Dummy

I am pretty pissed right now. I had been blog surfing this afternoon at work and found some pretty "deep" sights that I was going to leave comments for. Like a dummy I deleted them from my inbox. No deep thoughts from me tonight. What a shame, I am sure that my nonexistent audience is gasping.

The more I browse blogs here the more indifferent I am to blogs. I will however continue to do it for years to come. I surf and see these agenda's and foreign blogs. It bugs me to no end. Then you get the bubble gum blogs. These teens having all of this tension towards life. Was I that way? I am not interested in why Davey broke up with Sally. I guess I want something with some substance and humor. I realize that I am not giving that back to Bloggville. I apologize for that.

I am disappointed in my tax return for this year. Me and wife paid over $3,600 in taxes and are getting back between $1,600-$2,100. That is a down year for us. We have been getting back about $3,000 for the last few years. I hate this shit! I am sure that Bush has something to do with it. I was disappointed to read that credits for gas free and hybrid cars are going to be coming down in the next few years. Where's the incentive to better our environment? Oh well, just 4 more years right? That guy is a douche bag!

I have nothing else to stew about this evening. I will try to get these blogs back so I can drop a line on these wonderful people.

woes in bloggville

I am sitting here at work and bored as hell. What shall I do? Guessing waste tax payers dollars and blog a bit. I have been reading and checking out some blogs on my off time today. Not sure if I should start to think that blogger.com is worth a damn. I guess I don't like the general set up of the site itself. I would like to be able to look up topics or names. Maybe have a place to save favorite blogs I come across. Maybe I can do this stuff but just have no idea how to do it. I will get there at some point I am guessing.

I did see a few that I am going to be commenting on this evening and will be sure to drop the names of these peoples blogs. They very in topics. One is about pro-choice, another is racism and one about some guy that BS's. I just feel compelled to write these people and get my point of view out there. I also may drop a line on some cool sites out there. We'll see how that goes though.

Snoopy eBayers, Soupy Dog Poo and SMIB's

I guess that I am still figuring out what my niche in the whole blog world. i wonder if its the color of my template? The title? What gives? I say screw it and I will be just writing for myself, the way that it should have been from the beginning.

Today I sent 2 emails to some guys I have been waiting to get something from on eBay. I noticed in my feedback area that I am a binge eBayer. I seem to use it about once a year but will buy 3-4 things right about this time of year. Nothing for a year and then I resurface and buy useless crap. Anyway, I had done business with this one guy about a month ago and had a decent transaction with the guy. His feedback was almost 30,000. I felt comfortbale doing business with him. When it came to paying him I had forgot my paypal account info. I payed via money order. After about a week and a half I got my item (Civilization 3) and was a happy camper. The Doc that I work with is all about this game so I played and enjoyed and talked a buddy into it too. So, he needed the game as well. I knew the perfect hook up for him. This guy on eBay sells cheap games and gets them to you pretty quickly. I ordered the game on Jnauary 11, and paid him with my newly figured out paypal account a few days later. On that same day I had also bid and won 2 other items. I paid for all 3 at the same time. I have recieved 1 of 3 items from that day. I am pissed! So I asked these guys what the deal and only one responded back to me. He claims he shipped them out a week ago. He lives in Buffalo, NY and I live in southern Maryland. No way does it take a week to get to me. I will let that one slip for now. The one that I am really mad about is the one that I ordered the game for my pal. I paid via snail mail last time and received the item in less time than now. Grrrrrr!

Which brings me to a question that I have about eBayers. Does anybody out there check out what people buy via that feedback thing? You can come up with ideas about the people that you buy/sell from. If you were to take me for example, I have bought Civilization 3 twice in the last month, the movie, "Freaks" DVD, a hockey ribbon magnet for my car and curling club pin circa 1913. That is kind of a wide range of items. I was snooping around some, i guess you can call them profiles, and saw goofy combinations. The guy I bought the curling club pin from had bought a curling iron, some older dolls (looked like knock off barbies), a calendar from 1985 and a few other odd things. I should start judging who I am going to buy from by what they have bought or sold in the past few weeks. Seems like the wierdo's seem to send what is owed me pretty damn well.

