Mikey's New Digs

Mike and his Roommate John moved into their new place in S. Mpls this week.

IT IS FUCKING AWESOME!

The rooms are HUGE, a beautiful built-in in the dining room, the kitchen is fairly new and it's HUGE! What makes me sad is that they pay as much a month as Carlos and I do for a more updated and larger place. *sigh*

Anyway, I got to spend a couple hours with Mikey last night. Most of it was running around getting stuff for Niblets and stopping at Best Buy for a wireless network prot-thingy for Mike's computer.

I installed that last night and played a little City Of Heroes. It's a fun game but WAY different from my Final Fantasy XI... In CoH, I'm a 'Blaster.' I whip lightning around like no one's business and it makes Mikey jealous because I can fight people from a distance. :-)

Anyway, I got a minor Mikey fix last night. We're moving his TV tonight, so If I don't die carrying it up the stairs to their new place, I think I'll get some more Mikey-time tonight and that is good.

This week sucks monkey-balls.

I have only seen Mike for about 10 minutes...

30

Hmmm... doesn't feel any different.

Softball kicked my ass yesterday.

Psycho Susie's is cool!

Thanks to the peeps that came out to Chuck E. Cheese on Friday to help me celebrate! (pictures to be posted later)

FUCK YOU Square-Enix!!

OK... Last night I was all excited to put a few, guilt-free hours into my game and get some shit done.

{rant}

I first logged in at about 4:30pm. Then again over and over for an hour. Then twice an hour. Then once before I went bed @ 10:30pm. At that time, I was able to connect, but then the monthly update had to run and it took only 15 minutes.

They have 'officially' apologized for the inconvenience, but you know what? FUCK YOU!! Give me something... In game money; a cool item; a month free!!

Oh well... I should get over it because it's only a game. But the unfortunate thing is there is ALWAYS and issue after they release the update. Lately, it's usually you can't search to find other people or the Auctions House is all messed up. It'll be interesting to see what they messed up this time.

{/rant}

Ideas

I'm currently using Photobucket for my pics, but I have to resize them everytime I want them to appear on my blog.

I'd like to have the ability to show a 'preview' then when you click on the picture it takes you to the full version.

I'm on Blogger, so I don't have my own place to host the pictures from. Anyone know of a site that would let me de the preview thing?

An example of what I'm talking about it like Aaron's T-shirt Party post. Click on the pic and it goes to a bigger version.

Ideas?

Update

I now have Shiva and Titan:





I also used my proceeds from woodworking to buy a friend a Dark Staff. A $230,000 Dark Staff. Yes, being a lumberjack IS profitable.

:-)

Yummy Coffee!

Yesterday Mikey and I hit Target to return my 3rd 'pod' coffee maker...



I exchanged the 1st one because it was the wrong color :-)

I exchanged the 2nd because it was a piece of SHIT!

I exchanged the 3rd one because it also was a piece of fecal matter... All of them were the Juan Valdez pod coffee makers... Guess he's too into his coffee or his donkey to worry about the maker.

I exchanged it for a Mr. Coffee Stainless Steel carafe GOD of coffee makers!! It was an even exchange and I'm SOOOOOO much happier with it. I just have to set it up at night and Carlos and I have yummy coffee in the morning!



So nice! SO SO nice!

Combine that with a bowl of grape nuts with a bit of sugar and it was quite possibly a perfect morning! Only thing missing was Mikey, but I get him on the weekends. :-)

Pics from the cam:

What they're up to...

I don't know how, but I'm on their mailing list... check this out:




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I forgot to tell you!!

Mikey gave me an early birthday gift!!



I had sold off my other cameras when I was running low on cash. I've missed having one around so I can just randomly take pictures of the pups and softball and stuff. This is a cool-looking, small digital camera that will suit my needs PERFECTLY! I ordered a 1GB memory card for it too!

Thank you Mikey!! :-)

Back in the saddle again...

On Monday, I had my first physical since my Senior year in college. Surprisingly I'm doing well with the exception of diet... I NEED more fruits and vegetables. It was also recommended that I take a fiber supplement (one of the 'official' signs of getting old) because it supposedly helps the fight against cancer. My family has a history of cancer and heart-disease; my physician is just setting up some precautions.

Then, Mikey and I hit Chino Latino for dinner. It was yummy, but I wasn't feeling quite right. After we got done I excused myself home and began being sick... I still am not feeling the greatest, but I couldn't justify spending another PTO day on this.

Pissed...

So, I'm a little pissed at Blogger today.

I typed up a HUGE 'blah blah' about my game this morning and blogger did the 'page cannot be displayed' thing... Grrrrr... I had pics and everything...

Oh well... I don't have enough energy to rewite it.

End of the World

I'm pretty sure THIS is one of the signs of the Apocalypse.

Pics from George!

More Pics from George!

What did you do with YOUR sunshine?

This past weekend was BEAUTIFUL!!

On Friday night, I grilled out for the first time this year. It was SO much fun! Mikey, Carlos, John and I cooked up some chicken, steak and bratwursts on the grill as well as baked potatoes and veggies. It was a trial run and now I remember that charcoal takes a while to get going... We ate around 9pm. Oops!

Nevertheless, is was a good time. Saturday I worked and after that I want over to George's for a while. It was a nice evening and we saw one of the coolest things ever after the sunset: about 300 geese were flying over the city and their bellies were lit up by the city. It was a very cool effect! I wish I could have had a picture.

And then yesterday... *SWOON* What a PERFECT day! I didn't realize it until Carlos and I left for softball practice. I was in heaven! Soooooo warm!

Softball practice for the Bad Puppies was loosely organized (I preferred it that way) and I had everyone except for one show up. We're going to have a great team and I think we're going to have a FULL team this year. I get the feeling that almost everyone will be there EVERY Sunday! I'm super excited!!

Now I just need to plan for next weeks' practice! We have some very competent players and only 10 positions to fill. We'll see how this works out.

Enough about me... What did you with YOUR sunshine?

uh-oh!

At 11:30AM , the MN Senate will decide wether or not to rewrite a bill to remove all restrictions from Qwest and allow them to monopolize the phone market once again.

This could be a VERY bad thing for me.

Keep your fingers crossed.