American Idol 2007 - Part 1

Introduction: Before I get started, let it be known that I am a big fan of American Idol. I've watched practically every show from the beginning and each week I root for my favorites and against those I think suck. If that makes me a "whatever it you think it makes me", so be it. Just remember, I'm still the hot, sexy, sweet, lovable old horn dog guy you've all grown to lust after love or at least tolerate.

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I received an email inviting me to participate in American Idol Bloggers. I have no idea why, but I'm guessing that they did a blog search and saw that I made a post or two last season about the show. This is the short version of the email.

Our intent is to bring American Idol bloggers closer together, and make a positive contribution to the Internet community. We would greatly appreciate your support in this endeavor. Blah, blah, blah........ gag me with a spoon.

I figure WTF, I got nothing better to do SINCE I'M RETIRED and just hang around the house masturbating or doing nothing most days, so I'm going to check into just what it is they want from me and join the American Idol Blogger Team!

So without further ado, here is my first post about American Idol 2007.

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If the first show is any indication, this season is going to suck monkey balls. If you saw the first show I think you'd agree with me. The pace was sooooo sloooooooow sometimes, I actually got bored. They spent way too much time dwelling on some of the bad singers. WTF was that all about? I got the idea already! Just move on to some other crappy singer. Or hey, I know, how about showing a couple more of the few good singers that actually made it to Hollywood? I can't wait for tonight's show.

I saw Simon on Oprah today saying that Seattle had the worst singers they've ever heard. He said that the best tend to come from the Southern states. He also said that Taylor Hicks would have never been last years American Idol if he didn't have gray hair. That comment kind of pissed me off being that I'm old I have gray hair and all.

I may have snow on the roof, but have a fire burning you know where. If you don't believe me, just ask my girlfriend Lori and she'll vouch for that. :-D

PS
Tomorrow Lori and I are going into New York City to watch a taping of the Rachael Ray Show. We're taking a LIRR train into the City and then the subway to the studio. I'll be sure to tell you all about it. Now get ready for American Idol. Simon said the singers tonight sucked even more than the ones last night.

My Old Pals Linky & Dinky Come Through Again!

I just knew that the horn dogs that visit here, would never forgive me if I didn't pass along this tip from Linky & Dinky, photographs of the 50 best celebrity nip slips.

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PS
Not that I'm complaining or anything, but haven't these people ever heard of double sided tape or bras?

Remodeling Update!

My weekend was a good one. Lori came over Friday evening and any weekend Lori comes here is a good one.

The contractors were here when she showed up. They were finishing up the last few things. They had trouble getting the front door dead bolt to lock and I thought they fixed it, but discovered later that they didn't. That's okay for now, because the other lock works. They'll fix it when they come to do over my bathrooms.

Did I mention that I'm going to remodel my bathrooms too?

Yep, I'm doing the entire place over. I've been in this house for almost 30 years and I've only done one major remodeling, the big bathroom and that was about 20+ years ago. Guess it's about time, huh?

The first thing I'm doing over is the large bathroom. The contractor had an idea for the full bath. He's from Czechoslovakia so thought a Roman style bathroom would look nice. I did too until Lori and my son vetoed that idea. Well, maybe I should say they both hated the idea and I decided not to go in that direction. Two against one and all that ya know.

My son wanted a blue bathroom and Lori thought a bathroom centered around a beach theme was more appropriate. I do live a few hundred feet from the water so that really did make a lot of sense to me.


That meant I needed to look for new bathroom fixtures and tile to match the beach theme.

Saturday morning, after Lori and were done snuggling and finished breakfast, we went to a home show. Just my luck, there was only one vendor showing bathrooms. He was very friendly and helpful even after I told him I had a vendor to do the work and was just looking for ideas. The show was small so we were in and out in about an hours.

It was still early so I decided to go to Lowes Home Center and see what they had as far as tiles and bathroom fixtures. They had a large selection of everything I need. I found what I was looking for, but the color choices in stock was limited.
After we left Lowes, we drove over to Home Depot. Their selection was lame to say the least so we drove over to a second Home Depot and didn't have any luck their either. I decided I'd get everything at Lowes, but wanted to see if the contractor could find the fixtures in the color I want.

