Psycho At Work

For the first time, there is a crazy customer I and we have to deal with.  I had to take a call from a phone of someone who does not work Mondays, and this idiot was in orbit.

I checked her deal: We are looking for an account number from her, and it seems as if she and my co-worker have been going back-and-forth over it.  She has provided an account or two, but neither of them work, and yet, she doesn't seem to ... get it.  What makes me think she's kind of nuts is that I told her that I noticed she had been in touch with a couple of other people, and she said that she doesn't want to talk to them anymore because, according to her, she was treated rudely and would not speak to them.

She still could not give an account.  She really couldn't give a straight answer, insisting that "we have her information," even though we have been trying, several times, to get one from her.  That's when she went psychotic -- she asked for the manager, she asked for corporate headquarters, she even tsk-tsked when I asked for her number so "my manager" (who I realized won't be in for the next couple days, whoops!) could call her back.  She hung up on me, the brat.

I've dealt with rudeness before, but she is still trying to get something from us without giving us what we need.  That makes her dangerous because, in all likelihood, she's going to contact us again, and that is when we are going to have real problems.  Normally, I would defer to my manager, but like I said, he isn't going to be around.  My plan is to come in and, first thing, tell my co-worker about the call I took on her phone.  I then will suggest and ask for a plan of action, including if there's anyone we can defer to, someone who has the means to shield themselves, us, and the company from this insane person.

I'm not worried ... yet.  But if anything happens, I already let you all know here.

Ah, Men Who Aren't

So Saturday night, after working the Gopher football Game, I was hanging out with a couple dudes downtown who saw our alma mater's football Game.  They left, but I wanted to hang out a little while longer.

I was standing up scrolling through my phone.  I was the only one of this table that had three chairs; although it was busy, there were other tables around me.  One that was occupied was occupied by a lot of people.  I didn't notice that another person joined them.  He apparently wanted a chair.  He saw the one that was next to me.  And he just took it, and used it to sit down with his friends.

No, he didn't ask me.  And he should've.  Sure, I wasn't using it.  But it was obvious that it was a chair that was at a table I was at, so a quick, "Hey, you using this?" would have sufficed.  That was too much to ask of this guy, who sat his incel ass down and, I think, began scrolling through his phone.

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It was a bear to drive down the Megamall Black Friday.  The on-ramp to the first highway I hit was backed up, the drive into The Lowry Tunnel was backed up, and my God, the traffic to park at MOA was backed up for half a mile.

I finally parked.  I'm walking in, and I hear these clomping footsteps behind me.  There's this tall White dude who has this IDGAF attitude coming up behind me.  I fling the first door open for him; he keeps it open while not saying thanks.  At this point he's about to clip my heel with his toe, so I open the second door for him.  He doesn't say thanks; he just keeps striding, almost leaving what looks to be his kids in his dust.  I sarcastically give him the thumb's up; it's only comeback I can think of to let him know what I feel about his fast, intrusive walking.

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There has been a school of thought that video games cause violence.  That idea has been debunked by researched a long time ago, even though I think a lot of people still cling to the notion.  But there has been very small evidence that video games cause aggression.  There are some studies that note a correlation, especially in the short term.

I'm going to be so bold as to believe that video games do cause aggression, and not just in the short term.  I think that the advent of video games coincide with societal coarseness.  I believe that more people have become dicks since video games became popular.  I will go out on a limb that these two arrested development motherfuckers play them, and as a result have no manners and go about life thinking everything's about them, they don't have to wait their turn, and they do whatever they want, fuck everybody else.  A lot of people are like that now, in this country and around the world.  And that's also partially why Trump's in office -- well, that and Russian interference (which Trump asked for, which is illegal) and Musk and social media (also illegal).  And while aggression isn't the same as violence, the former can easily bleed into and beget the latter.  That would be a correlation, wouldn't it?

