Now where can I find New York Ave?

Taken on I-45 going North.




I feel like playing Monopoly now. :P

This weekend is BK's BOGO free Whopper weekend. Good until tomorrow.

Last week, Thanksgiving, and Black Friday

Dear Internet Diary, it's time for some whine; prepare the cheese. Speaking of which, blog is kinda like that I guess; a diary that's open to public viewing on the internet. Anyways, moving on...

I had taken some pics of Eukrante but then I got tired of it and didn't take any more nor any of Fort Bragg. I got lazy and discouraged. Especially after looking through other people's reviews; they take so much better pictures. I'm so weaksauce... orz I do need to take more pictures though regardless so I'll try to take some more this week. But I probably won't be taking them lightbox style like I did with Eukrante.

On a different topic, had Thanksgiving at my bro's and also bought a ton of stuff again during Black Friday weekend (I should stop doing that). I was tempted to buy a new camera but I feel my current camera isn't old enough and I bought too much toys for myself among other reasons. Anyways, hopefully I'll get around to taking some pics of the new toys as well as toys that's been sitting in their boxes for a while. Happy Holidays. :P

Thanksgiving Night!

First off, I've changed the name of the blog. Kinda reflects the new direction I'm taking it. And the first thing I'm going to rant about is Black Friday sales! Almost every year, the b&m stores have been pushing the Black Friday sales earlier and earlier. It's come to the point that we now have some stores opening at midnight! And Walmart, even earlier at 10pm! I drove by there, took a look at the parking lot, and said "Hell, no!", and drove back home. The 2 Walmarts I drove by had their parking lots FULL. In fact, it was overflowing to the point where people were parking in the parking space of nearby establishments! Not a big deal for those stores since they were closed but it means a lot of people inside the Walmart stores as well as trying to find a place to park. Definitely not worth my time. :P

Brain Fart

Sorry for lack of updates on the main blog. Just haven't really been up to it even though I do have photos that should be posted. Also haven't done my strip for a while. :/
One thing I've realized is that doing a hobby blog does take a good chunk of your free time. If I had been working during the last 6 months, I don't think I would have had time to do as much entry as I did especially since I started doing the photocomics thing.

Another curious thing I've noticed is that I hardly read other people's blog unless they have an entry about a toy/figure that I'm Googling about which leads me to that site in the first place. But with all the stuff I do like watching anime, reading manga, playing my iPod, playing my toys, I hardly have the time and interest to visit their site regularly or even occasionally. I wonder if other bloggers actually take the time to visit each other's sites especially those with almost a hundred of sites on their blogroll list.

Freebirds

Had a Freedirds burrito today. Like Chipotle, it's not as good as they claim and overpriced. So here's my laydown on those upscale fast food joints.

1) Lower your expectations. In general, they don't taste as good as their cheaper fast food brethren.
2) Do bring an appetite. The entree is usually much bigger hence the higher price.
3) Don't bother with chips unless you like to overstuff yourself.
4) The staff are generally from the wannabe 'chic' crowd. Pompous with attitude. Expect flak if you give them any trouble such as slowing down the line, etc.
5) Research and decide what you want BEFORE entering the store. See above. :p

Seems these upscale fast food is more of a fad than anything serious. They don't have any food really worth the higher price. Only exception I found of the ones I've tried so far is Wingstop which actually has pretty good food. Not very healthy though so you shouldn't eat there often.

Back & Forth

For a while I quit AT&T as my internet provider and went with Clear to try them out. But Clear had numerous problems that were pretty serious. The phone connection was occasionally bad in the morning. The internet speed was spotty at times. The weirdest one has to do with Photobucket; for some reason, it was difficult to view pictures on Photobucket even though I can connect to the website itself easily enough. To be frank, I was disappointed with the reliability of their service. So when AT&T called giving me an offer to go back, I pretty much jumped on it. I don't regret trying out Clear since that's what prompted AT&T to give me a better offer than what I had before however I am still disappointed that Clear's service was as bad as it was.

work worries and baby-sitting

It always scares me that people have dark malice in their hearts, self included. However what scares me even more is that people seem to be more than willing to give into that malice than reel it in for the better good of self and others. It's one of the reasons I don't like working with other people as it's hard to judge how good people are in today's corrupt society. There was a former coworker who would find a way to bring down other people if they find some fault in his workmanship, even legitimate ones that he should pay more attention to. While he's okay to get along with, I would not want to ever work on the same team with him as there is no doubt he would bring down the quality and integrity of our work.

I'm currently help taking care of someone who had foot surgery, a bunionectomy. For various reasons, she went through several doctors but she finally settled on one and had her surgery so now she's going through the several months it's going for her foot to heal up. So far, it seems fine and haven't given her any problems but you never know what might happen with these things.