I called the contractor when I got home, but a recording said his phone was not in service. WTF! I double checked the number, but still got the same message. DOUBLE WTF!! I got nervous when I heard that, but having faith in mankind like I do, I decided to wait and see if he called. Luckily he did. Whewwwww............. i told him what I found and where I found it. I also told him that the toilet from Kohler wasn't in stock and would have to be ordered. I told him we needed to hold off on the bathrooms until fixtures could be found. He said he'd try to find one Monday. He siunded disappointed that I was stalling him, but when I told him I wanted the small 1/2 bath remodeled too, that perked him up. Today is Tuesday and I still haven't heard from him. Guess he's having trouble finding the stuff.

Sunday morning Lori and I went to look at a couple of more apartments. No luck yet, but one has possibilities. I won't go into anymore details now that she has a blog of her own. You can read a little about the apartment hunting here if your interested.

Here's a few pictures of the things I'm leaning on buying.

Tile choices













48" Oak Mirror














48" Oak Vanity

The top is made out of a two-tone onyx.













Sink Faucet

Brushed finished with gold ends.







82 1/2" High Linen Cabinet

















Kohler One-Piece Toilet

This one is in white, but I want a sand color.
















I'll probably also install the toilet above in the 1/2 bath, but it will be in white. I've narrowed it down to two sinks for that bath. Which one of these two sinks do you like?

Since y'all liked yesterday's post, here's another one along those lines.

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On a side note, why do you gals make it so difficult for us men. Is it that you just like to?

Applied Mathematics

ROMANCE MATHEMATICS
Smart man + smart woman = romance
Smart man + dumb woman = affair
Dumb man + smart woman = marriage
Dumb man + dumb woman = pregnancy

OFFICE ARITHMETIC
Smart boss + smart employee = profit
Smart boss + dumb employee = production
Dumb boss + smart employee = promotion
Dumb boss + dumb employee = overtime

SHOPPING MATH
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need.

GENERAL EQUATIONS & STATISTICS
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

HAPPINESS
To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

LONGEVITY
Married men live longer than single men, but
married men are a lot more willing to die.

MEMORY
Any married man should forget his mistakes, there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

APPEARANCE
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

PROPENSITY TO CHANGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, and she does.

DISCUSSION TECHNIQUE
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

COMPREHENSION
There are 2 times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage.

HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED:
Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next."

They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

I'm fixing up the place

The last few days a contractor has been over here starting my home remodeling. The first step in this project is replacing all 14 of the interior hollow core doors. Yes, 14 doors! They are also replacing the front door.

My house was built in 1953. In this area they used steel door frames on all of the interior doors. They cannot be removed without taking up the oak floors, so each door has to be custom cut to fit the frame.

Guess you know what that means? It means extra labor and in turn ………….MONEY!!!!!!!!

Oh well. I haven’t really spent any money on redecorating this place in the 30 years I’ve lived here, so I figure I ahead no matter what it costs, to a limit of course.

The men doing the work are eastern European. Two guys are originally from Czechoslovakia and the other guy is from Russia. One has been in this country 6 years and the other 7. I’ve never had work done by people from those countries before, but take my advice, if you ever need people to do work around the house, get people that are from the Slavic countries. I couldn’t be more pleased with their work.

The worst part is that the Russian guy does talk on the cell phone a lot, but he paints, as he talks, so no big deal at all. The Czechoslovakian guy does the cutting and fitting. Their lunch breaks take no time at all. They eat and immediately get back to work with no sitting around bull shitting.

The best part is that these guys are perfectionists! The guy paints a door and then comes back to touch it up if it isn’t just right.

Can you fucking believe it?

The other guy has set up the sawhorses and equipment in my driveway. That’s where he does the cutting and sawing so he doesn’t make my house dirty from the sawdust. It’s been in the 30’s here the last few days, but he says he’s not cold. He’s used to a lot colder where he’s from.

I hit the jackpot with these guys. Next is the bathroom.

Here are a few pictures.

These are the old doors I'm replacing. If you look at the door on the left you'll see why.












The new interior doors are are plastic or something. You can see what they look like very well, but I'll take some more pictures when this part of the remodeling is done so you can get a better look.






I'm replacing the front door because the steel door I replaced about 10 years ago is rusting out at the bottom. I've been told it's because i live so close to the water.















This is the new front door. This ones made out of fiberglass so rusting won't be an issue.

HNT Has Been Suspended This Week

One of our fellow bloggers was killed in an auto accident last Thursday, Jan. 4th. I will miss her.

Betchacantguesswho - 1982-2007

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