3 words...

What. The. F@&%!!!

I am speechless... absolutely speechless.

Motivation...level... critical

The reason for my lack of posts lately has been my utter lack of motivation to do ANYTHING! I don't want to type, I don't want to do laundry, mow the yard, nothing! It's not that I don't WANT to, it just getting the momentum going to do it. I actually like mowing the yard, but its the weed whacking, and trimming, and all the extra stuff that puts me off about it. Even WoW can't hold my attention lately, unless I have something very specific in mind to do. ( Yeah, I am playing again, and forgot how much I love playing. Thankfully for me, my beautiful bride likes to play too.)

I could post about the wonderful get together my family went to this weekend to see my best friends from high school. But that post would be full of inside jokes, and lots of "I can't believe that was 20 years ago". It was a great time, and really nice to be able to reconnect with people who know all about me, and just laugh.

I could post about how this is one of the biggest movie summers of all time, and I haven't been to see any of the 3's (spiderman, pirates, shrek, oceans) Although, I have promised my beautiful bride I would take her to see 1408. Because we haven't seen a GOOD scary movie in a long time.

I could take the easy way out and post about some of the YouTube videos I have been watching lately. I frequent SomethingAwful quite regularly, and on their forums, someone created a thread for people to just post videos of other people doing AWESOME things. There are some incredible videos out there. Skateboarders, guitar players, video game players... everything! I stayed up until 2am on a couple of nights just watching these people and what they can do.

Since I don't feel like posting anything, I guess I won't.

The little things

I had a very good Father's Day, thanks for asking. My day began with big hugs and kisses from my beautiful bride, and my 4 year old. My 3-month old (ya, 3 month old! jeesh) tried to give me kisses, but more just drooled on my cheek, which still counts. We got up, and got ready for church. My beautiful bride tells me that she will drive today... but instead of driving to church, she surprises the girls and I by taking us to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. Mmmmm.... ham and biscuits. Very yummy. My 4-year old hands me my father's day card. The card was very cute, and obviously picked out by her, as it was a purple "My Little Pony" card, with stickers for her inside. The stickers all said "I love Daddy", and "Daddy's little girl" on them, but as long as she was going to get them is what mattered to her. I think I could by a box of Avery Labels, and she would go nuts because "Stickers I can COLOR?!?". The girl loves her stickers. Anyway, the card was cute, and signed from all my girls, but that wasn't the real gift. The thing I enjoyed the most was the envelope the card came in. Plain and white with "D A D" written in little girl letters. I looked at that all day long, and just smiled. I really do love being a D A D.

More Nestle Love

I had a very interesting thing happen to me today. I was out taking pictures for work, and needed gas for my car, and gas for my belly. I stop at a gas station and fill up my gas tank and go inside. Remembering that I have one last free coupon for a Nestle crunch bar in my wallet ( Part one, Part two of how I got the coupons). Grab a soda, and cruise over to the candy aisle, find a Crunch bar and notice that they have some other contest going where you could win a share of 5 million dollars. Go to pay, wait for the guy to call his manager over, get my stuff and leave. Driving back to work, I down my delicious candy bar, and look in the specially marked wrapper... there, on the inside... "Congratulations... you have won a FREE Nestle Crunch Bar" (see details). I smile quietly to myself, again, and contemplate how the simple things in life make me happy.

Celebrity News

I don't like celebrity news. I don't care about it, don't need to know it, and try to avoid it. I don't really care who is dating who, who got drunk and flashed the cameras, or any of that. But I can't stop myself from posting this because it makes me giggle like Dakota Fanning.


(Oh, Nelson. How I love thee.)

MAME Plans

I have been wanting to build a MAME Cabinet for quite some time now. The biggest thing stopping me was the Size of some of the actual cabinets. I don't really want a huge monstrosity of a thing just sitting in the corner of the basement. I have been looking at plans after plans for them, and I think I may have found a nice compact design.

I like it for a few reasons. First, its not very big or intrusive. It could easily be disguised as an end table. Second, it wouldn't require mounting a huge TV or Monitor in the cabinet... the guy that build this one used a 17 monitor. You can get those anywhere, CHEAP!. Third, the realization that I don't need a control panel where 4 players can play at once. I will most likely be playing this by myself, and if friends come over, they will just have to share.

I will change the control panel a bit, I don't need the roller ball. There are only 2 games that I would want the roller ball for anyway, Centipede, and Missile Command. I was never really good enough at either of these games to justify dropping $160, just for the roller ball. I may invest some of that money saved into an extra 4 way stick. Just to get that authentic Pac-man stick feel.(The 8-way joystick gets hung on the diagonals, and screws with your game experience.) I will also increase the number of buttons to accommodate my Asteroids fix. Because playing Asteroids with a Joystick is Arcade Blasphemy.

Night at the Museum

Went to the museum with some friends this weekend... they didn't let us stay long. I don't know Y.