Halloween aftermath........

The best part of working in a supermarket in the middle of the night is..........checking out some of our wackjob customers. Sure we get a few shift workers shopping for groceries at 1 in the morning but let's face it-most normal people are in bed sleeping at that hour.

My vote for best Halloween costume was for the very large man with a shaved head wearing a ballet outfit at 2 in the morning buying a gallon of milk. He was at least 6 ft 6 in, was built like a sumo wrestler and he was wearing pink tights.....that dude was scary.


Our cat goes wacko when I buy her catnip. This picture is of her at 4:30 in the morning. I bought a package of 3 catnip stuffed mice and they are already strewn all over the house. I'm not sure what's in catnip, but our cat is wired for sound right now....


I brake for cake. My wife makes the best cake on planet Earth....and no I'm not sharing.
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There is all kinds of bad news out there today......and I ain't linking to any of it. Except this.

Besides coffee and bottled water......what did we drink 10 years ago? Me? I used to drink a ton of diet soda, now I'm addicted to green tea.

I think I've linked to this before, don't waste your money.... just let a professional (me) make you as heavy as a freight train.

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ARGH!!!! MY EYES!!!!!!

Sorry about the color scheme, but Halloween is awesome...I'll change it back to something normal on Thursday. Those donuts in the picture were created by yours truly. Our son wanted me to go to Dunkin' Donuts to buy him some donuts.....if anyone ever sees me in a Dunkin' Donut.....shoot me please.

We have another local chain around here that I would buy donuts from because they contribute quite a bit of money back into the community and I used to work for them.....but Dunkin' Donuts? They've slipped quite a bit in the past couple of years.
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Today's science break. I'm a science geek, I love reading stuff like that....check out this guys other essays at the bottom of the page.

This is kinda cool.

This looks like a good book. I know I'm gonna sound like an old fart when I say this.....but things were so much different when I was a kid.

Oh wait...........I'm still a kid. At least on the inside.

Have an orange day.

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You know you're tired........

You know you're tired when you get into the shower and you're still wearing your glasses. Sometimes, I even surprise myself with my own absentmindedness....I am the king of forgetting stuff.

I bought myself a simple Palm Pilot a year ago, I don't know how I'd get through life without it. If I am supposed to be somewhere or pick something up from the store...I gotta write it down in the Palm or 9 times out of 10-I'll blank out.

Ever walk into a room and forgot what you wanted to do or why you were even there? Sometimes, I'll have whole days like that.

I'm on vacation again next week, I am hoping to hit the foliage peak right on the money.

I'm dyin' to get out and play with my new camera....
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Ironic.

I think #13 is my favorite.

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One thing about working shift work is that nights off can really screw up your sleep schedule. For instance, this is my night off and I took a short nap right when I got home from work Sunday morning and then another one Sunday evening and now it's 1:30 AM Monday morning and I'm wide awake.

This would be cool if I could actually do something besides watch TV and screw around on the internet. I'd like to cut the grass and fertilize but 2 in the morning isn't the best time to fire up the mower........

Quiz.....

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

I've been reading about the wildfires out in Cali...between the fires, the traffic, earthquakes and housing prices-why does anyone choose to live there? I guess the climate is pleasant.

I don't know but when you have 2,700 factories making stuff for you on the other side of the world...some stuff is gonna slide by.

I ain't the smartest guy in the world, but it sure would be nice if we could figure out a way to make sure all kids under the age of 18 had healthcare....and yeah, I'd pay more taxes to make it happen.

Here's a really spiffy weather map. Just put your zip code into the box on the upper right.

This link might be dead by the time you read this, but if it isn't....click on the players names....somebody at Barton Collage was having fun.

If you've seen this video...........you've reached the end of the internet.

Butthole marketing.

Answers....

1. Boxing.

2. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. Strawberry

5. It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. Lettuce

9. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

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"Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank."

"Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank."

Next time I see a 12 year old with "Juicy" printed on her ass..........

I'm not much of a web page designer...

I was working on our churches web site and took a second look at the pages I had started to set up....I kinda didn't like them, so I deleted the lot of them and decided to start over.

Sometimes, life is just like that.

I only have one client appointment so far this week, so I should have plenty of time to do some more experimentation. It's mostly simple stuff with large, easy to read graphics.

Lots of the potential users don't spend a lot of time using a computer-so the easier the site is to navigate-the better.

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Gotcha Gift Box: 3 Set :: Onion Store

I need to get a set of these...........

Gotcha Gift Box: 3 Set :: Onion Store

Bored........

Since I had everything recently backed up on my laptop............I decided to play around some.



I managed to pretty much make it look like Vista without crashing anything.....

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Ouch....

So last night was kinda cold and drizzly..........my knees were absolutely killing me. So much so that I bought a tube of Icy Hot to slather on them. I went to the restroom, dropped trou and put a generous amount on both knees.

Not sure how it happened but some of the Icy Hot must have gotten on to my trousers.

After a few minutes, I noticed some things getting warm that really weren't supposed to be warm. Since my daughter and my mom read this blog........I'll leave those body parts up to your imagination.

Moral of the story.......be careful with where you put Icy Hot....it works good-sometimes a little too good.

I saw a commercial for Charmin toilet paper yesterday.....the commercial was touting the fact that Charmin leaves fewer pieces behind. Unless I get into a car accident and have to go to the hospital...........exactly how many people will know if I left a few pieces behind? What a dumbass commercial.

Our daughter is going to Italy sometime next year........not sure of all the details but I think it's way cool.
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We need more people like Ed around........great job!

That's all for today......I'm a busy boy.

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An easy fix.......

I went to a clients house to fix their printer.........pretty easy fix as it wasn't plugged the whole way into the computer. I wish all the fixes were that easy. I didn't charge them anything....I didn't have the heart and it wouldn't have been right. Sometimes tech stuff can be easy...sometimes it can be hard.

In the next couple weeks, I'm gonna be spending a lot of my free time setting up a simple to use web site for our church.....so if ya'll don't see me post much-you know why.

This morning coming out from work was the first time this year that it felt like fall. Windy, rainy and cold....good sleeping weather, but not much good for anything else. Lucky for me...that's what I plan to do...catch up on some sleep. If there's one thing I do well, it's sleep. I might even be considered a professional sleeper.....I'm that good at it.

I love me some 80's music.

Why it's good to wear a full face helmet (don't worry-no gore). A friend of mine at work had a get-off earlier this year...his head hit the guard rail. Without the helmet....he woulda probably been killed.

