I really don't like forgetting my phone at home when I leave for work. It's good to know that I can live without it for 10 hours, but it's such a pain. On slower days at work I send text messages. A LOT of text messages. No phone, no texts. I am forever using the calendar function on my phone to see what I have going on any day or weekend I a show or festival I want to check out will be in town. This is actually how I found out I wouldn't be seeing NIN this year, and I am surprised my phone survived that day.
My phone also has a calculator I use to figure out the MPG for my bike any time I fill up. It of course has a camera in case I want to capture anything I see during the day, and this camera has taken many pictures that I reference very often. This is what actually spurred my blog today. I took quite a few pictures and videos with my phone while in Vegas, and wanted to check a couple of them out....sorry.
At least I know my phone will be fully charged tonight.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Another Pic-a-Day Update
Here are the photos I had trouble uploading the other day, and a couple more to get me up to date through yesterday.
Click on the pics to see a bigger version.
Jan 14th:
I nearly forgot to take a picture on the 14th, and had to do this just before midnight as I was preparing the garbage to be taken to the curb. Guinness' old food bags make very good heavy-duty garbage bags when I have something heavy or sharp to toss out.
Jan 15th:
Of course I didn't expect to see this a couple hours later when I walked out to my car. It was cold when I went to bed, but it hadn't started snowing. This pic is a little blurry as it was really dark out and I took it without flash. I had the shutter open quite a while, and was shivering as I was holding it.
Jan 16th:
VEGAS!
My reservation at MGM for April. I am soooo looking forward to this already, even though it's over 3 months away. BTW, that's not my real confirmation number in case anyone has any ideas about changing my reservation.
Jan 17th:
My cousin Denise and her devil dogs. I took Guinness with me when I went over to her house that night to eat dinner. He was shocked to see them get up on the couch and looked like he was waiting for me to yell at them the same way he'd get yelled at if he tried that at home.
Jan 18th:
With the high temp at about 20 degrees, I doubt seeing this happening at a house in my neighborhood could have been very good.
Click on the pics to see a bigger version.
Jan 14th:
I nearly forgot to take a picture on the 14th, and had to do this just before midnight as I was preparing the garbage to be taken to the curb. Guinness' old food bags make very good heavy-duty garbage bags when I have something heavy or sharp to toss out.Jan 15th:
Of course I didn't expect to see this a couple hours later when I walked out to my car. It was cold when I went to bed, but it hadn't started snowing. This pic is a little blurry as it was really dark out and I took it without flash. I had the shutter open quite a while, and was shivering as I was holding it.Jan 16th:
VEGAS!My reservation at MGM for April. I am soooo looking forward to this already, even though it's over 3 months away. BTW, that's not my real confirmation number in case anyone has any ideas about changing my reservation.
Jan 17th:
My cousin Denise and her devil dogs. I took Guinness with me when I went over to her house that night to eat dinner. He was shocked to see them get up on the couch and looked like he was waiting for me to yell at them the same way he'd get yelled at if he tried that at home.Jan 18th:
With the high temp at about 20 degrees, I doubt seeing this happening at a house in my neighborhood could have been very good.
MMR #2, Alien
Movie number 51 on the IMDB top 250 when I started this project was Alien. I had seen this movie when I was younger, but didn't remember that much about it. There is a good reason for that....there wasn't too much to this movie.
The plot is very simple. 7 crew members on a cargo ship bound for Earth carrying a bunch of intergalactic ore are awaken from their "cryo-sleep" early when the ship's computer receives a transmission from another ship nearby.
They go to a planet which seems uninhabitable where 3 crew members stumble onto a
crash site and find a bunch of pods or eggs or something. One of those pops open and the entity inside affixes itself to the face of a crew member. They take him back to the ship where the ship's 3rd in command, Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) refuses to let them past the airlock without being quarantined for 24 hours, in an effort to protect the others on the ship. The science officer takes it upon himself to override the airlock door and let them in.
After a little while the alien on the face of the crew member shrivels up and dies, and the crew member wakes up. Before going back to their cryo-beds for the rest of the trip home, the crew decides to have dinner together. This is where the infamous scene of the alien busting out of the guy's stomach takes place. After that a whole lot of cat and mouse takes place trying to find and kill the alien.
When the crew has only four of the seven still alive, everyone finds out that the science officer isn't really alive after all. He's a robot that was ordered to get the alien back to Earth alive at all costs, even if it meant the entire crew had to die. The three remaining crew members "kill" the robot and decide it's time to get in the shuttle and blow up the ship with the Alien still on it.
Only Ripley makes it to the shuttle alive before the ship blows up, and after a gratuitous underwear scene she realizes she's not alone on the ship. Somehow the alien snuck onto the shuttle while her dumb ass was chasing a cat around the mothership.
