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Written by Eric Courtney
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Sunday, 08 April 2007 12:45 |
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Greetings all... It's time for E-Dawg's annual spring cleaning extravaganza! I have tons of stuff to sell. But I'm going to start off slow so as not to bore you to death with used-car-salesman jargon, trying to push something off on you that you have no interest in buying (insert visual of a door slamming on a vacuum sales representative here). I have a website, with a domain and hosting, already built in need of a buyer. If you run a halibut charter in Alaska, or know someone who does, have I got a deal for you... AlaskaHalibutFishingCharter.com is live and in a holding pattern while it waits for the right owner to come along and save it from obscurity! I am selling it at a reduced cost since it was originally designed for someone else. It can be easily customized for the charter that buys it, and a steal for under $720! Check out the details here... I'm also selling my truck! It is a fully loaded 1994 Chevy Silverado Extended cab 4x4 (view pic). It's a nice truck that has served me well, but it is time for me to move into something a little smaller as I ponder the idea of relocation. To get the goods on a great truck, click here! I've been organizing all my web projects that I have started and left unfinished. I gave them all a priority level, and I am creating time-line milestones for each project. I found this to work a lot better than trying to do a little bit on every project at the same time. It keeps you focused and excited about the project you are trying to complete. So there is a couple of films out there that I really want to see. Grindhouse being one of them. The trailers have the look and feel of the old film Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. If you have no idea what that is, then you have no idea who Peter Fonda is, and it wouldn't really matter if I explained it to you. Lets just say the film is old school, and I couldn't be happier knowing Robert Rodriguez is behind it (Tarantino is a bonus of course). I know there are going to be those people who complain that it's a double feature and that it is too long, but I'm pretty sure I am going to love it! I am also thinking about checking out The Reaping with Hillary Swank. I anticipate disappointment, but the trailer has me. I also want to see 300. It's been out forever, and I just need to get off my ass and go see it. On Tuesday the After Dark Horror Fest (8 Films to Die For) comes out on DVD. I am more than likely going to grab that for my collection. =)
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Written by Eric Courtney
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Monday, 26 March 2007 12:34 |
All who love the Summer, hail to the poo! HAIL TO THE POO!!! I apologize. For as gross as that sounds, dog owners know exactly what that means this time of year in Alaska. That's right, Breakup time. Where The majestic snowy-winter-white-blanket quickly melts away to reveal the five months of neglect that makes everything dirty, wet, muddy and yes... Smelly! It becomes painfully obvious to many dog owners who look at their backyards and discover exactly how lazy they actually were during the winter after one nice day of 4o degree temperatures. I know I found all those snowy days convenient. I also know a lot of people who walk their dogs at Cheney Lake did as well. Regardless, it is a time to be excited because the warmer months are just around the corner.
I went to the Sportsman Show on Saturday with some friends, after I was thoroughly embarrassed at Dennys while trying to enjoy one of their low calorie dishes (I wouldn't recommend this to anyone watching their food intake). I won't go into details about what happened, or name names, but I'll just say that I got very upset about the whole deal, and it kind of set a weird tone to start the day. Have you ever felt like a naked guy in a room of one-way mirrors? Or like Lindsey Lohan in a room full of talented people? Yeah... That's exactly how I felt. Things calmed down a bit once we got to the Sportsman Show, and I managed to enjoy myself. I got my jar of habanero olives, as I did last year at the show, from the Garlic Gourmay (they actually spell it that way) booth, and I decided to try a new rub (garlic and Jalapeno), so I am excited about that.
Later that evening I went a birthday dinner for a friend of mine. It was a good time. It was Mexican food, and I cheated on my diet. I ate with the same motivation Barry Bonds would have in a room full of syringes filled with growth hormone. It was that good.
From there, we all took the party to the Long Branch Saloon. The LB is a bar in South area, for those of you who don't know. They have the best burgers in town, but I was too stuffed from the Mexican feast to gulp one down. Instead, I had a couple of beers and endured what had to be the most gawd-awful live music I have ever witnessed at any public establishment I have ever been to. It was a guy, a guitar, and a music machine. This guy needed a lot more practice before he decided to put himself on public display, but it didn't seem to bother him any as he continually sang and played out of tune. I kind of wondered when the wait staff would be bringing out free burgers. They never came. After Ann, the birthday girl (insert visual of a party horn blowing here), playfully threw a couple of olive spears at the tone-deaf prodigy, we all decided to call it an evening.
