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Jun. 1st, 2009 @ 12:52 am Sleeping with cats
Current Mood: chipper
I'll try not to make this post seem like a rant, hehe ;)

Cats! I like cats. I like to pet them, take care of them, AND sleep with them. There's nothing better than waking up with 3 or 4 cats strategically placed upon your body (Monica, I have good memories at your place with Josh of waking up on the couch with many cats on me, hehe).

Unfortunately recent 'house rules' have changed and the cats are to be put outside every night :(. This makes me very sad. And please don't comment on, "It's your house dude, lay the law down!" or "They're your cats, keep them inside if you want!". Seriously, it's NOT that easy. Things are NOT easy here, and for the time-being it's just easier to go with the flow; I shant comment more per my "not a rant" disclaimer in the first sentence, hehe. Respectfully comment on this if you need to, thanks!

Anyhow, that's not what I'm posting about. What makes me truly sad is the ban of cats from Abriella's room.

My earliest memories are when I was 4 years old. Throughout my life I mostly only had 1 cat. I didn't have multiples until recent years. Anyhow, I have many fond memories of my cats when I was a kid, back to when I was 4 years old. Having a cat cuddle up with me at night in my bed made me soooo happy.

As a parent I have a desire to try to share all my childhood memories with my children in hopes they will like them and find the same happiness I did with them. So it's very sad to me that Abriella can't have a furry companion at night to cuddle with like I did when I was a young boy.

I find the situation analogous to those chain-letter emails that go around dedicated to children of the 80s that tout all the "bad" things we did back then that we'd never do nowadays, like drink from the hose or play lawn darts with REAL metal darts, etc... The analogy is that cats have fleas and ticks and worms and other nasties and it's a real danger to allow them to sleep with a toddler. They might smell milk on the breath and suffocate the poor child!

Who knows, maybe the danger is real, but it still makes me sad to not be able to have my daughter share the same fond memories I had as a 4-year old. Every generation grows up in a completely new world environment, and I really want to be able to have some common memories and common ground with my daughter when she's older, and I feel like that has been taken from me.

Of course there are other things we can share, like the love of music theory, computers, jokes (she's got a couple of good ones memorized now!), so I'll end this post on a positive note :) by saying that Abriella and I have many fun memories to share in the future, if they are cultivated and allowed to become fruitful.

Goodnight!

-Andrew
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maybelline
Feb. 3rd, 2009 @ 11:32 pm Dropping acid?
Charlie was a chemist.
But Charlie is no more.
What Charlie thought was H2O
was H2SO4.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/02/02/Ohio_city_warned_to_avoid_tainted_water/UPI-94901233610636/

"...a supplier mistakenly gave the [water] plant hydrochloric acid instead of fluoride..."
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maybelline
Jan. 15th, 2009 @ 01:05 am Paid time off for World of Warcraft??
Current Mood: chipper
hehe, I'm going to submit this request to the suggestion box at work tomorrow:

Salutations! I would like to suggest a new form of Paid Leave for Musician's
Friend employees in 2009. Our current Leave forms include the reasons: Vacation,
Sick, Berevement, and FMLA. I am proposing a new option be added to the list:

W.o.W. (pronounced simply as "wow" for the rest of this document)

If you are not one of the 10 million people familiar with this term, it stands
for World of Warcraft, a popular online game.

I believe it would be in the best interests of the company to allocate a dynamic
amount of paid WoW time per year to allow employees to step away from the
stressful work environment and emerse themselves in the virtual world that WoW
provides. This will not only increase moral of the employees, but will increase
efficiency as well.

Currently employees must reserve a block of time late at night to engage in WoW
activities, leading to late mornings, tired minds, and the occasional
inexplicable need to shout, "DING!" during meetings. If employees are provided
paid leave for these WoW activities, they can be done during daytime hours which
provides for more restful and productive workers the next day. And less lag
during the non-peak playing hours.

Paid WoW time should accumulate at the normal vacation accumulation rate the
employee is set at, unless the employee is in a Rested state, upon which their
paid WoW time should accumulate at double the normal rate.

