Derrek M. - ProfilesArchive

My Interests

Music:

Just about anything really. Enya to Metallica (their old stuff that is). John Denver to Black Eyed Peas. Opera, Classical, Oldies, 80's. Can't stand "gansta" cRap. I do like some of Eminem's stuff and a very few others. Twangy country is right out but I do like some Faith Hill and Shania Twain crossover stuff. I'm into Mary Prankster, Chiasm and Lacuna Coil. Three Days Grace and Breaking Benjamin are at the top of my list right now too.

Movies:

Some all time favorites:
Army of Darkness
Better off Dead
Blackhole
Blood of Heroes
Dog Soldiers
Dune (the original one, thanks)
Equilibrium
Grosse Point Blank
Labyrinth
Legend
My Chauffeur
Resident Evil

As a general rule I like:
Anything Christian Bale
Anything Bruce Campbell
Anything John Cussack
Anything Rutger Hauer

Television:

I watch these regularly:
Heroes-
(NBC, Mondays at 8PM)
Smallville-
(The CW, Thursdays at 8PM)
Battlestar Galactica-
(Sci-Fi, Fridays at 10PM)

I watch these whenever:
Discovery Channel
History Channel
The Learning Channel
Animal Planet
Food Network
Discovery Health Channel
VH1
HGTV

Books:

How bout authors AND books...

Herbert, King, Tolkien, Saberhagen, Weis & Hickman and Niven for a start

Dune (entire series)
Watership Down
Battlefied Earth
Grapes of Wrath
For Whom the Bell Tolls
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Heroes:

My father

My Blog

New addition to the house

We have a new addition to our house as of Sunday (7/22/07). Her name is Gypsy and she is a one year old charcoal grey and striped Tabby. Jess got her for her birthday. We adopted her...
Posted by Derrek M. on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:23:00 PST

Work, work and more work

Jake and I laid the concrete backerboard on Friday. We didn't leave till about midnight and my stupid VCR didn't record Battlestar so I had to set my other one to record it at 3am just to m...
Posted by Derrek M. on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:30:00 PST

Renovations and leaves and paint oh my...

With Jess's and Jake's help, we started to rip up the flooring in the kitchen last week and found a disgusting little surprise. There were worms under the wood. One inch long, squirmy, bla...
Posted by Derrek M. on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:40:00 PST

House purchase...done

Go me. I'm a home owner. Now to fix up the place.
Posted by Derrek M. on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:02:00 PST

Appraisal...done.

On Saturday, Jess, Danielle and I went to the house to take care of the "sticking points" in the appraisal. We bought a 5 x 7 carpet at Ollies for 19 bucks and some duct tape for 2 bucks. ...
Posted by Derrek M. on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:57:00 PST

STRESSING!

Well, the kitchen was mostly finished by the time the appraiser got to the house today. The stove wasn't there but based upon some information I got from the agents who said they talked to appra...
Posted by Derrek M. on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:23:00 PST

Here comes the rain again...

After all this rain, I really hope there is nothing wrong with the house. I suppose it's a good thing I'm going over on Saturday to look at the work on the kitchen. It'll give me an opport...
Posted by Derrek M. on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:17:00 PST

Kitchen work started?

It appears that the insurance person was in to provide a quote for the house. I already spoke with my agent who gave me an estimate. The quote is what I'll actually have to pay. ...
Posted by Derrek M. on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:04:00 PST

Inspection...DONE!

The inspection is over and it went pretty well considering the age of the place. We almost couldn't get in. Some dipshit (probably the termite inspectors on Friday evening) locked the wron...
Posted by Derrek M. on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 12:27:00 PST

I've apparently gotten myself a house...

After many weeks (months!) of searching, I think I may have stumbled across the right house. Finally. If you wanna see it, the MLS is 10135067. It's a blue 1 story ranch on a slab....
Posted by Derrek M. on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:34:00 PST