Weasel on a Stick

... the weasel has left the building

2007-12-20T15:09:00.001-08:00

... hi everyone. this blog is officially dead. you can see a new me @ http://trendesignsnw.com/blog/ if you'd care to continue reading about me, laughing with me, questioning with me and more. if not, well... i fully understand. i'm not even sure i'd follow myself around to be honest, and i know my shadow isn't always thrilled about it.

so, update yer links if yer so inspired. on the new site you can even subscribe to my RSS feed so yer sure to never miss a beat in my exciting life. honest. i expect maybe 1-3 entries a month. my gods i'm on fire.

'nuff said.
~ peace, love and puppy dawgs all.. i'm out.

... whad'joo do this weekend?

2007-12-10T20:16:00.000-08:00

... i looked at houses and houses and houses and houses! found a coupla' contenders too! went with a laaaady-friend of mine too who made it all the more fun. we had a blast in fact. we sorted the houses based on what looked good, called the agents to try & get in, GPS'd our way around, saw some ghetto places and some really nice places. (nice place below) overall, it was a tiring yet worthwhile adventure! i'm doing number-crunching now to see what i can really afford and all that jazz... who knows what the future holds!

she even protected me when a bug got on my dashboard and freaked me out.

(gawds, bugs freak me out)

so, aside from buggies attacking my car, it's fun looking for a place. i'm in the ultimate position of being a buyer w/no contingencies and the ability to move on a home now now now! wish me luck on my hunt!

... and then there were lights

2007-12-04T17:00:00.000-08:00

... my goodness peoplz this has been a month to remember already. storms caused flooding in offices in my area, entire roads washed away, people (me included) stranded on highways for 2+ hours when attempting only to travel 1.5 miles HOME, our company moved from it's original site of 15+ years to it's new one on HIGHER ground thankfully as the rains came flooding & rushing in and more!

on another note, likely NO Fuzziechadsrule vote this week... sorry my dear friends, but i'm too busy and don't have the time to dedicate to you all the hours (ahem) it takes to slave over (15 minutes or less) the pictures and tirelessly write (add +- 3 minutes) the witty remarks per entry and upload them (under 1 minute)

so, as you can see, it's jes' too demanding (coulda posted there instead of here by the time i'm done with this entry) and i need to take a brief respite until next week.

on another another note, i got my christmas tree up. took about as long as this entry took to write, and yesh.... camera shots are blurry... call it artistic merit, damnit... (couldn't find my tripod) LAST PIC is a schweeeet sunset i recently witnessed.

ode to a once, proud new toy

2007-10-30T07:54:00.000-07:00

... dearest duckie, you led a brief life of joy, squeaks and sqwocks. you made mah doggeh smile, romp, stomp, wheel and wiggle.

you broke a votive holders, when soaring through the air unannounced, even marked the wall with your winged trail of dog slime... and yet, you will be missed. you fell victim to "foul" play, gutted of stuffing long before your time. it's sad really, it's really got me "down."

my dearest maddie lurved you so... and tho you lasted a mere 3-4 days, which we all know in dog years is so many more, we'll add a feather to our proverbial "cap" of other fallen toys and their memories, tho few shall be so sweet.

need proof of teh four-legged one's passion toward you?, and how she longed to share your webbed-goodness with others? view on, little duckie... view.... on.

... what to say

2007-10-24T09:03:00.000-07:00

... is often a mystery to me. i often get so wrapped up in what's happening in my life, whether personal things, work or whatever, that i forget to reach out to you all to say hello! i know, i've been bad. here... slap mah' hand. soooo, what's been happening in my world? here's some details about one of the most annoying things i'm dealing with. it keeps me up at night... it really does.

my downstairs neighbors are a**holes. they've complained more than once about my dog who, while she's not a barker, apparently walks. this walking and subsequent walking sound has drastically effected the beforementioned a**hole's sleeping schedule and overall quality of life. i've now become paranoid in my own rental home. i actually find myself tip-toeing around the damned place. i even snapped at my sweet baboo, maddie, for running down the hall with a toy in her mouth. omgi'mahorribleperson. did i mention that she ran down the hallway 'cuz she was happy i was home and then got yelled at for being that happy doggers? i'm scum. oh, and the once-again beforementioned a**holes have a little demon of a new baby that screams and cries into all hours of the AM. this very frustrated and annoyed at apartment living person hasn't filed a complaint about the demon-child once...

due to the issues mentioned above, i'm beginning to look into property. i'm considering purchasing a house that once again, is near my office and would offer amendities such as: no a**holes bitchin' about walking dogs, no apartment managers telling me what a horrible dog i own due to her unacceptable walking behaviour, and actual garbage and recycle cans of my own picked up weekly (or whatever) so i don't have to lug plastic bags down into my car and then 4 blocks away to the "community drop off" bin that reeks of puke, other foul things and unmentionables.

breaking a lease is a bitch. fees, occasionally credit dings, and more truly do effect the "fun involved" in telling all these apartment-based dwellers where they can stick it. they actually and truly do stick it to you in the long run. sooooooo, this has caused me simply to do some intelligent long-range thinking (different from free-range, 'cuz that's chicken) about how long it would take me to raise/save the 10+% needed to invest in a new home. between bonuses, eating crackers and my base wage, i could possibly do it within 6months or so.... so it's not entirely out of the realm of possibilites.

thoughts anyone? comments on what a babbling psychopath i am? advice? fanz of free-range chickens? do share.

... i'm ready for my closeup

2007-10-12T10:41:00.000-07:00

... yah, okay not really. hello to you all, hope everyone's well. i was extremely flattered when jes' the other week brought me news that a friend wanted to purchase some of my photography for his home. i rarely do this, as far as sell my work, but he was adament, and offered up the challenge that i should pursue more opportunities to brighten other people's available wall-space.

so.... while i'm almost embarrassed about this, i'm a tad proud and wanna share to all and any of you. If anyone who either wants to add some goodness to a blank wall in an office, home or whatever - please consider giving my photos a consideration. i feel they would make great gifts as well... but who am i to judge. (*cough-biased-cough*)

click on the image to visit my photography! framed or original prints, it's your choice! ... and please, know that i'm not expecting anyone to purchase this stuff... i mainly think it's super cooh. (note there's a new sidebar link too!)

... one of those days

2007-10-11T10:12:00.001-07:00

... this week needs to end soon.

... fish onna stick

2007-10-08T08:13:00.000-07:00

... i'm back peoplz! hope you all are well. i wanted to write you all and say hello and of course share some of my pictures of a recent adventure i had with my belurved' father-o-mine.

we jes' got back from a week in kentucky area (we'll call it the williamsburg vicinity) where we spent a good couple of days being fooled by the fish at conley bottom lake. my father has asked me months back if i was interested in spending some quality time being teased, poked at, joshed with, fed well and see some scenery with a friend of his that he knew wayyyyy back in his college days at Indiana University. he later ended up living near his friend and actually hiring him as they both began their careers in higher education. they spent many hours of every possible day fishing and bonding back in the day when they were supposed to be fathering newly born children and more... so this was bound to be a treat. except for a time in 2002 when my parents visited them on a different trip, they hadn't seen each other and barely even communicated for over 35 years!

naturally i said yesh... i mean, how could i not? i already received all of the above, so why not change the scenery a bit too, eh? we had an absolute blast! the kentucky heat made it a bit impossible to catch any small or largemouth bass or crappie's (pronounced "croppie" for you non-fishers) but it was fun non-the-less. pics to follow have some headers to read and enjoy... glad to be back, but not glad to be back to over 4000 emails and work drama! ho hum! the battle continues!

old fishermen and an old dock... you judge who's more weathered! (my father's the good lookin' one in back)

nothing like gorgeous picture opportunities and good rusty stuff to look at!

if the first one is barely a refrigerator magnet in size, try again! (biggest i snagged was 16 inches +)

we shore' ate good.... (meh) but scenes like this @ cumberland falls national park made up for it!

kentucky's vistas catch your breath, and so does seeing the kentucky down's raceway! (where's seabiscuit!?)

... what kinda bait you got there?

2007-09-28T06:55:00.000-07:00

... likely gonna hear that a few times. i'm taking a trip next week with my father. so, to make a long story short, we'll either have a really great time fishing in kentucky with some of his "college chums from back in the day," or it'll end up like some of the more crude scenes in "deliverance..."

... here's to hoping either scenario ends up as "catch 'n release."

... this jes' in

2007-09-24T10:51:00.000-07:00

... for all of you who wonder why i don't often post here, or post much of any real "meat" or "value," i give you this:
what the HELL is happening to Christina Ricci's head?

oh, and apparantly other crazy cat's are readying for battle too... *giggle*

i have nothing else intelligent to say... ;)

... my friends are special

2007-09-12T10:19:00.000-07:00

... i lurve my friend sarcomical ah-lawt. she's soooo funneh... and my gods did she jes' explain why this week's off balance for a lot of us apparently. her recent post explains why floods happen, why there's famine, disease, and well.. people allowed to do REALLY STOOPID THINGS. sarcomical is magical, peoplz. trust me.

click here to see her "creative commenting" on a certain someone ending her career. it made me smile.

she also happens to be an INCREDIBLE photographer... so bookmark her, demand she be your friend, and make sure you compliment all of her puppehs!

... fuzzie memories

2007-08-30T08:28:00.000-07:00

... are so bittersweet. best remembered with a smile and maybe a tear in one's eye, fer sure. i was thinking this morning on my brief commute to the office about pets. i feel sorry and almost pity for those people out there who have never owned a pet. there's often such a bond, a love and a special connection formed between a lowly human and their "pedestal'd" pet that is undeniably real.

my maddie-dawg, while i tease her, call her silly names and complain in general about her is simply and paws-itively the best pet i've ever had the privilege of sharing time with. she looks at me with those big brown eyes (scooooop my poooooop) and i swear she's telling me (feeeed me) that she's jes' as happy to be with me (ruuuuub mah' belllllie) as i am with her.

most of you know that J and i, while still together, lost our rotund & dearest "fuzzie son" Chase, (a.k.a. mr puddins) months back. that was so completely and absolutely horrible for us both. mainly because Chase proved to be so...well.. almost human with his affection. he LIVED for hugs, would hug back, snuggled (totally spooned) J's head when she slept, took over your lap when he could, adored us, and ONLY wanted to be pet/snoogled/loved 24/7. losing him was like losing a limb. so now, J has "our 2" remaining cats, Cleo and Chewie... and i have Maddie.

when thinking about how Chase effected my life, i suddenly was overwhelmed with grief and recalled my dearest first kittenz, Dewey... i don't believe i've ever shown any of you my first cat, Dewey. she earned that name when she first looked at me with those big eyes that said, "love me." omgoodness she was jes' as loveable in return!!! she was a russian blue, had a painfully high squeak of a mew and loved to partake in drive-by rubs, tail all-a-whippin', and had a permanent love affair with sunbeams. she would kneed on me anytime she could too... of course, only when sunbeams weren't aplenty.... Dewey fell sick years back, and an unbeknownst asthma attack that caused upper-respitory failure took her from our arms within 24 hours. we were stunned and shocked into submission.

why do we all do this? succumb to teeny animals, care for them, love them and yet are forced to hope they survive for-ev-ah while they just.. don't!? i gotta tell ya, i'm reduced to almost-tears when thinking about someday losing my dog. i'm not sure what i'd do! she's occupied such a huge place in my heart for 6 years now.... how would i fill that gap!?

i know how... there'd likely be a puppy out there for me... a new friend... a new loyal companion, and damnit, i'd do it all again.

... how to end a week right

2007-08-24T11:41:00.001-07:00

... wif' a leetle bit of hammie-tunes. (for the record, the owner of this sweet lil' hammers needs to possibly be pummeled for distracting 'eez leetle friend from a 'eez poppycorn eatin' bliss... enjoy yer weekend, peoplz!

... that's jes' how 'dis weezer rolls

2007-08-15T09:37:00.000-07:00

... well, at least it's how i rolled back into town. quietly, discretely, and although jack caught my tail, most of you remained unaware.. bwa ha hah ahahaaaa! yesh, i'm evil. i said it, but you all still put up with me, so there.

i'm going to post some random pics-o-goodness (purchased a new 10.3 megapixel Nikon D40x Digital SLR camera) from my trip across the country... and really, that's about it. while i do tend to post some personal stuff on this site - well - this trip was for me and me alone. i had some wondrous times driving 26+ hours straight, and while i would've liked to stop more along the way, i had a brain flush that was much needed. i'm sure as hell not cured yet, but i saved myself from having a meltdown at the office and in my personal life. flight instincts can't be all bad when they protect those you care about around you.

i thought a lot, reflected a lot, yelled a lot, wondered a lot, planned a lot, even cried a lot... and oh yesh, drove a helluva lot too. overall, the trip was very cleansing... i snapped some shots too, that you all may enjoy from misc. places around the country. i drove through WA, ID, MO, ND, SD, IA, IL, WI, MI and finally had to return. (work demands and other stuff) i may write more about my journey, but as beforementioned - it was for me and personal - so.... thanks to those who've welcomed me back.

i missed you all terribly. here's some pics for you to enjoy. click to view larger.

(first pic is a collage of some really sharp butterfly pics i was able to capture, and 4th picture has a mystery FROGGIE in it, can you find it?)

... when's a sign a sign?

2007-07-30T09:20:00.001-07:00

... i dunno friends, i jes' dunno anymore. some of you have commented to me either online thru various resources or email that i've been distant. well.. yesh. i have. as beforementioned in other entries - at times i jes' don't have anything to say. guilty as charged. i'm going away tho for a bit, but fear not; i'll post next week's fuzziechadsrule's three contestants on friday so you can all still vote next week and carry on the tradition.

in the meantime, you all stay wonderful, cooh and ever-so-damned sweet as you've all been to me. means a lot.

... getcher wiener, right here

2007-07-24T07:11:00.001-07:00

... omgoodness everyone! what WERE you thinking!? this is a family show! many of you have emailed me asking when i'll get off my tuckus and start creating on my 3rd (yesh, 3d, i know...) blog, somethinsketchy; well, it has sorta kinda maybe possibly begun!

i recently purchased a 12"x19" Wacom tablet. it's a seriously incredible device that allows you literally draw/paint/airbrush/brush directly onto the surface as if it were real... (ooooh, exited shudder) the surface, being so large, allows a artist like yours truly to make everything from a broad brush stroke to a tiny lil' daub of paint on a canvas texture... basically, it RULZ.

so... to treat you all, since my frame of mind lately can only be described as chaotic, i decided to do a test run and show you all my wiener. enjoy.

