Fake Video That Tried To Go Viral Years Ago

This is a staged video of a woman accidentally pooping in the hot tub. I know it’s fake because I know someone who knows one of the people in the video.

This kind damages my faith that funny videos on YouTube are mostly real. I mean if they weren’t real, TOSH.0 wouldn’t be very funny.

After seeing this video I’m not even sure the one with the reporter pooping her pants is real!

Reporter pooping her pants

Bygone City 3 Is Almost Here

It’s been almost 8 months but Bygone City 3 has finally been designed. It should be around another month or two before it’s complete.

If Carbs Were Healthy My Eating Costs Would Be Next To Nothing

I saw on this silly local news report once about how this lady saves so much money by clipping coupons. That family was basically fat.

When they showed you what she was actually saving money on, it was no wonder she was feeding her family on the cheap. What usually has coupons? Cereal, mac cheese, cookies, hamburger helper… You don’t see too many coupons on steak and shrimp. There will be sales on these types of things but there won’t be any double coupon days.

If carbs were healthy, I could eat cereal and toast for breakfast, mac cheese for lunch, and the Tuscan Pasta from Pizza Hut for dinner. Have you seen this thing? It’s like 3 pounds of pasta for 8.99. Says it can feed a family of four. I think bread sticks come with it.

I could buy a crate of Kraft Cheese and Macaroni to feed me for the year for like $40 bucks.

Low carb diet is much more pricey. When I cook I pretty much use all fresh ingredients that has that spoilage factor. Mac cheese and rice will keep for an eternity. I use a lot of cheese, meats, chickens, and vegetables when I cook. I suppose you could freeze some of this stuff but things taste a lot worse when you try to freeze and defrost it. It might still be edible but it won’t be very good.

Bathroom v RESTROOM

I remember in elementary school this one teacher was really hung up on correcting us when we said we needed to use the BATHROOM. She would say, is there a bath in there? This was a public restroom in a school so of course it didn’t.

I’ll say bathroom now. Who the hell cares if there’s no bath in it?? There’s a bathroom at work that has a shower stall in it. Is that a bathroom?!?

That’s not even grammar correction. I don’t know what that is.

I “Lost” My Wallet In Mexico

I didn’t have my wallet much in Mexico. For the most part, I locked it up in the hotel safe. I did take it with me when we left the resort to walk into town but that was pretty much it.

On the 4th day in Mexico, we noticed that they didn’t fill our mini bar. It wasn’t really a mini bar like you see in a fancy hotel. It had a couple of sodas and a couple of beers. It also had a bag of potato chip and some other random snacks. What is impressive about the minibar is that It did however have 4 bottles of hard liquor available at all times. We were kind of annoyed that day with housekeeping not giving us our snacks and diet soda so we called the front desk and told them that we wanted it. When they told us they were on the way, we decided to get out of their hair and go to the pool.

We hung out at the pool for a couple of hours and when we came back, our room was totally refreshed. We had fresh pillow chocolates and plenty of chips and soda.

That night, I decided that I had not seen my wallet for a while and wanted to check on it. I checked my suitcase and my laptop bag and couldn’t find it. It wasn’t in the safe, it didn’t fall underneath the bed, it was no where to be found. My initial reaction was either I dropped it in when we were in town, I was pick pocketed, or that house keeping stole it. Now I’m not the kind of person that always assumes housekeeping are a suspicious bunch. It just that when we first got there, we over heard this lady saying that her laptop was stolen from her room but she found it odd they didn’t take the power supply.

We turn the room over and decide that my wallet isn’t there. Of course I then had to start thinking about what was missing and what cards I had to cancel. I carry many credit cards and decide that I have to cancel four of them. One debit BOA card, two BOA credit cards, and one Chase CC.

Now in the states, it’s extremely easy to cancel a credit card. You just call the 1-800 number and you’re done. In Mexico, however, it’s much more difficult. Even if you’re willing to pay the extra long distance costs, a US 1-800 number cannot be dialed in Mexico. It just can’t. We tried calling the operator and having them dial it for us but they told us they couldn’t. On the website, there’s a number to call in Mexico but the operator could not dial that for us either. Mandy was finally able to find an international collect call that worked but doing this for two different banks took hours. What’s worse is the number to cancel the credit cards was different than the one to cancel the debit card even though it’s the same bank. When they were supposed to transfer me they hung up on me!

