Mr. Bitter

Hey, still unable to link anything, so my blogging has been curtailed. But here’s what’s up. I started KUSF training shifts three Sundays ago. It’s 4:30 in the morning and I just finished up my last one. In the next week or so, I find out which graveyard (3-6 a.m.) shift I get. I’m getting more comfortable with the board but I still fuck up the transitions on songs sometimes. My volunteer hours that allow me to have a shift are pretty easy. I spend Tuesday afternoons calling the clubs and theaters with the names of our ticket winners. I may also organize a DJ night at the 540 Club on Clement. Chris Cook, one of the other DJs was asking me to do so at another DJ night at Lucky 13 on Thursday.

Miranda, James, Branden and I went to see Slayer on Tuesday at the Cow Palace. Really, nothing more needs to be said. It was a great time.

Middle school baseball started up last week. It looks like I’ll be umpiring about one game a week for the next five weeks.

Works been pretty plentiful of late. Lots of stories on the docket. I even convinced Laz to let me do an Al The Wop’s story, so there will be a run up the Delta soon. The San Jose State alumni magazine (Washington Square) hired me to do a magazine piece on the Spartans gymnastics team. Magazine pieces pay really well, so this should finally let me buy a new used car. With high school football starting up, that will be a good thing. I’m renting each month to do calendar/Baywoof distribution.

Happy Labor Day, everybody. Vote union!

So, something has gone haywire here at the blog. Posts haven’t been showing up. I do not know what the problem is but I’ve been asked by several of you what’s up. Anyway, the long-term plan is to back up the data and install new blog software. That’s probably a couple of weeks away. Until then, we’ll see how it goes.

Testing. Testing. Testing….

My blog appears to be not showing up as late, so I’m writing this as a bit of a test post, while also updating what’s been going on lately. We had a summer Santa on Sunday with three Santas rambling on the wharf. The weekend before was a lot of fun - went to see Concrete Blonde on Saturday, then went to the Tosca Project with exWK on Sunday. Both shows were great. OK, let’s see if this worked

* UPDATE * Apparently, one of my posts was causing a problem. I’m not sure why. But it’s been deleted. It was about the idiot from Santa Clara writing an opinion piece mistaking the stopper in baseball with the closer. I think it was part of a larger conspiracy. I tried to repost it here, but the same problem happened. I can only guess there’s something about the link that my blog doesn’t like.

I was walking down Valencia this afternoon at lunchtime and noticed a Burger place. The menu in the window included instructions on ordering a burger, starting with, “Select your meat.”

I am not eating a burger at a place that markets itself to idiots who don’t know how to order a fucking burger.

We have a new winner in the “Catty, competitive things said by a woman I’m interested in about one of her alleged friends whom I’ve also been involved with” competition. We were discussing said friend and she said, “She says she’s bi. I am bi.”

This is, of course, awesome. Seriously, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: If I had realized how to work the whole “Women are insanely competitive with other women who they call friends” thing in my 20s, I would have been dangerous.

And how the hell did I not know about the “Happy Meal” at Madrone on Sundays? A shot of Fernet and a can of PBR for $5??? Who needs a toy?