"He who laughs last thinks slowest."

—Unknown

Yeah, so I'm back...from the dead...well work anyways...the joys of midnight shift. Ah, yes, for those of you who have never been in an aluminum rolling plant..which I'll assume is none of you...or maybe two of you, but no more..anyway, basically what happens is you take a sheet of aluminum and run it through the mill that has two metal rolls that basically squeeze the metal as it goes between them making it thinner...not just thin, but really thin, like .0108 inches, sometimes even .0085, well if a problem occours..and the metal splits, or in any way has friction on the rolls, there can be sparks. Oh I suppose I failed to mention that while all this is happening a kerosene based coolent is being sprayed on the rolls and metal... Yes so spark + kerosene = ...yes that's correct. fire. well usually carbon dioxide..(cardox) is released and the fire...if there is one is put out almost immedaitely, well there was some sort of malfunction saturday night and the cardox dump button was being pressed repetadly, but nothing happened...I saw the biggest fire I've ever seen...well at least that I was ten feet away from..and it burned for nearly fifteen seconds before the cardox finally dumped, and when it did..it dumped a lot. Yes, so I saw a really really big and hot fire. What did you do? yeah, shut up punks.

"An oxymoron. An animation of still pictures, with human lips."

—Steven Roat (quoted on IMDB) regarding "Clutch Cargo, 1959

Smiley almost hit me when I was crossing a railroad track today, that bast--

NEWS FLASH!! Matt Taylor (the other half of the Derek & Matt show), was sighted at the "Laundry Center" close to his residence in Athens...DEVELOPING...

--anyway, back to my post. I can't give the same enthusiasm Kenny does about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but it was a pretty good movie nonetheless. I ended up watching twice, once with the dialogue dubbed in English, and once with the English subtitles. I would like the soundtrack though, oriental background music, and I am going to play it as I eat Chinese food at my house; that makes the food better.

The new D12 CD "Devil's Night" sounds to be nothing short of incredible (I had wondered what Eminem & Co. had been doing for a year). June 19th is the release date, and I will definitely be there first thing to pick it up. I've heard most of it (okay all of it) and it's freaking great. It's one of those CD's that you have to just buy, damn straight, plain & simple. Speaking of musak, the new Air CD that I got at Tower Records the other day. It's gota couple of tracks with Beck, who is on every CD that is being released in all music genres from now until 2008. It's not quite like Moon Safari, it's more modern, it's wild, I liked Virgin Suicides ST better anyway. There's one track called "Wonder Milky Bitch" it's okay, I just wanted to say "Wonder Milky Bitch" because I had never said "Wonder Milky Bitch" before. According to Brad, the web site is nuts, all in 3d Studio Max and flash or some crap.

And one more thing, NOTD has an unsatifactory privacy policy so says IE6!! This will not be tolerated! Kenny said it was because of hitbox or something.....Evolution comes out tomorrow guys and gals, Ivan Reitman is a genious, and YOU know it. SNOOTCHIE BOOTCHIES!

"I smile because I have no idea what's going on."

—Unknown

Do we all know what today's date is? Yes, if you said Tuesday, June 5th, 2001...or at least knew that it was the fifth of some month, you're smarter than most of the people that work at the Russellville Wal-Mart. For at least two weeks now there has been this little cardboard advertisement on the checkout counter in the electronics department at walmart telling that the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon DVD goes on sale 6/5/01 (today) So I got in my car around 1:15PM today and drove on over. I enter the electronics department and head to the DVD case since I didnt' see any large displays holding the CTHD DVD. I scaned it, and found not what I was looking for, so I went up the the counter and asked the girl working there, she said they never brought it up, or they never got the shipment. Apparently there are people in the back that bring them up and have to put them in the computer but they hadn't done it yet, and she had been there since 7AM. I decided not to put up an arguement, and left. She told me to come back tomorrow, but instead Brad is gonna pick it up for me in Bowling Green today, which is good, because I don't want to give them the money for a late product...who am I kidding, I would have been the first person there tomorrow morning.

"I'm a cop you idiot!"

