Saturday was my big offshore fishing trip that I pulled the local card on. I knew I shouldn't have done that. When I try to be sly in any way it ends up biting me, just as it did this time.
The seas were 5-7 feet so they would not take the boat out. The irony of the situation? It turned out to be a beautiful day, was over 100° F, and yet we were all land bound. Not a boat to be rented or a charter to be had. Ah well, that should teach me to try an underhanded trick like the local card.
Since my plans were dashed I headed over to the mall and purchased a "Driving Force Pro" which is a steering wheel made by Logitech. It's main use is for the Playstation 2 game Gran Turismo 4 which has been in my regular rotation of video games for some time now. I've actually almost completed the game and kind of got bored with it so I started it over. In case you aren't familiar with the game it is a driving simulation game. You begin with 10 thousand dollars to purchase a car, race for money, pay for upgrades to various components on your cars. Eventually you have won all the races and have so much money that it is what I think winning the lottery would be like: an exercise in collecting.
The wheel adds to the realism and makes the game even more frustrating and therefore masochistically enjoyable. One of the features available on all cars is what are called driving aids. These include traction control as well as active stability management (which helps you take corners more easily.) Since I have never driven a car with either of these features I decided to turn them off. This further creates a challenge since it is now not only easy to spin cars around at high speeds it is quite common. Built into the steering wheel are all kinds of motors that turn the wheel much like a real car's steering wheel would do. If you find yourself spinning in the roadway at 100+ miles per hour, grabbing the wheel can be a harrowing experience.
...In related news, I'm a video game geek and am hiding from all the company (not really mine) at the computer / playstation 2 desk.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Warning labels
I'm happy to report that on this blog the browser share is 68% firefox/mozilla and only 30% Internet Explorer. I applaud my very smart open source readers. Now since I have your attention if there are any programmers out there could somebody make some sort of extension for browsing blogs. It could incorporate my ever loved Random Blog link and then have some overlay that tells important things about the blogs you land on. For example:
Warning!
Politically Charged!
Politically Charged!
Warning!
Christians abound!
Christians abound!
Warning!
This person uses 'u' for 'you' and 'dat' for 'that'!
This person uses 'u' for 'you' and 'dat' for 'that'!
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Ode to GoJo
O sweet cleaner of grime
foam bubbles so fine
clean smelling, divine.
Your price? A crime.
Gojo Luxury Foam Handsoap, Antibacterial edition is the soap of choice for me. Please do not confuse it with the Gojo Natural Orange soap as they are as different as Dog the bounty hunter and Johnny Depp. They are both dirty, but one is a clean dirt and the other is just nasty dirty. I'll leave it up to you to figure out the particulars on that one.
The cleaning power is as good as any soap designed to remove excessive grease and yet it still smells very nice. I feel it is easier to remove grease with this soap than it is with Lava or even the natural orange. There isn't any gritty feel since there is no grit in it. One pump from the dispenser is all anyone needs under normal circumstances and if perchance one would use two squirts it isn't "Luxury times two" it is "Luxury squared" which is in all accounts (except for like, you know, anything up to and including "2"), a much bigger number.
Speaking of luxury I'd like to announce that I realize this might be the wrong choice of words to get guys to buy this stuff. Lava is a manly soap. Everyone knows that Lava might even take manly over the top and be considered grizzly especially if you've ever washed your face with it. I'm pretty sure you won't find any lanolin, moisturizers, aloe, or anything else soft and nice anywhere near Lava. Lava kicks their asses and flushes them down the toilet. I once left a bar of Lava soap in my bathroom unattended overnight. I'm a heavy sleeper by nature but even I was awakend by the monstrous noises that was the bar of Lava soap trying to flush the Bath & Body Works Signature Collection Cucumber Melon creamy body wash down the commode. I broke up the altercation and forevermore decided not to leave the Lava soap out of its container.
You won't have these troubles with the GoJo Luxury edition. Oh no, it's quite content to share a spot on your sink with the likes of Henri Bendel, Davies Gate, and it seems to get along with Ivory (at least 99 44/100% of the time anyway.) Yes, you'll find the GoJo to be quite amicable to your other toiletries and I've yet had to get up in the middle of the night to break up any altercations.
