Roku you

When I was young I was the nicest guy I knew
I thought I was the chosen one
But time went by and I found out a thing or two
My shine wore off as time wore on
I thought that I was living out the perfect life
But in the lonely hours when the truth begins to bite
I thought about the times when I turned my back & stalled

I ain't no nice guy after all

When I was young I was the only game in town
I thought I had it down for sure,
But time went by and I was lost in what I found
The reasons blurred, the way unsure
I thought that I was living life the only way
But as I saw that life was more than day to day
I turned around, I read the writing on the wall

I ain't no nice guy after all
I ain't no nice guy after all

In all the years you spend between your birth and death
You find there's lots of times you should have saved your breath
It comes as quite a shock when that trip leads to fall


So I have the Roku XS and I like it. My favorite things, Pandora is now through my stereo, streaming Netflix, the video quality is much better than watching on a dvd, watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Report for breakfast, The Internet Archive, they have lots and lots of great live music and other very cool content and many other cool channels. The only bummer is that getting live tv is has only fair video quality at best.

So I dumped most of my cable. I kept the most basic cable at $11.00 a month and bumped up by internet speed to 30 mbps. My cable/internet bill went from $150.00 a month to $67.00 a month.

Now I can stream a bunch of my Netflix and my list of pending rentals will go done quickly. I have 52 now and a quarter of those I can stream.

Hope your world is good.

The hump is here

Remember these guys from the golden days of metal.......................

So Summer's latest thing is she noe does not want to come in at night and wants to give me a problem about coming in. Where did this come from?

The NFL is the perfect example of greed. Get the refs back in, morons.

Where to take pictures this weekend. Have any tips?

Should I sell the Sport Trac?

Tuesday Style

This is the most popular video ever on youtube from what I understand.  Have to admit it is a little catchy.

Really got nothing else this morning. Enjoy the song and get dancing.

Brrr

Enjoy the man called Dali.

Very good weekend.

Was out cutting more trees down Saturday morning. It has opened up the left side of the house/yard a whole bunch.. Looks much better. Lots of brush for the town to pick up this morning.

Street fest during the day Saturday and went to O.A.R. Saturday night. A free show with lots and lots of people and very very long beer lines.

Yesterday I took a little trip to Henry River Village. It is and old abandoned "town" with about 20 homes and an old store. This was used in the movie "The Hunger Games". While I was there a lot of other folks were there also checking out the abandoned homes. They are in poor shape and almost to the point of not being able to be rescued. They all had outhouses, but they did have electricity. Vandals have also  done there part.
One guy owns all the property and has it for sale.

Here is a little video clip.

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It is a pretty nice area and would be cool to own, renovate the homes and have a store and restaurant in the old store or make it a house.

Found an old rusty Falfstaff 1776 -1976 beer can and an old coke bottle. They came home with. Did not think they would miss these items.

Think I'll go back when the leaves start to change and get more pictures.

Have a Monday.

Friday musings

Did you know that we rank 29th in internet speed?

The average $150.00 cable/phone bill in the U.S. costs only $38.00 in Japan.

In 19 states major corporations actually get to keep the payroll tax that their employees pay for 25 years. In other words your payroll tax are financing their expansion instead of them expanding using their own dollars and the dollars of their investors.

That Mitt is a twit and you should vote for Jill Stein.

That i need to take a shower now because i am running way late this morning.

Trees

I used my trusty little reciprocating saw last night and removed 5 small trees from my yard. I have a little more to do tonight and then I'll have to hold off until after the town removes my brush. Do not want to give them too much. They frown on that quite a bit. Welcome sunlight, goodbye skeeters.

This is one of those work weeks that seems never ending. Uugh.

Going to a little street fest with "World Can't Wait" Saturday to sell some bumper stickers. Good music, art and pissing off the right.wing nutbags.

Mountains on Sunday?

The new season of Survivor started last night. Yea.

Wow

Might be a good thing to start every day listening to this song.

Now confirmed, Mitt Romney is an ill informed fool. His true feelings have been exposed far all doubters to see.

Vote the green party.

Get the hell out of Afghanistan. The soldiers we trained are using those skills to now kill Nato soldiers everyday. Get them out today, not two years from today. Put the pressure on Obama and make him get them home now. Truly sickening. How many more have to die before we, as a people, say enough?

Super humid this morning. Big storms today is what they are saying.

Time for toast.

Review

Saturday was decent. Picked up a couple pieces of furniture at and a very old artificial leg at a yard sale.
Yesterday the weather was crappy and i got up a 8:45. Could have slept a few more hours.

Slept like crap last night.

I told my parents to kick my nephew out of the house. He is such an ass.

Got a run. Sorry.

Uh, really

So this is the video that is causing all the trouble that is going down in the middle east. Really I fail to understand any of this. Of course 99% of the people who are protesting have never seen this horrible and pathetic attempt at making a movie.

The movie and the protests are perfect examples of the ignorance of man and religion.

They all need to go out get an education and hopefully they stop having children so they so stop spreading the seed of ignorance.

Yeah, its Friday. Tag sales, tree cutting and maybe a little roadtrip this weekend.

Enjoy my friends.

Getting in the swing

Picture taken at the PEZ museum with my phone.

Not sure of the whole story but it seems we have some big trouble in the middle east and big mouth Netanyahu runs his mouth again. Makes me wonder why we keep giving them  millions of dollars every year.

Hopefully will have the booth at the antique shop up and running in a couple weeks.Got lots of neat stuff while I was home. Between what Autumn and i have we should do well. I am going to price my stuff pretty aggressive. I want sales, not dust collecting items in the booth.

Tree cutting down this weekend. With the weather getting super nice it is time for some yard work. Remove some trees for more sunlight and hopefully getting rid of some skeeters. I think i want the little back yard to be a pepper garden next spring.

Romney is an idiot.

Vote the Green Party.

I'm back

The best Steppenwolf song.

Vacation was very good. It is a fairly long drive. 14 hours on the way up and 13 on the way back. Several stops for Summer and I to relieve ourselves, get gas and a snack.

The weather was brutally humid all week long and a lot of rain Tuesday and Wednesday. Had lots of seafood including lobster, fried clams, clam chowder, and mussels.

Went to the PEZ factory, where they make the candy and bag the dispensers, to check out the little museum they have. It was very cool and they had lots of neat things including  things I did not know about. My parents were amazed at how many dispensers there were. I bought a new item they are coming out with. They are making a set with the Presidents. They will be releasing four at a time. The likeness is very good on these. They will also be releasing a KISS set. It was a cool little museum.

Summer was very confused for the first few days. Way out of her element.

The new truck was great.

Gotta run, more this week.

Lovely weather. Peace.