Christmas Time!

At least, according to Wal-Mart and JCPenny’s.. its Christmas time already!

We were in both over the weekend (that’d be when the Calendar still said “September”).  And Wal-Mart already had more Christmas decorations up then they did Halloween related items (including the costumes).  JCPenny’s had set out their Christmas stuff as well… Apparently, Halloween and Thanksgiving are not important enough to not have to ‘share’ their shopping time with the all mighty moneygrab…err.. I mean Christmas.

Hey.. Wal-Mart and Penney’s!  Why even bother taking down the christmas stuff this year? you might be able to grab an extra couple thousand dollars total if you left it up all year!

Sadly..since retailers are putting their Christmas stuff up earlier and earlier each year.. I honestly think it will get to the point, that it does just never come down before much longer..

Gone to the Dark Side

Err.. sorry bout the lack of activity.. I’ve gone to the dark side of WoW and joined a Horde Guild.. so I’ve been busting my butt to get to 70 ASAP.  I did end up in a guild with a bunch of good people, so its been fun… even if I am being ‘evil’  😉

Mother of the Year Candidate

Yup, this one is definetely trying to win a mother of the year award.  Full Story Here .

Fun excerpts from the story:

The DA’s office says on August 31, Rosales drove in the alley in the 2900 block of Champa and Curtis with her two children, ages 9 and 10, riding on the hood of her car.

Prosecutors say the children then got off the car, and Rosales drove forward, pinning the 10-year-old under the rear tire.

See? a real winner..  Same category as the Grandmother who gave her 9 year old granddaughter gin!

Big 4!

This past Thursday was Kael’s 4th birthday!

He decided he wanted ice cream for his birthday, then we loaded up everyone one and headed over to the water park for a good chunk of the day.  Both kids had a blast.  As is to be expected he got a big haul o’ stuff from all his family and friends when he had his party.  Our gift to him?  Bunk Beds… (we’re such boring parents huh?)

Downtime

Dreamhost has had some issues the last day or so, resulting in sporadic uptime for anything hosted there…including this site… Sorry bout that..

Apple Media Event Announcements

The Apple store is still down as I write this, so no buying any of the new goodies yet..but, here’s what was announced today:

New iMacs, only available in 20 or 24″ screen sizes, new, thinner aluminum enclosure..the keyboard that has been floating around for a while (individual keys, looks kinda like a Macbook keyboard blown up to desktop size) is real.  Price points from $1199-$1799 for stock configurations.

Specs are:  Up to 2.4Ghz Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 4 Gigs of RAM, up to 1 Terabyte of Storage.. all have got FireWire 400/800 and some USB 2 ports..

Mac Mini was stealth upgraded today.. since the store is down, can’t tell you what changed (mentioned in the Q&A at the end of the event)

iLife was updated to ’08 today.. new iMovie that started out as another app and inherited the iMovie name (no, really.. thats what Steve said).

iWork got Numbers added to it, and updates for Pages and Keynote..as indicated by the name, Numbers is a spreadsheet app.

.Mac got some much needed love, one bit of which was updated to 10Gigs of disk space, instead of just 1.

Everything is available now (well, now being whenever the Apple Store comes up).

Mac Event

I’m very disappointed with the Apple rumor community this weekend!  There is an Apple Event that is Mac related Tuesday morning.. and there is CRAP! for pre-release rumors/speculation..  Everyone (including myself) agrees the iMac will be updated, most likely with a new form factor… but there are no good rumors out there as to what the specs are, what it will look like, etc.. hell.. even the fakes are not very good this time around!

Bye-Bye!

Awwww… poor little Paris Hilton is broke!  Well..mostly..  Seems Granpa Hilton has decided that her jailterm was the final straw… and has removed her from the inheritance.  Guess she’ll have to work for her money like the rest of us now.. Good thing she’s already got that head start in the Porn industry.