Mozilla Firefox is a strange and fantastic browser. But I don't think this blog turns of too good if you type out a message while using Firefox and then read the blog using Internet Explorer then...it's just off. I can't explain it and if everything looks fine when you read this then ignore the statements I made above. I just gotta say that stuff because as I type this, the default cover of the lettering is green, lime green. It's not like this on IE. It's normal on IE. Why am I not using Internet Explorer? That is a good question. See, when I open Internet Explorer or IE as the technically minded call it, I get this funny(stupid) message up saying that there is a Buffer Overload blah blah blah and my computer freezes. That's a Windows 98 OS for the record. The resources are good, which is a good thing for 63 MB of RAM. Oh man. I thinks its a "browser hijacker" that I have to format my computer in order to get rid of it. So be it. Mozilla has been working as a replacement, but I really do need to get a new computer. I know. I get one of those Future Shop computers with all the Ghz of speed. I can only imagine how nice that would be. It's Thursday morning at 2:18 am. Just bored right now. I have a few things to go over tonight with you. I just thought you all should know that Kelloggs is making Corn Flakes tonight. I live just down the street from Kelloggs you see. It's great. I feel like I get a 15 Neutrient breakfast everyday when I leave for work in the afternoon, and I just inhale it and not eat it. I save so much time. It's also fun trying to figure out what they are brewing down there. Corn Flakes tonight, Frosted Flakes have a more sugary smell to them. It's the frosting. Hmmmm what else? ..... ..... Sorry about that, I got really hungry and while walking by the fridge I thought, mmmmmmhmm eggs. And I made so eggs. So I'm going to eat them now. ..... ..... That was good. Well, I am pretty tired now and will be turning in for the night. I can't help but leave you with a few pics from KEMF this past weekend. I hope they turn out in IE. Actually, the photo archive is being tested so I can't post those tonight. Goodnight.

January is 6 days old.  It has been bitter sweet,  Bitter because it is January and sweet because damn if it hasn't been pretty nice, with the exception of a couple of gray crappy days. 

It is 2005.  How did I spend the first day of this new glorious year?  The first three hours were spent on the couch trying not to have a headache caused my drinking massive amounts of Honey Lager the night before.  I did manage to peel myself off the couch though with the help of Acetaminophen.   I took advantage of the warm weather and barbequed a fantastic steak that I accompanied with roasted potatoes and beans, and topped with green pepper, onions, and mushrooms.  Not bad for meal to start the new year. 

I am going to post a recipe in my next entry.  It is a recipe I like to call Super Bowl Chili, and I will be making it for the Superbowl. 

Oh, and Arrested Developement rules so watch it. 

Cheers

Randon Thoughts thrown down... I had Christmas at me parents place this past weekend and all in all it was a great time. I wish I had someone special to share it with but oh well.. Still no NHL hockey but who cares. The London Knights are kicking ass which is pretty much all the hockey I need. To be honest, I never really gave minor hockey a chance last year or any year for that matter. As long as the NHL was on, that was all the hockey I watched. I must say that I am very impressed with the play of the Knights. At times it didn't even look fair for their opponents. Corry Perry and Danny Svret of the Knights made the Canadian Junior team and right now they are undefeated, their last game was a 9 - 0 ass kicking handed out to Germany. It was brutal. Maybe they should put a mercy rule in or something. There has been so much bad new coming from the other side of the world recently and I wanted to get this down so that I will remember exactly what has transpired.. Two days ago there was an earthquake under the water of the Indian Ocean. What results from this were Tsunamies that engulfed the shortline of at least 7 countries. The last time I heard there were over 100 000 people dead and that number climbs everytime I see it. Tsunamies That Kill Absolutely Brutal and frightfully hard to imagine so many dead. In some more cheerful news... Recent CD purchases and listed to: Green Day - American Idiot - awesome album of punk rock Modest Mouse - Good news for people who like Bad News - listened to it once and it was interesting stuff. Indie rock goodnewss. CD's that are guaranteed to be good. CCR - Chronicle Bob Marley - Satisfy My Soul Happey New Year. May peace be in your life.

