Head down code my ass off kind of day... as a result, not much to say. Well did I tell y'all we are going to Orlando in a few weeks? Hopefully I'm going to tack this trip on for a couple of extra days to a business trip. I also reserved a cabin for a cruise next year, and I'm going to Vegas in either November(Comdex) or January(CES) anyone want to go with? i.am.sleepy
I just now got off the phone with a good friend of mine M. I met him in England when I spent a year off and on over there. For those who know who I'm talking about it looks like he's on for another year or so in Thailand! Very good to hear his voice. Can't wait to see him...
Last night we had a little get together at R&P's house. G&J&S were there as well as R&N&I. JC showed up for a bit as well. We laughed so hard and for so long my neck hurt! Afterwards I got a ride in R's race car... hmmm maybe that's why my neck hurts that thing was gettin it ... damn it's fast fast fast! Gotta do that more often! I htink we are gonna do that get together thing once a month now.
The Ballunar Festival at the Johnson Space Center last night was really cool. Those ballons are massive and look really cool when lit up. Anyway fun for all, it runs today and Sunday should you want to go. See my last post for a link.
On the home front Dade is feeling better but still has a little drippy nose. Hopefully we'll get him active and get him over it today.
Since Angie has a new car and it's black we wanted to do the best thing for her paint job as to not get it all swirled up right away. On the advice of my pal G I went to Meguiars.com and filled out the form to get a detailed analysis of our area and which of their products I should use. Since I already like Meguiars I'm not borthered by the fact that it is only their product. Check it out you may learn something salty fog etch? WTF?
Phew ... long night last night... we went to Wings last night where I saw an old high school friend L.B. who informed me that Thursdays were his days at Wings funny... anyway on the way home Dade started complaining about a tummy ache, but he didn't trhow up until he and Angie got home. He didn't want to throw up in her new car. Anyway we have not been able to keep anything in him all night. Angie ended up sleeping with him on the couch last night, so I'm sure she's tired.
Well I hope we never get on the Russians bad side... ummmm Here is a story about how they were gonna bomb us then release a smallpox plague on us. very nice...
Well with any luck and if Dade gets better we are going to go to the Ballunnar Festival as the JSC tonight. I've been waiting to go to this all year.
I got some great linx today... first this was sent in by Big G! www.isketch.net Wow this is like online Pictionary it is a blast to play! I played for about an hour just now.
Little G sent this is www.worstcasescenarios.com there is so much here I can't even begin to list it all...go here in case you might find yourself in quicksand!
and he also sent www.famousnamechanges.com which is a site about movie stars and singers and other famous people and what thier real names were.
Ok I'm driving home yesterday thinking how the world is really wacked out when I hear this story on the radio... it seems some man wanted to see some official about a pay raise, when the official wouldn't see him he thought it would BE OK TO CUT OFF HIS TESTICLE ... WTF! Read the full story here!
I know some of you out there use Hotmail... better not keep to many things you don't want seen in there! CRACKED!
On a personal note I am so stoked! I got my faux flame lights last night and they look quite good... I'm falling behind badly on my halloween building... gotta get a plan T - minus 70 and counting!!!!
They had the press conference for #3 today... it turns out the seatbelt really did break and that a crash at 160mph into concrete is going to hurt or possibly kill you... I'm glad they finally said something but lets let it go now...
I open my eyes today and still wish I would just go and buy a PDA... I know, no technogeekweenie should be without a PDA but i keep waiting for the next model that is about to come out. I all but decided over a year ago that Pocket PC was the was to go. That PALM business was to slow, no color, not enough apps, etc... Well the 2g PPC devices are slated to hit the shelves in the next few months when I get hit with this little tidbit...Palm aquires BE WTF! Ok my favorite OS has been BE for sometime now. All object built no legacy code easy to use windowy look and fast like you've never seen before. Made my little p100 look like pII450 when I tried it out... you would be surprised at how fast your system can be if you remove the legacy M$ stuff. ... so what does this all mean... likely PALM is going to get a major upgrade in it's OS and I once again will be waiting for it! oh the horrahhhh!
