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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

The Amigos blog has been up for darn near a year now so I suppose that it's about time I threw something together and made my grand entrance on this thing. I'm not very good at these sorts of deals. I'm not witty or funny. I don't have any good "war" stories to tell, and the few times that I've actually answered pepperman emails I made small children cry. So what could I possilbly contribute a blog you ask? Well I figure if there is one thing I'm good at its ranting on and on about something or someone that has my shorts all up in a bunch. So... I dub my Salsa Posts "The Rantings of a lunatic". Fitting I think....and so it begins.

"The Rantings of a lunatic #1"
I hate the ice cream machine here...not the ice cream mind you as I'm very fond of Ice cream....but whoever invented this particular type of vending machine should get the Prometheus treatment. (He was the dude that stole fire from Zeus on Mt. Olympus and thus when he died was sent to Hades and tied to a rock so that a raven could peck out his liver everyday only to have it grow back during the night and start all over again in the morning.) At least I think that was him.... Anyway..... so the Ice cream machine. I get a craving to go get me a milkyway ice cream bar. Vanilla ice cream, caramel, chocolate, and all on a stick so you don't get your hands all full of chocolate. Good stuff and a money well spent. The way this machine works is you put in your money and select an item and this little door (that normally seals in the cold) opens on the bottom while the corkscrew thing turns and pushes out your goods. So...I put my money in the machine and type in my numbers. The little door opens and the corkscrew starts turning. Here is were things go bad. The corkscrew is having issues pushing out my milky way and because it takes too long the door shuts to keep the temp correct inside...then the corkscrew stops turning and my milky way is stuck. I can see its just barely hanging on and know that if I give the machine a "gentle" nudge that it will probably fall..but the door is already closed. I heard from someone that if you hit the coin return button that the door will open so I give it a try and shure enough the door opens up. So... I figure if I can knock it down then hit the coin return to open the door I'm home free. So I very "calmly" body check the machine and sure enough it drops. I hit the coin return....Door stays shut. Apparently you only get one extra chance at the door. At this point I am trying to decide how thick the glass actually is on the front of the machine. I take a few deep breaths and decide that If I could scrounge up some extra dough I could just by another tasty treat and hope that it falls and I don't end up paying double for my afternoon satisfaction. So...to end this before we all dont really care anymore, I end up spending double for a stupid ice cream bar (the top half of which was crushed from the fall onto the closed door from the the top row of the machine) and swagger back to my desk. What happened to the second ice cream treat you ask... I don't know...ask Pierce..he beat me up and took it.

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