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Driving home from work today, I decided it was time to start documenting the burned out buildings I enjoy on my motorcycle commute. The motorcycle is uniquely suited to this task since I could pull up onto a sidwalk, take my shot, and get away before the homeless zombies had a chance to react to my presence. As usual during my odd projects, first John then Tom passed me while I was taking the shots, with Tom pulling off the road and waiting to make sure I wasn't in any trouble (because what kind of nut takes photos of burned out buildings). Despite giving the impression I'm mentally divergent, I think the end result is a good perusal.
With the AIM team
being laid off, and the fact that I only actively talk with 3 people on the service it's time to switch to Google Talk. It already tries to muscle it's way into my Gmail, G+ and Google search so I might as well just bend over and take it willingly instead of search for another alternative.
As my anticipation for the
Focus ST grows, so does my daily news search for anything related to it. Today I was rewarded with
this possible order sheet for my dream vehicle and immediately contacted my dealer to see if they also had it. Of course they had no idea what I was talking about and probably contacted security, but I sent them my choices based on the leaked form anyway.
With my recent
health screen fail I've started considering diet drinks despite my hatred of them. Pepsi has almost perfect timing with their "half-diet half regular" Pepsi NEXT. While I'd prefer a Mountain Dew NEXT the non-ass flavor of this one isn't bad. You still get the ass after taste, but for almost half the calories I'm trialing it. This may be my gateway drug to the Pepsi MAX zero calorie which will ultimately be the cause of my liver cancer in 2017.
Lila decided to help me with my weekly eBay shipping and even offered to auction herself off for extra money. I thanked her and explained the gesture was commendable but unfortunately illegal. Knowing how obsessed I am with making extra money she was initially sad, but I reminded her that by not being sold she could continue to live with me and surprisingly that made her happy again.
This weekend was our first away from Lila since she was born. I don't think Lisa was actually ready, but it beats going insane from cabin fever. First up was Great Wolf Lodge where Lisa took every opportunity available to tell me how much better Kalahari was without explaining why we didn't just go there instead. Next was wine tasting, which despite my efforts at getting drunk I just could not understand the point of. Luckily Lisa learned as long as she didn't buy any wine I had no complaints and completed her tasting rounds. Our final stop was to visit my sister which involves copious amounts of alcohol in various bars and entertainment venues. On returning home, we discovered
Lila was still very much alive and non the worse for wear. Vacation success.
Today was my health screening at work, and while it feels a bit intrusive I can't help but agree us fatties should pay more since we're higher risk. That said, I failed every single metric save Glucose, which means my excessive Mountain Dew must be working. Since I'm already technically dead, I can only assume I have superpowers keeping me alive and vow to change nothing about my eating habits.
| Metric | Level | Dead |
| Cholest: | 246 | > 240 |
| HDL: | 23 | < 40 |
| LDL: | 171 | > 160 |
| Trigyl: | 258 | > 200 |
| TC/HDL: | 10.7 | > 5.0 |
| BMI: | 26 | > 25 |
Last week, with the pending
Nokia Lumia 900 launch looming, I conned Lisa into upgrading her AT&T feature (dumb) phone to my precious. Verizon still has no other options for Windows Phones so I must live my dreams through Lisa's account. It arrived today and I of course
benchmarked my army of Windows Phones immediately. Lisa has been using the Focus Flash as her secondary phone for several months now, refusing to embrace the smartphone era fully. I could see the social apps sucking her resistance away and knew it was time to strike, but I stopped short of using mind games to get her to choose the Focus as her new phone. In the end, the luscious 4.3" AMOLED screen that dazzled me from day one is what put her off of it, preferring the smaller form factor. Overjoyed, I hugged my new Nokia and drifted off to sleep dreaming of skipping through meadows holding hands with my new friend.
Today my trusty and only recently
PITA Cougar turns 13 years old. The
first photo I ever took of it involved shenanigans and it's helped define my girlish lifestyle ever since. As a birthday present, I got new
Eagle GT 225/45ZR17 tires, and we'll count my decision against sending it to the crusher when the transmission case went as a present as well. My Cougars birthday is so well known,
Excelcier decided to
throw a party for it. After begging Lisa to skip Easter photos I was on my way to the nerdiest celebration of my cars life. There was no cake.
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