This was the bread that was served to me at Bertucci’s.

Well, it was tasty.

Continued from previous post.

Thursday

Today we went to the zoo! Then we ate at Joe’s Crab Shack and shopped in the Southside.

Miscellania and I with a friendly deer:

Harknell pets a deer and gets licked to death:

Harknell and Miscellania:

Umm..WHAT:

This is the REALLY STEEP escalator at the Pittsburgh Zoo:

Friday

Today we visited friends and also went shopping. The Bruegger’s Bagel guy looks like he has a pope hat on wtf:

Saturday

Left for NJ, got home at 2PM and passed out in our own puke,

In closing, I have to say that I both love and hate the south. Some parts of it were scary, but other parts were incredibly nice and pretty with the best food I have ever had. Hmm…sounds a lot like New Jersey! :D

Continued from previous post.

Monday

Today we visited Harknell’s Mom. Then we found that everything in TN costs a lot less than New Jersey. SHOPPING! We found a great BBQ and bought 3 people’s worth of food for less than what it costs to buy 1 or 2 people’s worth in New Jersey. We even bought 3 desserts just because we wanted to try them all!

The food tasted so much better than anything I have ever had in my entire life! It was all made with real stuff and not prepackaged crap. We ate here 2 days in a row.

This is what the bathroom doors looked like:

We went swimming, then got drunk and watched Ernest Family Album.

Tuesday

Visiting more family. More BBQ. More alcohol. More swimming. This time we watched “Dont Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood“. Best EVAR.

Wednesday – Tennessee to Pittsburgh

Another 10 hour drive. HOWEVER OUR STOP IN CINCINNATI, OHIO WAS NUTS.

Cincinnati claims it is known for it’s amazing chili. A place called Skyline Chili is a Big Deal there. They make this layer style chili that is spaghetti, chili, and cheese. The locals go nuts over it apparently. It is more popular than Starbucks.

They start you off with an appetizer of oyster crackers:

Then, all hell breaks loose:

I apologize in advance for anyone reading from Cincinnati, but wow…Has no one in Cincinnati ever had actual chili? You know, the stuff that comes from Mexico?

Cincinnati chili is not real chili. They do not pretend to be. I can accept this, however, the taste…. It tastes exactly like canned chili beans mixed with nutmeg. This mixture is dumped on spaghetti that tastes like canned, wet and engorged spaghetti. Onions and other things might also be put on it, then a pile of shredded cheddar cheese. It was so bland aside from the nutmeg that I put hot sauce on mine to try and get some taste. This just gave me a bad stomachache.

All three of us tried to like it, but…wow. It fails as chili. It fails as spaghetti. It fails as bizarre concoction. For the next 2 days we had bean nutmeg burps which led us to scream “DAMN YOU, CINCINNATTI!” It was the worst taste evar and it would not go away. Wow. Never have all three of us had such a violently negative reaction to any food before aside from tripe.

We arrived in Pittsburgh feeling ill and full of Cincinnati Nutmeg Cramping Gas. We ended up eating something else that I can’t remember because I was too busy burping and farting nutmeg and bad memories.

Post concluded tomorrow!

I promised you guys pictures of our round trip from New Jersey to Pittsburgh, PA to Tennessee, so here it is!

Saturday – New Jersey to Pittsburgh

We rented a Dodge Magnum and left early for Pittsburgh. It was a 6 hour drive.

Of course we went straight to Lulu’s Noodles and ate the Dr. Fu Special.

Then we found our hotel, did some shopping and went to sleep!

