Rosedog trip

pwnage

2007-09-28T17:09:00.001-07:00

Time to sell my 92 Sonoma GT

2007-08-30T17:51:00.001-07:00

selling 92 Sonoma GT on $6k

Throw back to the Classics...

2006-09-27T21:35:00.000-07:00

Today was a nice score! Transformer Classics hit the shelves at my local Fred Meyer. I managed to grab Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Rodimus (aka Hot Rod) and Bumblebee. However I did not grab Astrotrain due to the fact I ran out of on hand money.

Oh well, enjoy the pics!

BumbleBee:

After many, many years BB makes his return to the Transformers toy line.

Look at me!!! I can strike a pose!

Hot Rod (Rodimus)
Here I took all my Hot Rods and put them together for some side by side comparision shots. Mighty fine...

Hot Rod TRANSFORM!!!....

Last but not least is the King of being an Evil Dick!

StarScream

The new Starscream is okay, he's just a bit better than his Jap. counterpart RM-Starscream but not by much.

Oh BTW...HELL NO I'm not transforming all those Starscreams'! You crazy?

Live Action Robot movie

2006-08-23T22:38:00.000-07:00

pretty much sums it all up!

Maggie and Cooper

2006-07-13T23:45:00.000-07:00

(taken back in October)
This is Maggie and Cooper, Maggie is my little girl and I decided to let her have some fun in the world of breeding. Cooper is the stud and belongs to my wife's co-worker. Cooper is a dapple and he was really fun to have around the house although he thought everything was his and wanted to mark everything.

In Decemember Maggie gave birth to two puppies. We gave the female to Cooper's owner and we kept the male. His name is Sherman "the tank", he really growing fast now.

Fastforward to present day... Maggie went into heat last month and we got another stud over to breed with her. He is one of Coopers pups named "Shorts". He was calm and easy going. For awhile I didn't think the two would connect, he just wasn't interested. Maggie was throwing herself at him, she even humped him and he just didn't know what to do. Finally in the last two days at the house, instinct took over and he came through like a champ.

Now the waiting game...

Been awhile...

2006-05-15T09:36:00.000-07:00

Well what can I say? Spring is working up towards a great summer so far. The weather has been great! The down side, I've been working too much.

Yard work also takes up any free time I seem to come across but the yard has come a long way since we bought the house. I'll have to get some pictures up soon.

I bought a new computer this weekend (saturday), I was really trying to hold out until Vista dropped (expected Jan. 2007) but I could not.

I ended buying from Best Buy:

Gateway
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4200+
Windows XP Media Center Edition 200 w/TV Tuner
2048MB DDR Memory
320GB HD
Double-Layer Multiformat DVDRW
nVidia GeForce 6100 Graphics
included in package
17" LCD flat panel
Canon MP150 Printer/Scanner/Copier

One of the first things I have planned for it, is to start ripping off all my shows recorded on my Tivo unit and burn them to DVD.

Then yesterday I got a nice bonus, the same package from Best Buy this week is now $180 cheaper! SCORE!

In other news I picked up Season 4 of the Sopranos (used) from Game Stop for $40.

Speaking of the Sopranos, WTF is up with Jonny-Cakes this Season? Did they really need to go this route?

Oh yeah, there is supposed to be a Teaser Poster for the Live Action Transformers movie coming out July 4th 2006.

...Transformers, more than meets the eye, Transformers robots in disguise...

Not to much to say at this time...

2006-03-06T18:05:00.000-08:00

Spring is finally starting to arrive here in the PNW. Thank GOD! Daylight till 9pm, oh how I've missed you!

I've been working like crazy and with the warm weather coming that only means I'll be even more busier since that's when everyone will be building...

Also looking forward to Pixar Cars and X-Men 3 soon. They should be really good.

The wife and I are talking about getting a Chevy Avalanche.

OH AND BIG W00T NEWS!!! Walmart had the first three seasons of the Sopranos for $49.97 each. Well I took such wonderful news to Circuit City where they sold them for $79.99 each. They just also happen to beat the competions price by 110%, SCORE FOR ME!

On a side note I was once told I kinda looked Tony Soprano?!? I don't think so.

OH AND BIGGER W00T NEWS!!! The new season of The Sopranos starts this Sunday! Tivo is all set to record!

Until next time...(I'll post about my fun with Norton Anti-Virus and getting Live Update to work).

Well PC's suxxor and then they're ah-ight!

2006-02-21T17:41:00.000-08:00

Well that's how I feel after this f'ckn weekend! I found out that the pc I had built had a non-legit OS (read that as you will). So I decided to put a legit verision of XP pro. on...

a little insight first. Why did I do this? Because M$ has now made it that when you do updates to your pc, your OS gets validated by them. Mine did not get validated! fuck...

...I had gotten my copy of XP PRO directly from the hand of M$ themselves when I went to a playtest study (HIGHLY RECOMMENED YOU SIGN UP YOURSELF IF YOU LIVE IN THE PUGET SOUND AREA - YOU GET ALL SORTS OF GOODIES).

I slap my disc my dvd drive, reboot, change my BIOS boot option to disc first, wait and...nothing! Yep, it booted right into regular windoze. Huh?!?! What?!?! Let us try that again...and again...and again...AARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

At this point I decided to call M$ themselves and maybe get some help why the disk is not loading.