Of course she outsmarts the alien and ejects him from the shuttle, sends a message out to any ship in the area that could rescue her, and gets into her cryosleep chamber.
Overall this was a pretty good movie, but seeing as it was made in 1979 the special effects are very dated. I certainly wouldn't put this movie in the top 52, but considering I am too young to remember how other movies were in 1979, maybe it's deserving. Overall I would rate Alien a 7 out of 10.
Tonight I'll be watching A Clockwork Orange, which I've never seen and am excited to check out. The review should be up in the next couple days.
The plot is very simple. 7 crew members on a cargo ship bound for Earth carrying a bunch of intergalactic ore are awaken from their "cryo-sleep" early when the ship's computer receives a transmission from another ship nearby.
They go to a planet which seems uninhabitable where 3 crew members stumble onto a
crash site and find a bunch of pods or eggs or something. One of those pops open and the entity inside affixes itself to the face of a crew member. They take him back to the ship where the ship's 3rd in command, Ripley (played by Sigourney Weaver) refuses to let them past the airlock without being quarantined for 24 hours, in an effort to protect the others on the ship. The science officer takes it upon himself to override the airlock door and let them in.
After a little while the alien on the face of the crew member shrivels up and dies, and the crew member wakes up. Before going back to their cryo-beds for the rest of the trip home, the crew decides to have dinner together. This is where the infamous scene of the alien busting out of the guy's stomach takes place. After that a whole lot of cat and mouse takes place trying to find and kill the alien.
When the crew has only four of the seven still alive, everyone finds out that the science officer isn't really alive after all. He's a robot that was ordered to get the alien back to Earth alive at all costs, even if it meant the entire crew had to die. The three remaining crew members "kill" the robot and decide it's time to get in the shuttle and blow up the ship with the Alien still on it.
Only Ripley makes it to the shuttle alive before the ship blows up, and after a gratuitous underwear scene she realizes she's not alone on the ship. Somehow the alien snuck onto the shuttle while her dumb ass was chasing a cat around the mothership.
Of course she outsmarts the alien and ejects him from the shuttle, sends a message out to any ship in the area that could rescue her, and gets into her cryosleep chamber.
Overall this was a pretty good movie, but seeing as it was made in 1979 the special effects are very dated. I certainly wouldn't put this movie in the top 52, but considering I am too young to remember how other movies were in 1979, maybe it's deserving. Overall I would rate Alien a 7 out of 10.
Tonight I'll be watching A Clockwork Orange, which I've never seen and am excited to check out. The review should be up in the next couple days.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Pic-a-Day Project Update and MMR #2
Amazing how I say I need to update more often, then I actually take longer to post my next update than I had before, isn't it? I will truly make an effort to upload pics more often, and should have the next one up by Sunday at the latest.
This time around I am going to use Blogger to upload my pics instead of photobucket. If there are any problems, let me know. Click on the photo to see the actual size.
Jan 10th:
A boring Thursday night looking ahead to a busy Friday at work. Lots of important people to impress, gotta keep those shirts nice and white.
Jan 11th:
This is not my dog. For a while there I thought about adopting it, but just couldn't justify it with my schedule since she is only (approximately) four months old. I found her running alongside the entrance ramp to I-94 when I was driving home from work. A few minutes earlier, I never would have seen her. A few minutes later, she probably would have ended up as road kill. She came right to me when I stopped to get her. Let me pick her up and put her in my truck with no issue whatsoever. She even laid down on the ride to my house, which I still can't get Guinness to do in the car. Brought her in the house when I came in to get my phone which I had forgotten when I went into work that morning, and she was well behaved. She met Guinness and they got along so well that he was disappointed when I took her to the shelter, and seemed even moreso when I came back without her. I haven't seen him act that way since Kira was still his partner in crime.
It is hard for me to believe it's just coincidence. Which made it so much harder today when I told the people at the shelter I couldn't adopt her. I hope they find her a really good home, because this is probably going to bother me for a while....
Jan 12th:
During the Patriots/Jaguars game Pam begins to speculate on the size of Tim Brady's....well, you get the idea.
My bowl of delicious pork products, with a little pasta in there, at Mongolian. Notice the size difference between my portion and Sarah's portion there on the left. Even with the rice she couldn't come close to the amount of calories I was about to ingest.
Even the best laid plans don't always work out, so I guess I shouldn't be so disappointed that blogger isn't letting me upload pictures right now....after I changed my layout (yet again) to conform with the blogger pics instead of the photobucket pics.
I'll try and load the rest of the pics and put up MMR#2 after dinner.
This time around I am going to use Blogger to upload my pics instead of photobucket. If there are any problems, let me know. Click on the photo to see the actual size.
Jan 10th:
A boring Thursday night looking ahead to a busy Friday at work. Lots of important people to impress, gotta keep those shirts nice and white.
