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Monday: August 06, 2007 - Traveling
Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetings. I'll be away until August 12th. See you land lubbers then. I'll be all around this great country moving Jamie's crap, picking up bills (see picture), staying in the Chateauri, winning a ton of money, and rocking out. Have a wonderful week.
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Sunday: August 12, 2007 - August 12 of 12
Here's my much-belated 12 of 12 from DC. I haven't really written about that trip yet so here goes: we left at 7am from Tallahassee, dropped off Abs at Jamie's mom's house and hit the road. The truck got terrible gas mileage and we had to refill it every hour or so. By 9pm we called Brian to let him know we were in Halifax and to expect us in the next couple of hours. Little did we know it would be absolutely pouring rain. Between the amount of rain and semis dousing the windshield it took another three hours before we arrived.
The five-star Chateauri was well-appointed for our stay and we awoke the next morning to bacon and eggs. Brian dropped us off at the metro and Jamie and I went into the city to get her apartment key and take a little tour. They had (surprise!) replaced the flooring so the apartment was unavailable so we spent the day running various errands and drinking lots of Starbucks before we hopped the metro back to VA. After Jamie misremembered where Brian was going to pick us up, he eventually found us and brought us back to Sterling, where he kindly bought us some Boston Market. It was there that we finally got to meet Anna and her new baby Ella. Anna was hysterically funny and we were all sad when she and Ella left us early. We also met Brian's lady-friend Rebecca. I would normally have a lot of nice things to say about her but since she killed me in poker....well, that's how it goes.
The next day Jamie and I drove the truck back into town and Brian met up with us to help us haul Jamie's crap into her apartment (she finally got the key). By the time Jamie and I had brought the first load up, Brian had optimized the truck for quick unloading. We had it all unpacked in about 90 minutes and Brian went home while Jamie and I dragged everything into place across the new floors. A few hours later we drove back to Sterling for poker after getting some Subway for dinner. Poker at Brian's was very different from Southern Fried Poker. They play with a total of 100 chips and blinds don't go up until someone goes out. We typically play with the blinds going up every ten minutes and start with, depending on the game, about 1200 chips. Jamie put up a good effort but ultimately finished 6/7. Rebecca's poker prowess busted my two pair on the river for a flush and took the bronze medal. Rebecca eventually overcame Krtisty's husband-led play for a healthy pot and all the glory that comes with it.
(12 of 12 Day) It figures the most boring day of the trip is the 12 of 12. I'm not sure why but we took practically no pictures. That'll be the last time Jamie is in charge of day documentation.
9:41am : After watching the cats go nuts on catnip we left the luxuries of the Chateauri to go back to the squalor that was Jamie's apartment.
11:00am : Jamie finishes her $250 Safeway shopping spree while we still have the truck. This would be the first shopping trip of the day. We also hit Target and Giant (Nothern for Food).
1:30pm : There's me sporting my new American University t-shirt as I come racing up the metro to Jamie's stop.
2pm : We traded out the Chateauri for this! I would be later recruited to hang things on the walls to make it more homey.
2:30pm : Because of Jamie's shoulder surgery I was in charge of picture hanging. With a regular and laser level to aid me I did a damn good job.
5:00pm : Here's up driving the truck back. I am so tired of being in the truck you have no idea.
5:15pm : The truck depot. It was in a scary industrial park, which on its own wouldn't have been so bad. It was a two mile walk through their version of Frenchtown back to the metro station.
6pm : Here's Jamie's apartment.
Beats me : And look, we're somehow still in good spirits.
10pm : Just FYI, if you're visiting Jamie, you need to knock for like eight years before she'll open the door.
10:55pm : Someone left their card at the restaurant! Citi also decided to cancel her card because of possible fraud. Apparently racking up massive charges from Key West all the way to DC will cause that.
11:30pm : Jamie's dad told her to watch the Paper Chase before becoming a lawyer. I think she saw about eight minutes of it between naps.
Transition Picture! Here are Kathy and Chris...
Moving on to Monday! After finishing up in the apartment we finally met up with Kathy and Chris outside of GWU where Kathy gave us a tour of their music department and her tiny office. For dinner we settled on a little Irish pubby place and had some delicious food, cheap-for-DC-beers, and discussed why I'd never get security clearance. After Chris lugged around their poker chips all night, we finally got back to Jamie's place and sat down for a game compromising in chips to about 250. I can't say for sure but it might have been the fastest game of poker in history. I won a collection of gift cards and quarters. Sadly, Chris and Kathy left to catch the last metro and we all posed for the last picture of the 12 of 12.
