Consumer Test Results: Topsy Turvy

Okay I know I said I was going to wait for the fruit before I made my decision on the Topsy Turvy.

But look at this picture from my earlier blog.

Notice my "control" group. Those are the pots lined up against the wall. You can barely make out the plants poking up over the edges. 

But look at them now.

Some are almost as tall as the ceiling. 

And they're even blooming. 

Now look at the Topsy Turvy plants today. 

They've definitely grown. 

Kinda.

But I have to admit...

These are some of the sorriest tomato plants I've ever seen. 

So why am I even bothering with Topsy Turvy?

Well I'm not anymore. 

And neither should you.

I have finally found the chair.

to go with my new desktop.

Thank you, problem solved.

I knew it was something simple that I was just somehow missing.

Maybe you can help me.

I've been trying to go through the itunes help pages as well as other help discussions online to figure out this problem. It has to be something I'm missing. But this is my problem:

When I'm in itunes checking out the podcasts I've downloaded, I click this icon to get more of the description. 

This window pops up. And I get it. So far so good.

Now, how do I close this window? 

There is no button on it for me to push and when I go to something else, even if it has no description, that damn window stays right in front of everything I'm doing until I quit itunes completely. 

There has to be a way to close the window right?

A little help here?

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody

I must say, I made a pretty mean pumpkin pie.

Sorry Noon.

None for you.

Ok maybe a little.

Hello my name is KUBRICK

Yes! My Kubricks are here.

This Bearbrick is pretty sweet. 

He's among friends.

I'm pretty excited about these toys.

Now we're in the annals along with Planet of the Apes and the Sex Pistols.

And they make a nice display. 

I just have one question about the packaging:

Why is the Hurley silhouette holding hands with the Sayid silhouette?

Driving around in Kauai

We drove up to Waimea Canyon. The "Grand Canyon of the Pacific." Not a bad view. 

How can it be clogged? We put that sign up. And that sign covers everything anyone would possibly try to flush. Ew! What the hell is that?! A toy car?! Damn you kids!

I guess it goes here.

"Put me in your blog" the guy behind the counter at Hanalima Baking said as he handed me a crab roll. 

Now, I've never had a crab roll. I'd never think to order a crab roll. 

However the guy ahead of me DID order six of them. So that was a good sign.

And I have to say, that next time I'm in Kauai, I might have to get one again. 

So Ono

Last time we were in Kauai we stopped here for a burger and we knew we'd be back. Plus they had dummies to feed. 

Somebody lied to me.

This storm was supposed to last for about four days. At least that's what I was told. Here we were battening down the hatches only to find a lovely sunny day today. Now look at this. These clouds look much less rainy. And here this satellite picture shows the clouds missing us completely. I'm smiling now because as I type this, I can hear the rain starting to come down. Oh wait it just stopped.

/DUH-mehz/

Back in March when "Foxy and I shut down the ranch" a tradition started completely under my nose.

This tradition was feeding random stray animals and naming them "Dummy." (Although now we've been using the word Dummy for everything and everybody, especially each other.)

Kauai was full of Dummies this trip. First we saw this bird at breakfast drinking from the creamer cup. It was cute. We'd never seen a bird with a milk mustache. And then another flew to the table and started eating the syrup that was stuck to the outside of the pitcher. (Which is why we had eggs and no coffee.) I tried to snap a picture with my phone. It didn't come out very clear. He blends in well, look on top of the syrup.

But I saw there were a lot of mouths to feed so I left them a little of my breakfast. 

Then we had a nice dinner at Tidepools. And they had this Koi pond full of Dummies. 

They went nuts. Sometimes you'd see one koi jump out of the water further away. It looked like he was trying to distract the other fish and disperse the crowd. The best part was when we threw in a scoop of mashed potatoes.

We liked this hotel so much we went back for breakfast. At breakfast the Dummies actually helped bus the tables. 

Good Day To Stay In

Man it's coming down hard. And we're smack dab in the middle of it.

This rain is so noisy I have to keep turning up the TV. 

Nunu keeps shivering and trying to crawl between me and the couch for warmth. 

And it looks like it's going be like this for a while. 

Well, something's got to make this place green. 

This explains why the work schedule I got changed as soon as they delivered it. I'm thinking we'll be in the studio this week.

Surprise sink

This is great! I took these pictures in a movie theatre one day. I wanted to post them as "not something you want to see in a movie theatre." 

But lo and behold, I had no idea that this theme would return and re-inspire. 

DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SEE IN YOUR HOTEL ROOM!

Kauai Today

It's a lovely rainy day in Kauai.And I can't stop eating these peanuts. 

I am not on facebook.

Thank you for the heads up about:

http:/tr-tr.facebook.com/people/Jorge_Garcia/1614879611

This is not me. I do not have a facebook page nor do I have a MySpace.

