Disney World Photos

We all just got back from a week in Disney World. Here are the photo highlights.

http://picasaweb.google.com/futuregenetics/DisneyWorld2009

Also, if you have me as a friend on facebook, you can view them there.

Matt McKee 5-1-1976 - 12-18-2008

My brother died on the 18th. I'm not going to write too much about it just yet, but here is the DVD the funeral home provided us. It has some nice pictures of him throughout his life.

Wedding Pictures

Pictures of the New House

If everything goes well we'll be moving in at the end of the month

Sammy at Cedar Point, Sandusky Ohio

117 out of 212

I found this on that wonderfully useful site the kids call "My Spaces" or something... I normally don't do these things, but I couldn't resist. I apparently if you've seen more than 100 movies out of the 212 listed, you're a loser, have no life, and what little life you have should be ended immediately. Copy and paste at will.

(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( x) Airplane

Total So Far: 8

(x) The Princess Bride
( x) Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
() Labyrinth
(x) Saw
(x) Saw II
(x) Saw III
(x) White Noise
()White Oleander
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
() The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total all together: 17

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
() Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
() American Pie Band Camp
() American Pie Naked Mile

Total all together: 26

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil 1
(x) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch

Total all together: 35

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
() 13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
(x) Robots

Total all together: 41

() Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
() Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
(x) King Kong
Total all together: 47

(x) The Terminal
()The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
() Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
(x) Final Destination 2
(x) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
() The Ring 2
() Surviving Christmas
() Flubber
Total all together: 54

() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
() The Whole Nine Yards
( )The Whole Ten Yards
Total all together: 58

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
() Child's Play
() Seed of Chucky
() Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
() Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
() Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter
() The Longest Yard
() Gridiron Gang
(x)The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 64

(x) Bad Boys
(x) Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x)Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
() Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
() Predator I
() Predator II
() Alien vs. Predator
() The Fog
(x) Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
(x) Curious George
Total all together: 74

(x) Independence Day
() Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
() Christine
(x) ET
() Children of the Corn
()My Bosses Daughter
() Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
() Die Hard
() Die Hard 2
(x) Die Hard 3
TOTAL NUMBER: 80

(x) Transformers
() Cruel Intentions
(x) Old School
() The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
(x) Krippendorf's Tribe
() A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
total all together: 85

() For the love of baseketball
(x) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 corpses
() The Devil's Rejects
(x) Elf
() The House of Wax
() Wrong Turn
() Legally Blonde
() Legally Blonde 2
Total all together: 87

(x) Flight Plan
() The Tuxedo
() Step up
() stick It
() Night Watch
(x) Monsters, Inc.
(x) Titanic
() Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard
Total all together: 92

() Bring It On
() Bring It On Again
() Bring it on all or Nothing
(x) Hulk
(x) Superman Returns
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days Later
() Orgazmo
() Phantasm
(x) WaterWorld
total all together:98

(x) Kill Bill vol 1
(x) Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
(x) Wolf Creek
(x ) Kingdom of Heaven
(x) The hills have eyes
( )The Hills Have Eyes 2
() Reign of Fire
() The Last House on the Left
() Pulse
() Stay Alive
Total all together: 103

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars A New Hope
(x) Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Return of the Jedi
() Ewoks the caravan of courage
() Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total all together: 110

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
() Animatrix
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
(x) Zoolander
() Phantom of The Opera
(x) Hannibal
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Anger Management
total all together: 117

Total: 117

: I saw 117 movies out of 212

Cereal Will Never Be the Same

Yesterday, at the store, when asked what kind of cereal she wanted, Samantha replied excitedly, "Cinnamon Toast Crunk!" Ashley and I's amusement with this is never ending.