Back to Blogville for me here. I have been away. Tommorrow is my birthday. I will be twenty seven and still at the point where I am wondering what I will do with my life. Existentiallism at its finest. Lets see, what else. This past Saturday night there was a fine fine keg party at my place and it went well. It would have been better if more people showed up to drink from the Kegs though. We ended up losing about $50 each for our troubles but over all, it was a good time and I am glad that we did it. I met one of my neighbors that night as well. A dude that goes by the name Sticky. I shit you not. He is small, bald, and a drug dealer. He showed up at the party just walking right in saying he lived across the street wondering if I had seen anything three weeks ago when someone tried to break into his house. He went on, in a drunken stupor, to tell me that he chased the guy down and beat the shit out of him which I doubt happened. Hopefully Sticky stays at home next time we have a party. Last night, Sunday night, we had the power go out for about 30 minutes, which is pretty scary in the winter time. Our next door neighbor kindly gave us some candles which is better than the cell phone light we were using. Note to self, get some candles. It might also be a good idea to get one of those Canadian Tire power generators. Let's just hope the power stays on while were at it. That's it from me right now. Take care.

So I just got home from another day of work. My third day in a row of working OT before my regular shift. What can I say. I used to despise working overtime. Say I could never do it. Working the job I do does make it easier. Now that I have a house to pay for I really don't mind. Sure it stinks when you actually have to go in, but once it's done, it's a pretty good feeling. It will be an even better feeling once I get my pay check. Nuff shop talk. Living in my new place rocks. It is so much better than where I was before. First off, I feel like I can stretch my legs. My apartment was so cramped compared to this. I love everything about where I am living now. We just bought new furniture last weekend. I have to remember that when my Mom calls me up and says that there is a great deal going on somewhere and that I should come down and meet her, that I will most likely be buying something that I really want and need but might not be able to afford. Case in point: Last Friday I just got paid and I was expecting a bigger purse. I paid my bills and gave my stupid bitch landlord the last of her rent money for the apartment, and I was left with about enough to eat macaroni and cheese for the next two weeks (Thank God for Credit Cards) Anyway, I was feeling pretty down. It really sucks when you get paid and have no money. Well, the phone rings and it's my Mom who is out at Liquidation world or something and there are great deals on furniture. Not really expecting to much my brother and I go out there and come back buying a couch and loveseat combo for $850 and a really nice long wood table for $50. So there you go. We don't have to pay for a year. I never in a million years expected that to happen. Gotta love it though. As I like to say, it's another piece of the puzzle all taken care of. I saw my cousin Lynsey today. Great seeing her again. She's back in town with Jacob and I wonder if she is here to stay this time. I am going to check out here place on Saturday, after more OT. Games that I am playing now, Halo 2, Star Wars Galaxies, Fable, ESPN Hockey. I saw the movie Saw and I thought it blew. Great premise for a movie and maybe I'm not giving it enough credit, but man, bad acting and just annoying characters ruined it. As one reviewer put it: This movie stripped me down and pushed oddly shaped objects into my ass. Forcibly. 4.5 out of 10 Later.

Moon Landing: Fact of Fiction? 

 

http://www.moonmovie.com/15things.html

 

I personally don’t care about the subject but I found it to be kind of interesting.  You decide. 

 

 

Really Cool Movie Websites

Going the Distance is a comedy in the tradition of Road Trip…but it’s Canadian and doesn’t look half bad.

Check out the site: http://www.goingthedistancethemovie.com/index.jsp 

             Check out the music portion!

SAW is a movie that I mentioned earlier and is described as being pretty fucked up

Check out the site: http://sawmovie.com

Bad Bad Movies that exist for some unknown reason.

 

There are a couple of movies out there that exist for the sole purpose of annoying me to the point of exhaustion.  The funny thing is that these movies are constantly replayed over and over again on TV. 

Over the weekend when I had absolutely no money and nothing better to do that watch TV (feel pity for me), there were two such movies on the boob tube.  Showcase for whatever reason keeps playing a movie that I will call The Ultimate Weapon, mainly because that is the name of it.  In reality it is The Biggest Ultimate Piece of Crap on the Planet Earth and Beyond.  

