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Update

2010-03-12T08:17:00.002-05:00

205.3 and kicking this morning. That's either 5 or 7 depending on where you consider where I started from. Still doing 3 days a week 1/2 p90x workouts while lowering the nightly snack ritual.

200 by the end of march maybe?

Classmates

2010-03-01T09:31:00.003-05:00

So I still get emails from classmates.com. How in the world is that site still around when Facebook is out there and free? Wonders may never cease.

Fuzzy Math Part Deux

2010-02-22T10:10:00.003-05:00

So you go to Taco Bell. You get a #8 which is 3 soft tacos and a drink(a big drink, but a drink nonetheless). It cost 4.59 plus tax.

3 soft tacos are .99 x 3 = $2.97.
A large drink is 1.69 = 1.69
1.69 + 2.97 = 4.66 which means to get the combo you are saving 8 cents.

However, say your eating in and not drive thru. You can refill a small just as many times as a large.
Small drink is 1.39
1.39+2.97 = 4.36.

It's cheaper to buy separate than the meal deal.

Marketing genius's I tell ya.

Fuzzy Math

2010-02-19T08:44:00.002-05:00

I have long since lived by 2 notions:

1) Not everyone is cut out for college.

2) If you work at McD's, Burger King, Staples, Walmart, you work there for a reason. I.E. you're a teenager with few discernable skills looking to make some money, you're a senior citizen looking for a low stress job, or you are from #1.

I ran into the last one as the manager of a Staples store yesterday. So this past weekend I bought a 5370DW brother printer. I'll leave tax out of my numbers just to make things round easier. The printer was regularly $250 minus an instant rebate of $50. I had a $25 coupon off $150 so I effectively paid $175 for the printer right there. The catch is they also had a $50 off if you traded in an old printer. Once the printer came in, I was to take my old printer into the store and they'd credit me back $50 bucks. So I was prepared to pay $125 for this printer when I clicked submit.

So yesterday my printer came in. I went to the store and told the guy I need my $50 rebate on a trade in printer. So here's what he did. He credited me back $250 bucks for the old printer. I said you realize I only pay $175? He didn't say a word, said just sign. So i did some quick thinking and realized he was going to credit me $250 then charge me $200 again and I would net out my $50 bucks. So I sign my credit payback of $250.

Then he rings up the printer again with the $50 rebate. Only he rings up a Brother 5370D(not DW) which was regularly $250 with a $50 off instant rebate. Then he took off the next $50 for the printer trade in. So he only charged my $150 on the charge back.

So the final total was initial charge of $175, credit of $250, and then charge of $150 = $75 out the door plus tax for the printer. Dude just completely screwed Staples out of $50 bucks i was more than prepared to pay. I even pointed it out to him and he still did it. So either he's really nice and wanted to give me an even better deal than I had, or...

Seriously, not everyone is cut out for college.

WWW.STFE.COM

2010-02-18T09:20:00.003-05:00

STFE has officially begun.
The start - I saw 214 one morning on the scale. All the work to get to 200 gone.
The goal - 195 by the morning of July 3rd ( beach trip).

Tools
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Modified P90X will start this Saturday. Only half of the 1 hour workouts, and only 4 days a week. The goal is to keep my wife engaged into it so that I have a partner, else we'll both fail.
STFE - Seriously, just stop the fuck eating.

Reset - Thursday we were 208 this morning. I expect 205 by next Thursday.

Fail!

2009-11-09T10:41:00.002-05:00

Link

All of the dot booms of the market show abundance.
Then the stock market barage would be selfishness.
Thinking it would never end is now complacency.

I think were currently in apathy, getting ready to step into dependence with this health care bill. Which means we'll be back in bondage before too long.

