BBQ sauce fiend
I swear, Don would drink BBQ sauce with a straw if I let him. You can see the decimated sauce cup in the bottom of the picture. I took this directly after I witnessed him pouring the sauce directly into his to go box. I do understand though because we were at Roadrunner and they do have scary good BBQ sauce.
It’s not a good week unless Matt’s on 606
We went and saw “Freedomland” with the parents. Matt and Ma had some shopping at Joannes to do. Some headboard project they’re working on. While they were shopping for fabric, Dad and I went to Best Buy and I finally got around to replacing my broken DVD player. I liked it but it had issues. This is what I get for buying an open box item against my better judgement.
Computer genius, sucks at video golf
We went to PT’s after work today for a going away party for Nick. He’s decided to seek other employment. We haven’t had a work kinda party like this for a while so it was nice allthough people didn’t stick around too terribly long. It’s been a very long week and I’m ready for the weekend. Rodric is attemping video game golf and not doing so well at it. We won’t hold it against him however.
My home away from home
I’m doing some late night database switching tonight at 10 and had some other stuff to do so I’m just going to stay in the office and work until then. I haven’t had to do this sort of thing in quite a while. Sometimes I almost miss it….almost. It is a nice feeling to get a whole bunch accomplished in a single day. The speed that I get stuff done after hours is amazing too without all the meeting inturruptions and questions and stuff.
And it begins
To replace the couch I really need to move it back against the wall and that means moving the A/V equipment to up and over to a shelf attached to the wall, not standing on the floor. The trip to the Despot yesterday got me all my equipment but I was all tuckered out after that so I didn’t put anything up till tonight. Some may remember the A/V shelf fiasco I went though in Boulder City. I’m not going through that again so I’m doing the same thing I did there to fix the poorly engineered solution to build an A/V shelf to handle a television. I don’t have a TV up there anymore but it’s still some expensive equipment so I just scaled it back a little bit but it’s still almost strong enough for me to hang off of. It’s going to take a lot of spackle for me to move out of this apartment.
Mmmm…faux mexicany goodness
I made a run to Home Despot to get some brackets and shelving for the new living room project. After wandering around in a stupor until I finally found all my stuff. I wasn’t even looking for anything complicated. What WAS complicated was the checkout process. I’ve talked about it before but last night was a mess. It was a self-checkout nightmare. Normally I’m a fan, however, I had bought screws. And they were just sitting in a bag. Kinda like fruit at the grocery store. In this situation I would normally go to a real checkout line…but there weren’t any. There was not a single person on duty at any register. I walked the length of the entire store. There wasn’t anyone at the contractors desk and none of the regular registers were open. The only live person available was at the tool entrance and had a line so long it wasn’t even worth considering. I’m up for an adventure though, so into the self-checkout I went. The boards and washers scanned, no problem.Now I was up to the tricky part. So I clicked the “cannot scan” button. What I had bought were galvanized 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ lag screws. The next screen asked me to type in the first few characters of what I had bought. LAG got me nowhere. I ended up in latticework. SCR got me to screens no screws. GAL…well GAL got me to something that made even less sense than the other ones. I started the whole process again and still got nowhere. The screws alone have taken like 10 times longer to deal with than the rest of the stuff and I’m finally admitting defeat and going to ask the self-checkout helper monkey for help.Which would have been fine but now even the self-checkout helper monkey had disappeard and so I gave up. Dear Home Despot, I owe you $2.07 for four (4) galvanized 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ lag screws but I don’t feel guilty about taking it from you. Call it an inconvenience tax levied by me to you for wasting my time and making me feel stupid. Oh…and the Del Taco pic is what I was doing directly after Home Despot. I had a hankering for some Big Fat Chicken Tacos after all the petty larceny.
Finally, some book time
I’ve been doing too much TV and not enough words on paper lately. The problem is that I’ve kinda had a vacancy of good books to read. Luckily I did dinner and a movie with Chris and Jason and Chris passed me a couple good books. I’m not sure about the other one because I haven’t read it yet but this one is awesome. You would have known I had seen a movie with Chris and Jason however I took the picture and it just dissappeared off the phone. I didn’t discover this until the next day so it was too late to retake it. Just imagine it I guess. Friday I went to dinner with the Shiverbakers, saw “Firewall” (liked it except the computer stuff was lame) and had dinner at Blue Agave which was actualy a lot better than I thought it was going to be. They had an amazingly large variety of tequilas there. The pricest being some Don Julio special edition at $50/shot. I cannot imagine any alcohol worth this but who am I to judge.
