Patrick Says

This is cool. Amazon.com is offering a free mp3 of Marvin Gaye’s classic ‘Let’s Get It On’ for Valentine’s Day. If you’re gonna be ‘getting it on’ this weekend, there isn’t a better song than this one. Click the big banner below and download it. It’s a free mp3! W00t.

(Sorry. Link removed after Valentine’s Day.)

I don’t normally do memes. Okay, I never do them. But apparently, I was drunk and high again while surfing Jeanette’s site and asked to be dragged into a five question meme. I have to lay off the vodka and Ecstasy.

(I’m kidding. I occasionally do memes.)

So here’s her five questions and my answers. W00t!

1. How far east can you go before you’re heading west?
   A. You can’t. Distance is not related to direction in this scenario. If that answer is wrong, my second guess is 317 miles.
2. If you’re in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
   A. If the vehicle is a Geo Metro, the engine dies when you turn on the headlights.
3. Do Chinese people get English sayings tattooed on their bodies?
   A. Only the drunk, dumb ones…just like here.
4. Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
   A. Only once, but I can’t remember the exact circumstances.
5. If you’re in hell and you’re mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?
   A. See previous question.

That’s it. Thanks to Jeanette. I was a little dry on topics tonight. I thought I might have to talk about wireless security systems or ‘my feelings’.

So, Jen and I are watching round three of American Idol tonight and this conversation took place.

Me: ‘You know, I haven’t heard anyone sing that song…crud, what is the name of that song, you know, the fat guy song?’

Jen: ‘Ewen McCain?’

Me: ‘EDWIN MCCAIN! Oh my god, how did you come up with that?!? That’s amazing! How did you get that from fat guy song?’

Jen: ‘We’ve been together a long time, babe.’

Me: ‘Wow. Edwin McCain. ‘I’ll Be’. How come no one has sung that song?’

So, I’ve been getting restless lately. It happens. I think it’s because I’m creeping up on the age I never really wanted to reach. I’m not saying it. Not yet.

So, what better way to try and beat down the restlessness than with a quest? It was either that or medical assistant training school and we all know how that would work out. Anyway, here’s the goal.

Either forty pounds or forty chapters.

I’m either getting in shape or getting a book done. Or both. (Okay, both is just crazy talk.) I feel like I need this. I need something to happen. Because I just ain’t that happy these days…

Look, it’s not that bad. I have a great family and I have a house (for now) and a job and that’s fine. But I feel like I’m just treading water and I don’t want to just tread water for the rest of my life.

Meh.

I don’t know.

Awesome T-shirt. H/T to Great White Snark. W00t!