July 16, 2007

Tramp Stamp Tuesday

It’s only about 40 minutes until Tuesday and I am getting ready to hit the proverbial sack. No dammit!, the bed.

This one is pretty cool. A nice change form butterflies and tribal tattoos. I think the worse one I ever heard of was when an acquaintance told me about a girl she knew. This girl had her name tattooed on her back. I guess that way guys would know who she was as they were hitting it or something.

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Thanks to Fast Boy over at Flickr for this one. More of Fast Boys photos can be found there as well. Obviously I am out of stuff of my own, now I am going to have to start hunting again, or you can email me your tramp stamp photos (if you dare) and I will feature them here.

And Now For Something Really Annoying

Thanks to Kat I found something really truly disturbing. Evil. Worse than Jehovah’s Witnesses coming to my door. There is a timer on the site. As soon as I copy the link location I am closing the bitch. How long can you stay without playing Van Gogh on yourself? I stayed for Two minutes, thirty eight seconds. Damn, now I will never get to sleep.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix…

We don’t go see a lot of movies at the theater anymore but we did decided to have a day out of the house (it’s my off day) and take the girls to the movies and of course Harry Potter was on the agenda.

We took the girls out to eat first. Even though I know the mall is too damned expensive I was craving a Gyro, so that’s where we ate. These things seriously fill me up fast. I ate two of them once and could barely move. Had the munchies though, so it was needed but that’s a story for another time.

The movie was pretty good. I won’t post a spoiler or anything but we all enjoyed it. This was probably the darkest feeling one they have put out so far, and of course at that time the book was as well. I can’t decide if it was a good thing or not, but since the book was 600+ pages they had to cut out quite a bit of back-story which everyone already knows, as well as some of the filler stuff. Dobby was gone, as was Harry’s growing relationship with Cho, and some other stuff during the final fight “scene” with Dumbledore and Voldemort. Anyway, it was pretty good and both of the girls enjoyed the day, more so because when we left the theater we took them to the build-a-bear and let them build teddy bears.

Fucking solid gold teddy bears they may as well have been. $73 on two teddy bears. I hope they have actual shit and talk action for that price. Actually it’s not the bears that are that expensive, but once you buy outfits for each and one accessory, that’s about what it ran me. I wouldn’t let them get anything else because I am a horrible parent, or at least that’s what I told them. They have enough crap around the house without adding more clutter. The money doesn’t bother me too much. Things are looking up and the girls really had a good time, but I have to make sure to set enough aside to buy school clothes and supplies next week. Only a couple weeks left until school starts.

Originally Pete had the idea to get a U.S. Marine outfit for her bear and then give it to the boy, but you could tell that she really didn’t want to, so we told her to get what she wanted. It ended up being a cheerleader bunny and RePete got a pink bear with all pink clothes. She’s all girl. Here they are all hanging out in their coolness. I tried to get RePete to make it a biker bear but she wanted no part of that.

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The camera seems to have dried out a bit. I think the big problem I was having in Hilton Head was that we were getting in and our of the air conditioned car into the heat and humidity, so it fogged up the camera. Oh well.

Well, I hunted down the book. I need to go ahead and reread it and the Half-Blood prince before the new one comes next weekend. I do have a bit of leeway as the wife gets first crack at it and I recently ordered a new Alan Dean Foster book as well that I will probably read first. I finally gave up on the newest Tolkien book. It sucks.


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EVDO Is Here…

Just recently Verizon has started rolling out EVDO in my area. I am ecstatic. I like being able to access the internet over bluetooth when there is no other reliable connection around such as in my backyard or when Charter is down, and this is much faster.

I have also taken to watching the evening news when I am outside smoking as well. I don’t watch much TV, and damn sure not the news but this is different. I used to hate the little hand held TVs as well, and even though I love gadgets I would never pay money for something like that, but watching it on my teeny tiny screen just seems so appropriate for me. I don’t know what it is, but hey keeping up on current events on some medium besides the Internet is probably a good thing.

Monitors

I am going to start piecing together a couple of computers over the next few months. One is going to be the new media PC for the living room and another for the bedroom, but if there is any extra left over I want to upgrade my computer. I am really interested in getting a new Viewsonic monitor, or maybe even a couple since my Nvidia card has dual head output. My old boss had a really nice and huge Viewsonic flat-screen that I want to get. Oh well, mine will be the last to get upgraded. I will probably look into getting the wife a laptop before I consider getting myself anything new. Maybe by Christmas since things seem to be going so well at work.

Getting Ahead

One of the things that most of the guys used to have to learn to do if they wanted to get promoted to Division manager or higher with my company is to get a set of golf clubs and learn how to play golf. I always thought it was kind of silly. Not playing golf because that actually sounds like fun to me, but just the fact that if you weren’t part of that buddy buddy clique it was really hard to join the upper ranks.

Thankfully that has changed over the last few years and the focus has gone off of the people that just survived and hung out together to people that can actually execute a good plan and make money for us. That’s one of the reasons I finally decided to start trying to move back up. Now that it is seniority and performance based, I am more than happy to participate.

Gadget Junkie

I’m a gadget freak. I blog about it every once in awhile and even started blogging on a tech site because I love them so much. They don’t even have to be useful things, although as I get older I tend to ignore most of the bling and other useless junk and want stuff that I will use every day. My current wish list includes a new cell phone, one of those really nice radar detectors, a new media center PC, and maybe some Bluetooth stereo headphones. I hate earplugs and those little bitty earphones that come with mp3 players, but I like a nice set of headphones that actually sit on my head. I would only end up using them here at my computer, but at least it would quiet things down for everyone in the living room 🙂