This interesting link happened to find it's way on to my browser and now you can see it too!
Ok you think that AI stuff will never happen... here is the first step... oh man this raises some BBBIIIGGGG questions.
What did I do on Saturday? Let's see... I sat and sat and sat and waited... ughhh anyway we set out to see what kind of new car Angie wanted to buy. She has been looking at Eclipses and really liked them but this new Acura RSX was out and then there was Chrysler 300M that I wanted her to get. We went to a Mitsu dealer on the south side of town and got the low down, great deals on the 2001s and there was virtually no difference between them and the 2002s. Ok lets look. Took a test drive liked the car did not have the options and colors we wanted. No matter we are only looking right now anyway. Off to the Chrysler dealer 300Ms nice looking to me not sporty enough for Angie. SCRATCH! Ok on to the Acura dealer. The first Acura dealer we get to looks like a used car lot! They have 3 new Acura and 50 used something else's... drive on! Ok head north there is another Acura dealer next to a Mitsu dealer on Rankin. Pull in same thing, almost no new Acuras and tons of used P.O.S.es we get out anyway. A salesman takes us to the back and there is one RSX back there, it's an S-Type COOL! and it's black another plus! I thought the S-Type was supposed to be loaded? It looked plain on the inside, it also had perfed leather seats which Angie hates! I have to admit no matter how fast it goes and how fun it is to drive I was disappointed when I sat in it. Ok SCRATCH that one to I guess we will look for an Eclipse now. On to the Mitsu dealer next door. Tons of 2001s almost all silver! Don't get me wrong I love silver on a car but I think the Eclipses come in 2 colors silver and something else. In other words when is the last time you saw an Eclipse that was not silver... Angie wants a Black GT with Autostick and the Infinity sound system. Hey there's a black one over there ... everything she wants! Ok lets talk about it.
"I can not do 3.9 financing on anything but sticker."
"Sorry then were out of here... I am not buying a 2001 at sticker"
"wait wait wait, let me see," Long wait "I can do invoice plus 300 if you finance it yourself."
"well that works out to be $40 per month more, forget it. Look if you can't do better how about I trade in the Explorer and you can do better on that and then we will get where we can make a deal." (we were going to trade it from the beginning but I told him we weren't)
long wait again!!
"we can only do 5K on the explorer..."
"forget it give me my keys..."
"no wait what do you need"
"I need at least 6.8K to pay it off, it books for $6996 with every deduction I can give it and that is trade value from 3 different sources!"
... ok lets cut to the chase here... back and forth we went for what seemed like forever in the end they gave me $6.2K for my trade and sold me the car for invoice all at 3.9% we had to talk to the GM, you know the guy that the salesman always goes back and forth to every time you say something. I guess even he got tired of going back and forth, I always thought that would be better anyway let me talk to the man who can make decisions. I ended up about $700 away from what I wanted to pay but I did not do my calcs based on getting an Autostick, I was basing it on a manual tranny. So I think I came out alright. Other than having to spend 4 hours to get this deal done Angie is happy and we got the low rate.
Ok I use google for all my searching but this new search engine has appeared... Teoma is supposed to be very good. More relavant and faster searches... the database does not have near as much as google but they are infants still and that will catch up. give them a try.
First off wow holy crap were those some good seats I got from Big G last night. Ok we were sitting about 8 rows behing the front of the first base dugout! I'm talking softball close. You could hear the players talking on the field. My head is still spinning! THAnK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Big G!
EXTRA LINK! UPDATE!See the Pictures!
Ok I admit it I am getting totaly addicted to Sonic Slurries. I really like the Orange and the Cherry! As a matter of fact I'm off to get one in a few minutes.
Just FYI Chantal is still hanging around out there. Keep yourself aware!
I know a bunch of you are from Baytown(where I live) and some of you have a police scanner, so try this for all the Baytown area freqs you'll need!
Ok I have one these Pronto units now and I flat out love it! Now they have color... time to get a new one!
EXTRA LINK! I just found this very extensive review of the new color ProntoPro mmmmmm color....