—Arnold

I'm a cop you idiot! I'm detective John Kimball!! Actually, I'm neither, but I do have a web site that I do not update called "lots of reverb." No, not "Lots of free verbs" or any such nonsense. I guess I should write these and put them on my own site, but that would take more effort. Smiley, Kenbo and yours truly witnessed the "wind" tonight, and I have to say, it was "real and spectacular." Kenneth had a soda can whisked from his hands in the storm's wrath.

Since today is today, and yesterday was yesterday (wherever you go, there you are) I will not relay to you a sudden, ecliptic event that occured yesterday (and in the timeline of NOTD, the post before Ken-man's last post). (dammit ICQ messages keep popping up and I can't write) STORY: Under the careful guiding hand of Kenny's How-to-get-to-Ashley's-House instructions, Smiley and I were attempting to find a "party" north of town. Somehow, we ended up in Auburn. From Chandler's to Auburn in a matter of seconds (whether it was a wormhole as Smiley suggested or not is a moot point, this was insane)...anyway, since we were already in Auburn and obviously were no where near a "party" or "shindig" as the elders call it, we decided to go ahead to Bowling Green. Smiley-got-Traffic-and-The-Rock-DVD-and-White-Castle-fries, the end.

P.S. there was a strange orbiting rotating light in the sky as we were coming back, and it's not been identified, so officially, it's an unidentified flying object, so we saw a UFO last night, write it down. SNOOCHIE BOOCHIES.

"The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. "

—Unknown

I'm a certifiable idiot. I went to put derek's post up and i deleted mine, so this is actually being posted at 11:40PM on monday, but it replaces the post made at 1:24PM on monday, i'm not retyping the enitre thing, because frankly, I have no idea what I said. I do however remember several key words that the document contained and I will share them with you now. "tiger, yes, I, inhuman, hidden, craig, hell" there you have it, the basic jist of my earlier post. Thank you for your time and understanding.

"It's about time someone put this on paper."

—Kenny

Weekend again...oh yeah. Well, Thursday night at work...I worked 3-11 this past week...anyway there was a tornado warning in Logan County. Low and behold, Logan Aluminum is in Logan County. So I hear this message over the intercom that a warning had just been issued and that we're not shutting down, but to monitor channel one. OK, so Mike switched to channel one, and we kept working. I love this, amazing dedication to the beverage can industry we have going on. I swear a damn tornado could tear apart the south end of the plant and just pick up CM3, and I'd be getting pulled in, and my gloves would fall off, and Mike would be yelling over the page..."Ken...Stick the sheeet...STICK THE SHEET!!!!" I'd grab the aluminum with my hand...it would bleed, I'd use my mouth to reset the dancer roll, It would be amazing...but those damn olive tree people would get their pristine metal...well, except for the blood on the first 10 wraps...On that note, I love the safety speech you get when you start working there. "....these machines will suck you in and spit you out and not even slow down..." makes ya feel safe doesn't it?

"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."

—Unknown

The "Do it Yourself Ghost Train Kit" will be picutured on NOTD very very shortly, the compontents of the inagural kit are currently being gathered, actually I currently have all but one of the crucial items, and I should have it before the end of the week.

Derek purchased himself some infinity kappa 2 way 6x9's, not as good as my 3 ways, but very nice none the less. Whenever he gets them, I get the glorious job of installing them, but he's paying me. Yess. Money is good. Plus if I get money I can afford to get Smiley a graduation present...*hintsmileygivememoneyhint*

I've only worked two days this week and it already feels like it should be at least thursday, not that it's not wednesday and all, but I haven't even gone in to work yet today. I'm on the evening shifts..which are nice because they fit into my normal sleeping pattern, bed at 2 or 3 wake up at 11 or 12, however, most of the time i'm awake, i'm at work, so I hardly see anyone. Tonite, however there is a "jewish party" meaning a party at dustin selitchnick's house. It starts at like 8 or something, but he told me to come by whenever I get home and see if it's still goin on. So I think I might just do that. Now that Smiley is officially out of high school, he should be working more, which means more work journals, I know you've all been missing them...I know I have. He should also be finishing that story from our trip to bowling green a couple weeks ago...if he wants his grad present he'll do it I garuntee it.

