Day off!

Woo hoo...

I actually get two days off in a row this week. Heck, that's four days in four weeks. I'm not gonna know what to do with myself...

Actually I will probably be doing some cleaning of the house and yard tomorrow after hopefully sleeping in. Tmorrow, today, what the fuck ever.

I received in the mail that bottle of mead I ordered a few weeks back. I should have ordered more but I've been conserving money for the trip to Disney in two weeks.

I have drank most of the bottle and lightweight drunk that I am I have quite a nice buzz on.

I was going to save it for the party this weekend but decided to enjoy it myself because that's what kind of guy I am. Joke you if you can't take a fuck...

Party?

Oh yeah. The lovely wife and I will be married 20 years on May 28th. Normally we'd hit the ren fest the following weekend and maybe have a cookout and a party to celebrate, but we will be in Disney World that weekend and the 28th is on a workday for most people this year. NOT a good time to partake in your favorite drink.

Memorial Day weekend, the weekend prior to our Anniversary, is not a good time either. Lots of folks are out of town and I normally work very hard on holiday weekends because all of the jackasses need to get a waffle and eggs in their stomachs before they grill out. WTF?

So this Saturday is our celebration of 20 years of blissful joyful eventful marriage.

All of the above actually.

If you know me then you are invited. If not, well, perhaps you should send an email prior to showing up so that you don't get skewered for being a dick head. There's only room for one of us.

I had originally intended on spending the evening writing but I didn't get home from work until ten and watched LOST until eleven, all the while enjoying this fine bottle of honey mead. Since there most likely won't be any left by the time Saturday gets here you can find more at their web site.

Apparently there is a banner ad running on some of the Islamic web sites known to post messages from Al Qaeda and Bin Laden.

Can't someone find this piece of crap and put a bullet in his head?

According to CNN:

One of the nice benefits of my job is that they reimburse me for 100% of my gas, excepting of course when I am off or on vacation. Since I rarely do anything on my off days this ends up being everything I spend on it, which is around $60-70 a week.

So I stop at the Racetrac after my meeting this afternoon and I was only putting in about $13, figuring that I would fill up after I get paid tomorrow. Since I was paying in cash, which is something I rarely do, I had to prepay for the gas. When I went in to get the receipt all they gave me was this damned slip that said "Prepay Gars $13". I asked for the gas receipt that showed how mu gas I actually pumped, since that's what is required to turn in on my expense report.

"Oh, we can't do that, the only way you can get that kind of receipt from prepay gas is if you sign up for our prepay card"

Thanks but no fucking thanks, I'll just make sure NOT to stop at Racetrac anymore and take my $300 a month elsewhere.

Assholes.

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Last week I posted that one from work. Yet again this week I managed to shoot one at work that while not really a tramp stamp is certainly interesting as hell.

This one was also taken with my Blackberry. The lighting inside just sucks for taking photos with my phone.

I'm a bit late with this but better late than never I suppose.

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Man we had some pretty bad weather come through the area Sunday morning. When I went to bed Saturday night I noticed that we were under a Tornado watch but the skies were pretty clear and it certainly wasn't raining.

We signed for the Weather Channel's call alert or something like that. Basically when threatening weather is coming your way the bald dude from the weather channel calls to let you know you might be fucked. At least his recording does, but I like to think they are making him get out of bed at 2AM just to call my ass...

So we started getting calls at around 2AM Sunday morning. What a coincidence. We got a total of three I think and it was a pretty rough storm. I didn't get much sleep after that. We moved the girls downstairs to sleep on the living room floor in case me had to make a mad dash for the basement or anything. Surprisingly enough we only lost power briefly, for less than a minute. That's lucky considering some of the folks in Bowdon still don't have power. Bowdon is south of me. From what I've seen we didn't get too much damage north of I-20 but there was quite a bit in Carrollton and Bowdon. Although two people died here in Georgia, nobody was killed in my area, thank goodness. At least six tornadoes went through the state but they don't have a final number yet.

There are a ton of pictures in a couple of galleries at WSB TV's web site if you want to check some of them out. There was quite a bit of damage to the Bowdon area. Two of my morning waitresses at the Temple store live there and luckily they were alright. I heard from one of the pretty early Sunday morning but the other couldn't get to a phone until that afternoon so we were pretty worried about her.

All in all 24 people died throughout Georgia, Oklahoma, Missouri and Alabama and we are still trying to get stuff cleaned up.

I understand that Macon was also hit pretty hard. A bunch of the upper management from my company went down there to work today. I guess since there were so many people without power they were very busy. My Area VP called the see if I could send anyone or go myself but I wasn't able to get things staffed to get out of my stores or else I would have gone.

I got off on sort of a strange tangent yesterday morning. I have been pretty tired the last few weeks, working my ass off and I guess I just sort of got well away from what I had originally planned on posting. That's what I get from putting in the title first, although I've had some pretty decent entries after sitting down with only a title.

