The Best Day Ever

Uh, ... Not really....

It was for somebody. Whoever you are, good for you.

However, today was a real awakening experience. A lot going on at work, and elsewhere. I'll go into it more later, or not. Depends how I feel. I'm exhausted from dealing with it.

Regardless... Kids are doing good, and today was 105 (Feels Like Temp) and humid as hell. Anyway, didn't want a day to go by without a entry, no matter how mundane it was.

That's all for you Heather.

(I gotta keep her in the loop, you know)


MB

Club Duplin, Shmooplin

What the Fuck...

If you've ever visited us, it seems that someone always wants to go to the Duplin Winery. Whatever. Well, Nov last year, Heather and I joined Club Duplin and 4 times a year you get a box full of wine and blah blah blah. Last time i got a box?? January.

What the Fuck...

It just hit me. That's sad. Anyway, I'll be calling them soon.

Heather, this post is more for you than anyone else.

MB

Okay, Okay

Enough. I've had LITERALLY, 7 Emails on my BACKGROUND on my computer that was on the "REALITY TV" blog. Alright, here's the pic.....



Alright, that being said... Here's the real pic.....



Where's this from??

Onslow Beach here on base. I know it looks like night... but if you're really smart, you'll know that the sun does not SET on the Atlantic. If you're not... Sorry about your luck.

Anyway, this is our beach we usually go to. This was our Sunrise... And I love it as my desktop. It was cut, cropped, and blown up. But, I really do love this shot. SO much happened on this weekend. This was the weekend of Heather's birthday, 2007.

Does that answer the questions???

Just kidding...

I dig the questions, and the emails, you all.


MB

A Weekend Thang

See, you thought me just adding blogs was a "Weekend Thang." Whatever....

Well, this has been one of the better weekends I've.... NO KIDDING.... had in a long time. Only thing I have going on is that we are trying to get back on level ground here at the house. i.e., Kids and me. We've had Family here since basically June 11 - July 21st.

So, kids and I went to Breakfast on Sunday Morning. Got back to basics, and got back to normalcy. Was it great having the Auntie and Gma and Gpa in here?? Uh... Yeah! BUT, That being said... We had to get back to normal. We're back in 3rd gear.

Why not 5th???

That's cruise control. You get comfy, they walk all over you...


MB

Back In Black

Well, this has been a Moving Target for the better part of 3 months. I've been experimenting with different paints, different temperatures, and humidity levels and how it all reacts to painting plastics. Plastics are a bitch to paint. I'll tell you that for sure. I've been trying to achieve a "textured" look. Not too textured like RHINO LINING, but like an orange peel look. But in Black, and still glossy. They don't make paint to do that, so you have to figure out certain levels and temperatures to paint at to achieve the same effects. Anyway, to make a long story short. I finally got what i was looking for.

May i mention again, that Plastic is hard to paint. You have to find paint that has a lot of flex agent in it so it'll hold up to stress and not crack.

I don't claim to be some DuPont specialist in all things paint, which is why I've been chasing the tail of this thing for months. I finally got what i was looking for though.

Reality TV

Today was a great day. Mostly due to the that fact that Heather and I talked today using the Computer to do so. Webcam and IM'ing. It's a little complicated at first, but easy once you get used to it. If it would just quit crapping out once in a while.

Anyway, we just set the cameras to our everyday going on's and every once in a while the kids or I would go over and say something. It was almost like she was there. She got to see the house, animals, kids, and just every day life for a few hours. So did we (get to see her everyday life on her day off)

Here's the Pic of what we basically saw all day...



So it was like having our own Reality TV without all the frickin' drama. My kind of Reality TV.

This post was really for Heather, so she can see what we see when we see each other and always wonder what we each see.


MB

No PICS

I've repainted the KLR. It's all black.