People scoff at calls to ban or limit video games from the youth until their brains are more fully developed.  Those calls have been proposed to curb violence.  I'm going to say it: Maybe video games should be limited as a way to curb aggression, and then that curb on aggression can lead to a curb in violence.  All things are connected to each other, and in a world that is going mad and is hellbent on screwing the little guy, maybe we need to think about doing that.  Then, maybe these supposedly "frustrated" boys will actually grow the fuck up.

Found My Remote Control ... Now, Where's My Shirt?

So soon after my previous blog post I found my remote.  It was on my bed, underneath my blanket, at a spot where I didn't think it would be.  Maybe if I laid in bed with my remote control in my left hand I could see how it got there, but that's it.

Now, for the past two mornings, I've woken up with my shirt off.  Since Thanksgiving I've worn my thermalware for the first time all season.  Also, I started drinking NyQuil before going to bed, and thank Buddha, that works.  It's knockout juice for me that I need right now as my nose is still runny and I'm generating so much snot that I'm having coughing fits all day.  Finally, since Thanksgiving night, I've turned on my heater in the hope that I can heat up my body so much my nose will stop running.  (That logic makes sense to me; I think that's how this running nose finally stops every winter.)  So I am quickly under because of the NyQuil, and my bedroom is a furnace, so I am guessing that my body is at that point so hot that I have to take my shirt off.

Problem is, I don't remember ever doing that.  I'm not saying I don't remember taking off my shirt the previous two days, but ever taking off my shirt under those conditions ever.  I don't know if the NyQuil is making me do things differently as I get older.  But to be honest, I am going to do the same thing again tonight and the next night and every night until I am free of my running snot.

Where's My Remote Control?

I got home tonight/Saturday night and I can't find my remote.  I know I watched college football late, and I know I didn't turn on the TV yesterday/Saturday morning, so the remote should be where I left it, right at my dresser.  But it's not there, nor is it anywhere on the bed or on the floor.

It's killing me because now I can't turn on the television.  Well, yes, I can walk up to the TV set and turn it on, but why would I want to?  I want to lay on my bed and see the TV from there.  So I've been going without TV watching ever since I came home.  And I think I'll be like that until, or unless, I find my darn remote.

Still fending off this runny nose, and now I see that snow is forecast for today's/Saturday's Gopher Game.  Don't know how much is going to fall, but at least according to my Weather Application, the bulk/worst of it is supposed to fall right during the Game.  I will be outside for good chunks of time; add falling snow and I'm going to be both wet and cold.  And add blowing my nose all day.  Great.

I want to go to a speakeasy this evening, but this damn cold and my running nose is still bothering the hell out of me, and I doubt it'll get any better as I go shopping and walking out in the cold today.  Maybe I should just punt on that, especially since I work tomorrow/Saturday.  But it's been a couple months since I've gone back there, and I want to remain somewhat familiar over there.  Plus, I don't know any other good time to go before the year is out.

I'll go out.  Maybe.

Hottest Babe In The Hooters Calendar: October 2025

It's almost the end of November and I haven't had time to research October.  But, even with a quick glance, I find this month to be quite underwhelming.  I might call it The Worst Month In Hooters Calendar History, but that wouldn't be fair because if this is not the first time I perused the month, I don't remember it.

There are only ten girls this month, and I will single out four of them.  The top two are on top based on a technicality I should revisit.  Without further ado:

In fourth place is Anna, out of Grand Prairie, Tex.  Pure blonde whose hair reaches down to her belly button, she is sporting a deep blue two-piece bikini.  Her top hides her small boobs, but I love her posing with her left wrist on top of her head while she is leaning against a wall.  Her bikini bottom is tied up with what looks like 70 feet of string, what with how it's tying up her bikini bottom.  But that hair, man, that hair ...

In third place is Anastasia, hailing from North Arlington, Tex.  She is wearing a pink/salmon one-piece that is cut out on one side, if that makes any sense.  But she has very light and wavy red hair, and I am a sucker for redheads.  Also, she has a beautiful face.

