well the day has finally come. its pouring rain like you wouldn't believe. i wish it was 9:30 and i was in the club listening to tiesto spin. i can't deal with all the crap before hand, work is too much today, the rain is too much today but tonight in the end it will all be worth it.

tomorrow is new years eve! these next two days, i am sure, are going to drag on and on as they usually do when i have something really exciting going on. tomorrow night is going to be incredible, i have been waiting for this for a long time. ever since i saw the dvd of tiesto in new york on nye a few years back i thought how awesome it would be if he were ever to come to LA. i still can't believe my mom is going to be babysitting for us, she is the best we are so lucky! and broken toes or stiff necks aren't going to stop us!!

wow, i can't believe the year is already over. it seems like yesterday it was january 2004 and now its going to be 2005. its going to be REAL hard getting used to writing 2005 since i never really got used to 2004.

this year has been a great year. heather and i are doing awesome, we are both extremely happy with one another. well i am really happy with her, can't speak for her but i think things are the best they ever have been with us. we've had some really exciting times this past year, the top of the list has to be our trip to hawaii though. are trip to big bear was a lot of fun as well. although our upcoming night out may rival that ;) we are very much in love and i am extremely proud that she is my wife.

heather graduated from college this year. with high honors. she did an awesome job especially since the years before were so hard, she was able to push through and got the job done. to do it with high honors is just unbelievable! everyday she gets offers to all these universities wanting her to come there.

the kids have had an exciting year as well. vicky is doing much better in school now, on her last report card she had all a's and b's which is far different then the report card she had before, we won't mention the grades on that... she also started playing basketball and is very excited. cameron is doing very well in school. he also got to play soccer this year for the first time and loved it. he is very good at it as well. he is signed up for basketball which starts in january. joey started preschool this year and is making tons of friends. he also signed up for t-ball and can't wait for it to start. all in all i think the kids had a wonderful year as well.

work has been good for me this year. lots of exciting changes took place. i finally got our software package up and running for our customers and it has been highly successful. lots of in house programs have been modified and have made work a lot easier for a lot of the employee's here.

i started blogging this year and its kind of neat to be able to go back and look through a lot of my old posts. lots of things have happened that i pretty much forgot but they are all here with pictures and everything! i can't wait to see what happens next year.

happy new year!

tonight we had our family christmas party. wow we have a lot of people in our family!! there must have been at least 40 people there! we all gathered at gramma bobbie's house for good food and presents. the night was a lot of fun, we all got wonderful gifts. this christmas has been great and i am glad its over!! now i can turn my attention to tiesto this friday night! party time!!

here are the pictures from tonight, lots of blurry ones! i swear those weren't me, the kids kept taking the camera from me ;)

today has been a wonderful day filled with joy and happiness, no really! my mind is still swimming so i will leave you with are pictures from the day. everybody got everything they wanted and more!

i hope you all have as good of a christmas as us. merry christmas and love to all!

the morning started about 5am with cameron crawling in bed in agonizing pain of an earache. not knowing what to do i rubbed his ear and head and he fell asleep for an hour then woke up again. great, what a way to start christmas eve. we finally got up around 8 and got ready. i had to do some last minute christmas shopping so heather got elected to take cameron to the doctor.

urgent care was open till 2 so they got going as soon as possible. i headed out not to long after them. within an hour i got a frantic call. the doctor has refused to see cameron, there is a problem with our insurance. WHAT!?!?! i called the doctor and they said his insurance was cancelled in august. what the FUCK!? not knowing what to do i tell heather to take him to the emergency room. i tried to call my insurance company and of course they are closed, so i call the doctor back. ask them to look up my name and see if that is still active. she said yes no problem at all. so i ask the next logical question, how do you cancel a 7 year olds insurance policy when he doesn't even have one, he is just a dependent on mine. if anybody should be "de-activated" shouldn't it be the subscriber? the one who pays each month!? she said yes it made no sense and that she was sorry but there was nothing she could do. thank you very much, merry christmas, biatch.

