Day 449 of Clown Day

It started pretty early today, at precisely the moment I put on my new underwear that I bought from Walmart. Evidently, their Mediums tend to either run a bit small, or I've been consuming way too much sugary confections. Anyway, it was a tight fit and I think it was a precursor to the kind of day I would be having. Not a bad one, just one that's really off.

When I was at work, I noticed that the "new guy" who isn't really new anymore, the one who grew a mustache in order to fit in with the rest of the guys, had shaved as well. It's like, c'mon, man. You're not going to even let me be the only guy not having any facial hair, you selfish bastard? It was funny and not at the same time, of course, if he starts showing up with my haircut and glasses, then it's time for me to skedaddle.

The rest of the day I just had weird little incidents, like items not being on my sales order, weird problems here and there, stuff like that. It was slightly contagious as well, my co-workers were having a little odd day too. At one point my supervisor called me for a meeting, and when I sat with her, she decided that it would be a good to begin with a metaphor about eggs, and baking cakes for a bakery. Really, she was just trying to tell me that once items are allocated to a sales order, it isn't necessary a wise idea to remove them and reallocate them to another order, due to the priority that the latter order had needed. That was really all she had to say, but she launched into the metaphor about cakes, me being a co-owner of a bakery, wedding cakes, and I gotta say, if I didn't already knew what she was trying to tell me, i would be even more confused because the cake metaphor sucked badly. It was more cluttered than needed to be. Anyway, then she started showing me how to do certain things on a computer, most of which really I had nothing to do with. But whatever.

But the evening with the kids was rather boring. I opted to spend some time on the computer instead of playing with them, and watched some Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. You wouldn't think that a show about a superhero who's an attorney would be interesting, but it sorta is.

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I took my first steps toward ownership of a PSP today, I saw a rather good deal on a 4 gig memory card, so I bought it. It felt naughty.

Guess I'm just getting the core model instead of the Daxter model.

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I've been admiring the Slingbox lately, even though I'll probably never get it because I'm never away from home long enough to warrant one. Basically, it's a unit you hook up to your cable or DVR, and it'll let you control your TV through the internet and stream programming wirelessly through the internet to your computer, allowing you to watch TV. It's handy for those who travel a lot, but for a guy like me, it wouldn't be very useful at all. But still, it's pretty cool technology. Affordable too.

Yesterday was a Clown Day

Too lazy to post individual photos, so I'm sticking the whole flash slideshow on the page.

Anyway, we weren't going to go out yesterday, but since the weather was so nice and the sun was beckoning us to go out and get its warm goodness, we went to Chinatown to catch their celebration. Last year we went to the same thing, and it was overcrowded, with no place to sit, and we didn't have fun at all. So we decided to head out earlier this year, went down there about 40 minutes before it started, only to be turned away because they said they're not letting anyone in till noon.

We trolled around until then, and then got some nice photos outside of the lion dance. But even though we stood in line to get in, after the crowds gathered for the lion dance, the line was just absolute garbage. By the time we went it, all the seats, which weren't many, were already taken. So we did the same annoying thing we did last year, which was to set the kids on top of our shoulders, to watch the performances. And like last year, because Alex is like 40 pounds, I got tired really quickly, so down he went. And we didn't last past ten minutes. I got irritated because the venue did not ensure that there were enough seats to accomodate the crowds, and it's not like it's a surprise. Seriously if they moved the vendors out of there they could have more seating. It's a stupid, stupid setup.

So we wandered around Chinatown, but everything was just crowded and too boisterous. At one point I was crossing the road, and some idiot decided to go in reverse, always hitting Alex and me. You couldn't get a seat anywhere to eat. We killed some time, and then tried the train station again, but again, no seating, and left again. We headed toward home, but went to Marymoor park so that the kids can get some playground time.

After that, we headed home while the kids were watching a movie, I laid in bed with my iBook waiting for photos to download, and I fell asleep for like 3 hours. Needless to say, I woke up very confused, and hungry for human flesh. After devouring one of the neighbors, I decided that hey, I'm just screwed for the day. So I proceeded to not do any work for the rest of the day, perhaps the best decision I made all day.

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Not very often do I find the need to talk about celebrities' hair, but Britney Spears just made everyone's jaw drop yesterday morning by shaving her head. And then watching the video footage of some eyewitness made me sad, because the people in the crowd were acting like high school hecklers. They were saying the usual, "oh my god" and other expressions of disbelief, but when she came out to go to her car, people were saying things like, "How do you like your haircut" and just mean things. I feel a little sorry for her, and I don't know why she decided to shave it all off. But I did that once too, in college. Just was tired of it all. I was sick of trying to look a certain way, and I didn't want to deal with my hair, so I just shaved it all off. It was kind of a spiritual cleansing in a way, a screw you to what I thought people were thinking of me. It's a rebellious middle finger to trying to maintain an image, and I'm sure she wasn't just doing it because she was being wacky.

Would I shave my head again? No. Did I regret doing it? Not really. After that I pretty much didn't obsess as much as to how I looked like. I still do, but not as much.