I'm A Pepper

LOS ANGELES—Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is a reality.

The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to
everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.

"We never thought this day would come," Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing, said in a statement. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's on us."

Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb. 28.

Dr Pepper is owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.

Why I Get So Much Done At Work & Home

Relaxation

Tonight while my wife takes the kiddos out looking for little treats, I'm going to turn the porch light off, grab a cold beer and a bag of Corn Nuts, and watch the World Series. Can it get any better?

Come Get Some!

I received an email yesterday inviting me to be part of the public beta testing for 8-player online co-op and up-to-60-player competitive multiplayer for Resistance 2 on the PS3. Awesome! It was a little over 2GB to download so no playing last night. Hopefully time will allow this weekend for me to give some thirteen year old the pleasure of using me for target practice. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in DOOM or Duke anymore. So when are you joining me??

Damn That Hurts!

I'm sitting at my desk opening some junk mail from yesterday and not really paying much attention to what I'm doing. As I pull the medium stock paper out of the envelope...slice! Paper cut in the webbing between my thumb and index finger. After applying some Kleenex to stop the bleeding the pain sets in. And the cut is in a location that I know from past experience will continue to bother me the rest of the day because every time I use my hand the cut will reopen. I shrug it off and start to open the next envelope and...slice! Paper cut within a paper cut. I think I will call it a day. I wonder if I could get workman's comp?

Surrender Michigan?!?

Artwork by Zina Saunders

Death Magnetic

Metallica rocks!

Or is it just because I wanted something better than St. Anger? Seriously, I think it's on par with ReLoad but not the Black Album.

What The Hell Is That?

Last night we watched an episode of Destination Truth the DVR recorded on Wednesday night. After the debate of course. I've never watched the show before but this episode had a piece about Aokigahara, the haunted forest in Japan, which tweaked my interest.

So these "researchers" go to the forest and at nightfall take off in different directions to look for ghosts. Of course they all get lost but after the commercial break all is fine. One of them did find what appeared to be an abandoned camp site so the group returns there under the premise that whoever was there must have died or killed them self there. The scientific method is hard at work here, friends.

Strange things occur and their instruments detect anomalies. That's when one of them calls out for the ghost to appear before them...in English. Granted, a lot of Japanese speak a little English but I thought the chances were pretty slim that the ghost was fluent in English. Unless all things including language become known once you pass into the next world. Chuckle.

The group did record some video of something that looked like a ghost and they did think they encountered ghosts on the trail but the jury is still out. They then went to the Philippines in search of some shape-shifting, hairy, ghoul.

A Tangled Mess

It took me over an hour to untangle The Little One's Slinky® yesterday. I was almost tempted to take a pair of wire cutters to it. I can still hear the sound in my head.

Steven Curtis Chapman On CBS The Early Show

My DVR is on the blink so I'm embedding the video here for easy access for my family. I read that CBS didn't edit anything out like ABC and CNN did.


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It's The End Of The World As We Know It

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Here come the black holes to swallow us up.

Where Am I?

Since I was early for a doctors appointment I experimented with my location services on my phone yesterday. I had tried it at home before but since my subdivision is new and not on any of the internet maps yet, I really couldn't say if it was accurate. It looked pretty darned close but hard to tell when the dot on the map is in terrain. Anyway, it took about six seconds to zero in on my location and it was accurate. Very accurate. I was surprised to see that it was accurate up to which parking space I was in.

Donkey Kong 2

The Hateful Thing

I was flipping channels the other night and came across an episode of Night Gallery that included a short at the end titled "The Doll." This one has frightened me since I originally saw it in the 70s. I do not like dolls in real life and have had a couple of recurring nightmares involving dolls throughtout my life. I recorded the short on the DVR so my wife could enjoy the episode the next day. She didn't enjoy it all.

Talking On The Typewriter

My Oldest One started school back on July 18 and is attending a new middle school. Obviously she's made some new friends by the amount of time she spends texting on her cell phone. Last night after dinner, she kept receiving messages and in turn sent replies back. I asked if the messages were coming from multiple persons and she said no, just one person. Since they had already sent about twenty messages in a span of fifteen minutes I asked wouldn't it be easier to just call them and talk on the phone? Her reply was no, they don't like talking. I don't get it.

Asylums

Creepy but beautiful facades here.

N.

New episodes daily every weekday thru August 29th.

Breakout

Miley Cyrus is rocking on this one. Um, so says my daughter. Yeah, that's it.

OMG, check this out while it's still going on.

The Visitor

I was putting the Little One in her car seat this morning when the Oldest One opened the door and said "Mom needs you right away! Hurry!" So I take the Little One out of the seat and we both go into the house while I'm wondering what is going on. Maybe there's a water leak? Or maybe a window was broken? I get to the entry way and my wife is standing by the front door which is in large part glass and pointing outside. She says "look." I don't see anything. She repeats her command. I still don't see anything. She remains pointing and I follow the direction of her index finger and I see it. A tarantula is crawling up the wall of our porch.

It was actually a juvenile...about the size of a saucer. My wife says "kill it." I immediately said "no way." Besides, it's outside and can't get in unless we let it in. I told her some stuff I think I saw on the Discovery Channel about how roaches and rodents can flatten their bodies to get into small crevices and that tarantulas can't do that. I don't know if that's correct but it sounded good at the time. I also said that tarantulas eat pests and are normally docile towards people and that it would go away on its own. She insisted that I go out and kill it and I told her that it would make a really big mess if I stepped on it and that it would probably only get mad if I sprayed it with bug spray or water. The Little One, who usually wants to keep every wild thing she sees (like roadrunners and toads) didn't want anything to do with the tarantula.

So after a few more minutes of discussion we left the tarantula to do its own thing outside and hopefully go away before we get home. And I just hope that it doesn't get into the house, because if it does and my wife finds it, I'm in big trouble. Now that the excitement is over I wish I had thought to at least take a picture or grab the video camera. Oh well, maybe next time.

Your Sister Did What?!

It's been a while since I've posted and I'm taking the easy way out today by just embedding a video. I wish this video had sound.



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