Johnny Outdoor

I have been really getting amped up to go hiking with my wife sometime this March. I have been in the market for a new backpacking stove. Not sure if I want the Pocket Rocket or Whisperlight. They are both pretty small and compact. There is a difference of about $30 between the two. I will have to do some research and get one soon. I will be in the area of REI this weeknd so maybe I will pick one up then.

I'm guessing this trip will be fairly small in regards to distance. I am thinking between the 15-20 mile range over the course of 2 days. That should be good enough to break in the season with. It may still be kind of chilly that time of year there. I will have to look up the average tempratures for that area and time of year. I will be sure to document it with some pictures and tales of what happened.

I would suggest to anybody that is on the east coast and can get to Shenandoah NP should do it. It seems like you can get in the "backcountry" pretty easily and be alone for a while without seeing another sole. I think a mid-week trip would be prefered over a weekend trip. I have been lucky in my travels there in choosing trails that nobody hikes. I have seen about 5 people on the trails in the 2 trips down there last year.

I will have to look at maps and books again tonight so we can start getting an idea as to what and where the hell in Shenandoah we want to hike. I imagine this timeof year it's kind of dead there. I think we will head up on a weekend for that trip. If all goes well we will bring the boy down a month later to do some horseback riding and light hiking. He is good for about a mile or so and then he needs me to carry him. He is only 3 after all!! He is pretty hardcore with his boots and gear. When I have to carry him it tends to suck because he is over 35 lbs. and he makes me top heavy so it gets crazy.

Copenhagen fueled rants

Well today was eventful as usual. I helped to clean house and caught up on TiVo. We have one dog that sheds like a motherfucker. I have no idea how many times I had to empty my vaccum out. I have no idea why she isn't bald by now. There were a few places that we uncovered that kind of made you wonder. Then there were the plaseant cat shit piles that are well hidden. My son had discovered one the hard way. He looked in our pantry for some lunch and had a footfull of cat doo. He has his dads gag reflex so that was pretty funny. It wasn't long before dad was able to show his off when he put his thumb in some on his pant leg. Guess the cat didn't like his new kitty litter.

I have some dishes I need to do but will get to them in due time. Not sure if I am wanting to watch the Oscars tonight or not. Since I have the boy our movie going has slipped quite a bit. So, I have no idea of half the movies the buzz is all about. I still have one thing on TiVo that I need to watch so I may watch that instead and maybe TiVo the Oscars.

I wonder if anybody has a ritual when they blog? I seem to put in a healthy pinch of Copenhagen and put on some music and just let me hands wander and spout off about anything that comes to mind. There is no rhyme or reason to what I am going to say. I seem to write what could amount to about three seperate posts in one. I will blame it on the music and my lame ass brain.

The more I look back at what I write I wonder what the hell went wrong? I had a different idea of what my blog would be. It is totally different than what I had intended. It seems to be working for me but I will try to get back to my "roots" if you will. I had intended this thing to be much funnier than it actually is. I am a huge Saturday Night Live (SNL) fan hence the reason for the saturdaynightwannabe.blogspot.com. I have yet to live up to that as of now. I am sure that there has been a few instances of my humor that shine. I would like there to be more. I realize that I don't have the same sense of humor as everyone else but I think that's what sets me aprt from Joe Blow. I have a warped sense of humor. I enjoy jokes that are gross and shocking. I enjoy jokes about handicapped people. I have handicapped people in my family so I can relate to some of these things. Fuck, I'm Polish!! I hear tons of lame Polish jokes all the time. Here are 2 of my all time favorite jokes so you know what you are dealing with here:

Two guys walk into a bar---third one ducks.

A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, "Why the long face?"

Those two jokes are too funny to me. I am a simplton I guess. My favorite comedians are Adam Sandler, Steven Wright George Carlin. Those guys are funny as hell. Adam Sandler has seemed to chill out a bit but his older movies and CD's are funny. Steven Wrights deadpan delivery is perfect for his outlook on life. Geoge Carlin is the GODFATHER of dirty things. I remember hanging out in high school listening to records of his. Very intelligent material.

I had left my blog open at work the other day and my co-worker sat down and had a read. He called me a fag. I think he had read something about Ryan Seacrest or something. It's not like I stepped out of the closet and confessed my sexuality and love for Ryan Seacrest. I will chalk it up to ignorance.

I am thinking I need a shower I am starting to smell myself. Dishes, TiVo and then shower. Priorities you know. I would also like to thank another loyal reader Lancelot. I had seen him post once before and took a gander at his sight and seemed pretty good. Something about the measurements of his liquor bottles.

I am still asking for songs and the bands that sing them. I only have 7 songs on my blog music. I need something more than Copenhagen to fuel these things. What better way than to get music from my people?

Busted

I was excited to read today that they caught that BTK guy that I had mentioned a while back. I am looking forward to watching 'America's Most Wanted' tonight to see what they have to say. The guy would have probably gotten away with it had he not come out of hiding. What an idiot!

I didn't do much today. Help clean up the old hacienda and thats about it. What a life huh? I do have an insane case of the bubble guts and a great headache brewing.

My son's new car seat for the new car came today. It's pretty kick ass. The big selling point for me was the amount of padding and the lights on it. Yes lights! This way the boy can see books and do puppet shows I guess on road trips. In any case it kicks ass and the boy enjoys it big time.

I noticed that I am up to over 200 hits on my blog here. That's cool considering the slow start that I had. Just wondering how many readers that I have. You know the crazy people that just want to know what my lame ass does on a day to day basis. I seem to have one loyal reader that is willing to leave comments for me. She also is willing to help a brother out with his blog. So if you read this Smoov I had left you my email under the post that you were going to help me with.

I wonder why people read and don't write in other people's blogs? I enjoy searching for other blogs and am eager to put down something. I am a douche that way I guess. Plus, it goes back to me getting my name out there to other people and hopefully getting some one to post on mine. It doesn't seem to work all that well though. Again I thank my gal pal Smoov for supporting my endeavor.

Have I talked about the Wilco show yet? Well, it was pretty kick ass and was yet another show I was hesitant about but really liked. My wife is a pretty good concert picker! I would really suggest to anybody out there to go get any of their CD's. It's well worth it and I am tguessing that most people will like the music. It is good stuff! I will have to look for the pictures that my wife took. I had also taken a picture of what I look out to everyday (this was with the snow). I will try to get them out there for all of my loyal fans.

I need to go finish doing some odds and end around here but will have something good soon maybe.

Gonzo Blogging

I have been meaning to mention something about the death of Hunter S. Thompson. The crazy bastard shot himself and commited suicide. What is that all about? I just read that he had done it while talking on the phone with his ex wife. He also had his son, daughter in law and 6 year grandson in the house. That is pretty crappy.

I am a fan of of his writing. The first book I read of his was, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". My buddy had gave it to me while a junior in high school (so I had read it well before it was a movie) and I really enjoyed it. It was way out there and hard to understand for a 16 year old kid in northern Minnesota. Then I was hooked and had bought a handful of his other books. The favorite from that bunch being "Hells Angels". I just like his style and subject matter. I think it's a loss in the literary world.

