New house hunting

We started house hunting today. We are trying to move closer to my work so I can cut my drive down. The drive is terrible. It's only a matter of time before I am in a wreck. So Shamoopie has agreed to "Look".

Today we looked at one that was near a major freeway. They never mention that on the listings. For some reason they only try to bring out the good points. There were many good points that were brought out. We did not notice that there were only two bathrooms in a 3500 sq ft house. How is that possible? One small bedroom downstairs with a small bathroom and then there was one large bathroom that was shared by all the others upstairs.

It was huge but there was only one bathroom. It had three sinks, one on three of the walls. Strange. One shell sink with four feet of counter on each wall. One pink shell sink. I miss the 80s.

NCAA Men's Basketball

All we watch on TV these days is NCAA Men's Basketball. That is all that there should be on TV.


Awesome.

Crappy Hilton Garden Inn

Shamoop and I stay at the worst Hilton Garden Inn ever. We usually like them and I have a Hilton Honors card.

This time it was crap.

We went to the one in Savannah and booked the room in advance because we needed the extra space since we took Lovely and the baby. Our logic was that Lovely could have the front room and we would be in the back with the baby.

No such luck. They didn't have a non-smoking suite when we arrived. Did we reserve one, yes. Did they save us one. Well....no. She sends me upstairs to look at the smoking suite and a regular room. The regular room is the size of our closet and she offered to give us a roll away bed for free. Great....were was it going to go? On top of the baby? They only place it would fit in the room is right next to the main bed. Talk about co-sleeping. The suite is also not two rooms. It's only one long one and does not have a kitchen, large sofa, sink, bar, and full size fridge. It does have a small microwave and an even smaller fridge. Where are we supposed to wash the baby bottles? In the bathroom right next to the toilet of course.

By the time I get back downstairs Shamoopie has talked her into finding us a non-smoking suite. I am not sure where it came from but someone pulled it out of their ass. We checked in and went to our room only to find that the sink is clogged and the floor is wet. Too late, we are tired and by now my socks are wet from discovering that the floor was wet. The baby needed to eat and have a bath and then Shamoopie and I could finally try and get some sleep. We settle in and go to sleep.

The next morning we tell the desk clerk about the we floor and the sink. He says that they will send someone up and fix it.

When we get back that evening the sink is fixed but the floor is still wet. When we called downstairs they said that they don't have a shop vac so they didn't do anything to the floor. Shamoopie told them that Sears had them and they should buy one since they were a large hotel. I don't think he liked that.

Next morning we complained again and we were offered another room. We would need to pack up all the babies things and move ourselves to another room. Never mind.

Did I mention that breakfast wasn't free in this hotel. Every other Hilton Garden Inn I have stayed in breakfast is free. Here it's $50. You don't even get to seat yourself, they place you. You stall have to get your own food and make your waffles but they show you were you can sit. Nice. I have to get my own drinks and food and you then want to charge me $50. I can get waffles and eggs at the Waffle house for much less and they act like they want me there and I can pick my own seat.

That's what I didn't like the most, they acted like they didn't want us there, that we were there for their amusement only. If I want crappy service from people who don't like me I will stay with relatives.

The sad part is we have liked the other HGIs we stayed in, I like the layout and the cost was fine. The one in Savannah is just bad, really bad.

Inlaws and Outlaws

We went to see Shamoopies Georgia relatives this past weekend. They were interesting and almost exactly what I expected.

They live just outside of Savannah and I like Savannah so the trip worked for me. Lovely had a good time. She like listening to Shamoopie's 90 year old Aunt talk about everybody. It's funny when old people do it. Her Aunt still likes her "Stories" and "The Wheel of Fortune". She used to like "The Price is Right" until that "damn Drew Carey got on there and ruined it. He trys to be a little too funny and that show is serious.". That's was her opinion on the subject.

Lovely liked her because she told it like it is. :) I just thought she was cool, man.



I just want to thank Drew Carey for taking the heat off me while I was meeting Shamoopie's relatives by pissing off her 90 year old Aunt.

Nice work Drew. Keep up the good work.

Rebuilding the studio

Since we don't have an infinite source of money and I need to rebuild the recording studio, I am beginning to build the parts we need.

Shamoopie needs to start recoding her new cd. Yes there is a reason why her page is called don't take the repeats. She is a musician. I myself also play, I just don't play for a living. But I can engineer. We need somethings to help with the recording.

So....

I have begun collecting parts to build two of these:






Usually they look more like this and cost $2000 each.

So instead I am going to build them. I already have the PC boards and I am ordering the rest of the parts over the next few weeks. Some will be coming from Russia, some are coming from Australia.

The rest are coming from the US. There is only about $200 of parts in each unit. The rest is labor and marketing. The units are modified and I am using different transformers but they will work the same for what I am going to use them for which is limiting. They are limiting amplifiers anyway.

It will be fun to try anyway.

First step is to get the Man Shed ready. Right now it is full of all the things that we didn't want in the house. It must be redone and everything put into it's own place. Lovely has been informed that she will be helping. She is going to learn how to solder and what an electrical circuit is.

Baby poop Lexus

Lexus make a hybrid and one of the color options is Desert Sage Metallic. It's a metal looking green. After Bird was born we have seen this color on something besides a Lexus.

Bird's poop was this color right after he was born. I now have a new name for it. Lexus Bird Poop.

I guess they decided to offer this because Bird poop is natural and biodegradable except for the fact that it was made in diapers that will never degrade.

Who drives a poop colored Lexus. Take a look the next time you see one.

Jabba the Pup

Shamoopie has a dog that is twelve years old. The other day I came downstairs to find her dog laying in front of the Gibson's food container. This the container that holds his twenty pound bag of food.

Every couple of weeks I have to get e new twenty pound bag for the big guy and this week it was down to half full. Unti it got knocked over by someone. The lid was off and her dog was laying in front of the container. It was now down well below the half way point. Shamoopie's dog only weighs about 15 pounds. She now weighed about 25 pounds and she couldn't move.

She was now Jabba the Pup. She growled at me. We both knew that she couldn't bite me even if she wanted to. She couldn't move but she was determined to defend her new found booty. I only know how much she now weighed because I had to pick her up to move her away from the food.

All she could do was stare at me with this look of "how dare you take me away from heaven sir".

The food door now remains closed and the tops are locked on the food containers to prevent Jabba from returning. Na noogie nabba do do jabba.