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New Additions

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

BaileySo over the past two weeks we have gained a new addition to our little family. Billy discovered a kitten from the litter that the stray had in our backyard swimming in the pool. It was making laps around because it couldn’t get out and it was running out of will quickly. He was able to scoop it out with the net and brought it into the house. We nursed it back to health and dried it out, but the little thing is just so cute we had to keep him. He appears to be a Himalayan (long haired, colored like a Siamese, with short legs). His eyes are the prettiest blue color, and I hope they stay that way. It has taken us two weeks now to decide on a name for the little guy. After much debate we decided on Bailey; mostly because he’s the color of Bailey’s Irish Creme. I wish he’d stay a tiny kitten forever but I know he won’t.

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Getting Better

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

I’m feeling better today, I can’t speak for Billy though. The sound of football is prowling through the house making today a rather boring Sunday. While I’d rather gouge my eyes out than watch a game there just isn’t anything else to do. I can’t hang out with anybody for fear of getting them sick so I’m pretty much just stuck at home. I don’t even want to be in my room because I’ve seen so much of it the past few days. I could clean, lord knows it needs it; but what’s the point anyway? It won’t stay clean.

Billy has apparently moved on from ultralight ciggarettes to menthol. I can’t say I’m happy about that, but what can I do about that either. I was hoping he’d try and quit again but, that’s not going to happen I guess.

Twitter is becoming the bain of my existence it seems. Not the actual service but more so the iPhone clients. They all seem to have some caveat of equal but completely different annoyance. Twitterrific doesn’t do push and loads slow, Echofon has push but it’s far from instant, and it doesn’t support display names only usernames. Tweetie just doesn’t do anything worthwhile at all. Wait I didn’t tag this post as a rant so I should quit while I’m ahead…

I hate being sick, it messes up your routine. I should be hungry, but I’m not. I want to eat, but I don’t even know if it would be a meal or just eating for the sake of eating. Ugh, there isn’t anything to eat in the house anyway.

I’m going to miss the new Family Guy tonight because Desperate Housewives is starting up!!! I have so many shows to keep up with downloading. Desperate Housewives, Family Guy, Cleveland Show, American Dad, the Simpsons; and that’s just Sundays. I have a weekly lineup too! I’m going to fill up this terabyte drive I bought (just for my iTunes library) pretty quick at this rate. Oh and not to spoil the Cleveland Show for anyone who hasn’t seen the pilot yet (it’s been all over the Internet all summer), the show looks good, but not great.

Well this killed a few minutes of the day. I purposly typed it on my phone for that very reason.

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Here comes the rain again

Friday, September 25th, 2009

I think we are all slowly getting sick around the house. Billy got it first and we aren’t 100% sure exactly where he got it from. It seems to just be an annoying cold so hopefully nothing too major. Each day it seems like another one of us gets the symptoms. I don’t think (knock on wood) that my version is nearly as severe as his. I started taking airborne as soon as he got sick so maybe that will help. My mom started feeling bad today, she said everyone has been sick where she works too so I guess it’s just going around.

Even being sickly though I still was able to beat GTA-IV today! I’ve only had the game for a year now. In all fairness it wasn’t until recently that I was all that into trying to beat it. I kinda want to buy an Xbox360 but I’m also afraid I’ll just spend all that money on it and it’ll collect dust like the ps3 and wii do. Maybe I should sit down and play some more of the Lego wii games we have. There are plenty of other things I’d probably get more use out of to spend that money on.

Oh, and I don’t know how many out there reading my blog are local; but as you might have heard we in Atlanta had a really severe flood earlier this week. Thankfully while our neighborhood sits in a hole our house sits pretty high up so we are safe. Our yard and pool on the other hand got everyone else’s runoff it seems. While it has dried out the ground is still saturated and we are in for more flood weather tonight and tomorrow (5″ of rain expected). I don’t mind the thunder and lightning, or even the rain; I just hope the power doesn’t go out for very long.

Well I better get back to watching deal or no deal with my mom, lol. Especially as the directv is expected to go out as soon as a rain drop fall.

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Finally!!!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Let me preface this by saying that I absolutely love my MacBook Air.

But…

I’ve owned it for over a year now, and ever since its purchase it has had one big plaguing problem. It has a tendency to overheat when doing mildly intensive tasks (mainly video/flash playback, or other intensive tasks). Now I know this is an ultraportable machine designed for use on the go, and its not intended to be a main workhorse computer. I do use this as my main machine, mainly because I hate having to keep track of all my files across various machines. For me, I don’t generally do many graphics or processor intensive tasks. I do encode video (tv shows) for playback and storage in iTunes on my television, however I store those on the Mac Mini that is attached to the tv and it has a faster processor; so it gets to have that fun. With my photography I do edit photos, but I absolutely hate Photoshop (mainly due to its complex nature, and all the classes I’ve taken in photoshop have taught me nothing) so I use Pixelmator (which runs so much better on any machine). So as you can see the only problem I should be having is storage, since this machine was only available with a 60gb SSD or 80gb ATA (and I have the 80gb). I’d love to have an SSD but thats a story for another day.

