Praha, Pivo, Prosim

Why? Because he brought me this pretty little machine this morning. Hot damn. I’ve already rolled over my music. Hooray for me. I was assuming that since I was running an old version of iTunes and OS X that somehow it would be more complicated than it was but since I have an external hard drive it was no problem. Yeah me! I did have a bit of a scare though shortly after I powered up the new machine. Macs come loaded with a nifty little iSight camera in the machine and before I knew it I was staring at a very unattractive live view image of myself. The computer then asked if me I wanted to snap a pic using iSight so that would be my default user image. On most occasions I have little to no problem showing off horrible pictures of myself. However, this one was just fucking horrendous. Seriously. Damn. I spared myself the misery of that. 

 And a special thanks to my pal SB in in the Tarheel state!!  

For nothing other than the subject header am I posting this image…

….and you need to read both links because they rock.

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This is a quick image capture from Reddit (a site I frequent multiple times daily). For those unfamiliar, Reddit posts links based on popularity or ‘upmods’ so therefore, at a particular point in time, these pieces were side-by-side on the Reddit main page. It’s not really juxtaposition as the content is relevant and relative but it struck my juvenile and partly immature mind as humorous.

Although it’s nearly 1 a.m. and the last thing I or anyone else needs to be doing at this late hour is eating, I’m still tempted. You see there’s this gloriously delicious bugger in the kitchen that is calling to me. Maybe because it’s out of reach and and out of my line of sight, it has thusly been spared. What gooey little number is this you wonder? I picked up a pecan and chocolate bread pudding tonight and how it hasn’t been devoured yet is beyond me. So as an alternative, I’m switching between deleting music files and listening to the good ones. On that note I’ll say that Sex On Fire by Kings of Leon is a damn good song.

As I slowly check things off my moving/stuff to do checklist, I’ve posted a pic of the most expensive from the checked off column. I don’t usually consider myself cheap or miserly but I hate spending this kind of money on something I really don’t need. Perhaps a less expensive model could have/should have been purchased or even an inferior (don’t kill me PC lovers for using that term) brand, but for nothing other than aesthetics and WOW factor did I buy the new aluminum MacBook. I’ve expounded on my female-driven/estrogen-laden love for Macs in previous blogs (since deleted) so it’s fair to say that I’m forever a convert to the Apple brand. It just sucks that their systems are pricer than most others. To that I say boo.

On the other end of things I’m justifying this expense for a few reasons…
a) I never make huge purchases
b) I wanted this particular (new!!) machine
c) this will be my main mode of communication to people thousands of miles away
d) I hear the new version of iLife is just sick…

The next step is to move my iTunes from my current iMac to an external hard drive. I’ve read up on this and it might be more complicated than it seems. Not looking forward to that. But, after all that business is complete, I’ll check another expense off my list and go ahead and buy an iPod. Truth be told I wouldn’t mind an iPod Touch, either. Again with the need factor as I clearly do NOT need the Touch but they are amazing and pretty and so much fun. I do need to get my music on a portable player and while a larger capacity iPod would be feasible my chick instinct might force me to buy an iPod Touch. Damn, sometimes this vagina renders me weak and powerless to the shopping Gods. If anyone has any input on the iPod vs. Touch debate, please leave a comment. I need to be pursuaded.

UPDATE: 9:45 pm…. Several times today after posting this initial blog, I confess I was THIS CLOSE to throwing my budget to the wind and purchasing a 32GB iPod Touch. Real restraint exhibited today.

And a few other things….

The latest installment of WHAT’S ON MY NEIGHBOR’S DOORSTEP

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Well, it seems my neighbor has expanded her garbage repertoire this holiday season to include a few new and unique items. While the poop bag pile is at a minimum (or perhaps because it’s mostly hidden), she managed to stack on a box from JC Penney as well as the dog box/carrier thing that is apparently no longer of use. I don’t think the dog kicked it as the poo is still clearly present. I’m curious to see the upgraded canine accomodations.

And here’s a snippet of how unorganized and generally messy my apartment is today. No, I don’t have inches of guano all over the place nor is the carpeet littered with fast food containers. My place is certainly habitable but if I had important guests arriving (let’s say the Queen of England), she would be unimpressed even if I did buy the fancy rose-scented soaps.

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Yes there is an iPod Shuffle here but frankly, due to it’s lacking capacity, I don’t consider it a ‘real’ iPod. A coworker told me he has nearly 200GB of music (you read that right) and while I don’t have anything NEAR that but I’d like to have all my tunes on a player rather than be required to swap them out when I’m bored. Two hundred GB of music is excessive and there just isn’t any way one can really enjoy ALL that stuff. Hell, at present I’m deleting a bunch of files from my paltry 16GB worth of tunes because I neither want nor need music that I skip over.