as luck should have it the emergency room turned out to be the better choice anyways. the waiting room at the urgent care by the time heather got there it was a 3 hour wait. not knowing what to do i went to the emergency room to meet them there but when i got there they were already in seeing the doctor. now that is service, i hung out for a minute and they came out. all in all it cost $100 instead of the $20 copay but it was $100 well spent. the doctor was awesome the nurse was extremely friendly. now that is service!

so i went back to shopping and heather and the kids went off to fill prescriptions and get back home. there is nothing like shopping on christmas eve. there are tons of people EVERYWHERE, nobody knows how to drive and pretty much everybody is rude. where's the christmas spirit?? oh well, i think i got everything done so now i am home and we are trying to clean up. we are listening to a bing crosby christmas and starting to get in the spirit! the kids just sprinkled the reindeer food all over the yard so now santa won't miss our house.

oh i forgot the best thing about the doctor. the doctor said the best thing to do for the kids and santa claus is to give them benedryl. can you believe it? hahahaha, perfect!!

If you are ever going to go to the southcoast mall you need to take my mom. She totally got me lost took me in dark alleys and scared me half to death. But we made it to the car and she knew where we were at all times. Purely amazing!

my kids are freaks. They ask for the wierdest things. My son wants a shark that glides in the pool. We are in the middle of winter, he is not going to be able to play with it for a couple of months.

Ok we are off to chicks sporting goods... Apparently I am getting on my mom's nerves she just threatened to smack me! We have so much fun!

Finally getting the blackberry up and running I thought I would try the browser... So far so good. Mom and I are shopping right now. I am standing at the checkout counter right now and everyone is staring at me. I am such a geek.

dammit it posted twice and I can't figure out how to delete, oh well still stoked this actually works!

Finally getting the blackberry up and running I thought I would try the browser... So far so good. Mom and I are shopping right now. I am standing at the checkout counter right now and everyone is staring at me. I am such a geek.

for the past three days i have been trying to setup our new nextel blackberry phones. finally at 7 this morning i got it up and running properly. in order to get the phones to properly work we had to install a piece of software on the server in which my nextel sales guy promised would be very simple, ha!

i got the blackberry's on tuesday, thinking it would be pretty simple i sat down opened them up and started installing. the directions didn't make much sense but i got through them ok. everything was installed and supposedly working but i could not get the phone to interact with the server at all. so thinking i did something wrong i uninstalled and reinstalled everything. nothing worked. finally giving up i called it a day.

the following day i emailed my sales guy and he proceeded to tell me that i had to just be patient and it would work, but i didn't buy that and finally he got his tech person on the phone. after he couldn't figure it out the tech got another tech on the phone. after about 3 hours she proceeds to tell me i installed it wrong the new user you create can not be an administrator. bullshit i say but she is insistent. i open the directions and sure enough that is what the directions say. she tells me i have to uninstall and create the user correctly and reinstall. she was really upset that we wasted all this time and i didn't follow the directions.

so now its 6 o'clock and i am pissed, i go home and not being able to get it out of my mind, i start working at it again. still not convinced that the user can not be an admin i do as the directions tell me step by step. very cumbersome let me tell you. finally i get the user created and i go to install the software and just as i thought you can not install an application like this unless you are an admin. duh! so now i am really upset and can not figure it out. so its 11pm and i am tired and pissed so i call it a night. did i mention i was pissed... oh you don't know the half of it!

in the morning i had an idea, i remember reading somewhere that mdac needed to be version 2.8. i skipped over this step originally because in the book it was under the section of the database, since i was using sql server 2000 and not a local msde install i thought i could just skip that secion entirely. after downloading the latest version of mdac magically everything worked! finally, this is how it should have worked two days ago. now i am kinda pissed because i know i am not the only one that has this configuration with these blackberry's there is no way i should have been on the phone for 4 hours and in that process for the tech to tell me the user can not be an administrator. thats just completely unacceptable. oh well its all working now thank god cause it was a pain in the ass!

anybody out there that is trying to install the blackberry manager for exchange and is having problems let me know, i am an expert now!

