For my dad.............:)

I don't talk alot about my dad here. In part because of privacy, in part because I'm a stubborn ass and I know he reads this damn blog..:) My dad is as big a perv as me, perhaps more....:), we enjoy many of the same things. We were talking on the phone today, family stuff and movies, and it went off to movies of interest. I'm not sure if he knows it, but this man has influenced me, my life in so many ways. My tastes in music are mine, my tastes in movies, humour, social behaviour....all mine, but he did have a real impact. I love you dad, you really did and do try. I'm not sure you know it, but I do give you credit.:) I can only hope, with tools I've been given, my son looks back at me, as I look at you.

Half Nekkid PC......:) update

So the critter works, chirping happily with windows latest offering of Vista. Aside from the cool factor of the "I built it" thing, and it didn't catch fire (story I'll share later), I'm likeing the lil nipper. What I'm not so keen on is MS Vista. I'll give it some time, but so far, it strikes more of a complete retooling of XP than anything else. While this may not be a bad thing, it's annoying that most of my favorite software does not like it. I've got 6 months or so left on this rc1, maybe by then, the'll have versions of the software I like for it....:)

Da Count.............long friday

A little late posting, been a long day. Had to take a long drive after work not to clear my head, but to take the princess to meet with her dad for a weekend visit. Ths is not one of my favorite things, nor is he one of my favorite people. I try to give him credit for atleast "trying" to be a dad to her, but would just as happily explain to her how space aliens somehow abducted him. Yes Angel, he's helping fight the evil aliens in another galaxy so we can all be safe............but I digress. So we make the trip....3-4 hours round trip. Weather was shit.....rainy....cold, I stopped for gas for under $2.20 a gallon. We get to the meeting place, she's asleep in the car. Her dad loads up her bags.....why she packs for a 2 week stay for a 2 day visit is a skill she learned from the "lovely wife", and then she wakes up. Before I leave..she runs over and gives me a big hug, and her dad says thank you for bringing her. I am lucky, that I have a step daughter that can hug me infront of her dad without care. I'm lucky he can be cool enough with that to not make it awkward. I'm lucky the local store had cold beer still for sale when I got home...:)

Half Nekkid PC......:)

OK, so not a traditional HNT, but this is the new baby...Ain't she cute?? :) She's no rocket sled by gamer or guru standards, but she has heart. 2.6ghz celeron, 750 meg ram, 40 gig and 160 gig hdd's, Lite-On 16X DVD/DL burner. Backed up with an Intel main board, 400watt psu. Still some bugs, like no sound yet.......lol As of tonight, she boots proper on Win Vista RC1, but will probably end up throwing some flavor of Linux / XP dual boot on her later on. I just wanna tinker with Vista outta bordome. Happy HNT goofs and friends, you all take care....:)

So.....Ive been a lil moody....

Been a lil moody, and working my way out, perfect way to make it worse or better. Build a new PC!!!! If it goes well, sweet, if it goes bad..........pissed as hell, but liking the way this is going. More than half of this new box is old scrap shit I had laying around, bought a new case, mobo, stick of ram. The drives...cpu, and cabling are stuff I had lying around here, are from scrap, and gonna try Vista on it.:) Hoping to have it booting as a stand alone by friday and browsing porn sites, been so long since I built one from scratch, I relish seeing his one be fun..:) The cabinet is funky as hell, aluminum chassis. My 1st run with aluminum, but are the all this flimsy???? My tin chassis can take a bullet, I've drank from beer cans thicker than this shit... but it does look cool....:)

Moody Monday........................

Ever fall "out of love?".. No no dear friends, I'm not talking the lovely wife. I'd kill and or die for her without a blink. I mean my job. After almost 18 years, building a career in this company, I find myself in an odd spot. I'm not sure if I no longer "love what I do", or just "disenfranchised" with whom I do it for... Some days, I just want to run away, me and the family........screw the world and live off the land. Other days I remember, a paycheck and electricity is a handy tool. In 18 years....the company has changed so much in some ways...and so little in other ways. I guess the same can be said of myself and my co-workers. I can't really afford to quit, can't really walk in happy......I'm at a crossroads.. I do know that it's a different company now.....and somehow, not the family I married into. My job and I need some serious therapy, lest we end up in divorce court... Any of you ever been at this "fork in the road" place?

