This old friend of mine from high school has this image as her avatar. It’s her dog naturally, but I can’t help notice that the dog is making Happy Dick Cheney face.

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My son has been wanting  a Hot Rod, or if you wish Rodimus Minor, it wasn’t until the summer at some toy fair that we, learned about Hot Rod getting a toy that was pretty much long over due. Yesterday I had dinner with my Aunt. Afterwards since she lives in Sierra Vista it was easier to just let me ride back. A quick drop off to Toys R Us down the street, they told me to call the following day.

Lo and behold the truck that came in was plentiful with their Transformers. They held one for me as I rushed over. Taking my bike and catching a bus since that should be the easiest way to get there. Bus and bike.

Found, got it, rode back to  catch the bus. The bus came, with a full bike rack. I didn’t want to wait so I rode on. Then I passed the same bus. The distance became greater and greater. I looked back and noticed that I couldn’t see the bus anymore. By the time I got to work, I was wet, sweaty and pretty tired.

But I got Lucian’s Hot Rod.

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Yesterday, it was my turn to get the boys. Take Lucian to get his six month checkup and then get Melissa. There she had a monkey hand puppet thing. Five monkey faces on a yellow hand base and the only thing I could think of was that this hand puppet was five monkey lovin’.

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My sister, one of them, is a lesbian and I had just heard about Prop 8 being overturned. Since she is my sister, the idea of marriage is about as fun as most sane people view. So even though she’s single, I had to tell her that, “You’ll get in another relationship and she’ll be all Marth Stewart and shit and then start nagging you about a ring or marriage and you’ll get drunk, be in Vegas. There is a flash of techno and glitter and you wake up with bride and a really pissed off girlfriend.”

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The boy is with me at work again. This week his mom can’t have kids at work, ironic considering she works at a child care facility, but it’s those two weeks where they have to put their rooms together. Lucian stays with me that week so we can have our fun at work.

No one seems to mind. He’s able to keep himself occupied while I work.

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My step-son, Dev, sent in a X-Box a couple of weeks ago to get repaired for a RRoD. It’s still under warranty so fixing it seemed like a waste since it could be fixed for free by Microsoft. Last week, I was told that the machine was repaired and it’s just waiting to be transported.

That was last week. Nothing has moved forward. With a 13 year old who is constantly “bored” and one of his favorite pastimes outside of skating, so driving his 5 year old brother insane, getting the X-Box back as fast as possible is always a nice thing.

I contacted Microsoft through their Twitter page, which is about as fast as those old real time chat sessions from yester-year and found out that there have been some pretty interesting storms hitting Texas. The idea of a storm is pretty foreign here in Arizona. We get heavy stripper clouds here. Just a lot of teasing before they move on to somewhere else.

I was told to look soon to the page again. There should be some updates. Maybe some sanity in the house where we don’t have to hear both the boys fighting over… I have no clue what the hell they fight over.

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Oh goody. If you can marry Southern Culture on the Skids and visual imagery, there is a special place in heave for you.

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I like Mondays, it means I get to go back to work and do that thing that I like to do. There is just one small problem with Mondays with me, that’s the travel back to Tucson. Depending on the week, it just screws my body.

One thing that happens is that everything feels like it’s been abused by eight gallons of coffee. The heart feels a little faster, my mouth has a slight taste of acid in my mouth, the rest of my body is jittery.

This is my monday.

This is what happens until Tuesday morning. Mondays suck, but not because I got back to work.

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The voice of Speed Racer, Peter Fernandez died yesterday of lung cancer, he was in his 80s when he died. Not only was he the voice of Speed, he was also the voice of Rex Racer and did so many other voices on so many other shows. He was part of the reason why so many Japanese shows were brought over and made watchable by American children.

It was all due to Peter Fernandez.

Recently, Fernandez was doing voice over work for Speed Racer the Next Generation as an adult Spritle, originally voiced by Corinne Orr, who ran a racing academy where Speed Jr and his older brother X attended.

He also did the voice of Ultraman, a live action show.

You can still get these shows on DVD for kids to enjoy. Mine, fell in love with Speed Racer because of the fast action and great colorful imagery. Later when we was older, he would watch Ultraman for a live action version of awesomeness.

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This is what might happen if Wes Anderson was given a videogame movie. In a way, we’ve seen Anderson make this type of movie. Some would argue that it is most of his movies. But if this trailer was real, I’d see this… On DVD.

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