As usual the weekend went by way too fast.
 
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Written by Eric Courtney
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:15 |
It's deeper than you think. If you want it to be.
Operation ADN Freedom endures. I really do enjoy working for the Anchorage Daily News, but it is really tough trying to turn the place off when I walk out the doors in the evening. The amount of work to be done compared to man-energy is like a viking long ship with no sail that needs to cross the Baltic Sea in a day, and only two skinny-armed oarsmen available to make it happen.
We, our department, lost three full time employees in the last couple of weeks, so there is just my boss, a coworker, and myself in the office now. It has been really quiet. Jason, my coworker, and I have to make sure phones are covered before we take our lunch. It really sucks! It's not as entertaining in the office anymore, but I'm not blaming that on Jason.
Jason is an interesting dude. This guy has extraordinary ninja-Excel-skills; he has surprised me on many occasions with solutions to spreadsheet issues (insert slow single clap that accelerates to massive applause here). Jason swears by the 4-color ballpoint pen. You know... Those pens that have the four sliding toggles at the top of the pen? They come in orange and baby blue, yet both sport black, blue, red and green ink? Those pens that your history teacher would use to mark up your essay on the fall of the Roman Empire? Yeah... That pen! It's the only pen I have ever seen him use. I'll bet he has one next to every phone in his house. Anyway... Jason's a great guy to work with. He makes the day tolerable.
So I have shot some more photos that I still need to upload, but right now I am too lazy to do anything but check my mail, read the comments in Tila Tequila's blog, and post this painfully boring post (insert visual of Eric cutting lines on the inside of his arm here).
I have also started work on a couple of new websites that I will mention at a later time. After all, Operation ADN Freedom is a covert mission (to those not reading this anyway).
One last thing... I have closed comments to non-authenticated users because some dork-a-lope is trying to pedal his porn in my comments (like this site is generating any traffic. Please...). So if the need so grips you to leave me a comment, register.
Gotta run kids!
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Written by Eric Courtney
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Monday, 19 March 2007 12:05 |
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Parents who refuse to parent should pay rent to the caring people whos lives are affected when they try to parent parentless children... Let's just say I've been affected. I had to say something but I didn't want to bore you all with a tirade of rants and twenty paragraphs of explanations covering what normal people should already know... The City of Anchorage is now throwing its residents a bone with a logo design contest for the new Big Wild Branding of the city's new identity. It seems enough people raised a stink about the crappy logo plastered on our city buses and anything else in the way of the city's direction. $3000 in prizes for the top vote-getter. I may just enter. If an ink-ketchup-little-oopsy-poopsy stain can get the initial nod from the city, maybe my stick-figure-tourist-climbing-into-the-bear-exhibit-at-the -Alaska Zoo-guy has a chance! I'm so excited! So I've been shooting some photos lately, and it has motivated me to start adding images to my galleries. That's right! I said galleries, plural, meaning more than one (sarcasm should end now). One of them is dedicated to every-day-ordinary photos, while the other one I have set up is for artistic expression, or depression depending on how you see art (insert visual of Eric's college design instructor standing over his shoulder, shaking his head, and saying, "That's CRAP, Courtney!" here). The Iditarod is now over, with the exception of a few late finishers, and I couldn't be happier. That usually means the temperature is going to warm up, and I'll be wheeling the grill out of the shed shortly thereafter. Not the case this year, it seems. It's been so effin cold this last two months that it may not start to warm up until July this year (insert cheesy Alaska postcard idea here). I got my baby back. My iMac. I even bought iWork '06, knowing '07 will be coming out soon. Probably right after the free upgrade period on '06 expires, knowing my luck. The Toshiba laptop I was using worked well for me despite having to constantly reboot it because of Firefox crashes. I received my third shipment of NutriSystem today. I'm doing pretty well, but I have had a couple of cheat moments, but even when I cheat... I'm not going overboard. All in all, I'm still losing. That photo in the header will be coming down soon because that fat-ass-cheddar-wurst-gobbling-tub is a lot skinnier now. Go me!
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