New things I've learned that are cool

2009-10-02T08:27:00.002-05:00

#1 is the Iatkos distribution for turning a regular PC running windows into a dual boot running Mac OS X. This shit is cool. It would probably run better on my desktop but I was scared to flatline that one accidentally so I did my laptop. Fortunately it worked and didn't kill my laptop. Unfortunately there aren't many drivers out there for the chipset on my video driver. So basically my laptop will dual boot and show nothing when I choose mac os x. However if I attach an external monitor I see good stuff. I havent gotten some stuff working like networking, but if you can believe it the webcam on my laptop which never gets used magically worked. Go figure. So I've effectively done nothing with the mac os yet, but its still cool I can.

#2 I got a dell mini for my sister in law's sister. She wants windows, its got Ubuntu. I've got XP Professional so I'm dropping that on there. So i read some stuff and found out about slipstreamming. You basically take your OS cd, put it on your hard drive(for example I have Windows XP service Pack 1a). Then you download service pack 3(or whatever service pack you want). This program called nLite will slipstream service pack 3 overtop of your image. Burn the iso out to cd and you now have your regular OEM Windows CD with all the service packs you want. So the next time you reinstall you dont have to download 1 million and 1 updates from windows. Pretty cool.

#3 Women drivers... Just kidding. They still suck!

Baseball Craziness

2009-06-16T14:33:00.002-05:00

Stage: Last game for the Pirates for 2009. One of my top players Josh, who loves to play catcher, decides he's gonna catch this game. Last game, what the hell.

Top 1st, were the home team, Josh catching.
First batter: pops straight up and back. Josh catches. Out 1.
Second, third batters: hits
Fourth batter: Pops straight up and back. Josh catches, again. Out 2.
Fifth batter: hit and loads bases.
Sixth batter: Pops up straight and back left. Josh up and moves over to catch. Out 3.
3 outs, all by the catcher. Number of outs by catcher preceding this in 2 years of coach pitch in my tenure...0.

Bottom 1st, we're hitting:
Batters 1,2,3: All hits, bases juiced.
Batter 4, liner to the pitcher. Out 1. Everyone runs. WTF?!?!?!? Go back go back. Pitcher throws to 3rd. 3rd is standing on 3rd so runner at 3rd coming back is out. Runner from 2nd is standing next to 3rd, not on it, not out yet. Much yelling ensues. All kids just stand there like what the hell, finally 3rd baseman tags said runner. Triple freaking play.

After 1 inning: 0-0(unheard of in coach pitch) with a catcher getting 3 outs alone, and a triple play.

All coaches needed a drink for this one.

Vista...WTF?

2009-01-02T15:22:00.002-05:00

Vista 64 bit sucks ass. My goal for 2009 is to create a windows application that takes advantage of the 64 bit-ness of vista. It may not do much, but at least it will be 64 bit.

New Machine

2008-12-19T15:33:00.003-05:00

Finally got a new machine after 5 years with my 2.4 ghz machine. Quad core for $350. Definately not up to Travis's alienware standards, but not bad.

1 Studio 540 Mini-Tower: Intel Core 2 Quad processor Q6600 (8MB L2, 2.4GHz, 1066FSB)
1 Certified Refurbished
1 No Speakers
1 Label
1 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz (4 DIMMs)
1 Resource CD
1 16X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability
1 Operating System Label
1 500 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
1 Power DVD Software
1 Documentation
1 Software
1 Shipping Material
1 Software CD
1 64BIT Operating System CD
1 Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
1 Microsoft Works 9.0
1 USB Multimedia Keyboard
1 64BIT Operating System DVD
1 Software
1 Image Restore Software
1 USB Optical two button mouse
1 Wild Tangent Gaming Client
1 Software
1 Roxio Creator 10

GNR

2008-11-21T13:49:00.002-05:00

New GNR is available for listening on MySpace .

Go Here.

Haven't got through it all yet but its okay. Nothing earth shattering.

I present...

