I NEED Anotehr Ruckus......

....So I can do this to it!

Episode 1: Minkus from FATPHOS x MINKUS on Vimeo.

SGV SUPER SUNDAY 3/8/09 93+ riders from FATPHOS x MINKUS on Vimeo.

I can't bear to take the heart out of The MeepersSo I will need to find a brother for him.

I'll be out of town for a few days. Amy and I are going to Annapolis to visit friends. Be back some time Friday night, then to Knobels Saturday for my works picnic.

Watch out for this man. He is considered loopy and has a messed up eye.
this is just to funny!



That is all, carry on.

Don't Copy that Floppy!

I feel like I missed out on such a great pun in my childhood years! I never saw this video!

I think I will get The Meepers and find that man. Then we will wait until he sings the whole 10 minutes of don't copy that floppy rap. 10 minutes! OK so there was some dialog in there with designers and programmers, but that rap was far longer than it should have been.

Well this popped up on the side of Floppy My Copy.

Don't hurt Jack Blacks feelings, douche.

How the hell did I end up here from Don't Copy that Floppy?


That is all, carry on.

I Think My Eye is Better!

But the medicine is making me sick! A side effect appears to be sore throat and congestion. Also dry eyes. Guess what I have? You guessed it. Now I am left wondering if I should ride it out for the next day and a half and be done with it. Or stop now. My eye feels better, when it is not feeling dry. The doc told me to take it for the whole 5 days. She was going to tell me to stop after three if it felt better, then recommended that I keep it up for 5 days.

Also wearing glasses is pissing me off! It is a pain in the ass to put on my helmet and ride The Meepers. My glasses bounce up and down on my face because they do not sit properly on my face with a helmet on. Arggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Now when I am doing this,I am not as happy as I could and should be. Oh well, such is life.

Moving on.

I like to eat meals of food from time to time. And staying with that Amy and I are trying to make those meals better for us. So this week my lovely Amy has cooked dinner and it was ready when I got home from work. We are a week into making better meals and I already feel big and strong like a full grown Manbearpig. I feel a few More weeks of eating better and not eating wings, I will be the biggest strongest Manbearpig ever. Al Gore will be gunning for me.

Moving on.

I need to stop by the tattoo shop this week before Amy and I embark on our mission to Maryland. I need to meet up with Elijah and talk Ruckus! As I have stated in earlier posts, he has his white Ruckus back. Good times will be had this summer with bikes and scooters!

I am getting amped up for this year in sun!

that is all, carry on.

I Drive like the Wind!

If the wind goes max speed of 42 MPH then, I drive like the wind! This picture was sent to me by a read (Tim). This is what I look like driving down the road on my Ruckus after work.
Yes you are right, I look damn good! And there is a lot of patch work going on, on my back. I like it that way. Don't you?

So I am kind of bummed tomorrow I have to drive my car to work because I need to film over the weekend. But I think I can get away with carrying every thing on my scooter. I worked it out in my head. All I really need is two bungee chords for the Tri-Pod. And even though I am typing about this right now, i feel pretty confident that there is a 90 percent chance tomorrow I will not remember I need to bring home the camera until I am almost to work. My brain does not function at full blast until about noon. This is why I took a look at The Meepers earlier. I think i can just toss the Tri-pod on my back and I will be fine. The camera i am going to attach top the frame and rest on my frame brace. sorry, The Meepers frame brace.

Also, I now know how to remove stains from furniture, and I have a kit to do so, some place. I now have a new trade! Though I don't want to be cleaning number one and two's up for a living. Unless the pay is really good.

So I have been driving The Meepers all over the place the past few days and loving it. You all should get a Ruckus and join up with The ECR. Hell, you can get any scooter and join! I am feeling sassy! Open membership month!

I think it is time to put a dead hooker over my seat. I don't want to burn this nice turd cutter I got. The hooker may cook in the sun all day long, but my seat will be nice and cool!

Speaking of the hot seat! The ground is hot today. see what I did there? I was filming outside and the damn tar in the parking lot was melting to my shoes. I hate when that happens. It makes my shoes stick to the ground.

