I have questions ... you got answers?

Casual Friday: Just add this stupid subject to the mound of hypocritical horse shit that makes up the finer aspects of a nine-to-five sentence. If production levels aren’t adversely affected by denim and polo shirts on Fridays, then I don’t see the point of maintaining the wardrobe fatwa the other 4 days a week. If dressing professionally contributes to our fulfilling our jobs more professionally (like my company’s B-like, straight-to-DVD production of “Great attitudes make for Great partnerships” professes), then why are we being given the message that on Friday, it’s ok to be unprofessional?

USPS branches: To all you homeless folks … all you lucky women of leisure … all you enjoying your mental health off-days … all you working the grave-yard shift …all you avid collectors anxiously awaiting the Black Heritage Month’s firstday covers … and all you clever Ebayers sending bulk to New Dehli weighing over 20lbs without having already properly packed it, please stay the fuck out of the post office between the hours of 11AM and 1PM your time when normal people on their lunch hours are trying to navigate around you.

Google: Quadruple earning reported. Stock looses 5%. “Buy on the rumors, sell on the news” right?! It's bullshit. Stock brokers go f-yourselves. You’re no different than my bookie. I’m now 100% convinced that the stock market is the same as a choppy Craps table in that the only real indicators of expected results are completely arbitrary and subject to the same laws that govern a casino floor – luck, vig and money management … at least in a casino, you might get a comp, a flirt and a place to lay your head. In the market, you get your margin calls called on you early without even a free buffet pass. If given the choice, I’d be very hard pressed to decide whether I’d rather play Keno or the stock market.

Read a great article by the way on the Gambler's Ruin problem. If your interested, check out this site. Substitute the word 'gambler' with the word 'inverstor', and the formula can then be interchanged equally.

Storage: You have got to be kidding. Not too attached to your 'thumb drive' are you?

Rebates: I don’t know when it will happen, but there will be a day of reckoning for these cocksucker merchants, when finally, rebate-commerce will be repealed and million dollar settlements are administered. I comb the web for the signs of a class action law suit to emerge, hoping, craving, pleading that I can join. All you budding lawyers out there … MOBILIZE for god sake! The most abhorrent illustration of this is with cell phones.

To claim my 3 different rebates for the Motorola RAZR V3 cell phone, they have asked me to provide a bill from my 9^th month of paid service, to keep credit card and web receipts, to respect a ridiculously tiny window of opportunity to send in my parcel of mail containing *originals* of the aforementioned paper work, *orginal* UPC codes, photographic evidence of the phone in question, and a stool sample from the day the phone was officially activated. Ugh.

Real Estate Agents: When the bubble bursts, and it will, we are talking about an army of illiterate, unintelligible, lazy, and technically retarded honorless dumb-asses joining the work place. People say that poker players don't product anything. What about these leaches? I'll take the Pepsi challenge any day on the Poker Player vs Real Estate agent debate. How will our society accept them back? I can’t wait to say.

From the AZ Republic:

Now, 72,386 people are licensed to sell real estate statewide, the Arizona Department of Real Estate reports. That's a 44 percent jump since 2000.

Read the full article here.

The Mexican day laborers in my state will have some major competition – hope they can work it all out.

Restaurants: Can anyone explain to me why I should tip the waitress at P.F. Changs twice as much as I do the waitress at Denny's for the same amount of food ? Makes no sense. Both waitresses made the same number of appearances, provided proficient and knowlegeable service, and both were kind, courteous and attentive to our dining needs. Yet, during my two recent experiences in these restaurants, I tipped the waitress $10 (on our $55 meal) at PFChangs, and tipped the waitress $5 (on our $25 late supper) the very next night.

Why does the value of the food on your plate have anything to do with the gratuity you're expected to provide ? Anyone? I propose a flat-fee matrix for service industry types. Percentages are bullshit.

SuperGirl is in Baton Rouge, LA for to work out some leaks in her game. In the meantime, I’m planning a little getaway to Las Vegas for her b-day ... More details to follow. September 9th looks like an optimal time, given the first week of the NFL schedule. Maybe even a little tournament action ... though, having just checked with cardplayer.com, looks like the only thing happening is at the Commerce. Like I said, more details to follow.