HIGHFRUCTOSE is currently down for a redesign, however NOTD.NET was listed as a good alternative, for that I give thanks, and return the favor with a link...that should point to an active, and utterly amazing page within the next few days.

Also...minors really are welcome here...we're just kidding with that pic...yeah, that's rite, send all your children here.

"If practice makes perfect and no one is perfect, why practice?"

—Unknown

My dad got himself an early Father's Day present. It's a sony FD Mavicadigital camera, and it's quite nice. It can use memory sticks, or floppy disks, and also has USB capibilities. I used it to make this collage of my desk and surrounding area. It's kind of weird, and I didnt' realize until after I had made it, but since the main cabinent is a corner cabinent it looks like I have a really big room and that all that stuff is on one wall, but it isn't...that tall cabinent is in the corner. You can click on it to see it bigger.

Last night, Smiley, Derek, and I played some basketball...whatelse is new, then we went to Sonic, then to Smiley's house, then back to my house to watch SNL...which we didnt' watch since my sister was watching Finding Forester. Well Smiley went to Krystas and said he'd be back in 15 minutes...well since I am expirenced in telling Smiley-Krysta-Time, I knew this translated to no less than 30 regular minutes. Well finally about 40 minutes after he left, he returned and we decided to go look for infamous Ghost Train, we drove down the road and saw no train, so when we got to the end we turned around and drove back, once again...no train. Then we decided to drive into Adairville to look for a certain item, and on the way this car pulls out of a side road, without even slowing down, and I had to swerve into the other lane, and slam on the brakes...Some people just shouldn't be allowed...I mean blatent disreguard for stop signs, not to mention not even looking left and right to see my headlights...I would do that even if there wasn't a stop sign. Well once we had located the item, and confirmed it's existance, we began the return trip to Russellville...being sure to spot our skid marks from the near catastrophe earlier. When we got back to da ville, we went to Hardee's and then back to my house to watch the old old SNL rerun, we watched about an hour of it, and then they both left, and that was that.

NOTD will begin selling "Do it Yourself Ghost Train Kits" perfect for all those dark roads in your commmunity. A picture of a complete kit will be up within the next few days along with an estimated price which will include shipping.

"If Smiley dies, I get to get Krysta pregnant."

—Learned while viewing movie.

I just got back from Nashville about 20 minutes ago. I went with Smiley, Krysta, and Derek to see Pearl Harbor on the IMAX screen. As we all know the IMAX can make almost any movie amazing, except maybe The Wizard of Oz...God I hate that movie. Anyway, Pearl Harbor was quite good, enough bombing and fire to keep me occupied through the romantic scenes. No really, it was a much better three hours than Titanic was. It went fast, but could actually have been a 2-2.5 hour movie. They could have stopped after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but of course we are America, and we have to win everything, except bull fighting maybe...that's just dumb; but they continue the movie with the US bombing Japan, not atomic bombs..just bombs. In my over-all opinion it was a good movie, worth the 6-7 bucks you'll spend to see it, just make sure you piss before it starts, and don't clap during the movie. I hate that too. People that clap or shout during movies...laughing is ok, because I do it. but no clapping or "woo hoo" please. Well now that I'm home and I need entertainment I am of course watching CMT,..the only channel playing music at this hour. Hmm...lets see, yes, I got some pictures with Derek's digital camera from last week, that one up there is Smiley, with a neat looking Zaxby's sign and a cop driving by in the distance. There ya go.

"There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot."

—Unknown

Well I'm home. Actually I got home yesterday, but by the time I got my computer back from smiley and got it all functioning again I had other stuff to do, and had to get to bed because I had to work this morning at 7:00AM It was a pretty good day overall, and only three more days. A few interesting things happend while I was on my trip...but nothing worthy of picture taking...figures...I had it, but didnt' use it. First of all I'd like to discuss New Jersey roads. They suck so much. Bad design, bad layout, bad/no markings. I dont' know how people there can get around. Signs in stupid places, weird things to turn left... Stoplights and Exits on the same highway-not supposed to happen. I just don't know what to say. They're awful. Then they go and charge you a toll on every damn road you get on. anywhere from 25 cents to 3 dollars. what the hell are they using all this money for? I'll tell you one thing they arent' using it for...road improvements. Another thing New Jersey doesn't have cities and towns, they have "borros" and "townships" What is that? is it 1709 there? Really. Speaking of borros, the Borro of Elmer is celebrating it's Greek festival this coming weekend, try to attend.