I want a bomb shelter! and by that I mean house with a garage and a bar (bomb shelter) in the basement. Then I an brew some beer in my garage and toss a keg at my bar! It's nice to dream. Wow I am all over today. I'll let you in on a secret. I didn't know what to talk about so I am rambling. But...

That is all, carry on.

TO MUCH IS TO MUCH!

This is what happens when you are stubborn and will not stop wearing your contacts late at night.
No I do not have pink eye. I have in fact what I can only describe as bumps on my eye. There is a word for it, but I don't speak eye doctor. So I wore my contacts to much. now it cost me $90 today, an will likely cost me at least another $40 in my co-pay. But I think I have a way around that.

The eye doctor told me I need to start wearing my glasses more. Well my glasses are really old and I will need new ones. That means new frames and lenses. That means an eye exam! So I think if I go in for an eye exam and just have her check my eye I will be covered. If not, then there goes $40 I could be spending toward some spiffy new eye glasses. I was thinking something like these:
On a good note, I got medicine with a long name to put in my eye. Bad part, I hate eye drops. Oh well, I have used this stuff before when Zoey gave me an eye infection and it worked great.

Also, I got to Drive all over the place on The Meepers today.
If you have not guessed it, this blog is named after my scooter. I love my scooter. My scooter is better than your scooter. Don't fight it, you know I am right. Its OK ECR is open to you and your scooter to.

Moving on.

One thing I ran into today that peeved me off is my helmet combined with my glasses. They did not play well together. Half the time i can not get the right arm on my ear. Instead the arm just kind of pressed against the outside of my ear. It is uncomfortable. But I felt like I was going to break my glasses if I kept trying to get them on right. And well, I just can't afford to do that right now, I need to see. My job kind of depends on vision. Editing video and all.

So If you see a manly man, driving a little red scooter and a yellow helmet (the helmet is old, I bought it for my last motorcycle. It was yellow. The helmet is expensive and very comfortable), don't make fun of me. I am not in a good mood for the next week or so. Hopefully 3 or 4 days.

I also forgot to eat my breakfast this morning. And that made me sad, and hungry. But I came back to work to a yummy salad and a Real AZ Half and Half!

OK, My video finally imported.

That is all, carry on.

Monday Morning Supliment!

Southpark Vs Scientology - Click here for another funny movie.

Friday Supliment!

(216): when i woke up i was missing $380 from my bank account
(1-216): damn...impressive bar tab
(216): no i guess i bought a gasoline powered blender off ebay, i need a breathalyzer for my computer

Has this ever happened to you?

What the HELL!

Well I couldn't scale down the video to fit, so I give you the link to WNEP's short story on it. There seem so be a rash of fires breaking out in the Hill Section of Scranton. This one was last night, a block away from Amy and I's apartment. Needless to say, I freaked out. Speeding around the city. The clincher, we didn't know it was happening until seconds after Amy received a text messaged asking if the fire was by out apartment. As she read it out loud to me, we came around the bend on Harrison Ave and saw plumes of smoke. That was a punch in the man purse for me.

But this fire comes two weeks after three homes were destroyed about 5 blocks from our place. Down on Monroe Ave. something like 18 people are homeless now.

I think it is the U kids. They are in a conspiracy to take over Scranton and make it into "New New Jersey!" They have heard of my contempt for them and are trying to force me out. But I will not have it. Drunken' Attempted Home Invasions (fifth post down is me) be damned! You will not push me out and make a New New Jersey out of my city! Your trash may come here, but you the trash will leave!

OK, enough with my conspiracy theories, or are they just theories? Time will tell.

I do not like fires! I like controlled camp fires, but not house fires. There is just something about all the wordy possessions a person owns being destroyed that erks me a little. You Know? (rhetorical).

Segway....


I want to go camping! And I want to drive my scooter, The Meepers, to the camp ground. I need to get Amy a scooter. She say's she doesn't want one, but I know deep down she does. Who doesn't want to kick it on an awesome scooter! Cruising at 40 mph (no license required in the state of PA if you engine is 50cc or under. Honda Ruckus, 49cc.)