Thank-you for your time, I look forward to being able to schedule my next
Blackrock Spire raid appropriately with co-workers using this new opportunity I
hope the company will be able to provide.

Sincerely,
Night Elf Shandris
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maybelline
Dec. 27th, 2008 @ 02:02 am A Tale of Two Joels
Current Mood: energetic
I find it interesting to view famous singers of my childhood versus how they sound now.

I saw Don McLean ('American Pie') a few years ago at the local country fair and he just couldn't hit the high notes like he used to. I just discovered the same fate for my favorite composer Billy Joel tonight.

Compare these two videos of the song, "Just the Way You Are":

Billy Joel in his prime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAw_gJ6wS44

VERSUS

Billy Joel in 2007:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ounJsqomcv8

Both are awesome versions, and I HATE to say it but the second one sounds like something you'd see in a Karaoke bar. :(. I love the guy, and I would LOVE to see him live still, but it's sad to see genius artists lose their ability to ply their craft in the way they did when they were younger.

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I haven't posted here in about 3 months. is LiveJournal dead? hehe. Dunno. I think I am migrating towards youtube and FaceBook. FaceBook kinda sucks mostly, but it's fun and simple, though sucky for blogging. I need to get my webcam setup to post THIS sort of post via a youtube video so I can start joining the community there. i have 5 videos and 9 subscribers, haha: http://www.youtube.com/user/feelie75


Anyhoo, I'll save this now, just a QUICK update on my current thoughts. I'm alive and well and things are going well. NEW BOY-CHILD DUE IN MARCH!!! ok I guess that's big news, so there you have it, thoughts and news, goodnight!

pfft :P
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maybelline
Sep. 10th, 2008 @ 04:23 pm Is your email client depressed?
An inbox sits quietly by the window.
It looks longingly outside, thru the pelting rain and unforgiving wind.
"Why?" it thought. "Why do I feel so empty inside?"
It looked longingly at its alert chime. Long had it been since it sounded.
Surely someone would email it?
Even a little spam from Nigeria would make it smile right now.
But there was nothing.
It wasn't even worthy of being bought for a spam list.
It passed the time imagining all the wonderful ways it would index the
emails that would surely start pouring in at any moment.
It got most excited imagining the thrill of receiving a High Priority email!
A bright flash of lightning yanked it from its fantasy and
back into the harsh reality it faced day in and day out.
It couldn't face it anymore. Not like this.
As it went to File, and then slowly to Exit, it hesitated.
This was it.
It took a deep breath and prepared itself for the afterlife.
And then...salvation:
"*DING* You've got mail!"
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maybelline
Feb. 23rd, 2008 @ 03:24 am Lunar Satellite
It seemed interesting to me that the USA decided to shoot down the wayward spy satellite during a full lunar eclipse. Maybe it was marketing or PR, or maybe it was just coincidence, hehe.

At any rate, I got home during the night of the full lunar eclipse and was dismayed to see clouds cover it up about half way thru totality.

So we all got in the car and drove furiously NorthEast to try to beat the clouds, hehe. In our hour of driving, we probably got about 10 good minutes worth of full eclipse, so it was fun and a good effort, and we got a few blurry pictures of it, hehe.

Anyhow, to the point of the Subject, we were driving home and about 7:32pm (10:32pm EST) we saw a huge shooting star in the sky. It lasted about 5 seconds, which is pretty long for most meteors coming thru the atmosphere. Amanda and I both saw it.

I then realized that the Spy Satellite shooting was scheduled for 7:30pm PST, so I think that maybe that was a piece of the satellite that we saw coming thru the atmosphere! NASA says that upon explosion that debris would end up burning thru the atmosphere fairly immediately.

So anyhow, this is my boring note to myself that I may have witnessed a satellite piece falling thru the sky, hehe. I'm mostly documenting this because I like celestial events, and I was thinking about it the other day, how old my daughter will be when she see's haley's comet. I missed it when I was 9. I saw Hale Bopp, but missed Haley's. Looking forward to my daughter seeing Haley's though :)... and her children.

