December 2009 Archives

Days of holiday overindulgence has left me with a case of Jingle Bowels and after three days of kayaking, bicycling and walking around looking at Christmas lights there isn't a muscle in my body that ins't hurting.

Yesterday we went up to Christy's parents place along with our bicycles in tow. After spending time with her folks having Christams dinner we went over to Okeeheelee park for a nice bike ride around the lakes. Then in the evening we went over to a nearby neighborhood to check out Christams lights with friends.

Dispite money being hideous this year this has been one of the best holidays I've had since I can remember.

Today is going to be a day of working on my online stuff and doing laundry. We would have liked to have seen Avatar sometime this weekend but it is sold out for today and tomorrow at the IMAX so I guess this weekend is going to be a weekend of vegging out on the couch and watching movies at home. It's getting chilly out so it's also a good excuse to have a fire going in the fireplace.

AT&T showed up this morning unexpectedly saying they wanted to change out the cable that got changed out Thursday with special U-Veres cable that has more shielding.

He also cleaned up the mess of old cables after I let him know that none of them were being used including the Comcast cable so now I just have one cable coming into our house. It sure looks a lot nicer no longer having 20+ years of old cables strung across my yard.

For the first time since I've had this service I'm not getting thousands of errors.

The tech seems to feel that I should be getting better speed then what I'm getting and said that the central office needed to make some adjustments now that my errors are gone that should bump my speed up even more but I've already been getting much faster speeds since the first cable change out.

Faster would naturally be better but compared to what I've been use to this is already amazing.

Christmas Eve we went on a night paddle up the Las Olas waterways with a Meetup group to check out the holiday lights. We did 8.5 miles in rather strong winds and currents with a half dozen other adventurous kayakers.

Until this paddle I had no idea the effort that the mansions along our waterways put into decorating for the holidays. There was everything from elaborate lights to complete scenes with painted backdrops and animatronics. In places even the waterways had underwater lighting. It really was amazing. If I do this again next year I'm going to be sure to bring a camera along that is both waterproof and able to do decent night photography.

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Swingers Have a Foursome

Had planned on either going kayaking or if it was too chilly going to see Advatar Sunday. We woke up to one of the coldest days so far this winter so decided on going to see Advatar which turned out was sold out.

So we invited a few friends over and had a very nice Christmas get together BBQ complete with warm fire in the fireplace. It was the first time in a very long time that I really felt the holiday spirit.

Today was get better internet day by having AT&T install U-Verse.

The install went pretty smoothly although the first installer had to come back to make some line adjustments after the second installer put in a trouble ticket.

I'm a little further from the whatever it is that I need to be closer to (I'm 3500 feet and 3000 feet is the max I'm told for the max speed) so I'm not getting the fastest speed but compared to what I was getting on ADSL this is screaming.

The box is HUGE that they put in. I guess this is due to it also having jacks for TV and phone that I'm not using. You would think they would have a box for VDSL only customers like me.

So far the only downside is the 2Wire 3800HGV-B Gateway that doesn't not allow loopback and can't be put in bridge mode so that I could use a different router.

So we are stuck with having to turn off wifi on our iPhones if we want to control the X10 stuff and then having to turn wifi back on to control iTunes. Other than running my own domain server behind the gateway there doesn't seem to be a workaround, at least not one that I've figured out. Maybe this is a sign that it's time to learn how to setup BIND.

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Babe In Stilettos and Stockings

Christy took the day the off yesterday so that we could get our Christmas shopping done.

Being as this is the recession holidays from hell we had very little shopping to do. Other than getting a little something for Christy's parents we aren't doing gifts this year although we did agree to buy wetsuits for each other so that we can continue kayaking and snorkeling into the winter months.

Dispite having very little shopping to do it was exhausting and all the rude people that were out just made it worse. We were in Target and this woman walked in the isle we were in and let out a big stinky fart. On top of farting customers we had to deal with obnoxious shoppers yelling, shoving and cutting in lines.

After we bought a couple of items for the parents we went looking at wetsuits. After looking at wetsuits at a bunch of places we finally ended up buying NRS Little Jane Wetsuits online because no one had anything close to what we wanted in stock plus we just didn't want to deal with anymore traffic and rude, shoving, screaming, farting customers.

It's no wonder that the online stores and killing all the brick and mortar retail stores.

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Cutie Snatched At Bus Stop

I'm not sure what we were thinking when we put on rain ponchos and went out kayaking to the boat the 38th Annual Winterfest Boat Parade Saturday night but at least we weren't the only crazy ones as there was over a dozen of us from two different kayaking groups to watch the festivities. It wasn't raining that bad when we first went out and then it even stopped... right before a tropical rain storm from hell came down on us. Paddling back in rain so hard that I could barely see where I was going was oddly fun in a crazy adventurous strange way.