Cruising out to the State Park with a tent and some sleeping bags (and some beer, shhhhhhhhhhh). They no like the alcohol at the State Parks. I like to be alone anyway, no looky-lous camping over my shoulder. Then I have less people to worry about not controlling their fire.
If I see you smoking near my apartment I will not hesitate to douse you with a fire extinguisher. I have one of those!

That is all, carry on.

The Time to Hesitate is Through!

I think Lucas (Rory Cochrane) from Empire Records said it best. "Damn the man!"

While I don't know which man I am Damning, nor do i really know what that entails, I am struck by this fraze. It rings in my head very often. Well the rest of it is always being yelled by the voices in my head. That would be "Damn the man! Save the Empire!"

So to make this clear, I will not be Damning any Man. But I do like this movie. I can relate to the tails and woes told in this heart felt youth comedy. It kind of reads like a Docudrama to my earlier years (and I am speaking of just a few years ago. Seeing how I have not hit 30 just yet). Well all except for the part with it taking place in New Jersey.
I am sure you know how I feel about Jersey. And if you don't, to put it simply, I don't like it.

This movie also made me want to buy a scooter for the first time. When Debra

rides up on he Vespa, I was hooked. I wanted a scooter. An I wanted one bad! So I went on a search. I found the Honda Elite 80. And I started searching for them used. Now the movie came out in '95, but i probably didn't see it until 96-97, so I was 16 or 17 years old at this point. I found out I needed a MC license in the state of PA. But I was not deterred! I then saw a man driving one around my town. I was hooked.

But price was an option. At that point I was working at the Army/Navy, and in the summers at the Stadium. But I had a girlfriend who liked to spend all my money on Hanson shit and McDonald's. So I had to wait.....YEARS! but now I am in love.

Now I ride around on my beloved Honda Ruckus, Damning the man at every chance I get. Mostly I don't even know I am Damning anyone. But with my rebel yell, and mis-matched helmet, I think I damn more people than I mean to.

Just hope you are not next to be Damned! What ever that means.

That is all, carry on.

Lets Talk About the Dead Hooker in the Room.

So I have been trying to come up with something to talk about today. And well I got nothing. Hence the dead hooker in the room.
Oh wait, that hooker didn't die. And wasn't she smiling?
Yes she was. I would be smiling to if I found a way to shut him up. But why is her shirt on backwards? Is she worth a grand if she can't even dress herself? I at least want a hooker who can put her cloths on. I know the point is to take them off, but at some point she will need to leave, and I am sure she doesn't want to have all of those sores out in the open.

Moving on.

I like to think that sometimes it is OK to work at the speed of a dead man. Hell, If we all but out heads against rocks all day long, there would be no work getting done, except by us taking our cues from dead men. And not Cromagnum Man. If you don't know what I mean by that, i don't think I can help you out. It meant something to me a minute ago, but my fleeting skills of conversation and witt are just that, fleeting.

Stepping over the dead hooker.

Now look where I am, lost.
No not there, I have never seen that TV show. But thanks to Netflix, eventually I will. I feel more like this.


Awwww, the good stuff. Some times you have to love You Tube for bringing back memories. I like to think sometimes, and not to often (that would take away from the deep seated meaning), that YouTube brings families back together. It can cure a broken home with sharing memories from childhood.

Also I would like to share this here little link. So far it has led to several laughs here in our little Cave. Text From Last Night. It is worth clicking on the little blur text. Thanks to I think it was HighTechRedNeck, over at TR for sharing that link with me.

That is all, carry on.

IT'S ANOTHER REVIEW MONDAY!

Well I was putting some thought into this, and by that I mean as I was typing the URL I realized it was Review Monday. So I am going to do a review/why I think this one is better than it's close counterpart.
The good

Vs.

The Evil!
Now, if you have seen me drinking an Arizona Ice Tea, you know I hate the Arny Palm version. NutraSweet is BAD! It makes the tea taste like shit! I will not drink this abomination of a delicious drink!

OK, the good. It is super refreshing. You ever crave a nice cold glass of lemonade on a hot summer day? You get a glass and it is to tart to drink? Sad face. Inversely, did you ever crave a nice cold glass of Ice-Tea on a hot summer day? You get some and it just has no flavor! That tans my taint I'll tell you!

insert Infomercial VO here.