Fight School Video

The Family Portrait

(Garkee is my dorky amalgam of Gardner and McKee) Do yours at simpsonsmovie.com

The Belt Ceremony

Samantha's Choi Kwang Do belt presentation ceremony. She's now a White-Senior. (click for larger images)

The Freak Out

I've been having a week long freak out and I think it's finally coming to a close. I've been freaking because I've been thinking that I'm royally financially fucked, and that we're never going to be able to afford anything. I just did what I should have done a week ago, which was add up all my outgoing expenses, and I'm not nearly as royally fucked as I thought I was. Turns out, I've got a little extra money that I can save. I was already doing this, saving money I mean, but for some reason I got it in my head that I wasn't nearly making enough money to save anything. I was putting money in the bank, it was being saved, and yet I ignored that fact.

Last night when I came home I wanted a drink of the alchaholic variety and I started to worry that I couldn't afford to ever have a drink ever again in my life. I don't even drink that much. I have one or two drinks a week, if that. I've been known to go 2 or 3 weeks at a time without even so much as a beer and yet I was worried that I couldn't afford to have a screwdriver. I tallied up the cost of that drink in my head and it came to about $1. Even that estimate is prabably a little high. 1 shot of Vodka and 1/8 carton of OJ that cost $1.99.

This isn't to say that I'm now relaxing about all of this. I still need to be making a bit more money to afford a new place. I still need a new job and I'm still applying. I still want to go back to school or at the very least get my MCSE certificate. I think I'm going to shoot for the later first, I just don't have the time to go school right now. Also, I don't want to incur any more debt at the moment.

Relax Trevor, smell the roses, and have a drink.

The Amazing Toilet Phone

My Samsung cell phone fell in a public toilet, was fully submerged in nasty toilet water for several seconds and after just a few hours dry out time, was completely unharmed.

I'll be honest, I was nervous at first when nothing was working right, but one by one all functions returned to normal.

Samsung, I tip my hat to you; for making a toilet-proof phone.

Game Time

Sammy and I playing Super Gem Fighter Turbo

Ms. Marvel

In her current series, Ms. Marvel strives to push herself to be the best hero she can possibly be because she knows she can be the best in the world. Up until now, she feels she has been lazy and not living up to her potential. Am I pushing my self hard enough? Are any of us?

Something you're writing may kill you...more at 11.

"Keeping a diary is bad for your health, say UK psychologists. They found that regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to suffer from headaches, sleeplessness, digestive problems and social awkwardness."

This was taken from a 2004 article at NewScientist.com

Well, that must apply to blogging too because I have all those symptoms. Although a strong argument could be made that people with those symptoms are more likely to be come diarists or bloggers. Certianly the social awkwardness thing. " But she acknowledges that her experiment could not demonstrate which came first - the diary writing or the health problems."

The article also says that those who have had traumatic experiences in their life and write about it were even more likely to have health problems. Again, an argument can be made that people who have had traumatic experiences in their life are going to have stress and health problems and be more likey to write about traumatic experiences (...because they actually happened). Though I'll admit it says nothing about what percentage of people who have had traumatic experiences feel compelled to write it down.

My Nerd Score

Apparently I'm much more nerdy than I originally suspected.

S.A.D. & Stats

I suffer from mild to moderate Seasonal Affective Disorder. What that basically means is that when it's cold, rainy, snowy, otherwise shitty and looks like it does in the picture outside, I feel like crap both emotionally and physically. I feel like I'm trapped in a box, can't move, and like the cold will never cease. Fortunately I take anti-depressants so life is ok.






National Mental Health Association, 2001

• Young people and women are at the highest risk for the disorder, but it can affect anyone.
• An estimated 25 percent of the population suffers from mild winter SAD, and about 5 percent suffer from a more severe form of the disorder.

National Mental Health Association, 2005.

• Three out of four SAD sufferers are women.
• The main age of onset of SAD is between 18 and 30 years of age.
• Seasonal affective disorder is estimated to affect 10 million Americans.

To anyone else reading this who feels this way, fear not; Thanks to global warming, our winters are getting shorter and shorter every year.

