Go Go Gadget Condom Part Duex

Aparently I accidentally hit send when I was trying to answer the phone...

Stories in correct order of occurance but in reverse of the tease...

My first failed hookup came early in the day and was totally planned on my part. A very pretty asian girl has a very strong crush on me. Surprisingly I actually noticed but then it was quite apparent when she was letting people go before her so that she could have me sell her one of her many photo ops. The nail that complete ruined any chance of her scoring my digits was when she was hanging out talking to me when it was slow, I asked if she had stayed up late drinking the night before and she said she was not 21 yet In other words she was not even born we I graduated High School.

My second failed hookup was totally my fault but mainly because I am as dense as a black hole. I have spent the last three days interacting with a lot of really nice people that are huge fans of the celebrities we are photographing. One of Marsters fans really stood out for me because she was incredible hot. Well this evening she stopped by to pick up her picture from the day and she stopped and chatted. It turns out the she is an actress that has been in all of the Law and Orders, Boston Leagle, and couple of shows and some movies that have not been released yet. In our conversation she mentioned that she has no plans for the evening and that she is here alone. It was not until it was pointed out later by the person that was at the sales table with me that I came to realize that she was totally tring to get me to take her out to dinner. Afterwards I also find out that she had apparently been asking one of the women that was helping at the sales table about me... As Q would say "Still single."

Despite that setback today was a pretty good day. Almost great if it was not for the Cluster becoming a Cluster! when on of the printers broke leaving me to explaing to a bunch of disapointed fans why there photos were not ready.

I did sleep in when I discovered that unles you set it correctly it only makes the alarm sound once...

Got to spend a half an hour wandering the floor and had some awesome teriyaki...

Went to the Harry Potter theamed Yule Ball and once again regretted that I had not charged my camera battery...

Wandered around and explored the night events...

Got a cab that broke down on the highway and spent a very enjoyable hour talking politics with my black, female, republican taxi driver. Not that I want to label her or anything. It was really interesting to here about the election from her point of view...

Go Go Gadget Condom

Is something I might have said if I was not so dense or had lower morals.

Stupid camera or stupid Paul

I forgot to charge the battery of my camera so I am stuck with my crappy cell phone camera to document the freakiness of this place. I have seen some great costumes.

Crappy day working at the cluster. Don't really feel like airing my shit to the world.

Read some more Fantastic Four War Zone hope to finish tonight.

Protecting Atlanta

Busy day...

Aparently my snoring drove out my roommates... Did not find out about this until later, I kind of blame them for heating the room to 80 after I went to bed but they need to grow up.

Got to the con at about 9 and worked my tail off selling shit all day.

Tried to call it an early night but was thwarted by the indesesion of others for 2 plus hours.

Listened to Empire and read some more War Zone. Played some FFTA2 while waiting for the ride to show.

Tomorrow should be busy but I have time to see some of the con on saturday.

Setup for DragonCon

Got up and walked around crappy hotel.

Went to con hotel and helped setup. Made some posters and handed out flyers.

Went to Hooters with the crew. Cajan Spice Wings are freakin' awesome. It makes me sad that Lynnwood Hooters closed.

Read some more Fantastic Four War Zone. Forgot to mention that I started listening to Empire by Orson Scott Card. Still listening today.

Played some FFTA2.

Thing I noticed today. People that can drink today were not alive when I graduated High School...

Back on the road again

Got up really early today so that I go to Atlanta to help Froggy out with his photo shoots at DragonCon. I flew on AirTran which is aparently a real airline. I know I hd never heard of it before. It was a direct flight which was nice but there was only light snacks for food.

On the plane I watched Walk The Line on the Touch. I then read some more of the Fantastic Four: War Zone and played some FFTA2.

Froggy picked my up and we went to the Hotel to begin the setup. Aparently we are going to have 45+ different celebrities everyday with some of the stars expecting over 300 people. Line control is going to be scary. I left my stuff to do bag in the van so found my self quite board since there was nothing to do.

DragonCon is kind of different because it is not held in a convention center but is instead held in three hotels in Downtown Atlanta. So nearly 50,000 moving between the different lobbies. It should be insane.

Went to Pig N Chik for dinner. The Meat was awesome but the sause was only so-so.

Staying at an Extended Stay for tonight only. The place is a dump and my roommate has been smoking in the room. Plus she has problems shutting up...

Watched some Bones with Froggy before heading back to my room to get some sleep for tomorrows long day.

Stupid Blogger

It appears that my emails have not been making it to blogger to appear on this blog. I am swamped at the moment and heading to DragonCon in the early AM. I will keep making the nightly updates and will post when able...

