Wow. I do not like this sight.

Oh The World, I Think I Love You

So after looking at People of Walmart DOT com for a few weeks now, I have come to a realization. I once thought there was something wrong with the world, because of things like this.

But without things like this we would have nothing to laugh at. Case and point, this.
Now when ever you think there is something wrong in the world, there is something that is just right in the Universe, and you can find it at Walmart.

Speaking of things being wrong in the world, I am getting sick. Now you may or may not know, I am not a fan of being sick. Now I know lot of people love to be sick, I am not one of them. Which makes this even more disheartening, is my visitor from Korea, K, is coming to visit tonight. That means tomorrow after work I a suppose to take him around the city.


Now I have been sneezing and coughing a lot sense last night, and I have been congested for a few days. But today I can feel the pressure in my brain growing. This morning I felt like crap and the nose is still pretty stuffy. But I will solider on! I need to show K sights of this great city. sights like this.
K is suppose to be rolling into Scranton some time today. He is going to crash at Amy and I's place. He is suppose to hang out with Amy tomorrow while I am at work, then get a nice tour of places The Office references, provided by me with help from J Sly and Tim. We will be accompanied by a large box of Tissues and cold medicine.

My main hope is to run into this guy while we are out.
He is part of what makes the world right. Oh ya.... and this guy.....
Have you noticed a trend here? Again something I stole from Bike Snob NYC, post lots of pictures and your blog post seams longer than it is. So if I keep posting People of Walmart, this post will be 100 pages long. And if I keep posting pictures of K, it will be 200! Like this one...

Back on track here, although it is another picture. If you don't think K is serious about crossing the country on his Ruckus, check this out.

He Started in Vancouver and took a bus to Seattle. From Seattle he took a bus to Salt Lake City and from there to St. Louis. In St. Louis he bought this red '09 Ruckus. He has driven his Ruckus From St. Louis to Chicago, Chicago to Cleavland, Cleavland to Detroit and Detroit to Scranton. Well he is on his way to Scranton now. He stopped off in Jamestown NY for 2 days. He is chasing the rain, and it was suppose to be really really bad yesterday, so he stayed in a hotel for an extra day to wait it out. My guess is he is some place by Mansfield now.

So I sit here feeling the pressure build up in my head and wait for a phone call in broken English from K. And that broken English phone call I am anxiously awaiting. He seems like a very very nice guy, he is 25-years-old, and was very appreciative that I was letting him stay with me and showing him around.

Well, I will keep you updated on my health (dang Swine Flu) and my leg of Tae Kyeong's adventure. But for now....

That is all, carry on.

I Dance, there for I am a Hot Dog

You never know what you are going to find at the casino.

Dog Days

He fallowed us home from Jersey!

This Makes me Sad

So Morgan posted this photo last Friday:
And today I found this on Penn Furniture blog. Here is a re-post of their blog in case you don't like to click links.

"Penn Furniture will be closed Sept. 28 -30th

September 23rd, 2009

Penn Furniture will be closed on September 28th through the 30th during the demolition of the old Quint’s Army & Navy building. We are making space for a new parking lot. The parking lot will allow us to better serve our customers as well as beautify our part of the city.

Plans for the new lot include a commercial monument as well as numerous landscaping improvements.

Thank you for your patience."

This is a very sad day for me indeed. I will miss those hot as hell summer days, and the freezing cold winter nights I spent in that building. I will even miss yelling at Ricci and wishing death upon her. So this is good bye to The Arm/Navy. Thanks for the job for over 10 years, the band practice space, a place to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night while down town at the bars and most importantly the friends I made.


That is all, carry on.

Holly Crap!

What the poop is this all about. I would never put Amy behind a piece of bullet prof glass and shoot! No matter how much confidence I had in the product or my shooting.



Don't mind the top comment ( as of 2:18 p.m. today), some people are just so ignorant they don't deserve to live. That comment almost ruined this video for me. But it didn't. The shear stupidity of the video made me over look the ignorance of the person commenting.

