Fishy is not looking good. Lethargic but has these fits where he dashes around the tank. I looked it up and got a few ideas and some advice. I just treated the tank with Aquari-sol. I hope he comes around, kinda attached to the little guy.
A fun weekend. Ali’s dad’s cousin was down to see us Friday through Sunday morning. Hmmm what relation does that make him? Dunno. We went to dinner twice and had a good time. Ali and he went to an art/craft show while I flew planes Saturday morning. Brrr it was cold Sat morning, in the 30’s again.
Mike and I flew our planes. I met him at a school near his place to fly. It was breezy so it was less than ideal flying conditions for my plane but I flew it anyway. I had a couple near misses but was able to keep it in one piece. Mike had his copter and the SIG that I gave him. The SIG was a gas plane that I did alot of work on but decided to give to Mike at the end because I decided I would rather get into electric planes. It was the first time I saw it fly since Mike finished it. Boy is it big. It handled the wind well but was rather slow and unexciting in the air. Neat to see though.
SEASON is here in full force. We waited almost a full 90 minutes until we got into Carraba’s on Friday and another 45 minutes on Saturday at Watermark. Wall to wall senior citizens. Oh well we passed the time drinking.
Sunday was a PERFECT day weatherwise. Almost 70 and bright sunshine. SOOOOOOO nice. I flew my plane 6 or 7 times. Much better conditions. I flew it inverted for a few secs and was up soaring with the vultures. The rest of the day was spent doing various things, nothing too stressful, waiting for the Super Bowl to start.
The Super Bowl was just ok. Of course I wanted the Raiders to win to avenge my Eagles loss. Sadly, the Raiders got blown out as well. I was really surprised to see Oakland perform so poorly. As in most Super Bowls, the most interesting parts were outside the game. My thoughts:
What is with all the musical performances? Yea a halftime show is fine but do we need mini concerts BEFORE and AFTER the game? Celene did a fantastic rendition of God Bless America and the Dixie Chicks did a surprisingly good rendition of the National Anthem. Too bad they mistimed the flyover of the jets.
At halftime, Shania had on a revealing oufit that showed off her tight bod but she decided to lip sync?? Why? Sting and Gwen Stefani belted it out live, why couldn’t Shania? Sting looks good for his age still. Sounded good too.
I’m really Bon Jovi’d out. He seems to pop up everywhere nowadays. Thought the post game mini-concert was the dumbest musical idea of the 3. Just hand out the trophy, game’s over.
The commercials were quite good I thought. Some of my favorites were the horse instant replay, the beer butt drinker, the Osbournes, the Reebok linebacker in the office and the Jordan commercial.
I read reviews that criticized the Jordan spot. Evidently they worked on the commercial 5 months and the critics thought the final product should have been better. I thought the computer generated images were strikingly good. I thought the idea of Jordan playing himself 15 years ago was very intriguing. I think it strikes a chord with me because of my fixation on ideas about growing old. I can identify with the emotional dilemma of the mind remembering what you could do at one time but can no longer do. The commercial just further confirmed my dismay about growing older. So why did I like it? Maybe like was the wrong word, it just hit some feelings inside.
I enjoyed seeing the movie previews. Matrix and T3 are definite see’s for me in the theater, the others will likely be home movie expereinces. The superhero movies are coming hot and heavy. I’m sure I’ll enjoy them.
Here is a creative little animation. Check it out.
For over a year I have had a recurring, maddening intermittent metallic squeal that comes from under the rear of my truck. I have had it to the dealer 4 times. Each time they have not been able to reproduce it. Well this time I went out with the guy and he heard it! Loud and clear. Hmpphhh, I thought see, I’m not crazy, now they can finally fix it. I get a call later in the morning, “Mr Duffey, we have a diagnosis” GREAT, what is it? “Your driveshaft has a dent in it” What the? A dent? I have never been off roading with the truck, never had any sort of incident that could have possibly dented the driveshaft. So they can’t cover it under warranty since it is physical damage. That’s wonderful. I ask how much a replacement driveshaft is. $1600 BUCKS! Insane. So now I have to either live with it, shell out 2k to get it fixed or find a used shaft and/or have a driveline shop see if they can balance it. I think I will wind up trying the last option. What burns me up is they never saw this the other 3 times they looked at it.
More fun Spam for today:
NEW #1 DIET PILL LOSE 80LBS? BLOWOUT SALE!!! 4689QnVo5-959Hcpe9412TlkK-24
ADV: $25 Free Bet from Exective Sportsbook
How do Others REALLY See You? Free Personality Test
Check out the video of last nights frat party
Auto Loans Even with Bad Credit
Copy DVD Movies to CD-R discs!
Is your Printer Running out of Ink? 80% Off, Free Shipping!
Increase Your Cellphone Reception
Don’t Spend Another Valentine’s Day Alone!
Crazy.
34 degrees at our place this morning, we tried to cover a bunch of plants but by morning most of them had blown off from the wind. I still didnt wear a coat to work, keeping my streak of NO COATS IN FLORIDA alive. 🙂
Superbowl this weekend, blah blah. Eagles should have been there, bastards……
Nell Carter DEAD! I used to watch Gimme a Break… depressing…..
SPAM, I hate it, let’s cover some of the highlights from today’s 100+ spam messages I will receive:
Norton SystemWorks 2003 blowout sale – last chance
Copy DVD Movies – Free Software Included
Mooo
Superpool Jackpot – Bet Now on the Showdown in San Diego
Intuit’s Quicken Deluxe — FREE for duf@duf.net
Powerful Voice Recognition from IBM, U Talk, it Types
This is only a tiny sample of what I get in a day. SPAMMERS must stay up late at night dreaming about all sorts of ways of phoenetically spelling words so they get past our filters. They are the armpits of society. Can’t wait till SPAMMERS start goin to jail.
Homey broke his Zaurus by just tapping on the screen to calibrate it. Now Best Buy wont take it back cause they said he abused it. 🙂 Gonna be a tough sell. It appears Best Buy has made a lot of enemies. Look here. Homey DID reinstate my pixie, however it looks slightly different this time.
Here ya go, another former co-worker site.
Fishy my original beta has been acting lethargic. I hope he isn’t ready to kick the bucket. I changed their water and moved him to the west side hoping that a change of scenery might perk him up. Crossing my fingers.
True winter weather is supposed to be rolling in today. Tomorrow morning they are calling for low temperatures around 30 degrees! It has the potential to be the coldest it has been down here in 7 or 8 years! It’s a shame it is happening now because we have compnay Friday and Saturday. Too bad it is going to be so chilly. However, back up close to 70 by Sunday.
I heard back from the insurance company regarding my dead Buick. They are totalling the car, meaning I will be getting a check for the insured value soon. I did a salvage buy back, meaning I am keeping the car. I am trying to sell it to one of the Buick enthusiasts down here as a parts car or a restoration project.
Saw American Idol on tivo. Wow it was amazing to see how many people that are horrid singers tried out. Why? There is no way these people could think they sang well. It’s unbelievable how bad some of them were.
Homey still hasn’t reinstated my Pixie. I miss it now that it is dead.
Token blog entry. Feeling blah. Not sure why.
Still hearing GO BUCS comments at work, arghhhh.
Learned of a new language , HAXOR. Look it up.