In second place is Fort Worth's Ruby.  She's wearing either a dark green or black (yeah, maybe I'm weird for not being able to distinguish between those two colors) two-piece bikini, and her wavy brown hair reaches her hips.  She's posed with her left side to the camera.  I don't see her ass, but I can see from the angle of her bikini bottom that she is showing ass while wearing that swimsuit -- not a whole lot, but technically, that's nudity, and so I am ranking her above all others (except one).  I am not seeing her ass, though, I'm mostly projecting, so I might have to rethink or make more exceptions to my "ass = #1" rule.

And that rule applies to the Hooters server in first place, The Main Girl, Chyna, out of Fort Lauderdale Beach, Fla.  The reason there are only two women this month is because her photo takes up the top half of the month.  She is lying on her front.  She is wearing a black two-piece dotted with white ... somethings or other.  She has piercing light brown eyes, though.  Also, she too looks as though she is exposing her ass from what little of her bikini bottom I can see by the way she is posed.  Moreover, I can say with confidence that she is more ass, and that is why she gets the top spot.

Like I said, I might have to revise my rule so that I need to see a Hooters woman's ass in the picture before I elevate her above everyone else.  Till then, congratulations to Chyna and to the other three women.  I ... might have the time to beat off to y'all, but if I do, it won't be any time soon.  Sorry!

Nothing Like The Thanksgiving Spirit Like A False Accusation

I've decided I need to use my heater, so today/Thursday/Thanksgiving Day, after lunch (there's turkey, but we had pizza!), I had to go into what is now Mother's bedroom to find it.  I store it there during the summer.  Well, I thought I did, but that was before my folks rearranged that room and in so doing threw away all my stuff without my goddamn permission.

Anyway, I went looking throughout that room and couldn't find it.  That finally got the attention of Mother, who asked me what I was doing.  When I told her, she asked Father, who said he'd look later (presumably after Thanksgiving dinner), and if he couldn't find it, he'll buy one for me.  Sure, pops.  And that's not what I want. But this is My Fucking Father being an asshole.

One of my parental units asked me if the heater was in my room, to which I replied if it were in my room, I wouldn't be looking in a place other than my room.  But, well, I checked my room ... and sure enough, I should have looked on the other side of my chair, right in front of my desk, and underneath this box.  That's where the heater is.  Whoops.

I had to tell them I found it.  I have to take the hit.  If they want to give me more attitude, I want to tell them that I accused them of "having it" because the source of all my shortcomings in my life is also because of them.  Still, Father probably did not take it well when I said I found it in my room when I answered he/her/them that of course it wasn't in my room.  Let's hope Thanksgiving dinner at about 4 o'clock or so is convivial, or at least not passive-aggressively hostile.

Now I think, or I am reminded, that my runny nose and aching legs is something that seems to happen the weather gets colder or snowier.  And I've been blowing my nose like the dickens all day at work yesterday/Friday.  I thought I had it under control when I went to bed.  This sounds weird, but I could tell the moment, the exact moment, when my sinuses, which was running like a burst dam, completely shut.  I could tell because I don't think I slept at all last night.

Alas, my sinuses got to running again once I got out into the cold, and my nose kept running while I was working.  It's gotten worse since I got home.

Heat, intense heat, has always seemed to shut off my sinuses and snot-running.  I need to do that, but I need to finagle the space heater from Mother's new bedroom, and then, maybe my parents won't like me using so much energy to run the space heater until my room feels like a sauna.  But I work outside at the Gopher football Game Saturday, and I want to shop tomorrow/Friday, and I need to be as healthy as possible, and to do that, I need to warm my body up.

I am cocooning for the next day and a half, and I appreciate doing so instead of being out and about, but I still feel quite crummy, and I can't afford to remain this sick.

