Carhartt Coats

My father gave me one because he liked his so much. Gnu has one that Kimba's father gave him. Now, four people at work have one! I guess old Dubya started a trend...

Analog Blog

Mistake Remover!

One of the last steps to complete for the silent compressor box. What do you think? I designed it all myself.

Saturday night at The Old Milstream

Gnu and Jimmy

CHRIST

Zombies!

Zombie homo luv circle

"Hello!" "Hi, how are ya?"

full size, anyone?

Annoyed

I just typed for an hour about the jade room and how I haven't slept since friday night and the crappy internet lost it. so, YOU GET NOTHING! I'm going to bed.

The Jade Room

You should have gone out with me last night. Hoo, Boy. If you're not a light weight, that is. Holy cow, what a night. But first, I downloaded a program free from this site. Photoplus 5.5 is basically a knockoff of Photoshop from Adobe, but it seems to work pretty well. I'm going to mess with it some more tonite, but the image editing seems to be up to par. But you be the judge, I used it for this post.

Last night, after work, I cruised down to Kilgor's house to chill and stuff. Yes, it was sleeting, but the roads weren't nearly as bad as the ride home at 4-5am. Man was the highway slick then. But anyway, I got to his house around ten-thirty or so, and he said uncle Dan was at Friendly's down the street. The last time I was at Friendly's, the Cardinals blew their World Series shot. Lemme see Ifa I canna finda link...Nope. Anyway, Friendly's is a bar within walinkg distance of just about all of Kilgor's family. It's a nice place. We showed up at aboout 11:30, and it was all good. I met Kilgor's cousin Alex, and Uncle Dan was there too. THey have one of those skill claw games, and I won some shit:

Actually, I won three things in all, but one of the bar whores exclaimed that "I've never seen anyone win anything from one of those!" SO I gave it to her. Plus the guy hitting on her looked like a dousche, so I showed him up a little. I felt so like elimidate.

After a while, we got a hankerin {420} so we went out back. I took this photo, of a thousand cases of beer. (All full.)

(click to see a full-sized version)

After Friendly's we all walked back to Uncle Dan's apartment, where he's the only one in the building. Sweet! Here's uncle Matt sleeping:

After Kilgor and I left Dan & Matt's, we decided that going home and watching the new Red vs. Blue wasn't going to cut it. We decided to see if the Jade room was open till 3am, 'cuzz it's Mardi Gras. I have to go to work now, but I'll tell the rest of the story after work, if you can stand the wait. It get's way better after we got to the Jade room.

How it all went down

I could have not named the post after the resturant. I could have done what momma Dooce taught me and not said anything at all. But I wasn't actually working there at the time, and I had no idea that they'd really find out about it, I mean how could they?!

I was pissed when I went into work today. I don't know why, but I wanted to rip someone's head off. I think it was because I slept in late, like way late, and I didn't get anything done today. But anyway, I got to work on time an deverything was cool, except that it wasn't. Something was wrong. When I went to the front to get a soda the manager was just staring at me. Not just staring at me, but giving me the "You got busted doing something stupid and I know what it is" look. This from the guy who had to take off from work because the cops came into the store looking for him. I knew it was bad, but I didn't screw an ugly phone girl or get busted for smoking pot or stealing or anything. I'm as clean as can be. That's all young stupid people shit anyway. Not my style anymore.
I repeatedly asked him what the fuck was up, an dbear in mind that I was already in a bad mood. At first, he asked me if he was Satan. I said no, not as far as I knew. I had images of a phone girl getting covered in pizza sauce like Carrie or perhaps he had one of the junior cooks go get a Bacon Stretcher from the place on the other side of the plaza. Finally he said " go into the back and look at the wall. The one that has the Names on Top of the Cups rule." Wondering what the hell was going on, I proceded to the back, noting that EVERYONE was staring at me at this point. Guess what I saw?

Yea, that's right, a printed page from yours truly's blog. One of the cooks was looking up info on the business for his work release program, and Managed to come across this post when he Googled Talayna's. Now Google 704d. Everyone thought it wa fuckin' funny, and we all had a good laugh about it. I guess none of them have heard of a blog before. I don't blame them, I hadn't before July. Now look at me, all getting noticed and shit. Everyone wanted to know who Master Toad is.

Un fortunately, now I've got a few problems. Everyone I work with will know everything about me that I write, at least for a few weeks. I don't even know if my friends still check out the website. Hopefully this will all blow over in a few, and I won't have to worry about it. Cheers, Dooce. You too, Brian.