our final day started with the alarm blaring at 6:30am. we got up, packed and then headed to snow valley for our very first skiing trip. when we finally got there, i was nervous, very nervous. we got our equipment and then headed over to drop the kids off at their lesson. afterwards heather and i went to the bottom of the bunny hill and put on our ski's.

after much of a hassle we both got them on and we were both still standing. we sloshed around a bit and finally got the nerve up to go to the lifts. heather befriended a nice guy to teach her how to get on and off the lift. i was not so lucky, i couldn’t find a snowbunny anywhere, so i followed behind them. now i never liked the ride skyway to tomorrowland at disneyland that got closed a while back and these lifts was that ride times 100. anyways i get in line and after heather and her new friend go up i get up to the lift and get scooted away. not to bad, the ride was long and we kept getting higher and higher. finally we get to the top and not quite sure i know what to do my ski's touch the snow and i get pushed down a little hill and amazingly enough i didn't fall.

so now heather and i are at the top of the mountain and neither one of us are quite sure what to do. we both were wishing we were with the kids in the kiddyland learning how to do pizza slices. finally we work up the nerve and pushed over the top and we were off. very slowly going to one side not knowing how to turn we did figure out the pizza slice and how to stop. after much work we turned to the other side and were doing pretty good until i lost my balance and fell on my ass. as i fell my boot unhinged out of the ski which is prolly a good thing otherwise i would have a broken ankle. now this is the hardest part, trying to put a ski on level land was hard enough but to do it on the hill was even harder, yes I know it was the bunnyhill but it was still VERY difficult. finally after i got back up, heather thought it would be good for her to learn how to get up to show me how to do it.

it seemed like it took about an hour to get down the hill and by the time we finished you would have thought we ran a marathon. we went down a couple of more times each time we got better and better. next time i think we will try snowboarding. even though they say skiing is easier i think snowboarding would be easier, if you want to stop all you have to do is fall on your butt and i had that part down!

the kids were awesome, i really only got to see joey go down and he was really good. i got some video of him that i will post later. the only one that freaked out was cameron. when i talked to the instructors they said he was doing really well, he just got freaked out when they tried to take him up on the lift. poor guy couldn't handle it and i understand why. maybe next time we will be able to get him up.

we are now home. we have LOTS of shopping left to do. the trip was incredible. it was a lot of fun having friends with us, we all had lots of fun. as we left we promised to make this an annual party for us all.

the altitude is finally getting the best of joey, he woke up really early this morning with a terrible earache. laying in bed with us we tried to get him to calm down and relax. after about an hour of screaming and yelling his ear finally popped and everything was normal again. poor guy doesn't now what is going on with him. vicky is having problems with the altitude as well. her nose keeps bleeding. i don't know what i am going to do with my kids.

on a different note, i think i an turning into a pyro maniac. i am obsessed with the fire. now that i got it going i want to keep it going, we are running out of wood to burn so i may have to start burning the trash or the kids clothes to keep it blazing. i have so many problems as everybody knows, this is just one more thing add to the LONG list.

we decided to go check out snow summit and nick thought it would be a good idea to buy us all tickets. now none of us have EVER skied... nick and michelle are the only ones so tomorrow when we should be making our way down the mountain we will be learning how to ski. very scary for all of us. if i don't come out dead or with out a broken leg things will be good. shall make for an interesting day this is for sure.

we are all at home now and its about 8:30. tomorrow we need to wake up very early to get ready for what will for sure to be a long day. i did not want to go skiing. yes it will be very fun and after tomorrow i am sure i will write a great story about how much fun we all had but until then i will be very nervous and very freaked out!

today started about 5:30am with vicky wanting breakfast. yes i know this is very typical except she went to bed at midnight, which is not typical. afterwards we got up about 7:45 to get ready for the day. we all had breakfast took showers and headed out to kmart to get joey some gloves. on the way out we stopped by the macis' house to see if they needed anything... they finally made it up last night about 9:30p or so. nick and the kids came over while michelle had a huge headache and went to bed. smart girl. anyways we went to kmart got our stuff and made it back home.