... 'dere's a gator on yer butt

2007-07-17T13:50:00.000-07:00

... since a dear friend of mine recently posted about her growing excitement over halloween this year and her connundrum of "the best outfit to wear;" well, i figured it'd be best to share something i found which could only be surmised in one simple sentence...

"dis' is the bestest puppers halloween costume ev-ah!"

yeah, i know it's for the dawgs, and not 'da peoplz, but holy hell people i had flavored water shoot outta my nose when i saw this.

... vroom vroooom vroom

2007-07-14T07:48:00.000-07:00

...since you all were cooh and said, "yesh, show me your new car goodness;" well... here you go. i got myself a saturn VUE SUV Hybrid! i'll spare you all the eco speeches about fossil fuels and humankind's eventual destruction and simply say that it's PIMPIN!

pics are from my cell, so sorry they're not stellar, but DAMN the drive is! i'm averaging about 27-34 miles a gallon, and considering i used to get 14 mpg with my hyundai sante fe SUV prior to... i'm a happy camper. it's a good fit, ergonomic seats (wif' bun warmers!) and easy flip down seats for TONS o' storage, room for puppers and camping gear, etc!

i'm pretty stoked to say the least! if anyone looks into an SUV that is a hybrid, i'd give ya' my recommendation for this one. i drove 3 other brand/models and went with this badboy due to handling, features, design and yesh - price.

anyhoo... jes' had to share. hope you all have a great week.

... who's afraid of the big, dark bat

2007-07-05T14:05:00.000-07:00

... well, jokes on us people. while i normally keep my fan status quiet of certain films, characters, etc., i cannot deny my giddy level of excitement over non other than heath ledger who's been cast as a younger 'joker" in the upcoming July 2008 release of the next BATMAN film.

does everyone recall jack nicholson's version of Batman with michael keaton? he was brilliant in the role, and while the memory lives on of that great performance, a new direction is being taken with the 2008 film. heath was asked to read a batman graphic novel called, "the killing joke" and consider modeling some of joker's now famous maniacal ways after Alan Moore's famous 1988 depiction. true fans of the dark knight series consider this rendition the golden chalice, if you will, of joker's truly evil nature. (note the picture of joker in the lick above at the bottom of the story's write-up!)

the pics that follow are not 100% guaranteed to be true, but my online source has been spot on with such pics, news and details about movies as the Transformers, (saw on the 4th - goseeitomgoodnessitwasfun!) the Lord of the Rings series, and even the Batman Begins movie from 2 years ago, which sucessfully rebirthed the batman series.

anyhoo.., the first pic has been circulating for about 2 months online. it's said to be a test run with a more "chaotic application" of joker's infamous clown-like makeup. the other 2 are a possible studio-level freeze frame of joker's incarceration in arkum asylum and an marketing slick/image to be used for wider "poster stills."

all i can say, being a creative and visual person myself.... holy crappola this looks cooh.

... cat's meow?

2007-07-03T09:34:00.000-07:00

IT'S CAPTION CONTEST, PEOPLZ!
... cat gotcher tongue? lets have some fun. leave a comment that you think best suits this image... have fun, be creative, try to be reasonably civil, and we'll see what all you creative peoplz come up wif!

i know what my caption would be, but this is a family show... :)

... iWant

2007-06-29T13:24:00.000-07:00

... and holy hell, i have a feeling at some point i will get. i've got a raging techno schwing for this new iPhone by none other than those bastards at apple and all their white coated lab rats that do nothing all day except dream up ways to make me purchase all their shit because it's superior, functional, easy to use and i'll-be-goddamned-if-not-always-so-f**king-pretty.

breaaaaaaathe. i'll be fine... but holy hell looky! it does everything i need a wireless device to do except my dishes! crap! that functionality will prolly be part of a future software download! it can play veedio's better than my iPod, it can give me maps and directions because omgoodness i'm directionally retarded and sooo need something (or someone) to tell me where the hell i am, and more more more more more.

how's that kool-aide taste, you ask? well pretty damned good thank you very much!

... take that apple

2007-06-22T07:32:00.000-07:00

... i get extreme joy out of watching this video. listen to the words carefully before you all get too excited. the technology is here and now, and by god so is the sarcasm.

... whatcha doin?

2007-06-09T18:47:00.000-07:00

... hmmm? whatchoo been doin? you wondering about me, eh? well.. i've been keeping myself busy. and yesh, due to requests from some of you to see what mah' new digs look like, i decided to give in. i spent most of the day cleaning, and actually getting to some projects i've put on the "later" list. (it's called procrastination peoplz, look it up) Maddie was a dutiful cleaning mate as she continually brought me toy after toy after toy after toy to see if one of them would be 'the best' one for me to play with... (and yesh, i'm not a monster, i played with her constantly)

after a sudden flurry of emails deciding sunday's plans, i have the parents coming up to see the place... so that should be fun. maddie's all excited too; everytime i choose the right tone to say, "grandma and grampa are coming!" she gets all huffy and her haunches poof up. she's become such a good guard dog around here. i mean, all birds deserve to be barked at if they land on my back porch, right!?

here's the pics. anyway, most of the stuff you'll see below i already had... a couple of things, like the TV, i splurged 'cuz damnit.. i jes' wanted to. sue me... regarding the camera angles? i basically had fun with my camera and now you all get to suffer through it. enjoy.

my new samsung c300 color laser... omg i'm in love. it actually purrs when it prints.

coffee... onna timer... 6:15 brewtime baby! how did i ever survive without this?

can you say "plasma hitachi director series 1080i goodness?" i knew you could...

living room angle. nice place overall. my fav thing? it's bright with biiig windows! eep!

mah' bbq coleman baby! it folds up and is ready for a tailgate party! woop woop!

ummm.. light... especially drooly when it's tiffany/frank lloyd wright lookin'!!

maddie's the best. she keeps me company, plays often, acts as a guard dog, and only asks for payment in the form of food and that i scoop her poop... without complaining.

i hope you all have a wonderful "rest o your weekend" - leave me a note if yer so inspired to.

... keep on truckin'

2007-06-04T11:07:00.001-07:00

... can you see me now? many of you have asked for an updated pic of me via this site. not sure really why, since i'm still convinced i have a face jes' made for radio, but hey... you ask, i deliver.

it's not too exciting. of course, with that being said, i'm not too exciting either. oh, and apparently i'm either on fire currently or being subjected to a slow burn convection oven.

not much to share this week so far. busier-than-hell week already booked up. at least it's turned back to fun ol' dreary-looking outside washington state weather. of course, murphy's goddamned law struck again: i pad $13 bucks for teenagers to clean my car at a local garage station via a drive thru monster - and today it rains. ... rrrrgh.

... i have nothing really to say

2007-05-30T07:08:00.001-07:00

... and i feel bad about that. i only have scattered thoughts that some of you may or may not care about. hell, i'm not even sure how i feel about it all. i read all of your entries. everyday. i feel bad that sometimes i jes' don't feel like i have a damned thing to contribute. so... well, i sorries. here's an update on me.

i'm all moved into my new apartment.
it's nice and bright.
maddie's all set up in her routine now. (i think she loves making me bag her poop now that i'm "sans-backyard")
it's quiet. almost too quiet.
this is all my choice, but it's hard. the quiet is deafening.
i've been alone now with my thoughts for 2 weeks. it's amazing how little i've accomplished.
J and I are on cruise control now. house is sold, closes on the 15th. we're basically waiting to get a fat check to pay off ALL of our debt and split the rest. ho hum.
i'm working prolly 12 hours a day on average now. most of it is catch-up since there's so much to do.
i believe maddie thinks the downstairs neighbor's lil' poof dog is a cat. (she was raised by 3 of them...)
i feel empty. even being social with friends leaves me numb. this is all very, very confusing.

anyway, it's hump day. halfway through the week people. i hope you all are having a great one. all i can say is that every day i try to make it a good day. that's a start in the right direction, right?

... has anyone seen my bunners?

2007-05-16T07:36:00.000-07:00

... okay, okay, i really don't have my very own prosh leeeetle bunners. but for anyone who's been a fan, a voter, or consistant viewer of what happens on my other site, fuzziechadsrule, you'd think i did.

i will try very hard to be a consistant blogger over the next week, but it may be difficult. we're packing up the rest of the goods today and moving out of our home of 3.5 years. a lotta work went into this place. work to make it a better place for us and our marriage. unfortunately, mainly due to my own misgivings about my life and other things i cannot put into words right now, it's become a place not suitable for me.

FCR may be late next week while i wait for internet hook up and all that crap... so be patient with me, and i wish you all well. i will likely be able to check in witchoo all during breaks at the office, but as life often teaches us; there's no guarantees.

... for sale, but not to idiots

2007-05-10T11:01:00.000-07:00

... okay, wow. i've never been so swamped by fake offers and scams in my life. i'm trying to sell a really nice TV on craig'slist and holy hell have i been attacked by FAKE offers and scams trying to screw me, take my product, leave me with no money, and maybe attack and hold me for ransom.

it's a great TV! 51" panasonic hdtv! huge! nice! jes' don't wanna move it! and these are the types of offers i've been getting in email: (this is NOT edited by me, i swear...read it carefully and enjoy the sheer horror...)
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Message:

Dear Seller
Am Laura Anderson by name am interested in the purchase of yourElectronice which i saw the advert on the internet today and i was highly interested in buying it from you.if you dont mind i will like to know if it'sstill available for sale and your last offer price so that i can make plans onhow am going to buy it from you, i will like to know it present condition. will you Accept Us Postal Money Order as a mode of payment, because there's a client and colleagues of mine (mafia?) who will be ready to send you payment py post if we bothaggree on the term and condition,if this is ok by you kindly get back to me with the pictures of the Puppy.Hope to hear from you soon,Best Regards,Laura Anderson
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WOW, what a hold this person has on the english language! Sure, i know some people have some issues with grammer.. but this seems to me like a hack and slash cut & paste job. and yesh, my friends... "kindly get back to me with pictures of the Puppy..." i dunno. do ya THINK this sounds like a scam? I don't wanna end up in a ditch somewhere... I think i'll pass on this offer, but damn it was funny to read.

... OMG OMG OMG how cooh is this?

2007-05-09T13:27:00.000-07:00

...HOLY FRAKKING FAST BATMAN! Woop woop! Even got full asking price BEFORE a reduction! (we panicked 2 days after listing @ $360k) we lowered it $10k but the offer came in the other day offering full price, and yesh, they asked us to pay some closing fees and give'em a new carpet allowance. FINE! DONE! SOLD! signing papers soon! eeeeep!

... buy my home, please

2007-05-05T15:58:00.000-07:00

... i know i know, it sounds like some bad joke. we really do wanna sell our home though. i know all of you are dying to move up to the gorgeous pacific northwest, right? we've got the perfect house for you, sitting on jes' shy of an acre. fully fenced, filled with all kinds of upgrades. how many koi ponds do you know that are terrorized by great blue herons, eh?

that's right baby... this gem is going for a steal of a price of $349,900.00, and the seller's are highly motivated to sell. New roof, all kinds of inside upgrades, and much much more.

anyone convinced yet? c'mon peoplz! clicky here for more info! MLS#: 27072086

front yard shot of new paint, new roof, accents like specialty lighting, new stained glass door and more!

many of you may recall my kitchen remodel! it's done, it works, it rulz! you likey, don'tchoo!?

this backyard has been a great time for us, sprawling with all our plantings, birds, all kinds of nature and great for maddie's frisbee games!

koi pond! marshmallows over the firepit! what more can you ask for peoplz!?

i sorries...

2007-04-29T14:17:00.000-07:00

... my deepest apologies to you all out there in bloggerland. i've not been keeping up with your posts or mine. i'm trying tho. i really am. it's jes' hard sometimes. i really don't have much to say really. nothing intelligent at least.

my mind is a wasteland. filled with thoughts and questions and fears of which i have no idea how to organize. the picture i edited today was, safe to say, not one of my best. then again, the less people see of me prolly the better. the term "face made for radio" is an addage i've heard before, and for so many years grew comfortable with. the pic sums up a lot of my issues tho. i don't know what i'm doing anymore. it's funny too, since i have a job that takes care of me, family and scattered friends in my life that mean more to me than anything, and yet i feel so empty sometimes it takes more energy than i have to get out of bed... or to resist crawling back it at any moment.

life takes turns. it's up the the driver to know how to navigate those turns. i think i've been a very poor driver lately. my life is changing. mid-life crisis? dunno. f**ked up and full of issues? quite possibly. all i know is that i'm hurting people around me that i don't know how to communicate with anymore. that's not fair to them.

so, bear with me out there people. please. i'll try to be good. i'll try to write. i jes' don't have it in me to share my daily bullshit, because frankly, i don't even wanna know about it, much less write about it. i need to be alone to find some of these answers. i'm sorry. no worries tho, for anyone wondering about my other site, FCR; i hear the management still works over there and won't let any of his fans down...

for the record, our house is up for sale now. and nnnoh, i don't know where i'm going. if anyone knows any buyers in the lynnwood area in the pacific northwest, be sure to send them my way.

... stop the world, i wanna get off

2007-04-18T10:38:00.000-07:00

... for any of you out there who don't know me, be ready to either open-mindedly read an uneducated opinion, or run screaming to someone else's blog and have a nice day. i'm a bit of an idiot overall, see? i don't like politics, i hate watching the news due to the media's fascination constant and mind-numbing highlighting of humankind's hate and voilence toward each other, and i get easily pissed when people try to force their values and/or belief systems down my throat.

with that lengthy caveat now in tow, i give you my only opinion and/or odd reaction to the recent shooting tragedy that has swept the nation. (need i even add that all the goddamed movie studios are scrambling for the rights to the story to turn into a damned hollywood blockbuster, those SICK BASTARDS)

i heard a compelling yet gut-twisting radio talk the other day talking about this shooting tragedy. when i first heard the radio caller begin to state his case, i was pissed, irritated and even contemplated changing channels due to his goddamned audacity to ask such a question. but then it hit me... what if he's got a valid point?

his question was simple: "not unlike the passengers who fought back and brought down the plane in PA during the 9/11 attack..., why didn't any of the students do the same?"

now, granted that most of us do not know how we'd react in this situation, but when the steam stopped coming out of my ears, i began to listen to "some of his" supporting arguement, and it honestly made me wonder a little bit. the caller spoke of old-school values and morals, along with assumed,"woman and children first mentalities" that were instilled into the "men" of years past. i have to agree with the one fact that yesh, it IS possible that had people stood up to this deranged attacker, possibly fewer deaths would have occurred.