"Well now you can have the best of both world!" Keep VO going. "With the proper AZ Half and Half, you get a delicious taste of Lemonade and Ice-Tea in one drink!" Yup still going. "Not to tart and not to bland! The best of the Arizona Ice-Tea Flavors, Half and Half Green Tea and Lemonade!"
(Insert hand smashing through a screen).

Now to bash the Arny Palm a tad. It is still to damn tart! They use NutraSweet and on top of oh... you know.... that whole cancer thing, it taste like a dog pissed into some Ice -Tea then you put it up to your lips. Yup, I think I hot the nail on the head with that one. It taste like dog piss.

To further my anger towards this terrible alter ego of a product, IT IS AVAILABLE ALMOST EVERYWHERE! Redners stocks literally a ton of AZ flavors, but not the Delicious refreshing GOOD Half and Half. They seem to stock the Arny Palm by the pallet! But I have been hard pressed to ever find the good sibling there.

So Amy and I have set out on a journey together if you will. We hunt out and find the retailers in The Greater Scranton Area who stock the sometimes very allusive Half and Half. On this journey we have come across some very torturous hazards. I have not once, but twice gotten my shirt sleeve stuck on the same freezer door at the Valero on the corner of Wyoming and Mullberry.

When we do find an outlet of the Golden Juice, I buy in bulk. Often buying the store out. Forcing them to order even more for me! The best place so far, stock wise (the cans were very sticky. Either someone loves this tea more than me, or a can burst mid transit soaking the rest. I hope it is the later), is the Sunoco Gas Station in Wyoming Ave (down by Prep). They had dozens of this drink of the Gods!

That was a beautiful site, thinking back I wish I had taken a photo so I could look upon it in the years to come. Oh well, I know where they are for future drooling.

If you care for a complete list of Team Amy/Jeff's finding, just ask. I will be honored to document such a great chase. Also, feel free to inform me as to the whereabouts of new locations. If I do not already know about them, I would love to chart them and buy some of the Golden Juice (not pee).

moving on...

The cons:

The availability is about it. But I am ever increasing the locations to purchase. It is turning into a great hunt! It went from one location, to two, to about a dozen now! Best part, I can ride my bike to one of the two that seems to have the most stock.

Back to cons, sorry for the break from topic. Redners! That is a large con. They sell the AZ cans for $.89. Every where else sells them for $.99. I tend to buy 5-10 cans when I find them. Now that means $10 for 10 cans (OK, OK, OK, OK. $9.89). Now if Redners stocked them, it would cost me $9 for 10 cans! I could be saving $1 or purchasing one more can! This is an outrage! I beg you all to call your State Representatives and demand that Redners gets it act together and sells the drink of the Gods!

That is all, carry on.

Its FRIDAY!

That means last night was in fact Thursday! I want to start off on a serious note here. I am really proud of Amy. She is graduating from school and she had her pinning ceremony last night. She has her graduation tomorrow morning.

OK on with it!

Here I am trying to do work. And guess what!? I can't. My computer is a piece of shit. Wait, what is worse than a piece of shit? A pile of pieces of shit? Yes, t hat it. My computer is a pile of pieces of shit.

Lucky for me I have a dead line. Oh and about 8 other projects that also have dead lines. And I can not get anything done. It takes 10-15 minutes to open this project (it's kind of big, but my computer is really old). The I tried to play a time line. all I did was touch the space bar, and guess what, "Premiere has encountered a serious error and must shut down." Great!

Good thing I have a $4,000 computer sitting up in IT for about 2 months now.
BRING IT DOWN! This is no longer a case of want. This is a case of need. I need a new computer to do my job. This POS is about 7 years old. My old Power Book is about that old, I still use it.... a lot.... but I up-graded it to a Mac Book Pro a year or so ago, and I'm poor. And this million dollar company took months to approve a $4,000 purchase, and is now lacking productivity because IT is lazy.

OK, moving on.