Lazy Sunday post..............

Feeling pretty good today. Had a nice weekend with my wife and kids, nothing special, just hanging out around the house. Saturday I managed to cobble a working workstation out of misc spare parts for my dad, and made it work...gotta drop that off tomorrow. So as I'm doing this cobble, my window to the computer room is open...I hear a "THUD" on the screen. Odd...but it's dark...thinking maybe a bat or somthing. About 10 minutes later............another "thud", then a scratch....I look...F*cking coon! I say hello....go AWAY!! And it did. For ten minutes or so.... 3rd time I said, "bad kitty!!" with my best Cartman voice. We played this game of "peek a boo" for about 2 hours, lil bastards have a network I swear. I wonder if he has relatives at camp??? BTW.......Way to go ND!!!!!!!!!!

Friday post...........funky week

It's been a long funky week, not bad, just funky. I don't know if the change of the season, the gloomy skies, joined with the stress of work, but just an odd mood. This is why I am cheering myself up with my favorite blues guy ever. Meet Duke Tumatoe. I know, may be an obscure name to some of you, not "Muddy Waters, BB King, Lead Belly" but telling you...this guy kicks ass....:) When I turned on the lovely wife to Duke, she fell in love with his music, I told her honest....you can't appreciate him untill you see him play. Since then, we have seen him live a few times. This man always makes the time to shake your hand and say howdy between sets......rare indeed. He knows us by my wifes nickname, "kidneystone girl"...:) To hear some of his tunes and read up, he has a Myspace Here. Happy friday goofs and friends, if music is the food of the soul...........what does music eat?? :)

Da Count...............Me and Agrah.......

Hard to explain, but this post was inspired by Miss Understood. Where to begin.......I first met her at a swimming hole when I was a punk kid, just barely old enough to drive, her a few years younger, we both lied about our age.:) We hit it off odd, I fell for her almost instantly, but I was too young and dumb to have any idea what that meant at the moment, later..in highschool, we were very much in love. We were so sure we were going to take on the world, so very in love, make our own destiny. I f*cked up, made some bad choices, and had to leave....was bad, we tried long distance for awhile, we were kids.......life moved on....... I married.....she married.......we both had a kid....lived our lives, divorced, always wondering about the other, but not knowing. Then one day........it happened. It was my grandma that brought us back together actually. In her last months and weeks, Agrah was a nurse on that floor. My grandma remembered her....and Agrah remembered my grandma. When grandma passed, Ag was kind enough to drop a card at visitation. My mom and I were writing out thank you cards when she came on hers.............said, this is for you. I read..OMG...I recognize that handwriting. New last name and all, but DAMN!! In fairness I had tried to look her u a few times earlier....but new last name threw me off track..... I don't know why.......but i tucked that card away. I looked up the name a couple times, but no dice, left alone for a year. Mid Jan, I looked at that card..called, got the answering machine....scared as hell, not knowing married woman....am I going to cause a fight?? nobody picked up...........I called again the next day.............same shit I called again the next day...thinking..."dude....gotta stop" 1 last call, and I swear I said to myself, "Zig, last call, your passing from interested to stalker"..............she answered!!!!! Long talk, she was out of town celebrating her birthday, and the finalization of her divorce...........We dated later that week............:) I am lucky to have found my true love twice in the same lifetime, and get a second shot at it right...I'm also lucky enough to have relatives past, looking out for us...:)

HNT camp follow-up

If you visited my last HNT, you may recall a discussion that has come about in my family. If this is your 1st visit or you missed it, your can find it here. This is the end result of our last "take a better one!! " :) Happy HNT goofs and friends.........:)

TMI Tuesday......:)

