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Morning Routine

12/13/2007 / Matt / 2 Comments

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.

Home Alone

12/01/2007 / Matt / 4 Comments

Home Alone! 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.

Mental Constipation

11/30/2007 / Matt / 1 Comment

[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:

Dear Pretentious Guy With An iPhone

11/30/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

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.

“Mister Splashy Pants” and Greenpeace, or Greenpeace Gone Viral!

11/29/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

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!

Hockey FTW

11/28/2007 / Matt / 7 Comments

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.

Turkey Weekend and Lewis Black

11/26/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

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.
Here’s some shots:

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!

If only…

11/19/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

Bulldog on the Thrown
My life would be so much easier…

Why I’m glad I’m insured

11/15/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

Monty 1, Glasses 0
Monty vs Glasses

Thank god for Krazy Glue
Krazy Glue solves all!

Yes, the pictures are fuzzy. I had to take them without my glasses, HELLO! I’ve got an appointment next weekend with the eye doctor, so hopefully the glue lasts a week…
So if anyone wants to come over and entertain the dog tomorrow, be my guest.

Cars suck.

11/12/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

Once again I find myself spending money on my car (2nd time in less than a month for those of you keeping score at home) because something broke, so this is seriously getting old already.

While it’s not to the tune of a 1-with-three-zeros repair bill, having to spend another $50 on something as stupid as a used wiper linkage unit, the time it took me to drive around and find a used one at a junk yard, and then to reinstall it tonight really just pisses me off. Ever try driving in the rain with no wipers? I wouldn’t recommend it.

Oh and if RainX wants to hire me to do a commercial, I’m available – just call my agent.

***Note: Finished the swap out and I have working wipers again. Yay!