Needless to say this wasn’t a very fun evening but we went to one of the free restaurants later anyways.

That morning, as we’re cleaning our hotel room getting ready to leave, Mandy decides to lift this piece of felt in the closet safe. Low and behold, there’s my wallet! Basically the closet is dark and it has this piece of felt in it that I thought was the safe bottom. Instead, the piece of felt is very loose and created an image like the safe is empty. I’ve actually seen a magic trick once where the bottom of the box is raised to make it look like it was empty.

I was pretty happy. I scarcely cared that I canceled 4 credit cards. There were other things in there like loose checks, my work key card, my work discount card, my benefits cards, and my driver’s license which would have been huge pains to replace.

So alls well that ends well and my faith in Mexican humanity is restored.

Really Hushed a Guy at the Movies

Seems like I’ve been getting into some confrontations lately. I don’t think I like confrontations.

So Mandy and I are at the Alamo Draft House watching Inception. Three dudes sit to the left of me. Mandy is on the aisle. The guy right beside me is in khaki pants and has a tucked in polo shirt. The guy to the left of that guy looks kind of sloppy. Chubby and wearing a t-shirt. They look like normal guys.

Before the official previews start, these guys start talking kind of loud. I assume it’s because they’re in a row configuration so the guy on the end has to talk a little louder than normal for the guy two seats down to hear. At first I don’t think much of it because everyone’s talking at this point.

The previews start and in the previews itself, it says at this point “this is a NO TALKING ZONE. If you have a problem with a loud neighbor then write it down and the manager will give them a warning.” It also says messing with your phone is just like talking.

At this point I think great. Everyone must respect this right?

Not these guys. They talk through out the entire previews. At this point I’m like, god they’re annoying, but it’s still only the previews.

The first scene of the movie kicks in. The guy next to me says something to his buddies and giggles. He says it in a volume like he’s at his damn house.

That made me snap because I figure this movie requires a lot of concentration. It’s pretty distracting in a movie if you’re on edge just waiting for the next time someone talks and laughs too loud.

Right away I say, “Are you guys going to talk through the whole movie? Do I have to write down a complaint?”

The guy next to me scoffs and the guy in the middle says “What did he say?”

I think I actually heard a sorry from one of the guys. At this point my adrenaline’s pumping and I try to concentrate on the movie not sure if they would ignore me and continue talking.

After that, it seemed like they mostly whispered but two of the guys checked their phones at least twice. That got me annoyed again and I was thinking about writing a complaint for the manager. They were actually mostly quiet after that and I was able to relax and watch the movie. I think if I didn’t say something they were going to talk and comment for 2.5 hours.

At one point, I went to the bathroom and then noticed that my neighbors were in a stall near me. Mandy noticed that when I went to the restroom two guys went in after me thinking perhaps they were looking to beat me up.

They weren’t. They were just regular guys. Who tries to fight a guy when they’re the ones being obno in a movie theater? That would be pretty dumb when everyone just wants to enjoy the movie. The last thing you want to do is get in a fight and get kicked out.

Almost Lived That Nightmare Again of Not Being Able to Find My Car

I have a reoccurring nightmare that I can’t find my car. Sometimes it’s just mixed in with other themes and sometimes that’s the main theme.

I think part of the reason i have that dream is because it has happened to me a few times. I remember one time I was in the Philadelphia airport and parked my rental car at the airport instead of turning it in one week. I forgot exactly why I did that at the time. In a youthful, naive move I believed I could memorize the parking number. Of course after a long weekend I have no idea what the parking number is. In fact, i have no idea what terminal i parked it at.

It’s one thing to be able to spot your own car in a large parking lot. It’s a car that you see basically everyday of your life. It’s another thing to find some indiscriminate white Chevy Malibu in a sea of cars. To top off my problems, it’s also very dark and I’m dragging around a full size suitcase and a laptop bag.

