Three day weekend!

This week I get to have a three day weekend, why do you ask? I have to take some vacation time before I lose it and I have some wedding things to take care of as well. Ahhh relaxation!! :) ENVY ME!!!

Blogger being a bit slow?

I'm sure that those of you that read my blog have noticed that I haven't posted anything in a while. I think there have been a few system changes to the site thats affecting my ability to post, not to mention I don't have anything to post anyway since I lead a boring life over all LOL! If the site improves I'll share some nuggets of info that I have. Anyway, work time!

The Blue Mystery String

Well, this weekend I was greeted with one of my cats throwing up. Which one I can't say since I didn't witness it but there was some blue string in it and it was kinda gross. I don't recall anything in my apartment that has blue string except for one of the play mice but it has its string attached so now its a mystery................

Tivo To Go............POS???

It's been a few days since I posted but I've been busy so anyone who wants to complain can kiss my asian butt :P

I just got Tivo To Go a few days ago which lets me take my Tivo recordings from the Tivo and transfer it to my PC. Since my PC is upstairs and the Tivo is downstairs I used a wireless adapter. Now I'm a technology freak, so using my vast knowledge I figured it wouldn't take all that long to download the stuff. Using conventional tech reason, it should transfer over at 11MB per second since thats what my network supports. Holy crap is all I can say, it takes almost 3 hours to download a 1 hour show!! I decided to download a few shows and left my PC on at night to get them.

Now I figured, this should be freakin cake, how long can it possibly take to take some MPEG's and throw them on a DVD? 4 hours! What I discovered during this extremely painful process (I made a few coasters too with my wrecked DVD's during this) is that the files are all encrypted by Tivo and when you burn it to DVD it decrypts the thing while it burns. Totally unacceptable! On top of all this, some of the Tivo files wouldn't decrypt properly because I wasn't using the correct software. I joined the tivocommunity.com boards and found a way to use Nero (my burning app of choice) and found a few ways to help me along.

I now have a way of decrypting a tivo file in 5 minutes but the re-coding after stripping out commercials takes 3-4 hours still which totally sucks. I'm looking for software to do this faster if possible. Oh I also found out the Tivo's use Linux as the OS and its coded to broadcast Tivo To Go at 1MB per second even if you're using Ethernet cable. WTF!! This isn't going to stop me from burning DVD's mind you, I just have to find a faster way to do it or get another PC so mine isn't locked up encoding Tivo files. Tivo needs to make this thing better FAST! POS!

Bachelor Party........ AWW YEAH!

It's March which means my bachelor party is going to be coming up pretty soon. Since my best man hates using email I'm helping him communicate the details of it. Right now I know the date (March 19), I know the general location (Stamford CT and surrounding area), but the details are a little bit on the fuzzy side right now since he's trying to keep it a surprise. I have to go ring shopping on the 19th so it'll be at night or in the afternoon. Who knows! I just know that once I have more details I'm going to be sending out Evites. Oh one detail I do know is to bring lots of cash LOL!!

For more wedding news and stuff, you should head over to Weddingchannel.com. Thats where almost everything is including the gift registry. Now I say ALMOST everything because one of our registries isn't there. We have one going at Bed Bath & Beyond too. All you really need to do is look up me, or better yet my fiance's name and the date and presto! Instant wedding registry! OK thats all, gotta go!

South Park Season 5 on DVD

Two words: Freakin AWESOME!

Nuff said!

Almost done with Burnout!!

Aww yeah I'm almost done with Burnout 3. My fiance got gold medals in all the crash events about a week ago and I'm still working on finishing all the race events. The freaking Indy car is fast as hell but can't turn for shit! I have Bronze medals for all the Special events with the Indy car, gold for all the regular races EXCEPT the last race which features...........THE INDY CAR!! SOB!!! I got a Silver in that race and I think there is one more since the game says I'm only 97% complete. hmmmmmmmmm........................

Anyway, wedding invites might be sent this weekend, I dunno though since we still have to finalize a few more things for them. Oh for my groomsmen, I'll let you guys know about the bachelor party stuff a little later, just bring tons of singles LOL!! Alright thats it for now!

Just relaxin with my girl :) 

Hide and seek!!! 

Lets Race!

My fiance has finally finished all the crash sections of the game Burnout 3. Now its time for me to get my groove on and do some hard hitting RACING! Anyone with a freakin pulse and an Xbox need to try out this game! So much for working out tonight, tonight is race night!

Challenging

My kitten Nala has a problem recently with scratching herself. This started to happen after she received her routine shots. I let it go on for a few weeks to see if she would stop on her own. So far she hasn't so I took her to the vet again to see what can be done. Well they gave me these pills that might help make her stop scratching since it's supposed to ease the itchy area of her internally.

Well any pet owner knows that trying to give any animal a pill is hard stuff. This is made even harder since Nala doesn't like to stay still or be confined in any way. Thumper I have no problems with, he'll take a shot in the ass and not even meow. Now the area that Nala is scratching is around her neck area. The vet recommended I use wet food or something but I know that Thumper will eat it if he sees or even hears a can pop open. My only recourse is to try and hold her down. Hence my CHALLENGE twice a day. This involves grabbing her by the back of her neck (where it itches) and prying her mouth open and forcing her to swallow a pill. I've tried the nice way but this seems to work best. The only bad part is then she hates me for a few hours and runs away. I hope she stops itching so I don't have to keep on giving her pills forcefully.

My new addiction

OK so this weekend I went out with my fiance and got a new Xbox game called Burnout 3: Takedown. I've read some reviews on the game and since they were pretty good I got it used at EB Games. Talk about addictive game play! I don't normally like racing games because they're kinda boring since you go round and round a track or something. There are many reasons to love this game but I'll just name a few.....