The next big thing I'm going to discuss involes the plane trip. On the way home our flight was delayed about 45 minutes due to weather. Once we got in the air the pilot informed us that he would try to "make up some time in the air" What? Make up some time? I thought air travel was so popular because it was so fast. Planes have a speed limit? Why they hell don't they always "make up time" I mean if a one hour trip can be made in 50 minutes...why the hell even make it take an hour? Why not just do it in 50 minutes all the time? It would seem that if they could shave 10-20 minutes off of ever flight, they could possilbe add more flights, making more money...and I know those big airlines like money.

"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried."

—Unknown

In less than ten hours, I will be at cruising altitude somewhere between the Nashville airport and the Baltimore airport. Yes, I'm goin somewhere in a plane. Ohh. Smiley and I went to Bowling Green again last night, but not much happened. We even made sure to take his truck since that's what we were in the last time all the amazing things happend. We went armed with Derek's Sister's digital camera too. Nothing. Nothing at all happened. So I had my sunglasses with me, but now they seem to have disappeared, they're probably lost in the sea of CD's in his truck, or in my room somewhere...both places are pretty messy. So back to the camera. I have the camera and the USB cable, however, derek didnt' have the cd. So I had to download the drivers, but they're not exactly working...which sucks. I'll figure it out I suppose. I had to mow the lawn today...that was a nice thing about college...someone else mowed the grass. But my dad did pay me to do it, so that's good. I won't get my first pay check until tuesday, I would usually get it tomorrow, but of course I won't be here. Not that I'll get much money out of that first check anyway. I owe my parents about seventy bucks for that speeding ticket I got at Easter. They paid it for me then since I didnt' have the money at that time. Of course Smiley technically owes me about 50 bucks...hmmm...but it's coming out of the CD player whenever he gets his new SUV...if he gets it. We're going to a radiohead concert in August, His parents dont' have a problem with it, and my mom seems ok with it. We'll either go to the one in Washington DC, or the next one in Boston. We'd drive, so I'm leaning towards DC, since it's seven hours closer. But we're both off work, and it's about a week before we start school, so either one should be ok. I may let Smiley borrow my computer over the weekend while I'm gone so he can play unreal tourny. THis would also give him the power to update the site, but I doubt that will happen...

"If you rearrange the letters in RYAN COLEMAN, you can spell NO ANAL MERCY"

—Brad

I've survived.. midnights are finally over. So I've been sleeping and working since friday night and haven't really had time to post, so that explains it. The entire story that Smiley told about friday night is true, and at some point in time he'll finish it...if not i'll kill him...or finish it myself, whichever i feel like doing when the time comes. So we were supposed to play basketball at my house tonite, but I had forgotten about this dinner I had to go to, so now I don't know where anyone is...probably all playing ball somewhere else wondering what happened to me. Well, I'm going to New Jersey on thursday, I'm supposed to stop a couple of angels from....wait, wrong trip. My cousin is getting married on Saturday so we're going up for that. Since my sister is still in school, my parents wanted here to miss as few days as possible, so our flight leaves at like 11:30PM thursday, and then we get home on monday. I'm going to miss three days of work, but it's 12 hour days, so it's ok. Of course that's 12 hours of overtime pay for sunday I'm missing...hmmm...better be a good wedding. I don't think I'll be able to post from up there, but if I get the chance I will. I always take my zip drive with the necessary files incase I get the chance to do it. Yes. We've still got plenty of pop email accounts avaliable, and countless forwarding addresses. So don't be shy, just ask. We've got a new link up, for phantasmo, so check it out. And the rest of the linkage as well.

"Get up outta here"

—Mexican music

"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."

