“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” — George W. Bush
Guys I finally got around to updating the links to all the photo galleries. I also added the Honeymoon gallery. It has a bunch of pictures from our honeymoon.
Hopefully later this week I will add some more photos. Oh yeah if you didn’t know I started a new job about 2 weeks ago. It seems pretty awesome. Lots of cool perks from this company, plus no dress code. I have been wearing shorts and t-shirts to work everyday. Very nice!
So last week I found out that my other neighbor ended up calling the dog catcher on the neighbor with the dog. I guess the lady threw a fit and came over and was calling the lady all sorts of names and even included the “N” word. Well the dog catcher got there and he told them to call the cops because i guess this lady was out of control and I heard the kids were throwing stuff at the dog catcher. Anyway the police came and i think wrote her a ticket for her dog (finally).
Then last friday i noticed that one of my beach towels was missing from my deck. I looked all over for it. Then noticed some items in my pool. So i put two and two together and I figured the neighbor kids came and jumped in my pool and used my towel and took it with them. So fast forward to Monday evening. I told Erin about the missing towel. She decides she will go talk to the neighbor and ask if they have the towel. When i got home i saw a kid with no shirt on standing out in my yard. So Erin goes over to the neighbor house and says something about our missing towel. I go to my back yard and see that they just got out of the pool. The deck was wet and the water in my pool was still moving. I also noticed a wrapper at the top of my stairs and then saw that they had stuck a condom on my door handle.
Meanwhile Erin is talking to the neighbor’s neice. The neighbor was working or something and the niece was babysitting. She goes on to tell us that yeah the 13 year old kid was swimming in my pool and that ever since his dad died he has been acting out a lot and causing a lot of trouble. She says the mom doesn’t know what to do with him and she kinda hinted at she wished they would take him away or something, cause she can’t handle him. Erin asks the lady if they have our other towel and the niece said she thinks she saw one like it. She goes and gets it for us. We then call the cops and they show up. The cop pretty much told us that they could do pretty much nothing to the kid since he was only 13. He told us to let this one go but next time we should press charges and what not. The cop told me to get No Tresspassing signs to put in my yard. One should know not to jump my fence and get in my pool and take my towel.
Anyway i talked to the other neighbors and they all seemed fed up with them too. We are hoping that they can’t keep the house and they end up moving(please god). Anyone got any suggestions on how to get rid of your neighbors?
Well I finished up landscaping a major portion of my house. My intent was to put on the before pictures and then show the after pictures but I have not yet taken the after pictures. I need to get around to that.
On to the dog part of the story. My neighbor has 2 dogs. One is a puppy and the other one is older. Just recently planted some flowers around my shed in the back yard. A few days later i go back there to water them and there are holes everywhere and the flowers have all been dug up. The neighbor’s dog jumped my fence and has been digging like crazy all the way around my shed, and i mean digging. I never thought a dog could dig that much. So the other day we mention this to the neighbor. She kinda just yells at the dog. I know she will do nothing to stop this. I have ran that dog out of my yard how many times that past few days and I am getting sick of it. I bought some stuff online that is supposed to keep dogs away but I am not sure how that will work. I am seriously thinking about popping it with a bb gun, so maybe it will learn. Anyone else got any suggestions? It seriously makes me sick. I replanted the flowers and sure enough the next day they were all dug up. It pisses me off because i spend all this money to make my yard and house look nice, while my neighbors dog comes over and ruins it. I don’t want to be the mean neighbor and call the authorities but what else can one do??
Oh yeah I also have a mole problem that doesnt seem to go away. I have tried a few different solutions but nothing has seemed to work that great. I bought some spray that didnt really do anything and then i bought these super sonic stakes that you drive into the ground that is supposed to keep them away. That seemed to work for awhile but it seems like they are either getting used to the sonic noise or something. These damn moles tear up a yard too. All suggestions are welcome.
Recently I have been addicted to an online game. It’s called Kdice, click here to check it out. 
Gameplay in kdice is similar to Risk with the primary goal of the game being to control every territory on the map. Me and a few friends have been playing it for the past few weeks. The other night I played it with 3 other friends and I was up till like 3 am. Not only is it the strategy I love but it’s interaction with other players.
The game is free and if you start playing let me know. Here is some more info on the game.
Finally booked the honeymoon this past week. We decided to not go the Hawaii route. We come to the conclusion that Hawaii is just to expensive to do this year. Hopefully soon.
We decided to do a cruise through Carnival. This will be my 4th cruise and my 3rd cruise through Carnival. The last one was pretty interesting, involving a hurricane who made the ship change its route and we had to stay at sea an extra day longer. Hopefully this one will be smoother sailings.
