Jul 31

Is that a screen for a projector?

I want a projector for outside, really bad. Supposedly Woot has “the worlds crappiest projector” for $50 every now and then, but I’m still waiting to find it. I want to nail a big 4x8 board to the side of our house, paint it silver, and mount the projector to a cart with wheels and a sound system. Just roll that bad boy out into the middle of the yard, throw up some lawn chairs, and - BAM! - Bad Movie Night them shits like the pros.

Jul 30

The Oompa Loompa guy from Tim Burton’s Willie Wonka, Deep Roy, is on this episode of X-files.

TOXIC: Garbage Island

This is a pretty interesting documentary about the “continent sized garbage island” they say is floating in the Pacific Ocean.

[spoiler] What the filmmakers find out is that it is not really a garbage island. Rather than being a big mass of visible garbage, it is plastics that have broken down into their simplest form and mixed in with the water. This is actually much worse, because it is impossible to clean up and is easier for animals to ingest. They take water samples and show how the plastic has a confetti like constancy in the water. It is pretty sickening.

Jul 28

A Kitten Story

One night when I was about 17, my best friend Eddy and I were smoking pot in my old bedroom that was built off our garage. We always had a lot cats and kittens, back then. On this night we heard kittens crying excessively in the garage, so we went to investigate. Several kittens from one of our cats’ recent litters looked sick, like in total agony, but the mommy cat was ignoring them. There was a puddle of antifreeze under my mom’s old car, so we suspected that the kittens may have ingested some of it.

We were concerned, but this was pre-internet age, so we had no idea what to do. I considered taking them in my room to keep an eye on them, but we wanted to give the mommy cat a chance to maybe take care of them. I had this old security camera mounted on a saw horse, so we just put them in a cardboard box outside and set the camera up on them. We watched the sick kitties on my TV until we eventually fell asleep.

My dad, being an early riser, came barging into my bedroom at about 6am asking me why in the hell we had a camera on a box of dead kittens. He wasn’t mad. He was amused. I explained the circumstance to him, but I felt like he still thought we killed them, somehow, just to watch them die.

I brought it up to him somewhat recently, and he was still under the impression we killed them for fun. He actually thought we killed them and set them out there to see if we could catch a coyote sneaking up there to eat them. WTF?

My arm after trimming bushes. My whole body is like that. Look like Swamp Thing.

Jul 27

Facebook Relationship Status.

You know how some people put their relationship status as “In a relationship with” or “Married to” people who they are not really in a relationship with or married to? Particualrly girls do this with other girls they are friends with. How funny would it be if you did that with your mom or dad or brother or sister? HAHAHAH.

…OK, not that funny. At all.

On a related note, my mom and I just recently joined a gym. There was a cheaper rate for married couples, but nothing for parent/child. I tried to talk her into saying we were married to get the discounted rate. She is way to honest of a person to cheat the system. Please don’t get Freudian on me, I was just trying to save money.

Ran out of tequila but found some Seagram’s 7. No 7-up on hand, so I supplemented HyVee Peach Melba. Not great, but it will do the job.

(sorry about the dark cell phone picture)

I want to make this.

Jul 26

giarae:

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Maybe there is a God.

One of my red sunflowers bloomed. Too bad they always die like 3 days later.

Jul 25

millertime83:

There was no way I couldn’t enter this photo.

Photojojo Daily Pic Pick: My Parents Are Awesome

I like the pot leaves on your dad’s bel. Are those pot plants on your mom’s shirt, too?

Jul 24

Long Island Cherry Dr. Pepper w/extra shot of tequila

1 shot gin

1 shot rum

1 shot vodka

2 shots Cuervo Silver

1 shot triple sec

1 shot sweet and sour mix

heavy splash of Cherry Dr. Pepper

This is a Long Island Iced Tea variation I came up with, tonight. Since I didn’t have any cola, I used Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper. I wanted to make it stronger, so of course I went with a double shot of Cuervo Silver, my favorite. Any good silver tequila would be fine. Don’t go with the cheap stuff, though. You can get by with cheap vodka, gin, and rum, but cheap tequila would ruin the taste. Long Islands usually call for 1 1/2 to 2 parts sweet and sour, but that is just too sour for me. I’d rather have more alcohol or soda.

Say what?!