Yesterday we used our new to use used bike racks from eBay and went biking in what turned out to be a very muddy park on the other side of town. The bike racks worked great although bicycling in mud wasn't all that fun. Plus after a few days of rains swarms of mosquitoes come out. Naturally today is a beautiful day now that we both have to work. I want more weekend...

Dexter last night delivered although it was a very sad ending. I was surprised how different the actor that plays Dexter looked when John Lithgow and him talked about the show after the last episode.

It seems our female cat Katrina thought our Christmas tree needed presents under it so she put a dead rat under it the other day and then came into the office meowing until I went out and looked at her gift. After I thanked her for her tasty show of love I threw the rat into the neighbor's yard that I don't like. It was a gift that keeps on giving I guess.

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Lesbian Cowgirls Doing It

I had to look at my calendar to make sure it really is December. Went for a lovely bike ride down to Ft. Laud. beach yesterday and then had to turn our A/C on when I got home.

The used Yakima LockJaw Bike Racks that I bought off of eBay finally arrived yesterday. I thought UPS would be delivering them but it seems they were shipped via USPS wrapped in a trash bags covered in a few rolls of packing tape with no shipping label on them so I'm not even sure how they got here.

Took me about an hour to figure out how to install them on our kayak trailer since I didn't have any install instructions.

So now we can tow two kayaks and two bikes at the same time.

Still looking for wetsuits but I think we found the wetsuits that we want, NRS Ultra Farmer Jane Wetsuit. Looks like we are going to have mail order though. We are going to try going to a few more places locally this weekend although with Christy's work schedule it's really hard to make it to the stores.

Yesterday I found the cordless phone that I lost almost a month ago. I no longer have a land line so I have no use for it but it was driving me crazy as to what happened to it. I found it back behind my entertainment center and now I remember using it there when I was trying to get the phone jack back there working. I probably should put all of them on eBay.

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Tgirl Doing Two Black Men

Got up at 5 am to take a piss the other morning and while I'm sitting there I hear something splashing around under my butt. I stand up and turn on the light and see a rat in my toilet as it swims back down where it came from. I haven't been able to go back to sleep since my rat encounter

It seems my neighborhood has been overrun by rats. I can hear them running on our roof at night. I see them in the bushes at night. I even see them running up and down the power, cable, phone lines. I talked to my neighbors and they are all over their yards too. This makes the raccoon problem we had a few years ago seem pleasant by comparison. I Googled rat in the toilet and it seems that it's rare but not that uncommon.

Now I'm dealing with the smell of death...

Dead rats, lots of stinky, smelly dead fucking rats. Our backyard smells like there is a dead body back there. Actually I guess there is a lot of dead bodies back there.

I found this huge underground rat's nest under a planter so I stuck a garden hose down the hole and when I started seeing rats coming out of another hole I blocked it with a brick. Let the hose run until everything was flooded. I guess I killed a whole lot of the little nasty fuckers because the smell of death is overwhelming now.

I wonder how long it takes for a nest of rats to rot and stop stinking?

Dispite it being cool enough to turn off the A/C I'm keeping my windows shut with the A/C on. I would guess that my neighbors are doing the same.

We put up a tree this year. It's a more modest tree then the one we put up the year before last but at least, unlike last year, we did put up a tree.

We are getting each other wetsuits for Christmas so we started shopping for them last night. So far all we have only found ones meant for diving. We want Farmer Jane ones or something good for being able to paddle in but none of the local shops have anything in stock. It's no wonder that the online retailers are killing the local retailers.

Hoping for a pleasant smelling rat free day tomorrow and maybe even some successful wetsuit shopping.

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Swingers First Time Hookup

Another day of errands, work and going for an afternoon bike ride.

I forgot to stop on the way home from the gym yesterday to buy bird food so this morning I had an aviary full of soon to be very hungry macaws. I had thought of riding my bike over to the bird food store but then realized that it wasn't very practical to try to carry a 25 pound bag of bird seed plus whatever else I ended up buying so drove there instead. It was good thing since I ended up also buying dried corn on the cob for the squirrels plus wild bird seed for the feeder in our backyard.

This is the weather we live here for. We may have a few months of hot and sticky hell with occasional hurricanes but I soon forget all about that once our winter weather has arrived.

Been taking longer and longer bike rides as I get back into bike riding shape. Today's ride was the longest so far although short by what I do when I'm in shape. I'm using MotionX GPS on my iPhone to track my rides. Google Earth KMZ file of today's ride or if you have the Google Earth browser plug-in installed you can view it in a widget here

Speaking of outdoor activities... We are looking to get some light wet suits for kayaking and snorkeling in our winter months. We don't need anything too thick as the surf temps stay in the seventies here. Going to start looking around this month. I was actually thinking of looking at what surfers wear instead of what divers wear as I thought that might me more suitable for using while snorkeling from a kayak.

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Tgirl Angel Fucking a Dude