Flinchless in the face of peer pressure, wintonmoberg.com is still without an update. (yeah, yeah… I’ll see you in hell too)

My older brother and I are planning a bachelor party for my younger brother this weekend. It will involve grilling, guns, beer, 4-wheelers, a bus, and a lot of bars. Typical Isle stuff.

Today my old apartment goes through final inspection. If things go the way they have been going, I’ll have to replace the roof and rebuild the entire apartment complex before I see a single cent of my damage deposit. Wish me luck.

Update: I am a cleaning machine. They didn’t charge me for anything other than the garage door opener. They didn’t even notice my halfassed spackle job (painters nail filler spackle and toothpaste works everytime!) I had my rear surround sound speakers mounted with sheetrock anchers which left 8 quarter sized holes in the wall.

I just have to post this picture of Ogre. Today he was talking to me about how his ability to attract women. “Tim, I have a gift” he says. Pfff! I simply responded to that comment with a “Oh my god!” He started laughing so hard that he got a cramp in his side. He literally busted a gut, so I took a picture of him screaming in agony. He had that screaming, laughing, crying thing going on – good friend that I am – I did my best to make him laugh more.

The apartment that I just moved out of was unique in that my contract with the landlord was called an Equity Lease rather than just a lease. In a sense I owned the apartment, I wasn’t renting. I was responsible if the refrigerator, or anything in my apartment or garage broke. Three days before I was to move out, my garage was struck by lightning (or at least very near by).

My garage door opener was fried, and I had to replace it, quick. If I did not, they would void my lease opt out document for unpaid services rendered on the property and I would have to pay for another year at the place. Simple enough, call St. Cloud Overhead Door and have them do their thing. Well, I don’t have a emergency access key, nor do I have a key for the handle that locks and apparently Overhead Doors thing isn’t breaking into garages. I had to take yesterday afternoon off to break into my own damn garage.

It’s a standard apartment garage, a single stall garage linked to many other single stall garages, the only way in is through the man garage door – which I can’t open.

Option 1: Spaz out and crash my car through the door – which is very tempting at this point.

Option 2: Have the unit next to me open her door and I break through the wall. Then repair the wall. Great, except her garage door opener is fucked too, and her husband is away on business, with the emergency key.

Option 3: Pick (see: Drill) the lock for the manual door latch (that was supposed to be disabled anyway). Then cut out the emergency garage door release lock on the door and replace it and cover the hole with a metal plate.

Option 3 is the way I went. Apparently it takes about 15 seconds to break into most garages (without garage door openers) because that’s all it took to drill out the first lock. Now the tough one. I borrowed a Roto-Zip to cut the lock out – making sure to catch the lock before it fell into the garage, and spent much of the afternoon fabricating a plate to prepare the garage door and installing the new emergency lock ($20). Overhead door is repairing the fried garage door opener this morning. It will probably cost about $150 bucks.

All this for an apartment I’ve moved out of, and a garage I will never use.

My one and only phone is my cell phone, my VoiceStream cell phone. It appears that VoiceStream could be up for sale, but analysts are wondering who would be willing to buy it. One analyst went as far as to say that VoiceStream is dead. I may get stuck with my Nokia 8290 phone and no good carriers in the area who support it.

Here is the view out my sliding glass door, where my deck is going to go… someday. Hard to believe by the view that I live less than a mile from the Mall. The real danger though is the fact that I’m only half a mile from Menards and Home Depot. After living in apartments and the dorms for the past 8 years, I was so ready.

If you don’t believe that Apple is a trend setter and innovator then take a look at this, the e.Digital Odyssey 1000. Establishes Copies new standard in digital entertainment. They did at least add some features that the iPod doesn’t have, like and FM tuner and voice recording. Another feature they added was voice navigation. All I can picture is people with their headphones on, yelling commands to there player, you know what it’s like to talk to someone with headphones – or when they sing along at the top of their lungs without realizing it. Seen one of these before?

By the way, Small Dog has refurb iPods for $235, oohh I’m so close to buying one!

It seems that Apples “Switch” has spun a few parodies. Ben “big port” Brown, Ani Moller and ubergeek have made their own switch ads. If you watch any of them, watch Ben’s.

And this photo was taken before they were drinking.