http://www.babblingblog.com

Go there, that is my new home ...

Well MovableType is installed and running. All the posts from Blog*Spot are imported, and I'm working on moving the HaloScan comments in, that may take a bit longer. Currently I'm only using one of the default styles, but once I get some experience with this thing I'll change it up some.

Thanks to Joanie for the inspiration to move to MovableType, and thanks to all for many suggestions on using Hosting Matters as the repository of my drivel.

Hopefully as time goes on, I'll get around to adding the previous four months of post archives that were lost by Blogger :(

Till the Domain Name http://www.babblingblog.com resolves to the new host, 24-48 hours from now, please view the new site by linking to http://64.21.37.2/~babbling.

Thanks!

Working
Amazing ... for some people the new domain is already working.

Abandoning Ship
Ok... I'm getting off this sinking ship and moving to the MT Wagon. I bought my domain today www.babblingblog.com and when it initially resolves it will start pointing here. Once I have MT setup at a new host (still need to find one, suggestions?) then I will move everything there and turn this nasty place off.

Wish me luck! *hugs*

Stood Up
WTF ... What is with people these days? For nearly six weeks I have been chatting online with a nice girl named Jen. She seems great, alot of the same interests. Divorced, not looking for another marriage just a good friendship that may lead to something else. Alot like me, in many ways.

Last week we setup to go out tonight, and since I'm still under the weather and I have been eager to meet her face to face I decide to go anyways. Spoke with her earlier today and we got everything ironed out and set. I get to the pub and get our table ... and wait. And wait, and wait.

Two hours pass, and nothing. I call, and call, nothing. Finally I give up, have a quick bite and a few beers and I'm gone.

I get home, and try her one last time. She answers and what happens? "Oh sorry, I could not make it, my sitter never showed." Duh! What about a fucking phone call?!? "Sorry, I was hoping she'd show up late." What?!? *click*

Grrrr....

Side Notes
Three things ... one my email is giving me fits, I cannot send mail. So those that have written, including the wonderful Goddess, please do not think I'm ignoring you. Second, because of this I've added a link to send me a message via AIM on the menu. Be nice, I can block faster than a teenager in the backseat of a car at the drive-in. Thirdly, I was invited to join the team over at Hooked on Blogging, now I just need to think of something witty to say.

Actor Richard Harris dead at 72
(CNN) -- Richard Harris, the classically trained actor whose roles ranged from King Arthur in "Camelot" to Headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter movies, has died. He was 72.

This is a great loss for Harry Potter fans like me. It will be very difficult to find someone with as much charisma as him to play the part.

Sick ...
I'm sick ... *cough* ... I hate being sick. Everyone seems to be sick these days... this damn stuff must be transfered by blog comments or something.

I need someone to come over and rub vics on me :(

An Interview
Thanks to Da Goddess Joanie, she posted a link to An Interview with God .... It is very cool, and will definately make you think.

