Things that make me swear

Before yesterday, I had found that there were about 3 things that made me swear, almost regardless of the situation. These are: Windows Vista, n00b$, and mass transit. Allow me to elaborate.

It might not be Windows Vista; in fact, it probably isn't, but Vista is just the most recent manifestation of it. Whenever I make attempts to used computers for anything other than screwing around on teh interblags I generally end up with a steady stream of expletives flowing from my lips. Case and point: CE En 270-Computational Methods. This class involved using the microsoft office programs excel and visual basic for applications to create spreadsheets. I'm glad that I had to take the tests for this class in a very public place with high Mormon density, the CAEDM lab. That's the only thing that kept the expletives quiet instead of being shouted at the top of my lungs.

When I say "n00b$" you should know that I am refering to college freshman, and anyone who's still in high school, who happens to be on a college campus. I generally call these pre-n00b$. The problem with n00b$ is that there are 7000 of them each September, and not a single one of them has any idea where they are going or what they are trying to accomplish. This last year, I was living at the Riviera Apartments, which is incredibly close to campus. The problem here is that one living at the Riv generally has to cross the dreaded... Helaman Halls. At the beginning of last school year, I had already moved all my stuff into my apartment at the Riv, and was all ready to go after just taking care of some things on campus. Just a tip, don't go into the ID office anytime before the first day of class... probably a few days after that too. I went in there to acquire an off-campus meal plan. Why, you ask?... to pick up lunch at the Cougareat when I feel the need, but back on task. After waiting for an hour and a half amongst eleventy trillion n00b$ I made it up to the desk and the following conversation ensued:
ID Center Lady: "What's your NetID?"
Me: "Uhh... I'm not a freshman, actually."
IDCL: "Oh [that's refreshing] what can I do for you then?"
This and going into the bookstore before the first day of class, has caused me to swear at the n00b$ ever since.

Mass transit. It's pretty self-explanitory. The bus doesn't come when you want it too, of even when they say it will. You have to make 17 transfers to go more than a mile. It takes a month of Sundays to make a journey that should take 45 minutes by car. Most of my "company" on my bus journeys have also been Mormon college students. I can only imagine what it would be like to ride with the degenerates that ride busses in places other than Provo. Moral of the story: I would pave paradise and put up a parking lot... and an 8-lane mega-freeway.

Until yesterday, I really thought that these were the only things that would really make me swear. Yesterday, my father and I took a motorcyling/shooting trip up to North Park, Colorado... which is indeed the converse of South park. :) Anywho, when we got to the place where we were headed, and started unloading all of our crap, I found another thing that will make me swear. The scourge on human existence know as the mosquito. Denver, CO and vicinity have recently been stealing some climate from Seattle, WA, and as such, there has been a bunch of standing water, and thus, the dreaded scourge of mosquitos. I they had been flies, I would have honestly believed that we were defecate... they were on us that bad. Just trying to swat at them sucked bad enough. Then one gets in your ear and you smack yourself clean across the face. I woke up this morning honestly expecting to see my own handprint on my left cheek, but alas 'twas not so. The bottom line: When mosquitos swarm, I swear, loudly and boisterously... thank goodness for Deep Woods Off.

So, I guess, now I'm gonna need to say that there are four things that cause me to swear... and that I really need to avoid those things.