My issue is, well... i dunno. (whimper) should we have to be expected to DO THIS had other steps and measures been taken to prevent this? (don't even get me started on the whole "wtf is the world coming to that we even HAVE to have these measures in place?!")

the caller continued his side and highlighted the brave and now "hailed as a hero" Holocaust survivor who gave his life to HOLD THE DOORS SHUT while students escaped through windows behind him. in my mind, this man without a doubt is hero, was brave and beyond compassionate and honorable for giving his life to the children behind him scrambling for their lives... but my gods, what horrors had this man already faced in his life?, and yet in a moments notice, he sacrificed himself without hesitation for people he didn't even know... my gods, the gift he gave those survivors' families...

woman and children first. right? some people get all self righteous and pissy hearing that. it's not sexist necessarily, but it's respect, it's survival... isn't it? DOES that thought process exist anymore? MORE injuries occurred apparently such as crushed ribs, broken bones, cuts, bruises and scrapes due to students (male and female) hurting one another trying to escape from the entire nightmarish event.

i'm not in any way saying that people are to blame, i am in NO WAY belittling the horror and tragedy of the event, but the "caller" who raised this point and got me to think.

i don't have answers. but i do have pain. our country is learning to cower and weep or run in the face of FEAR. our media is partially to blame, and certain equal assholes running our government causing dissent and radical "anti-america" behaviour everywhere... would anyone care to share their thoughts on this?

... so what, you tink' 'dis is cute?

2007-04-09T07:27:00.000-07:00

... then go here. i'm back baby... and maybe stronger than before. i'm like a new and improved product you find on the shelf of your local store; leaving you to wonder what the hell was wrong with the original me? love ya all... thanks for your support over the past week. it's been rough without dear chasey. his presence is greatly missed. i mean, who else could flatten your ass in 30 seconds or less EVERY TIME you sat down on the couch and nonchalantly purrrr as you tried desperately to breathe. 'dats right, our beloved thunderbutt.

nothing new and exciting to report this week. work is busy, being busy is busy, and well, that's it.

... mr puddins has left the building

2007-04-01T14:24:00.000-07:00

Good afternoon everyone.

wifee and i are sorry to say that this is our final update on our little boy, Chase.

yesh, it's true. our "Chase" is, in fact, mr puddins... the original inspiration for this web-blog. so, now you know. it's finally safe for the truth to be known. (for those of you who may be new here, Chase's name was originally hidden to protect the innocent. the publc was, simply put... not ready for this much kitten)

Chase was, by far the most amazing fuzzy little creature wifee and I have ever known. he gave us 9 amazing years to cherish. everyone who has EVER been in contact with Chase always adored him immediately; whether because of his alarmingly loud and overwhelming purr or due to their shock at his “plus-size peak” of 26lbs of pure loving cat.

we took Chase home on friday after another 5 days of IV medications, water & nutrients. Chase developed a pancreatic issue after the initial surgery that cleared up (for the time being) his carcinoma tumor that was removed from his liver. contrary to popular belief, the pancreas does not like to be squeezed like a grape or otherwise f**ked with. the ensuing inflammation of the pancreas caused a high fever, complete and total loss of appetite, urge to hydrate and overall effect on his behavior. while seemingly getting over these difficulties at the clinic, upon taking him home friday night, Chase’s overall condition worsened once again.

we took our little guy in this AM for a diagnosis, a shred of hope and were given the tough reality of what we already knew; it was time to let go.

the staff at the our local emergency clinic was incredible. they were so kind.
they removed Chase from our grips to install an IV, so the process would be painless.
then they brought him back for us to say our goodbyes.
they allowed us our time, as much as needed in fact. It was so great of them to allow us to have our space.
it was horrible that Chase seemed to know.

he snuggled in so close to us both and i can still feel his purr run through me.
we knew it was time, but had to do the right thing.

the doctor came in holding a blanket for the table. ('cuz NO one likes a cold hospital table...)

i held Chase so close as she administered the shot.

brave wifee stood by close too. familiar faces for our lil' guy.
Chasey just... went... to sleep.

thank you ALL for your recent contributions to my site over the past month. your kind words and support have been marvelous. see? Chasey even effected people in bloggerland that he's never even met! amazing animal. amazing friend.

I hope you ALL are well. Hug your loved ones, fuzzy ones too.

Much love... bronxbt & wifee

... i need happiness damnit

2007-03-26T10:42:00.001-07:00

... and dagnabbit i found it. so there. no silver lining, no happy dances. jes' simple hammie goodness experiencing 'eez first piece of broccoli! what more could you ask for when times have you down? watch and enjoy.
mr puddins is back at the emergency vet clinic. at least 2 days of observation, tests and more to determine why 10 days after the surgery he's still not eating, vomiting bile and more... poor lil' guy. we need him home.

... this sucks royally monkey butt

2007-03-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

...well, this posting is a warning to ALL of you out there... my fantastic laptop & my external harddrive managed to fail me this week. on monday AM, i was working till almost 1am with nooooo problems at all. my lappy was fine, in fact shutting down with no hiccups.

i came to work at 6am, and upon firing up the portable PC, i get the error,"no operating system found." well shit. two technicians later, and even after a friend's professional data recovery team hit both the lappy harddrive and the external unit to try to save my data... i'm shit outta luck.

for my somethingsketchy site: i've lost about a years worth of designs, artwork, most of my REFLECTIONS comic and more. they were able to recover some of the comic, 'bout back at the starting point 6 months ago when i started to post entire pages... but ALL the data since (4-5 pages worth) is gone gone gone. you hafta understand my pain over this: every page took about a month to restore, color, redo the layout, type, rasterize, layer, paint, filter in effects, and more... sooo, waaaaaaaaaah! shit shit shit shit shit. this is sooo depressing. thankfully, for portfolio's sake and production possibilities, it's a blessing that i posted HI RESOLUTION pages online. i right-clicked the sonofabeeches and saved them to my NEW external HD and my NEW damned expensive lappy.

for my fuzzisechadsrule site: i've lost a years worth of research and fuzziecutegoddamned animals! that sucks! i also lost all my weblinks, so half the obscure and weird sites i found my material from are gone until i hunt them all down again! aaaaaaaargh! i also lost my entire archive of winners & contestants that i was going to do fun stuff with in the future... guess i need to hit my own site and start 'saving as' so i can get all my shit back... damnitall.

when i purchased my external harddrive, i promised to be dilligent in backing up my data on a religious level. well, i failed that. i had prolly 3 backups performed of my critical data and somehow over the past 4 months, i only backed up WORK data and not my artwork...

back up your stuff peoplz. do it NOW. use a CDR, a DVD, an external HD, or online "virtual harddrives" you can purchase through your internet provider. most of you, who follow my blogs know that i've been so damned busy i've not been able to get "back to" my art on this site. this week, with my time off... i was hoping to get back to it. monday's events have depressed me to the point of not wanting to get outta bed. soooo, we'll see how it goes given that realistically i need to spend time reconstructing all i've lost, and not worrying about the new pages...

oh, and my favorite word of this week is, "shit," in case you hadn't noticed. between my lil' mr puddins being confirmed with terminal cancer and losing all my work... i'm not inna wonderous mood.

hope yer all doing better. seriously. go hug a puppy for me or something.

... update on the shaved poodle (UPDATED 03/21/07)

2007-03-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

UPDATE - hello all you bloggerpallys. a little depressing of an entry/update today. mr puddins does indeed have cancer. that's an overall statement tho, 'cuz the doc did remove the now-titled-malignant tumor from the outside of his liver, but it's been deemed the type of cancer (tech. term evades me) that goes into the tubes, and spreads fast and is hard to completely irradicate. due to a previous committment, i'm unable to go with wifee to mr puddin's appointment tonight, but she will hear about options, if any, to give puddins the very best days?weeks?years? to his life.

my personal feelings are so torn over this. i've taken the next couple of days off for other reasons and this AM mr puddins suddenly appeared next to me in bed... he sounded the same, happy purrrrrs and kneeding next to my arm, but he's sooo small now, sagging, and his eyes are a little glazed. my gods it kills me to see him this way. 9 years of vibrant, thunderbutt joy from this loverboy, and now he jes' looks like he's in pain. he doesn't deserve this!!! if his quality of life will be severely hindered, i cannot... well... we cannot be selfish! i don't wanna lose my lil' boy, but damnit he deserves better.

aaargh. anyway. stay tuned. more news when i know it. and thank you all for your kind words of support and fuzzie-goodness.

____________________________

... um, i meant to say, "mr puddins." really. what a tough lil' bastard he is. makes his daddy proud though, yesh he does! our little 9 year old boy (got the math wrong on my first entry) has pulled through a horrific day yesterday when they found a huge mass resting between his gall bladder and liver from the ultrasound.

the price of a small car later, mr puddins has a 6 inch incision/stitch on his fat bellie, a shaved square on his back where a 'pain patch' (like the nicotin patch, but "funner!") and legs shaved like a voilated poodle where the IV drips went. the mass was a gynormous tumor (gynormous = technical term for f**king huge) that was actually attached to the liver and was causing both the liver and gall bladder to act all hinky. as mentioned in the previous post, mr puddins was jaundiced, had lost about 12 lbs, and had stopped eating; well, the gall bladder issue also explains some painful BRICKS the poor doozer had laid too during the past few weeks... oi vey, what a nightmare. we're still waiting for the biopsy results tho... doc removed all he could, but is skeptical. malignant means mr puddins comes home and lives with us as long as he's got left with pain management. Benign means he comes home and lives with us possibly for friggin' ev-ah! ;)

(exposed bellies are funny)

doc rerouted his liver innards, and 'cuz mr puddins survived the night, he was bumped up to "tough lil' bastard" status at the emergency vet and allowed visitors. we went to see him around 6pm this evening. it was positively heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time. mr puddins damned near mauled wifee, begging to be brought home. he took one glance at me and delivered a helluva head-butt and proceeded to flop down in my arms which had encircled him on the check out table. (damned metal tables are cooold!)

his big thing is his purrrs. he purrs when he's mad, sad, happy, hungry, pissy, agitated, when he poops, when he sleeps, when he's curled up with wifee, when he's wrapped around my head, when he's got a vet's thermometer shoved up his waz-hoozits, and more...! he purred SO LOUDLY when he saw us. it was almost like he was saying, "mom? dad? i'm gonna be okay... thanks."

actual translation is more like, "mom, dad, get me the f**k outta here!" but we love him all the same. so yeah, our cat looks like a shaved poodle. i can't wait till he gets home so i can point and make fun of him... ahhhh, the good 'ol times... the inspiration for this very blog's creation is coming home soon! eeep!

... how to gain leverage

2007-03-15T08:01:00.000-07:00

... you create it. yesh, dear bloggervillians, that's jes' what i did. i'm proud to announce that my company, formerly federal network services, has 110% merged with it's sister company of many years, communication specialists and become a new and exciting international company; Leverage Information Systems.

this is my baby! the project that's kept me up for days and days and days! both our previous company's sites have been seamlessly merged into http://www.leverageis.com i'm so proud of the work our new company has done to help make this public release (yesterday) a success! my coworker/employee (whatever) in crime, Dan, also did an incredible amount of work to make the site possible. anyone who can take my design elements and vision and make it a reality is okay in my book. plus, he's got the stones enough to look me in the eye and say things like, "that's stoopid!" when i get a little weird with my creative ideas on functionality and such.

imagine allllll this goodness being created over the past 2 months! from business cards to letterheads, signage to invoice slips, packing stickers to fax labels and soooo much more! it's an ongoing process now over the next 6 months to a year + to educate our national and even international customers about the transition, how it effects and them and what it means their level of service - it only gets better! eeeep!

anyhoo, thanks to all of you who have been patient with my recent lack of blogging overall, lack of comments on your respective sites and prolly my overall crankiness. it's been a soooper stressfull few months, and while the end isn't in sight jes' yet, some of the toughest hurdles are behind us.

someone tell me it's all pretty! giggle.

... feeling green

2007-03-07T19:00:00.000-08:00

... mr puddins needs everyone's help please. known and loved by all, my baby boy is suffering from liver failure and currently not doing too good. for anyone who's read my blog from the start, mr puddins, (who's real name is hidden to protect the innocent) was the original inspiration of my blog, and an often-seen contributor to my comments when posting on other folk's blogs.

he's jes' not doin' to well. he now jaundiced, a sure sign of liver-related toxicity and is actually turning yellow (skin, eyes... so in retrospect i colored this picture incorrectly) my poor baby boy is jes' ragged too. he's stopped grooming, and has lost over 12lbs. and yesh, before anyone begins doing the math, mr puddins was also aptly nicknamed "lardass, thunderbutt, fattyboy, chunkyboy, cougar, and puddins," for his heaviest weigh in was about 2 years ago @ 26lbs. (for any of you not familiar with the pacific northwest, that's about he size of a fully grown cougar, or perhaps a small bear)

while my constant attempts to mask my gnawing pain and torn soul over this sweet little baboo's plight is sad and transparent by my attempts of interjecting humor throughout this post may tire some of you... trust me, it's about all that's keeping me going. with all the other shit going on in my world, my rocks are my stoopid, silly and utterly devoted animalz that keep us both/me sane.

mr puddins is faced with that likely biopsy and the results could see his future involving a tube & plug from his gut/side for 3-6 weeks to continually feed/medicate/fluidate (<-- learned me a new word today @ the vets?) to reverse the symptoms... OR the worst of all possibilities could happen too.

we're not ready to give up on our baby boy. 6 years ago i brought mr puddins into the barnes&nobby store where wifee worked. i walked right up to that middle customer service desk and asked if she had any books on how to care for a kitten. before she could answer, i removed lil' mr puddins from beneath my jacket and plopped him down on her keyboard. holy shit the whole store turned to instant goo... mr puddins was head-knobbing his way around the entire circular workstation and positively whoring it up with anyone and everyone for attention. amidst the "mew mew mew's," wifee and i knew we officially had our hands full.

okay... shit. keyboard getting blurry now. don't think it's waterproof. send your luv peoplz. mr puddins needs you.