Impending Lack of Doom

Long day at dirty plant but not as long as I feared.

Watched Weeds and Eureka and played some Mass Effect before calling it a early (10:00 pm) night.

Read some more Fantastic Four War Zone. For a popcorn book this one is better than most. Nicely ties in to Continuity of the time of print.

Anouther Day

Early rise to hit nice plant.

Played some Mass Effect. Then watched Mad Men, Primeval, Skins, and Middleman while packing for the DragonCon.

Read some more Fantastic Four War Zone

Lazy Sundays should not be so busy

Forget to mention that last night was a game night at the Stop. BTW when disadvantage of a public blog is that I can't tell some stories for fear of hurting feelings...

The Jasons crashed at my place, so I layed in bed and watched last weeks Mad Men to let them sleep in a bit. I did get them up in time for us to meet Jim D, Beau and Mary Anne at the cheep showing of Death Race. The action was cool but the talkie bit were way slow.

The Jasons and I headed back to my place and I played some Mass Effect then Duece and I broke out his copy of Army of Two for a while.

We then went to George's to celebrate Q's very belated birthday. Conversation and Ice Cream cake for all!! Presents only for the BB-day girl.

Started reading Fantastic Four War Zone. I am going to try and slam through some Popcorn Books.

Under my roof

The Jasons, Jim D, Beau, Q and Sean helped me move the shit from storage unit to my garage storage.

Played a bit of the Hulk and watched Duece play CoD4.

Watched the new Psych episode.

Palindromes are fun

Especially when they are you Xbox Live achievement score. Totally unplanned but that actually makes it cooler.

Mildly productive day at work. Went to the new Rock Wood Fired Pizza for lunch. Kind of expensive but good none the less. They are building a Red Robin a couple of blocks from the office.

Went home and played a lot of Mass Effect followed by Burn Notice and Stargate Atlantis followed by even more Mass Effect.

Reading the Middleman collection. I am shocked at how faithful the Tv show is. The first two episodes are almost an exact lift from the first two mini series.

Not much to say

Dirty Plant..

Clean Garage..

Force Unleashed Demo...

Incredible Hulk and Mass Effect...

Middleman Trade...

Header Missing

Today was a better day. Had same training on how to solve a problem at the dirty plant. Went to a meeting about one of the four jobs that I have been indirectly assigned and it turned out to not be a Paul job!!! Went to comic Wednesday chated with many had dinner with Jim D and Q. Stayed and talked with Q after dinner for a while and now have better outlook on life. It is good to have good friends.

Played some Mass Effect and Incredible Hulk. The story in the Hulk kind of blows but it is fun to wreck things.

Just reading new comics and trades tonight. Should finish Howard the Duck Omnibus tomorrow.

Everything is better with a 'zilla at the end

Back at the dirty plant. Spent hours talking about the fact their system will never be better than 95% if they don't fix mechanical issues...

Currently have three multi-month full time projects that look to be happening at the same time... Sometimes I hate my job.

Today should have been someones 40th birthday... Don't drink and drive. It makes Paul depressed.

Watched a new show on BBC America called Skins. It is kind of a Freaks and Geeks for the brits but a lot racier. So far there have been two episodes and I am loving it.

Also watched anouther Code Monkeys and the new Eureka.

Played some Mass Effect and wanted to break things so played some Hulk then noticed that you unlocked things in the Hulk by having an Iron Man save so played a bit of that to.

I am reaching the point in the Howard the Duck Omnibus were things are falling apart. In the intro to the Omnibus it is mentioned that know one writes Howard as well as Gerber and I most say that is so true. All of the fill in issues are complete crap. I am not looking forward to the last two issues because they are not Gerber and were writen years after the first series ended.

Mr Sparkle

Went to a different Jobsite today... Oh so much cleaner. My laptop is still discusting even after two attempts to clean.

New cleaning lady started today. Unfortunatly it was not a good test of her skills since the place need some serious cleaning and because of all the work and the heat last week, I still have boxes and other stuff everywhere. Hope to have the Main living areas up to snuff before I leave on my to to Atlanta.

Watched Venture Bros and played some Braid and Geometry Wars 2 while the cleaning lady was cleaning. Then I went to get a haircut and hit the TRU BOGOHO sale on 360 games (Iron Man and Hulk). Then I played Mass Effect for a while then watched Middleman while unpacking.

Howard calls...

Opps I did it again

I am completely shocked!!! At least two people read the Super Boring Blog and noticed I failed to post yesterday...

Went to see Tropic Thunder. It was funny but not Best Movie of All Time as some felt.

