9/23/08

So, yesterday was the first day of Autumn and it was nearly eighty degrees outside. The lunatics would have you believe this is global warming. I prefer to call it what we called it when I was a kid..Indian Summer. Happens all the time. We live in Michigan, if you don't like the weather, wait for five minutes. It'll change.
So, finished a proof for a job and accidentally paginated a tab so I get to start from where I made the mistake. Did I mention that the mistake was on the first book? Yeah, yippee for me.
Watched Prison Break instead of Heroes last night and was happy for the choice. Even Martha who feels the show jumped the shark two seasons ago was shocked when the hour flew by. I for one think it's one of the more inventive things on television and could watch it for years and years. Of course, FOX is playing it up against Heroes so it might not make it for another season. That would be too bad. If that happens they at least owe us the closing of the storyline. Will that happen? Probably not.
In my day I read a lot of webcomics. A lot of them are quite funny, but I have noticed this disturbing trend. All of them have comments akin to a blog attached with them. Some of them are so opinionated that they actually make me think of dropping the comic. My intelligent half of the brain tells me to just read the comic, laugh and move on, but then I read everything put in front of me so, that's not as easy as it sounds. I'll have to see what I can do about it in the coming weeks.
Everyone was doing there own thing at the house yesterday and I was going to trot upstairs and watch a Jess Franco flick. Seemed like a reasonable thing to do. Then Dandelion asked me where I was going and I told her what I was up to. She asked me in her ten year old voice,
"Wouldn't you rather stay down here with me and watch Drake & Josh?"
Yeah, I ended up watching Drake & Josh. It was funny, I had seen it before, but it was still funny. Plus, I spent some time with Dandelion.
I fell asleep to Michael Legge's LOONS. Great flick.
Oh and I managed to get my qiqong workout in.
That's it for me. I gotta go pretend to work some more on a job that I thought was finished.
Seeya!

9/18/08

So, this is just one of those things that you have to get down on virtual paper so you don't forget it. As many of my faithful readers know, I ride my bike to work and, no, I didn't fall off the damned thing again. Anyway, there is this gate to work that all bicycle riders use. You swipe your badge, the light turns green and you are on your merry way. You do actually have to move the gate yourself, it's not automated or anything like that. So, to get out of the same gate there is this huge, blue button you press and then take about three to five steps to the gate and open it. Pushing the big blue button gives you plenty of time to accomplish this.
Yesterday, I pushed the button, wheeled my bike to the gate and nothing. It wouldn't open. Hmmm, I tried again and the same thing happened. Now, contrary to popular belief, I am not an idiot. This was the way I had opened the gate for years. Why should it change now?
I pressed the button again and listened. It was definitely making a noise that sounded like the magnetic lock was being released, but only for a second. Hmmm again. I decided to approach the situation from a MacGyver standpoint. I parked my bike near the gate, took my bike lock cable off my bike and wrapped it around the gate. Then I pulled it towards the button and realized that even with the extra added footage from the cable, my hand would not reach the button. That's when I decided to ninja kick the button. The gate swung open and all was good in the world. Of course, I probably made the security guards day with that particular piece of footage.
That's it for me.
Gotta go!

9/14/08

So, went to see Motorhead last night. Pretty damned cool if I say so myself. The Orbit Room is a great venue. The first band was a local one since The Misfits cancelled. ASG is their name and I thought they were pretty good. Year Long Disaster sucked and Valient Thorr was awesome and the most fun. Motorhead was legendary and I want to be in as good a shape as Lemmy when I'm his age. The man was awesome!
Today, got up for church. Did stuff with the kids downstairs so I missed the message.
Afterwards it was back to The Waltz Compound to do chores and then Dan and I made a short film. He came up with the whole thing and I just shot it. Now I have to figure out how to edit the darned ting so we can burn it to DVD so he can show it off. The uncut version is still pretty good. Especially after the cat showed up. You can't buy special effects like that!
Martha took the kids to youth group so that left me home with the littles.
I am officially sick of the rain.

09/13/08

So, the previous post. 2009, huh? That's what I get for posting so damned early in the morning. So, anyway it's early on a Saturday. Guess I'll never learn. Seems that we will be having rain and more rain due to good old Hurricane Ike. Remember when Hurricanes knew their business and stayed by the shores where people got what they deserved? Last I heard this damned thing is going to hit Cleveland by Monday. Weird, huh?
Anyway, The Misfits cancelled out of today's show. That sucks. While Motorhead will be huge fun, I was really looking forward to seeing The Misfits. Oh well, I wrote them a shitty email and left it at that. They won't even respond knowing how my luck runs.
Got pizza for the kids last night when Martha and I ran to get gas and pay the rent. Dennis' friend Thomas was over and they played much XBOX and had a lot of fun. Martha made a delicious cherry cheesecake for dessert. All in all a great evening. Got up early to be with Martha and then made some breakfast. Martha's watching a Toshiro Mifune movie that is a riff on Cyrano DeBergerac. Very cool stuff.
Alright, that's it for me for the day. I'll report in on how the concert went when I get back. Probably tomorrow.
I gotta go.

