More catz

I went out this morning I needed to get some groceries, return some broken junk to Future Shop and buy some sexy new pants.  When I got home Orangey aka Orange Alert was hanging around outside as it was nice and warm out.

Looks like he actually lost some weight over the summer.  He used to be fatter and so fat he couldn't properly clean himself, so his fur was a bit matted on his back.  If whoever owned him would brush him it wouldn't be a problem.  Anyway, at the start of summer instead of brushing him, his owners just gave him a hair cut.  The fur on his back was all buzzed and cut real short.  It looked pretty funny and I meant to take a picture, but I didn't see him much.  It's grown back now, so the other cats don't make fun of him anymore.

I made some bad animated gifs with good ol' GifBoom.

Got it covered

When I got my phone the guy at Best Buy threw in some freebies for it like a screen protector, HDMI connector (which didn't even work for my phone) and a protective cover for it.  It's a fairly simple case, black!  I guess the colour doesn't matter as long as it does its job.  Luckily so far I've only dropped it once when I was getting it out of my locker at work.  It didn't fall too far.

I will give props to the iPhone because they have so many different protective sleeves/cases/covers.  I was looking on eBay for a case a little more interesting that just black, but the pickings were slim.  There are two different models of my phone as one has the camera horizontal and the other has the camera vertical.  Most of the cases on eBay are for the model with the horizontal camera and of course my phone has the camera centered vertically.  I was hoping for one that looked like a NES controller, a Game Boy, ghetto blaster, cassette tape or something like that.  I couldn't find any of those to fit my phone so I had to settle for...

THE AWESOMEST PHONE CASE EVER!!!!

Check out my package

I bought a bunch of stuff off eBay and other online stores last month and at the end of August and was wondering when it was going to get here.  When I got home from work today I found 5 packages stuffed in my mailbox.  Sweet!  Three of the packages are for me and the other two are Christmas gifts.  I'm trying to get some shopping done early this year.  Wondering what's inside them?  Well, none of your business!  I will show you one, but you'll have to come back tomorrow night.  The suspense!

Radio Down

When my parents came to visit me a few weeks ago on my birthday they also brought me my present.  It's not like I need anything as I already have way too much junk filling up my place and my parent's place.  I didn't want to hurt their feelings so I took the gift and I'm using as I type this post.

They got me a Sirius set that has the car kit and the boombox dock for listening in your home.  I haven't even tried to set it up in my car as it looks like it will be a mess of wires and stuff hanging around cluttering up my car.  Instead I just listen to it in my room.  There are a lot of channels to choose from, but I managed to fill all my presets.  It was hard work and unfortunately Willie's Roadhouse and the trucker's channel, Road Dog Trucking didn't make the cut.

1. SiriusXM Hits 1

2. Top 20 on 20 (For some weird reason it's not actually on "20", it's on channel 3)

3. 80s on 8

4. 90s on 9

5. The Pulse

6. 1st Wave

7. Lithium (90's alternative grunge!)

8. Alt Nation

9. Faction (The Sirius channel guide says "Music of action sports, Tony Hawk.)

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I remember back when my dad had XM in his old truck as this was before the Sirius/XM merger and I always used to listen to Fungus, the punk channel.  It looks like they dropped that channel for Faction which is still punk but seems a little watered down.  Tony Hawk and Marky Ramone both have shows on Faction, but haven't been able to catch either one yet.  They both come on Tuesday nights, so I'll try tomorrow if I remember.

I was listening to 90s on 9 the other day and they started playing a song and I was like "Holy crap, it's Ugly Kid Joe!"  Of course the song was Everything About You which came out in 1991 which may be the last time I heard it.  Cam/Mike didn't one of you guys have their album?

I like the radio and it works fine, but the remote is too damn small.  When I'm putting in the numbers I'm always pressing the wrong one because it's all too small.  Even though I only use it inside, I might try and hook up the car kit on my next drive back to Cranbrook.  I'll need that Ugly Kid Joe pump up music for the drive.

Thanksgiving or whatever

Another Thanksgiving and another Thanksgiving I'm stuck in Calgary not having a real turkey dinner.  In past I've tried things like a turkey sub from Subway, turkey pepperoni sticks, a Swanson turkey dinner, but the worst was the canned turkey.  One year I even cooked a PC Easy Carve turkey and almost did that this year, but I didn't want to spend all that money and it would too much food for just me.  This year I went with the Butterball stuffed turkey roll/log breast.

I know Thanksgiving dinner is supposed to be on Sunday and if you aren't having it on Sunday then you are doing it wrong!  I have to work Sunday and I don't have time to "cook", so Saturday it is!  I even read the instructions and I was supposed to put it on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.  I don't have a rack or a roasting pan, so it wasn't exactly a smooth start.

After going to Safeway I bought this roasting pan, but is it shallow enough?  I was confused because they had roasting pans and baking pans.  What is the difference?  They look exactly the same and are made of the exact same thing.  I bought this one because it actually said it was a roasting pan on the label and it was the smallest they had.  They had smaller ones, but they were the "baking" pans.  I never did get a rack for it.

My turkey log in the "roasting" pan ready to go in to the oven.  The directions also say to oil the turkey to keep it moist so the netting on it doesn't dry out.  It will rip apart the meat when you remove it later.  I oiled it up (the turkey) and slapped some bacon on it (still the turkey) because the bacon grease will do the same thing as the oil right?

Four and a half hours later...

It's done!  It kind of, sort of looks edible. The light strip on the right hand side is where I ate a piece of the bacon.  The netting came off pretty easy without damaging the meat.  The bacon worked!

Thanksgiving dinner is served.  I made the gravy from a packet of Swiss Chalet gravy mix, the scalloped potatoes are Betty Crocker and the veggies I threw in the microwave.  It wasn't bad, but still too much work and too much mess for something that tasted like that.  Why can't someone make a turkey and gravy flavored cereal?  I hope I did everything right and suffer no ill consequences, but I guess only time will tell.  Cross your fingers.

The best part because I didn't have cook it!

BFFs

Heart warming isn't it?

Give me something I can use!

This was in the mailbox this morning when I went downstairs to eat my morning Oikos.  Free stuff and I didn't even have to go online and enter a PIN code to get it.  Unfortunately, we don't even have a dishwater.  Thanks a lot jerks!  I guess I'll have to flush it down the toilet to get rid of it.  I wonder what would happen if I did that?  Maybe I should take it to work and find out!

Should I or shouldn't I?

I've got some shopping to do!  It's both my mom's and Logan's birthday in October and I'm not sure what to get either of them.  My mom always says she doesn't need anything and Logan already has ton of crap.  I was going to get him the new Pokemon game, but my sister is already getting it for him so it's back to the drawing board.

Last time I was at Phoenix Comics they had a bunch of vintage Kenner Star Wars figures.  Remember the free little Boba Fett that I got with my giant expensive Boba Fett?  It was one of those.  Not all of the figures were cool ones, they didn't even have a Bike Scout.  I did buy an IG-88 with the plan to give to Logan as part of his birthday present.  But now...

I brought him home and set him on my dresser and every time I walk by him I think, "He's looks too cool.  Maybe I should keep him for myself?"  I'm so torn.  I could just get Logan a new Star Wars figure and he wouldn't even care.  Avery would probably break this one anyway!  They also had a Gamorrean Guard that was cool, I should get that for my mom.  Or maybe I'll keep it for myself?