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Mole Day

I'm pretty sure our daughter celebrated this.

Mole Day

Our daughter is a geek........I think she gets some of that from me.

Thankfully, she's got her mother's smarts.

NPR : Maine Middle School to Issue Birth Control Pills

My son sent this link to me.....

NPR : Maine Middle School to Issue Birth Control Pills

Jeez, when I was 11 years old, I was more concerned about building model cars and lighting them fire then I was about birth control.

Wait a sec...........I'm not even sure if I knew what birth control was when I was that old.

Work sucks............

Okay, maybe that's a bit harsh, work doesn't really suck....but my knees ain't used to standing up for 8 hours straight....I was a hurtin' pup when I got off this morning.

I was gonna try to post some good news from current events........but I could find any. Hell, even the guy who invented Rice-A-Roni died.

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I'm a nice guy....honest.

Dumbledore is gay. I say........how bout it? I'm sure the news will piss off lots of conservatives, but lets face it-the world is made up of all kinds of people and the sooner we all get along......the better.

Speaking of trying to get along.....the neighbor directly behind us let their dog on their back patio all day this past Saturday. The only problem with that is that it barked for 4 hours straight. After it got dark, I walked over and calmly asked them how much longer they were planning on letting the dog out there barking. I got a "huh" look.

How can people be so damn dumb and inconsiderate? Next time, I'll just call the police and let them handle it. Not sure if bothering the police for such a trivial manner is okay or not-but they might be able to get through the guy's thick skull better them me.

More about getting along.....the neighbor next to me, is pissed because I mowed a strip of his property 8 inches wide by 20 feet. He asked me not to cut it because I cut it too short. 8 inches dude.......get a freakin' life. His wife has recently left him so he probably a little unstable, I'll try to be nice to him, but it's gonna be an effort.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot the neighbor on the other side of me.....they recently moved this past summer and while they've been busy with remodeling their house-they have let their yard go. I asked them to trim and weed an extremely overgrown flowerbed bordering our property a while back because it was seeding our yard with all kinds of weird weeds and plants.

Nothing happened for awhile....so I weeded it myself .......with a bottle of Roundup. No roots, no weeds, no problem. Except they give me dirty looks whenever they see me.

And don't get me started on dog owners that think it's okay for their dogs to defecate and urinate all over my yard and then try to clean most of it up with a shovel and a baggie........

Sounds like I'm a real asshole huh? Not at all...I'm a nice guy-honest. Just ask my mom.
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Heros.......to zeros.

Huh?

I know what I'm wearing this Halloween.

This is kinda scary....it's one of the reasons I went to Linux on one of my computers. You never know.....

I think I would go by "Bill" instead of "Willie".

This is a really good article about alternative fuels and some guy in Kansas who makes 800 horsepower Hummers. Me? I'm not looking for a Hummer with enough power to rotate the Earth, but I'll settle for a Smart car that gets 75 mpg.

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A hiking we will go......

I got to take some good pics yesterday-my wife and I went on a hike around Lake Williams. As you can see, it was close to 4 miles-nothing too tough but we both are feeling it a little bit. Actually, my knees are feeling it a LOT...but it was worth it.

You know you are getting old when you take Celebrex before you go out for a walk.

As you can see...there ain't a whole lot of Lake Williams left. It's really surprising that there hasn't been much coverage in the local media concerning how low our water reservoir is.

We walked past where all the clear cutting in the park took place several years ago, at the time-the Parks and the York Water company promised that they would reseed the logged areas with new trees.

I didn't see any new trees, just a lot of garbage vegetation. I guess the money the York Water Company got for the logged trees was more important then restoring what they destroyed. I know we need paper products, but jeez.....did they have to saw down trees in one of our county parks? I digress.....

Here are more pictures here of different locations along the trail.

I had my camera on full auto for all the pictures, I didn't want to hold up my lovely wife while I goofed around with settings...she likes to keep a nice steady pace. We did the hike in about 90 minutes so we didn't do much standing around.

Even with having the camera make all the decisions....I think it does a really nice job.

My friend Hank sent me this. My favorite is the pic with the bigger brother that decorates his baby brother with magic marker. I'm sure he got in a little trouble for that one.

I still think Rush Limbaugh is ten pounds of shit packed into a 5 pound bag, but hats off to him for doing this.

If you trouble falling asleep, listen to this.

24%........this country is f**ked up.

I didn't know this was a sport.

There's birthday cakes and then there are birthday cakes.

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I'm geeked out.....

How you know you might be a geek when you...........

Use two computers with different OS'es at the same time.

I'm liking Ubuntu quite a bit, there isn't much that it can't do that Windows doesn't do. It even runs fairly well on my 8 year old PC. I'm no Linux expert, but I like having something different to learn, and fortunately.....I have a few readers that can help me out if I get stuck on something.

The weather here in Central PA has just been insane. I'm sitting here at 6 in the morning wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Saturday and Sunday are supposed to be in the mid 70's....not bad for late October. I'd be perfectly okay with a mild winter. I like the cooler temps but I can do without the snow, sleet and freezing rain.

With any luck, I'll be out later today to play around with my camera, I've pretty much mastered the basic settings and besides....it ain't rocket science-it's just getting out there and getting some shots.

I've found the candidate I'm voting for in 2008..........I'm going with the toad........I'm tired of all the bullshit.

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Purple and Brown

My kind of humor......

Purple and Brown

Mother of The Year

Mother of The Year

I made a little money......

Wasn't feeling all that spiffy yesterday but I did a simple web site for my brother-in-law....nothing really fancy-actually, it's exactly how he wants it....simple and easy to navigate.

He's been talking to someone that does web sites for the last 6 months and been getting pretty much nowhere. I'm not a web designer by any stretch of the imagination, but I threw something together while he was here yesterday working on my windows.

He's happy-I'm happy and I get to put a little more money in the bank.

A joke......

A cabbie picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her.

She asks him why he is staring.

He replies..."I have a question to ask you, but I don't want to offend you,"

She answers, "My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear just About everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive.

"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."

She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that:

#1, you have to be single and #2, you must be Catholic." The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!

"OK" the nun says. "Pull into the next alley.

" The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a hooker blush. But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.

"My dear child," said the nun, "Why are you crying?" "Forgive me, but I've sinned. I lied and I must confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish."

The nun says, "That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween Party."

........gotta love Halloween.

I sold my Redline Monocog yesterday.....it's going to a reader of this blog and I'm sure he's gonna be using it a lot more then I've been. I hate to see it go, but being realistic-ain't no way I'm gonna be riding it with my creaky knees. At least it went to another computer geek-you gotta like that.

