Ft Walton Beach
Just chillin’
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I hate salt water!
On the beach in Ft Walton Beach, Florida. Been in the water and I must say that I still hate salt water with a passion!!
No jelly fish so far but the current is rough and the seaweed is like floating shrapnel. I’m thinking I could have seen this at Galveston Beach.
I guess I shouldn’t be so bitter. A few more days and maybe I’ll be more accepting.
Now back to the water!
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi
We are staying overnight in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on our way to Ft Walton Beach, Florida. We figured it would be a nicer drive to have less distance to travel on Sunday before we have to check in to our condo on the beach. It’ll be about a four-hour drive. We drove for about eight hours today (Saturday). We were going to stop in Jackson, MS but decided that it was still early when we arrived (about 4pm) that Hattiesburg didn’t seem too much of a jaunt (about 2 hours) since it was still early in the afternoon.
So, we are currently at the Comfort Inn off Hwy 49. It’s the 4th of July and while I was getting dinner to bring back to the hotel room, I found out that they don’t do jack shit for the 4th in this town. The drive-thru girls at the Wendy’s said that the Wal-Mart used to host a fireworks show but not anymore. A lot of good that information did for me. They did say that some churches in the area do fireworks shows but they weren’t for sure.
I just took my dog outside for a final potty for the night before bedtime and I did hear some fireworks. Most of them were little pops here and there meaning they were individuals probably lighting black cats. In one part of the sky, I did see some bigger “explosions” of fireworks but they weren’t consistent enough to prove to me that they were a “show.” Anyway, it’s kind of a bum deal to not have a fireworks display to see this year…especially in the “all-patriotic” Mississippi south!
Oh yeah, I did drive by the local college here. It turns at we are right down the street from Southern Mississippi University or University of Southern Mississippi, Home of the Golden Eagles.
S.Williams vs E.Dementieva
Watching the match. It is 6-6 in a tie break now. The tennis play is extremely good but it is overshadowed by the manly grunts from Serena and the horror-movie type screams from Dementieva. It really makes watching unenjoyable.
I think I'll be watching the rest of it with the mute on.
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Metallica – Death Magnetic
So, I was perusing at JR.com after they emailed me some advertisement and saw this picture.
Now, my gutter mind’s first thought was something akin to a pornstar’s overused vuh-jayjay. Kind of disturbing but funny, nonetheless.
On further and closer inspection, I think it is supposed to be a magnet in the shape of a coffin. Hence, the title “Death Magnetic”?
Anyway, thought it was funny or strange or whatever and warranted posting about.
Elena Vesnina
This is why I watch tennis. Okay, not totally but it does make the boring moments worth while.
Jimi Hendrix – Wild Thing
A coworker of mine just got an 8gb iPod Touch. She wanted me to download from iTunes some songs since she doesn’t have a computer at home. She created me a list and one of the songs on there was Wild Thing sung by Jimi Hendrix instead of The Troggs.
I did a Google search to see if he really performed the song or she inadvertently thought it was him instead of The Troggs. Turns out, he did do this song and I found him performing it live here. I didn’t want to embed the video because I think this version sucks donkey dicks. I have to assume that the version she was looking for is better but if it’s not, I don’t see the point in not just getting the version by The Troggs.
Sorry you die-hard Hendrix fans. All things done by Jimi are not “Hendrix-great.” No amount of behind-the-back playing, guitar-lighting-on-fire, or guitar-stage-slamming can make up for the pure shit that comes out of his mouth in this performance. Maybe a few drops of acid can ease my nausea of watching this but I’m not sure it is worth my time and effort. Jimi was an amazing guitar player but he really trashed this song in my opinion.
Anyway, just thought I’d comment.
DART – Dallas Area Rapid Transit
Found this picture from an article at Dallas Business Journal online. I thought it was neat. I guess I’m a train dork…among other things. Anyway, here’s the simplistic picture.
Email humor 06/24/2009
This was sent to me a long time ago but I was cleaning out some of my Outlook folders and thought it was worth posting.
TOUGH TIMES? A LETTER TO THE SPOILED
When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning uphill both ways through year ’round blizzards carrying their younger siblings on their backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained a straight-A average despite their full-time after-school job at the local textile mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help keep their family from starving to death!
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!
But…. Now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of 40, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You’ve got it so fuckin’ easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a goddamned Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don’t know how good you’ve got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have the Internet–we wanted to know something; we had to go to the goddamned library and look it up ourselves!
And there was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter–with a pen! and then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the fuckin’ mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
And there were no MP3s or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to go to the goddamned record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or we had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ’d usually talk over the beginning and fuck it all up!
You want to hear about hardship? You couldn’t just download porn! You had to bribe some homeless dude to buy you a copy of “Hustler” at the 7-11! It was either that or jackoff to the lingere section of the JC Penney catalog!
Those were your options!
We didn’t have fancy shit like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal!
And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was it could be your boss, your mom, a collections agent, your drug dealer, you didn’t know!!! You just had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
And we didn’t have any fancy Sony Playstation videogames with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like “Space Invaders” and “Asteroids” and the graphics sucked ass! Your guy was a little square! You had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens; it was just one screen forever! And you could never win, the game just kept getting harder and faster until you died!
Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! A tall guy sat in front of you, you were screwed!
And sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 20 channels and there was no onscreen menu! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! And there was no Cartoon Network! You could only get cartoons on Saturday morning… …D’ya hear what the fuck I’m saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK, you spoiled little bastards!
That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You’re spoiled, I swear to God! You guys wouldn’t last five minutes back in 1978!