the afternoon was spent between both our cabins with drinks and food. lots of fun, about 5:30 we headed to the alpine mountain to go sledding. as soon as we pulled up joey freaked out. this is the same place we were last year when he and i went down the hill in the inner tube and rolled over 3 or 4 times. that was the first and last time we did it. finally got him to the top of the hill and after the first time down he was hooked! come on dad, come dad he would scream as we went back up the hill time and time again. we all had a great time! about 9:00p we headed out to the cowboy express restaurant (i forget the name of the place i know it has cowboy in it, i will look it up later i am way to tired right now). after they finally sat us down we had a good dinner. the food was so good on the way home joey decided to throw up all over himself to save it for later.

now we are home, cameron and vicky are both upstairs asleep. joey and i just got out of the shower cleaning all the throw up and stuff out of his hair, while heather is trying to clean out his clothes. fun stuff i tell ya!

oh finally got the fire started. yes i know, i still can't believe it. the problem, wet wood. no matter how many books and magazines you burn if the wood is wet its just not going to catch on fire. i almost resorted to throwing in the kitchen furniture but i held back.

well we finally made it! it only took us 4 hours. we drove up the mountain the regular way, there was a couple of signs saying route 18 was closed and use an alt route but they sign made it seem like it was going to give us a detour (never did it say, TURN AROUND MORONS, YOU ARE GOING THE WRONG WAY). we finally made it to the top and was greeted by cal trans telling us to turn around. the alt route to big bear was to go all the way back down the mountain get back on the freeway and go 10 miles up the road to hwy 38. hwy 38 is the LONG way to big bear, up the back of the mountain. of course we got stuck behind a big dump truck that went 30 mph the entire way.

we finally made it to our little cabin. it is actually really nice, small but not too small. there is a loft upstairs with two king size beds and a queen size bed in the downstairs bedroom. right outside the cabin is a playground so the kids are excited. to bad for the neighbors cause our kids are LOUD!. we are all starving now so once we unpack i think we are going to explore and see what there is to eat. our friends haven't gotten here yet, they didn't leave until 1 or so, so who knows when they will show up.

[update: ok, i am an idiot. i can not start a fire, i have tried and tried and the log just won't catch on fire. i have burned an entire fucking magazine page by page and still i got nothing. i should have payed better attention in cubscouts i guess but this is just ridiculous. and now everybody is freezing and resorted to putting on every single article of clothing they brought.]

last night before shopping with mom we put the christmas ornaments up. this year was a lot of fun. no fighting or bickering went on, very festive. i forgot my stupid camera today so i haven't yet had a chance to post the pictures, they will come later tonight.

afterwards, mom and i headed to costco. shopped there for a while then went to the brea mall. that mall just sux, they have nothing cool there at all. afterwards, we decided to drive back to kohls, which is right next to costco (yes i know we sure know how to save gas). shopped there for a minute, found out they had nothing that we needed, then decided to go to the main place mall. mom and i had a good time although i think i got on her nerves quite often. for some reason she kept running away from me.

got home about 11:30 and was completely wired on the double espresso i decided to get at nordstrom's about 9 o'clock. boy heather was NOT happy, let me tell you. i wanted to play and show her what i bought her but for some reason she wanted to sleep. what the fuck? its 11:30 at night... what’s the harm in playing with me for a half hour, getting up at 5a means you get 5 hours asleep which is WAY more then the average person needs, right? sorry baby, i love you.

[update: here are the pictures from last night.]

we leave for big bear friday morning. this year we are only going for four days. last year we went for the week, through christmas. it was a lot of fun but was a hassle cause all the shopping and everything had to be done a week early. this year we thought we would save the hassle and go up the week before christmas.

i just checked weather.com to see how the weather is going to be. so far it looks like its not going to snow. kind of a bummer, and kind of not. i am a baby when it comes to driving in the snow and have never had to put chains on. so i was getting nervous about that, other then that once we are up there the snow is lots of fun as long as you don't have to drive in it.

we are staying in a cabin that is right around the block from a place called magic mountain. basically its a hill that they put man made snow (if its not snowing) for the kids to go sledding and stuff. we are going with some friends who are staying in a cabin close right down the street from ours. they are talking about going skiing or snowboarding. we have never tried either, so we shall see how that goes. with my luck i will break my leg.