The Weekly Minnesota Sports Survey

Before I begin, I need to note that I should be spending more time on this WMNSS that I will be -- not only because there are eleven teams I need to cover, but this past Week may have been The Worst Week In Minnesota Sports Ever.  (I know I say that a lot, but this time, I mean it.  And I'll mean that the next time I say it, too.)  But I need to wake up early to go to work, and I will go to work in the first snowstorm of the year, and there is no driver in the world worse than a Minnesota driver upon the first snowstorm of the year.  So I am going to cut all these teams short shrift, then go to bed:

#-1: Wild (Last Week: -4).  Thank Buddha for the Wild.  They went 3-0 this screening Week, defeating The Bastard Hartford Whalers at home (albeit via a Shootout, hence why this club's still in negative numbers), then went on the road and notched back-to-back Shutouts in Pittsburgh and Winnipeg.  Jesper Wallstedt, drafted as a Goalie wunderkind who was awful last season, has been backstopping their success (literally and figuratively), which has shaken off their bad start and now have them in a playoff birth.  And they've won five in a row, too.

They play in Chicago tonight/Wednesday night, then come home to play their annual Black Friday afternoon Game vs. The Bastard Quebec Nordiques and then Buffalo the following evening.  They then visit Edmonton Tuesday.

#-2: Gopher volleyball (Last Week: -1).  Swept at Maryland and Rutgers.  Well, at least they didn't get bit by the upset bug like a few of their fellow teams (see below).  Bracketologists think the U.'s slipping to a 5-Seed, which means they will not be able to host the first two Rounds of the NCAA Tournament.  Man, what happened to this squad?

This is a way to finish the regular season: At home, but versus eleventh-ranked Purdue tonight/Wednesday night/Thanksgiving Eve, then vs. tenth-ranked Wisconsin late Black Friday night.

#-3: Gopher men's hockey (Last Week: -10).  Split at home against fifth-ranked Penn St.  These motherfuckers lost to Long Island at home!!!  Only one Game this screening Week -- at fourth-ranked Denver Saturday night.

#-4: Gopher women's basketball (Last Week: -3).  Still not convinced.  Yes, they beat South Florida by a dozen Monday afternoon in the Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championship.  But in the true test of their non-conference schedule, they faltered late and were beaten at Kansas, in a true road Game, by six.  I don't think these Jayhawks are a wagon, so if the U. was going to take the next step, they should've beaten them.  But they didn't.

They play Alabama this/Wednesday afternoon in the championship Game, I think, of this tournament in the Bahamas.  They then host Samford Monday.

#-5: Timberwolves (Last Week: -6).  I'm starting to hate this team, and I don't think I'm the only one.  They started off beating lowly Washington at home, but then have gone on the road and blown leads and lost in tilts to Phoenix and Sacramento.  Apparently, they also were talking shit before both choke jobs, too.  A team that has fallen short in The Western Conference Finals in back-to-back Years but is now underachieving shouldn't be doing that.  And the Loss to The Bastard Rochester Royals represents the first defeat the Woofie Dogs have had to a squad with a losing record.  They were unbeaten against them up to Monday ... and they were, and are, winless vs. teams with winning records.  Basically they are exactly who you think the Woofs are ... until Monday.

They're at The Bastard Seattle SuperSonics tonight/Wednesday night, host Boston late Saturday afternoon (?!) and San Antonio the next evening, then are at New Orleans Tuesday.

#-6: Gopher men's basketball (Last Week: -7).  Lost by a dozen to San Francisco in Sioux Falls, S. D.  Like I always say, I give a mulligan to a Head Coach's first season.  That's why this club's the best of the winless teams this Week.

For Thanksgiving, they are in Palm Desert, Calif., for the 2025 Acrisure Series.  They play Stanford Thanksgiving night, then either Saint Louis or Santa Clara the next night.

