The kind of day Im having - AYFKM?!?!?

Im having one of those days where I just cant get myself together. Let me give you the rundown...

(background music - Rainy Days and Mondays - Karen Carpenter)

Missed a meeting this morning that I was supposed to cancel last Friday because a key person couldn't make it until next week. Forgot to cancel - missed meeting altogether - look like giant Jackass.

Reschedule meeting for next week. Most of the participants are West Coast.

Move on - ooo...better hurry - next con call in 15. Call the other participant. An hour early. Still not putting 2 and 2 together.

Checking email - response from earlier meeting invite - DECLINED with an annoyed response about me scheduling meetings for 7am on the West Coast.

FINALLY occurs to me that my laptop is @#$#@$ing not updated from the time change. AYFKM?!?! I'm slow.

Fixed that - apologized - reschedule meeting AGAIN for reasonable hour.

Fix myself a beautiful lunch - BBQ on bun - pickle - Cheese Its. Go to the couch to eat late lunch and catch a little Amazing Race on DVR - oh how I love those wacky short guys...so cute!! Cant Wait!!

NO FRAKKING CABLE!!!!!!! AYFKM?!?!?!?! I forgot to switch the auto-pay to the new card I received after my puppy chewed my previous card to bits.

Paid Bill. Decided this day was such a f*&^ up that I needed to vent about it.

Don't be a butthead, Poppet. - AYFKM?!?!?

Hullooooo Poppets!!

As all of my loyal readers are aware, I have spent a number of hours playing City of Heroes as of late. I hope you can indulge me as I diverge from our normal conversations regarding Air Travel and self-promotion to talk a moment about a few short TEENSY things that are on my mind.

Best PRO-gress in CoH is made when part of a team. The best teams function when all are playing their respective roles to defeat an army of evildoers. Additionally, these evildoers who are crying out to be defeated are scattered in a maze like environment with lots of little nooks and crannies where a less efficient team can get separated.

Typically, teams have a leader. That leader, in best cases, leads. For the best interest of everyone in CoH the leader typically not only leads (quite literally - up front) but they also call a strategy when facing an gang of evildoers that would obviously chew us up and spit us out were we to just run up and start smacking them willy nilly.

Butthead #1 - THAT guy - the guy that runs in front of everyone, with his Super Speed turned on, and accidentally aggros tons of mobs we aren't ready for and haven't called a strategy on. This guy will also, upon receiving his ass-kicking (that he deserved) will cry that others weren't doing their jobs etc.

Butthead #2 - The Room Nazi - We all seem to be letting one guy go first - good. Then we lose a member, we are all turning circles looking for him. Where did he go? As soon as you open the map to start looking for him, he shows up in team chat - "We missed some over here!". This guy is super anal about the map and clearing every single bad guy - in the order you passed them and will lead the team backwards and forwards all over the place to make sure that this happens. AYFKM?!?!?!?!

Butthead #3 - The Build Guy - This guy has a level 50 character and wants to share his unsolicited opinion on your choice of build. Had one the other day tell another team member that had they slotted correctly a "healer" would never be necessary" (cough cough BULLSHIT)

Butthead #4 - The Tank "wannabe" - He is a Scrapper - and good at it - if he weren't driving everyone nuts running into fights first and aggro'ing outside of the agreed upon strategy. If you love tanking so much - why didn't you build a tank. And if you run in first and pull all the aggro to you - (without the invulnerability and other resistance powers needed to live) then what the hell is the tank supposed to do? Run around you and pretend to be a scrapper??? AYFKM?!?!?!?!?

Thank you so much for indulging me - we now return to our normal discussions of Air Travel Asshats and BuhlindaC self-promotion.

Radi00killa Sings an Ode to BuhlindaC.com

Radi00killa was inspired yesterday to sing an adhoc song about Buhlindac.com.
AYFKM?! - this moved me. Her passion more than makes up for substandard songwriting.

I Wrote a Country Song - and I sang it out loud - AYFKM?!?!

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Click above to hear me sing it - its a real treat...

