dick

Well, Terri Schiavo passed away this morning and it's a good thing. I feel sorry for all involved. It was a spectacle to the 10th degree. The one thing I had read this morning was that the husband hadn't allowed the parents to be at her bedside as she passed away. That is a dick move! Who does something like that?

I will now officially never talk of Schiavo again. Let her pass and live in hearts and infamy from now till then....what ever the heck that means.

Scared

Just playing around here to see if I am able to get my stuff up to snuff. Hope that this work out! If so, thanks Mel.



Big Jake and crab! 

trying it out

I am going to goof around and see if I can do this picture thing...so the next few posts maybe just crap...and I cant fix them until I go to work tomorrow. My computer here is stupid.

48 hour notice

Ok today had to suck really bad didn't it? I had roughly 4 hours of sleep and could barely function today. Then I had a meeting that was boring as hell and then put my thoughts into a "great" question and looked like an ass. Always a good sign when you hear chuckles. Good thing I am like a duck.

During the meeting one of my co-workers was called away and came back telling me that we had just been put on a 48 hour notice. What does that mean? It means that within the next 48 hours we could be called out to head over to Indonesia to help out. Wonderful! It will be good to go out and get out of the hell I call work but I want to be with my family. I had these camping plans and such! I do make more money while out to sea so I guess thats a good thing. We'll see!

Then I came home and my wife was freaking out about leaving the ATM card in the machine. Great! How would she react to me possibly leaving in a week? She took it like a champ! Sure she wants me out of her hair for a while.

I seriously doubt that we will go. It will be good and bad if this happens. Mostly good though. Just hope that they have will alow me to blog if I do go!

tired to wired

Man I am tired! I put my son to bed in his new "big boy" bed and was feeling pretty darn tired by the time he had fallen asleep and I had read four books. I carried myself out of his room and into my bed. I turned the TV on and a switch was flipped from tired to wired. I decided to go to the living room and watch the Amazing Race. My wife came home at about midnight and wondered what I was doing up.

By the time the show was over it was about 1:30 a.m. and I was getting beat. I went to my bed again and my wife started to catch up on her TiVo viewing. It was loud as hell and I couldn't get to sleep. I had turned on the TV and started watching some junk. It was good enough to keep me up for another hour.

By an act of God I woke up to my puny alarm clock and arrived to work early! I need to exercise this afternoon but not sure I have it in me. I am tired as hell! I need to do this though. Thinking me getting active again will make this hiking trips that I have planned a whole lot better.

Well, Mel dropped me a line and offered some help on picture posting but I have no idea what the hell she is saying. I will try to figure it out this evening.

ANY SUGGESTIONS

I am asking for help yet again from my readers. I use this hello or picasa picture dowload for my blog but would rather have something that I can post pictures and write about them instead of the picture being a post all by itself. Any suggestions as to what is out there that will allow me to do this? I hate posting pics and just having a picture caption....or can I do what I want with this picasa/hello thing? Any help would be great.

no reason...almost finished...Mr/Mrs 500

I am starting to see that I am going to start posting a bit differently from now on. Instead of putting so many different topics in one posting I am going to start writing one or two topics per post. That way it will be easier on everyone. I am sorry that it has taken me so long to figure this out.

I would also like to thank whoever was Mr/Mrs. 500 here. I was able to get the second 250 people faster than the first...I think. I know some people are coming here and not writing and thats cool, I also know that people quick buzz by to see what lame shit I have written. I thank all no matter what role you play.

I am almost finished with my blog CD as well. I know it's been a while but I am trying to make this one kick ass. I think it does so far. It has been changed a bit since the list I put out a few weeks ago. It starts off mellow and then picks up and roars to life. I am going to finish it up with some old school Def Leppard.

curling is the wave of the future

How was everybody's easter? Mine was uneventful as expected. I did nothing. I went out to eat and that was it. I sat and did nothing. Watched college basketball/hockey. It was a wonderful day.