'night!

-A, the other white meat.
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maybelline
Feb. 17th, 2008 @ 02:34 am Baby Brie Montage
Current Location: Cat Heaven
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: David Gray - You're the World To Me
I probably spent about 14 hours on this video. Until you do something like this yourself it's hard to imagine the time it takes to go thru 16 DVDs of video and pick the best 3.5 minutes of it, the best 6-10 seconds out of each video capture, etc, hehe.

So without further adeiu...adue...adeau...ummm, you know what word I mean....:)

Abriella (name changed to Brie because amanda didn't want such an original name to become too public, hehe)


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8iQ5BZt-0)

It's gotten over 80 views in just 2 days now (says 30 now; a previous version got 52 before I re-uploaded). I'm banking on the David Gray "You're the world to me" keywords to bump it's popularity up.

I had to do some painstaking audio editing on it too. Amanda wanted verse 1 killed, because she didn't like the lyrics, heh. So after much discussion and whatnot, I ended up replacing verse 1 with a copy of verse 3. it's not exactly an easy task to do and still make the song sound good without chops being apparent, but I think I got it spot on, so hopefully no one notices anything bad about that tweak, heh.

I hope everyone enjoys the video, I spent a lot of time and focus on it, so please view and comment thanks :).
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maybelline
Jan. 17th, 2008 @ 01:19 pm WacMorled!
Current Location: MacWorld 08
I'm here at MacWorld typing in the MS Blogger's Lounge. They have bouncers blocking the entrance unless you promise to blog or something, heh, so here I am blogging in order to get my free M&Ms.

That's about it. Off to go get more schwag! l8R!
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Cat Gunner
Nov. 25th, 2007 @ 12:59 am Feast and Happy Baby
Turkey Day was good this year. We had amanda's family over and more importantly, we got the house cleaned and organized in preparation for that event!!! :) The house looks great now! yay, no more mess and disorganazation! hehe

Anyhow, I filmed a little clip before the guests arrived to test the video camera out. This is Abriella in one of the most happiest clips I can recall:

http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/feelie75/Abriella/?action=view¤t=abriella_thanksgiving2007.flv

heheh. I can't recall any other videos where she smiles SO much and is just SO happy!!! It's awesome. I can watch this thing over and over, hehe, she is so sweet :).

'night..
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maybelline
Nov. 22nd, 2007 @ 03:08 am Random
Current Location: 60-Hz room
Current Mood: indifferent
Current Music: My Little Pony theme song
Random would be a great name for a daughter. I believe Ford Prefect's daughter is named Random in the HHGTTG series.

Anyhow, I've compiled a selection of just WEIRD random links tonight.

This guy, Larry Carlson, is just so bizarre. I've watched some of his flash movies and they redefine what 'random' means, hehe. But if you analyze them, you'll understand it must take someone with *amazing* artistic and technical talent to actually create these videos. Even if they're completely out there, I'm totally impressed by the talent to create the flash animations.

So here's something to watch if you are completed blitzed or stoned:

http://www.larrycarlson.com/flashmovies_maple.htm

It starts out a "bit" odd, but just watch it for a while and appreciate it's randomness and execution, as well as the excellent artistic talent involved.

His other movies are likewise equally blitzed/stoned-qualifying entertainment to just ZONE OUT on.

Another fun link is the Earth Clock:
http://www.cosmosmith.com/population_clock.htm (from poodwaddle.com)

Fun links on population of the earth, CO2 emissions, forestry, births, deaths, etc, all in a fun flash interface.


