Archive for June, 2004
Monday, June 21st, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Good weekend, really, all in all.
Friday I lounged around most of the morning, ate a big breakfast (bacon, eggs, bagel, OJ, coffee) and watched some TV. Had Rockstar recorded on the ReplayTV (still loving that thing) and enjoyed it more than I expected. Especially when the original lead singer of the band turned out to not only be “Fat Tom” from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but gay as well. Pretty unexpected. The rest of the movie was enjoyable, at least enough so as to entertain me for the morning. After Heather got back from her Doctor’s appointments and headed back out to do some light grocery shopping, I decided what the hell and mowed the back yard. It was a hellish task, took me like two hours. It’d been months since I’d cut it, I think it may have been last season since I did so. I know it was before we got Knight at least, and with all that rain, there were parts that were up to my knees, but it was all real grass, no that wierd wheat looking stuff. Now it looks fantasticly manicured, even though there are still ugly bare spots and a lot of the roots are showing. I guess it’s just the comparison of how it looked before. I’m thinking of looking into getting larger wheels for the mower to try and cut the grass taller, it looks too short when I cut it. Also need to figure out what kind of grass that is in the front yard so I can get a good grass fertilizer/weed killer that won’t kill my grass.
Saturday Heather and I went shopping with a gift card she got for christmas two years ago. I bought sandals. No really, sandals. I haven’t found a pair of sandals that I could even stand in the past 20 years, and have had an aversion to them, but as hot as my feet have been getting lately, I decided that it was about time I gave them a second chance. These are still pretty covering, but a lot of air can get through them, so they feel really nice and my ugly ass feet don’t get put on display. Oh, and I don’t feel as bad about not wearing socks, which often just makes my feet stink so bad other people complain. Heather got some really cute clothes as well, but had to sacrifice some shorts that I thought just looked amazing on her because we only had $75 and she wouldn’t be able to wear the shorts to work like all the other stuff she’d picked out. We also picked out some paint samples for my office when we stopped by Lowes looking for screws. When I went to put the paint samples in my wallet I found a $20 bill in an unused pocket of my wallet. I like to hide cash for myself in places like that because it’s a great surprise when you think you got no cash. So, overy generous, I took Heather to dinner at Tias and I had the biggest plate of Nachos I’ve seen in a while. They weren’t only big, but really good! I had to take half of them home and I’m really looking forward to having them for lunch sometime this week. We finished up this really lovely day by watching 50 First Dates which was incredibly cute. A really fun, feel good, romantic, funny movie. I always know it’s a good movie when Heather looks over at me before the movie is even over and says “we need to buy this one.” So do yourself a favor, rent this movie.
Sunday we did even less, which is what Sundays are for. I did, somehow, convince Heather to go for a bike ride with me on Sunday, so we aired up the tires on our bikes that hadn’t been ridden in years and peddaled around the neighborhood for about 45 minutes. It was really nice, and convinced me that I’ll be able to make the trip home from work on Tuedays and Thursdays. Tomorrow, barring the weather which looks unsteady currently, may be the first attempt. I do need to map a good route that has little traffic so that I won’t feel too bad listening to my Nomad on the ride home. Next month I’m going to invest in some new innertubes and a GPS handlebar mount since my bike’s odometer stopped working at least 5 years ago.
Now if Heather would just show up with some food and movies.
Thursday, June 17th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment
ouch ouch ouch, steve just kicked me in the ass, that bastard.
Thursday, June 17th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
Awesome, IMDB’s movie of the day is Straight to Hell, such an awesome movie! I should probably pick that one up cheap/used somewhere. I’ll put it with Six-String Samaurai and Bubba Ho-Tep.
Thursday, June 17th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 1 Comment
Happy Birthday sillyvash, we got you a good deal on a cabbage patch kid!
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 4 Comments
it’s been one of those days… and now I’m going home and hoping it will be one of those nights. 😉
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | 3 Comments
I found out the other day that the Sony Clié is going to be discontinued. Not entirely, mind you, just everyone but Japan. Sony says they’re going to re-evaluate the marketablility of such a product and continue to develop it for the Japanese market only. This announcement comes only a comes only a couple of months after learning that the Subaru Baja is no longer being produced after 2006.
Both companies (Sony and Subaru) have not fully revealed the resons for discontinuing these products, but most speculation revolves around the company not having the financial security to continue support for them. I guess my love for them, comes from the fact that I prefer products that aren’t pushed on the public by media and corporate america. I chose the Creative Zen in part because it was cheaper, but also because it specifically was NOT an iPod. I’m not sure why I’ve taken this tactic, but a lot of my purchasing choices are based around the philosophy that I don’t want the same thing that everyone else has. I don’t mind being able to do the same thing everyone else can, but I want to have my own device or method in which to do it.
But apparently this just results in me buying products that are often discontinued, unsported, or canceled.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
god won’t someone please put me out of my misery!!!
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 | LiveJournal Archives | No Comments
so now it’s the wrong mounting plate. I know I ordered the right one and I swore I held it up against the projector to verify it, but then again, it was so long ago, how can I be expected to remember. Shit… well, they’re still in there so who knows, maybe they’re gonna make it work afterall.
And I think it’ll take more than 10 mintues.
I should go talk to that student about rolling around and using different comptuers, but I’m so apathetic right now I can’t even bring myself to care.