—Unknown

My first day of work was a success, I survived, and I'm learning my new job pretty well. It's so much better than last year. Once I start a coil and get the ones on the measure and load station in the computer, I get to sit there for about 15 minutes and do basically nothing...so yes, it's good...Of course if there's a fire or explosion..I'm right in the front of the mill...hmm... Yes anyway, my parents and sister are currently in Lexington for the state foreign lanugage festival, and they left while I was sleeping today. When I woke up and looked at my computer screen it was coverd in papers that were taped all over it. Upon futher inspection I discoverd that one of these papers was an envelope containing ten dollars. Money, yess.

Yesterday there was some basketball action goin on at my house, for about the 10th day in a row or so. Brad introduced us to a new game called "Cheese Dip Tips" basically a person shoots five free throws, if they make all five, everyone else owes them a cheese dip, if they get tipped, the shooter owes the person who tipped them a cheese dip. The game ends as soon as one person has accumulated ten cheese dips. If you tip a person that you owe cheese dips to, you then owe them one less. Brad was the winner, and of his ten "cd's" I think i owe him about six. Yes, apparently cheese dip tips is not my forte. For all of you uneducated peoples out there, the cheese dip I speak of is from the local mexican resturant, it is the greatest cheese dip in the world and therefore costs about 2.50 per bowl....small bowl. It is well worth it however. That does not mean I'm spending 15 bucks on cheese for brad. At least not all at once like he wants. I think he would die if he at ten cheese dips all at once...

"If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?"

—Unknown

Looks like I'll have to settle for a mere 7.50/hr this summer haha. I suppose I'll survive. I did my whole orientation thing yesterday, and it was much more fun since I had done it before, of about 20 people...maybe more, only 5 of us had worked there before. That was nice, of course we all got picked on by the full-time employees of Logan Aluminum. I start on Midnight Shifts, which means I start tonite at 11:00PM so I was trying to change my sleeping habbits a bit, even though when on midnights, I usually sleep from 8:00AM-to 4:00 or 5:00PM, I couldn't stay awake until 8:00 this morning, so I slept from like 7:00PM last night to about 4:00AM this morning, I may take a nap later tonite around 8PM or so. Who knows, it's hard to adjust sleep before the first midnight, but once you get home the next morning it's easy to get to sleep during the day. I'm working with the same people I did last summer, but I may not have the same job. Last year I worked at the Pup Coiler (yes it's just as crappy as it sounds) Rite at the moment, however, there is a person out on short-term medical leave so The team which usually has one temporary and a summer student, now has two temps and me the summer student. Those two temps have already started at the Pup, so I may get to work Mill entry. Which would be awesome, it's a much better job, but also much more important and if I Screw something up...it's bad news...of course I'd probably be supervised for at least a week, probably more. Where with the Pup I could go do it by myself tomorrow if I had to.

I discoverd that Star Trek TNG comes on fox at 4:00AM here. That'll give me something to do at that hour. Now, that it's after 5 I've resorted to CMT, who plays nothng but videos this time of day, and surprisingly they're not bad. Yes, I'll listen to country if I have to. I never listen to it in my car, but on TV sometimes I dont' have much of a choice. Plus I like the fact that I can watch and listen, and since MTV doesnt' play music, and I don't get CTN at home. This is what I have.

ONe last thing, Since NOTD has changed hosts, We now have a limited number of Pop3 email accounts available, and unlimited email forwards. If you'd be interested in having your very own @notd.net email address let me or Smiley know and we'll see if we can get somethin set up for you. We also have a few auto-responders, so If anyone has any ideas for funny auto-responses and how we could integrate them into the site let me know about that also.

"Like they say in Russian "have a great day" only they say it in Russian."

