Published on Monday, August 22nd, 2005 .
Yep… another wacky weekend. I bought a fifth of Hangar One vodka yet again. This time I ended up drinking about 3/4 of it myself. Wayyyy too much for someone who weighs 130, that’s for sure. As a result, I got shitty out of my fucking mind and ended up attempting to wrestle one of Sam’s friends in his bedroom floor (and getting my ass handed to me). I now have a rugburn on my right ribcage, one on my left shoulder and one on my left elbow. Only the one on my ribcage is bugging me since everytime I stretch, it pulls the skin and makes it hurt. Talk about gay. Apparently, this Jennifer chick was there (I remember that much) and I was kneeling in the floor in front of her and I requested her to smack me across the face…. repeatedly… alternating cheeks.. and I was apparently enjoying it immensely! According to them, I was saying “that feels good, do it again” and she was just knocking the absolute crap out of me. I didn’t wake up in the least bit of pain so I don’t guess she was hitting me that hard. Weird.. maybe I dig pain and don’t even know it? As you can see, I got so drunk that I really don’t remember much of anything. Then again, I don’t know too many people that can knock back that much vodka and remember jack shit.
The shitty part was actually waking up the next day feeling utterly horrible. I had a good 16 hour hangover at least. Bad enough that I couldn’t even eat more than a taco and a half the whole day. 
I felt fine on Sunday, but Saturday sucked ass. We did manage to go out to see the new movie “Four Brothers” Saturday night, though. I actually liked the movie a fair bit and it wasn’t as predictable as I was expecting. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was and don’t feel too bad about having blown $8 to go see it. It’s a shitload better than The Dukes of Hazzard, that’s for damn sure.
Sunday rolled around and the three of us (Me, Sam, Adam) were out of bed by 9:45am. NO clue why at all… that shit NEVER happens but then again we didn’t get drunk Saturday night. So the three of us pile our bikes into his ghetto sled (1988 Caprice Classic, bitches!) and go out and go for a bike ride… then afterwards we decide to go to the lake because it’s so goddamned hot. We ended up at Melton Hill dam eventually despite the fact that Adam managed to get lost trying to find it. Amusingly, we stopped at the store right before you get to the dam and then dipshit jumps back on the interstate and heads farther west…. not realizing that he was already in the right place! So anyway, we finally get there and hang out for a couple of hours. I opted not to get ALL the way in since my rugburns were going to burn like a motherfucker if that lake water touched them. So I just kinda waded around admiring the gorgeous women running around in bikinis (and trying to ignore the fat fucking cows who were wearing them as well). There were a fair number of nice looking women there worth looking at. After leaving the lake, we ate at Subway then came back to Sam’s house and took a nap.. then I came to work. Joy… Overall, a good weekend minus the hangover. Yes, I’ll probably do it next weekend. Well, after our planned ride at Haw Ridge. 
Published on Sunday, August 14th, 2005 .
Yep… just like the post title says, I have discovered the most unbelievably smooth vodka in history. It’s called Hangar One. I opted for the “Mandarin Blossom” flavor because I really like orange stuff. Well, when I bought it, the guy ringing me up informed me that it was undoubtedly the best flavored vodka he’s ever had. I just figured he was exaggerating, but after drinking it I can honestly say the dude wasn’t shitting. We were actually drinking it straight and chasing with Sobe Adrenaline Rush even though it wasn’t really necessary. It was honestly good enough and smooth enough with no burn that I could just drink it straight without even the slightest gag reflex. I bought a bottle last night and Sam & I killed it within a couple of hours as usual. It’s 80 proof so both of us were pretty tipsy, though he was a lot worse off because he actually drank quite a bit more than I did. I didn’t feel like getting overly shitty so I just had about 6 shots and felt pretty damned good. Pretty bad that I paid $40.39 for the bottle and only got about 6 shots out of it. I guess Sam owes me bigtime for that one. 
Not that I REALLY care too much. It was my choice to buy the stuff so I don’t really have any room to bitch. I can guarantee that we’ll be drinking it more often, though. It’s really that damn good. Despite it being the most expensive vodka that McScrooge’s carries, it’s worth every penny. After all, if you have the money to spend why not get the best there is, right? I’d like to mix that with some Cointreau and some Adrenaline Rush…. The only problem with that is the $40 price tag on the vodka and $45 price tag on the Cointreau. We’ll save that for another paycheck, that’s for sure. Maybe that’s how we’ll celebrate my 1 yr raise if and when I get it. Blow $100 and spend the weekend drunk off our asses on the best shit money can buy. Ahhh, the joys of having expensive tastes and the money to actually cater to my expensive tastes. Not having a worthless money grubbing whore of a girlfriend comes in handy, I suppose. Sorry, but if a girl expects me to blow my paycheck on her, tough fucking shit. I’ll take her out to dinner, spend $20 or so and the rest goes to myself because that’s just how it works. I come first, everyone else is secondary (if they’re lucky).
