Day 227

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!! If you didn't get a valentine card from me in the mail, I probably don't like you. Or I don't have your address. Either way.

So, what is awesome today? Well, it involves Twitter, which I have written about before. On the homepage, there is a find people button. In that menu, there is a Suggested Users button. There are all kinds of people on there, including the founder of Twitter and Facebook (different people). There are also some other famous people. Including this guy:


That's right. I am now following MC Hammer. And, for the true awesomosity, MC Hammer is now following me!! You too can follow MC Hamer on Twitter, just click here.

And now, to complete the blast from the past, here is a video of Hammer performing on Arsenio Hall. Yeah.



So here I am not looking forward to working 12 hours at Llywelyns. Ooph. See ya tomorrow!!!

Day 226

Happy Friday the 13th!! I hope today is better than other days for you (not to be vague).

Today's awesomosity is the (in my opinion) long-time king of late-night talk shows, David Letterman. He is at least 43 times funnier than Jay Leno, though Conan will give him a run for his money. It's great now, since you can watch them back-to-back.

Anyway, Dave is really funny, but most of all, he is great at interviewing people. This is most recently evidenced by his interview with the seemingly very high, and definitely out there now, Joaquin Phoenix.

See the full interview here. Watch CBS' edit of it here.

So, that's my awesomosity for the day. Here is a picture of me, apparently looking at something very interesting, though I don't know what. Have a fantastic day, see you tomorrow!!

Day 225

I've been crazy busy today, hence the late post. And I have baseball practice soon, so it'll be short too.

I just went over to my brother and sister-in-laws for dinner, where my 2-year-old niece, Lydia, told me about her big girl bed. The big girl bed she has had for a few months now. Very exciting. So exciting, its today's awesomosity. Here is a picture of Lydia on her "new" big girl bed.

Isn't she just adorable?

I remember my first big boy bed. It was a waterbed. My parents waited until I went to sleep on Christmas Eve. Then they put me in their bed, took down my old bed and put up a waterbed. So, I went to bed in a little boy bed and woke up in a big boy waterbed. I was very confused. I also had an alarm clock that ticked with the seconds. I thought my new waterbed was a bomb. For real (at least as I remember it, my family disputes this, but I know it to be true). So, I got up (I'm sure way too early) and didn't even watch the parades or anything. I just sat in front of the off TV waiting for the bomb to go off.

Do you remember your first big person bed? Tell us all about it.

Here I am awaiting the first baseball practice of the year.

Day 224

Happy day faithful followers of my blog!!

I found a super awesome program today. You know those pictures that are made up of all kinds of other pictures? Well, I found several programs that will make those for you! It is quite awesome. The one I am using (because I use the far superior Macintosh computer) is called MacOSaiX. It is really easy to use and works spectacularly!

For those of you that use the inferior Windows machines, check out this page, where there are a bunch of Windows programs that do the same thing.

The most awesome part of all? All the programs are free!!

Everyone should check out this artwork on the page of the girl (Andrea) whose site I found all this stuff on. I highly recommend his 1.5 GIGApixel version of "Starry Night", which has 250,000 images! Seriously, it is very cool.

Here is my picture of the day, mosaic style.

Day 223

Great afternoon faithful bleaders (my new word for blog readers, whaddya think?)! It has been a fantastic day so far. It started a little too early, and it will probably end a little too late, but thats ok, I have a solution! Introducing the awesomosity for today:


What is that you ask? Well, that is a cheaply done picture that features a logo of the awesomosity on the back of a guys head. On the website, they are calling for (and have gotten some silly people to actually do it) you to actually shave the logo in your head and send it to them. For what? A free candy bar. Now, this is coming from a guy that changes his hair (mostly facial, but I've been know to do some different things with the do) on a almost weekly basis.

Enough about that silliness, on to the awesomeness! The Butterfinger Buzz bar is a new limited time (read: see if it sells well enough) candy bar. What is the difference in a butterfinger and a butterfinger buzz? 80 mg of caffeine, thats what. Yes, you heard me right. They have (finally) made a caffeinated candy bar! And it works! Saturday night, I was on my way to work at Llywelyns, feeling a little groggy. So what did I do? I got a Buttefinger Buzz and a large Red Bull. WOOOHOOWOOWOOHOO! That's pretty much what I felt like by the time I got to work. I was just going! For about an hour, then it started to wear off.

So, either way, next time you need a boost, give a Butterfinger Buzz a try, you won't be disappointed. Or tired (at least till you crash).

Have a wonderful day!!!

Day 222

Good morning everyone. Yes, I realize it is after Noon, but it is morning to me. You see, I don't feel all that awesome today, but I got a little extra sleep trying to just knock out my cold right quick. We'll see how that works out.

Today's awesomosity? The Bicycle that my friend and coworker Toni got recently to ride to work. Check it:

So, the deal is (I think) that she got ticked off at her car last summer and got rid of it. She lives downtown (and I mean downtown), so a car is not totally needed, but some mode of transport is helpful. So she got this awesome bike. The only problem is she will ride it to work, but then doesn't want to ride it home at 2am (I still can't figure out why on that one). She is saving up for a Vespa like scooter. I think she'll get pink on that one too. Here is Toni riding her bike in front of Llywelyn's yesterday.

Congrats Toni for having an awesome bike! Here I am trying to get better, but getting ready to go to work. Have a great day!!

Day 221

Today has been a pretty awesome day so far. Granted, it started a little too early, but things have gone to plan so far. Had a good night at Llywelyn's last night, then I got up early for another Under The Line video shoot. That went really well, mostly because it was in an absolutely gorgeous church.

Remember last week, when we were warned by an officer of the law about getting a pistol stuck in our face? Well, the church that hired us for that is where we were shooting this morning. Here are some pictures of that church (which don't do it any kind of justice, but hopefully the iPhone's camera is of better quality).

So, this church was built in 1900. All the ceilings are painted with murals of Bible stories, there is stained glass everywhere, and all the accents are marble. It is just beautiful. And it is less than 1/4 mile from where we were warned of getting pistols in the face. Something has seriously changed in that neighborhood over the past 109 years. I wonder how you revert that situation to more of what it used to be like?

Either way, its totally nap time before the madness of trivia at Llywelyn's tonight. Here I am at St. Theresa and Bridget's. Have a fantastic day!!