We have an an extra room in a condo that my sister wants to turn into a walk-in closet. She said draw something out and give her some ideers on what shall be done. I did just that with my crude and not-so-talented skills. I’ll grab hold of your hands and usher you into this fantasy closet that will look half decent yet remarkably witty in taste. Lots of whites and shoe racks galore!

I saw this walk-in closet for shoes and how I O-so-wanted one and so I gave her that ideer. Turns out she loves it. I’ll have one of my own one day. I already own 18 pairs of shoes (more if I hadn’t tossed out my 12 other pairs- stupid me). Just imagine blanks of wood 8inche wide and how ever so long the desired length, running around the room like rails holding sluttish platform and devilish high heels greeting you as you walk in? YUM-O (yeah- that’s a tad bit Rachel Ray babie)!!! Doesn’t that sound O, so devilish? Yeah… I said it. Deveelish!

I’m going to take at least 3 weekends to finish this for her. That’s with spare time and cheap labor. The things you do for the women you love (my sisters and the QUEEN BEE- mum). Here you’ll see the details drawn out on parchment:

I was watching an opera today on WEDU and it was beautiful. I enjoyed it very much. The costumes are always so vibrant in color and the performances are always so sweet. I saw a little boy of 3 named Akim (of German decent) and he was playing the violin though not very talented yet, he made me dreamful. He was a guest of the director/composer. He was so adorable. He will probably grow up to a handsome young man.

Anywho, I was very impressed. I can’t wait to learn the violin by heart. I’ll be like Akim except a bit older. He should make a better violinist for starting at such a tender age. Wishful thinking on my part none the less; I can always try. I’ve always had love for the piano and the violin. Marry the two and you have harmony amongst both worlds. I tend to do so.

So, I beamed a question to this person noticeable speaking above, … and anywho let’s just say she rocked my morning! She is selling a business card slitter. A 4up Sun slitter. I know what it is but she thinks I’m dull? 4up means to cut either 9×12″ or 8×11″ sheet of stock into business cards 4 at a time in strips of 3.5″ by what ever length you so desire. Some machines will only utilize 8×11″ but go figure, “I don’t know the difference”… :::sigh:::

She is selling it with this much detail specified:

How the hell are you going to sell anything with such little information to go by? No model number? Only one crappy photo? I find this person rude and very unprofessional. Here is her reply to my inquiry:

“If you don’t know the specifications, you don’t need it.”- HOLY MOLIE! Yeah, she definitely made my day. It was uplifting! Yah!

I’ve been meaning to make a CAT for this and she was my inspiration. +1 under “Make My Day Bitch”!

Okidata C5800Ldn Color Laser Printer

Professional color printing without compromise.

The optimum balance of speed and reliability for increasedproductivity in demanding businesses.

• Prints up to 28 ppm black, 24 ppm color
• Up to 1200 x 600-dpi resolution
• Network ready
• Duplexing (2-sided printing)
• Duty cycle of up to 60,000 pages
• Approx. 10 seconds black, 11 seconds color to first page
• Standard 300-sheet paper tray plus built-in 100-sheet multi-purpose tray

What else can I say? This thing is massive and heavy; just how like like a quality built product! Did I mention this is a tax right off? Yesh! I looked at other laser printers but the speeds for color printing were pathetic (8ppm color). I needed something blazing fast to keep up with my work load. 5k-10k brochures and business cards galore- I definitely needed something with an extra added “umph” so it wont cramp my style=) Now if only Brothers would come out with their speed demon code name Cobra inket printer. This little devil churns out 150ppm in monochrome or color! Beat that laser printers! I’d imagine when Brother does come out with Cobra, the price would burn a sour hole on the roof of your mouth like chili peppers in a summer’s day!

I’d have to give it to my new laser printer: the color quality is better than inkjet printers hands down (not photo producing by all means- epson takes the cake on this plane). I print gold letters with my epson inkjet and the gold comes out a little dark whilst with my laser printer, it comes out GOLD?

So I was going to Borders to get some coffee and as I was getting a parking spot- I hear this shredding sound of metal to metal contact. I look over and it looks to me, a young teen scraping the side of this poor defenseless truck.

I hop out of my truck and assist the bloke on how to remove his car from the truck. It was beautiful! I felt bad for the teen because he was just being careless. The ironic thing is, he didn’t know if he had insurance?

So anywho, I took two shots of the accident scene and handed the owner of the truck my card and if he needed these photos, he could e-mail me and I would send them to him.

Fender Bender, Car Scratch, Damaged Bumper

I’m sick as a dog. This has been the first that I have actually lost my voice. I was down for a week because I felt so terrible. I wish sometimes I can do what Jimmy Neutron did: shrink down to a germ size coodie and go battle the coodies that have afflicted me this terrible cold. Yesh- I watch Jimmy Neutron=) My friend’s name is JIMBOB as well=)

Anywho- my sister asked me to do her window treatment now that the blinds have come in via Home Depot special order. The blinds are beautiful. Installing them was pretty easy too! I do have a few complaints though… The company that we ordered it from, cut some of the blinds a little shorter than I had asked. There had to be shims installed and that created more work than I had anticipated.

