Aww crap!

I just got a notice from the County Clerk that I have to report for jury duty on July 20th. I'll be so freakin pissed if I get picked and even more freakin pissed if the case lasts into the weekend since I have a trip plan not to mention my birthday is on July 22. GAH!!! Thats what I get for registering to vote in Tampa!!

An observation about NY

Here's something intersting that I observed when I was recently up in the Northeast, and I think its rather funny.

In Floriduh, almost all the toll booth operators are either exact change only, SunPass, or senior citizens.

In New York, all the toll booths (even exact change and EZPass) are manned or monitored by NYPD.

Says something about each state I think ;)

Now that was a good lunch (burp!)

I just finished up some BBQ meat and rice that my wife brought back from CT and I gotta say it was DAMN good. Ahh, now I need to find an unused storage closet and a cot so I can take a nap this afternoon............zzzzz

I'm back from CT

My trip to CT was pretty good and the party was excellent! I didn't spend a lot of time up there because I have work today (boo!!!) but I did get to see my mom and Mama Chippy. Here are some of the highlights....

Almost misssed the flight from Tampa
I know what you're thinking but this was totally not our fault! We got to the airport and gate ontime and then JetBlue tells us that the flight is going to be delayed because of weather up in NY and to come back at 9:30. So..... Claire and I decided to go to the main airport terminal to shop around for stuff. We go there and decide at around 9pm to go back to the gate. To our surprise there was NO ONE THERE! We were like oh shit and ran towards the gate to see if the plane was still there. On a good note, we weren't the last ones to board, there were 4 other people that were late too ;)

Cool new camera!
Being the cool wife that she is, Claire bought a new digital camera for us. I'm contemplating selling my old one here at work for like $150 or something. I'll have to mull this over in my mind a little longer. We have a new Canon D400 which takes pictures super fast and the pics are even larger now than with my old one. The best part? It's freakin tiny!

Saweeet new radio station!
Of course when I return to CT, I have to listen to all my favorite stations like Z100, KTU, and Power 105.1. But I found a new station that was bad ass. It's 105.9 and they play nothing but Reggaeton which is something we don't get down here in Tampa. Although they do have it in Ft. Lauderdale so I get to listen to that stuff maybe 2-3 times a year on the radio. But at least now I have something new to listen to while I'm in CT.

Driving the Convertable
Claire's mom has a nice 2003 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder and she let me drive it this weekend which was really nice of her. The thing is a V6 and fully loaded to the gills with options. The only bad part was that it was way too hot to keep the top open. Driving on I-95 is like sitting in a parking lot so with no wind, it was just HOT! Buy just being able to drive the car was cool all by itself.

Dim Sum!!!
Being Chinese and from the Northeast, I'm a man that loves his Dim Sum. If there is enough time in the day to go, I'm all about going to Dim Sum on a weekend and this weekend was no exception. Even after eating a healthy breakfast with Claire and her dad, we decided to go to Hartsdale NY and eat some Dim Sum mmmmm........ now why can't Tampa have a good Dim Sum place eh???

OK, well that was the weekend end in a nut shell. I'm glad to be back home with my wife and my cats though. Now if only next weekend would come faster so I can relax at home :)

You know its summer in Tampa..........

when you start seeing hurricane or tropical storm warnings on TV all the time!

A funny movie

Here is a link to one of the funnier Foamy cartoon's I've seen recently. I have a whole archive of his stuff :)

http://mysite.verizon.net/jvwong96/pairs.swf

Too funny!! HA!

I was driving to work this morning when I saw one of the funniest things I've ever witnessed in Tampa. I saw a small Chevy pickup that looked fairly beat up and I thought, man what a piece of junk. Little did I know that this crap box was semi pimped. At the traffic light, the tailgate part of the truck started to lower itself to the ground. Holy crap it has hydraulics! LOL! I was dying in my car when I saw this because as soon as the light turned green, the back of the truck popped back up so the bumper wouldn't be dragging on the ground.

Just to gross you out.....

While I was on my honeymoon I kissed a sting ray in Grand Cayman ;) haha! I don't have a pic of it but you can go ahead and ask my wife, she'll confirm it!!

Why doesn't Tampa have clams?