If you or anyone you know has actually managed to watch this movie from start to finish without trying to a) punch the TV, (b) turn the channel, or (c) go insane, the I will give you $50.  I shit you not.  You have to be stone cold sober as well.  It stars Hulk Hogan (yep) in an edgy role as an elite special forces in the tradition of Commando.  This guy can run in slow motion with a dozen guys shooting machine guns at him with absolutely no cover at all and will actually dodge every bullet and even kill half of the guys trying to kill him.  He is that awesome.   Here is a comment from another poor soul who actually watched this movie:

"This movie is utter and total crap. Flashy catch phrases try to make up for the poor acting and bad writing. The henchmen of the main baddie can shoot, but one of them walks up to Cutter's friend that they think is dead only to get shot by his shotgun. If I had a good five seconds and I was a bad guy I would have shot right away rather then checking if the guy was dead. The added "Man I am good" from Cutters friend made me laugh so sadistically with sarcasm that I couldn't control my utter outrage of funding for this piece of dung. Sitting through the last scene of the movie when the main baddie's friend comes back in a cop car to run over Cutter and is diverted into the barn where the main bad guy is standing on a bomb made the movie totally believable. And if you believe my last line.... you sure are gullible!"

He then went on to say "Check this movie Ouuuuut!"

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ATTENTION: POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT FOR ALL ASIAN FILMS EVER

Okay, now I know that I have just been talking about movies for a while just for the fact that I now have a Region Free DVD player in my Xbox and I can watch movies that have been copied...like every movie that Shane owns, pretty much.  I watched Hero  on DVD.  It was cool, epic, and very colourful.  I loved the part with the arrows and I would have to say my favorite character was Broken Sword.  This dude got killed or wounded in the first couple of stories and I kind of thought he was going to be awesome right off the bat, so I was wondering what the fuck.  But then there was that tale of Him and Flying Snow where they take on an entire army.  Then he takes on the emperor and that one move where he could have taken the emperors head right off but doesn't, is awesome.  It's only one small part of the whole movie. 

I also just saw Shaolin Soccer which was at times laugh out loud funny and at other times really really jaw dropping to look at.  It was an asian film though and you can definitely tell when a movie is asian...not only is everyone asian, but by the way it is made as well.  Even the plot points where the only girl in the movie shows up bald and funny looking at the end after the main character has just told her that they are going to be friends only, so the girl runs off to (I guess) shave her head, and then they get married???  Huh?  Or where they try to enlist their soccer team and all the guys they talk to say say that can't help, and without any further persuasion they all show up at the same time to say there in?  I knew it was coming but...  Over all I liked both filmes.  
I raised one eye brow on that part.

 

 

Earlier this year one of my favorite wrestlers retired from wrestling in order to try a football career with an NFL club.  Brock Lesnar had an amazing career in Pro Wrestling becoming at the time the youngest WWE Champion at the age of 26.  The guy as a monster in the ring and when I found out that he was leaving wrestling I was kinda bummed.  Well, things are looking up as the club that he eventually signed on with is the Minnesota Vikings, my favorite team.  Although he will not be able to play this year unless a miracle happens, I can already pre-order a football jersey with his name on it.  This makes me happy.  Now the only thing that would make me happier is seeing Brock Lesnar doing an F-5 on an opposing Quarterback, that would be real nice. 

 

http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story/7535114

 

So far the Vikes are 2 – 1 this pre-season, which is a good start in my books.  Hopefully it will be a good year.  GO VIKINGS GO. 

In a related story, Brock Lesnar has been cut by the Vikings.  But his spirit is still strong. 

 

This past week I was inspired to do some over time at work.  I worked 4 hours on Wednesday and a killer 8 hours on Friday.  The reason for my need to do over time is because I am the brokest I have been in a long long time.  I am officially broke until Friday of this week.  I should be okay though.  Just stretched myself too thin. 

 

Today is the closing ceremonies for the Olympics.  Overall it was great to watch.  No terrorist attacks this time around which I guess is a plus.  There was an incident in the Men Marathon race where a crazy Irish priest pretty much tackled the leader who was 40 seconds ahead of the leader. 

 

Let's give everyone the Byrd and say fuck yeah!

Adam actually kicked me here and then jumped across the fire at the same time I was launched and kicked me again when I landed.  He had just seen the movie Hero with Jet Li.  Hey, I couldn't make this stuff up man. 

There's trouble...I hope Taya isn't going to be driving anywhere today. 


This is the backyard that one dreams about, but not if your Chris or Anastasia...cause this is there back yard. 


Someone told Sean and Brad that the last beer was on this side of the fire.


Best Green I ever putted on, this put was for 43 ft approximately and I drained it.  Sure did.  And then I drank the beer in that beer cup in the background.