Orange peel effect on the bike. Why no pics?? Didnt take any yet. It's just mocked up

I'll take some soon.

iCarly

Why in God's Creation do I know what iCarly is??? Because Heather and I have 3 kids who LOVE iCarly. Including Mason, I might add. Whoa. I think Hayden's got a crush on one of the girls in that show. I haven't quite figured it out, but my money is on the brunette, and Heather knows why. (Heather.. Think, Pendleton Day Care for Hayden) anyway, there's a theory on why men choose the women they pattern for their spouse (or spouses, if you're like me or a few others i know. We're not perfect. Sometimes you have to screw it up once badly to figure out how to do it right from that point on. Good life lesson. That one is free.) Anyway, back to iCarly. I decided last night that i would give all TV privlages to kids last night. It was one of those nights. Anyway, they ALL (including Mason) wanted to watch iCarly. They even asked if I could "PAUSE" it while they took Roscoe out to go poop and one other time when they had to go pee. I love TiVO. Have I ever told you?? That's for a later day.

Okay, well, I started watching it. It's actually a pretty cute show.

Plus, just like in the 60's and 70's and what became the defining statement for ALL PEOPLE (thanks to Quentin Terintino and Pulp Fiction); "You can classify people into two groups: Are you a Beatles Fan, or an Elvis Fan? There's never a fan of neither." Well, that defined the generations that missed out on the 60s and 70's and if you were a music fan, you had to answer that question. Try it!!

Well, there's a new question for this generation. "Are you a Disney Channel Fan, or a Nickelodeon Fan?" I know there's Cartoon Network, but Cartoon Network is the Led Zepplin of Cartoons. You can't put Cartoon Network in a box that will fit anywhere near the other two.

Kids that are hip usually say NICKELODEON. You wanna know why?? They don't limit themselves to JUST cartoons, even though they have SPONGEBOB, FAIRY ODDPARENTS, BACK AT THE BARNYARD, BACKYARDIGANS, and so on. but they have DRAKE AND JOSH, and iCarly. Wow, I am totally gay or I am totally buying to the Parent thing. Either way, RIGHT now it involves there not being an adult WOMAN at the house right now for the next 3 months. Arcane humor. You have to dig in to get it.

Well, the LONG of what should have been SHORT, is that the kids are WAY HUGE FANS of iCarly and it's just too funny to watch them get all Jacked in a good way knowing that there's a new iCarly or Drake and Josh that's going to be on. It was like my brother and i when we watched Starsky and Hutch and Dukes of Hazard.

Chew on that for a while.


MB

The Weez

Heather and I are pretty big fans of Weezer. It's kind of odd that we both agree on music sometimes. She's into what you might find on KISS FM or Z100, and then somtimes whatever's on the country station (right now) and then of course the oldies (moldy oldies) So when there's someone we both agree on, it's not a RARE experience, but it's not an everyday one, either.

Weezer's Red Album is pretty damn good. I"m just wondering if she's had the time to listen to it yet. I've been sending the thumb drive to her and whatnot with music on it. Music to add to her computer so there's something new to listen to. Which is ANOTHER reason I've been buying music when it comes out. I bought Madonna's Hard Candy. Not a HUGE Madonna fan, but I though Heather might enjoy it. So I felt like a HUGE FAG showing up with my Weezer, Offspring, Motorhead, and my fucking MADONNA CD. I may as well have been buying tampons. You should have seen the lady at the PX. She was scanning them, and she's a younger girl (22 maybe) so she's NOSY. She's reading all the CD titles pretty quick as she scans them and i got the audible "hmm" when she got to my MADONNA CD. Oh well. I didn't even try to explain it. She looked up at me and smiled. Bagged my shit and the kids and I went on our merry way with Madonna in TOW.

Wait till i tell you about the Mascara and Lipstick Moment.....


MB

A Million Dollar Idea

Think about it. What is the biggest Scam in the world? Bottled water. It's absurd the price of BOTTLED water. It's like 1 buck for a bottle of Dasani water. Then there's the whackos who actually think there's a water that TASTES better than other bottled water. Dude... It's water. That's it. WATER. I think we just buy certain types of water just because it's there and, "why not, I'm thirsty" comes to mind when you're at the 7-11 and whammo, you just did what retailers call the "impulse buy."

