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Movies and More

Movies, Room, Games, DVD, Website, and B-Day.

So, in the last few days I have seen 50 First Dates, The Battle of Shaker Heights, and The Whole 10 Yards. All were pretty good. I was a bit disappointed with Shaker Heights, bit it was still good.

The room cleaning is still in progress. Normally it only takes one day, maybe 2, but I’m not sure what I’m doing with everything right now, and I keep getting preoccupied.

I have been playing S*mC*ty 4 again, which means I have been devoting nearly every free moment to it as I did last time. In other game news, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Bite comes out in October. Some of you may recall that it was Metal Gear Solid 2 that I was playing for those 4 days in July of 2001, and left my room only for Dr. Pepper, food, and to do my business. We will see if it turns out to be the same.

I saw on the list of upcoming DVD releases quite possibly the scariest DVD ever. One that will make you pee your pants in fright, and send shivers down the spines of even your unborn children. Yes, the first season of ALF is coming to DVD.

I still haven’t touched the website. I WILL be doing some work after this blog though. It will be a post in the blog though, and not on the website.

My birthday is down to 28 days (is the 11th now, b-day on 8th, 31 days in August). I don’t really expect much this year, as 22 is kind of a blah birthday. Oh well.

I think that’s it. I will see you all on Friday.

nick

Mr Griffen, I found out what was wrong with your vacuum, there was a meatball caught in it.
Did you save it?
Well, no.
You bastard.

The Post Formerly Known as Untitled

Room, Sheets, Alpena, Sundae.

So I am finally cleaning my room. I am kinda in the middle of it right now. It is at that point where it’s dirtier than when you started, but that means I am about half way.

I bought new sheets for my bed. Jenn and I went to the Essexville Meijer’s and none were quite what I wanted or in the wrong size, so we went to the Wilder Rd. one and I found some cool ones. One problem though, I found that there is a big rip in the top sheet, so am going to try and return them today. Damn it. I bought new pillows too. I wanted to make sure they were fluffy enough so I threw them on the floor and laid down in the middle of the aisle. Jenn laughed.

I went with Jenn to Alpena on Thursday night. We stayed the night at her parents house, then went to the Alpena County Fair and came home about 3 ish. I did some star gazing while we were up there and it was weird. There are almost too many stars, so it becomes hard for me to find some stuff. I should bring my laptop with an astronomy program and my telescope up there next time.

We ate at Grandpa Tony’s tonight, and I ordered the butterscotch sundae. I don’t remember it being so big. It was still awesome though. Three massive scoops of ice cream covered in butterscotch, mmmm. I only ate two of them though.

I can’t think of much else.

I guess I will see you all on Tuesday then.

Bye,

nick

Good news! It’s a suppository!

100th General!

100th, Bday, Work, Room, BBCards, AmericInn, and Brother.

Yeay! Ok, not THAT big a deal. Next big posts by my figuring will be probably 2000th visitor, or maybe 200th post.

My birthday, as of right now (12:38 A.M. 08/05/04) is a mere 34 days away. Wow, 22, scary.

What have I done…

We worked at Burger King on Tittibawassee Tuesday, no work Monday or Wednesday, and will be at BK on Holland Thursday. I hate Burger Kings. They all have identical landscaping, the beds are spread apart so is seems like forever, and there is always alot of traffic.

Still no room cleaning. I did find a TV stand though, I think. I am strongly considering the one at Staples, as it is one of the few I can find for decently cheap, has adjustable shelves, and has a base large enough for my TV but not excessively so.

Also, no BBDB work, as the dogs messed all my cards around. Ok, I could easily have sorted them within a few minutes, Im just too lazy, there, happy? I said it.

Jenn and I went to AmericInn on Monday. You can use their pool, spa, and sauna for $4 a person. I presume it’s for all day use, but you don’t get a card of anything, so probably need to re-pay if you left and tried to come back.

My brother might be moving out again. He has an interview in Livonia for a job doing car detailing. Mom is crushed of course, and I am unsure. Yeah, it might be a great opportunity for him, but Labadie is a great place too. I don’t know.

OK folks, thats all for today. See you Saturday.

nick

If you build a man a fire, he will be warm for a day.
If you set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.

Number 155

100th General, Room, Charter, and Munger.

Hey, Wednesday will be my 100th General post, woohoo. But wait, my 100th General would be considered special, and hence categorized as such, and thus not a General post. But then, it wouldn’t be special again, and go back to general, making it the 100th, and again Special. Oh, what a paradigm we have. I guess it will have to be left as General.