Any way, I found out today I may have a visitor from Korea coming through. His name is Tae K. He is fallowing in the footsteps of Wan and is travailing the country on a Honda Ruckus. Currently as I type he is driving from Chicago to Detroit. And after that, he is headed to Scranton. Apparently he loves The Office.

So I am going to try and give him a nice tour. Hopefully J Sly can help out, he is after all (as far as I am concerned) the for most "The Office" Expert in the world. So along with giving him a place to crash, change some oil and give him some food, I would like to take him around so he can see the places he has heard about on TV. And the reason he is making his way to our neck of the woods, well my neck of the woods.

Here is his stickied thread over at Total Ruckus. Click the blue text if you care to read about his journey and see his pictures. Here is a picture of K a few days into his trip. Lets hope that smile stays on his face the the whole time he is travailing.
He got some help from some great TR members already, and I want to add to the help and help to keep him going strong. I only wish I could have also been part of Wans amazing journey. I hope K's will turn out just as good.
I have two fears about when K makes his way to Scranton. I will be swamped with work and not be able to take time off. And I can only take off 1 day of work for the next month or two. And fear number 2, it will be cold and rainy. I think both things we can work through, but it would be nice if he rolls into town on a Friday and the weather is pretty nice. Then The Meepers and myself can show K a really good time.

Ok I will leave you with that, and give you all any updates I get form K. He checks in ever few days on TR.

That is all, carry on.

Web Site?

So I pose this question to my faithful readers/ listeners (yes Tim I am talking about you again), should I make a web site for The Meepers? I am thinking about it. It can be a simple home page that will link you to this blog as well as the Tumblr blog, but I would like to make it something bigger. I can make a Word Press blog as well, but lets face it, that is a lot of blogs, a real lot of blogs.

So what do you think? It could be pretty fun, or no one will read it and I will get mad that I spent the money. So will you read it?

Wow I am really tired right now. And I have a pet peeve to bitch about. So I called a few stores today, and guess what, their hours suck. Now I been bitching about bank hours to Amy for months now. But recently it seems that more and more stores are having crappy hours as well.
So the bank is always open 8:30-5. Great same hours I work. Now I know what you are thinking, "Jeff just take The Meepers for a ride and go at lunch." Well I tell you this is not possible/ I have a crappy bank that is only located in Scranton and I work a half an hour away. So that is 1 hour drive time, plus the time spent in the bank. This leaves me with one option, Saturdays. If Amy an I are not setting out for an adventure this is fine, but we like our adventures, so I am force to use MAC machines, and well, I hate them. If I still worked in town, this would be a non-issue (But sadly the best place ever to work is gone).
Number 2: The post office. Amy recently ordered a package from Japan and of course is ships from China. Any way, it come Registered Mail. Who sends registered mail these days? All that shit is normally sent UPS or Fed Ex any more. Well the mail man comes at noonish every day. There is no one home to sign for it. So they leave a note. So I sign the note so it is OK for them to leave the package. What do they do, ignore the fact that I signed the paper and still not deliver my package. So now I have to go to the post office and get it.

Here is what I am talking about. Their hours are 8:30-4! How in the hell am I ever suppose to get my package. I have to take time off from work and not do my job because some over paid government employee who likes to shoot things can not do his job. Well my mom got my package, but come on! What the hell is up with those hours of operation!
Now today I am calling about store hours. This is what I get "We are open 10-5 Monday through Friday." 10-5? Who the hell can get there in those hours? House wife's and the un-employed? And the un-employed should not be shopping, they have no money! So I ask about Saturday hours. "We aren't open on Saturdays until November." Well I don't know about you but I am not waiting until November for a product, especially one that I need way sooner than that. So thanks but no thanks. You are not getting my business.

So I proceed to call another store, one closer to work. They are open until 6 today, to bad I can't make it there today. But they are least are open on Saturdays, but that goes back to Adventure Saturdays! No chance in me making it this weekend. Then I ask about Monday, freaking 5! Again, how is a real person ever suppose to get things done! I can't make it at 5 if I get out of work at 5! Jeepers Creepers!

