Marcus gets a new vehicle

So I splurged and purchased a new vehicle!!

I am sometimes faced with the challenge of getting a fair distance and I simply do not want to get into the Marcusmobile.
Our office has some bicycles for public use but at times they are all in use and besides they have these big flags for some odd reason.

Maria, Sandee and I rode through the short cut. The chain fell off of Sandee's bike and since I am so good with my opposite of freds I fixed it.

I am listening to a remake of "Oops! I DId it again Live" by Richard Thompson.

Picked up Raider and Brando for duty. The lesson of the day is to not walk two large dogs with one bag.
The first one went and I used the one bag. On the way back I saw a seeing eye dog in my path and thought it would be wise to change course so I walked by the volleyball court and there was a wall so had to keep walking. Sure enough the second dog left a large prize. I had to tie them to a tree and went looking for a bag. Was unable to find one so I used a series of paper cups and paper towels to remove the material. As I was done, someone walked by with a tray full of plastic bags. Even with all of that I had a good time with the pups.

So you are puzzled by the subject and the first line.

Here is what happened. I saw an e-mail about a bike for sale. When I ride a bike, I like one that is a bit more durable for all the jumps off ramps that I am known to do. (so the new vehicle is a bike). I run the 1.46 miles to the other office with a pocket full of cash and call the seller. I see someone coming out of the building with a bike and I approach him with an opposite of fredful of cash trying to buy the bike. He responds by saying that it was not his bike for sale and he seemed a bit confused. Then someone else came down and he was the actual seller of the bike.

I ride it back to the office and lock it up.

Baby Elephants are the best!

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I grab a salad and tuna and sit outside and the security tells me the March Madness scores. He was shocked Duke lost. The NCAA tournament is one of those things I could care less about because no matter what, I am not eligible to play (gave it up in 1994 for the NBA draft)


So splurged ich und kaufte einen neuen Träger!! Ich werde manchmal mit der Herausforderung des Erhaltens eines angemessenen Abstandes gegenübergestellt und ich einfach möchte nicht in das Marcusmobile erhalten. Unser Büro hat einige Fahrräder für allgemeinen Gebrauch, aber manchmal alle sind sie im Gebrauch und außer ihnen haben diese grossen Markierungsfahnen aus etwas ungeradem Grund. Maria, Sandee und ich ritten durch den kurzen Schnitt. Die Kette fiel vom Fahrrad Sandees herunter und da ich mit meinem Entgegengesetzten von freds I so gut bin, regelte es. Ich höre zu einem Remake von "Oops! Ich wiederholte es Phasen "durch Richard Thompson. Aufgehobener Räuber und Brando für Aufgabe. Die Lektion des Tages soll nicht gehen zwei große Hunde mit einem Beutel. Das erste man ging und ich benutzte den einen Beutel. Auf der Weise zurück sah ich, daß ein sehender Auge Hund in meinem Weg und gedacht ihm klug sein würde, Kurs zu ändern, also ich durch das Volleyballgericht ging und es gab, eine Wand also zu gehen halten mußte. Sicher genug verließ der zweite Hund einen großen Preis. Ich mußte sie an einen Baum binden und ging, nach einem Beutel zu suchen. War nicht imstande, ein zu finden, also benutzte ich eine Reihe Papierschalen und Papiertücher, um das Material zu entfernen. Wie ich getan wurde, ging jemand vorbei mit einem Behälter, der von den Plastiktaschen voll ist. Sogar mit den ganzen das hatte ich eine gute Zeit mit den Welpen. So werden Sie durch das Thema und die erste Linie verwirrt. Ist hier, was geschah. Ich sah eine E-mail über ein Fahrrad für Verkauf. Wenn ich ein Fahrrad reite, mag ich ein, das eine Spitze ist, die für alle Sprünge weg von den Rampen haltbarer ist, daß ich tue bekannt (also ist der neue Träger ein Fahrrad). Ich lasse die 1.46 Meilen zum anderen Büro mit einer Tasche laufen, die vom Bargeld voll ist und rufe den Verkäufer an. Ich sehe, daß jemand, welches aus das Gebäude mit einem Fahrrad herauskommen und ich ihm mit einem Entgegengesetzten von fredful des Bargeldes sich nähern Sie, das versucht, das Fahrrad zu kaufen. Er reagiert, indem er sagt, daß es nicht sein Fahrrad für Verkauf war und er eine verwirrte Spitze schien. Dann kam jemand anderes unten und er war der tatsächliche Verkäufer des Fahrrades. Ich reite es zurück zu dem Büro und verriegele es oben. Baby-Elefanten sind das beste! www.africaguide.com/images/l...rd003.jpg Ich ergreife einen Salat und einen Thunfisch und sitze äußeres und die Sicherheit erklärt mir die März Verrücktheit Kerben. Er war der entsetzte verlorene Herzog. Das NCAA Turnier ist eine jener Sachen, die ich weniger ungefähr mich interessieren könnte weil, egal was, ich nicht geeignet bin zu spielen (gab sie oben 1994 für den NBA Entwurf)


