Last Friday afternoon we took a well earned trip to Six Flags Whitewater amidst the 89° Georgia heat and had a great time, even if it was only Phil and me going on the slides… Friday afternoon was the perfect time really, we barely had any queues to wait in, except for the new ride, The Tornado… So we went on pretty much every ride they had to offer, except I backed out of going on The Cliffhanger and The 100 Meter Splash ride was closed.
So what was Erika and Adam doing while me and Phil were splashing about? Taking pictures (see below) and carrying wet clothes around, though Adam did join us on the little river that goes round the park…
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Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has been released…
I’ve not had a chance to play about with it, but Neil Turner has…
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Have we turned into gerbils ladies and gentlemen?
So, I mentioned that I broke up with Robyn a few weeks ago… Well, we got back together last Monday and despite a few up’s and down’s, things are going pretty good. Kinda…
Now, understand that I’ve been putting this off for the last week, because I wanted it to sink in and see how I felt further on down the road, but events occured last weekend while I was away livin’ it up at the lake.
Not good events, pretty bad events, pretty shitty events.
I wish I could refer to Robyn’s “journal” entry about it but it’s been taken down. So I’ll have to relay events as best as I can from the story being told to me…
Basically last Saturday was Robyn’s birthday, and as I was away at the lake and not here to celebrate it with her (added to the fact we had broken up) she decided to seek comfort from elsewhere, so she went out with her ex-ex-boyfriend, a guy called Rob (Rob & Robyn, how cute, no?) and to cut a long story short, sex was involved…
She told me this on Monday outside Fado’s in Buckhead, rather tearily might I add, and to be blunt, I was pretty stunned but tried to play it cool, as opposed to losing my cool in a public place… Though, long time readers will know about my Human Doormat™ properties, but I accepted it as we had broken up, basically no harm no foul in my book, but took small satisfaction from Robyn’s descriptions of Rob’s ability (or lack of) in the… Well, you get the idea, maybe she was trying to make me feel better or maybe it was genuine, it’s a moot point overall…
Anyways, Robyn is having a hard time these last few weeks as she quit her job, so with nothing to do and sitting around the house all day, it’s begining to take it’s toll on her and it reached boiling point on Thursday when she tried to get some stuff back from Rob’s, apparently it was a messy situation all round and I tried my best to help her (but I’m pretty useless in some situations).
Anyhoo, I’m loathed to do this as I don’t perticularly want to give Rob the satisfaction of affecting me, but he decided it was ok to write about me on his website…
Robyn goes further downhill with each succession of male suitors and the newest guy takes the cake. Greg or Gregor or whatever the hell his name is is quite the joke. A mid to late 20 something with no college degree, no job to speak of, seemingly ambitionless and living here illegally to boot!
I’ve had plenty of crap written about me on multiple website (some of which is even factually true!) but having some 30-year-old jerk-off talk smack about me when he doesn’t even know me takes the cake. Even though this technically makes me no better thean him, it certainly made me feel better… Besides, he’s one to talk as he’s dating an 18-year-old high school drop-out, who was working at the Arby’s drive-thru when he met her on the chat lines…
Pot, Kettle… Black.
I guess I’ve been living under a rock recently, cause when I opened iTunes tonight, it asked if I wanted to update from 4.5 to 4.6. Why not I thought, even though the 4.5 update was just over a month ago…
So I investigate what the changes are and I come across this…
For the uninitiated (like myself apparently), it’s the all new Apple AirPort Express base station… Basically a gadget you plug into the wall and you can share a single broadband Internet connection and USB printer without inconvenient and obtrusive cables, create an instant wireless network on the go… Or stream your iTunes library over your home stereo in different rooms.
AirPort Express with AirTunes redefines the way you listen to your music at home. It gives you the freedom to play your iTunes music through your stereo or powered speakers in virtually in any room of your house – wirelessly. It lets you enjoy the tremendous flexibility of iTunes without being bound to your Mac or PC, opening up a whole new world of musical enjoyment.
