I'm a broke mofo

Damn... I have no money.

I went on a spending spree during Christmas and didn't keep track of everything. So now I'm finding reciepts that I never entered into my Money program and bills that I forgot to pay and some stuff is entered wrong and I don't know what else.

This sucks. I get paid today, but it's all going to the rent. I hope I have enough money in my savings to cover it.

But I'm going to get my check in a few minutes and hopefully I'll get my review and see if I have a raise or not. I hoping for a dollar, but, we'll see. Wish me luck!

30 Second movies

I found this site the other day called the 30 Second Bunny Theater. Basically it re-enacts famous movies in 30 seconds with bunnies. Pretty funny stuff. I've added it to my links along with Newgrounds.

Newgrounds is a site that shows Flash games and animations that anyone can submit. Some of them are pretty funny, some are really stupid and some are just plain disturbing. But be warned, most of this is geek humor so you probably won't get some of it unless you're into old Nintendo games and Adult Swim cartoons.

Here's an interesting little song.

You can tell I'm pretty bored. I'm almost looking forward to going back to work just so I can have something to do.

My Vacation

You have to wonder about some people.

This guy who lives in the building next to me comes zooming into the parking lot with his truck and almost hits this group of black guys standing there. So they say something to him and he starts calling them the "N" word and starts barking at them. And I'm sitting there thinking This guys an idiot.

So that group of black guys beat the shit out of him. And I was like yea, kick that guys ass. And then the cops came and they all ran except the one that got beat. I guess they made a police report and left. Then this dumbass starts barking at some black guys again. I guess someone just called the cops on him because a few minutes later, they came back, gave him a sobriety test and they arrested him.

All this on Christmas Eve.... you gotta wonder....

Anyway, my christmas was pretty good, we went to my brothers house and ate dinner there. It was pretty fun and stuff. I got an electric kettle, which is pretty cool because it boils water pretty fast and comes in real handy. I also got a Simon card for $25. I think I'm just going to buy a CD... I'm thinking Outkast.

-Vacation-

Yep... I'm on vacation. I've been on it since last Friday and you know what? I haven't done a damn thing. Here it is Thursday already and I've only left the apartment twice, and that was just to get some food. Part of it was because of the little bag of weed that I bought, but that was gone by Monday night when my two neighbors barged in and forced a beer into my hands and got me drunk. But Tuesday and Wednesday was just me sitting here playing Civilization IV all day.

Part of me feel guilty because I had all these plans and haven't done any of them. The other part is like "Hey it's my vacation, I'm supposed to relax!".

Oh well...

Anyway, check this out

There's this thing called the Dofi-blog, It's all in japanese, but if you scroll down a litte, you'll see this weird little applet called Hell of Sand. It looks pretty weird, but if you play with it for just a little while, you'll see how cool it is.

There's a good description of it here and here

Have fun...

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody!

Short weekend

Well, I had to work yesterday because of my day off during the week. It was optional, but I need the money.

Friday, I got home from work and my neighnor(gay alky) asked me to take him to work. So I did and he told me Budweiser is $9.99 for an 18-pack at H.E.B. (I love that store). Apparently that was the big news around town because I'd heard that a couple times that day. So, of course, I went to H.E.B. after I dropped him off and got some tacos from the restaurant around the corner. When I came home there were a whole bunch of cop cars in the parking lot.

Apparently, two guys grabbed two 12 year old girls and forced them into their apartment and rpaed one of them. The other one got away. That's fucked up!! It's all over the local news right now. This neighborhood is going downhill fast.

So yesterday I came home from work and of course my neighbor is at home drinking and I still had most of that 18-pack from the night before so I drank with him all night. Then after the bud-light was gone I had one of his malt liquor beers and the next thing I know, it's 7am and I'm sleeping on his couch. Of course he was still up anddrinking.

So I made some coffee and we went to my place and watched tv and smoked a joint. And he just kept saying over and over again" Them white folk are stupid" anytime they were on TV. It cracked me up.


"What are they building, they're crazy, them white folk"

(To a scene of people picking up seashells)"What are they doing, picking up rocks? Them white folk are stupid"

"Look at them... they're stupid"

He only stayed for an hour or so. Then I played some Battlefield 2, got a pretty good score as a commander, and wrote in my blog.

So here I am now and.... well.... there's not too much going on anymore. I have a nasty case of heartburn, I have to watch clothes, change my headlight on my car, and go shopping for food but at this pace, I don't know if any of thats going to happen.

