Sure Beats Work

There are a lot of design groups that have websites out there. They make mockups of pretty neat products that don’t actually exist for consumer purchase. Most are just novelties, but every once in a while I come across one that demands someone to license and produce it.

Drinking Battleship is one such product. Someone can come up with a better name than I did, but this needs to be made. Jager Bomb? Irish Ship Bomb?

You guys work on the name. I’ll work on the drinking.

A friend sent me a link a while back, and I am finally getting to write about it. This is a brilliant product. It’s a flask in a bra. You can now sneak booze into just about any venue without worrying about being caught. If anyone hassles you, you just scream harassment.

For you smaller-chested ladies that are self conscious, you can feed your date drinks until he has had his fill. Then when the bra comes off he will be so intoxicated that he will be none the wiser.

Boobs + Booze = Boobze. Awesome.

This is a completely uninteresting post, but I hope this will be useful for people trying to figure out how to adjust screen brightness in Bootcamp. It took me far too long to search for this answer, and I ended up having to figure it out myself.

If you dim your screen on OS X and then boot into Windows, you end up with a darkened screen. The F1 and F2 keys that normally adjust brightness do not work in Bootcamp.

What you can do is go to Control Panel > Boot Camp > Brightness. Even if the slider is showing it’s on brightest, slide it all the way down to darker and back up. It should make the screen nice and bright. Hopefully that helps.

I’m off to Vegas later today, where what happens there stays there…unless you need a prescription to get rid of it. We’re doing the bachelor party thing for my buddy, and it should be a blast. I think everything is fair game as long as I don’t get married. How mad would Michelle be after waiting almost six years if I just went and married an escort named Heather Graham?

In order to distract Michelle’s mind from the obvious debauchery I will be participating in, I told her she can go look at rings this weekend. Yup. There must be a million questions racing through your heads right now. Does this mean-? When will you-? Relax, people. It’s going to happen sometime, and I’m finally realizing it’s not a big deal until people say something. There’s good news in all this, but I’ll let Michelle share that sometime. It’s pretty funny…to me anyway. So while she’s looking at shiny things, thinking I’m in Napa Valley, I will be shoulder deep in strippers.

Back to the matter at hand. If you didn’t get the reference to the Heather Graham escort or Napa Valley, you need to see The Hangover, which I am calling this generation’s Porky’s. Watch that film and you’ll know what our weekend will be like, except with a Panda and not a Tiger.

Peace out, suckers!

With 2007 came the realization that I was no longer in my early 20’s. Gone were the years of wild partying.

I told you I got really into fish. It took me three months of having a 10 gallon tank to upgrade to 55 gallons. This is what it started as, but it’s quite different now.

Michelle and I took a trip to China with some friends. So many Chinese people, but there they just call them people.

We got into to the usual vacation hijinx.

This isn’t China. This is the San Diego Zoo.

The very next weekend we went down to San Diego again to Sea World.

I had a great karaoke/bowling birthday party.

I gave Michelle a great gift of us.

I got pretty good at Wii Bowling.

So begins the life of a boring person. Eh. That’s all relative. I think some of this stuff is still really cool. When I hit thirty I’ll do puzzles and play board games.

I had no idea how to categorize the things that happened in 2006. It was a lot of travels, a lot of fun with friends, and the beginning of a lot of fish.

I got my new MacBook. I remember having my friend watch me on iSight on my old PowerBook as I unwrapped it. Yup, nerd.

Michelle and I took a trip to Hawaii, our first trip together.

We had too much beer and sake, so we went to Home Depot. I have a lot more pictures of us running around the place.

Oh the joys of Las Vegas. Scotch and cigars.

I took a trip to Europe. I took Michelle. This is our second trip together.

I won goldfish at the state fair. This started an obsession with keeping fish.

This was my first fish tank I started with, a small 10 gallon unit.

For Halloween I went as my friend Spencer. That’s me in the back center. I made extra masks so everyone could participate.

Only a couple years left until we’re current. Stay tuned!

The visits to D&B with sticky hand activities continued.

I took my first trip to the Midwest and got my first taste of White Castle. Eh.

Vegas trip. Booooooooooze!

My 25th birthday. Cheers!

Unfortunately this birthday taught me a lesson. I am not invincible.

I wasn’t the only one to learn a lesson.

We learned we couldn’t hang out like we used to back in college.

Michelle’s birthday.

Red Lion Tavern was the venue for the big 2-9 for Harrison and me. This year’s birthday was hat themed. Everyone has a hat, so it made it easy for people to come out in theme.

Michelle and I looking hat-tastic.

The other birthday boy. His hat says, “All hail the birthday princess!”

Sausages are one of the best, simple foods.

We brought out extra hats for those that didn’t choose to participate voluntarily.

Hats all around.

My cousin always steals the show when it comes to theme parties.

Oliver Twist?

Cheeeeeeeese! 8 beers, 2 Jager Bombs, some mystery shot from the waitress that looked like Heather Graham, and a Scotch later. I had no idea the human body could hold so much liquid.

The night ended at Fred 62 with Michelle and I falling asleep on each other while everyone else ate. I am old. Thanks to all my friends, who came out. I had a blast.

Well, another year has gone by since the world was graced with my presence. I can’t believe I’m twenty nine. I feel like I haven’t done enough with my life. That will have to change, but for now just enjoy some pictures.

For my birthday I kept it low key. My parents wanted to take me out to dinner so we decided to check out Terranea, since it just opened up and it’s ten minutes away from home. Michelle came along and we explored the grounds.

I figured they wouldn’t park my Camry up front even though I just got it cleaned.

This is where I will come to drink my Scotch.

Who is going to sneak in here with me this summer?

I am always on the search for the perfect calamari.

Salmon.

Halibut

Macaroni & Cheese, Pancetta, Truffle Oil

Lamb chops.

I ate so much I couldn’t move. Is there any better way to spend birthdays?

The year 2004 brought in the realization that life was going to be real work until I turned old and gray. So like any young adult would do, I looked forward to weekends and drank until I couldn’t remember them.

Michelle and I still together. We loved weekends at Dave & Buster’s with friends, winning tickets, turning them in for stick hands, and then chasing each other around the place with them. I think it was our way to save our youth.

Gotcha!

Not even enough time to draw his weapon!

I had a pretty good Halloween costume I threw together last minute. Hard to drink in this costume without a straw.

New Year’s Eve with a little bit of the bubbly.

More historic moments to come and this time with more pictures, because I got a new camera.