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Haven't posted in a while. Have a few minutes so here are a few updates -
Still raiding in WOW. We've got all of BT and MH on farm and are entering Sunwell now. Got Kalecgos to 6% a few times. Still workin on it.
I got a new job. It is so-so, but there is some possible opportunity to advance into a really good positiion. We'll see...
Katie got a new job. It is 100% travel, but it is a GREAT job with really good pay and benefits. I'm very proud of her and hope that she enjoys it.
Since Katie will be travelling alot we got her a new gaming laptop. Core 2 Duo 2.26 Ghz, 4 gig RAM, 17" widescreen, 7200 RPM SATA HD, Geforce 9800 GT w/512 MB. Makes me jealous, kicks my Desktop to the curb. :)
Saw Craic Wisely last week. Its been about a year since I've seen them. LOVED the show. Need to find out from someone how to get in contact with them. Can anyone help me out there? One of Katie's coworkers has a fiance who is REALLY interested in them. He's of Irish decent and is excited to hear their stuff and see their press kit. Oh...did I forget to mention that he is a bigwig for 5 radio stations and might be interested in putting them on the air? Woot! :-D Got the new EP, can't wait for a full disc.
Haven't been LARPing in a while. Katie and I hope to make the Bloodmoon event. Not sure if I plan to PC or NPC. Money has been tight this year, but with the new jobs things are slowly returning to normal. We've got some things to pay off, but hopefully can attend at least one LARP event before the end of the year.
That is about it. Miss my friends. Any parties coming up this winter already in the planning stages? Maybe we should have a Bring Your Own Meat BBQ at our place or something...before it gets too cold...we'll see. Things have been hectic as hell with the new jobs and everything else going on in our lives.
Our economy terrifies me.
I feel that we need a strong president who won't sacrifice their ideals. I'm a democrat who has voted republican before. I would have considered John McCain a few months ago before he flushed all that he stood for down the toilet. Then he chose Palin for his VP. Between age and health factors there is actually a not-so-slim chance that she could be our next Prez. At one time I might have considered McCain, I won't even consider voting for a possible Palin presidency. Obama all the way for this guy. All the way.
Not that I wouldn't have voted Obama anways, but at least McCain was nice enough to settle that decision for me.
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Mar. 5th, 2008 @ 02:01 pm
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Last week we downed Kael'Thas!!!! Most of our guild is now attuned to Hyjal. We're going to be finishing up vials over the next few weeks, start on Hyjal, and very soon after we'll be exploring BT. Wewt! We might be ready for Sunwell when 2.4 arrives! :-D
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Went and saw Grindhouse with Soco. Had a blast. Best B movies EVAR.
For those of you in the know...if I were to pick ANY actor to have done "the deed", it would HAVE to have been Bruce (Yippie-Ki-ay-MFer) Willis. I'm glad that Rodrigez felt the same way. :)
One more thing...
"Did you just hit a boat!?"
I lied. One more. This NEEDS to be a real movie, lol:
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Now that you have some numbers and abbreviations to chew on...
Steve, Natalie, Katie, and I are going to see 300 on the IMAX in Lansing (Celebration Cinemas) at 7:20 pm on Saturday and we'd like to invite you along! Feel free to swing by the Liedel's residence afterwards (BYOB) for some hot unadulterated group Wii action (Wario Ware supports up to 12 players.)!
DATE: Saturday 03/10/2007
TIME: 7:20 PM
WHERE: Celebration Cinemas Lansing
WHAT: 300 on the IMAX
If you want directions to our house from the IMAX shoot me an e-mail at bliedel@modemhelp.net .
If you plan to come, PLEASE PRE-ORDER YOUR TICKETS ONLINE. I cannot stress this enough as Friday sold out in minutes. You can preorder them from:
[LINK REMOVED - SOLD OUT]
Hope to see you there!
Let's up the ante and add a little dinner to go along with that -
WHAT:
Dinner at Finley's American Grill
WHEN:
5:00pm (gives us plenty of time to eat, chat, and get in line for good seats)
WHERE:
Finley's American Grill
6300 South Cedar
Lansing, MI 48911
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In the last week we have:
* Cleaned the entire basement (This was a BIG task, cause there was a ton of dirt, nails, razor blades, etc in the "pits" that are around the edge of the basement. Several hours of scraping, digging, and shop-vacing were involved.)