How are normal people ever suppose to get things done? And small business wonder why people buy things at Walmart and on the Internet. Because they are not able to get to the smaller local businesses.

Now I highly support local business, and I understand that times are tough and cutbacks need to be made, but they are partially to blame for their lack of revenue. If you are not open when the average person can make it to your store, they are not going come there. Now you all, or at least some of you know I worked at Quint's (and some of you may have worked there with me), we were open until 8 Monday-Friday, 10-5 every Saturday and for the last few years open on SUNDAYS! Yup even in the summer when times were hard, we were open. We had regular customers because they could rely on us to be open after they got out of work. If we were not open late, we would never had made any money.

So moral of this confusing rant, don't have terrible hours of operation. Now Monday I am not going to be able to eat lunch because I will be running out on my lunch break. I will be getting stuck in traffic, and using my whole break to travel back and forth. So I may have to take 30 minutes of PTO time just to be able to shop. Oh well, that's life. Me bitching aint going to change it, but they are going to lose my money.

That is all, carry on.

I am So Lazy

First off I am very sorry for being lazy and not posting much this week. I have been pretty busy with work, catching up after being gone for 3 days is a lot of work. I wonder what will happen next year when I go away for a whole week? I can only imagine the chaos that will ensue.

But I saw this little gem over at People of Walmart DOT com and thought "This needs to be shared."

It did however remind me of this little scene. And personally a comic strip version of this would be much better suited for the tail-gate of a pickup.


Now wasn't that lovely? I'll answer for you, "Yes it was."

Moving right along, when I looked out the window this morning, the sky looked like this:
The last time I looked out the window (of which I have none in my office), it looked more like this with a little more sun coming through:
Needless to say, The Meepers is angry with me. He is sitting home in a dark hallway, and I am locked away at work in a dark cave. The difference being, he could be hanging out in the sun and laughing at me for being stuck in this cave. Instead, he shares my dreary surroundings. That and it would have been a great day for a ride!

But I am going to cook Amy dinner and bring it up to her after I get out of work. So The Meepers and myself may get a ride in yet. Lets check the weather.
Hmmm, I may have a shot at taking a ride.

In other news, can anyone take care of this dog for me for a year or two? He is the best pupster ever, and I want this dog so bad, but we live in an apartment. OR, you could buy Amy, The Meepers, Miles, Wiley and myself a house. That to will solve some this situation. But look at this guy, he is so cute and everyone is his friend.

OK, JT might take him. And I really hope he does. I want pitbull so bad, and I always say I want him to be just like Miles. If only I had a house, I could have the real Miles.

That is all, carry on.

Sitting up in Greentown. Drinking beers and hanging and hangin out with Paul befor he moves to Michigan.

HOW IT"S MADE!

Well looky here.



Now wasn't that informative? I think it was. I did enjoy that there video.


Well I'll be damned. Look a the red scooter to the far left. Look familiar? Well it will if you watched the video or checked out my mobile blog "Three Ruckuses" from a few weeks ago. They had/have a Vespa LX up at NA Warhorse for $3999.99 with a Fly 150 engine. And man oh man would that be a nice ride to have. I would never give up The Meepers, and I would most likely keep on Riding The Meepers as my daily driver, but I have always wanted a Vespa.

I know they have lasted through the ages, or well sense the mid 1940's, but I would keep that as my show queen scoot.

Every time I am in Philly we seem to walk past Vespa Philadelphia. And I ether gaze in the window or stair at the beauties in their parking lot. What a sight it is to see. Welcome to the wonderful word of scooter obsession, they call out to me.

But I love The Meepers, and actually want to snag one of the Ruckuses in that photo as well. Wouldn't it be nice to have money. I think The Meepers would love to have a brother or sister t hang out with.

Then Amy and I can roll up to Bike Nights and Bike Weeks in style. And not just accidentally go to the shore for the end of "Roar to the Shore 2009." We could have been riding up and down the place if we were rocking 2 nice swapped Ruckuses or if we had The Meepers and a nice Vespa for Amy.

Awww, it's nice to dream. One day Amy will be rich and I can buy all the toy we want. Because after all, that is my job.... buying all the toys that is.