this morning vicky and the rest of her 5th grade class had their christmas choir perforamance. it was pretty good but i am not real sure why they do it in the middle of the day. don't they realize its hard for parents who work to get off work at 9 in the morning? maybe they do it on purpose so they don't have to setup a big auditorium for all the parents.

check out the pictures, and i did put some video up there as well, although it is a really big file to download, so i think i may edit it. the pictures aren't very good, the lighting in the cafeteria sux. i tried to touch them up in photoshop but i think i made them worse then better oh well...

heather was called to vegas on a "family emergency". come to find out, after they drove for 7 hours it was a false alarm. typical. so now the sisters were supposed to be on their way home but instead one of the sisters decides she is mad at the other two and decides to leave them there. again, typical. heather's youngest sister was the driver got bent out of shape over god knows what and left her oldest sister who is 6 months pregnant and her middle sister, heather who has 3 kids at home, in vegas with no way home. the only plane they could get on was at 10 o'clock tonight so they have decided to get on the bus to save $200. oh you gotta love your family who is supposed to always be there for ya, especially during the holidays.

[update: heather just called, they missed the 5:00 bus to santa ana, even though they have been standing in line for over an hour and the bus is still there. now they are scheduled to get into claremont, yes claremont, at 11:00 tonight. claremont is 45 minutes from anaheim. poor heather, i would have killed somebody by now.]

today was joey's birthday party at chuck-e-cheese's, yes i know for the past week i have spelled it 6 different ways. sorry i obviously don't know how to spell, nor do i know where to capitalize or punctuate (i bet you didn't even know i knew that word). i took a test online one time and it basically said i made a bastardization of the english language and should stop speaking or writing it. anyways, the party was lotsa fun. joey scored with a bunch of cool toys!

last night heather's mom called, from vegas, with a family emergency and needed her and her sisters to come out there as soon as possible. after the party they took off leaving me with all the kids, great! well luckily our friends decided to take vicky home with them to spend the night so its just me and the boys. they have opened every single gift joey has gotten, played with each one for 3 minutes and then moved on to the next leaving a trail of trash and ripped up boxes all over the house. i swear these kids have a.d.d. worse then i do... this is going to be a long night, heaven help me.

joey's birthday was a lot of fun. he got everything he asked for and tonight he is spending the night with his gramma so i am sure he will get everything he has asked for and LOTS more. they are going to the movies to see finding neverland. they are going to have a great time.

tomorrow is joey's birthday party at chucky-e-cheese's and vicky has a basketball game at the same time. not sure how we are going to do that?

ok need to make some drinks now... its friday night!!!

i just took heather out for our weekly lunch date. we decided to go to the macaroni grill. i know this is sad but when we walked into the place i swear that the girl i made in my sim game became real and now is the hostess at the restaraunt. yes this is very sad, but heather did agree she looked just like her. maybe my sims are all becoming real and are going to come kill me, im getting scared, i have done some bad things to them.

today is my youngest son's 5th birthday. all he wants is the crash twinsanity xbox game. heather said when he woke up he wanted his present RIGHT NOW! cause he was playing twinsanity before he went to school. how does he know he's getting it? its going to be a big disappointment tonight if he gets um lets see, a red wagon or something.

tonight for his birthday dinner he has chosen red robin. why he picked that place we have no idea, i don't think he has ever been there. its heather's least favorite place to go, which i am sure she will share with you, so it should make for an interesting night. saturday is his birthday party at chucki-e-cheese's with all his friends from school.

[update: here is heather's explanation...]