Έτσι και αγόρασα ένα νέο όχημα!! Βρίσκομαι αντιμέτωπος μερικές φορές με την πρόκληση να πάρω μια δίκαιη απόσταση και απλά δεν θέλω να πάρω στο Marcusmobile. Το γραφείο μας έχει μερικά ποδήλατα για τη δημόσια χρήση αλλά κατά περιόδους είναι όλα σε χρήση και εκτός από αυτά έχουν αυτές τις μεγάλες σημαίες για κάποιο περίεργο λόγο. Μαρία, Sandee και οδήγησα μέσω της σύντομης περικοπής. Η αλυσίδα έπεσε μακριά του ποδηλάτου Sandee και δεδομένου ότι είμαι τόσο καλός με το αντίθετο freds μου εγώ το καθόρισε. Ακούω μια νέα έκδοση "Oops! Ι DId αυτό πάλι ζωντανό "από Richard Thompson. Παρμένοι επιδρομέας και Brando για το καθήκον. Το μάθημα της ημέρας είναι να μην περπατηθούν δύο μεγάλα σκυλιά με μια τσάντα. Ο πρώτος πήγε και χρησιμοποίησα τη μια τσάντα. Στον τρόπο πλάτη εβλέίδα ένα να δω σκυλί ματιών στην πορεία μου και σκέφτηκα ότι θα ήταν σοφό να αλλαχτεί η σειρά μαθημάτων έτσι περπάτησα από το δικαστήριο πετοσφαίρισης και υπήρξε ένας τοίχος έπρεπε έτσι να συνεχίσει. Αρκετά βέβαιο το δεύτερο σκυλί άφησε ένα μεγάλο βραβείο. Έπρεπε να τους δέσω σε ένα δέντρο και πήγα μια τσάντα. Ήταν ανίκανος να βρεί το ένα έτσι χρησιμοποίησα μια σειρά φλυτζανιών εγγράφου και πετσετών εγγράφου για να αφαιρέσω το υλικό. Όπως έγινα, κάποιος που περπατιέται κοντά με ένα σύνολο δίσκων των πλαστικών τσαντών. Ακόμη και με το όλο ότι είχα έναν καλό χρόνο με τα κουτάβια. Έτσι μπερδεύεστε από το θέμα και την πρώτη γραμμή. Εδώ είναι τι συνέβη. Εβλέίδα ένα ηλεκτρονικό ταχυδρομείο για ένα ποδήλατο για την πώληση. Όταν οδηγώ ένα ποδήλατο, συμπαθώ ένα που είναι λίγο ανθεκτικότερο για όλα τα άλματα από τις κεκλιμένες ράμπες ότι είμαι γνωστός κάνω (έτσι το νέο όχημα είναι ένα ποδήλατο). Τρέχω τα 1,46 μίλια στο άλλο γραφείο με ένα σύνολο τσεπών των μετρητών και καλώ τον πωλητή. Βλέπω κάποιο το κτήριο με ένα ποδήλατο και τον πλησιάζω με ένα αντίθετο fredful των μετρητών που προσπαθούν να αγοράσω το ποδήλατο. Αποκρίνεται με το ρητό ότι δεν ήταν το ποδήλατό του για την πώληση και φάνηκε λίγο ταραγμένος. Κατόπιν κάποιος άλλος ήρθε κάτω και ήταν ο πραγματικός πωλητής του ποδηλάτου. Τον οδηγώ πίσω στο γραφείο και τον κλειδώνω. Οι ελέφαντες μωρών είναι το καλύτερο! www.africaguide.com/images/l...rd003.jpg Αρπάζω μια σαλάτα και έναν τόνο και κάθομαι εξωτερικό και την ασφάλεια μου λέω τα αποτελέσματα τρέλας Μαρτίου. Ήταν συγκλονισμένος δούκας που χάθηκε. Τα ncaa πρωταθλήματα είναι ένα από εκείνα τα πράγματα που θα μπορούσα να φροντίσω λιγότερο για επειδή ο οποίος, εγώ δεν είναι επιλέξιμος για να παίξει (το έδωσε επάνω το 1994 για το σχέδιο NBA)

Base Fred

Here is a quick reference of Base Fred and some other terms as well. This will make you very smart and you will be able to converse with some learned people.