Speaking of blowing money mindlessly… I can’t decide whether I want a 5.3MP digicam (about $300) or if I want to put some money down on a new commuter bike (about $1000 total). I can justify either purchase easily. I don’t have a digicam yet and there are a couple really nice ones out there for around $300 that would suit me fine. Admittedly I’d like a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR 8.3MP camera but that’s like $1600 and I’m hardly a good enough photographer to warrant having such a badass camera. Needless to say, I’d like to have a digicam so I can take random pics while I’m out riding and whatnot. I’m also not much of a fan of the smaller point-and-shoot types of cameras as they don’t really take awesome pics. They’re decent but not really up to what I expect from a camera. Plus if I can get an ultra zoom camera (10x optical zoom) that’s a little larger, has better optics and takes better pics for the same price, why not? My other option is a new bike. I love my Fuji and all, but it’s not really a practical commuter. I can’t put fenders or a rack & panniers on it at all so I have to carry everything on my back and I get wet if the roads are wet. Obviously either purchase would be useful… and I could get the camera immediately as opposed to waiting 2 months or so to get the new bike paid off. Decisions, decisions..
Published on Friday, August 12th, 2005 .
In true geek fashion, I have found the ultimate bluetooth headset. However, it’s not compatible with my phone so there’s no point in getting it until I find another phone that has bluetooth that I can use it with. Hopefully the A940 will be compatible when it comes out *crosses fingers*. It’s the Jabra BT800. It has a LCD display on the headset itself to show you who’s calling without you having to pick up the phone to look. Plus it vibrates and even has 5 different ringtones you can pick. Pretty impressive stuff for a headset. The headset I’m using now has one ringtone (a horrible one at that) and does not vibrate, nor does it give me any indication of who is calling without me looking at the phone or listening to the ringtone from the phone if I have a specific ringtone setup for a given caller. It was only $40, though so I’m not really complaining too much. Plus I get a solid 7-8 hrs of talktime out of it so I only have to charge it once every 2 days or so. I can also get a good 20-25 feet of range out of it when the battery is fully charged, which is really close to the advertised maximum of 30ft. All in all, it’s a decent headset but it’s not geek-friendly enough for me. It just does its job but doesn’t have any killer features (kinda like my phone, actually). Oh, well… I guess the badass headset will go perfectly with the kickass phone with the 2MP camera, flip/twist screen, speakerphone, bluetooth, microSD removeable memory, voice dial, speech-to-text engine (you can speak text messages), and tons of other cool features. Alas, buying the two together is most likely going to set me back $600, but I suppose that’s the price one pays for cool new high-tech gadgets, eh?
Headset:
Phone (Samsung A940/970):
Published on Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 .
Wow… I totally want this new Motorola due out in 2006. It’s called the A910 and it’s just plain badass. It’s going to have bluetooth, wifi, 1.3MP camera, transflash, 240×320 screen, and the kitchen sink… ok, maybe not the kitchen sink but it’s pretty loaded. Too bad it’s going to be a GSM phone. I hate GSM for the most part…. Too bad they get all the cool ass phones. It’s most likely going to cost an arm and a leg, that’s for sure. Considering all the kickass features, I would guess a good $600 pricetag. The only GSM carrier we have around here is Cingular. T-Mobile hasn’t made it up here for some odd reason. I just wish the CDMA carriers around here (Sprint, Verizon, US Cellular, etc) would push for some phones this damn good. I mean, we get PDA phones but they’re just too fucking big to carry around on a daily basis, especially being a cyclist and all. Sprint and Verizon are getting the Samsung A940/A970, but even they can’t quite compare to what this phone offers. Too bad all the truly badass phones seem to either be GSM-only or Japan/Korea-only. I guess they don’t take our market seriously enough or something. Who knows, but it’s annoying as shit for geeks like me! Oh, well.. check this phone out..
Motorola’s Product Preview page
Engadget’s blurb on the phone with a better pic, no less.
Published on Monday, August 8th, 2005 .
Yeah… I fucking love my weekends off. I basically spent the entire weekend with Sam and I can’t say I’ve had that much fun in quite awhile. Friday night we decided to go see The Dukes of Hazzard on opening night at the biggest goddamn theater I’ve ever seen in my life.
