Had a bit of a strange happening at our apartment complex the other day. The police were called because someone saw another person with a gun right outside of our complex. They called the cops and said this person was firing the gun. This was on the news and in the Journal-Sentinel.

What really happened made me laugh. Someone was outside, shooting at a target with their paintball gun. The cops came, saw it was a paintball gun, and left.

I love living out here. In LA, the cops were called many times in the area I lived in for real guns, standoffs at the corner gas station, etc. Out here, it's just a dumb ass neighbor with a paintball gun. Heh.

Gabriel's play kitchen arrived yesterday. I got it off of Amazon for less that I would have paid at our local Toys R Us and it was delivered here, so we didn't have to worry about it fitting in the car. The UPS man even helped to carry it up the stairs and into our apartment! Rob and I will work on putting it together this weekend.

Our cleaning is going well. Both bathrooms have been fully cleaned and scoured. Now, onto our bedroom!

I'm pissed off right now. I don't usually use e-bay, but I found an amazing limited edition collector's knife I really wanted on there. With shipping it was $220, which wasn't a bad deal for the item. I won it and paid for it three weeks ago. Still no item. So, today I sent the seller a message letting him know that if I didn't have it (or an active tracking number) by next Friday (a month from when I won and paid for it) that I would be reporting him to ebay and leaving negative feedback. I don't know what ebay will do about it, if anything. I think I might just be out the money, which isn't cool because to me (and to a lot of other people as well) that's a lot of money! I don't think I'll be getting the money back. I'm also concerned that leaving negative feedback for him will result in him leaving negative feedback for me, even though I didn't do anything wrong. This is why I hate ebay.

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Microbrew

Microbrews, though obscure, are pretty tasty things, and they continually win beer contests. I, personally, have a hard time getting past the hype and the slight air of pretention that surrounds any discussion of "hoppiness," "5-star scales," and the like. But their non-working-classness notwithstanding, Microbrew is one of the best categories on this test: dignified, intelligent, rare.
Personality-wise, you have refined tastes (after all, mircobrews are usually kind of expensive), but you know how to savor what you get. Your personality isn't exactly light and bubbly, but very you're well-liked by your close circle of friends. Your sense of humor is most likely on the dark side, but that's just another way to say sophisticated, right? Just remember to act like a Pabst every once in a while, and you'll be perfect.

The If You Were A Beer Test