*sigh*

AMF

hmmm

I'm not uploading a cup image today, because my image editing program stopped working...I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it, but I know this: I'm going to play mech warrior. And I 'm sorry about the whole deal. I guess I'll stop by Kimba's after work tonite and do up a whole bunch of photos, and then let 'em go a little at a time.

WARNING: This Post is Graphic Intensive!

I kinda overdid it with the publish my post button, but whatever. It happens. Here are the pics:

The gold on the camaro is looking nice.

It will go a lot faster when the quiet box is finished tomorrow.

This is a Bigass pot of pasta sauce.

The rest of the pics are from Spades Night.

Scout likes popcorn.

So does Gnu.

Apple

Speedy wuz 'ere.

AMF

Bad News or "Why I'm Not Doing Shit Today."

I just heard back from Amazon. Bad. T-mobile wants me to put down a $500 deposit in order for them to pick me up, and Amazon isn't down with that. So now, not only do I not get a free Sidekick 2, but I don't get shit. Fuggit, I'm going to Lemongrass.
I'll add the shift cup of the day later tonite, and I've got some CRAZY spades night pics, but for now, I'm bummed out.

Bad News or "Why I'm Not Doing Shit Today."

I just heard back from Amazon. Bad. T-mobile wants me to put down a $500 deposit in order for them to pick me up, and Amazon isn't down with that. So now, not only do I not get a free Sidekick 2, but I don't get shit. Fuggit, I'm going to Lemongrass.

Bad News. or "Why I'm Not Doing Shit Today."

I just heard back from Amazon. Bad. T-mobile wants me to put down a $500 deposit in order for them to pick me up, and Amazon isn't down with that. So now, not only do I not get a free Sidekick 2, but I don't get shit. Fuggit, I'm going to Lemongrass.

Styrofoam cups are the new message T-shirt

AT Talayna's World Class Pizza it is mandatory to write your name ON TOP of your cup, or it will be thrown away. This is bad, as it is my habit to simply decorate my cup by drawing or etching on it, and not putting my name on it at all. However, I realized that if someone did write on the side of their cup, it would draw much attention. To deviate from the norm generally is noticed, and I can use it to my advantage, by giving a little bit of wisdom or whimsy to anyone who happens to notice, "Hey, someone wrote on the side of their cup, not on the top!" Thus, the message cup is born. I'll post a new one after every shift that I work, a sort of word/picture of the day type thing. Kinda like what Kimba has going on, with a little more predictability. (It's obviously going to be a picture of a cup.) I hope ya'all like it.
Here's a pic:

Guess the story behind THIS ONE.

Pre second round toon blog

Oh yea, besides getting my free ipod soon, ALL BY MYSELF I'm also getting a T-Mobile sidekick II. I'm hopefully going to order it tomorrow and I'm even going to spring for the 20$ next-day shipping. They are friggin sweet, and I can also Blog from anywhere. I'm even going to be able to instantly upload photos that I take with it. EAT MY ASS, PARIS.toons are on.

Venture Bros. Pearl:

Monarch Henchman no. 26, talking to the Monarch about intruder:"It's like they taped two ninjas together, to create one SUPERninja!"

Theeses and Thoses

ANOTHER tale of phone girl stupidity:(Actualy I found out two important things about Marlena tonite. First, as you might have noticed, I found out her name and remembered it. Second, she's technically a server and not a phone person or, "salad girl") Last night the manager Brian asked her if she paid her monthly "Server Union" dues. she forked over $16 bucks before she realized why we were laughing. I'd feel bad, but, you know I don't.

THIS page is among our most popular. After the active blogs and my cockeyed.com story. I have no idea why or how, but it gets like 100 or more hits a month, and the only link is from a blog that I did a longass time ago, and now this one as well. I'm going to modify it with a link to the site, in a minute.

LAST night was a pretty historic night, by way of me dumping a whole bowl of chili 3-way on the carpet in my room, and a personal discovery. I'm not going to say much about either one unless I feel like it, as I do.

THANKS, by the way, fuckers. I've not had a single person help me on my quest for a free ipod. NOT A ONE. You know I'd do it for you, but...nothing. That's fine, I'll do it by myself.