Sunday – Pittsburgh to Tennessee

We picked my friend Miscellania up and left early for Tennessee. This was a 10 hour drive. Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee. Here are some things we saw…

Apparently in the south, they do things a bit differently:

This was amusing:

I found out that some parts of the south is a lot like a different country compared to where I live. Jesus seems to be a pretty popular guy. Threatening signs saying that everyone is going to hell if they do not accept Jesus lined the roads. “WHEN YOU DIE WHERE WILL YOU SPEND ETERNITY?” “JESUS DIED FOR US!” “ACCEPT JESUS AND BE SAVED.” I did not get a photo of those (driving too fast), but these were the backsides of the signs:

In Kentucky a guy heard me swear while having a converstion that had nothing to do with him. Also, I was not insulting anyone or anything like that. here I come from, you use profanity as adjective in both the positive and negative sense. For a second I thought he was going to either freak out on me or attack me. I did not stay around long enough to find out! This was SERIOUSLY SCARY and weird.

FIREWORKS! BEER SOLD SUNDAY:

I am noticing a theme here! Nervous Charlie’s Fireworks and Beer:

We arrived in TN at about 8 PM and passed out asleep in our awesome hotel after eating a a Sonic:

Harknell and the Magnum:

Miscellania and I:

Hurricane Ike was happening in Louisiana, so we met a lot of nice people from NOLA who had been evacuated.

Post continued tomorrow!

Since I use a few computers and I’ve gone all Apple, I thought I’d give Apple’s MobileMe a go. It purports to sync your calendars, email, bookmarks, and contacts on all computers that you use.

I have no idea if it does this because after signing up to the free trial, I spent about 2 hours trying to get it to work and never was able to. I went and cancelled my trial subscription promptly while making wookie sounds.

The galling thing is that Apple is supposed to be SO EASY to use, but when I followed their support documentation, I was lost. I brought two friends in to help me and they were also lost.

I use OSX Tiger. I can’t upgrade to Leopard yet because some things in Leopard break programs that I use. The website says that MobileMe works with Tiger. The only difference is that it had the .Mac branding instead of the MobileMe branding. OK, cool.

The documentation has screenshots of Leopard and not Tiger, so following their step by step instructions proves to be a little bit annoying. It was OK until I reached the part where I was supposed to sync my data from my desktop Mac with MobileMe. It just says to press the sync button. It doesn’t say if the button is located in the MobileMe interface or located in your desktop’s system preferences.

Well, 15 minutes later, I finally find out where the fucking hell the sync button is on my version. A simple line saying, “…located in your system preferences in a menu that is launched from the top bar of the MobileMe(or .Mac) menu.” would have been awesome.

So at this point I thought my problems were over. I hit the sync button. NOTHING SYNCS. I reread the documentation. I google. I find that OH WAIT MOBILE ME DOESN’T WORK ON OSX TIGER EVEN THOUGH IT SAYS IT DOES ON THE WEBSITE.

Or rather it technically does work on Tiger, but not really. Somehow after about 30 minutes to an hour I managed to get it to sync all of my contacts and calendar entries. I still do not know how I achieved this momentous feat. My email still would not sync. I was able to google and come up with people who had my same problem. The fix involved opening up a text editor and deleting .plist files and perhaps maybe it still would not work. Some people had to do this each time they initiated a sync.

The best part is that if I had synced my iPhone with it in the order that the support documents led me to believe, MY IPHONES DATA WOULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLY ERASED WHAT THE FUCK MAN WHAT THE FUCK.

It’s a good thing I did not sync the iPhone out of the MAGICAL APPLE ORDER THAT INVOLVES IT NOT ERASING YOUR FUCKING DATA.

I also find that people are having problems ending their subscription after they have been able to successfully sync their data. The software is so buggy that it has your iPhone sync with an empty account and again, you lose everything on your iPhone.

Great job, Apple. You’ve wasted my time and WE KNOW HOW MAD I GET WHEN PEOPLE WASTE MY FUCKING TIME AND/OR WHEN ANY OF MY DATA IS THREATENED. Apple is guilty of partial murder due to the time I’ve lost getting jacked by their AssmasterSync program. I want my time back, you smarmy motherfuckers.

JUST SAY IT DOES NOT WORK IN TIGER AND ITS ONLY GOOD FOR PEOPLE WITH LEOPARD, KAY?

Fucking geniuses.