Anyhow, lately I have been getting more than my share of spam comments and MT isn't catching them all with the settings I have, so I end up manually deleting them (after flagging them). The same thing goes for trackbacks as well. I hate spam. There are some other options of course but I did away with the captcha because it's a pain in the ass and I don't plan on putting them back in, nor do I want to go to registrations being required. It's a fucking quandary I suppose.

I thought that I might have some free time yesterday to work on getting some new pictures online but it didn't work out quite as planned.

I had a pretty tough day at work but I did manage to get out of there at a decent enough time. Went straight to the gym and worked out with the weight machines for an hour or so. I'll tell you what, I can certainly feel the difference. I can't see it yet, although the wife says she can.

Once I arrived home I got sucked into watching Independence Day. No matter how many times I've seen that stupid-assed movie, if it comes on I will sit down and enjoy watching it. By the time it was over supper was almost ready. Man, that was good. Pan-fried fish dipped in corn meal, broccoli and green beans cooked in garlic butter and fried potatoes. Probably not so good for the cholesterol but it damn sure tasted great.

I just pretty much surfed the web after that. There were several things I wanted to write about, like the fact that nasty old global warming has caused Montana to get 16" of snow. In fucking May. 16". What's up with that shit? I though even in the rockies heavy snow was over early last month or even in March. Or how about the fact that Obama thinks we have 57 states in the Union. He must have missed the day on geography. I'll bet he thinks Chicago is the capitol of fucking Illinois too. That's something you should know without having to look it up.

Speaking of weather, we have had some pretty crappy stuff moving through west Georgia the last few hours. That's probably the only reason I got out of bed in time to post this prior to going to work. Most of the northern part of the state has been under a tornado watch all night and for a while the thunderstorms got pretty wild. What was possibly a tornado moved through my county, but south of here and heading toward Atlanta. It seems that the worst of it has passed through now. The power went out for a short time and I made sure to get clothes together for the girls in case we had to get in the basement quickly. They got to make pallets on the living room floor last night, which they enjoy doing.

I suppose that's about it this morning. Since I am running a bit short on time today I am just going to add my Green Thumb Sunday to this post :)

Maybe it's cheating but it's certainly expedient...

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This is one of the Bougainvillea vines that lives in my backyard. When I get home from work I'll see about posting a better photo than this one. I tokk quite a few pictures the other day and some video of the baby birds under my back deck as well. I just haven't moved them off of the memory card in my camera yet. Depending on what time I get home from work today perhaps I can get some of them online.

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This weeks PhotoHunt Saturday theme is ANY Photo I want! Since I've been posting pictures from the Ren Fest off and on I thought I would put it up. I may have already posted this one, can't really remember...

Right before the wife shot the picture I asked the overgrown Ewok which one of us was ugly enough to break the camera. Thus the pointy finger. He did take offense to being called a giant ewok though for some reason...

Unless something comes up over at CNN that I want to post about I am getting ready to hit the sack. I just realized however that I had not taken the time to post about getting my blood drawn this morning.

Having my blood drawn seems to have turned into a full-blown goatfuck ordeal over the last few years.

The last few times I have gone they have had to stick me several times and after four or five times digging around in my arm with a needle they take it out of my hand. Shit, they can stick one right in a vein and no blood comes out.

Guess I am actually dead and just don't know it...

Anyway, I made sure to drink a big glass of water prior to going to bed last night and then drank two or three more when I got up this morning so that I wouldn't be dehydrated when they went to poke me.

Fuck all, it still took three times. Here's this woman digging around my fucking arm with a big old needle saying "tell me if it hurts". Shit, unless you rip something loose I'm not saying a damn thing, just get the blood.

She finally stuck one in the top of my hand and it came right out.

Either I need to go in and just slash away with my pocket knife to help them out or start drinking water like a week before hand. My arm is still sore where she jammed the gottdamned needle into my arm.

All to get my cholesterol checked so my Doc can renew my prescription next month. What a damned dog and pony show.

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So I am still fighting the smoking. I cut down to almost nothing and finally quit for a couple of weeks and then started having one or two here and there. I have had a pretty hard month at work. Not an excuse but I guess working 17 days straight kicked my ass because I have purchased cigarettes twice.

Haven't had one in two days now and it sucks quitting again because I am going through the same damned withdrawals I went through last month. Doh!

I am starting to seriously consider getting hypnotized but I am afraid that I will come out of there barking like a chicken or whatnot...

Oh by the way...since Eric's out of town I stole the keys to his site and managed to cross-post this over there as well...

It's funny some of the things people search for on the Internet. Fortunately when you come here a record of your search terms comes along as well and I get to see what brought you here! Some of the things make sense and some don't. Here is a smattering of the wonderful searches that brought folks here over the last hour.

