Who is Bobby Pickett you ask? None other than the guy who sang the “Monster Mash” back in 1962 and kept on singing it on the way to the bank every Halloween since. Rest in Peace dude.
April 2007
Cheddarvision
Damn. You people will watch anything as long as it’s on a TV.
Jessica Alba
I just set up the extended entry script on here and needed a reason to test it out. What a cheap thrill.
Talladega
This is the weekend. Tons of NASCAR fans are starting to converge on the raceway in Alabama. I started seeing mobile homes and trailers headed that way on Monday morning and the number has been increasing steadily all week. By tomorrow morning the influx will be in full flow and of course I will be getting hammered at work. Not drunk unfortunately, just hammered with business. It won’t slow down until Monday and if the race is rained out and they have to run on Monday then I will stay busy until Tuesday.
Even though it meant a farther drive, that is one of the things I didn’t miss about being off of I-20. Race weekend is almost as busy as Christmas for me at work, perhaps busier since it lasts longer.
Tomorrow I will cook most of the morning, do a waffle party for Pete’s class from 2-3PM, then have a meeting from 3-6, and have to go back and cook from 6-?. The question mark means I don’t have a fricking clue when I will get out of there. I really just don’t have enough help to get through the weekend unfortunately, at least not cooks.
I’m sure I will get a bit of time at home between now and Monday and will get online for awhile when I wake up and before I go to bed. All of my associates are excited because it means more money for them, but I would be completely OK with not doing any business this weekend.
Thursday
I didn’t post quite as much yesterday as I normally would for a day off, I was extremely busy most of the day. I did spend the greater part of the morning doing the ads and whatnot, and managed a couple of posts, as well as trying to get my template fixed.
I spent a couple of hours in the yard as well. I planted several more Elephant Ear bulbs, a Dwarf Spruce, Confederate Jasmine, a Mandeville (sp?) Vine, four more bougainvillea and a couple of small trellis in the front, three hostas, a coffee plant, and I think that’s it. I had to clean the pond pump as well. That pump is pretty darn strong and the filter pretty small, so I end up having to clean it every couple of days or it just won’t let any water get through. I am considering hiding a large Home Depot bucket over there somehow, and submerging the pump in that to pull water out of the pond so that I don’t have to fool with getting down in the pond to clean the filter. I will have to come up with a decent plan before I go to fooling with that stuff though.
Normally on Thursday’s I have meetings, but I think that my division manager is having it tomorrow which is pretty damed stupid. This is race weekend and we are going to be extremely busy probably starting today as people travel to Talladega. I also have to do a waffle party for one of the local schools tomorrow afternoon as well.
As you can see, I have most of the template finished and working correctly. This afternoon when I get home I will mess with the fonts and get those right.
Mac Poker Online
I got an email about the site a little while ago and have been checking the site out for the last little while. Although I don’t use a Mac currently I have several friends that do and my brother does also. This may or may not be of interest to them.
Basically Mac Poker Online is a news site/blog that provides information about online casino games for Macintosh users. There are links to several available sites, saving you a bit of time searching for a site that you can use. Not even remotely poker related, I did find a cartoon of Bill Gates Vs. Steve Jobs that I haven’t seen before that made me laugh for a few minutes.
There are several different areas of the site, including one that goes into the rules of Poker. While I have played extensively, this is a must read for folks that haven’t but are interested in playing whether on or offline. Some of the links that I looked at were Pacific Poker which is currently a featured room, as well as Poker Stars.
Overall the site was pretty cool. The design is green, reminiscent of a card table and there aren’t an over-abundance of advertisements which is always nice. There is quite a bit of “industry” related news, and while I am not big into card playing, they are well written and I found myself reading through them pretty thoroughly.
There is also an option to get the newsletter emailed to you as well, which is always a nice feature. Just make sure to list the domain on your non-spam list in your email client or it might get caught there.
One thing that I was not aware of (I told you I didn’t do a lot of online gambling) is that you cannot use your paypal account to play with, and most sites actually ban US players because of our laws. There is at least one site over there that does though, so if I were to ever start playing at least I know now where to get my information.
This post has been sponsored by Mac Poker Online.
Temple Tigers Lose 18-0
Just damn -If I could put a little copyright sign here I would 🙂
Pete’s softball team is down to eight players now. Just the minimum to play. There were some issues earlier in the season with the coaching and several of the parents, us included, complained about it to the Mayor as well as the rec department. It wasn’t even so much the coach as it was her family members that attended, although she could be quite sharp at times. She was good at what she does though. Apparently she won’t be back coaching any teams in the foreseeable futre.
Pete hasn’t been feeling very well lately. As a matter of fact she had to stay out of school Monday due to the fact that she felt so bad. Hopefully she is a bit better today.
Anyway, she went ahead and played last night, which was good because if she hadn’t they would have had to forfeit the game. As it was they had their asses handed to them and lost 18-0. That is probably the worst game they have played in the last two years. Pete did manage to get a hit but was caught out before she made it to first. She is hitting better though, and I know that helps it to be a bit more enjoyable. Now if she could just learn to throw and catch a little better she would be kicking some serious butt.
The big thing is that she seems to be having more fun. We won’t let her quit, once she decided she wanted to play she has to finish the season, but if she decides not to play fall ball or play next year that’s OK.
Post Weirdness
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this, but each of my posts going down the main page is progressively smaller and smaller. I am using tables, but I have my MTEntries stuff INSIDE each table, so it shouldn’t be duplicating those. I may end of switching back to a purely CSS driven page after all. I am just not that good at coding it. It worked fine on my test site, but here it is starting to look extremely weird.
I guess I need to break out that CSS book and take a look at it or something. I have a couple of computers to look at today and some posting to do, as well as the fact that I want to go outside (imagine!) and work in the garden but maybe this evening I can fix it up. It only took me a couple of hours of fiddling to actually get the comment posting fixed, so maybe it won’t take too long to get this right as well.
Hotels
Since I am back at work from my last vacation of course all I can think about is the next one 🙂
One thing we have looked at is something that a good friend of mine did a few months ago. Her boyfriend works in Mexico, so he flew her and her kids down there and they all stayed in on of those Condo Hotels. They are actually pretty reasonable when you consider what you get. If you have the kind of money to spend it’s much better than a timeshare and are usually managed well when you aren’t staying in your suite.
I could see living in a few different condo hotels year round and just traveling to where ever the weather happened to be nicest at that time of year. Caribbean or Baja in the Winter, New York or Canada in the summer. The freedom would certainly be nice.
Mid-West Vacations
Most of the time I spend thinking and planning vacations in exotic places but once the kids are a bit older I would like to explore so other areas of the country as well. I have only been through the mid-west a few times, and that was usually on the way to the west coast, but there are some really beautiful places there. Branson Missouri is supposed to be the “Live Music Capital of the World” and that in itself is enough to get me thinking about going to check it out. The Ozarks are supposed to be really nice, and it would be kind of nice to spend some time during the summer in the mountains rather than sweltering at the beach someplace.