Still have my Cannondale R500 if anyone's interested.....
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The pot calling the kettle black.....honestly, he's starting to scare me.

This is even scarier then Bush........these guys are actually intelligent.

Yay, the newest version of Ubuntu is here. Been using the previous version for a couple months, it's an excellent way to breathe life into an old computer.

Check out the cardboard bikes.

A list of lists........don't blame me if you are reading this at work and don't get anything done today.

Cat.

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I'm a slacker....

Jeez, I forgot how much fun it is to just wake up in the morning with no set plans until I go back to bed in the evening. I guess that's why they call it vacation.

My brother-in-law is a contractor and this week he's installing all new windows and patio doors in our humble abode. I'd post his name, but he already has way more business then he can handle. The dude is a total perfectionist and deals mainly with high end clients-he's real good.

I caught me a little bit of a cold or something, I got a flu shot the other day-that might have something to do with it. It's not where I'd call myself "sick".... just enough of a cold to where I just wanna flop around the house and take it easy. Since it's going to be rainy for the next couple days-I'm not too upset about it.

I'm a wallpaper junkie, these are some very nice high resolution pics.

I also like trying out new software.....anyone remember Netscape Navigator? They have a new version that's mostly a copy of Firefox. It's pretty much the same but I kept it anyways, it's a good back up in case I corrupt Firefox somehow.

How fresh is your Sushi?

I kinda like #1 the best.

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You gotta be kidding me............

Dumbest product ever.

Time for some goofing off....

I haven't had one of those vacations where all I do is goof off for awhile.

My brother-in-law is a contractor and will be spending most of the week here putting in new windows so I can't stray too far.

It's just nice to wake up and other then taking our son to school.......the rest of the day is open.

Yay.

I've decided to sell my Cannondale R500 road bike, I've ridden it exactly 5 times this entire year. I'm much more comfortable on my Cross-Check and I'm gonna use the money for computer stuff. I need PC equipment more then I need a bike that I never ride. You can check out more here if you're local and wanna buy a nearly new road bike.
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This is wrong on so many levels.

Darth plays a mean harmonica.

Good news for my 2nd favorite band.

The visual puns in this ad make me want to go to the bathroom.....now.

It would be easier to just eat a banana or two.

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SkyMall - Dough-nu-matic

Wow, this might put me out of a job.

SkyMall - Dough-nu-matic

Settings settings and more settings

Well, so far I've gotten about half-way through the manual on my camera and there are all kinds of settings for just about everything. It's kind of intimidating but to be honest....I'm kind of digging it. I'm sure once I learn what all the buttons, menus and settings do...it's gonna be awesome.

Just finished setting up a new PC for a client yesterday. They went from a Windows 98 machine with a 14 inch CRT display and dial up to a pimped out Vista desktop with a 20 inch LCD widescreen monitor with broadband. Super nice guy and he very well might have stayed up all night playing around with it....I know that if I was in the same situation, I woulda.
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This guy has way too much time on his hands.

Me........I'm kinda busy.

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I like my camera......

I really like my birthday present.........I'm kinda busy with computer stuff this weekend, look for some pics next week-I'm on vacation and plan to do some major league slacking. I'll be taking some hikes and whatnot-gotta catch some fall scenery.

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48

Mmmm, funny-except for extremely creaky knees......I don't feel like I'm 48.

I know I sure don't act like I'm 48.

Which is at least half the fun.

What did I get for my birthday? Lots of love from my family. My wife puts up with electronic stuff all over the place so I can pursue my dream of running my own business, so I don't think I could ask for more......I guess I could ask for more, but I don't think I'd get it:-)

Last night at work they had a crew of guys come in and strip all the old wax off the floor and re-wax everything. Not sure what's in that floor stripper but none of those guys on the floor crew can have very many functioning brain cells remaining.

It gave me one helluva a headache.

I'm just glad I only have to smell it twice a year when they re-do the floors....those guys smell it every night. I'm thinking they probably have a hard time stringing meaningful words together to form sentences.

Working on a brand setting up a brand new computer this weekend and trying to restore an old one that's infested with spyware. I really hate to use the nuclear option when I try to save someone computer but this particular computer is just being used for browsing and doesn't have any documents or programs installed so it's getting formatted and a fresh XP install.

I'm gonna make it so fireworks go off if the client tries to open or download anything other then web pages:-)
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Boing Boing TV is a lot of fun.....you might even learn something.

I was never that big of an Al Gore fan, but I think he's learned a lot in the past 8 years.....after winning the Nobel-I'd like to see him run for President.

I think Ann might have crossed a line this time.

Here's the ultimate NASCAR dad redneck pickup if you want a sporty car and a pickup but can't have both.

Being a business owner.........this is an interesting article. If someone tried to bargain with me? I'd tell them to shop my price around-it's already pretty good.

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Better then last time.......

Soooo, I went to the doctor for a normal checkup and to get more arthritis meds.....I lost 7 pounds and dropped my blood pressure down to the high end of normal.....yay.

I'm looking forward to some cool weather but my knees always seem to bother me when it gets chilly. Meh, lots of folks have way worse problems than painful joints, so I'll shut up now.

Not much time to blog this week, busy as heck with computer stuff.

Cows. Lots of cows.

I love the hair in a can stuff. I wonder how well it would look on my shiny forehead?

Our daughter just learned to knit....she might like the site in this video.

How come they didn't have cool stuff like this when I was 3 years old?

Jesus gets busted. Think about it.....you know darn well it would go down like that.

10 idiots, read up.

When I'm 75...........I could see me doing this.

This site is a time sink. Don't blame me if you sign on and wonder where 4 hours went. I'm kinda partial to the Texas Hold'em.

I hope I live past 80............you can whatever you want and nobody gives you shit for it. J.C. wasn't that great a President....if he knew then what he knows now-things woulda been different.

Mmmm, I dunno, but maybe if he hadn't snorted and smoked his body weight in cocaine over the past 15 years.......he wouldn't be having heart attack scares. Just saying.

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Best Aunt ever..........

My Aunt Helen passed away two years ago today.

I have lots of aunts and uncles but I only had one Aunt Helen.

One of my favorite memories of her was when I got to stay over at her house in the summer.

She always thought my mom and dad were too strict with me when I was a kid, so as a result....I got to do all kinds of fun stuff when I stayed over. Nothing too out of control, but when you're 12 or 13 years old......staying up 2 or 3 hours past your normal bedtime was sheer craziness.

