Woke up on the floor - I admit, its been awhile since I've woken up on the floor and not known where I was. So I woke up this morning at the airport terminal, completely out of it. I'm still kinda out of it. All I know is that Home sweet home is coming soon.

Worst trip ever - I'm writing this from DFW Airport... at 1:40am... let me tell you how this began.

So on Sunday the 8th, my flight left late from Austin for Chicago O'Hare airport where my connecting flight would bring me to Minneapolis. Since my flight was late, I missed my connecting flight, and was thus stuck in Chicago for 18 hours, with me traveling straight for over 24 hours. I finally arrived in my Minneapolis/Bloomington hotel room at about 2:00pm on the 9th. Most of the week goes by fine, as I'm attending an Avaya ACM Basic Admin course that I've been really wanting to take.

The Avaya ACM Basic Admin course is awesome, although I think I'm by far the youngest person in the class, by an easy 10 years. Ulysses from Denver, Jon from Iowa, & I went to a virtual golf course that was an odd experience in its own way. Since it was virtual, it was just this 20' x 20' booth with a projector screen and sensors that detected your ball path. Right outside the booth there are tables where you can booze it up. It just wasn't right, but if you had to, you could get the need to whack at your balls out (teehee!).

Thursday rolls around and I find out that I'm going to be needing a car because the hotel shuttle won't roll to the Airport on Friday in time for me to get there, so I contacted my location of Work to get approval to rent a rental car. Since its the company's dollar, I told them a compact would do. When they I finally get to Enterprise Rent-A-Car, they didn't have any compacts left, so they gave me an option of just paying $5 more and I could rent an '07 Infiniti G35... which doesn't sound like much, but it is by far the best thing to happen to me this week thus far.

I also got to hang out with an old coworker who goes by Gina. She took me to Oldtown, which is this cool eclectic part of Minneapolis. There, we found Katie's "cute" gift (I got Katie a bunch of stuff while I was up here) at some place called MyHouse or MyHome or something along those lines. We had dinner at some place called "Aura" that was located in the mall we were in, and although it was good, what caught our attention was their sign - "Happy Hour: 4pm - Midnight". We then hit up The Independent, which is apparently one of the two bars in Minneapolis that has a balcony. We pretty much bitched about how overworked with current projects about our respective jobs, Wes Anderson Movies (Life Aquatic sucks though!), delved into philosophy a tad bit (She now knows why I always bash St. Aquinas) and praised how cool our, (well, her former) CEO's executive assistance Marcia is.

Friday rolls around, and my flight is now fucked by the massive storm that covered middle America. My flight is delayed out of Minneapolis to DFW for 2 hours, and when I finally got here, I find that my flight to Austin is cancelled. Now here I am, at 2:23am, figuring out how I'm going to kill a couple of hours.

Now that I'm sitting here, I'm thinking about when I ate my really late dinner. I walked into the TGI Friday's here inside the DFW terminals, and 5 minutes later, a young couple walk in, the woman being pregnant. Those bastards at Friday's were all bitching about closing, and there is this pregnant lady who said that they haven't had anything to eat in over 8 hours. Anyway, I gave them remaining half of my sandwich and fries. Just now I saw some flight attendants bring in some blankets, and I saw several people hogging more blankets than they needed. Selfish bastards. I did manage to steal one and placed it on the sleeping woman who managed to find a cot (I saw her freezing earlier, as one of the few places to place a cot was right under an AC Vent). It reminded me of what Gina was talking about her current coworkers - they're kinda cutthroat and all out for themselves. I think it kinda sucks how that everyone here is stuck in a desperate situation - all the hotels are full, and we're all sleeping in an airport. Dunno, I'm just getting this Katrina feeling.

It has been ridiculously long - Too long since the last post. So... lets see... in the past three months... um... well, I took a picture of oranges between my legs with Lyndee's camera... I got a new car, an '03 Infiniti G35 Sedan, and... I dunno. My mind just went a blank. Sorry for the Blogarhea.

Lets get it straight - So I've been walking around lately with a wrist splint on, because I sprained my wrist. So, lets get it straight - I sprained my wrist masturbating. I just had to get it out, because if you don't, someone else is gonna say you sprained your wrist jacking off.

To be honost, I wish I could glorify my wrist sprain, but I really did it by lifting water. I was volunteering for a waterstop at work, and I lifted 4 gallons of water in a milk crate one handed. Simple as that.

Maple Syrup Urine Disease?! - So after a discussion up at work about the sweet irony of the Amish having a website, we found in the Amish Wikipedia Entry a surprisingly creative name for a disease called Maple Syrup Urine Disease, named so after the smell of your urine. Urine. Smelling like maple syrup. Just like mom used to make 'em!

Cuz I got nothing else to say... - I present you a screenshot of whats currently going on, on my computer. If you're wondering why its so damn wide, well, you just gotta love dual monitors.

Rest In Peace, Nacho -

All sorts of deceptive deliciousnous - So, in short one liners, heres whats going on:

Finally got a new phone to supercede the good ol' i500, a Sprint PPC-6700

Classes start. Since I still get in position for Good-Mornings and high knees whenever I hear a Russian accent, I decided to take Sasha again for weight Training. Data Structures looks like a bitch, too

I farted in Brian's cubicle today.

The Network up at work goes haywire this morning. I found some Cat 3 cable still under some desks! A shitty start to an otherwise ordinary day

Homestar Runner loot came in last week. I got Katie a shirt, and I got a different shirt and some static-cling decals. Katie got Homestar, Lyndee got Trogdor, and I get The Cheat. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with Strong Bad.

I'm officially a professional model, since I got extra loot for doing a modeling gig up at work for some marketing material.

Me = Hamster Equivalent - It all happened last week, when Katie's dad said something along the lines of "Katie, don't talk to John like he's Scott." Scott is Katie's class pet, a Golden Hamster. Well, last night, Katie said "I need to clean John's... er Scott's cage."

Chocolate Covered Bacon Update - Damnit, someone already did it!

http//karagitz.blogspot.com/2005/09/chocolate-covered-bacon_28.html