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Megadeth – In My Darkest Hour

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This is kind of cool. Maybe it’s not a new feature, but I just discovered it. Youtube allows you to send videos from your cell phone and post them. Very cool for stealthily blogging nasty shit you don’t have time to write about. It also allows you to post to certain blogs, unfortunately movabletype is not one of them. Maybe later.

Anyway, this was taken at the oldest girls lunch last week. She was very excited that I came to eat lunch with her.


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Battlestar Galactica

One of the handful of TV shows that I watch came back on last night. Battlestar Galactica. The have changed the day and time that it comes on now to Sundays at 10PM though. This will be the last time that I stay up. I tossed and turned for a couple of hours last night and ended up getting maybe four hours of sleep at the most. I feel like shit. It’s on a lower channel so I will set it to start recording. What sucks is that I also watch The Sopranos which will probably be on at the same time and I cannot record that as my cable box is no longer hooked to anything but the TV.

24 comes on tonight, so I will watch it again, and then try and pass out. No damn coffee for me after 7PM. That is part of the problem I think.


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Dancing with the stars

Lisa found the lost video from our blogmeet in Helen last fall, and has posted it. I particularly admire the color choices that they made for their dancing clothes. Damn, that was so wrong it’s funny.

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Useless?

Not completely, but I am pretty much in a non-posting mood this morning. I stayed up too late last night. We watched the season premier for one of the few shows that I watch on TV, 24. For some reason, even though 90% of the stuff is just incredulous, I still enjoy it. Last night was no different. I did get a good laugh though, right about the time that Jack Bauer ripped into the jugular of one of his captors with his teeth to escape. All I could think of was “Lost Boys”.

After TV I read until a bit after 11PM, well after I should have been asleep which is why I am feeling crappy this morning. I should be finished with One Bullet Away this afternoon if I get a chance to read at all today.

Apparently Barzan Hassan and Awad Bandar were hanged right before I went to bed last night. Barzad was Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the former chief of his secret police and Awad was the former chief judge.

It’s supposed to start getting back down into the 30’s here at night tomorrow. This is some weird damn weather. It’s been in the high 60’s to mid 70’s the last two afternoons. I’m ready to get winter over with but I am just waiting for the other shoe to drop. As soon as I get out and do something in the yard, we’ll get ice or snow. Just fricking weird.

Damn, gotta get me one of these for my rear view mirror.

$24.95 for the Dope on a Rope. Damn, they even have a Jesus action figure. Oh crap. I could have some fun with these guys.

There’s a big deal going on at work right now about monster.com. I have had my resume there for several years, but haven’t updated it in quite some time. Apparently one of the recruiters, or some nosy bastard at the corporate office discovered that several people in management with my company had theirs up, and they were updated and actively searching for new jobs. Apparently about half of the management team in the area a bit closer to Atlanta from me has theirs up, and the have been told that they HAVE to take them down. Damn. I don’t particularly want to get involved in this little brouhaha, but it would really piss me off if they demanded that I take my resume down. The fact is though, that even though I have been with them for twenty years, if the right job came along, with the right $$$, I would probably jump on it, but unfortunately tech jobs at my level of education pay about half what I make now, so I have no interest in looking for one, and I am not interested in working for any other restaurant. Most of them pay less, have less benefits, and are certainly not as financially stable as my company. If we shut the doors to our restaurants right now we could continue to pay everyone, including our hourly associates, for about a year.

The wife turns 40 this week. Everyone get their asses over there and wish her a happy birthday.


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BeyondTV

When I took apart my HTPC recently I stuck two of my TV tuners in my computer, and will probably put the USB tuner in as well. The big problem was that there were still some issues with BTV and Windows Vista. I happily received an email today with the release of a public beta version for Vista. I am getting ready to install it. Sweet. I don’t know if it’s in the build or not, but I understand that at some point they are going to add a plugin for MCE. That would be sweet, as I don’t particularly like MCE’s TV stuff.

I have been meaning to write up a review for BTV for quite some time as well, so once this is released I will do that as well.


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Boomhauer tells how to use the Internet

I don’t watch much TV but I used to occasionally watch King of the Hill, at least for a season or two. I saw this show and this bit just cracks me up every time that I see it.


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Wiring and Re-wiring

Since I have reclaimed my PC and put together spare parts for my home theater setup, I have been having more and more problems with the HTPC. I finally just shut down and disconnected the server last week. It sucks. I don’t watch much TV, so it hasn’t been a huge issue, but for the TV watching segment of the family, including all three kids, this has been a real big issue so I spent the majority of yesterday afternoon and evening taking apart my home theater setup, rewiring, finding the old DVD player, and making sure everything works correctly. What a pain in the ass.

I still have to set up the remote and hook up a couple of gaming consoles, but it is all together now. I have put my TV tuners in my personal box, at least that way I can record stuff off normal cable, just not the higher channels. I am probably going to hook up my Ocelot and install Homeseer on it too, which I haven’t had running in a few months.


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I’m hooked

One of my Christmas gifts from my brother was a book, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer. I started reading it as bathroom material a couple of nights ago. Now I am a couple of chapters in and this will be the only blogging I do tonight as I am going to read for awhile before I crash. I don’t know if he has written anything else yet, but Nathaniel Fick is a smooth read. I am thoroughly enjoying the book and may post on it more after I finish.


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We’re There For You!

This clip from the Letterman show is hilarious.


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