Scott MAD!!!!!
OK – just got off the phone with Verizon VoiceWing…apparently not even Verizon can port over my Verizon landline number!
Has anybody in Florida had success with porting their landline number over to a VoIP service?! Maybe I should just consider taking a new number and being done with this madness…
networking your MP3 collection into the home stereo…
Linksys Wireless-B Media Adapter (Linksys page) (Buy.com page)
Also, has anybody ever tried something like this? I’ve been looking for a component to add into my home entertainment system for a while now and I’ve always just assumed that I’d end up building a small box myself instead because nothing ever seems to cover all of the features that I want (all audio and video formats, primarily – don’t really care about pictures). This one only does audio and pictures, but they’ve got it on-sale now for $70…and most like this are well over $200. Any opinions???
IE is being mean…
Whenever I’m surfing with Internet Explorer, eventually it’ll get to a point where the browser won’t load graphics anymore. I clear the cache out, restart IE and it starts working again…for a while, until it does it all over again. I’ve also tried adjusting the cache size to allow for more crap, but nothing seems to want to work.
Has anybody else had this problem and found a working fix for it? (that is, one that doesn’t include switching to Firefox…) Help!!!
I should be driving now…
Well, I guess it’s time to finally hit the road. Sure, I’m technically running a little late, but you know what? It’s my vacation, damn it – I’ll get there when I get there! Last I heard, Michigan isn’t going anywhere anytime soon…no pun intended, but for those of you who are, like, waiting and stuff, I’ll be there as soon as I finish this list…
Current temperature here in Tampa: 86 degrees
Current temperature there in Michigan: 52 degrees
Time that I was supposed to leave: 8AM
Time that I’m actually leaving: 2:30PM
Time that I might make it to Atlanta, if I’m lucky: 10:30PM
Miles to get to my car: .1
Miles to get to Michigan: 1382
Number of bags that I’m taking: 7
Number of trips that it took to get said bags to the car: 3
Moment that I realized it’s time to stop procrastinating and hit the road: now
My next post will be from the blustery foothills of Northern Michigan…everyone think warm thoughts for me while I’m gone… 
So yeah, ummm, I got hit on by a dude tonight…
Talk about things that’ll catch you off guard!
I was walking back to my apartment with some things that I’d just picked up at the store when I passed this guy on the sidewalk. He said, “Whaz ‘sup?” I replied with the standard, “Hey, man…” and we both went on our manly ways…
Five minutes later, I’m putting stuff away and the doorbell rings. I’m certainly not expecting anybody, so I look out the peephole to see that same black guy standing at my door. “Maybe I dropped something,” I thought, so I opened the door. Apparently I did drop something, but not exactly what I was thinking!
The man looked me square in the eye and said, “I wanted to let you know that you have a great ass. I hope I’m not offending you or anything by saying that…”
Although a little stunned, I thanked him and he just walked away. Closing the door, I thought, “That was pretty nice of him. Albeit a little creepy, but hell, at least he was polite about it!”
Mind you, we’ll see just how well that I sleep tonight, knowing that the huge, burly black guy next door wants me on his team for all the wrong extracirricular activities, but hey, a compliment’s a compliment…right???
El Desafortunado
So I finally got my car back yesterday…again…
Auto Repair Grand Total for the Month of May: $694.31
And just between you and me, I don’t care anymore. On my way home from work today, the check engine light came on and I almost just stopped the car and walked away right then and there. Now I know that up until these incidents, I’ve really gotten off pretty lucky with regards to maintenance issues…but this is just getting ridiculous!!! It seems to be mostly an idling problem, so I’m just going to dump some fuel additive into the gas tank and if it’s still acting funny by the time I get up north, then I’ll have my old mechanic look at it up there. Mark my words – I’m never going back to the place that I took it this time ever again!
Hell, I’m not even driving past it, just to be safe. :<
All of this ultimately puts me a little over another month behind in completely paying off my debts, but I suppose in the end, there’s really no use crying over spilt engine coolant. June will have to be a better month – it really can’t get any worse – and both July and August will come bearing an extra paycheck each between the two of my jobs, so it’ll be ok.
Just put me on the highway, show me a sign and for the next two weeks, we’ll try to forget all of this ever happened! 
Where there’s grammar, there’s hope…
I started a new writing project this evening, mainly to help me cope with some of the stress that I’ve been having recently. Hopefully it’ll be completed sometime around the middle of June, which you math geeks might calculate as giving me about thirty-two days and counting…give or take!
It’s really a new style of writing for me, but so far it’s been fairly theraputic. Of course, I’ll have a much better idea of exactly where this is going a few weeks from now, so check back with me then for a real update… :p
Apparently the Survivor: Palau finale is on TONIGHT, eh?!
Somebody please hold me to this next season – unless the show is held in an absolutely pristine, spectacular setting that hasn’t already been done three or four times already (i.e. tropical paradise, laden with hidden perils), I’m not watching the next season of Survivor.
Let me spend the time doing something of quality for a change, whether it be reading a book or spending the time with my girlfriend or even just watching something else. Point blank…this show just doesn’t have it anymore. 
woo hoo!!!
A quick step on the scale indicates that I’m a full three pounds lighter than the last visit — this gives us a grand total of seven pounds lost since I started trying to lose weight this last time!
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(I don’t want to hear it – I’m still eating the pizza… )