I am having the most difficult time navigating this blog site! How does one subscribe to another?

Do I need to re-tool my mind to get it to quit thinking Xanga?

I have a myspace page...actually two, and I can work that place. I can do the coding, add music, etc., etc., etc.

Anyway...

I saw "Hellboy II" tonight. And for free. Woo hoo! My GF's son is something like an assistant manager at the local theatre and anytime we want to see a movie all we have to do is let him know. It's so cool too because we wait in line with the rest of the slobs and when we walk up to purchase my GF says, "I'm ****'s mom."

And they wave us in. I bet the people behind us have got to be green!

And it was a great movie! I know it'll take a few days for me to digest the flick but my early reaction is AWESOME! I love the characters and it's got the same sense of humor as the first movie.

And Liz is HAWT. Mmmmmm.......shows some leg in this movie too.......

I just wish she hadn't cut her hair. Preference thing, ya know.

I think what surprised me the most was when the GF suggested seeing this movie. I was taken aback because her collection of DVDs include movies such as "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail." When I go to her place and she asks if I want to watch a DVD I'm quick to decline....

I'm a dude!

So really...I would never think she would like "Hellboy." But hey.....that makes her even better. ;-)

Say...does HTML work here? I guess I'll find out in a second after I click submit....

Damn, I keep forgetting I have a blog here. I spend most of my time on Xanga and occasionally I'll check into myspace. The funny thing is I do know I've created accounts on different blogging websites but I keep forgetting which ones I've already set up.

Someone asked me one day if I had a facebook account. "Of course not!" I exclaimed. How could I betray my Xanga roots by having an account there? But out of curiosity I decided to go over to facebook to check it out, to see what all of the talk was about.

And guess what?

I had an account there. Damn it!

So I decided to check other blog sites and yup, several of them I've already been to in the past and I had set up accounts there too.

Good thing I have a universal password!

I discovered something rather interesting on the internet some time ago.

The language translator.

I could enter something in English and this site would translate it into French, Spanish, Russian....whatever I wanted.

Pretty cool.

I picked Spanish and started entering some common phrases. Things I think I could use in my mostly Hispanic neighborhood.

I started with "Hello. How are you today?"

"Hola. ¿Cómo está usted hoy?"

Next I picked, "You are a nice person."

"Usted es una persona agradable."

Your sister is cute. Is she single?

"Su hermana es linda. ¿Es ella sola?"

Maybe she would like to go inside with me? Drink a couple of beers?

"¿Ella quisiera quizá ir adentro con mí? ¿Beba un par de cervezas?"

Her butt is nice. May I touch it?

"Su extremo es agradable. ¿Puedo tocarlo?"

Why is your brother looking at me like that?

"¿Por qué su hermano me está mirando como eso?"

Stop hitting me.

"Pare el golpear de mí."

These are all good choices of some phrases I could use around here. I hope you have all learned a little something here today.

Current stuff

I ordered pizza for delivery the other day, when I was given the total the lady on the phone told me the price included a dollar for delivery. What's this? With as many delivery places around here that offer free delivery they want to charge? Even though it's only a dollar I can get the same stuff from the place around the corner delivered free and if I order out 50 times a year that's $50 I'm saving.

Yes I'm cheap! Maybe one of the reasons I'm single?

Yea yea, I know there are lots of other reasons why I don't have a girlfriend and honestly I do take my dates places. Places like the two dollar theatre, Burger King...

Seriously though, I've noticed more and more we have to pay for things we used to get free. When I was a kid growing up I thought the only people who got tipped were waiters and waitresses. And cab drivers. I was shocked the first time I visited my childhood barber as an adult and I was expected to tip! I didn't ever remember my mom tipping this guy. Then again, I didn't remember this guy rubbing my leg as a child like the way he was doing when cutting my hair as an adult. What was up with that???

I wonder, does the pizza delivery guy lose money on tips because of the dollar delivery fee? I almost thought about reducing my tip by a dollar but realized that it wasn't fair to the driver. Unless, of course, he gets the delivery fee. Perhaps this place has been suffering from people who don't tip so to compensate they started charging for delivery? Almost like restaurants who charge a percentage on groups of a certain amount.

I think one of the silliest places I have ever seen asking for tips was a Subway sandwich shop. I placed my order and as I was about to pay I noticed a cup on the counter with the word "tips" on the side. Now I may be wrong, but they didn't seat me. They didn't bring my food to my table. They didn't come by occasionally and ask how things were going and they did not remove my plates and trash when I was done. Their service was no different than McDonalds and Mickie Dee's don't ask for tips.

Or will they soon?

Maybe I am cheap, but it seems to me that the tip thing is getting out of control. I could be like a friend of mine, he refuses to tip anyone. However I would worry about that, I would be in fear of an angry delivery driver spitting in my food before delivering because I never tip.

A rule of life I live by: Don't piss off your food preparer until after you get your food!

Maybe I'll just stop having delivery to my home. Maybe I'll have another place deliver. Or maybe I'll just stop being cheap and pay the extra dollar? I dunno...still doesn't seem right to me.

Borrowed from Xanga

I do a lot of driving for my job (I'm a traveling whore, er, I mean sales rep for a major distributor) and on these drives I let my mind ponder over various subjects. A lot of the times I drive in my car without the stereo on as I think about different things, almost like brain surfing. Sometimes I think about Xanga, previous lovers or people I know, but sometimes really weird thoughts pop up.

Today was one of those days.

As I was driving my car I began wondering about cave men. I wondered, what would happen if scientists discovered a cave man frozen solid in a block of ice? And they were able to revive him? What would he think of the world today? This is of course assuming he could speak English. How would life be different for him now as opposed to the way it was a gadzillion years ago?

Say for example, how would he react to the first time he rode in a car doing 70 down an interstate? Would he freak out? Or better yet, what about riding down a twisting back country road doing 70? Even better, lets take him to Daytona and ride with Jeff Gordan!

The hell with Mr. Gordon, I want to drive the NASCAR car!

I imagine for the most part he would be overwhelmed with trying to just comprehend things. Being a caveman from prehistoric times his life was just finding food and staying away from things that considered him food. He would come from a life without fire to a life with ovens and microwaves. What would he think of pornography....or would the concept of TV be beyond him? How long would it take for him to get a grasp on the internet?

How long before he had his very own blog?

I really need a hobby....