All posts by Duf

A 255 bench after work at the gym. The first time I was able to do that since the Wernersville, work out in the basement with Rich, creatine taking days. I’m only 20lbs off my all time max. YAY!

Paradise Hotel was a royal rumble last night. They brought back the kicked off guests and all sorts of fireworks ensued. There are 3 weeks left in the show and they STILL have not revealed what the prize is for the winners. Strange.

Yesterday, my mom was off from work and decided to go crazy in meal preparation. A thanksgiving style feast that featured, turkey with stuffing, sweet potatoes, vegetables and an apple pie. Certainly a stark contrast to the healthy choice meal we would probably wind up having otherwise. 🙂

It looks we have another celebrity that talks crap about the US and loves France yet is happy to reap the rewards of working here. Hypocrite. F him. Johnny Depp.

I picked up the license plate of my mom’s now totalled car. The body shop guy said it is repairable but the nearly 3000 dollar expense of replacing the airbags pushed it over the edge. 3000 bucks to replace the airbags???? Incredibly overpriced.

All of this virus/worm activity is really getting to be a pain in the ass. Even though we are firewalled and have extensive virus screening/detection/removal in place at work, we still are getting hammered indirectly by SOBIG. Morons who opened the infected email attachment have been sending out mails with our email addresses as the REPLY TO address. This is probably because they visited one of our web sites and the virus grabbed the email address from there. As a result, we get hundreds of bounce messages from other email systems about how they detected a virus from us. (even though we never sent it) It is such a pain in the ass and our ISP broke our outgoing mail in an attempt to limit the problem.

2003 has been a bad year for cars in my family. My classic Buick burned up on New Years day and now this weekend my mom’s car was totalled when she was hit by a drunk, high school kid. My mom was ok, but her car is wrecked. This kid, did a high speed u-turn in front of her, fishtailed, came into her lane, got hit on the side, rolled his car and then tried to DRIVE AWAY. He didn’t get very far and was caught by the police. Evidently he had a night of heavy drinking and was in a rush to get home. I hope they really throw the book at the punk. Yea young kids are stupid but when their stupidity puts the lives of others at risk, they need to get smacked in the face with reality, hard. Now we have to find my mom new wheels.

The holiday weekend didn’t live up to the anticipation. (they rarely do) We finally got the kitchen totally back in place after the tile work and did various routine maintenance stuff outside. I mowed the back of the property which took 2-3 hours. I finished the last half hour in a driving thunderstorm. Horizontal rain was smacking me in the face. I was so close to finishing I wasn’t coming off that tractor no way, no how. I trudged into the house dripping wet and covered with grass. I spent a lot of time on the puter playing online. I know it annoyed the wife somewhat but when I asked her if there was anything she wanted to do she said no, so I figure, why not do what I want to do then? The 3 days went by very quickly as they always do. It’s a catch 22, when we have a super busy weekend we wish we had time to lay around and do nothing. If we lay around and do nothing, we feel stir crazy and look for something to do.

We had our first full weekend with the aligners on our teeth. It was fine. I can hardly tell I have them on except for my mouth drying out more than normal. It definitely affects your eating. You want to be sure to eat enough to last awhile so you don’t have to go through the pop out, eat, brush, reinsert, routine too often.

Wow I am getting another upgrade on my hosting account. For 25 bucks a month I get 2 GIGS of space and 50 GIG of monthly transfer traffic! Damn! When I outsourced my hosting a year or two back, that same 25 bucks got me 500 meg and 20 gig of transfer. If you are looking for some quality hosting I suggest you check out my bud Homey’s business, Talon Networks. He’ll hook you up.

Day 2 of having invisalign braces. I slept fine with them in and woke up today with minimal mouth pain. Ali’s feeling it a bit more than I am but nothing terrible. People really can’t tell you are wearing them unless you get in their face and show them.

It’s Friday before a 3 day weekend! One of the best feelings is the day of work prior to an extended weekend! Not much beats it in my book. I am planning for our Labor Day to be anything but laborious. Unlike the past few years where we normally wound up busting ass all labor day weekend, I would like to keep the amount of work to a minimum this time. Some yard work, minor cleaning and sealing the grout is all I need to get done. It will be awesome to have the kitchen back together.

Our inivisalign braces are now in. The process was painless, open your mouth and snap them in. They feel like a really tight mouthguard. The first 72 hours will probably be the worst as far as the soreness is concerned. Talking with them in takes a little adjusting as well. You can not eat with them in so it should cut down on unnecessary snacking as well as improved oral hygiene since you need to brush your teeth everytime you take them out and back in. I saw the computer models of my teeth in the office. They are very crooked and some of the teeth will be moving a long way (in tooth terms) during the 18 month treatment. From more than 2 or 3 feet away you really can’t even tell I have them in, pretty cool.

I’ve been deluged with tile information, suggestions, and opinions. Seal, don’t seal, use silicone caulk, don’t use it, wet cure the grout, don’t, wait 3 weeks to seal, wait 3 days….. This is the final decision, we DID wet cure the grout (after all the bag says to), we WILL seal after 5 days, and we will seal just the grout and not the tile itself since it is a glazed tile. Don’t like it? Tough.

Paradise Hotel, the only steady reality TV we are watching currently is finally winding down. It really stands out from most shows because basically there are no rules. It appears that every week the producers seem to get together and figure out what can they do to create drama on the show and then do it whether or not it is fair and/or makes sense. It seems that now, all of the people that have been booted are ALL coming back to raise all sorts of hell with those who are left. It should be good fun. Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 on FOX.

Today is B-day, braces day, we both get our invisalign braces slapped on today. I probably will have a sore mouth for the next week or so. We are anxious to finally get this done. 18 months from now it will all be over, hopefully.

Scotts Weblog:: Scott St. John’s Blog

Read More

I’ve had fishy for a long time now, probably close to a year. He has had several episodes where I thought he was going to die. I was able to resurrect him through some treatment. This time I think it might just be old age. From what I read, fish don’t live much past 2 years old. He has just sat at the bottom of his tank basically for the better part of 2 weeks. He doesn’t eat, doesn’t want to do anything. Part of me feels like I should put him out of his misery but a bigger part would rather not and see if he snaps out of it since he has before. Feel bad for the little guy. I’ve tried all my tricks with no success. 🙁

Yep it looks different huh? I switched to a new blogging program. It is more flexible than what I was running, allows for multiple users and multiple blogs. As you can see from my links area, I have added some additional people already. 🙂 I also was able to migrate all of my old messages to here so you can still search all of my prior idiocy.

Blog on!