Day Off

Got the day off today. It's too cold to work. The temperature was like 28 degrees this morning and there was ice everywhere. IT got me homesick. Especially when I went to get some tacos. There was christmas music playing and everyone was all bundled up inside the restaurant and it really felt like Christmas for a few minutes.

Anyway, I'm glad I got the day off. My finger needs a day of rest so it can heal.


Look, wanna see it??!
And if I bend it....
I know it looks really bad, but it's really in good shape. It's got a good scab over it and there's no infection so it's going to heal nicely. I'll probably have a big scar, but it'll be a reminder to be careful.

Aww, who am I kidding... I'm going to use it to brag about how tough I am. :D :D

My weekend

Last weekend my gay alky neighbor asked if I would help move his friend (um, lets call him... um... chico) into his new apartment. I wasn't too thrilled about spending my Saturday helping someone I barely know move. Especially when I just cut my thumb open the day before, but, well... I'm just a nice guy.

So we get Chico all moved into this apartment that's almost twice the size of mine and all bills paid for a little more than what I pay, and the owner is throwing a party for the tenants that day. Well, my neighbor had already started drinking at 11am or so and it was already getting dark so he was buzzing already. So I went out and got some beer and we stayed there and drank.

Well, we're all having a good time and after about 11 or 12 beers, I'm pretty drunk and trying to figure out how to get a shot of that unopened liquor bottle on one of the tables. But they didn't know the people at that table. So I settled for a couple of hits of a joint that someone was smoking. That did me in. I was totally out of it and Chico told me to go crash on his couch. I figured I'd lay down for just a little while, but the next thing I know, it's like 3 .a.m. and there's someone knocking on the door.

So Chico answers the door and it's the cops looking asking if my gay alky neighbor is there. He says no and the cop asks about me ( I was pretending like I was asleep) and shines the light right in my face. I pretended like I was waking up and I heard someone downstairs yell "That motherfucker threw a brick through my window and ran into that apartment... I think it was that apartment" and then the cop asked some more questions and left.

So I asked Chico what happened and he had no idea. My neighbor wasn't there either. So I just went back to sleep. When I woke up at like 7 or so, I decided to head home and when I got there
my neighbor is sitting on his porch in the same clothes (shorts and a tshirt in 40 degree temps) and he has a big gash on his forehead.

Apparently he got into that bottle of liquor I was eyeing, then somehow got into a fight with someone and got hit in the head with a bottle then when that someone ran into their house, he tried to kick the door down, then threw a brick through the window. Then he walked home without his keys and spent the night outside his apartment.

So he tells me all of this in my apartment while he warms up and tells me he's going to "get that motherfucker" and "This ain't over" and more stuff like that. Then asks me all nicely to take him back over there to get his keys. I was like "Hell NO, your going to try to kick that guys ass. I sure as hell ain't getting involved in this" and somehow I convinced him to stay at my place while I went to get his keys.

That was the last I heard of it. I picked up the keys, and he went home. I haven't seen him since because I've been working late all week and he works in the afternoon. So I have no idea what has happened since. Hopefully nothing and he's just full of hot air.

So... that was my exciting weekend. I think I'm going to stay home from now on...

Another injury

Chalk up another hand injury to add to this blog. Today I gashed open my left thumb while cleaning off my margin trowel with a utility knife. Not exactly my brightest moment.

The problem is that it happened at work toward the end of the day. So rather than report it, I just called it a day and went home. Usually you're supposed to report it and go to the clinic, but if I did that then I would have had to take a drug test. And that's not something I don't want to do.
So I decided to stop by the CVS Pharmacy on the way home and get some medical supplies. I got some butterfly strips, Gauze, and some cloth tape. I also needed something to disenfect the wound and was debating between betadine and iodine. I wasn't sure which one was better so I asked the lady at the pharmacy counter. Mind you, I had a big, dirty, bloody rag wrapped around my finger and dried blood all over my hand and shirt. So the lady says they are both pretty much the same. Then, with a wide eyed look,she slowly asks me, "Do you need some help?"

*Sigh*

So I get home and my gay alky neighbor is sitting outside drinking before he has to go to work. He asks me about my hand and I tell him what happened. Then he goes on and on about the stuff he bought at the dollar store and I'm like "Dude, I have to tend to my hand" and he's like "oh yea, maybe you should, but hold on, let me show you what I got at H.E.B yesterday."

Jeez

So then i get a knock on my door, actually about two or three knocks. I thought it was my other neighbor, but it turned out to be my sister and her kids. She told me I really should see a doctor. You, know... she's probably right.

Cell Phone

I got a new cell phone on Monday. Woo Hoo!!!



It's a Motorola V551 and it's got all those new fandangled features that you find on phones nowadays like a camera, and um..... ring tones and.... um...... buttons.... and other ... stuff.

