It's certainly not enough but Man Asshole gets 3 years for throwing dog in traffic will have to do.

The Triumphant Return
Andrea has returned from her tour of the Orient completely exhausted and riding high on what sounds like 2.5 weeks of true family fun (complete with daily lectures (lectures!) from older family members about things like religion and how soaking raisins in gin is good for arthritis). We arrived home, she admired my surprise bathroom renovation and fell asleep. Welcome home!

Why my new job kicks ass:

1. It's not my old job.
2. It's conveniently located across the street from Fairyland
3. I get to ride BART every day, giving me 40 minutes to sit and read or do nothing. You can't beat that.
4. The people kick ass. It's a lot like the good old days at beyond, though without quite as much flatulence (though a co-worker has Thoma's sweaty palms predicament that often results in brown keybards and the like, my current co-worker solves this with keyboard condoms).
5. Travelling to a different city 40 miles from home is like going to a new world every day for part of the day, then returning to my exciting life in San Jose.

I don't want to be like one of those people who, after a breakup, spends hours telling everyone who will listen how much their ex sucks, how dumb they are, how they didn't like short hair, long hair, didn't like the right kind of sex thing, wasn't this, wasn't that, when really you can hear how they're defending the choices they made (starting the relationship to begin with, though they had a suspicion it would end badly, to cheat, to walk away, to be an asshole). So I won't.

But I'm a shitload happier now. My old job was wrong for me and everyone around me. We all knew it, I'm just glad it's over and I'm here, with my confidence restored, on the shores of lovely Lake Merritt, mere steps from Fairyland.

More on my current obsession with reality TV: 'Survivor' Rudy has new role . Here's some highlights: ...he volunteered for "Survivor" and squatted in the Malaysian sand for over a month, mumbling and staring at the waves.

Rudy, on Colby: "If he felt so good about her, what he should have done was took the million and buy her a Cadillac to keep her happy."

Rudy, on the cast of Survivor 2: "Well, they had to be dumb. They built their camp in a riverbed. They had to be real dumb.
"And they ran out of rice. I took charge of the rice when I got on 'Survivor.' I said, 'I'll take charge of this and it'll last till the end.' And it did."

Rudy, on Rich: "When we parted I shook his hand. 'It was nice knowin' you. Don't ever call me and I won't call you.' I can't afford havin' a queer callin' me."

Woo hoo! Andrea makes her triumphant return to the United States tomorrow afternoon. After 2.5 weeks without her, the dogs and I are all ready for this. I've done a little surprise remodeling at home to prepare (and keep myself too busy to miss her terribly). Zeus especially has missed her. Every night he's been clingy to me, whining softly like his little heart is broken. Poor dude, he loves her so much. And I do too!

One day!

More about the Big Brother ejection, including a great line: The incident happened during a night of boozing. Like so many things in life (including almost everything I did at my high school reunion last week), this too, was made possible by alcohol. Here's to boozers worldwide!

Damn! 'Big Brother' Contestant Evicted for His Behavior. Those people don't waste any time! It's a far cry from Chicken George.

ManBeef is a little scary. Good thing it's a joke. Isn't it?

Thanks to John for summarizing my life as lesbian hockey beagle love drama.

I really have no idea what went wrong with el blog here. I removed one link from the left hand nav and I guess, somehow removed the entire blog.html file. It's all good, though, because I'm back!

Friday night I went with Amy to the Ani DiFranco concert in lovely Berkeley. Being the Bay Area natives that we are, we took Bart up, her from the city and me from work in Oakland. When I got off the train, I saw a number of very hip-looking dykes with all manner of short hair and clothes I could never pull off (things with chains, big boots, baggy shorts that are frayed at the end, knit caps and more). I felt so straight among the crowd that I told Amy, I may as well suck dick, I'm so straight compared to these people. It was loads of fun and I did manage to find my orange colored glasses, which made me feel slightly less likely to date a man. Around 12:30 am, I rolled in to some pissed off dogs (a friend had stopped by to give them dinner) but I just told them to hush, that I deserve a life, too, ye bastards.

I spent the weekend running around getting things for various home improvement projects that are going on while Andrea's out of town (she returns on Friday, for those who were wondering) then doing those projects. Rainie is ever so helpful, wanting to stand between anything I'm working on and me. It was a fine weekend, though I was hit by extreme lonliness Saturday night. Linea came to my rescue and we had a fine dinner of frozen pizza at her new big-ass house. It was the perfect cure for my moment of lonlieness and it spurred me into action.

Sometimes I think this single living business is for the birds and sometimes it's really cool. I think it's only cool because I know it will end on Friday and I'll once again have someone to talk to and to help me walk the dogs (who are WAY too much for me to handle by myself out in public. Right now, Zeus' nickname is little asshole man).

Last night I subbed in for another hockey team in our league (we don't have a game until 7/16!). I had my first assist and we could have totally kicked ass but we only had enough kids for 2 lines and the other team, though slower, had 4 so they got much more time to rest. We just had enough time to feel like we needed more rest. But it was great fun and the Ice Hawks had their first win at our expense. They're a bunch of folks from my beginner hockey class so I was happy for them.

In other hockey news, I start the intermediate class on Saturday. After 3 sessions in the beginner, it's about damn time! I also start in the Women's league at Hockey Workout, home of the 2/3 sized rink and hot 3-on-3 hockey action. It's going to be a big weekend.

WOO HOO!! My blog is back!!

Trying again just for shits and giggles. Is anyone out there? Are you listening?