Fred: Your foot is a fred. Whenever you would normally say foot you say fred. For example footwear becomes fredwear.

Opposite of Fred: Hand. Whenever you would normally say hand you say opposite of fred. For example handsome becomes opposite of fredsome. Giving someone a hand is giving someone an opposite of fred.
Now a ranch hand is a ranch opposite of fred. Take the first letter of each word and it spells ROOF. So whenever you are talking about Ranch Hands you can say Ranch Opposite of Fred or ROOF.
When referring to a ROOF you can say Ranch Opposite of Fred. For example if you want to ask someone for help onto the roof you would say could you give me an opposite of fred onto the ranch opposite of fred.

BOOF: Students works with books or they are book hands or book opposite of freds or Boofs.

Boof leader: Teacher or leader of boofs.

Fred Container: Shoe

Quiz: What is in the picture above?

Other terms

Malinkey: Water or any other drinking

Cave Prize: A small token gift to reward or modify actions.

T I P: a combination of a place and a state of mind.

Looking for parking, having a spot of curry and getting one over on the Man

So I sit down to tell my readers of the mundane details of the last couple of days.
As you all know I had the Bay Area Linked In User Group Happy Hour at the Blue Chalk in Palo Alto.

It was nothing like the last time I had an event at the Blue Chalk in 2001
www.tow.com/photogallery...k_slip_party/
www.svcn.com/archives//s...ip-0119.html

but then again the idea was the same but the timing was perfect.
We had about thirty people show up and no press from Belgium or Japan and I did not have to speak Spanish.

It was fun and we will do it again sometime in March.


After opposite of fred, I drove one of my coworkers to San Francisco and I saw some bad driving. I was going to report them to the bad driving website but then I did not see the upside nor did I see them finding out about their bad driving.

This morning I could not find a credit card and thought I would have to go back to Palo Alto to get my credit card OR someone was traveling the world on my dime doing stuff like renting videos and not returning them. Luckily I found it in the Marcusmobile I was in a good mood as I would not have to deal with a product of my own stupidity.


One of my favorite artists is Dusty Springfield. (What I am listening to)

Tonight we had the second to last fred container you wear in the snow of this session and the leader talked about his time in the Marines. I doubt that I would be a good Marine because they do sleep deprivation and they would not like me if I did not get my sleep.

Afterwards I dined with two of my classmates. One of them, who I talked into joining my soccer team, told us about Semester at Sea. I think that goes along with going back on the Space Shuttle as something I will never do again. The idea of being on a cruise does not appeal to me. I also do not want to go to the Super Bowl. I am watching the Super Bowl with members of my Volleyball team. Earlier in the day I am running in a race.

Whenever you see ads of cruise ships they are so active but they are made of wood.

If they had trips to space, I would imagine it would be like Vegas on a hot day. You know they will have gambling in space.
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Lop

have seen Bob Dylan a number of times. Sometimes he is really good. Sometimes he is boots.
In a way I felt like that in a time out of mind scenario last night.

I went to Carly Jackson's fun house for a party. Her room is lop sided. I am sure it was done on purpose by some genius.

There was a dog who was very silly.

I was really happy that Brian and Carly provided me with a data set that proved my hypothesis about the size of television sets.

Moved a table but not before I cleared it with the occupants. Sometimes people think it is rude to rearrange furniture while at the party. (actually I saw they were fiddling with the table and I simply helped)

Many people are around from Urban Diversion and the volleyball team from last Spring. We were not very good but I will miss playing (it will be difficult to get back into the city by game time and I do not commit to something I cannot follow up on)

If Sasha and I had a party, I doubt many people would show because of all the made of wood people in my complex with multiple cars. Perhaps they could be convinced to move elsewhere. Somehow Daly City is the Tampa Bay Devil Rays of the peninsula. The worst thing about Crown Colony is the guest parking.
www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TBD/

It is Sunday morning, and I am doing my laundry as I have class on Monday and then my event on Tuesday. Do not like loads of laundry. Also do not want my workout clothing to stink.