Ajax Foster Care Numbers - While I wouldn't be searching for foster care this is a completely normal thing that I might find myself looking for. I usually start out by searching for "so and so home page" and normally the address and phone number are listed there. So why did they come here? Fuck if I know. I have posted in the past about Ajax, as in Javascript and I have also posted about foster care as in the FLDS but how the heck did they find my sight with that search and actually get off the right track. Apparently in Google Canada I am number 6 on that search. The township of Ajax and phone numbers is #1 but the article I wrote on the FLDS children must have been more attractive than their initial search.

Single Moms Looking to Date - Oh hell yeah. I don't have them beating down my doors but if they are looking for a date I can find them one for a nominal charge but I get to take pictures...Believe it or not I am #1 at Google for this search. Sweet. Gotta keep that one.

The next two were from Blogcatalog and someone going through Google to translate one of my entries on Brianna Denison into Italian.

The Doll Palace - I wrote a review of this site that my daughter uses well over a year ago. Nothing particularly amazing.

Brianna Denison - Obviously I wrote several posts about Brianna and quite a bit of traffic from them.

Funny Interests - Funny interests? Not I apart from my goats...

Watching deleted Youtube Videos - I always get hits from this. It's the 10th and 12th most searched for term that brings people here.

Americans are Uneducated - Apparently someone has been spending too much time here dumbing themselves down. I am apparently #1 on this Google search, resulting from a post I wrote entitled Sevenload Thinks Americans are Uneducated LAST March responding to their comment on my site about Guantanamo Bay and the execution of Saddam.

Last but not least is the latest search which was Stuff People Stick Up Their Ass...Now there's someone after my own heart. I used to get nasty searches for Beef Curtains and other stuff quite often but lately they have all pertained to murders and missing people, which of course I have been writing about. It's nice to see there are still degenerates on the Internet. I'll bet the bastard was looking for pictures too!

Just in case I don't get to post one later this weekend, this is my open track-back post for the weekend of May 9th-11th which also happens to be Mother's Day weekend! Happy Mother's Day!

If you don't know what a linkfest is go over and check out the link above. Basically the way it works is that if there is a post you want folks to see, maybe something you are proud of, important news, or just pictures you want to share, you send a trackback or linkback to this post. All of the sites that have linked to it are listed below along with the title of the entry they want you to come see. It's a great way to share your work with other people and can help build traffic to your site.

Here's the deal though, if you aren't really a blog or are just spamming me with trackbacks I will remove it.

There are plenty of folks that participate in Linkfests and there are even a couple of different blogrolls to join. You can find them linked on my blogrolls page.

It's pretty funny how this stuff comes around. I mentioned earlier about Casinos and then realized that back in September I had written about a site catering to the Mac crowd. It's not specifically just for Mac users but does lean more toward them. The site is Mac Poker Online. Since I visited the site last fall there have been a couple of updates and there seem to be a bunch of new links. That's pretty cool.

Pacific Poker still looks pretty cool to me although I was reading a bit about Fulltilt Poker, which seems pretty neat as well. Fulltilt Poker offers a bunch of the standard games such as Texas Hold'em, Hi/Lo, Omaha, Seven Card Stud and Razz. There are tournaments to join as well as private games if you are an affiliate or VIP.

Several of the casinos linked to from Mac Poker Online offer Online Casino Bonuses for signing up and most of them allow you to check it out without making any kind of upfront payment.

As I mentioned last September, if you are checking out a site linked to from Mac Poker Online make sure that they welcome U.S. players as quite a few of the online casinos don't allow you to play if you are in the United States.

Sorry about no Thursday posts. I completely missed the thirteen and the thongs :( I wonder how pissed they would be if I combined Thursday Thirteen and Thursday Thongs? You know, Thirteen Thursday Thongs...

Sounds good to me anyway.

I mentioned the other day that I was going back through my music library and culling out the duplicate tracks and the ones that are corrupt. I ended up with something like 8100 songs. Of course some of them are still duplicated. It's amazing how many times a song can show up on 'greatest hits' albums for bands like Aerosmith among others. I ended up deleting about 20 gigs worth though, I had somewhere around 30k songs at one point. That means that 22 thousand songs were duplicates, corrupt, cut short, or just crap I wanted to get rid of. Most of the CDs are in my basement, if I ever want them back I can dig them up and listen to them that way I suppose. I am still tempted to go back through and delete even more, although some of the stuff that the wife enjoys I might not, and vice versa.

Except for messing with the music I spent the entire day yesterday sleeping. The last three weeks have kicked my ass. Having two days off hasn't fixed the problem but it certainly went a long way toward helping it out. I napped for a couple of hours this afternoon as well (exciting life ain't it?) but I tried not to overdo things today.

I'll be back online a bit later. I have to go pick the girls up from school. I had blood drawn earlier and once again they had to stick me several times so I need to vent about that later.