Well, here's my idea. Actually, it's not MY idea, it's my idea and a guy that i work with. We thought about making our own bottled water. This is actually legit. We're gonna call it BRIAN water. "Water like you drank when you were a kid." The original idea was to take hose water and put it in bottles and sell it. Instead, due to bacteria and what not in water, we decided that we would add just the "hint" of hose taste to the water. Nothing major, just the ever so subtle hint. Some slogans... "BRIAN makes water manly again." or "BRIAN water, it is what it is." or "BRIAN's hose water, straight from the backyard to your fridge. Nothing fancy, water for the working man."

Think about it. You could be a millionaire in about 10 minutes. People would buy it just to SEE if it really did taste like hose water. And let's all face it, before you all start making faces. You drank the SHIT out of hose water when you grew up, and most of us still do it on a hot ass day, and you're too damn lazy to go inside for water. You just pony up to the spigat and slurp it down. We've gotten too fancy here in America. Time to get back to basics. Sell it at Wal Mart or ANY damn store for that matter. Sell it for 1/2 the price of regular bottled water. The label.... this is the best part. Ever been to FORD and taken your vehicle in to get fixed? See that mechanic and the shirt he wears with his NAME PATCH over the left pocket on his shirt?? That's the label on our water. It just says "BRIAN" on it. Make the bottle Green with a brass colored cap.

People are morons (Specifically Americans) and we buy shit just to buy it.

Ever drank water from a creek?? It tastes like shit usually, but we line up at the stores for spring water. Hose water is the same as the water coming out of your tap.

It's a damn good idea. I wish i had the ambition to actually do this.

The possibilities are endless. The commercial... Show some dude filling up empty bottles with hose water, setting them down on the lawn and some other brain dead hick screwing lids on em.

Proudly Made In America. Support The Troops. Drink from the hose. Save money. Little monikers you can put on the back of the bottle.

And yes, we really do have nothing better to do with our time than come up with brilliant ideas like this.

If i see Brain water in the stores in the next year I'm suing someone.


MB

Re-Up

So Heather Reenlisted on the 22nd. Most of you already know that, but a lot of you don't. So, I just thought I'd put that out there that she did.

As always, she had a female Marine reenlist her as she usually does. It's the Girls only club. Which is pretty damn cool if you really start to think about it.

Anyhow, she's proud of it and I'm very proud of her. So, Congratulations Honey and We love you and Miss you here at home.


MB

Rediscovering Coldplay

No, I'm not some Johnny come lately. Since the ever came out, I always thought Coldplay was pretty damn good. Infact, you know when you hear a song or a band, you can almost place an event or a time in your life that it strikes a chord on?? Well, if i had to place Coldplay in there, I'd say it reminds me of Leaving for Desert Fire Ex, and convoying out with this SSgt of mine. Also, the big rage of the age music then was all the songs from the "City Of Angels" soundtrack. Remember that movie with Nicholas Cage? God that movie sucked.

Anyway, i bought their new CD when it came out (yes, I'm one of those people that anxiously awaits new music from bands i really enjoy and but them on the day they come out) and uh.. it's okay. Not as good as their older stuff.

Anyway, i find myself listening to Coldplay a lot right now.

Also.... WOW, do i have a good CD to talk about. The Offsprings new one. Holy shit. I bought this the day it came out. Man, it's so friggin good.

All you cali people can start bragging now that you knew Noodles and he used to be a janitor at the school. Go ahead, I've already heard that story like ONE BILLION times. And also go ahead and tell me that he wears huge glasses too. Go ahead.

Anyway, the offspring. Get it.

MB

Kuwait Calling

Yeah, well it's not the CLASH, and it's definitely not LONDON CALLING, but what it happens to be, is a package that Heather received from Johnstown, CO.

