The Mad Bull’s Blog, Version 3

Hmmm… Only three days since my last post! Wow, given how infrequent my posts have become, posting today almost seems like flooding you with blog posts! Of course, it isn’t, is it? Yes, I know how you are thirsty for more blog posts from me, and at times I have left you on the verge of death from lack of reading material and I apologise!

At least I have that Twitter feed over there on the right hand side of my blog… It allows me to give you a mini update whenever I want to about whatever I want to. At least that way, you can keep up (somewhat) with what is going on with me, so if you drop in and don’t see a post, chill for a bit and scroll through my Twitter updates. Its not much, but maybe it will keep you going until something with more meat upon its bones comes along, nuh true? Hopefully you will find them interesting.

I was reading something the other day on one of those “serious” blogs… You know the ones I mean, those blogs where the authors are filled with journalistic zeal, where they focus on one topic, or on covering the news, or something like that. Those blogs where the authors sometimes seem to think that they CAN change the world, or something. Now I am not knocking them, maybe they can… Anyway, I saw something on one of those blogs where the guy split blogs into two groups, those where the blogger wrote about every mundane aspect of their lives and posted jokes and / or pictures of beautiful women, etc., etc., and then there are [ I sum up what the guy had to say here ] the more serious blogs.

Yow, the way the guy said it, it seemed to me like he was looking down his nose at blogs in the first category… and guess what? That is exactly the type of blog I write. So, what do I think of what he said? He sort of pissed me off, yo! Yes, Rasta, I-man did brindle at what the man said. I did get cross… angry… mizerable! Hey, if I knew where to find him, he would have needed a bullet-proof vest AND bullet-proof skin! ;^)

Ok, he is partially right, still. You CAN split blogs into those two groups… but I think there is a place for those less “serious” blogs too, and it is an important place as well.

Hey, with all the CNN’s and the BBC’s and the Al Jazeera’s, plus with all the “serious” bloggers out there, we NEED blogs where you can just go and find something to laugh at, or ogle hot chicks or listen to music, or as my boss would say, to just fuck off on, if thats what we want to do. Thats what I think anyway… and well, I know one or two of you do like my blog (like Seven, my sister) and so this blog is for her, and the one or two others of you who want somewhere to go to just chill out at. The rest of you who don’t appreciate this type of blog need not detain yourselves. Get to steppin’! Go read some news or something.

And now, just to thumb my nose at people who are like that guy I have been talking about, those people who appear to be on their high horse looking down on the rest of us , here are a couple of hot chix for the rest of us to ogle!

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Natty made me laugh yesterday. We went to lunch together and we were chatting. She was telling me about an interaction she had with a customer. Apparently he had just put his credit card into our bank’s ATM when his cell phone rang. He took the call and was chatting for a bit, and the ATM eventually gobbled up his card. The man was pretty angry over this, can you imagine?!

He must not have used ATMs much before, because that is standard ATM behaviour. If you leave your card in it too long without doing anything, it assumes you have left it and it gobbles it for YOUR safety.

Anyway, the man ranted on about our “stupid” ATMs, and …

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After we sell Air Jamaica to the Trinis, what will be next? Maybe we can sell them a parish, as “Dutty Bwoy” suggests in his blog post (A great read, by the way: Click here ). Here is another saleable item: Blue Mountain Peak! What do you think? Here is a more comprehensive list of Jamaican firms owned by T&T interests than Dutty Bwoy mentions in his blog post: Click here.

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Bwoy, I owe you a post, nuh true? Look how long it has been! Ten whole days! I have been keeping busy, I guess. Lots of work, taking the dog for runs with the new bicycle, going to the gym and spending time with my family.

Outside of that normal run-of-the-mill crap, I have been playing pool sometimes, though not doing as well as I would have liked. I blame that on not playing much pool over the course of my vacation, experiencing a small slump on my immediate return and then on not being as tough mentally as I was yet. Still, I am on the very edge of making a comeback!

I have been doing lots of Sudoku puzzles! Lots! Looks like I am hooked, yo! All four and five puzzles a day! I have even been doing them while I am on the Stair Master at the gym! Oh, and I have been watching “Desperate Housewives” and “Burn Notice” with Natty. Yes, we are almost done watching every Seinfeld episode there is, so she has turned her attention to other shows!

Wow, I thought “Desperate Housewives” would be a bunch of girly-girly crap, but its a pretty good show, actually! We are working our way through Season 2 now. “Burn Notice” is okay. Its like a light action show. It won’t amaze you and thrill you bigtime like “24″ probably would, but it will pass the time.