And the $119 was totally worth it. TOTALLY. Really it was.... I mean, so far I've managed to take a picture of my wall, my cat, my tv and my feet..... TOTALLY WORTH IT!

Video Games

Well, the next generation of video games are coming out. The Xbox 360 is already out, and Playstation 3 and Nintendo Revolution are coming out sometime next year. Usually this is an exciting time for me, but it's not. I'm not planning on getting any of those systems. Why? Well, I guess the biggest reason is the cost.
This baby here is $399. Ouch! And you still have to buy a game and another controller, that's another $80 or $90.

And this guy's price hasn't been released yet, but it's projected to be well above the $399 mark. My $10 an hour-ass can't afford something like that. I can barely make rent and buy groceries.


Another reason is my PS2 and Gamecube have been sitting around collecting dust in my entertainment center. I've been playing computer games a lot lately. IMO they're just better in all aspects.

If you ask me, we're going to see a decline in video game popularity with these new consoles. People are going to shell out all this money and most of the games are going to be sequels from the old consoles. So you'll have these great looking graphics and awesome sound effects, but you'll be playing the same games over and over again. They'll just have different names.

Nintendo claims that they're next system will revolutionize the video game industry, but so far they haven't released too much info on their system other than a picture of the console and it's funky controller.


I'm pretty curious about what it's going to be like, but I'm not holding my breath. I think this will probably be Nintendo's last system because they just can't compete with the other two. They're only redeeming factor is their systems are usually cheaper than most other systems.

Anyway, that's my opinion.

jay is games

Computer games are expensive. They cost somewhere between $50 and $60. Given my current financial situation (I HAVE NO MONEY!!!) I've been forced to look for other alternatives. That's where Jay comes in.

Jay is a college student who is studying video game design or something like that and he searches the internet for free games and recommends the best ones he finds on his website www.jayisgames.com

There are tons of games there. Some of them are surprisingly good. Some of them are kinda gay, but it's there for you to try out.

There's action games

like this

or this

puzzle games

cut and cuddly (this one really got me)

some scary ass games

some games that are just weird

and some that are just pointless

And there's a ton more to waste your time. Anyway.. I'll leave it at that....

Texas

You know, Texas is beautiful this time of year. I thought I would miss the cold weather and the snow, but I really don't.

45 degree mornings that turn into nice 68 degree days without a cloud in the sky sounds a hell of alot better than trudging through slush, scraping ice off the windows, and generally freezing your ass off.

I realized this today while I watched these guys at work pile on sweaters and heavy coats because the temperature dropped below 50.

Fucking wussies.

Damn Cat

Damn... look at my hand.
Saturday, I got bit by a cat that ran into my apartment. I didn't think much of it until that night when my hand got really sore and swelled up like a balloon. I would have gone to the hospital, but, well... I was pretty drunk by then.

So I went yesterday and ended up getting two rabie shots and another shot right in the swollen area. That one hurt like hell and the doctor want's me to go back for more rabie shots.

It turns out the cat belonged to one of my neighbors and it already had it's shots and everything so I"m not going to worry about it.

Stupid cat....

But on the plus side, I did get some Vicodin :) So needless to say, I've been feeling pretty good lately.

Anyway, sorry about the long drought between blogs.

Bleh

I'm getting bored with my blog.....

Let me tell ya..... Beer, The Grateful Dead, a little weed, and a RPG........

Damn!!

You know what this is?



It's a rejection letter from Toyota.

Talk about a letdown.

Work....

So anyway, at work we're installing these things called Pavers. They're thick cement squares that rest on little pedastals and when they're complete, they form an elevated floor.

Kinda like this.

It looks like a normal floor, but it's actually raised anywhere from an inch to a foot off the concrete. That way, the general contractor can put their drains underneath and slope the floor toward them. So when it rains, the water seeps through the joints between the tiles and into the drains. No streams of water or puddles to worry about, it all happens underneath. Pretty neat, huh?

Of course, our pavers aren't as level and uniform as these. But I'll save that story for another day.

Anyway, most of the major work is done, all that's left is cutting in along the walls and corners. And guess who gets this job? That's right..

Yup, I was all like "YAY!!, they put me in charge of something" and stuff. But I didn't realize that when you cut with a wet saw, your hands get all prune-like and combined with handling rough, heavy cement objects, your hands turn out like THIS!!

AAAAAAHHHH

Yea, all those little red spots on my fingertips are where my skin has been worn down to nothing. The fine dust, combined with the water also drys out your skin so bad that when I stretch my hand, it cracks and those spots start bleeding. MMMMMM.....

