I'm sorry your life turned out so hard, Eugene.

and I was so happy until i saw this..

Doctors Change the Way They Think About Death - Newsweek Health - MSNBC.com

So I got these neat grow things at Walmart. They grow 600%! I remember getting things like this from gumball machines when I was a kid and they were so much fun. Well, not fun because all you did with them was put them in water and watch them grow. Since I like to watch various things grow, I got a few to play with. The question is, how big is 600%? 600 is such a big number for small minds.

Here's the grasshopper compared to his little non-swole up friends. Is he at his growth limit yet?

And here we have a starfish and a seahorse that have been swelling for 3 days now. They were each about 2 inches long when I put them in the water. How big is 2 inches + 600%? Should I get a swimming pool to put them in if they grow too large for my kitchen?

We loaded up and headed out to the great outdoors to enjoy a nice day of 4-wheeler riding. Yes, out there with the scary sun. It was nice. We saw lots of snakes and a couple of turtles. I got in ant piles a couple of times. God damn those wild ants hurt. *shiver* but it was really pretty out there in some places. Flowers were blooming and there were bugs everywhere. Big water holes full of baby snakes and tadpoles. Yep. It was nice. I'll have to make a list of things to take with us next time we go though. Like kid sunscreen, kid food, kid water and a pillow for when kid falls asleep from boredom. And Benadryl spray for ant bites. And I'll have to remember to wear shorts because there is no climate control out there and it gets really hot. Here's like 2 pictures out of the 100 I took out there. I would put more up but I'm far too lazy.

Time for me to go look at things I want to buy. I'm in such a buying mood today. Too bad I can't get to town now. :)

I ROCK!

Everything I tried to use to edit/view/watch any kind of media in Vista would immediately crash. It wouldn't even let me use my tuner card. Yes, all my drivers were updated. I don't know how long I screwed around with that crap. I finally found the fix though. I can't remember the website I saw it on and that's sad. But if I ever have to do it again, I'll have it typed right here so I won't forget.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/Driver32

Rename msacm.voxacm160 to no.msacm.voxacm160

That fixed everything. Oh, I just remembered that site! It's http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Index.aspx
It's posted on their forums.

It's a nice place to go if you like WMM.

Last Thursday, there was a storm that came floating by. Lightning got a little too close to our house and it made the TV shit itself and die. We went Friday night and bought a brand new iLo 42" LCD HDTV. I've never heard of iLo before but it had an amazing picture. We watched it all weekend with no problems. Casey came in today and watched it some more. Then the right speakers went out. He was so pissed. Too pissed to listen to his wife's suggestions. So he boxed it up and we took it back to get another. The last one they had like the one we returned was a display. I don't like displays because greasy fingered kids touch them. If it's my greasy fingered kid touching, it's alright. We ended up getting a Polaroid 46" LCD HDTV for about 600 bucks more. six-hundred-more. We came home and gave it the hook up. Guess what? No sound on the right speakers. Yeah. It was just the RCA jacks. He paid 600 bucks to learn to listen to his wifey. Always check your fucking wires! That's the first rule to everything! But that's alright with me though. I got a whole 46" of LCD goodness to play my wii on. Well, if I ever get a wii I could. I doubt I ever get one though.

Nite nite dirty hippies!

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I finally did it. DVD to ipod without itunes. Yeah, it's all been done before but I had to screw around with everything before I could get it to work with audio. So this is how I did it so I won't forget.

Load up dvd into DVDDecrypter.
DVDDecrypter settings: Mode:IFO Streaming Process enabled with 0xE0 - Video -720x480(NTSC)/16:9 and 0x80 - Audio - AC3/6ch/English only checked. Tools:Settings: IFO Mode File Splitting set to None.

After that decrypts, open it in Videora iPod Converter and wait about an hour or 2. Load the new MP4 into Winamp with iPod connected. Right click,add to iPod.

For some odd reason, I was just reading the rating details and some more goodies about the movie Shrek and I came across this one that made me giggle at 630am!

Parents' Note: Shrek is rated PG. Younger children may be frightened by the dragon, some very grisly bones litter its lair; and there is one scene of Gingerbread Man torture that is played for comic effect. There is an abundance of fart and bathroom jokes, which are relatively innocuous.

Gingerbread Man torture!!!@#$%T^

If that's torture, I wonder what kind of mental damage I'm setting my daughter up for when I tell her to bite the heads off of the animal crackers so they can't hear themselves die.

On a happier note, Pan's Labyrinth freakin' rocked and Epic Movie.. teehee Epic Movie! "Willy asked me to polish his knob!"

So that's true and what a funny place this will be! Kara has gotten to where she can put little things together by herself now and make tiny sentences that I can understand. Others may have trouble understanding, but I know what she's talking about. Here's a few things that stick out in my head:

Keep in mind that I only tell her to do this so she'll have something to do while I get dressed. I wouldn't really let her wear what she puts on out in public.

Me: "Kara, go get some clothes on so we can go to Walmart!"

She comes out of her room with nothing but a pair of panties on her head and yells "Les go Walmart!"
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Just this morning, she was standing by the tv pooping in her Barbie pull-ups.

Kara: "Mommy! I poo'd!"
Me: "Ok, Let me get something to clean you up with."
Kara: "Not Daddy's sock."

I would like to know when this kid was ever cleaned up with one of Daddy's dirty socks.
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Every boo-boo she gets or any of her toys get, she blames it on Flippy the cat.

Kara: "Harry Pottah boo-boo!"
Me: "How did he get that boo-boo?"
Kara: "Bippy did it!"
Me: "Why did Flippy do that?"
Kara: "Uhhhhhh Elmo!"
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She will stand in one place and call Molly the dog.

Kara: Mo-eee!Mo-eeeeee! MO-EEEEEEE!"
Molly walks up to her.
Kara (giggling): "Dumbass."

Yes, she already has a foul mouth. Just like her Daddy!
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She tries to feed the tv, thinks the toilet is for washing feet, thinks anything with one eye is evil and the list just goes on for days. She also still says 'nite nite' to all the dirty hippies. OMG kids are so funny. I do apologize in advance if she calls you a dumbass.