Now I am in the market for laundry detergent. I may stop off at the Bargain Bank because I love slumming. May try to score some coupons because that is how I roll.

I may also get an iPod Nano. You may be wondering, why would someone who has a 30 gig Video iPod want to get a smaller iPod. It seems they have some setup where your iPod talks to your fred containers. Carly and Tommy have it. I will see about getting a returned iPod Nano. Then I will see if I have a coupon for the fred containers. I also got a thing to plug in my iPod so I can rock and roll in the living room.
www.apple.com/ipod/nike/

I also want to get noise reduction headphones. That may be worth the scam of buying the gift card and then combining it with some sort of coupon. You can always get one over on the man.
www.thetravelinsider.info/2003/0620.htm

I want to be able to be in a noisy environment and not hear....



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New Equation

For Christmas my parents opposite of freded me gift certificates for Circuit City so I wanted to use them before I lost them (which is their plan!)
Was considering getting an XBox 360 so I had to make up the difference of over $250 dollars so I considered buying gift cards from Safeway on my credit card to get a 6% rebate (and saving an additional $15) but I could not find a drug or grocery story that sold these items.
Then I think that getting one of the worlds most advanced game systems is not what Marcus needs now and I decided to get 1) A nine volt battery to stop my fire alarm from chirping (my Mom will be happy I replaced it) and 2) noise canceling head phones. I ordered them over the world wide web and I chose in store pick up. As I hate parking spots and I want to get some sunshine I walk on over. It turns out that they did not have the item which meant, I get $24 in extra gift card so suddenly (after walking back as I did not bring the credit card that I spent on the overage) I had $70 to spend (and two nine volt batteries!)
Went looking at the headsets and my eyes glazed over at the selection. I saw an off brand called Coby and the specific product got big thumbs down so I called Tommy to get his wisdom (we buy many of the same products such as Apples, iPods, Satellite Radio). I then got one of those things that can play your iPod in your parlor.
Later I figured out how to greatly broaden how I get a 6% discount on stuff in my life. I saw that you can buy Visa gift cards from the drug stores which then can be used to purchase other stuff (I need to verify if any charges are involved).
Right now one of my favorite songs is Window in the Skies by U2. I would have to say after the Beatles, they are the best band. Last time the Rolling Stones made anything good I was very much in short pants and had not even started my blogging in 1975 (where the governesses would transcribe the descriptions of the events in my life as I was not literate at this point)
*Just to make it clear, I did not have governesses but the kindergarten assistance had a station where I would tell stories and they would write it down.
*Also I did not have regular access to the Internet until at least 1982 so it was in scrolls which is in some cave.

Saturday night I went on the Urban Diversion party bus despite being on the wagon. We went to Holy Cow and the Velvet Lounge. We saw many people who dress as they are bicycling or going to take some fitness activity but I doubt that was on their agenda at all.
As I was not drinking this was more of an observation rather than a complaint. I am not in the business of selling spirits but I am guessing the main source of revenue of a "club" is selling marked up intoxicating beverages to the patrons that are taking part. To maximize revenue, I would guess you would want to speed up the transaction period. I hear complaints that it tour fourteen minutes to be served a beverage. Once again this is an observation from an outsider, but I do not think you have reached the point of diminishing marginal utility. Here is the crazy thing, one of the other patrons emptied the contents of their beverage onto one of my friends. This almost turned into a scene from either West Side story or Beat It, so I made like a banana.
Marcus's new equation, Night = Saturday, Street = Broadway, then Marcus stays away!

Looking for parking, having a spot of curry and getting one over on the Man

I have not made any proper entries in the last couple of days because I have had spent two sessions of looking for a parking spot. Some people lucked out and got to drive around in the Marcusmobile and be around looking for a parking spot when he is running late Marcus! Fun!
I had a crazy idea of getting a Versa www.nissanusa.com/versa/ but the Marcusmobile is running fine.
Thursday night we had the offsite in downtown San Jose as we were going to go to a comedy show. I made the list of the people to blame for picking out downtown San Jose on the night of a Sharks game and I simply could hold up a mirror. We listened to Sirius Left of Center
www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer
If you are in your car, looking for parking because some half wit scheduled you for an outing the evening of an NHL game where streams of middle aged heavy set people wear sports jerseys AND you do not have Sirius then you must be deaf or looking to buy a mattress.
We went to Haveli in downtown San Jose as they took over for Shalimar (where we had coupons) I printed the outdated coupon from the website and was ready for an argument (even though I was not paying, in the scheme of things, posting outdated coupons is boots!) but they accepted the coupon and the food was quite good (Chana Masala, Chicken Tiki: I am very predictable. Good food, acceptance of coupon = Happy Marcus!

