Here are THE RULES: You have to come up with twelve thoughts and one picture (totaling 13) to describe your weekend. Try using quotes, events, links to blog entries and websites, etc.
- Amped up all week to get to my birthday present from C
- We spent the weekend chilling in Estes Park
- Finally arrived at about 9pm and found the town closed…
- So we hit up the McDonalds to get some grub
- Then hit the killer Honeymoon Suite (pictured above and linked in No. 1) to watch movies and relax
- I’m sorry, but Napoleon Dynamite…lets just say I am dumber for having watched it
- But Dodgeball was funny and Saw was one of the best thriller flicks I have peeped in a good while
- While in Estes, apparently there was a crime spree…someone busted out the windows of 3 of the main street shops overnight
- We tried to go to Rocky Mountain National Park…but the main road was closed for the winter and $20 to drive 7 miles wasn’t gonna happen
- But on the way back in to town for dinner, right outside the Inn, were 4 of the BIGGEST elk I have ever seen…huge
- So we ate a nice local spot called, “Local’s Grill”. Great service, friendly people and the food was on point
- Then C made sure we were up and on our way early so that I could make it back to Denver in time to watch HardCore play his final 2 games of the season…they lost both
So as some know, this week was my birthday week (Yea…Happy Birthday T-Square!). Got some crazy things from my friends…mostly SpongeBob Square Pants stuff :), food…and a weekend retreat with C 
And as was reported here previously, I quit my job as Manager of Technology for Your Perceptions, Inc. back in December to make that leap back into journalism…but I have been consulting and what not for them still. They are a hard bunch to leave 
Anyway, so I go in the office yesterday to do some stuff and Jimmy Z. points me to a box and says, “Don’t look at it to hard just open it.” So I do.
Inside said insanely wrapped box is a 17″ LCD Flat Panel!!!
Super Ultra Mega Uber Sweeeet!!!!!
Shocked the hell out of me I tell ya. I had made mention of the fact I wanted a LCD for a while, I just never went and got one…now I have one.
Huge thanks goes out to Jimmy Z., just about the bext damn boss I have ever had…and not just because he bought me a LCD either.
Would the FBI come to my rescue?
No. 1 Chickenhead Paris Hilton gets her ish hacked, folks post her phone book, messages, pictures (that link there ain’t work safe) and everything else on the web and the FBI comes storming in to rescue her. WTF?!?!?!?
You all know if some dink hacked my SKII the FBI would laugh my ass right out of their offices, of course I don’t have Vin Diesel and Eminem’s phone number in my SKII though.
So coming in to work tonight I zipped past The Church nightclub. Limos and security were in full effect. It was P. Diddy’s second night of partying with his All-Star Grand Finale party….
Now I saw a lot of things…but one young lady (I use the term lady loosely) was having some issues with her fur covering up her, um, well…fur. I’m not real sure this woman had ANYTHING on under that coat of hers
Let’s just say she was showing a helluva lot more than she was covering…needless to say she was quickly escorted past the security, past the ropes and in the door.
Sluttiness pays off once again…let’s hope tomorrow we ain’t reading about yet another sexual assualt.
Sorry Trent…no pics…was driving with a slew of cop cars behind me…couldn’t chance the ticket bro
Ahhh yeah!!! The 2005 NBA All-Star game has rolled in to Denver and has pretty much turned the city upside down.
Every skank ho and hoochie is out in their best barely there outfit trying to nab them a baller…
The line around the Fillmore Auditorium where Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz were performing tonight was nasty looking at 4pm…I heard from a friend that by 7ish it was like a low-class strip club of groupies trying to get anyone over 6′ to pay attention to them.
That new camera should get put to good use this weekend…
The 101/1001 - Update
The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Start Date: 02.03.05
Deadline: 10.31.07
Tasks Completed: 1
14. Buy a new digital camera - DONE
Finally made my mind up and went out and bought myself a new digital camera: Kodak EasyShare 6490
The DX6490 matches the precision of SCHNEIDER-KREUZNACH VARIOGON 10X Optical Zoom Lens with the intelligence of Kodak’s new Color Science Image Processing Chip. The result is pure digital bliss.
A camera that delivers in-depth detail and stunning color – from wide angle to true telephoto – all in one compact package.
Professional quality 10X Optical Zoom Lens (38-380 mm equivalent)
Precision-crafted to fulfill the finer resolution requirements of digital imaging
Incredible sharpness and clarity across entire image
Striking edge-to-edge brightness
Fast f/2.8 – 8.0 lens delivers sharp, bright images throughout the zoom range, even in low light situations (wide angle f/2.8 at 38 mm - telephoto f/3.7 at 380 mm)
Not the extreme upper end Nikon I was looking at, but something a little more in line with my actual photo needs and has some more advanced features so I still have some room to grow.