Dueuce hung at my place all day because it was much too hot at his pad. I watched him kick ass at Soul Caliber 4 then he finished the campaign of Gears of War with Beau. I started putting stuff back in Bookcases.

Watched No Reservations in HD off one of the pay channels. Romantic Comedy with no humor and Zeta Jones has lost a level or three on the smokin' hot scale. Still mighty fine though...

Watched anouther episode of Code Monkeys.

In the home stretch on the Howard the Duck Omnibus over 5/8ths done.

Imagine Something Hot

It was quite warm today. It did not help that Sean and I increased the potential energy of a bunch of stuff that had been temperarly moved to the comic room. It has now temperarly been moved to the second floor while I prep the spare room for all the stuff that belongs in there. I got a good start in there and would have gotten a better if it had actually cooled down tonight...

Watched Stargate Atlantis, an episode of Code Monkey and episode of Witchblade Anime (the last two were free on Xbox Live).

Started Mass Effect and Braid. Both on the 360.

Still reading Howard the Duck Omnibus

The Soul will burn because it is so damn hot

Left work early...

Beau had the day off so we hung out for a while and played some Soul Caliber 4.

Watched Weeds, Eureka, Burn Notice, Psych and some lame movie about Boys and Girls Getting Down that I taped off Showtime. Now that I have the Tivo HD with the cable card I have started looking at the movies in HD and recording any that catch my eye. So far I have been disapointed with every pick.

Finished off PuzzleQuest expansion. Last boss was very tough he seemed to be extremely lucky and kept getting free turn after free turn.

Still reading Howard the Duck Omnibus. About half done and it is still very entertaining.

While watching TV I put my cabling from one side of the room to the other all of it went under the baseboard really nice except where it is most visible under the front window.

I wasn't even supposed to be here today.

The plan: Go in to work for a few hours so that I could get ready for my Monday Startup.

The Reality: Back at emergency startup location doing crap that could wait until next week. At least this time I got to leave at 9 PM on the same day I arrived.

I did get a few minutes to play some PuzzleQuest and Geometry Wars 2.

Read some more Howard the Duck.

Weirdness. I have started to get CNN and MSNBC news allerts to my personal email address. They don't appear to be spam but I can't turn them off because I don't know the password that was used to create the alerts...

Work Sleep Comics Sleep

That was my day. Going to sleep now.

Work mess

It is currently 3 am and I have been onsite is this very messy jobsite since 11 am and don't expect to leave anytime soon. This was an unplanned emergency start up that I was roped in to covering.

Since I have been working I have watched nothing read nothing and played nothing.

Lego Violation

Went into the storage room and noticed that when viewed from certain angles Lego Dude is violating the earth as Spongebob looks on in discust. Totally unplanned but funny none the less.

Today is the first day I have really felt 100 % since returning from San Diego. I still have my standard hacking cough but my nose is not stuffy and my head and throut no longer hurt. Hopefully the cough will become under control in a reasonable time again. That would be sweet...

After work went to the Stop and played Magic with George. I am not a huge fan of the current block of cards but we had some good duels today. Maybe because I beat George best two out of three with both decks... Even with George working his cheater mojo with the petal to the metal. Yes I am that good. :)

After the dueling returned home and started putting the office together while watching Venture Bros, Middleman and Mad Man. Middleman was awesome tonight with Kevin Sorbo as Middleman 69 and Wendy finally wearing the skin tight jump suit.

I am surprised how much I am enjoying the Howard the Duck Omnibus. I have read some HoD in the past but it is a much better experience reading the series in the correct order. As a plus the concept is so simple and out there the writer does not have to devote page after page explaining the concept That is one thing that I have against most of the Omnibuses, they don't read well as a trade...

More Swag

Before San Diego, I won a Hamlet 2 prize pack. The last piece of the pack just arrived and it is the Rock Me Sexy Jesus Doll. I have no idea if the movie is going to be any good but they sure are putting out a lot of swag.

Instead of being productive I decided to spend the day playing games. One game in particular: Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 1... There is more to the title but I am too lazy to look it up. I enjoyed the game but I doubt I am going to get the next episode unless it is cheaper. Just not that much fun.

Watched the first episode of Primeval. Not sure I can buy a secret organization that hunts Dinosaurs... Also watched some more Dead Zone on DVD.

Felt like reading an Ominbus and the only one easily grabed was Howard the Duck so that is the current project.

Nothing to see here

Did not feel like getting up from the Plush to actually take a picture, so you will have to deal with words only.

Spent the day picking up and gaming. Played some PuzzleQuest Geometry Wars 2 and the Braid demo.

Jim Beau Mary Anne and George came over and watched the Olympics. I could hardly be less excited. I am anoyed with the fact that NBC keeps showing stuff with a Live indicator when it is NOT live.