2008-11-13T21:59:00.000-05:00

The Black Hole

The Black hole

2008-11-10T14:46:00.001-05:00

Anyone else think its funny you can click through all of our blogs. For example go to mine, you can then go to Mark's, then to Travis's, then to Jeremy's, then to Michael's, etc. Except for one: Jim's. Jim's is like the freaking black hole of blogs. Once you go there, your stuck. He should rename it the Black Hole.

I love me some "Civic Duty"

2008-10-30T07:34:00.004-05:00

I'm about sick of the f'ing election. Obama's a Socialist. McCain's well... McCain! Hagan's an athiest(I mean really). I voted. I voted Liberatarian. A vote for liberatarian is like a vote for a big middle finger to the dems and reps. And in all of this I am reminded of a great article written by a great American Travis Senter entitled "Civic Duty". I like it so much I've decided to post it, in its entirety on my blog so that my blog will be tied to such a poised, straight to the point manifesto for all of eternity(or at least until someone fdisks the internet). And I quote...

"Civic Duty
October 5, 2008

This election is really pissing me off. I don’t even have television and I’m getting sick of it all. Look assholes, you have exactly two civic duties as an American during election time:

1) Vote

2) Shut the fuck up

That’s about it, really. Anything beyond that makes you a pretentious douche that thinks your opinion means a jolly rat’s ass. News flash: the candidates do not care about you. Not in the least. Why the fuck do you waste so much time caring about them? Why do you expend so much energy espousing the virtues of one over the other? Get your ass out there, vote for your candidate of choice, and then sit down and be quiet. I’m serious. Your blowhard pre-election rhetoric isn’t converting anyone to your side.

And speaking of “sides”, when did we stop being humans and become Republicans and Democrats? What the fuck is that? If you lack an identity to the point that you start identifying with a bunch of rich assholes in DC, then your life must be pretty damn shitty. If you feel the need to pepper your conversations with the phrases “liberal bias” or “conservative agenda”, then you must have precisely jack shit going on in your head otherwise.

Look - I care about America. I really do. And the outcome of this election is vital to our future as a nation. However, I know my role. I filled out my absentee ballot last week, put it in the mail, and that was that. The end. My civic duty was fulfilled and I didn’t preen around like some political know-it-all to make it happen. You should try it sometime.

Thank you for your time, America. Fuckers."

"Vote". "Shut the fuck up". Makes you think don't it.

Chicken

2008-10-05T09:28:00.003-05:00

#1 Fried chicken was good
#2 Fried chicken was good
#3 Game was good except for the beginning and the end.
#4 If you didn't catch it the first time, Fried chicken was good.

It's a shame you don't like fried chicken enough to come to the game Droop. Fried chicken was good. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you what happened Saturday... We ate fried chicken.

And a reminder to everyone for the upcoming week... Saturday we ate fried chicken.

Solar power anyone

2008-09-26T09:00:00.004-05:00

Casey and I had a conversation today about how to run things off batteries from solar panels. I'm guessing someone who knows what the hell they are doing would either shoot us or themselves after reading this and finding all the incorrect hypotheses we came up with.

TheNatureBoy9 (8:57:22 AM): how much do you know about amps/ batteries/ watts/ solar panels things like that?

TheNatureBoy9 (8:57:31 AM): more specifically the math to determine how long it takes for things to charge?

caseyoman (8:57:56 AM): um, i know the sun powers solar panels

TheNatureBoy9 (8:58:01 AM): yeah i got that part

caseyoman (8:58:07 AM): truthfully, i haven't ever looked at it

caseyoman (8:58:13 AM): what specifically are you looking at,

caseyoman (8:58:19 AM): power for the car or for the water heater?

caseyoman (8:58:29 AM): did you get the link for the binoculars yesterday?

