Survivor

Well, I have never been one for reality tv. I did however enjoy the last Surreal Life, Andriane Curry or whatever her name is is a babe. B and I decided to spend some time together last night, she said that I could watch Survivor with her. To this point in my life I have not even had the thought to watch survivor even cross my mind, I did agree that I would cause I wanted to hang out and she was cooking supper for us. Seven o'clock came around and the President came on the screen, I thought great, no reality tv tonight. After George W was done talking for about an hour, I figured I would miss out, however I was not that fortunate and they started the episode at 8. The show is fairly irritating to me. The contestants are all running around trying to stab every body else in the back, if the situation was real, they should all be halping each other instead of trying to screw everybody. A girl named Stephanie was voted off last night, B was cheering for here to stay and a guy Tom get voted off. Tom was the only one that I liked and I told here that her pony was gone, she didn't believe me, that will learn her. I am always right. She should no that by now. LOL

Movie Review: Taking Lives

Although I did not see this movie in a theater, I did catch it on HBO. The movie stars Ethan Hawke, Keifer Sutherland and Angelina Jolie ( Yummy ). The movie is about a phychopath that sheds his own identity by killing men around his age and taking oer their lives. The movie was really good. A good story was enhanced even more by the extremely hot Angelina Jolie. Did I mention she was hot? Anyway I would recommend this title to someone who enjoys suspense thriller type movies.

Gas Mileage

I love my Expedition, but I do not care much for the amount of cash it takes to fill my tank. The last two times I filled up were $45 and $65 dollars. I had a little over a quarter of a tank left for the $45 fill. I have been putting alot more gas in the truck now that I am traveling back and forth to Brookings on a fairly regular basis. I did this when gas prices were lower and it did not hurt the wallet as much. I am however glad that summer is nearly here and I will be able to take the bike back and forth to save on gas. Although I am sure that I will not ride every trip, even if I make half of these during the summer it will save alot of money.

Dump Run

This weekend I am planning a dump run. While making my house sutible for my living, I needed to tear out carpeting, flooring and other assorted items, along with the previous residents personal belongings. My shed is full of garbage that needs to go to the dump. I figure this weekend will be the perfect time to clean out the shed and take all the shit to the dump. B was talking about coming down this weekend and helping with the house so we should be able to get alot done. With any luck I can get my spare bedroom cleaned out and the carpet pulled up too. I don't really want to start on pulling up the kitchen floor though.

Firehouse

At this point it seems to be a weekly event. The invitation to the Firehouse. One of the girls from sales has a job at a bar out in Tea and it seems like every week someone is sending out an email that we all need to go out there. I have been out there a few times and have really not been all that impressed. It seems to me that the bar cannot possibly make it due to all of the errors that I have seen so far. They started to serve food, then they stopped, they still served pizza and popcorn, now she says that they are going to start serving food tonight. We will see. I will not be attending because I have other plans.

Lack of Interest

While walking in a group of guys here at work this morning, one of them decided that today was "Lack of Interest" day. It sounds like a novel idea. I wish it could have been. I have already been hit with two reports and some other assorted duties that I needed to complete ASAP. I guess I did complete these tasks with a lack of interest, but not to the extent that would have really give this day the justice that it truly needs. I will have to look at making some other day into my "Lack of interest Day" sometime soon.

Drinks

I went out for drinks with a friend last night. It has been a very long time since we have went out together. We have been very good friends for some time, but once she started going out with her boyfriend she was not allowed to go out with me. This to me was bullshit. Now she has finally told him that we are friends and she is going to hang out with me. Last night while we were out, he called her about 50 times. She was pretty fed up with it. She really wants me to meet him and get along with him, but with all that I hear from her, all I can determine is that he is a very controlling and needy. I guess I am different, if a girl that I am seeing wants to go out with friends, let her. Why be jealous of something that does not warrant it. I have treated this girl like my little sister from day one. She called me today and told me that they got in a fight last night and that I might not have to meet him. Although I still act like I don't care and am inpartial to this guy, after talking with her last night he does seem to be a good addition to her life, she has really grown up.

