Receptionist Cat

This is footsie. He is the receptionist cat at Noah's Ark Veterinary Clinic in Brooklyn. He is the "house cat" there but is available for adoption. He can be kind of temperamental and has swatted my crazy dog on the nose.

A Trip to the Photographer

It's been about two years since my wife and I got married. We've been trying to get our albums from the photographer for a very long time. Our photographer is based in Long Island since that was where I lived back then. So for us to schedule an appointment and go out there, we need to basically "make a day of it" to go out there.

After two years of screw ups and mulligans, we finally got the call to go pick up all of our albums and be done with it. Or so we thought. When we got in the woman didn't even know we were coming, despite us having spoke with her the week before and confirming the appointment date/time.

They had our parent albums but no dice on the main album. My wife expressed her displeasure that the album wasn't complete and the woman assured us that she thought it was or else she wouldn't have had us come out. We are never disrespectful to people who are doing their jobs but we were visibly annoyed at this point.

About the CD with our digital photos on it: their policy is not to sell the CD until 1 year after we receive the main wedding album and it costs $500. My wife, a digital artist, told her this is outrageous and since they screwed up so many times, we wanted it for free and for her to ship it along with the album. We already overpaid them a ton of money for prints, albums, and framing and our wedding video was less than spectacular.

With regards to the video that they did for us, a lot of the video included still frames from the album. We told the woman that we were not altogether pleased with it and she brought up that the videographer was one of the only people ever fired from that photography studio. They didn't have access to the original footage so there was "nothing they could do." I found out after the wedding that the videographer tried to recruit one of my ushers (my cousin) into the KKK. He laughed about it but my wife and I were pretty pissed.

I told the woman that we didn't intend to come back out and requested that she ship us the album along with the CD and some prints we ordered that they forgot to make for us. I also told her that I wasn't willing to pay for shipping.

We weren't being mean or disrespectful but since they had a lot of prospective clients who hadn't signed contracts yet visiting (and paper thin walls), we got everything we asked without much more than requesting it. They played it right because my wife can get loud pretty quickly when she feels she's being taken advantage of.

Hopefully by the time this post publishes, we will be in possession of the albums, but I won't hold my breath.

Our Wii Fit Weekend

Over the weekend, my wife and I got wii fit and were messing around with it. My wife is hypoglycemic so she asked my sister-in-law, who was over my house watching my puppies, to make a scrambled egg for her before her blood sugar dropped. During the course of her culinary adventure, my sister in law bunked her head against the sharp corner of a cabinet door.

We heard her say "ouch!" and then she kind of went quiet. We looked over and saw her still walking around. She touched her head and looked at it. After a couple more seconds she turned to us and started screaming while showing us her bloody hand.

We told her to sit and keep pressure on the wound with a piece of paper towel. We told her not to freak out because scalp wounds always cause a lot of blood. She was obviously in a lot of pain but said she was really screaming because the blood freaked her out.

When she calmed down, and the bleeding stopped, the wii fit told me I was overweight. Thanks Nintendo, way to ruin my weekend.

A Stupid Question?

This may be a dumb question but it was something I was thinking about on the train. Suppose we reach the technological singularity or we at least have artificial intelligence capable of questioning it's own existence and possessing knowledge of the theory of evolution. Do you think said "intelligent" computers would believe themselves to be a natural evolution of human beings?

I'm sorry if I sound pseudo-intellectual, I don't fancy myself a great thinker or anything. I just wanted to share a question I had, feel free to inform me of my stupidity.

Oh Noes, My First Hiatus!

I just got an xbox360. I've been completely swept up in a Grand Theft Auto 4 playing spree and a smidgen of after-hours freelance work. I am such an achievement whore, this is terrible. It's difficult to play a video game when you have two crazy dogs licking your face, competing for your attention, and your wife screaming at you to clean while you try to pickup up digital prostitutes and kill them to get your money back.

I have an interesting post on some commuter observations and how I got "tested" by some undercover police officers that I will schedule really soon.

My Personal Time Machine

I've previously mentioned my childhood trips to France. We didn't have much money but one of the greatest breakfasts we had was a bowl of hot cocoa and some warm sliced up baguette with butter on it. You'd dip the bread in the hot cocoa and eat it. It was glorious.

Anyway, I hadn't experienced it in a while so a few weekends ago I decided I'd try to see if I'd still like it. I had some Italian bread, some butter, and a ton of hot cocoa. The combination of ingredients worked perfectly. The taste brought back a ton of wonderful memories. Here is my personal time machine after I ate the bread:

Cloaca Puppet

My wife went to Wendy's a few months ago and for some reason bought a kid's meal. The kid's meal came with a special toy. I think it's supposed to be a finger puppet but it looks more like an anatomically correct bird puppet complete with cloaca. Wake up people, we must stop evil Wendy's before they corrupt our children!!1!!11eleventeen.

I've been meaning to blog about this for a while but I just emptied the camera today.