It sucks to die

So I am dieing. At least that is what it felt like this morning. I got up at 5, a little bit of heartburn. This escalated into a full blown shitty feeling fest. I felt like my insides were mush.

Then i vomited and found out my feelings were correct. As a side note, I am also worried about how little had digested. There was a whole shell in there, as in velvetta shells and cheese. A WHOLE SHELL in my stomach for 12 HOURS!! Just chillin'.

Anyways, that didn't alleviate the problem so my body tried to excise the demon in the other direction. 3-4 times. My digestive tract is one long scorching tube of pain. I threw a zantac and milanta (sp?) at it before and after the vomit. It took 4-5 hours to fully subside.

Now, I am trying to find a doctor. Because this is something that needs to be dealt with when you have insurance. I need to adjust my lifestyle too. I eat harsh food, because it tastes so good, but this is the worst bout I have ever had. twice before I have woke up in the night like this. And this is the second involving vomit. I do not like to vomit.

Poll, do you like to vomit?

Slickdeals.net Rocks

If you are reading this blog, then you likely saw the earlier post about slickdeals.net. Well I have successfully plundered!

I got a 6.1 yamaha home theater set for 75$ from fryes.com. apparently, this store has insane deals every 4-5 days. i missed out on a great mobo/processor combo, I wasn't going to let this one get by me.

This was just the speakers tho. What ever shall i do with speakers and not amp/receiver???

I TELL YOU WHAT! You scrounge the junk in you dad's businesses junk room, find a neglect Harmon/Kardon AVR25-II receiver, vaccum it out, and wiggle a suspect connection and VOILAI! You (you meaning I) have a brand new 5.1 home theater. The 6th speaker is waiting for the money fairy to produce funds for a modern receiver. This is an audio video receiver without so much as s-video connections and input labels such as vcr1, vcr2, vcd, tape 1, tape 2, and phonograph. There may be a "compact disc" input too. And it doesn't decode DTS or Dolby digital, just pro logic. BUT - free is as free can be. And it sounds great! I watched "The Fifth Element" sunday night to test the surround (slow to assemble, due to laziness). Wow. I never knew what i had been denying myself until then.

Needless to say, I got a new stereo and it sounds great.

Review: Tropic Thunder

Ok, call me sick. Call me deranged. I don't mind seeing a movie that is offending people over the use of the word "retard" or that Robert Downey Jr is in black-face. If it offends you, don't see it, but I am of the opinion that people take themselves to seriously, or others if you have nothing to be offended by yourself. Sit back and laugh at the ol' PC smother we are in the middle of now-a-days.

That said, on to the review.

I wouldn't say the movie sucked. I mean it did, but not the way some may have thought. It is a movie that isn't set out to change the world, or become an underground sensation spawning and entire series of group/buddy films. This is famous actors (Stiller, Black, and Jr) making an absurd movie about stereotypical superstar actors. Stiller pokes fun at the action stars, Black spoofs the comedians (himself and stiller?) and Jr takes a swipe at committed method actors (himself?):

I don't come out of character until finished with the DVD commentary! - Kirk Lazarus

Oh, and Danny R. McBride (Red from Pineapple Express) is the war hero worshipping pyrotechnics expert. Speaking of war hero, it is Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte), whom Stiller is depicting in the film within the film. The final name I will note is Tom Cruise has a few appearances, took me a bit to identify him. OK, my girlfriend did, but I DIDN'T know he was in it. She had the jump so to speak.

The movie has its funny parts, and is in many ways a series of quotable lines. It isn't overly long for what you are looking for. Some cheap laughs (matinee, HINT HINT) are sure to be found in Tropic Thunder, just don't expect to be the must have movie of the holiday season. I am surprised it was atop the charts for another week, although I am partly to blame.

If you want to see what the fuss is about, go see it. if you are disappointed, you were expecting too much (sorry, you were wrong). I believe I could have waited for the rental in a few months.

Word.

Olympics are KILLING ME

Staying up until midnight watching the Olympics and only have 4-5 hours to eat and take care of my self each day of the weekend is taking its toll. I am smelling, my arrival time at work is later and later, and worst of all, it has become harder and harder to stay awake until midnight watching the olympics.

I have been crashing out bad the past few days. I have missed the women's individual all around and floor competitions ( i love gymnastics! ), i missed M. Phelps' 7th medal (the one he won by .01seconds) and I do not have a clue about track and field.

It is a cyclical beast. a two week cycle of self destruction I am destined to relive every 4 years (not much for winter sports).

Slickdeals.net

Although I do not need anymore competition for those super cheap computer components, here is a site for y'all to set as a homepage ( or one of them if you do the multi-thing).

http://www.slickdeals.net

This site is great. Community driven bargain hunting. I missed out on this, but there was a dual core AMD athalon (2.6ghz (i think))(est. 120$) and a compatible Motherboard with on board HDMI, DVI, and VGA video and 7.1 sound output (est. 100$). The deal, $70.

AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MINE! Had I only gone with my gut rather than double checking if this is really what I wanted. I was worried about the small form factor you see. i shouldn't have worried. I could have done well. I mean, my current vid and sound card would be obsolete with that motherboard, so i would have plenty of room for other stuff.

But, in the 10 minutes i was checking it went from plenty to none in stock.

But that is the way it goes. Slickdeals isn't just computer gear though, they do clothes, shoes, movies, tickets, vaccuums, groceries, everything, including general store coupons. dude i work with got like 20 boxes of kashi ceral for 50$ off amazon. $2.50 a box of cereal is a pretty good discount (ugh-nfortunately so!). He also got enough kashi granola bars to feed a small island nation.

A final note, is that the site is clean. See a deal, click it to see details (do NOT try to open in tab, you get the same page with all deals opened), click on store name in details to go right to deal in most cases.

so, check it out.

Michael Phelps

Is there anything that will stop this guy? I know 2 medals are in relays, but 5 golds in as many days of the olympics and matching new world records. After he hit got his tenth gold, VISA ran an ad congratulating him on him surpassing all other olympians. Keep in mind that Morgan Freeman is voicing these VISA ads, and if I am not mistaken, he is still hospitalized.

So they had the voice done before hand. They probably had most of the ad ready, but they did sneak in the shot of him flexing every muscle in his body after the 4x100m Freestyle relay win.

My question is, will Mr. Freeman soon be sending Phelps kudos on winning 8 golds in one olympics, again surpassing any prior olympian?

If VISA has half a brain, they have it ready, but can Phelps deliver?

Only time will tell, but I do not think that there is anything that can stop Phelps. Other than spontaneous human combustion.

And that might not be enough...

Oh, Olympic Top 5

My Top 5 Favorite General Sports at the Summer Olympics.

1. Gymnastics
2. Swimming
3. Track and Field (I know, a big category)
4. Wrestling
5. Diving

GO USA

Olympics

I must say, I love the freakin olympics. And what makes it better are moments like say, when the US medley relay team comes from behind and takes gold in the last 25m of the race by 8 hundredths of a second and besting the world record by 3.99seconds. Gets my heart pumping.