Saturday I had driven up to see one of my doctors curl. You know that insane "sport" on ice with brooms and a big stone? I grew up watching it so I do enjoy it. My wife and son had yet to be introduced to it properly. I guess I hadn't either. The beer was flowing and the curlers were all to happy to explain what the sport was all about. We had stated a bit longer than anticipated but it was well worth it. I had a blast. A very social outing and I think my wife and son enjoyed themselves. I encourage any and all to check it out and don't laugh it off.

I had also went to go looking for some new running shoes at Foot Locker yesterday. I saw the pair that I wanted but they were a $135. A bit pricey for my liking. I had tried on a pair of Saucony's but they didn't fit right and that has been the problem with my shoes now. The base store was closed so I went to check them out tonight and saw that they had the same shoes for $90. That's right a savings of $45! I had to ask the lady if they had any in a wider size and she did. So, I was able to get the shoes that I wanted and for cheaper. I barely shop on base too. Not always the best deals. I could have used them today as my feet are fucking aching big time. I will start breaking them in tomorrow. I think that I will run at lunch and then do something lame after work.

That is how my last few days have gone. What a life....

Mr. Mom

I have noticed that I seem to have a female readership here. Am I a Mr. Mom and appeal to that crowd? I think I have had one dude post a comment here. Or maybe there are some spineless phantoms that just read that are men.

I wok eup today to a heaving wife. She is down and out. She is puking and shitting her brains out. I already moved my blankets and pillow from the bed. I will be on the couch tonight. I am basically a dead man walking here. I am sure to get this stuff soon and then I will be a whiny baby. I hate getting sick.

On other news, I am planning a trip to Shenandoah NP next month. Actually my pal is going to plan it. I had planned the previous two. This is going to be the grand daddy of all that we have done so far. We are starting a club called SWC (Shenandoah Wreck Crew) and are planning on putting in some serious miles and spend and evening in the backcountry. These guys are wimping out on me and seem to be afraid to spend the night out there. It happens!

I think that me and my wife will go down there before that trip though. We will be buying our stoves soon. We have an online coupon for REI and we pretty much know what we want so I may order them tonight. I think that I am going to get the Whisperlight and she is going to get the Jetboil stove. Should all work out. I am excited to go and share some good nature time with her. It's been a long time since we have done something like that.

Then of course a a month or so later we are planning on a weekend that we can bring the boy down. He is a fan of "naturing". That is what he calls hikes in the woods. "Dad are we going naturing today?", he asks me. So funny! I figure we will stay at the campground and hike some easy trails during the day. They also offer some horseback riding that I'm sure he would dig.

Well, I have some work that I need to finish and am trying to get out of here so I can get home and take care of wife, son, 2 dogs, cat, 3 fish, 2 snails and of course watch basketball/college hockey.

Cackmandu's Bio

As promised I will give a bit of a bio as asked and maybe wondered upon by my readers.

Well, I joined the Navy in fall of 1996 and went to boot camp in Great lakes, Illinois and enjoyed myself. Wasn't a scary thing at all. I spent the next three and a half months there (Bootcamp and school) At one point in school we had a choce to pick which coast we wanted. I had made some pals that wanted east coast. So me being the freethinking young man I was asked for the east coast. A few weeks later we were told where we would go once in the REAL navy. Everyone that I had befriended went east coast and I went with one guy out to San Diego. Wonderful...that navy just fucked me from the get go.

I showed up to the boat and was told the boat was leaving for a deployment in 2 weeks. So I did like any sailor should do and went down to Tijuana, Mexico and got drunk off my ass. Was late for my first official day in the fleet. I was aboard the USS Constellation CV-64, an aircraft carrier.

I had no specific job when I came there I had an option of being placed in a division and staying with that or choosing another job. It was all insane. I hated the people that I worked with but liked working the flight deck. So I stayed! I decided to be an AVIATION BOATSWAINS MATE-FUELS (ABF). That means I work with aviation fuel basically. I worked the flight deck where the retards worked but I enjoyed myself. I was a good worker and eventually moved up and had easier jobs as I went along. I did 3 six month deployments and tons of "work-ups". So, in my first enlistment I would estimate that I was actually on the open water for 2.5 years of my first 4 years. Maybe more!