1. Have you ever shared sleeping accommodations with someone of the without anything steamy happening? (Opposite sex for breeders, same sex for homosexuals). Yes......Much to my dismay. I was rather clueless at times in my youth...:) 2. Have you ever streaked, flashed, or otherwise partially or totally exposed yourself in public before (or after) an informal, unofficial gathering of people? I "Full Monty'd" my aunt at camp this year attempting to crawl out of my tent for a whizz break, it was around 4am..........her bad for still being up...:) 3. Have you had dates with multiple people in the same weekend (or consecutive nights or the same night) while not all of your dates were aware of your actions? Guilty as charged your honor...:) 4. What is the most "romantic" you have ever gotten in a movie theater? My lawyer has suggested I never discuss this again....:) 5. Have you ever had sex when you knew a non-participating adult was watching? Does sex with your ex count? Bonus (as in optional): If you could say anything you wanted anonymously to anyone, without identifying that person, what would you say? Don't eat fresh spinach.....:)

Seems I'm a drink too...........:)

How to make a ZigZagMan Ingredients: 5 parts pride 3 parts humour 3 parts beauty Method: Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Top it off with a sprinkle of sadness and enjoy! Username: Personality cocktail From Go-Quiz.com Just stay clear of my beer and courvosier...........unless invited...........:)

On green leafy veges................................

As many of you may be aware, in the US...we have a lil E Coli problem with fresh bagged spinach. After a talk just moments ago with the lovely wife and reflect on my diet. Aint no way I'm getting E Coli this way!!!!!! :) I don't know, not like I want to see anybody hurt or anything, but there is a certain justice to it huh? :) I sit and order my steak, extra butter, enjoy it with a smoke and a beer. Some carb counting health nut next to me orders a salad with spring water and makes faces at my diet choice. Who's getting their stomach pumped now baby!!!?????????? My ode to spinach....I knew you'd show your face sooner or later....now the world knows.....lettuce...I got my eye on you too!!!!! :) *Edit, as a tribute to Backcuts comment......"Damn you all!!!!! :)

Tales from the parking lot....and my 1st "Da Count"

Ok, so this is my 1st "DA Count" post, man you really have to type that careful to avoid an embarassing typo....:) It's friday and the work day is done, the daily weekday ritual of bullshiting is well under way. Me: Yeah...I think I hurt his feeings... Friend: Well he did get all mopey after yu said what you said.. Me: Well started it damnit, punk shot his mouth off. Friend: Man, you were fine, we all agreed with you. Me: Well perhaps I could have worded it different than "sitting on your fat ass and pretending to file" *RING RING* Cell phone in hand..hrrmm, it's the manchild....there are other kids in the backround. "dad! Can I stay over at a friends house if it's ok with his parents?" "I guess it's ok with me if it's ok with them" "Hang on, I'll ask................It's ok with them, so I can?" "Yep, call me and let me know when to pick ya up tomorrow.......Love You" "What??!" "I Love You.." "............love you too. *click*" Friend: You made him say I love you infront of his buddies?? LOLOL Me: Yep, that'll teach him for not doing the dishes like he was supposed to last night! I'm lucky that I have a 12 year old son that still thinks I'm pretty cool. And he's not so creeped out this world, that he can say "I love you" to his dad, even when his buddies are in earshot....:)

Camp HNT....Sister in Law

I love my sister in laws. Well usually I love them, I do have my limits. One of the more interesting developments since I married into this amazing family, is their unabashed willingness to contribute to my collection of HNT....:) The camera flashes, direct question... Sis..Was that of my boobs??! Me..Well yeah! Sis..Is that going to be on the net??! Me..Well yeah! Sis..Damnit! Take a better one!! :) Me..Hell Yeah!! :) Happy HNT goofs and friends...:)

Every proper camp..shall have a good dog..:)

Unfortunatly................this is not one. This is a family members dog, he always seems to think it's fun to bring him to camp. I've had many experiences with our lil buddy Dino. Dino is full of mischief, mischief, and humour that belies his age. Dino loves to camp. Dino loves kids. Dino loves to be petted. Dino loves to run away from camp during a walk, and be chased for miles through swamps and thickets. Dino likes to look back at you as if to say..."catch me if you can". Dino loves to roll in poop and then crawl in your tent or camper. Dino is an asshole.

Lil Pissed again.........

Radio at times can delight me, entertain me, and piss me off. I like it because moreso than TV, it allowes me to make "my own pictures" in my head. The ability to paint with pictures, I respect you, to be able to pait with words, equally if not more so.....:) Tonight, I'm listening to a radio show, who says point blank, would be nice if the Iraqis' remember us for liberating them. F*ck that, that's not what we do! yes we have a vested interest, not blind. Appreciated and respect, cool. If offered and inkind, Excellent. But to ask...thats not why we do this. Saving you from your pimp is no excuse for expecting a free blowjob!! Zig out!!