......I'll always miss her.

PhD's don't work at gas stations...

So I pull into the local mini mart to get gas on the way home this morning.....get the nozzle into the van and the guy inside say something like "Hidhgf kfheodsbb, gheosbcpqwu...BEFUSRID over the outside PA system. Then about 10 seconds later, he says the same thing but at the end he adds...those assholes don't listen. I assume that he thought he was off-mike when he said the last part.....

Since it's 4 AM and I'm the only customer on the property---I figure he's talking to me. I walk inside and tell him I'm the asshole that wasn't listening, but it was hard to understand what he was saying because it sounded like he was talking through a wet blanket.

Turns out he normally sounds like he is talking through a wet blanket and probably has a room temperature IQ at best because he doesn't apologize for calling me an asshole, he just tells me that I need to reset the pump.

I didn't try it, but I managed to tip over a 24 oz coffee all over his counter when I was checking out either so I guess we're even. Oh, if anyone from Rutter's follows the link back to my blog-the guy's name is Emory and he works at the Haines Acres store-he needs to learn some manners.
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I know it doesn't mean much to most folks, but I finally figured out how to convert Matroska files to AVI.....I'm so proud of myself.

Even if you don't like it...you gotta to pay the tax man.

One of these days.....I'm going.

That's one big-ass plane.

I stay away from most religious topics in this blog- I think a person's beliefs are private matter....but this link is a good read.

Even if you aren't a computer geek.......you should read this article and download the PDF file.

Ain't no way I'd spend 400 bucks on a phone, but if i did.....I'd wanna tinker with it.

Lard.......mmmm yummy.

Sometimes a logo is worth a thousand words.

I wish this wasn't true but I'm sure there's alot of this crap going on with computer techs.

Me?

I'm 100% upfront with people and if I can't fix their computer or don't fix it to their satisfaction....I refund 100% of their money. So far, I haven't had to refund a penny.
I can't afford to have any unhappy customers, all my business comes from word of mouth and bad news travels way faster then good news.

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One less teenager around the house.....

20 years ago today at around 5 PM.....my lovely wife gave birth to the best daughter a father could ever hope to have.

We're prouder of our kids then words can describe.

Happy Birthday Katie :-)

Love dad.

Where the heck is Fall?

Holy cow, it's October 5th and we have the AC cranking. I checked the weather forecast for the weekend and we are supposed to get close to 90 degrees. Holy crap. My only misgivings with the warmer weather is that we're gonna miss out on the crisp cool weather and go right into winter. That would kinda tick me off....fall is my favorite season.

Yay, I got my laptop back and they got it all fixed up without having to format the hard drive. I had all my stuff backed up but it's still a pain to have to reinstall everything. Our son has a better laptop then me, it was fun using his for the past week.

Our daughter is coming home today to celebrate her 20th birthday tomorrow. We have a party and celebrate her birthday, my dad's birthday and mine all at once. Good times....
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I'm having a hard time figuring out why anyone listens to this guy. He'd be a lot more believable if he didn't dodge the draft because he had a boil on his ass.

Today's science break....you're gonna have to be a real science geek to enjoy this one. Me? I like it so far, it's already in my RSS reader.

I like this guy's idea. I contribute 5 bucks a week off my paycheck every week to one of our local food banks...he's right-most of the money being donated to various charities does squat for people that really need it.

Apple has been getting a lot of bad press lately. Here's some more. I own a couple of iPods but I don't think I'll be switching over to Macbooks or iMacs anytime soon.

Ummmm....if I had to guess-I'd say he downloaded it.

Everyone could learn a lesson from these folks.

Well, he did move his arms and legs.

Superworm is coming. Just fixed a computer with this problem. I'm pretty sure the client was about ready to throw his laptop out the window. I know how he feels, I've been there. I used to get extremely frustrated when problems cropped up. It's a lot easier to solve problems if you have another functioning computer that can access the internet to do research.

The media are eating this guy alive. Me? I think the whole deal is kinda sad. Whatever the guy does.....he's always gonna be known as Mr. Wide Stance.

Nobody likes a cheater.

Get Your War On.....it's a political cartoon but it's not even close to being work or family safe due to language. Normally I don't post links to stuff with lots of F-bombs, but these cartoons will make you think.

Thinking is good.

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My old man was a player....

Here he is back in the day.....does he look like a badass or what?

I'm guessing this is about 1958.

Anyways, today is his 70th birthday and he is probably celebrating by working. If my dad has taught me one thing.... it's that hard work is how you make it in this world. I've had some sort of job since I've been 12 years old.

One of my favorite memories was when I was 14 or so and I had a Sunday morning paper route. Whenever it was raining on Sunday mornings, I'd go into my parents bedroom and wake him up and ask him to "help" with delivering the papers.

We would do the paper route and then go to Dunkin' Donuts and have breakfast....good times. I think he enjoyed rainy Sunday mornings as much as I did.

He's still out there working full time at age 70 not because he has to, it's because he'd probably drive my mom up the wall if he was home all day goofing off.

He's one of the hardest working guys I know and he's my pop.

I love you dad:-)

One of these days he's gonna retire and drive my mom crazy.

....My laptop is on it's way back to me, hopefully it's uptight and outtasight, because while the Indian tech support guy I spoke to was very professional-I don't wanna have to deal with the language barrier again.

It was annoying having to ask him to repeat nearly everything he said. I had a fairly straightforward situation, I'd hate to have a complicated problem to explain to someone that doesn't speak English very well.

I bought a laptop made by an American company that was manufactured in China that has tech support from India. It's a multi-cultural world out there.....I just have a hard time understanding foreign accents over a long distance phone connection.
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This guy makes a lot of sense.

This guy is a scumbag, but he still has freedom of speech like anyone else in America...Congress should do something constructive...if that's possible.

What the heck kind of fish is that? Possible NSFW ads.

I usually ignore, but sometimes it's fun to engage for some laughs.

Don't steal or do drugs or this will happen.

This is a used car with lots of miles.

I like this lady.

Better living through chemistry....donuts with caffeine.

What will they think of next?

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I don't think so......

Click on the Reskin bike patch section......ain't no way. I'm imagining how much it hurts when you peel it off.....

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YouTube - Laughing Baby

Best video ever.

YouTube - Laughing Baby

Teens attack older man, end up running for safety

I woulda loved to see the tape.....

Teens attack older man, end up running for safety

A New Author Steps Forth

Not everyone with the last name of Bush is an asshole.

Jenna's Story: A New Author Steps Forth

Ahhhh....

