The Excitement NEVER ENDS!!!
Posted by nedster in Annoucements, Personal, Purchases on 2007/07/08
Anyway, I am sure you are all aware of the drama dealing with my car last October and how the engine went kablooey, without the actual kablooey anyway.
But as of this past Friday, I am told that the new engine that I went and put a deposit on will be arriving at the dealership(New dealership versus the shitty one that fucked me over) this up coming Thursday or Friday, and they will start putting it in my car on Monday morning, and should be done by the end of the week barring any freaky problems.
How awesome is that? I will once again have my car back! My kick ass car that I really do love!!
YAY ME!
w00t w00t
Posted by nedster in Annoucements, Home Improvement, Personal, Purchases on 2007/06/20
So the new things going on with me….
I forgot to mention before that I got a new lawnmower a couple weeks ago, WITH A BAG ON IT!!!
Also, I got a new cell phone today, I am officially caught up to date with a phone that has both bluetooth, AND a camera as part of it!
And then the biggest news of all!
I AM PREGNANT!!!
no, not really, but the actual big news is that the new windows I purchased about a month ago will be installed this Friday in my house!! WOOOOOHOOOO!!!!
Hopefully this will help keep the heating bills down this up coming winter, as well as help reduce the number of bugs that like to fly in through the terrible screens and holey windows I currently have.
yay yay yay yay
ooooo I also had the new couch and chair delivered last friday, so this will be 2 fridays in a row of new stuff at my house!!
so exciting!
Now if I could only get that flower bed area finished off and the brush cleaned up…..
All kinds of things going on….
Posted by nedster in Home Improvement, Personal on 2007/06/05
ok… so lots has been going on lately, so I am going to sum it all up for you…. a couple of big things, and a few small things…
big first…
I have decided to actually put new windows in the house, not just 1 or 2 but ALL the windows in the house. I went with NewPro, they are a bit more expensive but their warranty and the fact that they build, install, and service all the windows, as well as being a local company were factors in the purchase from them. I hope to have them in before the week of the 4th of July, and hopefully you can see them at a 4th of July BBQ I will have…
I just bought my second piece(s) of brand new furniture for my house, the first was a bureau I bought 4 or 5 years ago for my room, this new stuff is a couch and a chair for my living room. A nice shade of green that grew on me over time, and the best value that I could find in something that I actually liked. I should have it sometime in the next couple weeks. I went to Bob’s and got that set you have all seen advertised, yes, I know some of you have issues with Bob’s and I apologize, but it really was the best stuff I could find after going to 3 or 4 places to scope it out. I got the full size couch with that movable chaise lounger cushion along with the chair that you can put the chaise cushion and ottoman on to make a long chair instead of a short chair. I was a bit annoyed at Bob’s since I wanted to buy a second ottoman and long cushion so I could leave one on the chair and one on the couch all the time, but they wanted over $400 for it!! What the hell! You know it doesn’t cost that much. They gave me some lame excuse, but it was a total lie, since I am well aware of how logistics work and what would need to be done. So off to CL to see if someone got one they don’t want anymore.
I ripped out all the bushes in front of my house on the left side near the garage, and I am in the middle of screening all the dirt to get out the rocks, and putting in some awesome looking flowers, next summer my yard will go from the hated ghetto to envied by my neighbors. I rule.
I am 99% sure I am going to Buffett in September thanks to being the first person Lisa, aka pumpkin, thought of when she could get 4 tickets to the show for a non-sell your first born price. Now I just need to figure out who to bring with me!
I have not done it yet, but I will be getting a new cell phone, with a camera on it!
I have my flickr up, lots of pics on there and more to come, just taking a short break from pics the past few weeks.
I bought a new wide angle macro lens as well as a higher powered zoom lens for my already kick ass camera, so more pics to come! Filters will be next…
ummmmm
I have a bunch of computers, P4 1.6 with 256 or 512MB of ram and like 20 and 40 GB drives, if you or anyone you know would like one for cheap, let me know.
ummm, I think that is all right now… if I think of anything else I will add it later on….
Advice to all…
Posted by nedster in Home Improvement, Purchases on 2007/05/27
When you buy a new lawnmower, and you need to put fuel in it.
