Luke (and the rest of us) had a very fun Halloween. He liked being Elmo for the most part, though we spent most of the night without our Elmo head on.
I’m working on getting a plugin working that will automatically cross post to facebook, but it wants a higher PHP doober than we have. Then I would just post to my blog, and have it magically appear on facebook to notify people. Best of both worlds!
I’m currently in the process of getting everything re-installed now that I’m on Windows 7, so I figured this was a great opportunity to hook-up the negative scanner! I’m glad to report it is working perfectly in Windows 7, woo hoo!
This is a photo from my 2nd Halloween, so I was a few months shy of being 1.5 years old. I’ll make sure to post an update after we get some pictures of Luke tonight for his 2nd Halloween.
I’m still amazed at how cool these pictures come out with a high quality scanner with scratch removal. And on top of that I can correct red-eye on a picture that is almost 30 years old. Thank goodness my parents saved negatives. I love them.
And now, much to my sister’s displeasure:
No, this post has nothing to do with Al Gore winning a peace prize for something that has nothing to do with peace. I have two new commercials to complain about.
The first is a Disney commercial. It’s advertising the Halloween decorations, and features a young girl flying around on her broomstick. At one point she flies by a man and steals his candy apple! What the crap? Just because you’re at Disneyland and everything is magical, it’s OK for you to fly by on your broom and steal a man’s dessert? Pathetic.
The second is a Hometown Buffet commercial. Apparently the man has to clean up the leaves on his front lawn before they can go to dinner. To accomplish this task he blows the leaves onto his neighbors lawn. Unethical, but I could live with this. On a second viewing of the same stupid commercial, he blows something through his neighbors window and breaks it! Again, what the crap? Is Hometown Buffet suggesting it’s OK to damage your neighbors property as long as it means you eat at their restaurant?
The ethical state of affairs within the advertising industry is frightening.
We are without the internet still, so this post is coming to you from the in-laws house. A Verizon phone technician came out on Thursday because I thought the problem was being caused by noise on the telephone line. He came out and checked things, and basically told me it had to be a DSL issue. He also said the noise can be caused by the DSL. Unfortunately Verizon is terribly organized, and even though this guy also does DSL tech support, he couldn’t touch it because he was out for phone service. I then had to call Verizon DSL tech support. They tested the line for two days, and still no improvement. I called back on Saturday night and my problem was elevated. That lead to being put on hold for 45 minutes. They’re supposedly testing it again for 24 hours, this time from the central office, after which I will receive a phone call from tech support.
Friday night we went out for a friend’s birthday from work to the Storyteller’s Cafe at the Grand Californian Hotel at Disneyland. Afterwards we went on a few rides, including back to back runs on Space Mountain. Saturday night we went to Lonestar to celebrate Kevin and Christie’s engagement. I got put on hold by Verizon as we were leaving the house, and wasn’t helped until we were seated at our table in Long Beach. Afterwards, much to Stacie’s delight, we went to Golden Spoon.
Now it is Sunday at Stacie’s parents. Stacie is working on some things and I’m utilizing the internet to post and pay bills. Not sure what we’re doing for Halloween. Last year a few people came over and we watched Donnie Darko. I’ve got Monster House, so we talked about watching that. If anyone wants to come over or has a better idea we’re open to suggestions. Look for more proposition posts soon.
Halloween is tomorrow, and I have the urge to watch some Halloweenish type movies. Scoff at the choices if you’d like, but I’m trying to make it accessible to all tastes. :p
Where: My House
What: Donnie Darko at 6 pm, Scream at 8 pm
Why: Because scary movies on Halloween is cool.
Who: Friends and family. Frank from Austria, you can’t come.
I’m not planning any food and stuff, this isn’t a party. We’re just watching movies for crying outloud. If you’re gonna come, post. If you’re not gonna come, I hope the wolfman gets you.
No, I don’t really hope the wolfman gets you. If he did that would be really crazy though, because I’m pretty sure the wolfman doesn’t exist. Even though you’d be dead, you would be all over the evening news. In fact, we’d probably stop watching our movies just to see you all dead on the news. Wow, this is going to be an exciting halloween!
Update: I bought pizza bites.
Yes, I realize this is late. But hey, it’s here, so stop complaining! Go check it out in the gallery here.
Had a good weekend over here. Got to see Stacie a lot, so that’s always a plus. 
The monitor is now firmly secure inside the arcade. We’re still waiting for a video card to come that I ordered from England. It’s a Radeon 9200 that’s been modified specifically for outputting aracade resolutions and timings. We haven’t even plugged the monitor in yet, so that’s killing me. Otherwise we just need to finish wiring the control panel and paint a few spots, then that’s it.
This week is VERY exciting. Our next presidential election is on Tuesday, and I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to this. Of course I’ll be a much happier camper if Bush wins, but it should be exciting whatever the outcome.
Ryan and I are going to see SAW in a couple hours. I think watching a scary movie on Halloween is my favorite part of the “holiday.” Carving a Jack-O-Lantern is fun too though. This year we used a stencil off of HomestarRunner and it came out super cool.
That’s all for now. Back to working on The Burn website.
