard Feynman is one of my heroes and the biographer who personally knew him in his final days didn't pull any punches. Feynman was a gruff codger that didn't like to dick around. He had such a childlike amazement of nature that he had to the end. I enjoyed one particular exchange the author had with Feynman. When he was trying to decide if he should puruse string theory he inquired with Feynman on his thoughts. Feynman jumped on his case telling him look don't ask me what I think, ask yourself does this particular theory fascinate you? Don't come into my office and bug me about your hand wringing, if you want to talk string theory tell me why you think it's the best theory out there and that I don't really understand it. A nice life lesson, don't spend your time on something unless you have a passion for it. Not all of us are lucky enough to have that choice but if you do, then make it happen.
The pizza finally came. Eh it's ok. Not enough garlic flavor. I want it to taste more like garlic bread. Little too cheesy. Literally. I washed my car today in addition to cleaning the house top to bottom. We have a new neighbor, a couple about our age. Anyway the lady likes to sun bathe a lot and runs around in a bikini. From a distance it's an attractive site. I wore my glasses while washing the car :) I've talked to them once when they first moved in. Nice people. I'm so anti-social that I never get to know them any better. But I do enjoy the view so to speak...haha. I'm a perv, I admit it. You know I'm so glad Hillary Clinton won't be running for president. It's not that I don't want a woman to run it's just that I personally think she's a power hungry bitch. Ever work with women like that? I always try to give them the benefit of the doubt but damn why do they always have to come off as total bitches? Am I a misogynist? Did I even spell that right? Seems like every job I've had there's one woman in charge that I just end up avoiding like the plague. I know women have to work extra hard to make it in a previously all male management world but dang, be a little nicer.
The dog is eyeing my pizza from the couch. He's got his head laying between two of the pillows. Looks cute as hell. I put him in the shower with me tonite. Figured he needed a shampoo. Smell good when his mom and sister gets home. He's so funny after I dry him off and let him go. He runs through the house like a crazed animal, top speed, knocks the cat over, leaps over the couch, does cuts and wiggles like a canine running back. Should video it sometime. Most dogs just shake like hell and give you that "I hate you" look. Not him, he gets all jazzed up for some reason.
Gregg got me some geek toys for my birthday. One of them is this little red button on a box. Flip the cover and press the red button and it starting beeping, getting faster and faster until you hear an explosion. I love it. It's like popping bubble wrap. Just a nice release when you're stressed. He also got me titanium spork. That's gonna be hilarious to use when we all sit down for dinner and I pull that out. Oh and he got me a usb thumb drive that has a dog figure attached to it. When you plug it in, the dog starts humping the drive....haha. I put it in Annette's laptop. Wait until Kenzie or Annette sees it. Ha!
Well it's almost time to get going to pick up the family. It was a fun week without them around but I really do miss them. I hope Annette enjoys her time alone when Kenzie and I go to Chicago in July. I'm not sure when the last time she had alone time like that. Absence makes the heart grow founder. I need a spell checker by the way. Chris can you get one of those for this blog??