I think he was having a second coming of you will since "Fear and Loathing" came out. He seemed to get a new generation interested in his books. The guy was eccentric by all accounts I have read and heard. It is a shame.

On a lighter note I am planning on going on a night time hike with the family tonight. Should be a nice night to do it. Not too cold and enough snow to make it a nice experience for all to enjoy.

I also brought my car into Midas today and the results were a hundred times better. Their total for inspection and repairs was $70. That is a hell of a lot better than $400. I guess all I need is a new rear window wiper blade. I will take that any day. So I am pretty excited about that. I only wish I would have done that from the beginning. I will have to wait untill Monday or Tuesday to go get my tax, tag and title taken care of. Which sucks because we have a car that we can't really drive yet. Damn the luck.

ALIVE AND WELL

I am alive and well! I finally made it in to work at around 9a.m. The show was great and I was very impressed with the club. Very intimate. My wife took some pics so I will try to get some up tonight when I get home.

The show was done at about 12:30-12:45 a.m. Took us a few minutes to navigate our way through downtown DC and get on the freeway. We eventually arrived at 3:00a.m. I had to get up for work at 6:00. That wasn't going to happen! The weather wasn't too bad but it was sketchy in areas.

I will drop a line when I get home tonight. Today is a nice relxed day at work. No patients this afternoon. Always a good thing. I will catch up on some paperwork and get things rolling with the new car.

some good news and some bad news

The good news is the show is still on as of now. That will be a good thing we need a much needed night out. It has no started to rain on top of the 2" of snow we already have. That will be great! It will be a nice slow drive up and will be for sure when we come home. I just saw that Wilco takes the stage at 10p.m. which means that I am gonna be up late and be a miserable bastard tomorrow.

The bad news is that I went to get my car inspected to get my Maryland plates and they wanted to charge me $400 to fix it. Fuck you!! We selected the place because of the convienience of it being up the street and my wife could just walk home after dropping it off. A bunch of shit that was. Then we called the midas about a mile down the road and they will do the inspection for $5 less and do it in an hour. They had our car for the night! Cocksuckers! I am hoping that it will be better with Midas. I am quite sure that the car is fine. The guy that I bought it from kept really good care of it and seems hard to believe that it is a lemon! My fingers are crossed. The down side to Midas is that they can only do it when it's DRY out. That figures greatly into the next few days of snow/rain and then the big melt that will come. So I am hoping Saturday will be the day and have better results.

I will drop a line tomorrow about how wicked tired I am and how the show was.

holy cow

It's snowing pretty good here now. I was on time again today. When I had woken up this morning I looked outside to see that it was just starting to snow. It hasn't let up one bit and is now sticking to the ground. That will be horrible to the others on the road.

I do like the view from my desk though. I am able to see the snow on the trees...looks beautiful. Maybe I will take a picture for you to see. People are freaking out and seeing if we have cancelled our afternoon schedule. What a joke, it's not that bad outside. I wish I could get out of here early so I can go play with my wife and son. Would be cool to take a few pictures of the snow as well. I will have to pick up some B&W film at lunch.

I will have my wife call the club today and see if they are going to have this concert or not tonight. I would like to know since it usually takes about 2 hours to get up there in normal weather. With this shit I have no idea. I have to drive on the infamous "beltway" and I can already see a pile up that will slow us way down. It usually get worse up there with snow too. We'll see!

I am bored off my ass here at work and really have nothing else to say. If I don't go to the show tonight I will drop a line. I will be getting back at 1:00 a.m. or so (that was the plan with good weather). That means work tomorrow will suck big time.

Right now I am enjoying the view and watching jackasses drive their cars/trucks into a drainage ditch out front. It's actually pretty comical. We feel inclined to help some people get out. I jsut find it humorous that these people actually will drive their cars into a ditch. Then some do a great job and smack their bumpers into the wooden post in front of them. See what I am talking with these MD drivers. Nuts!!

revelation...and pansy weather

I have been looking over my blog and wondering what the hell is up. Seems that something is missing still. I think that it has a lot to do with my lack of know what the fuck I am doing here. There are things that I want to do with my blog that I see on others and have no idea how to make that a reality.

For example, I want a picture by my name over there on the right. I want a way to list blogs that I read. I just have no freakin' idea how to make this happen.

Then there is that little write up of me. Do any of you know who the hell Garrison Keilor is? I'm sure most of you know who Dave Berry is. Well, I have noticed that I am not even close to the guys. I am a funny motherfucker but some how lose translation when I type. I get into these airhead rampages then I write about pure shit. I am lame at best. I am not looking for pity from my one loyal reader/commenter Smoov. Maybe there are some of others that stop by to see what this pathetic fuck has to say today. All I know is that I am not meeting the hype that I had set for myself.

Not sure what to say here. I am just a guy that wants an outlet for what he thinks is life with a bunch of humor. Think Dave Berry and Garrison Keilor. Want to sprinkle things with my intrepretation of MY life and if anybody wants to share that is fine too.

What the hell is that? I did write that my first day here so that will be my excuse for now. I am in the process of thinking of something a bit wittier and maybe something more accurate.

What about that "observations from a rock"? Is that cool or what? I had a different meaning for it when I had written it but now it seems like I like it for other reasons. So that will stay!

Any help on the above whining will be greatky appreciated.

Well, tomorrow it's supposed to snow here. That means that the whole state of Maryland will be shut down through the weekend. I feel bad for the kids that will now have to stay in school well into June. Poor bastards.

The other thing that sucks is that me and the missus were supposed to go up to DC tomorrow to catch the Wilco show at the wonderful 9:30 Club. Not sure what the deal will be with the "weather" that we are supposed to be having tomorrow and into the evening. Like I have said before, these people turn into douche bags here. The stores will be bare tomorrow afternoon and school will be closed early I am sure. Then there will be all of the people getting into accidents because they don't know how to drive in an inch of snow. By no means I am Mr. Snowplow but think I can handle myself in the snow.

Today was treat at work. One of the docs that I work for had a baby about 2 months ago. Needless to say she is still a huge ball of hormones. The bad ones that hate men! She freaked out on me yesterday becaue I had accidentally put the wrong exam paper in the wrong record. "I know that we have had a bad month but you need to get better with this kind of thing", she said to me and my co-worker. First off, what the hell is the WE shit? I have had a great month at work I thought. Sure I have had a few "interactions" with patients that should have gone the other way but life goes on. It never really made me bummed out and affect my work. She is basically a single mother right now. Her husband is from England and he lives across the pond as of now. She has her mother staying with her helping out which is a good thing. She is getting little to no sleep and is a miserable bitch. She seems to wanna take it out on us. I can understand this as I have had a child too. Well, not me personally but I too know about sleepless nights and all that go with it. I don't think that I had once been a dick the next day after a 3 hour night of sleep. Maybe a few times I was but that can be just the way I am sometimes.

Then today she freaked out on me when her first patient of the day of 30 minutes late. The late patient had 3 other appointments for her kids. So she was basically now 30 minutes behind off the bat today. I went to tell her they were here and wondered if she could fit them all in. She graciously accepted. Before I could do what I had to do with the late family I had other patients I had to tend to. My co-worker who is an opt tech and knows a buttload more about glasses wasn't there. I was alone. She came up to me wiggin' out about me getting her a record so she could start seeing patients. I explained to her in a not so professional tone that I would hook her up as soon as I was done dealing with the others.

