Rock Bottom indeed!!

Rock bottom my friends! That's where my beloved band is heading! No true'er a song was penned by this band that they will have to stand by!

Yes, I am a member of the KISS Army! Full fledged 4 Star General my friends! Ihave over $30,000, yes I said $30,000, worth of their merchandise.

I've been collecting everything with the logo on it since I was a child. I would be a much richer man if I hadn't found fireworks when I was a kid and used them against my Star Wars action figures. But today I have to admit we have found a new low........

Now, I'm not as big a complainer about Tommy and Eric replacing and wearing the Ace or Peters makeup. KISS has become memorable for the 4 original members. Let's face it drugs have been hard on Ace and Peter and if the replacements can carry on the tradition, then so be it. However, with that said KISS IS Gene and Paul. Without either of those 2 it's just not KISS. With that said, I hate to post it, but from Blabbermouth we have the following:

KISS To Continue Touring Without Any Original Members? - Sep. 26, 2005

Launch Radio Networks reports: Is an all-new KISS on the horizon, one that
doesn't have any original members? It's possible, according to the band's
manager. According to the New York Times, KISS manager Doc McGhee "has been
toying with the idea of recruiting an entire band to...don the band's famous
makeup." McGhee said, "KISS is more like Doritos or Pepsi, as far as a brand
name is concerned. They're more characters than the individual person. I think
(new members) have a legitimate chance to carry the franchise." KISS
singer-bassist Gene Simmons doesn't necessarily disagree with that idea. He told
Launch that the concept of original members isn't widely held by fans, and it
isn't really accurate anyway. "There's no question that there's a core of fans —
five-10 percent, my sense is — who believe in original members," he said. "And
yet, when you look at original members, THE BEATLES are not original members —
Ringo is not an original member; the STONES — barely. You know, they've had so
many members come and go, but it's the STONES; and AC/DC's aren't original
members; and VAN HALEN; and JOURNEY...you go down the list of every — almost every band you can think of."

Can you believe that?? A touring circus sideshow! Yeah, we've already seen this, their called TRIBUTE BANDS!! Next were gonna hear that this is strictly a Vegas show.........Good gawd!

A stressful week for Indians fans!

Man! What can I say? This has been a stressful end of the season for us Indians fans!

The team has just been playing tremendous baseball and I hope the gas tanks not running low! They've played their hearts out and to come back from 15 games down as of August 1st and to be within reach by 1 1/2 games just last week, and to now slip back to 3 games! C'mon guys, its the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, its not a playoff contending team!!

So here we are, one more with Tampa Bay and then the showdown of show downs! The way its looking right now, the Tribe has to win tonight and we need help from Detroit, yes I said Detroit! They have to beat the Sox again. We don't have much to worry about with the Red Sox and Yankess, their gonna blugeon each other this weekend and someones comin' out of the Bronx with a black eye!

Baseball at its finest folks! And I get to enjoy the whole thing in HDTV starting tonight!

C'mon Tribe! Its the season you promised us a return to the playoffs! Make it so!

The spending season's upon us.............gamer junkies!!

Yep, it's that time of the year again for all of us gamer junkies!

The 360 is 54 days away and XBox is making it that much harder to save for it with some killer games lined up over the next month and a half.

I got crazy last week and picked up 2 games out of peer pressure! I haven't had the chance to play much with the move and with Alex being born, but hey, that's a good excuse if you ask me! It was nice to sit down to a game after all the work and stuff I've been up to, just so I could space out for a few hours. I still haven't found myself sitting in front of the TV for hours like I used to, and that's a good thing.

So I'm trying to limit my spendatures for the next month and a half and calling my new console purchase my 'birthday gift'!! Now we just need to know what games are releasing with it and I can start planning the right way!

So I've picked up X-Men 2 Legends: The rise of the Apocalypse and Kingdom Under Fire: Heroes. Yes, you read that right X-Men 2! I couldn't believe I'd even play it but with all my buds over at XBoxLiveFriends ranting and raving about it, I just had to see what it was all about. I have to admit, I haven't even opened the other game that's how much fun X-Men was. Just a totally different pace of game for me and a nice added change. I can't even recount the last time I played a single player game. Just good fun here!

