Even my iPhone is repulsed

In moving an armoir one of the doors fell off right onto my big toe. Here is the damage. Evidently my iPhone is so repulsed by it that it wouldn't take a clear picture.

Skippy tells me I'm going to lose the toenail. Ewwww. On the positive note, I can tell you that the motorized wheelchairs at Wal-Mart, Costco and Target are all good but I rank them in that order :-) I'm the crippled guy that spreads sunshine and happiness everwhere he goes.

We're here

No more cross country driving. No more cross country driving. No more cross country driving. No more cross country driving.

I ended up driving the dogs in the Ford the whole way. We had planned on driving over 4 days but ended up doing it in 3 and boy were the dogs bored.

But we're here and the house is great.

When Harry Met Sally

My friend Kristin (in the pink shirt) and I sat at the same table from When Harry Met Sally! They evidently have the best pastrami sandwich in the world. I hate pastrami. They also had nasty pie. But cool pictures on the wall!

Now some words...

It's been a crazy month. Poor Skip has been packing up most of the house himself. I've been helping him on the weekends myself. We leave this Friday night and will get to Baltimore on Monday.

I started my new job last week. Our Christmas party is in Las Vegas!

I actually like a new comic strip. I can't remember the last time this happened. It is Lio.

My most anticipated game of the year, Bioshock, comes out this week. And I can't play it until at least next Monday due to the move. Where is the justice? To make it worse I preordered it through Steam so it was sitting on my hard drive all weekend just screaming for me.

I actually have next week off. I will be off for 10 days!!!

No words...

It's Underdog!

I saw Underdog with my Mom yesterday and wow it is just hilarous. Everybody was there with their parents (including me) and the kids were all actually very well behaved! The movie really kept their attention and kept them laughing. Any of you out there with kids (even those of you with SIX kids) need to rush your kids off to the movie theatre right away. Even my Mom was howling throughout the movie.

Skippy was so jealous we saw it that he is going today. Poor Blossom won't know what hit her come Halloween.

Even more big news

Last night I accepted a job offer! It is with the same company I am working for now as a contractor. So in addition to doing Domino consulting, I'll be combining that with the specific tools that my new company uses. I'll still be travelling a lot but hopefully a little less. With the move to the east coast I expect to spend a lot less time commuting at least!

Guess that clean livin' is paying off!

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Big News

We are moving back to Baltimore. Halethorpe, MD to be exact. Only a few weeks left in Colorado then we'll be driving across county with Skip's cousin and the animals. At the end of August! If the AC in the rental truck breaks I will just walk out on the road, lay down and wait for someone to run me over.

Underdog

I cannot wait to see Underdog. Skip even wants to dress up Blossom as Underdog for Halloween. Well, she is a beagle.

The TV show recently came out on DVD but I don't think I can watch it. I'd rather keep my great memories. I recently tried to watch an episode of another of my childhood favorites, Ultraman, but could only watch 10 minutes it was SO BAD.

Underdog!

Doh!

Life has been busy lately, so here's an update...

It turns out that Skippy is just miserable in Colorado as I'm gone most of the time, so we're moving back east! Cross fingers, we should know if we got the house we want to rent today or tomorrow. Plans are to move to just below Baltimore the last week of August. We'll be back near friends and family, and I will (mostly) only have 45 minute plane rides instead of these 4 hour affairs I'm going through now.

I'm finishing up the project I'm working on in NYC this week (although I'm in Cambridge) and supposedly next week I start as Senior Architect for another huge Manhattan-based client. It also looks like I'll start working as a full-time employee either for my contracting company or the company that hires my contracting company.

I learned about the new position last week at a great kickoff dinner at Delmonico's in the Wall Street section of Manhattan.

The Simpsons Movie was excellent. It certainly was strange watching it in a movie theatre, especially when I looked around and noticed that a lot of the people (kids) in the theatre weren't even born when The Simpsons started! I remember seeing their short films on the Tracey Ullman show and thinking what a great show it would make. Truth be told, I prefer the voices and drawings from the very early shows the best.

How sad

Tammy Faye has passed. It just broke my heart seeing her on Larry King Live this week.

From her CNN obituary:

"Tammy Faye Messner has also been known as one of the few evangelical Christians who had the support of the gay community. She was one of the first televangelists to reach out to those with AIDS when it was a little-known and much-feared disease. In return, she told King in July, "When I went -- when we lost everything, it was the gay people that came to my rescue, and I will always love them for that."

I think that Tammy Faye was a true Christian. The world could be such a better place if more Christians were like her...

People are so mean

For whatever reason, I have been spending more time lately reading comments on certain sites I visit (tvsquad.com, joystiq.com, etc.). The amount of hate and vitriol in these comments makes me angry and sad at the same time. What is wrong in people's lives that they feel the need to put other people down in the meanest ways possible?

If I detach myself from it a bit I do find it interesting that people can get mad and say someone's opinion of a tv show is "wrong". Whaaa?

While I'm being sad about the meanness in the world, please please please don't let CNN show any more pictures of those poor pitbulls that were in fights. They make me want to cry.

I went to Harvard!

Since I'm only here for 2 or 3 weeks I've been trying to do as much sightseeing as possible. Last night I walked 3 miles to Harvard. Like a lot of campuses part of the campus is scattered and part is in a specific area, this one surrounded by a fence. I walked inside and around for a bit (the picture is from inside) and it make me sad thinking about how I wasn't able to finish college. Even at Harvard the students and teachers look like they do anywhere else.

Harvard Square is great too. Lots of shops, I ended up having sushi. I wanted seafood but none was to be found.

Taking a cab back, we drove along the river and it reminded me of driving in Arlington/Alexandria along the Potomac.

It could use a trim...

but this is a great "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ad starring Marvel vs. DC Comics.