Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Rettich's LiveJournal:

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Saturday, July 18th, 2009
1:01 am	Just got back from seeing Harry Potter. True, I've never read the books, but I really guess I missed the point where the series became all about beer and sloppy hot makeouts. [ Share the love! ]
Saturday, July 11th, 2009
1:49 pm	Ballad of the comfortable pants They're black as the night but not so cold Just broken in but not too old Comfy Pants Comfy Pants Thirty long and thirty wide Gonna be a good day with my legs inside Comfy Pants Comfy PAAAAAAANTS Need a little boost on a so-so day? With your gams in these slacks it'll be okay Tight enough you don't need a belt The best damn britches your junk's ever felt. Comfy PAAAAAAAANTS COMFY PAAAAAAAANTS! [ Share the love! ]
Friday, July 10th, 2009
2:10 pm	Bleh need something to doooooooooooo. 2 ego boosts [ Share the love! ]
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
10:38 pm	Yo look at that chump, see the way that he struts? Don't kick him in the rump go nuts on his nuts. Just pop a squat, start letting off the shots like "knock knock knock" just cold cock his cock. To all the cock knockers, nut crackers, ball breakers, peter beaters, keep on boxing your baby makers. With a sock to the jock, better make that a double. Just a couple of rounds of knuckles beneath the buckle and he'll buckle. If you're in trouble, give him some urine trouble Hand him his balls and tell him better learn to juggle. Turn his pebbles into rubble. Make him wonder what might've been. Make it so the South will never rise again. Now every man claims to be the toughest and the meanest Watch your crocks, because soon the losers will be the weiners. And the winners in all the gladiator arenas Are always the ones that go straight for the penis. Current Music: Punch 'em in the Dick - Juicy Karkass [ Share the love! ]
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
11:24 am	Just finished "Last Chance To See," the book Douglas Adams wrote about conservation. It was pretty good, and it got me to dig up one of my old favorite videos, a speech Adams gave not too long before his death where he summarizes the book and several of the stories from it. Not a lot of Hitchhiker's stuff (though a little bit) and a few desperately nerdy people at the end. [ Share the love! ]
10:01 am	I had a staring contest with a raccoon last night. The possible mauling was so worth it for delicious fresh basil from the garden. I rounded the corner of the house and saw a big puffy tail and my first thought was "oh goddamn the cat got out" but as soon as I actually got a full view it was a pretty hefty raccoon. There's critters all over our area, and I'm pretty pleasantly surprised it wasn't a skunk, especially since zach's dog blondie got juiced a while ago and we see skunks constantly. The raccoon stared me down for a while moving gradually away. It didn't act aggressive or anything, it just wanted to assert itself before running for its life. Oh god yes basil, you make EVERYTHING better. I'd put you on cereal if I could. [ Share the love! ]
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
1:21 pm	No matter how little I have to say, I can always manage to forget half of it. My hand is pretty much back to normal, though it still hurts a little bit if I stretch it crazily or anything. Now I just need to not hurt it like that again. Also, now nobody can say I haven't said "hey, take it easy" to Richard Dreyfuss. He was leaving my work when I was up front directing people at the door. I don't really have anything actually interesting to say about it, I tell at least 50 people to have a good day every day. Also, this meme thing. Leave me a comment and I will give you a letter. Then, go to your journal and post ten things you love starting with that letter. Give your friends letters, too. I has a P. 1. Pancakes. At least when they're still warm. 2. Peanut Butter. Oh hell yeah this stuff is like love in a jar. 3. Pandas. Red pandas are actually my favorite, but the regular kind are cool too. Anything that requires that amount of intervention to get laid makes me feel better about myself. 4. Pie. Yeah, I know Bacon is the new Pie is the new Pirates are the new Ninjas. Can't a guy like a flaky deliciousness without being stereotypically internet-nerdy? 5. Problem Sleuth. Such an amazing e-venture. 6. Pretty girls. HURRRRRR. 7. Pictures For Sad Children. 8. Passion. Everything needs more of it. 9. Platypuses. Those things kick ass. 10. Pasta. Yeah, it's a lame #10 but I'm hungry. Current Music: Motörhead - Killed by Death | Powered by Last.fm [ Share the love! ]
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