So this week it looks like FarCry: Instincts and Heroes of the Pacific! FarCry for all the XBLF boys who are having fun with their map editors and finding ways to stick Davidson to a tree, and Heroes of the Pacific becasue I'm a flying game junkie and I haven't had one game to fill that void in my life! It's finally here. Hey, it's World War 2 planes, but I'll take it. World Air Force is gonna make its way to the 360 and that's when my life will be over!

Other than that I think there might be 2-3 more games I'll end up scoring before the 360 launches. My hopes are that all of these games I've been buying will still be able to be played on the 360 at launch time. Theres a whole issue with backwards compatability and it is not clearly defined yet, even with 54 days left til launch. Next week is the last major event for Microsoft before launch so hopefully all of our questions will have answers. Major and the boys have been so mum about stuff that it's almost Area 51ish in feeling!

So the end of November, the 22nd to be exact is the big launch day. I can't get in on a pre-order anywhere now that I've pulled mine right before I left Ohio, instead of just transferring it. So I'm gonna have to take a chance with just walking in and getting one at Best Buy or something. We'll see.

All I know is that it's gonna be a very expensive month! Stay tuned to watch me blow my cash!

Todays lunch rocked!!

It's not often that I get to go out for a lunch like I did today.

Nothing against Tiffany, but she is more of a meat and potatoes kind of person. I like to experiment and try new things.

Well, today, the kid (yeah, the one that may be leaving us) asked me to go to lunch today. Hell, it was sushi, how often do I get to do that? Count me in!

So we head over here and we're the only 2 clowns in there at 11:30 in the morning. Start off with a nice Grey Goose and cranberry! Ahhh, lunch the right way. The cute waitress talked us in to some appetizers. I had raw squid. Now, you may think, "what the hell are you thinking??", and trust me, I asked myself the same question when I agreed to give it a try, but WOW!! I was blown away at how frickin good this was!

For the main course I went with the Volcano. Now this dish had 8 rice and crab meat rolls with the wraps around them and THEN it was topped with a smelt roe (some sort of a fish I'm told), avacadoe and cream cheese mixed together and then fried. I took that and dipped it in some low fat soy sauce, and mmmm, mmmmm, mmmmmmm! What a meal!

Loved every moment of it. Now I can go home tonight and make Tiffany and Brooke gag as I tell em what we ate for lunch! Ahhhh, my favorite part!

New photos over on Flickr!

Just wanted to point out that I've uploaded some new photos to my Flickr Account! Again to get there go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/scary_aaron/ and your there!!

We'll be adding more, more often!

Check em out!

Boy! That didn't take long!

Well folks, looks like you can't put the faith and trust in people that you once were able to do!

Let me tell ya a story!

As a few of you may know, I came down here to work with a 'good friend' of mine! Now, he had left me high and dry last year, leaving me hanging for a Boston event that I was supposed to make and then finally hanging me out to dry around the holidays as he bailed for this job in the south!

Well, months of healing allowed me to lower my guard and put trust back in to him! Got me all moved down here, comfortable and happy, and now as of this morning, he's given his notice to the company! All he could say to me was 'Sorry dude!' and that was that! End of the line!

So now begins the task of preparing myself, again, for life with out my 'good friend' in the middle of projects! Gotta love it!

I'm not gonna let it get me down though. I've learned before with my feet deep in the fire, why should now be any different.

I'm kinda hearing stories about what will and won't happen, but for now I'm safe and they are really wanting to get behind me. But you know, it makes it awkward for a guy like me now. Here he's the one that moved me down here and I have to now convince everyone that I'm a team player and not an 'I' guy!

Say a prayer for me! This weeks gonna be interesting! I'll keep ya'll posted!

Just 4 KoW

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Originally uploaded by Scary_Aaron.

OK, so last week, as I had mentioned in my previous post about bringing up Alex on ESPN and bypassing the traditional route of Wiggles and Disney, the discussion continued with some friends and my bud KoW mentioned how we needed to get kids back on the route of Sesame Street.

Well, we got all of our stuff at the end of the week and unpacked all weekend. On Sunday Tiffany and I were getting all of Alex's toys in order and she ran across a little musical box. Well, low and behold it had the theme from Sesame Street on it. After about 5 times thru listening to this Alex was an immediate fan!

Here's a pic. of the boy rockin out to the theme from Sesame Street! Enjoy!

Pic's are here!

OK, so I went out and was bad and bought a camera yesterday!

Hey, I want to show off life in Florida! So shoot me!!!