The price on the GoJo Luxury Edition hand cleaner will keep all but the most elite of shade-tree mechanics from basking in its wonderous pleasures. This should be an indicator to all of you that you won't risk smelling like Bubba when you return from the washateria. Oh no, you'll be in a class of smell all your own. And really, is there anything more fine?
foam bubbles so fine
clean smelling, divine.
Your price? A crime.
Gojo Luxury Foam Handsoap, Antibacterial edition is the soap of choice for me. Please do not confuse it with the Gojo Natural Orange soap as they are as different as Dog the bounty hunter and Johnny Depp. They are both dirty, but one is a clean dirt and the other is just nasty dirty. I'll leave it up to you to figure out the particulars on that one.
The cleaning power is as good as any soap designed to remove excessive grease and yet it still smells very nice. I feel it is easier to remove grease with this soap than it is with Lava or even the natural orange. There isn't any gritty feel since there is no grit in it. One pump from the dispenser is all anyone needs under normal circumstances and if perchance one would use two squirts it isn't "Luxury times two" it is "Luxury squared" which is in all accounts (except for like, you know, anything up to and including "2"), a much bigger number.
Speaking of luxury I'd like to announce that I realize this might be the wrong choice of words to get guys to buy this stuff. Lava is a manly soap. Everyone knows that Lava might even take manly over the top and be considered grizzly especially if you've ever washed your face with it. I'm pretty sure you won't find any lanolin, moisturizers, aloe, or anything else soft and nice anywhere near Lava. Lava kicks their asses and flushes them down the toilet. I once left a bar of Lava soap in my bathroom unattended overnight. I'm a heavy sleeper by nature but even I was awakend by the monstrous noises that was the bar of Lava soap trying to flush the Bath & Body Works Signature Collection Cucumber Melon creamy body wash down the commode. I broke up the altercation and forevermore decided not to leave the Lava soap out of its container.
You won't have these troubles with the GoJo Luxury edition. Oh no, it's quite content to share a spot on your sink with the likes of Henri Bendel, Davies Gate, and it seems to get along with Ivory (at least 99 44/100% of the time anyway.) Yes, you'll find the GoJo to be quite amicable to your other toiletries and I've yet had to get up in the middle of the night to break up any altercations.
The price on the GoJo Luxury Edition hand cleaner will keep all but the most elite of shade-tree mechanics from basking in its wonderous pleasures. This should be an indicator to all of you that you won't risk smelling like Bubba when you return from the washateria. Oh no, you'll be in a class of smell all your own. And really, is there anything more fine?
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
I hate yogurt
I hate yogurt and I have a reason.
Let's take a stroll back to my childhood. I'm old enough to remember the milk man coming and bringing us milk in quart jars that were glass and had neat seals on the top. We usually got some milk with cream on top but I recall one time we went over the top and ordered some yogurt. I don't recall what led to the decision to get the yogurt and honestly it may have come from the grocery store but since it is a dairy product and we had a milkman at the time I'm assuming it was from him.
I didn't know what the yogurt was since that wasn't a staple in my household and my mom gave it to me and told me it was like ice cream only creamy. With a description like that I was ready to eat it container and all since I like to let my ice cream melt and then eat it when it is creamy. After digging in for a couple of bites I mentioned to mom that I didn't think it was very good. I told her it tasted kind of sour.
Well telling a kid something tastes like ice cream and then it tastes like yogurt is a bit of a stretch.
She told me it was fine and to keep eating it. I ate a few more bites and really didn't like it so I left a little bit in the bottom. I gave it to her and told her she could finish it because I really didn't like it. She smelled it and I witnessed the horror face. The yogurt had soured and I was now bellied up with it.
I don't remember if I kept it down or not but I remember that I don't like yogurt. While not all first impressions last a lifetime that one did.
