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01/22/2014 21:53 #58601

Happy Birthday Bro!
This lady wanted to sing you a little something. She acts like it is for that girl on stage but really I think she def had you in mind while she was singing.


tinypliny - 01/25/14 04:51
Happppppppy Birthday! :)

01/17/2014 19:36 #58581

What is in my brain?
So I have started to play super nintendo again lately and it is crazy how much I remember like where every secret thing and box is. Seriously how does our brain keep all this stuff? It is like instinctual that I remember where to jump and waht to hit and what to do for every secret every step of the way. I was never like crazy play super nintendo all the time either. It just really amazes me that my brain maintained all this stuff like 20 years later!
metalpeter - 02/16/14 15:38
I think there is a lot of stuff that Science still doesn't know... Things like how does muscle memory work.. your muscles can do things at an automatic level with out communicating with your brain (or that was the case when I was in school) ... As an example in the past I've thought of something (a product) I need and forget where it is but my legs took me there ..... I'm guessing that just a theory that your muscles react by what it remembers with the brain for video games ?
paul - 01/17/14 23:35
Ya I find that too. Like I was playing super mario 1 a little while back and I knew exactly where to go for a hidden 1 up. WTF. I wonder how many more important things we could have been memorizing as children.

01/07/2014 10:55 #58549

SNOW DAY
Snow day from work! AMAZING! I love it! I vow to be productive and not waste the day away though so far I have spent it watching Days of Our lives and morning television though I did finally have Macy's fix my credit card so I can use the website to pay my bill.It was messed up for like a year which is annoying but I have put off contacting them and I did that finally this morning. So really if that is the only thing I get done today I will still rate today PRODUCTIVE!
paul - 01/07/14 17:28
I wish I had off. I ended up working from home all day.

01/02/2014 22:31 #58529

New Years Ressies
So for New Years this year I am doing a resolution that is not easily judgeable as in I can't easily decide if I am achieving it or not so I like that. It is ambivalentish but good. You see I was thinking in many ways me and (e:paul) are very different and in many ways we are the same but the one thing that makes us very different that I admire in (e:paul) ( I can't even believe I am saying that haha) is this:

Generally in life (e:paul) believes anything is possible. To him nothing seems undoable or impossible. He comes up with something or thinks of something or an idea or an action or anything and just does it or reaches for it.

I on the other hand generally think everything is impossible. I get very easily able to think no that is not possible. Or that will never work out. Or that is just too crazy.

So for 2014 I am resoluting to be a little more like (e:paul) and try to think nothing is impossible... not even unicorn bicycles.
lilho - 01/04/14 10:30
That is seriously the cutest post of 2014, even though it just started. You're such a fun I interesting person, you make me think anything is possible. Cheers to the Visco boys!
paul - 01/03/14 18:08
I thought you just thought I was crazy. That's nice to hear you admire something about me. Good luck.

12/24/2013 00:35 #58485

Davey's Christmas Gifts
So before (e:libertad) left to Florida for the holidays we exchanged our gifts. I definitely got way better gifts than I gave this year! I got an amazing beach bag from LLBean. I seriously have been wanting a nice beach bag forever and I think this one will really do the trick like no other. He also got me cards against humanity which I cannot wait to play again.

I got cellphone batteries which is super awesome so you can switch them out when you don't have a chance to charge your cellphone.

One gift was more of an investment sorta. He got me this complete dinner/serving set of rooster themed stuff. It is like cups, mugs, dishes, bowls, servers, like the whol complete set. It is pretty neat but I don't know that I would use it all the time though I really love some of the serving pieces. The thing is he bought them for me from a thrift store after he saw them but didn't think of them as a gift originally. he figured they are probably worth more than the $40 they cost at the store. We looked it up and it seems like for the entire set we could sell it for like $800. THE THING IS i really want to keep some of the pieces for seving ware. But (e:libertad) has very strong emotions about keeping the whole set together. Either we keep it all or sell it all as a set. I can't decide. Like it is really cool and maybe I would use some of it sometime, but it really is so much stuff we don't really have room for and money is always nice. I wish I could keep just some of it. We will see, no need to decide right now but I really like how some of the pieces look!

AND THEN THE GIFT THAT EXCEEDS ANY OTHER GIFT! THE SNOWMAN NATIVITY SET! I may have previously written about a $2000 nativity set I wanted but this one I think i wanted equally and it is only $7. I saw it in a catalog and really wanted it and (e:libertad) refused to let me get it but then he suprised me and got it for me for christmas! it was amaze balls! i love it!

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heidi - 12/24/13 10:29
I totally agree that you should keep the set together. It's really cute :-) What nice gifts!
sina - 12/24/13 09:02
i love those sculptures
paul - 12/24/13 02:03
Nice. They all seem very thoughtful.