Kill Assassin Maximum

I saved a ton of money by switching to blogger for my car insurance blogging. I haven't played with my blog since July, so yeah... dropping gamgames.com and saving $80 a year was a good idea.

What to say... what to say...

Jenny won tickets to see "Zombieland" and I won tickets to see "9." Is that right? "9." I really want to write "9". It just looks cleaner. You know what, I'm writing "9". I'm not gonna conform to your standards. If Cormac McCarthy can take a big stinky poop on convention by leaving out all quotation marks but still win a Pulitzer Prize, then I can put my goddamn punctuations after the quotation mark. /tanget So yeah, Jenny and I are raking in the free movie outings.

The optometrist I saw in Terre Haute about my glass-chipped eye said the blood would be gone in 2 or 3 days, and to see a doctor if it looks worse. Actually, he said "See a doctor if it doesn't get better or doesn't stay the same", and I wonder why he didn't just say "See a doctor if it gets worse." I keep making truth tables in my head, but it gets confusing.

My eye didn't get better and it looked worse, so yesterday I saw an ophthalmologist at Huntsville Hospital. I told the nurse about the Terre Haute doctor's diagnosis, and she said "Oh no, these things take 2 or 3 weeks to heal." Then I saw the doctor, and she said "What? Oh, no. These things take 2 to 3, sometimes 4 weeks to heal." Terre Haute, minus one point.

I'm going to Rose's career fair next week. I'll be there Tuesday evening through Friday morning. I'll probably go to Sonkas for dinner every night.

Cameron's wedding is at the end of the month. Jenny can't make it, which means I have to find someone to bunk with. Anyone looking for a hotel roommate?

I like roasted red pepper hummus. It is good.

This is ridiculous!

What happened to the news this summer? Has it always been this terrible? I don't ever remember the headlines being so obnoxious. After the election ended I thought we'd be in store for more interesting news.

First, we have the swine flu, and everybody freaks-the-fuck out. Huntsville practically shut down for three days because four people got the swine flu. Hasn't anyone ever had taco night before? A little diarrhea probably won't kill you.

Then Michael Jackson dies. Dolphins evolve opposable thumbs and invade New Zealand but nobody notices because we've all gone ape-shit over the death of a man most of us never really respected when he was alive. Half the headlines on my CNN newsfeed were regarding Michael Jackson, most of which were frivolous. Sure, report about his career and his memorial service. Report on the twitter and facebook statuses regarding Michael Jackson? That is the precise moment when we should have realized there's nothing more to report. I hope Eric Clapton gets this much attention when he kicks the bucket.

Now we have this Gates/Crowley debacle. This is what I gathered from the very first article: Gates is a douche bag, Crowley is a douche bag. I've never seen so many headlines about a misdemeanor arrest. At the end of the article I thought "That's it?" and I moved on. America should too. The only person in this situation, President Obama included, who didn't seem to make any mistakes is the lady who placed the 911 call. Good for her, keeping an eye out on a neighbor's home. I refuse to click on any more headlines regarding this story or regarding Michael Jackson. It'd be like the time I accidentally clicked on the Avril Lavigne YouTube video and felt guilty for giving it another view.

Meanwhile, the dolphin overloads contract swine flu and New Zealand is liberated, but no one notices because the new iPhone is released.

New Blog

I'm convinced. I registered this website eight years ago to do lots of things with it, but now all those things are free services provided by other websites. So it goes, my hosting plans expires tomorrow and my domain name expires in September. RIP gamgames.com. That $80 might go toward Super Mario Bros Wii or a charcoal grill.

For continued reading, to www.georgeamills.blogspot.com.

This Blog

I need to renew my hosting plan and domain registration this month, but why pay $80/year when sites like Blogspot and Flickr will allow me the same service for free? I pay because I like owning a unique domain name and I enjoy scripting webpages, but my imminent homeownership has me thinking frugally. The $80 I'd save could buy 2-5 used videogames, 1 or 2 camping trips, 6-9 six packs of beer, Road Hazard Insurance for my new tires, a bicycle trainer, a charcoal grill, or 16 blowjobs from your mom. Is it worth it? Hmm...

Homeowners

Ta-da! Jenny and I are buying a house. We sporadically researched houses out of fanciful leisure, but the sudden knowledge of the $8,000 tax credit and our increasing disgruntlement with our apartment complex pushed us to consider homeownership more seriously.

Our first (baby) step: we contacted a realtor and happened to view the perfect home our first day out. An offer (not ours) was accepted that same day. Well, frak.

Then we got our shit together: laid out our finances, got pre-approved, yadda blah yadda. We found a second perfect house last week (one block away and a mirror image of the former perfect house). There's no room for a man-cave, but I can start homebrewing at a level beyond Mr. Beer.

Well be moving in August. Perhaps Labor Day weekend will mark a suitable time for a house-warming party (e.g. keg, pizza, some Wii, and perhaps Nazi zombies).

P.S. We watched Dod Sno last Saturday, and it's the best movie I've seen all year.

Adieu GMD

Today was the last day I had to work for Boeing GMD. I'm not going to explain what is GMD to any non-government folk. It's far too boring to talk about during work, nonetheless a Friday evening. Boeing had to make some serious staffing changes due to some serious budgets cuts, and in particular they couldn't afford to contract me anymore. Fortunately I work for Dynetics, and starting Monday I'll be working on a Lockheed Martin contract. Same pay. Shorter commute. More interesting work. I never thought getting my job cut would be so great.

The Hops Must Flow

I went to Founders Day last weekend. Did some work, did some car bombs, had some fun. No particularly outstanding stories, but a general good time had by all. I think I've grown to love car bombs. But car bombs are a sometimes food.

A car bomb at the bar: $7 - $12

A car bomb at home: Priceless... er, about $2

The Alabama senate passed the Gourment Beer Bill yesterday. Now we just need the governor's signature, which is likely since he just signed a bill raising the ABV limit on wine. I'm looking forward to a much wider beer selection at next month's Magic City Brewfest. I'm buying my tickets today, and Jenny and I are going to spend the night in Birmingham. Dark Lord Day taught me a 1 1/2 hour drive home after a beer festival is a long car ride.

I bought my tickets to the Music City Brewer's Festival. Now that is going to be one heck of a brewfest.

Jenny's aunt made us a set of glass coasters. I'm pretty sure they're in a package I just picked up from the leasing office. Now Jenny's going to make me use coasters. Nothing against coasters, but when you have a blue shell barreling down your ass the last thing on your mind is where to set down your friggin' beer. And seriously, it takes one person to knock over a glass of beer to undo the cumulative effort of using coaster for like what? The entire year?

I finished the first five Harry Potter books, part of an insignificant goal I have. That gives me two months to read The Half-Blood Prince before the movie comes out. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'll make it.

How about that rain we've been having? I know, right?