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Food, Health, Life, Photos
Cobra Cake Collection
04.21.10 | Permalink | Comment?

This weekend we celebrated the Cobra Calendar’s completion with cake, cake, and cake.

First up was Friday night’s cake courtesy of Subs Plus, commissioned by Holly. It was a Star Trek cake (in case you didn’t figure that out, or you read faster than your browser can load images) complete with a scaled down Enterprise with working lights! and strawberry filling! It was a huge cake and there was tons left over since Holly’s entire family bailed at the last minute.

Then Sunday we went to my parent’s house for BBQ and two more cakes! There was a spice cake (above) for everyone who was too afraid of the awesomeness that is my annual cheesecake (below).

Not surprisingly, when I stepped on my mum’s scale I am now almost 20 pounds heavier than I was at this time last year. It’s time to get serious-er about the gym I think.

I miss my bike.
Animals, Food, Life
Tortie torture
04.13.10 | Permalink | Comment?

My mum came and took me to Cora’s for breakfast today, then I convinced her to walk over to the Humane Society adoption center in the Niagara Square. There was a beautiful tortie in a cage near the counter, so I asked if it was a “terrible-tortie” and that’s why it was caged. The woman said she had been hit by a car, and is still recovering from surgeries. She’s up for adoption around the end of the month, but needs a home without other cats or children to ensure a safe recovery.

There was another tortie, but it’s one that’s been there a while and has a bad ‘tude. One day when I was petting her she turned around and scratched the hell out of me and hissed for no reason. I asked if they were the only two torties, and the girls behind the counter said yes.

Then I look down and see this gorgeous girl staring up at me. She was so soft and a bit of a fatso – I fell in love right away. I wanted to adopt her right there, but then the girls informed me that she hates other cats. Probably a result of being over 12 years old and recently losing her owner. I wish I could have brought her home, but I’m guessing she would prefer a more laid back environment.

I also saw a boy cat that had a very Captain like face. He was sleeping in a little hiding spot, but came out for me and was loving my pets. The one girl said she was surprised as that cat hasn’t warmed up to anyone yet. I figured out that he saw my Captain tattoo, thought it was a mirror, then realized I’m just really cool and wanted to be my friend.

I miss Captain so much. I wish she could come hang with us.
Angry Art, Food, Gaming, Life, Sketchup
Weekend of indulgence ends with robot/cobra retirement
03.15.10 | Permalink | Comment?

This weekend I ate so much I’m pretty sure I eliminated any progress that may have been made during our trips to the Y last week. Friday night, Holly and I went out for Sushi, then I went and picked up Jon from the GO train. We came back here and played the God of War 3 demo, then some zombies, and finally some Bioshock2. Then Jon made me eat pizza.

The next morning Holly made us brownies, and muffins, and shared some of her raspberry macaroons with us. Most of the afternoon was spent playing Bioshock2 and some UFC Undisputed, then we decided to go for Indian buffet. I ate so many pakoras, and homemade cheese it was unreal. Then right after that, we drove all the way to St Catharines for Marble Slab. Later that night, Jon and I busted out the leftover muffins and brownies and did even more damage to our guts.

The next morning I woke up with a major tummy ache, dying to smoke some pot. We rolled up a huge blunt using some enormous cigars the Dude gave me, and I tried to harvest Adam from dead splicers while we smoked it. I nibbled all day at the leftovers from the previous days, and then when the boys came home we decided to go to the Mandarin. I ate a shit load of sushi rolls, some pizza, spring rolls, some rice, and lots of garlic broccoli! Then I topped it all off with a gigantic plate of dessert, which consisted of: cheesecake (covered in strawberry sauce), a waffle covered in bananas and strawberries, a sugar puff, and of course a fortune cookie.

Today I plan to eat nothing until after we go to the Y. Instead, I plan to hang out with the Roanster all day since he’s off for March break, maybe finish Bioshock2 (since it’s now two days late!!), and possibly model some more of James’ house – although I’m still waiting to hear back from him about what I’ve done so far.

Above is a rendering I did of one of my robots, using no light source other than what he emits. It looks pretty cool in my opinion, and it inspired me to try the same thing with some other robots.