It was time for me to move on and go to shore duty. I chose Maryland becuase my soon-to-be wife was from Philly. I chose to come to a medical clinic. Boy was that fucking stupid. They put me in Optometry right away. Remember I am a guy that works on the flight deck of a carrier and have no medical skills whatsoever. I wasn't too happy. Then I found out that I was attched to the hospital ship USNS-Comfort. What the fuck? I am promised my wife that I would be home every day for 3 years. I was here for 6 months and then we went to Europe for the summer of '02. It was fun but my son was only 6 months old. I came back and was no in charge of people below me in Optometry. It was cool but they hated it because I had no idea about eyes. I had made rank and they didn't. I was now and E-5 (Petty Officer 2nd Class). Then a few months go by and I get told to pack my seabag and be ready to go to war. This was about X-mas time and it wasn;t fun around the holidays. I finally got the word on January 3rd, 2003, that I would be deployed to Irag on the hospital ship. Four days later we were pulling out of Baltimore. We spent a month in Diego Garcia and then headed up a few weeks before the war started. Once it did, we were pretty busy. It was just us from the clinic that I work at that worked the flight deck. So, that meant if a helicopter was coming in at 3a.m. we had to wake up and land/fuel/take injured off at all hours. Always seemed they would come as we sat down to get a warm meal or was just getting comfy in bed. We mostly took care of Iraqi civilians and a handful of U.S. guys/women.

I am not the most people friendly person sometimes. So, when some one would freak out on me in Optometry I would give it back to them. Thats how ABF's do business. I was always being complained about, and still am. People would get so hooked up if they were cool about things instead of being assholes or bitches.

So thats me in a nutshell. I don't really take shit and that doesn't fit well with a military lifestyle. I make decent money and hate what I do. I need to go back to a boat and life will be good again. Something about being on the sea that is good stuff. It is harder now that I have a family back home. So, I am at a crossroads as to what the hell I want to do. Like I said, I make good money for the little college that I do have. I want to have the balls to get out there and try real life. I have 12 more years left in the Navy. It is a good time to get out and also bad. I will see what happens. I just need to grab my balls and make sure that I have them still and make the choice. Because the next place I have to go to is a ship. That means another 4-5 years on a boat. I make more money there too. But am gone a lot. So who knows?

That is Cackmandu and what he has been up to in his adult life.

troubled

Hmmm, What shall happen with Mrs. Schiavo? I am no expert in neurolgy but I have been reading a lot of this Terri Shiavo case and it makes me mad. 15 years is a long fucking time to be fed via tubes and whatnot.

If her parents want to have the financial burden and emotional drama that would come from caring for her...go for it. The thing is that all they would be doing is renting a room in a hospital or other health care facility. They have no ability to care for her. Get over the denial and let her move on. I can see where the husband is coming from adn understand his thinking. Or maybe the husband should just let the family do as they wish and acknowlege there is a difference of opinion concerning the loved one involved.

Why would you do this to your daughter? There has to be a point that you say this can't carry on. She is a lifeless soul that is never going to get better. 15 fucking years! She has been dead for a very long time and because of modern medicine she is "alive" still.

What are your thoughts on this tradgedy? Is it right? Should the government be involved? Aren't there thousands of people in this same situation? Maybe not to this extreme but nonetheless, there are other people out there severely brain damaged and I am sure there has to be a conflict of interest bewteen family members on whether they should "pull the plug" or not?

The only reason she is alive is because of these machines and modern medicine. Is that any way to LIVE?? That's not living!! That is torture and a wicked science experiment that has gone on way too long. She needs to be able to go to her eterenal resting place.

Enough of this Schiavo shit. I never really paid attention until the last few days and its troubling. I can't imagine anybody being in that situation. It's a sad tale. I will now and forever never speak of Terri Schiavo. I wish her and her family good luck (is that an appropriate saying here?) in the future....whatever it may bring...

VEGETABLES...go towards the light

I am working on my bio and will get that out there probably later this evening. Sorry for the delay.

Is anybody getting sick of hearing about this Terri Schiavo stuff? I am going to have to side with her husband on this one. I think that her family is wrong and selfish. There is no way that I would want my wife or son living in this vegetative state for years. Her brain is basically jell-o and what good is that? There are no emotions emmiting from this lovely woman. She is being kept alive by wires and tubes. That in way shows a promising life to be had. More like a science experiment taken on by would be scholars.