My son loves yogurt. He now has some new drinkable yogurt and he really really likes it. He can't get over how great it is and how "yummy yummy" it tastes. Thusly I was required to smell it. (aside: for some reason in my family smelling food is very normal. We all do it and love it.) Yes, I still detest the smell of yogurt, even when it isn't "bad"... even though it is all bad.
Let's take a stroll back to my childhood. I'm old enough to remember the milk man coming and bringing us milk in quart jars that were glass and had neat seals on the top. We usually got some milk with cream on top but I recall one time we went over the top and ordered some yogurt. I don't recall what led to the decision to get the yogurt and honestly it may have come from the grocery store but since it is a dairy product and we had a milkman at the time I'm assuming it was from him.
I didn't know what the yogurt was since that wasn't a staple in my household and my mom gave it to me and told me it was like ice cream only creamy. With a description like that I was ready to eat it container and all since I like to let my ice cream melt and then eat it when it is creamy. After digging in for a couple of bites I mentioned to mom that I didn't think it was very good. I told her it tasted kind of sour.
Well telling a kid something tastes like ice cream and then it tastes like yogurt is a bit of a stretch.
She told me it was fine and to keep eating it. I ate a few more bites and really didn't like it so I left a little bit in the bottom. I gave it to her and told her she could finish it because I really didn't like it. She smelled it and I witnessed the horror face. The yogurt had soured and I was now bellied up with it.
I don't remember if I kept it down or not but I remember that I don't like yogurt. While not all first impressions last a lifetime that one did.
My son loves yogurt. He now has some new drinkable yogurt and he really really likes it. He can't get over how great it is and how "yummy yummy" it tastes. Thusly I was required to smell it. (aside: for some reason in my family smelling food is very normal. We all do it and love it.) Yes, I still detest the smell of yogurt, even when it isn't "bad"... even though it is all bad.
Monday, May 22, 2006
I am Odin, father of Thor
I have an event to attend and I'm quite excited about it. Our yearly family reunion is coming up and I will be attending. This might not seem like a really big deal but this will be the first family reunion of my own family I have ever attended. I've been to my wife's family reunions but never one with people I should know. Sadly I do not know most of these people. It is my father's side of the family which I only know a handful of people and I haven't seen any of them for 25 years. I have seen my father more recently than that but I doubt he will be attending the family reunion. I'm hoping he breaks his mold and attends since I will be there but I'm not counting any chickens.
The bad part of the situation is the surrounding circumstances of the trip. A few weeks prior to the trip we go into "shut down" mode at work which means I'll be starting work at 6:30 in the morning and completing work at 8 pm for 17 days straight. On the last day of all of that I plan on packing the family into the Jeep and travelling north for about 15 hours to reach our destination. I might save this trek for the next morning, I haven't decided. Either way I sleep a bit and then go to the reunion. Directly after the reunion I have to pack the family back up and make the 15 hour return trip to get a bit of sleep and then back to work. When I do return to work it will be to pack up the job and then lay everyone off, including myself.
Yes, I know I could just take a flight and rent a car but price is quite prohibitive when there are 4 seats involved. I have tried to think of every possible option but it seems driving it is the best idea.
I know I'm going to come out of it tired and cranky but I'll also have memories and for my money and time there is nothing better.
disclaimer:
Solly so bloggy.
The bad part of the situation is the surrounding circumstances of the trip. A few weeks prior to the trip we go into "shut down" mode at work which means I'll be starting work at 6:30 in the morning and completing work at 8 pm for 17 days straight. On the last day of all of that I plan on packing the family into the Jeep and travelling north for about 15 hours to reach our destination. I might save this trek for the next morning, I haven't decided. Either way I sleep a bit and then go to the reunion. Directly after the reunion I have to pack the family back up and make the 15 hour return trip to get a bit of sleep and then back to work. When I do return to work it will be to pack up the job and then lay everyone off, including myself.
Yes, I know I could just take a flight and rent a car but price is quite prohibitive when there are 4 seats involved. I have tried to think of every possible option but it seems driving it is the best idea.
I know I'm going to come out of it tired and cranky but I'll also have memories and for my money and time there is nothing better.
disclaimer:
Solly so bloggy.
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