I like the look of these. I think I will turn them into desktop / PS3 backgrounds. I also think I will stop modeling robots now. I love doing it, but there is no point. It’s all wasted time, and I gain nothing from it. I really enjoy having a creative outlet, but work is more important and I’m the only one who thinks any of these images are cool.

I might post one or two more robots here that I have already made – just haven’t posted, but that will be it for Robots, and the whole Angry Art portion of this blog.

It’s come to my attention recently that I waste too much time on things that don’t matter, and I agree. The Sketchup stuff, my bad habits, video games, and this blog all take away from time I could be working. I love all these things, but none of them help me get anywhere, so it’s time to start eliminating them. First the art – that’s going to be easy, then the blog. The two big ones I’ll deal with last.
Food, Life, Photos, Random
Gotta post this quick, before the ice gets me!
02.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Last night, Holly and I went to have dinner and drinks with her friend Paul. They decided to take me to the Falls and Firkin, in the Fallsview Casino. I’d never been before, but it was good. I had some crazy garlic bread, and an awesome veggie burger covered in mushrooms.

After dinner I took some pictures of the fountain they have there. It’s so cool looking, but seems really out of place at a casino. It totally looks like something you’d find in the engineering deck of the Enterprise, rather than amongst diaper wearing alcoholic grandparents and chain-smoking Asians.

I also saw a sign I had to take a picture of:

I haven’t seen these signs anywhere else in the falls, so I have to wonder what it is that makes ice fall from the sky at the casino. I realize it’s in close proximity to the actual falls, but I don’t see the Hotel across the street instilling fear in it’s patrons with promises of cold clear death from above.

One might think they’re just being overly cautious, but I think a better investment might have been a sign that says: Warning, ex-UFC fighters may flip out and beat people with hammers, then drive their pick-up truck through our front doors.
Food, Random, Roanisms
We refuse to eat animals even if they’re made of pasta
01.22.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Roan was just here for lunch, because he isn’t supposed to eat any hard foods, and we didn’t have any soft foods to send with him to school. I planned to make him animal-shaped-pasta-in-a-can, but when he got here he had two soggy slices of cheese pizza. I suggested he just eat those, since clearly they weren’t very “hard”, and I made myself some cheese and crackers.

I asked about the girl he has a crush on (her name is Victoria), and what she thought of his tooth. He said she thought it was gross and told him to get it away from her then ran away. I asked if he was going to leave it here at home now, since everyone got to see it, and he said he might as well. He put it on the table and told me to make sure if anyone came over, I show it to them. I promised I would, then asked what time lunch started. His response – “5 minutes ago.”. I looked at the clock and noticed it was 1:24, so I asked “Okay, but what time was it then?”. “One o’clock”, he said. I then asked “And what time does lunch end?”. First he said he didn’t know, then he thought about it and said “Well, lunch + outside = 2 o’clock”.

So this has me thinking of a new product idea. A clock with pictures, that a parent can customize their arrangement. So instead of numbers, it would have a sun in the 7:30am spot, then a cereal bowl at 7:45am, a toothbrush at 8am, a school bus at 8:30, and so on… I have no idea how you would do it, or if it would be counter productive to learning to actually tell time, but if someone wants to find all that out, then make it and give me credit, I’m okay with that. I’ll even show you Roan’s tooth.

Also, F.Y.I. – those aren’t “peace signs” we’re throwing up, those are pizza signs.

We love pizza.
Angry Art, Food, Life, Random
804,672m of freedom and fortune
01.06.10 | Permalink | Comment?

This is some of what I spent yesterday doing. These are tools that will appear in the book’s appendix. They are so far pretty fucking boring to make (or maybe I’m just tired of the whole thing at this point). I decided to make my own version of an appendix, with my own descriptions. I also modeled an axe, a beetle, and a timber strap. They were all pretty boring.

When Holly got home she took me to Mandarin for dinner because, we were both starving and neither wanted to cook or wait for food. The food was the same as usual – mediocre, but plentiful – and the fortunes were right on par as well.

This is perfect! Well, perfect aside from the fact that I had to do some minor conversion before deciding how fortunate I was, but still. Coupled with our previous fortunes from there, we’re not doing too bad for the next year or two.