Tuesday morning Jamie met up with a new friend for Public Service Day, where she did her best Ian impression by giving out condoms to the needy. Unlike Ian though, she had to do it in the ghetto of DC. While she was there preventing new ghetto youth from sprouting up, I was on the metro to Reagan with what seemed like twenty tons of stuff. My flight back was uneventful and Christine picked me up where Spartachomp was waiting after being so carefully tended to by Ricky, Ian and Chris. Thanks you guys! [Comments: 1]· permalink ·
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Wednesday: August 15, 2007 - Monthy of Busy
I am finally back and, loyal readers, you will again start seeing updates. It's been a very hectic past month with trips around our beautiful United States, website deadlines, moving trucks, friends, and ghosts.
Within the next few days I will have pictures posted from my trip with Jamie to Key West which includes some ghost pictures (of ghosts, not of ghost orbs or whatever), the Chateauri, Jamie's new apartment, and for good measure, some dog pictures.
I was hoping to have the Key West pictures up today but unfortunately Photoshop did not want to load 200 pictures at once so I will have to pare down what's going online since they all need to be resized and I'm just one man (now with two dogs).
If you want to send Jamie some goodwill messages about starting law school here's the place to do it. More later.
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Thursday: August 16, 2007 - Trip to Key West
After sorting through almost 300 pictures I pared it down to about 70. So without further ado here are our Key West photos. I would have had them up sooner but I had resize each one of them by hand even though I know Photoshop can do mass editing for me. I also bit the bullet and wrote a little admin for the photos so I could stop having to manually enter each one into the database.
Key West is the most beautiful place I've ever been--and I've been to all fifty states. If I had $1.5m to plunk down on a house I'd be there right now. We stopped in Jacksonville the first night to visit Jamie's sister, her husband and their new baby then made the treacherous drive. It poured in Miami (Moons of My Hammy) but we made it (obviously). We didn't really do a whole lot but we did manage to make it on a ghost tour, saw a ghost (in the pictures, not on the ghost tour), went fishing (caught a yellow-tail snapper), and took a train tour of the island. We ate a lot and shed some pounds walking around in the sweltering humidity. I would highly recommend a trip down there if you haven't been already. I can't say enough good things about the place. The only negative (aside from the humidity) is that's it's a long, intense drive. You should still go though, it's beautiful. [Comments: 1]· permalink ·
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Weekend: August 18, 2007 - Going back, way back
Over the weekend I wrote out the trip to DC along with the 12 of 12. You can see it here.
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Monday: August 20, 2007 - Football Season Is Coming
Chris and I took a stroll over to Corner Pocket last night to play some poker. Since he was the tournament champion a few weeks ago, he is now a towny legend. One of the waitresses pointed out that I was famous simply by association. Awesome. Other than a small incident with some old guys at my final table who mistakingly thought they could kick my ass and my Paul Newman-like retaliation, poker was mostly unremarkable and I finished 4th at my only final table.
After poker, Chris and I hit up BK and came back to my house to play some NCAA Football 2007. We had played a couple of gut-wrenching games on Sunday night and he took two out of three. Setting "instant classic" marks isn't really that appealing when you're the losing team--it means something catastrophic happened to you. Anyway, after Chris punished me on Sunday I was looking for revenge last night and found it in our second game. What sucks about video game football is that whoever gives up the most turnovers (which you have little/no control over) is going to lose and last night it was Chris. We also moved the game from Austin to Tallahassee and I'm pretty sure my wins were due more to the Longhorns looking at the hot video game cheerleaders than my lackluster option attack. Oh well, I'm not greedy. I'll take my wins over someone better than me any day of the year. [Comments: 2]· permalink ·
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Tuesday: August 21, 2007 - All Apologies
Looks like Michael Con-Vick took the plea deal. Bummer. I was hoping it would go to trial. Maybe some of your lawyers-to-be can help me out--if you're the kingpin, why are you allowed to plea? I understand the henchmen getting it as an option because you want to get the ringleader but if you're the ringleader, shouldn't you get prosecuted for real? I know the DA gets to offer a plea, but why would you? It just doesn't make sense to me--is it because you're saving tax dollars by avoiding the time and expenses of a trial? I don't really understand how 20 years of jail time from racketeering charges can magically be reduced to 18 months with no racketeering simply because he plead guilty. A little help please.