Jan 11th:
This is not my dog. For a while there I thought about adopting it, but just couldn't justify it with my schedule since she is only (approximately) four months old. I found her running alongside the entrance ramp to I-94 when I was driving home from work. A few minutes earlier, I never would have seen her. A few minutes later, she probably would have ended up as road kill. She came right to me when I stopped to get her. Let me pick her up and put her in my truck with no issue whatsoever. She even laid down on the ride to my house, which I still can't get Guinness to do in the car. Brought her in the house when I came in to get my phone which I had forgotten when I went into work that morning, and she was well behaved. She met Guinness and they got along so well that he was disappointed when I took her to the shelter, and seemed even moreso when I came back without her. I haven't seen him act that way since Kira was still his partner in crime.
It is hard for me to believe it's just coincidence. Which made it so much harder today when I told the people at the shelter I couldn't adopt her. I hope they find her a really good home, because this is probably going to bother me for a while....
Jan 12th:
During the Patriots/Jaguars game Pam begins to speculate on the size of Tim Brady's....well, you get the idea.
Jan 13th:
MEAT!
MEAT!My bowl of delicious pork products, with a little pasta in there, at Mongolian. Notice the size difference between my portion and Sarah's portion there on the left. Even with the rice she couldn't come close to the amount of calories I was about to ingest.
Even the best laid plans don't always work out, so I guess I shouldn't be so disappointed that blogger isn't letting me upload pictures right now....after I changed my layout (yet again) to conform with the blogger pics instead of the photobucket pics.
I'll try and load the rest of the pics and put up MMR#2 after dinner.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Pic-a-Day Update
I really need to update this more frequently, as I have almost an entire week's worth of pictures to post now. Now that I have gotten in the habit of taking my camera with me just about everywhere, the pics will be the easy part of this silly project and the hard part will be juggling when to post picture updates, movie review updates, and regular blog posts.
On to the pictures!
Jan 4th:
With a sink full of dishes, what are two single guys to do when dinner time comes? Pizza is always good at times like this because it comes with it's own container that you can eat right out of....
Jan 5th:
This picture was originally supposed to be the ravioli I was cooking right before Mark, Sarah, and I headed out to the east side for Justin's party....BUT something happened just I was about to serve myself dinner, and now we have this. Story is; I had just finished pouring my sauce onto my pasta when the bread I was microwaving in this container was done heating up. I turned off the burner, placed the sauce pot into the sink, and the styrofoam container with the bread in it on the burner which I guess was still hot. I left the kitchen to wash my hands because it's now time to eat, and when I come back about 2 minutes later....there's a fire on top of my stove. Again. Fret not, the fire cause no more damage than what you see here. And most importantly, the bread was not harmed in the fire.
Jan 6th:
Less than a week ago there was about a foot or so of snow on the ground around here. Sunday began the unseasonable warm-up, and this fog was the result of the quick snow melt. This pic was taken at Rotary Park in Livonia just after I left Marc's house following our day at the Motorcycle Expo in Novi and lunch at Mongo.
Jan 7th:
For the 7th I had many options for pics, and was pretty sure I would post the pic of my bike seeing as it's not very often that you get to ride a motorcycle in Detroit in the first week of the year. Thinking about it though, I am sure to have a bunch of motorcycle related pics throughout Spring and Summer, so this picture made a little more sense. This is a wall at Logan's Road house where I went to dinner with my mom, aunt, cousin, and cousin's husband.
Jan 8th:
I didn't get much accomplished on the 8th, so this pic is a little bit of a cheat. I didn't take this picture. I took a picture OF this picture, but it didn't turn out well....so I decided to use the original. This pic was on a blog I found when I signed in to leave Sarah a comment on her blog. On the blogger dashboard I noticed that one of the recently updated blogs was titled "Max's Blog". I had to check it out. This was the last picture of the last post from his blog, and I found the irony of it all quite amusing.
Jan 9th:
In an effort to save money and lose weight, I am eating more often at home. This lovely bowl of cottage cheese was my whole dinner tonight.
On to the pictures!
Jan 4th:
With a sink full of dishes, what are two single guys to do when dinner time comes? Pizza is always good at times like this because it comes with it's own container that you can eat right out of....
Jan 5th:
This picture was originally supposed to be the ravioli I was cooking right before Mark, Sarah, and I headed out to the east side for Justin's party....BUT something happened just I was about to serve myself dinner, and now we have this. Story is; I had just finished pouring my sauce onto my pasta when the bread I was microwaving in this container was done heating up. I turned off the burner, placed the sauce pot into the sink, and the styrofoam container with the bread in it on the burner which I guess was still hot. I left the kitchen to wash my hands because it's now time to eat, and when I come back about 2 minutes later....there's a fire on top of my stove. Again. Fret not, the fire cause no more damage than what you see here. And most importantly, the bread was not harmed in the fire.