Make sure that you are actually putting unleaded gasoline into it, and not diesel fuel.
I had forgotten that I had a canister of diesel in the garage and was a bit throw off when I saw the gas was blue as I added it to the new lawnmower I bought last night.
OOPS
then it wouldn’t start and I remembered that car diesel is blue, and home heating fuel is red…. shit…
so I flip it over, drain it out, and add new regular unleaded fuel to it… and then holy crap…. talk about an arm workout while pulling the starter pull cord for 50 or 60 starts to work out the little bit of diesel I wasn’t able to drain out due to it being primed into the fuel lines….
damn
Asylum
wicked messed up movie… but good…. been watching it on Showtime late night while waiting for my laundry to be done here in the hotel….
laundry is all done… I was so twisted up over the weekend and Monday I had to pack a suitcase of almost all dirty clothes for my trip this week… insanity!!
3 day weekend to catch up this weekend though… that is my goal…
I Love Honesty
So I was checking in last night to my hotel, and the guy asks me what company I work for, I know they do this for some type of research or whatever, and since I am a “VIP” because of how often I stay at that brand of hotel, I joke with the guy and say I don’t work for a company, I do all this traveling for fun and recreation.
He looks up from his screen and says to me in a stone cold face…
“Sir, you’re in Meriden, CT. No one comes here for fun and recreation”
HA
I love people sometimes.
I need to plan better…
So I failed to get any laundry done this past weekend and I slacked and did none on Monday while I was home and then realized I needed to do laundry to pack to go away this week….
So I said screw it on Tuesday morning and put on clean clothes, and then packed a suitcase full of dirty laundry, and then tossed in some powdered Tide, and I will just do laundry when I get to the hotel.
fast forward….
6:30 and I am at the hotel, just picked up dinner and am back at my room eating it… Red Sox start in 30 minutes so I am ready for it and put off doing the laundry til later since I only have to walk downstairs to do it.
10pm rolls around, and the game is wrapping up, Sox win, YAY.
I go to look at the hotel map and see where the laundry is exactly, but I can’t find it and I go down to the desk to ask.
uh oh, this hotel has no laundry – only one I have ever been to that doesn’t, that sucks.
Is there a laundromat nearby? certainly, right across the street, but wait, oh yes, it closes at 10….
shit….
backup clothes are on today and hopefully I will be out of here in time to hit up a laundromat before I go to the airport for my flight tonight….
I Rarely Get Really Annoyed With Things…
but I really have to say that the double standards that some people have and their attitudes about the internet really piss me off.
“oh, it is just the internet, it doesn’t matter what I say”
“oh get over it, it is just the internet”
“Of course I would be pissed off if someone said that about my sister, but she is not my sister and she is not your sister, so why do you care what I say about her?”
Are people really this stupid? Do they really believe that just because it is “only the internet” that they have some sort of free pass to say whatever they want about whoever they want and not have to respect anyone because of that?
and what the hell is with people who can make dirty, disgusting, creepy, and disturbing comments about someone that they would absolutely in no way ever have the guts to actually say in person to someone in the real world but yet get totally pissed off if someone else says the exact same things about their sister or mother? I call that a double standard, but these people seem to deny that it is a double standards.
What the hell? and people really wonder why our society is the way it is?
wake the hell up and look in the mirror you F***** Morons!!!
Are You Ferserious?
Now, I understand that some people have allergies etc, and I can see some special accommodations being made by companies for people who are allergic to certain things.
but today, i think things went a bit far with this while on a United flight serviced by Ted.
Someone had a peanut allergy and there were no peanuts or anything with any type of peanut ingredients allowed on the entire plane.
What the hell? The guy sitting next to me got yelled at by the stewardess for eating a snickers bar, and another person was told they had to put their reese’s pieces away immediately and not open them again until they were off the plane.
They would not tell us where the person was seated, I could totally understand asking anyone near this person to not eat any, but if this person is in the last row of the plane, then why not let the people in the front eat a snickers or some reese’s pieces on the flight?
Honestly, if you have that severe an allergy, contemplate some other solution to travel or get yourself a bubble or something like that.
Check Out the Ass I Got When I Was In Kentucky!
How fucking awesome is that?