I was talking to my friend Alison on IM during lunch and she sparked a memory ............ I really miss raw clams with cocktail sauce. When I used to live in CT, I used to have them every once in a while. I'd get them from Stew Leonard's (the best freakin grocery store on the face of the earth btw), out those little buggers in hot water and crackedem open with a knife. Now in Tampa, they have oysters (I don't like them) but why don't they have clam's? Clam's are so much better! Yet another reason why I should move back home ;)

Damn you Walmart!

Today I have one slight pet peeve.......... scanning in pictures............... because Walmart ran out of blank CD's.............. is this even possible??

I had the pictures from my water proof camera developed (the pics came out pretty good except for two that were messed up because I probably forgot to wind the camera enough between shots) and of course I went to Walmart to do it, they're so cheap its almost criminal not to use them. However when I got there and asked them to scan in the negatives they said they couldn't because they had no more CD's to burn. Thats freakin crazy! I'd just snatch some from the shelf or something in the electronics department. So I spent about 45 minutes scanning in pictures (I'll put up a picture or two if I deem them worthy) scanning in the pics. Now I need to transfer them to some back up device so I have a copy of it just in case my PC decides to die.

Anyway, thats my gripe about Walmart......... until tomorrow!

Whew I didn't poison myself

For the first time ever I cooked linguini with clam sauce with a hint of crushed red pepper. Granted everything was kinda from a can (just the clams and clam juice) but at least for the moment I'm alive and I'm not even sick. There was a lot of clams and juice in the can so I cooked a whole box of linguini. Thats tomorrow's lunch and dinner lol.

On another note, I got my proofs from the photographer but I'm waiting until the wife gets home to look at them. I also don't have the negatives yet so it'll be another few weeks till I get the professional pics in digital format. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Cool new skin for Winamp

After not visiting the Winamp site for a long time (those bastards at Time Warner have stopped development on it :( ), I found a pretty cool skin that I'm going to start using on my work PC when I listen to internet radio. Here's the link

http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=144223

Ahh nothing like a cool mixed drink :) 

Please don't die!

I got a rude ass shock when I turned on my home PC. It said that it couldn't boot and it had to check the hard disks to make sure everything was ok. I was like OH SHIT!! Totally not good since I have so much stuff on here thats important. Good thing I have two hard drives and multiple external hard drives from broken laptops. I ran a chkdsk /r and everything seems alright on the good ole C:\ drive. Granted it took about 3 hours to do.

Now I have to hope my printer doesn't go bust because my heavy ass cat is at this very moment sitting on top of it and staring at I have no idea what.

Anyway, I'll post another picture or two tomorrow if I have time from the honeymoon.

The Mariner of the Seas .......oooooooo

The Mariner of the Seas

I don't know how many of you are interested but if you are here is a link to Royal Caribbean that showcases whats on the Mariner of the Seas. It's pretty cool!

Back from the Honeymoon!

Well I'm finally back from my honeymoon and I gotta say it was great to get away for a week! I'll have day to day stuff up later, most likely I'll write it up this weekend as well as post some pictures.

For now though, here are some cool web links

My Cruise Ship (Mariner of the Seas): www.royalcaribbean.com
Del Sol T-Shirts: www.delsol.com
Xel-Ha Water Park: http://www.xelha.com.mx/default.asp?com_id=0&idioma=1
Two Funny Guys (they were a show on the ship): http://www.twofunnyguys.com/

Just to give you a basic run down of what I did each day, check the trip schedule

Day 1: Leave Florida
Day 2: At Sea
Day 3: Labadee, Hispaniola
Day 4: Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Day 5: Grand Cayman
Day 6: Cozumel, Mexico
Day 7: At Sea
Day 8: Back in Florida

Links to new slide shows will be up soon :) Cya all in cyberspace!

Oh for those of you who want to see the ship I was on, here's a pic of it in Labadee

Claire on our wedding day 

Another link courtesy of Duvee!

For those of you who have a Kodak Easy Share account (once known as Ofoto), follow this link which will take you to pics that Duvee took during the wedding and a few of the other events that occured in Tampa. PORC!! ;)

More Wedding photo's

Click here to find more photo's from my wedding. I'll be putting up more as I get them in my email.

Git R Done!

Whoohoo, wedding is now OVER! For those that are interested, click here for the pics. I'll post more later :)