I felt used! Life will be fine, I know, but what the fuck? I am not sure how much I can handle. It's weird. I am just glad that I can sit up front and do what I do and talk sports with my co-worker. Brings sanity to my life I guess.

One last tid bit before I go insane tonight. We had a "all hands" training today. We had to fill out a work climate questionaire. It was a joke. The place sucks and there is nothing they can do to fix it. When we had done this I had heard the word BLOG. My ears perked up. It was the commanding officer (CO) talking about this new craze of blogging. He was at a table of all the high ranking people in the chain of command. Me having no military bearing interupted the CO and told him that I was an avid "blogger". The whole table looked at me like I was an asshole for stopping the CO from telling his spin on pop culture that they were blind to. Then he started to ask me questions and I answered to the best of me abilities and fielded a few from the stuffy upper echelon of work. I never really understood why people freak out when these high ranking people come by or talk with them. I have been "hidden" while admirals come in for an exam. What the shit is that? I have also been "hidden" and come out to actually see the person I was "hidden" from. I remember bringing him into the room to do the usual work up stuff. As i had gone into this room I passed one of my doctors and was given a look. That brought a huge shit eating grin to my mug. Turned out the admiral (which are the gods in navyland) was Polish as I am. He noticed and we chatted a few words of it and had a good chuckle. In my way out I had said something stupid like "Polish Nation!". The doc looked at me like I had just done the worst thing in the world. Smile was ear to ear. These people put their pants on one leg at a time.

I am out of here. I am brewing a killer headache and I need sleep. I have no life. Plus, I think Mythbusters is on.

Homo Rainbow and TiVo

My wife just called me and told me about a concert in New Hope, PA. It's the coolest little homo village outside of San Francisco. It's just a bit outside of Phildadelphia. It's a great little town made up of cool shops and places to eat. My wife says it's a huge gay hangout. I think it is so cool there. Every time we are in the Philly area we head there and eat at our favorite restaurant and walk around a bit.

Anyway, a band called Ween plays there a lot and they are fairly big. They will be playing in this small intimate bar there at the end of the month. We're thinking about doing a cannon ball run up there for it. I would like to check it out.

We are also heading up to DC this week to catch a Wilco show. My wife is into them a bit more than I am but I am looking for an evening out. It should be cool. My wife says that they are taping some of there DVD there. She wants to get up front and be seen in it! Hollywood! I am going to sound like a woman but I am wondering what I should wear. I will have to see what happens!!

I am also stuck on the music that I am trying to burn for this CD that I am making. I see that nobody has any good input for me. That really sucks!! I am looking for something mellow yet something upbeat and kick ass. Is that possible? I am in a rut and have no idea what to download. I am telling you that I am Rick Dees of music. I am so Top 4o'ish it sucks. So please find it in your heart and drop me a line as to what the fuck I should download.

I thought I was tired last night and found out that I wasn't! I had TiVo'd the movie 'Hidalgo' tha other day and thought last night at midnight would be a great time to watch it. Great idea! I wasn't sure how the movie would be but turns out it was pretty good. I would recommend it. Now I need to see 'Cold Mountain', It seems to look pretty good.

TiVo is the greatest thing to happen to man since fire and the wheel. I know that I may have a "regular" or two out there asking themselves, "I thought this guy was outdoorsy and stuff?". Well, I can be outdoorsy with TiVo. It allows me to record things while I am out doing these things. Then I watch them when I am home relaxing. Not to mention how kick ass it is to record things for my son. We pretty much allow him to watch one non-educational show. Right now that seems to be 'Scooby-Doo'. He loves that dog! It really helps when nothing is on and you have some cached stuff to watch. I would suggest this to anybody out there that has DirecTV. It's awesome!

I'm not sure I have much else to say but I really would like input on music to download for this CD I wanna burn.

boring

Today was a great day to go hiking and searching for bald eagles in Virginia. It was like 60 degress out today. We headed out and half way there the skies opened up and made it not such a great day to go looking for eagles. Maybe next time.

I am now home just chilling. We bought a car today so that is cool. It's mostly for my wife though. It's all good!

Yesterday we went hiking on base and came across a small treasure. We came upon a turtle shell with no turtle inside. We have quite the collection of findings from our outings.

It seems that I have little to say at this time but will return tonight!

A wonderful day

Today was actually uneventful. I had to go into work for about an hour this morning and have been up pretty much since. My wife was so excited about our wonderful printer that she was up all night destroying trees. I had to tell her to go to bed when I woke up at 6am. It's just a damn printer.

I just vegged out on the couch all day catching up on my TiVo. It was much needed. I also took my one dog out of her crate and was going to take her out since my wife was a zombie today. I woke her up with the commotion I had created with the dogs. Well, she failed to tell me that she was in the crate because she has the shits...liquid shit. As I am getting my shoes on I hear a splattering of feces on my floor. Thank God we have hardwood floors. I don't have a great sense of smell but I sure could taste it. I instantly dry heave and my wife is laughing her ass off. I just put the collar on her and run outside with eyes running and salivating my ass off. Fucking gross! She seems to be firming up though.

I am not going to do shit tomorrow either. Actually I will go on a small hike on base with the fam and see what we can see. I will bring my camera this time. On Monday, I am planning on bringing my family to Mason Neck, Virginia. It's about 75 miles from here. Seems that it's a hot bed for bald eagles this time of year. We run into them every once in here but am hoping to see more there. Plus, I have never been there and it should be cool.

I have been in a super outdoorsy mood of late. I have been looking at all my maps and books on Shenandoah. I can;t wait to go there soon. I have even been looking at my book from Minnesota. I guess it's getting to be that time of year.

I am also going to try and watch some of the Daytona 500 tomorrow. Not a huge race fan but figured I could see what the big deal is. I have to make dinner now but may be back tonight!!

Formats..moose cams

I am home and bored off my ass. I came home from work a bit early today. I did nothing but lounge and watch my son as wife went to "tree hugger" store. She has to pay an extra few bucks to get laundry soap and beauty products. I don't mind it all that much. Helps a local business and the environment. I was a dirt bag when I had met my wife. Since meeting her she has made me open my eyes and realize that I have been doing things wrong for a while now. Especially since I am an avid adventurer. I have been brought on board and live a life that allows me to think that I am doing my part.

I am surprised that they don't offer recycling here. I have to bring all of my goods on base and drop it off at recycling bins there. We do live in the middle of the Chesapeake area. I am always hearing about the wetlands in danger and how pollution has corrupted the crab population. I feel good about our efforts as a family doing our part.

I have been wondering about the format of my posting here. Sometimes I have a bunch of stuff to say and it could very well go under a few different titles. Or should I just go on these rambling fits? I guess I will just go with what I have been doing for now.

I am not sure what I would like to chat about at this time. How about Bob Dylan? You like him? He is from my neck of the woods in Minnesota. My last apartment before I joined the navy was across the street from his house in Duluth, Minnesota. Just something cool to know about me I guess.