9:21 pm	what's update! So, here's some general stuff, since I'm not feeling like writing a bunch and making a thing about it. I hurt my hand today at work at around 9am. It seemed pretty innocuous at the time but it refuses to stop hurting. I had my hand casually hooked into my pants pocket and walked pretty hard into the pointy pointy corner of a big wood table. The point hit RIGHT on the bones in the back of the hand, and my hand has been hurting ever since. I was briefly worried I could have actually broken something, but I'm pretty sure a broken hand hurts a lot more than this does, and the only reason it's still lingering is probably that I use my hands all day. The worst part was that it was my left hand, so I can't really take it too easy on it, since I need it to do anything that needs doing with any level of dexterity or grace, including writing, grasping, lifting, typing, etc. Speaking of work, things have been pretty okay generally for the last little while, though some other things have been less okay. I'm really good at some aspects of my job and not so good at others, and it's looking like the things I'm not good at are much more quantifiable than the things I am. We've got some sorta performance-evaluation-type-things coming up and though I'm not worried I'm in any danger of losing my job, I think I'm going to have to stick up for myself a bit, as the things I do awesomely aren't necessarily the things that get printed out. I've been really trying to keep myself from getting lazy which has been going pretty well, but the last few shifts I've worked have dragged and dragged. Fortunately most people have actually been pretty nice, even if they can be suspicious or kinda rude. If I ever need a pick-me-up I can always wear my hat to work, or my pair of super comfy pants. I really seem to have completely lost interest in 90% of the things I usually do lately. I haven't played any video games for just over a week, unless you count the bejeweled facebook app or playing jelly car or motochaser or katamari on the ipods at work. I haven't had any books to read, though the deluge of the ones I'm going to have waiting for me at the library just started. Most of the websites I generally check up on have gone unchecked in a while- people keep sending me crap on facebook and I've barely responded (just people from HS who I didn't really know back then and know even less now). Heck, I've even changed up my usual musical selection. I've given the decemberists, neutral milk hotel, the brian jonestown massacre, and the starlight mints a rest in favor of motorhead, willie nelson, and captain chaos. I'm sure I'm ascribing too much to my change of mood. I haven't had a lot of days off lately, so I just haven't been fucking around like usual. The only games I'd really been playing are Guild Wars, which I've always had a pretty tenuous relationship with (I really hate 90% of the stuff about MMORPG'S with a fiery passion, so once one of them pisses me off one time too many there's generally no going back, and I never get involved in big "srs bizness" clans that would keep me playing even if I wasn't personally enjoying it) and TF2, which I really burned myself out on playing after the sniper update. Well, whatever. None of this is super huge stuff. I guess things have just been dull and I need to frame it as some sort of shocking development. Still, when boobies cease to amaze and delight, there may be something seriously wrong. 2 ego boosts [ Share the love! ]
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
3:02 am	My new favorite phrase is "yeah...no." Also, this: bit.ly/uQhkc [ Share the love! ]
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
10:41 am	Well I hope you enjoyed my two teeny weeny lj posts because after a day off yesterday the workapocalypse resumes and you damn sure aren't going to be seeing much of me until it abates. I make money, and you don't have to read me complaining about the cat or the weather or loose socks! It's a win-win! Current Music: Willie Nelson - Whiskey River | Powered by Last.fm [ Share the love! ]
3:02 am	R.I.P. Jeff Goldblum. Too much death this week. bit.ly/LfxUe In Memoriam: Willie Nelson. Seriously, how much sorrow are we supposed to take? bit.ly/aC5Wz 1 ego boosts [ Share the love! ]
Friday, June 26th, 2009
3:03 am	brb Appalachian trail [ Share the love! ]
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
3:47 pm	With the crazy iphone rush I really haven't been feeling like posting anything, which is just fine since I'm not supposed to bitch about work anyway and it doesn't make me feel any better about it. Instead I want to talk about other stuff! So, we have a water cooler at my house. We've had it most of my life. Bottled water is pretty damn cheap, and keeps you from using a million plastic bottles. I go out and grab a SoBe once every few months and I have a water bottle I can use until the cap gets completely grody or the bottle gets thrown away at work. We pay nine bucks for a bottle of water that lasts us over a week with three people- it's a hell of a deal and it's spring water and not that distilled crap. I highly recommend it to anyone who spends a lot of money on little water bottles. What I also recommend is cleaning it out a little more frequently than once every 20 years. See, I always assumed my mom cleaned this cooler out every now and again. Hell, we've had the same one for 20 years and we've moved several times in that span. I figured that every few months we let it run down and scrubbed it out. Well, you know what they say about assuming things. We finally got a new water cooler this week, because that old one was getting rusty and it was definitely time for a change. To swap it out, my mom drained