Used My Words Today

Work was work.  Business as usual in the end.  The biggest difference between today and earlier in the week is that it was ridiculously hot today.  It rained earlier in the week, but today, it was hot.

Blue skies.  Not a trace of cloud cover, much less of any kind of precipitation to speak of.  Mid to high 80’s, it seemed.  That would be a precursor of things to come.  Indeed, summer is right around the corner.  I dread this time of year, but there isn’t anything I can do to stop it.  It’s like trying to stop lava from flowing.  Yeah, I could relocate, but why would I want to do that?  As long as air conditioning is working, I’ll be all right.

I managed to lay low and avoid my co-workers today.  Many of them make me nauseous, some just by their mere presence, so any time I can steer clear of the office, I’m likely going to do it.  The majority of the time, I dislike people, and of late, that seems to be double when it comes to those of the people with whom I work.  I’ll be working tomorrow as well as Saturday and for each of those two days, I will again look to avoid people.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…

People suck.

Sadly, I don’t see that changing any time soon either, but here we are.

I don’t know if this is some kind of victory, but today I managed to keep my emoji use to a minimum amongst the various text message conversations I maintained.  Actually, in going through my phone, I’m noticing that I used exactly zero emojis today.  Imagine that.  A grown man refraining from all emoji use altogether.  What is this world coming to?

From what I gathered, absolutely no one seemed to take offense of my use of words, full sentences, and even a little bit of punctuation.  Literacy is a wonderful thing when it works and even more so when people understand that I will ALWAYS have a preference to use words over emojis every fucking time I send a text message.  Make no mistake though.  Words will trump emojis every time, as they should.  Call me old-fashioned, I guess.

Speaking of cell phones and text messaging, I did not get into any retarded conversations today.  Small victory?  Perhaps.  I didn’t lose any IQ points today, so that would be a plus.

All this talk about writing and using words makes me think of the song below.

I don’t have to say this, because to his fans, it’s already something we know all too well.  Still, here we go.

“Weird Al” Yankovic is a genius.

He just is.  Now, truth be told, I can’t stand the original song from which this Weird Al parody originated.  Robin Thicke is just terrible and so is his song, “Blurred Lines”.  But “Word Crimes”?  I can listen to that Weird Al song endlessly.

I’m going to close this entry on an especially high note (for me anyway).  Below would be my favorite Weird Al song of all-time.

Weird Al Yankovic – Eat It

If there was ever a time-honored classic in music history, this would be one of them.  It was one of his earliest parodies, which frankly, turned out to be one of his best.

No doubt.  Hand down.

The man’s a genius.