November 12 and Christmas commercials everywhere.

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Why are people so OCD about telling you that your shoes are untied? People never say shit, but if your shoe is untied, it's the end of the world. I was walking out in the parking lot and someone was desperately trying to tell me my shoe was untied. What is going to happen, iff they don't save me, am I going to die?

I walk around with my shoes untied all the time and it drives people crazy. They can't stand it. I guess that's why it's so much fun. I never trip on them. Other idiots sometimes step on them though which wouldn't be a problem if they weren't up in my business.

HEY HEY YOUR SHOE IS UN-TIED!

...tuck their shirts into jeans, or even worse wear a button shirt that's tucked into jeans. (which isn't a requirement where you are).

I'm trying to sleep. I can't catch a break. Remember in say 1999/2000 I used to complain about the gardeners outside my window. Today there was some idiot right outside my window spading or something. So annoying. Right by my head. When I got a house, you'd think that would be over, but there are community sections outside that they still do at a house.

Then one of the smoke detectors kept beeping.

Then the cat is all over me trying to play.

I waited from 7:10 until 8:45+ for these assholes to show up and buy a chair. They never showed. I missed my food place that closed at 9. I missed Lowes that closed at 9. I'd love to kick them in their box.

That's my prob with Craiglist and Ebay, why I never do it. I hate dealing with assholes. I'd rather lose money.

When people (and I don't mean my relationship in particular) ask me to do something, they're often shocked to hear me ask for something as well. They think I'm being a jerk or blackmailing them.

Typically if I'm waiting for someone to do something, and they won't do it. And they ask ME to do something for them, I bring it up. From my point of view, why would I do what they want me to do, if they're refusing to do what I want them to do? Some people think that's in poor taste or blackmail. Maybe that's immature. Maybe that's selfish. But my point of view is if you let people get away with this, they'll just walk over you and take advantage of you. Some people you have to hold things over them or they'll never do anything. Some people you can trust to do things for you when you need them, but those people are pretty rare. Most people are total flakes or lazy. Some people will do what you want eventually, but that almost never happens in my experience. Maybe I just deal with way too many flakes.

I'm glad to do things for people if they're doing things when I ask. But I refuse to let it get one sided. That doesn't mean never do anything for someone if they haven't done something for you. But to me it means, if you're refusing to do X. Why should I do Y?

I ask my kid to take his bag to the car. I ask him 5 times. He won't ever do it. So then he asks me to give him something, and I go take the bag to the car. He keeps never doing it. Then he keeps asking me for something. I'll sit there all damn day until he does what I ask.

My garage has been full of junk since Feb. I want to park my formerly nice car but all her stuff is in there. So whenever I'm asked to do something, I bring it up. For 5 months. Maybe that's jerky and pointless, but why should I have to do lame shit if I can't even park my car over stuff that is 1-2 days of work.

So that's how I am. I either get a nice relationship with people where I do things for people and they do things for me. Or they will never do things for me, and I make it difficult for them to get anything out of me.

I think it's really lame when people get handicap placards and parking when they can walk perfectly fine. There should be a way to report those people or something.

I generally hate most questions. For some reason questions annoy the hell out of me. Especially if they are stupid questions or you know the person already knows the answer. My dad is a teacher and that's why I could never be a teacher. I think I'm good with my OWN kids but not other people's kids who I generally don't care about because they are not mine. There are some exceptions, if the kid is cool or nice.

RE Questions: If I like what they are asking, I have no problem answering them. If I like the topic or I care about what is being discussed.

I guess I just don't like the time it wastes me answering questions. I don't like wasting the energy to answer something that I don't consider worth my time. I also don't like answering something if you know the answer is just going to set someone off more. I feel that not answering the question is better than answering it and getting more shit from them. I suppose that's why I hate it when people call me at work or call me with questions. I really don't like phone calls. I'd love to just do away with my phone so people couldn't bug me.

I especially hate the same question asked again and again. This makes kids especially annoying sometimes. I just try to be nice and tell them I already answered and the answer isn't changing.

I hate it when I answer a question, then the person asks you the same question because they don't like the answer and somehow are expecting you to answer it a different way the second time. I say the answer hasn't changed, or ignore their 2nd time answering, or make a joke about people who repeat, or say "asked and answered" or the many other things I come up with. TOMMY TWO TIMES TWO TIMES.

