Smokey’s House of Paincakes

Today at work we had our annual Pumpkin carving contest, complete with food candy and prizes! At 12:00 we were assembled into teams and given an hour to complete our work of art, and we came in second place!!!

So, second place isn’t so bad, but we had the taste for first!!! Here’s our award winning masterpiece.

Sure, it may not look like much in the pic, but we put in some mighty fine details. Even the little pumpkin getting eaten was hollowed out to the light shines through. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any good in the dark pics :(

Also, here is me with gratuitous bum shot…

I am broke.

Not in the sense that I’m on my last dime and on my way to the poor house, just in the sense that I don’t have any cash to spare. Which leads me to this dilemma: Two of my friends are having birthdays in the month of November, as well as my own, one after another.

Now, they’ve invited me out to theirs and I already agreed to go, but the more I think of it, the more money I’ll be spending that I don’t have. I’m trying to save for a house, and for my future. Every time I go out it gets wasted. I love all my friends, but of course, some are closer than others, that’s just a fact of life. So I have a tough choice to make, and I have to choose which friends I can actually spend that effort on. After reading what I just wrote, it sounds really cool, but if I can’t make these hard choices, then I’m going to be in a constant state of broke ass.

So the choice is, I can’t go to any of these parties. I’m gonna have to bail. I hate bailing. They’re cool people, but I hope they understand. Plus, 3 weekends of boozing in one month is way too much for me. I used to think that that’s normal, but I’m really changing my mind on that. Last night boozers just destroy you. You feel terrible the next day (or two), it’s completely unhealthy and it really screws with your mind and body.

I need to put my foot down, and take care of myself properly. Physically and financially.

On that note, I invited people out to my birthday, but if any of them can’t make it, I’ll understand. Also, I only invited out those I consider close friends, not everyone and their homey. (Well, I did invite someone I knew many many many years ago, so she doesn’t count yet, but she’s cool.)

So maybe I’m turning into as asshole as I get older, or maybe just sensible. You can decide!

Woohoo! I sent a letter to Lifehacker.com about things I’ve learn about saving dough, and they posted it up for everyone to see!! Check it out here.

So I finally did it. I made the switch from PC user to Mac, and I’ll say is it’s freakin awesome! I’ve been a hardcore PC user for so long now, but the current state of Mac OS X makes the jump quite simple. The interface is awesome and my machine is super fast.

I got the new 24″ iMac with the 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM. The thing is huuuuuuuge! Have a look-see.

The one thing I really love about the new machine is I am able to sync my Google calendar with iCal, then in turn sync my iCal and Address book with my cell phone via blue tooth. Now I’m up to date with everything no matter where I go. Plus, I took it even further and used a proximity detector to automatically sync with my phone when it comes in range. That way, the only work I have to do to sync my phone is walk into the room!!

So far, I’m enjoying the switch, but I think more so cause of the screen size. I walked into Tigerdirect the other day taking a look at their pc displays and kept thinking “What’s with all the small screens?” ;)

There is one issue so far though, I can’t get my all in one printer to work with my iMac. It’s a Lexmark x2350 and I can’t find any driver support for it :( Anyone have any ideas? I really don’t want to have to buy a printer (although, this one was free!)