Custom Photo Cards

I am pretty awful about sending cards when it’s time for people’s birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, etc…I am much better at sending emails and thank you notes that way. I don’t think it’s the cards that I have a hard time sending, it’s just about anything in an envelope for some reason. I pay 99% of my bills online and the other one or two on the phone before I will mail them. That doesn’t mean that I think cards are bogus though. Just look at the custom Photo Greeting Cards that CardsDirect has for instance.

I really like the photo cards. If the picture is well done then sending out photo cards during the holidays is a really cool idea. CardsDirect.com has over 70 different designs of greeting cards to choose from and some of them have really nice designs. I prefer the full color photo without any borders or doo-dads myself.

You can get a box of 100 for a little over $100 and while that may sound like a lot, think about it. When is the last time you printed out $100 photos on your inkjet printer and how many photo cartridges did it take? Not only that but it’s not just the photo, it’s the whole card, inside and out. The time and money I would save by ordering from CardsDirect make it worth the small expense. Heck, I might even get them in the mail rather than just sitting in a box in the top of my closet like the last Christmas Cards I bought.

A Two Handed Drinker

Damn. Now that was a good nap.

I hadn’t planned on sleeping but it just turned out that way.

The wife and girls went to church for supper tonight. Now before you say it, “Gawrsh, they let the Miles household into church!”, the girls particularly enjoy it. The wife isn’t exactly church-going and I would rather have my toenails ripped out of my feet with a pair of pliers than have to sit through a sermon. Except for all that God clap-trap and preaching church is OK I guess. I always felt that it was a good place for the kids and the social environment. Unless you go to one of those snake handling places, I guess.

I used to attend church as a kid with my great aunt. Speaking of whom, I don’t remember if I have posted this or not but it’s me at around 3 and my great aunt.

Richie and Big Helen Late Sixties.jpg

I see that I must have posted it before, it was already on my server.

Anyway, her health isn’t too great. She’s eightiy something, has diabetes, glaucoma, heart problems, has broken her hip at least once, is pretty much blind because of the glaucoma and is in generally piss poor health. I really need to drive in to Atlanta and see her soon but I hate too because she has changed so much mentally over the last couple of years. Not for the good either. I actually get two days off next week for the first time since before I went to Nassau in the middle of February, perhaps I will make the trek to Atlanta then.

While Atlanta is on my mind, the Georgia Renaissance Festival is happening soon. The last couple of years we have made it an annual thing and year before last we left the kids with babysitters and had a freaking blast. This past year even Zonker met us down there. Normally I end up going toward the last weekend but this year I am off the weekend of April 12th and 13th. As it stands now I am planning on being at the renaissance festival with beer in hand on Saturday the 12th. If you have a compelling reason why I should change it to Sunday, let me know as I am flexible. It would be pretty cool to get a couple of bloggers down there. This year they have the Royal Lipizan Stallions show and that’s supposed to be pretty cool. Photo opps abound!

I thought I had some photos from last years ren fest up on Flickr but apparently not. I have solved that world issue and here are some of the photos from last years jaunt to south of Atlanta. Mind you, some of the pictures were on my phone. I may get around to sending them to flickr one of these days.

Updated – oops, I just pasted the photo link, forgot all about that img src crap…

I told him nobody should drink two at a time, but do you think anyone fucking listens to me? Oh, hell no!

GPS Tracking

Supposedly my Freedom Keychain GPS device that I picked up last year while I was still using my Samsung i760 will work with the Blackberry Pearl. I know the GPS device does work because I have gotten it to partner with my computer as well as my old cell phone, but for the life of me I can’t seem to get it to work with my Blackberry. It’s not a hugely important detail in the grand scheme of things, but I have spent several hours off and on over the last week trying to get the thing to sync up and just can’t do it. I am at a loss right now and seriously considering getting something else. The idea of having a GPS receiver and being able to use it with mapping programs is just really cool.

Something else that’s pretty cool are the devices that Land Air Sea produces. Their GPS Tracking Key is a small device that picks up signals from the DOF GPS satellites and records the location every second. It’s pretty cool that it can get your location within about eight feet. Eight Feet!