Since I have no life I usally stay in on Saturday nights so I sit and watch TV all night. I am a fan of watching Fox. It's pretty good stuff. I now it sounds like trash to admit this but I enjoy watching 'Cops' and 'America's Most Wanted (AMW). I like 'Cops' so i can see that I am not that bad off in life. Ego booster if you will. Then AMW is just addicting to me I guess. I want to be able to call in some loser. Plus, they have been doing these specials on this crazy fucker in Wichita. He goes by the name of BTK--Bind, Torture and Kill. He's a sick fuck. He resurfaced last year and has been tormenting the police there. For whatever reason I am interested in this guy. Not sure that it has happened quite like this before. The guy took a 20 year hiatus and comes back to fuck with the police. Guessing he may be done killing but now just wants to mess with these people for the shear joy of it.

If I have any regulars that read this on a regular basis know have recently found out that I am a Home Shopping Network whore. I ordered a printer, scanner, photo mart from there this weekend and it arrived today. It seems to be pretty cool. I haven't really played with it all that much but what I have done seems cool. I will be able to scan some cool pics of my travels. I am still old school and enjoy using my 35mm camera. I have a few lenses for it and enjoy it. Plus, it's so damn expensive to get a sweet digital. I am happy with the Kodak one I have...may be a needing an update and get some more megapixels. I am so not computer savvy and here I am talking of megapixels.

I guess I have two more topics before I head out.

One being moose cams. I have no idea why I am so into searching moose cams. I want to see a live moose in some ones yard I guess. I have no idea what I am thinking. I just enjoy moose I guess. I used to see them off and on growing up in northen Minnesota. I have also been checking out the wolf cams at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. It's pretty cool. I had brought my family there a few years back. It was actually my first time there. I had been to Ely many time before to start a number of my canoeing trips into the backcountry of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). I think every one should go to Ely at least once in their lifetime.

Lastly, I was reading a few weeks back about the whole breakthough that Blockbuster was going to come up with. The whole no late fees gimmick. I had read about how there would be crazy things that would happen with this shit. I never rent movies anyway..nor do I Netflix it. Anyway, you can rent a movie or game for a week and have up to another week to bring it back. Turns out (as I had read a month prior) that aftre that week Blockbuster will charge you for the amount of that video or game. Now NJ is suing them over false claims they have made. That's a good thing!

Oh yeah, and I have made it over the century mark on my counter. I thank you Mr/Mrs 100th person here to my party of the net. My next milestone will be 250 and we'll see where it goes from there. I am outta here...will post again soon with what I have planned on Monday. I have been in a very outdoorsy mood of late...wait till you hear what I have planned for Team Cackmandu!

MUTTS

I didn't write last night because I was out with my wonderful family. We had gone to to PetsMart to get a new collar for our biggest dog. Seems that she has been pulling my wife all over the place when she walks her. We decided to get a Halti collar for her.

After being there for a while we were looking at fish tanks and things to make our existing habitat better for our goldfish. Then we remembered that we have another dog and a cat. We bought some bones for the dogs and some toys for the cat. Grand total for the evening $97.38. The animals will destroy or consume these items in a matter of days. There is one thing we bought for the cat that should stick around for a while but I am suremy son will hide it some where eventually.

I just wonder why people, me included, spend so much on pets? Sometimes I am in awe of what we do for animals. One of the doc's that I work for paid almost a $1,000 to keep her cat alive an extra week. I know people get attached to animals but why would you do that? I think I would have been happier knowing that my pet wasn't suffering anymore. A thousand fucking dollars!!

Circus time

I am sitting here at work bored off my ass. What to do? Search the web? Search lame blogs? I opted for searching the web. I decided that this will be the year that I will bring my son to the Barnum & Baily circus. Supposed to be the greatest show on earth. I have never been to such a large circus before. I figured since the NHL season is over I might as well bring my son to the greatest show on earth.

We went to a little circus last year and he seemed to dig it. I am guessing that he will think this is amazing. Sure it will be a great photo op. for the family. I will bring it up to the wife at lunch today and see what she has to say. I'm sure she will buy off on it. I just hope that I can get good seats for the night I want.

The other thing that sucks about the whole thing is that I live about 1.5-2 hours away from Baltimore. I am debating on if I should wait for the show in DC. We are back in the sticks of Maryland here. Was thinking I could invite the in-laws but figured screw that. I will have hear them bitch all night about things that are no big deal to me. I will mull it over.

The circus also has gucci seats that you pay big money for but they make you part of the circus. Wondering if that is something Team Cackmandu should do. Would be well worth the stories and memories. May mean the family doesn't eat for a week but those fucking memories! Raman noodles for us.

I will keep anybody that gives a shit updates in the near future as to what is going on! I am also going to plug a show that I had wanted to last night. For anybody that has the National Geographic station should watch, "The Womb", on March 6. It looks pretty interesting. They are using this 4-D ultrasound technology. Basically it gives you a chance to see what your baby looks like before he pops out. I am a guy and am excited to see this show. It just amazes me at the technology that is out there. Now I am not sure how invasive this procedure is but would imagine it would be scary to allow this to happen to a mother. I know it's not an actual film crew climbing up in there and getting these great angles but still seems like there would be some risk involved.

Hockey and Ryan Seacrest

I am pretty pissed off tonight! There will be no hockey this year! That is bullshit! I am a huge hockey fan. I am from Minnesota and all. I wanted to bring my son to his first NHL game this year. I guess I will have to wait till next year. Thats totally bunk. I have no idea who to blame in this thing. Everybody wants to blame the players as greedy and selfish. Then there is the commissioner who is an idiot that has no idea about hockey and the history that goes with it. He screwed everything up. He is an ass! I am disappointed in the way things turned out. I am sure that any of you that will read this will not give two shits about this. You have to understand that hockey is just an awesome sport and I wish that more people could enjoy it. Enough about that crap I will whine for months to come about this.

I have also become addicted to 'American Idol'. I don't know how it happened. Actually I do. I like all Americans enjoy seeing the bad people sing in the first few epsiodes. I then found myself getting attached to the people advancing. So, I felt obligated to see how far these people went. They are part of my life now. I feel like an ass though. Seems like something a 16 year old girl would like more than me....a supposed grown man. I have noticed thought that the fruity host Ryan Seacrest always signs off the show with, "Seacrest out!". I don't wanna be a douche like that with my, "Peace out", thing. I am notorious for telling people to DRIVE SAFELY at the most insane times. Kind of became my trademark phrase. I enjoy the looks that I get when I say it at the crazy times.

I have a killer headache still, I will have to cut this short but will go in depth about other stuff soon. Drive safely!!

no biggie

Turns out that nothing really came from my "run-in" with that patient yesterday. The customer service (CS) lady had sent an email to the bosses and they talked to me about it and I told them my story. I am the type that will go to them to give them a heads up that some shit is gonna come their way.

It seems that the doc that was supposed to see the patient had heard all of this shit go down and WAS going to come out there but decided she should stay in the back because the lady was getting very scary. She figured that the two men up front could take care of it! So when she sent a reply back to the CS lady she had told her that she was there and heard it all go down. So she seemed to put in a good word for us. Life goes on. In a bit of irony me and my co-worker were given a a letter of appreciation from a patient today. Had stated how we were the, "epitome of work ethic". I thought that to be pretty funny.