This has to be the funniest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

One time, I was in Phouquet (cant' remember how to spell it) anyway we were just days away from leaving to Seoul and then on to Phohang (again, my spelling sucks.) anyway, we were previously in Fuji and Misawa, Japan. My point.... Is this. I had a package that was coming to me, and it kept chasing me around the frigging globe. Every time we'd port, the chopper would bring in the mail to the boat, and then we'd be on land long enough that it would fly into where we were, but I'd be put on details that would meet up in another site. What that means is I'd end up flying to one destination, and my box ended up getting back on the ship and or sometimes, back on a bird to get on another ship to be flown back onto where it could find me (and a lot of Marines, I wasn't the only one getting mail.) Well, by the time I had got my package, it looked like HELL, and most every thing in it was FUCKED up or stale or stained from other shit breaking in it. It was a travesty. That box ended up taking like 5 weeks to get to me. Granted, mail was very slow anyways back then getting to me even in Okinawa, it was worse that i was floating around the world on top of that. It was my Nana that sent the box and I never had the heart to tell her what happened, to this day. Well, she's dead and has been for years so what's the harm.

Well, my box didn't look nearly thins bad as this one does of Heathers. THis is awesome. As I understand, not much broke in this one. She's lucky. Anyway, it's always the thought that counts, and to be honest with you, my ratted up fucked up way busted up box that i ended up getting to me when I was in Thailand ( I think I was in Thailand or Korea, I'm still hazey on the exact location, it was 12 yrs ago for goodness sakes.) was the best feeling in the world knowing that I atleast got SOMETHING from SOMEBODY, no matter how fucked up or perfect it was when it got to me. It was always the thought that counted. Plus, it was from family and that made it all the better.

Anyway, here's the picture. What i love is that it showed up in a bag.


MB

FUCK GAS!!

Yep I've had it with gas. More over, I think I've had it with Americans. Why aren't we banding together and just saying FUCK IT and NOT BUY ONE GOD DAMN gallon of FUEL for anything. Live like Grizzly Adams for a MONTH. If you can't survive for a MONTH like our ancestors did, you're a human being that needs a realignment. It's not that hard. One Month i think would CRIPPLE this damn country. I would bet you a finger that prices would be A BUCK o' FIVE again most ricky tick. I'm so pissed off with gas and the way these prices are getting so out of whack. I do not live in California anymore, but I'm sure it's even worse than here. Either way, I've been riding my BIKE to work lately. I work 6 miles from where I live, and with my hours the way they were before, it was damn near impossible to get the kids to Day Cares and make it to work on time even in a car or motorcycle. Now that our hours have been readjusted to 0730-1600, I can now commute with the bike and make it to work on time and make it home to pick up the kids on time, as well. I have a TREK 4100 Mountain bike that i bought a number of years ago to commute to work back in Fremont, and recently, I have rediscovered my new found love for biking again.

First off, i actually biking. I loved it as a kid, and as an adult as well. Having kids slowed it down some, but now that they're older its been easier and more fun to get back into it again. Anyway, I got a new toy. I've been abusing the TREK pretty bad. And yes, i know it's got a lifetime warranty on it and all that, but I found another bike that I freakin' dig. So, i bought it. A Cannondale F4. So, I'm doing my part (sort of) and I'm REFUSING to buy gas to go to work with. Unless I absolutely have to. I'm a hippocrit ( i know i spelled that wrong) for not TOTALLY bucking system but OH well. I'm rediscovering the Oregon Tree Hugger in me that i miss. So, we walk everywhere and bike it as well.

I use the truck to do vacation stuff and family functions and getting groceries. If I had a trailer i could attach to the bike, I'd use that god damn thing. But as it stands right now, that's not an option.

I'm done ranting.

Joe Horn, out.

Deadwood

Holy cow.

If you have not seen this series. You need to. The language is REALLY rough. So if you can get past that, it's a bad ass series. It was on HBO for a few years. It was only 3 seasons long, but wow. All i can say is that am I glad that Roger and Mom turned me onto this. Heather is watching it in Kuwait as well. Again... think SOPRANOS in the Black Hills. It's based on real events and whatnot. Either way, what a good ass show. Have i said that enough times yet???

Anyway, it has my 2 thumbs up. If i had another set of arms like that girl in India, I'd give it 4 thumbs up.

Later, skaters.