Jan 6th:
Less than a week ago there was about a foot or so of snow on the ground around here. Sunday began the unseasonable warm-up, and this fog was the result of the quick snow melt. This pic was taken at Rotary Park in Livonia just after I left Marc's house following our day at the Motorcycle Expo in Novi and lunch at Mongo.
Jan 7th:
For the 7th I had many options for pics, and was pretty sure I would post the pic of my bike seeing as it's not very often that you get to ride a motorcycle in Detroit in the first week of the year. Thinking about it though, I am sure to have a bunch of motorcycle related pics throughout Spring and Summer, so this picture made a little more sense. This is a wall at Logan's Road house where I went to dinner with my mom, aunt, cousin, and cousin's husband.
Jan 8th:
I didn't get much accomplished on the 8th, so this pic is a little bit of a cheat. I didn't take this picture. I took a picture OF this picture, but it didn't turn out well....so I decided to use the original. This pic was on a blog I found when I signed in to leave Sarah a comment on her blog. On the blogger dashboard I noticed that one of the recently updated blogs was titled "Max's Blog". I had to check it out. This was the last picture of the last post from his blog, and I found the irony of it all quite amusing.
Jan 9th:
In an effort to save money and lose weight, I am eating more often at home. This lovely bowl of cottage cheese was my whole dinner tonight.
Monday, January 07, 2008
MMR #1
Max's Movie Review #1:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
#52 on the IMDB Top 250.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,
#52 on the IMDB Top 250.
This was an interesting film to start my movie reviews with. I have never seen it, or any other Humphrey Bogart film, and had no idea what to expect.
The movie starts off simple enough; a down on his luck American (Fred C. Dobbs, played by Bogart) stuck begging for money from fellow Americans in a small town in Mexico. I'm sure the name of the town was mentioned in the movie, but I honestly never did catch it.
The plot really starts to form a few minutes in when Dobbs asks the same man for money for the third time in one day with his vintage line of "would you stake a fellow American in a meal?". The man does in fact give him money again, this time twice the amount he had the two previous times, but rips into him a little for having the audacity to ask him so often in one day.
Soon thereafter, Dobbs finds another American in the city who is offering up jobs with good pay. For a couple weeks he works on this job with his new found friend Curtain (played by some dude who looks a whole lot like someone I can't think of) until they ferry back to town and the their boss on the job tells them to meet him at the pub in an hour to get their pay, and gives them 10 pesos as down payment. Dude doesn't show, they use the down payment to get drunk, then get a couple of cots at a local flophouse.
Here's where the story starts to really form. In the flophouse they meet Howard, an old timer that claims to have struck it rich before panning for gold. Soon thereafter Curtain and Dobbs finally get their money, and they are off to the mountains in search of their fortune.
There are a few twists and turns along the way, and if you haven't seen this movie yet I would suggest you check it out. The second half of the movie had two genuine laugh out loud moments for me. The first involves banditos. I had no idea one of the lines I would hear from a random bandito would be something very famous. The other involves a blooper with the camera panning too far to the left in one scene and revealing part of the set that shouldn't have made it on camera.
Overall I think I'd rate this movie at 7.5 on a ten point scale. If you are into old movies, this could jump by as much as a point and a half, and if you are someone who seems allergic to black and white on a TV, it would probably drop by a point and a half.
In a couple days I'll review the #51 movie and hopefully have a better review up here a couple days later.
The movie starts off simple enough; a down on his luck American (Fred C. Dobbs, played by Bogart) stuck begging for money from fellow Americans in a small town in Mexico. I'm sure the name of the town was mentioned in the movie, but I honestly never did catch it.
The plot really starts to form a few minutes in when Dobbs asks the same man for money for the third time in one day with his vintage line of "would you stake a fellow American in a meal?". The man does in fact give him money again, this time twice the amount he had the two previous times, but rips into him a little for having the audacity to ask him so often in one day.
Soon thereafter, Dobbs finds another American in the city who is offering up jobs with good pay. For a couple weeks he works on this job with his new found friend Curtain (played by some dude who looks a whole lot like someone I can't think of) until they ferry back to town and the their boss on the job tells them to meet him at the pub in an hour to get their pay, and gives them 10 pesos as down payment. Dude doesn't show, they use the down payment to get drunk, then get a couple of cots at a local flophouse.
Here's where the story starts to really form. In the flophouse they meet Howard, an old timer that claims to have struck it rich before panning for gold. Soon thereafter Curtain and Dobbs finally get their money, and they are off to the mountains in search of their fortune.