As I was doing this snooping on Ebay my wife asked if one of our 2 dogs and one we were watching for the evening had pooped somewhere. I don't have the best sense of smell in the world so i had no idea what she was talking about. Using my 'Columbo' skills I wandered to the living room and see a big splattering of dog shit. I'm not happy. My wife is in the tub with my son and I know I have to clean this mess up. I have a horrible gag reflex. Tends to act up when I feel warm soupy crap in my hand. I went to go get paper towels and came across two more splats. I am super pissed now. I bend over and start cleaning and feel warmth on my thumb. GGGRRRRRRAAAAACCCCKKKKKKK! I dry heave. I am not a quiet puker either. My wife is laughing her ass off. My eyes water over and I am salivating like I have just been in a gas chamber. I dive back into the mess. GGGGGGEEEEEECCCCCKKK!! Now I can feel the squishiness in my fingertips. I clean that pile (which was the smallest of the 3) and move on to the next pile/splattering. BBBBBBLLLLLAAAARRRRRFFFFF!! I almost lose it. This one is smelly. I quickly wipe and throw away the paper towels. I run into the bathroom with bloodshot eyes and drool running out of my mouth. My wife is laughing. I grab a bottle of peppermint oil she has and wipe it all around my nose..even going as far as putting it in my nose. I do not advise this. It burned my nose and made my eyes water even more. I jump back into dog doo removal and seem to be all right as I clean up the messiest with ease.

It's raining here. Thats not a good thing. Because its freezing as well. I live in southern Maryland. The people here have no doubt cleared the grocery stores of all caned goods and essentials. I am originally from Dululth, Minnesota. So when it snows or gets "cold" here it really doesnt bother me. It's the SMIB's (Southern Maryland InBred) that bother me. They can't drive and overreact. A week ago tonight (Saturday) it snowed about 1-2". No big deal right? Well to the SMIB's it was. The kids didn't get back to school until this past Wednesday. That was a 4 day weekend for them. Over 2" at the most of snow! That is insane. Now these kids will be going to school well into June this year. That must cut into mating season with cousins and sisters here. I can't believe how crazy these people get here. There are cars in the ditches and accidents everywhere.

Enough about my crap. I must get my wonderful son to bed now. I am sure that I will have some other nonsense to talk about tomorrow. There is no football on so maybe I will catch up in my TiVo.

FINDING MY PLACE IN BLOGGVILLE!?

Well, it seems like I am inpatient as hell. It is now my second day in the blog world. I was hoping for at least a comment or two. Starting to feel like the last kid picked in all the tormenting games played as a kid. Although, I do realize that when looking at other Blogs here I push that button up there on the right--NEXT BLOG. Seems like most people have an agenda to push, lives to describe, occurances to share and nothing to say (not unlike my own). So I can't blame anybody for not writing anything. I sure as hell wouldn't have. I have had a fascination with blogs for a few months now. So it may be best if I start from the beginning.
It must have been the last few weeks before the election. I had read of some guys that had a blog out there that was influencing people. That was just insane to me. Something as simple as a blog, some jerk offs opinion of either candidate could actually persuade how people voted in the worlds greatest free world. The thought of sitting in my boxers influencing people was a nice draw. Then reality set in and new that I had no power like that. I have no agenda or plan for people. I would rather get my posts out there whether its me talking about the french toast I had this morning or the music that I am listeing to. If people other than my wife and co-worker find it kick ass then all the better.
Anyways, I tend to drift around, I had read a a few other things of blogs here and there. I had done some minimal research yesterday and decided that I me and my co-worker should start a blog of the days and things that happen to us. So we posted something lame and I kept looking to see if we had a "comment". Which seems to be the holy grail of status in the blog community. Needless to say, we did get one and I was hooked from that point on. All I could think of was how cool it would be to get home and send out my own mission statement of what I was here for. Which looking back is crap. I have vowed to not delete anything and put up a pic or two when needed.
Here I sit in my boxers trying to find my place in BLOGGVILLE! Oh yeah and sipping on a Miller Lite. Like i said, I have no agenda to put out there. I am not religious at all. I don't like Prez Bush but what should I do? Write about it? No way, not my thing. Although I will probably write about him more soon. That guy just pisses me off. I am guessing I am leaning more towards the direction of what I wrote about in my high school newspaper. Things that bothered me or newsworthy I wrote about them. Pretty risque stuff when your writing a column called, 'Kow's Corner', and your 16. Seemed to work then and am guessing that it may work now.
I was just hit with the idea of renaming my place on the web KOW'S CORNER. Pretty original huh? So now I need to decide on which direction I shall go with this thing? I know that I have zero politcal clout, I have no way of breaking scandals, I have no religious ties, and I fancy myself somewhat of a funny guy. Although after reading the first post and now what I have typed so far seems like I am pretty far from that.
Let me go rename this blog and I will be back with something completly lame.

