Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill - Yahoo! News

Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill - Yahoo! News

Now thats just freakin sick right there. If I were in the accounting department, I would look at this more closely. How can a residential phone line accumulate that many charges in a few months? It would litteraly take DECADES unless he was trying to connect to the internet via a US ISP from his home in Malaysia through dial up and never turned it off. LOL still quite funny though.

To be thwarted by soft serve ice cream!

This mornings commute was absolutely wretched. You would think that Fridays would be a good day to drive to the office. Not today! I read the local news online and found out that they had to close down the Veterans Expressway, a highway I pass by on my way to work, because a truck with 7000 pounds of soft serve ice cream crashed and flipped onto its side. This forced people to take the route I normally take to work which totally clogged everything up. I ended up getting here at 9 instead of 8:30 like I normally do. At least there isn't much to clean up, the ice cream can just melt away..............

Everyone took their retard pill this morning

Driving to work was TERRIBLE! Seems like no one could drive this morning at all. There was a crash between a car and a bus on the other side of the road and it was my side of the road that was going slower.......... how does that make sense???? There are also some people that don't understand the meaning of rush hour. It means move your ass I've gotta get to work so stop driving the speed limit already!

I hope the commute home is better than it was this morning because I just can't take it anymore!

I finally got the sample!

It's taken me two weeks but I finally have a sample from my cat Nala that I can take to the vet. Now normally the vet would be able to take the little stool sample from a cat but not my cat. OOHHH NO!! She's a fiesty little one so the vet told me to get one for them. She shares a litter box with Thumper so its hard to see who's crap is who's. Yesterday I caught her in the litter box and I got the little container ready. It didn't help that she effectively buried it at the bottom of the litter box but I have my sample and can take it to the vet :)

My DVD Writer died :(

My DVD Writer for my PC just died the other night as I was trying to burn something. What a bummer! Now I have to spend money to get another one. Just in case there was a fix I emailed tech support at IO Magic and explained what was wrong. The thing doesn't even read the discs anymore, Windows recognizes that there is a drive but it won't read the media. I even cracked the thing open to see if there were any problems with the parts inside but it all looks OK to me (obviously I didn't put that in my email to IO Magic). I have a Best Buy card coming in the mail so I'll end up using all the money I have on it for my new burner, now my dilemma is whether or not to get an external one or an internal one.....................

Internet News is starting to change......

I've been on the internet for a LONG time it seems. I first jumped on in college using a 19.2 TAU modem and I used Netscape 3.0 as my web browser on my 486 PC that ran Windows 95. The first websites that I started reading was of course CNN and the New York Times.

Lets fast forward to 2006 shall we? Right now its April and after almost 10 years, CNN and the New York Times have finally changed the look of their websites. I think its been a long time in coming but I'm liking the new layout. It just kind of astounds me that it took them 10 years to actually update their sites. I'm sure there have been little changes here and there but the over all look really hasn't changed. Now I'm going to have to get used to the new look of these two sites so I can find my news. :)

Day Light Savings Time

I just remembered this morning that everything springs forward an hour. I can't t tell you how much that screws up my internal clock. Now I'm going to be going to bed an hour earlier and waking up an hour earlier too. I hope I don't end up getting to work late tomorrow because I can't get up. Why do we do this anyway????

Expedition Everest is AWESOME!

Today was the last day in 2006 that Claire and I could go to Disney. Our annual passes run out this week so we decided to hit up 2 parks, Animal Kingdom and MGM. We've been to Magic Kingdom and Epcot so much that we felt we should go to the other two.

First we went to MGM to ride on the Aerosmith Ride (someone gave us their fast passes so we went right to the head of the line without waiting) and that was totally bad ass. Then we decided to go to Tower of Terror which is a trip all on its own. The wait wasn't even too bad either. Up and down up and down WEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Animal Kingdom was next (we were only going on the thrill rides today) and the only thrill ride there is Expedition Everest. This ride is soooo COOL! The wait was like 70 minutes but that wasn't that bad. They built a whole new area for Expedition Everst in the Asia section of Animcal Kingdom and its so new that it doesn't even show up on any of the maps. The ride itself is really tall and you can see it almost as clearly as you can see the Tree of Life in the middle of the park. They had this whole thing about the Yeti that guards Mt. Everest while you're walking in the line which was cool and I have some pics of it too. The ride itself was sweet, it raises you up pretty high, some of the ride is within the artificial mountain and part of the ride even goes backwards! There's a HUGE Yeti at the end of the ride but since I don't wear my glasses on roll coasters I didn't get a good look at him. There aren't any loops or things of that sort on this coaster but thats ok. The presentation is awesome and this is one coaster I could ride over and over again because its so fun. Anyway, enjoy the pictures!

Wednesday nights are kick ass

There are only 2 reasons why I would say Wednesday nights are kick ass.

Number 1: South Park

Number 2: Mind of Mencia

These two shows alone make Wednesday night TV worth while. I wasn't a big fan of Drawn Together so I'm glad they were moved over so Mind of Mencia could be put in after South Park. Now I have a whole hour of good TV on Wednesdays :)

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Haircuts make my head cold

I'm sure this might be something that apply's mostly to guys but whenever I get a haircut my head feels cooler. I go about 4-6 weeks between haricuts so my hair is decently long by the time I actually get it cut. After I do get it cut it feels a bit drafty for a while and it takes some getting used to. On the upside, my hats don't feel so tight anymore when I wear them :)

At home once again

I'm here at home telecommuting. I must say that I like doing this every once in a while. Not only do I get to spend some time at home with my cats who I don't see all that often except at night, but I get to eat some decent food other than soup for lunch. The downside is that the network isn't as fast as it is at work and I'm missing my 18" LCD display too since that helps me do my job so much faster than just using my regular laptop monitor. I can't complain since I'm doing work and enjoying the company of my cats on a Friday :)

Chef is dead!! Or is he???

Last nights South Park was AWESOME! For those of you that missed it stop reading right now! Anyway, I missed last seasons finale so I didn't know that Chef left to become part of the Super Adventure Club. In this episode he comes back and since Isaac Hayes didn't do any of the voice overs, they spliced together his dialogue from all the episodes done in the past. This was kick ass because it added to the effect that he was brain washed. The ending though is the best part. Not only do they somewhat "kill" Chef, they use bits of Star Wars Episode III and bring him back so he looks like a Chef version of Darth Vader! LOL!! Can't wait to see what the rest of this season holds :)

The NY FBI can't afford email?!?!?!

I found this article in CNN rather disturbing. I don't get how a Federal law enforcement organization can't afford email! Email is one of the best tools on the planet for information sharing. I understand that it takes money to set up servers, pay for software, back everything up to tape, and have people monitor the system so it doesn't go down but this is just silly. Google gives you 2 gigs of free email, I'm sure they'd be willing to cut the government a contract or something to host their email in a secure facility if the feds would stop sueing them!

