So,
I’ve been bitten by the golf bug. Unfortunately, my score is still usually higher than my IQ 
So, last weekend I went shooting with my own gun for the first time. (As in, first time with a gun I’ve owned, not my first time in general). It was a lot of fun! We went to a rock quarry out near Brown’s Camp.
The gun I picked up was a Smith and Wesson Sigma 9mm 
I think it’s a great little pistol, although Kittie didn’t like it much, trigger pull was too hard for her, but it was designed that way (with a 7lb-ft pull) to prevent accidental firing. It’s super easy to field strip and clean (takes about 5 seconds to field strip it, literally). It’s pretty accurate, light weight, and hold 16 + 1 rounds. For those that don’t know what that means, it holds 16 rounds in the clip + 1 in the chamber (in the gun itself)
Went out Wed night for Eric’s bachelor party. We had a few drinks (litterarlly, 2 or 3) to start the night off, then went to SyCart for go card racing. It was totally awesome . I am definately doing that again. After that we took Eric downtown to CC Slaughters, then Boiler Room, then Barcode, then the greek cuisina. Awesome night, up untill the end, when at 3am, my ride ran out of gas about a mile from my house.. it was a crappy walk.
All in all, it was a good night though.. I had enough fun to offset the walking home to get a gas can….
Pictures in the gallery!
Danny put together a huge snowboarding party this last weekend, which was way cool. There was about 13 of us who went, we all stayed in the Thunderhead Lodge up on Mt Hood/Govt. Camp. Casey, Wally and I went up Friday night and arrived about mid-party, our beers prepped (Pabst, Natural Light, and Schlitz!)
I played (lost) some pool, talked with Danny about some semi-unresolved shit from almost a year ago, and passed out around 3:30am.
Woke up at 8am Saturday, and tried to wake everyone up for about 2 hours. We finally got all our stuff together and got Meadows at around 1pm. I had a ton of fun snowboarding until about 7 and then we went back to the lodge to get ready for Danny’s Christmas Dinner. We had fried turkey, ham, prime rib, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, salads, green beans, corn, cheesecake, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and of course, more drinks.
After dinner we had a white elephant gift exchange (except, not crappy presents) — I ended up with a cool knit hat and Casey ended up with a card shuffler and poker set.
So, all was good this weekend, except being more sore than I have been in years..oy..totally worth it
Heh..I just noticed that put together, it was swollen members followed by ‘jizza’..
ANYWAYS
Concert rocked.. Swollen Members was incredible, better than their cd’s, which are really good to begin with.
Rob the Viking and Prevail went into the common area after the show to sign autographs.. not only did they sign autographs, but they actually took the time to talk to you, it was way cool. Casey got a bunch of pictures (including one of him with Prevail) that I’ll try to post up tomorrow. Most of them are pretty poor quality, being cell phone pictures in the dark, but I think some turned out ok. Mad Child for some reason didn’t show for the autograph session, not sure why, Prevail said he thought he was going to be there. *shrugs* Anyways, I got my ticket autographed, and that made me happy.
Gza was up after Swollen Members, and sounded more or less like typical Wu-Tang fair. He had about half his family up on stage; it was pretty crowded. Nothing too exiting to report there.
All in all it was great, I’d pay more than $20 I paid to see them again.
We all know how much the RIAA sucks, and finally, a non-no-name band is sticking it to the RIAA too.. Havey Danger..the band that put out ‘Flagpole Sitta‘ in the mid 90’s (Yes, I saw the at Big Stink, along with Green Day and Crystal Method… so ya see, they can’t be that small, even if you’ve never heard of them:P ) has put out their new cd ‘Little By Little‘ completely free, in MP3 and OGG format. This is the ENTIRE cd, in high quality, not samples, not previews, and not select tracks. They are offering it completely free via direct download, and bittorrent. They are asking that if you like the music, that you donate, or buy the physical cd. I know I like Flagpole Sitta, and while I’m still downloading the album, I’ve already donated $5, just to stick it to the RIAA and PROVE that they’re not needed, that people DO buy music and are willing to pay for it, at a reasonable price. Harvey Danger doesn’t even ask for a specific amount, just that you contribute.