... i'm soooo sorry

2007-02-28T07:45:00.000-08:00

... hello bloggervillians out there. i'm so sorry i've been distant. it's not you. it's me. i've needed time. i've been sooo busy, stretched thin to the point of breaking in fact. i need to take some time and jes' focus on what's really important to me. yesh, don't worry... all of you are part of that equation. there's jes' soooo much going on that i cannot even talk about. all KINDS of really exciting things at the office that aren't public yet... that I had cooh pivotal parts in... eeeek! and yesh, other things as well. oi vey. i'll leave you all for now with a picture of the majority of my day's commute home; rain rain and a pissy kitty.

... new family members rule!

2007-02-18T18:04:00.001-08:00

... especially when 'dere lil' fuzzie monsters! omgoodness, omgoodness, i got to spend the day with the newest member of my middle sister's family! meet "Barkley," everyone! 'eez the squooshiest, sweetest lil' puppery pile-o-goodness i've met in years!

to the best of their knowledge, barkley is a collie/labrador mix. he's sooooo well behaved already! ee'z learning not to bite, fetches well enuf, and already lurves a good flop on his owners lap for a bellie scritch!

oh yeah, it was ma' middle sis's birthday get together too, so that was nice to share her day with her, the beautiful neice and 'growin-up-so-fast nephew! 'course grandma and grandpa were there too! some of you may recall a few months back when i posted a tribute to their dearest lab, Nucha, who passed away a bit unexpectedly. it was time for these special peoplz to welcome in a new lil' puppers tho, and i think they've made a great choice!

Check out the pics!! aaaaaaand click on the pic to watch Barkley's Video! what do you think! eeeep! wiggle wiggle!

... employees rule (UPDATED)

2007-02-12T07:59:00.000-08:00

... so this guy i hired, many of you know him only as Dan; well, he RULZ. he's an independant video producer, and a damned good one. he's got a good shot at winning a $10k prize for creating a local TV spot for KISW's Radio show, the "BJ Shea Morning Experience." kinda a guy show, a little raunchy, but occasionally intelligent things happen on it. well, occasionally. the winner of this 30-second TV spot gets their ad run between 8-9pm on our Channel 13, FOX between the shows 24 and prison break.

Dan can submit as many as he wants, and both of these are true contenders. I've seen some of the competition online and so far his is by FAR the most professionally shot, edited, etc. i'm proud of ma' boy! giggle.... these (2) videos are updated now, so feel free to post yer reactions, etc. feedback rulz and it all helps gather hits/interest. let Dan know what you think!? me likey.

... take my cold, please

2007-02-11T11:10:00.000-08:00

... holy gross coughing and flemmy-ness and wracked ribs and chest and ewwwwww and wtf did i-do-to-deserve-this? and nnnnoh there's too many deadlines for the tradeshow at the end of the month i cannot afford to be sick aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! so yeah. no exciting and monumental post today except that i feel like huge monkey butt.

i hope you all are well.

... sometimes i feel

2007-02-09T09:12:00.000-08:00

... that when everything's going jes' right, the other shoe is about to drop. today i took the day off to get some things done. to relax. i came home sick and have woken up today feeling like total monkey-butt. i'm weak, a little nauseated, and jes wanna crawl back into bed. so much for my "to-do" list. it's already been shoved to the back of my mind. will someone go get me some damned chickee-soup? .. meh

i'm not a complete idiot tho. i know things will take their turn. i'm a reasonably successful designer and marketing director for a company that's jes' gone international. as the designer, my new logo's been accepted and i'm now moving QUICKLY forward to implement the new logo throughout the entire company (6+ sites) as it's applied to all literature, flyers, tear sheets, letterheads, business cards, the website, autosignatures and many many many more things... there's so much to do, and so little time. what would normally be a 6+ month process has been accelerated to under a month, so needless to say the countless hours i sit at the office or at home working into the wee hours are well placed, if not jesta' lil' insane. of course it doesn't stop there: i also create from scratch all the literature, flyers, and basically everything you'd expect to see from a company whether it's a slick glossy, a dazzling website in 'da works thanks to my new employee, (dan the man) and more...

whatever. this isn't meant to be a tirade. not a call for help. i'm jes venting and damnit, i can once in awhile even if it's jes' into the vast internetty-space of bloggerville. at the very least i can relax today a little bit. maybe curl up and watch a netflix... or perhaps retreat at some point into my dark and cavernous bedroom and crawl back into my proverbial hole.

at the very least, i can say, however, that the picture i posted has given me a possibly unnatural and terrifying fear of seagulls. can you say holy OUCH!?

... what i've been doin

2007-02-03T19:24:00.000-08:00

... is likely very clearly evident. over the past week, i've been a booth bunny along with my employees at the san diego convention center. brand spanky new booth i ordered, (nimloc brand, totally cool and easy to put up like lego blocks!) new design, and 2 new partners to highlight in our tradeshow layout! i cannot tell you how gratifying it is to see everything come together. looks, layout, booth bunnies, (yesh, having a sales team that's not hard on the eyes is a benefit) and products that are actually really exciting to talk about!

all the pics are before the show, so please excuse the messy floor and cables everywhere... giggle.

the hardest part of all this madness was designing all the posters and such without actually having the new booth present. it was still shipping out from it's midwest warehouse when i needed the exact dimensions for all signage, so i had to talk to the sales rep of the company and trust all his panel measurements! thank goooodness it all worked out. i'm jes happy it all looked okay, and for a fleeting few moments i can feel like i'm an accomplished designer. oi vey.

... marketing gone right

2007-01-28T13:42:00.000-08:00

... not a lot of time to post today. busy busy busy busy. got a new working damned toilet in our master bedroom, new flooring is almost down, and now the pipes and other nastiness under the 30+ year old sink has us stumped. can't handle it alone. will likely call in professionals so it's their asses when it explodes all over my new flooring and not mine. stay tuned.

on a brighter note, i get all happy when i see creativity and marketing that collide successfully. most important, i get even happier when someone wearing an outfit like the dood in the picture below is devoured. hope you all have a helluva week. i'll be in san diego from tuesday on at the AFCEA WEST 2007 convention as a booth bunny, so you all take care.

... welcome to my leeetle friend

2007-01-26T20:24:00.000-08:00

... so you ask yourself, wtf a weasel? what's going on? where did cardboardpeople go? well. i dunno really. inspiration took form of a lil' weezer and bit me in 'da butt. my mind works in mysterious ways fer sure. anyone who knows me thru the archives of this blog or from seeing me daily knows i'm a weird one fer sure... so, well... accept change with open arms. if not, may you always have a humpy weaser attached to your shin with amorous intentions.

it's my damned blog, ah' can do whaddaye' want. truth be told, i was gettin' tired of the look. NB (new blogspot) convinced me to move on from the old (it's been like 2 years) and start fresh. new look. "go edgy!," the 100 year-old jewish man's voice cackled in my ear! (again, those who know me know about the voices in my head) "be daring!," he cried as he also pointedly established himself that i really had no motivation to do this other than to amuse myself with hand-drawn images of a ravenous and troublesome weazer. well... it suddenly made sense. and what better way to conjure up feelings of living on the edge, jes' squeaking by, and always being in danger of some perilous impending doom than create a title like "weasel on a stick!?"

some say edgy, some say cutting edge, others say it makes no goddamned sense. well... yer all right so how's that? i likely will continue with my otherwise useless posts; rantings about my life, an occasional movie, funny sh*t i find online, my inexuseable inability to use capital letters unless forced to, pictures of my silly animals and more... so, i say, who wins here? well. i dunno. any of you who like my silly sh*t win i guess. jes' understand as always that i can't get my goddamned mind to turn off. i'm often twittering around jes' on that edge, and frankly friends and attention is all i crave. it's sad really. i rarely have much in the value department to say, and yet i lurve you all and have made some incredigle friends out there in bloggerville.... so yeah, stay tuned for more weird sh*t, posts, and otherwise weazer-madness. it's ON peeplz.

... it's wrong that i like this so much.

2007-01-22T20:36:00.000-08:00

... okay, i know it's not GHN day... but i couldn't wait. if you do nothing else today, check out this website and laugh, smile and openly weep like i did. the swimming dive board scenes are my fav. - it makes me happy. click on the image and go go go go goooooo, go nowwwww. yer friends will like you more.

... my new crack

2007-01-19T17:42:00.000-08:00

... it takes a lot to get me to pay more than a few moments attention to somethi... LOOK GRASS! giggle. but seriously, my attention span is about as long as a thumbtack and it's scary how quickly i can go from listening intently to... um... where am i?

well thank goodness for our friends out there on the internet. i'm going to start a new section every few weeks on my site (or weekly, or daily, or maybe 4X a day....wait, maybe 4X a week... or maybe i'll jes' forget what i'm doing completely!?) called non other than GHP baby!

introducing.... Go Here Please!

it's gonna be cooh stuff i find out there on internetland... blogs, fun sites, silly stuff, quiet possibly educational (tho unlikely for any of you who know me even a little) and/or entertaining.

my first entry is best described as my new crack. (cheaper too) stoopid, fun, silly, and great to do when you're on a concall with a bunch of boring people at the office. (i keed, i keeeed) it's simple, go here and play the game. it's simple mouse clicking, good aim, and the ability to stay aloft. the real question is... can you beat my score of 326ft?

no need to thank me, dear peoplz. i'm here to help.... or at the least, to make you realize after you read my blog that your life and level of sanity isn't that bad after all....

... it's cold out there

2007-01-17T00:27:00.000-08:00

... and speaking of which, if any of you wonder what might go thru my head at a zoo.... well... yup, this about sums it up. it's like they're in my head.

... lord of the rings?

2007-01-16T20:02:00.000-08:00

... omg omg i loved this scene! you remember it, right? what a great series! this is from the first of the three films!it's the beginning scene where gandalf enters the beloved hobbit shire and greets lil' frodo baggins and envelops him in a huge hug and... kiss? waaaait a minute...

ooooh, wait. my bad. this is jes eensy-teensy little reese witherspoon (or reesers piecers, as she likes me to call her) possibly being:

a) mauled b) greeted kindly c) sampled like a king's table buffet

... by non other than kate friggin' winslet. (you remember, that dumpy creature from titanic, who then promised never to lose weight for another role, and now weighs exactly 15lbs but somehow is still gargantuan to lil' reesers.) omgoodness, when did she grow to zena warrior princess sized proportions? i swear she could wrestle a bull moose and win. WHILE dragging poor wittle' leo decaprio from a cold watery doom.... either way, i was sooo amazed at how they seemlessly super-imposed the body of lil' reesers next to the body of kate so she looked all tiny and hobbit-like. oh wait. my bad again... she is microscopic nowadays. she looked so much bigger in Legally Blonde. i guess the camera really does add about 20 lbs and apparently 4 feet.

i watched about 10 minutes of the golden globes last night and was shocked to see this scene... even MORE shocked to find this pic on a celebrity gossip website. it's perfect... it jes' captures all the magic of hollywood. ya know, how REAL it all is and how each and every one of these actors/actresses work so hard to make the world a better place. really. i was moved to tears.

p.s. kate winslet whipped out a fork and knife and devoured my lil' reesers moments after this magical shot was taken. gawd i love hollywood and their starvation diets. so sad really...

... took the leap

2007-01-14T11:04:00.000-08:00

... and may have jes' landed on ma' schnoozle. yesh everyone, this weekend i took the leap and joined the ranks of "those who have ascended" into new-blogspot-goodness. i'm not quite feeling the magic so far, but overall it's been fairly painless. okay, well sorta.

like happy cat, (pictured above) who also needs your help, there are some pains that i must learn to overcome with out joyous new interface called blogspot:

NB (new blogspot) killed my counter. i admit, it was cooh to be over 7k. now i'm somewhere around the low 40's.... meh.
NB killed my banners on my other sites. I'd like to add one to this site too, and my original technique as of yet hasn't worked to modify the HTML. if anyone knows how, please leave a comment for me?
NB killed the majority of my hyperlinks throughout my blog. I spent over 3 hours combing through many of the archives in order to re-establish order to my universe. anyone perusing my archives can thank Starbuck's triple shot-o-mochaeey-goodness for that painful experience.
NB's stoopid "flag blog" option on the Blogspot top bar is too close to the "next blog" option... i've already found myself unintentionally flagging other people's blogs as "unsafe for children! run for the hills!" instead of randomly checking out other blogs out there... hrumpf!

anyhoo... hope you all like the subtle improvements on the site. i do like the new option to make my archives a dropdown menu, i like some of the teensy abilities to tweak all colors, fonts, etc... and while some people may not like my BIG OL' MUG up on the site; for once, i think a random shot of me by a coworker came out fun and cooh... so, um... bite me. (giggle)

... we all need to

2007-01-10T10:06:00.000-08:00

... smile more dagnabbit. i know that at times i can seem like the poster child for valium, but damnit i do know the power that a smile can bring to others. workmates, family, friends, loved ones; who cares. no one is immune to a funny picture, a funny saying or jes' a well-timed joke.

in searching for funny animal pictures for my fuzziechadsrule site, i often come across these funny pictures of cats/kittens that have, in some cases, HILARIOUS sayings written over them. most are written as if the cat was attempting to communicate the thought. (hence the text lends itself to more of a phonetic style)

they crack me the hell up. i have a digital picture frame with these on them now. they're mixed up with family shots, travel pics and more.... giggle. it makes me happy.

i even have gone so far as to create a few of my own too. if you sit back and watch the 15+ images, any ones the have text with any type of SHADOW or red highlight on them are mine. the rest are found. so, watch above, and remember that you can SPEED up the slides by hitting the "+ or -" icons below.

enjoy yer hump day, smile, laugh and share with people you lurve. giggle.