There are a few twists and turns along the way, and if you haven't seen this movie yet I would suggest you check it out. The second half of the movie had two genuine laugh out loud moments for me. The first involves banditos. I had no idea one of the lines I would hear from a random bandito would be something very famous. The other involves a blooper with the camera panning too far to the left in one scene and revealing part of the set that shouldn't have made it on camera.
Overall I think I'd rate this movie at 7.5 on a ten point scale. If you are into old movies, this could jump by as much as a point and a half, and if you are someone who seems allergic to black and white on a TV, it would probably drop by a point and a half.
In a couple days I'll review the #51 movie and hopefully have a better review up here a couple days later.
Friday, January 04, 2008
New and Improved for 2008!
That's just about how I come into every new year. I don't have too many resolutions per se, but each year I want to do a lot of things in my day-to-day life a lot better. Of course this year is no exception, but this time around I have outlined a couple different projects to tackle on a regular basis.
The first project I came up with was a picture-a-day. I need to take one picture each day illustrating something I did that day, somewhere I was, topic of conversation, etc. This was meant to get me to take my camera out with me more often so I can get some really good pictures when the situation arises. I thought of it a couple weeks ago when most of Detroit was blanketed in fog, and from my window at work high above the fog I was forced to take some pictures with my camera phone instead of getting some really sweet ass pictures if I would have brought my camera with me that day.
Later in the week I came up with another idea, out of sheer boredom at work. I was looking up some info on The Matrix at imdb when I noticed it was in the IMDB Top 250. I looked over the top 25 and top 50 movies and realized that, for someone who claims to love movies, I really haven't seen enough of the best movies of all time. So my second project will be to watch one movie per week, starting with movie #52 and working my way to #1, and give a short review of it here.
The first project I came up with was a picture-a-day. I need to take one picture each day illustrating something I did that day, somewhere I was, topic of conversation, etc. This was meant to get me to take my camera out with me more often so I can get some really good pictures when the situation arises. I thought of it a couple weeks ago when most of Detroit was blanketed in fog, and from my window at work high above the fog I was forced to take some pictures with my camera phone instead of getting some really sweet ass pictures if I would have brought my camera with me that day.
Later in the week I came up with another idea, out of sheer boredom at work. I was looking up some info on The Matrix at imdb when I noticed it was in the IMDB Top 250. I looked over the top 25 and top 50 movies and realized that, for someone who claims to love movies, I really haven't seen enough of the best movies of all time. So my second project will be to watch one movie per week, starting with movie #52 and working my way to #1, and give a short review of it here.
Pic-a-Day:
Since we are only 4 days into 2008, I don't have much to put here....but it's a start.
Jan 1st:
This is the monkey I velcroed to Marc's belt as he tried to sleep well after midnight on NYE. Last New Year's, a few of us took much joy in constantly deflating the big man's air mattress as he slept in the living room at The Ranch. This time around he had a room to sleep in, but no closed door could keep me from deflating his hopes of a good night's sleep. The monkey was an innocent bystander until I saw him hanging from the closet door.
Jan 2nd:
The first of my movies, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". A review shall appear here sooner rather than later.
Jan 3rd:
Here we have just about every plate and utensil I own, along with a few pots and pans, and even a few more glasses. With my roommate and I both making a dish to take to The Ranch on NYE, the sink got full rather quickly. Unfortunately for my roommate, the dishes are his household chore. Unfortunately for me, there are no clean utensils in the house now as he still hasn't gotten around to this chore. This became my picture of the day because I tried to eat something with a fork last night and stumbled upon this as I looked for a clean one.
That's all for now since my Jan 4th pic is still pending, but check back soon as I am sure I will get one or two amusing pictures in here before long.
Jan 1st:
This is the monkey I velcroed to Marc's belt as he tried to sleep well after midnight on NYE. Last New Year's, a few of us took much joy in constantly deflating the big man's air mattress as he slept in the living room at The Ranch. This time around he had a room to sleep in, but no closed door could keep me from deflating his hopes of a good night's sleep. The monkey was an innocent bystander until I saw him hanging from the closet door.
Jan 2nd:
The first of my movies, "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre". A review shall appear here sooner rather than later.
Jan 3rd:
Here we have just about every plate and utensil I own, along with a few pots and pans, and even a few more glasses. With my roommate and I both making a dish to take to The Ranch on NYE, the sink got full rather quickly. Unfortunately for my roommate, the dishes are his household chore. Unfortunately for me, there are no clean utensils in the house now as he still hasn't gotten around to this chore. This became my picture of the day because I tried to eat something with a fork last night and stumbled upon this as I looked for a clean one.
That's all for now since my Jan 4th pic is still pending, but check back soon as I am sure I will get one or two amusing pictures in here before long.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Merry Effing Xmas, Amazon
My parents are the hardest people for me to buy gifts for. If either of them sees anything they want, they buy it. I am the same way, so now I know how hard it is to get me a gift....