Lastly, an interesting comic website:
http://www.simiannation.com/

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Most of these links came from this great video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkVtaxGMyr0


And again, I'm very enthralled by the bizarre videos from Mr. Carlson, mentioned above. WEIRD!!
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maybelline
Nov. 17th, 2007 @ 02:40 am Abriupdate
Current Location: astral plane
Current Mood: crazy
Current Music: Muse - Knights of Cydonia
I was just going thru recent pictures tonight and wanted to share the newest picture of Abriella ;). Maybe it's something only a parent can understand, but it's just so amazing to show off your child's pictures with others, hehe:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b388/feelie75/Abriella/DSC_1170.jpg?t=1195295910

I keep finding it amazing that she doesn't look like "a baby" anymore. She looks like a real person now with a real distinctness about her. I can actually extrapolate in my mind what she will look like in the future now. Just a year ago I couldn't do that. I *love* the person she has become and look forward to seeing her every day that I come home from work now :).

She's also become a computer geek lately, haha. Just in the past 3 weeks or so, she's mastered using the mouse and keyboard. We can set her up on care-bears.com and she'll go to town for like an hour clicking on videos, games, and the coloring section. She also loves a racing game I have installed called 'Flatout 2', hehe. Unfortunately it's a little violent, because when you crash your person/driver flys thru the windshield and tumbles upon the ground. But she loves that game and I'm trying to find a more kid-friendly game to replace it, heh. But back to the point, she's really started to master learning the computer already. She can type her name in WordPad, and spell other various words. She likes the Windows 'paint' program. She picks different colors and just scribbles around. She tries to draw cats, hehe, cuz that's what I've shown her how to draw. "ok, now draw the cat ears... and cat mouth. uh oh, the cat has no whiskers! let's draw the cat whiskers!" hehe.

oh my... it's late.
this post is a nice relief from my stress.
I have a new boss at work, but she's pretty awesome.
But there's a TON of projects deadline soon. I'm working extra hour this weekend to assist in those.

CJames is having a LAN party tonight!!!!!!!!! Really looking forward to that. It's been a few years since that has happened, heh. Should be fun, if I pace myself correctly :).

Goodnight!

oh, and I've been playing lots of Guitar Hero 3 lately. I've beat the Medium level!! hehe.
'night
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maybelline
Nov. 7th, 2007 @ 01:37 pm Brand Names
Oh man... I cannot believe this is a real product:

http://www.instawares.com/f-dick-cheese.fdi-8105812.0.7.htm

Description from the website:
"Dick chopping, sawing, brining and larding butcher tools are indispensable items that complement the professional Dick cutting tool series. Cheese Knife."

LOL. You'd think they would market these things under a different brand name!

http://www.instawares.com/f-dick-meat.fdi-9001600.0.7.htm

They also sell a "F. Dick Curved Stiff Boning Knife - 6 inches". hah. Wonder what it's like to working on the marketing team at that company?
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maybelline
Oct. 12th, 2007 @ 02:02 am Late Night Musings
Current Mood: thoughtful
It's Thursday night. All the cool kids are out at Ground Zero, gothing it up and grinding on the dance floor, just like they've done for the past 10 years. In about 15 minutes the club will close and they'll all be searching for the least-drunk person to either drive them home or they'll be finding someone to trail behind and invite themselves to Sheri's for some after-clubbing gluttony.

2am drunken mushroom burger and fries are one of the most delightful events life has to offer...

...along with the thoughts of "Where am I sleeping tonight?" and "Should I take that bong hit this late after I'm already trashed?" and "Your wife looks SO HOT right now, dude!".

Soon there will be a swarm of punks and goths and closet-goth jocks (posing with as much white-clothing tank-tops as they can muster and baseball caps worn backwards) strewn upon the city as they all try to strut their way home and wave goodbye to their club friends.

Some will end up at a gathering house full of party (after the burger gluttony, of course), some will end up with a stranger and wake up in a new place, some will wake up in their own bed with absolutely no thoughts or regrets of the previous night, and others will wake up with a fist to their forehead for having "done it again".

Such are my musings upon watching these denizens of the night. I bid them well and look forward to a more introspective conversation with them. I miss the days that I was one of them and sharing in those experiences...

Goodnight! ;)

-A
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maybelline
Sep. 7th, 2007 @ 01:55 am Internet People
Like to keep up on the newest pop-culture stuff? Internet videos and youtube stuff?