You’ve put together an extensive digital music collection in iTunes, arranged it into clever playlists to suit your every mood. Now you want to enjoy it in your living room on your home stereo, not just in the den, where your computer sits. Enter AirPort Express with AirTunes.
AirPort Express works with iTunes to make listening to your iTunes music library through your home stereo or powered speakers not only a possibility but a snap. Whether your stereo or powered speakers are located in your living room, bedroom or basement, just plug it or them into the audio port on the AirPort Express Base Station using an audio cable. iTunes automatically detects the connection. When you open iTunes on your AirPort-equipped Mac or Wi-Fi-compliant PC, you’ll see a popup list at the bottom right of the iTunes window showing your remote speakers. Select it, click play and your stereo becomes the world’s greatest digital jukebox.
If I had a stereo, I would probably get this despite the $130 price tag, but alas… I need to get other things, like a TV for starters.
I know I’m 10 years late, but thanks to Erika I’m in like flynn (or “in like flint” if you like the movie and get the reference).
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Last time out I briefly mentioned:
Now we’re (Phil, Erika, Adam and me) taking the weekend off to go camping by Lake Lanier, we have the supplies in, the fishing rods, the fishing licenses are valid to go with it… Should be fun
And what fun it was…
We’ve been to Lake Lanier before on a day out, and decided that we should go camping once we had the chance, so, as previously mentioned, we got the stuff together and on Friday, we loaded the old Explorer up to the gils with more than enough equipment, 4 people and 3 dogs.
We were booked into the Sawnee camping ground in, what we later found out, was one of the best sites in the ground… We had a huge tent area for our huge 4 room tent, a little BBQ grill, a firepit and a little beachy area where we could go out and swim from… And we did a lot of swimming, and fishing, and kayaking… Mostly a lot of swimming… So we unpack, put up the tent and inflate the airbeds, because we believe in roughing it, and test the water.
After swimming and fishing for a bit we stop to dry off and have supper, later we begin one of the many games of Uno as the moon begins to rise, and it was a gorgeous red moon that showed up about 11pm
So after Phil goes to bed, Erika, Adam and myself sat watching the world go peacefully by before turning in too…
We’re all up early the next morning, and we spent the whole day in the water, and we all ended up various shades of red, we only took breaks for food, games of uno, chess and naps.
Sunday comes and we’re all in various levels of pain with sunburn, Adam is blistering and popping ibuprofen like m&m’s, so we get up late, have one last dip in the water and slowly pack everything away back into the truck before checking out at 3, but not before we scouted out the campsite and agreed we had the best spot in the place…
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Hmmm, things are a bit sparse around here nowadays, so much so that I’ve decided to display the last 14 days of posts as opposed to the usual week, truth is I’ve been pretty busy since last Friday and this place has been the last thing on my mind…
Well, as previously mentioned, Monday was my birthday, so Robyn and I went to her parents cabin on the shores of Lake Sinclair to celebrate both our birthdays as her birthday is this Saturday coming… So her family was down there and we had a lot of fun lounging about or going out in the boat or swimming off the end of their dock, plus I learned a few things I didn’t know about NASCAR…
On Monday Phil, Erika, Adam and me had a packed day that included, but not limited to, bowling, moose kissing and playing about in the swimming pool (which ended in me getting stripped butt nekkid), a fun day for the most part… I say the most part because Robyn and I also broke up…
Anyways, a few choice pictures from my birthday.
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And for the last few days I’ve buried myself in work… Except Wednesday night, when I met up with Robyn to talk about stuff… We went to Bahama Breeze where I saw former WCW/WWF wrestler, Buff Bagwell. Kind of surreal really, but a nice guy to talk to if only for a short while.
Now we’re (Phil, Erika, Adam and me) taking the weekend off to go camping by Lake Lanier, we have the supplies in, the fishing rods, the fishing licenses are valid to go with it… Should be fun, sorry I have to disappear again though.
(via Michael Hanscom and News Askew)
Kevin Smith wheels out View Askew veterans to urge people to vote, yes including Jay & Silent Bob… As he says: