Archive for May, 2005
I have no idea what kind of bird this is, but he shows up at my window at work every morning, stands on the ledge, and stares at me. Before I can get a camera out, he’s gone. I managed to snap a picture of him tonite on a nearby tree. Occasionally he’ll tap on the glass. I’m convinced he’s psychotic and wants to eat my brain or something.
Ever wonder what happens when a 20 pound turkey flies full speed into a plate glass window? Tom (at work) and his family found out the hard way:
Point of impact: Giant plate glass window
The Victim: Poor Mr. Gobbles!
The Result: Giant mess of glass everywhere, embedded into the walls and the floor
This is strangely reminiscent of the Necrophiliac Duck Story (link safe for work).
This stupid movie has me worked up into a froth. Only 15 more hours to wait until I see it, tonite at midnight.
Damn you Lucas!
I caught the last 2 episodes of Enterprise this weekend.
My reviews:
- Terra Prime, Part II
Ok, let’s recap. The space kkk disrupts the interstellar conference of worlds (or whatever) with a giant laser, everyone is all disshelved and messed up, no one wants the conference anymore. A rousing speech from Archer. Once he’s done, they do that clap thing where they move their head back and forth slowly, and clap in huge swaths, slowly at first, and then clapping harder and louder as time goes on.. GGAAAHHHHH!!!!! I really just could not believe the writers of the show could do that. I really, REALLY hate that, more than anything. And no offense, when the bad guy is billed as “The star from Robocop”, it’s time to give up. Give me a f*cking break.
This episode gets a solid F
- These are the voyages…
Ran outta cash to do a space battle, but guess what, we have just enough to pay Mirina Sirtis and Jonathan “Pastries” Frakes to do a cornball clip episode. Oh no! Aliens on board the ship! Commander Tucker is dead all of a sudden. ..crickets.. ..crickets.. . LAME! GAHHHH!!! WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!
This episode gets a solid F-
STUPID. I hate T.V.
Saturday night we went to Braza’s in Hartford. Seriously? You have to go there. There’s no menu, they just keep bringing all this crazy meat to your table with giant swords. It’s completely insane!
Pros:
- Infinite *really good* meat, really good sides
- No menu means you don’t have to make any decisions. For one price, you can have everything they make
- Drinks are super good (good Flan too)
Cons:
- Really noisy
- A little pricey (about the same cost of having dinner in a decent NYC restaurant)
- You will eat so much meat you will have to roll home (I guess this is also a pro)
- Your waiter does not look like Blanka from Street Fighter II
(Although you wish he did)
Some good news! Now that I’m on the latest version of Wordpress and spam filtering is in full effect, I re-opened all my old posts for comments. I’m emotionally preparing myself for full-spam-comment onslaught!
As far as I know, there is no tool in wordpress to do this, I had to go old school on this one:
update b2posts set comment_status = ‘open’
I had the weirdest, SCARIEST episode III dream last night, it was like just too weird to even make any sense. There were these 2 really bad guys, standing on an island surrounded by a sea of molten tar, I think one was supposed to be the emperor and one was Darth Vader. They both had these exposed brains on top of their heads, but they were like hats.. They were like just sitting on top of their heads, and they were talking about something. After awhile, they decide to switch their brain hats, and the second they do that Darth Vader *SOMEHOW* gets all these special powers.. He can fly, and he has this really scary looking face, it’s like a giant black mass with glowing light coming out of fractures in his face.. Then all of a sudden I’m there, for some reason, and darth vader has the special ability to walk across molten tar, except he doesn’t walk he side-shifts, all perfect and smooth, and he starts chasing me around the sea of tar. Somehow I was able to move across the sea of tar too, even though I didn’t have a brain hat, which at the time didn’t make any sense to me. His face was just WAY too scary, and I woke up right before he got me and now I don’t want to see the movie.
Stupid brain.
This was from a few weeks ago, but I randomly decided to replace my upstairs bathroom sink.
Removing the old sink destroyed the laminate on the countertop, so it was unusable..
Not only that, there was some significant water damage to the countertop, because the original caulking wore away.
The empty sink base.
I made a new frame around the sink base for the new sink/countertop to sit on. We decided to get a single piece sink/countertop, because it’s a really good idea and we’re smart.
The new sink, before I put in the new faucet.
Installed! This job was pretty easy, after Michael showed me how to do it.
With the bulk of the kitchen done, it was time for me to start tiling the backsplash. I started about 2 weeks ago.
The left side of the sink, with the placement markings on the wall.
I have to give Chris B some big credit here, without the use of his wetsaw this project would have been impossible. If you ever decide to do tile, DO NOT get a snap cutter. Just rent or buy a wet saw. You can cut any shape you want, and you won’t screw up. It’s a real mess though, and you have to do it outside.
Partially cut tiles, almost ready to go. There are a billion jogs, outlets, and funny corners in the kitchen, so I needed to make cuts to almost half of the tiles I bought. Without the wetsaw, this would have taken days.
More partially cut tiles, waiting to be mounted.
Mixing grout is the worst job ever, because you have to do it completely and you have to do it right. Not wanting to buy a special mixing attachment for my power drill, Toto suggested that I take a kitchen spoon and whittle down the end so it could fit in the chuck of my power drill. Toto is such an idiot, why would anyone ever do what he says…
4 hours after that conversation, I had completed my toto-style grout mixing machine. It worked for about 20 seconds, until the grout got so thick that it broke the spoon. I stirred the rest by hand.
It took about 2 days, but here is the almost-finished product. I still have to seal the tiles, sand off the extra thinset and mortar that got on the walls, and then repaint.
Tile sucks. Too much work.
Last week we took a hike up Talcott Mountain in Simsbury, with the dog. It’s a great place, with some great views, as long as you can tolerate the occasional burst of fully automatic gunfire from the nearby state police shooting range..
Sangi and Karen, looking off an 800 foot drop.
Sangi, nosing around
I smell chipmunks!
Me
Karen and Sangi
I highly recommend this place, if you don’t like hiking very far, and you like really great views.
The guy who used to play Cooter on T.V.’s Dukes of Hazzard used to be a U.S. Congressman, 4th district in Georgia.
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That doesn’t even make any sense.
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