Here's a pic of Lil Scary, sleeping it away under the air conditioning and ceiling fans. At this point it's been 2 hours and he's still snoring!

And I don't have all the pic's taken of the house yet since Tiff won't let me until it's completely unpacked. So I thought I'd show a few shots from the outside. These are from right outside our back door.

The screened in section is our patio. Yes that's literally 10 steps and your in the pool! How nice is that? Well, let me tell ya that when ya get the urge to swim at 10pm at night, it's really cool! The pic next is our back yard. This is the little canal that runs off of the bay, which dumps into the Gulf. We're about 1-2 miles from the Gulf right here. Can get up and smell the ocean each morning on my morning swim now! Just a great relaxing place to be for now!

I also took a pic of the girls swimming! So I thought I'd throw that up as well! Tiff will love me for that I'm sure! More next week everyone!

Finally, we have our stuff!!

Well after 2 1/2 weeks of waiting ITS FINALLY ALL HERE!

Tiff picked me up last night at 6 and we went picked up some Pizza Hut and headed home. I walked in and the place was just packed with boxes everywhere. Unfortunately, Tiffany and I have really been run down with a terrible cold (ha, funny seeing's how we're in Florida) and Tiff just had no energy so I spent the rest of the night unpacking stuff.

It's so nice to have everything back now and to be able to sleep in my own bed again. Great feeling. You never know how much you miss it until you don't have it for that long.

The only letdown was that the place we went in to didn't have any hot water. What a drag. I had to get up at 5:30 to shoot over to the other place (yes, I kept the key for now!) and got ready for work. It sucks, but it should be remedied today.

I'm going out and picking up a camera after work tonight so I can get everyone some photos. Watch for em next week.

This weekend will be spent getting ready for the Comcast installation so I can return to my home of XBox Live! I miss gaming and being able to space out for a few hours each week. Ya never know how much you'd miss it until you don't have it to do. Gonna go get a few new games for Alex and I (haha, nice to be able to throw him in to my bad habits, hehehehe!!) so we can get into some new games with all my XBLF and BoG buds!

See ya's online very soon!

Skipping tradition!

After a funny subject discussion over with my friends of XBLF (XBox Live Friends) I decided I wanted to post it over here as well.

The basic premise being discussed was a Finding Nemo club for those parents who have had to suffer thru Nemo somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 times!

I'm throwing tradition out the window with Alex. That's it!!! I'm gonna have him watching ESPN, ESPN Classic, and anything with the letters ESPN in it! Then I'm gonna go out and instead of buying Wiggles video's I'm gonna get old DVD's of Classic football, baseball and basketball games!

Now if I can just get the wife to buy in to my madness I'll be coming home to Alex demanding to watch another Indians game on DVD! Hey a guy can dream can't he??

That's it, Im raising the next Schwaby!! Stump the Schwab, look out!

Nothing new yet!

Well, another weekend and not much happened down here!

Got my first, nice burn going! I'm shocked really. The last time I was in Florida I was burnt to a crisp in the first few hours. I've been taking it easy though and moderating my sun intake I guess. We were at the beach for about 4 hours and had a great time, until a storm come rolling up on us from behind. Just got everything packed in before it hit hard!

Spent the night relaxing watching some college football and a cute movie with Brooke with Mike Myers and Gywneth Paltrow. Something different, but hey, didn't want to hog the TV. We only have one for right now.

Looks like our stuff won't be here now until Thursday or Friday. This is becoming painful. I spend almost 3200$ to have it moved here and have to wait almost 3 weeks for it. UNREAL! Won't be recommending them to anyone any time soon.

And in the weather department, looks like Rita's gonna pay us a visit tonight and tomorrow. Yeah, our first hurricane!! On top of it, there's a stronger one brewing just behind Rita. So, this week should be interesting. Hopefully I can get my camera in time to get some photos.

Really missing home, but then I just go out on to the back deck look into the Bay and forget all about it! Can't beat the weather! In the 90's every day and nothing cooler than 75 in over 2 weeks. Loving it!

Fantasy footballs doing pretty good for me so far. I again went 2-1 in leagues this week. My XBLF league hasn't been fairing too well for me. I'm getting trounced weekly there! I have the other 2 as moral support though!

Some photos to check out!

Hey, head over to my Flickr Account (<---- click here) and check out some new photos of Alex and the family!

Thanks to Aunt Laura for taking the photos and then sending them to me!

