Month: January 2007

Ohh Nooo!

Published by NiteMayr on January 31, 2007

I have three celebrity contacts on Flickr, how am I gonna make the cut!?!?!

For those of you who aren’t in the know, Flickr is going to limit contacts to 3,000. Only 300 people on Flickr have more than 3,000 contacts, but I’m pretty sure that a couple of my contacts are in that 300. Damn. I love having one of my favorite musicians as a contact, as tenuous a social contact as that may be. I don’t imagine the other two will cut me, I’m not sure. 007Ben can name at least one of them, but the other is a lightening rod of controversy and I think she’s awesome! (Rosie, you rule)

Maybe I should use MySpace…. LoL Naw…

A Quick flu update, I think I’ll need to ask for the super-duper flu meds tomorrow at the pharmacy, as I don’t feel much better today than I did yesterday. I feel better, but I’m still feeling poorly.

Take me Back

Published by NiteMayr on January 30, 2007

If you were told you could relive a moment in your life, which would you choose?
Submitted by Slight Diffusion.

I would not have told Dan his GF had cheated on him. I would have just went to the party he was at, sat down and just hung out. He wasn’t my friend, and I should have kept my friends confidence over some dudes feelings.

It’s not like they had such a great relationship, I spent two hours hanging out with her at work, he was at a party.

I lost a friend and gained a rep as someone who couldn’t be trusted with a secret. He dropped a relationship he didn’t really care for.

I was a putz.

I’d do that over. If I could.

Happy Birthday to Jen

Published by NiteMayr on January 29, 2007

NiteGirl is 28 today, she bought herself a new pet to celebrate (a Gerbil – Kang) we had some friction over this, as I don’t want another pet. Oh well. She got “The Burning Crusade” and a new WoW subscription from me. NiteCat and I have been playing Wow Standard together, I like it more I guess.

Things continue to adjust at the office. we’ll see how that comes out.

I’m getting sick, my skin hurts all over and I’m achy. Maybe the flu?

Ah well, I burned 800+ calories on the Elliptical machine today, running about 2 miles. Not amazing, but it was uphill for about half the time.

I really need to get on the scales and figure out how much I really weigh.

I dropped Verizon last week, after non-stop 120 dollar (plus) cell phone bills for almost no usage, I’m really just sick of them.

Check here for details; quote this:

Our Rights To Make Changes
Your service is subject to our business policies, practices, and procedures, which we can change without notice. UNLESS OTHERWISE PROHIBITED BY LAW, WE CAN ALSO CHANGE PRICES AND ANY OTHER CONDITIONS IN THIS AGREEMENT AT ANY TIME BY SENDING YOU WRITTEN NOTICE PRIOR TO THE BILLING PERIOD IN WHICH THE CHANGES WOULD GO INTO EFFECT. IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE YOUR SERVICE AFTER THAT POINT, YOU’RE ACCEPTING THE CHANGES. IF THE CHANGES HAVE A MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT ON YOU, HOWEVER, YOU CAN END THE AFFECTED SERVICE, WITHOUT ANY EARLY TERMINATION FEE, JUST BY CALLING US WITHIN 60 DAYS AFTER WE SEND NOTICE OF THE CHANGE.

Apparently it is getting hard to use this clause, but the CSR at cancellations accepted it after reviewing my T.O.S. Good Luck (Btw) I am going to T-Mobile: (psst It’s Free)

http://www.amazon.com/T-Mobile-Branded-MDA-Smartphone/dp/B000EM8REU

Down to 80 bucks with a text and data plan, plus cheap calls home! Neat. Thanks 007Ben

Smoking Aces is not what you think!

Published by NiteMayr on January 26, 2007

Just got in from Smokin’ Aces, boy are they selling that film incorrectly.

First, let me describe the emotions it leaves with me, profound despondency and deeply unsettled.

Now, if you have seen the trailer, you might be expecting an action comedy. If you are and don’t want this do be spoiled; go ahead and browse away.
Are they Gone?

Oh Kay.

First of all, it’s brutal. Brutal in so many ways, violent and energetic. Characters are named, built, then blown away. Affleck is good in it, with a decent “superfans” Chicago accent. Ryan Reynolds is great, really. All of that potential that he showed in his previous roles is up there on the screen, he’s excellent as the Junior FBI agent. Jeremy Piven is absolutely a star in this flick, conflicted, burnt, strung out and at wits end. Jason Batemen makes a great cameo as a lawyer with some serious personal issues.

There is mayhem, twists and blood. Buckets of blood. Blood everywhere. Violent scenes that happen so abruptly you can’t imagine where they came from.

I’m still reeling. I was exhausted by some of it.

Damned Scammer!

Published by NiteMayr on January 19, 2007

EDIT: Combining two blogs:

Received: from [196.207.0.218] by web58909.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP;
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:10:50 PST

I'm trying to sell a camera on Craigslist and received the following query:

Hello,

I would like to know maybe the item is still available for sale an in excellent condition?hear from you soonest..

without thinking, I went ahead and replied.  The ip up there is in Africa.  Why would
someone over in Africa be looking at my listing for Eugene?

