Season 10, Episode 9.

Thanks Lindsey!

Everybody is talkin' about SOPA today.  Before you jump on the bandwagon and hate, love, protest, or promote; read the bill first.  You can download the PDF here from the House of Representatives website.  Then do your hating, loving, protesting, or promoting.

We're selling a table and four chairs.  Are you in Tucson?  Are you willing to drive to Tucson for some unremarkable chairs and a table?  Here's the craigslist post.  http://tucson.craigslist.org/fuo/2801182343.html

These are the images that are on my desktop right now.

Buckflix is a new kid on the block.  It is an intense internet startup that will surely put some of that bacon back in your wallet.  Motion pictures are distributed via a newer technology called DVD (digital versatile disc).  You will have to ask your neighbor to help you pick your lower jaw off the floor when you see the picture quality.  OH BOY!  We have finally reached the digital age.  Just make sure that you don't try to watch it with a CD player because even though they look the same, they don't work the same way.  I thought that the movie name was "Error" the first time I tried it out.  My face was really a beet red I'll bet.

Visit Buckflix.tk, tweeter with them, or check out the good old blogging.

Spoiler alert.  The review below contains spoilers about the plot and story of Chinese Hercules.  If you want to have the full viewing experience, I suggest you bookmark this page, watch the movie, form your own opinions, and come back later to read this.

Nice song.

I don't know what this is.  I apologize if it is offensive.

We had a beautiful Christmas tree this year.

Merry Christmas to anybody who still reads this!  I got quite a surprise today.  I'll share more later.

It was 70 degrees here today and mostly cloudy.  I started walking again on Thursday.  I'll be spending (a very short amount of) time with local family for Christmas.  I don't have enough time to make a trip all the way to California.  I'm looking at making big changes to my website again.  Christmas is almost over.

Some videos, old, new and dumb:

I'm not sure what is going on in front of my apartment but cars are backed up for at least a mile and there are a lot of flashing blue lights in the distance.  I'm sure I'll find out what is going on later.  I don't hear screaming or see fire so I'm not concerned for myself yet.

Currently, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  This is what I'll be doing all day.

I have been upgraded from wheelchair to crutches.  The wheelchair was a burden and I now have even more respect for those who are in them by no choice of their own.

I have a cold now.  I took Tuesday off and I came home from work early today (Thursday).  It doesn't seem to be a raging cold like I usually get but it isn't over yet.

Thanksgiving is next week.  Last Thanksgiving, Lindsey, Erin, and I plowed through Earthbound on the Super Nintendo.  Unforgettable.

The doctor says that I might be off of the crutches by January.  I told him that it would be a nice Christmas present but he said that I might be pushing it.  Doesn't he realize that I push things too far already?

My butt is hurting more because of all the sitting and shifting.  My muscles are also weaker.  This is not how I hoped my first fall in Tucson would be.

Tara sent these to me in an e mail a few months ago.  Thank you, Tara.

A conversation today between two cities.

Worth everything.

I just took an online poll.  This was one of the questions.

Watch this guy beat Super Mario World while only scoring 500 points.

The Simpsons 23rd season premiere was on this past Sunday.  The episode wasn't very good nor were the other shows surrounding it.

Lindsey found a photo from the future of me and Erin.

Some photos.

Today marks the fourth anniversary of my dumb humble website.  Much has changed in my life since September 2010.  Almost a year ago (September 17th, 2010), I was somewhere on Mt. Whitney.

I was looking forward to running tonight.  The temperature was in the 90's.  It was dark and cloudy when I locked the front door but in about five minutes, clouds turned to hail and the toughest monsoon or just plain storm that we've had since I got here.  Power has been spotty and the lightning bolts are hitting too close for comfort.  I didn't run today.  The rain is still coming down hard.

We really needed it.  I know people say that all the time.  I didn't care for the water as much as a relief from the heat.  It's actually in the seventies outside right now!  This has only happened a few times since I got here.  I'm sitting on the couch with the window open.  Erin's working a full night shift today and tomorrow so I pretty much camp out on the couch.

How Clover sees our new apartment.

At it turns out, August 2011 was the second hottest month in Tucson's recorded history.  I assume that because the hottest month in recorded history was only in 1994, prior recorded history was destroyed as the servers that hold the data melted to the ground.  I have kept myself outside but, wow, it is hot.

The article also says that we're on our way to having the second hottest summer ever.  I am told that the monsoons were "light" this year.  At least those fires were taken care of.

Lisa is 12 or 21 today.  I sent her a video that I am not allowed to share on YouTube.  This is the song that accompanied the video.

I didn't buy you a gift again this year but I found this instructional video on making your own decorative wicker basket.  Mom can probably show you where the craft store is.  I'd love to see the results!