Check this video out, heh, it basically outlines the last 10 years of internet and youtube stardome, you'll recognize most of it I hope if you keep up on stuff! :)

Internet People
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maybelline
Aug. 6th, 2007 @ 01:51 am Brie turns 2!
Current Location: many miles beneath the cat's surface
Current Music: snortles from my stuffed nasal passages
My precious daughter just turned 2-years old the other day. We had a party on Saturday to celebrate with family and friends.

so of course I'd like to share some new photos of her :)

Behold, the re-incarnation of a young Elton John?!!




There's 9 More New Pictures here if you want to see recent pics of Her Adoreableness :)

The other day when I was at work she told A, "Mommy in the shower... daddy at work, to buy ponies for Abriella". heheh, I told her I had to go work to make money to buy her My Little Ponies once, so now she thinks that's why I go to work everyday!

she's picked up a new phrase recently. She'll hold out her hand and say very clearly, "How's it going?" heheh.

much happy times with her around...

goodnight!
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maybelline
Jul. 28th, 2007 @ 01:01 am meager update
Current Location: The Astral Plane
Current Music: white noise
Just a boring update, and a weird news story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_fe_st/death_cat

Oscar The Death Cat!! hahah. Apparently this cat has predicted 25 peoples deaths at the nursing home. He curls up to them when they only have about 4 hours left to live. He's so accurate (he's not friendly, and he refused to curl up to one person until just 2 hours before they died) that the staff have started to call family members when Oscar has decided to curl up to someone, lol... crazy..

The TV Show "America's Got Talent" has been a little lackluster this year. But I ran across an *amazing* guy on the "Britain's Got Talent" show. Paul Potts. Check this video out. This "ordinary" guy comes on stage and will just BLOW you away with what he does:

Paul Potts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oxTy7KIAaA


I'm trying to learn flash so I can write some games. We have like 24 Webkinz (http://www.webkinz.com) here and the site has a bunch of fun flash games. I've come up with some variations on them that I think would be fun. So, it's a slow process but fun so far. I have a simplistic "Space Invaders" game written so far...

Dunno if I posted this before, but the company I work for was bought out again. Some huge investment firm bought our parent company and they're taking the company Private again!! whee! Bad News: No more stocks. Good news: stock price jumped 20% so we can sell the stocks we have for a good profit until 1/1/2008. Other Good News: private company = no more frackin' government audits and paper trails and Soybeans Oxbreath (Sarbanes Oxley) crapp!!! :)

My cat Misty has been missing for about 10 days now. I was driving to the store the other night and saw an orange cat playing in the median and couldn't quite tell in the dark if it was Misty, so I cat-napped it, brought it home, and well it wasn't Misty, hah. So I took it back to the median, dropped it off, plopped a can of wet food on the cement for it's troubles and went back home. :P

I got a piece of Wisteria plant stuck under my eyelid while pruning. I was wisterical. *bada ching!* no, seriously, it hurt like heck for about a day before I went to the doctor and he successfully washed it out. My eyelid felt really funky though for a few hours cuz he had to invert my eyelid with a Q-tip.. eww! You know what your finger nail feels like when you accidentally bend it backwards??? Well that's what my eye-lid felt like. *shivers*, creeps me out just thinking about it..

K, that's it, gotta get back to learnin' Flash! :)

Night Folks, love y'all. Moncia/P, I miss you guys :).
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maybelline
Jun. 30th, 2007 @ 02:51 am Nasal Factories
Current Mood: depressed
Once again I come up with an entirely non-SEO subject title.. :P who cares!! hehe.

So I have several thoughts tonight. Wine is more potent than beer. I'm used to 5-8 beers and tonight I had a 1.5L of wine at 13.5% and it's altered my perception on things a bit more than usual, heh.