You download the data by plugging it into the USB port of a computer and using something like Google Earth you can see where someone or something has been. Since it’s small it’s easily concealable and the magnet is strong enough to be placed under a car. It’s also water resistant as well.

Last year the GPS Tracking Key helped to solve a murder. George Ford’s wife thought that he was having an affair and placed on in his car. Originally he had been charged with reckless endangerment but after getting the data from the GPS Tracking Key the Chenango County Police charged him with murder.

There’s other reasons to have something like this besides cheating husbands. Three words. Teens with cars. That’s enough to make me want tracking devices, cameras, all kinds of stuff on a car. I can also see where it would come in handy if you have a fleet of cars or trucks as well. The device records how fast you travel, the directions you are facing, how long you are stationary and the route you travel. Using just those four things you can extrapolate all kinds of other information as well. Pretty cool if you ask me.

Runaway Bride in the News Again

Remember old big eyes Jennifer Wilbanks? She’s back in the news again, indirectly.
If you don’t remember, Jennifer and John Mason were to be married and she disappeared just a few days before the wedding. She turned up later in New Mexico after Gwinnett County authorities had wasted countless hours looking for her. She said she had been kidnapped and raped. That turned out to be a lie, she just had cold feet.
She ended up pleading no contest to telling authorities a phony story, did two years of probation and community service.
The two lovebirds ended their relationship shortly afterward and then filed lawsuits against each other, which they dropped later on.
So why’s she in the news again? Her ex-, John Mason was married this weekend at his parent’s home in Duluth, Georgia.

Wordless Wednesday

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Tramp Stamp Tuesday

I took this one at the wedding reception on Sunday afternoon.

36 Things

Along with millions of other morons I have a MySpace account. I’ve had it for quite some time now and every great once in a while I will log on and deny the spammers that want to be my friend and check my email. Even less often I will post a blog over there, sometimes just cross-posting crap I have put up here. That’s more than likely what I will do here as well. I also check bulletins every once in a while as well. Not very often because I have more ‘friends’ that just aren’t than are. Of course, some of the folks on my friends list really are. Some are real life friends, some I have met through blogging, a couple are relatives. Most of them are bands or other people I don’t know and have no interest in meeting in real life. Thus the fact that I don’t read bulletins all that often. If you know me and want me to see something important, you have my email or you know where my blog is, fuck your bulletins.

So I was reading the bulletins and this one chick that works for me (big fucking mistake there) sends me a bulletin. Actually she sent it to all her friends, not just me. Oh, I don’t mean it’s a mistake that she works for me, I meant that it’s a mistake adding one of my employees to my friends list. I don’t know what the fuck I was thinking when I slipped up and added her to my friends. It’s not that I don’t want people to know who I am, for Christ’s sake I post all over the Internet with my real name. It’s just that 90% of the people that work with/for me are computer illiterate all the way up to the upper management and so I keep my Internet presence pretty low key with the other 10%.

Anyway, the bulletin she sent out for her friends to answer is below. I had fuck all to post tonight until I saw it and judging from the couple of paragraphs above I guess it did give me something to write about after all. The bulletin is pretty much a meme and although I am not tagging anyone, feel free to take the questions and post them on your site. I don’t know if I’m going to send this back via email or not (to her) but I did think you just might enjoy it Blushing

 

IF YOU’RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, I want to know 36 things about you. I don’t care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine…You’re on my list, so I want to know you better.
BE HONEST!! COPY FROM HERE THEN SEND DIRECTLY TO ME IN A MESSAGE THEN, REPOST THE EMPTY QUESTIONS AS A BULLETIN.
FILL UP MY INBOX!!!!

1.)Q. Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Yes

2.)Q. What was your dream growing up?
A. Occasionally I had one about fucking my dog…Oh, that kind of dream. Sorry. I used to dream about being a fantasy/sci-fi author.

3.)Q. What talent do you wish you had?
A. I wish I could suck my own dick. I’d never have to leave the house.