Loose Lips

The saying loose lips sink ships is usually my motto, I happened to mention my blog this weekend and now the woman really wants to read it. I really do not want her to read it and will do everything in my power to keep her from reading this digital diary. There are way to many increminating entries into this blog that might possibly hang me. Even though I would probably never act on some of the things that I say, I look at the fact that she is a woman and could possibly be irrational in her interpretation of what I have said.

Need to cut loose

I am thinking that I need to go out and cut loose tonight. I have the urge to shoot a couple games of darts. This is good because I really have not felt like shooting for the last few months. I think that is why my game has suffered so severly. I am starting to want to go out and shoot darts so that makes me think that the funk I have been in while shooting darts is coming to an end.

My photoblog

This is a link to my photoblog.

http://bignorm99.textamerica.com/

Buddies Site

This is a site to my buddies blog. He has some good technology and entertainment type stuff.

http://wasteofcyberspace.com

Road Trip

Well, the road trip to Nebraska is over, I had a really great time. I was a little apprehensive about meeting her friends and staying at one of their houses. We left town Saturday morning and I wanted to stop at my best friends house so that he could meet the squeeze. I tried to call him but no answer, I figured we would just stop over, he was not home. We started down the interstate on the way to Norfolk, NE. We arrived in town and stopped at the grocery store to get supper to grill and some beverages. We got to her friends house and started to talk and what not, I got along with Teresa and her boyfriend Martin. We had a nice supper then we started to play games and party. The next morning B and I woke up well before the home owners, we got out of bed and as we were walking out to the kitchen we discovered that the three dogs had left their calling cards in the living room, we decided to let them out to see if they needed to finish their business. As we were going to let one out at a time, they all bolted through the door and were gone. Holy shit, Teresa is going to kill us is the first thought that we had. I went down the road and tried to get them to come back, but they were determined to make a break for it. The pack mentality had set in and it was all over. The situation was bleak, but for some reason we started laughing about it. The first thought that came to my mind was we would never be invited back. Well we lost sight of the three dogs as they disappeared into the corn field. We discussed what to do, and it was decided that we would drive around to the other side of the highschool and try to get ahead of them and bring them back. We walked inside and as I happened into the kitchen, I discovered that the male cat ran into the house when the dogs made the great escape, this would not normally be a problem except for the fact that their female cat was nursing kittens that are about four weeks old and happens to be back in heat. I walked in on a tender moment. Oh shit! I peeled the male cat off momma and really started to laugh. I put the cat outside and B came out of the room with the keys and was ready to go and asked why I was laughing so hard. I remember saying " Get all of our stuff, we need to leave here now! " I explained that I had just broken up the lovers tryst. She about lost it. Well we took a nice drive looking for the dogs, they were nowhere to be found. After about 30 - 45 minutes of driving around, we decided to head back to the house and wake up Martin and Teresa and enlist the help of the owners to try and re aquire their pets. When we pulled up to the house, I caught a glimpse of the dogs at the end of the street, I pointed them out and we bailed out of the car and started shaking the bag of Beggin' Strips that we brought for bait, they came running. They were all wet and nasty from their running. We were glad they were back and we didn't have to tell Teresa that we lost her dogs. We did not tell them about the escape or the possible next set of kittens that they will be seeing. After they got up, we hung out there for awhile longer and then went to see B's friend Ben. Ben is a draftsman, but he also raises snakes. His Corn Snakes have just laid 20 eggs and B is going to get one of the offspring when they hatch. We helped Ben feed all of his snakes yesterday. The old Lady does seem to be a little scared of them and would not hold any of the larger snakes, I did have some fun with that. She should be alright and had no problems feeding the dead pinky mice to the snakes. When we left we had the drive home. We are already thinking about when we will go back down.

Douchebags

Fuck, I work in an area of servere douchebags, I am surrounded by irratating mother fuckers! I need to wear my headphones pretty much every second I am at my desk. From the inane laughing to their grating voices and fucking retarded things that pour out of their driveling mouths. I find it hard to believe that the practice of leaving the semi retarded out in a field for the wolves has been abandoned in this country. I dream of the days of the six gun when you would just shoot the morons and be done with them. This area needs an engineer enema. Ha ha ha ha ha Bang!!!!

Groceries

I need to go to the store and get some things. I ran out of laundry detergent the last time I did a load and I have been out of milk for some time and bread even longer. I really hate going to the grocery store. I might just put it off until next week, but I need to wash clothes for next week for work. Dammit.

