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Since my nerves are getting the best of me before my long flight east I decided to upgrade to WP2.7 aka Coltrane (in this muhfugga) I also upgraded the flickr plugin and everything is working fine! Not that I expected anything less but last time I updated the flickr plugin I hated the plugin for a few hours before it began doing what it is supposed to. So yeah… YAY! 2.7 is pretty bad ass.

Edit: I’ve officially give IE6 the finger forever (F-You IE6!). I am the poor bastard in charge of fixing everything for IE6 at my place of work so I sort of refuse to acknowledge it’s existence in my personal/freelance work. I will charge extra for it in a  attempt to deter clients living in the stone ages. I recently worked with a client who still had dial up and IE6! It was mind boggling once I realized I could not talk to him while he was online (no mobile phone either) It was also fun to see wordpress do it’s thing in an lowest denominator scenario, not fun really though.

Brixton makes some pretty rugged hats. I picked up a few at Emerald City in Coronado. I got two of the same hat but they are made of different fabrics. The first I swooped is the Stroll in grey wool with a Lady Guadalupe lining (Awesome… even more awesome if you like to mainline.)

Melton Wool Stroll

The second hat I got is also a Stroll but it has a nice grey herringbone pattern twill (silly flyness!) The hats are very solid, even their straw fedoras are pretty hefty. I am impressed and look forward to owning many a hat by these guys.

Herringbone Stroll

Since it will never rain pop corn or actual cats and dogs here are some things you can get me to make the holidays totally awesome. This is not a weak attempt to use my never used Amazon affiliate account (I don’t think I have made a single conversion ever). I will probably just update this thread as a master list of shit you should buy (for yourself or for me!)

• XIKAR Xi1 Black Double Blade Cigar Cutter
• Straight Bourbon: The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey
• But Always Fine Bourbon : Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald
• Visol Oak Finish Wooden Cigar Ashtray
• Hank Williams Sr – The Unreleased Recordings
• Converse Chuck Taylor All Star High Top Black M9160 mens 6

I must know how now! Not so much because I want a bigger photo on my twitter profile but because I can’t figure out why only a handful of people have bigger profile photos?? I have found four people with bigger profile pictures and nobody has really spilled the beans. I haven’t gone so far as asking how they did it but I can’t find any information at all.

Anything I did find was a reference to the fact that some person indeed had a bigger profile picture. Google didn’t even come through! I am stuck and will probably ask one of them how they did it.

Edit: this was written at 6:34 am on Sunday morning.

Why oh why is it always like this. No matter what I do I am always the odd ball who stays up way too late and then wakes up like four hours later. Right now it’s freezing and I’m sitting next to a portable heater with a cat who is sort of awake too.

If my intestines don’t lie, it’s safe to say that last night I drank quite a bit of Weller Antique 107 proof. First and last thing I tasted. My guts still kind of burn and I might need some tums.

Overall I enjoyed this bottle of Weller as much as their other bottles I’ve tried. A few things I liked about it were the price, the color and that’s pretty much it. I didn’t so much like the taste. It’s very old timey, cough syrup sweet with subtle hints of oak. I found it to be similar in taste to the 7 yo 90 proof but it’s still different enough to favor the 7/90.

It really reminded me of Bulleit, which markets itself as a frontier whiskey. They share the same copper penny flavor and a somewhat orange hue. It’s also got a little edge to it. I found to be better with tons of ice and a little water to be safe.

Whenever I have some bourbon I find too sweet it usually tastes better if I leave it alone for a few days and then give it a try again (see old grand dad.)

Seriously, screw the holidays. I once felt like a genius when I wrote that on the holidays nobody works. That is to say that only a nobody works during the holidays. Like the poor bastard that gets to run the drive thru at Jack in the Crack on x-mas day. It happens and I know it does because I am the type to want some tacos on x-mas day.

If I was a rich person I would probably enjoy it more since I would have many days off and tons of free time to do the shit that makes me sick like baking ginger bread men or decorating my house with fat bearded white guys dressed in red.

I really just hate the big drain. Plus the economy is poop so it’s extra lame this year. I ain’t bought a new toy since August! AUGUST!! Then my hours got cut like a new yorican knife victim (boricua!)

Sure, it sucks for all of us. Or does it? Bah!