Here are the lyrics to a little country song I wrote about some good ol boys I've met in the airport..I call it - "Honey - You're an Asshat."

Deeeeeewwww Yeeeeeeww
Ramble and rant and wave your arms and yell
While wandering aimlessly talking on your cell?
Do you stare into space and walk in circles at the gate?
YOOOOOOOUUUURRRE an Asshat…

HAAAAAAVE YEEEEWWWW
Knocked old ladies down just to board the plane?
Have you stalked the ticket agents and driven them insane?
Then I'll say it again make it part of my refrain…
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOURE an Asshat

THIRD VERSE - EVERYBODY - You know the words!!!!!

WOOOOOULD YEEEEWWWWW
Carry on a bag that you know is way too big?
And spend 10 extra minutes in the aisle to make it fit
Not thinking of the people behind you who CANT SIT
WEEEELLLLL YOOOOOOURE an ASSHAT

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My Mawma told me
Buhlinda,,,don’t be an Asshat
Nobody loves an Asshat..
I carry those words with me….

My Celebrity Morph - AYFKM??!!!

APPARENTLY I LOOK LIKE SALLY FIELDS!!! AYFKM???

MyHeritage: Celebrity Morph - Family tree search - Free genealogy

Fry's Electronics - AYFKM?!?!?!

Saturday - I went to Fry's Electronics to return a defective mouse that I had purchased. I had a full on "moment" upon entering the store. Please refer to the numbers in yellow above to follow the sequence of events.

1) I walk into Fry's and approach the podium and the "Incoming Bag Inspection Engineer" standing at this podium. This person's job responsibilities are very serious. They, like the soldiers posted at the borders of Baghdad - inspect all incoming parcels and approve them for entry.

1b) (yeah - my numbering is backwards)The IBIE (incoming bag inspection engineer) is currently speaking with another employee of Fry's Electronics represented on the diagram as 1a. I stand patiently and awkwardly holding my parcel awaiting clearance for entry into the store. I am relieved to note that there are NO OTHER CUSTOMERS in the customer service area - this should be fast!! The IBIE does not acknowledge me, for I am but a fleck of poo on the ass of Fry's.

1a) Random employee (represented on the diagram above as 1a) yells at me and asks "DO YOU HAVE A RETURN?!" I nod my head indicating that I do, indeed, wish to return the item contained in my parcel. My parcel is clearly marked "Fry's".

1aa) Random employee 1a then says "Go stand ovah there!" and indicates to me a large, roped off area where there are no other people. I glance at my surroundings to confirm, yet again, that there are no other customers milling about in the Customer Service area. There are not. I submit the photo below for your review, of the roped off area -completely devoid of humanity.

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I also observed that there are a number of seemingly unoccupied Customer Service personnel available to service customers. However, I follow her instructions and stand in the area indicated by the number 2 in the diagram. I feel, and I look - like a dumb-ass. Please see the photo below illustrating that point.

At this point - after lounging in the cattle call area for all of 2 seconds - I am beckoned by the Customer Service Expert indicated in the diagram by the number 3. Apparently, "doing time" in the cattle call area is a prerequisite to speaking with Mr. Customer Service even when the two are located mere feet apart.

Say it with me folks - AYFKM?!?!??!?

It is "Put the Aretha Inaugural Hat on Your Pic" Day!!

I love her hat - I thought she was rockin this look at the Inauguration.

Oh-fishal O-bama Memoranda

More interesting info on what our President has done thus far.

PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDA

January 23, 2009

• Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning

January 22, 2009

• Review of the Detention of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri

January 21, 2009

• Freedom of Information Act
• Pay Freeze
• Transparency and Open Government

Obama - doing things that make me happy.

I'm going to try and utilize some of the really great features on the whitehouse.gov website and the new blog that has been created for the new administration. Today, I found a very handy list of the OH-fishally signed Executive Orders signed by Obama thus far.

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

January 22, 2009

• Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
• Review of Detention Policy Options
• Ensuring Lawful Interrogations

January 21, 2009

• Presidential Records
• Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel

Those Crazy Fans of Mine....

