Picture of the day

This post today us going to be short. I was looking through my
pictures and wanted to share this one of Bam Bam. I was in the mood to
get a pet and I found that Amazon had really good shipping rates. :) I
hope everyone has a good weekend. Later!

Let it Snow!

Ahh, what a lovely snowy day in beautiful Chambersburg, PA! I don't
think it is supposed to snow a whole lot, but I always find the snow
to be very peaceful. I hate having to clean off my car, especially
when the ice makes it harden though.

The big complaint about this area is that there is nothing to do, but
if you think about it we are pretty close to some major areas like DC,
NYC, etc. I do like it here, I just have a problem with some of the
conservative Chambersburg'ites. Some people are so close-minded. How
anyone could still support our arrogant president is beyond me.

I haven't decided yet who I'm going to vote for in my Democratic
primary, but I'll decide soon. I like both Barak Obama and Hillary
Clinton. I think if they end up as running mates that would be a great
thing. Maybe we'll finally have a government that represents our true
interests.

Okay guys, gotta go. Later!

Mmm Starbucks

I'm sitting at Starbucks right now enjoying a delicious cup of coffee.
(not cherry Coke, Craig) Tonight is Missy's late night at work, so I
thought I would chill here for a while. I haven't really hung out here
very much because I don't like paying for wifi. With my iPhone I can
get on the net though with AT&T's convienient, but pokey network.
Today was an "ok" day. I spent most of the day working on some Cisco
phone system software. This is something I should have had done before
but just haven't had time. I'm sort of hungry so I had myself a low-
fat coffee cake. That should tide me over until Missy and I get home
and have dinner. I'm sure the cats are hungry right now, of course
they're always hungry. The above picture was taken a few days ago in
the kitchen. Cats really are incredibly entertaining. Well that's all
I have to say right now. Impeach Bush!!!

National Holiday

That's right folks! Yesterday the 4th was a national holiday in my
book. It was my birthday and I turned the ripe old age of 27. Missy
surprised me by taking me to Schmankerl-Stube Bavarian restaurant down
in Hagerstown. I had been wanting to go there for a while now but just
hadn't gone. The place was really good. I had literally half a pig as
you can see in the picture. I also had a liter of Dopple-Hirch beer.
That is some good stuff right there! It is a slightly sweet tasting
dark beer.

Kissinger, Brad, and Julie came out for my dinner and then we went to
the movies. John met us at the mall. I wanted to see the new Tim
Burton film "Sweeny Todd", but it must be out of the theater already.
We instead watched National Treasure-Book of Secrets. It was pretty
good in an Indiana Jones sort of way, but nothing beats Indiana Jones.
I can't wait until that movie comes out. Those are some of my favorite
movies of all time.

Speaking of movies, today was a disappointing day for me. I woke up,
made some coffee, and sat down to read my morning blogs. What do I see
but an announcement that Warner Bros. Pictures along with their
subsidiary New Line Cinema is going to go exclusively Blu-ray. In
November I jumped on the high-def DVD bandwagon by purchasing a
Toshiba HD-A2 HD-DVD player at a secret Wal-Mart sale. The player was
a $200 player on sale for $98. This was Toshiba's way to get a lot if
players into people's homes and up the ante in the war against Sony
and Blu-ray. It worked and over 90,000 players were sold in a very
short time. Warner Bros. was the last major studio that has been
producing movies on both formats. Now that they just announced their
defection, this only leaves Paramount and Universal as major studios
still making films for HD-DVD. The war isn't over yet, but this is a
major blow. It's just sad because Blu-ray just doesn't have all of the
features of HD-DVD. Sony just has too much clout. Once again the
better technology gets put out to pasture. Damn Sony!

Can you tell I am into technology? Oh well, at least I have one of the
best up-converting DVD players on the market.

Okay, I'm done for now. Later!