TheNatureBoy9 (8:58:31 AM): neither

TheNatureBoy9 (8:58:36 AM): just understanding of it all in general

TheNatureBoy9 (8:58:44 AM): maybe get a solar panel to play with for small projects

TheNatureBoy9 (8:58:59 AM): teach blake or the cub scouts some stuff

caseyoman (8:59:02 AM): there's a guy at work who talked about wiring up his 2002 prius to run w/ solar

caseyoman (8:59:08 AM): i'll ask him for some info

TheNatureBoy9 (8:59:10 AM): so i see a solar panel that is 40 watts

caseyoman (8:59:20 AM): ok

TheNatureBoy9 (8:59:23 AM): the current at max power is 2.48amps

TheNatureBoy9 (9:00:32 AM): if i have a UPS thats got a battery that is 220 watts / 350 VA how long will it take that solar panel to charge that battery

caseyoman (9:01:05 AM): VA is volt amp's?

TheNatureBoy9 (9:01:08 AM): i think

TheNatureBoy9 (9:01:19 AM): volt ampere rating

caseyoman (9:01:28 AM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt-ampere

caseyoman (9:01:29 AM): yeah

caseyoman (9:02:25 AM): isn't cory coming to the game?

TheNatureBoy9 (9:02:32 AM): yep

TheNatureBoy9 (9:02:33 AM): i may ask

TheNatureBoy9 (9:02:41 AM): surely theres a website i can find

caseyoman (9:02:44 AM): i would certainly

TheNatureBoy9 (9:02:45 AM): http://www.boatus.com/boattech/casey/30.htm

TheNatureBoy9 (9:02:46 AM): this might do it

caseyoman (9:03:30 AM): if it's like a science project, just rephrase the project

TheNatureBoy9 (9:03:36 AM): exactly

caseyoman (9:03:49 AM): "how long does it take to charge a battery with a 40 watt solar panel)

caseyoman (9:04:26 AM): hypothesis - 220 / 40 (5.5 hours?)

TheNatureBoy9 (9:04:58 AM): according to this

TheNatureBoy9 (9:05:03 AM): its 40 watts so divide by 15

TheNatureBoy9 (9:05:14 AM): gives you 2.67 amps

caseyoman (9:05:15 AM): so 2.6

TheNatureBoy9 (9:05:34 AM): * 5 hours of rated output per day gives you 13.3 amp hours from a 40 watt panel

caseyoman (9:05:54 AM): is that the rated output on the solar panels you have?

TheNatureBoy9 (9:06:23 AM): http://www.realgoods.com/product/solar+power/solar+electric/portable+solar/kyocera+40+watt+solar+pv+module.do

caseyoman (9:06:25 AM): plus it's only /15 at noon, so you are less effecient then advertised

TheNatureBoy9 (9:06:30 AM): this is what i was using as an example

TheNatureBoy9 (9:06:37 AM): 40 watts, 2.48amps max power

caseyoman (9:06:54 AM): cool

caseyoman (9:08:27 AM): so with 5 hours of daylight, you'd get about 13 amps

caseyoman (9:08:51 AM): so i think you'd be charging extremely fast

caseyoman (9:09:06 AM): 40/15 * 5

caseyoman (9:09:50 AM): so you'd charge the battery in less then an hour

caseyoman (9:10:02 AM): 2.48/(40/15)=.99

caseyoman (9:10:15 AM): assuming i'm reading the word problem correctly

caseyoman (9:10:38 AM): if it's just for a project, could you get a smaller solar cell?

TheNatureBoy9 (9:15:02 AM): yeah definately

TheNatureBoy9 (9:15:07 AM): just looking at this one for example sake

TheNatureBoy9 (9:15:12 AM): i dont think you would charge in an hour

TheNatureBoy9 (9:15:16 AM): the math is wrong somewhere there

TheNatureBoy9 (9:15:39 AM): you cant charge a battery in an hour if it takes 5 hours to get that daylight

TheNatureBoy9 (9:15:58 AM): i think that means you would get a max of 13 amp hours in a day

TheNatureBoy9 (9:16:19 AM): so it would take you 40/13=2.48 days to charge a 40amp battery

TheNatureBoy9 (9:17:29 AM): but to just top it off if you could leave it hooked up

