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My foray into online dating sites
Mar 11th
hello iam very affectionate,very passionate,very sentimental, iam also a one women man, looking for that one women. i love children very much. i am a widower with five (5) children and fourteen (14) grand children. ilove to go dancing and i love a quiet candle light dinner at home. and yes i love going out dances as well. i sincerely beleive that i am agreat cook too.i also love to read a great deal. ialso love interllecual coversation as well.
Really?
Thanks, I’ll pass. I won’t even look at profiles without pictures, and they must look like real people. Basic grammar is a must. Spaces are important! I just spent most of my adult life with someone who couldn’t fill out a job application on his own. I’m looking for someone who can have intellectual conversation and spell it as well.
Is that too much to ask?
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Castle, Finally!
Mar 10th
Like any true blue Nathan Fillion fan, I set the DVR to catch the premier of Castle last night. And promptly got SCREWED. SmallChild was here so of course we were tied up in uncounted repetitions of Gullah Gullah Island until she finally crashed. Then I got my favorite munchies together (Girl Scout Thin Mints and ice cold milk) and settled in to enjoy… and it wasn’t there.
AAAAAAAARrRRRRrrrRRRRrrgggghghhhghghghg!111!!111!!!!
So I waited until tonight to check the ABC site and found you can get it there. Sweet! So here’s what I thought. And yeah, I’m spoiling it.
It’s definitely a pilot. Here’s hoping the banter stays, but comes down off the edge of that cutesy cliff and mellows a bit. Don’t like the mother character. It’s your cliche cougar lady on show tunes and not done well at all. That actress has always played a little over the top anyway. Love the daughter and the interaction between her and Castle. The detective team will never match The Closer’s camaraderie so let’s hope they don’t go there. Don’t think I’m going to like the lady detective either. She’s got nothing, no personality, no connection, no chemistry so it’s no wonder Nathan is overplaying a little to compensate.
I liked Castle for the most part, but for one huge glaring STOOPIT towards the end. I know Nathan Fillion is computer adept. The man is online all the time. And the character is a well-known fucking WRITER (ala JC Hutchins or Scott Sigler or maybe closer to Stephen King) and yet there’s a scene where he’s home, at his desk with his feet up pretending to type on a laptop. Pretending I say because for a the entire camera sly-by the man never moves his fingers off the same keys. By the time a dozen of your books are published, chances are you can type. And don’t give me examples of writers who don’t type, THEY SHOW HIM TYPING and they need to do it right.
Huge pet peeve of mine. If they’re going to show someone typing (or playing the piano) have them IN FACT type or play something. We’re not stupid and it’s glaringly obvious when people are faking it. Takes me right out of it. Ruins the whole show.
So, I give the pilot a three out of five. I’m hoping this gets better with time but you know how these things work. IF they don’t get a huge share right away they’re doomed. Fucktard money hungry suits. Give it a chance, I am.
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Wait, don't throw that away yet!
Mar 4th
Do you know you probably throw out cash money every day? Okay, maybe not every day, but more often than you’d think.
And even if you don’t have kids or your kids are old or you hate your neighbor kids, you can collect these tiny parts of your daily trash and donate to somebody‘s kid. Don’t just throw this stuff away. I know at least three friends (@tsdivadani and @mightymommy and @wendellk) who have kids who collect these things.
First there’s General Mills Boxtops for Education. You might have noticed these on your cereal boxes, but they’re also on Ziploc boxes, Huggies stuff, garbage bags, everywhere! So if you come across one just cut/tear it off and toss it into a container/box/baggie and when you have a bunch you can give them to your local kid. THESE ARE EACH WORTH 10 CENTS COLD HARD CASH to the kid’s school.
And I know you know about Campbells Soup Labels, though now they just want the UPC part. Schools have been collecting these things for years.
I magnet a ziploc bag to the side of my fridge and toss these things in and when that gets so heavy it starts to slide, I hand the whole bag over to one of my friends. I even have a razor right there to cut the UPC and boxtops off before I throw the container away. It ain’t hard, it just takes a moment of thought to begin the habit.
School budgets have been shaved right down to the quick in most places. If they want/need anything NOT in the tightest budget they’re screwed. Every little bit helps and you’re just throwing the stuff away anyhow.
Think about it. Check out Boxtops for Education and Campbell’s websites to see what other products you might have in your home.
