Archive for December, 2005

Recollections

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

Today being the last day of the year I find myself thinking of the years past. What I have done, have seen, been doing with my time.

It has been a big year. I got married, knocked up my wife, and stole her dog. I switched to macs and bought the newest car that I have ever had.

In January I learned that I will never have another kitten. I didn’t want this one that we had but in January it was reinforced. She would quit jumping on the furniture and stealing the (at the time) girlfriends hair scrunches. She would run all over the house, running into stuff and making noise at all hours of the day. God it drove me nuts!

In February, I learned that I was a angry girl when I grew up. Or would have been if I was a girl.

In March I was reminded that kids love boxes. Just as i did when i was a kid so do kids of today. I brought home a box from work and the neighborhood kids went nuts. The Boy didn’t really know what to do with it since he was a wee boy of 3 at the time. But he did have fun also.

Aprils lesson was that i should never let anyone borrow my tools over night. If they someone needs to borrow a tool i will take it to them and bring it home with me the same night. No more of the, just bring it back to me stuff.

In May I finally joined the other 8% of the real computing world. I bought my mac. Sure it is a second hand G3 model. But it is a mac and ever since i got it i have not used my windows laptop. Who would have ever known that computing and living digitally would be this easy.

June is my wedding anniversary month. But one thing I discovered in June was that the DMV sucks ass!

In July I learned that you should never trust the crack head that works at Wal(we sell legal drugs)greens. I bought some sunscreen which she said I would tan very nicely with. But in reality I burned like a piece of bacon. My foot was cooked. and I’m not talking in generalities. It was cooked. And the rest of me didn’t look to good either. Thank goodness I didn’t turn over.

August I was made aware of my road rage abilities. This ass-munch was really close to learning why one should never stay on my bumper while I drive.

September is when I learned that I impregnated my wife. She is due May 31 and this child will be my first biological child. You should start sending me gifts now. Because, this child will be the one to rule the world and you want to be in its good graces.

In October I found out how good life is without Bill Gate$. It had been 4 months with the iBook and i had all but stopped using my old laptop. Life was good.

November was the month of a good plumbing lesson. I went to fix the leaking faucet in the bath tub and in the process i broke the entire valve off the wall. So i had to fix it quick that day because the wife and kid had yet had a bath. Good thing my father is in the know when it comes to this kind of stuff.

I didn’t do much blogging this month. I think i just became lazy with it. But one thing i did learn this month was the fun that christmas brings one when you have a child to share it with. Last year The Boy was 3 and just on the verge of enjoying christmas. But this year he was excited about it. He would walk around singing songs, asking when santa would come and just begging to open a door to his Lego Advent Calendar. It was great fun.

So with this entry i say farewel to 2005. I hope my 2006 will be just a fun as this year was.

Have a happy new year!

Flock

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Have you checked this out yet. There is a new browser in the works. Its a mozilla clone called Flock. What makes this browser so special is that it is geared to the blogging crowd. So far its in beta and they tell you that it is in no way ready for everyday use. But they allow you to check it out all the same.

As I use it. It seemed to do just fine. One of the coolest things i think it has is a internal blog editor. Not the most robust one i have seen. It definitely doesn’t stand up to ecto, but it does a good job. It has a built in spell check and format tools to help post with tags and bigger fonts.

You can highlight a part of a webpage you want to blog about. Right click on it, and click “Blog this” and it will open a new blog post editor with the selected content. Another really cool thing is it has what they call a shelf. The Shelf is for when your just crusin the web and you run across a cool site or thing or graphic or midget sex video. You can place it on the shelf for future blogging. How cool is that!?

It has new way of doing favorites also. Instead of being held on your system. It keeps them on line and is compatible with del.icio.us right out of the gate so you can share your favorites with the world. Yeah I know, who really cares about your porn collection.

I really hope this project continues. I really like to have a choice of browsers and since i still haven’t found firefox as amazing as everyone else. This has caught my eye. Go check it out.

Oh, and by the way. This post was done with Flock. It seems to be only compatible with Movable Type and WordPress.

Merry Christmas

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

To all my readers whom celebrate christmas.

Merry Christmas! I hope the holiday brings all best wishes to you and yours.

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Christmas Music Mix

Monday, December 12th, 2005

I started doing this last year. A mix cd of some of my favorite songs for the christmas season. Last years was a lot of southpark songs mixed with some of the standards.

This year I went with some moldy oldies, mixed with some remakes that are unknown to most of the people I know.

So for all my readers (all 2 of you) here is the track list for you to spend your money on.

Merry Chirstmas 2005

1. White Christmas – Bing Crosby
2. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) – Nat King Cole
3. Christmas In Hollis – The A.K.A.’s
4. Jingle Bells – Diana Krall & They Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra
5. Twelve Days of Xmas – Relient K
6. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Death Cab For Cutie
7. O Holy Night – Christina Aguilera
8. Christmas for Cowboys – Jars of Clay
9. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town – Bruce Springsteen
10. Feliz navidad – Jose’ Feliciano
11. A Holly Jolly Christmas – Burl Ives
12. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / We Three Kings – Barenaked Ladies (With Sarah Mclachlan)
13. Mele Kalikimaka – Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
14. Christmas Island – Leon Redbone
15. Winter Wonderland – Eurythmics
16. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – John Cougar Mellencamp
17. Baby It’s Cold Outside – Leon Redbone & Zooey Dechanel
18. Let it Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow – Lena Horne
19. Santa baby – Eartha Kitt
20. I Won’t Be Home for Christmas – Blink-182
21. Belleau Wood – Garth Brooks

Check back on Christmas, I may have a Radio Blog up and running of this playlist so you can listen to it while you open your gifts.

Holiday Stick

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

So as this holiday is in motion. I have come to find myself hating this taking christmas out of the holiday season. Commercials are remaking Christmas songs with the word holiday replacing the word christmas. Walmart is or is not telling its employees to not say Merry Christmas. Target is selling upside down trees in hope to sell more gifts to fit under it. Its all to disconcerting.

So this is where my ideal of the Holiday Stick comes into play.

Holiday_stick

Unlike the Festivus pole, which is aluminum for its strength-to-weight ratio, it is just a piece of wood. Erected in a vertical fashion.

It can be decorated with anything you like. If your jewish, you can put a menorah on top with stars of david all over it. For chirstmas you may like to put an angle or star at top with other ordaments around it, using the optional pegs. for kwanza, well how ever you decorate for that you can do also, it’s a stick for pete’s sake.

On top of all of the December holidays, you could use the Holiday Stick for other holidays. Say for Valentines Day. Put some Hearts on it and there ya go. St. Patrick’s Day, 4th of July, there all taken care of with the Holiday Stick.

And to keep with the commercialization of the holidays you can fit as many gifts around the Holiday stick. The only ceiling for the stack of gifts is the one of the room you put it in. So keep buying those gifts.