Nebraska

I get the pleasure of going to the communist state of Nebraska this weekend. That is due to the fact that they have a helmet law. Although I am not taking my bike, I am still opposed to going into such an oppressive state. This type of thing should be your personal choice, like the seat belt. Now I wear my seatbelt everytime I drive, but I very rarely wear my helmet, although Helmet is a very excellent band. I just figure if I am going down on the bike, I don't think the skid lid is going to save me. Actually, I would be more worried that it saves my life and I get to live like a vegetable the rest of my life. No way, pull the plug if that ever happens.

Website

I found a new website that is piss your pants funny. It is www.thesneeze.com I was laughing so hard when reading Steve, Don't eat it! It is a great site that I will add to my regular collection of humorous sites.

Lightsaber

I put the batteries in my Master Replicas Darth Vader lightsaber last night, and I might add that even the old lady was impressed. It is the sweetest Star Wars collectible that I have ever purchased. I liked it so much that I went back to Game Stop and purchased the Anakin Skywalker version as well. This too is a bad ass toy as I stopped at home before going back to work from lunch and fired it up. Ooooh Yeah! Any fan of Star Wars should gladly drop the $99 for this terrific collectible item.

Star Wars

Today is a great day, it has seen the end of Kenobi and will soon see an end to the rebellion. Just kidding. Today is good though, we ordered our tickets online for the May 19th 12:30 showing of Revenge of the Sith and I also purchased my Replica lightsaber today. I went with the Darth Vader one of course, instead of the Anakin Skywalker model. It just is way cooler. As the 30 day countdown continues for the best movie of the year, IMHO. THe plans for the day off from work continue to blossom, now including another vacation day to be used for Friday possibly or maybe a sick day from the way it sounds. We have 7 people that will be attending in our group. It should be interesting. After the movie is over, it sounds like we are going to make it out to a location that serves food and adult beverages. It should be a good day in general. Hoby's brother in law is fairly well outclassed in the drinking department and I think he ought to be puking by 7PM. The rocket fuel out to be flowing as someone's wife who shall remain nameless will be out of town.

Accessories

While looking for a new seat for the Warrior, I happened accrossed a cool accessory that I would like to find. It is called a UFO tail light, it basically chases back and forth like KITT's scanner in Knight Rider while the tail light is on, then lights up when braking fully, it also chases from the center out like a turn signal. It is bad ass. I found a web site of another owner of a 2002 Warrior with it installed. He has very similar things done to his. I Also want to install clear signal lenses in the front. I am thinking about pulling the mini fairing off the bike as it really doesn't do anything for cutting the wind, I think it is mostly for looks and I think I want to see what it looks like without it on.

XB9S

My friend Scott's step son is currently in the military. He got his first motorcycle a few years ago and we helped him rebuild it and make it run, well ok, we pretty much rebuilt it and made it run. It was a Honda 360, I think about 1977 maybe older. It was an ok bike. He sold that then found another 360 and we did the same. Well time came for him to join the Army and he sold that. Now that he is in the Army and making some cash he purchased himself a new bike. He got a Buell XB9S, it is the biggest POS I think I have ever seen. We moved it from Scott's parents garage as they are coming home this week. I followed him as he rode the bike and it looked really uncomfortable. Scott said that it was the biggest dog he ever rode. Roman seems to think that his Buell will blow my Warrior away. With the discovery yesterday of a Cobra Fi2000 installed, this is a fuel injection controller. I am really not worried. The bike stock has over 100 Horsepower. With the Stage 4 kit, new pipes and the Fi2000 I am probably pushing over 110 HP at this time. I got flames out of the pipes last night! I just cannot see why someone would want a cafe style motorcycle. I think the styling of todays big cruisers just looks so much better then the crotch rocket style bikes, plus if you can get a cruiser with over 100 horses, why would you want a rocket?