* Painted the basement floor.
* Painted almost all of our walls. (BIG thanks to Rob, Steve and Natalie!!!!!)
* Drywalled some exposed insulation under our stairs. (Thanks Steve!!!!)
* Mounted our new TV. (Pic from some random website below. Thanks Steve!!!!)
We are really excited to move in. Tonight we are going to be bringing the cats over, cleaning, and finish packing. Tomorrow we have a bunch of friends coming out to help us move and it should go pretty quickly. We are starting at 11:00am and my hope is to get everything loaded into the truck and be on the road by 1pm or 2pm. Cable is set to be installed between 1pm and 5pm, but they will be calling ahead and they have noted the setup to be the last dispatch of the day, so I need to be in Mason by about 3pm. We'll be eating, unpacking, and hopefully watch some movies or something that night with our friends who can stick around.
Finally....we have our house! :-) I'm very happy with how the paint turned out and I think Katie did an awesome job at picking out the colors. She has been taking care of pretty much everything and has done a fantastic job. I love you honey. :-)
We hope to have some parties at the new place and I can't wait to have our family over for Christmas this year.Current Mood:  satisfied Current Music: HitzRadio.com |
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This is the UK, as your constitution isn't worth toilet paper now, we're revocing your independance:
To the Citizens of the United States of America:
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not fancy). Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix will be replaced by the suffix "ise." You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels (look up "vocabulary"). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.
2. There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."
3. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out Task #1 (see above).
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. November 2nd will be a called "Come-Uppance Day."
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
6. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
7. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline")-roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
8. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with mayonnaise but with vinegar.
9. Waiters and waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." American brands will be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
12. You will cease playing American "football." There is only one kind of proper football; you call it "soccer." Those of you brave enough will, in time, will be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the "World Series" for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
13. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
14. An internal revenue agent (i. e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776). Thank you for your co-operation and have a great day.
15. Start pronouncing "Queen Camilla." She will be your next queen!
Oct. 31st, 2006 @ 11:41 am
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...or more aptly named "The House That Was Supposed To Be Finished In July".
Whelp folks, it is finally here and we are very excited! After 2 1/2 years of paying off debt and saving we have had a house built in Mason and will be closing on it tomorrow, assuming nothing crazy happens in the next 24 hours. Pre-during-post construction photos of the house can be found at:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/maria_rocinante/album?.dir=dea9re2
We are going to be painting from the 1st through the 10th since it will be a whole lot nicer to paint with barely anything in the house than it will be after we move all our stuff in. It also helped to decide this since a large number of our friends will be busy the weekend of the 3rd - 5th, so we pushed our move back a week. During that week we will probably be moving what we can in our car as we go to and fro to paint. This will most likely be one of the easier moves that you have ever been to since we're living in a VERY small place right now and most of our stuff is in storage, boxed and ready to go. The truck we rented is probably too big, but better a little larger than what we need than a little smaller than what we need.
Did I mention that we are really excited to get into the new place? :-)
So to that end, I have "spammed" (for those of you who know him, here comes a comment from Joey ;) ) many of my friends, family, coworkers, etc, with this e-mail in hopes that we might procure some assistance in making this a quick and easy move. Also, if any of you have experience painting, need experience paiting, are generally just bored and want to paint, or don't want to paint but will paint anyways, we would be happy to have help doing so, and it would be especially helpful if you have your own roller/brush!!!
Also, my mother will be making her famous Cream of Mushroom soup (with a burgandy base, I think) and we will also be getting lots of deli meat/chees/bread for sandwiches, etc. So to sum up:
MOVING DAY
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DATE: Saturday, November 11th.
TIME: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
PLACE: Howell to Mason
FOOD: Soup, Sandwiches, and other stuff
UNPACKING: You don't have to, but if you want to, we'll be unpacking and will probably do some partying that night.
PAINTING DAYS
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DATE(S): November 1st - November 3rd, Novemeber 6th - November 10th
TIME: After work, mayhaps...5pm-?
PLACE: Mason
FOOD: Pizza? Wings? Something we come up with.
If you are interested, please e-mail us here or give me a call, let me know where you'll be coming from, and I'll shoot further details (maps, directions, etc) back.