So yes, it is Friday. And what do we do on Fridays? Well normally drink some beers.
And some times some cocktails.
Wait......
There you go. I don't want to run into Tom Cruise. You know how those crazy Scientologists get. Next thing you know they will be taking away my aspirin and jumping on my couch!


And I don't want to buy a new couch right now. What I do want to buy is one of theses.
I have been watching a lot of Fantasy Factory. And I could kill it with one of these. And I could give Amy space for an Art Gallery. That would be Livin' the Dream.

Tonight my dream is to kick back with Leggs, TomDobb, and The Lizster at The House of China. Then maybe move on to some 40 oz.'s.

We have had a sighting!
We see our man here on the right. He is spotted with copious amounts of beer and bread here, along with another unknown man. Be on the look out. They are considered drunk and loud.

That is all, carry on.

A Shitty Day at Work!

This made me laugh. Because some one hit Amy's car last week and left a note. But her note really did include information as to the person that hit her car.

more fail, owned and pwned pics and videos

REVIEW MONDAY!

Well I must say I am un-prepared for review Monday. But I will do my write up now, and then if I am not super lazy after I get home, I'll add photos! I may have a cell phone pictures on my Photo bucket.

Today we will be looking at A Little Crafty. It is a custom embroidery store. I am not sure if they have a B & M, due to I purchased through their (her) E Commerce site. I do know that the "Store" is located in Greece, New York. Right outside of Rochester.

Just so you know, this is not going to be a favorable review of the store. In fact I will most likely be bashing the whole time. Or at least very negative.

On with it!

Here is my mock-up

Here is a cell phone shot of my jacket.

Not bad. A computer did it.

The quick answer, they plug your JPG's into their software and the compute figures is out and does it. They can change things like thread color and they set the size, but it in the "hands" of the computer to do the real work.

Now I made my images. I took the picture of my actual scooter
and found rockers online and used them as a template. I found a Keystone and made the SC patch as well. For the Rockers, I am sure it is just a pre-set template. Type in the words and it embroiders them.

The Back Patch, if I had not done all the work then Sherri would have had to do some graphic design. In my case, she did none.

Moving forward....again. I get side tracked a lot.

Pricing:
A Little Crafty was by far the cheapest and most place around. It was also the only place that would make a run of ONE. Every one else was 4 minimum for Back Patches and 2 ea. for Rockers.
My total cost was $150 with shipping (it was like $153, but I don't remember exactly). Every where else was $75-$200 just for the Back Patch, and I would have had to buy 4. Sherri, at A Little Crafty, gives discounts on 5 or more, but will do runs on one.

Customer service:
I found the store through eBay. I cannot find the eBay account now. I guess I never saved it, just watched it for a while. She (Sherri) had one or two negative feedback's, so I was skeptical. But over all she had positive feedback. All of the negative was about her not communicating with people. So I emailed her, and wouldn't you know, within the hour she got back to me. so a few more pleasant emails went about that day. Very prompt responses. Now I was feeling good about moving forward.

As I moved forward I sent out some JPG for my Quote. The next day I got an email with said quote in it. I thought it was reasonable. So to move forward I gave her my credit card information and was suppose to have the "Final Renderings" in a week for approval. These being, she plugged them into her program and said white thread on black background, DONE! Well a week came and went and nothing. So I figure, maybe the shop is busy. So I let a few more days’ laps, nothing. So I email. Not so prompt with a reply, a day or two goes by, nothing. So I email some more. Nothing. I call the store, nothing. I leave messages, no returns. I try the "online chat" feature on the web site, NOTHING! Now Sherri has $150 of my money and I am getting avoided. Oh did I mention that the online chat said "available" but as soon as I sent a message with my name in it is immediately became "Unavailable." Hmmmm fishy.

I did some digging. I went to the Better Business Bureau, and I was going to see what action I could take through them as well as file a claim with my CC company. Turns out there were there other complaints filed against them. So I call again, nothing. Click here to read their BBB report.

