Go Team Pandy!

Well yesterday was the last day of my 5-day weekend. I took an extra day off due to a trip to the dentist for the second of my 2-hour long cleanings. After about a 10-year hiatus from going to the dentist, I’m back in it full steam. That second cleaning was actually my third visit in three months and I’m scheduled to go back again in January to get to super tiny cavities filled. I’m not really sure why I was so afraid of the dentist, I think a big part of it — other than the lack of dental insurance — was trying to avoid the whole wisdom teeth pulling. On my last trip I thought I had masterfully avoided it, but yesterday Dr. Van Der Hoeven informed me that there’s a chance I’ll have to get them pulled and that we’ll just have to monitor the situation month-by-month. All this talk about me going to the dentist though is because of this article I just found called Dirty Teeth Can Kill You.

The past week or so, Yaeka and I have been wondering, where is our damn gold box?! Well just go to amazon.com and login. Then go to amazon.com/goldbox. Simple.

Well I officially am a member of Bally’s now. While I don’t imagine my future gym experiences to be near the caliber of those I had with Micah and Flynn, I’ll be keeping some of the tips I learned from Micah in mind, especially the ones about leaving certain things at the door. I have my free one-hour session with a personal trainer tonight. We’ll see how that goes, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be so well that I’ll end up convinced I need to buy a personal training package at the $40-$45/hr price. I ain’t got that kind of money fool!

And for those that may know someone that can’t go to the gym, say because they are affected by a mobility-limiting condition, this website I put together rather quickly for a side-project of my employer sells mobility scooters and portable access ramps: Western Mercantile. I had nothing to do with the company name or logo or the odd selection of products. I can almost see how the digital safe portion can fit if you really stretch it, but really…it’s all odd. Mainly this mention of the website is to try and get google to jump from here over there and spider the damn thing because it’s been over 2 months since I submitted it to google! Also…if you need some tools…yeah, really, I have to put tools on there too. No focus. No focus.

So I turned commenting off on the blog for now due to the spamming of the comments. My hosting account was suspended for a few hours until I resolved the issue with my hosting company. I’m pretty sure I could have just set the blog to not send me e-mail notification of comments and taken care of the issue, but deleting those comments was getting annoying. I’ve found a couple of tools that may help, but right now I’m just focusing on the hiddenmusic.com site. The registration module is almost complete.

Anyway, the cool thing i’m talking about is this. I found it while browsing this realtor’s site. You enter an address and you can get an aerial picture of it! Pretty damn cool!

First, I’d like to inform you that we still have a shitload of candy leftover from Halloween since no kids came to our door. I just had a rather delicious Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Good thing Yaeka and I bought candy we actually liked and didn’t go all cheap with candy corn and the like.

With Halloween being on Sunday, the day for all night party action was Halloween-Eve. I woke up in a rather crappy mood that day and didn’t really want to do anything other than sleep, but some quick change of moods led us out and about trying to figure out our costumes. Yaeka decided to be a Christmas Tree and I was going to be Jack Black in the School of Rock although now that I look at these pictures I wasn’t looking very Jack Black-ish at all. I need to work on not shaving more often and getting a little crazy.

A trip to Value Village yielded this green dress made for an eight year old. I thought she was just going to cut the skirt part out, but Yaeka insisted she could make it work. In the end she just used the skirt.

After Yaeka and I got all set with our costumes, it was off to Doug and Amy’s. Here’s Doug showing off his fancy robot costume. You may have immediately thought “Tin Man”, but please note that he does not have a funnel for a hat.

Here you can see Doug holding up Amy’s “female robot” costume as well as me in my rather normal looking costume. Not very Jack Black looking that night…no wonder no one got it.

If you ever want people to notice you costume, put some boobs on it. Seems like people everywhere just had to comment on those red cup-like breasts. This and the next images were all taken at this party we went to that was giving the money to a pet shelter or something like that. The place is normally used for doggy day care I believe as there were a couple of fenced in areas and some dog toys around.

Before we ended up here, we were walking around the Capitol Hill area and experienced some interesting things. Some old folks spent their halloween sitting in a starbucks window seating area holding up cards with rankings of people passing by. That really wasn’t that exceptional. What was exceptional though was this guy walking around in camouflage with a ski mask wrapped up in this big checkerboard thing. I thought that maybe he was supposed to be a nascar flag or something. As he walked by, Doug noticed that it was linoleum. At that point the guy unrolled his linoleum, threw it on the ground and proceeded to flop on the ground (he hit concrete instead of linoleum) and breakdance quickly followed by one of his friends and then a quick rolling up of the flooring. They then took off running up the street. It was rather weird. So weird we were too stunned to take a picture.

Here’s a group pic of me, Doug, Amy, and Amy’s brother. As you can see, Yaeka wasn’t actually aware that Amy’s brother was supposed to be in the photo…that would explain why she was so annoyed with that guy with the fro trying to get in all the pictures.

Here’s the final picture of me and Yaeka. After this party we headed over to our usual bar hangout, Shorty’s, and got some pinball and erotic photo hunt games in before heading back home.

Okay, so I talk big and all, but I’m not ditching movable type yet. Seems there’s a shortage of good blog software that makes it easy to monitor and filter comments. I have discovered an easier way to mass delete them though, so that’s nice. Anyway, I’m moving the switch of software down on my priority list. Instead I’ve been doing some layout work on the hiddenmusic website. If you go to hiddenmusic.com you should be able to see where I’m going with the layout. Once I get a larger part of the site done, there will be around 4-6 icons similar to the question mark one, but smaller, just left of the main logo to act as the primary means of navigating the site. Now that I have some layout done, I get to have fun starting to work on the registration portion of the site. Yay for coding!

Okay, I think I have officially had it with Movable Type’s blogging system and will be moving to a new one ASAP. There have just been way too many spam comments lately. Definitely not recommending it for anyone, especially since they have updated their Terms & Conditions once they went to version 3.0 and started charging to have multiple blogs/authors. UGH!