That is all, carry on.

Farmers market in Reading. Yum.

Short week...

.... but full of work. Sorry I have been neglecting my blogging duties.

This is pretty much a super short blog, but I had to share this. I was ripping this video to post on YouTube for a boss at work today. And at the end of the news cast I saw something that made me laugh out loud.

So here it is for you to enjoy.




The best part is, this was a news cast about a bike race. It was for the Twilight Bike Race in Wilks-Barre PA. And of course, what do I do? Post a video of a little girl falling off her bike on TV.

That is all, carry on.

WTF?

What the fuck?

GOOD DOG! Still!

Still at Good Dog. Best grilled cheese of my life! I am going to give Amy a large manbearpig hug for taking me here. She has wanted to come here for over a year, but we can never seam to make it. Now we did and it was great. By the way that is a fine looking glass, isn't it? The beer is the Left Hand Chocolate Starfish. And that to is very good.

The next move, walk about 12 blocks back to the car then drive 2 hours back to Scranton. Why can't Scranton have food like this?

That is all, carry on.

GOOD DOG!

Yes that is an old Yuengling poster with pupsters on it. Amy and I are sitting in Good Dog in Philly. A nice fitting end to a great vacation. Waiting on some grilled cheese sandwiches and drinking the Flying Fish Oktoberfish. Good beer.

Jersey Shore

Jersey Shore.

High Rollers

So, this is where Amy and I are staying in Wildwood NJ. It is call The Starlux. We opted to stay in one of their "Deluxe Airstream Tailors." Look below. Small but pretty cool and there are 2 TV's. Ours is the on on the left. See Amy enjoying a High Life on the patio area. After these beers we are heading down to the boardwalk to win us a "fucking jellyfish."
That is all, carry on.

Kickin' Back

Made it to the shore. Checked in early and now we are stretching out after a 4 hour drive. We made really good time getting here. But one thing we did not know is....it's BIKE WEEK!

By the way, her name

By the way, her name is Katie N. and she is a cunt. Way to have a straight edge tattoo on your back you fucking drunk.

Gonna get vulgar. Fucking cunt

Gonna get vulgar. Fucking cunt that calls herself my friend want to make fun of Amy. Fuck her. Next time she can't stand, I'll let her drive home, instead of making her give me her key and Joe and I taking her home. I'll just let her crash her car and die.

So it seemes I am

So it seems I am a place holder. Oh well, I have beer and they do not. I win!

This my friends, is very good. And Morgan did not drop this one.

They are After Me!

So my new conspiracy theory is, terrorist attack. Now bear with me for a minute here.

Todays date is September 11, 9-11, "Patriot Day." And I am now back in doors, confined to "A" Bay. If you failed to read the mobil blog that was posted prior to this blog, it states this : Work may or may not be on fire. Stay tuned.

Well the fire alarm began to blaze, and lights were a-flashing. Then we all had to go outside. Lucky for us, the several hundred of us, the rain subsided to a slow drizzle. More annoying then anything, but it is chilly outside and most people are still only wearing T-shirts. And being casual friday, there are a lot of T-Shirts being sported.

So here we are, several hundred of us standing outside, waiting for some news. Then we hear "They said it was real. There were a few sparks in R & D." So ok, we stand there and wait. Several minutes went by, then we hear some sirens. There were 10 or more of these minutes that past. Now, there is a fire station less than 2 blocks away. So all the fire trucks and a cop or two show up. While we are at our "Rally Point" waiting for word. Then we get it. "You can all go back inside to get warm, but do not leave "A" Bay."

Now I am thinking, if there is possible danger in the building, why can we go back in? Now I was glad to hear this because my $330 R.E. Load bag was still in here, along with the drops I need for my eye ball bumps.

And, my office is in "A" Bay. This is why I am able to type this right now. And as I type the halls are full of people talking, because as I said, I am in "A" Bay and we are all confined to "A" Bay.