I am a fat fuck!! I went to the gym today. It's been a while since I have been there due to a few things that have happened to me over the course of the last month. I had a goofy sledding accident that destroyed my lower back and then I was just about over that then was struck by the flu. I had finally felt better and decided that I should get back in shape. Round is a shape right? I need to get ready for our Physical Readiness Test (PRT). Mostly I want to get in shape for my hiking trips I have planned in the months to come. I only tortured myself and don't feel as good as I usually do. I guess that I should give it a few more sessions to whip my ass into shape.

I am still trying to figure out what songs I can put on a CD. I usually just keep putting my favorites on different ones. Seems that it's getting a bit old. I need some much needed funk in my musical selection. My wife had led me down the right path but she has used most of the cool stuff on her own masterpieces. I am trying to get some good stuff of my own or from help of others out there in bloggville. No such luck as of yet.

I am off to go feed the boy and get some tylenol. I have the biggest headache since working my fat ass off today. I need some food and rest. May take a stab at looking for some music a bit later.

AFTERMATH

I was just shown an email sent to my bosses about the "incident" yesterday. Makes me look like I was 100% wrong. I know that there are things that I could have done differently but that woman was off her rocker. I don't deal well with that. That's when I lose it and want to speak my mind. I did a good job at keeping my cool. It seems like it has come out that I started this fiasco. The woman claimed that I was the one that started the yelling! Get the fuck out of here! That's not my style. I take tones and make inappropriate comments. I never yell! I save that for my wife.

I may or may not be in hot water over this one. We'll see. I think we did the right thing and removed the insane woman from our offices. She pissed me the fuck off. It happens! I would gladly do it all over again. For some reason I don't mind drama or conflict. Peace out!!

flip out and other ramblings

Today was insane! I was late for work as usual. They day was a nice even day of seeing patients and all that goes on in the optometry world. They day was ending on a good note--our last patient didn't arrive. That means I could finish my paperwork and do nothing.

Well, at 3:15 p.m. this afternoon the last fucking patient showed up. I asked if I could help her because we are in a new building and people always come in thinking it's still used for what was there. This lady had a child of about 9 yrs old and a baby of a few months. She goes on to tell me how she has an appointment at 3:30. I then was the bearer of bad news to tell her that she had missed her appointment (for her daughter). She then starts yelling and freaking out on me. Yelling at me about how she has an appointment at 3:30. As long as I have worked there we have never had an appoint at 3:30. This lady is really laying into me. She then starts spouting off about how I work for her and I need to respect her and shit like that. I lossed it! She then asked to see, "the small black guy" that I work with. He's not small and he doesn't play games either. He was behind me in his office so I walked in and told him to not give her an appointment. He comes out and she starts in on him. He calmly asks her to stop yelling at him and she doesn't listen. He then was pure genius and just pointed at the door and told her to go to the main clinic and make her appointment. In the middle of all that the bitch asked to see if we could see if her husbands glasses arrived. He just kept pointing at the door and asked her to leave. I then started to ask her to leave and she advised me that she was done talking to me. Insane! She eventually left after taking down our names and throwing more of a temper tantrum. We watched as she left and we had looked at each other and wondered what had just happened. She turned around and accused us of talking about her. She again advised us that we can't talk until she gets in her car. All I could do was give her a thumbs up and shit eating grin.

This was an insane lady! I don't have the best bedside manner or customer service if you will. I have no idea why they put me in this position. If this lady was cool, I would have gone and asked the doctor if she would be willing to see this lady's daughter. She just went off the deep end for no fucking reason. I am limited in what I can say and do to these people being in the military and all. I can't wait for her to come back again. It should be fun!

One of the funny things is that the facility that I work for always has these "customer service" weeks and we're always hearing about how to handle patients. They even have an essay contest on customer service each year. Who has won it 3 years running? That's right! Yours truly. It's a big joke around work that I win it. I suck as a guy that sees patients. There are times that I am awesome and actually care about what I do. I get complaints all the time and am always being sent to the customer service advisor. She has no idea what to do with me. There will be a week that I get 3 complaints and then the next week I will get 3 compliments. Just goes to prove that you can't please everybody all the time. My favorite are the higher ranking people that I run into through out the course of my work day. I am pretty casual and will use "sir and ma'am" when needed other than that I am casual in my language with these people. I am in the frame of mind that they put their pants on one leg at a time---just like me! Fuckers!!

I was reading the news today while at work and am amazed at what the fuck happens in this country. There is the lady that starved her kids. The nut job in Oregon that was trying to have this suicide orgy with crazy women from all over the country. I also read about this lady that had cut the arms off of her 10 month old daughter. Who the hell does this? Then I was reading about how this Kyoto thing os going to go into effect on Wednesday. Good thing the U.S. doesn't seem obligated to maybe try and help the little situation we have with global warming. Is it real? Is it a natural thing that is occuring? Who knows but why not at least try to rule out all of the damn pollution we pump into the atmosphere. Bush is a douche bag!

I had also read a few weeks back that there is a school in the south, I wanna say Georgia, that is now removing labels from science books that stated evolution was a theory. Hang on--I just found the story in my email. I am always emailing myself news stories. Am I alone in this? Well it turns out that the story expired. I think that it is insane that parents and the religious sect have set out and done this to the school system. Kids need to know about evolution. It's a fact!! It happens!! I am not believer in God. I am of the impression that Darwin was right in his thoughts. Do I think that is the only way? NO! It's peoples beliefs and you cant sway that. Or at least you shouldn't! People wig out when I tell them I am a "non-believer". Oh well. Anyway, I think they did a good job by removing these stickers from books.

Enough rambling! I was hoping that somebody would have dropped me a line about what music I should put on this CD I wanna make for when I rant about pure nothing. I seemed to have scared off all the people that I had as "regulars" here. It's all good. Makes me write more pure stuff. None of that pandering shit that I was falling into. Peace out!!

Clorox death

Last night I was cleaning these foam floor mats for my son's room. I was using clorox to get them super clean. Turns out it wasn't a great idea. Seems that bleach gives off fumes or something of the sort. I was coughing and gagging in my bathroom. It was horrible. I thought that it was part of this cough I have had since being sick. I was way wrong. Needless to say, I didn't finish doing them. I still have about 10 more to do. I think I will do about 5 tonight and the rest tomorrow.

I am sitting at work and wondering why the fuck I am here. I have been sitting on my ass for the last hour. Its now 6:00 a.m.! I am hoping today is a good slow day. I will probably come home early.

I will drop a line again soon. I am hesitant to see if my loan has been approved for this car I like. We'll see I guess!

It's also Valentines day and I hate it. I always fail so miserably at this stuff. I hope that I can do something good for my wonderful wife. Maybe getting her a new car will be a good idea?

HSN whore

I am really a gimmick whore!! Yesterday I was lying my fat ass on the couch and came across the Home Shopping Network (HSN) and became a zombie. I was enchanted by this printer they were selling. Ours has shit the bed so we have been in the market for a new one. This thing is a printer, scanner and copier not to mention photo maker. It seems to be the one that I have been wanting my whole life. At least thats what the cutie in the pink sweater had to say. Plus, they had a guy there just so I knew that it was guy approved I guess.

