I know I’ve been complaining the past few weeks about how we have gotten screwed out of a good winter storm at least 3 times already this year, so let me just say “you were right” to all those people telling me to STFU. After getting up at 10am and spending a good couple hours outside in the snow clearing 9″ from the drive & sidewalks as well as helping the neighbors, I was officially cured of the gin hangover I woke up with care of Justin and his Feliz Navidad party (which we left from at 4:30am).

When I finally came inside, C was watching the beginning of The Fellowship Of The Ring on tv. Not being one for edits, commercials, and crappy formatting-for-tv when I have the complete set of super special widescreen extended edition (uber geeky abbreviation alert) LotR movies, I threw the first DVD in. Ten hours later we completed the entire trilogy.

It was worth every minute.

If you’re like me, you’re never going to deploy Windows CRAP Extreme Edition (Vista) on anything, ever. I tried to blog about having to deploy Vista to a user here on a new notebook but couldn’t (I have received complaints that when I swear on the blog it blocks some people out from viewing the site, suckers).

Anyway, the bottom line: don’t.

If you ARE stuck with Vista, consider upgrading to XP. You’ll thank yourself, and I’ll thank you because you won’t be calling me for help.

Will the people that think inflatable lawn ornaments are not tacky please move to the front of the bus? You’re getting off at the next stop – someplace other than a city near me.

I’m going to have to start carrying my pocket knife around.

PROBLEM. SOLVED.

I’m like most people in that I have my normal thing I do every day while getting ready for work. I make coffee, shower, shave, iron the work shirt, eat something quick, grab a coffee-to-go, water & lunch, and I’m out the door.

This morning I somehow ruined my routine. At some point while grabbing a coffee, I couldn’t find the spoon to stir in the cream & sugar that I had JUST gotten out. Strange.

Well I just got to work, and I found it. In my cup of coffee. After it tried to kill me by jumping down my throat.

Oops.

My wife (yes, it’s still weird saying that) is gone for the weekend, and the first things I think of are YES I CAN PARK IN THE DRIVE WAY ALL WEEKEND and SEAFOOD FOR DINNER EVERY NIGHT.

What a party.

[15:57] sradams88: there is no emoticon to display my mental constipation

Steve is an internet n00b and doesn’t know about Google.
Behold the power of the internet:

Get over yourself.
Seriously.

Just because my silly FREE PHONE from T-mobile rings while you are watching a movie on your iPhone does not give you the right to turn around and give me the BET-YOUR-PHONE-CAN’T-DO-THIS dirty look.

F off.

Greenpeace has been running a vote to name their adoptive whale in a campaign to bring attention to whaling in the modern era. Thanks to an anonymous internet “clickster” and a bunch of posts in the blogosphere and beyond, the name “Mister Splashy Pants” is now overwhelmingly in the lead with 73% of the vote, while the closest competitor is holding at a mere 3%.

^{Courtesy of Reddit}

In all seriousness though, how can you not vote for Mister Splashy Pants? Please. With other overly thoughtful, trite, and patronizing names such as Libertad (‘freedom’ in Spanish), Malaya ( ‘free’ in Filipino), or Kaimana (‘divine power of the ocean’ in Polynesian), Mr. Pants seems the only choice.

Despite the obvious internet skew on the poll, kudos to Greenpeace for running with it despite an outcome they probably hadn’t anticipated. It does however draw attention (and will continue to do so as Mr. Pants makes his rounds on the internet) to their Great Whale Trail Expedition.

So do your part and vote for Mister Splashy Pants!

C and I went to a Redwings game last night, and we won 5-3 breaking a 2 game losing streak. I think we need to go to more home games to help keep them in 1st place.

The above image is a screen cap of the current standings in the NHL to do nothing else except irritate James & Adam in Ottawa & Toronto.

We are now #1 in the points standing ahead of even Ottawa. Keep losing guys.
Toronto sucks balls. You can see by the awesome record they have this season. Keep losing guys.

Last weekend was the highly anticipated 4 day holiday weekend. I can’t tell you enough how happy I was to have a few extra days off work… Anyway, a quick rundown of the weekend’s activities:

• Wednesday night Steve was in town from HOTlanta before his brother’s wedding, so we managed to get 1 evening of drunkeness in over at Gracie’s Underground in Ferndale. Who would have thought closing the bar and coming back to the house for more was such a bad idea, ohhhhhhh around 8am Thursday when we had to get up…
• Thursday was spent traveling to the G Rap, eating turkey & visiting family, and traveling back.
• Friday we met-up with Lauren & Jay who were in town visiting from Brantford, said hello to Cooper (Lauren’s Mom’s new Leonbeger puppy), and again tested out the liver’s ability to filter toxins from the bloodstream at Danny’s Irish Pub in Ferndale. Until close. Again. Rockstars.
• Saturday we saw Lewis Black at the Fox Theater downtown. If you’ve seen the Daily Show you would probably recognize him as the host of “Back in Black”. The dude seriously looked like he’d ingested enough caffeine to kill an elephant, and provided some serious hilarity for the evening. As a sidenote, I had never been in the Fox before, and it’s amazing.
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  More photos in the gallery…
• Sunday, it was time for round 2 of turkey.

And that brings us back to the present. As much as I enjoyed having 4 days off, IT WAS A LOT OF WORK!