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Looking for glasses is hard! My glasses are currently sporting a nice crack that runs halfway through the right eye. It started as a little crack and over the last few months has invaded my vision. Using one of my forced days off (I have way too much Paid Time Off accumulated) I decided to go to the optometrist and get a prescription for new glasses. My vision hasn’t changed much in the last few years so I’m kind of glad for that, but now the hunt begins.

I’m looking at a few places online. I have found that buying my glasses online is a lot cheaper than purchasing them from a brick and mortar store. (continue reading…)

Ahh.. Another roadtrip in the books. Last weekend my humble group of friends decided to go to Yosemite National Park. Many were invited, few came. People said they were going to leave at 8 am, but didn’t actually end up leaving till 3 pm. We lost Wes, but he found us. We ran into a few deer, but no bears. Monopoly was played, drinking was had, and cigarettes – we had a few.

All in all, it was a good trip. Very relaxing and the cabin was spectacular. Nestled deep in Yosemite National Park it was amazing to be surrounded by trees and a running brook all the while enjoying the comforts of a cabin. Camping would’ve been a good way to go, but we took this route instead. Imagine being able to BBQ while being surrounded by nature. It was good fun.

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With our test database down at work I find myself with strangely nothing to do. A lot of our coding/testing happens on the test database so when it goes down the programmers at work are kind of left in a certain limbo. So now I find myself catching up on past news. Did you read about the UK politician who compares husband rape to force feeding a woman chocolate? Well, with people like that in power who can complain about the state of the world?

Helen has asked me to spread the word (continue reading…)

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What do you do when you’re bored and have nothing better to do with your life? Well, if you’re anything like me, you’ll update your blog! I spent a bit of time in the last few weeks finding something that’ll go well with what I was looking for the feel and presentation of my website. After a few hours of looking around I finally found something that I thought could work.

I found this great theme for WordPress (I use WordPress for my blog back-end if you didn’t know) and began tweaking it a bit for what I needed. A few changes here and there and voila! A nice looking WordPress blog for you to browse through.

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A big thank you goes out to the Burbank Police Department and Courthouse for figuring out how to royally screw people who come to visit Burbank. Yesterday Ian and I had to take care of that smoking ticket given to us by the helpful people of the Burbank PD and their efforts to curb dangerous crime (like smoking). And yes, we had to go to court, unlike a traffic ticket we are required to actually show up to court simply because the court likes to see our faces (and charge us a hefty assessment for using their services). After sitting in court for what seemed ages and them getting my name wrong, you get your chance to stand in front of the judge (I decided to represent myself) and he asks what do you plead. You stand up straight and with your most pleasant sounding voice say “guilty your honor”.. and what happens next? He drops it down to an infraction (because a misdeameanor for smoking in public just seems ridiculous right?) and then he charges you a $50 dollar fine. And just for kicks and giggles decides that its in his best interest to charge you an assessment too which brings the glorious total to… $200.

Well fuck you too Burbank. Thank you for the swell times. I won’t be coming back any time soon. Enjoy yourselves and enjoy my $200 bucks. Like a hooker that you wake up next to in the morning and realize has the most hideous face, you so weren’t worth it.