January 2010 Archives

I seem to be almost human again after accidentally poisoning myself with household bleach.

At first I thought it was the horrendous food from the Irish Pub that I ate Sunday night at a wedding.

But I soon realized that it wasn't food poisoning but bleach poisoning.

Last Monday I traded my services for a used Sunbeam stainless steel water cooler that dispenses hot water unlike the cold only one that we already owned.

The cooler was in perefct shape but very dirty so I had poured some bleach in it to clean it out and it seems that I didn't get all the bleach out of it before using it to make a couple of cups of tea.

Fuck did I get sick!

After I recovered enough to be able to do something besides lay in bed or sit on the toilet I put the water cooler in our shower with hot water running through it for a couple of hours with both valves held open and the maintenance valve on the bottom of the water chamber open to be sure that there was no more bleach in it.

The water out of it taste fine now but I'm still a bit apprehensive every time I drink water from it.

Now that I've recovered I'm taking advantage of our beautiful winter weather by getting caught up in yard work by doing some tree trimming with the new electric pole saw that I bought last weekend.

There is an overgrown ficus tree in our backyard that I'm trimming down to a much smaller size so that it can be easily kept trimmed.

Actually I loved our backyard when it had huge overgrown ficus trees but I discovered that ficus trees have a nasty habit of falling over in hurricanes so I'm trimming this one down to the size of a very large bush. After I trim all the smaller branches off with a pole saw I'm going to cut the trunk down to a height of around six feet (oh joy I get to spend more money on a 18" electric chain saw) and keep it trimmed into a big round bush.

Today's Free Smut,
Swingers Take Over Nightclub

Our rat problem is back. Last night our house gusts from DC arrived and Christy took her out back to show her our kayaks only to find hundreds of rats in our backyard. I guess I need to go to Home Depot to try to find a way to kill the rats without killing our cats. Even though I really hate rats I do feel good about killing them but I'm they are terrorizing our macaws and I'm concerned about diseases.

After chasing off the rats it was shower time. So our house guest tries to take a shower in the guest room's bathroom only to find the valve stuck in cold water only mode. An hour later after shutting the water off to our house and taking the valve apart it was finally unstuck from lack of use and working again.

Also last night the new BSQ series Caprica started. They played the pilot which I already saw and wasn't that crazy about but I am looking forward to seeing what the next episode is like in a week.

We had planned on going kayaking with our house guest today but it has been kind of a crappy day with light rain and really bad humidity so instead we are doing a movie day. Another couple is coming over to join us and then we are watching Julie & Julia which has been sitting on the AppleTV for over a week. Actually we have a ton of unwatched movies and TV shows due to us watching nothing but Farscape for the past few weeks.

Today's Free Smut,
Three Different Alt Girls

I don't remember it ever being this cold this long in south Florida so I'm really happy that temps are back into the seventies.

I celebrated the warmth by running a bunch of errands on my bicycle this afternoon. It was nice being able to enjoy the outdoors again.

Now that temps are back to what is normal for winter in south Florida we are going kayaking this Sunday. We have gotten really bored with eating power bars when kayaking and are going to start packing some real food. Trouble is real food needs utensils to eat it with. So today I tried buying some camping utensils to eat with at Sports Athority but naturally they didn't have anything decent in stock so I ordered two of the KA-BAR Hobo 3-in-1 Utensils from Amazon. They won't be here in time for this weekend but at least we will have them for next time.

Finally made it to see Avatar at the IMAX Tuesday. Wow, much better than I had expected. I loved the 3D but Christy said she had trouble with getting things in focus. After the crowds have died down we are planing on seeing it again at the IMAX. Christy is hoping that by switching from wearing contacts to glasses and adjusting the 3D glasses over them she won't have an issue with getting stuff in focus.

Still dealing with home insurance blues. Now they are saying our perfectly good working A/C is too old and want me to replace it however I find myself totally unmotivated to spend $4000+ to replace something that works just fine. Anyway even if I did replace it I'm guessing that next they would say my grass isn't green enough or something.

Today's Free Smut,
Asian Goes Lesbo On Magazine Shoot

Woke up to 32 degree temps and a light rain. It's just way too nasty out to leave the house today. I so miss our normal lovely winter weather.

It's so cold out and iguanas are tumbling from trees. It seems that our cute cold blooded pests can't move when it gets this cold out so are falling out of the trees that they live in. Some people are catching and eating them. I hear they taste like chicken.

I ended up at a wedding the other night. It wasn't something that I had expected to do that day. Christy's boss got married and at the last minute we both got invited. Had a great time though. Everyone was very nice and I got to meet lots of interesting people.

Probably going to spend part of today doing some house cleaning instead of going to the gym since I have zero desire to go out in this weather. A few friends asked if they could stop by later this afternoon to help us enjoy our warm fireplace. Besides cleaning house we will probably watch more episodes of Farscape. Last night we made it into season 2.

Today's Free Smut,
A Real Hottie Tgirl

Way too fucking cold for my south Florida ass.

Way too cold for our macaws as well. I have their aviary wrapped in two drop clothes, two layers of Visqueen plus a blanket and put a no light heat lamp plus a 1500 watt hair drying in the cage. I was going to buy a space heater but no one has any in stock. This morning it was nice and toasty warm in the cage and all the macaws seemed happy.

Last night for a change of latitude I inflated the air mattress I bought a few days ago and made a bed in front of the fireplace. It was kind of like camping out indoors in our living room. Around 3 am we woke up when the fire had burned out due to it getting really chilly and we headed off to the bedroom to climb under a few blankets. Even with the central heat on it still feels chilly for some odd reason.

Today I'm heading over to Evenings Delight to pickup some hardwood firewood at $12 for 25 pounds or something like that. I have no idea if that is a good price or not but it's not like a lot of places sell firewood in the tropics. Not really sure how much firewood a Corvette can haul but I'll be finding out today.

Today's Free Smut,
Stroking Her Pretty Shecock

Good riddance to the worst year financially that I've had in over a decade and here's looking forward to a year filled with joy and $$$.

We booked a room New Year's eve at a cheap motel so that we didn't have to drive home after going to a Bonfire Drum Circle / Party / Dance / Potluck New Year's eve party. It was an interesting evening of partying with an odd collection of New Age folks. It was told to me at the party that my energy is in sync or some other hippy shit after having smoke blown my way, being chased with tuning folks and crystals and repeatedly chanted at. It was fun and amusing but being a non believer in all of it I was there just there to to socialize and eat the food under a beautiful full moon and even more beautiful weather.

Today is a chilly start of the day here with temps down in the forties. Way too cold out to do anything so planning on a relaxing day of continuing to watch episodes of Farscape off of Netflix streaming now that we have decent internet and a way to watch it on our big TV.

In addition to getting Netflix streaming playing in our theater room using a Mac mini we are now also using it to enjoy Sirius Radio throughout the house.

Part of DirecTV's programing is Sirius Radio so this week I hooked up the DirecTV DVR to the Mac Mini in our den and then installed AirFoil on it so that we can stream Sirius Radio throughout the house using Airtunes. The Sirius Radio station BPM seems to be our favorite.

Today's Free Smut,
Snow Skiing Plus Sex