Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Introduction

So I'm new to the whole idea of a blog but I figured its just an online diary that I could possibly get feedback on. That can't be too bad. Too bad I don't have very much christmas cheer so most of these posts will be bitchy and depressing rants, but that seems to be the majority of blogs I've read. So why not add another to the millions already out there. So typical.

So who am? Well, a 23 year old living in Minneapolis, a city that I love. Most of my ramblings will be about my favorite places in the city. Of course being a Minnesotan, I have to talk about weather. For those of you who don't live in MN or the midwest and can only think of cold when you hear Minnesota, its all true. Right now its a chilly -17° C right now. But I'm not complaining, its Christmas time, its winter, its supposed to be cold. I get so annoyed by all the people that have lived here all their lives and still bitch and moan about how cold it gets. Really now, you know its coming, it happens every year, have you not gotten used to it?? Gosh! (I love Napoleon Dynamite. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/quotes)

So I supervise a call center which of course ranks up there with one of the worse jobs possible. I work with a bunch of freakin idiots and the people that call here are even worse. One woman is so out of touch with things that she brought the cordless phone in her house to work thinking it should work like a cell phone. I watched her try numerous times to turn the phone and make a call only to receive the noise indicating its out of range. When I commented "isn't it a little far away to use that?" she said oh is that why its making that strange noise? Sometimes I wonder how people function on a daily basis. Thats the type of people I work with. There will probably be many more rants about these people, just deal with it.

Also if the name of this blog doesn't give this away, I'm a severe Replacements fan. The songs referenced are not necessarily my favorites but they're great songs and it was the first thing I thought of. Anyone reading this that is not familiar with this band needs to go buy their CD Let It Be immediately. To me you can't get much better than this. If you get me started on this band I'll never stop. Everyone should own every CD in their catalog. For all the Replacements info you need visit www.theskyway.com. Another site of note is called the Man Without Ties www.PaulWesterberg.com. I can often be found on the message board of that site expressing my beliefs on the genius of Paul Westerberg. Acost me if you will, but yes I am even a huge fan of his solo work. He rights beautiful songs that inspire the deepest of emotions. Ok I don't normally talk like that but it is the truth. In November I attended all three of his shows at the Pantages Theatre in Minneapolis and have recently planned a road trip out west to see some friends and catch some of his west coast dates.

Alright enough on that issue. A lot of this site is going to be used for my complaints about people in the world today. I am an avid people watcher, has to be my favorite thing to do. So if you're easily offended you may want to stay away from this blog. There are way too many things that annoy me about people and institutions. So hold on tight and be ready for some complete bitching from here on out. When I see something that annoys me, this will most definitely end up being my release.