Looks like we are gonna have us some great fall weather this weekend. I plan to get outside and enjoy me some nice crisp air.....

I love this article.....thanks for the link Doug.

Put him on his back? What a dumbass.

Maybe she should run for President.....she could certainly afford it.

Army of Dude has the same opinion concerning Rush Limbaugh as I do.

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Cable Messes: Want meatballs with that?

I just fix home based PC's......if I saw this, I'd turn around and run.

Cable Messes: Want meatballs with that?

Who'd a thunk it?

Who woulda thought we'd be cranking up the A/C this late in the year? I was out cutting the grass yesterday and I wanted to die.

Then I went to work and damn near passed out when I cleaned our donut fryer. Leave it to me to pick one of the warmest nights of the past month to be leaning over a boiling tank of water and cleaner for an hour scrubbing dirt.

What can I say, I like clean donuts.

Actually I filter our donut shortening a couple times a week and 4 times a year we completely throw everything out and clean our kettle. If you've ever eaten a donut that tasted greasy, it's because the guy in charge of filtering and cleaning the donut fryer is lazy...it's a hot, dirty job.

I worked with a guy that said "Wow, you could eat off of your donut equipment" Ummm....he kinda forgot that indirectly....people do eat off of the donut equipment. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed.....

With our weather here in Central PA, it will probably be 35 degrees in a couple weeks and instead of using ice in all my doughs, I'll be using warm water to make them rise faster..
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Don't be a dick. Sorta NSFW due to language....

Some copy editor was a little overboard with the creativity.

Spent most of my morning online reading this excellent article.

Stay cool and love your brother....till later.

Good news and bad news

The bad news is that my laptop crapped the bed.

The good news is that everything was backed up, the repairs are covered under warranty and the shipping to the repair center is free also.

It was under a recall for the past couple months but it had to actually break for it to be fixed. Kinda dumb if you ask me, but I still had almost a year for it to break so if it didn't break before time was up....it woulda broke, if you get my drift.

We have 3 other computers, the computer I am typing this on something like 8 or 9 years old and running a version of Ubuntu, I threw some extra RAM in and it's good to go. It's not the fastest machine in the world, but it's faster then the 4 year box we have running XP with 3 times the RAM. Go figure....I guess because the only thing that's on it is XP and Firefox...it's pretty stripped down.

I'm glad I practice what I preach, because I woulda been seriously pissed if I didn't have backups of all my stuff because the tech support people said there is a chance they might have to format the hard drive....back up, back up, back up because it's not if you're going to have a problem, it's when you'll have a problem....

It's only a matter of time until he gets caught.

Whoa....it's 1975 all over again...and again.

Bush makes a surprise visit.

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I don't know how to act.......

One thing bad about working retail is........the hours.

Sure, I get paid right at the very top of my pay scale so I can't complain a whole lot, but working 6 nights a week every week gets old after awhile. I took 3 nights off, which equates into 2 half days (the other part of those 2 days is spent sleeping) and 2 entire days off.

What did I do with my time off?

-I fixed a computer

-Went computer shopping for another client

-Got lost looking for sunflowers (funnest activity of the weekend)

-Watched several hours of Discovery Health (that's probably one of the best channels on TV) we watched a program on Siamese twins, one on obesity and one on dwarfism.

-Cleaned my wife's car (discovered that the acorns falling out of our trees left several dents in the hood and roof)

-Screwed around on the internets (I am a total news junkie plus I like finding weird stuff to post here)

-Showed my mom how to make a hyperlink on our church crafts blog. Yeah, go check it out-those ladies create some rockin' crafts, my mom runs the website and takes all the pics.

-Every year my parents take a picture of our kids on their birthday by the front door, so we did that this weekend. I'm not allowed to show you this year's picture of our son-but he grew about 8 inches since last year. He's as tall as me and he's only 14....yikes.

-Tweeked the handlebars around on my Surly, I'm digging the upright position mustache bars provide.

-Slept at night......I miss sleeping when it's dark out, we have a regular insect orchestra in our backyard to fall asleep to.

Ever since my mom retired and got a computer and a digital camera......she's turned into a what most folks would call a "senior citizen nerd"

Me? ....I wouldn't call her that-she ain't that old:-) But she has gotten extremely proficient with her laptop and her digital camera...


This is a picture of my parents cat...Molly

My mom treats Molly like a puppy, they go for walks around the yard and she follows my mom everywhere.
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I watched this on TV.......I have no idea how he wasn't hurt worse.

I like the part about the 24 hour work week.

Today's science break.......looks like we'll have to do a much better job of getting along with each other.

Today's art break.......check out Doug's pictures, he's pretty darn good. Not sure where he comes up with his ideas, compositions and photo titles-but I love his stuff. I think Doug oughta have seminars on how to compose pictures-I know I'd go.

I know somebody will give me shit for this.......but I think it was a good idea for Columbia University to invite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak. Agree with the dude or not-it's all about critical thinking....something our country is sorely lacking.

Our son is about halfway to saving enough money to buy a Xbox 360, I know this will be the first game he plays on it-because we've had it pre-ordered for a year. I've tried playing Halo 2 with him and he always creams me....I think I'll stick to driving games.

Maybe this guy is gay or maybe he isn't...it's not a big deal to me, but it sure is interesting watching him try to squirm out of a ticket. I guess he shoulda thought about that before he allegedly gave hand signals to an undercover cop under a stall divider.

Mmmmm....chocolate for breakfast.

I think we'll stick to crappy regular TV for awhile.

Stupidity in action.

I told it to take a dump on the sofa but it didn't listen.

My wife says I swear too much on this blog........can't help it this time-this is one bad ass.

I bet you'll watch this more then once.

Here's why I'm such an asshole to smokers when I have to breathe their second hand smoke.

Chuck Norris doesn't blend....more here.

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Corn.......lots of corn.

My lovely wife and I took a nice little trip on Saturday to check out a sunflower farm. One of Janet's co-workers wrote up a fairly decent set of directions, only leaving off the final turn. We ended up going down progressively narrower and narrower roads.

All I could think of was "I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee! " with banjo music playing in the background.....actually, it wasn't that bad.

We ended up at a state park in northern Maryland.


Neither one of us had heard of this park but it looked pretty nice and one thing's for sure-it's isolated.

We eventually found the sunflower farm, but alas......the sunflowers were past their peak bloom and looked kinda tired.


No matter, it was a gorgeous day for a drive.