Ever fall in bed to find a flashlite ...under the covers..

And find it's not a flashlight?

Death of a gas grill.............

It's sunday, and abit of a lazy day. Grey skies and shit, but not realy gloomy. Usually on days like this I'm pondering what movie to watch as a few healthy slabs of dead cow soak up thier marinade for some good grilling sizzle. Not today my friends. I'm sad to report that my good friend "Mr Gas grill" has not only passed, but tried to take people out with him. He's been cranky for awhile, but nobody expected this...DAMN. Yes, I know Ive been promising him a new burner assembly for some time..stainless steel this time, instead of it's well used and coroded aluminum one. Yes, I know I promised him he'd have a new difuser this year, time got ahead of me my friend. I can rebuild you...better than you were before. We can be best of friends again, enjoying the way it used to be. We can improve and listen to that sizzle you used to sing with such joy. Quick tip, when your grill turns into a ball of fire...........turn of the gas at the tank........:)

Political rant, and just a bit pissy.........

While I try to make it a rarity, sometimes my politics come through on here. Ordinarily, I'd apologize, but it's my f*cking blog, so deal with it or read elsewhere. Many of you may be aware of a 9/11 movie ABC was going to air here in the states. If your not aware, it's a "docudrama" commemorating the 5-year anniversary of that terrible day. As a "docudrama", it takes some creative license, but is largely based on our own governments 9/11 commission reports. By ABC's own statements...it's a movie, not a documentary. ABC even made the bold move to air this without commercials, so as not to put advertisers in an awkward position. Neither the current Bush administration or the prior Clinton administration really come out looking good in the uncut version of this movie. That said, at the end, it's the terrorists that are the bad guys. What pisses me off is the Clinton camp applying pressure on ABC (Owned by Disney) to either edit offending scenes, or pull the movie all together. Cease and desist letters actually being sent by ex-officials, actually reminding them they operate under an FCC license that could be pulled. How dare somebody imply president Hillary or her hubby were atleast as lax and bumbling as many say the Bush camp is today??? I'm not here to say everything Bush has done is right, nor am I here to damn the Clintons as everything them wrong, but WTF??? Where was the moral outrage over Fahrenheit 911? Michael Moore spun more bullshit into that piece of hate fluff than any could imagine. So ABC suffers the heat for doing a cardinal sin in this country. Expressing, maybe the Clintons screwed up too. I'm going to try very hard to find an uncut version of this movie, and compare it to the "re-edited" version ABC caved to take note. This is America DAMNIT!!!!

Weekend Movie Review.........:)

Ok.....so it's been awhile since I did a movie review. As I've had more than the usual time this week to do this, seems natural.This weekends pick is an obscure film I'm not sure many would enjoy unless they were dragged to it kicking and screaming. Kung Fu Hustle is probably the most unapolgetic high end martial arts spoof I have ever seen..:) For fans of this media, you won't be dissapointed. For those of you that only think films like "kung pow" represent this media,,,,,,,,,,,ohh man, you need to watch this.:) The movie is almost entirely in chinese....least my copy, so you'll have to live with subtitles. But OMG, it's worth the ride. The twist in the end is a nice wrap up also. I watched this one privately 1st, then with my kids last night. It has some gore, a ton of humor, and some really incredible martial arts scenes. My boy, 12, just looked at me half way into the movie....."yeah dad, didn't trust ya this, but good movie" :)

Feeling human again......:)

So it's saturday and I'm feeling almost human again. Having that in perspective, I reflect back on camp. Perhaps in hindsite, 4 gross of bottle rockets was not the best of ideas this last camp, but look how happy he is..>:) The brilliant addition of adult sized sparklers were an unexpected hit as well. That was entirely the lovely wifes idea, and a huge sucess. I mean...these things were huge....who the hell saw a 3 foot long sparkler???? Sadly, family camp season is done, but deer camp may be coming.....:)

Flu sucks, camp rocks.........:)