For one thing, it seems to have oddly cleared my sinuses a bit, and I can actually SMELL things around me. People think that eyesight and sound is important to them. I cannot tell you how much more alive I feel when I have a day or even an hour of fresh air going thru my nose. It's just amazing, and I can't really imagine how it must feel to have that sensation as a normal daily occurance and not realizing what it's like to lack that. It's like when you try to take a deep breath and you actually feel like you really got a DEEP breath.

Alas, my offspring is calling for me. Goodnight all, sorry for the lack of depth in this post.
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maybelline
Mar. 28th, 2007 @ 12:53 am Smartbeans
Current Location: cold room
Current Mood: buzzed
Current Music: meowing cats begging for food
I just wanted to post a quick update, and brag on Abriella's smarts ;)...

She's is such a smart little girl, heh. She's 19 months old now. She can sing the entire ABC song, hehe. And she can count... to 14!!

It was amazing to watch the other day. We were watching Sesame Street and they were counting to 10. So they finished counting to 10, and out of the blue Abriella says, "11 12 13 14". 11 and 12 were clear. the 'thir' part was mumbled but she knows how to say 'teen', heh. Anyhow it was pretty cool that the knew past 10...somehow! We've been teaching her to count to 20 now.

She's such a well-behaved and polite child too. And helpful! Tonight she not only ate most of her dinner, but she was kind enough to feed me mine too :). After eating my hotdogs I had some salad left, so she came over and grabbed my fork and meticulously forked each little piece of salad one piece at a time and put it into my mouth for me, hehe, for like 10 minutes until all my salad was gone. She's always offering to share her food or toys and stuff, it's great.

And she's learning to spell/read now too. She can recognize CAT and DOG, and with coaching can spell them (still working on that part a bit).

So anyhow, I am a very proud father of her...

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Other minor news... I'm going to Boston for SCRUM certification training! I've never been East of Las Vegas, so this might be kind of exciting.

Amanda says, "I don't want you to be so far away!" I told her, "Hey, it's only 5 miles from Medford (where we live)...well.... Medford, Massachusetts, that is (wrong state, we're in Oregon, hehe)." She didn't find it funny, heh.

It's a great opportunity I think for MF to send me and Tony and Greg there for the training, so I'm excited to go for that.

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Got a 16x DualLayer DVD+-R Sony DVD burner from Fry's for $66 last week.. It r0x0rz! 5 minute burns. :)

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I am no longer surrounded by 10000 My Little Ponies like I was last week, as Amanda has moved them into the closet, heh, and she cleaned up the computer room so now it's nice and organized and open! yay. Thanks Amanda!! :).

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Ok, I have nothing else to say. I'm going to go play with my Wii ;) (I know what you're thinking! Perverts!)
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Cat Gunner
Feb. 5th, 2007 @ 01:14 am XLI!
Current Location: space
Current Mood: mischievous
Current Music: Baby Monitor, volume 4
XLI... Sounds like some 'new' video card technology doesn't it? hehe. Well, no, it means 41, which is the number of today's Super Bowl!!!

I am certainly no fan of football (the american kind, for ye brits ;)), but I enjoy the social gatherings of SB Sunday. We had a big get together today at Bruno's Pizza with co-workers and anyone else they invited.

Compared to most super bowls, I'd say this one today was pretty damn good. It was too-close-to-call up until about the 4th quarter. But many many exciting events took place up until that point.

It started off with a huge bang! The colts kicked off to the bears, and the bears returned the ball *92 yards* in *14* seconds to make a field goal. *14* seconds after the start of the game and there's already a field goal!!! How cool is that?!

The rainfall was practically torrential during most of the game, which just added to the fun. There were probably at least 6 fumbles because of the slippery ball, and fumbles are always the most exciting part of the game, seeing the team members just freak out and scramble for the ball and generate a pile-up of about 15 guys, hehehe.

Another exciting part of this game was that there were 3 Challenges to the referees' calls. When you make a challenge, you are risking a Time-Out. If the ref ends up not agreeing with your Challenge, you lose a Time Out, which are critical (so they say) in the 4th quarter, so it's a big risk. It was fun to watch the 10 different angles of those challenge plays and listening to the local crowd yell and holler about what they felt the proper call should have been.