... take a moment and light a candle

2007-01-07T12:51:00.000-08:00

... and send a loved one a note of "get well, love and support." a dear friend, darlene, alerted all of us out here in bloggerland about her son's tragic accident over 2 weeks ago. i want to take a moment and simply ask each and every one of you to please consider going to her site - HERE - and also please consider going - HERE - as well to light a candle of support for her son, Mark.

he was involved in a horrible car accident where he was NOT, i repeat, NOT the driver. he was practically torn in two but somehow managed to struggle through great odds and make it to the street to call for help. Mark needs our help. he's so strong, so vibrant and so in need of our love.

anyone who has been tracking his progress through his mother's site has been moved immensely by her writings about all that's going on. what's a key thing is i have noticed that the blogger community has absolutely rained down onto her sight with such love, support, poetry, song, notes and good tidings that even i feel a change in myself... there is so little good out there at times; take a night and jes' watch the news and you'll see what i mean. this event has drawn so many of us together.

no strangers, no anonoymous entries, no religion. just love and support to a man who needs our energy and a family that is inspired by each and every one of you.

do what you will. but i truly hope you'll take a moment and read Darlene's archives to get caught up and send their whole family your love.

thank you

bronxbt & mr puddins (who's sworn off kitty katnip until this is all over)

... it's allll clear now

2007-01-05T07:25:00.000-08:00

... i get so confused. before any or all of you say "well, nnnoh duh, it's youuu," lemme explain. i've been "TXT'ing" online since before the pretty screens you all see in front of you even existed. i'm talking puuuuure text baby, scrolling green text (or black, or amber, or gold depending on your shitty monitor back in the early 90's) was ALL the internet was back then. AOL interfaces and all the spiffy stuff we take for granted now was barely a neuron-sparked idea in someone's noggin.

so why is it, after all these years do i find myself constantly getting confuzed with how people TXT one another, or more importantly, ME...? there's all these symbols that are SUPPOSED to mean something that i jes' don't understand! so, i decided to do some online research to clarify what some of these mystery symbols mean that come across my cell phone or instant messenger.

i hope you are all visual-based learners like myself. when i found this doc, it allll became totally clear as to what half this crap means that i seem to see more and more each day. it's all clear now. consider this a public service, peoplz. i'm here to help.

... it's my first time

2007-01-02T07:27:00.000-08:00

... so be gentle, please. oh silly people. what were you thinking? first post of 2007 baby! are you moved yet? are you emotionally charged? um... is anyone out there?

i talked to a friend of mine the other day who said one simple comment that really got me thinking. we discussed all the sh*tty things he had been through, all the adversity he had overcome and yet he was still able to maintain a positive and genuine outlook on his future. his statement was an easy one: "at least i'm still smiling. in a sea of frowns, i'm still afloat."

this was cooh. yup. that about wrapped up my feelings on his words. it was jes' cooh. people get so wrapped up in all their problems, issues and understandably so their pains; but we forget so easily how much worse things can be. so with the average person in america creating and failing their new year's resolutions within 30 days after pledging, my pledge will remain simple and hopefully achieveable:

i will continue to make people smile. i will continue to try to be good to everyone in my life that i love dearly, (and even those who continue to chafe) and will continue to take my own failings and issues in stride. in short, to keep on smiling.

hope you're all well. thanks for making my life a better place to exist in.

... i swear to gawd

2006-12-26T13:41:00.000-08:00

... it's like i'm 4 years old. of course, i often act like i am, so this whole post may be a moot point. this holiday season i received some very generous gift cards covering a whole gambit of places like home depots to groceries, (new to me, but hey! cooh! free food! woop woop!) and i tell ya, there's one thing that was hurridly shoved in my pocket so i could share it with allll my officemates this year:

a frog.

yup... a frog. doesn't make sounds, doesn't move on it's own... but lemme tell you, if you touch the two contact points on it's arse, it lights up and puts on a show. the pic doesn't do it justice, but trust me. it's cooh.

it's like my beloved nephew, who after opening all his presents, was caught playing with a clothes pin and a piece of ribbon. buy me overly generous gifts and i laugh all the way to work this morning with a plastic frog. what DOES this say about me? hmmm....

... i'm quackers over this

2006-12-19T15:33:00.000-08:00

... omg omg i cannot believe this. it's slow motion goodness! it's the matrix. no, it's scenes from bulletproof duck... no, i dunno, but i betcha Jet Li had something to do with the cinematography! it's genius. it's hilarious... it's a helluva first way to take yer first baby steps!! OMGOODNESS wouldjoo look at their little fwappies when they drop! what bravehearts! you can almost hear 'em screaming, "attacccccck!" hmmm, on second thought, maybe it's more like, "yeeeaaarrrrrggghhhhh!!!!!"

i haven't laughed so hard in months. i seriously am in pain. i'm thinkin' i've busted a rib... maybe my heart...a lung perhaps. holy hell these lil' doozers have a hard start to their life. who ever thought that duck bashing could be so much fun! before you all getcher' downy feathers up in a bundle, clicky below or here to watch this clip. YESH, all of it. the last "FWAP" alone makes it all worth it. trust me.....

UPDATE: PG-13 rating! The first minute has a steamy and "fowl" um... mating scene which i'm not exactly able to edit out... move past the yer' pain and then you'll see some hilarious duckie-fwappage.

... jeezus stutters

2006-12-17T18:04:00.000-08:00

... hallelujah and all that stuff! and yesh, i wrote jeezus like that..."jeezus," so suddenly every search engine in the world wouldn't hook into my site thinking i was a hardcore worshipper. and nnnnoh, i have no problem with people who are religious, please no one be offended, it's jes' not my cuppa tea. i live by the golden rule, and to me it's jes that simple. i jes' thought it was funny (you all know i'm a sick bastard) that 77777 came across my car's mileage counter on friday.

'course the other funny thing is that by some small measure of divine intervention, i was able to get gas not 5 minutes later right before the fumes i was driving on went poof and magically stranded my ass. even more ironic, that AM, i filled up my tank, whistling innocently as i capped off the top, got back into my car and drove to work. by the time i GOT to work there was no power in the Woodinville and Bothell area, and by 10 am more than 1 million energy paying customers in Washington State had no power. gas stations in powered areas RAN OUT... that's right,... RAN OUT... and somehow, that AM... i gots-me-sum gas and happily puttered away into the darkness...

yuppers, the huge rain and windstorms really kicked my area's arse. tons of people with no power and no hope of warm water for at least another couple of days. somehow we didn't get effected, we lost power about 4 times Friday night for 45 second stints, but then it came back on! woop woop!

hope you all are safe, warm, happy and have a big cuppa joe or hot chocolate nearby. more later on this week when i have something intelligent to share...

... take your shot

2006-12-03T21:47:00.000-08:00

... i dare you! it goes without saying that last week was a total trip, so say the very least. washington state got nailed with some really nasty weather; the likes it had not seen in years. while many were traumatized, others took it in stride, as you can see by my beloved and completely retarted maddie-dawg, who has found a newfound lurve for the snow. she snuffled, snorfled, purposely lost toys within the snowy depths so she had to nuzzle her way through tufts of snow and more. she even learned that frisbee catching can rule in the snow. (softer landing for the dumbass) she really would spend hours outside, and to make things worse, i bought my little 4-legged short-busser a toy that lights up on impact, so i toss this baton toy in the snow, and a yellow batch of brightly colored lights (no, not snow jack...) and i swear she bounds thru the snow like she's onna mission. it's really quite adorable. i jes' wish i could find a way to tell her that she's really accomplished nothing other than freeze her darling lil' fuzzy tootsies off and created a beard of frozen dog spittle on her schmoozle. oh well.. ya gotta love her.

wifee was a quick snapper with our KodakDX7630. snowflakes the size of small automobiles made quick work of our backyard, turning it into a norman rockwell's white christmas, complete with snow-bent trees, blanketed grounds, and a lot of pissed off and ravenously dangerous chickadees and nuthatches. (also, a rockwell favorite... yesh, a little known fact about 'ol normy) this was roughly the amount of snow we had for most of the week. i know this because around 10:30 monday night, i shoveled all that shit off my driveway in order for wifee and i to be able to get out of our home. her yuppie mazda6 sportswagon is the lowest damned thing i've seen in years. kids with lowered hondas and trucks give her the "peace sign" as she drives through our neighborhood... oi vey...

this next shot may be impossible to see... i dunno.. clicky on it and see whatchoogot. it should hopefully translate roughly into, "cool hanging candle lights in our front window." i'm not much for decorations at all for the holidays. actually loathe them, but since we have family coming up this year, i felt it'd be nice, and if something burns down, so be it... i can at least say "i told you so," at that point while i'm being beaten. but there's at least cooh shiny things in my home now, so i can take a few moments, ooh & ahh at them, then realize i'm being watched and retreat back into my hole. i have so few memories of past christmases sue to my sh*tty memory... i tell ya, they were prolly grand, but i'll be damned if i can recall much of anything.

this cooh pic is a jeweled tree that simply holds tea-lights. totally cooh in my book, and yesh... shiny. that alone can keep my simpleton-self entertained for hours. there is something magical though how a light shines through a polished marble.. or anything glass in general. it cuts it, dissects it, and disseminates it into multiple streams of light. for some reason, that's the cooh-est damned thing to me... calming in fact, and again, magical. i hope each and every one of you find your happy place this holiday. it can be so hard to find. (trust me... ahhh know 'dis) look for it though... it can be the simplist of things that makes you simply stop and think, or a gesture toward others... either way, i promise you it's worth it.

big cuppa lurve to you all... B & mr puddins

... good things

2006-11-27T22:50:00.000-08:00

... do come in small packages, right? tonight, wifee found one of my favorite pics of my lil' baboo when he was a lil' one. ma' lil' chewers used to be such a... well.. different kittenz when 'ee was a youngin. how do i explain this carefully? hmmmm.

when i first met ma' lil chewers, i fell in lurve almost immediately. i rescued him from the seattle animal shelter, and the second i saw his pic, i emailed wifee and said, "mah' lil' chewbaccers!" i could almost SEE her shake her head, but relented she did and soon ah' had ma' lil' behbeh in my arms.

okay okay... wtf is with the name? well.. looky the lil' doozer! he looked like a lil' milk chocolate and caramel wookie cub! (yesh, sue me... i lurve star wars) he was purrrfect. i'm not sure how much more i need to say now... he's grown.. he's turned into a black & white tuxedo kitty, and frankly he's got a high-pitched lil' nancy-voice and is in an unnaturally affectionate relationship with my dog. (don't go there, we will not speak of this moment ever again...)

anyhoo... i still lurve him so.. i was mainly excited that wifee found the pics, and that memories of my lil' squooshie caramel'd bib of a kittenz is back to share wif' all of you.

... they do say

2006-11-27T13:25:00.000-08:00

... that holiday cheer comes in all shapes and sizes!? hmmm, this shot does kinda say it all around my area. washingtonians can't drive in the snow. it's so silly. we get 2 inches and schools close down. we get 4 inches and there's mass hysteria with albertson's grocery stores being raided. we get 8 +- inches like we have over the past 24 hours and businesses close down, homes are burning, looting is occuring all over the place, and wondrous and most-lurved coworker's daughters are making a NEW form of snow angel for all the passerby's to see.

it made me happy. not sure why. i think the halo is crooked tho. *snerk*
oh, and btw, 98% of the snow has already melted, and people are still in a perpetual state of panic. hope you're all safe and sound!

... animal menagerie-goodness!

2006-11-26T13:14:00.000-08:00

... hasn't occured on my site for a looooong time! my bad. i've been all stoopid, wrapped up in my own sh*t, and basically a big 'ol pain that i've not shared more animally silliness with any of you folks for too long. so, without further ado, hold on to yer seats: this one jes' kills me. i tried for a good 10 minutes to get mr puddins (who's real name is hidden to protect the innocent) to sit still and not be annoying so i could get a good shot.. but nooooh. he had to be all drama-queenish and 'snerf' the camera, look away, mew and more until i said screw it... this is whatchoo all get. in focus windowsill and kitten-butt, and out of focus "durrrrrr" look on mr puddins. at least you all can see why wifee and i often comment about how he's getting his "foo manchoo" on... (or 'jes his 'foo') i mean... looky all that whiskery goodness!

this next shot was easy. maddie always feels she has to be involved in, well, anything i do.... so my impromptu photoshoot meant i needed an assistant to pace back and forth, get all waggy, and naturally stick her schnout right in mr puddins' face as he tried to get his thunderbutt down from the windowsill. this, btw, is not a nose "kiss," it's mr puddins about 5 seconds before he squooshed maddie flat.

and finally, the drama-queen scaredy cat himself, ma' lil' chewie. (aka, chewers, chewiekins, chewerbutt, chewbacca, dipshit) he lurrrrves his fireplace spot. it snowed here in the morning for about 4 hours and blanketed our area in roughly 2 inches of temporary snow. as i write this, it as turned to rain and the snowy-goodness is fast dissolving into memories. chewie has been glued to our fireplace the entire time with this regal (and perhaps bored) look on his face. i jes' know he's wondering where his peeled grapes are...

well, that's it for now folks. i hope you all enjoyed your 4 days off, and see you all somewhere in bloggerville again real soon!

... turkey smerky

2006-11-23T21:10:00.000-08:00

... nnnoh, i'm not completely bahh-humbug and all, we jes' had a chicken and not a turkey. these past few months have been filled with bumps, swells, goodness & badness and more. not that i'm not happy with all i have, i've jes' become incredibly and deeply involved with my own mind, thoughts, fears and possible futures. when i look back at all the decisions i've made over the past 15+- years, i wonder what if... a lot. i wonder about all kinds of things, and many are way too deep and potentially disturbing and nnnoh, i likely won't be sharing them online here. i'm not comfortable in my own skin tho, and at times i wonder who's 'steering this ship?' it keeps me up at night, makes me worry, makes me stress, even makes me cry. makes me a pain to be around, mood-swingy and at times, downright negative and intolerable. that brings me to my point tho:

thankfully, and yesh, i do have things to be thankful for.. i have friends, family and even adoring petz who have been there for me. yesh, i do feel like i'm losing my mind at some points, but then again, who doesn't once in awhile. right? big lurve to all of you out there who i've come to know, and a fond howdy to those who i've yet to meet. i hope to "see you" soon.

count yer blessings people. they're fiesty lil' buggers, and may be gone before you know it.

... mahalo from Honolulu

2006-11-07T19:43:00.000-08:00

... oh yeah baby, i could live here. loving the sun, the heat, the tanned and damned near nekkid bodies everywhere. yeah. i could live here. too bad this is a week of mostly business with my company's trade show, and only a few days of fun in the sun toward the end of my stay.

here's some pics of my hotel accomodations and amenities, and let's not forget our booth which overall looks good in my humble opinion. decent show traffic so far has me very confident in my team's bang-up ability to turn a lead into a business opportunity. tonight, it's mai tais and a business dinner, then home to the Hyatt to soak my damned feet. 'dem puppies are barking! woof woof!

