41 is not near 36, little bigfoot lives

It was a long night last night.  Waking up at 2am isn't something I enjoy doing.  I've been bothered for the third time by a lemur sounding animal .  It didn't sound like an 8 foot ape, more like a 2-3 foot monkey. About a year ago, this north american monkey woke up my wife and she was so excited she woke me up.   The only way to describe it is, whooping, yipping, and a bit of cooing.  At first I thought it was an owl, then I'm told its a coyote.  I've searched and found sound files on both.  It's neither.  Last night this animal had the dogs in the neighborhood barking and was making a bunch of noise.  My new phone picks up a bunch of background noise, so I got up and went outside on our balcony in my underwear to record bigfoot.  Last night I could just barely hear the sounds, but it sounded good enough that I went back to bed.

When noon came around, I was realizing I had an important launch meeting at 1, and my phone reminds me we're meeting up for lunch in 41.  41 the visual studio cafeteria was not even close.  If it weren't for this killer audio of the missing link, I'd have opted out.

I jumped in a shuttle, red route, clockwise to 41.  At least there was some candy in the shuttle.  Good use of the shuttles right?  Go from 36 which has a decent cafeteria to 41 which has a smaller cafe with longer lines.  Yeah, I do think the lines were a bit much.  Of course the taco salad had the longest line, but it was moving a long.  I think it's the first time I've ever seen a vegitarian taco salad.  Tofu taco salad?  How does that work.  Chicken, beef or tofu.  My boss would be proud, he's had a rough time lately at our events.  When we've been taking customers out the last 5 times it has been Daniels Broiler in Bellevue.  Best steaks in town!  Easy.  When you're in a big group they aren't as good, but good luck if you are vegitarian, or I should say... no luck.

It was good to see Mike today in the cafeteria.  We had a good chat about Sonic.  Now that is food.  I love the shakes.  Coconut cream shake.

Oh, let me not forget our story time with John.  He was telling a story and had a snip taken from simpsons.  He ended up giving us the full Simpsons episode.  I lost it on one something he said.  Apple juice few across the cafeteria.  I call it getting a piece of air in my throat.  Have you ever had like air not balanced where you keep coughing until you can burp or cough it back to equilibrium.  It's the going down the wrong pipe problem, but John thought it was his story... it was partially.  I just couldn't get the air back out.  The mood was good, the food was ok.

If you have special editing equipment, please download this file and help me isolate the yeti screams toward the end of this.  If you don't see the file, it hasn't yet been uploaded.  Stay tunned.   

Comments

[cbuck]

just remember....in the movie, the guy hit it on the head with a big wrench, and it didn't do squat to the yeti monkey monster. and then when they dumped the crate into the quarry, it eventually broke. so its strong, it has a hard head, and it can breathe under water. i'm thinking its gonna take nukes to get rid of your pest.

[Joel Oleson]

It's great to finally have someone believe me.

It's really difficult to capture sounds off in the distance.

I miss lagoon. It's what fun is!

Maybe I need to get some special equipment. I'm sure he'll be back!!!

[cbuck]

ok, NOW I can hear it. had to crank it all the way up, but I can hear it in the distance. Dude, you got yourself a rabid gibbon or that monkey alien from Creepshow in your backyard.

[Christian Buckley]

hey Joel, do you recognize the photo of the yeti? I captured the image on my roadtrip -- it's from a lame horror ride at Lagoon in Farmington, UT. I saw it and instantly thought of your midget yeti. What's up with the stoned dancer to his right, though?