Kull's World

Porch Clutter

So this explains why I get the "Yellow Pages" at least four times a year!  I knew there were several different companies that had their own version of the old fashioned phone books, but man I didn't realize it was a 16 billion dollar industry.  For the past 3 weeks, a bag of an undetermined brand of yellow pages has sat on our front porch.  It's kind of like a permanent decoration now.  I refuse to take them in and add to the yet to be fully organized household of ours.  But even without the organizational challenge of our new home, I have historically let these things sit or opted to place them directly into the recycle bin rather then give them a new home at the bottom of a closet or file drawer (if you can fit the monstrosities).

Since I went WiFi over two years ago I certainly have not opened a phone book, be it white or yellow pages.  I just took advantage of the online version of the various companies.  But even before I had wireless internet, I could probably count on one hand the number of times I used the book in the five years before that.   I just thought yellow pages would go the way of the pay phone, but I guess I was wrong.  Hell, Verizon is even rolling out Jewel to ride the "Yellow Line" and perform a free concert at South Station to promote their books.  Huh, maybe if I bring a stack of all the useless books I have received in the last six months and stack them on the ground, I could get a better view of the crooked toothed hottie?!?!?!

We have determined...

...your whole system sucks!

I think that is an old Rage Against the Machine lyric, seems like a fitting way to describe the case here.

You Know What Pisses Me Off?

I couldn't bite Kyle Kash's title for this type of thing, so I had to use my own.  So here we go:

• When people line the seat of public (or workplace) toilets with toilet paper, yet when they are done their business they don't push the paper in with the flush.  Seriously, if you are so freakin germ-phobic yourself that you line the bowl with TP, you'd think you'd have the courtesy to remove your germ guard from where my ass is about to sit!
• When people don't take a ticket at the deli counter and then get pissed off when they realize the deli people are servicing patrons by ticket order.  I mean come on, this is not a new fangled system, it's been around as long as I can remember.
• Speaking of the deli, it also pisses me off when people are so freakin picky about the thickness of their deli meats, does it really make THAT big of a difference?
• When one conference (ACC) costs me 130 points in a College Football Pool because their teams could not cover spreads, whether they were a favorite or an underdog, each ACC team did the exact opposite of what I wanted them to do.
• When you say goodbye to a person for the last time before New Year's, and they say "see you next year!"
• When you're a new home owner and you get your first Real Estate Tax statement in the mail, it's for a lot of money.  Your stomach drops as you start thinking "shit, those are actually lumped in with our mortgage right?"  And you can't email your lawyer and mortgage specialist fast enough to verify this.
• When your television makes this annoying high pitch piercing noise 80% of the time that has nothing to do with any speakers.  You technically have money in savings that could go towards buying a new TV and stepping into the HD World.  Yet, you also have ten windows in your house that need replacing and an outdated electrical system, etc, etc.   And if you buy the TV you would feel guilty thinking "shit that money could have put new windows in the kids' bedrooms or upgraded our antique electrical fuse box"
• When you type a quick little ranting post and wonder if you've used the word AND way too much and if it is annoying to read or if it just kind of compliments the style of the ranting post?

Okay...that is enough for now, I could go on.

Last Minute XMAS Gift Idea

The Man Groomer

I know some people that could use this product.  And having it ten years ago would have saved me a lot of, ummm...enjoyable times taking care of hair removal on some friends.  Yeah, unfortunately for me, some people took "Kull's Barber Shop" to a whole new level back in the 90's.

I feel like Michael F#$kin Jordan!

Okay, so the public as spoken.
Since I announced my retirement, I've had moments of blog motivation with the frequent "oh that's a good thing to blog about" moments.  And I think my wife might actually divorce me if I stop doing this.

But any hoo...look for a re-launch of the blog after the New Year, probably under a new name, which will be posted here at the old Kull's World.

Stay tuned.

P.S.  If there are any ghost writers that would like to contribute, holla back at me!
(T27 Founder interested?)

Peace and I'm Out!!!

It's been real and it's been fun...and I guess it's even been real fun.

I have just run out of things to say, or I have plenty of things to say, just no time to type.  Either way, I am hanging up the blogging...err, what do you hang up from a blogging career?

Well, anyway.  Today I consider myself the luckiest man in the world.

(P.S. - Happy 50th Birthday to the greatest basketball player ever)

Sad, Sad, Sad...

I used to walk this entire track with a hammer in my hand, banging in the loose nails to ensure passenger safety. 

I would estimate I spent 10,000 hours of my life working at Whalom Park, and now it's officially gone.  I can't fathom what it has been like and what it will be like for teenagers growing up in North Central Mass not to have Whalom.  Where the F are they gonna work?

Remember waking up...

...five years ago today?  Hoping the events of the day before were just a horrible nightmare? Wishing it never happened?  And when you turned on the TV or Radio and unfortunately realized that wasn't true, that those horrible events did actually happen, what you thought of next?  I remember thinking, "did they get that Osama fucker yet?  No, not yet...oh they'll get him soon, he'll be blown to smithereens by the end of the week!"

No such luck, but we got Saddam.  Good thing since he had all those weapons of mass destruction.  Err, okay guess not.

Anyway, the past week and change we have been commuting into Watertown from Lunenburg as we wait to close on our house.  We both dread the commute which is why we bought a house in the same town as our offices, which sit just 5 miles from Boston.  But in the mean time the one part of the commute that I look forward to is at the end of Route 2, heading into Boston.  As you come up over the hill in Belmont/Arlington you see the Boston Skyline.  I have always loved this part of the commute. Back in the day when I lived out in Lunenburg it seemed like it was the end of a long drive, that the big city of Boston was so far away.  But now that I have lived in Metro Boston for 5+ years I feel that sight is my first sign of home after a trip out of town.  It makes me feel welcome.  Now I know the Boston skyline pales in comparision to that of NYC.  Our skyline is just has a small cluster of shorter buildings to the left and then the 3 "big ones" to the right as you dip down towards Alewife Train Station.  The Pru, The Hancock, and 111 Huntington define the Boston Skyline.  Of course the biggest one is about 45 stories shorter than the Twin Towers.  But ever since that day 5 years ago, I look at this skyline in a different manner.  I cannot fathom driving up over the hill in Belmont/Arlington and seeing smoke billowing from any of our 3 skyscrapers, let alone approach the hill and just not see them.  Which of course is what I see during my occasional trips to NYC.  A constant reminder.

And to think I thought that fucker would be dead in 5 days.

5 Years...

...a lot has happened in 5 years.  A lot of people have been killed.  Amazingly, that little bearded piece of shit on dialysis is still hiding in caves, and that fucking pisses me off.

Preach to me brotha!

Miss you Kev, see you when I get there.

What would you spend $4500 on?

• A) Panasonic TH-58PX60U 58 in. HDTV Plasma Television 
  
• B) Rolex Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II Steel Mens Watch 16710RB

• C) Braces on a 32 Year Old!

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• This guy chose C!  (and I even grew a nice 14 year old like zit smack dab in the middle of my upper lip for added affect!)