... if you build it (part trois)

2006-11-01T07:29:00.000-08:00

... they will still come, eh? well, here's to hoping so! for anyone who's interested in seeing what type of graphic design/marketing work i do on a regular basis, aside from banners, posters and marketing materials galore for my company's sales reps across the US; then clicky here. (i'll post a pic once Blogger finally decides to quit jerking my chain)

my partner in crime, an incredible web designer (dreamweaver guru, and official "tolerator-o-my-drama) named Dan, has been a pivotal driving force in my success over the past 2 years at this company. he puts up with my sh*t, my A.D.D. mood swings, my creative anarchy and yet somehow keeps my feet on the ground by saying YESH or NNNOH to sh*t that won't work online. you see, i come from the print & production world, not the pixel-deciminated world of online design. odd that my work has been digitially represented for so many years, but damnit i hate trying to code HTML.. even with cooh applications that make it easier! 'dats why i have Dan, tho! woot woot!

i send him my photoshop files, my jpegs, my images and he builds the code to create one helluva site. thank goodness for people like him! most importantly, our federal and commercial clients throughout the world now have access to a website that is functional, easy to browse through, and growing daily in features and information! play around with it if you'd like to! i'd love to hear any feedback from folks if you have some suggestions, constructive criticism or special shares! (giggle) hope everyone's week is going well!

... don't mess with

2006-10-28T16:14:00.000-07:00

... 'da pissy kitty peoplz! 'dats right... it's on. i found the personification of the majority of my many moods in one, itty-bitty stuffed animal of pure joy. i'm thinkin' of makin' this lil' doozer my official mascot.

"rawr!"

oh oh oh, i know! i'll make a sign for him to guard that says, "while you wait for your answer, please feel free to hold the pissy kitty." that'll be the perfect revenge for when i'm asked annoying questions at the office. i mean, wouldn't that beat a dull stare or glassy-eyed 'wah-happened' look i'm infamous for? thoughts anyone?

... take my banner, please

2006-10-26T13:32:00.000-07:00

... okay, that wasn't even slighty funny for a title, so sue me. i jes wanted to share with you all the GYNORMOUS banner posters that i designed and had produced by a local printshop. these (4) 3'x6' banners are for my company's upcoming trade show in honolulu! the booth will be 10x20, and outfitted with all kinds of cool demos... including this sooper-cooh (that's a top secret code name meaning "sooper cooh") ball shaped camera that you can toss into a nonsecure location and then rotate, pivo & zoom with it's telescopic video camera! federal agents can use it for mision impossible sh*t and even state and local sniper and/or bomb squads can use it to diffuse spooky situations in need of surveillance "1st." coooh stuff fer sure. clicky here to see my even more cooh line drawing i whipped up to show/teach my team who will be working the booth (aka, booth bunnies) the general layout of hardware demos, signage and more!!

... they say that change

2006-10-20T11:42:00.000-07:00

... is inevitable. imminent. unavoidable. well, fellow and belurved bloggervillians, i sit before you today with proof that i am causing change in each and every one of you who read my countless rants, raves and otherwise idiotic posts.

how do i know this? how do i know i have excersized great power in effecting (affecting? what-ev-ah) many of you? ... if not, dare i say allll of you? muaha hahahaaaaaaa.... i will prove it to you:

when was the last time you said "goodness" at the end of a sentence?
when was the last time you said "yesh?," when someone called out your name?
when was the last time you said "lurve," instead of love?
when was the last time you said any of these: "snerk, snort, snuffle, woot woot or meh!?"
when was the last time you said any of the ridiculous words i've either borrowed from others or made up my damned self 'jes because you can!?

i've infected you all! Bwa ha ha haaa haaaaa! i rule! no, wait, i corrupt... and am slowly changing all of your vocabularies to that of a 4-year old... hmmm. anyhoo, i think it's funnier than hell that when i see comments you all leave me, posts of your own, and all kinds of goodness like that, many of your words come from right outta ma' archives of texty-goodness. see! i did it again! i'm a genius.

okay, well, hmmm... i really have nothing else to say today, other than i lurve you all, i wish you all happy-goodness for your weekend, and i have really enjoyed corrupting you all. eep!

... inspiration comes

2006-10-16T18:17:00.000-07:00

... in all weird shapes and sizes. now i know i may not always be the most chipper person all of the time, but gawdarnit i do try. i find that most often my moods and need for inspiration are found in my family and bestest friends that i pull from occasionally when the need arises.

2 people have given me some hilarious 'gum packages' that as of late i've looked at for such humor and inspiration. this doesn't have to be specific, meaning i don't look at them only when i'm looking to do something humorous. it can be anything. a work brochure i'm updating, a web page i'm designing, a proposal i'm scripting out and many other activities have been successful due to these 2 packages of gum that are taped to my monitor at the office.

for any of you who may not know me that well yet? well, my normal mental capacity is that of a 4 year old and my sense of humor is a tad warped. look below... 'nuff said.

no, i won't try it to see if it does 'taste like chicken." holy ewwww.

do ya think this one tastes like nuts? acorns? cashews? oi vey.

... if you build it (part deux)

2006-10-12T18:45:00.000-07:00

... they will come, eh? 'allo fellow bloggervillians. my apologies for being so distant as of late. it's been a hellish couple of weeks at the office, and it'll only get worse before it gets any better. i've been working on a number of projects for my company, and deadlines are looming and stress is... well... bearing me down. i'm pushing thru it all tho, and with the support of my coworkers (they bring me chocolate) and the fact that all this sh*t is unavoidable, i'm wading through it all.

my entry's title is referencing what had better happen trafffic-wise all these projects i'm neck deep in. between a complete re-redesign of our existing company website, (i had already revamped the 13 year old site last year and gave it a fresh new look, including and entire company identity overhaul, logo, look, feel, marketing goodies, etc.) a completely new look and feel for our biggest trade show of the year in november with new 3'x8' banners, etc., (actually rented a real cooh booth contruct with thick paneled walls, nice lighting, shelves, real side walls to hide other vendors on each side... tee hee) and the need to singlehandedly create all new literature for our company's brochure, our INFOSEC business practice, it's been a haul.

here's the cooh thing tho: one of the neato things we do at this event, (aside from build and participate with a sweeeet 10x20 booth at the show) is have an invite only wine & cigar event on the 2nd night. this is a big deal to our federal customers and sponsoring partners... and folks clamor at the door baby! we expect to have about 200-250 folks and it's big business, good times, music, lighting for ambiance, and general goodness all around. here's the invitation i created and finalized today to send out to our clients and special guests...

oh, and did i mention that it's ... well... in Honolulu, Hawaii!? Bwahahahhahhaahaaahaaaa.

i'm accepting applications now for people who think they'd make a great carry-on for the trip. (giggle... kidding, jack, don't submit a resume)

more later, and i'll likely submit to you all some pics of the drawings/layout plans etc for the booth so you can all oog and ahhh, or booo and hisss if you don't like it. cheers for now!

... over the top

2006-10-03T07:36:00.001-07:00

... well, the hedge at least. everybody go here after you read this and/or after you leave a comment. the animated movie, "over the hedge" comes out next week on dvd. i jes' hafta say that for any adult who likes side splitting laughter, hilarious quips and one-liners,; this is a movie for you. the link above is for the original comic that has run for about 6 years. it's also friggin' hilarious, 'though you have to be a li' bit of a dork like me to laugh at turtles, raccoons, and other assorted animalee-wildlife-goodness...

'dats all i got for today. news is depressing, world events are overall depressing, so i'm not gonna even go down that route. i have friends and family that lurve me, a good job that seemingly is going to get better soon, and ya' know... there's that whole breathing thing i'm pretty attached to...

... how much is that novel in the window?

2006-09-25T07:57:00.000-07:00

... how much would that puppy be? i was doin' some research last night regarding the cost of graphic novels both on bookstore shelves and the internet. i must say i was amazed at what people are paying for limited edition artwork nowadays. for any of you who've not visited my somethinsketchy site and read my 'reflections' comic that i've been restoring for many weeks now, i've been thinking ahead as to what any next steps would be once i finished the piece... if any.

you see, this is my connundrum too. should i take the final piece and reproduce it again?, or jes' leave it fully online once i'm finished. there's something to be said about the joy of looking at a printed and professionally produced graphic novel though: crisp pages, colorful artwork, a lingering excitement once each page is turned...

back to my research. i found that most printed novels go for anywhere between $19.95 to $42.95 depending on pages, print-style, and other silly things like bindery styles, etc. i wouldn't bound this badboy in leather or any of that stuff, so no worries there. of course, i have yet to price out production costs beyond my own time. i don't have all my original pages in front of me, but i believe we'd be looking at roughly a 24 page production run including any cover/back and forwards wrapped up in there.

so, here's the question: would any of you who have become a fan of my project/story/comic WANT to purchase a final graphic novel? It'd be a limited run, and each one could be signed and numbered in case my arse ever becomes famous. (giggle) and if so, what would you be willing to pay? ('course, all you can do to answer this is see what i've produced so far on my other site and use that as a guide to help you judge)

the other option is a "soft copy" produced entirely online, but in a "pay to download" format if you wanted a professionally produced PDF download that resembled a finished novel, complete with Cover/Back and Forward. (this would drive costs down considerably, but not exactly anything physical beyond the dimensions of your computer monitor)

any thoughts? and thanks ahead of time for helping me with my thought process! hope you all have a phenomenal week.

... long time

2006-09-20T09:10:00.000-07:00

... no post, eh? well.. yer kinda right. i wanted to let everyone know that while i don't post here as often as i used to, i've been very busy with my other 2 sites.

fuzziechadsrule and somethinsketchy are my other two bebe's... wanting to be fed with new entries often, they are demanding lil' doods! many of you who may be new to my cardboardpeople site may not realize that I am, well... and addicted blogger. so, with that, i offer you all more bloggery-goodness and ask you also swing by the other sites-o-mine once in awhile.

fuzziechadsrule - a mind-numbing exploration of fuzzie and wonderful creatures of nature. weekly entries of (3) animalz to view and choose your winner by leaving a comment witcher' vote. occasional tributes also to fans who send in their pics and stories of their beloved animalz... GO... laugh, vote! my job is done..

somethinsketchy - my creative outlet. as a designer & illustrator, i've jes' got to vent somehow(!) digitally or on canvas. my creations are a bit focused right now, with the restoration of an original graphic novel of mine from 10 + years back. But the archives hold a treasure trove of other pieces of art. i want not jes' your feedback, but suggestions on how i can become a better artist... seriously! comments on whatchoo like and don't is verrrry welcome! Warning: some of the art is potentially NSFW (not safe for workplace) so be aware of this. Nothing is graphic per se, but i have posted many fine art and life drawing studies... okay!?

this is NOT a shameless plug. really. i jes' feel that as of late, i've been a depressive sonofabitch and people who have seen this site in passing are getting the wrong idea of JES' HOW I ROLL BABY! *snerk*

what i am is a sufferer of the need to please people. i've done stand up comedy, am a professional motivational speaker, a graphic designer, a marketing manager, the office morale cheerleader and more. what i am also is human... i am prone to A.D.D. mood swings, ups & downs, and occasional snappy bursts of "omg omg omg the walls are closing in" - type of fallouts that no one should have to witness... much less experience.

so, i hope you are all doing well... thanks to all of you who visit here regularly and for anyone who's here as a first timer?, welcome... i look forward to getting to know you.

... if only

2006-09-15T11:20:00.000-07:00

... i could be this popular all the time. nice milestone tho! 5000 hits. thanks all, it's been a real ride so far. i've met some cooh peoplz, made some of you laugh, smile, an even pissed off a couple of ya' apparently. thanks for stopping by, making my world a better place, and leaving yer mark behind in the form of comments. have a great weekend.

... here's some advice

2006-09-13T21:38:00.000-07:00

... ask for help, and you shall receive. i wanted to take a moment and thank each and every one of you who were kind enough to post your thoughts and opinions regarding my recent dilemma on how to speak about humor to a group of peoplz.

all of your thoughts resounded in my numbskull the entire time i presented this evening, and i'm pleased to say that what was supposed to have been a 45 minute session, ended after nearly 1.5 hours of my presentation, some fun interactive humorist role-playing, and a question & answer session where hands eagerly shot up.

you all mean so much to me. you know who you are, so no... i'm not gonna name names... even if i listed you all alphabetically, someone would be offended that they're not on top. giggle. i also used some of your rousing support to take the first place award in tuesday night's humorist speech contest! i get to once again go to the next round of competitions for my area/district/then region and hopefully take the crown of funniest-sonofabiscuit like i did in 2004.

my lurvin's to you all... and again, you are alllll appreciated.

... when all else fails

2006-09-11T16:32:00.000-07:00

... on a day where there's remembering to be done, and seldom funny things to be said, consider remembering this one truism in life that i follow, and you all should maaaaybe look into it too:

... holy crap what next?

2006-09-08T13:50:00.000-07:00

... first of all, thank you all for your recent supportive comments, pointers and suggestions in my last post. i've been riding this goddamned rollercoaster for longer than i can count on my fingers and toes, and i jes' am tired of hiding it from everyone. why the hell do i do that? i dunno. i'm retarded i guess... i am there for everyone in my life - anytime, anywhere, no questions asked... and yet i'm so goddamned stoopid 'cuz i'm afraid that "no one" will be there for me when i need them.

i'm proven wrong all the time tho... the few friends i have in this area have blown me away by their caring, love and support... yet again i feel more as if i'm dreaming and it's all not real. if i wake up, how many of you will fade into non-existance? many of which i've spoken about on this blog. god i love them all so much.

i found out jes' before noon today that (2) close friends of mine are dead. wtf is going on? something must be in the water. or it's clowns. clowns are all inheriently evil anyway... and since evil is "live" to those of us with mild dylexia... a live clown is scarier-than-shit over a dead one... anyway, i am really getting sick of this crap happening to the people in my life. victim one was 40 years old, and suffered a massive stroke 2 weeks ago. he's already buried and i was never told. i cannot hold it against any ex-coworkers or his family, but i feel anger that i was not told. now i need to find out where he lays so i can go see him one last time.

victim two was a bit of a troubled seed. reasonably young, troubled past, but when i interviewed him at Microsoft 4 years back, i could see that sparkle of "change" in his eyes. he did well overall, his gynormous personality won most of us over, but personal problems and such drove him out of that job and history repeated itself during a few other jobs since then. he ended up in a hotel room somewhere in chicago where he hanged himself jus' the other day.... he left 4 children behind. he was a good man, a kind soul, but troubled and lost in the shuffle of life.

ya know, i need a stop/rewind button on this week.. well.. this month.. okay, i think this past year or so. this is not how it's supposed to be happening. good thing i'm frakkin agnostic. if he/she/it whatever was down here, we'd so be rumbling over the injustice of all of this.

okay, so here's the deal. bad things in my life always happen in 3's. everyone out there? be careful crossing the street. look both ways, then look again. chew that bite of food 26x... then 3 more times for good measure. drive safe. use your turn signal. give it.. like a month until you take those parachuting lessons please....

and holy shit and shinola stay the frakk away from clowns.

