Look for me on CNN!
I’m doing the New Years broadcast for the radio station tonight in Aggieville. It’s gonna be a cold mo-fo. Lots of people. Lots of confetti. If you see me I’ll be a little blip on the screen to the right of the main stage, shivering my ass off!
Hope everybody has a fun New Years Eve! Don’t get too crazy!
Now that I got it, what do I use it for?
You know, I can vaguely remember thinking several times that I needed a printer hooked up to this computer. But, for the life of me I can’t remember what I wanted to print. Now I have one hooked up and can’t think of anything I need printed out!
The printer you picked up in nice. I tested it out on photo printing and it works great. I couldn’t for the life of me think of anything to use the regular printer for so I could test it out and see if it worked after I hooked it up to the computer. It works on it’s own, as a photo printer and a scanner/copier, but wanted to make sure the usb cable I got was right. I finally just went into the word processor program and wrote “Test” a few times to see if it’d print. It did. I can remember going onto the ign site and printing out game walkthroughs. Maybe I should try something like that.
Oh well, it works. I’m sure it’ll come back to me what all I needed this for. I’d just hate to think I have an expensive photo printer! (If that’s all I ever use it for!) Remember the dvd burn drive I SWORE I’d never need? I’m sure this is going to be the same and I will wonder how I lived without it in a month or so!
12.25.07Merry Christmas!
We’re down here in Wichita at Andrea’s sister’s place to do Christmas with her family. Just wanted to wish everybody a Merry Christmas and hope everybody has a great day!
Guitar Hero-ific
I figured since Duane would head out on the road right after Christmas I would let him have his PS2 and Guitar Hero early, while he is home for a few days and can play. He loves it.
I’m just not sure that ‘Guitar Hero’ is the right name for the game. I am halfway across the house while he is playing right now and I don’t hear any music. There’s just a “clack, clack, clack, clack-clack, clackity-clack-clack” resounding in the house.
I think it should be called “Clack Hero”. Ha-Ha!!
11.27.07It’s officially the Christmas season!
We are a little bit late getting the tree up this year, but there she is in all her glory! Well Andrea AND the tree! 😉
I thought about putting lights up outside the house, but decided to save the money. That an there isn’t a single electrical outlet on the outside of our house. I don’t know if thats an excuse or a good reason. Either way, this is probably about as Christmas as its going to get around here this year. Well…maybe I’ll string some lights over the doorways and stuff. I dunno. I really enjoy the holidays, it’d be a shame not to take it to the max!
I guess I’m off to find the bargin string of Christmas lights!
Trick or Treat-ing Vultures
So Halloween has come and gone this year. And the Scrooge that I am, I decided I didn’t want to hand out any Halloween candy this year. Its not that I don’t love the kids, its just that I didn’t really feel like sitting by the front door for 3 hours waiting for kids to show up. So I made sure when I got home I didn’t turn the porch light on so these Trick or Treaters didn’t get the wrong idea. After all, I didn’t even have any candy in the entire house to give away!
So I get home from work yesterday evening around 7:00 or so and head out back the let the dog out of her pen and run around a bit before I let her in the house. After I get settled in a bit I flip the back porch light on so I can go get the dog’s dishes and let the dog on. I grab the bowls and head back in to clean all the leaves out. No longer than 3 minutes later there’s a knock at the back door! Trick or Treaters!
“Are you handing out candy?” They ask.
“Uhh…well I didn’t think you’d see the back porch light,” I said, a little miffed that they had the audacity to even ask. Even these kids knew there was something a little off about going to someone’s back door asking for Halloween candy or else they wouldn’t even have had to ask. But with a smile on my face I just said, “I don’t have any candy but let me see what I can dig up.”
I recanted my childhood memories of digging through my Halloween candy knowing full well that every kid remembers exactly where they got the best treat that night, and the worst treat. I was bound and determined not to be the worst treat. Ritz crackers? No! That won’t work! Sugar, I need something with lots of sugar! The clock was ticking and the dog outside on her leash was getting more insane with each passing moment these strangers were on the back steps. Suddenly I spotted it. It might actually work! A box POP-TARTS®! Please, please, please let there be two pouches of pastry goodness inside the box... Victory! But what would the kids think about Pop-Tarts® as their treat? Wait a second…I don’t care, they shouldn’t have come knocking in the first place!
“Ohh COOL! Pop-Tarts®! Thanks!” they said.
Mission accomplished and lesson learned. If you don’t have something to give away, don’t let a single outside light burn on your house. Don’t even light a candle on a windy Halloween night outside your house, for the Trick or Treaters are waiting in the bushes for their chance to strike.
04.12.07
I’m sorry. I just thought this was funny.
My New Computer
Merry Christmas me!!!! hehe Matt, being the coolest and nicest person in the world, bought me a brand new computer (most of it). He got me all of the internal parts except for the 250GB Hard Drive that I put in it. I also got the coolest lookin speakers ever! (and the sound great too)
Of course, I had to check out all of the parts that Matt was thinking about getting me. I had to make sure they were better than his! hehe
Here’s a picture of all of the parts, and it’s not a wallpaper!
Cats, trees and tinsel…
After I brag all about my ‘wonderful’ cat that NEVER messes with the Christmas tree she has proven me a liar! The bi-polar feline has knocked over the tree three times, broken off a leg of the tree stand so that it has to be propped up with a trash can and eaten approximately 4 inches of silver garland off the tree. I’m thinking that ingesting the garland is probably not the best thing, but I imagine she is thinking ahead and wanting to make her litter box just a little more festive!
12.19.06Oh what a night!
Saturday was the Platinum Broadcasting Christmas party. It’s usually a good time and this year was no exception. Basically the company reserves half of Kite’s, a bar in Aggieville, and have them cook up some food and give us an open bar from 6-10pm. You can see where this is going…
Andrea had to work until 7:00, so I just kinda chilled an hung out with Stooks and Jeri Anne, our new part timer while most people were showing up. The food was being served right about the time Andrea got there, and without hesitation we ordered another round of drinks. After about two amaretto sours, Andrea started to complain that the drinks were weak (a sure sign that the drinks aren’t weak, she’s just starting to get a bit sauced, hehe). So after a few doubles Andrea starts wandering around and ends up talking to a bunch of people, including trying to convince Stooks to ask out Jeri Anne, and to Rodney about me for 45 minutes.
By this time the open bar is closed, and I hadn’t been able to find a waitress for the last hour or hour and a half. My buzz pretty much wore off so I was ready to go. But before we leave, Erin buys everyone a round of Jagerbombs (as pictured above). I thank her and we head to the next bar which is just packed. I’m really ready to go home now because I haven’t been drinking and am really not much for big crowds, but Andrea’s having fun so we hang out a bit longer then head home. I don’t know what it was, but I was fine the whole way driving home, but sometime after I climbed the stairs to the apartment that jagerbomb hit me hard! Ha ha.
It was a fun night for everybody, and I don’t think anyone threw up on the floor of Kite’s this year! I hear the bar tab was $1,100 though. Of course they should have known to give a bunch of radio guys free reign on a bar like that.