So web 2.0 it makes babies cry.

So I was talking to a friend the other day joking around about tricking out my bike, and discovered that Spokey Dokes are back! I would totally sport these on old school ones, the new stuff kinda sucks.  See below:

The only thing that would make them cooler is if they were now made from the recycled plastic ones that everyone junked back in the 80’s.

Since it was such a nice day yesterday, and I need to get rid of my “spare tire”, it was time to rock four new geocaches. Sadly, I only found two of them first. Then again, I was being nice! The first cache was semi-important to me as I had been unable to find it previously. So that was a nice little victory. Pictured below are some ducks from the third one, they really had great colors on them. It is just a shame that my phone kinda sucks for taking pictures, and I left the pocket digital camera in Delaware.

As we draw to the end of 2008, and I look toward 2009 it is that time to reevaluate my goals, and decide where I want to be this time next year.  As much as I say “when I win the lottery” I know that is not going to happen,  well at least I shouldn’t plan for it.   I have been spending the past week thinking about everything that has happened to me in the past year.  Including but not limited to the decisions that I have made, others have made, and how they have affected me.   Some decisions which I thought were minor, ended up turning out to be fairly major.

As a result, I have pretty much created a document which has a major goal on it, which is more of a general guideline.   Next I’ve written down a few minor goals, which blend into the steps to achieve those goals.  Which can be thought of as a set of realistic resolutions. Just a few of my many small steps include:

• Cutting back on the dark cola’s, and eventually commercial/chemical filled soda’s all together.
• Following up on the path I have been on to eat better, healthier and more organic food.
• Increasing my cardiovascular health, something I have been working on since quitting smoking last January.
• Increase my flexibility through my morning yoga sessions, followed by a few minutes of meditation.

Keep in mind that my resolutions are realistic, not delusions of grandeur such a save every penny, reinvest and make a mint in the stock exchange.  After all, I have a better chance of breaking even with the money I invested in Crox than I do of seeing a dime of that lottery money.

For those of you who were around me in the past week you will know that gift wrapping paper has been my gripe of the week. I guess you could say that it grinds my gears.  So as of now, I give up on this whole wrapping paper thing created by the hallmark’s and the CVS’s of the world! As of right now, 90% of the gift wrap is not recyclable due to the inks/gloss/foils, and naturaly it is not made with any recycled paper.  So yes, it makes the earth cry.

To top it off, it is expensive. I figured I spend on average about $4.00 per roll of paper, I usually use about -6 each and every xmas season.  That does not include the ribbons, tape, bags, tissue papers, etc. So therefore next Christmas season, I will be making at least a $25 donation to another charity.  Perhaps for my 2010 Pinups for Pitbulls calendar, since the 2009 one is HOT and for a great cause.

Next year, you can expect to see gifts wrapped in the brown paper that amazon.com uses a some package filling.  Or comics from the newspapers, or if I’m feeling really spunky the color ads they send out that are generally tossed. Got some paper scraps laying around? Here is an neat way to make your own gift bag.

If you think I’m out of my mind, please post a comment and tell me why.

      I just installed and I’m now testing out the latest client version of the Google Talk Labs Edition. So far the coolest part is that it has “Invisible” mode built in. The interface does seem awful slick, I’m going to give it a full test tomorrow when I get to the office. That is when I communicate with the highest number of contacts.  I am pretty impressed so far though, then again I am easily impressed.

       Ranking really high on the “weird and didn’t see that one coming” scale is my old music teacher was arrested for posession of child porn.  I must say, this is most disturbing, and quite shocking.  Let me be perfectly clear and say that when he was my drum instructor/teacher, he never struck me as that kinda way, or made any advancements towards me.  To be honest, I remember him being pretty much devoted to his family, and quite christian.  They always say it is the repressed ones you have to watch out for.  Now I’m willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, but when the cops decide to move in on a teacher, you know they must have some proof.  Whatever the case may be, I guess we will see what happens as more details are released.

QDB: Top 100 Quotes

A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you’re a great guy, but I don’t like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we’re not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we’re going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn’t work out, we’ll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.

For those of you who don’t know, NameCheap is having a pretty awesome twitter contest for free domains. I’ve been playing a bit here and there, and so far I’ve won credits for two domains.  Not sure if I’ll use those credits to buy more domains, or just transfer some there for the renewals.   To play, you just need a twitter account and a NameCheap account.  Every hour they post a trivia question (generaly Christmas related) and the if you the first to answer correctly, you win a credit for $9.69. Then two others chosen at random will win domains as well.  They are also giving away iPod nano’s for the top three who answer the most questions.

See how I rule:

Occasionally, even I make mistakes.   I actually won 3 domain credits and have updated the questions accordingly.

I thought this was really funny!

What Santa really says!

I was starting to get bored with the default theme so I decided to freshed things and and change to this one.   I dig the green and the bike, since I am working on being green and dig bikes. If that bothers you, you can always go back to the blueline, or pick one of the ones from the “Theme Switcher” on the bottom left hand side.