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– November 29, 2007Posted in: links
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Giggles
Illianna giggled for the first time a couple of days ago. She’s been smiling for a while now, and I always think she’s so unbelievably cute when she does so, but now her giggles take the cake. Illianna has always enjoyed Adan and Mydrinn. There have been multiple times when I’m getting her bottle ready while she’s crying in her little Boppy chair, so the dogs go over to check on her and start playing with each other to entertain her. 50% of the time she quits crying. Well, Ryan was holding her and playing with the dogs. She was all smiles. Then she just couldn’t contain herself and she giggled. We hope to get it on video in the next couple of days, and I’ll post it.
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Orange and Black Day…..
– November 15, 2007Posted in: 300 million morons
WTF! Some schools have decided to call Halloween “Orange and Black ” day, or even Harvest day. Why you ask? Because the Crazy Christians have decided that calling it Halloween gives too much of an homage to the old pagan rituals on which the day is based. Yep, that’s it. Basically, they think that if they call it something else, perhaps Satan will forget which day it is, is color blind, and will just not show up to rape and pillage their neighborhood until New Years when everyone drives home drunk. God forbid the Christmas tree, is based on a pagan ritual. And woe to the person that tries telling a conservative that Christmas shouldn’t be called Christmas but should be called “Winter Holiday” or “Winterfest” or “Lobsterfest” or whatever. Because they will get all crazy on you about how the holiday is because of Jesus CHRIST, and therefore should be called Christmas. Well, genius, Halloween is based on the killing of small woodland creatures ‘for sure’, sacrificing virgins ‘maybe’, the Spanish Inquisition ‘probably not’, and all other things that are evil. So hop down off your hypocritical high horse, if you can, put on a mask, and get tooth decay like the rest of us from all that candy!
So, let’s assume only 75% of the country is Christian, and only half of them are stupid enough to go for this. ‘I realize it is a stretch.’ That means 112.5 Million Morons to add to the list. 162.5 million morons to go.
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The Power of Makeup…
– November 7, 2007Posted in: 300 million morons
We have all been there. You sleep with a chick you are sure was smoking hot at the club, but you wake up after she has taken the after sex shower and BAM…..whoa…..what the F…..you grab your clothes, and run out the door screaming, “I’ll call you.” Well, here is more proof of this amazing phenomena.
I am putting this in the 300 Million Morons category because someone out there wants to vote for her….like 20+ million of you. So, now we are down to 275 million and still counting.
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Best Stark Trek Line Ever!
– November 4, 2007Posted in: thoughts
Jess and I really loved Star Trek:Deep Space Nine. It is dark, the characters are flawed, and of course..there is Garak and his little nuggets of complete wisdom:
Garak: “Why is it no-one ever believes me, even when I’m telling the truth?”
Julian: “Have you ever heard the story of the boy who cried wolf?”
Garak: “No!”
Julian: “It’s a children’s story. A young shepard gets loney while tending his flock. He cries ‘Wolf!’ and the townspeople come rushing to his aid. When they discover there is no wolf, he claims he scared the wolf off, and they congratulate him for his bravery.”
Garak: “What a clever boy!”
Julian: “There’s more. The boy did the same thing the next day, and the day after, and the day after. And on the next day, when a wolf really did come, the townspeople didn’t come. They’d gotten tired of his lying. The wolf ate all the sheep and the little boy.”
Garak: “Isn’t that a bit gruesome for a children’s story?”
Julian: “The moral is that if you lie all the time, people won’t believe you even if you’re telling the truth.”
Garak: “Are you sure that’s the moral?”
Julian: “Of course. What else could it be?”
Garak, leaving: “Never tell the same lie twice.”
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Halloween
I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween. We did a Jungle theme this year. Ryan successfully made some kids scream and scared some teenage girls good enough that they skipped 3 houses.
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Hilton – Southlake
In Southlake, Texas, there is a really nice town square shopping center. In the phase II area they opened a Hilton. Granted it is a Hilton, but I figured “It is Southlake, and I am sure they are trying to be boutique.” Well, they were. It was very tastefully decorated, very much like theHotel in Vegas.
The room, a corner suite with whirlpool was $319 a night and probably worth it but for a few things I will get to in a second. The room was huge, a comfortable desk, two flat screen TV’s, a monster bathroom with both a large whirlpool and shower. The bed was comfortable, although we didn’t sleep in it. Overall, no complaints for the room, but it was perhaps a little overpriced. $260 would be a bit more inline with other hotels in this area as well as other major cities.
We checked in early, about 1p, there was no valet on duty at this time. We self parked, lugged our bags to the desk, and checked in. The staff was friendly and efficent. At this time we declined bell service. They had our reservation and check in was fast. But here is where the problems began. For those of you that do not know, I use a cane due to my hip injury several years ago. The front desk clerk saw my cane and without asking put us in an accessible suite. The only difference was the shower, it was one of those with the stool and hand shower head.
I can’t stand it when people make assumptions about me. I didn’t reserve an accessible room, nor was I asked if I required one. In fact, I do not require or want one. I do not like the showers, they are cold, and often there are a lot of handles everywhere that get in my way.
At this time, I chose not to complain, but to just deal with it. Jessica and I went about our evening and returned to the hotel after a decent meal at Truluck’s. We decided to try the whirlpool, only to find it did not work. Engineering came up and tried to fix it for about 30-45 minutes then we were called by the front desk and moved to another room. Ten minutes later we tried the new room’s whirlpool, only to find that it did not work either. Again another 30 minutes of engineering tinkering with it and it still didn’t work. I went to the front desk to complain and Dan told me that they didn’t have any more rooms to move us to. That was fine, and this point I was so annoyed that a “4 star” hotel couldn’t have a whirlpool working for $319 a night!
We decided to checkout and just go home, which really sucked. I really was looking forward to the whirlpool due to my hip and really wanted to spend the time with Jessica while my mother watched Illianna. Jessica had mentioned several times that night about how much she was looking forward to the bath that never got to happen.
Checkout was fast, thank God, but I was pissed off and quite terse with the front desk staff. I rarely stay in Hilton hotels and am again reminded why that is. I really prefer the Hyatt chain if I can not find an Omni or iPrefer hotel instead. I doubt my Hilton Honors card will get much use in the future. Oh well, back to planning and getting ready for either another great New Mexico trip staying at a B&B or the Hyatt, and then of course there is Hawaii we are planning which will be Four Seasons, where I am sure the whirlpool will work.