The only thing we really noticed driving through northern Maryland is all the corn. Not sure if that's why everyone from Maryland buys houses in Pennsylvania or what, but I figure there is no where for Marylanders to live because of all the corn so they move to PA.

There is corn everywhere, maybe you folks in Maryland oughta pave over a few fields instead of paving over southern York County. The disparity in housing down in Maryland was hilarious, you can see multi million dollar compounds right next to folks living in rusted out trailers.

Whateves, as long as it works for them, I guess that's all that matters.

How to sell ..............a slightly non P.C. story.

A young zealous boy wanted desperately to work at a department store.

He approached the store manager who responded they needed no help. Quite persistent, the boy returned again and again until the manager finally said "We're having a holiday sale tomorrow. Why don't you show up and you can give it a try."

The elated boy returned the following day and proceeded to sell.

At the end of the day the store manager called the youngster over and asked how he had done. The boy responded that he had sold $79,083.50 worth of merchandise. The manager asked how he had done so well.

The young man said, "Well this guy was going fishing so I asked if he wanted some fish hooks, he said sure, That's $1.50. I asked if he had a nice fishing pole, he said no, so I got a graphite extension pole for $43.50. Do you have a nice reel, not yet replied the customer... so I got him a nice quick release reel for $35.00. I asked here he was going fishing and he said Strawberry Reservior. I told him the best places to catch fish are near the center, "Do you have a boat?" The man said he didn't so I set him up with a nice outboard 30 foot cruiser for $28,000.00. Then I asked if he had a trailer. He didn't, so I got him a double axle trailer for $3,000.00. Then I asked what he had to tow the boat. He only had a station wagon, so I told him that just wouldn't do, but we could get him a nice fully loaded Dodge Ram dually, racked and packed with a tow package, trailer hitch and everything for $48,000.00.

He wanted it all."

As you can imagine the store manager was astounded. "And to think it all began with that man asking for a package of fish hooks?"

The boy replied, "Oh no, it all began with him asking for some tampons which were $3.50, so I replied, "Well you aren't going to be doing much else this weekend, you might as well go fishing!"

I don't know about you, but I'm just about burned out on listening to Presidential candidates talking just for the sake of hearing their own voices.

You just know this is gonna turn into a colossal media circus.

Sometimes it's better to be lucky then good.

I have an idea.......let the Federal Government run out of money for a whole year........what's the worst thing that would happen?

till later.

I'm tarred.........

Been working 6 nights a week plus computer stuff for the past few weeks.....really looking forward to having this weekend off to decompress.

My trusty assistant (our son) and I are going out to shop for computer stuff for a client this weekend. I really enjoy hooking people up with nice new stuff. It's not my money, but I enjoy finding the best buys for my clients.

We went to the new Best Buy to have a look around.....lots of stuff and lots of bored looking salespeople. The store wasn't all that busy, I'm sure that will change as Christmas draws nearer.

How does an armless man get into a fistfight?

Just wondering....

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This is funny.........

Home Inspection Nightmares

Try not to get killed in front of my house.....

Around our neighborhood, we have lots of senior citizens who like to walk for exercise and lots of young families that have babies in strollers. For some reason, some of them walk in the street instead of using the sidewalk.

When I stepped out to check the mail on Monday.....I witnessed a near collision between a car and some dumbass mom wearing headphones walking with her double wide stroller damn near in the middle of the street.

She asked me for a description of the car..........I told her she oughta use the sidewalk because she was jaywalking and an lady got hit right in front of our house a few years ago doing the same thing. Go ahead and call me "Mr Compassion" but she's damn lucky her self entitled ass or her babies didn't get creamed.

If I remember correctly, that particular jaywalker got a trip to the hospital and a ticket....yeah, yeah I know-I should read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" but I call it like I see it. All I know is the old lady that got hit bled like a stuck pig (I remember her blood running down the gutter) because her head damn near went through the windshield of the car that hit her.

Needless to say, I'm fairly popular with the neighbors.........

I put my Redline Monocog on Facebook a few weeks ago to see if I could sell it...........

Here's a reply I got yesterday.....

Hello, How are u doing today? so i saw ur item on classifield, so i want to buy it, so all i need from u is honest, really i need to ask some question abt this item 1. wht is the condition of this item? 2. Did u accept cashier check? 3. Can u wire the rest funds on check to my shipping company? 4. Can u wire it through western union? 5. Can u send me ur full name and address with phone number for the payment? 6. final price of it and email me to ....niyas_02@yahoo.com? So wht is there is that dont worry ur self abt shipping of this item because i have my own shipping company that will come for the item pick from u when the check clears so like i said in the early that all i need from u is honest, so when u get the check just deduct ur money and wire the rest funds to my shipping company for the item pick up fee, so hope to hear from asap................ok SO GET BACK TO ME WITH FULL NAME AND ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER SO I CAN SO THE CHECK TO YOU SEND THE PAYMENT TO YOU SO MAIL ME TO MY BOX (niyas_02@yahoo.com PLZ MALI ME TO MY BOX........ mentoro0027 PLZ EMAIL ME TO MY BOX THIS MY ID.PLZ SO WILL CAN TALK MORE.....................niyas_02@yahoo.com PLZ EMAIL ME TO MY BOX THIS MY ID.PLZ SO WILL CAN TALK MORE.....................niyas_02@yahoo.com

Maybe I'll send them this to tell them what I think of their proposal. I can't stand people that use internet shorthand when they are trying to conduct business.....plus the fact that the deal they are proposing is the oldest scam in the book.
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How the heck do you not see the train.

This guy almost woke up dead.

Today's photography break....old pictures of NYC.

Now I'm not saying that being stubborn can't be a virtue at times....but I woulda just handed over my 50 cents.

You might be a redneck if............

It's like throwing a nickel up in the air and having it land on it's edge.

A simple guide to your its and it's.

Today's picture break Part 2..........The Milky Way from Death Valley.

I am so happy I don't have to fly on our airlines.

I'm thinking Whoopie is about ready to stab herself in the face for agreeing to co-host The View.........gotta be the one of the dumbest shows on TV.

Interesting statistic.

Sounds good on paper. I'd be happy if he just left the middle classes taxes alone, increased taxes for the wealthy and gave the poor a break.

After all......it would be nice to not leave a 900 gazillion dollar deficit for our kids and grandkids to pay off.

till later.........

Fun times at the supermarket.....

There's just something about working the overnight shift on Saturdays....

-I had a couple ask me in broken English if they could get a wedding cake made while they waited. I told them they couldn't unless they wanted it made out of donuts.