This is completely unrelated to anything but I screencapped this a while ago and meant to upload.

This image was taken from Hulu.com. Hulu is a great site which offers freebie tv shows and movies with limited commercial interruptions. The streaming feed is usually really good so therefore, no sitting around waiting for the little clock to finish ‘buffering.’ Anyway, I was looking through their free movies and came across the above image.

Ok, first movie is Porky’s. Yep, absolutely a comedy. Lots of horny teens having sex with various goofball antics interspersed throughout. Animal House is the second on the list. Yep, another comedy for sure. Who hasn’t seen one of Belushi’s classics? Ok, third movie…. Fatal Attraction. Yeah sure, another comedy. Oh wait, what the fuck? I can’t figure out which is funnier–the part when Glenn Close’s character tries to kill herself or when the family rabbit gets boiled or when GC just goes fuckng batshit crazy on Michael Douglas for most of the movie… Hmmm, tough call.

The visuals might say enough. Per the request of Jayne L.

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Well, I’m one step closer to this big move thing. I just sold my car today. The VW has gone bye-bye. I surely would have kept it had I not been moving but it’s just a superfluous expense that I don’t need at this time. Of course the extra money is beneficial, too.

I’m also half-ready to go ahead and put stuff in boxes. Not because I’m so eager to go right now this minute but for the mere fact that my apartment is a total wreck and it would look cleaner. It’s a totally lazy move on my part not to clean but I’m the only one who lives here so….

Good God, using Wordpress is so easy. I heart it. That said, I’m blogging twice in one day. I know, quite a feat.

So, as promised I’m posting a pic of the neighbor’s latest poop pile. Although this photo doesn’t fully display the record number of poos stored in plastic bags, I still think it’s awesome and hilarious in a gross kind of way.

While the last image of the purple bagged doggie poo was more cohesive in an aesthetic kind of way, this one just really piled up. Perhaps I should have photographed from eye-level rather than above so one could truly experience this visual masterpiece. Oh well. As I said in the previous post, I presumed there to be approximately a dozen or so in that pile; I’m upping that count this time and going for a 15 ballpark. No, I did not pick any specimens up I’m just going on what I saw.

Here’s something interesting I learned about my neighbor… My neighbor on the other side is a coworker and he saw her outside a few nights ago. He told me that she had apparently taken the dog outside to the front lawn of the apartment building so that said pooch could do some business. Neighbor lady then proceeded to bag up the poo and add it to the pile at the door. WTF, dude. If you are already OUT THERE why not take the stuff and toss it over the rail into the dumpster. For any reader who has never been to my apartment building, the dumpster is maybe 25 yards away and you don’t even have to use any stairs to get to it. It’s that fucking easy. So, the pile of poo is now just a pile of mystery. It’s a quandary, a conundrum and an enigma all tied into neat little grocery bags. Hell, it’s a pile of shit.

On another note, here’s the latest installment of WHAT’S IN MY REFRIGERATOR THIS WEEK…..

Yes, that is a nice round number of 18 beers. And it was a belated birthday gift that came as the Best of Belgium beer pack. Ahhhh. Go try a Leffe Blonde right now; it’s one of my all time favorites! I have the best friends! Thanks Alli May!

Although most of you already know, I’ve got something big in the works so as a result, I’m posting a pretty picture. Why? Well, I’ll be relocating to this city in February. Sure yes, it’s going to be the cold time of the year as I’m not moving to Fiji. I’m no advocate of cold weather but I think I’ll be just fine here….

Just in case you are out of the loop and want to know where this is, go ahead and ask Google or Babelfish to translate the first word of the post title or the blog page title.

Here’s another shot that I just love. Of course, I’ll be bringing my cameras and will be updating the blog furiously. That’s my intention (at least) but I’m hoping to keep all my stateside friends abreast of my new adventures abroad!

NEW LOOK! So, I decided not to eff around with my domain name and have to redirect readers. I’m staying at this cyber address. This new format should be more user friendly as well as admin friendly (me!) because in the past, I had some serious issues with my blog provider. I hope that entries will be easier for me to upload and now (per Glenn’s request) you can leave your comments. Oh, and don’t worry, I’ll still be blogging until I leave so stay tuned. Next entry? I have a new (and even more impressive) shot of my neighbor’s growing stack of bagged dog poo.