The downslide

It's Thursday, and I have 2 recommendations:

1) Drink Dogfish Head's 90-minute IPA. Best IPA I've ever had. It's expensive (relatively) at $9/4 bottles, but I get the 20% discount for working at the liquor store. Strong hops flavor that is also very rich with barley. Powerful stuff with very little aftertaste.

2) Try Lambic ale. Tasty for someone who wants to have a strongly fruited beer.

I also have a recommendation for those wanting to leave the U.S. because it no longer feels like home:

Please do.

We don't want you. Instead of trying to reform the system, all you can do is give up and run away? That's a great lesson for your kids. To quote The Simpsons: "If at first you don't succeed, don't try." And here's a lesson for you: If you think you have more civil rights in some banana republic in Central America, you're in for a rude surprise. If you think that religion isn't very important to Italy, you haven't realized that a certain figurehead of Roman Catholicism who lives there condones pedophilia, wants to ban abortion, and is as anti-gay as people come. If you think you're having trouble finding a job now, try moving to Germany, where it's twice as hard with an unemployment rate around 9 or 10%. And guess what? It seems as if the Europeans are becoming more and more like Americans in their intolerance of the hate spewed by Islamists. Idiots. We don't need you.

For those who believe that Bush stole the elections again:

Shut up.

You know what Americans hate more than anything else? Whiners. You know who you are. You're the guy or gal who blames everyone else for your failures except for yourself. You're the one who, instead of doing something to change your situation, blame other people for your inability to do so. You're the person who always wants to complain about the injustice of the rules instead of succeeding within them. Do something about it or just shut up.

Ahem.

Other than that, no more advice or recommendations. Today has been a pretty slow day. I hope to catch The OC tonight. I'm pondering purchasing the DVR package from Comcast because I want to make a commitment to get more sleep during the weekdays. I'm hoping that the extra sleep will keep me more alert during the day.

Hey, I didn't realize that I smack when I chew. Huh. I'll have to stop that. It's a bad habit. There's a backstory to all of this. Through a third party, I learned that a coworker of mine thought my habit was annoying. So, instead of stepping up and telling me what I was doing (he apparently thought that I was doing it on purpose), he decided to annoy me by making racist and sexist remarks. This guy is a really hard act to follow. He's easily the biggest fool I've ever met. The problem is that he doesn't know it and thinks he's smarter than everyone else. I mean, hey, I've got a bad habit, but I won't get fired for it. Making racist and sexist remarks will get him fired. That's what I mean by his being an idiot. During the runup to the election, he goes on about how people shouldn't vote if they don't take the time to know the issues. Meanwhile, he's incredibly the most ignorant person in the room. I'm sure he thinks that he's God's gift to Andover.

Rrrrgh. People.