http://www.dylanreed.org I AM SO AWESOME!!!!!!! Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:37:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been a crazy couple of weeks, and by a couple of weeks I mean a month and a half. This summer, if you can call it that, has been full of ups, downs and a bunch of family crap. My father decided to get sick, and not just ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/07/09/hello-world/ Not one of those super bad ass Harley riding bikers or even one of those less bad ass super bike riding bikers, no I have become a rider of bicycles kind of biker. It all started about three weeks ago when Sarah and I traded our old cruiser bikes and ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/05/22/i-have-become-a-biker/ I was hanging out on the Internet and I came across this article. Dolphins, long the protectors of the human race in the sea, have been targeted by the black and white devilfish. I am of course referring to the Orca or more appropriately named Killer Whale.As I have written ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/05/07/i-warned-you/ And I figured out why I like CCG and what was the gateway game to get me started. Most CCG (collectible card games) take place in a fixed world. In the World of Warcraft that world is the world of Warcraft...duh. But it adds to that world something better then ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/04/24/ive-been-doing-some-thinking/ Well maybe not ever, but it was a doozy. I finally took a weekend off of the balloon making to have a relaxing weekend of not making balloons for tips. It was a definite hit in the ol' pocketbook but I think the relaxation was worth it. Plus Sarah and ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/04/22/best-friday-night-ever-and-other-awesome-stuff/ Recently I have been doing something that I am not proud of. It isn't something that is in itself bad, it just isn't something that a lot of people talk about. The real problem is that I like it, a lot. It is something that my friend Lars showed me ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/04/07/wow-i-have-a-problem/   Recently at work, at the suggestion of my computer genius brother, we switched to Google Apps. Overall the switch has been easy-ish. One of the main reasons for the switch is that we have been getting a lot of spam. And when I say a lot of spam, I ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/04/03/oh-google-calendar-sync-your-such-a-tease/ So its been a little while since I have brought the new noise with some new Awesome Guys. So here are three new ones with a couple more to come in the next few days. Captain Chicky McDuckerson Many years ago, before the dawn of the year 2008, a bird was born ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/03/18/im-bbbbbbbaaaaaaccccccckkkkkkkk/ Last Saturday night I procured for myself a copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Well I actually pre-ordered it on Saturday and picked it up on Sunday. It is a couple bundles worth of joy. There are a bunch of levels, a lot of characters to play with and it ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/03/18/omg-ssbb-teh-epic-lulz1/ Sarah and I, as I may have mentioned previously, have started Operation: Make the Compartment Awesome. The overall plan is to paint, decorate and wood floorerize our condo. We picked out floors about two weeks ago and started painting. After a color choice fiasco we picked a good color and ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/03/17/operation-make-the-compartment-awesome/ I am thinking about ordering something different for giveaways while entertaining. The most fun thing that I have found are buffalo chips:   What do you think? http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/03/13/chip-on-my-shoulder/ First off, thanks for asking. I have been up to quite a bit lately. As I mentioned in a very short previous post my tooth, ass and life where making me mad for very different reasons. Since writing that post I have been able to figure out each one and ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/03/05/so-dylan-what-have-you-been-up-to/ So it is my birthday week. I will be 27 on Valentines day...WooHoo...Or something like that. I have an angry tooth, a pissed off butt and I generally feel frustrated with a lot of my life. Hi Ho Well done bitching for now. More later. http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/02/11/rough-week/ Coniglietto, or Coni for short, grew up in France. He spent most of his childhood running around the farms and what not in rural France. He came from a long line of Green Rabbits and was quite proud of his family heritage. Some of his great Granduncles had been seen ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/02/05/i-love-myself-an-ice-cream-loving-bunny/ One of the best known bunny scholars is none other then Dr. Thaddeus P. Hare. At a young age Thad noticed that he was different then the other bunnies, smarter, and as he thought, better then all of the other bunnies. He quickly moved to the top of his class ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/01/31/thaddeus-p-hare/ If you have ever been to a jazz club you have probably seen this Hip-Cat roaming around. He dances and dances, wooing the ladies and charming the guys. He never fights or bad mouths anyone, he just spends his time looking cool. Of course it wasn't always like that... Brutus' ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/01/25/et-tu-brutus/ I was lucky enough to sell two of my Awesome Guys this weekend. It was quite exciting and nice to finally sell something. I just need to keep this momentum going and sell many many more. One of the creatures is going to Chicago and one is headed to Taiwan. ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/01/21/two-sold-three-more-listed/ Here is the first sock creature entirely my own design. She is awesome and she rules and she is an experiment gone horribly horribly wrong. She thinks your pretty and wants to get to know you better. I have also changed the name of my Etsy shop from Awesomeguy's ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/01/17/abby-normal/ Harper, my wonderful and helpful brother, recently suggested that I make a story for all of the creatures I am trying to sell on Etsy. Well I did just that. I wrote wonderful little stories for all of my little creatures. I figured I would share them with the world ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/01/10/my-etsy-shoppe-and-the-stories-i-tell/ I recently got asked to start making balloon animals at the local TGI Fridays on Saturday evenings. This means that I will start obsessing over balloons again. Which is good because they are awesome. They have changed a lot since I first started. Electric pumps are now super expensive ... http://www.dylanreed.org/2008/01/09/balloons-are-awesome/