Thursday, April 26, 2007

Vacation

Been on my first vacation since my honeymoon 4 years ago. We went to Florida. Basically we hung out in West Palm Beach, Royal Palm, and Wellington. We crashed with my youngest brother-in-law, who seems to know every bar and club in the state. Best of all, CUBAN FOOD!!! Just can't get that stuff in Tennessee. We ate too much, drank too much, stayed up too late, went to a party, shopped to much, went to a wedding, and partied for a week. Too Cool!!!!

Monday, April 09, 2007

Vacation

Well, maybe, if nothing interferes, I will get to take a vacation next week. My first since my honeymoon. That's almost 4 years ago. I have nothing coming up in court for this month, that someone else can't handle. I have cleared my calendar. My wife's best friend through her highschool is getting married in Florida, her brother has offered to put us up, her mother has offered to watch the animals. West Palm here we, fingers crossed hard, come!

Went with my sister's husband to see Grindhouse Saturday night. It was cool. Both directors outdid themselves in going over the top. Planet Terror was more humorous than I expected, the zombies were rather disgusting, and Rose McGowan looked GOOD. The fake trailers were cool, although Eli Roth's was a little too sick for me. Zombie did a good job, he should make that movie and send it straight to video, I know a lot of people who would buy it. The same with Machete. Anywho, Death Proof started a little slow, but picked up speed. It is a homeage to the old 70's car chase movies, and the old stalker movies. It is well done.

I got an email from the biggest, most annoying ripoff. Classmates.com. That has to be the stupidest thing that is currently under my skin. A long time ago, I was stupid enough to go to classmates looking for someone. I didn't know how the site worked and I posted a "free" profile, searched and discovered that unless you pay them money, you really can't do anything. You have free access to the boards, that's about it. You can't view profiles, you can't view pictures, you can't email anyone. You can't even view the people that visit YOUR profile, or sign YOUR guestbook. They send you emails saying how many people visit your profile or alert you that someone has signed your guestbook, but you can't see who. Now the content of their site is profiles. People go there to try to connect with old acquaintances. Now I have a business degree so I see the business plan. People provide the content of the site for free, then advertising is sold based on the amount of content and the number of hits. Then people pay for memberships. That way there is 2 sources of income, but no expenses on content as that is provided for free, only equipment and maintainance costs. That is cool, and I could even live with not being able to email or message another person without a membership, but to not even view the guestbook on my own profile for free? Are they afraid people would post email addresses on the guest book? Then limit the guest book to names and dates visited only. Rip off!!!!