Jimmy.Brainflush.com

Good morning everyone!

I’m back from Chicago, and back to work. I hope you all had a great holiday. It was great being home in Chi-Town. I got some really great gifts and got to spend quality time with my family.

Here’s the lowdown:

I left Cleveland Friday at noon. It took me 8 and a half hours to get home. I faced every winter weather phenomenon on my way home - mainly in Indiana on 80/94, the worst travel spot in America.

It started snowing about halfway through the state, and turned to whiteout about 20 minutes after initially seeing snowflakes. I was listening to “She Like’s the Weather”, a remake version by the Counting Crows, ironically when I hit the worst of the whiteout. I crawled at about 5 miles an hour until everything cleared to black ice. After about 5 minutes of this, I watched an eighteen wheeler slide whilst attempting to brake. The front and the back synchronically slid about 45 degrees, nicely blocking both lanes of traffic.

Some A$$hole in an SUV was speeding down the left lane, and ended up in a snowdrift on the side of the road. Yes, it was a Lexus, and yes, I laughed like a little kid when I saw it trying to work it’s way out. I laugh in memory everytime I hear the “Let it Snow” commercial on the radio or on TV.

SUV’s don’t necessarily suck - the drivers who buy them do. They reprised all of those gay Lexus Christmas commercials - and I’m wondering who’s so pretentious as to buy a Lexus for their loved one on Christmas. I’m further miffed to find out who does such things.

I went down to Lexus of Schaumburg and asked one of their salespeople if this, to his knowledge, has happened. He said he knew of 2 or 3 that had been LEASED as Christmas gifts. What’s the deal with that? That’s like giving a computer with the 48 buck a month payment plan. It’s trashy, ignorant behavior like that which makes white people hated by everyone.

Also, might I add that these commercials do nothing to help the image that Americans are lazy rich people.

But I digress. Got home and was bullied into seeing the Lord of the Rings movies. They were awesome, if not long.

Spent Christmas eve at dad & Judy’s and had fun. I got my new Sonicare Elite toothbrush. It bugged my mouth for the first three days, but since then has been awesome.

Christmas day was spent at Grandma’s, with great food and family. Mom was sick for the holiday, which put a damper on the whole day. Spent the day after gutting a relative’s basement. It was bizarrely fun.

I’m looking forward to homeownership, I guess.

Drove home Sunday, and slept most of Monday. Back to work though, happy to be home.

‘Til Later,
Jimmy