TheNatureBoy9 (9:17:40 AM): it would constantly charge the battery and leave it topped off with no discharge

caseyoman (9:24:24 AM): i was thinking that the 40/15 was to handle the conversion to amps

caseyoman (9:24:59 AM): and the the 5 was to take care of the 12 hours of daylight

caseyoman (9:25:14 AM): so they're really only 5/12 max effecient

TheNatureBoy9 (9:25:27 AM): i guess

caseyoman (9:25:45 AM): so 13 in a day, like you said

TheNatureBoy9 (9:25:46 AM): that one site said expect 5 hours of good daylight of average per day

TheNatureBoy9 (9:25:49 AM): yep

caseyoman (9:25:58 AM): but 13 is way more then 2

TheNatureBoy9 (9:26:02 AM): true

TheNatureBoy9 (9:26:08 AM): but if you had a dead 40 amp battery

caseyoman (9:26:16 AM): yeah,

TheNatureBoy9 (9:26:16 AM): it would take 3 days to charge it

TheNatureBoy9 (9:26:20 AM): i think

caseyoman (9:26:26 AM): a dead 40 would take at least 3

caseyoman (9:26:38 AM): b/c the batter is discharging constantly a little

TheNatureBoy9 (9:26:57 AM): so i wonder how much your washing machine takes

caseyoman (9:27:13 AM): they're on a 220 right?

caseyoman (9:27:16 AM): or is that the dryer?

TheNatureBoy9 (9:27:22 AM): i know dryer is

TheNatureBoy9 (9:27:24 AM): not sure about washer

caseyoman (9:27:36 AM): i think my dryer is on a 110

caseyoman (9:27:45 AM): you thinking about going "off the grid)

caseyoman (9:28:07 AM): one of e's friends took a class on home design for that purpose

caseyoman (9:28:11 AM): from app state

TheNatureBoy9 (9:28:14 AM): no

TheNatureBoy9 (9:28:19 AM): no where near ready to off grid

caseyoman (9:28:24 AM): come on

TheNatureBoy9 (9:28:36 AM): solar panels need to improve efficiency

caseyoman (9:28:38 AM): you can be like the cdw guy on the island with the monkeys in those commercials

TheNatureBoy9 (9:28:45 AM): 16% efficient is bad

TheNatureBoy9 (9:29:01 AM): they get over 25% then it might be worth it, when payback is 5 years vs. 10-15

TheNatureBoy9 (9:29:15 AM): 15 year payback and 20 year warranties dont make much sense

caseyoman (9:29:15 AM): but it says "highly effecient:

caseyoman (9:30:17 AM): yeah, i've read about the "spray on solar" stuff

TheNatureBoy9 (9:30:24 AM): would be cool though to buy a battery that could handle an appliance

TheNatureBoy9 (9:30:30 AM): and just leave it hooked up to a solar panel all the time

TheNatureBoy9 (9:30:34 AM): do it yourself solar

caseyoman (9:30:39 AM): probably will work for our great grand kids

TheNatureBoy9 (9:30:44 AM): definately

caseyoman (9:30:54 AM): i've seen some people who have tons of daisy chained batteries

TheNatureBoy9 (9:31:10 AM): would be very cool

TheNatureBoy9 (9:31:17 AM): just buy really good deep cycle batteries

caseyoman (9:31:20 AM): the trick is to get them innitially charged and then get rid of all the vampires

TheNatureBoy9 (9:31:30 AM): yep

caseyoman (9:31:31 AM): ie no standby lights on dvrs,

caseyoman (9:31:41 AM): when it's off, make sure it is really really off

TheNatureBoy9 (9:31:42 AM): yeah

caseyoman (9:31:59 AM): there's some hippy commune in the mountains of nc like that

caseyoman (9:32:14 AM): read it in the washington post a while ago

TheNatureBoy9 (9:32:21 AM): i've begun plugging things into strips and turned off strips