out all of the reservoir in it so that it wouldn't weigh a million pounds and spill everywhere. It's got a pretty big tank in the bottom, so she was hanging out and draining and draining and draining. Finally, as she got to the bottom, she started finding little floaty bits in the water. Eew. Then she started finding bigger floaty bits. Eew. This is a photo, completely unaltered, of the final pitcher of water she drained out of the cooler. She says she always assumed that we were using enough water that the tank was being drained and refreshed- it's been pretty close to empty plenty of times and we go through water at a pretty decent pace. Apparently the amount we were using wasn't enough to wipe the slate clean, so this cooler has been wet and dark for at least eight years (since we moved here). For someone who is usually so intent on keeping everything scrubbed, I'm pretty surprised that it never occurred to her that the inside might get scummy over time, though honestly it never occurred to me either. Once we got the new cooler set up and put the bottle on, we had a celebratory glass of water. She damn near spat it back out again laughing when I said that the water had "no character." So yeah, that's how I've been. Apparently I've been drinking algae or something for the last years? Maybe I'll start feeling WAY better (or possibly way worse- stuff like this is how they discover cures for things). Current Music: The Gits - Absynthe | Powered by Last.fm 2 ego boosts [ Share the love! ]
7:51 am	BANGBANGTHUDBANTHUSTHUDTHUSCRASH Yeah, so we've been waiting for a roofing crew for a few days now. They were supposedly showing up on Monday, but instead they showed up bright and early this morning. It doesn't really matter to me what day they show up, but of course they're basically tearing the roof off of the house, which naturally must occur after the one night this week that I stay up extra late. The whole house is shaking and vibrating, and there's definitely no chance that I'm going to be falling back asleep in the next hour and ten minutes, so I guess I'm awake now. I guess if it keeps the roof from leaking or some shit it'll be worth it but I really hope they don't do more harm than good. Despite looking pretty torn up, the roof hasn't ever leaked, and knowing our landlord she found the one roofing crew that was willing to just do what she wants and ignore the building codes. On the plus side they DID put a tarp up to keep the garden safe while they're raining 70-year-old roof chunks down on the yard. Current Music: Dan Deacon - Surprise Stefani | Powered by Last.fm [ Share the love! ]
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
12:03 pm	I finally have a day off after about a week of solid work, 4 days of which were the 3Gs launch craziness. So glad to have a breather. 99% of people were really nice and awesome but I spent 2 hours on the phone with AT&T yesterday for customers. Bleeeeeeh. [ Share the love! ]
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
3:02 am	Completely blanked on calling my dad this afternoon, despite spending all day at work talking to people and their dads. /failure [ Share the love! ]
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
11:22 am	Bleh. My stomach is all hosed- dinner last night didn't happen so I made myself a "salad" by eating a head of romaine and some chopped celery, then finished it off by eating 5 carrots. I was already not feeling super hot, but hopefully this business all sorts itself out in a few hours. I'm also pretty nervous about how the next few days are going to go at work. Tomorrow is the 3Gs launch and I'm working 11 hours, and I imagine that place is going to be completely insane. I also feel like a real sucker for volunteering to take those extra shifts... They were good to have, but they're stuck on the front of a week where I'm already working like a million days in a row (I didn't have next week's schedule when I agreed). It'll probably be ok, but the entire next week is going to be utter craziness. Add the people coming in for graduation presents and that's a good bunch of people. Also I've once again changed my iTunes setup to show songs that I haven't listened to in the longest time. Weird to think that I have songs I haven't heard in 4 years- at least until I start listening to them and remember that I've skipped over them for a reason. Current Music: Europe - Rock the Night | Powered by Last.fm [ Share the love! ]
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
3:03 am	I never thought I'd actually be GLAD to get called in to work for 2 more days this week but I'm bummed and stewing and need the prodding. [ Share the love! ]
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
2:57 pm	PHOTOBLOG!? Here's a fun game you can play: which one of the people in this photo is very, very awkward? Yyyyyyyeah. Current Music: The Thermals - Returning to the Fold | Powered by Last.fm 4 ego boosts [ Share the love! ]
Sunday, June 14th, 2009
3:02 am	Ahmadinejad is reelected in Iran, Obama suddenly supports the "Defense of Marriage Act" and I have to work morning shifts all weekend. FUUU- Oh wait, I forgot the white supremacist who shot up the holocaust museum. 1 ego boosts [ Share the love! ]