The movie itself was fairly funny, but not a “great movie”. It’s not quite a faithful representation of the original show, but it works. As long as you go in expecting it to be just a loose interpretation of the TV series, you won’t be disappointed. Was it worth $8? No, not really. The acting in it wasn’t terribly impressive. Jessica Simpson can’t act her way out of a wet paper bag, that’s for sure. Not like it matters, she’s fine as fuck and that’s all that’s important. She plays Daisey Duke, after all. Johnny Knoxville as Luke Duke? Well, he’s a fucking idiot but then again he’s playing an idiot redneck (not too far out of character for sure). Burt Reynolds plays Boss Hogg pretty well except that he’s too skinny to be Boss Hogg. I remember Boss was fatter than fuck in the TV show. Burt Reynolds is no fatass, that’s for sure. He does the scheming/conniving bastard role pretty well, though. Roscoe was an aging, greying pot-bellied dipshit in the movie. In the TV show he was quite a bit younger, a whole lot skinnier but no less bumbling. At least they got THAT part right. Overall, the movie was good for some laughs. They spoofed Super Troopers in one scene and those that have seen both movies will seriously bust a gut laughing about 2 seconds into the scene when they realize what’s about to happen. Amusingly enough, the guy that played Farva in Super Troopers actually plays a character named Sheev in Dukes of Hazzard. He actually plays the trashy, disgusting pot-bellied redneck loser quite well to be honest. He was easily one of the most amusing characters in the movie (interesting quirk: he almost never wears pants, just boxers). Needless to say, the overall plot wasn’t so hot… the acting wasn’t exactly top-notch.. the jokes were childish but still rather amusing. It wasn’t a movie that I was pissed off about having spent $9 to see, but not one I’m going to tell all my friends to rush out and see ASAP. Go see it to drool over Jessica Simpson and laugh at stupid jokes… don’t expect it to be a great movie and you won’t be disappointed.
As far as the rest of the weekend goes, that night this chick came over to Sam’s house, Sam and I got drunk (she stayed sober) and the night got rather interesting thereafter. Saturday, I woke up with no hangover and we went to Adam’s house and went out on the lake for a good portion of the day. Eventually we made it back to Sam’s house, had some more people over, Sam got trashed and more hilarity ensued. Apparently, he ended up calling a friend of his and singing country music songs into the phone, which she recorded. Oddly, I don’t remember this happening but she was nice enough to have recorded it and played it back for us on speakerphone. Definitely amusing. Today we got up, went to KFC to eat, came back… and yep, MORE people came over. We watched “A Clockwork Orange” and the people that came over drank a little (Sam and I had already had enough alcohol this weekend). I left for work at about 11:35 and of course the hot chick with the nice titties shows them off AFTER I leave. At least Sam was nice enough to get a pic. Oh, well… All in all it was a kickass weekend. Hopefully next weekend will kick ass as well.
Published on Thursday, August 4th, 2005 .
So apparently the Dave Chappelle show is offically done-for. Too bad since I really enjoyed watching it. I own the first season on DVD and actually rented the 2nd season. Both are excellent and definitely best watched in their uncensored form. I never bothered watching it on TV because I really hate watching anything that’s been censored or cut. Plus I love the fact that the DVD’s aren’t interrupted by stupid commercials. Needless to say, it was great while it lasted. Hopefully we’ll at least get to see Dave do some stand-up and/or some movies and whatnot. It’d suck to see him just go into seclusion and do nothing ever again. Of course Comedy Central is saying the door is open for Dave to come back and continue the show. Hell, it made them tons and tons of money so of COURSE they’re going to want Dave to come back and continue with his show. Dave apparently did a few standup shows in LA and may very well be planning to do a series of standup shows around the country. I know if he did do it and came within a reasonable distance of my area I’d go see him, no doubt. Anyway, we’ll just have to see how things transpire. At least it appears that though the Chappelle Show itself is dead that Dave isn’t completely giving up showbiz. Then again, news sources have been wrong before.
Here’s the article
Published on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 .
well, I came super-close to 1000 miles last month. I actually hit 971 miles and WOULD have gotten my 1000 if I had actually done any riding on 7/31. Unfrotunately a major hangover and going to the movies prevented me from doing so. I’m not really upset, as 971 miles in 31 days is still pretty damned impressive. I still managed over 30 miles a day, which is a new best for me. I don’t know if I’m going to do quite that many miles this month. I’m just going to ride as much as I feel like riding and however many miles that turns out to be, fine. Knowing I can do 1000 miles in a month is good enough for me. It’s not like it’s necessary for me to ride that much in a month. I just more or less wanted to see if I could do it.
As far as the movie went… it sucked. We went to see “Dark Water” on Sunday and it was quite possibly the most ridiculously stupid movie I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t the least bit interesting. The plot was horribly disjointed and had no real “flow” to it. The ending was positively retarded as well. All I can say is don’t even waste your money. I’m so glad I didn’t pay for it. I seriously would have considered asking for my money back after having wasted nearly 2 hrs of my life on that fucking turd of a movie. Those hours would have been much better spent riding…. or hell, even fingering my asshole while whistling Yankee Doodle would have been more interesting than watching that movie. At least I can make sure and let other people know not to put themselves through the same torture. It’s not even worthy of the “wait for it on DVD” title. It’s just an “avoid at all costs unless you’re going to see it with a chick that may give you some pussy later” movie.
