June 2007

Republic

rmiles7721June 5, 20073Entertainment

What the hell are you waiting for? Get it now.

Tramp Stamp Tuesday

rmiles7721June 5, 2007Uncategorized

I’ll have you know I seriously put myself in danger to get this picture with which to entertain you with whilst at ye old ren fest…

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El Dude with the skull on the back of his shirt might have crushed my skull with his lame hat had I not been so quick and stealthy. Not to mention fairly toasty. We all know I am invincible man after four or five beers, particularly with my trusty new hat…

Oh and yes, I realize that it is Monday night but as usual lately I am going to bed at a half decent time so that I can awaken refresh, bright eyed and bushy tailed. I will at least be awake anyway.

Twitter…

rmiles7721June 4, 2007Blogging, Technology

…seems to be seriously dragging tonight. I know it certainly is taking my sidebar forever to load because Twitter is hanging. It’s a cool little app but like blogcatalog also hangs sometimes I may end up dumping both if they don’t increase their bandwidth.

New York

rmiles7721June 4, 2007Travel

A few months ago I posted a couple of pictures from when I went to New York. One of the things that my friends dad looked at doing when we went there to visit was possibly getting baseball tickets from a New York ticket broker. He ended up not being able to and we went to dinner at the Plaza instead, but I was sor of looking forward to it either way. One of my more memorable road trips.

More About Lighting…

rmiles7721June 4, 2007Technology

Yeah, I know. Booorrrinnggg.

One thing I did install in the kitchen a couple of years ago was some temporary lighting on the top of my kitchen cabinets and hooked them to an X10 appliance module that would turn them on whenever it was dark and motion was detected in the kitchen. I know…pretty geeky stuff.

I do want to install some decent quality under cabinet lighting now though. I normally get up at 4:30 in the morning, and even with the accent lighting on top of my cabinets, that isn’t enough and I generally have to turn on all of the lights in the kitchen just to make coffee. Some decent lighting underneath the cabinet (where the coffee maker is) should solve that.

Lighting in the Dining Room

rmiles7721June 4, 2007Technology

I haven’t had much of an opportunity lately to work on any of my home automation projects, but the next thing I want to do is start looking at Chandeliers for the dining room. I already have a bit of the kitchen/dining are wired up and right now I have a ceiling fan in there, but I am seriously considering replacing it with something I can control with my HA software. It may just have to wait until we get a new house, since the kitchen area and dining room are one big room and it gets pretty hot in there occasionally when we cook so I really need the fan some evenings.

Strange Things You Find…

rmiles7721June 4, 2007Site News

…in restaurant coolers.

About a year after I started working for my company, I worked for a manager that needed to get a bit mellow before work. I cooked on the graveyard shift and every morning before work she and the entire day shift would all go back out on the back porch and burn themselves one. She would leave the keys with me at night, and once I found her stash. She kept them rolled up in the freezer in her commissary. Very weird.

I occasionally will keep a six pack of Dr Pepper in the cooler as that is what I prefer to drink. Last week I finally got around to cleaning and organizing the food storage areas in my restaurants and in one of the really nasty ones I found three gallons of ice cream in the freezer. Since old dude spends way too much time sitting in the office and eating ice cream rather than doing things like his job, I got rid of it.

One of the others had a six pack of some kind of Energy Drink in her cooler. I left it alone. She is very driven and organized and even though I probably should have gotten rid of it as well, I decided that it was the least of my worries.

Monday Manboobs

rmiles7721June 4, 20072Uncategorized

This one scared me…

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At the ren fest…

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At the ren fest…

Originally uploaded by rmiles


Amy Winehouse…

rmiles7721June 2, 20073Entertainment

A friend of mine, whom I am not allowed to link to had a post up recently with an Amy Winehouse video. It was pretty good, so I thought “Hey, that was pretty good” 🙂

I found several more videos over at Youtube and I really like her stuff. I don’t know anything else about her music or if it’s available on iTunes yet, but I will certainly check it out. Here’s my favorite so far…

Why am I still awake anyway?