Hot as Fuck Day

Jukebox: Screeching Weasel - "Planet of the Apes"

This is just a total coincidence that I'm listening to this song. I'm almost done reading The Hot Zone. This book is great on so many levels. It's very interesting and well put together. I've been reading it for the past month. And that's not because the book was boring or hard to read; it's the exact opposite. I've just not had much time to read.

But the reason I thought it to be a bit eerie that I was about to blog about this book and that song came on is that earlier today I put Outbreak at the top of my Netflix queue. This movie is apparently based on the book in some ways. The Clerks Animated episode definitely was about it. I've never seen it before, but I remember being at the Bangkok restaurant in Omaha with Jeff, Mario, Kathy, and Jeanne right before going off to Nate's wedding.

In the background at the place, Outbreak was playing on the TV. You couldn't hear it from where we were sitting, but we could see just fine. Every once in a while I would just glance back at it. I think at one point Jeff might've said something about it. But one scene was the showed Dustin Hoffman, in the movie, on TV and he was talking about the monkey, apparently. The lady watching the TV got this ghastly look on her face and she looked at her fridge and saw the drawing her daughter made of her and a monkey that looked nothing like the monkey on TV at all and freaked out.

I think that day this guy came in and asked Jeff to help his wife in. He thought Jeff worked there. For those who may not know, we were at a Thai restaurant. Jeff's Chinese.

Aside from all that, I just dropped Jeanne off at work. We were surrounded by semis the whole time with their exhaust blowing right into the car so we had to roll up our windows. The bad thing about that is that the air conditioning in the car not only doesn't work, it blows out HOT air. It was so unbearable. Then I go to the post office to pick up a package for Jeanne. This lady spends about 5-7 minutes looking for it. Then she comes back and is about to hand it to me and says, "Can I see your ID? You're not Jeanne. I can't give this to you. You see this part of the card? She needs to sign there and then we have you sign here."

I hate when people don't do determining things at the very beginning. Like me handing the package receipt to her and her checking at that time what it is that she's looking for or what I'm handing to her. This happens a lot online while filling out forms. You'd think that they'd do the demographic things at the beginning to see if you should fill out the rest of it.