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Yo new twitter tweeple
Mar 2nd
Because a bunch of my LJ friends are finally embracing twitter I thought I’d list a few pointers here:
1. Avoid the public stream. There are a few people in the world who want to keep up with the goings on of billions of twitter users but I don’t think any of my friends will want to. Find and follow your friends, see who they respond to, and follow the ones that seem interesting. There are some celebrities on twitter but only follow those that actually appear to have conversations. Because twitter is about communicating both ways.
2. Do not accept follow requests from people without checking their page. If they only post business links, have only posted once or twice, follow hundreds of people but only have few followers – AVOID. Don’t sign up for any autofollowing crap.
3. If you want to respond openly to a specific person: @theirname with no space. Most clients (twhirl, twitterberry, tweetdeck, etc.) highlight your @name. If you want to talk to someone privately: d theirname with a space – that’s a direct message that won’t go out on your timeline.
4. Use your real face for your avatar. Seriously, twitter is about communication and real people. Us local Phoenix users meet up all the time and it’s easier to identify new people by face than wonder if that person over there is a new member of your group or just some random guy – who we inevitably get on twitter anyway.
5. Don’t use 4 or 2 or U or any of that crap unless you absolutely HAVE to. We get that 140 characters ain’t a lot so shorten your comment rather than shortening your words.
6. Tell us what you’re doing, what you’re watching, what you just found that is amusing or interesting, or just that your sox don’t match today and you just figured it out. Send out questions. Report when something interesting happens in your neighborhood or town. Just not all at once. Don’t go on and on and on about nothings.
I imagine twitter as a giant cubicle zoo and you know how you might pop up and mention something funny or something interesting to the person in the next cube? That’s twitter. Short, quick and to the point.
Welcome and have fun. Any questions? Anyone have any other pointers to add?
PS. Twitter seems to be having issues over the last couple of days. It’s not usually this slow or problematic. They’ve come a long way since it started. Hang in there and have patience and pretty soon she’ll be back to normal.
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tidbits or bids and tits?
Feb 23rd
While wandering through Myspace I found out my sister’s step-son’s wife had her baby and they named it Kaydence Renee’ – complete with apostrophe. Yes, my eyes rolled. Why do people feel the need to fuck their kids up forever? She’s gonna need to carry name cards for the rest of her life. Or maybe a tattoo would be easier.
Sister’s daughter Brittany (the only one of that family I actually have contact with) is due in a couple of weeks. Though I’m getting reports that she may deliver earlier as everything seems to be in perfect arrangement for it. She’s planning on naming her son Damien Gabriel. Interesting and yet spelled within normal limits. We laugh that he could turn out either way, evil or good. I don’t know if she’s planning on using her real last name (Stephens) or the one she goes by (Kinney) or the father’s last name (I’m clueless).
Mom was upset she was specifically uninvited to Brittany’s baby shower. Poor Brittany had to chose between her selfish bitch mother or her whiny obtuse Grandmother. What nice people I come from. And her perpetually broke Aunt Debbie wasn’t even mentioned.
Whatever.
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This Wednesday is Ignite Phoenix. It’s organized by friends of mine and the whole program consists of 5 minute/20 slide presentations of whatever you’re passionate about. As long as you’re not selling something. I think Jeff said there were 18 presentations this time. The last two IPs were at GoDaddy’s local offices but we’ve outgrown that venue and this time it’s at Tempe’s new Center for the Arts. Lots of people have been wanting an excuse to check out that venue so it should be pretty packed.
Friday night #evfn (East Valley Friday Nights) is meeting at Studios 5C Gallery in Tempe. I love #evfn. It’s our local twitter meetup every Friday night at a different location throughout the east valley and it’s expanded beyond twitter people. We’re averaging 45 people so it’s getting harder and harder to find places that can accommodate that many people. Apparently this one is sponsored (free food and drink). A couple of weeks ago we held it at a brand new W hotel called “aloft” and they provided a tour and a drink/bar snacks at their lobby lounge “w xyz”.
(I don’t know about this trendy naming shit with all lower case letters. I feel like I need to show they’re proper names somehow.)
And Saturday night is booked, too. I’m not sure if I can talk about that til it’s over but I have lots to do to get ready for it. I have PLANS. Think Mardi Gras and boobs.
I’ve got Kira today and she’s whining for second breakfast. I’m yelling YOU JUST ATE over her screeching and she ain’t buying it. Pause goes Gullah Gullah – which usually shuts her up. Consequences for whining. Let Grammi finish her stupid post and she’ll get you a snack. Patience grasshopper.
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If you're going to commit, then fucking commit.
Feb 17th
Such a little thing to get so pissed off about but I can’t seem to let this go. I know Internet causes and petitions are usually pointless – I know that. Iknow the whole thing is probably a complete waste of time anyway. I get it.