What a Life...You got MY pee!

Its a Friday night and I am sitting in my computer room in my boxers, nursing my second Miller Lite, pissed that my lips are chapped and wondering where my pizza is. I'm way to involved in this blog stuff to get my chapstick. My son also keeps me pretty entertained. I have also made the official change to Kow's Corner.
I am listening to Ben Folds, Rocking The Suburbs. And now my son wants me to wipe his butt. I'm back! He is new to the pottie biz and still needs mommy and daddy to wipe his crack. I wiped his bottom and then I had to pee. He felt that he should join me. He didn't have it in him so he asked, "YOU GOT MY PEE?". Gotta love a 3 year olds mind.
Back to Ben Folds. I have become a fan of his since my wife wanted to go to his concert a few months back. He played at Wolf Trap which is an awesome place to catch a show. You can bring in your own alcohol and lay a blanket down in the very back area and rock out all night long. Ben Folds was playing with Rufus Wainright and Guster. I had heard some Rufus and zero Guster and very little BF. I went in with an open mind and was amazed at how great a show it was. Guster had a great drummer that did some crazy things with all kinds of percussions. Rufus was ok but spectacular. BF was insane! I never knew someone could rock a piano like that. It was one of the best shows that I have ever been to. It was also the second concert in my sons 2 1/2 years on this planet. He is a lucky bastard. His first show was Bob Dylan. How lucky is that?
I must admit that I had no taste in music. All I knew was what Rick Dees told me to listen to. I was Mr. Top 40. Since I have married my wife I have found the love of so many bands that I had no idea existed. Not to mention she is a lyrical genius. She can hear a few lines from a song and do a search, find the singer/band and then download me the song from Kazaa. She is good like that.
I am always trying to burn CD's with these new songs on them. Soon after I do that they seem to become Top 40. I seem to play a song to death. So I need to learn how not to do that. I get into CD making contests with the Doc that I work for. He has lost both 'contests' to me. He protests and has yet to pay me. However, my wife is the self-proclaimed Master and making mixed CD's. I would have to agree.
My pizza has arrived. It's the new Pizza Hut pizza that is cut into strips and comes with 3 dipping sauces. I will have to report back on that though. I am such a gimmick/commercial whore. If you advertise I will buy. I have also noted that with me goofing around with settings or something my times are messed up and not in sequence anymore. It Happens!!

What a Blogger

Where the hell do I begin? I am guessing that I need to talk about weird, wild, funny and things that piss me off or even things that happen to me that are off the wall. So this seems like the perfect medium for me. I have always wanted something like this. I have only recently heard of this "blog" stuff. Seems really cool for the people that just want to offer commentary on life from their perspective (read second sentence). Also, I have a tendency to just ramble.

I work in a Navy Optometry office. Needless to say I waste yours and my tax dollars. I am 27 years old, I am married (sorry ladies) and have the most beautiful son. So they tend to give me tons of joy and lots of funny episodes to relate to anybody that will hopefully come back for more. I am using this first post as a 'welcome wagon' of sorts. Just a little taste of what your new neighbor is all about.

I believe that my wife has been on a blog for about a year or so now. She seems to have a blast so I thought I would one up her and start my own. My mission here is to talk about the insanity that is my life. I also plan on talking about the things that I am finding cool on the net, what music I am listening to. Basically what I think to be cool at the time or what I have always thought was cool.

Not really sure where to go from here? I guess I can tell a story of an older lady that came into the clinic today. She had this insane hairdo. It was about as tall as I was (5'10"). It was joke. Well, anyway I had my co-worker work her up (preliminary tests) and the first thing from his mouth was, "Is that real?" I said, "No!" After a while the wondeful Doc is done with her and she leaves. Bending over so she can get out the door. The Doc is 3 feet behind her and asks, "Was that real?" I again said, "Nope!" We all agreed it was fake. We all gave our reasons and all of them sounded reasonable. So as it stands that old chick had an insanely large beehive wig. Get with the times.

Well, that is all I have in me now. I am tired and sore. I do hope that we can all get along and give each other great subject matter to discuss. I have no care in the world what the topic is. There is so much to bitch and moan about. So bring it!