-A woman with (I think) a very heavy Russian accent asked me to write something Russian on a loaf of bread.....what, they don't have birthday cakes in Russia?

-There was a football game going on in the parking lot.

-A very nice lady asked me to sell her 75 frozen blueberry bagels...that was no problem-we had extra in our freezer.

Something about being in grocery stores must make people rather amorous.........I saw several couples wandering around groping each other........get a room people.

......I get paid for this? It's almost fun to come to work.
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Here are some of my favorite web sites..............

Digg.com......all things tech.

Boing Boing.....like the tagline says...A directory of wonderful things.

Gearlog........gadgets for geeks.

Growabrain..........a blog with all kinds of weird links.

Reddit.........all kinds of interesting links.

Slate.......politics and such.

Neatorama........all kinds of fun stuff.

The Angry Pharmacist...........he speaks the truth about what it's like to work in a retail pharmacy.

Mental Floss..........links that make you think.

Fark.....all the weird news that fits.

Waiterrant............I love this guy.

The York County Social Cycling Union.....where some of my friends get together for social rides.

AlterNet..........politics and stuff that will piss you off if you're not a nutjob liberal.

The Huffington Post..........kinda like AlterNet, but tamer.

Podcast Alley........find all kinds of podcasts here.

PublicRadioFan...........every PBS podcast available is listed here.

Imaging-Resource............awesome digital camera review website.

Download Squad.........geek stuff.

Lockergnome.............tech stuff and more.

Democracy Now......news and politics with a little critical thinking thrown in.

Next time I'll post up some of my favorite podcasts.....
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Pluto flips out at Disneyworld. Don't know why he was chasing that kid....the kid probably deserved it.

These kids are pretty damn cool in my book.

Earth really isn't that big in the scheme of things.....

I feel absolutely no pity for this woman....or this one.

Today's science break.........you are here.

Yay........Britney is sure to win Mom of the Year for 2007.

A 35 dollar pencil.

This dude is lucky he ain't dead after he had a serious case of brain fade.

................I was working on my father-in-laws old computer this weekend. By old, I mean Windows 95a. This puppy has an huge 1.1 gig hard drive and a screaming 16 megs of RAM.


Heck, it even has a "turbo" button on the front, so it's totally badass. Hit the turbo button and she'll run at a blistering 100mhz....

I was pulling some old files off the hard drive so they are backed up....I'm gonna tell him to send this puppy to the graveyard.

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No helmet.......

I found out my nephew wasn't wearing a helmet when he got hit by a car the other day. Not the brightest move in my opinion. You can bet I'll be talking to him the next time I see him. I'm not sure it will do any good because as we all know-when you're 20 years old...you are way smarter then old geezers like me. Maybe I oughta let him talk to my friend the ER nurse-he's seen plenty of head wounds caused by bare head hitting bare pavement.

For the last 2 months my wireless hasn't been working on my laptop and I really haven't been able to figure out why it suddenly stopped. Turns out that if you put the wireless switch to "on" instead of "off" .....the wireless works really good.

I'm such a dumbass.

At least I learned a lesson-always start with the simple stuff and work your way up from there. I tend to go all "rocket scientist" when I look at problems.....gotta step away from the trees and see more of the forest.

The York Fair is happening this week. In case you aren't from York County........lots of people like this guy show up to eat fried things on sticks, check out farm equipment and ride rickety overpriced rides. It's a great place to go to do some people watching, my wife and I are going to try and slip out on Sunday-I'll take some pics.
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I dunno.......this seems like a good way to get shot by an irate motorist. Most of the traffic already goes about 10 mph over the speed limit where I live, so I'm not really in that much more of a hurry.

None of this really surprises me.

This is kinda sad, but a sawed off shotgun woulda been a helluva lot easier.

I'm guessing he wasn't too hard to identify?

You may or may not agree with all these quotes, but some of them are pretty good.

A couple people have asked me where I find some of the stuff I post about. I'll link up some of my sources over the weekend.....

till later.

Video: Anti-War Minister Is Attacked, Gets Leg Broken for Trying to Enter Petraeus Hearing

This is just flat out messed up.

AlterNet: Blogs: Video: Anti-War Minister Is Attacked, Gets Leg Broken for Trying to Enter Petraeus Hearing

Crash.....

One of my nephews wiped out on his fixie, not too sure of the details at this point but he's gonna be fine.

I think he sprained a couple of fingers and is bruised up some and his bike is trashed....but it coulda been worse.

He hit the side of a car, not sure if the car pulled out in front of him or what, it doesn't really matter-the fact that he didn't get run over is more important.

He's almost 20 years old and doesn't have his license yet-the dude rides everywhere he needs to go.

You have to admire that, just keep an eye out for those cars nephew.
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Seems like a good idea, but I don't see "donut" listed anywhere.

This also seems like a good idea....if you want to shorten up your lifespan. I love the valve covers.

Freeganism........all I know is that I wouldn't consume anything out of the dumpster behind our store. We toss chemicals in with the garbage to keep down the smell.

We need one of these where I work. We don't need it for unhappy employees.........it would be just for me.

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6 years..........

Yup, it's been 6 years since a bunch of guys decided to fly some planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Somerset. Plenty of places to read up on that if you choose.

I'll save you from my opinion on the whole thing and the way it's been handled. If you're a regular reader of this blog-you already know how I feel about the whole situation anyways.

I took a nice little ridey-ride Monday, I left the house around 9 AM and rode for about 2 hours. I did a few errands and checked out the newest mega strip mall going up near us. I'm just amazed that there are enough people around to support all the new shops going in.

I watched someone rear end someone, a girl was talking on her cellphone and destroyed the front of her new (still had the temp tag in the window) car. She hit a delivery truck, the step bumper from the truck went completely into her grille. I was on my bike, I probably shoulda stopped to give the delivery truck driver my info in case he needed a witness, but I wasn't going to cross 4 lanes of rubbernecking traffic to give the guy my info.

Anyways......rode about 20 miles and sweated my ass off. I'm ready for a little fall weather action.
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Britney makes me proud to be an American.......not. What is it with her and underwear?

This guy has some good ideas concerning computer security. If everyone followed all his recommendations, I'd have a lot less business.

“The End of Serenity”

"Lick Me in the Ass"...........a composition by Mozart.

Today's science break is all about some water under a whole lotta ice.

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Grandma learns how to use the Internets....

I got my mothers-in-laws laptop all done up for her.....made it pretty simple, all she has to do is click on the Internet Explorer icon once to start it. I configured the browser so her home page is iGoogle with her weather, news, and e-mail just a click away. It's gonna take her a little while till she's comfortable with everything, but I think she's going to enjoy being able to read the news, get weather alerts, etc.