Now this overheating issue use to be much worse, Apple has issued a firmware update that helped mildly. No longer did it simply shut down one of the cores to cut back on heat problems, now it just scales back processing so bad that watching youtube videos are impossible. Playback becomes so choppy that you can’t make it through an entire video. It would get so hot trying to play freaking farmville on facebook (flash content) that it got out of sync with the server because of how slow it was loading.

On to this magical fix; and no I didn’t buy a Rev. B or C MacBook Air to replace it. There is a utility called CoolBook that allows mac users to effectively under-clock the processor. This utility lets you specify the voltage the processor is getting when its running at different speeds. This doesn’t change the speeds, just the amount of power its consuming, therefore keeping it from getting nearly as hot. This also has a side benefit of using less battery power and giving you more time away from the plug. The utility is $10.00 and its attached to the computer you are using so it isn’t transferrable, its tied along with its serial to the machine. I installed it earlier today, and while it has gotten warm, it hasn’t gotten nearly as hot. I’ve been able to watch all the things on youtube I’ve missed out on! Hell i’m tempted to install iMovie and see how well it’ll create them.

While I am in the minority for people that own Airs, I still have to say its a wonderful everyday main machine for my uses, and I love it. Just now, I love it even more.

– Posted From My MacBook Air

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Revalation

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

I’ve had this big revalation (right this minute actually) of which proves that the people that design and create products aren’t the people that actually use them. Let me feed your minds here. What moron keeps putting the cords on upright vacuum cleaners at the bottom? I know I am not the only one that has to hold the cord in my hand (the same hand that is holding the handle mind you) to keep it from sucking it up and getting in the way. If the cord came out of the top of the handle it would already be where we have to hold it and you wouldn’t have to bend over to unwrap it. The damn vacuum has been around for how many decades and we haven’t fixed this? I don’t have a damn dyson but I wouldn’t think this would need that much research to do people. Just proves that the men who design and build vacuums obviously aren’t the ones that have to use the bitches, am I right housewives? I thought so. I bet a woman came up with he roomba; probably Peggy Bundy (my hero). Where’s Oprah?

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Florida

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

August 8th – August ? I honestly don’t know when we are coming home yet; I just know we finally decided that we are leaving on the eighth. Look out redneck riveria, here we come!

I expected that train of thought to go further than that, guess I was mistaken. I honestly haven’t meant to be so distant from my blog. I’ve sat infront of marsedit several times, I see the blogpress icon on my phone all the time. Hell even my homepage in firefox is my blog URL! It’s just everytime I’ve tried to sit down and write my mind goes blank. The best thoughts come in the bathtub, and I’m just too afraid of my phone going for a swim to risk it.

It isn’t just the blog I’ve been distant from, I’ve neglected people in general lately too. Not so much on purpose, but there is just a lot of things going on at home lately. It seems as though the few free moments I have are when people want to plan something and the future is so sketchy I just can’t plan. I hate looking like all the flakes I hate but I seriously have other shit to do. Just because I’m not doing anything at the moment doesn’t mean I want to get up, shower, shave, drive across the city to meetup for an hour.

Ugh I’m so tired of trying to make new friends too. People just don’t get it, just because I’ll chat with you for five minutes online doesn’t mean I want to meet you in person. And what part of “I have a boyfriend” makes anyone think sexual banter is an appropriate greeting, much less a conversation starter. “Other Person: Whatsup?” “Me: Driving to my friends house” “Other Person: Ooh are y’all gonna fuck?” WTF is that? Why would someone even go there? The same person messaged me online two days later asking what I was doing, I replied “laying in bed” and they come back with “naked?” no fucker I’m not naked, I don’t sleep naked, and I don’t see why it’s any of your concern! People suck. Why is it so hard to make friends with people based on common interest? The few people that are my friends can certainly attest that “sex” is not on my list of common interests.

This seems to be going more and more downhill the more I type… Let’s see if I can come up with something positive that’s happened recently (besides this future run to Florida).

Oh! My new mirrors came the other day. Paint came out fantastic too! I installed them on the car, and Billy did the wiring. Everything works except the heating elements, but it was getting late that night and we kept blowing the fuse so we decided to come back and attack that after some rest. Hooray for small victories right? Here I’ll attach a picture. I know everyone has been hearing me bitch about UPS being so slow at delivering them.

Mirror (Turn-signal On) Mirror (Turn-signal Off)

You will have to excuse my car (especially the wheels) for being dirty, it’s rained everyday here lately. The car came with plain power mirrors, and the heated/folding/signal mirrors were part of a $6000 option package I didn’t want. I paid $300 for these from the dealer, plus paint. Not a bad savings if I do say so myself *toots horn*.

I also appologize for the image quality and the formatting of them in the post, the whole thing was done from my phone. I’ll fix the markup when I’m infront of my laptop.

I think I’ve taken up enough of your time with my blabbering; more to follow later.