Now this is really cool!

I just read this article in the NY Times about how people here in the US are starting to use their cell phones as credit cards. I've heard about this kind of thing before but right now its really only hot in Japan and parts of Europe. However the prospect of just putting my phone up to a plate on a Coke machine and getting a soda really appeals to me. I'm one of those people that really don't carry cash around anymore because its just easier to charge everything. Having my credit card embedded into my phone would totally kick ass and since I have a Treo I'm sure there will be some software that will let me see everything I've charged and I'll be able to send all that stuff to my PC so I can make sure that what iI've charged on my phone syncs up with the bank. I say BRING IT! If they include it in the next Treo I buy (which will be in a couple years since I just got this one), I'll definately scrap a few credit cards and just use my phone for everything! :)

I'm a Trend Micro PUG!

I'm sure people are scratching their heads about the title. Who is Trend Micro and what the heck is a PUG? First off, Trend Micro is an antivirus software company. Anyone who uses MSN Hotmail uses Trend Micro virus protection. It's pretty well known and I've been a loyal user since I was in college. About a year ago I came across a post on betanews.com for beta testers for PC-Cillin 2005. I was already using PC-Cillin 2004 so I figured why not give it a try. The benefit of completing the test was that I was given a license for 2005 and later invited to complete the 2006 PC-Cillin beta test which is when I got yet another license. Right now I'm testing their new software (I forget its name right now) and its currently installed on my home PC. There are a few things that I can't finish on the test because my current PC-Cillin install is interfering with it but thats ok. Since I've tested 3 products they decded to invite me to be part of the Power User Group or PUG of testers. This will net me antivirus updates 12 hours earlier than everyone else, I get to test all their new products and get free software upgrades! How freakin sweet is that????

Comedy shows rule!

I saw Gabriel Iglesias last night at the Ft. Lauderdale Improv and it was kick ass. He was soo funny. I'll definately go and see him again if I have the chance. Depending on the money situation, I might come back down and see Lisa Lampinelli (I have no idea if I'm spelling her name right). Even though there is a two drink minimum, it was well worth the cost of seeing this show. One of the best parts about it? It's at the Seminole Hard Rock which is a bad ass place to go to gamble, eat, and do all types of other stuff :)

Boo to my apartment complex

Yesterday I received a notice from the property managers that all the apartments in my complex are going to be converted into condo's by next year but they're begining the process already. Right now they're not accepting new renters, the management people have actually moved the office to an apartment to make way for the new management company, and I should be receiving some sort of packet in the mail in a few days. Since I've stayed around for so long, I have the option to buy my place but I'm thinking that the price is going to be hideous since I have the largest apartment type that they offer. I also have the option to extend my lease for an additional 9 months for when I receive my letter so by my calculations I'll have to figure something out before December. GRRRRR............................... Somehow I don't agree with this at all. What if I want to stay in my apartment but not buy it? It gives me mobility and freedom but now I have a ticking clock which gives me little choice in the matter in what to do, move or buy hmmm........... I guess we'll see what happens in the coming months.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

To all my Irish people out there, I have to say you have one of the most bad ass holidays on the planet. What other holiday promotes drinking and good cheer like St. Patricks day and on top of that, you don't even have to buy people presents like other holidays?!?! AWESOME!!

I fixed my cat bowl!

To the left you see the water bowl that I bought for my cats a while ago. It's a huge dome that holds water and then it spits out water and covers the dome and goes into a little pool at the bottom and recycles itself. My cats love the thing and its great because I only have to fill it once a week.

A few days ago it didn't work like it should. I could hear the motor trying to spin but no water would come out. It had been a while since I cleaned it and no matter what I did, water just wouldn't go through the motor and spit up water. I shook it, used an air can, and all that other good stuff. After looking at it closer, I noticed I could crack it open. After cracking it open I found all this gunk inside it. After cleaning it all out, I put it back together and now it runs like NEW! SAWEET! Now all I need are more filters to prevent the gunk from building up in the motor again. I don't want to keep on taking apart the motor because I have a tendancy to break things when I get adventurous after I discover I can actually disassemble something. At least now my cats are happy :)

AOL is ruining Winamp!

I happen to be a pretty big fan of Winamp (for those of you that don't know, it plays music). I used to use it WAY back in the days before it even had a 1.0 release and the software was still owened by Nullsoft. I've been pretty pleased so far with the software even after AOL bought Nullsoft but the latest changes to Winamp 5.2 are just total CRAP! Granted there are some nice little improvements but the Media Library is getting bad. I was just recently using version 5.13 and the media library was nice and fast and pretty straight forward. I primarily use it to listen to music while I'm doing my work at the office. The 5.2 release just totally ruined the online music aspect. I still use it of course because its still the best but they need to change the interface back. There are too many "clicks" involved now just to get to my 3 favorite radio stations. I also still don't trust it to sync up my iPod properly which is why I'm still using MediaMonkey for that part (iTunes sucks royally in my opinion). OK, thats my rant for now I'll probably have another one later this afternoon. ;)

Funny as hell!

Last night my wife and I decided to watch Carlos Mancia on Comedy Central since he had a special on. I gotta tell you this man is funny! I love how he just insults EVERYONE. I highly recommend seeing him on Comedy Central where he has a regular show. I think his one hour special is also playing later this week. If you're not offended by much or love jokes about others, go here! carlosmencia.com

Healthy pasta tastes gross

Tonight my wife prepared some healthy pasta that we decided to try from the store. Little did we know that healthy pasta meant nasty pasta. When we went shopping we thought that the healthy pasta would taste the same, after all pasta is pasta and it takes a lot of talent to fuck up pasta in our view. I don't know the brand name but they sure as hell fucked up pasta! After a few bites we tossed it out along with the rest of the un-cooked healthy pasta in the trash. It's back to good old fashioned fattening pasta for us I can tell you that much, at least it tastes GOOD!

McDonalds Breakfast Trip

I think it was yesterday that my wife and I went to McDonalds for some breakfast sandwiches. Normally I don't go and get breakfast but she suggested it and my stomach was telling me to get some so we went. Now why would I blog about a simple thing like going to Micky D's?? READ ON!!