Going to play with this thing for about a week and see how I like it. There is a model that is a step up from this one and if for some reason the 6490 doesn’t work for me I can step up to the 7590.
Expect a bunch of photos in the next few days 
Hoodies give coats the cold shoulder
“For teens, the hoodie has replaced regular coats because it is so functional,” said Barbara Coulon, vice president of trends for Youth Intelligence, a forecasting company in New York. “They’ll throw on a vest over it, or layers underneath. And today, there’s a hoodie for every group - urban skaters, hip-hop kids, preppy kids, athletes, boys and girls. They’re just everywhere.”
Teens and I guess my never gonna grown up self. I haven’t worn a coat in a few years…hate ‘em, too bulky when I’m in the car driving. I do have an entire closet full of assorted hoodies though. You name it, I have it…usually end up having to replace them every few months (let’s say every 6) due to the boys “borrowing” them, getting washed and faded or simply just getting worn out since I wear them daily.
On those really cold days, I wear a long sleeve t-shirt under my hoodie and call it good. People thought I was crazy, but apparently I am just stuck a generation or two behind
Damn you people and your goals…making me look bad and all slacker like…I guess I need to stop sitting around on the sidelines watching and join in. This is the type of stuff that makes ya a better person and stuff right? Posting this with the actual list unfinished…will complete the list by end of the month…
So here goes:
The 101/1001
The Mission: Complete 101 preset tasks in a period of 1001 days.
The Criteria: Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on my part).
Start Date: 02.03.05
Deadline: 10.31.07
Tasks Completed: 12
- Finish this list
- Spend one weekend totally unplugged. No TV, No Computer, No Phone
- Take my boys to a Denver Broncos game
- Take all the kids to Disneyland
- Take a vacation with C
- Visit Jamaal in Philly
- Visit Kevin in New Hampshire
- Spend a weekend volunteering with the elderly
- Learn sign language
- Participate in the AIDS Walk
- Lose 25 pounds
- Go one month with no soda
- Commute to work by bus for a month
Buy a new digital camera- Go two weeks without fast food
- Read a book a month for 6 months
Go one month without wearing a hat- Raise my credit score at least 150 points
- Call my grandmother once a week for at least 3 months
- Go one day without using profanity
- Find a play group for the Princess and take her for at least a month
- Clean out my basement
Donate $100 to a charity- Get in touch with someone I haven’t spoken to in years
- Purchase a new, slimline laptop
- Purchase a Mac G5
Acquire an iPod- Go out to a club and dance with C
- Go to New Orleans and visit Bobert
- Send my mother on a vacation
- Spend a weekend in New York City
- Host a giant sleepover for the boys
- Spend a weekend in San Francisco
- Take 5 of my friends out for dinner…and pay
- Pay all my bills on time for at least two months straight
- Have a meaningful conversation with my father
- Get my picture taken with C, professional like and stuff
- Get C to play a game of basketball with me
- Create a designated Ferret zone in the house
- Create a financial portfolio
- Learn to play chess again
- Go to church 8 Sunday’s in a row with my mother
- Learn to french braid hair
- Research and create a complete family tree for my kids
- Visit my Grandpa James in Kansas City
- Tell Pillsbury how I really feel about him
- Payback some societal debts
- Go to the top of the Empire State Building
- Cross the Royal Gorge
- Clean out my garage
- See a Broadway play
- Spend a night on a beach
- Hold a snake
- Bungee jump
Create plans to finish my basementBuy a house- Save $5000 and keep it
Find a new kid mobile- Get back to using my PDA
Sleep more (this may be the hardest thing on the list)- Help Hardcore perfect his jumpshot
- Volunteer at an animal shelter
- Teach my dog to walk on a leash
- Start working out
- Ride the craziest roller coaster at Cedar Point
- Spend a weekend in Las Vegas
Go to the dentist (the fear is strong on this one)- Play paintball at least once a month for 6 months
- Spend a weekend in Chicago
- Visit a foreign country that is not Canada (been there, done that…numerous times)
- Spend a weekend in Atlanta
- Have lunch with EJ and J.
- Take a walk, 3x a week for one month
Wear a dress (this will hurt)- Spend a season actually playing a sport
- See the Detroit Tigers play in Comerica Park
Buy another Jeep- See the New York Yankees play in Yankee Stadium
Get a new puppy- Take a week off work ad actually NOT work