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Time off from work means Craigslist time

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Aug 302010

Since I have off from work for almost two weeks, I’ve been cleaning out my basement, garage, and storage up in my bedroom area. Now my living room is full of items I been meaning to sell. Most of the stuff is or has been listed on Craigslist. Some items like my baseball card and stamp collection from the mid to late 80s will be taken to local shops to see what I can get for them. This is all monies that will be dumped into a hopefully iEverything upgrade spending spree by the end of the year. So far an old 27″ TV and a DVD player went immediately.

The other items I posted is/are disc golf bag and discs, Hoegaarden beer light, Becks beer light, Budweiser holiday steins, 23″ electric fireplace, Xbox 360 games, Wii games, printer and scanner, and a weed wacker.

I also have some autographed LP posters of Bad Company and some other bands around here somewhere.

Interested in anything let me know.

Resolutions or Goals for 2010

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Jan 092010

Carry over or modified resolutions from 2009.
-Place 1st in a PDGA sanctioned disc golf.
-Disc golf in a new state. (More than likely Maryland or Massachusetts.)
-Upgrade my home computer and run network cables throughout the house.
-Purchase a newer vehicle for myself.

New resolutions:
-Get all the rooms on the first floor painted.
-Redesign and landscape the front yard
-Stay well under 200lbs. (Optional goal is 180lbs.)
-Complete 2 certifications for work.

I think that’s the extent of it for now.

Holiday 2009 is Over

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Jan 032010

Today is the last day of the holiday season/vacation. Tomorrow is back to normal with school and work…oh joy. This was a very good holiday season for my family. This was our first Christmas and New Years in our new home. It was nice to make all the noise we wanted without disturbing the bipolar “roommates” we were once stuck with.

There was lots of parties here and everywhere. Lots of good food and drinks to be had by all. Some of the more notable foods would be the cookies from the women in my life. Wife and her gingersnaps, mom’s nut toccis, and my sister’s dark chocolate macaroons. Plenty of rich cheese and shrimp and my tender pork roast on new years. Let’s not forget about the wine, tequilla, and chocolate martinis.

Today we are killing Christmas and finding a home for all these gifts. So much Bakugan, pogo sticks, games, books, Hot Wheels tracks, science kits, and robots. Not to mention the new clothes that need to be washed and ironed.

Also need to come up with new resolutions for this year…

Oh and it was a sucking football holiday with no Irish!!!!

Bayonetta demo killed my Xbox console

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Nov 182009

So, I won myself an early beta code from the great people over at Unscripted 360. Awesome. I have myself a nice night to myself for gaming and decide to start off the night downloading the demo and checking it ok. So, I go and enter the code and load it up into my download queue. It starts to download. While I’m waiting I want to go and check out my Facebook status. So, I go an click on the link and before it can load the Facebook splash page it locks up the whole console. What the fuck! So I power it off and then back on. No luck. Pull the hard rive, power source, plug back in, power on. Nothing. It loads and within the first ten seconds, it locks up on the dashboard.

Thanks a lot Bayonetta and Sega, you fucked my box right before the holidays. God damn it!!!

Attached is a video of me trying to power it back on.

**FYI – This is an Arcade 360 with Jasper chip from Holiday 2008 shipments.

Attaching video from my Blackberry showing what happens.

Xbox Dead

Life in a Single Home

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Nov 122009

Holy crap! What a difference having on the other side of all your boundary walls is open space. No one on either side of us, below or above us. It’s been just over two months and the life we lead is totally different than the last 10 years that my wife and I lived together. We listen to music a lot more and at high volumes. Music is used just for enjoyment and not to wake my prick neighbors up at 8AM with some Black Sabbath. We talk more without wondering who is listening in. The kids play more freely. The best part is we don’t have to listen to anyone elses lives.

The one thing I did notice about no one attached is we yell at the kids more openly. Don’t get me wrong, they deserve it. When we lived in a half a double, I curbed my anger a lot just so no one would think of what a monster of parents we were. The kids kind of knew it too and they played it to their advantage.

We still have neighbors but there is some space between us. I only hear the young guy once in awhile when he takes his Mustang out of the garage. Other than that, the other neighbor is old and we barely see them except when the ambulance shows up. It’s weird to have the police show up on your block only to help the paramedics and not serve search warrants or break up domestic disputes like in Allentown.

We Have Moved

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Oct 172009

Last post I mentioned we were prepping to move. Well we moved. We found a nice single home out of the city. More importantly we sold our piece of shit starter home. We didn’t get as much as we would of liked but its no longer our problem. (Neither are the neighbors.)

Thats our house! We’ve done some work to it so far. We redid the whole electrical panel and painted a bathroom. I’m also cutting out a lot of random shrubs and stumps.

Time to prep to move

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Apr 112009

About 6 years ago, Sarah and I bought our first home in Allentown. Not our primary choice but we got tired of hunting for a worthwhile home in our range outside of the city. Well, that was 6 years ago. Things have changed. We have one extra kid, both kids are bigger, job is better (title wise), and we need the space. We also need 0 neighbors attached. I’m done with that crap shoot.

We are starting to organize our house which entails throwing out a lot of clutter. Also, there is a bit of handywork that needs to be done so the house is more presentable. If I call you in the next few weeks, I may need help painting or laying some carpet.

Hopefully in May, we will start looking for homes outside of this city and any other city in the LV. Time to go to the out skirts, but not too far out.

Glad our pre-approved mortgage is higher that our first one. This opens so much more choices for a new nest.

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