TheNatureBoy9 (9:32:30 AM): but hard to do with DVRs

caseyoman (9:32:32 AM): but the guy was using insane amounts of energy (low amounts)

caseyoman (9:33:00 AM): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/14/AR2006111400979.html

caseyoman (9:35:05 AM): skip to the section with this

caseyoman (9:35:17 AM): HE SUN WAS OUT, AND GREG GEIS WAS MAKING ENERGY.

caseyoman (9:35:32 AM): just do a search for it on this page

TheNatureBoy9 (9:35:42 AM): so i did some math

caseyoman (9:35:47 AM): ok

caseyoman (9:35:54 AM): what'd you come up w/

TheNatureBoy9 (9:35:55 AM): this one washing machine takes 197kwh per year to operate based on 8 loads a week

TheNatureBoy9 (9:36:02 AM): thats 473 watts per load

caseyoman (9:36:10 AM): ok

TheNatureBoy9 (9:36:14 AM): divide by 120 volts and you get 3.9 amp hours per load

TheNatureBoy9 (9:36:20 AM): thats freaking nothing

TheNatureBoy9 (9:36:43 AM): i'm doing math wrong somehow

caseyoman (9:36:43 AM): so you'd need 2 batteries to power the washing machine?

caseyoman (9:36:47 AM): i doubt it

caseyoman (9:36:53 AM): how about the dryer?

caseyoman (9:37:19 AM): and what's the cost analysis?

TheNatureBoy9 (9:37:40 AM): getting a little deep for me LOL

TheNatureBoy9 (9:47:30 AM): average dryer on this one site says 3.3kwh

TheNatureBoy9 (9:47:46 AM): which would be 3300 watts / 120 volts is 27.5 amp hours

caseyoman (9:48:24 AM): is it 120 or 240?

TheNatureBoy9 (9:48:38 AM): so if its 240 then divide down to 14 amp hours

TheNatureBoy9 (9:48:43 AM): still way more than the washer

caseyoman (9:48:55 AM): yeah, clothes lines may make a comeback

TheNatureBoy9 (9:49:00 AM): yep

caseyoman (9:49:03 AM): well, maybe not in cary

TheNatureBoy9 (9:49:17 AM): but still something a good 100 amp hour battery can handle

caseyoman (9:49:43 AM): or 100 1 amp batteries

caseyoman (9:49:51 AM): in a shed

TheNatureBoy9 (9:50:04 AM): true

caseyoman (9:50:08 AM): that'll look good on the moncure land

caseyoman (9:50:23 AM): if you convince e it's a good long term plan, i'll work on building it

TheNatureBoy9 (9:50:52 AM): lol

TheNatureBoy9 (9:51:05 AM): ill see what i can do

TheNatureBoy9 (9:51:12 AM): we can blog about it

caseyoman (9:51:26 AM): true, hell, just post this conversation.

TheNatureBoy9 (9:51:27 AM): how i ran my house on 20,000 double A batteries

caseyoman (9:51:36 AM): then have cory write up the retraction

TheNatureBoy9 (9:51:51 AM): yeah ill do that

caseyoman (9:51:51 AM): screw that, used hearing aid batteries

Some things are just freaking cool.

2008-09-19T09:49:00.000-05:00

Coolness personified

Clicking away...

2008-09-06T11:27:00.002-05:00

Not sure what's happened over the last week, but we've had a surge of almost $30 in clicks over the last 7 days. That's the best we've done since opening week. Currently we are up to almost $120 which is pretty good considering we started May 22nd. We did in less than 4 months what it took us over 1 1/2 years to do on the old account. If we keep the same route up, we'll be around $300 by next years beach trip. Not a bad score. That's a potential savings of around $20 to $25 per person at the beach.

If anyone has any ideas for sites, wants a blog, or anything else that they think might get us some outside traffic let me know. I have one idea already that I wanna do and can help with others. $300 is nice, but $the goal of $1500 for the entire beach trip is a long way off.

