fucking drunk motherfuckers pulling the fucking fire alarm at 1:30 in the fucking am. fuckers.

Just saw two kids with rat tail mullets. It was a beautiful sight to behold.

To refresh your memory, I received a text message from a number I didn’t recognize, so I decided to have some fun. It started out as follows:

Mystery Texter: Hey what size grey goose do u want?

me: The largest one available, of course.

MT: Lol will do

me: When will it arrive?

I didn’t hear anything for a while.  Then about an hour later, it started up again:

MT: The grey goose?

me: Yes, the grey goose. I’m getting thirsty thinking about it.

MT: Lol i don’t get off till about 530. And ill make run to the liquor store around 6 so it will be ready for u to take home when u come over.

me: Was I supposed to come over tonight?

MT: I thought u were just to hang out? Maybe smoke the hooka a lil?

me (trying to get an idea of who it might be): That’s right. Refresh my memory, how do I get there?

MT: Give us a call when ur on ur way and well give u directions

MT: Its awesome to find someone who we dont freak out

me (maybe I can freak them out a bit): Should I bring my leather?

MT: Please do

me (damn, didn’t work, maybe this will): My sister would like to come, too. Is that ok?

MT: Thats cool. R yall drinking and having fun?

me: Not yet. Looking forward to tonight.

MT: Why r u looking forward too it?

me (shit, am I busted?): Because it sounds fun.

MT: It will be. Wanna play whos the vigges pervert,

me (Cool, I’m not.  Let’s see where this’ll take us): Sure. You in first.

MT: Me in first,

MT: ?

me: Yes.

MT: Ok but if u get us naked i swear lol

me: I thought that was the goal. . .

MT: Lol. Well i know it wont be hard for you to get jess naked lol

WTF?  I know someone named Jess.  Could this be someone that actually knows me and is texting me by mistake?

MT: Just get ready to have fun tonight

MT: Dont wear to much lol

Another long break with no messages.  I was thinking about who it could be, and even called my wife to see what she thought.  I did a reverse white pages lookup on the number, but all it told me was that it was a cell phone using the same cell provider that I use.  No help there.

me: Where do you work that you can spend all this time texting me?

MT: Pharmacy. And its slow

I thought I’d try to let them down easy, and try to get out of “coming over” like they thought I was:

me: It looks like I won’t be able to get away from work until after 7 pm. Is that too late to come over?

MT: Of course not well be up late tonight

Crap.  Didn’t work.

MT: Ur grey goose was 25

MT: What time do u think yal will be here?

By the time I received the above message, I was already home.  I didn’t bother responding.  Later, I received this:

MT: Probably. We can order it when we’re done.

I have no idea what “it” is.  Or what it is that they are doing that they’ll be waiting until after they’re done to order.

I hope they had a nice night, whoever they were.

While at lunch today, I received the following text message:

Hey what size grey goose do u want?

It was from a number that I didn’t recognize.  So I thought, what the hell, why not respond?

The largest size available, of course.

To which the unknown person replied:

Lol will do

Since I was having fun with it, I decided to keep going:

When will it arrive?

I haven’t heard back yet.

I’m tempted to call the number and find out who it is.

Some drunk mofo just said:

“Turkey’s not a country.”

Dumbass.

When Cynthia and I got in the car after dinner tonight, I noticed that the odometer read 99982. We were 18 miles shy of 100k. Since we had a couple errands to run, we decided to drive around until it rolled over. First we went to Radio Shack to pick up a battery for a bike computer. Next we headed to AutoZone for bulbs for a headlight and a fog light. Both the left fog light and right low beam/daytime running light bulbs are burned out. There’s an AutoZone fairly close to home, but we decided to go to one farther from home in hopes that we’d get closer to 100k.

As we drove into Downtown, we were still a few miles short. So we headed down through the Cedars area, looking at the loft buildings there. As we were heading back into Downtown, it turned over 100k miles. So I stopped and took a picture.

Here’s hoping it goes another 100k miles before it needs replacing.

19 years ago today I moved to Dallas.

My brother took me to dinner at an IHOP that’s no longer an IHOP.

I started working the next day at a sporting goods store that’s no longer in existence.

About the only possession from that move that I still have is my stereo.

Me (while sitting ten feet from MC Frontalot): I feel like a sub-par geek.

My wife: You have a blog, what more do you need?

I’ve been blogging since 2003, when I first got Blogger to publish to my server.  I used Blogger until 2006, when I got tired of their interface and lack of uptime.  At that time, I researched various blogging software applications, trying to find the one that would work best for me.  It had to be free, and it had to work well.  For some reason, I chose not to check out WordPress.  Of all the options available, I narrowed it down to ExpressionEngine and Textpattern.  I couldn’t get Textpattern to install, so i went with ExpressionEngine.

For the most part, EE has worked well for me.  The main drawback I’ve been able to discover is that when it’s time to update the software, I found it easier to completely uninstall the old version and do a new install of the new one.  Even doing that, updating the software generally took me a couple of days to do.  Because of that, I’d been using version 1.4.2 for well over a year.  I know that I needed to update to the current version (1.6), I just wasn’t looking forward to doing it.

Last week, I attended WordCamp Dallas with my wife.  I figured I’d pick up general blogging tips (I did), and also learn more about WordPress.  I fully intended to update the software to the current version, but also considered switching to WordPress.

Earlier this week, I made the attempt to update.  As usual, it didn’t work.  Finally, in frustration, I decided to install WordPress 2.5 and start over.  But I didn’t want to simply install it on my current host.  I decided to finally purchase monogodo.com, and install it on that.  I’ll keep monogodo.org and have it redirect to the .com version eventually.

The WordPress installation was the easiest software installation I’ve ever done.  I’m amazed at how simple it was.  Adding plugins & widgets and themes is extremely easy.  In EE, all of it took some doing.  Now I understand why my wife loves WordPress.

I am still going to try to export my old posts from EE and import them into WordPress at some point.  I think the best way to do that is going to be to install EE locally on my computer at home, and fiddle with it there.

Oh, another thing I like about WordPress vs. EE:  In EE, if I want to add a Category, I have to create it in a whole different submenu.  In WordPress, I just add it during the post.  I also hated the preview in EE.  The theme it used for previewing posts was the Dashboard theme, which looked nothing like my blog.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to using the software even more as time goes on.