Snow days don’t happen much here, so…

Welcome to Stupid Quiz Sunday, in which I'll take an online quiz that may or may not be stupid and post the results.

Your Snow Test Says You're Independent

You feel like something good will happen to you in the next few weeks. You love to work, especially when work is creative. You have the makings of a successful artist. You are an independent, individualistic person. You thrive when you're doing your own thing. Your biggest worry in your life is your health. You tend to be a bit of a hypochondriac. When it comes time to relax, you really indulge. You are all about your favorite comforts.

The Snow Test

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It’s Tweetup time!

On Monday I’m helping put on the first Southeast Texas Tweetup.

We’re meeting at Sertino’s Cafe in the Best Buy shopping center in Beaumont. (View map) at 7 PM. I’ll be there with my camera.

You can follow the SETX Tweetup on Twitter at @SETXtweetup. There’s also a Facebook group.

See y’all Monday!

The hill

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Bruiser’s out playing in Fort Worth:

This hill might be fun to roll down!

A few days before we went back to Beaumont after evacuating for Ike I finally built up the courage to roll down the hill myself. I got to the top of the hill and started. When I started, Bruiser took off towards me and nipped at my neck (I’m assuming) to try and stop me.

LOLcat of the day: I have something in common with this kitteh

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Those drive me mad too!

I swear I’ve done more ‘Italian’ cooking than this, but it’s good so whatever

Ever since my grandmother broke her wrist last weekend I’ve been taking on a lot more duties around the house.

Cooking, cleaning, all that good stuff.

Last night I did one of the simplest dishes I know, “Italian chicken.” It was one of my favorites as a kid.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:

• Chicken breasts (or tenderloins)
• Italian salad dressing

Here’s what you do with it:

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Put your chicken in a casserole dish or bowl.
3. Cover the chicken with the Italian dressing. You don’t have to drown it, just make sure it’s got a good bit on it.
4. Bake until the chicken’s cooked through. About a half hour usually does the trick for tenderloins.
5. Enjoy!

I’ve also tried marinating the chicken in the dressing overnight before cooking it. It’s good either way.

The chicken comes out juicy and oh so wonderful.

Marley & Me: I got no issues, but here’s a tissue. You’ll need it.

When I saw the commercials for Marley & Me I told my grandmother we had to go see it.

I haven’t read the book, but she had and spoke wonders about it.

We finally got around to it today with my aunt (yes, the one with her head in the alligator) and cousin.

The movie has it’s hilarious moments, many of them that looked like something a certain member of our pack would do.

It also has romantic moments, as Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson(whom I’ve never been a fan of before now) played their parts beautifully.

The story, especially towards the end, also has it’s sad moments.

I’m not one to cry over movies, but I did at the end of this one. Most people, especially pet owners, will.

All in all, I’d give the movie an 8 out of 10.

Obviously they didn’t ask about how clumsy I am

Welcome to Stupid Quiz Sunday, in which I'll take an online quiz that may or may not be stupid and post the results.

You Should Fly on a Trapeze

Some people may call you a daredevil. Others would call you an adrenaline junkie. But for you, it's not about the risk - it's all about the reward. You crave freedom. And flying on a trapeze is the closest you'll get to that freedom. The rush of doing something humans weren't born to do is amazing. And you're willing to put your life in danger to experience it.

What Circus Act Should You Perform?

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Coming to you live from Windows 7

Today I dug up and installed a copy of the much vaunted Windows 7 public beta and installed it in a Virtual Machine.

I’m going to play around with it for a few days. After I get a good feel for it, I’ll do a post on my thoughts.

Crappy cell phone pictures that make you go “WTF?”

Last night the family went out to The Schooner (a local seafood place) for dinner. We had about a half-hour wait for a table, so we had some time to burn.

My aunt and cousin were in town and when they saw the alligator statue outside they started having some fun with it.

Anybody who follows me on Twitter will recognize these pictures. They’re the same ones I put up on TwitPic, just with the color levels adjusted so they weren’t so dark.

Video of the day: The next big thing from Apple

It’s amazing what they think of!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

The Onion did an AMAZING job with this, didn’t they?

On patrol

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Taffy’s checking the perimeter of the house we were staying at in Fort Worth during the short-lived Gustav evacuation.

This sector’s clear!

That’s good to know.

Stuck with me

If you didn’t notice earlier this week, the countdown of how long I have to renew the domain for this blog went up significantly.

It now stands at 1060.

I must take this time to regretfully inform you that on Tuesday I added two years to my domain and so you’re stuck with me until at least December 2011.

Amazing

Yesterday I put 2 gigs of RAM in my computer as a late Christmas present to myself, giving myself 4 gigs total.

I think back to the first computer my dad bought 12 years ago. It had 8 megs of ram and a 1.6 gig hard drive.

My current hard drive checks in at 300 gigs.

It amazes me how much things have advanced in that time.

And yes, my computer’s running much faster now.

Video of the day: The shoplifting dog

(via K T Cat)

This is just great:

Blogging will be light

Blogging will be light for an indeterminate amount of time, as my grandmother broke her wrist Saturday and I’m being the good little grandson and helping out wherever I can.

Like being a chauffeur. And a cook. All the fun stuff.

Regular blogging will resume… eventually.

What did I do, sleep through a few months?

Welcome to Stupid Quiz Sunday, in which I'll take an online quiz that may or may not be stupid and post the results.

You Remember 70% of 2008

You were paying attention during 2008. And you remember what happened really well. You'll be able to talk about 2008 for years to come... Even when most people have forgotten what went down.

How Much Do You Remember 2008?

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LOLdog of the day

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Well that was nice of him, wasn’t it?

Yum

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I tried something different with a batch of cookies I baked a few weeks ago:

Standard oatmeal raisin cookies, right?

WRONG?

I added chocolate chips into the mix too. It sounds like a weird combination, and I guess it is, but they’re really good.

New Year’s resolutions are bullshit but calling them something else is totally cool

So, what the hell should I call these?

How about “shit I want to work on in 2009?” That works, I think.

I’ve got a (very) short list:

1. Work on my writing. Writing’s never been a strong suit of mine. I’ve written some gems over the past year, but I’ve written a lot of crap too. I want more gems and less crap in 2009.
2. Try to control my anger. I’m not exactly one of those psycho angry people that’ll beat the shit out of anybody for looking at them funny, but I do have a tendency to overreact to things and fly off the handle once in a while. I really do need to put that in check.
3. Learn from my mistakes. I have a tendency to sometimes be really stupid and keep doing stupid things when I know they’re stupid. Why? Because I’m stupid.

That’s all I can think of.

LOLcat of the day

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Happy new year to all of my loyal minions readers. May you have a 2009 with many LOLZ and no FAILs.