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Oct
31
Tattoos fake and real
Filed Under cool items, tattoo | 14 Comments
I sport tattoos on my arms, you wouldn’t know when I wear long sleeves, I like the reaction from new people who haven’t known me for long when they see the tats and comment, “You don’t seem the sort to have tattoos.”
I have always spent a while choosing each tattoo and apart from the black tribal band around one wrist the other six tats are full color, I have never regretted having them done. Once when at Church while getting prayer from special guests one woman prayed I be released from the evil influence of the tattoos! The Pastor’s wife rolled her eyes at me over that.
None of my tats are evil looking just animals in full color. I have taken good care of them and the one I had when I was eighteen still looks really good. Six tats were done in the UK the seventh was done here recently in the states, my first tattoo is older than the guy who inked my latest piece.
I get the urge to get new ones to fill in the spaces and sometimes wonder about getting full sleeves done. Which is why I thought it was cool when I saw the nylon tattoo sleeves you can buy, slip one on your arms and it looks as if you have a full sleeve tattoo done. There are several designs so you can change out the look as your mood changes.
Technorati Tags: cool items, tattoo, nylon tattoo sleeve, body art
Oct
31
To the girl on the bus Warheads and Las Vegas
Filed Under open Letter, wife | 2 Comments
To the girl on the bus, dang girl, when you use the phone, if the person on the other ends isn’t answering, you don’t need to sit there screaming “Hello,” repeatedly. It is bloody annoying and I have to resist the urge to rip the phone out of your hand and throw the thing out the window.
When I got home Carolyn was surfing and looking at a web site on the Stratosphere Las Vegas, hotel. We are certainly looking at Las Vegas as a vacation destination for our wedding anniversary. We have been to Reno but never Vegas, we aren’t really into casinos, no let me amend that, I’m not. I find them annoying after a short while, I might drop a couple of dollars on slots is all, Carolyn likes the penny slots and usually does okay and wins back more than she puts in them.
I certainly would want to catch a few shows, especially magic shows. We may also renew our wedding vows, Carolyn like a Knight and Maiden theme whereas I’m all for Elvis doing the ceremony, we’ll see as we are still trying to make up our minds.
I like Extreme Sour Warheads hard candy, although I only like the blue and green ones. What do they put in those things that makes them so addictive? You just have to keep eating them until the roof of your mouth and your tongue is sore, or is that just me?
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Oct
30
Like channeling Paris Hilton like
Filed Under on the bus | 4 Comments
On the bus at the front on the bench seat are three girls, channeling Paris Hilton heavily, same look, voice and attitude. Deeply tanned skin and bright bottle bleached blonde hair stands out in dreary Seattle, as do their dark heavy eye brows.
They are talking about scary stories and I have never heard the word “like” used so many times in a conversation. Not just one but all three are saying it every other word;
“A friend like, says that like, whenever they like, leave the house like, when they get back home all their like, framed pictures are like, off the walls and like, on the floor.”
“You mean like, if they go out for like, groceries, when they get back like, the pictures are like, down?”
“Yeah.”
“Like, scary.”
Stop that, stop that right now!
Technorati Tags: on the bus, Seattle, Paris Hilton, scary story
Oct
27
Once more into the breach - the battle
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I came in to the living room and Carolyn was on the couch engrossed in the Nintendo Game Cube game she was playing, she usually likes Mario games. I cannot stand those types of games as I am a shoot and scoot, first person shooter type game player.
But this time Carolyn was playing another of her favorite games, Legend of Zelda, Link running round on quests with his sword and shield. Bit more to my liking but still not quite something I could play for very long.
When she had finished a few hours later I showed her the website that actually sold Zelda swords and shields as part of their inventory. I am still trying to get her interested in such stuff so maybe I can get the movie related stuff to display on the walls ( give me an A for effort in trying).
Carolyn looked at the Legend of Zelda sword and shield, “That’s cool,” she said. I think the comment was an off the cuff remark and not a That’s cool, I want one! I don’t think I can really envisage her running around wielding the sword and shield challenging me to a battle. Although I hope she wouldn’t hum the annoying music that goes with the Zelda game.
Could be fun though, I’d have to chose an appropriate character’s weaponry, maybe Blade, I could get the Blade sword and maybe his Glaive Shredder or the silver stakes.
We would have to makes sure we have the Band-Aids and Super glue to hand what with my proclivity for injuring myself with sharp objects!
Oct
26
Not making the bed is good for you dust mites and fat squirrels
Filed Under BBC News, humor | 6 Comments
Well now I have an excuse for not making the bed, BBC News article suggests leaving the bed unmade helps kill off the dust mites that inhabit the mattress.
BBC News not making bed article link
Another BBC article about a squirrel getting into a device designed to stop squirrels getting into bird feeders and getting stuck.