The MF crowd however seemed pretty one-sided, towards the Colts. Oddly enough. There was one bears fan in the crowd. And, I was a Bears fan too, though I have yet to admit it, heh. I may confess in an upcoming email to the group ;). I'm not social enough or have a loud enough voice to have fun repartee with the opposition crowd at such events, hehe.

On to the "g4mbl1ng" (incase the feds are watching, I'll encode the phrase!!! hehe)... There was a 10x10 grid, 100 squares, where you buy a square for $5 each. After it fills up, numbers 0-9 are assigned to the X- and Y-axis, so if the score is 19-12 the person at square 9-2 gets the win. A winner is picked at the end of each quarter. Payouts are $100, $150, $100, $150 for each quarter respectively.

I missed out on getting in on the $5/square chart, so just before the game I created my own .50cent chart :). $1 gets 2 squares, heh. It was dubbed the Good Luck grid. I got 74 out of 100 squares filled before the end of the first quarter (thanks to Julie!!!). We collected $37, so payouts were $9.25 each quarter. Just a little fun side-betting project.

Julie and husband Ron got 16 squares out of generosity to help fill out the board. Several other people got 10 squares on my board and I got 8 myself. As it ended up, Julie/Ron ended up winning the 1st, 2nd, and 4th quarters hehehe, for $27.75, and I won the 3rd (yay!!) for $9.25.

As for the more exciting $500 board, the score at the end of the first and second quarters were 12-7 and 22-17 so the 2x7 person won the first half, heh, $250 to that person (who apparently knew nothing about how the grid worked and wasn't present! ha).

Scott won the $100 3rd quarter and then.... even I am amazed at this... The colts were around the 20 yard line on their 4th down in the 4th quarter with like 56 seconds to go. Easily a 3-point field goal, which would have made the 3rd quarter grid winner the winner for 4th quarter as well.

BUT THEY RAN IT!!!! What the hell kind of team RUNS on a 4th down from 20+ yards away instead of kicking a 3-point when they're 12 points ahead already!???!

hehe, poor Scott. He was lamenting the moment for a full hour. But I agree with him!! WTF?? That was just strange strategy, unless the colts feared the bears would return another 92-yard FG on the turnover, which I strongly suspect must have been the reasoning behind that decision.

Perhaps what added to his hour-long diatribe was the fact that he bought the house 3-pitchers of beer after his 3rd quarter winnings, hehe. So there was plenty-o-booze flowing during the 4th quarter. Twould be fun twere I 'single' to join in on such a boon. Though, it was a mere tinkle in the bucket compared to last years SB when Gene won a quarter and bought *10* pitchers of beer for everyone!!! hahah. again, I wish I could have partaked in that imbibing as well as I was more than willing to help out ;).

Alas, I think I have rhetoricked about this subject enough to dull anyone's mind, or perhaps I have elaborated enough for someone to think, "hey, that was a nice break from work. time to go back to path-clipping this 12-string Rogue guitar...." (j/k!) heh. hmm maybe that quote will boost our google SEO ranking! :P hehe

Goodnight Medford!! I'll be here all week!

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maybelline
Dec. 26th, 2006 @ 02:35 am Jesus H Santa Day
So Christmas has come and gone once again. I got some good stuff... I'm typing this on my new 20.1" widescreen LCD monitor! ;P

Here's a fun little xmas link: Simon Sez Santa

Tell Santa What to do... ala Subservient Chicken (the giant chicken in garter belts). not quite as cool, but still a fun time-waster :). you can make santa interact with rudolph, and the tree, etc... just type whatever you want him to do, heh.

Also interesting is a fun game of Reindeer Wrestling!

Oh, and Southpark.. can't forget about the Merry F*cking Christmas song!


AND>>>> of course the finale' of the show is this un-frickin'-believable work of electronic and wiring genius of an Xmas Musical Lightshow.

enjoy! :)

Happy Christmas. (May Yoko Ono forever regret ruining that song...) Cya! :)
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