Tech Support!
I don't know how I've become the defacto tech support guy on Alison's side of the family, but it's happened. I'll come home and Alison will say that Nina has pressed some buttons on the remote control and she can't get the Replaytv to come up anymore. I fix it easily by checking the obvious. Damian can't get his PS2 to work. It was because they'd plugged it's power into the back of a digital cable converter box and the converter box was off. They couldn't get the DVD to not cycle between dark and light every four seconds, and I bypassed using the VCR as a switchbox (it was the Macrovision encoding). Alison just now gave me a call about getting out DVD to work at home, and it was, of all things, click the little thingy on the system selector. But, to be fair, the DVD label thingy fell out. Which is rather unfortunate as it was a little plastic bit with DVD on it, and only one DVD plastic bit came with the thing.

A Bad Example For The Kids
What could I, and upstanding fellow in general, be doing that's a bad example for the kids? Camel filters in a hard pack. Yes, I'm having a cigarette or two a day. And as Alison read that last line she probably gritted her teeth and said "Two?"

See, when Alison met me, I smoked about a pack a day of Camel Filters, which was the best cigarettes on the US market at the time. Well, now Camel has all these great blends with even more Turkish tobacco. I am being wary not to get overly addicted, but, really, I've always liked smoking cigarettes.

I went through a cigar phase a few years ago. Eh, cigars, you can keep them. Feh. And they cost too much. But really, though some people think they stink, they actually smell really good. But, yeah, stinky cheap crap stinks. But the good or even mediocre stuff costs too much.

I have had exactly one really good cigar, and I actually like the cheapo Don Fano or those Mexican ones that taste like you're smoking potting soil. But some of the richest and best potting soil in the world. Obviously without the vermiculite.

But, yeah, I thougth I'd come clean on the cigs. This will be a phase just like any other thing I do. But I do want to try some Kamel Red, Camel Turkish Gold, and Camel Turkish Select. Well, unless one of those blends is one of the $7 a "pack" type. And they don't come in packs when they're the super expensive blends. They come in chrome cases. Ooh, neato.

Oh, but I'm off energy drinks. So, like, there's the upside.

Easter Toast
No, it's not as cold as it looks. She didn't want her jacket on.

- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 9:08 AM