Every year I spend a ton of time looking for one or two good Christmas presents for them. Usually I end up with something that is just OK in my book, but it's the thought that counts right? I decided to do as much of my xmas shopping for this year online as I could. Somewhere in there I managed to find a gift I was excited to get for my parents. It was something I know they'd love and, just as important, something they would never think to buy themselves. So I add it to my Amazon cart and purchase it, along with a few gifts for Sarah.
Fast forward a week or so. I have everything I ordered for Sarah, yet the mom and dad gift that was supposed to ship with Sarah's stuff is still en route. Or so I thought. At 1:24 am this morning they sent me an e-mail letting me know that even though they guaranteed I'd have it by the 24th, it was not in stock and they had to cancel it from my order. Five days before Christmas.
So for once, I don't procrastinate and I still get to mill around with all the idiots looking for last minute gifts in the malls around here.
Last week, someone at work offered up an innovative idea on how to relieve stress. If you need to talk to me any time soon, I'll be out looking for some pigeons to kick.
Every year I spend a ton of time looking for one or two good Christmas presents for them. Usually I end up with something that is just OK in my book, but it's the thought that counts right? I decided to do as much of my xmas shopping for this year online as I could. Somewhere in there I managed to find a gift I was excited to get for my parents. It was something I know they'd love and, just as important, something they would never think to buy themselves. So I add it to my Amazon cart and purchase it, along with a few gifts for Sarah.
Fast forward a week or so. I have everything I ordered for Sarah, yet the mom and dad gift that was supposed to ship with Sarah's stuff is still en route. Or so I thought. At 1:24 am this morning they sent me an e-mail letting me know that even though they guaranteed I'd have it by the 24th, it was not in stock and they had to cancel it from my order. Five days before Christmas.
So for once, I don't procrastinate and I still get to mill around with all the idiots looking for last minute gifts in the malls around here.
Last week, someone at work offered up an innovative idea on how to relieve stress. If you need to talk to me any time soon, I'll be out looking for some pigeons to kick.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Changes
When I got home from work today, I decided I would play 3 or 5 heads up matches and see if I got winner or not before pressing on. Upon opening Full Tilt, I got a new update. Probably something I won't even notice I thought. Ha! This update added a rematch option for heads up SNGs. BRILLIANT! How many times have you outplayed someone heads up only to lose to a suckout or complete crap luck and hurried back to the menu to try and catch that player again before someone else got the chance to take YOUR money from him/her?
I know I have had this happen quite a few times, often missing the person I wanted to play and getting someone else much better as I kept my eye on the player who was busy giving away my money. Needless to say, I thought this addition was great. At first. I posted a 15-11 (.577) record for the day heads up, but that included 4 consecutive losses to someone that I really thought I was outplaying. When I finally beat him in the fifth match, he declined my offer for a rematch. Ugh. I found him right away and sat down in another HU game with him and asked, politely, why he didn't let me have a chance to win back my money after I rematched him every time he won. His answer didn't satisfy me, and I ended up dismantling him pretty quickly and, of course, politely before he "headed off to dinner". I'm still down 2-4 to this guy, but will definitely be looking for him very soon to pull my money back out of his pockets.
Other than that little hiccup, I am very happy with my play and results today. 2-4 against him and 13-7 (.650) against the rest of my opponents. I spent way too much time and energy in the process, but I did end the day up a couple SNG buy-ins after the rake, and got pretty hot at the right time on a limit table in the process. I think I spent about 45 minutes playing two cash games while playing my heads up matches, and in about 20 minutes on the one table I was up 1.5 buy ins....in a limit game. Small stakes may be a big headache for the amount of money you win, but the skill level is still terrible and the tables often produce a decent profit for a good player. Not to mention, it gives me a lot of material for my Low Limit Hand of the Week.
I know I have had this happen quite a few times, often missing the person I wanted to play and getting someone else much better as I kept my eye on the player who was busy giving away my money. Needless to say, I thought this addition was great. At first. I posted a 15-11 (.577) record for the day heads up, but that included 4 consecutive losses to someone that I really thought I was outplaying. When I finally beat him in the fifth match, he declined my offer for a rematch. Ugh. I found him right away and sat down in another HU game with him and asked, politely, why he didn't let me have a chance to win back my money after I rematched him every time he won. His answer didn't satisfy me, and I ended up dismantling him pretty quickly and, of course, politely before he "headed off to dinner". I'm still down 2-4 to this guy, but will definitely be looking for him very soon to pull my money back out of his pockets.