So everyone, go download the album, and give them whatever you think is fair, and stick it to the RIAA while you’re at.
Bittorrent Links:
Little By Little – MP3
Little By Little – OGG
Had a pretty interesting night last night. It’s the second time I’ve been at the hospital during the ass crack of morning in the past month (If you want to know about the other time, drop a comment and I’ll make a post about it).
Anyways, Evan and I were at The Scoreboard for some after work drinks and this girl came in and sat next to me. She was pretty attractive, specially for The Scoreboard (definitely not a place to pick up women 
..neighborhood sports bar type of place). Anyways, she was talking to this red neck guy who kept going on and on about not minding living in a trailer while he was building his cabin, and how he worked on old cars yada yada. Evan kept trying to get me to ask him to say, “Git-R-Done!”. I was too scarred. I was not in the mood for an ass beating, or running from any sort of shotgun that might be conveniently stored in his trucks gun rack. I ordered some food which came with tater tots (my fav, yum!) and at the same time, Evan started telling this story about how Dan told Ruben to “stop rubbing your cock”. Anyways, Trisha, the bartender jokingly yelled at Evan saying, “Evan! There’s ladies present!” To which the girl that sat down next to me said, “I’m offended, I think you should give me some tater tots to make up for it.” So of course I did. If you’ve ever been to the Scoreboard, they always give you enough fries/taters to feed a small third world country. So, I pushed my plate towards her and she commenced picking at the plate until they were all gone. This wasn’t actually all that long, being as soon as it got down to the last few, Evan suddenly reached over, grabbed them all, and shoved every single last tater tot into his mouth at once. Anyways, we all talked for hours, and when we left, she ended up spraining her ankle.
I suppose this antic-dote is bit anti-climatic, but it was a pretty fun night out, more or less.
The truth about myspace.com pictures…
Got this from Green Eyed Girls are Evil,Difficult And Confusing
Also, posted some pics from the portland brewers festival in the gallery.
I’ll make another post sometime soon and talk about it..whenever I get over Evan calling me ‘Captain Cocktail’ from how drunk I got that night..;) Anyways, hopefully I’ll get around to making that post this coming weekend..
Budweiser’s Real Men of Genius commercials.. almost all of them in MP3 format.
If you’ve never heard these before, you have to check them out. One of my favorites is the Gasoline BBQ starter… hah. We all know that guy, and he rocks
Got this from Gizmodo:
Lies I’ve been told by Verizon DSL today
• “Phone lines over 14 feet will, over time, fry your modem.�
• “Your phone lines are like a car. Every once in a while, they need service.�
• “We cannot send a service technician to your house.�
• “I’d be happy to help you today.�
• “It is impossible to speak to my supervisor. My supervisor is Verizon.�
• “This is the ‘North American’ office.�
• “There is not electricity going down your phone line, sir. It’s data. Electricity has nothing to do with it.�
Lies I’ve told Verizon DSL today
• “I am an IEEE-certified electrical engineer.”
• “I would be happy to wait.”
• “I have completed all your tests as you requested, including rewiring my house.”
• “My secondary phase-coupling array shows a positive electricon flow across my end-to-end wiring.”
• “Have a nice day.”
• “I am sorry I used the term ‘totally assed in my face.’”
So, Justin finally brought in pictures of the bike he’s willing to sell me.
Here’s a pic of the actual bike:
America’s funniest home video style video collage of cats doing all the funny things cats do…
At least, the coolest one I’ve seen all year. Totaly made me grin with a few laughs. Good clean fun see–the internet is not ALL gross octopus movies.
Cappella Nintento songs…QuickTime required
My friend Nadia sent me this… I got a couple of good laughs from it.. enjoy.