I went out bar hopping with some bredrins from work last Friday nite. I ended up at “The Office Bar and Lounge”. It was pretty good, but it ended with a twist. See, I saw some people there that live in Northward too, two of whom used to be neighbours of mine. Though they are much younger than I am, (early 20’s) we used to talk some, mostly about dogs. They had a couple of nice pit bulls… Also, I have seen them out at Corner Pocket a couple of times and played pool with them. Really nice guys. Anyway… when they were leaving, they said goodbye to me too… I was chatting in my group and as they passed by they hailed me.

I stayed at “The Office” for a bit more, then went to Seymour’s Jerk Centre with my bredrins. While there , one of them got a phone call saying that there had been an accident. Anyway, I left Seymours shortly after and headed home. I ended up sitting in the traffic jam caused by that accident for maybe an hour and a half.

I finally got home and went to bed. I found out the next day that my ex-neighbours had been the guys involved in the accident, and that one of them had died. It felt pretty weird, especially since I had just seen them and been interacting with them. Wow.

R. I. P., Matthew. I hope things work out OK for the other guys too.

Anyway, its time I get ready for work. TTYL.

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You know, I have two neighbours that are seeing each other… the one on the left is the guy, and the one on the right is the girlfriend. The girlfriend technically lives with her parents, but she sleeps over at the boyfriends house on the regular. I often see her walking over to her parents’ house, early in the morning…

This morning, she walked over from the boyfriend’s house wearing a tiny little shortie nightie! Out in the road, you know! Imagine if a little puff of breeze had just lifted up the tail of the nightie! Bunkie woulda expose!

I guess she forgot to bring over her clothes. This is *sort of like* a walk of shame, I guess… except that she has no shame.

* I say “*sort of like*”, because this is definitely not a one night stand.

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You know, I haven’t said anything about it here because its all people are talking about everywhere, but now, I think I am going to record it, just so when I read back through the blog, as I do from time to time, I will remember…

It cold, rasta! Yow, if we check out the situation up north, it really wicked fi true! My father-in-law was telling me about the record breaking temperatures in Tampa, FL earlier in the week, Seven has mentioned the same thing in Weston, FL and if you check out the Weather Channel, OMG! Its cold everywhere!

Well, Cayman is no exception. It is cold here too! Cold for Cayman, anyway. I am not sure what the temperature is actually, but it must be at least in the low 70’s, (when you think that we are more accustomed to about 88 to 92 degrees all the time, you realise that this is cold!) and there is a bracing wind! At the same time, people here are loving it! Everyone is saying how nice the weather is, and how they wish they were at home in bed, snuggled up with their honeys in front of the TV. It is nice weather for a change, but it sure effs up any beach plans anyone might have had. Personally, I wouldn’t mind if the weather was like this all the time here in Cayman, except at the beach! I think the government needs to invest in a glass dome-like covering for the entire country, with the exception of the beaches. Then they could air-condition inside the dome, and have giant fans that generate gentle breezes… Then we would have the best weather ever! Nice and cold like it is now, and yet wonderful beach weather. I think Cayman is almost small enough to make this feasible, actually…

By the way, it looks like Paul Allen likes it here in the Cayman Islands! It looks like he is taking a vacation here again, his yacht, the “Octopus” has been anchored at various points around the island for about a week now. I wonder if he is happy with the weather too?

We took MBJr. to see “Alvin & the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel” last night. It wasn’t all that good. You know how cows chew their food twice, right? Well, its like that is what they did with this movie. They gave us the first one, which was not much better than ok, and then, they regurgitated of the first one, chewed it up some more and gave it to us again. It wasn’t even all that funny!

Thank God I got free tickets to go to see it. Yeah, I am a member of the Social Club at my workplace and they gave out some free tickets to members. I got two. I used them for Natty and myself, and then I paid the kid’s fee for MBJr., so at least I didn’t waste too much money going to see the movie. Its unfortunate that MBJr. wanted to see that movie though, because there are a couple of others I would have been far more interested in, like Sherlock Holmes, The Blind Side, and even Old Dogs. I know “Old Dogs” got poor Tomato Meter ratings, but the at least the trailer suggests that it would be funnier than Alvin & the Chipmunks!

By the way, when they were showing the “Coming Attractions”, I noticed that they are having a fourth Shrek movie! Yow, the first two were FRESH, but the third was a bit sucky, and now they’re coming with a fourth? What is wrong with these people?! Why are they trying to turn Shrek into Rocky or Friday the 13th a tired piece of crap? Can it really be so hard to come up with something new?! God Damn!!! It looks like someone needs to kill Shrek, or we will be watching tired Shrek sequels for-fucking-ever!