Dear Santa,
For Christmas all I want is for all the children who have nothing to have what I have. Please Santa.

i just read an article on wired, Spyware on My Machine? So What?. end users just have no idea how bad spyware actually is. they think installing a program (toolbars that give you smiley faces in your email) here or there and giving up some of their privacy is no big deal well i beg to differ. if you want to give up your privacy thats fine by me, but the bigger issue is having these programs on your corporate network. we have two t-1 lines and for the past 2 weeks have had nothing but bandwidth problems. finally after going to each machine and installing spybot found out each user had at least 100 spyware programs on their computers. 2 t-1 lines is a lot of bandwidth especially for a small company with only 40 users. if you don't mind spyware and want these programs its fine by me just install it at home and don't call me when your computer doesn't function anymore.

wow, do you use itunes? if so, have you ever watched the visualizer. omg that has got to be the raddest thing i have ever seen. it can't even compare to windows media. for the past half hour i put on armin van buuren's 76 cd and have just stared at the coolest colors and designs i have ever seen. very cool.

finally feeling pretty good and actually being able to stay on my feet it has to rain. and not a normal california rain this is the type of rain you have in vermont if its not snowing. now we are stuck in the house with nothing to do. nothing to do except PLAY SIMS2!! woohoo, where i last left off, john phucsalot has now married his maid and she is pregnant. three other sims in pleastantview are still in love with john and keep calling for him. the kids are screaming your a stupid face, your a stupid face. oh wait this is real life, not my simulated life. hmm, they are so close that its hard to tell which is what.

oh great. i for some unknown reason have installed sims2 on my computer. so far i have created a sim name john phucsalot and have turned him into a male whore. he has had sex made woohoo with every sim in the town of pleasantview. oh this what i needed to do, become addicted to this game. it is after midnight and have been playing the game for over 2 hours. what have i done?!?! and to make it worse i have my wife laying next to me saying don't stop playing come on it gets funner although she plays the game much differently then me. ya she is the equivalent to the drug dealer in high school saying come on take this it will make you cool. bad, bad, bad!

ok, i know i have completely lost it. as i lay here in bed watching jimmy neutron with joey and cameron for the 20th time i decided to see what i would look like with a tattoo. what do you think? yes i know i am HOTT!

vicky had basketball pictures today and then a birthday party to go to and cameron and heather had a boyscout field trip to the nixon library. joey and i decided to go to gramma bobbies house. not being able to lay in bed one more minute we headed out. the drive over was not easy, every bump i drove over felt like somebody was kicking me. finally we made it and had a fun relaxing time. haven't had a chance to spend much time with my gramma in the past month so it was good to catch up with her. i think i over did it though, we were there for a couple of hours but my body was telling me that i better get back in bed with an ice pack.

joey and i are now home after stopping at burger king. i am back in bed getting iced up while joey is watching the fairly odd parents, again! oh no, joey just figured out how the tivo works. he keeps rewinding the last 5 minutes over and over and over again. this is going to be a fun afternoon. bleep, bleep, bleep from the tivo is all i hear over and over again.

after not being able to take a shower in 2 days i felt extremely gross. finally, to my wife's excitement, i was able to take a shower this morning. although it was not easy by any means it felt really good. changing my bandages though was a completely different story. imagine having to rip off a bandaid that has glued to your skin for three days... now imagine having to rip that bandaid off in the most sensitive part of your body. fun stuff i tell ya.

any guy thinking about getting a vasectomy make sure you don't have a cold. coughing every 5-10 minutes is NOT good.

ok, its pretty sad when you lay in bed all day and you watch nothing but cartoons. especially when your kids aren't even home. heather and the kids are at boyscouts now and i have watched spongebob, fairly odd parents, hey arnold and danny phantom. all the same shows i have watched with my kids 50 times, i could repeat all the words, and still i sit here and watch. now i have switched over to channel 2 to watch one of my favorite shows, joan of arcadia and guess what its not on. frosty the snowman, yes the same frosty the snowman that has been coming on year after year since 1969 is on. what is the deal with cartoons? do they never make new ones? how is it possible that i have seen every single cartoon out there at least 10 times each. oh i am losing lost it, i need to get out of bed before these cartoons rot my brain.

oh i did update my wifes blog. she was sick of it and wanted some things added to it, like pictures and stuff. i used a similar style to mine check it out. oh did i mention i am bored out of my mind? i am going crazy!