4.)Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Sam Adams

5.)Q. Favorite vegetable?
A. Christopher Reeve

6.)Q. What was the last book you read?
A. Fatal Revenant (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, book II)

7.)Q. What zodiac sign are you?
A. Sagittarius

8.)Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. Couple of tattoos, pierced ears.

9.)Q. Worst Habit?
A. Farting in public

10.)Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. Ass, gas or grass, baby.

11.)Q. What is your favorite sport?
A. Cheerleader mud wrestling

12.)Q. Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. Depends on what day it is

13. )Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. Grease you up like and ride you like a pony.

14.)Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. dropping out of high school

15.)Q. Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. The above answers weren’t enough?

16.)Q. Do you have any pets?
A. Yes. Oh, you want to know what they are? Dog, cat, goldfish in the pond.

17.)Q. What if i showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. Watch out for the guy with the chainsaw.

18.)Q. What was your first impression of me?
A. Nice tits eyes

19.)Q. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Scary.

20.)Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. Lose the gut that’s been growing for the last decade.

21.)Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. Neither.

22.)Q. What color eyes do you have?
A. Hazel

23.) Q. Ever been arrested?
A. Yes

24.)Q. Bottle or can soda?
A. Can unless it’s in a glass bottle.

25.)Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
A. Use $5k for Disney and the rest in my mutual fund.

26.)Q. If you could, would you date me?
A. Probably. 20 21 years ago when I was single. I was much nicer then.

27.) Q. What ‘s your favorite place to hang at?
A. My house. Pretty much a homebody. lame and boring.

28.)Q. Do you believe in ghosts?
A. yes

29.)Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. kill nuns. jerk off. play on the computer.

30.)Q. Do you swear a lot?
A. fucking constantly.

31.)Q. Biggest pet peeve?
A. People that are fucking stupid.

32.)Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Unflinchingly-cool (does a hyphenated word count)

33.)Q. Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. believe in it, yes. Appreciate it, no. give me a fucking break, I’m a guy.

34.)Q. If you could spend 12 hours with me and ask/do anything you like, what would it be?
A. Got any KY?

35)Q. Do you believe in God?
A. No

36.)Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A Yes.

So, like I said, I guess I’ll fill this out but perhaps with a few different answers more fit for pubic public consumption. Later dudes.

Funky Cold Medina

I have to go to work so I thought I would leave you with a fresh thought for the day. Back in my days of hanging out in strip clubs (a looong time ago) this was one of my favorite tunes.

Another good tune to request was Shooting Star by Bad Company. The dancers hated it because it’s just over six minutes and that’s a pretty darned long song to be dancing too.

How's This For Creepy?

Want to get real creeped out?
Samuel Rael is/was an attorney. In 1995 he decided he wanted to make a movie. The name of the movie is Deadly Run. Here’s the synopsis from IMDB:

Respected and very wealthy Atlanta, GA-area realtor Bobby Wilson has a wife, son and daughter, but does some things unknown to them. He has a cabin on a rural tract 200 miles to the north, to where he often flies his airplane carrying abducted, minimally-attached females, who he there releases as game and fatally hunts. A girlfriend of a victim convinces a cop to help close in on Bobby.

Another damned slasher flick right? The thing is, Samuel had an unpaid adviser on the film from start to finish. The adviser thought it would be a good idea to have the killer out in the woods for him to hunt down as prey. He also found the cabin in the North Georgia mountains where they did quite a bit of shooting. In Deadly Run the bad guy held women captive in the cabin.
Samuel Rael met this guy in the mid-80’s when he was an attorney. He defended him on several charges over the years, including trespassing, arson and false solicitation of charitable donations.
When he wanted to make the movie his client/friend was full of great ideas. That makes sense since the guy in question is Gary Michael Hilton, the freak that likes to kill people in the woods. I’ll bet the serial killer experts are having a field day with this.
So the question begs, when did he start killing. Is he living out some sick kind of fantasy that was still only in his head 13 years ago or had he already started killing people? According to Transylvania County, North Carolina Sheriff David Mahoney, Hilton is not currently considered a suspect in any unresolved cases during the time the film was made.
I think I would have to start looking at some of the murders around that time period nonetheless.