Dilla Milla's Blog

Well Besides Yesterday....

    So, today as I was walking across campus, and I nearly got blindsided by a tumbleweed traveling, oh I’d say about a good thirty-five miles per hour.  Damn, don't you just love New Mexico?

    Referring to my post from October 29, 2006, thank you yet again to the City of Lubbock for giving out all my personal information.  Great, now I have to worry about credit checks, stolen identity, and my social security that is going to collapse before I can cash-in on it.  Fucking Lubbock.

    So, Friday I went on a NMJC field trip with some FREAKS to the Mosaic Potash Mine, Shaft Number 5 outside of Carlsbad.  I must say it was badass, interesting, and a hell of a lot of fun!  There is over 3800 miles of mined tunneling in their facility alone, which is not including the numerous other mining companies in the area.  A perfect 74 degrees underground makes the atmosphere almost ideal to work in, it is safe underground, and the wages are extremely high.  Starting pay for an unskilled dumbass is $20.00 per hour.  What really floored me was just how massive the underground network spreads; getting lost happens frequently.  Here are some pictures:

(Shaft # 5 that took us down.  Instead of using elevator controls, there is a man that sits in the building to the left that listens to manually sounded alarm bells.  He corresponds the sounds that are made by the miners with movements of the elevator, kind of ingenious…)

(Entrance Sign)

(The other end of that shaft)

(One of the numerous working shops for mechanics)

(These bolts help to retain the back (roof) from converging downward due to the plasticity of the salt.  Each bolt can hold approximately fifteen tons.  The guide’s example was if you hold a piece of paper by its end, it just sags, but if you put a quite a few staples in a line from one end to the other, it retains its stiffness better.  Same holds for the salt.  Notice the stalactites as well.)

(This is one of the vehicles that escorted us around.)

(The front of a piece of mining equipment.)

    So, I was cleaning out my center desk drawer and low and behold, look what I found….reminds me of Sean, Amanda, Roger, and that one coked-out girl.  :)

“What did yall do tonight?”  “Apparently we snorted some cocaine.”  “Uhhh…”

After I returned from my field trip, I accompanied my father out to a local dairy to do an electrical inspection.  Since I had my camera handy, here are some pictures:

(Notice the cleanliness and sanitation of where your milk comes from.)

(Hey, I would stand in shit for $75.00 an hour too.)

(This reminds me of many girls I know.)

    I found this apparent death note exceedingly amusing and immediately wrote, “Hopefully” on the bottom of it.  I was going to take some tape and post it to the light pole right in front of my car since I figured the person would most likely return to see if I had gotten it.  As luck would have it, I did not have any tape; however, the person that wrote this left an imprint of their name from their previous page in their notebook!  Payback is a bitch.

    So, from what I hear, someone in Lubbock has been talking shit about me.  Next time I see this person face to face, I will be sure to let them know how I feel and then beat the living fuck out of them.  You know who you are, so keep my name out of your fucking mouth because if I hear one more thing from one more person, I will drive down there, come to your apartment and kick your ass.  Seriously, you do not want to fuck with me.

    I just got home from enjoying the Jack Maddox Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Ben Stein.  I found it to be tremendously enthralling and agreed with him on almost every level.  I think it is good that the Maddox Foundation offers these presentations to the public for free since most of the public in this area has hardly any interaction with outside culture or topics with intellect.  I am glad I went.

 About Ben Stein:

    “Stein has had what may be the most diverse career of anyone now on the national scene. He is in every sense a Renaissance Man. He has been an award winning actor, economist, writer, journalist, and teacher. He is equally well known in Americas board rooms, dormitories, and frat houses.

    Born in Washington D.C., Stein attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he studied alongside future luminaries such as Sylvester Stallone, Carl Bernstein, Goldie Hawn, and Connie Chung. He received a bachelors degree in economics from Columbia University, where he was active in the civil rights movement to secure voting and other legal rights for African-Americans. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1970 and was the valedictorian of his class, by election of his classmates.

    After graduation, he served as a poverty lawyer, a trial lawyer, and a teacher at American University, University of California at Santa Cruz, and Pepperdine Univerity. He was a speech writer and lawyer for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

    He has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine, E! Online, and has written a lengthy diary for ten years for The American Spectator. Stein is also known as a novelist, television sitcom writer, and movie script writer. He has written and published 17 books including seven novels about life in Los Angeles and nine non-fiction books about finance, ethical and social issues in finance, and the political and social content of mass culture. His titles include, A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation; The View From Sunset Boulevard; Hollywood Days, Hollywood Nights; DREEMZ, Financial Passges; and Ludes.

    Steins role as the boring economics teacher in the movie Ferris Buellers Day Off was ranked as one of the 50 most famous scenes in American film. Stein appeared as a recurring character in the television shows Charles in Charge and The Wonder Years, and in 1997, he began hosting the long-running quiz show, Win Ben Steins Money. The show has won six Emmy awards and Stein has won one Emmy for Best Game Show Host.

    His most recent book is the best-selling humor self help book, How To Ruin Your Life.

    Stein lives with his wife and son in Beverly Hills, California.”

I signed my lease for my apartment in Lubbock.  Move in date: 12/16/06, directly after finals.

I am happy.

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. " --Nathan Hale

So, the wisdom teeth are out!  Now I feel stupid.  Haha, get it?  I know, lame.  Luckily, I was born without the top two and only had to go through half the excruciating pain of removal.

I love my pain and sedative medication!!!!!! Love it!

See my stitches?  They come out on Wednesday….damnit I’m tired, grrr…homework….sex….this Friday!