As far as this infamous tube being taken out, it does seem a bit crude. They are cutting this woman off from food and water. I'm not sure that she feels much pain anyway. It seems like a cruel way to die and I am guessing that is what's pissing the parents off even more. I wish they would let her pass. She is their daughter I understand, but I think just about everybody would rather be dead than a burden to family and friends. I just don't get it.

Maybe I am an asshole on this but I just think that she needs to go on her way. I feel bad for the woman involved. She had a rare thing happen and it put her in this state. Her life was over. How much should a family be involved after the child is grown and married? It's a shame she didn't have a living will and this would have been all over by now. I am not a fan of government getting involved in these matters. Not supposed to be that way.

if any one cares...

I am guessing that I don't have that much of a fan base but my blogging gal pal SMOOV had asked a question of what I do at work and what position I hold. I will get into all of that tomorrow night. I have noticed that if I write a buttload of shit of my useless life I get no comments. So, in telling my bio I will try to keep it short and sweet. I will keep it to the present (past 3-5 years) to make it easier on all of you that do comment and you phantom bastards.

I did go tutor some kids today. We helped them with reading. I now know that I have to read to my son more often. The first kid was an 8 year old girl and she couldn't read for shit. I stopped the lesson and started asking her questions of her family. My own version of 'Kids say the Darndest Things'. It was much more rewarding than hearing this girl sputter out words. The next kid I had was a wizard and knew all of these words. He was only 7. So he finished his book and I tool on the role of Bill Cosby again and asked him what his parents did. He said, "They snore a lot!".

not a morning person

I have been here at work for about 30 minutes now and I can't stand it. I have nothing to do. What a waste of my sleep time. It happens I guess.

I have been watching the news this morning and see that the kid in Minnesota did a number on his grandparents, a teacher and some students. Why do they report that the kid was known to be wearing black? I have encountered a ton of kids that wear black and have never felt threatened from them.

Who knows? Kids these days are getting scarier and scarier. Home school is looking pretty damn good right about now.

wowza

I am stuck here on duty tonight. I will be able to go home in about an hour or so. I am bored as hell. Nothing to do but look busy and stay awake. I have to then get up at 4:30 a.m. and come in and do nothing again. I hate these days.

I just saw on the news about a high school shooting in my home state of Minnesota. I would never have thought that could have happened there. I suppose that is what all people think.

I wonder why these kids do these shootings? Because you they are teased? Because of the "popular" kids being assholes? I never get what the hell these kida are thinking. It's mind boggling to me. I have doen my fair share of teasing and God knows that I have been teased. I had never felt the need to go home and get a gun and shoot up the place.

Society is fucked up and distorted. I don't get it. It is a shame that this is happening and kids feel the need to shoot up fellow students due to any number of reasons. It's a sad sad state of affairs. I almost wonder what life will be like for my son when he gets up there in school. I hate the thoughts of metal detectors and rent-a-cops patrolling schools. Children should be safe when they enter that sanctuary of public schools.

Well, I outta here. I am sure that I will have something else to say when I have my thumb inserted in my ass in the wee hours of the morning.

whirlwind of nothing

What the hell? I have been trying to blog here and there, but it seems that Blogger has been having some problems. I had written a long one about nothing as usual. But still I had spent some time on that shit.

I will basically give you the short version now. I wish that Blogger would make it save as a draft if their site was jacked up.

Well here goes the whirlwind of what you have been missing for the last few days:

Last Thursday I came home to an insane situation. My wife was running around like a mad woman. She had told me between cuss words that they upstairs neighbors are filthy pigs. Their toilet had overflowed. This was a big time mess our light fixtures had water in them and it was pouring from the ceiling. We then get a call from our neighbors downstairs asking if we had overflowed the tub/toilet. Thats right this shit had leaked from a a third floor to a 1st floor. My wife called the manager and was not the woman that I had married. She was the female version of Dirty Harry...just being bad motherfucker...not taking shit. I went to go make a sandwhich but was grossed out because the counter was covered in water...toilet water.

