Kristi’s favorite TV channel is ABC Family. And she is SOOOO excited because tomorrow starts the “25 Days of Christmas.” This is a constant stream of horrible, horrible, horrible Christmas movies. I mean, there are a few classics thrown in like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” but aside from those, the content is about as rotten as a Lifetime Original Movie. In fact, I think 3/4 of the movies originated on Lifetime. They’re that bad.

Anyway, in order to fight off this atrocious display of Christmas hysteria, I hereby resolve to make at least one posting every day for the next 25 days. Anyone else is free to join me. It will be a post-off. Or a post-a-thon. Or a Post Raisin Bran. Or whatever you’d like to call it.

Heck, if I have one or two people join, I might even spruce up the site a little in honor of the Post-Mania.

Who’s in? Anybody?

Hello?

MAN!! These movies are funny.

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Okay — I’ve been wanting a new, special, magical color cell phone for a while. But I could never really justify getting one. At all. I mean, why in the world do I need one? Just so I can dial in full color? No. I think not.

Meanwhile, on the other side of my pocket sits my Sharp Zaurus — an incredibly cool little device that I’ve had for a year… but not very useful for me because I hate carrying a cell phone AND a pda around — especially a PDA the size of my Zaurus. This is no little Palm. It’s a mini-laptop almost, with its slide-out keyboard, etc… Nope. I just can’t use it enough to justify it as a PDA. As an incredibly small (but slow) linux laptop, it would fit the bill, but not as a portable organizer tool. And the problem is this: I actually need some level of organization because I keep getting my brain cross-wired between projects.

So the Zaurus is out — thanks to eBay, it ’s out for 300 bucks to some guy in Hong Kong who isn’t aware that I got the thing as a floor model for $150.

And this little thing is in. A Motorola MPx200.

As soon as I read the review on MSNBC.com a couple of months ago, I was pretty sure this was the phone for me. I liked the idea of combining a PDA with a phone — but not in those Pocket PC phone devices that look like a PDA with an antenna. Those are too huge for me and they’re apparently an absolute pain to dial and navigate as a phone because they were basically meant to be a PDA with a phone tacked on.

But this one is a phone with PDA tacked on. Now, I’ve seen plenty of attempts at this — but this is apparently the first Mobile Windows-based model to hit the US (they’re apparently very popular in Europe and Asia, but for some reason the US sits in the back of the bus when it comes to receiving the latest in cell phone technology.)

The bottom line? I really like it.

Now if only I could figure out how to make toast with it.

My room is pretty small and I just dont feel like I have enough space to cram all of my stuff into it. That’s why I want to cut a hole in my ceiling and make a ‘bonus room’ in the attic above my room. The only problem with this plan is that I have parents that dont really want holes being cut in the ceiling. When I first asked if I could do it my parents olny tried to stop me by giving me reasons like there wouldn’t be enough room and that it would be too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. After they realized that I didn’t really care about the temperature they started giving me impossible tasks to accomplish before I could build it. Specifically, making some building plans and getting them approved by the city. I I think that this was just my Dad’s way of trying to get me to give up, but instead of giving up, I obtained a ‘trial version’ of Autocad 2004 and actually drew plans for it. So far all that I have is the basic interior of my room with a window, a door and my closet but I hope to finish the plans soon.

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No, seriously I’m alive now! I just got back from New Orleans and Boston and I thought I’d check out what was up on our favorite little site here.

Heck yeah, i beat Driver. If you remember, on the last level, the cars were black (you are correct), there were 500×10^47 evil car (also as advertised), but there was also more. You also forgot that each of the enemy cars weighed approximately the same as an Abrams M1 tank being piloted by elephants, yet they somehow managed to achieve top speeds of 153 miles per hour. Plus the fact that they can peer right through concrete buildings to ascertain your final position. Thus the way that I was finally able to beat the final level and deliver the President to safety was through 2 methods: (a) pure dumb luck, and (b) sitting at the corner of the building without my bumper sticking out while the elephant driven tank sped from right to left at 153 miles per hour, trying to drive straight through the transparent building enroute to my passenger door. Thankfully, the buildings are more sturdy than they look, and as the car careens across the intersection, I continue on, constantly aware of the assaults coming from all sides. What a game! WOW!

By the way, I also beat Driver 2. I highly recommend it.

Sorry, Adam.

So… I traveled to and from Ye Olde Pullman easily 80 or more times during my years there (given that two of those years I was driving back and forth nearly every weekend). During that time, I never once hit a deer. I came close. Oh, yes. I came very close. I have many a swerving memory.

The top memory? My brother proved his hours and hours spent mastering Gran Turismo 3 were not for naught as he dodged: (a) deer #1, (b) deer #2, (c) semi truck dropping bales of hay as it swerved to miss deer #1 and #2, and (d) bales of hay.

Nope. Not once. Never hit a deer during all that time.

The suckers heard me coming this time. I believe they plotted their revenge on my way to Pullman… and they exacted it on my way home.

I’m not exactly sure why they exacted their revenge by allowing my wife to plow over one of their kind… but you never know. Deer are sneaky. Sneaky… and stupid.

Yeah… so 10 miles outside of Washtucna, there I am sitting in the passenger seat reading a book when Kristi SLAMS on the brakes. I see headlights ahead and think, “uh oh… I’m toast.” Then I notice something friendlier than a car hurtling at us in our lane.

A deer! How friendly! Come here, deer! I don’t want to hurt you… I just want to pet you! Come closer! Come a little closer! Wait!! Too close!!!

Wham.

Deer + Car = no bumper, no radiator, and a headlight that is shining at the satelllites.

Oh yeah. And it also equals no deer.

And me freaking out. It also equals me freaking out. My only reaction (besides thinking we were going to die) was, “Go! Go! Go!” and “Did you see the hooves go flying off that sucker?”

Of course, I failed to realize that it was the whole front of our car that went flying… not hooves. Silly me.

(Now that I think about it… why did I yell “Go! Go! Go!” at Kristi? Did I think the deer was going to chase after us?)

We did just “Go! Go! Go!” though… we went the 10 miles to Washtucna. Upon arriving, we discovered THE FRONT OF OUR CAR WAS GONE! Missing! Shoot the coop! ? Flew? the coop? I don’t know. Whatever quaint phrase you choose, it just was not there. Period.

Yeah…. so that sucked.

Venison anyone?

The third Matrix movie is 2 hours and 9 minutes long. The showing that I went to see started at 4:00 pm. I got out of the theater at 6:50 pm. The previews were about 15 - 20 minutes long. The movie also had 3 intermissions during my viewing. What happened during the movie was explained as ‘the film becoming sticky and tying itself up in knots and ripping itself apart.’ Basically what it looked like was the picture freezing, slowly flickering out of sync with the frames and resulted in what looked like a frozen picture sluggishly melting away and finnally burning. This happened 3 times and made the audience miss out on 3 very cool special effects and plot points. Otherwise it was a really great movie, with a horrible ending.

I also noticed that I posted something almost exactly 24 hours ago, that is strange.

I didnt really enjoy the Aston shell too much because I tweaked it to the point that I made it entirely unstable and it crashed alot. But I found a new shell that i thouroughly enjoy because I just installed it and it looks pretty and I haven’t given it a chance to crash yet. It sure is stable and pretty. But I know that the real reason that I am posting this is to take up precious time that I am supposed to use typing my persuasive essay for LA, which raises another funny point that parents cant tell the difference between typing up a blog post and a persuasive essay. Well anyways, here is a picture of my new desktop shell at default settings because I litterally just now got it.

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