Are you an ebay fanatic? I am. I am constantly ordering electronics, comic books, watches or anything else that catches my eye. The one thing I don’t get is why can’t people pack things half decent before they ship it out. Case in point, I ordered some really nice The Walking Dead comics a month ago. They were mid-series numbers and I got a decent deal on them. The guy that shipped them put them between two pieces of thin cardboard and shoved them in an envelope. They showed up bent, ripped and worthless. It’s not like packaging supplies would bankrupt anybody. He gave me my money back but his cheapness ruined ten nice books that will never come back.

The ladies of the house went on a big shopping trip all weekend. Down to the outlets malls in New York State. Leaving me alone to fend for myself and look after the dogs. It has been a couple of days of pizza, bacon sandwiches and beer. It's the old bachelor days all over again.To tell you the truth I don't miss it for the world. The peace and quiet is nice for awhile but then it gets kind of lonely. There is a sink full of dishes and newspapers every where. I heard from them this morning and they are headed back shortly. They are bringing a ton of packages back with them. They shopped until they dropped.They have everything from pants to north face coats women they love to shop. I hope they aren't too tired to get this house straightened out when they get back.

 I was at the doctors office the other day and they had a really cool wall mount computer station in the patient room. It was really neat how it folded up and took up virtually no space at all. You are starting to see these terminals all over the place. Like office foyers for example. How long to we start seeing these in the home? I think back to my computer tower I owned a year or two ago and the big massive computer desk that took up a good piece of by basement rec room. That is all history now.

The one thing you forget when you are renovating a room is the clutter that comes with it after you get settled in. Here I am sitting amongst a pile of cds, dvds, blue ray discs and video games. We have a ton of discs. The girls still love collecting them which is fine with me, it gives me something to watch especially when there isn't a movie store within a billion miles of me. The problem is I have them laying all over the place and have to figure something out sooner or later.  I built a few shelves into the wall but that has filled up already. I need to find a better solution for dvd storage and video game storage.

I have a few trophies from when I was a kid. Played a few sports like hockey, baseball and football. Back then you earned a trophy. They didn't give them to you so that you wouldn't cry on the way home in the car. We cried on the way home in the car. Like real men do on the way home from work on the freeway. Twenty years later I have a friend that wants to get trophies for everything we do. A trophy for our fun golf league all the way to fantasy football trophies. I don't know why he wants a trophy for everything, maybe he didn't get enough as a kid. Well I will humor him. It will be nice to see him cry again on the way home in his car as a grown man. He has a terrible slice and my grandmother could pick a better fantasy football team.

Or at the very least yell at him. As he doesn't feel bad enough as it is. Last night I cooked up some homemade pizzas for the family and a couple of the kids friends. That went over like a lead balloon. I burnt the pizza so bad you almost needed a Flame Resistant Jacket to take it out of the oven. So I am not a great cook. I never pretended to be one. I do pretend to be a lot of things but a chef is not one of them. Just a tip, when the a guy ruins your dinner by burning it yelling is not going to bring that pizza back. This is a fact that I know.

Well I have a tee time later on today with a few family members and in-laws. I don't mind getting together with family for a day on the golf course it can be fun as long as I don't get paired up with one of my brother in-laws. He is famous for chain smoking cigars. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind the smell of a fine cigar as long as it's a fine cigar. He on the other hand isn't as concerning as I. He seems to almost relish the fact that he will buy cheap cigars. Smoking and stinky all day long. If you are going to smoke a cigar you might as well smoke decent ones. I would almost rather smell burnt plastic then the stench of his cigars. What we do for family right?

Have you ever ran into somebody that you went to school with that was selling insurance? They are about as much fun as getting punched in the face repeatedly. I recently had the displeasure of running into an old acquittance that was now in the high paced game of bothering people to buy term life insurance. I don't know how many times you can tell a person that you aren't interested before they get it through their head. I kept telling him that I have that if I need anything that I find my life insurance online find it at equote. By the end of the conversation I gave him a fake cell phone number and told him to give me a call in a week. Just to get out of the conversation. I feel bad about the person who is going to start getting the phone calls but better them than me.