100 Things about me you may or may not have wanted to know.

1. I love dogs, and I own three pugs.
2. I am considered anti-social by those who know me.
3. I have only been in five relationships.
4. I was a military man.
5. I have openly carried a gun most of my life, but I do not any longer.
6. I used to drive a car that had flashing lights on the top and made people slam on their breaks a lot for no reason :)
7. I got married at 22.
8. I have three rugrats.
9. I was 33 when I got divorced.
10. I still miss my ex-wife even though I hate her fucking guts.
11. I still have her cat, and not because I wanted it.
12. I worship at the alter of the Texas Rangers Ballpark every game day, win or loose.
13. I hate football.
14. I am over protective of my kids.
15. I love watching Hockey on TV, but not in a stadium.
16. I still regularly talk to my first love (she is not my ex-wife).
17. I will never be married again, I refuse.
18. I drink Scottish beer exclusively.
19. I should own stock in Dr. Pepper simply because I single handedly keep them in business.
20. I have a favorite book, which is over 1100 pages long and I have read more than 30 times.
21. I love to dive, scuba dive that is.
22. I would do just about anything for a date with Nicole de Boer.
23. I prefer to go down, than to be gone down on.
24. I like Kevin Costner movies, even though I can not stand him.
25. I am an only child.
26. I like porn, porn is my friend ... well at least tasteful porn.
27. I like Harry Potter more than my kids do.
28. I love seafood, especially oysters on the half-shell, raw of course.
29. I do not wear underwear, unless I'm wearing slacks.
30. I believe that no one is actually good or evil, only that they are either fucked up in the head or they are not.
31. I think online personality tests are completely stupid, but I take them anyway, I just never keep the results.
32. I love British comedy, and not just Monty Python, but all of it. Except Benny Hill, he's a freak.
33. I am a Native Texan.
34. My favorite writer is Robert A. Heinlein.
35. I am an Eagle Scout.
36. I hate the summer, and love the winter. Let is snow, let is snow, let it snow.
37. I love foul weather. The worse it is the more I like it. Tornado? Hurricane? Bring it on, I'll sit outside in a lawn chair with a beer and watch the show.
38. I like to chat with people online via IM, but I hate chatrooms.
39. I have been out on two dates with people I met online.
40. I am very leery of meeting folks in person that I only know online.
41. I have never had sex with someone I met online.
42. I now work in a cube farm, and hunt prarie dogs with a rubberband loaded shotgun.
43. My boss is younger than I am and I hate him because of it.
44. I have four, yes four computers on my desk at work.
45. At home I only have a laptop.
46. I do not allow my kids on the Internet, at all. I have an AOL account just for them, and they are restricted to AOL Kids only. They do not even have IM.
47. At one time I had fourteen pet hampsters.
48. I am an Assistant Scoutmaster for my son's Troop.
49. My mother is a bitch, and I used to tell her regularly till she told me that she knew she was and I no longer needed to remind her of it.
50. I am a devout Catholic and attend services regularly. The Father of our parish knows I own more guns than al Qaeda, and I'm not afraid to use them.
51. I hate anything that has to do with Steven King, except anything that Nicole de Boer is staring in.
52. Newspaper comics suck, online comics rock, especially Sinfest.
53. When I talk online I am very flirty.
54. I'm very timid in person, unless I'm getting lucky.
55. Superman's weakness is kryptonite, mine is red heads, real ones only. I can tell the difference.
56. My favorite kind of food is Cajun.
57. If I can't cook it myself, then I will go out for it.
58. I like frisky women, but not trashy ones.
59. I am decended from Scottish imigrants.
60. My favorite ice cream is Neapolitian.
61. I will kill for the last piece of chocolate.
62. I have never had an at-fault accident.
63. My first car I got new from my parents, I drove it for ten years and over 300,000 miles before it finally died.
64. I like to gamble, I bet on horses at the racetrack and I only play Bacarat in casinos. Slots machines are a waste of time.
65. I used to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day.
66. I will only write using one kind of pen, a Uni-Ball Ultra Fine Point.
67. The best meal in the world is Fish & Chips and a pint of Bellhaven.
68. I am a card carrying member of the NRA.
69. When I was 11 I ate dinner with Micky Mantle.
70. The street I lived on in the 1970's had four Dallas Cowboys living on it, one of them was Roger Staubach.
71. I served in Desert Storm.
72. I am a member of the Replublican Party, and a moderate conservative.
73. I have tried online dating services twice, both times were a miserable failure.
74. My favorite music is Country music.
75. I love to eat crazy cheese right out of the can.
76. I used to be addicted to online games, but now I am not.
77. I refuse to wear off-branded jeans, only Levi 501's or Wrangler Boot Cut.
78. I am a chia pet. I have so much hair on my body I could star in Planet of the Apes without a costume.
79. I am a cancer survivor.
80. The only part of my body that does not have hair on it is my back.
81. I own every album Elton John has ever put out.
82. I drive a big SUV that eats gas like there is no tomorrow, and I like it.
83. In my life I have visited fourty-eight different countries.
84. I collect Beanie Babies.
85. I hate McDonalds food.
86. I do not have a birth mark.
87. I like candles, but I hate incense.
88. I wear jeans to work every day even though my company's dress code prohibits it.
89. I can play the violin and the flute.
90. I have over 200 DVD's in my movie collection.
91. My favorite TV series is Stargate SG1.
92. I own two kilts.
93. My favorite fast food is Church's Chicken.
94. My favorite Mini-Series of all time is Shogun.
95. I like Jackie Chan movies, especially the old dubbed ones.
96. I am color blind.
97. I have never had a date with anyone as tall, or taller than me. I am only 5'10".
98. My eyes change color from green to brown based on my mood.
99. I listen to talk radio.
100. I admire you for reading all this useless trivia.