... all i'm askin'

2006-09-06T10:17:00.000-07:00

... is for you all to bear with me a bit. i'm a creature of habit, of fierce loyalty and devotion. i say this because since my own personal email isn't posted, someone recently used the new fuzziechadsrule alias to send me an email that i didn't take to kindly to. now, don't get me wrong... this email only tipped me over the edge. it's a deep well i've been staring into and out from on and off for months.

this post is NOT a cry for help, not a pity post and not a bitch session... it's simply a plea to have any of you who would like to consider yourselves as my friends to stand by while i deal with some things. support is not easily gained and i seldom ask for it. i feel in an odd way that many of you do offer that freely, and you've all enriched my life in ways i never knew possible.

i'm in pain and i don't 100% understand why. i'm unhappy with so many things. facets of my life, my choices and directions i'm heading. yesh, i take constant solice in the people and things in my world that are dear to me, but even then i find the voices in my head challenging their validity. it's cruel and unusual to doubt the ones around me that i love, but i am losing control over what is happening.

i am sleeping more. blessfully. now, more equates to 4+- a night, but that's still a leap from before. special thankees to all out there who showered me with suggestions and kind words regarding that fiasco. overall health issues, weight loss and more may or may not be tied into this, but hey, i fit back into a size 38.. so things are looking up!

is it wrong to wish for change? change possibly so drastic it changes almost everything in my world? who or what gets left behind? me? i'm so tired. so weary of being there for everyone. and yet, i cry as i write this because that's WHO I AM... i don't think that can change. while it's toll on my heart and soul is gaining, that cannot stop. i can't change who i am. can i?

does anyone realize how excited and giddy i get to know that ANY of my words, images, artwork, stories, fuzzie animalz :) positively effect any of you out there? it fills me with glee like a stoopid 4 year old with a loli-pop. it's tough to realize how much attention i seem to really need. kinda pathetic actually.

it's funny to me though to realize how few friends i have locally too. i work, i go home. i work. then, oh yeah, i go home. we have prolly 2 pair of friends we see on occasion, and that's really about it. they are all the BESTEST in the world, and I couldn't ask for cooler folks in our lives, soooo don't get any ideas i'm not tickled as puddin' to have them around.

i've lost so much in my life. i've realized i'm postively terrified to lose anything else. with that being said, i realized i failed to mention what the email was about: a frustrated observer of my blog(s) emailed me saying that he/she (i dunno which) was pissed that I've been spending too much time on my fuzziechads & somethin sketchy sites. this person went on to ramble about how i need to keep in mind that i have a responsibility to my viewers to keep them entertained and updated on everything from my views on things to making him/her laugh when they need it.

ALRIGHTY THEN! lemme first say to this person, "kiss my butt." and for my second round, "thanks for abusing your right to free speech and slamming a fist into my gut and a brick (the red kind) over my skull." wtf right does this person have to dictate to me what my blogs are for?

lemme git' a few things straight to you.. mr or miss buthead, and for the rest of you all out there; i do this shit for fun. i do this because i like to make people smile and laugh and think good thoughts when there's barely anything else tolerable in this damned world to listen to on the news or read in a paper. i do this as a mental release and to combat the demons in my head that want me to run screaming down the road and never look back. i do this for me. not any one of you.

'nuff said. if i lose any of my readers to this post, so be it. this goddmaned email made me wanna hit delete on all of my damned blog sites anyway. funny thing tho, this is nothing compared to what i'm feeling over all the sh*t i rambled on above anyway... so... i dunno.

anyway, holy hell this was a long rant and rave. i'm sorry for that. i hope you are all doing well out there. i'll be okay too. i always am. denial ain't jesta river in egypt, and i've been internalizing since i was a fetus, so i'll deal.

jes' cut me a little slack, wouldja?

.. take my joke, please

2006-08-29T08:03:00.000-07:00

... i need your help, fellow bloggervillians. i've been a toastmaster for over 10 years. i consider myself an accomplished speaker. i have given hundreds of speeches. professionally, i have covered topics such as marketing, handling layoffs at boeing facilities, training and selling microsoft developer solutions tools, facing the y2k adversities through technology standardizations (remember that garbage!?) and more. through the toastmasters organization i am predominately known as a humorist speaker. i've competed and emerged winner in humorous speech contests and more. i'm funny. people know that. i've given speeches on humor 101 speechcrafting, humor in the workplace and other related subjects.

now, i'm stumped with the ultimate horror. a request so difficult, so multifaceted, i realize it's become one of the true banes of my existance as i ponder HOW to deliver a 45 minute speech on... get ready... eek!...

how to tell a joke.

yup. that's the nightmare. here's why: i'm an impromptu speaker 98% of the time. i don't consider myself a joke teller... i am simply animated, use vocal variety, and fly off the cuff at a moments notice to take any situation and try to infuse it with life's quarks. it sounds deliriously hokey, but i rejoice in making others see the world in different, albeit odd ways to make them laugh and smile... if not at the very least, take a moment to sit back and admire their work.

I rarely, if ever actually tell a joke. I have a hard time with them simply due to the fact that it requires memorization and real focus. It’s much easier to blast off talking about a subject and pulling instantly from the recesses of one’s mind and experiences instead of starting out with, “two nuns, a blind man and a movie producer walk into a bar…” this picture below is a perfect example of what i find funny. there's no real joke here, jes' a play onna situation that some may relish or fear. i could be shown that image and within seconds rattle off a story or mini-speech... but it'd be jes' that. not a joke. dagnabbit!

So I ask you all: how do you tell a joke? What do you think is funny? Can you share with me some insight so my speech to this beloved organization comes from the hearts and minds of many and not jes’ me? The best comics in the world learn from others by observing and listening. I hope that your thoughts, insights and more can help inspire me to properly craft a speech that will inspire, entertain and teach the audience that they already have the skills, they jes’ have to get up there and laugh about it!

... i must have one of these

2006-08-26T00:22:00.000-07:00

... now you may be asking yourself, to which of the 2 subjects in the pic below do i refer to? hmmm.... lemme get back to you. *giggle* I personally think that this image is a total abomination. not jes' cuz there's potentially hot wimmins (i mean, athletic females) walking around with kicky-dogs attached to their asses. what person woke up one morning and said, "find me wimmins, line them up and let's figure out what they need to enhance their wardrobe...!" then, somehow, the only inspiration they got after seeing these gals lined up was, "omgosh, let's stick shitzhu's on their butts!"

the doggie-bags were designed after american creators Hedy Grant and Suzanne Sherman noticed how many people were carrying their dogs inside handbags in the heat of summer. somehow this spawned the idea that there was a gap in the market for a more "suitable and stylish carrier." the only GAP that exists here is between the ears of these designers who decided it be fun to shake small animals into submission like a can of soda. apparently there's an actual warning on the bag that alerts owners not to carry a pace faster than a "brisk walk." maybe the testers of the new fashion shook-a-pug-up to the point of projectile vomiting.

fun times. let's go for a walk.... anyone?

... ahoy there mateys

2006-08-23T15:11:00.000-07:00

... arrrgh! um... yaarrrrgh... yeah.... anyhoo. would you all do me a favor? for those of you who love great writings, outdoors stuff and great peoplz, spend some time over the next few weeks occasionally on my friend's blog. http://lesseroftwoweevils.blogspot.com/

D, of D & L fame from my past writings, has a new love in his life. the lady washington stole this man's heart and has allowed him to grace her lines and deck once over the past year, (as you'll see if you partake in archive readings... HIGHLY recommended for adventures and such!) and now he's had the chance to ride her over the waves once again! (the lady washington was used in the pirates of the carribean movies!)

D's updating the site as often as he can via a cell phone, and he'll likely take many pics and more. he's an incredibly gifted writer, funnier than hell and a true pirate at heart. Stop by, leave some comments as his story unfolds over the next two weeks, and upon his return, he creates a wonderfully updated journal as you'll see with his past entries.

thanks all. I know he'll appreciate it.

... it's a small world

2006-08-23T10:21:00.000-07:00

... after all, eh? well, not anymore folks. my dear friend ms L sent me this weblink a few weeks ago, and i hafta admit it's damned cool. i've got one on (2) of my blogs now and it's soooo cool to see who's viewing me around the world. tha's right, world. it's a simple technology trick that's been around since the first network was created. a simple ping that hits the server that the viewer is accessing your site from... anywhere. it's a low brow big brudder thing, yesh, but there's no information being exchanged other than an IP address. (think coordinates) that translate to a daily updated map. i think it's fascinating, and i have loved getting to know each and everyone of you thru bloggerland.... consider getting yer own! it's easy, kinda fun, and cooh to watch yer audience grow.

looky all the peoplz who have checked me out! i've been
digitally rubbernecked...! giggle...

... 12 years ago

2006-08-22T08:03:00.000-07:00

... i met this gal in 1994.

we worked together for almost 2 years.

we befriended.

we took care of each other at our job.

we grew close.

i bought a condo.

she helped.

i asked her to move in.

she did.

we lived together happily.

i proposed.

thankfully she agreed.

8 years ago today, we were married.

it hasn't been easy.

she's stubborn.

i'm a pain in the ass.

she's beautiful.

i'm not entirely hideous... :)

i've made mistakes.

her too.

she puts up with me.

i put up with her.

we've remained together.

i love her.

happy anniversary, baby... i love you

... reviews onna plane

2006-08-19T11:28:00.000-07:00

... get these motherf**king snakes off this motherf**king plane! Yup. SNAKES ON A PLANE is here. had to see it. and now, i jes' have to share a few important thoughts. wow. that about sums up this film. for any of you who haven't heard about this film, you really need to crawl back under a rock. it's been circulating thru internet and news article grapevines for close to 2 years. it's grown into a HUGE cult film in record time long prior to it's release. it has samuel jackson in it, acting bad, swearing a lot, making either big eyed or scrunched up faces and he gets to kill snakes.

now, i'm NOT a movie reviewer by any far stretch of the imagination. please take my opinions and recommendations with a shot of anti-venom: IF you choose not to see this movie, you are not an American. you can understand my reaction if you hear about my evening first. i met up with our (2) dearest friends, D & L. we decided to hit the local restaurant called Claim Jumpers FIRST for a little pre-funk to prep ourselves mentally and physically. (pre-funk: loosely translates to having food or appetizers at a desireable location and partaking in adult beverages. a LOT of them...)

after sufficiently getting pretty funked up, (see how i did that? ha ha.. i'm still genius) we made our way up the escalator (which is soooo cool when you have no feeling in your feet) and bought our tickets for the most important movie of our lives.

this movie is amazing for the following, simple and sweet reasons:

the writer, director, producer, and in fact allll actors know this movie is ASS.
they are so proud of this fact, that they really DO try to act their heart out, make it dramatic, and most of them obviously die valiantly. even innocents in this film are not safe from the wraith of the snakes. can you say "cannon fodder?" heh heh heh...
samuel jackson is in it. this time, in lieu of weilding a purple lightsaber from star wars Episode III, he gets to use fire extinguishers, axes, spear guns, bullets, and a makeshift blow torch. it's magical.
the acting is bad, the script is riddled with holes, it ends too quickly, it started too soon, hell, it got filmed.
it's quite possibly the best "i know i'm crappy" film in the history of movie making. you can't take your eyes off the screen, you laugh, scream, clap, yell, and cheer in ALL the right places.

so.... there i will end. i gave away no secret scene good things. i told you no endings. if you can't figure out what's going to happen though jes' by reading the title... well.. then you jes' may be beyond help. go now, go... tell your friends... BE AN AMERICAN AND SEE THIS FILM.

... i gotcher update

2006-08-14T12:21:00.000-07:00

... well, not here. but i've got some here, and two of 'em here.
i know i'm pushing for readers and all, but the first is a chance for you all to VOTE (trust me) and the second link is me finally getting off my 'arse and working on my artsy stuff.

hope you all are well. i'm getting there.

... it a constant

2006-08-09T07:45:00.000-07:00

... balancing act that is. right now, i feel like i'm losing. i'm working so much. my insomnia is in full swing. and i sorta feel like i'm going to end up onna milk carton one of these days. i'm working my normal 8 hour +- shift daily. i go home, spend time with my wife when i can, watch an occasional Tivo'd show, she goes to bed and i jes'... can't. my mind is a freight train. running and running. fortunately, i've accomplished prolly 2 week's worth of work within about 3 days (well, nights) of pounding the keys and abusing the mouse. i think i'm working on average 12 hours a day now. wtf am i doin'?

i design in these weird, sometimes brilliant spurts of creativity. i know that sounds swollen-headed. it's not meant to be, it just... is. i designed an entire 15 page toastmaster brochure for a spring conference in 4 days. projects like that can take months of design, redesign, layout editing, formatting and more. 4 days. only (2) hitches that took less than a 1/2 day to iron out to hit the committee's deadline. i knew from the first moment i created the cover image that it'd be a bang up job. disturbing to me that when i think about how much time i blasted into those 4 days on it, i recall less than a few hours of actual work.

i find that when i sit here in my office, i storyboard out a project, a web design, a brochure (whatever!) and scrawl things on the whiteboard like hieroglyphs. half this shit i can't even read myself most of the time. but i sit back here (purposely hung whiteboard about 10+- feet against far wall so it's always in my visual range) at my desk and it jes' makes sense.

anyway, it's actually about 12am as i write this. i'll actually post once i review this for spelling errors and dyslexic foul-ups. i need to try to sleep. sheep are scared of me now, i've counted enough flocks to fill a countryside.

Sorry all... other than this gripe session of mine, i really have nothing intelligent to share with you all this week. i'm jes' tapped. what's worse, in less than 6 hours, i'll be back at the office repeating this cycle. i soooo love my job. it's taking me 10 years of shit jobs to get me here. i'm losing focus tho.... again with the tapped. (and no, i have no vacation time currently)

to quote a new friend of mine: today, i want everybody to "do good work!" i really am trying.

... you all know the saying

2006-08-04T10:54:00.000-07:00

... if you don't learn from your past, yer bound to repeat the same mistakes. luckily, my dearest friend D found it in her heart to send me this hilarious (although sick & wrong, for the record) website link to mother nature's way of reminding us never to forget those lessons. personally, i find the site below an absolute riot, but only 'cuz i'm a sucker for goddamned hilarious looking kittenzee-goodness, and am in NO WAY endorsing any badguy props or kudos or anything....

http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/

... what's that sound

2006-08-02T22:52:00.000-07:00

... under the ground? oh my gawd, sweet mother of all that's terrain, it's the MOLE PEOPLE! AAAAAAAAAARGH!! run for the hills, grab the sonic guns, i hear they don't like VIBRATIONS PEOPLE! Stomp the ground! that will help! it may stun them so the wimmins 'n childrens can escape from harm's way...

would someone please tell me what the frakk these sculptures are? and where's the pentagram they crawled out of?
hold me...

