Since I probably won’t have time tomorrow, I wish you and yours a very JasonCam Christmas!

After staring at the snow and ice all Tuesday, and shoveling til my arm about fell off, I decided to book a quick jaunt down to Florida.  I’m of course spending xmas with the rents and brother but fly out saturday.  Normally I’d at least tan a little bit before going somewhere like this, but given the last minute nature, I’m just going as a very very white guy.

Who knows, maybe I’ll post a vid or somethin’.  Happy HOlidays!

I’m on my way home from physical therapy and the fedex truck is coming the other way.  I give a friendly wave since I know the dude, and as I pass, I see him do a U’y (you-ee???).  I back into my garage, and there he is.  package in hand, with “they are requiring a signature.”  God bless this guy.  He has earned his best buy gift card this year.

He then tells me he and the UPS guy were both parked outside of my house, and that I have “a ton” of packages at the front door.  I dragged them all in and this is what I had (with a special appearance by the dog aka cheese):

I believe that is what we call abuse of Amazon Prime shipping.  Every time I shopped on amazon this year I would just check out right away since shipping is “free.”  Well, that leads to lots of big boxes with lots of air filling baggy things in them and tiny little items.  I might be the only person actually costing amazon money this year.

On to other gift giving news.  My dad is a regular customer at some entomologist supplier (yes, there really are such things).  I got him a gift certficate a few years back, and they knew him by name when I randomly called.  No different this time around.

So I called last week mind you, to ask about getting a gift cert again since I ran out of ideas for him.  Question number one when dealing with anyone non-amazon is “even though I’m ordering well in advance of any possible holiday deadline, will this make it here by Christmas?”

Keeping in mind all it is is a piece of paper, and they’re based in freakin’ maryland, they still said no.  But the lady was kind enough to work with me.  too kind.

to solve this “problem,”  she emailed me the actual word document they use to print out their gift certificates…. and told me to fill it in.  ummmm… ok.  how about I just add a few zeroes to the amount?

in the holiday spirit, and since I’m always jovial (to a fault) when dealing with folks on email, I simply replied that I would only fill in the to/from sections… and promised not to change the amount.  insert smiley here to show i was kidding.

not sure they got the joke.  this is all I got as a reply:

“we know where you live.”

gulp.  happy holidays mf’ers.  happy holidays indeed.

Well hello there.  I did have a perfectly decent excuse for not posting in 3 weeks… though it only covered the first 5 days (had a bit of a 10 year old medical issue flair up, and tried some new drugs that made me very ill… so switched back to the old ones and am now peachy)… can’t explain the other 16 days though haha.

a lot can transpire in 3 weeks.  aside from being (briefly) violently ill from said sickness, i aged yet another year somehow, and even had a roommate for 11 days!  a real roommate, not the wink wink nod nod “roommate” code.

I’m currently doing my usual last-minute online shopping.  Totally ran out of ideas for the dad this year, so I ended up getting him some books on forensic entomology.

the science of bugs eating dead people and timestamping their death.  super.  merry xmas dad!

mother is actually a bit harder to shop for this year.  i feel bad getting her workout stuff for her wii.  nothing says holiday cheer like “shape up fatty.”

and the bro (who reads this), gets coal.  that should throw him off.

add to this trying to shovel with only one arm, and, well, things are fun.  I just finished dumping a 50lb bag of salt on a 10 foot square area.  i really hope that shit eats thru the pavement.

the dog has decided to be super annoying with the first snowfall.  2 feet is an awful lot for a dog only a foot tall (otherwise known as jason-length).  I shoveled him multiple paths in the backyard to conduct his meetings…. only for some retarded reason he thinks of them like sidewalks, and won’t shit on them.  instead he carefully climbs onto the snow mounds, looks like he’s about ready to do the deed, only to fall through and then freak out.

this hasn’t gotten old.  i feel a flipvid-vid coming soon (got the newest one for my birfday!!).

More coming soon, since I’m snowed in and all with nothing else to do.  promise.