I added the overhead console to my car... here's some pictures.

Halloween: A Look Back

I just realized one of my first posts on this blog was about my Halloween costume last year, but I never posted anything about my costume this year... oops! Well here it is, I was Captain Hook!

It may not look like much, but I pretty much made the whole thing. I had my mom teach me how to use a sewing machine so I could make the coat and the white ruffles. I bought the hat, but added the feathers to the top (didn't look right otherwise). And yes, that's a wig (I know, it looks so natural!). All I have to say is thank God for half-off coupons at Jo-Ann Fabrics, this was expensive enough as it was!

I also built the hook myself. It's completely metal, no wimpy plastic hook. I spent a Saturday afternoon drawing out designs on paper until I finally got it right. I took the left over sheet metal from my Edward Scissorhands costume and bult a cylinder and built the dome like part on top (I'm still impressed with how the dome turned out, considering it was a very basic pattern I cut out). The hook itself is an antique farm tool used for hauling hay (I got it on eBay!). I cut the handle off the tool and glued the hook into the cylinder/dome contraption I made.

Here's a close-up.


Songs of the Post:
Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
Jay-Z - Kindom Come
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Snakedriver
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby
Ryan Adams - To Be Young
Strokes - You Only Live Once

My Free Phone!

Wow!

It's been waaaay too long...

Figured I'd post this cause it's fun.

So do you know that promotion Pepsi was having where you could win a free ring tone or a free phone, just by entering a code from under the cap of your Pepsi's online? Well if not, that's what the promotion was.

Well guess what! I mother fucking won a mother fucking phone!!! I got to pick which phone I wanted, so I picked the Motorola SLVR. It's thin as hell (like my old RAZR) except no hinge, and I can plug it into my computer and put iTunes music on it.

It was awesome when I got it, opened the box, turned it on, gorgeous. Plug it into my computer, iTunes popped up and said "hey, you got a phone, wanna put some music on it?" very friggin cool.

And then... I went home.... (scary horror movie music)

And the next day I was hanging out with my family and some friends of the family.... (music builds to climax)

And I got pushed into a pool with my clothes on (and my phone in my pocket). (screams echo from the distance)

So in the blink of an eye I fling myself out of the water, throw my leg up over the side of the pool, (I didn't even bother to get all the way out of the pool) reach into my side pocket pull out my phone, rip the back off, and rip the battery out to try and stop it from shorting out.

It's honestly the fastest I've ever moved in my entire life.

I let it dry overnight and hoped for the best in the morning... not quite. The phone mostly worked, but had some problems. So I left the phone with my parents to see if Cingular could do something with it (there's no Cingular stores in Erie). Long story short, no one wanted to help (Cingular, Motorola, Best Buy).

Let's just say it was stressful waiting to see if my phone would return back to normal. Luckily it did. So here's some pictures of my phone. (sorry for the quick, unclimactic ending). Until next time... PEACE!

Songs of the post:

• Gorillaz - Hong Kong
• Muse - Knights of Cydonia

iPod meets Element...

Check out what I did to my element...
I know, I'm a geek!

Parts:

Lower bin:

Electrical switch:

Together:

iPod adapter:

Connected to stereo:

Dash mount on top left:

Hooked up and playing:

The switch lets me turn on or off charging the iPod. I know, I'm a huge geek, but I actually needed they photo's posted online for something else and figured this would work.

Is it a dog?!

You ever play pictionary with someone who absolutely sucks at pictionary.

They're like "Is it a dog!?! It's a dog! Is it a dog!?! It's a dog, isn't it?!?!"

It's as if they just don't understand the game, they just keep guessing the same thing over and over.

After about 500 times of them screaming "Is it a dog!?!" You just want to turn to them and say "You know what, yeah, it's a dog! At first I didn't realize it was a dog, but then the farther along I got drawing it, I realized you've been right this whole time and I'm actually been drawing a dog and I didn't even know it!"

So this guy walks into a grocery store...

Ok, this happened awhile ago, but I need to share...

I was at Giant Eagle one day after work, picking up a couple COMPLETELY un-related things (as is the norm with me at stores, today I bought a CD and Listerine from Target). Anyways, I'm standing in line and this woman (a little older than me, but still my age) strikes up a conversation. We talk for a min and then go back to standing in line. Now I'm standing there thinking "damn, this very attractive blonde just started talking to me for no reason... That's AWESOME!" and I kept thinking about all the articles I've read online about how people are now using the grocery store to find dates (although I didn't believe a word of it.

So I played it cool...

And she started talking to me again! So it was at this point I became suspicious, and I had to do "the check" and every single person my age knows what "the check" is. For the rest of you, I had to check and see if she was wearing a wedding ring.

Get this shit... she was! so that's when I'm officially thinking to myself "WHAT THE FUCK? Why is this person talking to me" and while all this is going on I'm trying to pay the cashier and everything (in retrospect, it was chaos). So anyways, as I finish my transaction, she drops the bomb on me and explains why she's talking to me. She asks if I keep my business options open outside of my job, I said yeah, so she pops up with "My husband works with several businessmen in the area, if you give me your name and number, I'll have him call you to talk to you about it". Fine, whatever, gave her my digits and left.

The fucker ends up calling me and tells me "What he does is rather complicated, so he'd like to meet with me somewhere to talk about it", and the whole time I'm thinking, great, this fucker is in a pyramid scheme and thinks he has a better shot of convincing me in person. But I figure "whatever, fuck it why not, it could be entertaining" we set up a time to meet at a coffee shop, I got sick and cancel, and I never called him back to set up another meeting...

In the end I think I avoided getting annoyed at some guy trying to get me into a pyramid scheme. But it's just a big fucked up story I had to share. Who sends their wife to the grocery store to look for and coerce potential "business partners"?

Eric becomes... Bananaman!!!!

Does anyone else remember Bananaman? A girl I work reminded me about this cartoon the other day. I had COMPLETELY forgotten about it. I distinctly remember watching the cartoon as a kid and so does my sister (although we grew up in the same house, so I would imagine she would). I found the entire series on DVD for $15 so I think I'm gonna order that soon. Here's a link to a website with the opening theme of the show, let me know if it jogs any memories:

http://www.80scartoons.net/toons/bananaman.html

Song of the Post: Skwatta Kamp - The Clap Song

NOT Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Turn Into (although it is a good song)