What's that you say? I should wear gloves?

What do you think I am? Some sort of wussy, glove-wearing fairy?! Uh uh, not me. I'm a MAN and REAL MEN use duct tape and Band-aids!!

YUEAH!!!

anyway... that's the end of my little spiel....

So You Think You Can Dance

Ok, I'm a lazy T.V. watcher. I turn it to fox and leave it there all night. Not because I love their lineup, just because I hate channel surfing and i'm usually all caught up in the computer.

Unfortunately I end up watching horible reality shows like American Idol and comedies that have run long past their prime (i.e. That 70's show and Maclom in the Middle). But I think one of the worst shows I've seen is So You Think You Can Dance, it's an American Idol rip off with a nicer version of Simon Cowell. I see this show being showcased as "remember that ridiculous show" in about 10 years because it's totally uninteresting.

But it did provide me with my favorite quote from reality tv. When told he wouldn't make it to the next round because he didn't dance masculine enough, one contestant cried to the camera saying " I've never been told I didn't look masculine when I danced with a ribbon!"

What the fuck??????

TEGO!!!!

As you can see, this guy just oozes cool from every orifice. You know why? Because it's TEGO!!!!!

Apparently all this music I've been listening to is called Reggaeton. I've heard it described as salsa mixed with hip hop. I know that description sounds horrific, but it's pretty catchy and i'm hooked.


Sure, I can't understand a word of it, and I turn it down whenever I drive by a group of Mexicans (a la Micheal Bolton from Office Space), but, the beats they use are so different from the usual rock/pop/heavy metal/alternative bands I've listened to all my life. It's a refreshing change.

But.... maybe it all sounds so good because I'm drunk. :D

Pearls Before Swine

I thought this was funny. No offense Tink, LOL.

Kitty

OK, I figure I'll post pictures of Kitty bacause nothing interesting has happened lately.







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Atlas Shrugged

I finally finished this damn book. It took me like 3 months to read the thing. Somebody recommended this to me a long time ago and I was desperate for something to read so I got this. But it turned out to be a pretty good story.

It takes place in the near future of 1957 and it follows the struggles of Dagny Taggart, the operations manager at Taggart Transcontinental, as she tried to keep her company afloat while her brother, the president, runs the company into the ground. Meanwhile, all the good workers and induatrialists are mysteriously disappearing and a new government is starting to take over the country and... well... alot more stuff happens but I don't feel like describing it all.

Anyway, the book has a pretty good pace and manages to keep you interested, though it does get a little long winded at times. Mainly because Ayn Rand is the founder of the Objectivism movement and she uses this book as a platform to preach it and at the end of the book when things are coming to a climax she makes you sit through fifty pages of her Objectivism spiel before she continues with the story....That BITCH!!!

But it's still a good book, I would recommend it to anyone interested.

Now I can start on my next book that I've been anxiously wanting to start.

I've never heard of him either, it was one of those "if you like this guy, you'll like...." on Amazon.com. I read a couple pages in the bookstore and it seemed pretty good, but we'll see.

Musica Latina

I found a spanish station on the radio that plays hip-hop and other stuff earlier this week. I have no idea what they're saying, but some of those songs are pretty good. So today I ventured into the Musica Latina section of Best Buy and purchased my first spanish CD. Hmmm... is this a new chapter in The Dutch Story or just another passing fad?

Anyway, I bought this group called Daddy Yankee. Their big hit is a song called "Gasolina". Apparently it's about gasoline and they want it because they keep saying "A ella le gusta la gasolina (dame mas gasolina)" She likes gasoline (give me more gasoline) ... I think that's what it means..... I don't know, but it's a pretty catchy song.

Here he is looking all gangsta and shit.

Anyway, the rest of the cd is pretty good. My only complaint is that they use the same drum beat for every song. In fact, every song on that radio station has that same beat.


Anyway, it's the weekend so I'm going to go get some beer and tacos.... and some Rolaids

Pointless Stuff

I found this on my door this morning. It's a letter from the apartment complex saying that an assault has occured in the apartment complex. This is the fourth or fifth letter I've gotten since I moved in. I think i'm going to make this the I HATE MY APARTMENT blog.. what do you think?

Anyway, the big news around San Antonio today is there's a cold front coming in today. WOW!! Exciting, huh? Well everyone else seemed to think so, that's all I heard about today, " Isn't that wild? A cold front in the middle of summer!" and " God couldn't send us any rain so he gave us a cold front instead!" and so on...