Confusing

If you are a guy and you are reading this, you probably will confer with me that women are confusing. I have at least two girls that know that I am in a relationship at this time, and seem to want to go out with me. It seems like some girls want what others already have. I also ran into my last girlfriend and she wanted me to call her to go out. I have not called her because I am still fairly upset at the way our relationship ended and even though the girl I am seeing and I have not made that commitment yet, she is calling me her boyfriend already. Her parents both think I am great. I kind of want to be a dog and hook up with Maria again and keep them both, the only problem with that is that her and new squeeze live about two blocks away from each other so I run the chance of having one or the other see my truck at someone's apartment. Also on a side note, I am already getting shit about a wedding with the girl from a friend and his wife. That annoys the shit out of me. I guess it was because I mentioned that she would like to stay at her job and where she lives and not move here and because I happened to see if there were any jobs available up there. Oh well. He will probably read this and know he is a little bitch. I also have another dancer that is now single and I think she might be thinking she wants to go out with me also. I happened to have her run into me at a bar and she was very pissed cause I had not called her back after she left me a couple of voicemails, and she also wants to go to the Motley Crue concert concert with her. I told her that I didn't do the hair band shit. She was dissappointed, I should tell her that if she buys the tickets I might go and see what happens. Oh well. The current girl told me that she has a bunch of stuff to do this weekend so she didn't want to go out, so I guess I will run with Chris like a dog and see if I can avoid the fleas.

Back to the Front

Tonight I get to go back to the front, the drywall front that is. By now even with the high humidity, it should be dry. Finish sanding and then put the second layer of mud down, hopefully I can talk the old lady into going back Thursday to finish sanding so we can have the weekend to do something fun, not drywalling. It is a good thing that I like her parents because we spent the whole weekend there. But like I said, I would like some time this weekend for just us doing something fun.

Weekend

The rain this weekend slowed our drywalling project to a stand still on Sunday. On Saturday we hung all of our sheets. This was no easy task as the studs, two by threes in the main room and one by twos in the back room. The back room proved a daunting challange as the one by twos were not even spaced at 16' on center, plus they are not even 1 in thick so screwing into them proved another challenge. The walls were also not level and the studs were not straight. We had two very difficult seems, one on a corner, and the other with a 6 inch splice between two full sheets of sheetrock. There was no way around this. Everytime that I touched this space on the wall with my putty knife, the other side would move and cause me grief. I finally just put enough mud on in hopes that the wall would firm up. I ended up with one good seam and one that I will need to pull the tape, sand down some and try again. At least the wall did end up becoming solid and is no longer moving. The Humidity brought by the rain did not allow the seams to dry all the way so we were unable to sand, when we left about 5 last night, they were still not completely dry. We are going back on Tuesday night to sand and put another coat of compound in all the seams and screw holes. Then it will just be a matter of sanding to finish some time later in the week, hopefully not another weekend. I do have to admit that I did enjoy spending the weekend with my girl.

Stupid People

There are alot of stupid people in this world. I have two friends that right now should be in line to win a Darwin award or something similar to that, for really stupid people. I hear all about their problems, but they don't seem to want to listen to advice, they ask for it, but they don't seem to think it is the right thing. I just need to stop being such a good listener. Maybe if I acted like I didn't care they wouldn't tell me all of their problems. I am tired of hearing about how bad their lives are when I know they are never going to change.

Drywalling

It sounds like I get to enjoy the wonders of drywalling this weekend. I have volunteered my services to hang, tape and texture a basement this weekend. We figure we can hang it all on Saturday and tape Sunday. That way we are not at it all weekend and can find some time to do something fun Saturday afternoon / evening.

Saddle Bags

My saddle bags were waiting on my doorstep last night when I got home. My brackets however were not. Hopefully they will come tonight. I would like to get them mounted. I also am in the market for a new seat for the bike. We went riding for many hours on Saturday and after about an hour, she was complaining that her ass was sore. I did look at the passenger seat and it does not have much for padding. I went out looking yesterday for a replacement seat that would be more comfortable for her, I have found a couple of possibilities. One I really like, and another that she really likes. I am probably going to brake down and get the one that she likes. I need to keep her happy so she will keep riding with me. I also ordered my tank bra yesterday and hopefully it will be in soon. I need to find a way to keep from scratching up my tank anymore. This should take care of it.

Shipment

I received my shipment from BUY.com last night. The joyous brown box contained my new Star Wars Encyclopedia. It has so much information about the Star Wars Universe. I can see hours wasted in the future perusing its contents. I will enjoy.