I must have gotten lost for at least two hours, I can’t really remember, but I know it felt like an eternity because i wasn’t just walking in a large parking lot, I was walking from terminal to terminal because there was parking all between the terminals and i couldn’t ride a train because then I might have missed it.

There was no better feeling of relief than pushing the remote and and hearing the car beep when I finally find it. My legs were burning, my arms were burning. and I was already tired from the commute.

In a not nearly as severe a case, Mandy and I came back from the airport after 4 days in Mexico last week. I wrote down the parking lot number this time: D12.

The weather outside is blazing hot and we’re dragging large 50 lb suitcases.

We got out in straight shot and we see A12, then B12, then C12. Guess what letter’s next? That’s right E12!

After first we walk to the left of E12 thinking that it would miraculously change to D12 but it doesn’t. This lot walk isn’t a short distance either. It’s for LONG TERM PARKING so it’s a ways out there.

After walking all the way to the left doesn’t work we walk all the way to the right. I wasn’t sure what the next step was if D12 wasn’t that way. We didn’t have much energy left. We were going to need someone to drive us around like that Seinfeld episode in the ball.

Luckily D12 popped up to the RIGHT of E12 and all ends well.

Got Into An Argument With This Guy Who Was Cheating

I was playing in my Monday Bowling league last night and I caught this guy boldly cheating.

We won our first game by about 78 points. In the second game we were losing by about 58 with one game to go. You get points for every game you win but you also get a bonus points if you win the total of all three games. This means for at least the extra point, it was kind of close going into the third game.

The lane on the left had been having some pin setter problems all night. The last bowler on the opposing team bowls a 9 on the first ball in the tenth frame. The pin setter malfunctions and it clears out the one pin left and reracks it. The guy bowls again. At first I thought he was just going to go for the 10 pin that would have theoretically been left. Maybe he was but he misses it completely and the computer gives him a X|8 on the 10th frame with one ball left. Some of us are watching him assuming that he was going to fix something in this mix up but instead, he goes up there to bowl the last two pins ready to take that score!

I call him out on it and I say, “What are you doing? You had a ten pin left.”

He acts all obtuse and says, “It reracked it.”

I’m thinking, uh SO? He repeats this like 3 times. Whether or not the pin setter malfunctions doesn’t mean you get to go again AND take a strike. To me it was ridiculous. It’s one thing if it reracked it and he was starting the 10th frame over, which isn’t right but not as detrimental to the total score as taking a free strike on the first ball.

Everyone in this league has been in it for a while and EVERYONE knows that if the pin setter clears the pins, you have to call the front and tell them to set the same pins. This game wasn’t even close to being over for total pins.

So I’m lecturing this guy about what the rules are and then his buddy starts talking to me.

He says, “What’s your name?”

I say, “Tom.”

He says, “Look just calm down and mind your own business.”

I’m like WTF. I tell him, “It’s my business when I’m playing against you guys and you’re cheating.” My head was going to explode. How was it not my business in a game I’m playing against you?! It’s one thing if he told me to mind my business about a game 5 lanes over!

He sort of shut up after that. We finally get the last pin set and of course the guy misses the 10 pin.

By game 3 we’re all nit picking each others scores because the pin setters are messing everything up. We have to correct 7s to 8s and replace split after split.

My adrenaline was really going from the argument and I was worried that they’d win and I’d do terrible and he’d laugh at me. I wasn’t sure if I could even bowl after getting into a yelling match but I was ok. Got a couple of spares  before I calmed down.

Good news is we did pretty well and beat him by 88.

Good night of bowling!

My Dog And My Mom’s Dog Had a Pee Fight

Our new dog Freddy is a 6 month old pup. He’s just getting accustomed to the earth.

After only one week of him living with us, I needed to take him along to Dallas while I was visiting my parents. My mom has a little Maltese that’s really short and skinny but has a Napolean Chihuhua complex. He’s a possesive yappy dog.

Freddie and Coconut immediately did not get along. I had to constantly be in between the both of them. I felt like the person on television on the Dog Whisperer trying to keep two pit bulls apart except that this fight involved two tiny little dogs.