I woke up my wife and turned the TV on in the bedroom and showed her what the excitement was all about. She was groggy and had no idea what was being sold. She is under the impression that I actually am one of those guys that know about cars and computers. She is wrong! All I know is that these people had the dubious honor of selling me a new printer. I saw that 1,000 had been sold and I should probably hop on that. What's this? They are also adding some software too? One more thing I don't need!! Or maybe I do need a card making kit. Not to mention a sweet photoshop kit. I am going to be printing shit out all the time now.

I give them a call and they have me on file so it should make my checkout faster. My previous order from them was a collection of 200 knives! Who the fuck needs that many knives? Scary shit!! Good thing they are sitting at the bottom of my closet. Anyway, I am in the process of checking out and the guy dangles an offer of ink cartridges as well. The price seems decent so why not, throw em in. I am a whore!! I used the flex pay so it won't seem so bad that I spent all of this money on crap.

Oh well, I am off to go clean my son's foam bedroom mats for his floor. The dogs seem to think it's cool to piss on these things. That's great but do they realize that these things are in essence a fucking sponge? So, now I have the honor of trying to clean these things. I have bleach and all should be cool. I doubt it but what the hell.

Peace out!!

Worry Wart

I did nothing yesterday! That was a good thing. I didn't go looking at cars yesterday. We decided to go take the dogs and family out for a nice walk on the Patuxent River. The dogs always seem to enjoy it. Jake loves it. I was enjoying myself until i dunked my foot in the cold water.

I was pretty mad I didn't bring my camera. There were a few shots that would have been great. My wife has an eye for some good stuff as well. I will get them next time. Living in this area allows me to see a lot of things that I enjoy. If you have a chance to live in or around the Chesapeake Bay area, do it. It is so beautiful here.

On our way back from the beach we decided to stop off at the "lemon lot" on base. I hate going there. There are never any cars worth looking at there. Yesterday seemed different though. We drove past the 8-9 cars there and came across the car that we have been looking for. It seems to be ok. A few dings and scratches here and there though. The guy wants a decent price for it. I will try for a loan and see what I can do. It seems to be what we are looking for and at the right price too.

I had to go into work this morning and make sure that all was well and to raise the flag. I was there for all of an hour thank God. I have to go back this afternoon to take down the flag. Sometimes this is such a waste of time. I was there for 60 minutes today---it's Sunday! Then I have to go in at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow and open my work. Fun shit! So by lunch I will have already put in a full day. Pays the bills I guess.

The other day I came across my first porn blog. Now that I think about it, I wonder why I haven't come across more. You would think that would be a pretty popular thing. I searcg blogs the lame way I guess and hit that 'next blog' key up on the upper right. I should look at my profile or someone elses and search by interests. I have done that a few times and have about as much luck as I do when I randomly search.

Not really sure what direction I want to go with my blog here. I am not as excited about this blog phenom as I once was. It seems to be a bit overrated. Maybe I put to high of expectations on this thing. I see other blogs that seem to be "popular" but wonder why. There is one that I know why and the others I see having mediocre success. I know that I don't write about zany stupid stuff but I do write honestly and openly about what I do. Maybe zany and insane bullshit is what will get me a cult following if you will. Maybe I don't even want that...who the fuck knows?

I just woke up and I am hungry as hell. My stomach is growling and grumbling. I hate when I wake up like this. My computer room is cold as shit. I need clothes on. My yawns hurt!

My wife wants to go looking for a new car today. Not too excited about it but will go and try and make a day of it. Since we live in the backwoods of Maryland, we are having to drive at least an hour to a mall or anything close to civilization. A car dealer? That will be fun.

I need to eat or I am sure I will die.

Does anybody find these heritage themed months offensive at all? African-American month! What the fuck? What a great month for everybody to walk around and pretend they are friends with the black guy/woman. Ahhh, it's your month, can I get you a drink? Lame!! I think that just about any of the heritages that we have these fucking themes for must be pissed. Do we really need to attract attention to Asian Pacific Islanders?

I think that all races have made huge strides in equalness. Some not as well as others but gettig better. Then you have that white's on the USA that are killing the world....no matter what color you are. Pure cocksuckers!!!

what the....

I apologize for that last one. I tend to just go and not have a clue as to where the fuck I will end. I have to be officially a lame ass now.

I have nothing to say at this time. I hate making titles for these things. I should make the title aftrewards huh. I will try to come up with something good and funny again soon. My life has been in the toilet of late. I will be gone all day tomorrow looking at cars so we'll see what will come of that.

almost there...Life according to Forrest Gump

I am almost feeling 100% again. I do wake up feeling like Mr. Weezy! Then I will be back to my old self.

I am debating on if I wanna stay in the Navy or not. I really enjoy the Navy but hate where I am at right now. Do I want to put the extra effort forth and stay in or just sack up and get out?? I guess I will have to make that choice soon. My enlistement ends in May. But I need a plan before that I would imagine. I would really like to finish school and head back to Minnesota. The thing with that is that I am not sure what the survivability of me and my family is. I have had a decent job for the duration of my marriage and will have to take a ballsy step and go out there. My thought is if I were to do that I would have no choice bit to succeed. There would be so much on the line if I didn't!! I would probably be taking a huge pay cut and will have to give up a few things. I will keep you posted on these turns of events.

I have been searching bloggville here and still having mixed reactions to the phenom of blogs. A lot of bubble gum and agendas out there. Pisses me off. I guess everyone has an agenda to a degree when posting here. Hell, i have an agenda! Let everybody know how fucking lame I am!! Agenda is done! I am just here to drop lines and keep anybody who cares up to date on my lame ass life. I do feel compelled to drop lines on people's blogs that do have something to say worthwhile. I guess it's the debater in me. I like contraversy and what people have to go through with their convictions!!

Peer pressure is it real? I'm not sure I have ever succumbed to it? If I didn't want to do something stupid I didn't do it. Yet growing up all of these parents hated me. They thought I was a bad seed. Was I a great kid? No! Was I a hoodlum? Far from it! So why hate me and forbid your kid to hang out with me? Sure I went to school for social reason not that academic crap. Was I smart growing up? Underachiever more like it! I never put my best foot forward. Is that how you measure kids in school? Grades? First off, I think I have turned out ok. I didn't have a traditional teenhood I guess. High school started off pretty rough. A month into my freshman year my mother passed away. Wonderful! What the fuck was I supposed to do? I was 14 years old. My mother had made arrangments before she passed and it was agreed that I would go live with her best friend. (My parents divorced before I really knew who my dad was) She lived in a different part of town and I was now out of my hood if you will. Now I had to take mass transit to see anybody familiar. My family fell to shit. I walked around school like a fucking freak! People whispered and pointed at me. Why? I spent a about 1.5-2 years and my mom's pals place and she was sick of the shit I was doing she booted me. The shit being a poor student and being what I thought typical teen agnst. I was scared shitless! I had lost 30 pounds and a teacher was concerned for me and had brought me into the principals office. I had to confess that I was staying at a friends house and wasn't really sure what the fuck I was going to do. Somehow the school nurse got involved and she started to get things rolling to get me in Foster care. Great I was going to be one of those fucking kids! You know the kid that would look lost in life and have zero hope. Eventually moving onto another school and foster family. I was going to be one of those kids. I was fairly popular in school at this point and now I just a troubled kid with nowhere to live. Turns out there was a really great family that lived about 4 blocks from my high school and I went to be "interviewed" by this family. That was insane! I had to make sure I would fit into the scheme of this family. Which was insane do to the fact that I knew the eldest son of the family. He was a year under me in school. He wasn't in the "in crowd". He was a geek!! The whole family were geeks!! Then I had a chance to live with them and appreciate them. Turned out there were pretty cool geeky people. My pals would always get a chuckle when they would stop by and pick me up. I had to eventually room this guy and he was an aspiring guitarist. He taught himself to play the Beatles song "Blackbird". There were nights that we would just sit and shoot the shit. He would let me in on his life and I would do the same for him. Pure entertainment!! He would tell me how all of my pals were douche bags!! So I would have to tell my pals to leave this kid alone he wasn't really a bad guy. This one time I was on the phone looking out my bedroom window and this kid is on the roof shoveling snow off. I see sheets of snow come pouring over and the next thing I see is this body hurdling through the air. He fell from a 2 story house. Funny shit!! He was ok though!