LAST night as well, Gnu invited me to come over after work and play a little Pocket Tanks with him. When I got there, He was sleeping and Monster was crying. (I think Monster thought I was Kimba coming home, and he was putting on a show about how much he had missed her, but I don't know. Maybe she does.) So yea I drank one of Gnu's beers, beat the computer on hard a dozen times, and left. (Gnu did spring for all the weapons, so It's pretty fun and crazy to play the computer. You can never tell what the hell it'll shoot at you.) All in all, a shitty post-work evening. I don't see me going over there for anything other than spades night. It used to be a reason to get drunk, but I don't need one anymore. Alcoholism is a disease, I hear, and my body has a ridiculous Immune system. I'm not saying I won't stop by (bye?) so don't worry Kimba, but... I guess I'm saying I've been fucked by Gnu for the last time. (Yea, right. we'll see.) Actually, now that I think about it, that's not even possible. But hopefully I can at least cut it down a little

>;)

AMF

Filler

Here are some pics that I took over the last few days.

Finally:

(It's a box to make my airbrush quieter so I can opperate it at night. Work in progress.)

AMF

Other shite

...I'M not sure what to write tonite, Everything is kinda weird... The boy Phone girl paid me 5 bucks to roll like twenty things of silverware. He was in a hurry, he told everyone, because he was going to get laid tonite. I told him to think of me.

My truck model is coming along. Rather slowly, but it is coming along. I've slept in till 3 pm the last few days, so I haven't been able to airbrush the body of it or the Camaro. No biggy.

Phone Girls

THE phone girls at pizza places are notorious for two things. Being very hot, young girls, and being not-the-brightest-crayon-in-the-box. The other day we were making fun of one of them, (I don't know the names of anyone I work with yet. Except the two managers, both of whom were working with me the last time I was at Talayna's.) I asked her if she knew any big words, and she said she knew plenty.
me"Use one in a sentence."
her"no."
me"come on, prove me wrong."
her"Your name is sufficient."
me"My name is sufficient?"
her"Yeah."
me"OK."

ON another note, Gnu's going to lose his job pretty soon, and it's not his fault (for once.) He's spent the last year spending all this money on tools and stuff, his own money, and now nothing. I feel bad, necause now there's going to be a pizza delivery guy with more tools than me.

Annoyed

WOW, My last post that I did before work today about a bunch of cool shit disappeared. NOW I AM ANNOYED.

A Dream:

This one is really scattered, and fading fast.

My best friend from High School was at my house, and I was back as a kid, living in my purple room in the basement, lit up with colored christmas lights. I can't remember how we got to my house, but her husband (?) was away for a while. We were making out and I was trying to get her naked, and somehow doing homework was involved. We went down into the basement where Jim from Vivian's was bartending (?) and into my room. We stripped down and got into bed, but I couldn't get her to open her legs. (Story of my life, NOT!) She was afraid if we had sex that the people in the bar would hear us, through the slots in the door. Then something else happened that I can't remember and I woke up.

I don't usually have sex dreams. I guess technically this wasn't one. I miss Kourtney though. I'm sure she's off and married, but I still miss her. If you're lucky I might tell you about her one day, but not today. I feel kind of raw about the whole deal still.

Amazing post from abroad!

(Kimba's House)
I delivered a pizza to a fish packing plant tonite. It smelled like your mom. The rest of the day was shit, and I am drinking to forget. (It won't work.)

Sophistry

one of my new favorite blogs. Clicky.


Hmmm... Reminds me of me.

Did Stuff

I have a list of stuff to do for the website. Click if you want to see. I already did some, as you can see. Um... I had a good night at work, not as usual. I made 66 bucks. The front end of my car is getting a little loose, but Ill check it out in the next few days. Kilgor and Christ had a wonderful drunken time saturday night, Cheers to both of them wrecking their cars. Napoleon Dynamite voice," IDIOTS."
I went to this Rasterbator sight, and ran the moms printer out of ink:

Click for a comparison of the Photoshop image vs. the Rasterbate image. No don't I deleted it before I got it onto the site. *sorry.

I found a new tip for my airbrush in the college shit I bought and it seems to work fine now...except that I dropped it and bent the needle. (I'll post pics to explain tomorrow, I don't even want to look at it right now.)

But I will post a pic of the S.A.M. beer cooler I made at the shop, right before I pitched it.

Man, I miss Photoshop. As for me myself and I, I'm doing okay. Aside from wishing Dooce would send me a proof of her new masthead everytime she changes it, I'm great. I'm making money again, the creative juices are flowing, and... um, I've got bud. Even though tomorrow is Monday, I think I'm gonna go get a job anyway. Plus it's spades night, and the ball is rolling...