When I got home from work today, there was a box sitting at my door.  A little heavier than the boxes that I've been getting lately.  If it's heavy, it's expensive (remember Jurassic Park?) so I handled it a bit more gently as I kicked it through the doorway.

A few more shots came rolling in from Tara, my old running and cycling buddy.  Having a chance to see her and ride with her again was great.

I spent the weekend in California.  It is a 466 mile drive from my apartment to my parents' house.  My first day of work was yesterday and I'm on my way in to my second day now.  I wanted to share a few photos from the weekend before I take off.

Not dessert chocolate.  Don't mail chocolate to the desert.  Or anything that might be heat-sensitive for that matter.  Everything that I have received in the mail here is extremely hot.  It sits in a truck or sorting facility baking in the sun.  Just yesterday I was sent a small metal tool and when I took it out of the package it was too hot to touch.  I dropped it on the floor where it sat until it cooled down.

We had about a week of relatively cooler temperatures.  Hardly any rain but still hitting triple digit during the day.  Last night was hot and was above 90 at the coolest.

About twenty minutes ago, I saw some incredible lights and now thunder is ripping it's way through northern Tucson.  The map shows that the hot spot is directly over us.  If you can catch it on the webcam, Lisa tells me that you can't see bolts but lots of flashes.

Check out the webcam if you can.  Now.  It'll be gone soon.  It's 11:50 PM right now.

The last week has been cooler than our first month in Tucson.  The threat of monsoons is still there every day but we only get one every four or five days.

Hundreds and hundreds of spam messages have made their way into my comments.  I am deleting them sometimes as quickly as they appear.  I don't know how to block an entire country from accessing my website.  Either way, it's easy enough to make it look as if you're accessing a site from any country.  Spam cannot be stopped.

So drastic measures had to be taken.  Here's how it will go down:

My site has been getting hit harder and harder with spam.  I'm not sure how to handle it.  If you are on my page and there are any unusual comments with links, don't click on them.  But you know that already.

So I've been out of work for a full month now.  It's a strange feeling.  With Erin's non-traditional schedule I can't tell what day of the week it is.  If it were cooler, I would lose track of time.  I can tell when daytime is because it is much warmer.

Speaking of heat, I've decided that I don't turn on the air conditioning until the inside temperature reaches 90 degrees.  And even then, it depends on the wetness of the couch/my clothes etc..  When I turn the air conditioning on and the sun is still up, it does not cool the apartment.  It only prevents the inside temperature from going up further until it the sun goes down or until a monsoon hits.

We had our first monsoon of the year (and my first ever) on Monday, the fourth of July.  Rain fell hard and fast and it was over as quick as it started.  It only lasted about an hour.  After the rain, Erin and I went down to the usually dry river bed and watched water pouring from the flood drains into the main river.

Happy birthday!

When you're playing Mario, you just have to make it work.

I wonder if I'll meet anybody out here in Tucson that would want to do this.  I know that Shawn and Craig would be up for it.  I'm sure that I could convince others.  Maybe I'll just have to do it alone.

Tucson is hot.  We're expecting a pretty hot week but the monsoons should be here mon-soon.  Yep, that's what I did.

I have only lived in Tucson for a week.  It feels like a month which is strange because we've been so busy that time has flown by.  I have my license plate (singular) and am fully registered as a resident to vote and pay taxes.

We made it.  It was a long trip.  2,503 miles.  We're here safely and somewhat moved in.  Thanks for keeping us in mind, everybody.  We get our own internet connection tomorrow so I'll feel back to normal.

I will be mostly away from my computer for the next few days and possibly as much as a week depending on how and when I can get things ready in the new apartment.

We're moving in four days.  The house is eerily empty except for one room which is full of boxes.  I was thinking about how many boxes we have.  It would seem that we have a ton of stuff.  People do have stuff.  We don't hoard anything at all and "collect" very little.

I had my first canned bread at work today.  I went to brown town.  I should have worn my browns.

This is our last lazy Sunday in Albany.  Next Sunday our cars will be packed and we will probably be driving around to say our last goodbyes to a few friends here.  Our apartment is strange now.  Sterile with a ton of boxes in one room.

Lots of great things have happened in the last few weeks.  The most important is the whole reason that we moved to New York in the first place; Erin is now a doctor having graduated from Albany Medical College.  Erin's family has been here this whole week.  Last weekend I hiked up to the top of Mt. Marcy; the highest point in New York state.  I have been spending a lot of time with my friends here.

Erin's a doctor now. She got to wear a fun hat.

Erin's family is in town.  I climbed to the highest point in New York State. I have a ton of links and videos to share.  Work is busy and I'm doing everything I can to spend time with my buddies before we leave Albany for good.  One of the last things on my mind is my website.  I'll have a write-up of Mt. Marcy soon enough but for now I will let you ponder this.

I don't know in which time zone this server is located.  I don't know if this is the joke.  Try yourself.  This is what I got.  It's funny enough.