Sometimes when I fold laundry, I’m a pirate…

So the countertops folks (Masterpiece Kitchens, Solid Surface Designs, Fessenden Hall, and BEN FM/Greater Media ) are here! I did my first interview this morning, big thanks to Kelly and Jay from Greater Media for helping me through that. Here are some before pictures…

I wanted to mention that Abbe got our Disney Marathon team donations page up. The name of our team is All For Layna, named in honor of Abbe’s cousin Alayna (who was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this Spring – and she’s doing awesome). This allows anyone to donate towards both of our goals.

• Flamebone – f yeah
• I have no idea what is going on here… but I love Japan

Small Business/Tech Links…

• 20 Cool Twitter Accounts for Fun and Inspiration
• 8 Bit NES Harddrives – thanks Marty
• Using RSS Feed To Increase Traffic
• 6 Ways To Kill Your Servers – Learning to Scale the Hard Way – thanks BLP

Yesterday kicked ass… first off, Bowie came home! Here she is soaking up some loving from the kiddos…

And then I got a very nice gift a copy of Flex Builder from an anonymous blogger that works for Adobe to thank me for helping them…

And then Desk Humpin’ Chris from Climate Skateboards came over last night and brought a choice of brand new decks for Bubs …

Bubs chose the Sexual Chocolate design (although we’ll just call it “Brown and Blue” for now)…

I also had a new job come through that I should be starting in the next week or so. I also got a small site maintenance job from Rob at CaddisArt. Something I forgot to mention was my new guitar student Gehrig, we had our first lesson Tuesday night and he did awesome. Tonight, I’m going to see The Doves at The Troc with Jan and Robyn. Before I could beg out of my ticket yesterday (due to the job loss and money issues), Jan told me that she and Robyn are going to pay for my ticket/barter for guitar lessons – sweet! Oh yeah, and Hollywood Hamels pitched a complete game shutout last night for the Phils, beating the Dodgers 3-0.

• Goths in Hot Weather – thanks Mel
• Mugshots.com : Because bad girls need love too – thanks Mel
• Did Conan Model his Tonight Show Set After Mario Brothers – thanks Mel
• Torture Photos from Abu Ghraib – horrible, NSFW
• Crawling Zombie Jello Mold
• Blender Defender – how to keep your cat off the counter and also how to get cat poop in your shoes
• Monster head kid car
• Susan Hires a Boss
• I Heart Polygamy T-Shirt

Links for my geeky homies…

• Moron’s Guide to SSIS
• Mac and Linux Dev Builds of Chrome Available – saweeet

I had two really good meetings yesterday. First I met with Bill from Dixon Hill, I went over a lot of my past and current projects. This was cool for a couple of reasons, #1 it’s always fun to talk code with a fellow PHP/MySQL programmer (I know ladies, calm down… down girl, down) and #2 there was some affirmation as I showed Bill my furiousCMS app I’ve been writing and he dug it. Bill walked me through some of the Dixon Hill projects and I was duly impressed with what they’ve been up to. Can’t wait to work with them.

Next I met up with Rob from CaddisArt (check out their site, MyManZone – probably some good Father’s Day gift ideas)down at the Woodbriar Inn in West Berlin for a beer or nine and to talk shop a bit. Rob is looking for a go-to guy for site maintenance for his 1000 or so existing sites. I explained to him my situation and it was really cool to hear that he chose me because of my experience, but moreso, he liked what he had read about my hunger and attitude towards work. Work hard, play hard.

Beyond that, I had a good day working on chopping up the Wheelies redesign into CSS layers and plugging in the furiousCMS in the backend, fixed a logout issue with VidiScript on Nude Celebrity Sex Videos (again, that’s a Christian flea market, mostly selling hand sewn wallets and keychain thingies with bible verses on them), did some research into affiliate networks for upcoming projects with Brian from ZeroPercentCards.com, and fixed an issue with the RSS feed for Sageth.com.

I love direct mail… the irony of getting my unemployment check AND an ad from a Porsche dealer… oh man…

Movie review…

S. Darko – Ok, if you plan on watching this sequel to the cult classic Donnie Darko, here’s what I will do for you…

1. I will come to the theater (or your couch if you are watching on DVD),
2. drop my pants,
3. take a huge shit right next to you,
4. leave*

Me taking a dump right next to you will make this movie more enjoyable. It’s that bad. Seriously.

*Note – I put the leave step in there because I just figure if you are enjoying someone’s poop, it’s probably weird to make eye contact with said pooper.

• Fresco Depicting the Shocker – thanks Mel
• Mix an Exploding Drink
• Conan : Twitter Tracker
• SheWee

I worked late last night. I was wrestling with YUI Sliders and DataTables and then later in the evening setting up a Python script to build a Google sitemap. Ergo, I need a beer or nine at quitting time today…

In the most ultimate irony ever in the history of ironies… the Big 3 American automakers’ CEOs conveined in D.C. to request a $25 billion bail out. And how did all 3 CEOs arrive to our nation’s capital? That’s right, each of them traveled in their own private jets. Read that again, they came to beg for money… in private jets.

Oh, one last item… the old college photo I posted yesterday is being further deconstructed by a crack team of my fraternity brothers… apparently there’s a lot more stolen stuff in that picture than I had initially indicated. Stay tuned…

Movie Reviews…

Mystery Science Theater 3K: The Movie – speaking of college days, boy I missed this show. Like other MST3K fans, the polish of the movie version of the show bothered me a wee bit, but Jesus H. Christ, you will laugh your ass off. I wish there was more of Tom Servo, Crow, and Mike making fun of the movie, but the movie ruled, I can’t believe I had not watched this sooner.

Bravo Two Zero – this was a decent war movie. It’s realistic and honest to the story as told by Andy McNab (Sean Bean‘s character). I couldn’t really decide if the battle scenes were choppy and poorly directed or it was an honest depiction of the uncadenced tempo of real battle. After reading some of the user comments at IMDb, I am interested to read the other books written by the other survivors of this action – apparently, there is a lot of contradictions between the other books and McNab’s account.

• Amazing Cave of Crystals Discovered
• All the Single Ladies – Big Girl Remix and here’s the original dance Beyonce says inspired her dance moves and the original version remixed to Walk It Out.

I wrote a quick XML based stats thingamajob last night so I can somewhat track visitors to my blog and various pages. I was up until about midnight doing this and a few DM thingies. I’m a little tired, but very glad that Yogi and I braved the cold this morning for our 3 miles.

Ziggy came home today, our new little boy cat. He seems to be a good addition to the family. He got hissed at all night by Bowie and Yogi sufficently sniffed his cat ass, and yet Zig was fairly cool with all of it. He didn’t hide too much and seems to really like the kids and definitely enjoyed snuggling in the bend of my knees last night. I hope Bowie will warm up to him soon, she loved our other cat back in Georiga but hasn’t really had a buddy for a few years now.