Ok, so after 2 days of the flu bug..starting to piss me off. I've spent the last 2 days at home, not sleeping with my wife, paying the toilet wayyyyyy to much attention. Now that I'm starting to feel better, lil horney.......know what I mean??? *wink wink* *nudge nudge*, wife has to work. This is indeed a cruel universe at times, but I'm anticipating a better tomorrow. In the big picture of life, I'm a lucky man, but sometimes life just pisses me off. What pissed you off today??? :)

This is camp....:)

This is camp....nuff said.:)

Camp HNT..the tattoo party...:)

OK, so after a fair amount of adult beverages, both double bubble, and regular tipping, somebody broke out a whole page of temporary tattoos. It started innocent enough, a wet paper towel, a lil cleavage, some frisky people. Then the whole damn thing took on a life of it's own. Almost no adult at this camp walked away tatless. I feel it fair to post 2 pictures this tale. One of some of the gals, one of some of the guys. While some of the pics this last trip will never be posted to protect the "not so innocent", it was indeed an entertaining night....:O) Happy camp gals..............:) Happy camp guys..............:) Happy HNT goofs and friends!!!!

Tales from camp, Teaching can be fun...:)

So our new friends find the camp, introduce themselves...what next? The only logical answer was to initiate them to double bubble night. Double bubble for those not familiar, is a shot glass shaped like a pregnant hour glass. The idea is the bottom chamber holds about 2 shots of a chaser...soda, red bull, somehing like that. The neck allows the upper chamber to hold a full shot of liquor of your choice which floats ontop of the chaser. The goal is to slam the whole thing in one swallow. We as a group usually go through a few bottles adult beverages just on this pass time....:) At our camp, there is a twist...you must do it standing as the rest of the camp sings to you our traditional drinking song. It's very important you wait for the cue in the song that says "so drink!!" and then yell WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! after you get it all down. Failure to so means you have to do it again. After, each one downed, the next victem must stand and do thiers proud. Lil wonder they found our camp by sound alone :) The song is simple, but surprisingly hard to learn while drunk off your ass. I'm a lil sober to do this song proper, but will share it with you. Here's to (insert name here), he's true blue... He's a drunkard through and through... So set him a bumper and celebrate the day... He thought he went to heaven but went the other way!..SO DRINK CHUG ALUG CHUG ALUG CHUG ALUG. SO DRINK CHUG ALUG.. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Our new friends were very very hung over the next day.

Tales from camp, What the hell is that?????

This is the expression that one gets when an unexpected lap dance ensues. Ordinarily, this would not be an event, or strange, at our camp. What makes this situation interesting is that these are 3 complete strangers who found our camp by following the drunken singing. They brought their own drinks and were friendly enough, so friendly that the girlfriend one of them brought not seen in this pic, was enjoying the reaction of an impromptu lapdance performed on one of our local campers. The amount of adult beverages consumed before this event made it all seem a reasonable state of affairs..:) Some drinks later, the temporary tattoo party broke out, I love camping! >:)

Tales from camp, It's all fun and games till somebody looses a wiener...:)

Thats our new camp motto, and I've got a t-shirt to prove it...:) We survived yet another foray into the great wilderness. Some bumps in the road, and a few tattoo's applied. No visits to E.R. this visit, and no real bruises, scars, or stitches required. The image you see is me attempting to pour courvosier for an uninitiated soon to be cognac drinker at our fully stocked camp bar. It was abit less than a total success, but the bottle did not go to waste...:) Tales and HNT aplenty later...:)

Off to camp..:)

Camp time again....!!!!! The Zig houshold is off for a long weekend. You all take care and we'll see you in a about 3-4 days..:) Those of you that are coming to join us, call my cell when you get close. Don't want ya lost in the woods before you get there and all.......lol I'm sure many fine stories will result this trip..:)

Tales from the parking lot...

So it's parking lot time again, we are chatting about our long weekend plans. Me: So did ya look at that porn I gave ya? Friend: Yeah, some of it was jittery. Me: Yeah, different formats, I cleaned up abit, but close as I could to a stable disc. Friend: So I watched awhile, fired up the ps2, chose to be a terrorist my online game, and fought as I listened to Sean Hannity streaming online. I think I'm making an impression on the young man...............LOL