What the fuck just happened? Oh well, now you know some personal shit about me. It happens! I have noticed that a lot of people seemed to be gaurded with there blogs even though they make them out to be a safe haven for emotions and events in peoples lives. That can't be healthy can it? They come to vent if you will and half ass it. What good does that really do? Just be real and keep it honest. It's a therapy of sorts for many I am sure. Hell thats what makes blogging so great to me. I can put down anything I want to and have people read it and give me feedback. I had told myself that I would be honest with myself and to the people that find this blog remotely interesting. I love this shit. I'm still new to it but I think I could enjoy this for a while to come. It's good stuff.

Well, I am going to help wife make some dinner. Sorry for the side bar discussions right in the middle of the conversation. I will try to get better at that. It just seeemed to flow with what was going on in my rag tag mind...much more to follow I am sure. Peace out!! I am still waiting on suggestions for songs....for my CD 'music to blog to'!! Peace!!!!!

Feel Good Music...and other useless ramblings

Here I sit and feel the need to make a CD. I'm thinking I want a mellow yet fun CD to 'rock out' to at work and while I blog. Can you rock out to a mellow CD? You betcha!! I only have 3 songs on it so far. 1) Ben Harper-Burn one Down 2) Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight 3) The Band-The Weight.

So if you have any suggestions drop me a line I seem to be having some trouble with this. WEll, fuck it, it's been about 15 minutes since I had started this thing. I am going to just put some music on it and see what I get. I am always open to suggestions.

I have no idea what just overcame me. I had this urge to want to listen to Jimmy Buffet ALL day tomorrow at work. That should be a good day.

Enough about music!!

I was called shortly before I was to come home my wife called. She was all pissed off. S he went on to yell at me about our lame ass upstairs neighbors. Seems that there was water leaking into her bathroom. There was a huge a bubble of water on her ceiling. This is the second time in 2-3 months this has happened. The first time it had happened in my bathroom. My wife called the maintenance people and somehow the manager was involved. I came pulling into my parking spot and see that the upstairs neighbor is getting dropped off from work as well. Great! I hate this fucking loser! Seems that he is caught by the manager and the maintenence guy. The manager has a scowl on her face. I smile! They both say, "Hi", and are on their way. My wife greats me at the door. She asks who was out there. I told her and she chuckled. I guess these people were trying to get into the apartment above mine but couldn't. Sure as fuck sounded like someone was home. The crappy rap the wife upstairs was blaring wouldn't allow her to here them knocking. Or maybe she thought it was us domesticated people downstairs complaining. She is a dumb ass. I don't know what the aftermath is but I am glad that they have been kind of found out for the scum they are.

My wife has been reading about the history of Shenendoah National Park. Seems that the U.S. Gov't has been horrible to the lower class for a while now. Most of the park was TAKEN from people that had lived there for years and generations. It's a nice place but now I feel bad for even being there. I had read the book and read about some of the trails I have hiked. These were roads that these people used to get around in their communities. There was a family cemetary that we came across while hiking there and they show a picture of it in the book. It was a corn field all around it but now it's been swallowed by forest. Crazy what 80-100 years can do in nature. My wife is trying to scout out a nice route for us to see some cool historical items. Should be cool. I will keep anybody that wants to be posted posted.

I have to go give the Boy a bath now. I will fill you in on how my Jimmy Buffet day goes tomorrow too.

pandering....1%

I was searching some blogs today and saw some pretty neat ones. I was also given some hints on a few things and have no savvy to make them happen. I did however manage to get a site counter up. I think it may suck a bit though. Everytime I refresh my blog the number goes up as a hit. As I'm sure it will do everytime I view it. That seems kind of stupid to me. I could hit refresh a lot and boost my blog ego.

In my searches this afternoon and early evening I came across two mail order bride blogs. To me that is funny. I had to take a look at these women. Some of them are down right ghastly, well at least 85%. The other 14% were ok and that 1% was smoking hot. I wish them luck with their endeavor of finding a husband.

I am feeling way better now and can't wait to breathe again. It is something that I have come used to doing. I am sucking down some Fishermans Friends. Ahhh so gross and harsh.

Well, I must go make dinner for the boy.

shoot me now

I am back at work. It blows big time. I am still hurting. I have this nasty cough. I was tasked with all of this stuff to do. I will get to it when i get to it. Its blog time.

I came into work today and seems the heat went off over the weekend. Good thing its not terribly cold here. It will take them days to fix it I'm sure. Just wasn't a good sign first thing on a rotten Monday morning. I am feeling better though. I am starving and left my wallet at home. Now I have to wait till I get home to eat. Not cool!

I would like to thank gold ol' Bo for suggesting a few homeopathic remedies for me. I will try them soon. My wife has been a homeopath for a while I guess. Me being the ignorant bastard that I am haven't reallt dealt with it. Over the past year or so I have done some reading and been a guinea pig for my wife. I can't say that it is good or bad for you. I just know that some of the things that she does for me makes me feel better in no time at all. Now all I need to do is get into Fung Shui. I will have it all then.

I suppose I should get going to work now. Those tax dollars and all.

Put a bullet in my head

I am just now getting out of bed. I have been in bed since shortly after my last post. I wanted to die. I felt horrible. I didn't go to work on Friday and then I sat in bed sweating my ass off. Then shivering my ass off. It was miserable. The big Jakob was also sick and went to the hospital with a satan like temp. He is all good now but was a hurting unit just like me.

Well, I am going to drink some water and try to enjoy the Super Bowl. I am going for the Eagles since wife is from Philly.

I also noticed that I have a few new pals. Thanks for stopping by and I will be sure to drop a line again soon. I am just wasted right now. I also have a thing or two for what seems to be everybodys buddy, BO. It's all good.

Have fun and be safe...Peace!!

its official

I am sick as fuck!! So, it will be an early night for me. My wife is feeling better just in time for me to be down and out.

I will leave you with a question that I heard on the Simpsons tonight:

Which is more important, hard work or sticktoitivness (stick-to-it-iv-ness)?