The Sudoku Conquest

I did a few in the past and thought they were too easy. Then I came to realize I was doing them wrong. The two puzzles above represent my triumph in doing them correctly (And, of course they were much harder than I thought). I feel smart. Isn't that the ultimate reward of anything in life? Doing something that doesn't make you feel like quite such an idiot. If I could do a bunch of shit myself on my car, that too would make me feel smart; maybe someday.

I've found that doing these mundane puzzles calms me down when I'm depressed, pissed off, or freaking out. Having something else to focus on helps take my mind off of my troubles. Perhaps if I do enough of these I won't need Zoloft anymore.

Work today was very short and I hope I'm not in danger of going broke. Short as it was, I had 2 awful encounters. The first was with a crackhead 15 year old girl. How did I know she was a crackhead? I've known a few crackheads in my time. The first thing that gave it away was how she was acting crazy like Tony Montana. You know, "fuck you, I'm entitled to everything I see...". Second was her voice. From what I understand, snorting cocaine...even enough of it over a short period of time-erodes the walls of your nostrils and fucks up your sinuses. This girl sounded like someone had stuffed wads of peanut butter up the back of her nose and lit the front of her nasal passages on fire. Like someone with a cold on their deathbed who also got their face beat in like what Ed Norton did to Jerod Leto in Fight Club. The point of this? Just to illustrate what shit I think some people are. I'm not sure if I'm aggravated at her for being fucked up, or at whoever raised her for putting more people like that into the world. I've got some tolerance for people who are drug addicts and who are trying to get better. I've got no tolerance for girls like her who show up on Oprah and says she's gonna do whatever the fuck she wants. I probably should. I probably should have an attitude of wanting to help youth before it's too late and all that, but for some reason when I see a teenager like that I just feel contempt. Again, for them, and for whoever raised them. Maybe it's because I was surrounded by people like that in highschool and they were all assholes to me. Say what you will about comic books being stupid, but they kept me away from a lot of bad shit growing up. Having something to distract me was very much a good thing. I seriously think kids should be introduced to art and music a lot more and a younger age. I think that, along with emphasizing the importance of education, would do a lot to curb teenage drug use. I don't think those are the only factors involved, but the thing is, those are factors we can control. We can't always control what they're shitty parents are telling them. We can't always control what friends they have or the places they hang out. A lot of kids when they get the whole "school sucks" notion, through no direct intention of their own, end up drinking first usually, then use drugs. I know how it is, the more and more it's around, the less of a big deal it seems like. Something as simple as comic books, or drawing, or painting, or singing, can give a kid something to fall back on when they get those "school sucks" notions, as believe me, I did. Another bit of advice should be this: Limit how much time a teenager can talk in a day somehow. I don't mean talk on the phone, I mean talk period. It seems like a lot of teenage stupidity stems from them talking to one another. Also, limit how much their parents can say to them, that way when they can speak, they'll make damn sure it's something important or intelligent.


My other encounter today was with a pile of dog shit. Everyone steps in dog shit every now and again and if this were just an ordinary dog-shit incident, I probably wouldn't even mention it. But this wasn't your everyday dog-shit encounter, this encounter happened in the refridgerator isle of Best Buy. Why was there dog shit in an isle at Best Buy? I have no answer for that, but it happened. And I had to wait 10 minutes standing in one shoe while one of the sales people took my shoe in the back and cleaned it off. This didn't look like someone brought it in from outside and it got on the floor, it looked like a dog took a shit by the Kenmores. I'm really hoping it was a dog.



One last thing, The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman is the best damn comic out right now. I don't care if you don't like comic books and don't like Zombies, go to Borders (or other chain book store) and pick up one of the collected paperbacks.


"How many hours are in a day when you don't spend half of them watching television? When is the last time any of us REALLY worked to get something that we wanted? How long has it been since any of us really NEEDED something that we WANTED?

The world we knew is gone.

The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled, no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV.

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living."

There was this thing crawling around inside of our bedroom wall last night, needless to say I havn't gotten much sleep, and I want to kill something.