Bobsleding!

That's right kiddies. Where on your adventures have you ever had a chance to try out some no shit bobsleding? For months now I've been wondering how it is the Latvian people don't go absolutly crazy during the winter. Surly I've been working it myself, but what do they do? So when my boss suggested that we all go bobsleding, we all thought it would be a pretty sweet time. Due to how flat most of Latvie is, I'm thinking a rickity four man cart down a huge pile of ice pushed together outside the local supermarket. Turns out that the Latvian Olympic Bobsled Team is in hot contention every four years for first place. Not too far from Riga is where they train. It costs 35 Lats for one run, about 70 dollars, and only lasts 47 seconds. Luckily, I didn't pay for it. It was -11 degrees C and we were barreling down this hill at 70mph incurring up to 4G's on the corners! Total blast. I'm really not built for this winter stuff. Especially when it's this freaking cold, but I think I'm giong to hit there little snowboard slopes before everything melts.

mp3 player

My ipod died. For real this time. No bringing it back to life like the time I spilled beer all over it. Though it did work surprisingly well for having enough good German beer to knock me over, hence it's drinking habit (of the ipod, stay with me). So into the wild blue yonder (internet) I rocketed myself like that bratty little bitch on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory after her golden goose looking for a new mp3 player. But which one? There are so many to choose from. Arguably, Apple's ipod and Microsoft's Zune are dominating the market. They both have their ups and their downs, so which one? The ipod is sleak, sexy, and (lets face it) you just aren't cool if you dont have one. But the Zune has much more features like: easier navigation, better catorgization, a FM radio tuner, syncs wirelessly with your computer, and (best of all) you dont have to spend a meaty portion of your natural born life to transfer the mp3s you already have into that stupid, USELESS, itunes freaking format! Lets talk cons, iTUNES FORMAT!!! complete BULLSHIT! that's just another way for these tech companies to eat ever further away at your soul while you wait yet again for something you shouldn't need to do. Like when you spend loads of your time installing "upgrades" and "updates" to software the day you get it because Microsoft knows you're going to buy their unfinished shit anyway. Which brings me to the Zune. It's like heaven, the idea of all of these features packed into one tiny box is awesome. But their tech support is complete shit! Lets stay with the heavan analogy. That would be like taking every significant quotable reference out of the Bible. How good a chance do you think you'd have getting into heaven if you didn't have the freaking 10 Commandments? I was on the phone for 45 minutes trying to order one of these damn things and nobody could help me. WTFO? (that's "what the fuck, over" for you non geek types) Initially I was just having a problem with the web site but after being transfered to nearly every department they have I discovered that you can't order the shit you want over the phone when the website is throwing a tantrum. Being involved in the money making business for some time now, that just doesn't make sense. Shouldn't you want to make it as easy as possible to sell your stuff to people so you make more money? Silly me. I guess there comes a time in every evil super gigantic company's life when they realize that they really are omnipotent presence their leaders always dreamed of, at which time my lowly order of $259.99 + the cost of shipping doesn't fucking matter. I'm not going to lie, I still want one but fuck, why does it have to be so hard.

Strange Dreams

Ever have one of those dreams you have to pry yourself out of? Like you're watching a really bad B movie and you want to leave, you really do but you're stuck in your seat. I was at work (in the dream, not sleeping at work) and everything was all wrong. Something about the building and the lights and some other stuff. There were black bag scattered about, they looked like weapon cases. So I'm looking around, cause that's the most awesome part about my job, and I find this guy in one of the offices. He's kinda dumb looking. I don't mean to be rude but just by the looks of him you could tell he was a bit slow on the uptake. And he had these tribal tattoos on the left side of his face. Fucking weird. I asked him what he was doing in the buildign and he pulls a gun on me! So I pull mine but I pull the trigger for some reason but lucky for me, he can't get a round off anywhere near my direction. He gets all pissed off and tries to throw it at me and misses that too... I pick up his gun and try to shoot him with it but it's a revolver and it's empty. I walked back into the hallway and that was it.