Saturday I was at police movie event. These idiots were going around trying to get signatures on some school thing to get it on the ballot. The guy asked me and I said no thanks. Then a short while later, a second younger guy comes walking around and asks me a SECOND time. I said "I've already been hit up." He goes "did you sign?" It's none of his fucking business whether I signed or not. He just wants a YES. If I said no, he would go into some bullshit. Now I suppose I could answer his question or go into a spiel about how what I think he's doing is stupid and fuck him. I could say, I don't sign political things just because some jackass is going around collecting signatures. I can't assume cuz you go into some bullshit about how you want something that what you're saying is even correct. I'm not going to put my name on your stupid shit just because you go around bugging people. SO instead I just ignored him. I try to avoid conflict when possible. But I refuse to let people MAKE me talk about shit that I already answered or something I just don't want to go into a discussion with. Fuck off. Guess what. I went to the store and another jackass for the same petition was camping in front of the grocery store begging for signatures. At this point, I felt they've been so pushy and asshole about it that I'd fight the opposite side against them no matter if they were right about what they were doing or not.

I take that approach on a lot of things. I'll do something for you if you're nice about it, but if you're a dick about it, I'll fight the opposite direction just because you're an asshole.

I suppose the underlining issues are impatience and unwillingness to let other people "waste" my time.

1/13 - Told you. My home loan refinance is kinda falling through. I need to get an appraisal but the house value has dropped like 50k in two months. ;(

My chick has been spending 3 months trying to get $500 back from the Student Loans. :( :(

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It would be nice to not always get crappier news when it comes to money. Every time you're supposed to get X$ or something is supposed to cost X, it always costs more or you get less $ when it comes to someone giving you money or whatever. So fucking lame. It would be nice to get surprised with GOOD news instead of 100% bad news.

Yesterday something was supposed to cost like $100 instead it's $165. Today I was supposed to save $241 a month on something and instead it's only $155. When I get new Health Care numbers it's oh $80 more a fucking month.

I feel like everything is getting crappier. I suppose that's been the case since the 1960s when the hippies started stiring shit up.

What is getting better?

Of course when I'm late to work I get behind a garbage truck. Then at every light we find some idiot using the cross walk adding 30 secs to every light.

Irvine is super nice and that means workers working every day to keep it nice. But 2 days, at 7:50 a.m. those f-ers are out there with what sounds like major construction equipment. I think they were just mowing lawns and stuff but even with massive ear plugs, pillows over my head, windows closed, you still hear them so loud and even a retaining wall between us.

I wish those jerks would start at 8:30 or 9 a.m. at least. 7:50 a.m. is bullshit.

Remember I told you the OC Fair had the scummiest people I've seen in a year(s)? The reason is it's $12 (or cheaper with coupon) to get in. The barrier to entry is so low that virtually homeless people go.

So then you go to Disneyland and the people there are higher quality but also are pretty bad. It's like $400 for a family to go. So you're like why is there still scummy gang bangers? The answer is Disney launched a payment plan or pay by the month option. That brought the gang bangers out.

In many parts of America people with low income are still great and nice moral people. In California, low income people in the cities are often scamming, stealing, robbing, no class, no morals assholes. It's sad but that's just the situation. You can't lie and say it's not the case.

California has a lot of cities. Link. It's a ton of cities connected together for 100s of miles.

Anyway to the root of the story. Yesterday in Irvine at one of the paid kid play places they had a free day. Normally it's $75-100 a family. That should be a chance for the people that already would go to get in for free not a preview for people who would never go otherwise. So of course what do you think? All the ghetto people show up. The place was packed. The place has a kid's ATM where you get a card and put it in and pretend money comes out. So this 7-8 year old African American kid goes to the ATM, takes the money out. Keeps repeating it. You're supposed to do it one time then get out of line. He holds up the whole line. He probably ran the machine out of money because the staff has to keep stocking it. He takes the wad of pretend cash. Runs back and hands it to a 20 year old African America guy who.... starts fanning it like he's a pimp. Can you believe it? In this place where you can pretend to be doctors, food workers, police, fire, dancers. The family pretends to be an ATM robber and a PIMP. hah. Then the rest of the family who all weighs 200-300+ all sit down in lawn chairs as their kids run wild and unsupervised. The little kid ran back and CUT in line to the ATM to get more money. You're supposed to pretend to work jobs and use the pretend money. Instead he just stole it. The moms in the area had to yell at the kid and tell him to go wait in line.

One of the kids plowed right into M. Bacon's face and then didn't even pick her up or say sorry. This is manners people.

You have to imagine these people will never get jobs and their kids will turn into assholes like their parents.

Another thing I always notice is the scummy people always let the kids parent themselves. If you go to the beach, the lake or park. You see these people all sitting around on their ass, usually drinking, as their kids do whatever they fuck they want. And of course their kids are often little shits who steal, push people over etc. Even at my last apartment there's a buff handsom white guy and his wife is a mexican lady looked like the lady from Family Guy. A super mismatched couple. They let their 3 year old wander out in the street while their 5 year old was supposed to parent them. As tons of cars go up and down the street. They did this all the time!