M$: "Hello...This is Bob, can I please have your product key!"

Me: ah...I haven't even told you what I'm calling about yet...

M$: "I need your product key first and please give an example for letters!"

Me: (thinking: fuck! there's alot of letters - I proceed to give him letters and words... K. as in K.anga, W as in W.inney the pooh, P as in P.iglett, R as in R.oo, O as in O.wl,T as in T.igger cause that's what fucking Tiggers do best!)

M$: "So this is a product key for M$ Office, yes?"

Me: Noo, this is Win XP PRO.

M$: (in a stern voice) "Where did you get this disc"

Me: from M$ themselves in Redmond, WA. unless there is a fake M$ also in Redmond, WA.

M$: "Read everything on the disc to me"

Me: What?!?...

M$: "Read everything on the disc to me"

after researching the info...

M$: "You have the wrong key, let me give you a new one(verbally...)"

Now mind you, I haven't even begun to tell him why I'm calling.... after some more chit chat I finally get placed on hold for tech help....yeah after 15 min. I was like fuck this and hung up.

...back to the pc...

I went back into BIOS and make it ONLY boot off of the DVD drive. YES!!! Now it works... So I get the option to run UPDATE or Fresh Install. Not wanting to lose all my programs and settings I of course select UPDATE (Now before I begin to rant, if you EVER find yourself in this situtation just select FRESH INSTALL! Your life will be easier). Now onto the rant...

So I wait while it "updates" and then during a reboot during install I get a popup box looking for "VIAAGP1.SYS". Huh?!?! What?!?! (try looking for that without the find command!). SKIP IT I SAY!!! After I finished updating, I prepare myself for 3 years of updates since XP PRO had come out. I get 2 updates then a reboot, no problem. Go back to the win update, get 40+ updates needed go to install and...nothing...it just sits there saying "intinalizing".

I think okay, 40 updates gonna take awhile. Half hour later, still nothing has happened. I figure that "VIAAGP1.SYS" file has something to do with this. So I preceded to my wife's laptop and google the file I'm missing. Well in short alot of people who don't have a legit Win OS get this popup and they ask the same question I was asking myself. "WTF is VIAAGP1.SYS and where do I locate it?"

Well after digging through multiple forums/chat rooms I find out it has something to do the the motherboard. So I'm off to AMD and MSI website. I find an the file I'm looking for and now download to the tumbdrive. I had to rename the amd***.sys file to read as the "VIAAGP1.SYS" filename. Sweet, it finishes "UPDATING" (not windoze update). Again I prepare myself for 3 years of updates since XP PRO had come out.

NOPE samething again! ARGH... (This was Saturday)

Sunday morning I wake up at 7 and start running through the whole thing again. In short for 4 hours I didn't get any further. I did however have to go work.

I had picked up a tip while out, buy a new HD and do a new install. Well I didn't that either. I had an extra HD that had an old OS on there and thought that I would install that as a secondary drive and format it and install the new OS on that.

Well if you have not attempted this before, you CANNOT do this in Windoze Explorer or in DOS because it will tell you that because its snowing in Antartica and that it doesn't feel like cooporating right now...

Alright fucker, lets see how you like it if I just delete everything off of there. NOT GOOD! After rebooting, I see my desktop background but no icons, no nothing! RESET AGAIN AND AGAIN...Oh shit,what did I do?!? Okay unplug that drive and lets see if that works....NOPE! AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

So I precede to sulk for a half hour looking at new pc at various online stores on the wifes laptop... It's 10 PM sunday night at this point. Well I decided to give it one more go and if it boots up this time I am done fucking around. Let's just do a complete install!

Well it booted up and I held true to my word!!! NEW INSTALL. Everything worked correctly as it should have and THEN I got to do years of updates! By 2 AM Monday moring when all the updates finished, I decided to go to bed a happy learnt man!

and as the title says: "Well PC's suxxor and then they're ah-ight!"

Being Creative!

2006-02-15T16:08:00.000-08:00

So I've had my Creative Zen Vision M: for 6 days now and I love it! This thing is nifty as ever!

I seriously recommend this over iPod anyday! Why waste your hard earned money on additional accessories that don't come with the iPod?!? A bigger bonus is NO iTunes!!!

Check the pics:

New job

2006-02-14T17:02:00.000-08:00

Well it has been about 2 weeks into the new job and now I'm a CADD manager. Things are busy busy. Same as everywhere else.

2005-08-29T22:31:00.000-07:00

rms

2005-08-29T22:13:00.000-07:00

2005-08-27T22:27:00.004-07:00

apex

Did this design for a friend for his new company. Not bad if I say so myself. Got a free shirt out of it!

2005-08-27T22:27:00.001-07:00

apex

2005-08-27T22:27:00.000-07:00

apex

2005-06-18T10:58:00.001-07:00

greetings stranger

2005-06-18T10:58:00.000-07:00

pretty box

2005-06-18T10:57:00.002-07:00

buds

2005-06-18T10:57:00.001-07:00

take a nap

2005-06-18T10:57:00.000-07:00

2mcs

2005-06-18T10:56:00.000-07:00

wtf

These nifty little postcards came with the 2MC's

test shot

2005-05-28T00:21:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I'm blogging for the first time.. Lets see how this trip goes.