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it was more of a prodding from my roommate - I think he and the guys he supervises have these frequent buyer cards so that every time they buy a sandwich at that particular blimpie's they get a stamp to, eventually, get a free one...

this blimpie's is sketchy though.

they only take cash, they have an atm which they probably own and they probably get all of the fees...

also, none of their prices are really listed anywhere... the menu they have up seems more like guidelines instead of steadfast prices... maybe they charge depending on the market value of bacon, ham, and turkey... whatever.

another thing - the jalepeno chips - not so jalepenoey - more like a mystery flavor which usually ends up being salted or unsalted plain chips...

also - get this - no free refills! $0.89 to refill if you sit in the place to eat. wtf?!

I dropped $10 on lunch - which all in all, isn't a bad thing, but seriously - I probably could have spent half that and had left overs for dinner... and all that without having to bitch about the service and the prices.

I don't think it was the actual amount that threw me, it was more the fact that it was a surprise - but not one of those happy surprises. one of those, I have it in me to bitch but really I just want to sit down and eat because I don't need additional stress in my life right now...

here's the thing.

I'll bitch and moan, but I'm not nearly ambitious enough to call their corporate headquarters and file a formal complaint. why? because the hour I would have spend on the phone isn't worth me making a fuss over ten bucks.

I'm just not going to go there again.

and now that you all know - don't go to the blimpie which is four miles north of my client's office...

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um... actually, I'm not sure where this place is - as I didn't drive and was too busy not paying attention to the streets to actually calculate the distance and direction. hell - I don't even know if it was north.

but I have half a bag of sun chips left as well as half my club on wheat.

which will be dinner.

I basically stopped being a dj... oh... six years ago.

basically when I graduated from college. it got too expensive to keep up to date and I got tired of lugging my equipment and vinyl around to parties that I either spun for free (because they were friends) or that I spun for a relatively inexpensive amount...

I loved to make mixes, but it wasn't one of those things that gave me a satisfied return... given the time and effort it takes to make a really good mix, i mean a really good mix, the songs would be outdated or overplayed within a few months and then you'd have to make another... (although a "really good mix" would have a much shelf life longer than the components songs themselves" in any case, it was more about the performance and the real time getting the crowd on the dance floor... my problem was that I wanted to be on the dance floor as much as I wanted to be behind the tables...

eventually, it got more to the point where there was too much effort on one side then the other, so I decided to let the chips fall where they may...

I haven't touched my tables in over a year, and it's been almost 5 years since I've used them more than once in the same year.

not because I stopped loving it, but it was not a priority in my life. I'd like to eventually set them up in my basement, but right now I have bigger time management priorities than getting back into dj'ing... you know, like spending time with my wife or our families... and with both of us traveling, there really hasn't been a week since New year's where we were in the same zip code together for longer than a week...

I seriously think the last record that I bought was in 2000 and it was probably a Hot 97 bootleg...

in any case...

if I ever do decide to dust off the old boots and suit up again, I think I actually might have to change my DJ name...

I googled it and there are a load of people from all over the world who have picked it up... a few older a bunch younger... I picked up the name in late 1994 (so I was still very much in highschool) and up to that point I think I went online maybe three times... once through prodigy and I think twice through aol... and at that point not everyone had a web page or blog yet...

so I'm not sure if I have dibs on the name, because there was no way for me to check back then, it certainly wasn't all that original, and I haven't been using it almost the same amount of time as I have,so I'd say it's fair game...

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if that moment [where I decide to start spinning again for real ever] comes... I'll have change my dj name...

don't know what it is...

the bed... or the dry air... or the fact that I can hear cars from the freeway...

but I can't sleep through the night in my corporate apt...

I sleep like a baby at home... well rested... it also could be that when I'm at home, I don't think at work at all...

but I don't think it's the stress of work... I just think the bed and pillows are crap and I probably need to get a humidifier for my room.

in any case, it makes me tired, especially before noon.

I don't like to hit the caffeine in the morning, because I'd rather not be dependent on it...

I was going to take a walk around the office for a bit, but then I'd look too much like I am... a slacker :-P

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I count eight dead flies caught in the flourescent light's translucent panel above and to my right and 18 in the panel above and to my left...

nasty

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so, since I was tired driving to work this morning, I noticed that my left eye was closing and that my right eye was trying to stay open (this is usually the time when lorie yells at me to tell me to pull over so she can drive...)

in any case - I glance over to the rear view and notice that I looked really whacked out when my eyes are trying to close and I am feebly trying to keep them open...

at that point, I slap myself and start screaming and try to find something to singalong on the radio... but they have mostly moring talk radio where they only play one song every fifteen minutes.

DUMB.

don't have any CD's with me, because I left them in my computer bag which I leave at my apartment because I can't plug into the network at my client because my laptop isn't authorized to be on their lan.

whatever

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so I got a sausauge mcmuffin with egg meal...

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I really need to work out this week.

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I think I need to switch out my contacts soon...