oh no, the thermometer is getting red and now frosty is about to melt. they are now putting him on a train to the north pole. hmm, didn't realize you could take a train to the north pole, but then again this is a cartoon and frosty is a man made out of snow, so i am not real sure why i am trying to rationalize this. oh yes i have lost it. and just think i have not taken any drugs at all today, not even asprin. scary

i am BORED out of my mind. i have 8 mtv channels and i swear i have seen jay-z and lincoln park singing the same song 20 times. they play nothing but rap, even on the mtv rock channels. what the fuck?! i can either watch jay-z and lincoln park, eminem, pdiddy, tupac or salt n pepa. so instead of that crap i am now watching maisy the mouse right now, which is way better then listening to jayz, they are singing:

my name is terrence and i like to keep dry
my name is terrence and i wear a nice tie


my name is thimber and im a mighty shark
i like to scare ya -- he's a scaredy shark boo
im not
am too
im not
are too
are are
ohh ohh


im one cool frog and my name is tub
i like to go swiiiiiiiming
with a rub a dub dub
nice bongos tub

somebody shoot me. i need to get my hands on some more valium my doctor gave me yesterday!

some interesting notes on vasectomy. they have been around since the late 19th century though they didn't start out as family planning.

Since the late 19th century. The first published study into the effects of ligating the vas deferens was published in London in 1830. It didn't start out as family planning - it started out as a method of controlling unwanted sections of society such as "Delinquents, degenerates, drug habitues and idiots".

for the next couple of days i will be sitting in bed recuperating. this afternoon i had a very uncomfortable procedure for a man, a vasectomy. we have 3 kids and could not handle another. we have had too many scares so i finally toughened up, bit the bullet and had the procedure today. the doc gave me a prescription for a valium to relax me and told me to take it about an hour before the appointment. the appointment was for noon so as we were driving there i popped it about 11:30. heather and i sat in the waiting room and at 12:15 i was feeling REALLY good. still no sign of them calling me in i walked up to the front desk and asked if they forgot about me. she said no that they were setting up. about 12:30 she finally called us in.

now my doctor's office is run by st joseph's, a catholic hospital that does not allow vasectomies so they had to take us up to the 4th floor where st joe's leases out to a different doctor that is not apart of the church. very weird i know but finally we get up there and they put me in a room ask me to strip down and wait for the doctor. by this time its almost 1 o'clock and the effects of the valium have completely worn off. heather stayed in the room with me to give me moral support which was actually pretty good cause the doctor told her everything i was supposed to do afterwards. as he prep'd me, i felt very awkward. the procedure took all of about 20 minutes. the most uncomfortable part was when he gave me the shot to numb me, i about jumped out of my skin. i am now back at home lying in bed with an ice pack on, which i will be for the next 2-3 days. i have been here for about an hour and am already bored out of my mind. i am sure i will be posting a lot of random things in the next couple of days so be prepared.

ok i just saw the coolest thing ever. a modern lava lamp called a laserpod. check this thing out its rad! yes i know its geeky but hey, thats me.

The Laserpod, from British lighting firm Plugg, is a sleek, laser-powered lamp that can turn even the most boring room into an ambient make-out zone. Designed by artist Chris Levine and photographer Mario Testino, the lamp projects a constantly morphing constellation of red lights onto the ceiling or into an enclosed dome. A second setting throws a thin blanket of blue light behind the constellation, providing an aurora-like cover under which you can attempt to hit on your best friend's sister.

after about a week of network issues i think they are finally solved. yesterday morning everything came to a head when absolutely nothing worked when i got in. for some unknown reason every website was blocked by our webblocker. we had some huge bottleneck somewhere so i couldn't even connect to the firewall to see what was going on. it was a nightmare. finally after having to plug my computer directly into the firewall was i able to connect to it and fix the corrupted file. after that was fixed the network was still running extremely slow. on a random thought i looked at the back of the router and realized that the light was orange not green. weird that means its running at 10mbps not 100, hmm. i changed the cable out and voila everything is working now. how a cable goes bad without anybody touching it i have no idea but i am glad its all working now. we can all go back to surfing for porn working now, i am a hero for about an hour.