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Wednesday: August 22, 2007 - Marmolade
With the Cubs about to sweep the Giants, now is as good a time as any to reveal my favorite player of the season. It came down to Ryan Theriot and Carlos Marmol. I like Theriot not only because his last name is The Riot but he always is trying. He doesn't always succeed but you can tell he's out there really busting for those infield singles and stupid catches in foul ground behind third base. I don't yell nearly as much when he strikes out or commits an error because how you can yell at someone who is giving 100% (exactly 100%)? That said, my choice has got to be Marmol. His last name is pretty fun to say and although Marmol-ade has nothing to do with baseball I enjoy saying that as well. He was a pretty lousy starter last year so when he got called back from AAA to join the bullpen I was a little nervous. Little did I know he was going to absolute decimate lineups. With an ERA just over one, he makes most batters look absolutely ridiculous. He throws hard (97mph) but its his breaking pitches that sometimes make me laugh aloud while watching the games. Anyway, congratulations Marmol on being the Red Zeppelin Cub of the Year.
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Thursday: August 23, 2007 - Simpsonize Me
I saw this over at Mark's blog over a week ago and had meant to do it sooner. His new design looks good too. Anyway, at Simpsonize Me you can plug in a picture and it will generate your character for you. Once it's done you can tweak it to get it closer. My picture was post-haircut so my hair was pretty short and the forehead wasn't nearly big enough. Fortunately under the "balding" option they had the one I wound up using. Whew.
On Saturday I have a benefit concert with Danno for RH. I think between doing that and being their webmaster I have officially done more work for them than Jamie did. And we probably got paid about the same. Oooooh.
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Weekend: August 26, 2007 - Gun n' Gun
Everything was going great for FSU during our 2007 NCAA Football marathon. Both Tim (TN/LSU) and Chris (UT) were succumbing nicely to the "Gun N' Gun" offense and the master plan of using the pass to set up the pass was working nicely. And then Tim figured out how to bump the receivers and FSU was annihilated. It wouldn't have been so bad had he not shared the secret with Chris who, after Tim left, then edged me 14-13. I think FSU was too demoralized after Tim's LSU team won something like 42-17 to be competitive anymore. It was nonetheless a total blast (unlike in this nut-wrenching story)and I hope that we can schedule another marathon Playstation 2 football session again in the near future. See Jamie, this is what boys are supposed to do before you girls come in and make us cuddle.
On Saturday I played a gig with Joe and for the first time ever we did it without any music, something I always wanted to try. Joe would just start a conga beat and I'd make up songs around them. It was pretty cool and I wish I had a tape recorder going since I cranked out some winners that I can't seem to duplicate without hordes of screaming fans. Before the gig I hung out with Ricky and we hit up some Village inn where our bill went from $48 (they charged me for six sides of bacon) to $5.08, which I happily paid. [Comments: 1]· permalink ·
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Monday: August 27, 2007 - School's In Forever
It's that time of year again. Time for the mass infestation. Students from around the US flock to The Florida State University and the prestigious programs it contains. For anyone over the age of say...24, it's the worst time of year. You can no longer drive around traffic-free or go to Target to get more towels when you're on-loan dog poops her cage. Oh no, you're shut in while the next generation of what's-a-trapper-keeper students ravages the town in their Teva sandals and T-Shirts falsely proclaiming they were at Parkville's BBQ Eat-Off in 1983. You weren't born in 1983! We all know you got that t-shirt at Old Navy you loser! Anyway, we're all stocked up here on the necessarily supplies in case they students clean out the Publix. I'm a little low on dog food but I figure if it gets too bad one dog can just eat the other one. Speaking of which, Mike Vick is going to jail. Nice apology yesterday, it was really convincing...NOT! I haven't said "NOT!" in a while, maybe like 15 years but whatever, I'm not a convicted felony dog-fighter so I can do as I please.
