--Last night I received the following note in the Surf Report
email box:
Good day. Am Mr,KevinBossmanand i email to know if u do carry(Drywall Panel Lift)instock
for sale and i will like to know the types, sizes and prices arrange
on that so that i can know the quantity to order and also i will
like to know if you do accept credit card as the form of payment so
that we can proceed with this order. Hope to hear from u soon.
Best Regard:
Kevin Bossman (Owner)
Mr, Kevin Bossman… that
kills me.And (Drywall Panel
Lift):what in the highwater
hell??Why me, and why the
parentheses?The whole thing
is excellent, and makes me happy to be alive.
I think we need to start a gallery of baffling spam mail.Got anything to contribute?I’m
looking for confusing absurdity, not ads from the burgeoning
wiener-lengthening industry, or obvious stuff like that.
Help me out, won’t ya?
--And speaking of baffling
email, a Surf Reporter who identifies him/herself as simply
“Mubs” (TF?) sent me a NSFW picture during the night.I don’t usually post this sort of thing, but it caused me
to bust out laughing… so here you go.
--I received the final
severance check from my former employer last week.I was worried it might depress me, or send me spiraling in
some way.But I didn’t feel
anything.
So I guess that seventeen year chapter of my life is officially
over, huh?And I guess I
accepted it somewhere along the line?Not sure where, but somewhere... Interesting.Who could’ve predicted such a thing?
I was certain it would burn in my gut for the rest of my life, an
eternal flame of high-bitterness.You
know, like after Wendy’s stopped serving breakfast...
--Over the weekend I’m
planning to install, and begin monkeying around with, Wordpress.I have some plans and ideas (always with the plans and
ideas…), and want to get myself up to speed on the program.Supposedly it’s simple, but I’ve heard that one before…
Someday, way off in the murky future, I’d like to move The Surf
Report over to a Wordpress self-hosted site.But, of course, we’re not anywhere near that happening yet.I want to try some other stuff first, and get all the
screaming, cursing, running my hands through my hair, and
haymaker-throwing out of the way, before I take on such an enormous
project.
Any advice for me on this one?Am
I going to have trouble with it?I’m
talking about the self-hosted flavor of Wordpress, with FTP and
MySQL and all that mysterious stuff.Should I start soaking my sphincter now?
--A guy at work told me an
interesting story last night... He said his wife works at a large
well-known department store (ahem).Over
the holidays one of the other employees rang up a customer, and
noticed a certain mp3 player was scanning at $9.99, instead of
$99.99.
She corrected the transaction, but after telling her co-workers
about it, they decided to buy up the store’s entire stock of these
things at $9.99 – minus employee discount(!) – and sell them at
eBay.
This was justified in their minds, because they didn’t get a
Christmas bonus.Heh.Call me paranoid, but I don’t see this one working out in
their favor…In fact, I’m
surprised they’re not already in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass
prison.
But what do you think?Do you
believe they’ll get away with their little scheme?And do you have any similar stories to tell?How’d it work out?
--And I know this one’s
brief, but I need to go to work.I’m
still not fully accustomed to this second-shift crapola…
I’ll leave you now with another simple Question of the Day.What’s something you secretly (or not so secretly) enjoy,
that most other folks find disgusting?
This one’s easy for me:skunk.I love the smell of a freshly-squeezed skunk sac, while
driving.Just last night I
passed through a cloud, and began breathing deeply, enjoying the
bouquet.
What about you?Tell us about
it, won’t you?It can be a
food, or a combination of foods.Or
a smell, or even a sight.Use
the comments link to bare your soul.