You know, I am thinking of taking on the job myself! I love you, Shrek, but its for your own good! Don’t fight it, man! We have to preserve your legacy! Its all about how we want people to remember you!

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Hey all. This looks like this month has the potential to be a busy month, work-wise and otherwise. They are outsourcing I/T at my bank and this month, half the applications will migrate to servers overseas. They plan to do this over the long weekend which is coming up. (the 24th is a public holiday.) So far, I don’t see my name on the roster as having any tasks to do with that move, but you never know…

I was hoping I would have been able to get a date from the U.S. Embassy in Jamaica for that weekend to go and renew my visa, but now it doesn’t look like I will be able to go since we will be short-staffed at that time and since they are doing this move. Sux, but there is still February, right?

So lately I have taken up doing sudoku puzzles. They are a cool way to pass time, man. Some say that they keep your mind active as well. I don’t think I am all that good at doing them, as I know two guys at work who finish them in half the time it takes me to do them, but they are fun anyway, so whatever… I will go on trying a little thing with them.

I have also been taking the dog for a run in the evenings when I get home early enough. I ride my bike and hold his leash and he runs along beside the bike. That is way more fun for both of us, I think. Walking him is ok, but riding the bicycle is more fun for me, and he loves the opportunity to stretch out. Interestingly enough, MBJr. has also been showing a renewed interest in tagging along on these walk / runs. I am going to have to buy him a bicycle and teach him to ride. Its full time he learned to ride still. Wish me luck with that, because MBJr. is very risk-averse.

Natty and I had run out of TV shows to watch at the end of last year. We have decided to watch Desperate Housewives. (She wasn’t interested in Fringe, Dexter or 24). I got Desperate Housewives Season 1 and we have been going through that. Its not too bad. Eva Longoria is pretty hot! I like the look of the neighbourhood slut lady too. They should give her a bigger role in the show, IMHO! Sluts…. Gotta love them! I mean, I wouldn’t marry one, but everyone has a purpose, even sluts, right?

So, it is Friday! The first Friday of the year, and indeed, of the decade! How do you plan to celebrate it? Me, I think I will celebrate it by leaving the men who read my blog with a picture of something nice and hot to meditate upon until they finish work and hit the bars and the clubs later… The thoughts might help them to keep warm in these cold times, nuh true?

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Ok, the New Year has begun, and the public holiday is over! The Christmas season is officially finished. I got a little present I didn’t want this Christmas, i.e. some inches around the waist. The task to get rid of this unwanted gift begins in earnest today. I am GOING to go to the gym within an hour! No more fattening foods for the rest of the month! I had enough for the Christmas season to last me anyways!

I have a number of other things I want to get done today, amongst them taking down the Christmas tree, supermarket, going for a bike ride / running the dog (now that I have a bicycle, no more walks for him. The minimum he will be travelling at is a trot! Not that he is fat or anything, but he could get fitter, and if I am getting fitter, he will have to do the same! Sux to be him? Yeah, probably, but he will just have to deal with it!), taking MBJr. to the park to throw frisbee, shooting a little pool later….

That’s probably enough to plan for the day without consulting anyone else what THEY have planned, don’t you think?

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Cute, huh? This is a bunch of meercats I snapped at Busch Gardens last time I was there. They really do move in a tightly knit group, like a family, just as they show on Animal Planet in that show Meercat Manor.

Anyway, from my family to you and yours, Happy New Year! May 2010 bring you health, wealth and happiness.

Bless!

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MBJr. has developed this bad habit of sneaking up behind me while I am on the computer, ostensibly either trying to frighten me, or to see how long it will take me to find out that he is there.

I say bad habit not because I hate being scared like that, but because there is a reasonably good chance he will see content with semi-nude / nude women or foul language strewn all over my monitor when he does this.

Of course, it is probably partially because he suspects that he might come across goodies of this nature why his preoccupation with surprising me has not yet faded. I say ‘partially’ because he is also fascinated with reading what I am writing on my blog as I am writing it, and he doesn’t get to see any racy pictures while I am doing that, so the fascination can’t ALL be based on hopes of furtive glimpses of nudity.

Sometimes its almost as if he just wants to know what the hell I am up to and so he spies on me. Its a bit disturbing.

I think I need to install a rear view mirror on my monitors. Maybe I need a motion detector by the door of the room the computers are in as well. What do you think?

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