In order to get to work I go on this huge road called Hillsborough that is basically 3 lanes wide in both directions and separated by concrete islands that sometimes turn into turn lanes. The McDonald's that is on the way to work happens to be on the left side of the road so that requires either a U-turn or using one of the turn lanes. I opted for the turn lane but mis-judged it and I ended up being too far up the road from McDonalds. After looking down the road and deciding I can risk it, I gunned my car and went up the wrong way on Hillsborough to get to McDonalds. Not only that, I went in through the exit of McDonalds since it was closer than the actual entrance. Needless to say, I don't think I'll be doing something like that again anytime soon. But on the upside, the breakfast sandwich and has brown really hit the spot :)

My Sony DVD player still rules

A long time ago (ok not such a very long time ago) my wife gave me a DVD player when we first started going out. I think it was either an anniversary gift or a Christmas gift. To this day I'm still using it here at home. I also have a 6 disc changer that my father gave me when he moved away and needed to unload some stuff but sometimes it doesn't like to play the DVD's that I have. I just recently switched out the changer with my trusty Sony and it still works great. Maybe one day when it becomes cheap enough I'll either get Blue Ray or HD DVD (when it becomes cheaper since its like $1000 just for a player) but I'm sure that I'll still use my trusty Sony since i doubt this thing will ever break.

Ohh just because I love my Sony DVD player doesn't mean I'm getting a lamo PS3. News from the media is that its delayed till almost 2007. SUCKERS!! 360 is gonna own video gaming for the next three years and the best part is that I already have one :)

I luv me some clementines

This weekend I went to Costco for some shopping with my wife of course and she pointed out that they were selling clementines. I only bought one box this time thinking that I can make it last. Sorry no such luck! I think yesterday alone, I ate almost 20 of them which is more than half the box. At least I know that I'm not going to get sick because I have some major vitamin C in my blood now. :) I should have bought another box!!!!!!!!

They call him "Fluffy"

This month will mark the seven years that I have been dating my wife and we are going to go and see a comedian named Gabriel Iglesias. He can be found here at this LINK. I first saw him on Comedy Central in 2005 and he's damn funny. I actually bought tickets to see him in Ft. Lauderdale so I'm set to do a little traveling this month. I'll give a review of his performance after I see him on March 18. Woohoo!!

Monday's are now truly pathetic

I used to read a lot of Garfield comics when I was younger and there was one part that always seemed funny and it was his absolute hate of Monday's. I can say that I too have joined Garfield in hating Monday's totally. Well lets break it down as to why I hate Monday's now.

First, the work component! It's the beginning of the work week which in itself is just not a good thing most of the time. I just had two lovely days off, why would I want my free time to end? I also have 2 standing meetings every Monday so that cuts into productivity but that's not such a big deal. Most people that work just don't look forward to Monday's because they know there is five days worth or work ahead of them.

Second, the traffic component! Sunday drivers are bad Monday drivers in general. I don't know if its just me but when I know its rush hour to get to and from work, I don't really care what the speed limit is, I just want to either get my ass to work or get my ass home as soon as possible so I'm not burning gas just sitting in traffic doing nothing but cursing at the person in the WAY front who's going less than the speed limit and really isn't in a rush to get anywhere in particular.

Third, the TV component! This is relatively recent but right now there is NADA on the tube that's worth watching on Monday nights. I thought that with cable that would be pretty impossible but there are only so many Law and Order re-runs a person can watch on TNT and USA. I'd watch WWE but my wife doesn't like watching it anymore. Las Vegas (on NBC) was the one show I had to look forward to on Monday nights but they moved it to Friday's which is a horrible time slot because who's in on Friday evenings? (Well I am but that's because I'm cheap and don't like spending money to drink booze that's over priced when I can get it at the store and drink it in the comfort of my own home and not having to worry about driving).

Maybe something will happen that will make Monday's better so I don't hate it so much anymore but it would have to be something pretty major (a new TV show maybe???) that will lessen my apathy for this most horrible of days in the week (unless its my birthday, then Monday is a good day).

A totally weird movie

I just saw the movie Proof starring Anthony Hopkins and Gweneth Paltro(?). It was kind of weird and I got a little lost watching it. It was all about whether or not if this chick was crazy and supposedly she was super duper smart. She constructed this mathematical proof or something that could totally change the world. I understood the movie but it just didn't make any real sense as to why they even made it since it was DULL! I hope the next movie that I get from Blockbuster is better than this one.

Slept like a little baby.....

Last night I went to bed early for no really good reason. By early I mean like 8:30ish early. I was attempting to watch what was recorded on my Tivo at home (TV is generally terrible these days even with cable) and I fell asleep on my couch. I was woken up by my wife at 11ish but after I got up and walked to the bedroom I was out like a light. I must say, getting 10 hours of sleep was really nice :)

My Medal!

Here is a fabulous pic of the medal I got when I finished the race this past weekend, isn't it cool???

The pain is finally gone

It's Wednesday night and I'm finally not in pain after all the running I did this past weekend. I can walk up and down the stairs without feeling large stabs of pain in my legs. Maybe this weekend I'll be able to go to the Strawberry Festival with my wife and get some damn good berries from some local vendors. MMMM Strawberries!

Windows or Linux??

I just installed Linux on my home PC. I didn't use my regular Windows hard drive that I have because I didn't want to mess that up. I have a few spare hard drives from various computers hanging around so I took one of my 30 gig hard drives that I have and I installed Ubuntu Lnux which is based on the Debian release of Linux.

I'm probably very biased towards Windows because I know it so well and I can do plenty of functions in it already. Most of the programs that I have are made for Windows and they all run fine. I just decided to use Ubuntu Linux for a little bit to see how it is. I've tried other distributions before but this one doesn't seem too bad. The updates are pretty quick and they're free of course. The only problem I have is with some of the applications but I don't know how long I'll have to play with the thing. Right now I put my Windows hard drive back into my computer since it was just easier to use this right now and I'm playing a DVD. I was having trouble using my DVD player in Linux so I switched it back for now. We'll see how things go. I've also installed the KDE package in Ubuntu which I prefer to Gnome.

I'll report back later when I've had more time to mess around with Ubuntu and figure out how to install all the programs that I need to make it work like Windows XP.

Run run run as fast as you can!

It's Saturday and I finished running the Gasparilla Distance Classic held here in Tampa. This is the first time that I've ever run a real race in my life and the fact that it was 5K is pretty significant. I ran the race with my wife and our friend Jasmin and we made some pretty good time. My wife and I were able to finish it in about 45 minutes. Thats not bad considering that I haven't ran around that much since I was in high school playing soccer for my city league. Only time will tell if I ever try and do something like this again. At least I got a cool medal out of it :)

I'm gonna run a race, I'm not getting first place!

I'm probably nuts but this Saturday I'm going to be running the 5K race for the Gasparilla Distance Classic held here in Tampa. I was roped into doing it by my wife and her maid of honor. I'm probably going to be able to run the first 100 feet then probably will need assistance from an oxygen tank since I've never in my life run a race. I think its been close to a decade since I've had to run for any type of reason at all. I'll blog about it later if I'm not in the emergency room dying from a heart attack.

DOOM!

I recently rented the movie Doom which had The Rock in it. I have to say that the ending was quite surprising. I'm not going to say what happened since I don't want to spoil it for anyone but the movie was pretty cool. It was a bit too dark (the scenery) and it was hard to see a lot of stuff but the gun battles were cool. The gun battle near the end when it switches to a first person shooter perspective was excellent. I think they should have done more of the movie in that style, that would have been the ultimate!

Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee for PSP

I recently got this game for my wife's PSP and even though I'm not a big fan of golf, I have to say that this game is pretty fun. I personally haven't played a lot of it, but from what my wife tells me the game is quite challenging and there are tons of things that you can unlock. Some of the standard things you can unlock are abilities and courses. Some of the fun things that you can get are new pieces of clothing and hair styles. I'll play around with the game some more when my wife isn't looking but it seems really fun over all :)

Man am I dumb sometimes.......

Today was cleaning day at the old homestead. Of course that included lots of vacuuming since I have lots of carpet in my apartment. I figured that since I hadn't looked at some of the moving parts in my Dyson vacuum, now would be a good time to see if any of its parts needed cleaning. The front roller needed cleaning since there was all this hair and other stuff wrapped around the roller. Stupid me, I took off the plate that holds the roller and started trying to PULL the hair off instead of cutting it. This resulted in me pull up one half of the roller from the rest of the vacuum. Since I couldn't fix it right away, I decided to clean it first then attempt to put it back together. After a good 15 minutes of struggle and examining the totally useless instructions, I was able to put the roller back on the vacuum and it worked perfectly again. I will not be taking apart my $500+ vacuum again in the near future unless I have detailed schematics I can tell you that!

Another 360 games DONE!

I've finally finished up Project Gotham Racing 3 for Xbox 360. I haven't unlocked everything but I managed to get a medal in all the races and other events that are in the game. I've bought a lot of awesome cars so far and my personal favorites are Ferrari's and Porches. I'm going to start playing Perfect Dark Zero since that and Kameo are the only games that I haven't beaten yet.

Waiting

I saw this movie tonight that my wife and I rented from Blockbuster. I thought it was going to be funny but disappointingly it wasn't all that funny. I was hoping it was going to be along the lines of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (now that was a funny ass movie). I'll give it this thought, it had its moments and I will probably never ever send food back to the kitchen because its wrong ever again!

I need to start to NOT eat at the cafeteria

Here at work I have a cafeteria and I used to never really go. When my wife started, I went a couple times. The food was OK, nothing to really scream about but this morning my breakfast sandwich was just not up to snuff. So I have resolved, that if I can totally avoid it, I will no longer eat at the cafeteria to save my health and my taste buds! I'll drive all the way home first before eating there because too much of that food will probably shed decades from my life span.

BRRRRR!!

Talk about cold, I don't think Tampa has seen the 30's consistantly in a good long time. And here I thought the days of being in the cold were over. Still nothing can top my sister in laws wedding where it was a whopping 15 degrees!! WOOOOO! OK thats it, gotta find a way to keep warm. At least I have J Alexanders steak for lunch with their signature smashed potato's :)

Now thats what I call some SNOW!

This weekend I was in semi sunny South Floriduh visiting the in-laws again and I ran upon some news clips that showed how much snow everyone in the North East just received. All I can say is DAMN! They totally got pounded with about 2 FEET of snow. In any book thats a ton. I can't say I wish I was up there but I kind of do wish I was there. Why you ask?? SKIING! Just think, there are now mountains of freshly packed powder up in Vermont just waiting for skiiers to use and abuse it. I tell ya, if I wasn't here and still living up north, we'd be prepping my wife's Xterra for a little trip to the mountains to get in some skiing :)

Oh the humanity!!

I'm really bored (as you can tell by the amount of blog posts in one day) and I'm watching womens ice hockey for the '06 winter olympics and right now Canada is totally thrashing Italy 10-0. Thats just a crazy score for hockey. I mean scoring goals in hockey is like scoring goals in soccer. It comes maybe once every full moon or something. I guess thats what happens when you take a european team and put them against one of the gods of ice hockey. muahaha!!

MySpace is starting to suck

I'm not complaining really about the concept or anything of MySpace. I think its pretty cool that I can find people that I lost touch with and all that jazz. What really really sucks is that they don't have the capacity for all the stuff thats on the site. It's slow as peanut butter running down hill and the site is always under maintenance. Get it together MySpace tech support or else you're going to end up like Friendster!!! :P

Sunflower Seeds

I've been driving for a long time and I also drive for very long distances from time to time (Tampa to Ft. Lauderdale is about 280 miles one way) and the only way that I can actually stay awake for drives that are over 2 hours is to eat............... sun flower seeds! I've tried to use gum or other types of snacks but for some reason sun flower seeds always do the trick.

I think I have become a connoisseur when it comes to sun flower seeds because these days I just can't eat just any kind. My seeds of choice are David's Sun Flower seeds. I've tried all types from Planters to run of the mill ones that are at CVS and in terms of taste, David's knows no equal. So far the only place that carries them near me is Walgreens. It's a good thing I live close to one so when I take those long drives, I have a ready supply of my favorite wake me up food :)

Mario Strikers!

I have to say that I'm thoroughly addicted to playing Mario Strikers for GameCube. I'm taking a break from the 360 for now and playing a bad ass soccer game instead. I love killing and beating things up but there's only so much you can do on a given evening. So I've once again gone to the 'Cube to change things up. Right now I'm playing Super Cup battles which are pretty challenging and I'm cleaning up nicely. Once I beat it, I'll crank the difficulty up a few notches and see how badly I get my ass stomped. LOL!

Internet job hunting just got harder

I just read this on CNN about new rules that the Feds just put in place for making it tougher for people online to apply to jobs. I personally think thats total crap. It's hard enough already trying to get a job and a lot of people already do it online, with the new rules in place it'll make getting a job even tougher which is absolute CRAP! I hope this law gets kicked to the curb because I have enough stress in my life as it is.

Red Eye

My wife and I rented the movie Red Eye this weekend to kill some time before the Super Bowl and I have to say that it wasn't one of Wes Craven's best movies. We were looking for the absolute terror that normally occurs during his movies but this one was lacking. Oh well, I'll just take it back to Blockbuster tomorrow and hopefully something good will come in the mail for me to watch.

Now thats what I call a good burger

I went out to Gameworks in Tampa, well Ybor, for lunch with one of my co-workers to check the place out for a meeting that we might hold there. Since we'll be there for lunch and for the afternoon, we tried out some of the food. The food there is pretty good I must say. The place at Gameworks where I ate was called Jax Grill. I had the BBQ and Bacon Burger. This was an excellent burger over all. I had to pick the veggies off of it but thats alright since they were all at the bottom. The best part about it?? I didn't have to add ketchup or anything like that. I did ask them to add a slice of swiss cheese but thats all. Good thing there's a Gameworks in South Florida, now I can go there and get this burger when I visit the in-laws :)

And God opened up the heavens and out poured rain that lastetd for 40 Days.............

