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Goodbye Bachelor Week Welcome Back South Beach

Hi, I'm Sadie. If you come out in the yard with me I'll play with you for as long as you want. I'll be your constant companion. I'll give you unconditional love. If you let me I will sit in your lap and snuggle with you. I will rub my cold nose on you and kiss you all over your face. Oh, and I eat my own poop.

Tomorrow night is the final evening of bachelor week. Since I'll be spending it doing laundry and cleaning the house, tonight is the true last night. So here's the final list of movies I watched during bachelor week: Crash The Island Along Came Polly Walking Tall Saw Saw II Meet the Fockers Flight Plan Stealth Men of Honor Four Brothers While none stood out as a great movie, I think I liked "The Island" the best.

I'm a bachelor this week while the wife and kids are in Fort Worth. They just left yesterday morning and I've already done quite a bit of damage to my list of "bachelor week" movies. Here's the list so far, in order: Crash The Island Along Came Polly Walking Tall Saw Saw II

Back when I had my very first blog I wrote quite a bit, and some of it was even interesting. At the time I used blogger, but instead of having a blogger only sight I ran my own site and just had blogger ftp my blog entries over to my server. More than likely what you just read was "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah". Am I right? Anyway, this blog is not a complete list of every entry I have ever made. But I do have many of them on one of my old PCs. Following are entries from the first day I ever blogged: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 Ahhhhh... Well we went to a different church tonight and it was great. There were a few couples from our old church there and I believe more are to follow. Plus there are other people that we already know that go there, some that we went to church with in the past, some that we knew in college. It was a huge breath of fresh air. We're going to go back on Sunday...and probably every other Sunday and Wednesday night for a long while. posted by...

Spring forced me into the great outdoors today. I went out into my front yard to pull weeds and do some watering. My next door neighbor is a single mom and if she sees me outside she tells me about problems she's having with her house or car or whatever. Todays issue was slightly different: Her: "Hello Scott, how are you?" Me: "I'm fine how are you doing?" Her: "Good. Do you smell that smell?" Me: "Hm...not really. What does it smell like?" Her: [Short Pause]"....um....like a dead body." Maybe I'll just concentrate on the backyard this summer.

While I'm not the best at keeping this blog updated, I've found that lately I don't do so much thinking about things going on around me as I do blinking. No wait thats what you do with your eyes. Maybe its calling thogging. Well I dont know what you call it but its where instead of thinking about the things going on around me, I'm composing a blog entry about it in my head. If I would ever actually go to the computer right then and actually blog it, I'd have a pretty nice site here, with lots of fresh content.

My son will be a teenager next year. Granted his birhtday isn't until the end of December, so its really almost two years away, but the thought of the whole thing makes me want to throw up. I can't possibly be the parent of a teenager. Not yet. I'm not really that old am I?

I'm sick of the look of this site. I originally made it about 3 years ago and I never even finished it. My CSS is crap, my sidebars are incomplete. I want to go back to the good old days where I hosted it myself and my site was completely interactive. Stupid Cox blocking port 80. Here's some looks I've had over the years. It doesn't go back all the way to the beginning but its fun to look at.

While I dont want to be a nerd, I work in the area of computers, so I still don't know if I should be relieved by this score, or worried.

I'm currently in the process of copying all of my VHS-C tapes to VHS. From there I will copy them to DVD, but thats another story. I have a lot more video than I remembered. Its interesting to see things progress when you're watching 8 years of video over the span of two days. One major progression was that of my old house. While there wasn't really a ton of video, what I did have brought back lots of memories. Most of it involving me spending money on my old money pit. I thought I would try and remember all of the work that was done on it: New roof (part of the sale though, didn't have to pay for it) Aluminum siding Planted two trees in the front yard Entire lawn transformed from dirt and weeds to plush green grass New garage door New garage door opener New side garage door Replaced side garage door light with motion flood light Replaced front screen door with all glass storm door Replaced front porch light Added electrical outlet near front door (there were no outlets...

When my wife and I were first married, and had all the answers, we always said that if we had a dog it would live in the house. I mean why have it if you're not going to love it, play with it, and give it unlimited attention. Well when we moved into our new house 3 years ago the decision was made for our beagle to start a new life of outdoor living. Periodically my wife and kids ask if the dog can start living in the house again, but I always resist. And here's why. Its currently 18 degrees outside. The dog spent the night in the garage. I've just let her out to go pee in the backyard. As I'm letting her back in and she's making the short trip from the back door to the garage door I think, "I'll throw her a bone and let her wander around inside for a minute while I clean out her water dish and fill up her food bowl". That thought vanished very quickly while in stride, she threw up on the kitchen floor. Stupid dog.

My Smackdown Superstar cousin has his own action figure !

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Well after about a year or so I've finally emptied my Junk E-Mail folder at home. I've let it gather up email and never read it so at a quick glance I can see how many messages are in it. It was at 10071. I thought I would start 2006 ( a few days late but oh well) over and see how many I get this year.

Christmas was barely over for 12 hours and our house was free of any sign of it. By 1:00pm today I had all the outside lights and decorations down and packed away, and my wife had done the same in the house. Back to the real world I guess.

There have been few times in my life where I have felt totally relexed, completely calm inside, no worries, totally at ease. Typically there is always something looming in the future; a book report or project when I was younger, and now that I'm older, just everyday responsibilities. But there was one day that I can remember being so at ease, so relaxed, that it was almost euphoric. I was probably around 10, I dont rememeber exactly...I was old enough to walk home from school by myself but young enough to still like Merry Melodies cartoons. It was the last day of school before Christmas break. I had walked home at the end of the day, turned on the TV to some cartoons, just layed down on the couch, and had the sense of 100% complete relaxation come over me. No school for a few weeks, too young to have much responsibility, Christmas would be in a few days, everything was right with my world. I could use a few more of those days every now and then.

Ok you're all a bunch of Scrooges. You're ruining Christmas for me, you know that? Thanks for nothing! I just came back from my family tradition of driving around looking at Christmas lights on houses. I'd say that less than 1% of people had lights up. Is it too much to ask to have a little Christmas Spirit? Yes not everyone in the world is a Christian and not everyone celebrates Christmas...but I live in the bible belt, so the percentage of christians here is pretty high. So whats your problem? Just too lazy or you're just a big fat Scrooge? Merry freakin' Christmas.