Finally I threaten to get my CC company involved and the BBB. Wouldn’t you know! I got an email back! I’ll be damned! No phone calls though. Now I get some responses. The excuse, “I sent them (the renders) a week ago.” “Oh I have problems with Gmail. So I give her my work email, nothing, I CREATE NEW EMAIL! Now I know this is not hard and takes almost no time, but I had to do it. Another week goes by and nothing. No emails, no images, just nothing. Again I call and call.

Finally I demand a full refund by 1 p.m. that day or I am filing a complaint with the BBB and my CC company. Then again I get a response. I get accuse of threatening her. I return the email stating these are not threats but the actions I, as a consumer, can take against a business who fails to provide me with the services I have paid for. Wouldn’t you know that at 2:30 in the morning I get an email with two images.

I approve the images and two weeks later I get my patches. I give A Little Crafty an F- on Customer service.

The patches were supposed to come in a week of approval.

Time table:

It was suppose to be 2-2.5 weeks. One week from me sending my artwork in to JPG renders. One week from approval to printed and 3 days or less delivery. It took 5 weeks when all was said and done. Not timely at all. I give A Little Crafty an F – on turnaround time.

Quality:

The quality is pretty good. Just as good as all the other Back Patches and Rockers I have seen.

Final Product:

It is OK. Not worth the little over $150 I paid. Certainly not worth all the haste I had to go through to get the patch. Oh did I mention, she was going to give me a refund- $50 for labor! What labor!? She just never did the work. Plain and simple, she never “Got around” to making my patch. And she gave me the run around.

Closing:

Do not shop/buy from A Little Crafty. Sherri will rip you off and or take double the time to finish your work.

I don't know why my fonts are different. I kept getting an error when I tried to change them. Oh well.

That is all, carry on.

217,000 Text Messages!

Has anyone read about this? These two guy in Lancaster raked up a $26,000 cell phone bill in a month. They wanted to hit a new text record. Way to go, you're a winner!

So it seams T-Mobil set a cap of 100,000 text messages on their text plan. So these guys only got billed for 117,000 texts out of the 217,000 they sent. So if you have T-Mobil and you don't have an unlimited plan, you be spending about $26,000 for 117,000 texts. Now lets do some mat here.... if they were charged $26,000 on a little over half, if they were billed for the other half they would have spent $50,000 on text messaging! That's a lot of green backs!

Turns out T-Mobil said "Oh ya, you do have an unlimited plan. You don't have to pay us $26,000." But it turns out it also cost about $27 COD to get a cell phone bill that large in the mail.

In related news, I saw this when I first Googled this story. A lady named Wendy Nguyen went on vacation to come home to a $26,000 cell phone bill of her own. And it seems even if your phone is lost or stolen, you are accountable for the charges. So if you have Cingular and your phone gets stollen, call them ASAP or their advice for you if you can't pay that $26,000.... FILE BANKRUPCY! Good thing they got you by the balls. Any these crazy cell phone companies will have it no other way.

I know Verizon has me hooked. Their claws are in me deep. It's hard to move along to another carrior, when they want to whack you with this or that even if your contract is up.

Oh well, modern society and we are all attached to our little Gizmos. There is no escape from here.

I regress to a story of my past. These tales of whoa reminded me of an old story, not as funny or as significant as sending a record 217,000 text messages in a month, but equally as funny yo me. Flash back in time to 2004, Paul and myself had graduated from PSU and were moving out of our apartment. We were having the "Walk Through" with 2 guys, I should say kids, from the complex. It turns out there was a light missing from the vanity in the master bedroom. Well we never replaced a bulb in either of the vanities.

So they tell us we can run out and buy some bulbs, or we just pay them to replace it. So we are like you can just replace it. Then they say OK that will be $12 a bulb! $12 for a light bulb! That is un-acceptable! What do those things cost $.40? And this was to replace a bulb that was never there in the year we lived in that apartment.

So we went to Walmart to get some bulbs.
Then the wanted to charge us to throw away the packaging, because I forgot to grab it on my way out. Wow that walk to the dumpster was taxing.

So that is my personal story of an obsene charge. Again not as funny as two guys sending each other 217,00 notes over the course of the month. Note the sarcasim.

There has been a sighting of these two men together!
Be on the look out!

That is all, carry on.