Since both dogs never backed down from each other, they started pee marking things with great frequency. First Coconut would pee on a couch that Freddie just jumped off of. Freddie peed on Coconut’s crate while coconut was in it! Coco is much smaller than Freddie so Freddie basically peed on his head. Luckily he only had a few drops.

In retaliation Coconut peed in Freddie’s food bowl! Luckily the bowl was empty.

Maybe when Freddie gets older those dogs can get along.

fred

coco

This dude got more hits than Susan Boyle on Britain’s got talent. 66 million to Susan’s 43. I guess I’ve never heard of him because he sings a Pavrotti song in Italian which Americans may not like.

Here’s a high quality link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA

Maggots Are Gross

I think everyone has a maggot story. I remember when I was a kid and we’re playing baseball with rotten peaches in the back yard. Next thing I know I look down and my see a bunch of maggots crawling up my shins. I have another story where I forgot that I bought some ground beef so I forgot to put it in the fridge and next thing I know there are maggots all over it. I tried throwing it away but the trash can was full and so I put it in the garage temporarily. Next thing I know the house was like a house of horrors with tons of flies everywhere. Good thing fly killing spray works.

The reason I was thinking about maggots is that the other day I went to push some trash in the trashcan and the bin was crawling with maggots. I didn’t want to take the trash out and wash out the bin because that would mean I would have to pull out the maggot source and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to get the maggot source back in the bin once I was done or be able to kill enough maggots to make it manageable.

Mandy tried to kill the maggots with some hornet spray and ant spray we had but it didn’t seem to do anything. Seemed like they were having an even bigger party.

I hit the internet and interestingly enough if you google kill maggots you get more hits than you would expect. One maggot killing blog site said their traffic doubled after some heat wave.

From the website, one suggestion was using products that had this chemical and put it in boiling water. I wasn’t sure how well it would work because it also said that wasp spray and ant spray might work.

Something else that was on the list was doggie shampoo. Since we just got a new dog I had a fresh bottle.

I boiled up some water and then put in the doggie shampoo after the water was boiling to prevent the pot from bubbling over.

I poured the concoction in the trash can and it didn’t seem to work. I came home that afternoon after work expecting an even greater infestation but instead, BAM, maggots were dead. Thank god.

I’m sure the trash man expects some level of maggots in wheelie bins but it’s nasty and I was embarrassed buy the quantity of maggots.

Some Common Computer Technical Difficulties Seem To Require an IT Degree

I’ve been around and worked on computers since the Apple IIe came out in the 80s. I know a lot but not everything about computers but I probably know more about computers than about 90% of the population. That’s not saying I’m some kind of computer prodigy but, for example, the basic task of swapping out a hard drive in a desktop computer is probably something most people in the street have never done before. It’s by no means hard but it’s just not common knowledge.

In a previous blog I talked about how one of our computers got a virus that could not be cleaned with anti virus and anti spyware software. There was actually one anti spyware software that made it look like it had been cleaned but left the part of the virus that was sending spam from our computers to the point where Time Warner turned off our internet. The only fix to this was to back up the data to an external source and reinstall windows. If someone had a problem with a virus and I told them to do this, would most people be able to figure this out or be too intimadated by the problem and either ask someone else to help or even get a new computer? Doing this isn’t brain surgery as long as you have the Windows software and registration key. One of the most difficult problems in doing this is actually finding all the drivers and getting those reinstalled. These drivers control things like the video card and sound. That part takes a lot of Googling.

Another problem we had with our computers just recently is that the mother board went out. One day Mandy went to use her computer and all she could hear was a clicking sound from the fan. There were two ways to fix this, get a new motherboard or get a new computer. Getting and replacing a mother board is very difficult just from the point of taking the computer apart and putting it back together with old parts. Getting a new computer was the easy solution but Mandy wanted her computer to be back to the way it was. Reinstalling software and transporting her data would have been a huge chore. Instead, we get a new desktop computer for about $300 and I removed the new hard drives and put in her old hard drives and then reinstalled the drivers. I had her up and running again in about an hour. Again, it’s not like I’m making computer chips but most people wouldn’t know how to do something like this or that it was even an option.

