"This is the kingdom of my heart, No longer bright, it's cold and dark..."

Name that band.  Actually, sorry to admit, but I didn't know it when I heard it coming home from work today (I was the one coming home, not the song.  confusing, tricky, conniving deixis!)  But I looked it up and now I know.  Isn't it great how Google is always there when we need it?  I love Google.  If it were female, and also human, I would marry Google.  She'd be the smartest girl I will ever have met (or maybe a close second).  And she would be so aesthetically stimulating and pleasing.

 

I've decided that today's email is going to be more personalized than the rest.  I think I'll still put in historical events simply for memory's sake, but I will limit it only to the people that everyone else will think is cool.  Most of you probably don't get as excited as I do about the people I talk about.  Meh.

 

Anyway... My family is gone, and I have no idea where they ran off to.  I know my youngest brother is camping, so he's exempt from my wonderment.  But the rest of them are gone.  Hmmm.... It could be that they are in Emmett picking cherries?  It could be that my brother is finally taking his driving test?  It could be that they were kidnapped, and then also all the cars were taken?  It could be that they decided to go out for a really nice dinner, just my parents and Andy... those jerks...!  I'll assume that's what it is, so that I can have an illogical reason to be upset, and then when I bad-mood them, they'll wonder what's going on, and I'll claim that it's their fault.  Hmm, sounds like a bad plan now that I've put it in writing.  I'll come up with another.

 

Oh and just for kicks, here are some songs that I highly recommend:
"Mad World" by Gary Jules
"Hello, McFly" by Relient K
"Every New Day" by Five Iron Frenzy (actually, I recommend almost everything by Five Iron Frenzy.  I got their "Proof That The Youth Are Revolting" album and I like every song on it!)
"Peace Train" by Cat Stevens
"Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum (he's the "1" in "1 hit wonder")

And here is the word I made up just now:  curlylicious.  It means "tasty because they're curly fries!"
So for yesterday's holiday, I said it was National Pink Day and Let It Go Day, and something else that I forgot.  Well, now I have remembered, and it was Pizzazz Day as well, but I didn't celebrate.  I'm lacking in the pizzazz department.  I'm feeling rather drained now.

 

And here is a list of things I thought about while I was at work today:
-Brominated Vegetable Oil (I saw it on my can of orange soda and I got to wondering.  I'm glad that part of me hasn't died yet.  I keep losing bits of my personality, and I like wondering about things.  It keeps me alive)  What exactly is "brominated"?  I looked it up as soon as I got home.  And it has something to do with adding Bromine by some special process.  Is Bromine healthy?  Do I need a certain amount each day?  If I get too much, will it hurt me?  How much is too much?
-Why are there soooooo many different kinds of deodorant?!?  ditto shampoo?!?  And why don't the makers of shampoo make them so that the bottle stands up nicely in a box.  They're all wavy shapes with small bottoms and they topple over.  again and again...
-"This woman [working next to me] is the most obnoxious woman I have ever met."  Yes that is a direct quote from my mind.  She was, I think, the most immature middle aged woman in the whole warehouse.  Everyone I saw her interact with seemed thoroughly annoyed with her, and I don't think she knows that she drives everyone up the wall.  And in a warehouse, we have some pretty dang tall walls.  She reminded me of a 6th grader.
-I have never sat and "watched the ships roll in".  I thought that as I sat outside during my lunch break and watched the freight trucks "roll in".  And watching ships is kind of a common childhood memory for all those famous authors and playwrights and scientists, and pretty much everyone but me.  I have never sat on a dock and looked at the ocean.  I looked around the grounds of the warehouse and all I saw was dirt and pavement, and then the four trees they had planted on a small bit of grass so that the place would not look so dreary and forbidding.  What a sad childhood I have led, with no ocean, but dirt.  Dirt, as far as the eye can see...

-Why do the vending machine people always put the different flavors of Hostess© fruit pies on the same row?  A lady commented that I should have bought the apple pie so that she could get to the cherry one.  They don't put the Peanut M&M's behind the regular M&M's do they?  Whats the difference, really?  They are two different products, just like any other kind of candy.  Peanut Butter Twix and regular Twix are sold on different rows.  They are simply two slightly different variations of the same name.  Not the same item, not the same row.  But fruit pies get shafted.  And who knows how much business Hostess has lost because of that apple pie in the front?  If they had a separate cherry row, they would have made a sale, maybe two, maybe a hundred...

 

Ok, so my brother was looking at a website featuring Intel products and he was looking at a motherboard called D865 Perl.  And the topic of our conversation transitioned to the term "mother of pearl" and I asked who Peal's mother was, and he promptly responded, "D875PBZ".  That shut me up.

 

I found out who my brother's love interest is.  He kept talking about Adelle.  Although it could have been "a Dell".  But recently I think he fancies Pearl more (or maybe its "Perl", short for D865...)  I just hope he's not going after older women...  He spends all day writing out price sheets trying to find the best prices on all the different components of a high quality computing system (I learned from Stephen the Canadian's computer science textbook, written by nerds for nerds, that the "computer" is just the CPU.  The "computing system" is what most people commonly call a "computer".  A computing system includes all the memory and hardware and monitors and things.)

 

Well, I've decided not to include any historical stuff today, but you can always look it up if you'd like.  Google is good for things like that.  Or you can wait until tomorrow when I may or may not have the time to write a good, long, email.  And as always, you can read all previous Daily Emails at my webspace.  Well, thats all for today.  Most of you won't even get this until tomorrow (well, when you read it, it will be today, and today will be yesterday... i dunno)  Peace out, all!
Brian "the coolest guy ever" Harris

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