No longer impressed, gross out tv

Remember how I said I was impressed by Eric Zichella coming door to door looking for votes? Scratch that, now the guy is just plain annoying.  He has deluged our home with nearly daily junk mail as well as having recorded messages calling our house at least three or four times.  He has crossed the line from “getting the word out” to being a genuine pest.  He is the son of a wealthy developer.  I read in the paper he is leading all the candidates in fund raising, having generated over 100 grand.  It’s almost like he is trying to buy the election, we have received at least four or five times more junk from him than any other candidates.  Even if I was voting republican, I would not support the guy.  You can’t be too smart if you think burying people in junk mail is going to win votes.

Last night there were two disgusting things I watched on two different shows.  On Survivor they had the traditional “eat disgusting things” challenge.  They are in China this season so of course knowing what Chinese eat, this isn’t going to be good.  Ali left the room during this segment, I wished I did afterward.  Among the disgusting things they ate were chicken hearts, eel, and most disgusting of all, baby turtles and unhatched ducklings.  I always fancied myself as being able to hack Survivor, however my love of animals would wreck me.  I would fall flat on my face being the hunter or fisherman.  In a challenge like last nights, if I had the turtles or ducklings in front of me I would have just bowed out.

Then while I was in bed watching Last One Standing, a show of a bunch of guys traveling the globe participating in various third world fighting competition, I had to fast forward through another segment.  They were in India doing some foot fighting thing.  The locals tradition before a tournament is to eat dog.  The actually showed the dog that was going to be eaten.  He was just lying there sleeping.  It really made me sick.  No they didn’t show them killing the dog but man, that was just shitty.  With as close as we are to Nicki, eating a dog is akin to cannibalism in our book.

  On last week’s show they sacrificed a cow. They showed the cow tied up, on the ground and then one of the villagers stabbed it to let it bleed to death. They showed the blood coming out while the cow was squirming around.  It was f’ing sick.  I didn’t know it was coming or else I would fast forwarded over that as well.  I know in the big picture it’s somewhat hypocritical of me to have this love of animals but still eat meat.  I have read all the horror stories about the meat business, how the animals are treated and if I think about it, it does really bother me.  So for the most part, I just try to not think about it. 

It was actually 69 degrees this morning.  Normally once we finally dip into the 60’s overnight that is a sign that the cooler, less humid weather is on it’s way.  It felt good.  90 degrees and 90% humidity does grow a bit old after awhile.

You can see just how hairy my face currently is, yuck.

This weekend I want to finish up the surprisingly big job of pruning the trees on our property.  I also am planning to swing by my mom’s place to caulk around her newly installed ceiling and at that time swap out vehicles.  I am going to let her drive my truck while I drive her Rav 4 for a few days.  Mom says that she has this weird issue that her brakes intermittently will fail momentarily while the AC is running.  So she has just not been using AC.  AC in Florida is kind of important so I want to see if I can recreate the problem.  If it happens to me I will probably be better at describing the conditions to a mechanic.

This hard to see but if you look closely you will recognize that this is the display of the HP Color laserjet in my office and yes, that is the local Naples weather conditions on the screen.   Pretty cool huh? It’s a little hack I found while perusing for Roboquad modifications.  This site has TONS of do it yourself, geeky projects and hacks.  Check it out.