Anyway the point is, MONEY is what keeps the scummy people out. And it's not an elitist rich person thing, it's an actual fact.

I got my daughter the BEST costume ever. Nemo. She wore it to my work and Friday Night at a Harvest Festival. It was so popular. I had at least 30 compliments. She would go on rides and everyone would go "Hi Nemo." On one ride about 5 people were chanting nemo as she went around.

So we go to Sea World today and she had her hat in her hand in the stroller as her and her mom rushed along. Then her hat fell out and nobody noticed. They went back and searched for about 30 mins and went to Lost and Found 4 times but of course that place has the grimmest dirty fucks who just stole the hat and didn't turn it in. We lost a hat there about a month ago and the same thing. The people just steal the items people drop instead of turning it in.

So I'm just devastated. Halloween is tomorrow and she was going to wear it. And now there's no time to order a new one. Mf-er.

I also got it on Ebay as the deal of the day for $16 and now it's way more money, like $30.

I hope whoever stole her hat has a horrible life.

I hate my kids school. They have about 20 parking spots for 300-400+ cars. The exit to the school doesn't let you turn left during school which requires you to go around about 5 blocks out of the way. Then they put all these no U-TURNs in the nearby streets because they don't want people going in there, doing a U-TURn to go back the way you want to go but aren't allowed.

Anyway, my chick makes an appointment at school right before school gets out which leaves no where to park. So you have to park and go in. It's so bad there's lines of cars waiting for the 20 spots. It's so bad there's a nearby park with a ton of parking and ever spot there was gone too.

The school is stupid. They shouldn't have a school if they got no where to park. In some cities where you use public transportation or something it would make sense to have a school with no parking but in Irvine where it's a GIANT distance between things (google maps Irvine, CA) it's impossible. They should open up the streets out front to parking but there's no parking on any of the streets there. How the f are you supposed to go to the school or park?

At the same lunch there's some tard jay walking across the busiest intersection and he's not even near the corner, like about 30 feet down the road. I air horned him, that caused him pay attention. What's funny is he was lugging around a giant soda from Carls Jr. You see that kinda stuff all the time in the big cities in other sites but you NEVER see that almost anywhere in California.

Old people are the worst drivers but even worse in Irvine. The speed limit is 45-55 mph with freeway speeds on most streets. I got this old lady doing 30 in the fast lane (6-8 lane roads) who caused me to miss a 5 min light. Fing old lady. The way the lights work in the town are if you're not doing 65-70 mph+ you start missing every light in town until you get another 10-20 mins in your drives.

Wednesday - Luck continues! I go outside after work and my bike tire is completely flat in the front. I was able to pump it up. I'm going to check if it's flat again in a day. If so, then I punctured it. If not, then some f-er messed with flaming purple bike.

-Yesterday The luck continues. The ants are back and they're all over. I even have a pest control contract. :( :( :(

Update: Called pest control to come out tomorrow

5/10/2010 - We received a notice from the HOA about how we had violating their parking policy. Basically this old guy complained about us and his neighbor after our confrontation with him on 4/29 and they sent out a warning to us and our neighbor as a result. What's funny is our neighbor didn't even have any run in with him and he just did it to be a dick.

I wrote up a huge letter with many revisions to the HOA about this guy. We called them up and they said it's a neighbor to neighbor dispute and they won't intervene. However, since he's using them as a tool for harassment and going around harassing kids and neighbors impersonating a representative of the HOA, I think it's their duty to become involved. If he's going around stirring up problems where non exist and using the HOA to send out warnings via their newsletter and violation notices, then to me that's harassment.

We also spoke to our neighbor and discovered that he regularly gets notices about parking, ignores them, and nothing ever happens, FOR YEARS. So there's really no concern here of him doing anything to us other than annoying us. But he did talk to our kid and to us that's dangerous and the police should likely be involved next time that happens.

He targets and scares kid.

As always, any suggestions about resolving this matter are appreciated.

4/29/2010 - Well it's been 7 months but you had to know that annoying old guy would be back. What really pisses me off is me and my kid were at the pool and his wife is walking by and she was all friendly and said hi to us. Later I realize as she went into the house, that's his wife. So she's married to an old mf-er.

Anyway, latest update is my kid was with a new neighbor and they were doing RC cars on the sidewalk and he went out and yelled at them. It makes me violent even thinking about it. i want to rush and beat the shit out of him. But I have been controlling myself. Our plan is to call the HOA and complain about him. Or as you mentioned before, you could file a restraining order. He does live near the pool though.

Second, he finds someone new in the neighborhood. Then he walks over and pins a HOA doc with the rules from 2007 on their door. They had no idea who did it until this guy was after them today.