Other than that little hiccup, I am very happy with my play and results today. 2-4 against him and 13-7 (.650) against the rest of my opponents. I spent way too much time and energy in the process, but I did end the day up a couple SNG buy-ins after the rake, and got pretty hot at the right time on a limit table in the process. I think I spent about 45 minutes playing two cash games while playing my heads up matches, and in about 20 minutes on the one table I was up 1.5 buy ins....in a limit game. Small stakes may be a big headache for the amount of money you win, but the skill level is still terrible and the tables often produce a decent profit for a good player. Not to mention, it gives me a lot of material for my Low Limit Hand of the Week.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
In Dreams v2.0
Not much in the way of details for my dreams last night, but one thing did stick out to me. I was either the manager or owner of a local bar/brewery. We found a niche market.....a VERY niche market. Our best selling beer was made with a certain group of people in mind. This beer was made specifically for homosexual Jewish males and was a kosher pale ale called He-Brew.
Monday, November 12, 2007
In Dreams
It's no secret that I often have trouble sleeping. By nature I am a night owl. By work schedule I am an early riser. Those two things don't always work well with each other. Saturday night/Sunday morning I didn't go to bed until about 6 am....24 hours before I had to be at work the next day. Somehow in that 24 hours I had to find a way to get two full nights of sleep. Easier said than done.
I set an alarm to get me up around 11 on Sunday to do all my NFL picks and manage my FFL teams. It seems that in a couple weeks I won't have to worry about any of that as I am pretty sure to miss the playoffs in all three of my leagues, and my NFL picks are just sucking ass this year. Oh well.
So last night I get to bed at a decent hour after a nice meal with my girlfriend's family. Full stomach, tired....I should have slept really well. But when does that happen on a Sunday? I tossed and turned all night but did get some sleep in there somewhere, because I remember a couple dreams. The one that sticks out the most is the one I probably remember the fewest details from, but the one big thing I remember was very strange. Strange enough to make me realize it was a dream while I was still dreaming it.
Long story short, a bunch of my friends and I were hanging out at my house (which is usually the house I grew up in when I am dreaming) before we went out to the bar. When we went outside to drive to the bar, we all ended up "driving" separately because we were all piloting our own beds. We all laid face down on single mattresses on bed frames that rolled, and paddled with our arms like we were on surfboards. Navigating the neighborhood was no big deal, but when we got to a busier road, I started to wonder how all of us were going to paddle at like .5 mph when the speed limit was 45 mph.
I was the second bed at the stop sign turning right on to the road, and when the guy in front of me took off at like 50 mph (with bad Star Trek FX even) I realized that it was a dream and woke up. I was somewhat disappointed that I woke up at that time, because every now and then I realize I am dreaming when I am in a dream and go along with it. It's very cool to be in control of a dream.
Also at one point last night I woke up from a dream because I could smell something. I don't know if I have ever noticed whether or not my sense of smell is active in a dream before, but it kind of freaked me out when it happened last night. It was so real that I have a scent memory of it.
Hopefully sometime tomorrow I will remember to look into the whole "smell while dreaming" thing, but that will have to wait as my weird ass dreams are calling me to bed once again.
I set an alarm to get me up around 11 on Sunday to do all my NFL picks and manage my FFL teams. It seems that in a couple weeks I won't have to worry about any of that as I am pretty sure to miss the playoffs in all three of my leagues, and my NFL picks are just sucking ass this year. Oh well.
So last night I get to bed at a decent hour after a nice meal with my girlfriend's family. Full stomach, tired....I should have slept really well. But when does that happen on a Sunday? I tossed and turned all night but did get some sleep in there somewhere, because I remember a couple dreams. The one that sticks out the most is the one I probably remember the fewest details from, but the one big thing I remember was very strange. Strange enough to make me realize it was a dream while I was still dreaming it.
Long story short, a bunch of my friends and I were hanging out at my house (which is usually the house I grew up in when I am dreaming) before we went out to the bar. When we went outside to drive to the bar, we all ended up "driving" separately because we were all piloting our own beds. We all laid face down on single mattresses on bed frames that rolled, and paddled with our arms like we were on surfboards. Navigating the neighborhood was no big deal, but when we got to a busier road, I started to wonder how all of us were going to paddle at like .5 mph when the speed limit was 45 mph.
I was the second bed at the stop sign turning right on to the road, and when the guy in front of me took off at like 50 mph (with bad Star Trek FX even) I realized that it was a dream and woke up. I was somewhat disappointed that I woke up at that time, because every now and then I realize I am dreaming when I am in a dream and go along with it. It's very cool to be in control of a dream.
Also at one point last night I woke up from a dream because I could smell something. I don't know if I have ever noticed whether or not my sense of smell is active in a dream before, but it kind of freaked me out when it happened last night. It was so real that I have a scent memory of it.
Hopefully sometime tomorrow I will remember to look into the whole "smell while dreaming" thing, but that will have to wait as my weird ass dreams are calling me to bed once again.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Evil
While cleaning the house the weekend before last I came across some things I forgot I still had. Things that I meant to throw away. Things that reminded me of a time a few years back when I wasn't as nice of a person as I am today. Reminders of some purely evil things I had done. Things I'll never discuss.