The title for this blog seemed appropriate today considering its raining like CRAZY! I went out to lunch with a co-worker and the rain is just thick as hell. I can barely see where I'm going. Now consider that I live in Floriduh, this state is at sea level which means lots and lots of FLOODING! I think I'm going to have to seriously look at investing in a jetski to get around this town when it rains like this, my poor car can't take all the water. Good thing its the weekend after it hits 5pm or else it would have made this day really crappy.

Trying to get smartified!

In my very lazy pursuit of knowledge, I have bought a book about SQL aka Sequel. I'm learning this mainly for my job just because it will be tons easier if I can run my own queries and stuff without having to ask someone to do it for me. Not to mention, if I want to get a new job, knowing how to do SQL will be a definate plus since most large IT organizations like it if you know how to do SQL. ;)

I'm sure some of you are asking, wtf is all this geek speak anyway??? Well I am a techie somewhat and we use this huge relational database (too complicated to explain, if you want to know what it is buy the book!!) at work and the easiest way to get info out of it is to run a query (thats a search for you non technical people) against the database using archaic statements that seem cryptic (stuff like SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, etc.... in really long strings) than using the application that connects to the database. This way I can see everything and narrow down the data to the actual stuff that I need. Pretty nifty eh?

The book I bought is called Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes. That doesn't mean to say that I'm going to be an SQL guru in 10 minutes, it has lessons in it and each one is 10 minutes. I haven't counted all the lessons yet but I do know that I'm only on lesson 4 and I'm learning how to get info out of a table. I downloaded a simple Access database to do the lessons but when I get more experience and confidence, I'm going to try it on the test version of our CMDB and see if I can get some useful info out of the thing. :)

Mountain Dew MDX Commercials

I saw these commercials while watching the Winter X Games which btw was freakin AWESOME! Go view the commercials, they're funny! Go to the site and click on The Ad's. Enjoy!

http://benocturnal.com/

A strange observation

This is something I never thought about before but the roads down here in Florida are so smooth compared to back home in CT. I was up in CT in January and its only now that I actually appreciate how nice and smooth all the roads are down here. There are exceptions of course but at least it doesn't feel like I'm riding a jack hammer while I'm cruising in my car going to work. Tomorrow is another day of work, absolutely dreading it!

Ahh memories!!

I'm down here in South Florida and I had to take my wife to a job interview in Miami. My wife's sisters live in Weston so its a bit of a drive to get there (30 minutes without traffic). After the interview we had to drive back on I-95. Now driving 95 really took me back because no matter where you are, I-95 is always the same. Lots of traffic, multiple accidents, and just people driving badly in general. I had the nostalgic feeling for all of 10 minutes until I started getting pissed because it took an hour and a half to get home................ so much for nostalgia :P

Damn traffic

This morning I was not a happy camper. I was STUCK behind a truck and couldn't get around it. The two other lanes had some weak drivers that were keeping pace with the truck for some odd reason which backed everything up. Regardless, my ass was late to work! BOOOO!!!

More Stewies Pics

I freakin love Stewies!! Here's a pic I took of the sign while I was freezing my ass off in CT. I should contact Stew Jr. and see if he'll let me open a store down here in Florida so I'll never be without Stewies again! Publix sucks in comparison!! :P

It's going to be a good week at work

Most people consider a good week at work being a week full of nothing to do. Mine is going to be full of meetings but thats not whats going to make it a good week. First thing, I'm going to take Friday off to see the in-laws in South Florida which should be fun. I still don't like leaving my cats alone for days at a time but I don't think I'll be leaving them alone for days at time much after this trip until the summer time. Second, and most importantly, its going to be jeans week at work and I'll be able to wear my favorite jersey at work too! That means I get to break out the NY Yankee jersey's that I have in my closet. WHOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man I love my job sometimes :)

Kameo

I've started playing the only game I ignored when I got my Xbox 360 and thats Kameo: Elements of Power. I'm taking a break from Project Gotham Racing (I hate running my car through cones), and Perfect Dark Zero (you can only stand getting killed in 10 seconds so many times and by the computer no less) for the time being and I'm concentrating on this game. Suprisingly this is one of the more fun games that I've had. The only thing thats kind of a drag is that you have to search around for stuff and the controls are a little off when you're trying to whoop ass.

The graphics are freakin awesome and I love the funny animations that are included. Maybe I'll be lucky and this will turn out to be a long game although I hear that it should take a gamer about 10 hours to complete. I like to take my time with games so normally it takes me twice as long as a normal person since I like sniffing around for goodies in the game. Now I wonder what game to get next...................... I'm thinking maybe a PC game (I haven't done that in a long time) called Star Wars: Empire at War!

A good story for people who like cats :)

A Dog Man Gets a Cat - I never liked cats much. Then Mother moved into my barn. By Jon Katz

Connecticut Wedding Trip

This past weekend I went up to CT for my sister in law's wedding. She lives in South Florida but decided to have it up north so it won't be such a hassle for friends and family to attend. The wedding was great and the food excellent. However, I have to blame her new husband for wishing for snow on the day of the wedding. Not only did it get bone chilling COLD (we're talking teens here people and thats without windchill), but the roads were a total mess!

I had the honor of being able to drive my wife's mothers Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder (that was a lot of fun) to the wedding and the day before I drove Claire's old truck to run errands. The Church and Reception were both in upstate CT and if anyone knows upstate CT, there's practically nothing there but woods and really small roads that twist and turn a lot. There were a couple of downed trees along the route and it didn't help things that I didn't have windshield washer fluid for the car until after I arrived at the church.

The bachelor party that I attended was kick ass and I met some really cool guys that were part of the wedding party. I'll post up some pics later on of the wedding. Not many pics of me though since I'm the photographer :)

I love Stewies

I'm back in the northeast and I just took a trip to my favorite grocery store which is only available up here. Stew Leonards is the largest dairy store in the world and they also have some of the best food anywhere. I used to go there all the time when I used to live up. I think I want to retire back up here because there is nothing like living in your home town :)

Oh happy day!

Yesterday was an excellent day! I found out my company just hired my wife!! Whoohoo!! Time to partay and celebrate! :)

I beat my first Xbox 360 Game!!

Last night I was able to beat Call of Duty 2 for Xbox 360. I have to admit that the game was plenty challenging since I can't remember the number of times I died in the game. The last level was tons of fun! Kill ton's of Germans, and put sticky bombs on 2 tanks while not getting killed..... yeah like thats easy! Now that I've beaten the game, I think I'm either going to move on to Project Gotham Racing (I'm pretty far along in the game so it makes sense to continue it) or I'll start clearing house on Perfect Dark Zero (I'm on Level 4 of this game and so far its been kicking my ass thoroughly).

I think I'm pretty much done with Dead or Alive 4 but I haven't gotten all the costumes yet or the final unlockable character but its only a matter of time. I've beaten the game with everyone else though in Story Mode and the end movies for the characters are pretty freakin sweet if I do say so myself. Tonight I shall be doing some more gaming since this weekend I won't have any time to do so at all.