Holy Shit! Holy Shit!

2008-08-06T21:43:00.002-05:00

Finally... One... on Hard.... finished. By the hair on my ass. But I finished it. Lou's gonna beat my ass. But by god I beat Metallica's ass. Go suck that Kirk Hammett!

OMD OMD!

2008-06-27T09:23:00.002-05:00

One more day ... then i'm getting f'd up ... for a week solid ... and staring at beach boobies ...

The Magic Man Part Deux... well sort of

2008-06-19T08:17:00.003-05:00

My first softball game of the year was Tuesday and rusty wouldn't much describe it. Almost had a pdub but it rolled foul. So I grounded softly to 2nd base and flied out to right field. 0-2 and I looked bad doing it. I EH'd for a few innings then put myself into right field( hindsight I should have went in as catcher cause the guy I put back there was terrible). 5th inning - 2 outs - 2 on, shallow hit about 20 feet over 2nd baseman's head. And I'm off. I slow down a touch cause I think its gonna fall, then realize I can get there. So I speed up, probably tripped over myself a few times. Finally get there, realize I'm not quite there so...

I dive. Uh , jump. Uh, fall. Whatever I did I was in the act of somewhat diving/falling and snag the ball, bag handed. Do the little roll over and pop up, ball still in the glove. Just call me the Magic Man Part Deux. As the Magic Man would say... " You pay me to catch the ball, you get the style for free".

F the cyclist

2008-06-19T08:07:00.002-05:00

Yes, you are saving the damn world riding your bike everywhere. Yes, a rare few of the female persusasion actually look pretty hot with your ass all nice and tight in those spandex shorts. Yes, most of you deserve to live I guess and not be run over by a Hummer or other lightweight Army tank.

No, however, are you entitled to disobey the freaking rules of the damn road. If you want to ride your 2 wheeling, 5 mph riding piece of metal on the same road as said cars, I feel it is your moral obligation not to be a prick about it and follow the rules. Case and point, I'm pulled out into the intersection of Walnut and the entrance to the mall/Barnes and Noble trying to make a left into the mall. The car across from me is trying to make the left into Barnes and Noble. Both of us are just sitting there waiting for theres quite a bit of traffic so were both basically probably waiting on the light to turn yellow and the cars to stop to allow us to go before the light turns Red. Out of nowhere a cyclist pulls through the middle of the intersection, in front of ME, thus rendering me stuck unless I decide to plow her over(jailtime doesn't suit well with me so I decide to patiently wait). But she's not just right in front of me. No, not this dumb bitch. I'm sorry that probably wasn't politicially correct. How about stupid whore... yeah lets go with stupid whore. She pulls out a good 2 car lengths in front of me. So not only does she have me stuck waiting, the dude across from me is too. Light turns yellow, opening happens, and instead of me going and the other guy going, we have to sit and wait on her to get her ass out of the intersection.

So someone please tell me where in the rules of the road rule book does it state "When riding a bicycle on the road and 5 cars are in line to make a left, you - the dumb bitch/stupid whore - are allowed to pass all 5 cars and pull out into the middle of the intersection - praying the whole time some crazy fucker is paying attention and doesnt kill you accidentally - and make a left in front of all 5 of the cars who are actually following the correct rules for driving". If you have this rules for riding your bike on the road handbook, I would like to see it.

Go save the damn world somewhere else, I'm tired of of having to pay attention enough while driving not to run you guys over.

I'm too sexy for my...

2008-06-19T08:06:00.001-05:00

I'm old

2008-06-03T09:38:00.003-05:00

The old me would have stayed up till 2:00 AM if need be. The new me, 12:15 AM and having to wait 20 minutes before the 3rd OT started in the Pens/Wings series in Game 5, I just bailed. Sucks too cause I missed the Pens with the win. Such as life when you are old. 31 is just too damn old.

I couldn't f'n imagine being 32. I think I'd just shoot myself if I was that old.