That pissed me off so I said that I was goiong to go down and talk with the manager. I have never said one word to this woman. I figured if I am coming down to complain it must be a big deal. So, I walk down there with my wife and we start making demands. I told the manager staright up that I wanted them evicted and what could I do to make that happen? She said nothing but they will be hanging themselves soon enough. She said that there were a ton of complaints on them but none worth kicking them out over. But with them all stacked up they will be out soon.

Friday I had went to go work out after work and came home to shower. I got out, towled off and my wife called me into bed. We were in bed kissing and being goofy. We heard the water in the shower and she told me that I hadn't turned it off all the way. I get up and it's off. It's the fucking ceiling pouring AGAIN!! Two fucking days in a row. My wife went staright to the office and got the maintenance man to check it out. The guy comes back and tells us that filthy pig of a wife had just taken a shower and her bathroom was full of water. Who the fuck does that? Not to mention this isn't the first time this has happened. There is already a hole in my bathroom ceiling.

After a few minutes the manager called telling us that she is going to kick them out. They will be getting their 30 day notice this next week. We will see. They have a 3-4 year old daughter upstairs but I have started to lose all compassion towards them. They are some of the worst people that I have ever dealth with. I am not sure what they willd o next? They aren't fiscally responsible and I think they just had their car repo'd. The husband is in the Navy and he may be able to get into base housing...but I think there is a long wait for that.

We went to Ikea yesterday to get Jakes big boy bed. We will start the set up tonight. I forgot my camera to document my trip and my wife was happy. She says that I am into blogiing a bit too much.

Then my wife was out and about and I gues started to call me. I was asleep and didn't want to deal with her pals calling. I took the cord from the phone and problem solved. I NEVER get call from my pals. I went back to bed and thought all was good. Well someone was at the door making the dogs go ape shit. I thought it was my wife coming home. Guess not. I hear someone knocking on my bedroom window. I look at and its my wife. Her pal had locked my wifes key in the car while it was still running. It was my wife calling on pals cell phone (if I dont recognize the # I don't answer). So she went and got the car and was pissed at me because I hadn't answered the phone. She knows me and what I do with the phone.

Well, I am now off to go watch college basketball! I am not really a fan but I have money on it this year so we will see. I will try to get something cool for you guys tonight. I am tired as hell.

same old

I actually have lots to say a but I am going to relax for the evening and will write tomorrow. I think tomorrow is going to be a long day. I think we will be trying to get a big boy bed for Jake at Ikea. I will bring my cam and document it all. I bet you are thinking yippy!

Celia is great and very helpful. I only wish that she knew that I am a retard when it comes to computers. I do appreciate it and I will try and work with it as soon as I get a chance. I may need some help but will give a shout out when needed.

just checking

Just seeing if I can write anything yet? I would like to give a shout out to the wonderful and amazing Celia for helping me out. I however have no idea what the hell she is saying. I tried and failed but will try again later tonight when I get home.

blog support

Ok, now that I have my Sloth picture up how am I able to put in blogs I read and websites I frequent?

clown posse

Last night was the big night for the "Greatest Show on Earth". It wasn't too bad! I enjoyed myself and am guessing the family did as well. They allowed people on the floor prior to the show starting and Jake was freaked out by some of these clowns. Bastards!

I have no idea where my camera is so I can't share the pics with you at this time. I will try to get that to you as soon as possible.

I am off to go relax and clean some dishes. I am a domesticated dude I guess. I am a laundry nazi and enjoy dishes. Something about cleaning dishes makes me chill out. Then I do get the dish pan hands afterwards.

intelligent design

I just read an article on Yahoo news that has pissed me off. I guess there is a huge debate nation wide about the way to teach evolution. What the fuck is there to debate about? Just teach it and let these kids form their own opinions. If they choose Gods way or "intelligent design" so call it thats fine to. I just don't understand why the panties are getting in a bunch.

I don't want to offend but I am sure by now it's no secret that I am not a fan of this "intelligent design" crap. I am willing to bet that 99% of my readership is of the believing sect. That's fine! Just respect it and appreciate my views. I welcome your views and am more than willing to learn a lot more about religion. I truly am ignorant when it comes to that.

