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Not Fukijamas, But Close...

Can someone loan me $8500?

Via Kottke.

OldLady v JerkInBenz

Beckham Loves His Penthouse

Becks never really dug this bed too much, which sucked because #1 got it for him right when I adopted him. Well, after Calvin helpfully removed a lot of the stuffing and I put it atop Cal's kennel so they can snooze together during the day - he loves it.

Thanks #1!

Appliance P0rn

I've been working like a madman cleaning and organizing my basement, a.k.a. the place where tools go to be lost, and boxes go to languish. In the bad-old days, if you weren't careful, your clean clothes were dirty again in the 2 minutes it took you to get them upstairs.

When the old washer broke, I called and asked about repair. When I described the problem, and asked if it could be fixed - they guy said sure, for more than a new washer would cost.

Then, I took my Dad along on the venture to pick out a new washer and dryer [since he was in town anyway washing Em and Jon's windows], and the first thing he said was:

"You know, you can't very well call yourself a good Democrat if you don't get the new energy efficient kind."

Damn values.

So here they are, in all their glory - 4 times the price of top-loading, but a gazillion times better for the planet. They get delivered tomorrow, and my level of excitement continues to amaze and concern me:

UPDATE: I got them today, but haven't tried them yet. Sure are pretty though...Note: I did not get those drawer/stands you see in the above image - those were $129/each and I couldn't justify it - I don't need the storage. Other than it raises them up...which would be nice, but not for $260. No, I couldn't stack them - but you can with the stacking kit which is....I think...$129 :-)

Garrick wanted to know what these are, model #s, and whatnot - here's the goods - I'll be sure and post on the performance of these fine machines in the next few days..

LG Electronics
    3.42 Cu. Ft. Front Load Washer, Titanium    
   Model WM1815CS

LG Electronics
    7.0 Cu. Ft. Front Control Gas Dryer, Titanium    
   Model DLG2525S

UPDATE2: It's true. While I couldn't see my way to buying the stands, I did pay about $200 more for the titanium color over white. What can I say? I liked the color and I have to look at 'em every week - I want them to look cool.

 

A Collection of Excuses for Not Bloggin More

the f blog, via kottke:

"I just don't enjoy it as much  as I convince myself I do"

"there isn't anything new about the adoption  just the same old 'waiting game' "

"I just haven't found the need to express my thoughts for the whole world to see lately."

"Mainly because I haven't taken the time for my mental  to be at ease allowing my thoughts to flow."

"So, I got paid twenty bucks to write this. "

"Sometimes it can be exhaustingly overwhelming to say what you think, which is why I haven't posted in awhile."

Slug : Little Man Knowledge

Sometimes the weeks fly
a little too fast
and sometimes I go to sleep
a little too trashed
other times I'm not
sittin' on enough cash
and other times today
feels too much like the past
--------
I'm over-thirty can't maintain relations
all these women want to hurt me
and I just don't have the patience
I can't trust 'em
and they're not much help
when they start to push and pull
the buttons I don't trust myself
--------
Dear Sean, What's goin' on?
Not much to say, just checkin' in with ya
tryin' to see what's wrong today
I know there's gotta be something
kickin' your bruises
How's the love?
How's the music?
How's the self-abusiveness?
--------
Like a naked fetus
Come and save him Jesus!
Place him back in time before
the Reganomics and Adidas.
Sometimes you're not impressed
with the work you've done,
and love isn't love
if you didn't hurt someone.
Your son says, "Hi Dad"
Your Dad says, "What's Up?"

For me I want to thank you
but I won't I'll just say Good Luck.

Assylum Street Spankers "Stick Magnetic Ribbons On Your SUV"

In the interest of full disclosure, and before friends berate me for hypocrisy - I do drive an SUV. I would like to point out, though, that it's only a 6-cylinder engine and I get pretty decent mileage.

lists.

jondavid.com short List of things most sucking
2MHost
idiocy/boobery
pandering
beltran
everything about blogging except blogging itself
truck-based rolling billboards [wtf?]
blogging itself
contractors
Matt Canham
organized religion
dust bitches [meaner and bigger than bunnies]
stairs
republicans [most of 'em]

jondavid.com short List of things totally down with right now
[bumps]
del the funky homosapien
porch designs
chrome children
tucker for calling me
blog clients that work
fake stucco sheets

Leta-Momma & Blurbodoocery : Profilin' in Utah

Heather B. Armstrong, author of one of the better blogs around just got profiled by the Salt Lake Tribune. Evidently, dooce.com is

"...quite possibly the most well read parenting blog on the planet."

Oh fuckness. Busted. Ok so, I technically read 'Alpha Mom' as well - but only because dooce dooces at that internets.

Via his presentation of this damnning evidence that I secretly desire to be a thirtysomething Mom [who knew? Lois did.], Matt Canham just made my short list. Just because Heather has the chutzpah and disorder that makes her blog about her real life, and those moments sometimes involve the guy she's married to and their insanely adorable daughter Leta - and Leta grows and poops - doesn't make it a parenting blog.

Canham, you bastard.

Heather had this to say [note I take her out of context please]:

My complaint is that when you take some of the things I write out of context they make me sound as if I am perpetually running up and down the street in the nude waving my tattooed middle finger at innocent old ladies who are cross-stitching passages of scripture as they sit in their wheelchairs on the porch. And that is so not true. I only do that on the weekends.

 

Found Personalized Bumps are the Best Bumps

Funny thing is, I just stumbled upon this - I didn't make it....I should have though. In fact, I'm going to start making some bumps. Maybe I'll only communicate via bumps, or start a new blog - that's just original bumps...with stolen beats on my bumps...since unlike AS, I have no arrangements with Madlib to keep me in beats for my bumps.