Here’s a funny gift idea:
Technorati Tags: BBC News, dust mites, fat squirrel, Horney Humping Dog
Oct
25
Vacation destination and Luke and Yoda
Filed Under toys, vacation | 6 Comments
From doing the contest on Carolyn’s blog we have a list of destinations for suggestions of where to go for our tenth wedding anniversary in February. Vegas got several mentions, not sure where we will go but we have some good ideas for future vacations.
Our daughter was here and she suggested that we should get a vacation home Orlando, she pointed out it would be a great vacation destination and that we would be close to Disney World, Universal Studios, Busch Gardens and Sea World. “We would have fun there,” she says.
“Yes I am sure we would, wait, what’s this ‘we’?”
“You know,” she replies.
“No, I don’t.”
“You, Mom, us three kids, our spouses and the eight grand kids of course.”
Dang, I walked into that one. It would be a fun if somewhat hectic vacation but guess who gets stuck paying for it all?
I am not sure how long I would be able to put up with them all together at one time either, usually when they are all together it degenerates into fights and I have to put my foot down and tell them if they don’t behave I’ll start throwing them out. When I stand up and say this they all tower over me and look down but they know I mean business and listen to me.
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In other news I found the latest goodie to add to my ever burgeoning collection that clutters my desk:
Now I got to save my pennies.
Technorati Tags: vacation, kids, grandkids, toys
Oct
24
A close shave
Filed Under wife | 4 Comments
I washed my face, scrubbed on some black raspberry vanilla anti-bacterial deep cleansing hand soap over my beard area. Then I slathered on some shaving foam for sensitive skin, and ran the new razor across my stubble. Once shaved I washed my face and dabbed it dry with a towel, I ran my fingers over my face. Smooth as a baby’s butt, although, smooth as a baby gorilla’s butt in some places, I run the razor over those areas again. Then I apply a thin layer of moisturizer, smooth, then Carolyn appears from nowhere and runs her hands all over my face and kisses my face, “Mm I love it when you shave for me.”
I knew there was a reason for shaving.
I hate shaving and try to only do it once or twice a week, usually Carolyn gets fed up of the scruffy look and makes me shave, I want a beard but she vetoed that idea. I am allowed a mustache as I had one when we married but I want one of those goatee things going on, it would be full of gray and look very distinguished.
What makes shaving worse is leaning across the sink to look in the mirror, I get a sore back from doing that. I need to get one of those makeup mirrors doodads that are on an extendable arm coming out of the wall, I think they are cool.
I remember as a kid being at my grand parents place, grand dad had one of those mirrors. I like to play with it and extend it out of the wall, the mirror swiveled and had a regular mirror on one side and a magnifying mirror on the other. Made your face look funny, kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character on the surface of Mars in the movie Total Recall.
Not great to come home to after a late night party and drinking session. Standing taking a piss and looking at yourself in the magnifying side of the mirror.
“Well, lesh see what a handshom bastard I am. Oh God! quick someone fetch me an ‘Eppy’ pen, I’m having an allergic reaction to something I ate. Wait!-ate-I didn’t eat anything I only drank all night long. Oh my God! I’m allergic to alcohol Noooooo!”
Technorati Tags: wife, shaving, drinking
Oct
22
Bus people and on the street people
Filed Under on the bus, on the street | 5 Comments
Sitting on my first bus I notice a guy sitting on the bench seat at the front. He was talking away to someone, stopping, pausing and answering questions. I wasn’t too fazed that he might be talking to himself, I could only see him in profile and assumed he had some sort of Bluetooth or hands-free cell phone device in his other ear.
At one point he was talking and wasn’t saying anything, his lips were moving.
Okay, no worries, I just suddenly went deaf!
But I could hear others talking so the guy was just not actually saying anything. I got up at my stop and as I passed I checked and the guy didn’t have any hands-free device in his other ear!
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Waiting for another bus a woman approached me and asked me to buy her a cheeseburger from McDonald’s, “I don’t want any money, just take me to McDonald’s and buy me a cheeseburger.”
AS she probably expected, I told her I was waiting for a bus and didn’t want to miss it by going across the street with her to McDonald’s, so I would give her money. She threw an arm around me to hug me and as I was digging change out of my pocket (how do these people know when I have spare change on me?), she asked for a Big Mac, fires and soda, dang the order just got bigger.
I told her I didn’t have that much but gave her want I had, which was enough for a cheeseburger, she asked a few other people then took off across the street towards McDonald’s.
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On the second bus I noticed a woman making little side-to-side flicking movements with her head. I knew it wasn’t some sort of seizure or nervous tic because she was reading a book. Instead of moving her eyes to read she was flicking her head to the end of the sentence as she read it then flicking it back to the start of the next sentence.
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