Enjoy!

First weekend report!

Well, the first week was quite the challenge here for me.

I had to start last week trying to pick up MasterCAM which is total garbage after using Pro/E for so many years. But I thought I'd give it a try and see what I could come up with. Let's just say that there's a reason it's called Master'Scam'!! Garbage I tell ya!

So on Thursday my buddy hooked me up with a much more robust CAM software, GibbsCAM. This is top notch and I've been picking it right up. I've had a few hiccups, but you'll have that with anything new you try to pick up. So the week ended better than it started, for sure.

Friday night Tiffany picked me up and we went for a few beers and some apetizers down at Tin City which is a nice little area with shops, restaurants and bars. She's busted her ass the past few weeks and she definitely deserved a night out on the town! After we got done there we headed over to my buddy Mikes house and spent the rest of the night with him and his girl Kristen. We hit the beach to check the sunset out, which we ended up just missing. No big deal, as that's been the case the past week here. The clouds are out in the Gulf covering it up each night so far. We'll see it soon enough though! We were a bit hungry so we headed over to 5th Ave. to check out what was going on over there.

Now, 5th Ave. is not for the 'light in the pockets' type of people (read: ME!) so we walked up and down to see what the prices were like. Well, nothing cheap here, so we just hit Yabba Island Grill and said to hell with it! 75$ later and thee worst service I have ever had in a restaurant, we called it a night! Now, dinner was excellent! Mike and I jumped on a benefit for Katrina which after you donated at least $10, you got 10 glasses of wines. I used that to wash down a nice swordfish steak! Mmmmmm, yummy! Tiffany shocked me and tried something different! I was kiddin with her and pointed her right to the steaks so she felt comfortable! Well she went with the Carribean jerk chicken, AND ENJOYED IT!

We ended the night walkin around the town checkin out all of the hot cars lined up and down 5th along with the hot bikes that were there as well.

Saturday after a few hours of work we headed over to Naples beach for a little sun action! After about 2 hours we got back home and it was football time for daddy!! Started watching one of the best college games I had seen in quite some time with Ohio State losing to Texas. I was bummed as I thought OSU had that game locked up! But oh well! Off to bed at 10:30 on a Saturday!

Sunday was the big day for me, as it was NFL KickOff day! Well, being in lowly Florida, your stuck watching the CFL teams of Tampa Bay and Miami then for the kicker I had to suffer thru Green Bay and Detroit! Not exactly the way you want to start the season.

I didn't do too bad with my fantasy teams, as I am 2-1 for the weekend so far. My EASports team is blowing goats right now though. Not sure if there's much of a chance for them. The 2 Yahoo teams are not too shabby, considering I wasn't there for either of them to select my teams! Then ya have the Weak (yes I said WEAK!) 1 wonders that every clown and his brother jump all over for the weekend. What jackasses! Some people never learn about the 1 week wonders! They will once they have to dump em and go pick up another weakly scab!

That's all for now! More as it develops!

Update on Scary and family

Well,

It was a long and painful weekend, but we are finally in our new town of Naples, Florida.

Honestly, I never thought I would have ended up here. But after the way I was treated down here for a weekend and the way I was gettin handled back at my old place of employment, the decision was easy.

The company has treated us wonderfully and has us along the Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico right now. The place that we had lined up is unfurnished and our stuff was not gonna arrive until end of this week so they threw us in to a very nice furnished apartment right on the bay! Not too shabby!

So in the meantime we are awaiting the arrival of our stuff, now slated for the week of the 19th. Gotta love that! Until then I'll enjoy my morning breakfast and dinner outside on the Bay!

My camera's and stuff are all packed in the moving truck, not by choice, so no pictures for a few weeks. I'll keep everyone posted as often as possible!

Ahhhh Florida, at least it's not Ohio!!

Everyone, please take notice! Myfamilycanhelp.com

Hey everyone!

Back near a computer again after my long move to Naples here and I got in this morning and was checkin out my buddies blog when I noticed that he had done a great thing here!

He and his company started up http://www.myfamilycanhelp.com . Please take the time to stop by and see if you can help out any.

This was a terrible tragedy down south and anything we can do to help should be looked in to!

I'd like to thank Jay and say "Dude, what an awesome thing for you and HitCatcher to do my friend! There is a place for you in the afterlife with the angels!! What a great thing to do!!"

Let's see what we can do to help everyone!