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Tuesday: August 28, 2007 - Jacque Jones
I know we've had some rough times Jacque but things have turned around mightily, eh? It seems like just yesterday you could neither hit, nor field and now suddenly I'm actually happy about seeing you at the plate. I'm not sure how or when exactly you decided to stop sucking and become awesome but on behalf of Cubs Nation, thank you. The Cubs would not be in first place if it wasn't for you and last night's comeback win against the Brewers, lead by you, was fantastic. Three cheers for Jacque Jones.
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Friday: August 31, 2007 - Slack-y
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I haven't updated the blog in a few days. I have been very busy working and tweaking a bunch of other sites. It's been storming a lot, so a lot of my time has been spent cleaning up dog crap because when it storms really hard the dogs get scared and refuse to go outside. When the refuse to go outside that means there's only once place they can go--inside. Some of their favorite dumping grounds include immediately to the left of my bed, in my bedroom closet, and right next to the door that leads outside. I'm not sure why they're willing to poop RIGHT NEXT TO where they could go out and poop and not get in trouble but whatever. They're both old and I think no amount of training or dog-hypnotherapy will break them of being afraid of storms. Oh well, that's why I bought more Folex and paper towels. Thanks Jara!
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Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetings. I'll be away until August 12th. See you land lubbers then. I'll be all around this great country moving Jamie's crap, picking up bills (see picture), staying in the Chateauri, winning a ton of money, and rocking out. Have a wonderful week.
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Sunday: August 12, 2007 - August 12 of 12
Here's my much-belated 12 of 12 from DC. I haven't really written about that trip yet so here goes: we left at 7am from Tallahassee, dropped off Abs at Jamie's mom's house and hit the road. The truck got terrible gas mileage and we had to refill it every hour or so. By 9pm we called Brian to let him know we were in Halifax and to expect us in the next couple of hours. Little did we know it would be absolutely pouring rain. Between the amount of rain and semis dousing the windshield it took another three hours before we arrived.
The five-star Chateauri was well-appointed for our stay and we awoke the next morning to bacon and eggs. Brian dropped us off at the metro and Jamie and I went into the city to get her apartment key and take a little tour. They had (surprise!) replaced the flooring so the apartment was unavailable so we spent the day running various errands and drinking lots of Starbucks before we hopped the metro back to VA. After Jamie misremembered where Brian was going to pick us up, he eventually found us and brought us back to Sterling, where he kindly bought us some Boston Market. It was there that we finally got to meet Anna and her new baby Ella. Anna was hysterically funny and we were all sad when she and Ella left us early. We also met Brian's lady-friend Rebecca. I would normally have a lot of nice things to say about her but since she killed me in poker....well, that's how it goes.
The next day Jamie and I drove the truck back into town and Brian met up with us to help us haul Jamie's crap into her apartment (she finally got the key). By the time Jamie and I had brought the first load up, Brian had optimized the truck for quick unloading. We had it all unpacked in about 90 minutes and Brian went home while Jamie and I dragged everything into place across the new floors. A few hours later we drove back to Sterling for poker after getting some Subway for dinner. Poker at Brian's was very different from Southern Fried Poker. They play with a total of 100 chips and blinds don't go up until someone goes out. We typically play with the blinds going up every ten minutes and start with, depending on the game, about 1200 chips. Jamie put up a good effort but ultimately finished 6/7. Rebecca's poker prowess busted my two pair on the river for a flush and took the bronze medal. Rebecca eventually overcame Krtisty's husband-led play for a healthy pot and all the glory that comes with it.
(12 of 12 Day) It figures the most boring day of the trip is the 12 of 12. I'm not sure why but we took practically no pictures. That'll be the last time Jamie is in charge of day documentation.
9:41am : After watching the cats go nuts on catnip we left the luxuries of the Chateauri to go back to the squalor that was Jamie's apartment.
11:00am : Jamie finishes her $250 Safeway shopping spree while we still have the truck. This would be the first shopping trip of the day. We also hit Target and Giant (Nothern for Food).
1:30pm : There's me sporting my new American University t-shirt as I come racing up the metro to Jamie's stop.
2pm : We traded out the Chateauri for this! I would be later recruited to hang things on the walls to make it more homey.
2:30pm : Because of Jamie's shoulder surgery I was in charge of picture hanging. With a regular and laser level to aid me I did a damn good job.
5:00pm : Here's up driving the truck back. I am so tired of being in the truck you have no idea.
