I have friends that went to Celebration IV.  I chose to stay home.  They told me how awesome it was and that I needed to go to Celebration V.  I just found out there are five cities in the running to host Celebration V.  The five cities are Baltimore, Minneapolis, Chicago, Indianapolis and Orlando.  Orlando would be great.  I live there and with the minimal travel expenses I might go. 

I love most things maple flavored.   Maple syrup = delicious and I am not talking about that fake corn syrup with maple flavoring stuff I am talking about the 100% Amber Maple Syrup.  I also like maple bacon and maple sausage.  I like maple fudge.  I recently found maple cream cookies in the grocery store and I love them.  The maple tree has to be on of the best tasting trees out there. 

Did you know that you can have Hannah Montana call your home?  That’s right she will give you a wake up call so that you can get yourself out of bed and start the day off right.  I don’t know how life could get any more exciting.

If you want your call you can get it here.

The city of Seattle is selling five of their new self cleaning toilets on ebay. The starting bid is $89,000. If I had that much money in my Paypal account I would throw in a bid. I could put it on the back of a flatbed truck and drive it to concerts and sporting events. It would cost a few bucks to use but given the choice between using the usual portable toilet and my traveling futuristic toilet I think my toilet would win.

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IGN.com has a list of the top 10 worst Atari 2600 games. I had only one of the games on the list. Number 10 Donkey Kong is the only game on the list I owned. As far as Atari 2600 games go I wouldn’t say Donkey Kong was terrible. I also had Raiders of the Lost Ark and I think that game was worse than Donkey Kong.

When I think of a hamburger calling itself a slider I think of White Castle. I like small burgers because it makes me feel like I am a giant. You can pick it up with one hand and shove the whole thing in your mouth. There are no White Castles here so imagine my excitement when I saw that two large chain restaurants have new menu items that they bill as sliders or big bites. I went to both restaurants to try them out. First, I went to Chili’s. The menu shows four tiny burgers on four tiny little buns. I ordered it. What did I get? One large burger cut into quarters. That is not a slider. It wasn’t even what was pictured on the menu. There were no tiny round patties with round buns. Just a hamburger cut into four pieces held together with a toothpick. Next stop was Friday’s. They have a few types of sliders. I ordered the Tennessee BBQ slider. The menu shows two small burgers. What I actually got was one hamburger on one bun. The bun had two toothpicks in it. Just because you have two toothpicks in it doesn’t make it two burgers. They didn’t even try to make it look like the picture on the menu. I had to take my knife and separate the burger and I separated the two halves like a skilled surgeon separating a set of Siamese twins. Cut in half it still didn’t look like the picture. Two restaurants. Two burgers. Two days of disappointment.

I never though the harp was a cool instrument.  That is until I saw this laser harp.  I think lasers would make most instruments cooler but it does wonders for the harp.  If you are a kid in school and you tell your classmates you play the harp you would get laughed.  The school bully might even beat you up.  If you said you played the laser harp everyone would just look at you and say “Cool.” If you want to build your own laser harp you can get the plan on Stephen Hobley’s web site.

I have never needed or wanted a portable urinal. I have not urinated in my pants since I wore diapers. Well there was that one time a few years ago but I don’t talk about that.

You could be that home with the usual lawn ornaments of gnomes, pink flamingos and cutouts of old ladies bending over.  I would prefer to have the house with the zombie lawn ornaments.  They are great for Halloween but I think I would leave it up all year.  After all if my neighbors can leave their Christmas lights up all year I can certainly have a zombie clawing its way out of my front garden all year. 

I must have missed the first hurricane but I have been watching Bertha form over the last few days.  In addition to mixing up delicious drinks I also run a weather service.  Whenever my weather radio goes off I tell call my friend and tell him to the closet until I call him again with the all clear.  It looks like Bertha is going to miss Central Florida but the season is just starting.  I will have my eye on the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic for the next few months to bring you up to date weather information.  Last year was a good year for us with no hurricanes hitting Central Florida.  I hope this year will be just like last year.