Trying to Sell Me on What I Already Bought

I guess you could classify this as beef, since it is something that doesn't matter, but annoys me nonetheless. So, since I paid what some would call a ridiculous amount of money for a Playstation 3 (I would just refer to it as "my baby," but apparently, referring to an inanimate object as your "baby" when you actually have a child somehow makes you a bad parent), I figured that I should get the most out of it. One way to do this is to utilize it as a Blu-Ray Disc player. Since we have a sweet deal (one might call if tenure) with Blockbuster Online, I figured I'd get as many of our movie rentals on Blu-Ray that I can.

This is all well and good. The beef comes in the form of previews. For some reason, 99% of the Blu-Ray movies I watch have a "preview" for Blu-Ray movies in general. I'm not sure why the movie studios feel like they need to sell me on Blu-Ray when I'm already watching it. I know how great it is, that's why I rented the movie that way. Plus, you usually can't skip this preview. This may sound trivial, but it's like having a car salesman explain why you should buy your car for a good two minutes. Every time you get behind the wheel. It gets old pretty quick.

Reo's Daily Beef - Weird Bathroom Door Edition

It's been a while since I have shared some of my daily beef. It's about time I start being angry about stuff again. Actually, this one doesn't make me mad, so much as unsettled and a little weirded out.

So, the men's bathroom at my work has an automatic door for disabled people. When inside the bathroom, if someone in a wheelchair (or a germ-a-phobe like my friend Shane) wants to exit, they push the button and the door opens automatically. This is all well and good, hooray ADA and accessibility and all that jazz. My issue here is the door's odd habit of opening by itself. What makes it weird and unsettling is that the door usually opens on its own whilst I'm using the bathroom. I won't go into specifics, but it is odd to know that anyone walking by, some ten feet from where I'm doing my business, could tell that I'm in there, doing said business. So my beef is with the door opening on its own. It's weird and creepy and it needs to stop. Although I guess it could be that the bathroom is haunted and a ghost is opening the door, in which case, I have bigger problems...

Reo's Daily Beef: Christmas Edition...With Guest Blogger Juliana

Okay, so hopefully I don't offend anyone with this post. Let me preempt this by saying that I love Christmas music. I am one of those people who begins listening to Christmas music inappropriately too early. Usually by November 1st I am jamming out to Christmas tunes. I would probably start earlier if FM 100 played Christmas music in October.
However, my beef is this: The ridiculously obvious lyrics of the song "Mary Did You Know." It's a catchy tune, I will give you that, but really? Take the third verse for example.

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy is lord of all creation?
Did you know
That your baby boy will one day rules the nations?
Did you know
That your baby boy is heavens perfect lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding
Is the great I am

Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure Mary DID know all that. Didn't the angel Gabriel come to her and give her a heads up about what was going on? I don't know that she would have agreed to immaculate conception if she didn't have a pretty good idea of the greater purpose of it all.

Anyways, I know it is just a song, and I am not trying to be all Bah Humbug..But every time I hear that song I can't help but be slightly annoyed.

Reo's Daily Beef - It Begins

So, Julie and I (along with her sister and brother in law) have joked about me posting a blog with my "Daily Beef". I know it seems unlike me, but sometimes, things tend to get on my nerves. Crazy, right? Well, now that we have a blog, I finally have an outlet for all this "beef". Unfortunately, Julie won't allow me to post these things daily, for fear that it would make our blog seem something akin to "Creed Thoughts". But, I can post these gems occassionally, so here we go.

Yesterday was the first day of early voting in my area. I figured that since I have the day off, and since I despise crowds, I thought I would vote early and get it out of the way. No big deal, right? Wrong, and here comes my beef: Old people who door bust on early voting day. I had to wait for 5 minutes just to get in the parking lot of our library. Then, I had to wait as the droves of elderly folks shuffled across the driveway and into the library. Since I had already waited 10 minutes just in my car, I made the U turn and got out of there. After all, I do have a new son to get back too, plus, I'm very impatient.

There is nothing wrong with old people wanting to vote. I'm all for it. But really? Did all these people need to be at the polling place right when the polls opened on the first day? Don't they know that I can't normally participate in these things because I'm not yet at retirement age? Perhaps not. Either way, today's (or technically, yesterday's) beef is old people door busting the polls on early voting day.