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I know the game will look and play NOTHING like this but this is an AWESOME intro trailer for DC Online.

So, whats the most exciting point of the vacation so far? The flight? The midnight drive to my friends house? Taco Bell? No it happened just as we were about to play mini-golf!

Yesterday, we decided to see the matinee showing of ‘Inception’ at the local Imax. We swug by early to get the tickets then to Wendy’s for a quick lunch. Turns out Wendy’s has been replaced by a combo KFC/Taco Hell Bell. I had to try out the double down, what with living dangerously and all. It was an interesting ‘sandwich’, but nobody cares about that get to the ‘exciting’!

After our tasty lunch we watched the movie, which we all enjoyed greatly. Good movie! Glad to see the ‘kid’ from “3rd Rock from the Sun” getting a good part. Good for him! hmm? What? oh..yeah..the point. the point.

Anyway, after the movie we headed out for some mini-golf so the Wife and I can show all these Yankees hows it’s done. I reach back to pay our share and ….I freak the HELL OUT!!! Why? My wallet is NOT on my person! We quickly go back to the KFC/TB to see if it’s there. I have visions of having to go dumpster diving looking for my wallet. It’s.NOT.THERE!

We go back to the theater which is now starting to let patrons into the theater for the next viewing. The cleaning crew had found nothing but I still saw cups and shit under the seats so we asked for a flashlight. We went strait to the correct seat and HALLELUJAH my wallet sat safe under my seat in a nice sticky spot. I could kiss it!

Losing my wallet then finding it is about as exciting a vacation as I can handle. Let’s get back to just zip-lining down a mountain or something more relaxing please!

Whoo! The missus and I are off, for two glorious weeks, to Boston. We’ll be visiting one of my oldest and bestest friends. Beer! Food! Alcohol! Food! BEER! and we’ll play all sorts of geeky, nerdy games, cuz that’s how we roll up there.

I do expect to check the blog, my email and such so if anyone needs us we’ll be in touch.

Here’s to hoping it’s at least a couple degrees cooler up north.

Oh. And today is my birthday. Happy birthday me.

If this report from Rachel Maddow is true, and MPB removed a program (Fresh Air) because of ONE complaint, (that’s right  just one) then I’m done with MPB. I’ll continue to listen to your morning news, but I won’t contribute anymore to listen to it. Why? Because I now know that as soon as someone in the news or any of your programs says just one thing that annoys even one person you’ll pull it. You’ve set the precedent. We now know where you stand and what you’ll fight for; apparently nothing. The channel may as well go back to playing nothing but classical music now. And even then watch out, someone may decide that some piece of music was enjoyed by Hitler or Stalin or some other ‘person of disrepute’ and therefor listening to that piece may remind at least one person of this bad guy and have them complain, so you’ll eventually be playing the national anthem over and over again as the only safe choice. Worth money to listen to that kind of channel let me tell ya.

If you can’t even fulfill your own freaking HANDBOOK; “MAET will not censor or edit material for broadcast solely out of fear of complaint.” Then what the hell good are you? I mean are you going to at least amend your handbook to be more honest; “MAET will not censor or edit material for broadcast solely out of fear of complaint, but we will if there is even one complaint.”

Also, I know I’m not some fancy PR person or high intellectual or even a program manager but maybe, just MAYBE the better solution to this was to change what is played on your ‘hold’ channel? You know, just an idea. If I’m not mistaken you actually have a music only station; play that on your hold service instead of THINK RADIO.  Good grief, people of the country already have a low opinion of Mississippians must you make decisions that make us look even WORSE?

I mostly listen to public radio in the morning and evening during my daily commute. I just can’t stand the local music stations and ‘talk’ radio = right wing nut-job radio in my area. So public radio it is for news of the day. If I find news to boring (or depressing) I’ll listen to the XMRadio stations for some music. HOWEVER, during that magic time of the year starting in August and ending in February there is sports radio and FOOTBALL! Not that pansy stuff going on now, but real American Football to listen to. The local stations are finally starting to get ramped up to talk about the SEC and local football teams when this whole basketball story took over. So I’m sorry to all you sports radio stations out there but you won’t be able to sell my ears to your advertisers until you get back to talking about FOOTBALL! SEC football in particular.

PS: I don’t watch or care about basketball so I have to ask. Do you basketball fans really care about the current story? I mean this whole thing just looks like an ego trip to me. Why would you go along with it? And SHAME on ESPN for giving this guy an HOUR to say “Miami”. See that took just 1 second. I don’t think anyone can drag that out to make it last an hour. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Nope. Not even that way.

The wife and I checked out the third and newest Mexican restaurant within 1 mile of Dogwood last Friday. At first I was a bit worried because there were way too many non-Mexican staff, but my worries were quickly allayed. The salsa was good, the Margarita was full of Tequila (though I think too cold, was that frozen alcohol and not ice? DAMN COLD!), the service was quick and the food tasty. Wife got tacos (hey that’s actually what she said she wanted that night) and I got my usual “first time at a Mexican place safe bet” fajitas.

The wife enjoyed her tacos and I had enough chicken fajitas left over that I had to take some back in a doggie bag. They were good for lunch Saturday too! The entire meal was less than $30 so we’ll be going to Pepito’s again. If you are in the area it’s not like you lack for choice of Mexican but I’m thinking this place will do alright. The food is as good as the other two and it may even be the cheapest of the three.

Later days.

Update:  I have been informed that one of the differences between Pepito’s and the others is that Pepito’s doesn’t do Rita’ specials. So if that is important to you consider this your ‘heads up’.

For the second time this year non-essential personnel are being sent home from work, because the city of Jackson cannot maintain it’s water system. To the City of Jackson I say this, “Put some money in your fucking infrastructure you fucking dumbasses”. The ‘fucking’ lets you know I mean business. It’s a internet thing you see.

According to the WSJ Isner and Mahut have had to stop for the day after reaching 59-59 in the fifth set. Over 10 HOURS for one match. The whole thing is just crazy. Wimbledon fans must be having a blast!

PS: I only watched 4 minutes of the US vs Algeria game. Lucky for me it was the last 4 minutes. Those are the only ones that counted anyway. GO TEAM USA.

UPDATE: I have been informed that Isner finally won the match after 3 days of play 70-68.  Anyone think either of these guys are going to be in any shape to play their NEXT match?

Tonight the wife and I ate at Logan’s Steak House. I had a New York strip and she had catfish. I asked for medium-well and got it a little burned around the edges. She got two HUGE fried fillets that she enjoyed, but couldn’t eat all of it. Cost was around $40. Not bad for steak, but I still haven’t had a steak eating out in Jackson that I didn’t think I could beat with my own cooking. That is about it for ‘things I can cook better than what I get at restaurants’. (Though Big A and Pat can do better brisket and general BBQ better than I have anywhere either.)

Now I’m settling down for the night with a Chardonnay (Hayes Ranch).  I generally like red more than white and this holds true tonight. I’m no connoisseur of wines (and this is cheap stuff) so I can’t really describe it well. It’s a bit bland, sweet with a, not tart and not bite but something in between. flavor. I feel I drink too much Merlot so I’m trying something different tonight. You win some, you lose some. Tonight I’ll call it a tie.

You are awesome! Super awesome. REALLY! I mean it. But I am NOT gonna update you till you are on version 3.0.x at least.

Why you ask? Because I’m not an idiot.

What do you mean?  Every X.0 version of software I’ve ever used has had bugs.

I’ll wait. Thanks for understanding.