It's scary to know that I justified everything that I did. It was rather easy to do actually because nothing I did was illegal, and that used to be something that I relied on as a moral compass. The law. Kind of laughable really.
When I found these things, I was very surprised that I hadn't gotten rid of them. Why would I want to keep them? I set them aside to make sure I got rid of them. Then....I packed them away again. I decided that it might be a good idea to keep them around. I don't see how it could be bad to remind myself of things I used to do that I never want to be able to justify again.
It's scary to know that I justified everything that I did. It was rather easy to do actually because nothing I did was illegal, and that used to be something that I relied on as a moral compass. The law. Kind of laughable really.
When I found these things, I was very surprised that I hadn't gotten rid of them. Why would I want to keep them? I set them aside to make sure I got rid of them. Then....I packed them away again. I decided that it might be a good idea to keep them around. I don't see how it could be bad to remind myself of things I used to do that I never want to be able to justify again.
Friday, November 09, 2007
I'm It?
Somewhere during my little bday break I was tagged by JamyHawk. I've never been one to play along with these types of reindeer games, but I don't see what would stop me now that I am making an honest effort to be an active part of the community once more.
Although I am going to go along with this, it's going to have to wait a day or two....and since I haven't really been reading blogs lately, I doubt I will end up tagging any poker bloggers. What a shame huh?
Although I am going to go along with this, it's going to have to wait a day or two....and since I haven't really been reading blogs lately, I doubt I will end up tagging any poker bloggers. What a shame huh?
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Birthday
So I took a few days off or birthday celebration stuff. Got some cool gifts, got too much food and dessert.
I have, however, discovered an equation that I never knew existed.
Crunch Berries = Love
I have, however, discovered an equation that I never knew existed.
Crunch Berries = Love
Sunday, November 04, 2007
NFL Week 9
I had thought about doing a nice write up on a handful of games that I'd be betting on if it wasn't such a pain in the ass to do so where I live....but I am going to be happy enough just watching the Indy/NE game at 4 o'clock, so we'll have to save that for some other time.
I say NE takes it 28-24.
Grab some popcorn and enjoy.
I say NE takes it 28-24.
Grab some popcorn and enjoy.
Saturday, November 03, 2007
I Could Get Used to This....
My birthday isn't actually until Monday, but the celebrations started yesterday at work with a home made birthday cake of my choosing. Tonight is a night of drinking and gaming fun at the big boy Chuck E Cheese in Novi known as Lucky's. My birthday may actually be the lamest day of birthday celebration for me this year....
Friday, November 02, 2007
My Editor is an Ass
I'm making a serious attempt at getting at least one post up here or at my other blog every day this month and next month. I've been an on and off blogger for more than a couple years, but most of that time has been spent in shut down. I always have a lot to say, and blogs are a wonderful tool for the average guy to get his viewpoint out there....I am just too lazy to post as often as I should.
Actually, that's not the whole story. The truth is I am an asshole of an editor. Nothing is ever good enough for me. Couple that with being a writer with a somewhat fragile ego, and I am truly my own worst enemy when it comes to writing anything. For the next couple months, though, my writer-self and editor-self have agreed on a truce. Hopefully this will help me get more content out there.
Quick note: My birthday celebration is tomorrow night. We're starting off at Lucky's in Novi, and I am sure we'll end up somewhere else later in the night. If anyone is interested in joining these festivities, let me know and I can give you the details.
Actually, that's not the whole story. The truth is I am an asshole of an editor. Nothing is ever good enough for me. Couple that with being a writer with a somewhat fragile ego, and I am truly my own worst enemy when it comes to writing anything. For the next couple months, though, my writer-self and editor-self have agreed on a truce. Hopefully this will help me get more content out there.
Quick note: My birthday celebration is tomorrow night. We're starting off at Lucky's in Novi, and I am sure we'll end up somewhere else later in the night. If anyone is interested in joining these festivities, let me know and I can give you the details.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Day One
My first "must blog" day of my own little two month challenge and I have already put myself behind the 8 ball. My sleep habits have left me very little time to get anything up here, but something is better than nothing. The next few days will be very busy for me, so I'll be sure to post but I am not sure the quality of those posts will be up to par. I'll just consider this weekend a warm-up of sorts for next week when I start talking about something(s) with substance.
Or I'll just rant about my bad poker luck like usual....
Or I'll just rant about my bad poker luck like usual....
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween!
This token post should be followed up by an outright barrage of posts the next couple of months. I am going to try to take this blogging thing seriously once more and see if I can get a post up just about every day for the rest of the year.
More soon, stay tuned.
More soon, stay tuned.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Scott Weiland Loves His Bullhorn
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