I have not cleaned my room, or really even began to try. I have been looking for a TV stand, since I am annoyed with the one I have now. It’s too tall. I am amazed at how hard it is to find a stand that does what I expect. I have given up the idea of building an entire built-in desk/entertainment enter, but may build a small TV stand, if I get to it. I would need tools for that though, and I don’t have those.

No word from Charter. Suchyta says I’m a shoe in. I should call them about my app on Monday.

Jenn and I went to the Munger Potato Festival on Friday night. We had fun. Demo Derby was interesting as always, we both got a 5 lb bad of spuds, and spent 45 minutes to get about a half mile from the parking lot to the street.

OK, I’m going to bed because although it might rain tomorrow, it also might not, in which case I would need to work.

night all

nick

“And they give you cash, which is just as good as money.”

It's Shake n' Bake, and I helped!

Random crap, don’t bother.

So, uhm, I don’t want to be here…

I am pretty tired, and kinda hot, and, well, I am probably just going to do a half-assed job at posting if I do, so, uhm…

But there was a few things I wanted to mention, but there not important…

And it’s not like anybody reads this anymore…

Hmm…

Ok, I guess.

I worked today, but not yesterday, and only a little the day before.

Blog/Website has been re-spidered, so all pages but this one are in search index.

I decided Schwarzenegger and Ventura would be interesting running mates.

Haven’t done any website work in a long time now. Haven’t done baseball cards in a few days either.

If I don’t work tomorrow, I am going to clean/rearrange my room.

I finally found the key to our front door. I lost it like a year ago. Was in center console of the car.

Powerbooks ship with all their install images on a single DVD, rather than 8 install/restore CDs and a system check CD like Jenn’s ibook or 2 Install, 3 restore, and 1 check CD like mine. Is a good idea. iBook is only mac that ships with a CD-Rom option, and thats only available on the low end edu only model.

OK, thats enough. I’m going to bed.

bye,
nick

If the light at the end of the tunnel seems to be coming toward you, rather than you toward it, then you know its not a dream, and you’re just sleep walking down a railroad track.

Expect the Expected

AirFest, Surprise, and Dinner.

Hi all, hope you enjoyed your weekend.

Air show was cool. We were there for about an hour. We got there at 2:30, but a bit before 4 we got tired of it. Saw some planes doing tricks and such, a jet powered Dodge Ram, etc… Left before the F-16, but saw it from my house.

Jenn and I were in her room talking today and I was sitting on her bed. We heard a noise, but it sounded like it was outside or downstairs. We heard it again, and were wondering what it was by that point. Suddenly her bed dropped 5 inches from under me. One of the feet on the bed frame bent and the corner just dropped. It looked like it had been bending bit by bit for a while, and since it was on casters it just gave out and rolled far enough for the weight of me and the bed to crush it right up. We ran to Wal-Mart, but no bed frames so got one at Art Van. Upon disassembling the old frame we found another corner was beginning to bend, and a third corners caster was completely crushed. She said it was like 10 years old, so I guess it lived its life. We are going to paint her headboard before we reattach it. Is a funny pink, we are thinking purple.

I ate at Super Buffet tonight. Is Chinese/Japanese/American all-you-can-eat in Saginaw. They have a sushi bar, but is kinda scared me, didn’t look like much turnover, and old sushi is not good. Over all, I would give a 5. Good selection, but is in saginaw, and could just go to Chen’s. Plus, nasty stomach afterward.

I think thats about all the good stuff. I want to try for the farmers market tomorrow, I’ve felt like some black cherries.

Ok, night, see you, uhm, Thursday.

nick

When you need to keep away rabbit, you use wolf or fox urine, to scare them away.
I propose, we begin distributing elephant urine, to scare away, well, pretty much anything.

Now More Than Before

Awake, Air show, BBDB, Yous, Tired, and OH YEAH!

It’s 1am, and I am wide awake, not a good thing when I have to work in the morning.

Jenn and I got tickets to the airshow for Sunday. Should be cool. The F-16s were practicing today, shook the whole house.

The baseball card DB is going slower than I would have hoped. It’s been nasty hot out so my room is nearly unbareable. Stupid heat, stupid poorly insulated upstairs, stupid no AC. Stupid, stupid stupid.

Anyway…

There aren’t many of you anymore. Mostly has just been Jenn viewing the blogs. Kinda sad. Suchyta is working and has trig class, Jason is either working or with, uhm, I can’t remember her name right now. Scott is with Sarah. I guess summer just isn’t great for blog readership. Funny, because last summer I had alot of people reading, or I though so. Steph, Lauren, Scott, Jason, Nick, John, Troy, a bunch of regulars. But now, squat. Oh well.

Danielle, hah, remembered Jason’s gf’s name.

