2006

Archive for the year 2006

Tucker Max

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Ching under Flickr, Web.

Brian is hooked on Tucker Max. He hasn’t been able to put the book down. I’ve never seen Brian be interested in anything without pictures so this book has got to be amazing.

From excerpts that Brian’s read to me, the guy sounds like a jerk. He’s a pretty hilarious jerk, though.

Anyway, he has to return the book to his coworker on Monday so I’m getting him his own copy. You can get a copy from Amazon for under $10. Hopefully, Brian will post a review soon.

Iccee Props — Pun Intended

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Ching under Flickr.

This one is by Iccee. Flickr folks are so creative!

As soon as I started seeing everyone else’s contest entries I started to panic. Everyone had cool, creative ideas. I felt totally unoriginal.

Like this one for example. I had no idea we could use props! I guess all is fair in Flickr coloring contests. =P

I kept yelling to Brian, “Baby! Check this one out!” Everything everyone else posted is great! I’ve never had so much fun in an outage situation. Flickr should go down more. Just kidding!

The only thing Brian could say was, “Holy cow! How long was Flickr down?!”

JULY 21 UPDATE: Guess what. Iccee’s entry made the sample list! Go, Iccee! You can find all the properly tagged coloring contest entries here. Happy browsing.

Making Disasters Fun

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Ching under Web.

So Flickr is down right but the brilliant folks at Flickr manage to abate the angry mob by giving us busy work. This is further proof that Flickr rocks.

When the Flickr web site comes back up Brian and I will be showing off our respective works of art. Stay tuned.

P.S. This is what I call a great DR plan.

Bebot got his first rain on July 9. We were sitting at Taco Shop for a cheap lunch before heading over to Dawn’s house so the girls could meet the suggies they’re adopting. It was an introduction-slash-play-date sort of appointment. You didn’t know we do house calls, did you?

Kidding aside, Bebot is as much Brian’s baby as he is mine. I’ve been instructed to always wear my glasses when driving. No glasses, no drive — strict rules that I’ve already violated a few times.

Speaking of rules, Brian has specific break-in rules too. He tried to get me to read the manual but I refuse to do it. Umm, hello? Bebot will get broken in as I drive him. How about that for breaking in?

My driving style is not really far from the methods the car manufacturer suggests for breaking in the vehicle, anyway. After all, I drive like a grandma — or so Brian tells me. The suggested method is easy acceleration, easy breaks… Pretty much easy everything.

As I did some liesurely internet reading (I know, I refuse to read the manual but the web is my playground so that’s where I get most of my info) I found that there are two opposing schools of thought with regard to breaking in a new vehicle. There’s the gentle break-ins are best camp and then there’s the run it hard camp. Brian and I are partial to the former simply because Brian read the manual and that’s what it said and then Brian pretty much tells me what I should do because I have no time to read the information for myself (most of the time). You’ve got to have folks you can count on for this stuff, you know? At any rate, both schools of thought have their merits. I will let you decide which is right for you.

As for breaking our cars in, Brian and I have other ways in which we have broken our cars in. These ways have had little to do with performance and more to do with our own carnal enjoyment, if you know what I mean. 😉

Brian had proposed the idea the very day we brought him home. Naturally, I said no. I mean, Bebot is our very special baby. He will not be subjected to such disrespect. Brian argued that we had broken in the Neon and the Rodeo that way, why not Bebot? Well, because Bebot is mine. Ha! We finally get to the heart of the matter.

Of course, it isn’t entirely fair to Brian that we have desecrated his cars in the past and I will not allow mine to be even remotely soiled. So I might be convinced otherwise but — only if we put a sheet or towel on the seats… LOL!

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Bebot’s First Bath

Posted on July 17, 2006 by Ching under Babies, Life, Toys.

We gave Bebot his first bath this weekend. Who is Bebot, you might ask.

Bebot is our newest family member. Sunny’s younger brother.

We couldn’t think of a good name for him so we decided to name him after Brian’s favorite Black Eyed Peas song. He actually tried to get me to translate it for him the other day. The lyrics aren’t the most brilliant. But whatever. He likes the song, nonetheless.

So anyway, Bebot got a good cleaning. Inside and out. A lot more than I can say for our house.

House cleaning is the main item on the agenda for this weekend. We still have mom and dad’s steam cleaner so I’m going to try to talk Brian into steam-cleaning the carpet. Shush, he doesn’t know yet. I hope he doesn’t collect on his full day of WOW because cleaning house will be a full day event. Exciting, huh?