So here is my conspiracy theory. I work for a company who, if you do not know where I work I am not going to tell you but I will give you enough information to use the Google Machine to figure it out if you care enough to do so (run on on purpose), has a slogan "The World Leader in Mobility Devices." Because we are the "World Leader," one of "The Best Places to Work in PA and it is 9-11 I believe we were the victims of a terrorist attack! They are trying to get us!

But you can't keep the man down! At least not this man. After all I just cut off two years worth of hair and I now look like a full on grown up. So I am a man you can not keep down. Mostly because I need to stand up and crack/stretch my back. If I don't it hurts a lot.

So there it is. I put it out there. I am on to you terrorist! don't mess with my short hair. The hair on my head, sick-o.

Ok on to the work. Amy and I are off to vacation Sunday, so I need to get some jobs done before I go.

That is all, carry on.

Interesting.

Work may or may not be on fire. Stay tuned.

Look at this Little Gal.

Now this is one cute pupster. Watch about one minute in, she can walk.

princess the two legged dog from David Neal on Vimeo.

This makes me miss my pupster. Even though Wiley does have all 4 legs and a belly he could lie off of for a few years.

But look at that face, he is a lover. Well if you name is Jeff, Amy or Carol. If not, then I wouldn't get to close.

He also seems to rally like vintage 1976 Fender Stratocasters. Yes that is correct, that is a real 76'. I don't fuck around.

DID YOU HEAR! Scranton (area) is number 8 in the country for consuming hot dogs. Now I don't know if we should be proud or if we should hang our heads. It's not like being number 4 in the country for a St. Patty's Day Parade. And don't get me started on why we are number 4 and not 3. Flipping Georgia.

But according to Coney Island Lunch, he serves between 1000-2000 weiners a day. That seems like a gross over exaggeration, and well that amount of Texas weiners is just gross. I think he is over estimating by a 1000 or 2. I know they are small, but 2 ad I'm done. And I am a guy who likes to eat food from time to time. But they are quite filling covered in weiner sauce and onions.

But I guess now we have something else going for us. Now to have the fictional show The Office capitalize on it. Because they don't make us look like bumbling idiots. I;m mean even more so then we do for ourselves or let those Jersey D-Bags do for us.

I mean I watch the show every week, but if you watched with me, you will hear/see me yell at the TV more often then not. Much like this guy.

I want to get out of here just as much as the next guy, but come on. I was born here, and there is some love for this place in me. It is my home after all, and you can always go home again." I think.

Well my brother and when I had a sister, they came home again..... a few times. I only moved back home when I graduated school. And I technically still lived there the whole time. So this is the first time I really moved away. So only time will tell if I can "still go home again."

OK, I am going to go eat a weiner and keep us on top.

That is all, carry on.

ROBO COP!

Holy crap!

I am not really sure what we just saw. But I do know Robo Cop will protect us..... maybe.

You may know this, but I always wanted to go to Japan. The culture is amazing, their cities are amazing, the country (at large) is amazing. And! And their TV is flipping ridicules! I want to go there and just plant myself in front of a TV for a week! What makes it even better, is I will not understand a word they are saying.

After I absorb as much TV culture as I can in a week, I will next move on to walking the cities. Not only do they show crazy things on TV, but they build it all over the place.

Take the Gundam statue in Japan.

Or use your mind to imagine this crazy sight that I can not seem to find a picture of right now. A very large anime girl straddling a train bridge. Ok I did some digging and found it. You can stop using your imagination and look at the wonderful weirdness that is Japan.That is the sort of insane things you will find when traversing the great country of Japan. And one day Amy and I will get to see it.

But right now I think I have a brain aneurism from all of these forms. They are making my brain explode. I wonder why my eyes are bad. Sitting in this little dark room looking at tiny text all day long. It is amazing my eye have not exploded yet.

But the eye drops seem to be keeping my eyes in my head. And that, I think is a good thing. But what is not a good thing, is how bad I seem to be getting at typing. I seem to be getting worse by the day. Lots of typos, and lots of backspacing. I wonder if this is carpel tunnel setting in.