So as the sun is baking my sweat soaked back through my shirt, I ask the guy next to me, " I thought there was a cold front coming in?" and he says " What do you mean? This is it!!" and laughed.

...... I hate Texas......

My pool

I don't know if you can see it, but that water in the pool is DARK GREEN!!! And they still have it open. I took this picture this morning and so far nobody has been in there. Yesterday there was a whole family swimming in that shit. This apartment complex is going down the tubes.

Drunk rant #1

Ok, I hate this guy Wes Anderson. He made those movies Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I couldn't figure out why I didn't like them before, but with The Life Aquatic I think I've finally figured it out.

His movies are always filled with this bland wit and weird visual style (which I love), and he writes these off the wall plots that somehow pull you in. But, right after the weird climax of each movie, he wusses out and gives everyone a happy ending. I HATE THAT!!!

Psychoanalyze that any way you want.

Planarity

This game is driving me crazy!!!

http://home.cwru.edu/~jnt5/Planarity/

The object is to not have any intersecting lines.

The Fifth Column

The Fifth Column

This guy is pretty funny

My Toe

I had an ingrown toenail removed today. Loads of fun. Everyone told me it would hurt like hell, but it really wasn't that bad. The most painful part was the 300 bucks they charged!!! And that's with insurance!

What's that you say? You wanna see a picture? Well, ok, if you insist...






This is before








This is after












If you're wondering what those black spots on the carpet are... It's waterproofing material that's flaked off my hands and work clothes.

Friday night Chris (my brother) invited to go to Blanco river with him and his family on Saturday. I wasn't too sure about going since the forecast for San Antonio was thunderstorms all day. ButChris, always the optimist, was confident that the weather would be better in Blanco. So on Saturday I got up, looked out the window and saw it was raining and figured he would call it off. But no.. he said it was all south of Blanco bla bla bla.. and came over. Well guess what...He was right!! As soon as we left San Antonio, the rain stopped and the sky cleared up.

Blanco river is a pretty nice place. We got a nice spot right next to the dam where everyone swims. There's a little box on the lower side of the dam that's shallow enough for kids and a deep end on the high side of the dam for everyone else. I hadn't been swimming in a looong time and it was pretty fun. We swam most of the day, had a bbq, and swam some more. At least until the church group came.


Yea you heard me right a church group. They came by with their acoustic guitars and hymns and started baptising people right in the middle of the kiddie pool. One lady, after being baptised, went into convulsions and another started crying. I felt like I was watching one of those televangelists on TV.

We left after soon after that.

Surprise in the mail... continued

Ok, I know you all have been anxiously waiting to see the Surprise gift so I won't keep you waiting...

That's right... MORE TAMPONS!!! But only I will know...

I'll admit, it's a pretty nifty case and it comes with a little pamphlet about Toxic Shock Syndrome... who would've thought a little piece of cotton could be so dangerous?

Obvioulsy it's alot smaller than the other ones, but it ingeniously extends at the base for... um... application. Wow, i'm learning a lot about feminine hygene.....

And check this out!!

Another coupon for $1 off my next purchase. What a great deal.

That's it for the package. It's been a very educational experience and it made me glad that I'm a man and don't have to deal with this shit.

Surprise in the mail

So I go to check my mail yesterday and to my surprise, there's a little piece of paper saying I have a package in the leasing office. The first thing that pops in my mind is "TOYOTA!!!!!" (cause I applied there) but instead I get handed this.



Talk about awkward

The free stuff I requested???

So instead of throwing it out I decided to show it off to all you folks out there in the style of my favorite blog sixthseal.com ( http://www.sixthseal.com).

The first thing in there is this box with this lovely picture.Embarrassing moment #3... hmmm... i'd hate to see #1 and #2

The back of the box is a bunch of stuff I never bothered to read, but I don't want to keep you guys in suspense any longer, lets open the box!!!



To my surprise.. the box folds out. It says "Tampax Pearl helps prevent leaks from being #4"... how witty!!
The whole package smells like a flowery garden and inside there's three tampons and some pretty graphic instructions. On the plus side, I get to save $1 on any size Tampax Pearl, but it expires on 8-31-05 so I'd better hurry.

But wait there's more!!!

What could this be?

Stay tuned dear readers...

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AHA!!! I got it!!!

stupid blogger

Well, this thing is pissing me off. I was going to write my boring day and stuff, but this picture uploading thing won't work worth a shit. I got it to work on ly last post... what's going on here?

Anyway, It's the Fourth today. We're all going to mom's house for a BBQ, except for Russ, he has his own plans. I don't know about him sometimes....

Battlefield 2

I got Battlefield 2 the other day. Been playing it alot. It's a badass game.

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