#-7: Gopher football (Last Week: -8).  It feels as though (I don't have time to research if this is really true) that P. J. Fleck's Goofers are good for one howler, losing to a team they should beat.  That happened Saturday, when, in Wrigley Field, they blew a 28-13 lead and allowed Northwestern to score 22 Points straight to take the lead.  The U. needed to score just to get into Overtime, and then Jack Olsen had a Field Goal to send the contest to a second OT ... but he hooked it left.

Fleck isn't getting the U. over the hump.  But really, who are you going to get who's better?

They finish the season hosting Wisconsin, a team that looked like they'd be a pushover, but have won two-of-three.  The battle for Paul Bunyan's Axe will be a contested one.

#-8: Vikings (Last Week: -9).  Green Bay is not that good of a team.  But the Vikes lost anyway, and the six Points they couldn't help but muster is squarely on the shoulders of J. J. McCarthy.  I was busy mulching leaves in my yards, but people who deigned to watch the Game were alarmed at how far "Nine" has regressed, and that's fucking scary.  I will say that the Offensive Line is failing again; McCarthy was sacked five times, and one of his two Interceptions came from a deflected ball by an oncoming rusher.  But yes, J-Mac is becoming a big issue.  And it wouldn't've been an issue if the Vikings didn't say they could fly this plane as they built it.

And McCarthy is now in concussion protocol.  It seems fishy, but apparently there is video evidence of a hit.  That means that Max Brosmer, the backup QB/The Most Like Player On The Team, will probably start when they visit Seattle and their top-rated Defense.  The season was virtually over after losing at home to Chicago (who leads the Division!!), but now it's really over.

#-9: Gopher wrestling (Last Week: -5).  This is unacceptable.  Sure, South Dakota St. is ranked, but they're ranked 18th, the Gopher grapplers are ranked seventh ... and, well, they're South Dakota St.  But the Jackrabbits upset them last/Tuesday night -- and at home, too.  Of SDSU's six Dual victories, five of them were upsets of a lower-ranked or unranked Jack beating a higher-ranked or ranked Goof.  The most embarrassing upset came at 125 Pounds, where fourth-ranked Jore Volk lost to South Dakota St.'s Brady Roark, ranked 21st, 6-4.  It was the first Dual of the night; little did the Maturi Pavilion crowd know then what they were in for.  Glad I wasn't fuckin' there.

They're taking a Week off, and shit, they fucking need it.

#-10: Gopher women's hockey (Last Week: -2).  ... I think that pales in comparison to the Gopher lady icers -- the second-ranked lady icers -- getting fucking swept by, of all goddamn teams, Minnesota State-Mankato.  No offense to the Mavericks, but ... they're fucking Minnesota State-Mankato.  And not only did they lose both contests of a home-and-home, but they got beat handily: 3-1 here, 4-1 there.  I thought that was the first goddamn time these Goofers capitulated to an inferior program, but apparently the Mavs did this to the U. back in 2006.  OK, so it's not unprecedented, but it's still pretty fuckin' shameful.  What a joke.

Home-and-home with St. Thomas in two Weeks.  Hey, maybe the Tommies can sweep these underachievers, too!

#-Infinity: United FC (Re-Entry!).  Of course they can't beat an expansion side, falling at San Diego FC Monday, 1-0.  Season's over.  Many fans believe that the in-season selling of Tani Oluwaseyi is the main reason they couldn't progress past the last eight.  I say they couldn't win because they're a Minnesota sports team.

I have nothing else to say about this, so I want to say a quick word about recent word that Major League Soccer will change its calendar so that they start seasons in mid-July and finish around Memorial Weekend.  I hate it.  I'll expound on the big-world implications some other time (maybe), but now I want to say that the early part of the season now falls in the fall, when I am busy with game-watching organizing and working Vikings Games.  MLS' current schedule, where they start around February and finish in early December, works much better -- for the league, I believe, but especially for me.  And now, because I don't think I can regularly get to see all Loons home Games, I might have to give up my season ticket.  And I fucking hate that.