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate’s disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
And the pick of the literature:
18. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
So, as some of you may know, I purchased a metal sculpture on eBay (from Gensic Creative Metals) for $20 + shipping and handling. I got the base model, no extras like finish or color, because I was going to do that all on my own. The extras cost, well, extra and shipping was already going to be $40.
Here’s pictures of what I bought:
Well, that was almost a month ago. So, I emailed the guy and asked what was up, last night. He responded in a very timely manor and said he shipped it like two weeks ago, and gave me the insurance code from USPS. Well, I got an email this morning saying he just got it back, returned to sender and was wondering if I had did that because it was damaged. I said no, I never got it or returned it. He then send me a picture of how he received it back from USPS:
Anyways, he was very apologetic and offered to send me one WITH the metal finish right away. Now, I understand things do sometimes go wrong, and things do get trashed in the mail.. props to him for making it right.
So, last night was Jeremy’s going away party. He’s going to Alaska for a few months to clean toilets. I think he’s part of a maintence crew for a cleanup crew that’s working on a tanker (or something to that affect) that split in half up there. I made some Sushi (as did Danny) which turned out to be super good. Far better than I’ve ever had at any sushi bar. Between the two of us we made seared salmon rolls, tuna rolls (the tuna Jeremy’s dad had brought back with him from fishing in Alaska) and cucumber rolls. It was all a huge hit, with the palte never lasting a full run around the room. All in all we had prepared 9 full rolls of sushi and each roll was gone as fast as we could make it.
The party ran much later than I had thought it would..I passed out around 1:30am but kept getting woken up untill about 6am. Ironicaly, a lot of it was partialy my own fault..I had gotten true or dare Jenga and left it out, and all the drunk people were buzzing around Jenga like a moth to a flame
I also got some stainless steel chopsticks yesterday (yay for me!) which totaly kick ass, except that drunk people seem to think they are poking sticks instead of eating utensils. I was constantly saying, ‘Please put down my eating utensils..I do actually eat with those, they are not for picking your nose or scratching your ass.” Ok, well, no one was picking their nose or scratching their ass with them, but some select few people did keep trying to poke other peolple in throat with them.
All in all, it was a good party…bon voyage Jeremy — see ya in a few months
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Saw this t-shirt online…this for those of you who know who you are
So, I went out with Evan and Casey last night and since I’ve quit smoking, and didn’t want to smoke, Evan gave me a patch. He told me I might have wierd vivid dreams if I slept with it on. Boy was he right. Here’s the one I just had..which strangely enough, I can remeber quite well.
Here’s how it went.
I went to vegas with this girl I didn’t know. Average build, dark black hair..she looks kinda like Avirl Lavign, but not quite as skinny (my memory is a little blurry, this girl might also have been Sheri’s friend Brie). We left the strip and walked out into this desert area, where we ran into my ex Kittie’s family, well, part of it anyways. It was Robbert her brother, Holly, her mom, and the dad from The Wild Thornberrys (yes, the cartoon). Anyways, they had this big military style tent building and walked off somewhere. The girl I was with and I were hanging out in the tent, when this tiger came along all pissed off and trying to jump up on the bunks. It started firguring out how to get on the upper bunks, which is where we were so I had to beat it across the nose with my fist untill it started purring. Durring that fight, Kittie called my cell phone all upset, and I told her I would call her back but she got all pissed off untill I explained that we were in the middle of a tiger attack. A little while later, Kittie’s family came back and the girl and I went to get more water, which somehow brought us back to the strip at vegas. On the walk back, I had this walkie-talkie from when I was 10, and it picked up my boss Dan King. We chit-chatted a bit and he said he would call me. Somehow, we were automagically driving by then, and we saw a bunch of my oo-workers getting pulled over. This guy Jessie was pulled over, and Ryan Brownless and Evan were togeather in the same car, getting pulled over. That’s when Dan called, he was getting pulled over too.
Well, that’s the whole dream..it seemed in dream time to take almost the full day.
It’s just wierd how vivid and lucid this dream was, because I almost NEVER remember dreams.