Gone for a while/ water in the basement

You sound like you're from London England! Let's throw another shrimp on the barbie!

Yep, me and Jamie Lou off to England, well She is already there for work, but I am off to *aaahhem* "Jetset" and spend a long weekend with her. Spend the Day and night in London, and then heading up North to see her family that is over there and spend a few days with them. So it should be a great time, and hopefully lead to some nice things to post about.

Here is the question(s) I have for you:
1) what do you call it when you finish mowing and it starts to rain 2 seconds later?
2)what do you call it when you finish mowing and watering the flowers and it starts to rain 2 seconds later?

Story of my life I guess. It poured again, I think I found the source of water in my basement, a gutter that I thought was clean had a plugged downspout, the water was shooting out of the downspout joints, onto the house, into the crack next to the stairs. Got a bit wet (a lot wet) but I think I fixed the water problem.

Well prolly should get some sleep, the Nintendo DS is already charged, the bags are packed and I am ready to go!

My Newest Addiction

Not sure how many of you fly, and I am not implying that I do it a lot, but one of my little pleasures is Sky Mall Magazine. So much Worthless crap that I didn't know what to think. If you were lucky enough to catch the episode of "How I Met Your Mother" where Barney was addicted to buying items from sky mall when he was upset, I understood. There is a certain draw to ordering worthless crap you never knew you needed until you see it in the magazine or on-line.

I mean look at this bad boy! Who couldn't use a dual hot dog cooker/dual bun toaster?!?!?! I know I want one, but I have this thing called self control, and her name is Jamie Lou. She can be the voice of reason in all matter of impulse buy. I now know I don't need a hot dog cooker, motorcycle, or mohawk. But yet I still think I would look pretty cool riding down the road on my motorcycle, eating a hot dog in a toasted bun with a green mohawk. But I am sure that she is the one that is probably in the right on this issue.

But I am losing focus here, my newest addiction... one that I am enjoying so much more than heroi.... skymall is WOOT. Woot.com is like a sky mall auction site. 1 item for 1 day! What's it going to be? I don't know, you'll have to stay up until midnight CST and see, because hey those items can sell out pretty fast. Sunday night were random t-shirt for 6 bucks a peice. So I got 3 of them which leads me to this: When you are ordering random left over t-shirts you might not get any real winners. So I got a sea monster, a hermit crab, and a hand pulling colors. Worth 18 bucks? Prolly not. But the fun I have on the anticipation until that random package arives?!?! well worth more than 18 chickens. I was lucky enough to get 3 BOCs a few day back on the last woot-off. I'll make sure I post what I get and try to include a picture or two. That is always the best 8 bucks you can spend. Once IO got 24 of the same calander, and what's not to love in that? HEY! it's 4 minutes to midnight, time to get to woot and start banging that F5 key!

Give it a Whirl!

I have found that for a guy that works with computers for a living I know surprisingly little about them. And I think that is hard for some people to understand, that just because you can write software for your company you might not know how to build a PC. But hey, in an attempt to learn a bit more about things, I am going to give this blogging thing a whirl. Partly to learn, but mostly because I think this computer thing is really going to catch on in a big way (I hear they even have the internet on computers now).

After seeing what my buddy Dixon is doing with utterlyuselessknowledge I figured why not (You have inspired me Dixon lol). The wife and I have some trips coming up, it is almost football season, and I may even try to get into shape I am going to see if this will be a way to stay involved, and maybe keep others connected.

And hey, who knows, I might even like it a bit.