This dipshit saves all the HOA newsletters which typically just have a list of shit we're not allowed to do and that people are doing and then uses them against people. Then any time he goes after someone, whatever he mentions magically shows up as a warning in the next month's HOA newsletter. The last like 3/6 updates were things he complains about. So he must call them up.

My chick was telling him off and he said that he got a new garage and a fence from the last people to tangle with him. So he must sue them or something.

What a fucker, seriously.

Facebook is so gay. It's great whenever someone you actually care about finds you. But.

I swear every person I've ever hated in school or fat chick has found me on there. People you long forgot about and hope to never hear from again, thanks to facebook now try to contact you. You'd think years + distance would be enough to escape these people but thanks to having a name and the internet, they can find you.

In high school, freshman year this was this girl and we hung out a lot but she was fugly and I was not interested in her at all. Well there was another girl I was interested in and I asked fugly to go find out if she wanted to go to a dance to me. She came back later and said she did. So I got up my nerve and called up the girl. We always had no problem talking and she was the hotest chick in school. So the girl she says she'll get back to me with an answer. Then she avoids me for a day or two. She wouldn't just do something normal and say NO. She DID say she'd get back to me. Then her senior brother comes and threatens me (I'm only a freshman) to stay hell away from his sister. Well again, she coulda just said NO or not said hey I'll get back to you. There was no indication that she wasn't interested other than kinda avoiding. I guess that was the clue but again that fugly girl told me she was interested. Anyway. It was all brought on by my mistaken belief from FUGLY that the hot girl WANTED to go to the dance. I was so traumatized by the guy threatening me that I didn't ask any chicks out for years. I'd never had anyone threaten me like that before, esp a huge guy.

I think fugly either got super confused and thought I meant HER instead of the hot girl or that she wanted me was devious about it setting me up for some kind of fall. Either way, I didn't appreciate what she had did as it screwed me up for years and hated her ever after that. haha.

Well anyway guess what

Fugly finds me on Facebook. Thanks facebook. Skullder says I should just let it go but not only that, that fugly chick took off that year and I at most knew her 6 months out of 34 years. Is that any reason to talk to that person or be friends with them? No. Fucking facebook!

Those lame buyers always show up for HotLikeMe and offer less $$ than they did over the phone. Then they expect her to just say ok. But she's tough and usually tells them no or at least haggles them close to the original price. See the lame buyers expect you to just give in, but it's worse for them if you don't agree, since they are the ones that drove to visit you. They have the weaker position. You can always just say no, and THEY have to drive away. I'm glad she does the selling cuz I could never deal with those people. That's why I donated everything to the church instead.

Guy comes over 3 lanes and gets ahead of me in a left turn lane on a bicycle. He's wearing the classic flaming bicycle outfit. Slowly, he turns the corner, and then rather than getting over to the right like almost every other biker would, he continues along in the middle of the road like a car. He wasn't super slow but I still had to back way off just in case he fell off or something. Then He does another left turn. I was using my car to block cars from passing me on the right because they didn't realize we're going so slow because riding behind some douche on a bike. He was an action douche, all fit and everything. So he turns another left turn. I'm still stuck behind him. A car in front of him decided to turn right, so he was looking to pass it. But I'm like f that, and I pass him, and pass the car before he could do the move.

There are situations where you should make your bike like a car when making a turn, but after the turn you're supposed to get over to the right side and let cars pass. He hogged the road like he was a car through 2 turns. Then he wanted to be the one to pass the car rather than wait for it. Fucking douche. That's the type of asshole that deserves to get ran over sometimes due to his actions.

People say oh ditch the cars and bike, but some people are worse on bikes than they are in cars and it's way more dangerous and slow when they are.

Indian Telemarketing calls. Let's harass people from across the world!

Last week the workers woke me up with a Chainsaw at 8 a.m. during a work day. If they are using something that noisy they could wait until later in the day.

Today they woke me up at 8 something. Two Mexican guys yelling at each other in Spanish right outside my window where tehy were trying to work on some air conditioning unit or something.

This apartment has been pretty great. We have to move again in August because they want to redo the apartment and jack the price up $100-$300 a month. I'd continue to live here otherwise so that blows.

The apartment people have been pretty nice except they went around and removed the sidewalks into our apartments at the red curb. They put in these bushes so there's no straight shot into your front door. You have to walk around these dumb bushes. They did it to the whole complex, I think because they didn't like people parking in front of the red curbs in front of their apartments. BUT you have to, to unload things. So now it's a bitch to unload stuff into your apartment except through your Garage. So what I did is stomp on the new bushes so they won't grow. I'll keep doing it too. haha. F-ers.