Ok, I still have a bunch of energy, but my eyes are getting heavy. I am thinking I should try and go to sleep white at least some part of my body is willing to cooperate.

Night all, see you Sunday.

nick

WAIT!

Haha!

I just realized I am supposed to update on friday, not Thursday. So…

I will leave it here, and will add more tonight.

Ok, Im back. Is 9:22 now.

We just had Oasis. Yum, perch. Jenn claims to have never eaten perch. Wow is all I can say.

Not much else. F-16s flew over again today for airshow. Drove dogs crazy.

Ok, bye again.

nick

Click click bloody click PANCAKES!

Double Milestones!

Milestones, Baseball cards, Search, and Poor fish.

Woohoo! I got my 1500th visitor, and my 150th post in the same week. Almost scary.

500 – about 11/26 – John
1000 – 4/07 – Erica
1500 – 7/16 – Jenn

I have decided to catalog all my baseball cards in a database, but FileMaker is proving to be ugly. The basics of it are easy, but making the template look good is a bit difficult.

I can’t really think of what else.

Uhm, I should point out that the search only updates every 2 weeks, so today’s post for example isn’t searchable for about another week.

Also, I have added the site map to the blog links thing, in the upper corner.

And sadly, I have to report that one of Jenn’s fish has passed away. She had 2 goldfish and 2 african frogs.

Ok, my brain crashed, so I am leaving.

See you all Tuesday.

nick

Why is it called a MANual, when no man will ever read it?

Changes

Changes, Apple, and RSS.

You may notice the blog is a bit different. You may also have noticed there was a temporary “down” period yesterday. So what changed? Well, Bravenet was annoying, so I dropped them. That means the second counter has disappeared, along with the poll. The SiteMeter counter is still there, and is accurate. I am awaiting my 1500th visitor, shouldn’t be too long. The poll I haven’t found a replacement for yet. I hope to have a new poll within about a month, but who knows with me. New though is finally a search. At 149 posts (Saturday is 150, woohoo!) I felt a search was needed. The search includes a page that lets me see what the top searches are, top results, etc…, so I will periodically post those. It also provides a site map when it “spiders” my site, so that may be useful to some of you. It isn’t great yet though, so I will need to play with how deep it maps. Right now you can only reach the map from a search page, but I will be adding the link on the main site pages, and on the links in the top right of the blog.

Apple released it’s Q3 today. Two billion dollars in revenue, $61 million in profit, $4.96 billion cash in the bank (yes, cash, for buying smaller companies up generally). Wow. Also, it was confirmed that the reason the iMacs are shipping late is due to IBM’s poor G5 turnout. It isn’t IBM’s fault, 90nm is just really small to be building chips at.

I downloaded NetNewsWire Lite. It is an RSS news program. For those who don’t know, RSS is an online syndication standard, similar to how the Bay City Times gets all the Associated press articles, or how yahoo lists Reuter’s news. I like it so far. I have MacRumors, Space.com, Crazy Apple Rumors Site, Apple Hot News, MacCentral, and of course, my own. Yes, the blog has an RSS feed, it is built into iBlog. So if any of you are using an RSS program, you can get my feed here (Yes, it looks weird if you view it in your browser, all RSS feeds do. I promise it works fine though).

Ok, I have a nasty headache again from the wisdom teeth, so I am going to bed. I can’t believe I wrote this much honestly.

Night, all.
See you Satuday.

Remember: 150th post – Saturday, July 17th 100th general in iBlog – Sunday, August 1st (unless we get a special before then)

nick

Fry, referring to his accidentally nailing his own grandmother, knocking her up, and becoming his own grandfather:
“I did do the nasty in the pasty!”

On time, holy crap!

On time, Apple, Weather, and Job.

I’m on time! Well, I have an excuse (yes, I need an excuse to do things right). I brought my ibook over to Jenn’s so I can update from here.

Apple is at about 99,900,000, so they should certainly reach the 100,000,000 by tomorrow evening. I am impressed at how fast they are accumulating downloads.

It’s really warm out. The good news is it should rain in about 3 hours, thus dropping the temp and humidity. Michigan pisses me off. 63, 65, 55, 90, 85, 65. What the hell? Pick a season and stick with it.

I have folding@home running again. The graphical, regular program. Working fine, and I am glad.

I need a job. Yeah, I do the landscaping thing, but I need a REAL job. I rewrote my resume, and need to start submitting it. I need money, and I need something to do all day, and Jobs are good at solving both of those.

Ok, good night all. I will try to be on time Wednesday too, start a habit of it. And I PROMISE new poll by next post.

bye
nick

When life gives you lemons, you clone those lemons and make SUPER lemons.
(Principal Scudworth, Clone High)