The city's trash collectors. Because they're contracted union employees, they get paid days off for major holidays, right? This week they decided not to take off for New Year's Day. Apparently they decided they didn't want to work Saturday to make up for it.

Normally a holiday will put off everyone's trash pickup by a day. But not this week. The fuckers didn't take the day, and didn't tell anyone. Lots of people were caught unprepared when the trash collectors scooted through their neighborhood a day earlier than expected.

The arrangement the city has for trash pickup is such that if it doesn't fit in your trash can, it costs extra to pickup. Our issued trash can will fit about three bags of trash, which sometimes isn't enough for one week, let alone two. Each extra bag requires a $1.25 sticker affixed before it will be collected.

Those pricks who changed their schedule without telling anyone are going to cost us an extra five bucks next week. Bitches.

Me. I drive me buggy.

The other day I had a very awkward exchange with a customer where I had to admit that I may have lost his software. I apologized profusely, but passed the buck to Goat about resolving my fuck up to the guy's satisfaction. And I don't feel bad about that buck-passing bit. Goat's supposed to make those decisions.

Anyway, I turned my workstations inside out. I dug through the trash. I called every customer who'd picked up a machine any time after the guy with the lost disk dropped off his. Those were some embarrassing calls. "Um, yeah… could you check your laptop bag this…"

Retard that I am, I didn't really lose the guy's software. His CD was sitting right next to one of mine. I picked up his disk and filed it away in my rack by mistake. Even though I could distinctly remember putting away what I thought was my CD, I was completely unfazed by the fact that same CD was still sitting out.

I may be an idiot.

Keith Ellison, first Muslim in Congress. Had you seen any of the news stories about people bitching that he was going to take his oath of office holding a Qu'ran instead of a bible? Twits like Virgil Goode shouted things like "American values!"

Ellison is a beautiful, beautiful man. He took his oath of office holding the Qu'ran owned by Thomas Jefferson. How sweet is that? That's pretty goddamn clever on his part.