A third example of a problem I had is that I switched over to AT&T DSL but didn’t buy their router because I already had one. Messing with the combinations of the modem setting and the router setting took forever and a pantload of googling and reading forums. I had to change this DNS range to that DNS range to this adhoc setting to that adhoc setting to get it to finally work. Most people on the other hand just expect their router to work by plug and play or maybe they even set up the password but not much further than that. But point is, most people couldn’t even sift through all this information just because they’re not around these kinds of problems much.

I feel bad for people who get these problems like viruses and just think they have to chunk their computer because they don’t know people who can help or they can’t afford a professional nerd.

What Is Room Temperature and What is Comfortable?

I was completely shocked when a friend of mine said he kept his thermostat at 77 degrees in hot ass Texas smack dab in the summer. I can’t really believe that this is what’s comfortable to him. I think it’s a matter of frugality when someone keeps their thermostat so high.

I remember one time I had a consulting job in California during the whole rolling blackout era. To my horror, when I got to the hotel, I discovered that they would not allow you to mess with the thermostat and it was hot and stuffy as hell. One of the best things about staying in a hotel is cranking the air way up because you know you don’t have to pay for it.

Simon keeps his thermostat at 75 or something and I know this isn’t his ideal setting. Back when we were roomates we lived in a place called Chimney Hill where it was all bills paid and we kept that place like an artic igloo. Nothing’s more comfortable for sleeping than a cold house under a warm blanket.

I Guess DirecTv Isn’t Perfect

For a while I’ve been touting about how great direcTV is. I guess it does have its drawbacks.

Time Warner has a building less than a mile from me. If I need to talk to anyone or get some new equipment or something I can drive there in less than 5 minutes.

DirecTv is a little different. It’s a national company that sub contracts locally. The other day I needed an upgrade and a dish realignment. I scheduled them for Thursday from 8-12. 12 o’clock comes around and I don’t hear anything from anyone. I call DirecTV’s support number and it’s so irritating. They make you speak your phone number and go through some voice automated menu. I finally learned how to say “operator. operator” and then pressed 9 to get to an actual operator. It gets so mad to. It says “I understand you want to talk to an operator but tell me what’s wrong so I can get you to the right person!”

Once I got the operator on the phone they had no way to directly contact the local installers. Instead they would send an email to the local installer and then the local installer would call me.

The local caller dispatch did call me back 20 minutes later but they never talked to the actual technician. I went through this all day and in the end I think they found out they assigned my work to someone who wasn’t working that day. I got $50 credit for wasting hours of my time.

When I rescheduled, the tech called me 10 minutes before his shift started at 7:50 am and 10 minutes before he arrived. When he got there he realized the equipment he had wasn’t compatible with my “swim” system so he had to call his buddy to get him a new box from the warehouse which took 2 hours. The tech was pretty nice, he even killed a wasp nest in my connection box. He didn’t seem scared at all. I guess he’s seen a thousand wasp nests.

After he fixed my dish and had everything installed I signed everything and then he left. I didn’t check my connections right away. When I did finally check my setup, I instantly noticed that the box he gave me wasn’t HD. The tech gave me his phone number like he was bad ass at customer service but when I called him, he didn’t call back or pick up. Guess he was just bluffing. I figured he couldn’t help me anyways.

If I had a problem with equipment with Time Warner I could have just gone to the headquarters and got the right box. Instead I had to call DirecTV back and say “operator, operator, 9″ and ask for a DVR upgrade to HD. They decided that I didn’t need a tech this time so they were going to mail me my upgraded box and then I would have to mail my old box back to them.

Something to be said about local representatives too I guess.

What Could Have Been. My Strip Poker App

In a previous blog I talked about how right before the IPad was released, they cleaned up all the apps in the app store. That meant no more lingerie, no more innuendos, no more crass humor.

Of course this was happening as I was planning to release my Strip Poker app. It was going to be an app that would update you with girls, sexy outfits, and lingerie outfits periodically.

Almost the day after I pushed the button to submit my Strip Poker app, I read in the local paper how all these apps got cleaned up.

Anyways, for those of you who were curious about what it looked like. Here it is. The girl is actually animated a little bit if you play it on your Iphone.

I also had it where you could go to my website to see the final nude product.

Ah what could have been.

