Dominic's Labor ProgressDecided to make a new category called Really? This is where I’ll take a photo or post something that when I see, read or hear about it, my mind stops and all I can think is “Really?”
This gem was located: above the sink and between the soap dispenser and paper towels in the City Hall Men’s Restroom at Disneyland.
We went back to Oktoberfest on Friday night. This time with a larger group and special guest star, Jason L. Parks! Fun evening here are the photos!
Nuff said! I’m in love!
Too bad it’s going to be a busy week. :(
Saturday, I installed the latest version of the Mac OSX 10.5, aka Leopard. I had the unique opportunity during the installation process to work on a new laptop with Vista on it. The Vista laptop has a processor that is .24 GHZ faster than my Mac Book Pro… Speedwise my Mac Book Pro is quite a bit more responsive… I guess it’s goes without saying Vista sure is one bloated piece of software.
After I removed a bunch of unnecessary programs and *fixed* all the fancy wanna be OSX graphics and animations the laptop ran much better. By this time my Leopard install/upgrade was long done leaving me time to spend with my new operating system while the Vista process drag on.
One thing is for sure with OSX is you put the disc in, launch the application, reboot the computer and run the upgrade then reboot. After it boots back up into 10.5 you connect to software update, update software and that’s it, you’re DONE!
Vista OTOH required NUMEROUS reboots to accomplish many first install tasks, then NUMEROUS reboots to remove all the garbage. When will microsoft get it right?
The few improvements I’ve noticed with Leopard are nice and the system still runs fast and feels good out of the box! There are some UI and file system managment improvements. I haven’t had a chance to setup Time Machine but i’ll get to it soon.
This is not a very technical review but I enjoyed the side by side comparison with Vista and Leopard. I guess i’m now finally converted over to Mac and I don’t see myself going back to Vista or any future Windows operating system. Now, If only 3DSmax and AutoCAD would release their Applications for OSX!
After a busy week I was looking forward to a hopefully less busy weekend…
Friday evening I sort of surprised Lori with a sporadic (I planned it) dinner and movie (outside the Home Theater even!). We saw Across The Universe.
The movie is great if you’re a Beatles fan. It’s sort of cheesy, the singers are great and there are a ton of little references. There is a loose storyline and along the way they’ve taken a song and interpreted it into a scene in the movie. We both really enjoyed the movie and it really makes me want to go back to see the Love show again in vegas.
Saturday I did some cleaning up around here, talked to Jason L. Parks, and ran some errands until we left to go to the Revo Downey pumpkin carving event. This brought us to Eric and Ashley’s place which happens to be located on the Peacock farm in Norwalk next to the Target. It was fun to be on the farm, eat chili, hang out and watch people carve FAKE pumpkins! The pumpkins were fake so we could give them to the children of city of hope where Ashley works. Later a few of us continued to hang out and have some cocktails at the Chili’s at the Landing…
Sunday morning started out with me somehow sleeping through my alarm (a super rare occasion… Kevin I must be catching this from you!) I raced over to the Lakewood campus and helped finish the setup, troubleshooting and educating the band on operating the new system. Still half-asleep I raced over to the Downey to start our setup. After church I took a mid-day break at home and then met up with Paul at the Lakewood campus to educate and observe the night service.
The sound at Lakewood has improved so much, the range and clarity was staggering. However, the new amp was failing so I decided to stay and pull it out after the service so it could be exchanged for a newer one with room for a bit more overhead.
Overall it was a busy and eventful weekend. I had fun, worked hard at times and I learned a few more things about myself that I’d like to continue to work on improving.
These fires are terrible!
The only entertaining element to this whole situation are the reporters on the various stations. I’ve been watching all day (thanks to the magic of my slingbox) and I’ve seen various field reporters wearing odd items.
Most seem to be wearing at least some kind of Tyvek / yellow (fake) protective fireman’s coat. Being a Devo fan I am trained to be excited when I see a yellow Tyvek suit!
Some have taken it to the extreme by adding large SKI goggles and dust masks (which might not be a terrible idea if you’re in a smoke filled area). They will often interview people in the area who are dressed normal and they are dressed like they are from the future (or at least believe in Devolution!)
Then there was the one lady who just seemed to be able to take it one step beyond, she also had a HARD HAT! It was crooked and much too large for her head but provided for great laughs because she looked like the ultimate tool!
Again, the fires are terrible and not a laughing matter… the reporters, however are ridiculous and deserved to be laughed at and ridiculed for their lame costumes!
I’m sure you’ve all experienced the nasty brown fog from the fires. It’s terrible and I’ve had sinus-like headaches, throat hurts and my nose is going crazy…
Be sure to check out the NASA Earth Observatory for satellite coverage (also here)… I’m amazed at how quick they get up photos of natural disasters. The smoke is unreal!
update: here’s how google’s helping us keep track of the fires in LA/OC and SD
I like waffles. I’m not a big fan of Eggo brand waffles, but they usually get the job done. Occasionally Lori treats me to homemade waffles and then she will make extras and freeze them so I can re-heat/toast them later in the week. I feel bad when she has to do all that work just to make me waffles simply because I don’t like the burn the back of your throat variety of eggo waffles.
Recently I was introduced to a fantastic product called: Batter Blaster They claim it’s organic (who cares) but I claim it’s delicious! It’s like a can of whipped cream but instead it’s filled with pancake / waffle batter.
Turn your waffle iron on wait a few minutes for it to warm up then spray the batter onto the iron’s cooking surface and a minute or so later you have a hot tasty waffle!
So far I’ve only seen them at Costco and I don’t remember how many you can make with each can but I do know that I love this product! Move over eggo, Batter Blaster is here!
The perfect way to start your day off at Hardee’s. Let’s hope Carl’s Jr picks up on this…
The perfect day, I can picture it now…
Breakfast: Country Breakfast Burrito
Lunch: The Baconator
Dinner: BK Stacker 4 x 4
Roll over to bed and never wake up!