Hopefully a few days off will fix me right up. Two days and three hours and Amy and I are on vacation! A few days at the beach and I should be good as new. Hopefully fall will wait until Wednesday night to roll in. Then Halloween time!

Can you guess what is my second favorite holiday? What you don't know my first. I'll give you a hint, it is Saint Patrick's Day. Did you figure it out yet? St. Patty's Day, you're right! Now for the second favorite holiday. Your hint is costumes. Halloween! Right again!

As it turns out (well I already knew this) it is one of Amy's favorite holidays too!

We love the $1 store, an they are geared up for Halloween. So we have been buying a lot of decorations there. And out apartment is already being decorated for the holiday! A bit early you may be thinking, but we think not. It is never to early for some great fall fun. Unless it comes before we go to the beach. But after the beach, have at it! Come one, come all Fall will be upon us the end of next week!

These are really cool!

I really can't wait, but I can wait until after vacation.

That is all, carry on.

Three Ruckus!

Looky here. NA Warhorse has three ruckuses in stock. And they have them at the old MSRP of $2149.00. All the mat gray finish. No red brothers for The Meepers.

Do you know what it means to see three Ruckuses together in a motor sports store? It means they only come in crates of 2. So there is either one more Matte Gray Metallic hiding in the back, or some one around here is driving it around! It could be the one I saw a few months ago riding around Kingston.

Either way, keep your eyes peeled!

Yes that is a can of Miller High Life. Still going strong on the Labor Day Weekend.

Scranton, the Electric City.

And the Labor Day festivities begin. Friday evening and we are going strong. Just the way we like it here in The NEPA. Even the pupster is having a blast. As are the skeeters. They must have made off with at least a pint of of my blood already. Little basterds.

It Never Stops!

No post production at all! These were all photos. here is the description from the YouTube page.

"This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy :-)"

And of course to bring it back to the Ruckus. Here is an....ummm.... interesting video.



What do you think of that?

Holy Crap!

I found two videos I really liked today. This first one I am showing you is the second video I found. I really really like this video. So here it is.

This next one I wasn't sure if I liked it at first, but then I decided that I did. So it is worth the share.

If you haven't realized it yet, I had a blast making my last video, so I have been looking through videos online for ideas. I'd say for the most part my good ideas come from other peoples bad ideas. I see what they did, and say that sucks, if they did it this way it would have worked better. So I take that and run. I also like to see terrible videos for a good laugh.

Nothing beats watching redneck videos. They always do something funny. I don't learn anything from the to use video wise, I just learn how not to live my life. And when I feel like I was given a shit hand at something, I watch a redneck video on YouTube and see them fucking things up and say, hey that was funny shit!

So starting today is The La Festa Italiana. And that means good food close to my place (walking distance) and the streets full of D-Bags. Yes every year, the streets around Court House Square (Adams, Linden, Spruce and Washington) flood with tents full of the best Italian food around. I eat my fill of cannolis, white pizza and gnocchi. I then manage to bump/run/smash and flat out crash into 100's of people. All complete D-Bags. But in the end, it is worth it for the cannolis.

Also this weekend is The Polish Luau, JT's birthday (29 this year) and Labor Day. So here is Amy and I's plan of attach.

Today, cookout at my parents place. This will involve chicken, sweet corn, "tatters," beer and doing laundry. And at the end of it, I do not have to do any dishes. That part is always a plus. It should be pretty fun. Amy and I were over for a similar cookout last month, and I think it went really well. But this time The Meepers will be there for the fun. He and I are meeting Amy at my parents after work.

Tomorrow holds some as of yet un-told adventures. We do know tomorrow night we will be hitting up La Festa and then heading over to the Polish Luau, but the after noon is open to interpretation. My morning how ever is spoken for. The Meepers and I have to go to North American Warhorse to get a state inspection done.

It has been a year, well actually a little more than. We kind of got screwed with the inspection. I bought The Meepers the first week of August, so I thought they put the inspection sticker on when you buy a vehicle. You know, like they did with my car, my parents cars, so on and so forth. But I guess Riders World doesn't operate like a real place that sells vehicles. By this I mean they slapped the inspections sticker on The Meepers when they "assembled" him. This was the last week of July. So un-be-knownst to me, my inspection was up a month sooner than I thought. I was going to get it taken care of two weeks ago but that was an open house, then last week Amy and I went to Philly

(NA Warhorse only does inspections as first come first serve on Saturdays). So tomorrow this will be taken care of.

