September 2007

Cell Phones, Wal-Mart, Dog Food…This Ain’t My Shopping List…

Yesterday afternoon I ran out to the local Wal-Mart to get stuff for hamburgers. The girls had company coming for supper and I try to only make them eat dog food when their friends aren’t around so as to avoid answering sticky questions. Get them ready for old age a bit early and all that.

Anyway, apparently on the way out the door I dropped my cell phone. I didn’t realize it until I was getting in the car and flipped. My damn cell phone has hundreds of numbers related to work as well as personal stuff that I really can’t afford to lose. There are several years of history stored in that thing. I checked at the cash register where I was run up and then walked down a couple of aisles. I was pretty much resigned to the fact that I was going to have to go to Verizon and report it lost but decided to check with customer service before I left. Apparently I walked right past it on my way back in to the store because the dude that found it and picked it up was returning it to customer service as I was walking up.

Thank goodness for honest people. I guess I just spend far too much time around these people that I work with because half of the fuckers would have put it in their pockets and left with it.

I’ve started putting the belt thing back on my belt rather than hooking it into my pocket as I normally do. It will take some getting used to but it does tend to fall out of my pocket a lot.

The Crucible

Man, that Luna moth this morning was cool. The photos were just taken with my phone and sent to Flickr. I think I have one more I need to email myself and then post later this afternoon.

Today was a pretty uneventful day at work. I cooked all day and then hit the door right at the end of the shift. All of my managers are in so they can take care of all the mundane day to day stuff while I sit on my ass here at home and blog for awhile 🙂

The wife is napping right now and I have the girls set up in the driveway selling lemonade to support my ugly beer habit. All is well in my world today. The boy should be finished/finishing with the Crucible right about now or possibly in the morning. I know that was a tough row to hoe for him but he’s tough. I am really looking forward to seeing him for the first time since June, later this week. We are driving up to Beaufort on Wednesday afternoon and will check in to the hotel that evening. Any of you guys on the coast want to get together for a beer or something on Thursday or Friday night give me a call or shoot me an email.

Back to the Crucible. The hardest part for him I am sure will be the ten mile hump they have to take at the end. He’ll probably want to sleep for two days straight when he leaves with us Friday afternoon.

Saturday I think we are going to spend the day on Hilton Head. This will probably be the last chance for us to see our friend Niqui before she and her kids move to Cyprus so I know the wife is looking forward to it.


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Tropical Storm Gabrielle to Hit North Carolina

The outer bands of the storm hit the Outer Banks of North Carolina last night and the main part of the storm is expected to make landfall sometime today. Judging from the map that was up at Weather.com the worst of it will skip over the main part of the state and then move up the coast.

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The National Weather Service and the Coast guard don’t seem to be too worried about it but low lying areas will get some flooding so if you are in the area watch out and try to stay inside. Surge is supposed to be two to three feet and there will be a problem with rip tides up and down the coast.

From Newscom…



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Shadowscope

That one day off stuff has just kicked my tail. I am exhausted this morning. Both of my alarms were set for an hour ago and I just crawled out of bed long enough ago to start coffee. Yesterday was an extremely lazy day. I spent the morning writing, although not much, and making that video. The wife and girls got home from clothes shopping around noon and I ended up lying down for a nap at 1 and couldn’t wake up until 4pm or so. I slept much too long and ended up not getting back to sleep until midnight and that’s only because I took a Benadryl to knock myself out.

I had planned on writing quite a bit more but it just ended up working out that way. If I have time this afternoon I will write several entries and schedule them to be posted overnight. Right now my body is trying to tell me to go back to bed but my brain is saying “kill the moron”…Oh wait, that’s something else entirely.

All three of my managers are working today so unless a whole boatload of people don’t show up for work today I should manage to get home at a decent time this afternoon. I have to get by and check schedules and that sort of stuff this morning and then will most likely spend the morning cooking for one of them to ease payroll a bit.

I called the hotel in Beaufort last night just to confirm my reservations for Wednesday and they are still intact. I also wanted to make sure that it wouldn’t be a problem with late check-in and they said that was fine. With leaving Wednesday that won’t put me there until sometime around 9pm at the earliest and that’s if I can get the wife and girls out by 3pm. It will probably be even later than that unfortunately.

New York Hotels

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I’ve been to New York City one time back in the eighties and had a great time. From what I understand though, the city has really cleaned up and although New York culture will always remain the same I would like to go back and check things out. When I visited we were actually staying across the sound in Connecticut so just took a day trip into the city. We stayed at the Plaza Hotel briefly and had dinner there as well. I would be nice to go back now that 20 years have passed so that I can see what has changed. I would be interested in spending more time and visiting some of the sites that I missed the last time.

One place I wouldn’t mind staying is the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square. If I booked early enough I could probably even get decent rates for New Years Eve. I know it’s hugely overrated but just once I would like to be in Times Square to watch the ball drop. That has to be an amazing site with all of the people.

Redneck Car Mod

’nuff said.

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I think I saw this one right down the street yesterday…

Getting Up Made Easy

Lifehacker has a short post on changing habits and things to do to make getting up early easier. Here’s an idea for you: Set your alarm and get your lazy asses out of bed. Life changing, isn’t it?

Seriously, get up between 4 and 5 every day and most of us including myself are much more productive in the morning than later in the day. The hint that is given helps though. Write down why you are getting up and it will help to reinforce the idea in your head. Once you’ve done it for a month it will be easier because anything you do for 28 days generally becomes a habit. The trick to making it easy is to get up at the same time EVERY DAY. If you get up at 6 Monday through Friday and then sleep until noon all weekend it is going to be much harder.