I need a Spanish speaker to translate a wedding toast and Babelfish is not going to cut it.
Can anybody lend a hand?
Archive for June 17th, 2005
Entertain me.
Love,
ACW
P.S. What do you all do for fun online when you’re bored? Most days I can spread the blogging, working, and general goofing off around enough to make the day go by without gaps, but every now and then I get stuck with nothing to do. I read blogs to fast, or I have nothing to write, and I’ve already played my online games. The aggregator doesn’t help because it saves me so much time (it does, however, make me feel lots better than going through my bookmarked blogs over and over all day to find no updates).
I play Legend of the Green Dragon, which keeps me busy for between 5 and 20 minutes before noon and after noon. I read blogs and check comments (mine and everybody else’s). I settle my banking. I mess around with Netflix. Sometimes I play games at Pogo. Everynow and then people will IM me and that will keep me entertained (and you can feel free to do so at any time. I’ll talk to whomever about whatever). Generally though, that’s about it. It’s kind of lame to look at it like that, so I need your help to delamify me.
Last night ACWF and I went to have dinner with mokiejovis, his 10-ruples-gets-you-a-bride wife AKA my sister-in-law, her father, and her grandparents.
Mokie’s wifey, M, has her roots in Spain, Argentina, and France. Her dad, V, has his roots in Spain and France. The GPs, as far as I know, are old school Argentine. So M and V are bilingual, but the GPs are not.
This made for an interesting evening when we were eating crabs and drinking beers. V, who is a devilish bastard but hilarious no less, kept telling us things to say in Spanish to be polite to his in-laws. Luckily I know Spanish better than I can speak it, so when he told me to say that I like to suck balls, I could tell the GPs that it was indeed V who liked to suck balls. Though my translating kind of went to crap when I tried to explain something, but accidentally said, “No. I don’t castrate myself.”
All in all it was a good night, and I think I made M’s grandmother laugh when I called M un borracho, and told the grandmother, “M cante ‘Yo amo mucho vino. Soy boracho.’“
It was also fun to sit and say things like, “Cock. Ass. Sack. Wang.” while the GPs smiled politely. ACWF said I was being rude, but I think it would be hilarious if they did the same thing to me.
If you’re a power company, it’s your job to supply power. Simple, no? Apparently, if you’re BGE in Baltimore, the answer actually is no.
All summer long Kmart and I have been suffering planned power outages at the hands of BGE. They’ll send us a letter a few weeks in advance to let us know that they’re going to hang us out to dry, power-wise, and if we don’t like it we can go take a flying fuck. Normally it’s just for 8 or 10 hours from midnight on, and that’s not too bad. At least we weren’t running our AC when they did those.
But I just got a new letter for another planned outage. For 30 hours.
30 hours!? Are you fucking KIDDING me!? Do you even know that turning off our power for 30 hours runs completely contrary to your job of providing me some fucking E-lec-tricity? Ridiculous walnut brained ass monkeys.
In what other industry do they take their services away and then expect you to like it? Can you imagine walking into a bank and having them tell you that you wouldn’t be able to access your cash for 30 hours in the next week? At least you can withdrawal some cash to have available in advance. Where the fuck am I supposed to horde electricity? I can’t just put it in a cardboard box in the corner of the basement BGE.
Yeah, I guess a generator would work, but BGE could also do their goddamned jobs.