5:15pm : The truck depot. It was in a scary industrial park, which on its own wouldn't have been so bad. It was a two mile walk through their version of Frenchtown back to the metro station.
6pm : Here's Jamie's apartment.
Beats me : And look, we're somehow still in good spirits.
10pm : Just FYI, if you're visiting Jamie, you need to knock for like eight years before she'll open the door.
10:55pm : Someone left their card at the restaurant! Citi also decided to cancel her card because of possible fraud. Apparently racking up massive charges from Key West all the way to DC will cause that.
11:30pm : Jamie's dad told her to watch the Paper Chase before becoming a lawyer. I think she saw about eight minutes of it between naps.
Transition Picture! Here are Kathy and Chris...
Moving on to Monday! After finishing up in the apartment we finally met up with Kathy and Chris outside of GWU where Kathy gave us a tour of their music department and her tiny office. For dinner we settled on a little Irish pubby place and had some delicious food, cheap-for-DC-beers, and discussed why I'd never get security clearance. After Chris lugged around their poker chips all night, we finally got back to Jamie's place and sat down for a game compromising in chips to about 250. I can't say for sure but it might have been the fastest game of poker in history. I won a collection of gift cards and quarters. Sadly, Chris and Kathy left to catch the last metro and we all posed for the last picture of the 12 of 12.
Tuesday morning Jamie met up with a new friend for Public Service Day, where she did her best Ian impression by giving out condoms to the needy. Unlike Ian though, she had to do it in the ghetto of DC. While she was there preventing new ghetto youth from sprouting up, I was on the metro to Reagan with what seemed like twenty tons of stuff. My flight back was uneventful and Christine picked me up where Spartachomp was waiting after being so carefully tended to by Ricky, Ian and Chris. Thanks you guys! [Comments: 1]· permalink ·
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Wednesday: August 15, 2007 - Monthy of Busy
I am finally back and, loyal readers, you will again start seeing updates. It's been a very hectic past month with trips around our beautiful United States, website deadlines, moving trucks, friends, and ghosts.
Within the next few days I will have pictures posted from my trip with Jamie to Key West which includes some ghost pictures (of ghosts, not of ghost orbs or whatever), the Chateauri, Jamie's new apartment, and for good measure, some dog pictures.
I was hoping to have the Key West pictures up today but unfortunately Photoshop did not want to load 200 pictures at once so I will have to pare down what's going online since they all need to be resized and I'm just one man (now with two dogs).
If you want to send Jamie some goodwill messages about starting law school here's the place to do it. More later.
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Thursday: August 16, 2007 - Trip to Key West
After sorting through almost 300 pictures I pared it down to about 70. So without further ado here are our Key West photos. I would have had them up sooner but I had resize each one of them by hand even though I know Photoshop can do mass editing for me. I also bit the bullet and wrote a little admin for the photos so I could stop having to manually enter each one into the database.
Key West is the most beautiful place I've ever been--and I've been to all fifty states. If I had $1.5m to plunk down on a house I'd be there right now. We stopped in Jacksonville the first night to visit Jamie's sister, her husband and their new baby then made the treacherous drive. It poured in Miami (Moons of My Hammy) but we made it (obviously). We didn't really do a whole lot but we did manage to make it on a ghost tour, saw a ghost (in the pictures, not on the ghost tour), went fishing (caught a yellow-tail snapper), and took a train tour of the island. We ate a lot and shed some pounds walking around in the sweltering humidity. I would highly recommend a trip down there if you haven't been already. I can't say enough good things about the place. The only negative (aside from the humidity) is that's it's a long, intense drive. You should still go though, it's beautiful. [Comments: 1]· permalink ·
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Weekend: August 18, 2007 - Going back, way back
Over the weekend I wrote out the trip to DC along with the 12 of 12. You can see it here.
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Monday: August 20, 2007 - Football Season Is Coming
Chris and I took a stroll over to Corner Pocket last night to play some poker. Since he was the tournament champion a few weeks ago, he is now a towny legend. One of the waitresses pointed out that I was famous simply by association. Awesome. Other than a small incident with some old guys at my final table who mistakingly thought they could kick my ass and my Paul Newman-like retaliation, poker was mostly unremarkable and I finished 4th at my only final table.