But . . .
If you’re going to commit to a cause, especially one with such simple guidelines and instructions, do it as asked. Don’t add your own cute little embellishments, your own personal thumbprint, your cute little whatthefucks.
Don’t know what I’m talking about? That’s okay. Go here: http://creativefreedom.org.nz/blackout.html
They simply ask that if you want to be supportive, change your internet avatars to black and post why along with the link. Period. Does that sound difficult to you? Nope, me neither.
And then wander Facebook and twitter and other social sites, and see what SOME people feel is commiting to the cause. Adding their own person “brand” to a black background? What the hell is that? First of all, people seeing your internet avatars on Facebook and twitter already fucking KNOW you so you don’t have to advertise. Secondly, the whole thing is over at the end of the month. Do you really have to personalize your black avatar? So stuck on yourselves that you can’t let it go for a few days? Ever heard of the saying Lip Service? Dunno what you’d call it online.
If you’re going to play along, then play along. If you don’t believe anything will come of it and it’s all just a waste of time, then fine, don’t play along. Whatever you decide is up to you, but if you’re going to play along THEN FOLLOW THE FUCKING DIRECTIONS.
Seriously, I don’t know why this is bugging me so much but I feel better now. I posted a couple of comments on twitter earlier. A couple of my friends are doing this half-assed and I thought veiled snark would maybe change their mindsl.
I thought the whole idea behind the blackout was to have a completely blacked-out avatar. Not to be cute about it. http://is.gd/jDKz
I think it’s like embroidering your logo on a pink ribbon. Why bother pretending to be supportive when you’re just paying lip service.
We’ll see if this makes any difference. If not, oh well. Tomorrow is another day. Oh wait, it’s after 12. Today is another day.
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Conversations with Kira
Feb 15th
I have Kira tonight and a little while ago she was helping me fold my laundry:
K: Oh sosts, Kira wear Drammi sots.
M: You can’t wear my socks silly, they’ll fall off your feet!
K: Why Drammi?
M: Cuz youse gots tiny feetsies Kira.
K: Whas dis Drammi?
M: That’s a bra Kira
K: Whas dis do?
M: To hold up my boobies.
K: Kira has boobies. Kira wear Drammi’s bra (off goes her shirt and on goes Grammi’s bra almost correctly)
M: That’s not really a good look for you kiddo.
K: Why Drammi? I’m hunry.
M: Great, what are you hungry for?
K: LION! (close, Tony the Tiger)
M: You want Tiger or do you want blueberries?
She makes the ugliest face I’ve ever seen on her.
K: TIIIIIIIGGGGEEEERRRRR!
M: Fine Miss Attitude. Can I have my bra back?
K: No, my boobies are cold.
Well, how do you respond to that?
I still can’t find the USB cord that goes to my camera so I can transfer the latest pictures. This laptop doesn’t accept the memory card. It’s an old Kodak DX3600 camera and the memory card always worked in my older computer so I haven’t needed the cable for awhile. Apparently it just wandered off on its own.
So if you happen to be local and happen to have one, let me know. Otherwise I’ll have to go exploring the Radio Shack stores around here.
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Jesus H Pizza Crust
Feb 8th
You know my curiosity got the better of me. I’d blocked the mindless twit from yesterday. But after responding to that comment from my friend Brad, I sent the link to the impostor posting as LovingGod. I say impostor because:
A. I don’t believe there is a God.
B. Even if it turns out there is one, she certainly isn’t posting on twitter.
So yeah, today I clicked back over to the guy’s twitter page and found these posts to me. Cuz I’ve blocked him I didn’t get them through my twhirl and hopefully neither did anyone else I know. What a jerk!
@spellwight Apologies, but atheists all at least become agnostics right before death. You may hate me but I still love you.
Can I hate the clueless person using twitterberry? Oh yes! More and more each moment. Can I hate the so-called Loving God? Can’t hate what you don’t believe even exists. And could you maybe prove that little last-minute conversion theory of yours?
@spellwight I read the complete authorship. I am saddened by the circumstances. I will always be with you.
Can you say obtuse? Some people.
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Don't Divorce Them
Feb 8th
“Fidelity”: Don’t Divorce… from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.
How can anyone look at the faces in this video and all of that happiness and deny these people the same rights as everyone else? What the hell is wrong with you haters? And don’t give me benign political or business reasons to be against gay marriage, that’s bullshit. You’re either a supporter or you’re a hater. There IS no grey area, there is no justification.
Period.
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