Aaron and I started a grass painting business in the central and southern valley. Here are some pictures of a house we did yesterday.
You can get your dormant grass painted and not have to plant winter seed, water, or mow for 3 months.
Archive for work
Evergreen Grass Painting (4 photos)
Target sucks
#target will not take a return for an item we have a receipt for, the purchase credit card, and the item in original packaging never opened. Fuck this..
Good luck
I seem to be having some great luck with the police lately, which I’m sure will now take a turn for the worst since I mentioned it.. I was just traveling WELL over the 70mph limit in the 99 when I saw a cop on the side of the road eating something (doughnuts?). As soon as our eyes locked on each other he dropped his food and grabbed his radar gun as I slammed on my brakes. By the time my radar detector started freaking out I looked down and was back at 70mph.. I ate my string cheese to celebrate! 
LWIF – Giant Lemons
Welcome to the inaugural post of the, “Look what I found” series. This series will highlight interesting things I find in my daily activities.
As an inspector of foreclosed homes I often find strange things in the houses I visit.
I went to a house a couple days ago that had a bunch of fruit trees in the back yard, which isn’t uncommon among laborers in so cal. In the mix was a giant lemon tree and I don’t mean the tree was big, the fruits were gigantic! Below are a few pics 
Wonderful day..
I want to talk about how emasculating my father is, or maybe how emasculated he feels around me… Before that I just want to wish everyone a happy new year and if you’re still reading this blog after you’ve had a month to decide it was crap, then woop for me..
So, I’ve decided one of two things, either my dad is constantly emasculated by me, or his self esteem is so low he needs to constantly validate himself as, or he is so UN-evolved that he needs to secure his title as the dominate, alpha male. So as you can see my father is kinda hard to live with most of the time, but here’s the kicker, you can never tell him you’re doing anything or working on anything or he will completely take over and shut you out; the last two days were the worst example of it all.
Day before yesterday I’m taking down the Pine tree in the living room and wrapping the ornaments , like I’ve been doing for the last 20 years when my dad walks in and asks probably 30 questions about what I’m doing and how I’m doing it… Alright that’s not very bad but there’s more.
After that I’m cleaning out my closet in preparation for a 5 foot show rack thing I put together to help organize our live a little better when my dad walks in and without saying a work kicks me out of my own closet and just takes over…. After explaining my plan, he tells me I’m doing it all wrong. The strange part is he then puts in the organizer exactly as I explained.. First of all this thing is a show organizer… it sits on the floor and you can put your shoes in it… I had planned to put some screws in the top of it so it wouldn’t fall over if it get too heavy… It’s easier than pouring milk on cereal.
And now for the Mac Daddy of all bullshit alpha male moves, my iphone box. I sold my iphone on ebay and was putting it in a box to ship out of the country. If I believed in god I’d swear to him that my dad honestly came in, said hey what are you doing?, and took the project out of my hands…
Sometimes this doesn’t bug me. Sometimes I don’t want to be doing what I’m doing, but the worst part about all of this is no one asks for his help, hell I wish he’d just sit on the couch and watch TV by himself all day, but at the end of ever single day he bitches about how much he has to do… Just a reminder no one asked for his help or wanted it.. We’re all just fine without your 2 cents every 2 min.
Love you, but go away.
ryan
Bright Idea
First I’ll give you a little background about these crazy dogs my mom has.. She has a female Sealyham terrier that’s about 120 years old in human years, and two young standard poodles. The terrier really is a terrier just because she’s crazy and has no idea what’s going on.. The two poodles are just young and like to bark at each other for fun.. Today while I’m making my lunch my dad asks me to take the dogs out, obviously I tell him I will. At this point the dogs are asleep in the living room. My deaf senile decides it’s a good idea to wake the beasts while he yells from across the house asking if I’ve let the dogs out… Obviously I would enjoy the peace they slumber brings before waking the beasts, but as he yells the dogs awake.. And now I’m the asshole because the dogs weren’t let out and now they wont stop barking..
Reason #2 dad needs his own page
Why do people ask vague questions? Why do people get angry when you try to fully answer very broad question they ask?
About a week ago my parents went out and bought new phones, my dad ended up with the Incredible. Well today he tells me he’s thinking about returning his phone and getting the Droid X. It’s his money and he can do what he wants with it. I would prefer the droid x, but whatever.. So, he starts asking me questions about the Droid X, which I try to answer as completely as possibly.
He then asked me, “Is it the same screen.”
Naturally I started off with, “No, it’s bigger and a little brighter…” I only got about that far before he interrupted with,
“I already know everything about the screen, I want to know if it’s the same screen.”
… It’s about this point I loose my mind… I look like I just got a lobotomy, I’m drooling and my eyes start to cross a little..
And then of course, again I’m the idiot.
crazy people on parade
So its nice and quiet at work, we’re all just doing our morning desk duties and the crazy man comes in. He walks up to one of our advisors, and immediatly starts cursing at him and calling him things i’ve never even heard off all because he just doesn’t understand the process of parts authorization, research, and ordering. So I have two questions…. Why do people think its ok to treat other people like that? and Why do people get so upset when they just don’t understand something?
The internet and my afternoon
Oh my has it been an interesting day. I want to start off by saying the time is flying by for some reason..
So first I get a call from someone I’m building a website for and they need it up asap.. which is fine because Sarah is at work and I have all day to fuck around on my laptop. Then my dad starts talking about draining the pool or some shit and I tell him I’m too busy working to sit in front of the pool, pick my teeth and watch the pool drain, but he tells me to turn on the pump anyways… (flooding).. Well, after he gets back from whatever he’s doing the water is at the bottom of the tile and he’s fllippin shit because pumps are hard to replace or something. Here’s the interesting part, he tells me I’m stupid because my fancy college education didn’t prepare me for (wait for it) draining pools….
After that interesting bit I start working on thewebsite for my friend who sells Jet fuel in Anchorage. This biggest reason for the very simple website is to stream jet fuel prices from ITAT and platts. I figure I can just write a script to pull the prices from their public site twice a day or something. But no, they have some kind of, “if you want fuel prices you have to come to our website,” bullshit which doesn’t make any scene because they have no advertisements, no redirects, no popups… ITAT literally will make no money from my going to their site every day to update fuel prices…
So the fun begins.. I get into their server (not really) and found the java script files they’re using to update prices and everything. Only problem is, it’s only half of what I need… As I’m decompiling these java classes one very interesting line turns up basically pointing to a public table it’s pulling all of these numbers from… where is that table? who the fuck knows.. it points to nothing… absolutely nothing… I honestly think that someone logs into their server every day and updates the values by hand. To fuck with everyone hoping to auto-update their sites too, he throws a bunch of scripts that look legit but actually do nothing… so.. where does that leave us? up the creek without a paddle.. someone is going to have to update all this shit by hand every day.