Warts Part Deux

So in my entire life I have never gotten a wart. That is, up until like 8 months ago.

It’s the weirdest thing, I blogged about the wart on my wrist a while back. At first it seemed like a wound that wouldn’t heal and I would constantly pick at it and it would always come back. When I first went to the doctor and even realized it was a wart it was already on its way out. Of course by then I didn’t know that warts can be highly contagious on one’s own body.

Before that wart on my wrist went away, I had apparently spread it to my knee. It got to my knee because I often rest my wrist on my knee when I read in the shitter. So one wart goes away and another appears. And this one is a monster. I think it was bigger than the diameter of a pencil eraser and as high as Mount Everest. I tried filing it down and freezing it and I tried compound W but this guy was just too powerful and stout. I felt like I could tug on it like a baby’s arm.

I just couldn’t take it anymore so I had to bite the bullet and go to the dermatologist and see if he could do anything for it.

At the dermatalogist’s office the nurse asks what my issue is and I tell her blah blah. She says where’s the wart can I see it? I’m a little embarrassed cause it’s gross so I show her and she has this weird fake reaction like “Oh.” Like you know “Oh” with a little bit of “oh that’s interesting and not gross at all.”

The doctor comes back and talks to me and says we can “de-bulk” it and freeze it which might leave a scar or just try to freeze it without debulking it. I could car less about one more little scar next to my already big scars on my knee so I tell him to debulk that bitch.

This is what is all involved.

1. Numbing it by sticking the wart with a needle.

2. Taking a razor blade and cutting the wart down as far as he can.

3. Cauterizing the wound

4. Freezing the wart

I’ve actually forgotten if steps 3 and 4 are swapped. I did this last Thursday. So far the wart hasn’t come back and I don’t have signs of new warts yet.

Third Bowling Coach

We met with our third bowling coach last Friday and this one seems like a keeper.

First off, he’s not trying to make you a clone of himself. It seems that just based on body types and strengths and weaknesses, everyone just can’t bowl the same. On the ladies tour most of them bowl pretty similar, but on the men’s tour, a lot of these guys have completely different forms and they’re all pretty successful.

For example we asked him how important it was to slide. Our last coach thought it was one of the MOST important things in the world. This guy was like some people almost wear a tennis shoe to stop and there was this one guy (throws out esoteric name) who would slide like 2 feet. Both guys were successful. I asked him how important it was to not bang the ball. He said some guys make it sound like a whisper but also not necessarily important. He said based on the ways bowling alleys are made now anyways, some alleys just sound really loud when the ball hits.

Another good thing about this coach was that he used props. He made use of a sling with a bowling ball to just let us feel what a natural pendulum feels like when you’re not trying to grip the ball. He also showed us on a nerf football what a good pure spin is made of.

The coach also evaluated Mandy and determined that her 11-12 pound ball was too light and upgraded her to 14. He figured that the way the ball was drilled, she was gripping the ball too much and her thumb was too far out.

Anyways, armed with an improved swing and Mandy armed with her new balls we played pretty well in our league last night winning 5-2 to get third for the season. We didn’t qualify for the playoffs like last year but it’s not a terrible finish.

Just to recap so I don’t forget. The best thing that I took from my lesson is keep the ball high in front to get a natural back swing. Don’t rush the back swing and let the ball drop before you start your forward motion. Pulling the ball down before gravity naturally wants to pull the ball disrupts the swing. Makes a hitch in your giddyup. Also, I used to lean forward a lot because I was trying to get low and straight. Power and  momentum comes from keeping upright. Oh and I also will not bowl straight down the right side anymore. It just took form to bowl up and in. I now like to bowl towards the right a little and hook in harder. It’s much easier to aim for your dots that way than to aim up towards a straight dot.

Various Reasons To Drop Time Warner Cable and RoadRunner

After what I think is a 12 year relationship with Time Warner Cable, I am about to drop all ties to them.

I remember when high speed internet first came out. I had a big desk top computer right in the middle of the living room and a big ethernet cable hooked up into it.

I remember when HD first came out and the non TIVO DVR bundled right in. It seem all was well with me and Time Warner, but it would not last.

First my HD cable service was really poor. For some reason the box would reset all the time. The DVR was really weak too. The resume show function never worked right and would just start at the beginning of the program. I eventually dropped TW HD for Direct TV which I love. So the signal was out for a few minutes yesterday when it got really cloudy.  It’s actually pretty rare when when the weather is so bad I don’t get a signal and Direct TV has the NFL network. Plus direct TV has more HD channels. I used to watch the Ultimate Fighter on SPIKE in non HD when Direct TV had Spike HD the whole time!

But what’s worse is the internet service. For a while it worked great. Then I serveral incidents with them.

The big one is when Mandy’s computer got a virus and started sending out spam. Instead of contacting me, they just turned off my internet service. When I finally got someone on the line the only notes on my case said I had been referred to the abuse department. I tried to call the abuse department during business hours and they were never there. Took them days to get back to me. If they had only bothered to call me first it could have all gotten resolved but I don’t think they ever planned to contact me.

Then lately my signal would grind to a halt everytime I booted the cable modem. The only advice they had was for me was to clear out my cookies and clear my cache and reboot. I’m like, this is happening on 5 different computers, do you really think my cookies is causing this problem?? You know it could quite possibly have been a setting on my router or my computers that were causing the problem but since I’ve switched to ATT DSL, I’ve been flying through the internet using the same equipment. If it was actually a problem with my computers or network I would think I would see similar problems.

If not for Mandy’s old RR email, I would have cut off the service already. I’m still keeping it for a few weeks while she’s transitioning her email. You know back in the day, you could only get an email from your ISP but now with Gmail and Yahoo mail, ISP email is pretty worthless. And it’s actually not a good idea to have an ISP email either in case you want to change providers. Of course stupid Time Warner thinks they can hold me hostage with this email and will shut it off as soon as I officially cut off the service. They won’t even let us pay extra for it.

But it’s lame anyways. Did you know you can’t use their SMTP send mail server unless you’re on their network? For example, since I switched the router to use ATT now, Mandy can’t send any email from her computer using her Time Warner email service. She also was never able to send any email from her IPhone using this email either. If she took her laptop to a hotspot she would also still not be able to send email unless she logged into their web client. Of course GMail has no such restrictions and is free.

So Vaya Con Dios Time Warner!

Peeking in People’s Shopping Cart or Plate?

You ever look into a fat person’s shopping cart and see what they’re eating? Or maybe in a restaurant you take a peek at what a fat person ordered?

But do you also notice that you don’t really care what a thin or fit person eats? I think the reason is that a person is fit not because of what they’re eating, but really because of what they’re not eating and how they’re working out. For a fat person, it’s directory related to what they’re eating.

Since I’m carb conscious I noticed the fat person had a packed shopping cart of some of things I noticed were tortillas, loaf of bread, and a stack of tostadas.

You Want My Parking Ticket?

Last week my bowling team and I go to Fogo De Chao in downtown Austin for our annual bowling banquet dinner. I’m joking about it being a bowling banquet. We basically just take our winnings and treat everyone to a nice dinner. This year we had about $300. I figure this was more fun and bonding than just giving everyone $40.

At the end of the night, Dae, Mandy, and I go to our car which is in a paid parking lot and prepare to leave. As we get ready to back up, a car pulls in right in front of us. Two guys get out and appear to be approaching us. One guy is really douchy looking and is wearing sunglasses. He knocks on our window. I basically just want to back out and leave because what could this guy possibly have to tell me that i want to hear. Mandy thinks perhaps they need help or something and we should hear what they have to say. Either that or we were about to be car jacked.

I open the car door and the guy says can we have your parking ticket? I am flabbergasted by the audacity of the request and yell out, “get out of here!” and close the door on him and proceed to leave. He’s flipping me off, so I flip him off and it’s a flip off fest. I honk the horn and we leave.

Can you believe this guy? The parking fee is $7. Why in the world would I pay $7 and let him skate to pay nothing? What’s in it for me? To be nice? That’s not being nice. That’s being a sucker and getting bullied. Maybe if he offered me $3.50 I’d understand the request. I’m glad in my confusion I didn’t let him take my ticket. On top of that, the parking attendant was right there anyways. What a dumbass.