My brother Matthew came out twice in the the last few months to work on the set of Death4Told, a movie written and directed by former co-worker Bo Buckley. I was quite surprised (and proud) to see that Matthew is credited in the Internet Movie DataBase (or IMDB for short).

Matthew wants a career in the movie/theater industry and this is certainly a great start and quite frankly a HELL of an accomplishment. Way to go!

Disclaimer:

I know its been a week since I posted, I'm not slacking off on my efforts to keep current on this page. I've been pretty busy working, as well I have been working diligently on the pics section so I can take that live here soon. Also, my home PC got a new "body" (pics to come soon) and didn't take well to it. I believe I have the fix and will test this idea out tonight.

Well, I fixed the home computer without having to reformat it. Turns out I was a victim of this "worm" that is exploiting a security flaw in various Windows Operating Systems.

• If you run Windows NT Click here.

• If you run Windows 2000 Click here.

• If you run Windows XP (Home or Pro) Click here.

(archive posting note: the above links are long remove but left for reading continuity)

You should see a window open up asking you if you want to open or save the file. Save it (on your desktop is a good place) and then when it's done downloading, double click on the file and run that patch. It will most likely want to reboot when you are done.

Now I can see you asking yourself.... but what Operating System am I using? Right click on your 'My Computer' icon and select properties. It will tell you there.

Should you do this patch even if you haven't had any troubles? Absolutely. If you are running one of the above mentioned operating systems, then PATCH IT! PATCH IT GOOD!

In other news, I found my Palm Pilot finally (Palmy as he is called). After a few hours of a steady 110V IV drip, a brain transplant and a face lift, hes all charged up, filled with data and looking good. :)

Well I was the "Beer Beyotch" at Big Bear today. I do that every once in a while when the regular beer guy is on vacation. It's a LOT of work. You don't think about what a case of beer weighs until you are putting up several hundred of them. I did pretty good, I only broke 25 bottles today. Seriously, I did. But apparently that's less than the regular guy breaks on an average day.

Other than that, I am working up at LANlords Gaming tonight, have about an hour until we close. It was really nice, my friends Mike & Laura Garrett (whom I bought my house from) stopped in tonight since they were in town (they live in Detroit now). I got to show them around, chat with them for about an hour. Mike will be back down for the lock-down on the 22nd with three of his friends. It will be good to play games with him for a night.

Webpage problems all fixed now, thanks to Jen.

Not a whole lot going on here. Been a fast, busy week. I pretty much worked nonstop (I know, what a surprise! Huh?).

My home computer is not playing nice-nice right now. It's got some bug or something. I have this bad feeling I'm going to have to reformat it. If I can't get it worked out by Sunday, I think that is what I will do Sunday while I am working at LANlords Gaming. I'm sure it can use a fresh lobotomy, but I hate doing that. I always forget to back something up.

I did manage to add a few more random quotes to the "Random Quotes & Thoughts" below the navagation links to the left over there. So, hopefully you should be getting some new ones.

I think that is all for now.

Flogging Molly - Part Two

Yup, still kicked ass just like I thought it would. They did some repeat songs from last night, but it was great. Today was a little less crowded so I got closer to the stage. I brought Cameron's digital camera with me today and got some pretty good shots.

This was during their encore and is one of the clearest, crispest shots I took.

I will get all the pics up soon, I swear I will. If you just can't wait and want to look at them all (in their 1600 X 1200 glory), you can do so right here.

OH. MY. GOD.

Flogging Molly SO fucking rocks. Plain and simple.

My hands are raw from clapping, my throat is raw from singing and screaming and I can't wait to do it again tomorrow.

I missed the very beginning of their set because there was no where park and I had to walk a really long way. But I still saw 90% of the show and it was incredible. They really do put on a great show. I don't know if they do that MORE SO in Columbus, since the drummer and mandolin player (brothers) are from here or what.

They did a lot of my favorite songs, including their version of "Delilah", for an encore. I love that song. I had a great time just standing under the tent, jumping around a lil (I can't dance but I can bounce to the beat. :) It was extremely crowded and hot. When I walked out of the tent my hair was so sweaty it was like I just stepped out of the shower. but I didn't care.

They play again tomorrow at 4PM and I can't wait. I'm going to try to take Cameron's digital camera and take some pictures.

Yes folks, for no good reason other than I could, I bought www.grinko.com which just drops you right here. So if you are clicking it saying nothing is happening, thats because you are already here. But in the future if you are too lazy to type out www.redefiningweird.com, you can just go to grinko.com.

The cool thing about this though? I am now michael@grinko.com for email (I still have all the other email addresses).

Other than that, LANlords Gaming is going well. I have been busy working there and everywhere else. I did do some work on the right menu bar making graphical links instead of text ones.

So hang in there folks, I'll be posting more regularly next week. :)

Edit: I forgot to say that I get to go see my favorite band this weekend: Flogging Molly

Not only do I get to see them, I get to see them TWICE! FOR FREE!

They are playing Saturday night at 10PM and Sunday afternoon at 4PM at the Dublin Irish Festival.

Go me! :)