... bikers in heaven

2006-08-01T17:17:00.000-07:00

... have i ever told you how much i hate motorcycles? well, jes' got word that my very first girlfriend from my childhood was killed this last month (first weekend in july, i believe) in a motorcycle accident. i don't know the details, and frankly don't wanna. i jes know that my friend of the good 'ol days, Jennifer Gitchell passed away and the world is a little darker because if it.

she was a sweet gal, a dear heart and a beautiful person. i didn't keep in touch with her much at all throughout the years, but i do remember her smile and gleefull expression during my 10 year reunion (yesh, that too was years back) when i walked in the door and was hugged (mugged?) outta the blue by her. those memories we shared alone kept the bond strong like those 10 years never passed at all.

growing old can really suck. especially when you beat some of those folks you know and love in the race. i guess those of you religious folks may think that she beat us to the finish line, but i prefer to think it's the race that counts.

love ya, jennifer. hope there's helmets in heaven for ya with wings.

... rock on dood

2006-08-01T17:01:00.000-07:00

... oh yeah. that's right. i did it. wifee slept off a nasty headache on saturday and i managed to bulldawg this big gaddamned slap-o-stony-goodness into place! kitchen is 100% officially finished! can i get a woot woot?

did i mention that this roughly 34"x36" slab was one of the heaviest and most cumbersome thing i've ever lifted? holy crap was it stoopid for me to do alone. but i beat those odds, (and sorry-feeling sleepin' wifee) and did it. damned thing is about 150lbs. don't sound heavy to ya? you try lifting and setting, measuring, holding, grasping, gaspoing, dropping pencils, measuring tapes and the like a dozen times to get the layout and positioning right. 150lb equates to a ton-o-pain after 2 hours.

so, yeah. i'm done. i'm tapped too. now i'm back to avoiding the whole, "gotta redo that fireplace facade" area again. goodness the fun never ends. pics to post if i ever get that done in the future too. whimper...

it's called "mithril." Means 'expensive crap from somewhere in Europe' apparently. a close friend gave me the piece tho, so i'm one lucky sonofabuscuit fer sure. this is a cool close-up shot so you can see the detailed striations of mineraly-goodness.... or this is a shot of the orion nebula. I dunno. (ooooh, shiny)

this is simply a side view-o-goodness. why, you ask? 'cuz i've got two crushed fingers and a trigger happy camera finger that says i can. so there.

tell me it's purdy....

... gonna go in "depp"

2006-07-28T13:31:00.000-07:00

... gonna take the dive and likely see "everyone's fav' pirate" johnny as Capt. Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Carribean II this weekend with our favoritist friends D & L ! we actually take this fun and frivalty one step further and make it 'breffas-anna-movie' - 'cuz ya know - who wouldn't wanna follow up a good breffas of pancakes, eggs, hasbrowns and other goodness with a bunch of bloodthirsty pirates searching for gold? AAaaAAAaAAARGH MATEYS!

so keep yer britches on ya' scalliwags, a review will happen all in good time.

... excuse me ma'am

2006-07-23T21:10:00.000-07:00

... but there seems to be a froggie in my pond. er... soup. OH WHO CARES! great ooogly-moogly i have froggies! (insert happy dance ______ here!) remember when wifee and i purchased the taddies a few weeks ago as we were expanding our pond? well... they've grown fast fer sure, and of course are damned near impossible to keep track of. some are still true taddies, while others have feet and are in various stages of growing up! to give you an idea of his lil' napolean-esque size: the pond lily is about 4 inches in diameter! eeeep! no wonder he's on IT, instead of taking a dip in the water. he'd be dinner fer sure. we're sworn to let nature take it's course, (hopefully not turning him into a main course) so we didn't "safe" lil' juan jr. he'll make it thru. wonder if he's got any brudders or sisters yet?

... it's sooo hot

2006-07-23T19:29:00.000-07:00

... how hot is it? you can cook a chewie on the sidewalk. or the backyard. or the carpet apparently. 96 degrees was the highest we saw it. (which equates to around 85+- inside the house) erg. bring on the snow...

... meh (*professional term meaning 'meh')

2006-07-20T07:24:00.000-07:00

... i got nothin' left to give. sorry. it's around 12:35am as i write this. wth am i still up? i can't sleep anymore. when i do, it's shamefully brief. don't wanna wake up wifee tho, so at times i go sit and stare out the window.will post in the "real AM." thinking about this site and my others. trying to weed the animal sh*t off my site and onto the new one. willll the peoplz follow...? it's a mystery really. not sure who i'm foolin' anyway. i can't be serious for more than about 5 minutes anyway. talked to a coworker yesterday. during her convo. she said "whatever they do do, there needs to be a ......." doesn't matter what the rest of the words were: my mind stuck on the fact that she said "do do" (for those of you slower than me this AM: doo doo) wth is wrong with me?

i swear to gawd i'm 4 years old.

... meh

... i am resigned (EDITED)

2006-07-12T15:22:00.000-07:00

... to admit that i likely have met my match in the animal kingdom. many of you fellow bloggervillians know that i send out a weekly email to all my peeps (friends? fans? dunno) and write some silly commentary about the (3) three animals showcased. i then ask the email recipiants to email me their vote for their ONE favorite.

well. onna break today at the office, i was doing some research, and omgoodness.... i have indeed met my match. i actually BURST OUT LOUD in laughter over this lil' dude. he epitomizes everything i want inna pet. big attention-filled woogly eyes, hands that could likely whip me up a 4 course meal, and let's not forget that prehensile tail for when he gets wet ... i can jes' hang him outside to dry! it's genius i tell you!

(blink blink)

i swear to gad, if it could talk, it would have yoda's voice saying "being smooshied, i think. powerful force your hands have..." and then harping to me about completing my jedi training. seriously. i look at it and a lil' piece of me jes' dies inside. he's even got the "THINKER" poise going on! i can't believe my eyes! hell, i can't believe the size of his frakkin' eyes. i'm in luv. 'wunder where he keeps his lil' lightsaber?

i needa moment to catch my breath. hold on... seriously. my knees are jelloey-goodness.

anyway, newly recovered, i'm seriously thinking about bringing my "cute vote-o-rama" to this site. that way, countless MEELIONS could vote and i could...well... learn to count above 26. (current email pool of voters. crap this could get ugly) What do you all think? interested in taking this fun & silly animal cute vote thingee to the next level? tell your friends about this, your family members, goldfish, and anyone else you think can chime in and give me an opinion! Let yer voice be heard!

7-13-06 UPDATE
(ummmm, hello peoplz, if the lack of actual VOTES for yesh or noh! in the comments section of this entry are any sign of how future "vote-fer-yer-fav-animal" posts would be, this isn't gonna work... Please consider a posting a VOTE for your support or general disdain of adorable animals being paraded around my site strickly for your amusement.... and yesh, as well as your other cooh comments i so adore... )

... i always feel like

2006-07-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

... somebody's watchin' meeeee! ahhh, what a great song from the mid 80's. yeah, well... the point to this entry is that now there really is something watchin over us in our lil' world at home! see, there's a certain date coming up that i won't mention, that i don't really like to celebrate anyway, so don't ask the date (following along okay so far, peoplz?) 'cuz i won't tell you; well, wifee disregarded my wishes not to do anything for me. wifee's are allowed to do this apparently and not suffer any ill consequences. (didn't see that in the rulebook!?)

i got home on satgurday after a long toastmaster event of fun learning, friends, and a satisfying mexican lunch with friends and immediately proceeded to go outside to feed the koi fishees in their happy new home. we've still not gone back to the quarry yet to get more slatestone, so i was basically head down, focused and intent on dropping in the koi pellets and retreating to my favorite bench to watch them eat. little did i know that i was in for a surprise! while feeding the fish, i noticed a odd string of what looked like ribbon IN my pond near the water's edge... "what's this?" i thought to myself as my eyes followed the ribbon up to a "happy early ----day!" note tied around this fat dude's neck. i honestly "eep'ed" with joy and simultaneously looked up to the master bedroom window above the pond to see wifee's "shytte-eating GRIN" staring back at me thru the glass. funny thing is, our new guardian looks a lot like mr puddins, dimensionally-speaking.... ;)

"kitten-buddha" now protects our backyard...
our pond is now safe.
i have a smile across my face,
and wifee is cooh.
(even tho she breaks rulz)

... you really otter

2006-07-07T11:01:00.000-07:00

... focus on the issues here. it's friday. i have nothing of any consequence to share with the world. i'm having focusing issues, attention span lapses, i'm tired, cranky & otherwise prolly not the best person to be around. thank goodness my office has no windows & a door i can close to lock out the world. 'course that doesn't really work 'cuz i'm still stuck with myself. luckily, my animal kingdom friends can convey my current mindset. enjoy your weekend everyone. i'm prolly going to grab a few bottles of whatever and do some pirouettes like this lil' dude's about to... cheers.

... does he still stand for

2006-07-05T07:41:00.000-07:00

... truth, justice, and all that stuff? yesh, it's true people. he does. and that line is actually said in the film. wifee, D & L, and i saw superman returns this 4th of july and well.. we've all got one thing to say about it overall... wow.

now, this is the opinion of me.. jes' me.. but i can honestly say that i was very impressed overall with Bryan Singer's film adaptation of the original franchise. Bryan's style is that of character development, and not all action, explosions and violence. it's superbly filmed, backed by a fairly decent storyline and completes the overall tone with tons of nods toward the original films that creates an occasional emotional "pang" to those who watched the original two films with awe. special note to all that have NOT seen this film.. this is NOT AN ACTION FILM. It's a story that tries to, go figure, tell a story of heroes, lost love, newfound purpose and more...

note that i said two (2) films. that's right. creative merit and the magic of hollywood has decided that the latter (2) films never happened. disasters of script, acting, and effects anyway, it's better that they lay to rest anyway... Bryan picks up 5 years after the end of part II, where, if you all recall, superman shows lois his fortress of solitude, and eventually reveals himself to her as clark... of course, that magical kiss that wipes her noggin' of all previous event clears the way for his five year trek that builds the story for today's film.

for the record, there are some really really stoopid and almost unnecessary things in this film. a couple of plot drops that pissed me off, but thankfully there was enough of that old superman/clark bumbling humor, dasterdly badguys, (kevin spacey is a goddmamned genius portraying Lex Luthor, previous held by gene hackman) foolish henchmen, and even the dimwitted charm and ageless wonder of Jimmy, the daily planet's newsroom photographer.

overall: loved it. loved it back in 1978 as that wide-eyed 6 year-old, loved it yesterday when i felt again.. like that 6 year-old as special effects caused a wondrous sonic boom and push of air as he soared back down toward earth. it was good to believe... even if jes' for a moment.

... if you build it

2006-07-01T17:34:00.000-07:00

... well, it'll get built. right? this is the result of about 8 hours of work today.
it was a tough day. over 1060lbs of slate, 15 bags of peat rock, a little swearing, a fair amount of arguing, but a whole lotta coolness now that we're getting there!
a ton of water to avoid dehydration, some maddie-stick-throws and we soon determined that we are indeed needing about another ton of slate, and prolly another 20 bags of the peat rock/gravel.

this is simply a side shot to show you some more details. the circle patio/BBQ pit space is only about 8ft round currently. it will be completed at about 10-12ft in diameter. plus we need to rebuild and space out the rest of the slate around the koi pond. it's increased size strained the amount of slate we already had! now that larger pieces have been introduced, we want to work some of those into the 'rim o the pond' to break up the space a bit!

wifee and i are totally thrilled to have seen close to a half dozen huge dragonflies magicall appear since we expanded the pond. it's amazing. they're acrobatic graceful and HOLY-QUICK as they shoot across my yard scooping up lil' buggies and roosting on exposed branches to chow 'em down! go guys! there's these amazing fire-tipped dragons, and some mean looking black ones with 2 white strips down each wing... sooo cooh!

okay okay okay... so looky at the top of this pic. do you see some little froggy paws? and a little schmoozle? eeep! my lil' frogger babers are growin' up sooo fast! *sniff* i'm so proud... hold on... i needa moment... *snerk* omg omg they are so cute too. can't wait till they get all grown up and start asking for the car keys n stuff... i'll jes look at them with my bestest stern look and say "go back to your pond!" ... snicker...

more pics later as we progress. we're quite happy so far tho! must go lay down tho. spine may actually be jello after the day's lifting and lugging....

... what i wouldn't do

2006-06-30T13:42:00.000-07:00

... for about 3 more sets of hands. wifee and i are going to tackle some large projects this weekend. why, you ask? because we like to suffer perhaps. nothing like back-breaking work after a long week of work, stress and strain.

here's a shot of the original pond. small. preformed plastic shape. cute. ultimately unsatisfying tho, and the koi and japanese ornate goldfish needed more playing room. all the dense foilage grew in well tho, so we can't wait to finish this new phase and created the lush-goodness again.

here's the current stage of the pond expansion. the big golden-white foot long Koi is super happy, and his little ornate friends are pleased as well. we've damned near tripled the space, and they've got close to 1000 gallons to play in. old slate is temporarily placed until we pick up the rest this weekend and begin the assembly of the jigsaw puzzle! have i ever mentioned how badly i hate jigsaw puzzles? ;)

here's a shot of the side pool! it's a 24"x24" round pond insert/home to (3) saved walmart feederfish goldies, and (6) tadpoles! eep! we're gonna have froggie-goodness everywhere! unless they get eaten, or run away or something... giggle. once the slate is all laid out, having a "natural break" in the water creates a feeling of unity between the space and also is just a totally cool focal point of froggy-goodness. tee hee. it's gonna be like a muppet froggy chorus in about 2 months! eep! ribbit!

for those of you who are visually challenged, and love pretty diagrams in order to get the full effect, here's a drawing of what the end result should eventually look like. we're hoping to get enough slate to finish the pond areas and the BBQ pit circle. the area underneath our awning will soon be updated too - hence the stained concrete slab theory you see represented. The big gray circle is simply a current patio glass tabletop for general reference.

i'll post more shots as "project: fishee goodness" continues... so, whaddya'all think? can we do it? (or more important, who can come help?)