The valances that came with each blind set were a little shy for fitment. It was the actually size of the rail blinds but the company didn’t take into account that the window widths are varying sizes and by covering only the rail width, this leaves the shims exposed ultimately creating an eye sore.

I will call the company this week to see if they can make amends. If not, I’ll go complain to

I could account to the many times I’ve needed a table rip saw. I’m pro-RYOBI because I believe in the product and for the price, you won’t miss a heart beat! I’ve spoken to all types of associates in HOME DEPOT and LOWES and they all prefer Dewalt or Makita. I come with little funds and prefer RYOBI.Why? Price. Reliability. Proven. I’ve used Ryobi for all of my projects. I’ve only had the reciprocating saw fail on me (wall unit and not the battery powered). It was partially my fault. Okay, maybe not. Ryobi needs to improve on their reciprocating saw units because they damn right suck. I had to go to Wal-Mart and purchase a Black & Decker one. I’ve put it through so much abuse it’s literally funny.

Anywho back on subject. I have a handheld 7inch circular saw- also Ryobi but any handheld saw isn’t that smooth and accurate and I really wanted a table saw that was portable. I’m going to be purchasing the portable unit Ryobi has at Home Depot. I simply can’t wait to get my hands on one.

I’m so not happy with the thought or purchasing ink cartridges over and over again. They cost 20-50USD a pop and I already went through 5. Arbitrarily speaking, that’s more than 100USD spent on ink alone and the darn printer was even that much!

I was on the verge of buying a Brother color laser printer because of the savings. 600USD for the printer and another 600 for the toner. The toners are 120-150USD per toner but that beats spending what I did because I know in the long run, I would be saving a lot of money going the laser route. I can’t even print 100 letter documents before running low on ink. I hate that!

I did some research on t-shirt transfer mediums and ended up buying a new printer and CIS (continuous ink systems). I purchased a brand new Epson R340 & the CIS system. I’m chucking my old Epson Stylus 925 printer STAT! I figure, every time I print something, it’s twenty pages in black/color, so why not waste the money on some new toys!

It’s a 95% savings on inks alone because you fill the mediums with the proper inks purchased from any retailer provided you purchase good ink. The CIS system is equivalent to 700 ink cartridge(s) changes. (700×35(median of 20+50)) – yeah, you do the math! This will be wonderful for my t-shirt transfer hobby! Now all is needed are sublimation transfer papers and an iron! Look out! I’m going to be adding a page dedicated to this hobby! You can be cool like me and use them too! You go HERE

Added few images:

I was quite nostalgic the other day… Do you ever get the feeling that you are missing something from the pass? I did that one particular day. I had the rhyme, the ring, and the reason: I was delving in the past and how I missed the innocent years. The song that reminded me of this was sung by Merril Bainbridge – Mouth.

During my commute, I was trying to remember this song and thinking of the beat that went with the lyrics- google is your friend because that is how I found her! I was so pleased I paid 0.25cent to download the song! Yay! Now I can delve in the past. I felt as though I was whole again in some distant years ago.

Odd isn’t it? I found it odd and quite fascinating at the very least. I could have just forgotten it and lost the chance of feeling whole? I’ve been writing a lot of things down lately because I want to keep mental notes of everything just in case I forget.

Very simple lyrics:
Mouth
Written by – Merril Bainbridge
From – The Garden
I feel like I’ve been blown apart
There are pieces here
I don’t know where they go
I don’t know where they go
Kiss me on my salty lips
I bet you feel little crazy but for me
We’ll be famous on TV
Would it be my fault if I could turn you on?

Chorus:
Would I be so bad if I could turn you on?
When I kiss your mouth
I want to taste it
Turn you upside down
Don’t want to waste it

I jump on you, you jump on me
You push me out and even though you know
I love you I’d be inclined to slap you in the mouth
When I kiss your salty lips
You will feel a little crazy, but for me
I’ll be famous on TV

So I got sick of using my water filter that was supposed to lasts 5 years. Boy how the heck did I fall into such a gimmick! I was being cheap plus it would last for five years?!!! Makes me angry because I still have crappy tasting water and ice with residue in it? Yuck!

So on to Home Depot I went. I compared the said water filtration system to its larger cousin which might I add, was fifty more dollars! Same brand, same design but (yeah, there is always a “but”) the thing you don’t pay attention to is that they utilize the same device but different filters. So I said to myself, “why buy the 150USD model when I can buy the 99USD model; when the provided filters expires, I’ll go ahead and purchase the filters designed for the 150USD model”. A stroke of genius I tell ya!

Just picture this filter instead of being yellow, its green. No magical difference in the way it works or hooks up to the device. The only difference is the price. Yellow filter equals 30USD; green filter equals 35USD. The green filter filters like 3 more particles than the yellow one does.

The whole thing cost me 160USD (parts to hook up to my fridge). Now I dont need to go buy bottled water as my main source of water any longer! Yay!

Funny how refridge water lines are 5/16inch and Home Depot and Lowes do not sell these “special” parts. Ace Hardware supplies all these parts at a “PREMIUM”. The connection you see below is 5/16 tube mated to 1/4 tube. The misc. parts in-between make this connection conversion possible!

These are misc shots of the installed filter a few feet above the floor so the young ones don’t get to messing things up.

fridge hook-up water filtration system hook up