Here are the details. All of the stops on this cruise will be new to me. I am pretty excited about it and our next step is to book the excursions for each stop.
I have finally recieved my Masters Degree from Webster University. It will be nice to know that I am done with school(for awhile at least). I don’t think i will go back anytime soon. I don’t have to worrry about papers, presentations, or tests anymore. I am not going to know what to do with myself now.
Hopefully this will lead to bigger and better opportunities(maybe a nice little raise).
Well it’s been awhile since I have posted. I have been busy at work, programming the next great feature for the Air Force. Yeah right.
Anyway we have started our yearly basketball league. We are almost half way done with the season and we are still undefeated. There are 9 teams this year. If we go undefeated through the season it will be the 4th year in a row we haven’t lost a game. That will be quite a feat, but i don’t think its going to happen. The teams keep getting better and better each year. This year we are the oldest team in the league.
In other news, i think im pretty settled in to my house now. Time is flying by. I still want to tackle refinishing the basement sometime in the near future. I want to redo some of the drywall in a few of the rooms and put in new carpet, trim and doors. I think the basement could look really nice. Just waiting for some money to some how show up in my account. I also need a pool table for down there. There is a perfect location for one.
Is it just me or does it seem like there are a million electronic gadgets that you need to do something. Every year I find myself needing some new gadget that i probably wont use very much. Then after a few years it all becomes junk and just takes up space. If anyone needs any monitors or any other computer junk please let me know.
This year I ventured out on Black Friday. I always said i would never do it but this year I did. I wanted an LCD TV ever since I got the new house so i told myself to wait for the Thanksgiving day Sales. So i did. I decided to pull an all nighter and stayed up and got to circuit city around 4:15am. They opened at 5. The line was unbelievably long. I almost left once i saw it. I got in line and waited and waited, the line grew longer and longer and ended up going into the neighboring business parking lot. One funny thing was that McDonalds sent a few people over to the store and was trying to sell breakfast food to people waiting in line. I thought that was a pretty smart idea.
Anyway the doors finally opened. Everybody rushed in. There were people at the door trying to cut in front of the line and the people waiting in line almost kicked some arse(which they should have). The circuit city employee just let them cut. I got in pretty quickly and decided to head to the left, cause everyone was going right. I ended up being like the 4th person in line at the TV stands(which i was very surprised). I guess people didn’t know which way to get to the TV’s. I got to the front and I said i wanted the 40 Inch Sony LCD that was on sale on their website (it was called an unadvertised sale, which i dont get because it was advertised on their website???). Anyway this kid brought up the TV and it was listed for like $700 more than what it was online and i told him about the sale. He said i would have to go talk to the store manager. So that meant me waiting in line for another good 45 minutes just to talk to the manager. While waiting in this line there was a huge lady who was behind me in line. She started throwing a fit and yelling at the employees and manager about why she wasnt getting waited on yet. I seriously thought she was going to get into a fist fight with the workers. The manager told the lady that i was in line first and that he will take care of her after me. She couldnt stand it, she said she had been there since yesterday. This lady was in a rage and i was glad to finally get out of there. I brought my Jeep with me to haul the TV back. This was not a good idea. I had didnt even think about the TV being so big that it wouldnt fit in my Jeep. They put those TV’s in these huge boxes. We had to cram it in there and i drove all the way home with my knees in the dashboard. The TV ended up being great and i love it.
To make a long story short this will most likely be my last Black Friday. I never really knew that it was that crazy.
Closed on my new house on Wednesday. Don’t get it till Saturday. Plan on Painting and fixing up some thing during the weekend.
Going to the Cardinals game tonight. All you can drink and eat. They are still undefeated at games i have been to. They are somewhere around 9-0 or 8-0. Should be a good time at the game. When are they going to start paying me to come to games????
I have also been working on STLBiz.com. It’s coming along slowly. Tyring to teach myself Flash and use that on the site. It should be pretty slick when I find time to finish the site. Hell i still need to do improvements to this site. But oh well.
Some may have heard of this and some may have not. The bet is that you can’t drink a gallon of milk in an hour and keep it down for an hour after you drink it. I have multiple friends who think they can do this. I have tried it 2 or 3 times, and failed miserably both times. I chose to use chocalate milk instead of the white, which probably hurt my chances but that is the only way I could drink a gallon of milk. You can get 3/4 of the gallon down with no problem. Then all at once it hits you. You feel so full and then eventually you puke.
Justin brought this website to my attention and it brought back all of my good memories from the Milk Challenge. This guy uses skim milk (which is considered cheating in my book). He actually drinks the whole gallon and keeps it down for an hour, but then pukes 15 minutes later. Read the story its pretty good and if anybody wants to take the challenge, please let me know (no skim milk). Ill give you $50 if you can do it.