After filling my belly with sushi, pizza, fried rice, spring rolls, cheese covered cauliflower, garlic bread, waffles, and a chocolate covered banana, we went to meet Holly’s friends at Niagara’s Best Brewery.

The beer was decent, but the seats were shit. I was really uncomfortable, but it couldn’t have been too bad, since without noticing we spent 4 hours there. Holly got a little drunk, so I drove home. Then we said our prayers and went to bed.

Tomorrow Holly gets her balls lasered, and she can’t wait. After that she’s on vacation for 10 days, and hopefully at some point after her eyesight is bad enough I can rearrange furniture and stuff so she walks into it. Because I love her.
Food, Life, Random
Mmmm marbles
12.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Saturday, Holly and I went to Toronto to visit Jon and Ryan. We hung out with Jon and watched some large offensive white woman do stand up comedy, then we went to cabbage town and watched some old interview Ryan did on CityTV about body modification. It was pretty interesting. After that we went to Gourmet Burger Co. for some kick ass dinner, before getting on the highway.

The best part of trip however, turned out to be when we stopped at the new Marble Slab in St Catharines on the way home. They have lots of great stuff there. Holly bought me a white chocolate ice cream, in a waffle bowl, with raspberries. She had the same thing, except eggnog ice cream. She had been complaining weeks earlier that no one makes eggnog ice cream, so she bought a litre to bring home for the boys.

I think she’s planning to surprise me with one tonight as a reward for watching the boys, feeding them, and fixing various things around her house (really I’m going to bribe the boys with supper, and make them do all the work around the house before they can have any).
Food, Life, Love
Cobra cake boss
12.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last night Holly and Roan built a gingerbread house using a kit we bought on the weekend. Before they got started, Roan leaned on one of the gable end pieces and cracked a huge chunk off. Holly attempted to glue it back together with icing, but that wasn’t happening.

Although the Candy Land building inspector would have never passed it, a decision was made to proceed, using the damaged gable end. Despite having a large portion of the top missing, it still fit fairly well. The other end however, had some issues (as seen above). Not sure what happened there, but Holly covered her mistake with some royal icing and chocolate fondant, then touched it all up with some light airbrushing.

The end result was an elegant gingerbread palace, complete with landscaped gardens, multiple poison and fire alarms, and icicle draped fascia.

Even the broken gable end was magically transformed into a remarkable piece of engineering coupled with design. A beautifully labeled fire escape not only makes this one of the safest edible estates ever, it also adds some fine details to the otherwise boring back wall completing the masterpiece.

I look forward to watching Roan smash the house, and no one eating it. I ate the broken piece and it was hard and dry. I can’t imagine it’s going to get any softer while it sits on the end table over the next few days/weeks.
Angry Art, Food, Life, Random, Sketchup, Timber framing
Bongbot blasts books
11.25.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I didn’t end up uploading the images off my mum’s DSLR today. Instead I talked to my friend Ryan, who I hadn’t spoken with in a long time, then the Dude came by and had me help with his model. Then I got a brutal headache, took some pills, and had a nap. I woke up around 6pm, and Holly said she’d been trying to wake me for an hour or so. We went to the Mandarin for dinner (first time since they got busted for reusing uneaten food off people’s plates), then Holly passed out shortly after we got home.

I decided to do some more work on the book, since Holly brought home two faxes James sent me yesterday. One was a new drawing he had forgotten about, the other was a drawing I did which needed corrections, but a written explanation wasn’t working for me (I often need pictures). I managed to get all the work I currently had left on the book done in the last 6 hours, plus I snuck in a conversation with James. I gave him a minor progress report and told him to expect everything tomorrow in an email. I asked what he wanted to do next, and he told me to see if I can figure out In Design. Looks like that’s what I’ll spend my morning doing (after I send the email of course). He also mentioned something about paying me (hooray!).

*Bongbot did not actually shoot the timber book. This is just an old image I never used for anything, and happened to find tonight.

Fooled you.
Animals, Food, Random
The theft continues
11.24.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Every time I go to the kitchen this cat follows me. Then she follows me back to wherever I decide to eat. Then she acts cute for a moment, before stealing (or at least attempting to steal) some of whatever it is. There is no chance of me having a glass of nog to myself.

All my ladies love their eggnog – and mine.