After poker, Chris and I hit up BK and came back to my house to play some NCAA Football 2007. We had played a couple of gut-wrenching games on Sunday night and he took two out of three. Setting "instant classic" marks isn't really that appealing when you're the losing team--it means something catastrophic happened to you. Anyway, after Chris punished me on Sunday I was looking for revenge last night and found it in our second game. What sucks about video game football is that whoever gives up the most turnovers (which you have little/no control over) is going to lose and last night it was Chris. We also moved the game from Austin to Tallahassee and I'm pretty sure my wins were due more to the Longhorns looking at the hot video game cheerleaders than my lackluster option attack. Oh well, I'm not greedy. I'll take my wins over someone better than me any day of the year. [Comments: 2]· permalink ·
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Tuesday: August 21, 2007 - All Apologies
Looks like Michael Con-Vick took the plea deal. Bummer. I was hoping it would go to trial. Maybe some of your lawyers-to-be can help me out--if you're the kingpin, why are you allowed to plea? I understand the henchmen getting it as an option because you want to get the ringleader but if you're the ringleader, shouldn't you get prosecuted for real? I know the DA gets to offer a plea, but why would you? It just doesn't make sense to me--is it because you're saving tax dollars by avoiding the time and expenses of a trial? I don't really understand how 20 years of jail time from racketeering charges can magically be reduced to 18 months with no racketeering simply because he plead guilty. A little help please.
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Wednesday: August 22, 2007 - Marmolade
With the Cubs about to sweep the Giants, now is as good a time as any to reveal my favorite player of the season. It came down to Ryan Theriot and Carlos Marmol. I like Theriot not only because his last name is The Riot but he always is trying. He doesn't always succeed but you can tell he's out there really busting for those infield singles and stupid catches in foul ground behind third base. I don't yell nearly as much when he strikes out or commits an error because how you can yell at someone who is giving 100% (exactly 100%)? That said, my choice has got to be Marmol. His last name is pretty fun to say and although Marmol-ade has nothing to do with baseball I enjoy saying that as well. He was a pretty lousy starter last year so when he got called back from AAA to join the bullpen I was a little nervous. Little did I know he was going to absolute decimate lineups. With an ERA just over one, he makes most batters look absolutely ridiculous. He throws hard (97mph) but its his breaking pitches that sometimes make me laugh aloud while watching the games. Anyway, congratulations Marmol on being the Red Zeppelin Cub of the Year.
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Thursday: August 23, 2007 - Simpsonize Me
I saw this over at Mark's blog over a week ago and had meant to do it sooner. His new design looks good too. Anyway, at Simpsonize Me you can plug in a picture and it will generate your character for you. Once it's done you can tweak it to get it closer. My picture was post-haircut so my hair was pretty short and the forehead wasn't nearly big enough. Fortunately under the "balding" option they had the one I wound up using. Whew.
On Saturday I have a benefit concert with Danno for RH. I think between doing that and being their webmaster I have officially done more work for them than Jamie did. And we probably got paid about the same. Oooooh.
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Weekend: August 26, 2007 - Gun n' Gun
Everything was going great for FSU during our 2007 NCAA Football marathon. Both Tim (TN/LSU) and Chris (UT) were succumbing nicely to the "Gun N' Gun" offense and the master plan of using the pass to set up the pass was working nicely. And then Tim figured out how to bump the receivers and FSU was annihilated. It wouldn't have been so bad had he not shared the secret with Chris who, after Tim left, then edged me 14-13. I think FSU was too demoralized after Tim's LSU team won something like 42-17 to be competitive anymore. It was nonetheless a total blast (unlike in this nut-wrenching story)and I hope that we can schedule another marathon Playstation 2 football session again in the near future. See Jamie, this is what boys are supposed to do before you girls come in and make us cuddle.