But our afternoon is still wide open. I suspect we will clean a bit and shoot some place for lunch and possibly a local adventure. I am thinking Seven Tubes of something like that. OH! There is always Rickets Glen.

And then for La Festa!

Food Fun and D-BAGS! That will be fallowed by The Polish Luau! The Luau is hosted by Beer League 08' They are premiering their brand new, and first ever home brew. They made rough 50 beers and it is time to drink them! And I for one am ready to taste that hector!

I'm up to Sunday already. Well JT's party is that night, but in the day..... what do I have in store? Well If Amy is working, will be filming for my next video project. The Meepers and I are going to be driving around Scranton filming. I want to try and get some of La Festa in there. But I also have a surprise, but I think that will be used for the fallowing video. The rest of the day will be filled with watching Lost and reviewing the footage I took that morning.

Then the night will be filled with beer and bad behavior. Is there really any other way to start off the last year of a friends 20's?

Then Monday, Labor day, well, lets just call this the day of rest. After all this excitement , I will need a little R & R. There is only so much one man and one Meepers can take. We are professionals, but come one now, evens the pros get a day off.

I will now leave you with some more interesting videos.



And



And

That is all, carry on.

It's Alive!

Well it is real. So the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is going to put on the play "The Night Man Cometh" Live! Yes that's right they are going to do the show live in Philly!

Don't know what I am talking about!? Well you should. It is a great show. It's on FX. It starts up again real soon. Here is a taste of what I am talking about.

And here are some clips of it already preformed. I guess they took it to the road.

Yes this is real and happening. Because, "You gotta pay the troll toll o get into the boys troll hole." Amy and I saw this even advertised in a weekly on out adventure in Philly this past Saturday. Though the 8 p.m. show is sold out, at the time there were still tickets for the 11 p.m. show. To bad it is on a Thursday night and it is the week we are going on vacation.

We will be back in town Wednesday night. But driving to Philly and back the very next day, is not something I want to do. Why not stay the night you ask? Because it is a black out month for work. I had to fight to get three days off to go away. So I am sad to say I will not be attending the live show. But you should! And sneak in a camera and record it for me! I really want to see it!

Moving on.

It seams as though my video "Life at 40 MPH" was well received, Though there is not a high hit count yet (but it has only been live for about 24 hours now). have got nothing but compliments from people who have watched and talked to me. If you have a comment about it, good or bad, feel free to let me know. You can comment on YouTube, or if you don't have an account comment here. You don't need an account.

And because this is my forum to speak and use as I see fit, I am going to do some post whoring and here you go.

And if you would like to watch the shorter Teaser version, you can do so by clicking here. <---That blue text right there will take you to YouTube and this blue text right here ----> Will take you to Vimeo, where it is hosted with the original music.

Well I guess that is about all I have to say right now. So I will leave you with one last link. This will take you to a few photos of The Meepers being used in a photo shoot. They are "working on" The Meepers. If it doesn't take you to the correct page, they are on page 75 almost at the bottom.

That is all, carry on.

Full on Fullness!

IT IS HERE! Check out the full length version of "Life at 40 MPH." Here are both the Vimeo and YouTube videos. Both are the same. YouTube allowed the use to The Postal Service for this video. Which I am really happy about, because when I thought about making this video that was the first song that I thought of. The intro is perfect for this video. But any-who, Vimeo is probably better for video quality, but YouTube will probably stream faster.

And now I present you with the full version of "Life at 40 MPH." Music by The Postal Service- Such Great Heights
Viemo:

Life at 40 MPH- FULL VIDEO from Jeffrey Grant on Vimeo.

YouTube:

Link to the YouTube Video is right here, clicky clicky.

