Omar is dead.
Fiction – As of right now, I’m still very much alive. Let’s hope it stays that way for another 60-ish years. Though there was this time last week when I was peeing at a urinal with an automatic flusher, and it flushed while I was still standing there peeing. I thought for a second that I was like [SPOILER ALERT] Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, where I didn’t realize that I wasn’t really there [END SPOILER]. How crappy (pun intended) would that be, to have a toilet be the messenger?
Omar is still irritable.
Fact – I’m blaming it on the weather. Though it was up to almost 60 yesterday, it will be back in the 30′s by Friday.
Omar’s band is touring the east coast.
Fiction – My band hasn’t made it out of my living room just yet. That’s not for lack of practice on my part. Not that I’m blaming other band members, or anything. Nor am I already working on launching my solo career, in spite of what the rumor sites say.
Omar is more productive than ever before.
(Debatable) Fact – I have this problem where I don’t remember anything I need to do. So over the holidays, I read David Allen’s “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.” Though I don’t buy everything he’s selling, there’s definitely merit in his general premise that the human brain is not good at reminding you of things. If it was, you’d remember you need milk when you were at the store, not when you’re home wanting a bowl of Chocolate Chex. So I’ve taken to putting everything into a list, even the trivial things. If I need to do it, and I’m not going to do it right away, it goes on the list. And I must say, it’s been amazingly helpful. It seems obvious now, but the idea that I should use my brain to do stuff rather than using it to remember what I’m NOT doing is a pretty good one. It works well for me.
Omar is bogged down with work.
Fact – There was a night last week when I didn’t even take my laptop out of its bag when I got home (though I may have peeked at the iPhone one or two or 20 times). The wife assumes something is wrong with me if I’m not on the couch with the TV on and the laptop on my lap in the evening. You know, now that I type that out, it probably doesn’t paint a very good picture of me. I should strike that out. I’ll put that on my list.
March 18th, 2009
Sorry – I got to Chocolate Chex, and it was all down hill. They make that? Why dont I know about it? and WHY is it not in my cupboard or bowl or mouth as we speak. I have a good friend that works at General Mills – boy is she going to get it – I am sure this is in the by-laws of being my friend. and she is in Violation for withholding the chocolatey goodness. Dang! I liked her to.
March 18th, 2009
I’d hesitate to even call her a friend anymore, after this.
March 18th, 2009
I’m going to make a list right now. I should put that on my list.
March 18th, 2009
It’s always nice to hear that my friends are not dead. I am glad the urinal was just being a rude and cut you off mid-pee.
March 18th, 2009
Would The Band do a tour of the NW? If so, when you should I free up my calendar?
Maybe your Sixth Sense experience was a toilet prank. Maybe you’ll be on TV in one of those prank shows.
You never know.
March 19th, 2009
Now and then those automatic toilet things flush before I even sit down. It’s a bit unnerving…makes me wonder if I’ll get sucked in.
March 19th, 2009
This productivity of which you speak, would it also be fair to say that the iPhone has been invaluable to this task? I’m guessing these lists of yours are tapped out on the iPhone?
Here’s a story almost no one that doesn’t already own an iPhone will care about:
I work with this lady, partially because of my iPhone owning ways and my inability to shut up about how much I love it, her husband recently got an iPhone himself (why not the lady I work with? well, she’s blind for starters. But she still thinks she wants one. The real reason she doesn’t have one is due to contractual obligations. Go figure.). He’s considered technologically challenged, so many a phone conversation has occurred over the last couple of weeks wherein I explained to him how to add events to his calendar, download new apps, perform a hard reset (he didn’t understand that he had to hold it for longer than a second. Let’s just say he’s got lots of very similar screen shots in his camera roll.) move apps around on the screen and how to delete apps. He’s improving, but sometimes I wonder. Here’s the meat of the story. The other day, the lady I work with tried to call him on his new iPhone. She was unable to reach him because he went to work that day and forgot his iPhone. This is something I do not understand. How does one “forget” and iPhone? Is that even physically possible? or more importantly, is that even legal? I need to look over my AT&T contract and make sure he’s still eligible to own his iPhone. I might be required to repossess it and find a more suitable and loving home for it. That’s the end of my story.
Have I mentioned iPhone enough in this comment? My check from Apple will let me know.
March 19th, 2009
Jon, at what point do you think you might be at risk for iPhone fatigue?
Omar, I love lists. In fact, one of the major reasons I secretly want an iPhone is so I can keep lists on it. That and the fact that H’s iPhone has gotten me un-lost more times than I can count.
March 20th, 2009
laughed out loud at the toilet being the bearer of bad news that you’re actually dead when you think you’re alive. but if it flushed mid-pee, that would mean that you died WHILE standing there peeing and your spirit left your body..hence the motion detector thinking you were gone.
paul is seriously busy all the time these days. he leaves at 6am and gets back at 5pm and answers phone calls or emails in between dinner and getting the kids in bed and then once they’re in bed sits on the couch in front of the tv with his laptop on his lap and continues to work more. it sucks.
i am irritable too.
March 20th, 2009
Cadiz: iPhone fatigue is a myth created by the paper companies to try and trick people into still using 17th century forms of communication. Don’t believe the hype. Paper companies will do anything to stay in business.
March 20th, 2009
Tori has missed Omar’s post – FACT! I am glad you’re back, and alive at that!!
(Omar pees! lol!!)
March 20th, 2009
my thumb went a little numb once from iPhone fatigue. i had been typing and scrolling and emailing for hours with one hand, and my thumb was achy by the time my battery ran out. the battery life is a built-in iPhone fatigue deterrent, i think.
if you’re looking for a lead singer for the band, i was in choir in high school, and took private voice lessons for seven years, so, you know. i’m available for limited touring this summer. if you need me. you’re welcome.
March 20th, 2009
Omar, you’re on top of this, right?
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March 25th, 2009
I just re-read this. I don’t know how I missed it the first time, but just what the hell is going to happen in 60-ish or so years that you don’t want to be alive for?!?! What aren’t you telling us???
March 25th, 2009
maybe you should put “blog entry” on your to-do list. just a suggestion.
March 26th, 2009
happy waffle day
March 27th, 2009
Dude, I just realized that Ninja Man is still bedecked in holiday garb. Come on, now. I mean!!
March 27th, 2009
I’m starting to think Omar IS dead…
March 28th, 2009
Just curious–who does Omar have picked to win the tourney????
March 30th, 2009
I just had to come back and say kudos on your final four picks. I AM VERY IMPRESSED. And Michigan State to win it all–you just might be right. (BTW, I had no idea Tom Izzo was so short.)