Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain on DVD!

Finally after years and years of waiting these two great cartoons are being released on DVD. I used to love watching these cartoons after I came home from school. Who can't laugh at a pair of mice trying to take over the world in one night or having three crazy kids run around causing havoc everywhere they go? I already ordered it on Amazon and its being shipped to my office so I'll have something funny to watch during my lunch break....... AWESOME!!

Hooray its my birthday!

Hooray its my birthday!

Today I continue my journey into my late 20's by turning an astonishing 28 years old today. So far I've gotten some really good gifts. I have FIFA 2006 for my Xbox 360 (Brazil will win the cup this time), 2 shirts for work, a gift card, and best of all concert tickets to see Santana at the Ford Amphithearter in Tampa.

In only 2 more years I'll actually be 30. Ouch!! I guess I better enjoy my 20's as much as I can before I become a decade older :)

Cool a full rainbow!

Cool a full rainbow!

I was driving this afteenoon on my way home from work I saw a full rainbow in the sky. Normally I just see just a piece of a rainbow but this time I saw the full arch which was pretty cool. I would have tried to take a picture of it but I was driving and that's a bit dangerous. maybe next time I'll try and take a picture when I'm at a stop light or something.

A test post with U*Blog!

A test post with U*Blog!

I'm trying out yet another program for my treo. I am trying as much as possible to use my treo instead of my PC for things that I would normally boot up my PC for like blogging and instant messaging.

I can already get my personal mail, surf most websites except those with flash or java, use AOL to message people in real time, edit documents, and ummm that's about all I do on my phone besides calling people. Since I've installed so much junk on my phone over the past month, I think I'm going to need a new memory card soon to hold everything. So if anyone wants to get me a b-day gift this year, get me a 2GB SD memory card so I can dump yet more crap onto my phone :)

Oh yeah, gotta love Virtual PC

I recently installed Microsoft's Virtual PC 2004 on my home PC. I like to tinker with new programs and stuff but I have been cautious not to muck up my home PC too much because reloading it all the time takes a lot of time and effort. Since Microsoft just made this for free, I decided to try it out at home and at work. At work I successfully installed SUSE Linux 10 and it seems to be working pretty well so far. I don't have a lot of time to actually use it but from what I've seen so far its a good OS.

At home I installed an old copy of Windows 2000 that I own. I could have installed WinXP but its kind of bloated and Win2000 is a pretty good test bed for the programs that I try. Mainly stuff like Trend Micro Internet Security (I'm in the Power User group) and various other programs for doing stuff like cropping pictures, photo albums, anti spyware, etc..... I totally forgot how barebones a Windows 2000 install can be. It only had Internet Explorer and the OS and that was it. I'll have to work on installing other programs like OpenOffice.org to read and write office files, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and maybe a few audio and video codexes so I can test out movies that I make. I gotta say I'm liking this a lot and if I can put it on a networked hard drive, I can just make up virtual machines and use those and never have to install anything on another PC again. This is getting to be pretty sweet!!

Going to Orlando!

This coming weekend I'm heading to Orlando for the MRO World Conference. Most people probably have never heard of MRO unless you're in the IT field. My company currently uses them and I'm going to find out whats new and improved since we bought their software in like 1999. HA! So I'm taking a road trip and I'm staying at the Disney Dolphin which I know is a super sweet resort. I went there last year for my birthday (just for dinner though) and it had some really tasty food. I'm hoping the rooms there are equally good.

The only bad part is that I'm going to be away for most of the day for my wife's birthday. The conference ends at 3pm but then she has a dinner with her team at work so I won't be able to take her out. However I do get to take her out on Friday which is better because we don't have to worry about getting up early for work the next day.

A great day for sports!!

Today is going to be an excellent day. I just finished watching Wimbledon where Roger Federer just finished winning his 4th straight title. I was gunning for Nadal to win but it was still a great match.

There's also going to be a Yankee game going on today at 1pm and they're playing Tampa Bay so that means its going to be on TV for me to watch. Last night they trounced the Devil Ray's so that was a good thing.

And of course at 2pm today is the World Cup Final!! Italy vs. France!! WOOOOO!!!!!!!

4th of July fun

Yesterday of course was the 4th of July and that meant lots of fireworks all across the ole USA. This year my wife and I decided to stay in Tampa instead of going to South Florida. We stayed in Tampa last year too but that was more because my father was visiting us and he wanted to see some fireworks which is why he came at that time.

Yesterday was a good day though, it started off kind of slow but started to pick up as the World Cup kicked off one of their semi final matches with Italy winning 2-0 in double over time. Of course my italian friend Lucy had to call me and gloat that Italy made it to the World Cup finals. Next up was a home made lunch from my wife. She decided to cook us some burgers and chips and they were absolutely awesome. She made them really thick too and added my two fav's on a burger........ cheese and bacon! MMMMMM

We followed that up by heading over to Safety Harbor which is small town really close to where we live since we live close to the Tampa city limits. We arrived pretty early for the fireworks because my wife said that I would have trouble finding parking if we went later. Turns out she was right because it was definately challenging finding parking in Safety Harbor. There were little lots here and there charging $5.00. I certainly wasn't having any of that. After a little roaming around, we found some good parking on the street for free. By the time we parked and found a spot it would be another 2.5 hours until the start of the fireworks. To pass the time we listened to the band that was playing, they had reggae and more traditional american music playing, and of course we had to get some funnel cake and soda. What was really cool was that they had an Outback tent set up selling appetizers. If we had only known we wouldn't have eaten lunch so late since we weren't expecting good food at the fireworks area. The display that night was pretty good. They had all these patriotic marching band songs playing in the back ground and I actually knew most of them which surprised me. After the fireworks were all finished up, we began the long walk back to the car and had to find an alternate way home. The town is really small and has only two main roads. Luckily one of them lead to this major roadway in Pinellas so getting home wasn't so bad. Ahh gotta love 4 day weekends, hope I have another one of those sometime soon.

Return of the Rabbit!

It has returned!! After many years of being absent, well not really absent just renamed as the Golf, the VW Rabbit is back! It's probably strange that I'm writing about a car that I've never driven before since the last one was sold around 1979 but my father owned one and when I was younger he used to let me shift the gears since he had a manual transmission.

I can still remember how featureless the car was. It has no A/C, power nothing, not even the steering, but it was relatively peppy for a tiny car so my dad got some good speed out of it. Alas we had to sell it because it just didn't cut it for his 80 mile round trip commute so we gave it away for about 500 bucks. Maybe he'll buy a new one now that they've come back. I know that if I had some extra money lying around I would buy one just to have some fun around town.