Cold mornings stink

Normally I don't mind cold mornings. The only time cold mornings stink is when my car refuses to start. My car is relatively new, its a 2002 Nissan Altima but for some reason my particular Altima doesn't like the cold. When its cold and I don't drive my car for a few days it just kinda turns over but the engine never catches so the car won't start. After cranking it for like 15-20 minutes the car will finally start but its still quite frustrating. I think my car just needs a garage or something so its not just sitting out there in the cold. Then I think my problems will be solved! Anyone wanna give me money to buy a house so I can garage my car???

Kickin Virtual Ass

I got in some good game time last night. I was able to play through a level of Call of Duty 2 and get a few more costumes for Dead or Alive 4. I still play Call of Duty 2 more than Perfect Dark Zero right now but only because I'm so far into the game I might as well finish it. I think I have another 2 levels to go and then the game should be finished.

Last night I was able to do something I've never been able to do before. I was able to beat the last boss character in Dead or Alive 4 on the first try using Ryu Hayabusa. Normally he's not even close to being my best character but for some reason I was on fire when I used him. For those of you that know Dead or Alive 4, the AI for the last boss character is really really cheap when it comes to hitting you and disappearing as you're laying the smack down on it. But last night, I kicked her butt but didn't win a new costume since I had them all......... Oh well, maybe tonight I'll finish another level in Call of Duty 2 and hopefully I won't get my ass whipped.

Treo 700W has arrived!

After a little less than a year, the new Palm Treo 700W has arrived. What makes this sucker so special besides being newer than my current Palm Treo 650? Well for one thing, I'm running Palm OS 5 on my current 650 and this sucker runs Windows Mobile 5. Yes thats right, a Palm device is actually running a Windows OS on it. I haven't seen that many reviews on it since it just hit Verizon (its only available from Verizon for now but it will come out to other carriers I think) but from the specs I've seen, this thing is pretty sweet! It has EVDO high speed data connections (that would have been nice to have on the 650) and it has a 1.3 Megapixel camera plus even more memory. Man I'm jealous! I will just have to wait and see how people like the thing and who knows, maybe in 2 years when they come out with the Treo 800 I'll pick that up.

Right now I have my sights on getting an SD card for my PDA as well as the TomTom GPS Navigation 5 software and GPS device so I can use my PDA for GPS in my car. That should be really useful in the coming months. Now if I only had money to actually get it.............

Late night DOA-fest

Last night I stayed up till 1AM playing Dead or Alive 4. I was determined to get at least all the end movies for the characters and I pretty much succeeded. I have even unlocked 3 of the 4 hidden characters. Now I have to work on getting all of the new costumes for the characters which is why I was up so late. I must say that I'm starting to get a better hang of the game, I can semi counter people now but I still don't know even 1/4 of the moves that can be done and the practice section isn't all that great. I tried it last night and the moves are kinda hard to pull off but I'm going to work on it some more later so I can hopefully counter the cheap moves the computer does to me.

I need to dive into some of the other games so I don't lose my skills in playing them. Maybe I'll finish Call of Duty 2 this weekend and then start up on Perfect Dark Zero after that. PGR3 will be afterwards but that depends on my mood. Tonight, more gaming maddness with DOA4! WOOHOO!!

Jason's Xbox 360 Game Reviews

Welcome to my personal views about the new Xbox 360 games I have the absolute pleasure of owning. First I want to thank my wife Claire for getting me the 360 for Christmas and also for not getting too mad when I play hours on end. Now on to my impressions about each game.

First up is Dead or Alive 4. This is my most recent game and 3 in the series that I own. I have Dead or Alive 2 for Dreamcast and Dead or Alive 3 for Xbox. I have to say that without a doubt this is the toughest one I've played. The AI is cheap as hell with its shots and I have no idea how to do half of the new combo moves. On the other hand it is quite satisfying when I finally am able to beat someone and lord over them like I am the Master of creation. The visuals are just bad ass all around. I wish I understood the story more and if there was an easier difficulty setting so it wouldn't take me about 30 minutes to get past the last guy. The new characters are SWEET. I'll probably end up using them a lot during survival matches but right now I'm concentrating on getting all the new costumes and that means playing tons of story mode. It should keep me occupied for a good long while I hope.



Call of Duty 2 is just awesome. It's pretty hard at first but once you get the hang of it, its just a great first person shooter. Since I have the original Xbox, I approach a lot of the first person shooter games like I do Halo. This is one game you should not play like Halo. It's hard to aim well in the game because the weapons are replica's of what was used back then and the weapons back then weren't all that accurate. If you have a machine gun, you gotta get up fairly close to waste someone. I don't even bother with pistols. I like the smoke grenade though, that has helped me out a ton by putting up a huge smoke screen to hide my ass while I went about flanking someone and pasting their guts on a wall or something. I'm almost done with this one and its one of my favorites thus far. Highly recommend picking this one up.




I am typically a Burnout kind of person where the cars are fast and you can hit things. PGR3 is more like a simulation where everything is pretty realistic except for crashing but thats ok. The physics in the game is pretty dead on in terms of what would happen if you were doing some of the corners in a real car and thats a good thing. The graphics and sounds are awesome and I love the fact I can buy all these super expensive cars like Porches and Bently's and tons of other cars that I've never even heard of. The racing action at first doesn't seem fast but when you get some of the more powerful cars it really ramps up. I prefer doing the races but there are a bunch of challenges that you have to win as well in order to progress in the game. I could live without these since I'm not good at them but I guess it all goes back into making me a better driver.




Kameo I haven't played a lot of but from what I've seen its pretty fun to turn into different monsters and kick their asses. I'll give a better update once I've actually sat down and played it for a good long time.














Wow, thats what I have to say about this game. It's pretty hard and its another first person shooter like Call of Duty 2. The difference here is that stealth is the name of the game. You have to be sneaky a lot and you have tons of weapons with scopes and stuff. One of the best features is the ability to take cover behind objects, pop out and bust a cap in someones ass. The game is pretty rough, I'm only on level 4 (I got Dead or Alive 4 so I stopped playing this game for a little bit). The enemies are pretty intelligent too, they'll run around to make themselves harder to hit and take cover around objects to avoid your fire. I'm going to try and play this a little more this weekend. I'm sure once I get a better handle on the controls I'll be able to kick some butt in this one.





Well thats it in a nutshell. For professional reviews on all this stuff, I recommend Gamespot, IGN, or Teamxbox. If I don't blog a lot over the coming days, its because I'm having too much fun playing my games :)

It's been a while.......

Since I've put anything up on my blog. I've been out of the office for a good long time and I didn't feel like getting online and blogging about whats been going on. So now that I'm back and it's pretty close to my lunch break, I thought I'd give an update.