—Unknown

Well, my summer vacation ends today. I start working tomorrow. It's been rumored that the Summer Students at Logan Aluminum are making 8.00/hour this year, last year we made 7.50/hr, either way it's fine with me, but it would be nice to make 8. I went to Bowling Green today with Derek, we went to the mall, I had exchange a shirt, and Derek, well he had to get his mom some silverwear for mothers day. We went to o'charlies after all the various shoppings were completed. We also drove around for about half an hour looking for a radio station. Derek's worked for several and someone called him a couple weeks ago asking if he wanted to work at Woo Hoo. He didn't know what the guy was talking about. Apparently the "Gator G-107.1" recently became the "Woo Hoo" We dont' know when, but it's here, and it's not going away. Ever. Well maybe sometime. No, never. Oh yeah, he got a CD too, HI-Tek something like that, it's better than we anticipated. Also be sure to check out the top 5 referrers rite over there --> with all the traffic they send us, we'd like to return the favor. One last thing, thanks to Timmothy for today's quote.

"You gonna deduct that from the price?"

—Kenny to Smiley, regarding the CD player price

"I like Balto Star... I have friends named Balto."

—Courtney Cox Actress, Friends May 5th, 2001 on who would win the Kentucky Derby.

Courtney Cox was wrong. The Kentucky derby was won by Monarchos with a time of 1:59 4/5. That's the second fastest derby winner in history. Speaking of Courtney Cox, who in the world has friends named Balto? Even if I knew people named Balto, I don't think I would admit to it. The only Balto I can think of is that dog from the cartoon that Derek reminded me of.

In a completely unrelated story, I washed my car today, for the first time, in...umm...well, quite a while. I found out it's silver. I thought it was dark grey. My ankle is improving greatly, I can walk..and I can obviously wash a car. Now that my first weekend in Russellville has come, I realize why Louisville = good. There is not too much to do here, and everyone that I would usually do something with is out. Smiley is out with Krysta, her parents took them out I think. It's assumed that Brad is currently in Etown to see Vicky. Derek is working. So that leaves me here doing nothing. It almost makes me want to start working, at least then I'll have something to do. So in lue of doing something out, I'm watching Happy Gillmore. This is a great movie. Adam Sandler is such a great guy. No, not like that.

"Save the whales. Collect the whole set."

—Unknown

I survived the big mexian party last night...barely. After spending over an hour at the teca...which included things such as three person water baloon launchers, ten foot tall basketball players, broken car doors, and brass bonanza; ten people came over to my house to play basketball. Then after about an hour had gone by, and three people had left, we were playing 3-4, and at somepoint in time, the ball was passed to john, and i went in to steal the pass, and we ended up on the ground, I don't really remember...but apparently he fell, and as I fell I walked on him, and that's how I twisted my ankle. I just sat on the ground for the final 20-30 minutes of basketball action which had dwindled to a game of tips. So I made it inside...barely, and put ice on it, and more ice...then went to bed, when I woke up, I could hardly walk. not even across my room to my computer. So I took some asprin, and put an ace bandage on my foot, and I'm trying to move my ankle to help in the recovery. Hopefully I'll be back to normal...or close to normal by the time I start work next wednesday.

"The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. "

—Unknown

If you're reading this, it's possible you're seeing it via the new host, and it's also possible you're seeing it via the old host. Right at the moment http://www.notd.net still points to the old host. However, http://notd.net points to the new host. The www should be changing soon, but I'm going to put a redirect page up on the old host so that it will point here, and then when the www works it won't matter anyway. OK so for anyone looking for hosting, I suggest you pay for it. I should have known that free hosting was too good to be true. Do not go to www.portland.co.uk ever. Ever. That's why I'm not linking it. Don't go there...

In other less important news, my first year of college is officially over. I got home yesterday around 2:00PM, around 4...maybe 5 smiley came over then we went to his house, and I got a quick tour of WindowsXP, we watched a movie and ate dinner. He's supposed to write a post today...but really, who knows. I think that I've spent more time away from my house than I have in the house since I've been here. Oh well. Yes, also today is Brad's Birthday, so we're goin to sol aztec the local mexican resturant tonite. Apparently the entire city of Russellville has been invited, so it maybe crowded. I also got a haircut today...for those of you who like that sort of thing.

"When it's time to change you've got to rearrange."

—Peter Brady

"There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot."

—Unknown

"No matter how hard you try, you can't stop us now."

—Rage Against The Machine

"aww we're on the world wide web."

—Jenny Bodinof
(one of the 7th Floor Penthouse Chicks of Murray State University)

"I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good,either."

—Unknown