So if you're friends with me on either of those sites. Then you are friends with somebody else. 

Just to give you a heads up. 

Also I couldn't help but notice that part of the confusion comes from this picture I had posted here on this blog. Which apparently is now a piece of "flair."

Seeing this does not make me eager to post more pictures of me and my friends. 

Tonight's Game

Is Chess.

Of course it's the Pirates of the Caribbean Chess. 

We have a lot of Pirates-themed board games. Battleship, Liar's Dice, and Chess. We had the Pirates game of Life, but it was too stupid to play more than once. 

And golf...

We played golf. 

Now playing golf is not something that I do. 

We played "best ball" which meant each member of a team took a swing. 

And the ball that landed the closest to the hole was the next point to hit from. 

We lost. 

My greatest contribution was one crucial putt. So contrary to LOST, golf is not my game. 

My weekend of gambling

I had a few buddies come out for a long weekend. We gambled the entire four days. 

We constructed a "bank" out of a box that we sealed so cash could only go in. 

And we all bought in for chips which we used as our gambling currency. 

And we bet on everything. 

And every bet was $5.

$5 Yahtzee.

$5 Pirate's Dice.

$5 Horse Shoes

$5 Boci Ball 

Even $5 Burnout Crash Party.

And we also played credit card roulette when we went out to eat. 

This is where I made up my gambling losses. 

Katselas

Maestro,

Thank you... for EVERYTHING. 

I will miss you.

That was weird!

What was up with that blog? 

I know I wanted to write a blog last night.

I remember I was trying to come up with a title.

And then I remember waking up on the couch at 2am with my laptop on my chest, battery dead.

This morning I find out that I posted a blog called "Thank you" labeled "m."

So I did a little detective work. Because I thought the chances that someone hacked my blog was a little unlikely, or if anything a waste of that person's skill. 

I think I tried to write something that started with a T.

And my Autofill suggested "Thank You," which I had used in a previous blog. 

And at some point in my sleep I labeled it "m" and posted it before the power drained completely. 

Weird. (I guess I shouldn't have deleted it now. Because people aren't going to know what I'm talking about.) 

Gallery shoot

When I went to LA for the Emmys they also shot our gallery pictures.

I never had more eye make up put on me until that day. 

Here I tried to sneak a photo of myself in the mirror of the bathroom but people kept coming in and I'd get embarrassed and hide my phone.

Butt!

Butt butt butt butt butt butt butt butt.

I thought the last blog was a little too significant.

Whew! They didn't need me.

Man. I got off work at about 5:30.

I thought the polls were going to be open until seven.

So I knew I'd make it just in time to cast my vote and be counted. 

I get there at 6:20 spot on. I go inside and...

The polls closed at six. 

Damn. Imagine my disappointment. 

I drove home, bummed about being left out of doing my part. 

It lasted about five minutes. 

Because as I was pulling into the garage McCain was giving his concession speech. 

It was over. 

Obama didn't need my vote. 

No time to be sad. 

Only time to celebrate change.

And history.

Starting Wet

Those two words, spoke to me by the AD last night are why I'm feeling slight dread about going to work today. 

I can handle waking up at 4:30 to make the 6am call. 

And usually only two scenes to shoot in one day is a breeze. 

But "starting wet" messes the whole thing up. 

Why did I even shower today? (Well I guess I showered because that is my routine. So was putting on deodorant when I know "starting wet" is going to wash it off anyway.)

What I did not do however, is put on underwear. On a day that I "start wet" I pack it in bag to put on at the end of my day. A small comfort that I will be looking forward to I assure you.

Remember to vote folks. 

Halloween pumpkin closeout '08

We got back to the house yesterday at around 5:30 so we were scrambling to get ready for the trick or treating crowd. Beth still had three pumpkins to carve and it didn't look like they were going to get done. I started putting the pumpkins out and getting them ready for display. Beth started lighting the candles. 

I grabbed one of the uncarved pumpkins 

and did this: 

Then I helped her start her snake charmer. 

But the kids started showing up. And she took over the candy duties.  Not wanting to waste the pumpkins, because who's going put out a jack-o-lantern in November, I carved another one. 

Not my best.  But heck Halloween was happening without us. 

Earlier today I had carved my Star Wars pumpkins:

And the one in the middle here. 

It's a pumpkin version of "Saturn Devouring his Son."

Beth made this awesome lamp pumpkin. 

We might make a bunch of these next year. 

As for the night, my favorite costume was a kid I saw dressed as an old school Oompa Loompa. I was bummed at how many kids didn't even have bags to collect their candy in. They just held out their hands. 

A bunch of kids were dressed as "freedom fighters" (t-shirts wrapped around their heads and carrying toy machine guns). Luckily one of their mom's clarified the costume for me. Because I thought he was dressed as a terrorist. Tomato, tomahto.