On Saturday I played a gig with Joe and for the first time ever we did it without any music, something I always wanted to try. Joe would just start a conga beat and I'd make up songs around them. It was pretty cool and I wish I had a tape recorder going since I cranked out some winners that I can't seem to duplicate without hordes of screaming fans. Before the gig I hung out with Ricky and we hit up some Village inn where our bill went from $48 (they charged me for six sides of bacon) to $5.08, which I happily paid. [Comments: 1]· permalink ·
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Monday: August 27, 2007 - School's In Forever
It's that time of year again. Time for the mass infestation. Students from around the US flock to The Florida State University and the prestigious programs it contains. For anyone over the age of say...24, it's the worst time of year. You can no longer drive around traffic-free or go to Target to get more towels when you're on-loan dog poops her cage. Oh no, you're shut in while the next generation of what's-a-trapper-keeper students ravages the town in their Teva sandals and T-Shirts falsely proclaiming they were at Parkville's BBQ Eat-Off in 1983. You weren't born in 1983! We all know you got that t-shirt at Old Navy you loser! Anyway, we're all stocked up here on the necessarily supplies in case they students clean out the Publix. I'm a little low on dog food but I figure if it gets too bad one dog can just eat the other one. Speaking of which, Mike Vick is going to jail. Nice apology yesterday, it was really convincing...NOT! I haven't said "NOT!" in a while, maybe like 15 years but whatever, I'm not a convicted felony dog-fighter so I can do as I please.
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Tuesday: August 28, 2007 - Jacque Jones
I know we've had some rough times Jacque but things have turned around mightily, eh? It seems like just yesterday you could neither hit, nor field and now suddenly I'm actually happy about seeing you at the plate. I'm not sure how or when exactly you decided to stop sucking and become awesome but on behalf of Cubs Nation, thank you. The Cubs would not be in first place if it wasn't for you and last night's comeback win against the Brewers, lead by you, was fantastic. Three cheers for Jacque Jones.
In other news, I am very sleepy and hate waking up early. Alas, the times, they are a changing. [Comments: 1]· permalink ·
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Friday: August 31, 2007 - Slack-y
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I haven't updated the blog in a few days. I have been very busy working and tweaking a bunch of other sites. It's been storming a lot, so a lot of my time has been spent cleaning up dog crap because when it storms really hard the dogs get scared and refuse to go outside. When the refuse to go outside that means there's only once place they can go--inside. Some of their favorite dumping grounds include immediately to the left of my bed, in my bedroom closet, and right next to the door that leads outside. I'm not sure why they're willing to poop RIGHT NEXT TO where they could go out and poop and not get in trouble but whatever. They're both old and I think no amount of training or dog-hypnotherapy will break them of being afraid of storms. Oh well, that's why I bought more Folex and paper towels. Thanks Jara![Comments: 0]· permalink ·
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Good Things Take Time...
-2 days until FSU Football (2010)
Random Picture...
Key West has plants everywhere. It seems every available foot of space has as many plants in it as they can cram. Beautiful though.
Key West has plants everywhere. It seems every available foot of space has as many plants in it as they can cram. Beautiful though.
Time Machine:
09-07-2009
· 09-07-2008
· 09-07-2007
· 09-07-2006
09-07-2009: I'll start with the good news: my death from the swine flu is no longer imminent. Now, onto the bad news.
WHERE THE HELL WAS FSU'S DEFENSE?! *I* could have been playing cornerback last night. I can easily ignore receivers as the blow past me or trip on my own two feet as a RUNNING BACK shoots past me for a catch in the end zone. Uggggggggh. On the bright side, the offense looked pretty good--at least Christian Ponder and the vaunted offensive line. The running game looked anemic when Jermaine was in there but his backup looked like a punisher. The fact our receivers c(w)ouldn't catch the ball made life rough. Fortson looked like the only guy who actually was willing to take one for the team and try to catch it, although Richard Goodman's catch on the two-point conversion ended with him getting blasted.
Anyway, where was the bloodthirsty FSU defense? Who were these cowards playing constant zone coverage? It doesn't take a PS2 NCAA Football expert very long to realize there's a time and a place for zone but if you want to win you need to MAN UP. Granted, the man coverage, when "utilized", made the secondary look absolutely stupid, with their coverage at least five yards behind the Miami receivers.
Whatever, we'll be good next year.09-07-2008: It looks like my vice-like grip over NCAA Pick 'Em is officially over. After tweaking "the algorithm" I still finished near the bottom of the picks because I clearly overweighed the section dedicated to "do they like to get upset?". The numbers correctly picked the ECU upset of WV but unfortunately they also picked three more upsets and, knowing that no more than three teams ever get upset in a week, I released WV out of a personal affinity towards the school. I also, until the game started, thought USM was in fact Mississippi State which they are clearly not. Oops.
