deadhead

i was up too late last night pissing around with my new cable modem connection. it was funny, the installer made a rookie mistake after installing the network card. we laughed about it. we also talked a lot about linux. when he logged the call, he wrote “experienced user” in the comment section. i might have blushed.
so, yeah. i have cable access. i’m not sure what i expected, but i had this feeling of disappointment when my download speeds weren’t quite what i thought they should be. then again, i did manage to fetch a 132mb file in just over an hour. three months ago that would have taken me three days to accomplish.
as a result, i was basketcase this morning (i still am, actually). i finally got out of bed and went about getting ready with zombie-like speed. so, by the time i got onto the highway, the traffic was backed up ten kilometres from the bridge. it took me twice as long to get to work as usual. forty minutes as opposed to twenty. it’s just the principle of the thing.
then there was fuckwad. fuckwad was driving a bigass boat of a car and he wouldn’t let me merge in front of him. asshole. i drive a geo, for pete’s sake. you couldn’t let my itsy little car in? nooo… the very nice person behind him let me and the car behind me in front of him to make up for jerkface’s greed. so, i’m behind idiot man and i look at the sticker on his bumper. i don’t quite believe it, so i squint to get a better look.
it was a grateful dead sticker.
this struck me as odd/weird/spooky because just last night, while waiting for the cable guy i was reading “postcards from the dead” by douglas coupland which is a series of vignettes based around a grateful dead concert.
then i got even more upset. deadheads are supposed to be laid-back-and-free-loving. not greedy-assholes-who-don’t-let-cute-girls-in-geos-in-front-of-them-in-bumper-to-bumper-traffic, dammit.
but, i’m here. i’m alive. i’m still cute. i’m very tired and guest-blogging over at andrea’s site today. i hope i don’t scare all her readers away. i’m trying very hard to be interesting. which will probably mean that my site will be dull as migraine pain today. if the lack of interest doesn’t, i’m sure my incessant rambling will. someone take my keyboard away. i can’t seem to stop typing!
hey! wait! i was just kiddil92#$20}!@#