I will think long and hard about what I want to say about this subject. I am sure it will be a disappointment when you do finally read it. I have to get a few things together and get quotes and everything.

Just pisses me off to start my day off like this. I am not so passionate about it that I am going to bash what people believe. I just wish that people would open their eyes and see that there are other NATURAL things going on in the world.

simpleton

I see that my pic did show up on my blog. That is the new me. I big sloth looking guy. Well, I am happy about that. Things are looking up for me. That's always a good thing.

In the last post I refered to 'Robots' being the lamest kids movie ever and I meant it. You might as well throw in 'Shark Tales' as well. I guess nothing can compare to 'The Incredibles'. That movie is the shit. Good thing me and my wife pre-ordered the DVD because we got ours today. I guess my wife ordered the gucci set with some stuffed toys and lithographs. All pretty damn cool.

My wife also got herself a haircut. Man oh man, she is looking pretty damn sexy. She has curly hair so I gues that equals doom for doing anything with it? I like the length of it. It has been fairly long for a while now and I had only seen get with this shoulder lenghth hair via pics while I was away for the war. Smokin hot! Well, she just looks great and I love it.

I am in need of a haircut myself. I am getting shaggy and gave in and am willing to go to the place my wife goes. I am a barber type of guy. I like my barbers to be gross old men and must have at least one dead animal on the wall. I have been going to the same place pretty much everytime I needed a cut. I would say that I walked out of there everytime pissed at what they had done to my head. My wife would laugh and I would get looks at work. I have however gone to the local "black" haircuttery and have been happy with what I have walked away with. The only thing I didn't like was the stares and getting passed over by many people. I stuck it out and had a good haircut!! I have grown my hair a bit on top because of the winter and also it is against what the navy wants me to have.

I am going bald! Not terribly bad YET!! I am not ashamed or embarrassed because of it. It happens! I now have a larger forehead and some thinning on the top of my head. I am not going to do the "comb-over" or shave my head. I will wear it as a badge of honor. Nothing to shy away from. I will NOT use these gimmicks that are out there. I am going bald!

Well, my BLOG CD is just about half way done. I am rocking it out now. I am not sure what to think of it but so far it seems pretty damn good. I need about another 6-7 songs and I will be done. Again, any help will be greatly appreciated. Here is the list of what I have so far:
1. Afternoon Delight--Starland Vocal Band
2. Burn one Down--Ben Harper
3. Lake of Fire--Nirvana
4. The Homo Rainbow--Ween
5. Fon't Fence Me In--David Byrne
6. Surf Wax America--Weezer
7. Wicked Little Critta--They Might Be Giants
8. Diamonds and Guns--The Transplants
9. Somebody Told Me--The Killers
10. Jerk It Out--Ceasars Killers
11. Salvation--Cranberries
12. Carmina Berana--Faust
13. Just a Kid--Wilco
14. Blister in the Sun--Violent Femmes
15. Vertigo-U2

Thats what I have so far. I would think that I only need a handful of songs. Now you know the direction I have taken with the CD so you can help me out a bit more. This is music that I blog to. So what better music to listen to than the music YOU suggest? I am all ears!!

The new me

I am sitting on my fat ass here waiting for the day to end. I have been trying to figure things out here to make my blog just that much better and yet I have no idea what the hell I am doing. I will try to make the changes soon.

Seems that I am an idiot when it deals with computers. I have no idea how to get my picture to have a URL and therefore can't get a pic up. I am also not sure how and where to put my picture so it shows up on my blog. I know I have bitched about this before but you will have to deal with it. Since I have no idea how to get my picture to have a URL I have opted for a the greatest movie character of all time...SLOTH. I will probably be changing the images frequently since I am torn between a few pictures that I have found. So enjoy me as SLOTH for now.

I haven't been an active blogger of late but that will change soon. I have been busy doing nothing. Last week was supposed to be the big Ikea expedition '05. Didn't quite turn out the way we wanted. We drove the 90 minutes there and found that they didn't have the big boy bed that we wanted for our son. We have been going there off and on again for months. The bed is always there. Not this time. They say it should be in on the 26th or so. I will call next time and be sure to get there as soon as I can to buy the thing.