Here is a review of the place
www.haveliindiacuisine.com/contact.html

We were not able to make it to the comedy show, again no one but ourselves to blame so we went to PF Chang. I am doing a month and a half no drinking thing. People think your clever, dark, on the edge but in reality I am just cheap.

Acted as a taxi wallah and it kinda felt like I was on a road trip. Felt like stopping at a road sign diner for coffee and lamenting the road to the hardened waitress but that did not exist and I needed to go to sleep rather than live out a Bob Seeger song.

The next parking spot incident came last night with one of the same passengers. I do not need a new Marcusmobile as I am always thinking that the swarms of Jawa's are going to break into my car and steal parts to make robots. New car = more anxiety. Maybe I can do the Andrea move and have a new car and then keep the Marcusmobile for when I am driving into any places where there is glass on the sidewalk. Maybe I should just get an XBox 360 and be done with it.
(Self comment: honestly Marcus do you actually need a new Video game Mac Hine?)

On a side note, I did come up with a way to get 6% off on your purchases from other stores besides groceries. I use one of those cards where you get 6% off the first year on purchases from groceries and drug stores and gas. I think it is 1% at other places. Here is how to get 6% at a greater range of stores. When you are going to make a purchase at Circuit City
www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do

You buy $400 worth of gift cards from Safeway, which gives you a 6% rebate. One over the man!!

OK back to my night. the T I P was at Madrones and in attendance among others were the great Frank Chu (I purchased a sign). It was a fun night and many toothbrushes were collected and I remained on the wagon.

I felt like a bit like Cartman when I never got around to collect money for pizza (he promised pie and juice in the South Park movie)

Drove C Mac to the Colma BART station which is kind of boots. It is not in walking distance to my house (like South San Francisco) and has half as many trains as Daly City and is hard to get to. She has a nice Volvo. As it is safe, it is a possible next Marcusmobile (I am not thinking of getting rid of the Marcusmobile but we are getting to the ten year mark))

Boot

As I stated earlier, I am doing one of those boot camp things where they make you run around in circles. In theory I have the knowledge to run around in circles but without it being scheduled and then the social pressure I would get made of wood and then say this is boots and then go down the pub where I would watch the game and reach out to 50. (this is a reference to an earlier post)
After getting warmed up we ran to Charleston park where we ran around the .3 mile course and then would do some sort of activity in the middle. I was the slowest of the group (and I am guessing the most senior of the class) but it turns out that many of the people have done the class before and I should not be glum or think that I am boots.
I did talk to some of the others about the importance of scheduling in actually doing something.
This class is Monday, Wednesday and Thursday through the month.
It was nice as when I left Mountain View there was not much traffic (compared to if I Fred Flinstoned out down the Dinosour at 5 PM when the whistle blew) and I listened to the wrap up show go on about the Gas leak in New York which got me thinking this morning. Satellite Radio is worth it. I cannot understand how people have fancy cars and then listen to commercial radio. I can understand if you are homeless, deaf or insane.

I told the fitness instructor about the Cambodian Midget Fighting league versus the lion.

Cartoon

one of my coworkers asked me why a helicopter was outside of my window. We then saw swarms of people walking down the streets with large plastic balls. It turned out my toil was having some sort of aerial photo shoot in a park next to the campus.
I grabbed the large red ball in our office and walked to the shoot. It felt like something out of either the Simpsons or South Park and I thought if the helicopter crashed into us it would be a cartoon way to meet your maker but happily their was no crash.
We were instructed to not simply mill about but to have a good time so I got involved with kicking the large balls with a bunch of others. Did think that I would kick the ball into the air and it would hit the chopper but luckily this did not happen. I did get VERY muddy.
Now you may be reading about a scene with choppers, large red balls and dogs and you may be thinking where are the pictures?????
Here is the best part of the story.... Earlier in the day I noticed I did not have my wallet or phone so I thought that it was left in the Marcusmobile but I figured I would stop off at the fitness center to check in lost and found. No one turned it in.
I then decided to check in my locker which was unlocked from 8 am and I discovered my wallet and phone just chillin'.....