09/09/09

Oooooooo! All nines! What is that? The Upside-Down Anti-Christ?!?! Anyway, yesterday I forgot to mention that Saturday had me and Martha going to Hooter's to watch the UFC fights. Our sensei Chris and his girl, Heather were there along with others from the dojo. The dojo sponsors the fight so it's pretty cool to be there.
Anyway, yesterday went to wrok and then after wrok got to go with Martha up to Grand Rapids to get our tickets for Motorhead. Went to a head shop called Shakedown Street on Leonard. Very cool place and lots of other cool places on Leonard Street. A place called Jukes that does live music that I might actually listen to as well as many other cool looking shops.
Martha decided that she would just bring me home instead of fetching my bike. Since it rained the entire time we were on the road I had no arguement whatsoever. Priosn Break was on and it was fabulous. This might be as good as season one.
I have been keeping up on my exercises that my new chiropractor has me on. They are making my triceps ache, but last night I used the huge ice pack he gave me and it worked wonders.
Got up this morning and got to snuggle with MArtha before work. Always a good thing. I have to make my way to the post office to send off a couple of movies. I wish that more of my inventory would move through Amazon, but it's been kind of slow. Hopefully, the holidays will pick up and people will buy weird flicks for their loved ones. Who knows?
Still early and waiting for my tea water to get ready.
Gotta go!

09/08/08

So, back to work and too early for me! This weekend was fun. Had peeps over for Beer Friday. Got to drink some Fosters, some Negra Modelo and some Kalamazoo Cream Stout. That's always a good thing.
I made those cheddar biscuits you can get from Red Lobster because I used to work at Red Lobster and know the recipe. They went over really well.
Saturday we went to Betty's for a little get together. That was fun as well. Afterwards we went to get some things for Dandelion because it was her birthday. She spent the day with Miss Ivy from church and had a blast. She said she ate the biggest elephant ear she had ever seen.
We got her a new game boy SP and a Yoshi game along with some clothes, and mp3 player and other assorted goodies. Martha and I got her a severed arm that wiggles and crawls along the floor and she loves that thing!
Sunday was church and then we went over to see Robert and get ready for buying tickets to see Motorhead and The Misfits. That's this Saturday and it is going to rock!!
Okay, enough of that, gotta go pretend to work.
I'll be back.

9/3/08

So, four days off and back to work. After the ton of overtime it felt weird to only work until three. I hope the overtime comes back real soon because we can use the cash. Got up early and did my qigong, made french toast for the kids and biked my way to work.
Got to go with Martha and the kids to Judo and give Chris and Heather a bunch of stuff for Bronco Bash. Stopped at Dairy Queen for a Banana Cream Pie Blizzard. Too many cookies, not enough bananas.
Martha and Dandy made banana bread and now I am off to hawk my wares on Amazon. Wish me luck. I'm raising cash to go see Motorhead and The Misfits next week.

9/2/08

First day back to school for the kiddies. Got up early and made a batch of my world famous fried egg sandwiches and coffee for the kids. Yes, my kids drink coffee, so what? Less caffeine than most of those damnable energy drinks out there and I get to moderate the sugar so it's a win-win situation.
Prison Break two hour premiere was on last night and it was pretty good. They killed a few people and there's this new monster of a man who is out to whack everyone on the show. They manage to keep the drama going pretty good. After three seasons I have gotten attached to these characters so, I'm glad it's still around.
Anyway, Dennis' first day of high school was today. Delia's first day of Junior High, although apparently it's referred to as 'middle school' now. Yeah, like that's better.
The two littles got on the bus and made their way to the place of learning. I took the day off so I could see them off and see them when they get back. Very cool stuff. They want Ramen when they get home and I have no intentions of disappointing them.
That's about it for now. Thought I would get this in now while all is quiet. Probably gonna go make another pot of coffee since the children plowed through the first one. Got three chapters done on The Meek last night. It's coming along pretty well. Time to kill someone else in the book I think. Or maybe not I just got a great idea. Gotta go. Will be back whenever.