Meet the Lamper

Today was Operation Paint Day 2. Got the lower stairwell and the accent wall in the living room done and the first coat on the non-accent walls in the office. Operation Paint is now on hold until next weekend since 3 will be going to back to Spokane tomorrow.

I took a break from painting after my parents headed south to pick up some items that I needed for my trip. Although it was not needed I have been facinated be the Lamper since I saw it with Duece on Friday. It is the bastard love child of a laundry basket and a hamper. I love useful bastard love children. Where would fast food be without the spork? I am pretty sure that a corelation can be observed between the obesity problems in america and the introduction of the spork.

Watched the weeks Best Week Ever and a Reaper from May.

I also watched Sidekick on DVD. It was probably the best indy superhero flick I have ever sceen. The basic premise is that a nerd discovers that a coworker has super powers and takes on the role of the mentor of the super hero, but this being the "real" world things don't go as planned for our young nerd. Plus it has Danial Baldwin as the comic store owner.

Read some more of the Incredible Hulk. I think this is based on the Ed Norton because there is a lot of Jiber Jaber. So far not as good as the Iron Man novelitation.

Operation Paint Day 1

In typing up the title for this post, I acidently typed Operation Pain instead of Paint. That typo pretty much sums up the day. Started at 5:30 when my Mom, Steve and I went to the Home Despot to buy a bunch of supplies for the operation. At about 10 the awesome-ness that is Quiana and cousin Sean showed up to get paint in their hair. Q worked her tail off and painted over half of the ceilings and trimmed a third of the kitchen. Sean spilled paint on the soon to be replaced carpet and ate pizza.

The numbers:
Trips to Home Despot: 4
Trips to paint store: 1
Ceilings painted: All (white)
Walls painted: 5
Walls inprocess of being trimmed: 6
Walls untouched: 9
Chances of competing this weekend: 0

No TV. Read a little Incredible Hulk before lights out.

Found In The Home Despot's Parking Lot

Mood: Passive Agresive.

Bought the paint for the big weekend paintathon.

Went and saw Hancock with Duece, Jim and Quiana. I really had a fun time. I was glad it was not the Demon in the Bottle story so Iron Man 2 can still use that as its source of inspiration.

Enjoyed a long lunch with my conversation and mocking of me. Did not go to a second movie so that I could wait for someone how did not show.

Went to George's for some awesome BBQ with the gang. Left early to meet up with the 'rents.

Did some drywall sanding to prepare for tomorrow. More of that damn dust everywhere... I don't know why I keep cleaning.

Finished The Ashes of Worlds. I liked how Anderson tied it all up together, but was a little disapointed that everything was wrapped up so neatly. It is kind of like the world started out like Babylon 5, transitioned into Battlestar Galactica, but ended up like Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Started reading the Incredible Hulk novelitation. This one is also be Peter David.

It is going to be an early rise so that I can paint like the wind but the fireworks are going to make it a late night.

If only we had some fried chicken we could go faster

- Beau

Bonus point to anyone that gets the referance.

Went in to the office to answer some emails and get the packages that have come in while I was away. My 360 was scheduled to arrive on Monday but as you can see was delayed by weather untill later today.

I did get my order of DVD Disksocks Pros that I ordered. I have for some time wanted some sort of storage system that kept the disks and the cover together while removing the bulk of the box. In my internet searching I found disksocks. They seam to fit the bill and after I find some free time I will see if they will meet my needs in the long term.

Spent the day with Beau and Sean doing pre work for this weekends big painting project. This mostly consisted of the orderly decreasing of the potential energy of large quantities of stuff. I also made the call to disasemble many of the Lego sets that I have had on display for some time.

Finished listening to Dexter Dreaming Darkly. The TV show is still better.

Watched the third Middleman. Still on the fence but I think I am going to fall on the positive side.

Reread the first 3 issues of Batman RIP. This is a very trippy story and Tony Danial's art kind of blows. I have a difficult time telling one character from anouther through out the issues.

Read the 1st Incredible Hecules trade. I liked it but it did not live up to the hype that has been dropped on this book the last few months.

Read some more of The Ashes of Worlds but not as much as I would like since I need to get up early to buy the weekends paint.

Why would anyone order this

Returned from Spokane today. Even made back in time to enjoy comic wedneday.

The condo was and still is sweltering... I really hope it cools off over night. There is also so funkey smell that I hope is the deck stain and that it goes away quickly.

I am very tired tonight hopefully that will translate into a good nights sleep.

Read some more The Ashes of Worlds plus all of this weeks comics.

Watched the rest of the season of the spectacular spider-man. I am a big fan.

Forgot to mention that on Sunday I started listening to Dexter Dreaming Darkly. If you have seen the series don't bother with this book. It is basically the same story as the first season but the tv show actually expands on the story much to its benefit.

Anti-Graffiti Art

I have been facinated by what I like to refer to as anti-graffiti art. The act of covering up graffiti has created art in its own right. I could see some enterprising young tagger creating specially designed graffiti then when it is covered up creates a new picture. I think I may be in need of some sleep...

Anouther long day not hot thankfully. I got frustrated at the local project manager. Which in turn made me flustered. I really really hate being flustered.

No tv today thanks to The Ashes of Worlds. 206 of 478 pages read. Not bad considering back to back 12 hour days... I would talk about the book but I really can't talk about what is going on without spoiling important plot twists from the first six books. Let me just say if you lake SciFi series with lots interesting characters you could do worse then "The Saga of the Seven Suns"

I must slow down with the elipses...

It has been thundering for the last couple hours. At first I was quite pleased with the sound of the rain on the windows. Now I wish it would stop so I could get some sleep...

Take That Street Date

Long,hot day at the plant. Did not make near the progress that I wanted, but we did chase down some newly found bugs. We were able to get off the floor and into the control room but the ac in there was having issues so overall it was an uncofortable day from start to finish.

Only tv I watched today was CNN Headline news this morning. Unfortunatly "Robot" Meade has the week off so I did not get to enjoy the queezy fealing her face provokes in me.

Finished the Iron Man novelitation. Ending still anti-climatic.

Picked up and started The Ashes of Worlds. The author has put his character in such a deep hole that I can't wait to see how he manages to tie it all together.

Early bed since it will be anouther early day.