So what do you think? That is three days worth of footage. The ride in is two days, and the ride home is another. I really like it. I dropped the frame rate down to a low 10 frames a second, and varied the speed of the video. Nothing super fancy for this project.

I am however, already working on another video. This one will take a little longer. I am thinking a few weeks. I am going to collect a lot more footage. Different angles, and more than just my daily commute to work. It will also include some final touch ups in After Effects. Make it look a little more "artsy."

Would you like to help make the next video? If you're around the Scranton area let me know. I have a guy in mind I am going to call and see if he is interested in going on a Sunday ride and get a few shots.

In other news...... Well, I don't really have any other news.

I now have "Other News."

Apparently I am a little low on oil. The Meepers was used in a photo shoot today. One of the models we use came in for a photo shoot today. He was injured in I think a car accident a few years ago. He was left as a paraplegic. He is the crew chief for his brothers racing team. They race these crazy looking high powered quads. Well the photo shoot was suppose to be him and his brother "working" on things. So I let them use The Meepers. I guess they checked the oil for the shoot, because I wasn't going to let them actually work on The Meepers. And they told me I am a "Little low."

I only mention the oil being low because I find it funny. When I last changed it, it was a little high. I had to syphon some out. And I got it pretty much where it should be. It was a tad high. Now it is low. I really hope this engine is not burning oil. I will be very sad. I will either read and read, then go to the dark side (GY6), or be forced to find another engine and swap yet again. Either way, I refuse to let The Meepers be down and out.

That is all, carry on.

Life at 40 MPH-TEASER

So I made myself a little camera mount yesterday. After testing it a little bit, I found it to work best as a helmet mount. So I made a teaser video. I recorded my journey home from work yesterday (about 30 minutes of running footage) and forgot to charge the camera up after I took the video from it. So about 8 minutes into my commute to work today it died.

No worries I used the footage to mess around with and make a short teaser. There will be more to come tomorrow, after I get the drive in. One thing got my goat thought. And that was YouTube.

YouTube would not let me use The Flaming Lips as my song of choice. I thought they were on Warner Bro's and WB had a contract with YouTube. Unless I am thinking the other way around, that WB will not let YouTube use their artists.

Any way, I used one of YouTube's songs. And I also posted the video on Vimeo. Vimeo let me use my original song. But without further adieu, here are both videos. Same thing, different music.

First Vimeo, with The Flaming Lips.

Life at 40 MPH from Jeffrey Grant on Vimeo.

Now YouTube, with (Go for a Ride on My) Sinclair C5.



So what do you think?

The video was shot using a Contour HD Helmet Cam. With a mount I made (out of some industrial strength hook and loop cable wraps). I like the camera. I used it for a resent Bryan Anderson shoot. I like the results. A little fish eye look.

So This morning I had to stop at the Eye Doctor again. It almost didn't seem worth it. He thought he gave me drops last week, but he told me he wanted to wait another week and see if there is any improvement, there wasn't. Then he wrote me a script for some $75 drops and made me schedule another appointment for 3 weeks from today. Hopefully that one is longer than 8 minutes so I get my $40 co-pay worth.

But I can't complain. I found out I had a problem with my eyes, hopefully before it was to late. He caught it two weeks ago, I just wish I had two weeks worth of healing done. But once this is fixed I can get zapped with lasers. or so I am told. I did get a free sample of the drops I need to take, but it is only about 4 days worth, and I need to take them for 14 days.

4 times a day for the first week, then 3 times a day after that. Then I have to go back for another check up. But that is after VACATION!

I am not stoked to wear my glasses for 6 months (or less) and especially on vacation. But I got one thing that will be OK. I will be done with the drops before I go! So at least I don't need to take the drops while I am at the shore.

Speaking of the shore, Amy and I want that damn warm weather to come back. At least for 2 more weeks. We are going to the beach in two weeks after all. And do you know what they have at the beach? A god damn ocean to swim in! And we want to swim in that god damn ocean!

If you would be so kind as to comment on YouTube, or Vimeo if you have an account. Or feel free to comment here, you do not need an account to comment on this blog. And I will read it.

That is all, carry on.