Another rip off...maybe

Once again it's time for Will Smith to rip off or shall we say 'remake' an old movie or TV series. This time it's remake of 'The Omega Man' that starred Charlton Heston. Charlton played Robert Neville from the book of the same name. This is the fourth time the movie was made.

I am waiting to see if it will be any good. I will wait until it's released on DVD. My prediction it will have a short run in the theater and then straight to DVD. Just an educated guess formed from viewing Will's previous efforts.

Xmas dog

The setter had a good day today while we were working hard setting up the xmas trees. Yes I ment to make that plural. We had to buy two real trees for xmas. That's a whole other post.

While Nat King Cole was singing the setter looked like this.












While Harry Connick Jr. was singing the setter looked like this.













Then we put on Sarah Mclachlan and the setter really got stressed.











I hope the police don't arrest us for dog abuse. :) What a life. My pillow, my blanket, xmas music, and the couch.

my new dog

Shamoopie's dog has been laying by me all night. She says that Pupstar loves me. She may be right. Pupstar has been laying at my feet and passing gas. It's been awesome. :) Smelly but awesome.

His sisters is bigger...

Did you know that Randy Parton has his own theater. Yes it's true Who is Randy Parton you ask? Well doesn't everyone know? He's Dolly's younger brother. That's why he is famous. His sister has Dollywood and he has the Randy Theater. Awesome but Dollywood is a little bigger.

Here is the story. The town of Roanoke Rapids North Carolina put up $15 million or so to build him a theater so he can perform and draw large crowds. It's hard to figure out how much really went into this theater from the press releases. But the story is making news and Randy is trying to get some publicity.

The plan was flawless except for some unknown reason the theater is not selling out everyday and the ticket prices are only $25 to $34 each. Imagine that! So little to see a country legend like Randy Parton. Now some people in the town are upset because Randy is making somewhere between $750,000 and $1.5 Million a year, depending upon who reports it.

I want a theater. Not for me for Shamoopie and all we need is $10 million. I will only make $500,000 a year. That's all. A bargain. So I am starting the Shamoopie Theater fund and we are accepting donations or if you know of any towns that would like to build her a theater, just let me know.

My wife is sooooooooo hot

My wife is so hot. Pregnancy has not paused her hotness. She may be even be hotter. She is sooooo hot that a guy in camouflage hit on her at Panera Bread while our internet was down.

Now that's one hot woman.

I removed Vista yesterday

I removed Vista yesterday from Shamoopie's computer so it will run her music applications. What a pain.

Computers don't come with floppies anymore and you will never guess what is required for a driver update while installing XP? Yep, hit F6 and load your drivers in the floppy drive. Wait, this computer doesn't have a floppy drive. You bastards. So what do you do?

I went to Tiger Direct and bought a USB floppy drive. Worked like a charm. I also found a usb mount for my old laptop drive that I saved from my busted laptop. That was cool and it was only $10. Now I have a small, portable, 60M usb drive instead of just throwing the whole thing out. It was an old Acer that got really hot and the battery died in two seconds of it being unplugged from the wall. The screen went out and there was no sense in fixing it.

If the music programs ran on linux I would have installed that in a second. But they only run on XP and don't run on Vista. Shamoopie has Finale which seemed to work. What didn't work was the Steinberg products, Wavelab, Cubase, and all the Sibelius products like compass. I tried loading their patch and all it did was stop the program from crashing. It never allowed multiple users to access the program.

There were just too many issues with programs that already were working on XP. The Vista home premium looked nice but wasn't worth messing with. Shamoopie needs to use it now not six months from now when they work some of this out. What really sticks is they want to charge you if you don't have a copy of the install cd for XP. I have four and only one working computer right now so I was covered. If not I would have had to buy a copy. Some how I thnk that they planned this. Like Bill needs more money. :)

Bamboo bamboo

Bamboo, bamboo, nothing but bamboo. Shamoopie and I have been fixing up our house. We bought it for the location, not for it's interior. It had old vinyl floors and nasty dog pissed carpet. So for the last month we have been replacing the flooring. So far we have done the music room, kitchen, and the dining room. Today we did the living room. It was by far the toughest room and it has left me exhausted.

Wednesday we begin tiling the entry way. Then we are done with downstairs.

Old people suck at the symphony

Tonight we had tickets to the symphony. There was no one there under the age of 50 besides us. Old people smell. Forget the cute little old ladies that you see on tv. There were no golden girls at this event. The ones that didn't smell like they bathed in perfume smelled like Bengay and Old Spice.

Shamoopie had to go to the bathroom and one old woman almost knocked her down to get there first. She pushed a pregnant woman to the ground so she could be the first to pee. Awesome. Next time granny wear your depends.

On the way out all we heard was complaining about the two twentieth century pieces that were played. They were the only good pieces. The tuba and the flutes were out of tune for the other piece. Old people can't tell when things are out of tune because they are wearing hearing aids. They gave the las piece a standing ovation. They didn't give Branford Marsalis a standing ovation for his part of the second piece. The old people probably didn't even know who he was.

Then while we were trying to drive out of the parking lot the same people that were complaining about the music tried to race us to the light and cut us off in there Subaru Forester. This guy who looked like he was ninty wanted to drag race us. Shamoopie was laughing so hard while she was looking at the guy I guess he changed his mind. Or maybe it was the fact that I revved the engine and it growled at him. The car is pretty loud and it's supercharged. :) Either way the Shamoop got a good laugh out of it.

No more Saturday night concerts at the symphony. We are only going on Friday nights from now on.

Shamoop pointed to one old guy and said..."Hey he looks like a game show host". I told her " yeah a dead one". He did too, not kidding.

A good day

I almost took Shamoopie to the beach this weekend. Lucky for her there was a hurricane coming to shore because she got a surprise baby shower instead. She was very surprised and loved all the things that she received. I can say this because I had to be shown each and every one of the gifts that she got at the shower, twice.

It wasn't until I told that I must finish laying the floor in the dining room that she let me get back to work.

I would like to say thank you to all the people who made things and or gave things for the shower. :)

Shamoopie had a good day.