I recently went on a trip to Hawaii to visit my father, that was fun and I got to eat real Chinese food for once. I have pics from my trip on previous posts so I won't bother reciting what I did. What was significant to me was the trip back. Never in my entire life have I ever wanted to get off a plane so bad. We hit major turbulance from Hawaii all the way to Texas. Thats around 3000 miles of just going up and down, up and down and watching everything on the plane shake. They even suspended food service for most of the flight because the pilot told the flight attendants to stay in their seats. It almost made me swear off of flying for a while but I have another trip to take in January but its only like 2000 miles to NY so that should be fine.

Christmas was pretty good this year. I went to South Florida to see my wife's family and to exchange gifts. I went to midnight mass as well although I didn't stay for the whole thing, just the important parts. I'm still slightly weirded out that people hold hands during the Our Father part of the Mass. I don't know if its because I'm from the Northeast or something but I have this thing about holding hands in Church, just don't do it with me!! Stay away!! LOL My gifts this year were super sweet and I got the best ones from my wife of course. She was kind and generous enough to get me an Xbox 360!! Whoohoo! I also have 4 games to keep me occupied. I'm actually almost done with one, started 2 more and have to finally start the 4th. I have Kameo: Elements of Power, Dead or Alive 4, Call of Duty 2, and Project Gotham Racing 3. I'll probably go into each of them in some other post of mine when I get bored.

After Christmas I headed home with my wife. I had the rest of the week off because my company was awesome and gave us from Dec 23-Jan 2 off from work. So what did I do with my time off? Play video games of course!! My hands hurt from playing so much but its been fun as hell too. I even got a new game for my GameCube that was given to me from my Secret Santa called Mario Power Strikers (its a soccer game) that my wife and I play a lot since we can play against the computer together.

New Years wasn't that eventful, basically stayed up till midnight at home and toasted the new year with some Champaigne.

I saw a couple of movies too during my break. I forget what the first one was but it was a flick that my wife chose since it was her turn. I chose to see King Kong and I have to say that it was pretty good. There were some parts that were just outright nasty but the movie certainly didn't feel like it was 3 hours long.

Now I'm back to the grinder toiling away like always. Here's to another year of fun in Floriduh! Good thing I'm going up north in 2 weeks, I get to have some Garden Catering maybe and if I can swing it, yet more Chinese food :)

This is slightly disturbing

I got this vid link from a co-worker. Great for a laugh though!

http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&pmmsid=1421624

Santa is looking a bit hairy this year

Way too funny!!

Weep Boston Fans!

The awesome Yankees have just stolen Johnny Damon from you punks!! Muahahahaha!

Picture perfect sunset

Yet another picture that I took today while walking on Waikiki beach. I should sell this as a post card and make a mint. Then I can retire before I'm 30! 

Ahh Waikiki

I took this particular photo on the top of Diamond Head crater. It only took about 45 minutes to an hour to climb up to the top and the view was awesome. It wasn't full out sunny so I didn't roast on the way up. I have lots more pics when I was on the top but I'll post them later on. 

Chicken Anyone?

I saw these wild chickens roaming around the mountain I was on today while I was taking pictures ......... mmm dinner........ 

Ahh Hawaii

I just took this picture today, looks pretty sweet eh? I forget the name of the lookout where I took this but I just thought the picture was bad ass enough to post. I'll be posting more as I take them and find a way to get online. 

Sucky tech support

I have PSP video converter software and I can't seem to get it to work right. I've been able to rip one successful movie but the others haven't come out so hot so I contacted tech support for the software I bought (yes I acutally paid for it). I have come to the realization that I might actually know more about the software settings and what not than the tech people that are sending me emails.

I quote:
"Sometimes a wrong frame rate can cause sync problem. Please change another frame rate in "Input Settings" window."

Now, I know what the frame rate is, I know where to select it and change it, but umm how about some stinking advice on what the actual frame rate should be genius?? That might be slightly helpful than telling me to waste my time fiddling with the frame rate value and just attempt burn after burn of the same frackin movie. Morons! If I managed that tech support department I'd fire everyone and start from scratch!

Monday night TV stinks

I was cruising through Yahoo TV listings for my cable carrier and there isn't one thing that I want to watch tonight. Over 60 channels and not 1 thing I want to watch, thats total crap right there. I'm going to have to dig deep into the DVD collection and pull out something thats half way decent that I can stay awake to.

PSP Movies, sooo CLOSE!

This entire weekend I've been experimenting with ways to convert my DVD's to PSP movies. About a month ago I bought software from Xilisoft to attempt to make the movies for PSP with limited success. I still have problems with the sound syncing with the movie itself and it doesn't matter what I try using Xilisoft so far.

Last night I tried something new and I have to see if it worked later today since I let it run over night. I used DVD Decrypter to get the VOB file(took about half an hour), then I used something called Auto Gordian Knot to make the movie into an AVI file(this took about 2 hours). The movie and sound seemed to sync up so that was a good thing. I then used Xilisoft PSP Video Creator to take the AVI and make it into an MP4 file so I can view it on my PSP(I don't know how long this took, I ran it over night and had Shutdown Monster set to turn off my PC at 2AM). I have to transfer it to the PSP later tonight when I get home. I'm hopeful that this worked because then I'm gonna rip a few more videos so I can see them on my trip to Hawaii.

The Shutdown Monster

As much as I like Windows XP, there is one thing that I hate and thats the shut down sequence. I have found that if you don't close every application before you shut down, the thing just sorta hangs there and asks you a bunch of times to save your work or to shut something down before hand. NO MORE!!

I found this sweet program called Shutdown Monster that I've been using for the past month and I freakin love the thing. It has a bug or two when you want it to hide itself in the system tray but other than that, its pretty sweet. I can set it up to close everything down for me without all the save prompts and what have you, or I can set it on a timer or specify a time for my PC to shut off (very useful when ripping DVD's to PSP). Now if they would only put that sort of function in Windows Vista..............

TV sucks badly

It's Thursday night and there is absolutely NOTHING to watch on basic cable. I have over 70 channels and not one of them is playing anything good. What they need to do is develop some classic 80 and 90's cartoon channel so I can at least have the option of watching something like Silver Hawks, Duck Tales, Tiny Toons, or Animaniacs. Why should I be paying for CRAP on TV??? Humbug!! Not even Tivo can fix this.............

Girls = Evil

I got this from my friend Luu's blog, its just too funny!

" First we state that girls require time and money
Girls = Time x Money
And as we all know "time is money"
Time = Money
Therefore
Girls = Money x Money =(Money)2
And because "money is the root of all evil"
Money = square root of "evil"
Therefore
Girls = (square root of "evil")2
And we are forced to conclude that: Girls = "Evil "

Cats in heat

Let me be clear on this, these two cats do not belong to me. They actually belong to my sister in law. She just recently got the gray one (the current name is Silver but it'll change soon) and the orange one is her original cat Tigger.

Tigger is neutered but Silver isn't spayed so I'm think something clicked in his mind when he sniffed Silver's butt or something and he started going at it with her. The pics tell it all and the expression on Tiggers face in the second picture is CLASSIC!

The blue screen of death

Everyone who's ever used Windows knows of this magical screen. It's big, its bad, its blue, and very cryptic. All you know is that you have to restart your computer and pray it doesn't happen again. I just got one trying to view game footage on Teamxbox.com. Thats the first time in months that I've actually had to experience that. Things seem better but are they??? Hence the mystery that is the blue screen of DEATH!! Only time will tell......................

Weekend Movie Craziness

Thanksgiving weekend is really long and to pass some of the time I saw two movies with my wife and in-laws. Of course we just had to see Harry Potter 4. I'll admit that it was a good movie but I for some reason I still think that the first and second movies were better. I wanted to see some of the Quidditch World Cup but that was sliced out of the movie, and some of the back ground story wasn't as strong but thats just my personal opinion. All in all a good movie and I'll get it on DVD to complete my collection of Potter films.

I also saw Just Friends which was freakin funny as hell. Thats definately one movie I'll probably be getting on DVD. It has Ryan Reynolds (Van Wylder) in it and he was able to make the movie really funny. The fact that he lip syncs the song "I Swear" by All 4 One in the beginning and end of the movie is almost too funny to watch. Now I have to wait and see if there are any other movies that will be worth watching in the next few weeks as Christsmas fast approaches.

Day after Thanksgiving maddness!

The day after Thanksgiving is the day that everyone has great sales and everything but I hae to wonder whether or not its worth it. Nit only is it way crowded, you have to get up early so the stuff you want isn't sold out by 8am. Almost all the stuff I'm going to be buying is online so I don't have to be too concerned about not finding what I need to get. And if I have to pay a little more and avoid the stores, hell why not!

Only on Family Guy

.... Would they even consider calling the state of Florida "God's waiting room" LOL!!!

Happy Turkey Day!

This is freakin hilarious!! Link!!

New website added

Yet another one of my friends from up North has decided to start their own webpage. Bout freakin time I say.............lol! Just click on Laurie's Website on the right hand side and it will take you to her site.

Where the hell is it???

On a suggestion from my wife, I called up EB Games.com to find out when my Xbox 360 is shipping since there is no ship date on the website. The customer rep just told me that there is no ship date because they don't know when they're going to get more of the machines in. That just sucks balls right there but I'm a patient man, I can wait a little while longer. If I have to wait till 2006, then Houston, we'll have ourselves a big problem! I want my Xbox 360 NOW!

Xbox 360 Maddness

Last night I went to Target to get something with my wife and it was around 7:30 and there was a line forming outside to get an Xbox 360. My wife pre-ordered mine but its still at EB Games flaoting around somewhere since it was ordered online. I'm not that into video games that I'll wait my ass outside just to get one. I'll be patient and wait for mine to come in the mail :)

Freakin addicting

I got my wife a Sony PSP recently and got her a game called Lumines. It's kind of like Tetris but instead of lines you have to make blocks (basically line up 4 of the little squares into a box or rectangle) and its just as addicting as Tetris ever was. I am proud to say that for about 3 days I had the high score on the game until my wife kicked my ass (she's a Tetris Master). I'll have to practice so I can get the high score again even though it will probably take at least a month to beat her current high score :)

HA too funny!

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Beavis and Butt-head

Growing up, I didn't have cable TV but right now I'm watching the freakin movie and its too funny. I know plenty of people will call me dumb for liking this movie but if you check the IQ in my previous post, you'll see I am a genius :P I am CORNHOLIO!! I need TP for my bunghole........hahahaha CLASSIC!

I am the greatest.......IQ of 130!!!

Your IQ Is 130

Your Logical Intelligence is Below Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius Your General Knowledge is Genius

Phew, the week is over!

This week was certainly a lively one. I had an offsite meeting for my company from Tuesday till Thursday which wasn't bad. The only crappy part was that I had to wake up early in order to go. That just totally threw my days off so I had to just take off Friday. I also bought my wife an early Christmas gift. It's not just for her, both of us can use it but it is mainly for her to use when we travel. I am talking about a mighty PSP! I broke down and actually bought a gaming system from Sony. I had a bias against Sony because their size and power destroyed my Sega Dreamcast. Oh and for the first time in I'd say almost 6 years, I was forced to buy software! How fucked up is that? I bought software that would convert DVD's to PSP formats so I can load them up on memory sticks so it can be watched on the PSP without having to buy a disc. Not a bad idea, its kind of time consuming but what can you do?

Anyway, my wife is up in CT for the weekend to attend her sisters bridal shower. I opted to stay here at home to convert more DVD's to PSP format so we can be ready for when we go to Fort Lauderdale for Thanksgiving. I also wanted to spend some time with my cats since I feel bad for leaving them home alone so often. Next week is a full week, then a short week because of Thanksgiving, oh how sweet it is!!

Happy Birthday Thumper :)

Although this photo is a month or so old, this is what my cat Thumper looks like right now. He's all of two years old so he's maybe in his mid 20's in people years. I've had Thumper since he was about 9 weeks old and he's grown a lot! I'll probably give him some extra treats for his b-day though :)

Ninja Gaiden is DONE!

I did it! I finally kicked the crap out of Ninja Gaiden. Now I have to find another game to beat up on. I got a few more unlockable treats in the game like a new costume and the Very Hard difficulty level. Only a few more days till Xbox 360 is here :)

Hurricanes bring out the "DUH" in people

I recently read this article in the St Pete Times detailing how people in South Florida were getting mad because the government wasn't fast enough giving free hand outs after Hurricane Wilma. According to the article, most of the people demanding the hand outs didn't even prepare properly for the hurricane in the first place and now they're blaming the government for not helping fast enough?? Thats a load of bullshit right there. If you know a hurricane is coming, you get yourself a shit load of supplies and fill up the gas tank of your cars a few days ahead of time. If that sucker is past a category 3 and you know its coming to hit you in the ass, you hop in your car and drive your ass FAR AWAY even if you have no place to stay, its better than being killed.

And I'm willing to bet that these same people that are getting these free supplies from the Feds are going to go ape shit when their taxes go up or something and then the'll complain about that. Now if they thought ahead they would realize that by getting all these freebies from the government, we run up the deficit even more which translates into higher taxes for all, not just the poor idiots that didn't prepare and are asking for hand outs. I can almost see Gov Bush contemplating an income tax to help pay for all the disaster relief and planning and I wouldn't blame him one bit for doing it because all this aid costs tons of money. I'm lucky that no really big hurricanes have hit Western Florida yet but if I see one coming, my wife and my cats are heading to CT!