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

I Hate Georgia

Friday, June 19th, 2009

It’s way to hot here during the summer for us not to have a beach. We practically have Florida heat and humidity without the ability to escape it. What makes this so much worse is our air conditioner died earlier this week. So it gets into the mid 90′s during the afternoon and just never seems to cool off in the house. I want to go stay in a hotel for a few days, but yea that isn’t going to happen.

I’m starting to grow annoyed with some people. Just because 99% of the time you’re sketch and the one time you actually try and plan something; don’t expect me to be free willing and able! I do have a life of my own and less than 24 hours notice for this crap doesn’t cut it. You’re busy yourself so don’t think less of the rest of the world.

The iPhone Dev-Team needs to hurry up with the 3.0 Jailbreak & Ultrasn0w… I’m getting really antsy; everyone I know that has an AT&T locked iPhone has updated and I don’t like being behind the times here. It’s always nice to shove my lower T-Mobile bill in their face and say HA! Come on Dev-Team, don’t let us down, it was supposed to come out today lets make it happen!!!

– Posted From My MacBook Air

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Unemployment Office

Monday, June 1st, 2009

I always have funny thoughts while waitin online at the unemployment office. Today I’m here on Billy’s behalf, I’m just here to keep him company while he waits. But on to the random thoughts…

1.) Waiting here makes me feel like Destiny’s Child ” Say my name, say my name…” That was probably cuter in my head rather than out loud.

2.) There is this old white man working here that has grey hair and a mustache. He looks like a cross between Mark Twain, Alex Trebeck, Colonel Sanders, and Orville Redenbacher *giggles* (yes I had to look up how to spell the popcorn dudes name). Oh oh; with a touch of Wilfred Brimley. He’s truely an ugly old man.

3.) There is this ‘latino’ (bare with me I have to guess at this point, there are more nationalities here than a farmers market) guy here and he totally has a faux hawk to turns into a mullet in the back. It’s hilarious! I do like his shirt and pants, but dude there is no party back there.

4.) Speaking of celebraty look-a-likes; we have also seen Sammy Davis JR and Florida Evans (from Good Times, I seriously can’t remember her real name and with no service I can’t look it up). Now all I need are George and Weezey and we’ll have a new sitcom!

5.) I’m not scrolling back up to add this but I totally just noticed the mullet guy with nice clothes has the ugliest shoes. He’s wearing a black t-shirt and nice black jeans with white cow-boy boots. Which does indeed confirm the ‘Latino’ question from earlier.

6.) And there is Al Bundy. He must’ve given up shoes for government work.

7.) Someone sitting around me smells like fruitloops.

8.) They’re playing Willy Wonka in the ‘drop your brats off here’ room. I hate that movie, both versions too. It always creeped me out as a kid. I don’t want to have to listen to the songs from it out here. Pure Imagination my ass.

9.) FYI it’s about 2 degrees above seeing your own breath in here. The air conditioning is nice but my joint are starting to hurt. We’ve been in here waiting for 3 hours now.

10.) I’m going to have to eat an airborne tablet when we get home. I’m sure being exposed to this place for this long can kill. Prolly get swine flu, bird flu, aids, who knows what else.

11.) Hahahahaha! I’m shocked I can still find thins to notice after this long. This little Indian boy at the table next to us is playing his Nintendo DS and he keeps mumbling “giggidy giggidy goo.” it’s like being in an episode of Family Guy.

God I hope they call Billy’s name soon I’m freakin starving! Oh and I won’t get to post this till we leave here so it’ll be running a little behind. I have no cellphone reception in here, although everyone else seems to. So hopefuly by the time you read this I will have eaten and won’t be gnawing on the random person next to me’s leg anymore.

4.5 hours was the whole wait time.

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Norcross GA, United States

Another Margarita Please

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

I have adopted my mothers mentality when it comes to yard work; it’s much better to watch the men work from beside (or inside) the pool. My parents are building this cabanna in the backyard off the patio, for all intensive purposes we’ll call it a covered pavillion. Eventually it will house an outdoor kitchen, bar, dining area, and possibly a sitting area. Hell I probably have mentioned all of this before. Anyway, Billy and my Father have been working on it all day, while my mom and I watch. I hve gotten a good amount of sun today so maybe I’ll get some color from this. I was supposed to change the oil in my moms car today but my dad neglected to go buy the stuff to do it so I guess I have something to look forward to tomorrow *twirls finger*.

Andy is supposed to bring Matt over later. Billy mentioned something about dinner but I’ve been left in the dark otherwise. I really do have more to say than just this, maybe I’ll throw up another post later and explain my “blah-ness” lately; for the moment though the landscape text entry mode on my phone is pissing me off with blogpress and it shouldn’t have taken nearly this long to type this little.

I’m out children *waves*

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States

Mothers Day

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

It’s not a holiday I loath, I love my mom! I got her a nice group of scented items from Bath & Body Works and we took her to brunch. Unfortunatly as we speak I’m sitting at the hibachi. I am certainly not a big Japanese Food fan, but we brought my grandmother (whom I love also) so I’ll suffer through it.

– Posted From My iPhone

Location: Lawrenceville GA, United States