What the...

I am super pissed now. I am starting to get sick. I become such a pansy when sick. I can feel it in my ears and throat. My nose is starting to clog. I am so pissed. I thought that I was going to be ok. These last two hours have been crap. I could feel the virus slowly attack my body. My wife was in bed for 2 days. I unfortunatly don't have the luxury of "calling in sick". My co-worker will be gone tomorrow so if I don't show up it will screw everything up here.

My co-worker is under the ideology of you being able to catch colds when you go out in the cold with wet head of hair. Or it just being cold outside will cause a cold. Bullshit! Colds are viruses and you catch them from other sick people, phones, keyboards and anything else that you may come in contact with that was touched by an infected person.

So I am going to get sick here soon and be a big baby about the whole thing. I hate colds more than anything. What is the best way to get rid of a cold? Rest? Feed a cold? Starve a cold? Try to be active? Chicken noodle soup? I am one for resting and feeding a cold. Seems to have worked in the past. I will have to see if this materializes into anything horrible. From the feeling that I'm getting, its going to be pure hell.

I did also wanna give a "shout out" to Smoov my newest (only) blog pal. I had read my huge racist manifesto and saw that my pal made me feel, and possibly look like, a douche. I'm sure that I didn't need her help. I just wanted to say thanks for that one.

I am outta here. I have to finish some work and will be trying to head home. Going to drink lots of orange juice and pop some echinacea. I hope that everyone is better than I right now.

S.O.B.

I am now getting ready for bed. I just wanted to see if how my posts had gone on a few other blogs and it seems like they didn't post. So you don't even worry about that big manifesto I wrote on racism to the wonderful lady in NY. Not there! Oh well! Maybe I will find the fortitude to do it again. That really pissed me off.

I have been browsing blogs off and on all day/night. I want to add features and do things a certain way for my blog and I have no idea how to make what I want to happen actually happen. I am not computer savvy at all. Or as my grandma likes to say "not of the dot-com era". That always makes me laugh.

Well, I am outta here. I have a wicked headache and need sleep. My wife has been in bed all day/night. I have been entertaining the boy. I will down some Tylenol PM and sleep like a baby on the wonderful couch. I hate Wednesday nights. Nothing on TV. I am almost caught up on TiVo stuff. I have read a few books to Jake. He is really taking to Shel Silverstein's 'The Giving Tree'. I haven't read that book in years. It's pretty good stuff. Soon, we will move on to his other classics. We own them all. That was one of my goals when I found out my wife was pregnant.

I am now outta here. To all of my adoring fans...peace!

The SWC

This will be my last post of the evening...I think.

I am trying to start a little hiking/camping club with some guys at work. When I first mentioned this to them they were all for it. Then we started to come up with an idea for a T-shirt and how one would earn one. I was disappointed in what I heard. They were all taking the easy way out. We have gone on some decent length hikes in Shenandoah NP and have had a blast. There is me and one other guy that could earn a T-shirt the next time we went. He is even being a puss about the whole thing.

My suggestion for criteria to get a shirt: Go to Shenandoah 3 times and within the 3 times you must go on a 20 mile hike and spend a night in the "back country".

There suggestions: Go camping and hiking 3 times.

That means we would go camp in a campground. No element of danger whatsoever and wake up and go on out typical 10-13 mile hike. Boring!! I want to sleep out in the woods. They are freaked out because you cant build a fire. Umm, lame! Who cares? Grab that thing between your legs and make sure your dick is still there. One of the guys that first went with us was afraid of bears and of course we saw one. Didn't put him at ease all that much. Was it bad that I had read it was a great trail to have a bear encounter?

My wife is all game to go. We are planning on heading down in March. Should be fun. I will keep you posted on that.

The next topic is what we should call ourselves? I suggested the Shenandoah Wrecking Crew (SWC). I know it doesn't sound environmentally friendly but I think thats where the beauty of the name comes in. We'll see.

Lastly, shirt design. We all had ideas of how it would be. The main great idea was to get a pic of that person on the front and have his "given" name underneath it. But I am not sure that will be what we are going with. I found a great shirt and may use that instead. We will still have the "given" name on the back. Just so you know I am Eagle Eye. I have a knack for seeing things that most people don't see. My son has the gift to. I like to think its due to my appreciation of the wilderness while traveling through. Another name for a guy is going to be Deer Whisperer. On the last hike we went on there were some deer about 5 feet from the trail and he was able to walk up on it and ALMOST touch it. Thats a gift!!

At any rate I will keep anybody out there up to date on SWC and the trip that me and the misses will be taking soon.

Do I have it in me?

I wanna start off by thanking by newest pal Smoov. She is good stuff and has given me hope in this useless worl of blogging.

So I am here and my wife is in bed sick as a dog. My son is no doubt going to take this as a chance to destroy my house. I just finished writing a lame manifesto to a woman in NY. She had written about racism and I felt obligated to put my two cents in and I'm sure I overpaid. Didn't turn out the way that I had intended.

I finally recieved my hocket magnet ribbon for my car. It says: I NEED MY HOCKEY FIX(ED). I am a huge hockey fan from Minnesota. I get pissed everyday there isn't a game to watch. I settle for watching coollege hockey. Which at times is better than pro.

Hmmmm, what to say. I was thinking today how my humor is maybe funnier in my head than it is when I type it. I feel like one of the dilusional 'American Idol' contestants that they have been showing. I say who cares and will continue. At some point they have to match up. I must warn that I am a gross guy (maybe typical to some of the womens thoughts out there) but I am saying the hell with it.

I just found out my son can open soda cans all by himself. Lucky me! He is insanely funny! Every time he tells some one BYE he follows up with a PEACE. Pretty funny kid. He also finds joy in a fart. That's good stuff.

I just posted a pic of me and my son from when I returned from this great war that we are now in. He is 18 months at that time. He recently had a haircut. Unfortunatly he gave it to himself. he had these amazing curls he was over 3 years old without a single cutting. Then one night on my watch, he cut his hair. My wife wanted a divorce I think. We went and got him cleaned up and he looks ok now. It will be another few years before we cut it again.

Well, I need to feed the boy and see how the lump in bed is doing. I hear weird noises come from the bed so I am guessing she is will live. May have to bring in some soup again soon. She has our 2 dogs and a cat surrounding her. She is in good company. Do to her ailment the men are sleeping out on the couch AGAIN.

I will drop a line again some time soon. Peace!

Me and son (Jake) returning from war in 2003 

Unhappy Camper

I have been apart of this blog stuff for all of a week now. I am pretty bummed out about me experience so far. I didn't think I would be an overnight sensation or anything but I did expect a comment or two. Maybe I need an agenda? Maybe people are reading what I have to say but don't feel the need to comment? I have no idea what it is.

I think that a lot of it has to do with the Blogger.com thing. I have been looking at other blogs hosts and find some to be attractive. They seem to have features that I want in a blog host/hostess. Ways to save favorite blogs, way to search for blogs of interest to me. I hate this random shit here. Then you have to weed through dozens of carppy ones before you find one good one.

Any suggestions as to where I should set up shop? I will be sticking it out here for a bit so I can drop a comment in some others blogs.