Damn, I think I'm about to be annoyed by a scammer (and probably spammers)  time to
turn up the antispam settings on my mail server.

Kelly replies:

Thanks so much for repling my mail…
However, i have just relocated to Las Vegas,NV. Due to this my phone line is yet to be activated,i would have love to contact you by phone and complete this deal…So i will be responsible for the shipping of this item.Just to let you know am sending this to my Son in the college has his birthday gift next week, i have a shipping account with FedEx Express in which i will be useing for the shipping of the item,i will be sending you a shipping LABEL and INVOICE which you will print out and have it pasted on the box ofthe item once the payment has been approved and cleared.Okay Am impress with the condition of the item, so am offering $300 inorder to be the bid winner. Hope you consider my offer.Please do note, i don’t use paypal or whatever it’s been called. B’cos i have been scammed using it and you can as well vist this site on paypal ( paypalsucks.com) and you will see what am talking about.So to proceed with this transaction, i will need your full name and addressas it will be written on the ALERT PAY MONEY ORDER. Inorder to proceed with the payment.

What's best for the customer

Published by NiteMayr on January 18, 2007

“what’s best for the customer” is short cut away from logic and responsibility for an organization. they think that as long as the “customer” is happy, they have their collective assets covered. this is a fallacy, the organization really has to itself, “what can we do to make the most profit, while still remaining an admired brand and trusted vendor”

this is the challenge a large company faces

Frozen out of Car again

Published by NiteMayr on January 12, 2007

After work I was frozen out of my car!!!!

I tried calling Ben for a ride to the store for some lock deicer, but he didn’t answer. Big Steve R gave me his window deicer, but it didn’t work. Eventually I used a small screwdriver to provide more torque to open the passenger side door (along with a full-size screwdriver to break the damn seal around the door itself). Once I got in there, the unlock button failed to loosen the driver-side door. The darn thing was FROZEN SOLID!

Much manual work and grunting got the door open and I drove it home.

I decided that until the air temperature comes up, I will park in my Garage, with my doors unlocked.

Hopefully that will be the end of getting locked out.

I have a new teef

Published by NiteMayr on January 9, 2007

Seriously Messed up

well, a half tooth. I had a huge cavity in a front tooth. It was so bad I almost never showed my teeth if I could avoid it. Today I was at Dr. Dunham’s office and got fillings (and half-a-tooth) in the front. I have a bunch more to go later on. It was such a breezy visit, walk in, freezing (no pain and didn’t feel the needles) some drilling and filling (with resin) and out again.

During the drilling they were spraying cold water and air across my teeth, that hurt like hell.

Home Today

Published by NiteMayr on January 4, 2007

I’m at home today, with a sore throat. It’s not too severe, but at the same time I have a ton of sick time saved, so I need to burn some of it.

I was out with Jason and 007Ben last night, we hit the sushi place and had a good time. Jason was twitchy and excited because he was jacked up on cocaine. Cocaine, being an energy drink that tastes like liquefied lick-m-stix with pepper in it. I drank one, it was an experience; Jason drank three in rapid succession. He may have actually been able to power a small turbine and light up some of New York.

Like I said earlier, we were out for Dinner at Sushi-Domo, in Eugene. A great sushi place that has the “Domo – Boat” a selection of sushi, sashimi and chicken. Usually, these things last at least 30-40 minutes while we eat and talk. This thing might have lasted 20 minutes, maybe. We tore it up.

Jason and I are both big guys, and Ben is a stunt eater, the boat didn’t stand a chance.

We came back to the casa nitemayr and watched “Dirty Work”, I had a great night.

Boring New Years

Published by NiteMayr on January 2, 2007

I think NiteGirl drank more than I did over New Years; that’s saying a great deal since she drank about two bottles of wine. She was feeling depressed because her sister brought up her Grandpa, and NiteGirl just can’t seem to get over her Grandpa’s death. (It has been a couple of years now) So she drank, partly to forget, partly to just get her drunk on.

Otherwise it was all quiet for New Years, we rang it in at Midnight EST so that NiteCat could participate and we fired

Popped out

off some poppers (large and small).

It made a big mess, which is still pretty much hang around today. We fired the majority of the streamer type stuff onto the tree but inevitably some got on the ground and will require a good vacuum to pick it up.

Kodos had an accident with some pipe cleaners over the weekend and needed some first-aid. He will site for me and take some cleaning and anti-biotic cream but struggles if NiteGirl and NiteCat are near (I think he knows I can put up with the biting and scratching better than the girls)
On a cool note, NiteCat was wathcing “The Future is Wild” on Animal Planet and announced that she could tell it was fake animals, because they looked like computer animation.

Proud? I could have burst.

By the way, she DOES believe in Evolution. The Cavemen argument works.