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First of all, a BIG Happy Birthday to Monty over at The Daily Bitch. She hits a milestone today…the big 4-0. Still hot as ever, though. Go to her blog right now and wish her a happy birthday. I’ll wait.
I’m hoping that next month I’ll get to visit with her when I make my way to Dallas.
That’s right, I’m hitting Dallas for a week just a few days after I get back from TequilaCon. Going to stay with Absurdist, thanks to her generosity. I’ll be visiting lots of friends (yeah, I lived there for 10 years), both those I’ve hung out with in person and some I’ve met online. If you’re in the DFW area, let me know. We’ll have to have a get-together. And naturally, I’ll be visiting with my daughters, too, just before school lets out for the summer.
The only other for-sure trip I’m making this year will be my annual Hillython visit in California. I’m hoping to make it to BlogHer, but obviously finances are key.
CONTEST: Right, so we have two winners for the 2HT t-shirt giveaway. There were 39 entries eligible. Taking a clue from Avitable, I used Random.org to generate two random numbers between 1 and 39 (inclusive, of course).
Thanks to everyone who entered. You rock. Course, only two of you rock so hard that you won, but still.
The winners:
- Dan of All That Comes With It
- Kevin of Kev’s Useless Bollocks
Congratulations, guys. Seems like somehow this thing was rigged, since you’re both Brits, but a deal is a deal. Thankfully, I think Kevin lives here in the States, so I only have to pay for ONE overseas shipping.
Please e-mail me (karl at secondhandkarl dot com) and let me know what color shirt you’d like, and what size. I’ll get them out as soon as I can. Depends on how long it takes Zazzle to get the order.
While I recommend either the Navy (pictured) or the Brown, there are other colors available: Maroon, Dark Grey, and Deep Forest. Oh, and black. Sizes: Small, Medium, Large, XL, 2XL, 3XL.
Anyone else can order one of the shirts here.
Also, I promised you some photos of the Wii party Adam held the other night at his place. It was a blast. We had pizza and pasta for dinner, surprisingly GOOD pasta from Pizza Hut. We ooh’d and ahh’d over the tiny stack of gum that Adam got for $200. And the Strawberry Milkshake Whoppers.
We played Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Lego Star Wars, Super Smash Bros, some Golf, and Bowling. Naturally, I totally kicked ass on the bowling. Got five strikes in a row and then Carolina said, “Ooh, I want to see what it says when you make SIX in a row!” She jinxed me and I got a split in the next frame, only to be followed by another strike.
Adam was so confident that he played half the game sitting down. Finally, he announced, “That’s it, I’m playing for real now” and actually stood up. But no, I cannot be beaten in bowling. Sure, he kicked my butt all over the place in Super Smash Bros, but I don’t count that. *cough*
Here’s a picture of Jerome, Carolina, and James, deeply feeling the groove of the Wiimotes.
And here’s the gracious host. Thanks, Adam. Had fun.
Lest you think I was kidding in my 100 Things about writing for as long as I can remember, here is photographic evidence. That’s Little Karl right there, using a slide as a desk. I’m sure I was writing something brilliant, probably a thesis about the benefits of Alpha Bits cereal.
Right now, as you read this, I’m very likely either at Adam’s house playing the hell out of some Wii games, or I’m back on the road from Orlando to Sebring. Either way, you’re likely to see some photos about our fun night tomorrow.
For now, I thought you’d enjoy an old photo of your favorite C-list blogger. Oh, OK. You want another? Here I am, fresh out of my sink bath. I know, I was hot even then.
And don’t forget - you have until midnight tonight (Eastern time) to enter the 2HT t-shirt giveaway. See yesterday’s post for details. You have to comment on THAT post for your entry to count.
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No radio show today. More about next week’s show later on in the week.
Oh, how I love you, my darling.
I love the way you feel in my hands, I love that you enjoy me whipping you, and I love the way you glow, always ready to be touched.
I will miss you, sweetness.
Alas, my Wii doesn’t work with the new game Super Smash Bros. Something about a dirty lens (which I doubt, since the thing is only three months old) and Super Smash Bros being the first dual-layer disc. I think it’s really a faulty drive myself…all of my other games work just fine. But pop in Super Smash Bros and…nothing. Doesn’t recognize the disc.
Either way, it’s Nintendo’s dime so tomorrow I must put my Wii in a box and FedEx her to Nintendo. Seven business days, they say, but I’ll believe that when I see it.
Those are my Wii games, by the way. I’ll totally kick your ass in Wii Bowling, yo.
Now for some boring blog things. You can bow out now if you like.
I turned off the CommentLuv plugin because it’s throwing a ton of errors and several people have mentioned to me that every time they leave a comment, the browser throws back a bunch of codish garbledy gook. I have a feeling it might be a WP 2.5 compatibility thing, I don’t know.
Anyone know of a good stats plugin for Wordpress? I’m waiting on a Woopra approval, so hopefully that’ll come in soon. Those stats look great.
And by the way, are you seeing everything okay on 2HT in your browser? Everything looks fine in my browser (both Firefox and (ugh) IE) but I don’t know how it’s looking on a Mac.
I know there are a ton of missing graphics in old posts. Not much I can do there, except eventually replace all the graphics. That’ll take a while in 740+ posts. So just beware, the Archives are full of missing graphics. Some survived, some didn’t.
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