I suppose most readers of this here blog have used T9 predictive text messaging on their phones. One thing that happens from time to time is we all send a message with something like That sounds book, when we really meant to say That sounds cool. Well, some of my friends and I decided it’s more fun to just leave it on that first word that T9 picks and send the message anyway. A couple examples we discovered: Move it or lose it becomes Note it or lord it. Dont (no apostrophe for this one) be scared becomes Foot be sacred. The possibilities are endless! And if you type woohoo, it becomes zonino. Oh, one more that baffles me. Sometimes I reply to questions with a simple yep. When I’m cycling through the possible choices, wdp shows up just before yep, weird.
Here’s a quick tip to make life more enjoyable. I learned the trick from my friend Craig. When you’re about to eat, put your glasses (the drinking kind, not the seeing kind) in the freezer while you’re getting the food ready. By the time you’re ready to eat, you can pour the drink into a nice chilled glass. It just makes it a little more enjoyable. I’m totally hooked on it now, good stuff.
Today has been great! The NBA Playoffs started, they’ve been great so far. There was an Indy race earlier. Even though it is the lesser of the 2 post-CART era leagues, it was enjoyable. And tonight, UFC 70 is on Spike TV free of charge because it’s outside of the US! The weather outside has been perfect all day but I’ve been inside watching TV. Just thought I’d throw a post up here for all that, not too sure why. Maybe because I’ve been stuck inside most of the day (I did buy some milk and stuff) and felt like reaching out to the world.
I’m a fidgeter. When I have something in hand, I constantly toss it around, flipping it, catching it, juggling it, and whatever else I can do with it. I guess I’m just easy to entertain. At my current job as a couch pusher at a furniture store, I’m usually walking from one place to another with something in my hand. That thing could be a utility knife, a bottle of water, a hammer, a cardboard box, or any vast array of things.
A way to make the fidgiting more fun is to try and hit a target or get something to land on a target. Of course, tossing things into garbage cans (I’d like to transition into calling them rubbish bins one day) is always a fun one. Spitting gum is one of my finely tuned talents. Probably my most shining moment at my job was something that happened in the warehouse one day. I was standing in a spot that was about 25 feet (yeah, we measured it after the amazing feat) from a small, office desk size garbage can and about 15 feet from a bigger trash can. I hollered at a co-worker and asked him where I should spit my gum, so he said to go for the small one, which was out of my site, but I knew where it was by his desk. I accepted the challenge, rolled the gum into a nice ball, placed it on my tongue, inhaled, and launched that sucker. It was quiet, then I heard a slight ripple of the plastic bag that was in the can. Nothing but net! That started a pretty good streak of gum spitting.
Anyway, my point is that life is more fun if you try stuff like that from time to time. Right now at my work, I think there is one quarter, three water bottles, and four rubber bands in the rafters of the warehouse that will probably be there for many years after I leave. It’s funny, I don’t worry about getting caught doing those things because if someone is watching when one of them successfully lands on the target, they’re stunned and impressed. The rate of success is probably about 1%, but it’s totally worth it when it finally works out. I figure if I ever work in a cubicle jungle (won’t happen) my neighbors will have to get used to things flying over their heads or into their cubicles.
Finally, here’s a video made by some guys who seem to think exactly like me: