We had a whole turkey left over from the holiday potluck today.
So I split it with a guy and I am taking it for my D&D game tomorrow along with a huge bucket of mashed potatoes.

Fact:
To cut a whole turkey in half it takes 3 grown men, 1 woman and 1 man to make really bad turkey sex jokes.
I bet you didnt know that...
You just got learned.

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plug in the iphone for synching.
Then I read my emails that I ignored on the way into work.
skim all of the blogs I watch.
Email my Applehead or txt her or whatever to let her know I am alive and such.

Got the second part of hopefully 3 coming up this weekend in D&D.

The group has went through changes and is ready to somehow add a new member to the party to replace the Dragonborn "incident". They have made it not to far into the dungeon/temple and have found that a spell carved into a layer of tile runs the length of the dungeon ending somewhere deep within. Either someone has begun casting the huge spell already or they will be coming to the beginning of the dungeon soon to start casting it. They have picked up a dwarven cleric who came into the temples sometime ago to get rid of the evil. It apparently overcame him and drove him mad. So now they have a rather hit or miss "guide" and a possible race against time to find the other end of the huge summoning ritual before it is completely cast.

I use that phrase alot at work when coding. And its becoming standard fair around here for reports now. I love it LOL.

I say that when I have a request to fix an existing report or add something to it and I find tons of things that can be tweaked and added and redone while I am working on that. "While we got the hood open, lets add in logic to stop negative fat number being entered" things like that.

I could never do that at my last job they would have a fit if I had foresight or planned ahead on something.

I love it.

I dont think I would ban any but I do have questions about some.
Applehead and I were talking about school books the other day and good Jesus on a mo-ped whats is up with some of the books they made us read in school


Of Mice and Men At the ranch, the dream appears to move closer to reality. Candy, the aged, one-handed ranch-hand, even offers to pitch in with Lennie and George so they can buy the farm by the end of the month. The dream crashes when Lennie accidentally kills the young and attractive wife of Curley, the ranch owner's son, while trying to stroke her hair. A lynch mob led by Curley gathers. George, realizing he is doomed to a life of loneliness and despair like the rest of the migrant workers and wanting to spare Lennie a painful death at the hands of the vengeful and violent Curley, shoots Lennie in the back of the head before the mob can find him after they had recited their dreams of owning their own land. -- From Wiki

Flowers for Algernon The titular Algernon is a laboratory mouse who has undergone surgery to increase his intelligence by artificial means. The story is told as a series of progress reports written by Charlie, the first human test subject for the surgery, and touches upon many different ethical and moral themes such as the treatment of the mentally disabled.[4] -- From Wiki. One harsh movie to watch -- From Me.


Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education. -- From Wiki

WTF really? Those are some depressing ass books for youngsters to read.

Maybe somebody out there reading this in education can tell me why I needed to read those and cry like a baby during the watching of the subsequent movies based on these books while in school?

Is this why I wanted to work with computers in 7th grade because they cant make me cry like this? Yeah, I think so. Back then writing an extra GOTO 10 line was way easier on the emotions than hearing about a boy keeping his dead dogs ear under a pillow or watching a man slowly realize he is becoming retarded again. Damn, I need to go kill some pixels to feel good again.

got the new couch in the house last night and the old couch out.
we took it to the dumpster at the end of the complex with some effort...

put together the new one and promptly sat our butts on it with the pups.
They like it but we have to watch little Long Body Biscotti, we think he wants to mark it something fierce and I don't trust how he looks at our new couch.

Have you ever had a work related meal with people and somebody just goes waaaay to far in how much they get? Its funny yet sad at the same time.

somebody explain to me why i decided to start the aerobics class during November (thanksgiving) all the way through December(Chirstmas) with all of the good FREE cakes and pies and treats that the dairy industry keeps dropping off at our building?
Oh and like a party for some reason every week that the company is paying for?
Why did I do this again?

Free Cheese cake today. It just appeared from some dairy in New York.
Free Lunch tomorrow at Buca Di Beppo to celebrate a project we got completed for a big client.
Friday Potluck holiday party, I'm bringing a dessert that I'm not gonna eat.
Thanksgiving with my folks, many coming down from Arkansas and making
Sweet Potato*, Egg, Chess and ice box pies.


Dec 10th Christmas/Holiday Party at Mexican Restaurant, There may even be an open bar...
Christmas in College Station with Appleheads family.

And all throughout December we have other projects getting completed and so other "celebrations"
and other clients sending us thank you dairy related treats.

Im not gonna make it I swear.

* VASTLY superior to Pumpkin Pie

After i get my milk in order at the JOB i know what im gonna be doing.





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Picked this up today. It will be delivered tomrrow evening. Now, gotta fiure out what to do with the old couch before then.


Salvation Army wont take it because it has a stain.
Ikea doesnt take away the old couch because there is no couch recycling program for them.
we dont have a truck to move it with readily available.
So we have some plotting to do between now and then.

On the bright side we got it for 50% off and my Applehead is a pro at putting that furniture together now. So I will most likely dance and make comments about screws and jigs and joints while she does that because that is the manner in which I roll.


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Lord forbid I am at work and somebody for some reason hates my coding and thinks it is a threat to them and decides to punch me in the face. But still I feel kind of awkward about the paparazzi and what they do as a job. I mean they get paid to do a job and I guess its hard to say who is at fault for it. I still find this quote hillarious.



From the article
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/11/13/mike.tyson.airport/index.html

Echevarria said he received five stitches and that Tyson, 43, hit him at least four times. "When you're getting hit by Mike Tyson, it's the worst thing in the world you can imagine," he said.

Just wanna say this NEVER WORKED for me and I want my Saturday mornings back.

this looks too good.

look at the size of this dudes neck...

good lord.



http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2009/11/04/germaise.fl.jail.house.attack.wfts

got a new phone last night.
my old one was shaking really hard and loudly when it vibrated.
like something was loose in it.
Apple the mac store "looked" at it and just replaced it.
Sweet. It was a refurbed phone but it still went kind of bad on me and so they did me a solid.
Unless something really crazy happens im probably hooked on iPhones for life now.

Man it takes forever to restore this thing.


But I only recall a few numbers on my phone without seeing the contact list.
My parents old number, Appleheads number and my own phone number. How messed up is that?

The phone dumb making me is.

When somebody has a bad personality or personality traits how do you tell them that?
Do you tell them
"I don't like how you do X Y and Z when we talk about this subject" or "when we hang out can we not talk about X because you take it to hard and get to excited, even though I always tell you I dont like that when we talk about it, I am asking you now to still stop doing it"

Do you try to accomodate and reach compromises in areas you see fit and you are OK with bending on?

When you cant seem to find a common ground and do so, what do you do? Do you just end that relationship and be done with it?

And yes, anytime you talk with or meet with or do things with someone more than once is that a relationship at that point?


Are clean breaks really the best?



Party A tells party B that the relationship is over in short and simple words with no hard feelings attached.
Party B doesn't like this and sends a long reason why it was wrong.
Isn't it smart for Party A to not respond to it and be done with it all together?
I think so.


When there is no way of delivering news without hurting people what is the best way to do it?

At what point are personality traits locked into place and there is little you can do about them?

thunder-biscuit.com/halloween/Halloween09Pics.html
Full list of pics



I went as Short Round from Indiana Jones
my buddy Oz went as Indiana Jones
Our friend vickie went as Al from Full Metal Alchemist AND she freaking made her own costume.

So the deal was that we were supposed to make it in time for a haunted house at another friends place but life always gets in the way of parties now and so we got there really freaking late. We still had some drinks and caught up with old friends and it was cool.
Blueberry Vodka and 7-up is pretty good stuff incase you didn't know.

Then Oz gets a call from a friend he has had for years, and he tells us to come and say hi. We decide to make an appearance there and say hi to his wife too so they can see us in our quickly put together costumes.


We get there. And we are seeing some people leave and some just getting there and they are all in serious costumes.
Vickie had hers in the car but its a chore to put on. But after seeing a Balrog from Street Fighter walk by we decided it was worth it.
She suits up with my amazing assistance.

we make it up the hill to the party.

As we walk in, everybody stops... Turns... and CHEERS right with a good drop of Kid Cudi Day n Nite.

The party was a bit nuts.
There were I think I counted 4 Djs taking turns on the turntables.
A HUGE spread of good quality liquor and a spread from a Mexican food restaurant.
Everybody was in costume Everybody was in costume
There was bed/love sack in front of the Dj booth and various lap dances occured there by random maids and Waldo of Wheres Waldo fame 
We ran into Sulu from Star Trek giving some Tricorder readings to some hot elves at one point.
At one point a guy stands up and grabs a mic and starts freestyle rapping.

So all in all pretty eventful Halloween night, two parties, various drinks and pics and no hangovers.
Lots of dancing and chatting and money in a jar at some point...old VHS horror movies, burned pizza. Weird indeed.

The gist of it is that a player was hit in the head with a baseball after the ball was hit by an aluminum bat. The suit claims the baseball bat was dangerous and made the ball move too fast not giving him time enough to react and move and not get hit in the head. So Louisville slugger  company is liable for his death and has to pay 850k...



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For any of you folks who like going places and then once you get to these places like sleeping in beds that do not belong to you but have been cleaned by professionals inside of a nice looking building that has protection from barbarians, take a look at this.

If you like and want in on these send a message to

pierceheart and work out the details.

About pierceheart He likes long walks on the beach, the sound of clowns running from him in fear, molesting food with his mouth and teeth and pouring liquid into his stomach by way of his mouth and listening to it slosh around. And documentaries about  David Byrne(???)

Reasons for getting in on these tickets.

1. Help somebody out.
2. Buying these tickets will keep Live Action Dungeons and Dragons roleplayers away from  your soft and squishy bits for quite some time.
3. Hey, if you're gonna travel anyway, beats staying at ANYTHING related to Starwood Hotels.

Check the list of participating hotels on the link within first.


http://badseed1980.livejournal.com/737618.html

I think im about to loose a player in my D&D group. Well that would actually mean two players as I am sure one will leave with the other since they are married and all.

It sucks, but its all good. If everybody isnt having fun then no need to make them stick around.

I will be keeping the game going and we will bring in 2 more people.