AMF

Annoyed

Finding out the hard way that your dugout is NOT waterproof is not my idea of a good time. It still does beat Tom goes to Mayor though.

bump

A while ago I posted this link: http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=11819688 to help me get a free ipod. A few people have asked, so I am posting it again. Here's how easy and free it was.
I created a new user account in about five minutes. Then I got to go to the list of sponsors. All you have to do is complete one offer, such as create a columbia house account or try Blockbuster online for free. I opted for the free Blockbuster online offer, because hey, it said it was free. I was skeptical however, but all I had to lose was 20 bucks and I had an ipod to gain. (still do.) So I completed the Blockbuster create an account thing, and let it go for 10 days.
Their selection wasn't bad, but I already had Netflix and I didn't want to pay for two services. So after about a week I canceled my account. They still sent me a few movies, but in another week I was done. True enough, as it said in the ad about two weeks after joining I got my ipod completion notice thingy, and I was in there. Blockbuster didn't charge me a dime, and I got several free movie rentals after all was said and done.
So Please, please sign up and help me win a free ipod. If you do it for me, I'll do it for you. Don't we all deserve free ipods?

http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=11819688

THX

O'fallon Gold

Click for Desktop size

Boredom Interupted

Look ma, no beer!

Change of schedule

SO this is how it's oging to be, I guess, for at least a few more weeks. Me sleeping from 8am to 4pm, late night crazy blogs, and you day walkers will just have to play catch-up with my life.
I spent some more money today. I borrowed 10 bucks from moms because I was up during human hours and I wanted to hit up the model shop. I got a sweet 1953 Ford cutom truck to put my engine into. I know, I'm not supposed to be spending $ but at this rate, I should be good for at least a few days. I don't know what to do about the airbrush yet, so I'm putting the Camaro on hold. Which sucks, because it's all but done, and I don't even know what color I want the truck. I'm considering making it all rusted out, like a super sleeper, but, I dunno. Work is okay, but it's weird to be so much older than the other employees. I'm totally the coolest though.

Me "Hey"
Cute Jailbait Phone Girl "Hi! I like your horn!"
Me "Thanks."

Then I whipped out the hammer from the future and fixed a few things.

Random Cook "Are those your tools?"
Manager"Yeah, he used to be some big bad sign construction guy."
Other cook"Cool"
Me "Thanks."

That's about it. I am now the cool Delivery guy that I always wanted to be.

What's next?

Where Are Your Kids Right Now?

I JUST saw a commercial that reminded me of Johan and Christ, and I wanted to call them... then I realized it's 4 AM. I'm Hungry. Weird.

Mini Showdown

I'M currently watching this show on History channel about the two teams who have to race-modify a couple of vintage Mini's. Old ass Mini's. But the show wasn't done by discovery so the two teams are getting pissed off and cussing and nothing is going right. (25 years of rust and corosion) Good Show. Talk about Real TV.

Work

I just got back from my first night back as a delivery boy. Man! What a good night it was. Everyine at the door was pleasant, happy to see me, and tipping well. I made 35 bucks cash. Which I reinvested in a new model and some paint. But work, oh man!
I was a great delivery guy. I still remember how good I was, doing a perfectish job and I always took more deliveries than everyone else. But it's the subtle things that you forget. Like how a crate for 8 2-liter sodas makes a great in-car cup tray (on tha pass. floor) or how if someone orders 2 pastas you have to put an empty pizza box in the bag to keep it from spilling in the seat. You know, the little things. The things that make you the best.
I also forgot how the place smells. The doughy, cookedy smell that (unfortunatelly) permeates even your skin. It's etched into (onto?) the very walls. No delinquent showers for me. I'm finishing up my Camaro model that I started right after I started at the sign shop. I took a picture of it last night, but the camera is in my car And I'm already missing Futurama for this shit.
Zoidberg"I love America. You get what you want, and noone makes you feel guilty because noone cares!"
Fry"We're not listening!"
Zoidberg"That's what I'm talking about."
so yea I'm finishing this Bitchin 2 year old model and my airbrush craps out. I have no idea what is wrong with it, and I just want to throw it away and get a new one cuzz it's such a pain in the ass. I airbrushed a CD rack for Kilgor the other day and didn't take a picture even because it looked so poor. But when I get a chance I'll fix it. Lord knows he's not actually going to move any of his CD's onto it >;-)
My next project is going to totally make Johan Jealous. I'm going to find a 1956 or so ford, and but this blown 400ci Firebird engine into it, and then mebbe some 20's and a bitchin' paint job (if I can find a good airbrush. That's it for now, Bitches!