Georgia and its care and feeding of my soul - AYFKM?!?!

I tend to grocery shop on Sunday. I suppose I could do it on Saturday - but I LIKE to do it on Sunday - I LIKE IT!!! I am not religious and Sunday is just another day of the weekend for me.

Each and every FRAKKING time I go to the grocery store I am again incensed and livid and other colorful angry words because I cannot buy an adult beverage. I've been here 10 years and it never fails to piss me off.

Georgia has decided (long ago I am sure) that the adults of this state should not be able to buy alcohol on Sunday. AYFKM??! They WILL however serve you alcohol in a bar or restaurant. I do not understand the logic that is behind the decision to allow people to drink publicly and possibly drive home intoxicated but precludes buying beverages to take home and drink in your own house.


The closed minded thinking behind this type of lawmaking is what drives my liberal ass to the polls. Even if the misguided goal of the law is to honor some type of Christian value - what the hell about the 7th Day Adventists and Saturdays?? If I were a 7th Day Adventist, I would be super-offended that MY sabbath isn't "GOOD ENOUGH" for a beer ban!

A not so open letter to the Government of the State of Georgia:

Dearest Saxby and pals:

AYFKM?!?!?!?!

AYFKM?! - "That day"

AYFKM?? I did some stuff prior to "that day"

"That day" is the vague day in the future when I'm going to do all the things on my list of stuff that I want to do and should do but aren't critical to my day to day survival and sanity.
A subset of those things can be viewed to the right of this column. I am proud to announce that I have done some of those things and will be removing them from that list. (items being removed are highlighted in red)

* I mailed Christmas cards to a jillion people.
*There was a family photo on those Christmas cards.
*I am compiling the Calendar of Birthdays and have purchased the cards and stamps to go with. (Facebook has been very helpful in this endeavor).
*I have used my smartphone on a number of occasions to notate the myriad of ideas that come and go regarding possible blog content.
*I explored GHWT Studio mode and determined that it is crap and am removing that entry from the list.

Random AYFKM?!?! Moment

Several years ago, my daughter and my husband and I attended a board gaming convention in Atlanta that was organized by Batty's Best something or other - a board game store that I used to love to visit.

Its been AGES ago! We had a great time that day. For those of you who have never done something so completely dorky, attending consists of showing up at the appointed hotel and jumping in and playing board games of all different kinds with all different strangers. Its a great time and it costs very little. (I think its 35 dollars for the three day pass - or cheaper than that for one day) You can also buy new games and people sell the ones they don't play much anymore in kind of a flea market type environment.

So last night, around 2am, I am surfing the world wide webispheres and looking at gaming blogs and run across the blog of Ward Batty. (http://gametable.blogspot.com) He has lots of interesting gaming info on his blog - you should visit if you are into that kind of thing. I was surprised and happy to see - a blurb and link to another event in January like the one we attended several years ago.

So I'm all fired up - WE GOTTA GO! I click on through to take a look at the info and BAM!!!! there I am with my kid in living color on the main page. We are sitting at a table at the front of the room playing a strategy game with two guys we had never met before who are very patiently teaching us how to play. I love it - AYFKM?!?!

(Click on the title of the post to jump to the atlanta game fest site for the "Wheres Buhlinda" type game action)

Buhlinda - The South Park Version

Last week, due to the overwhelming response to my world wide webbified blogtastic musings, I made a cameo appearance on an episode of South Park. Screen clip above:

My daughter has an AYFKM moment - I am so proud.

Gmail - boling. - cohcardinal@gmail.com:

"I just fowarded you a conversation I had with mr boling, the senior counselor.

He has obviously not taken care of my absences like he promised he would.
I confronted him about it via email and he mildly attacked my intelligence.

AYFKM?!?! im a genius. hes a doo doo head.

I told him you or daddy one will speak to him in the near future, but youll see that in the email.

Email him orcall him or have dad call him, I DONT CARE.
im so over this crap.

completely.
love you"