Reason 1: TAKEDOWNS!
One of the coolest freakin things you can do in this game is take out your opponents. Most of the other driving games I've played punish you for hitting someone or something but this game actually rewards you for hitting a rival into a wall. Now thats just impressive all on its own and a reason why I am addicted to playing this game.

Reason 2: Crash Mode!
This is the mode my fiance plays the most since I'm really good at the driving part and beat her often. This one is totally bad ass. You get a car, some boost to go uber fast, and then you find a spot in an intersection with tons of cars and you just plow your way into it. The point? To cause the most damage of course!! My fiance is really good at this part of the game, we're talking millions of dollars worth of damage wheras I can only maybe manage a few hundred thousand or so.

Reason 3: Unlockables!
So far I've had the game for about a day and already with the help of my fiance, we've gone through around half the game. We've unlocked a ton of cars and new race tracks that just keeps us coming back for more and more. When will it end???

Well thats it in a nutshell, if you own an Xbox, you MUST get this game. When I get home from work, I'm turning on my Xbox for some Burnout bliss :)

A gross gift from my cats

This morning was starting out OK. I got up, said goodbye to my fiance who had to go to the dentist, thought how awesome it was that it was Friday and that tonight is bowling night but what greets my eyes is a strange gift from one of my cats. I don't know which one of them did it but one of them decided to throw up their dinner near the scratching posts. Now this isn't a real big deal mind you since only the cats roam around the scratching post area but still it was pretty gross and kinda smelled. Using my trusty Petzyme, I sprayed that sucker till there was almost a little pool of liquid and let it sit there for the prescribed 10 minutes then I cleaned up what was left of the mess. This only happens when I change cat food and I have a feeling it might be Thumper since he's not big on changing cat food. On the other hand Nala hasn't thrown up yet since she's been with me so it just might be here time to pass a hair ball or something. We'll see what happens when I get home to see if there are any more "gifts" from Nala and Thumper.

It's only Wednesday!!

Good lord its only Wednesday! I don't know about the rest of you out there in cyberspace but this week is dragging really bad. Good thing its almost 5 :)

Blue Collar Comedy Tour RULZ!

This weekend I watched the Blue Collar Comedy Tour movies, they debuted the second one on Sunday. I gotta say thats some funny shit! Now that I live in red neck country, a lot of things make a little more sense now. I recommend people see this, and the TV show thats on Friday evenings (only if you have nothing better to do on a Friday night)

Time for a new website design??

Well this is something I've been mulling over for a week or so now. I'm starting to get a bit bored with my current website design but I don't know what to put in its place. Don't get me wrong, I like how it is now but it seems bland and lacks a little something.

I've considered going back to the tried and true HTML type site but that doesn't seem cool enough so I'm probably going to stick with Flash for now and maybe try and use some of my new found Action Script knowledge to make it look semi cool.

Anyway I don't know I'm just rambling on because I'm bored and not in the mood to do work cuz its Friday. Bah only 5 more hours of this torture till I'm FREE!!

Happy Chinese New Year!

It's Chinese New Year! I think its the year of the Rooster (or Cock, whatever you sick minded people prefer) or something. I don't know I don't follow Chinese New Year all that closely. But anyway, to all the asian people that I know, Happy New Year! :P

Pats Win :P

OK OK I'm not really a New England Patriots fan since they're really a Mass team (hate the Red Sox) but for this game against the Eagles I just had to go with the Pats. Philly is too close to Jersey for me to like and the town itself scared me when I went there fora visit last year. So congrats NE Pats! Booyah!!

Choices choices........

As many people know I have two cats at home. Now living with two cats is pretty fun except when I have to scoop the crap out of the litter box. Now you would expect that I would probably go through a fair amount of litter and yes indeed I do. I've been experimenting with different brands and now it comes down to two choices..........

Brand 1: Fresh Step!!
This is the one I started with when I first got Thumper. It smells alright and gets the job done. The price is around the middle area and I normally get around 30 pounds of the stuff and dump all of it in. So far I like this brand.

Brand 2: Scoop Away!!
I bought this last night and dumped it into the box. This one was a little cheaper than Fresh Step and I always see sale signs around this brand. They also only had one jug of Fresh Step so I decided to try it. It smells the same and it looks the same as Fresh Step and I know the cats don't mind since I found a few turds in the box this morning. I'll have to see how bad it stinks after a few weeks but so far so good.

Litter to stay away from: Arm and Hammer Multi Cat
This stuff was freakin NASTY! Awful smell to it and it didn't keep kitties box all that fresh either. I think it lasted about two weeks before I bought more Fresh Step and dumped it in.

So there it is, in about a month I will choose the winner which will be my kitties new brand of litter. Good lord I'm bored!!

The weekend..........

The weekend was pretty busy, busier than normal but only because there were wedding plans to finish up. There are still a few details to iron out but overall we're in good shape :) WHOOHOO! Personally I can't wait since my wedding is going to be da bomb! My guests will just have to wait and see what happens but pretty much its going to be uber cool.

I saw the Winter X games on ESPN and the things those people were doing are SICK!! I saw them all this weekend and even into this week. My favorites are definately skiing and snowboarding although the snowmobile stuff was also pretty freakin sweet. I wish I could do sick stuff like that but most likely I would have cracked my skull open trying it.

Sunday was my LAZY day. I didn't go out at all except to get gas for my car. Although it was a very productive day in terms of computer upkeep. I have 2 computers at home that I upkeep, one is a test machine and the other is my "file server" that has all my music and pictures. I was able to update everything and try out some new software to keep myself occupied so I wouldn't get too bored and start playing video games. Hmmmmm............... Well I'm at work so its time to eat some LUNCH!!