Thanks everybody!
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Brad and Katie Liedel
Oct. 30th, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
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I WANT ONE!!
Sep. 8th, 2006 @ 12:56 pm
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Happy Birthday ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) alendark! May the Peanut Butter Fairy always be at your side!
Happy Birthday djweso! May all of your hard days be gone!
Feb. 27th, 2006 @ 01:50 pm
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Stolen from a friend of mine who isn't on LJ:
You have two cows and you are a....
DEMOCRAT
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office that put a tax on your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money, buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous. Barbara Streisand sings for you.
SOCIALIST
You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So?
COMMUNIST
You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM - AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
DEMOCRACY - AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.
BUREAUCRACY - AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have down sized and are reducing expenses. Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You go to lunch. Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are. While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch. Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. You produce your 10th, 5 year plan in the last 3 months. The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best looking one. Some of the people who like the brown one best, vote for the black one. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for neither. Some people can't figure out how to vote at all. Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best looking one.
Feb. 8th, 2006 @ 02:52 pm
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For some reason, all I can think of is Colin... ;-)
( See Photos )
Feb. 7th, 2006 @ 09:10 am
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The Interview.
THE RULES
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
MY ANSWERS
1. You've been turned into a smurf. Yep, that's right, a smurf. Now you have a choice, would you stay a smurf forever with only one girl smurf to pass around amongst the whole village, or would you throw yourself into Gargamel's alchemy pot?
The pot. Maybe the cat would follow me in.
2. What's hotter... Girl on Girl, or Girl on Girl on Guy?
Trick question! You didn't say whether or not I was the guy. I will assume that I am not the guy and give the answer girl on girl. Totally.
3. Your all time favorite book (not series)?
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
4. Of all legends and myths, which hold the strongest allure for you?
Witchcraft. Very interesting and strange stuff involved in witchcraft.
5. If you could be any animal for a day, what would it be?
A crocodile and I'd b*tchslap Stevie E.
Jan. 9th, 2006 @ 01:57 pm
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Got to see Cats tonight at the Masonic Temple. It was fantastic! Thanks to my wife for taking me out on such an awesome date. :-)
In other news Evan and Bianca probably won't be making it out to CARPS this weekend due to the unforseen. It is not my place to state what has occurred, however it is not something that will keep them from CARPS in the future or anything like that. Evan and B, I understand the difficulty that you may be going through right now and our prayers are with you. I will be taking over as GM this weekend in Evan's absence, and with Sam, Erik, Todd, Colin, and Wayne's help, will do my best to make it a great event.
Of course, my date kept me up later than I usually am, so I am going to go catch some shuteye now as I am edging on deleriously tired.
Goodnight all, and sweet dreams.
Nov. 8th, 2005 @ 11:38 pm
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Gimme some sugar baby.
Which B-Movie Badass Are You?
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Nov. 6th, 2005 @ 07:51 pm
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Happy Birthday kliedel !!
Jul. 29th, 2005 @ 06:42 am
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Got up early this morning and found the IFRAME hack that was causing the problems. The forums have been fixed.
Jul. 9th, 2005 @ 10:21 am
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It is my 4th wedding anniversary today. I love you Katie.
Jul. 7th, 2005 @ 04:09 pm
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Uhg...Upgrading phpbb can be a major pain in the butt when you mod out a forum. So after upgrading to .11 a while back, I held off for a bit on upgrading to a newer version. Well, lately I just haven't had time to do so, and now an exploit in .11 just got exploited and setup a virus on the CARPS forum. So I have now taken the forums down and cannot easily fix the virus. It may be weeks before the forums are back online. Maybe even months.
Jul. 7th, 2005 @ 08:46 am
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Name: Bradford
Meaning: Broad crossing
Name Origin: English
Number of Syllables: 2.00
Gender: Male
More interesting facts about the name Bradford:
Lucky Number: 5
Ruling Planet: Mercury
Element: Air
Primary Color: Blue
Traits: Active, both physically and mentally. Inquiring, exploring. Fond of reading and researching. Good at languages. Would make a very good teacher, writer, secretary. Makes friends easily. Usually methodical and orderly; adept at simplifying systems.
http://www.thenamesite.com
Jun. 23rd, 2005 @ 11:33 am
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