Started watching Season 2 of the Dead Zone.

Like there is no tommorow

Spent more money today. This time on new speakers. I had had the same speakers for nearly 20 years and found what appears to be a screaming deal on some Monitor Audios...

Watch Burn Notice Psych and Last Comic Standing all recorded in HD on the newly cable carded Tivo HD.

Spent a lot of time poorly hiding cables. I will need to get a better long term solution...

One of my favorites

Image recently released the complete Scud The Disposable Assassin Trade. I have been a fan of Scud since I first discovered the series on my first trip to San Diego back in 95. The creator recently finished the story so that the complete trade would be complete and I am surprised at how well the overall story holds up.

I watched Starship Troopers 3 Maurauder today. I loved it! Just the right combination of action, camp, violence, irony, sataire, and gratutitous nudity.

Played some PuzzleQuest to keep the 360 off my back.

Going to finish Who Can Save Us Now? Before lights out.

What I was saw last night

I left work early because I was falling asleep at my desk. Ended up taking two separate naps and still getting over 9 hours sleep, which is why there was no daily post.

Felt tired and run down all day.

Watched Eureka and I survived A Japanees Gameshow.

Read comic Wedneday comics.

Played a little FFTA2 and Puzzle Quest.

After

Jim and I were trying to stay ahead of the carpet layers so I did not get a picture with the empty room so you will have to live with one with some of the stuff back.

I am very very tired. Moving heavy stuff when medicated for a cold leads to very tired Paul. Did manage to get TV hung, XBox 360 hooked back up, bed refilled (so comfy), and BBQ on deck. It is beginning to fill like home again.

Watched The Queen on my Touch while waiting on the carpet dudes. Interesting movie about a fairly recent event that I did not know much about.

Watched The Middleman and Wipeout.

Played some FFTA2 and PuzzleQuest Expansion. Also tried the Geometry Wars 2 Demo. I will probably buy the full game but I will never be any good at that game I am just too old!!

Still reading Who Can Save Us Now? Only one story to go so I will probably finish up tomorrow.

Before...

Tomorrow begins the last and most expensive stage of the remodel. This should be my last night with the crappy carpet that came with this place. I hope I like the new carpet on the floor as much as I did at the store.

Left work early to prep for the carpet install. Jim D came over and help with the heavy stuff which was good because my ass is being kick by this crud again. It is like every other day I feel like crap.

Watch last nights Venture Bros and Mad Men. This weeks Mad Men was entertaining unlike last weeks.

Still reading Who Can Save Us Now? I have been not reading much so it has been a slow go but I would recommend this book to any one that likes independent super hero stories. They are just off kilter enough that they would not work in a mainstream universe.

No Photo Today

To busy getting shit done...

Or maybe I forgot and I am too lazy to get out of bed...

Finished getting the upstairs/downstairs ethernet connection pulled. Touch up painted the trim. Moved some stuff for Carpet Day. Hung the TV support for mounting of TV after carpet install.

Watched some more Dinosaurs on DVD and the last part of the 1st season of Nip/Tuck on DVD. Watched The Mist. Great Movie!! Watched all of the current episode of BloodCopy and the first episode of 30 Days on Night: Dust to Dust onDemand. onDemand occasionally has things that make me think twice about giving up the piece of shit cable box...

Going to read some Who Can Save Us Now? And get some sleep.

Go Go Godzilla

Picture of the one of the few things I bought for my self in San Diego.

Desided that I need to take a no medicine sick day and just let the cold kick my ass for the day. I have had good success with this statagy in the past.

Cleaned out both DVRs. Finished up American Dad and watched Heatstroke and watched the latest Psych and Weeds. Then I watched WarGames and Triping the Rift The Movie. WarGames really holds up well while TtRTM was crap I liked the TV show much beter.

Ow!

Was feeling tons better today but at about 8 pm got a stuffed ear. I took some decongestant which usually helps but no long this time. No plugged nose but ear still plugged. I tried gum and yawning with no luck as well. I tried a hot shower (as scene on the internet) and that help a bit. It is really nice to have radient floor heat with water. I don't think I have ever been anywhere that I could take 30 minute showers without any temp decrease. Kick ass my ear just popped!!!

Was taunted by the empty JLU pegs again. They did have some more of the Crisis figures though.

Picked up the trim paint today. Baring lazyness sickness or better plans should have that done tommorow.

Watched Last Comic Standing, Burn Notice, Doctor Who and Stargate Atlantis.

Got the con swag from Jim and spent the evening sorting. A lots of stuff but not as much as I remembered.