(If you know of a good place to get a Pasche Airbrush looked at, please comment)

um...

So I just went to free ipods and there was no Blockbuster online offer... oh well, please try something else!

Tea Thingy or "How I distracted Johan from Christ"

Because I couldn't remember 'till I saw the pictures

AMF

Dream:

This Bus showed up in a dream I had.

click here

Note: bus in photo is cooler than the bus as it appeared in my dream.

A Pearl:

If you took Aligators out of their natural environment because, say, there was a huge tidal wave that wiped out all of the vegitation or Aliens came and took over Earth, and you put the Aligators on the moon in space suits so that they could deal with the vacuum with cool badass looking helmets and flames on the outside, they would still die because you can't eat bunnies and cats and people through a space helmet.

A letter to my friends.

I ended that last post early cuzz it's time for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but it's not on. So I'll finish now. A SPECIAL LETTER TO MY FRIENDS:
Dear Dudes,
I know I have been acting weird lately. This is in part due to the stress I have been going through because of not having a job (grammar?) And part due to a little bout of depression. I appreciate all the patience ya'll have shown me, and the space as well. While I'd like to do nothing but play disc golf and drink beer all day long, I cannot. I have been spending most of my time either in bed or very close to it, my psyche bending back into shape. I'm almost myself again, and I'll see you on sunday at Kilgor's if you are there. (Isn't that when the next game is?)
You people are as important to me as my family, and if I could explain what I'm going through, I would. Please keep me in your prayers ( I know I know, but that's what I'm supposed to say right there) as you are constantly in my mind. I look forward to getting better, and back to the old Toad, so we can spend time together.
It's times like these that we really see what our strengths are, and why we need each other so much. Very much like me taking Johan or Kilgor out to get away from their women and vent, or just get drunk. Very much like taking Christ out when her man isn't around and watch over her and shit you know, have a good time. This is my time of need. I need, not to vent like normal people, but to stay here, in my cocoon (sp?) by myself. Iknow it's not healthy, not good. But it is what I need, and who could know better than me? much like a catterpillar emerging as a butterfly, the pain it takes to change is no longer worse than the pain it takes to stay the same. The healing process has begun, and everything's gonna be alright.

Thanks again,
Toad

Talayna's

I went by that old place where I worked before I was forced into hell. The nice store in O'fallon. It was 9:37 pm and the place was shut down. Talayna's is a pizzeria. A pretty decent one, compared to all the chains anyway. But a pizzeria, one that is in good order, is always open until at least 11pm. For deliveries, anyway. If not, there is a problem. They had a now hiring drivers sign in the window, which would be a good reason not to stay open late at night, if there is noone to deliver pizzas. I have no idea what's going on, maybe the manager just shut her down early (big no-no.)
I'm going to call the owner tomorrow to see what's up, I was kind of counting on working there until I got back on my feet. Hopefully this is the sort of situation where I can step in as Master Toad and run the whole show for a few months, make a ton of cash as The Man, and then get out scott free. We'll see, I have to call the boss. (I was running shifts at the Main Street location for 10 bucks an hour before I started working in hell. The day "Satan" hired me, the Talayna's guy offered me the whole store, for $13 an hour + around $200 a month in incentives. I turned him down for the job my father got me because one had a "future." Which one can you guess that one was?)

ummm no

I thought I had somethin to say today, but now that I'm here, I guess I don't. Ummm, Quentin Tarantino is in from Dusk Till Dawn... and I have a crush on that one chick, I think her name is Juliette Lewis or somethin...(No.1, baby!)Lemme lookit up..ya. and here's some nonsense.

Clicky for Dusk 'Till Dawn collage

New Years Reloaded

I finished the New Years collage. I hope you enjoy.

The Great Snooze

Today I hit the snooze button every 9 minutes from 10:00am until 2:15pm. No shit.

Get a job!

Today I decided that Monday isn't a good day to go find a job. When I was hiring, I had a certian system how I would hire people, and if you didn't follow the system, you didn't get a job. If you called me too many times, if you didn't catch the "I'm not hiring you " vibe, then it was a big hassle for me, and you don't hassle the boss. No way. So, today I figured that if I had a 9-5 job, and someone wanted to get hired, they would leave me alone on monday because nothing good happens on monday and getting hired is a good thing. I also slept in until about an hour ago. (No, that has nothing to do with it.)