I know I said I wasn't going to complain about the heat at work anymore, but this weekend.....I wasn't felling 100% to start with so I just about died Saturday night at work with the heat from 2 ovens, a donut fryer and a room size humidity box. I made it through about 6 hours and called it a night. I like summer and everything, but some cool weather would be nice....

Also working on one of my brother-in-laws computers. It's about 8 years old and chances are it's fried. I did manage to get all his family pics and documents off the hard drive but the OS (Windows ME) won't even boot now. I'm in the middle of formatting it and reinstalling the OS, but I think it might be time for my brother-in-law to do some computer shopping.
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Mmmmm chocolate. That looks like some good stuff.

Someone at Sony must be smoking crack. Maybe they oughta check out what Apple's been doing for the last 5 years or so.

It's always a good idea to back up your data........this guy wished he did.

This internet stuff is cool.

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New computer..........

No not me, my mother-in-law has a new laptop and I am in the middle of setting it up for her. Actually, my father-in-law bought it for the downstairs area of their house and is hoping my mother-in-law will use it. I'm setting it up with large icons and making it so she only has to single click on stuff for it to open.

It's the first time she's ever used a computer, so I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for her to use. I think my mom is going to show her some cool stuff at some point....I know my mom had no idea how much stuff was out there before she got her computer a couple years ago-I think she'll really enjoy it once she gets into a little bit.

Whatever, all I know is that I have pretty spiffy in-laws, so I'll make sure the laptop is uptight and outasight before I take it over to their house and set it up.

I know lots of folks don't get along with their in-laws or even their own parents for that matter....I am a lucky guy-I have great parents and I couldn't ask for better in-laws.

I love working on the weekends....some asshole set off the fire alarm in our store. Not that big a deal, except I happened to be standing less then 3 feet away from on of the alarm speakers. I came very close to soiling my trousers. Of course the fire department shows up with about 15 guys dressed in full battle gear and you could tell they were just dying to poke holes in things to see if they could find a fire somewhere.

One more thing about working weekends......right around 2 AM all the bars close and we get all the drunks on their way home.....ain't nothing more fun then screwing around with drunk people.
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If I woulda bought an iPhone, I'd be asking....Steve, where's my other hundred dollars?

You'll find this funny....unless you are a U.S. Senator.

This infomercial was on TV when I came home from work this morning....the guy on TV said I have 15 pounds of extra poo in my colon.....I knew I was full of it.

Today's science break..... get your swim fins on.

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I'm damn lucky............

A family friend of ours stopped by work yesterday and said hi. He had just put an application for part-time work and asked me to put in a good word for him.

The guy has a kid in college that's basically paying her own way and another kid at home. The dude already works 50+ hours a week and hasn't gotten a raise in 7 years.

What sucks is that the family doesn't live extravagantly (mom and dad both work), they have a modest house and drive beater cars.

Why does everyone say the economy is doing great? While my wife and I have jobs in relatively stable fields, not everyone is so fortunate....gotta count my blessings.
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Catholics need referees at Mass. Who knew?

High speed Segway chase. The cop turned the throttle to "donut" and caught the crook.

Customer service done wrong. I suppose that if your job is to specifically dick over your customers....then job well done.

Another candidate joins the race. I don't know about you folks....but I am getting kinda burnt out with presidential candidates. They all look the same to me....even Hillary.

If I bought an iPhone when they came out.....I'd be pissed.

Bank of Penis?

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New neighbors.....

We had some new neighbors move in behind us recently. Not too sure but I think they have 3 young boys and their main form of recreation is screaming and beating the crap out of each other with tree branches. I sure hope they aren't being home schooled or mom is gonna get a visit from me the first time they wake me up at "recess"......

I'm not really a fan of home schooling, I think the social interaction with other kids helps with forming social skills. Besides, (IMHO) if you don't have a degree in education-you aren't really qualified to teach your kids anyways. Go ahead and send me your cards and letters, but that's how I see it.

What the hell do I know, I was an only child......

When life hands you lemons....make lemonade.

It was mildly amusing at first....but this is just flat-out mean.

I think I am missing my calling....I work in a store full of food, I should be able to figure out something out to deep fry besides donuts.

A little geek humor.....

A physicist, a biologist, and a mathematician are sitting in a café and notice people going into and coming out of the house across the street.

First they see two people going into the house.

Time passes.

After a while, they notice three persons coming out of the house.

The physicist: "The measurement was not accurate."

The biologist: "They have reproduced."

The mathematician: "If one person enters the house, then it will be empty again."

I'm out.

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I woke up Sunday afternoon with one serious headache. You know the kind where it feels like there is someone in your head with a jackhammer pounding away?

I had one of those.

I'm pretty sure some of it was a caffeine rebound headache and part of it was allergy related and part of it was only sleeping 4 hours.

Kinda bummed, we missed a good party Sunday afternoon. My friend Hank always throws great parties and his wife is an awesome cook. Maybe next time......

I did spend part of the afternoon puttering around the garage and cleaning up my van. I haven't hand washed it for a few months and it really needed it....I was amazed at how many dings and dents I managed to collect over the past 8 years. By the time our son gets it in a couple years...hopefully he won't add too many more.

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Summer's over........

Well, it isn't over until the end of September but most of the hot weather is probably a done deal at this point. Summer used to be my favorite season of the year, but as I get older-I find myself not enjoying the hot weather nearly as much as I used to.

Fall is a great time of year, it's got the best weather of all the seasons....not too hot and not too cold.

I just wish the best part of it lasted longer then 2 months.

By the time November rolls around...it's starting to get cold and most of the leaves are gone from the trees.

Being that it is Labor Day weekend...my wife and I are celebrating by working. I worked Sunday and she's working Monday.

I always spend a few minutes reading Google News in the morning after I come home from work.........I'm just wondering-how'd this country get so screwed up? Just about all the news is about corruption, death and Mr Wide Stance resigning as he stands on a soda crate.

I didn't win, but I think I coulda did okay on just 46 million. That would be enough to set up an education trust for any and every family member, long lost cousin and friend I ever had. And we'd still have plenty to retire on.

Today's art break.

till later.

Bush bailout pledge gets cool reception in L.A.

Bush bailout pledge gets cool reception in L.A.

Sometime I think our government is staffed by retards. I don't want to offend mentally handicapped folks....they have more common sense then some of the people running the show in DC.