The Boy is watching Kingdom of Heaven on cable right now. Pretty decent movie. This is the first time that I have seen it but I don’t know if I am going to stay up with him to watch much more though. Tomorrow will be a fairly long day and I need to get some sleep whenever this diarrhea of the fingers stops…
June 14, 2007
Movie Collector’s Haven
I found a site to add to my media center links. The movie collector site is pretty cool. It’s called Movie Gatherer and the site is designed for movie collectors and movie lovers. There are useful links and information on hot to store and keep them as well as news about collector’s editions of quite a few movies. There are some pretty useful gadgets on there such as this revolving CD rack that holds 100 CD/DVDs. There is also a bit of information about barcode scanners. Barcode scanners are particularly useful because there are a couple of programs that will read the barcodes and pull the movie information off the net. You can usually find fairly cheap barcode scanners online as well.
The program that I use does just this. It pulls in the movie information from the Internet and then adds it to a database that I can use with my media center front end, including the posters and art work, which is very cool using one of the ten foot interfaces.
Furniture for the Kids
With the Boy leaving for boot camp on Monday the oldest girl, Pete, is already clamoring to take his room over. I told her she should wait for awhile, but she is pretty adamant about getting his room. I don’t really mind although it’s going to be difficult for her little sister. What is going to be difficult is the fact that they sleep in a set of bunk beds except for when RePete is sleeping on my bedroom floor. That means that I will have to get new furniture for the kid’s rooms. Doh! Another expense. Coaster Furniture has some pretty decent deals that I was looking at earlier this evening, they may be one of my choices.
Jessica Alba Attends FF4 Premier
Not that I post a lot of news about celebrities or anything, but damn thats a nice dress 🙂
Today Was Interesting…
Rather than tell my manager that has time-management issues what to do this morning and then listen to why it didn’t get done I forced the issue. Since I have another manager off today I showed up at his store at 6am, changed the drawer, pulled whatever food I thought he would need today, locked him out of the office and store room and took the keys with me. That forced him to stay out in the front of the restaurant rather than doing stuff in the back. I did give him a short list of things to do before I returned, of which NOTHING was done but I think he did get the message.
I am still trying to find some way to motivate him. He likes to be the victim, so money apparently doesn’t do it. I know he likes gadgets. Maybe I should offer him my iPaq if he runs the numbers that I need him to. At this point I don’t give a fuck. He and I are going to make money out of his store even if I have to force him to.
Leveling up In Warcraft…
I’m not a real huge multi-player game fan although I’ve played my share of death matches, but my son is. As a matter of fact he really enjoys World of Warcraft. One link I sent him recently was to Joana’s Horde Leveling Guide. It’s pretty cool and there’s even a video with commentary that explains the whole deal. I have played in a couple of different MMORPGS and I can tell you that it’s hard work to level quickly, but it can be done. The hardest part for me, particularly since I don’t play a lot of online RPGs is that I never know who to talk to to find quests, or spend half my time just asking questions about how to do stuff. This guide takes care of those issues.