I went out to Virginia to watch the FSU game with Kathy & Co. The bar had a lot of FSU fans but none that were particularly into the game. It didn't help that there was over two hours in combined rain delays. FSU looked good but I think anyone would look good against Western Carolina. They're not East Carolina, that's for sure. Catamounts, for the record, are mountain lions. They are not horses despite containing the word "mount". We'll know for sure how good FSU is when vaunted Chattanooga rolls into town next week. I took the day off blogging but only because I was thinking of you.09-07-2006: Although not as gratifying as some wins in the past, I was able to fend off tchris and jamie in a little three-way poker last night. At different points in the night we all had huge chip leads and somehow blew them. We're all big bettors so it was a lot of fun despite the low number of people.
I really need a new computer. Mine shuts off after about five minutes of use due to overheating and I still have not been able to find the right replacement fan. I'm hoping by the week after my birthday to have enough money to buy the new one from Dell, even though they won't let me get it without the video card. I talked to their retarded sales/tech guy and asked them simply if they could not charge/install a video card. They do not have dual-monitor options and I wasn't ordering any monitors so I didn't need the card. He replied that they could not and I was out of luck. I replied by asking him if the computers were really built by hand like they say in the commercials. He said yes. I then asked if they guy installing it could just "leave out" the video card (I'd be throwing it out the day I got it) and have the person hand-writing my bill leave off the cost of it. He said no. Oh well.
WHERE THE HELL WAS FSU'S DEFENSE?! *I* could have been playing cornerback last night. I can easily ignore receivers as the blow past me or trip on my own two feet as a RUNNING BACK shoots past me for a catch in the end zone. Uggggggggh. On the bright side, the offense looked pretty good--at least Christian Ponder and the vaunted offensive line. The running game looked anemic when Jermaine was in there but his backup looked like a punisher. The fact our receivers c(w)ouldn't catch the ball made life rough. Fortson looked like the only guy who actually was willing to take one for the team and try to catch it, although Richard Goodman's catch on the two-point conversion ended with him getting blasted.
Anyway, where was the bloodthirsty FSU defense? Who were these cowards playing constant zone coverage? It doesn't take a PS2 NCAA Football expert very long to realize there's a time and a place for zone but if you want to win you need to MAN UP. Granted, the man coverage, when "utilized", made the secondary look absolutely stupid, with their coverage at least five yards behind the Miami receivers.
Whatever, we'll be good next year.09-07-2008: It looks like my vice-like grip over NCAA Pick 'Em is officially over. After tweaking "the algorithm" I still finished near the bottom of the picks because I clearly overweighed the section dedicated to "do they like to get upset?". The numbers correctly picked the ECU upset of WV but unfortunately they also picked three more upsets and, knowing that no more than three teams ever get upset in a week, I released WV out of a personal affinity towards the school. I also, until the game started, thought USM was in fact Mississippi State which they are clearly not. Oops.
I went out to Virginia to watch the FSU game with Kathy & Co. The bar had a lot of FSU fans but none that were particularly into the game. It didn't help that there was over two hours in combined rain delays. FSU looked good but I think anyone would look good against Western Carolina. They're not East Carolina, that's for sure. Catamounts, for the record, are mountain lions. They are not horses despite containing the word "mount". We'll know for sure how good FSU is when vaunted Chattanooga rolls into town next week. I took the day off blogging but only because I was thinking of you.09-07-2006: Although not as gratifying as some wins in the past, I was able to fend off tchris and jamie in a little three-way poker last night. At different points in the night we all had huge chip leads and somehow blew them. We're all big bettors so it was a lot of fun despite the low number of people.
I really need a new computer. Mine shuts off after about five minutes of use due to overheating and I still have not been able to find the right replacement fan. I'm hoping by the week after my birthday to have enough money to buy the new one from Dell, even though they won't let me get it without the video card. I talked to their retarded sales/tech guy and asked them simply if they could not charge/install a video card. They do not have dual-monitor options and I wasn't ordering any monitors so I didn't need the card. He replied that they could not and I was out of luck. I replied by asking him if the computers were really built by hand like they say in the commercials. He said yes. I then asked if they guy installing it could just "leave out" the video card (I'd be throwing it out the day I got it) and have the person hand-writing my bill leave off the cost of it. He said no. Oh well.