We did however buy all the other things to accent his room. We still need to find a rug though. Of course we bought some trinkets for ourselves as well. I bought a new coffee cup (I hate coffee) and a new alarm clock. I am a huge fan of clocks/watches. Not these digital things, the old school ones. The clock is a wind up kind that has the bells on top. It's loud as hell and almost makes you wee yourself in the morning.

We also bought a new dresser for our bedroom. I guess we are going to get rid of the nice big one we have now for a smaller/taller one. I am not sure that it is a good idea but what do I know? I have a tons of socks, t-shirts and boxers for work. I can barely fit them in what we have now. I am thinking the missus will have to lose out on that deal.

Me and my wife felt bad so we thats why we had a suprise Jake day last Friday. Thats when we went to the crapfest called 'Robots' and then off to the southern Maryland version of Chuck E. Cheese. It was a good time and fun was had by all. Except I scared my wife while at ghettoville. I have no idea why my pants don't stay on me. If I bend over my ass crack is there for all to see. She had requested that I go in this siezure inducing jungle gym type of thing. After I removed my jacket and shoes it clicked that my ass falls out sometimes. Now considering the netted cieling of this thing is a max of 3ft high I was going to bend over. She offered to go in and I could stay and watch them play. No way!! I went in and made sure my bottom was not exposed to any children. I didn't want to be the gross guy that ruined some kids 6th birthday.

Tomorrow is also the circus in Baltimore. My son was throwing a hissy fit last night and said he didn't want to go. Total bullshit! Thats all he has talked about since we brought it up to him a few weeks back. He is too funny! I am a bit excited myself for the self proclaimed "Greatest Show on Earth". I will be sure to take some pics and post a few for all to enjoy. Unless of course your against caged animals in a circus for human enjoyment? I would advise you not to stop by for a week or so.

Today is the day that we are going to put our Darwin fish on our car. I think that will be the only ornament we will have for this car. I have been trying to find a cool bumper sticker with the car from Family Vacation...the family truckster. I can't seem to find any. I own the t-shirt but I can't find a bumper sticker!

ACHING

My deearest readers,

I had some really good stuff to write about. I mean this was some good knee slapping funny shit. Now for the life of me I am drawing a blank. It really sucks! It happens I guess. I will be sure to pick my brain and figure it out and get back to all 3 of you.

I woke up this morning with this insane headache. I wanted to die or at the least let the blood building up in my head to hurry and kill me. I tried this new "quick action" Tylenol and was relieved of my aneurism.

zero

I am up late as hell! I am brewing a headache that I am almost certain will be there in the a.m. I hate those.

I am up so late because my wife had locked her keys in our other car. So, she got a ride home from a pal and then I had to bring her back to get the car. Mind you my wife is no Magellan, and it was her first time to this place. Needless to say it was a great test of patience on my part. We finally made it to this house and she asked me to lead the way out. What the fuck is that? All in all the trip was about an hour. Yippy! At least the biy fell asleep.

It was father son bonding day today. We went shopping and bought some tools. I was trying to look at some toys for him but they all suck ass. I remember toys being cool. Now I am left with schlock. I had to settle on buying him the Spongebob movie. I also bought myself a PS2 game. i only buy 2 games a year it seems. I play hard core for about a month and then I am done. I am really not into video games all that much. probably due to the fact that I didn't have anything like that growing up. Besides, I can imagine better things to do with my life. For example, start a web log about my poo.

We also went to this book sale they have ever so often for the library. I guess people donate and the library donates older books and you can buy them for dirty cheap. I bought a slew of books for me and Jake and only cost me $11.50. The lady said when I was checking out it would be even cheaper tomorrow. I figure I will take walk over and see what I missed in my rush there. Jake kept asking me to go home. I would ask him why. "Because this place is boring. My feet are tired". Where the hell did he learn that? The older ladies there thought it was cute and had a chuckle. As I kept looking at books he was getting even more pissy. We left and I read him a few books that I had boought him.

I will write again later. I am sure that I will something better than this. Fucking 1:40 a.m.!

another day

I seemed pretty miserable yesterday. I wasn't!! I was bored as hell and stewed. I only worked a half day and made into surpise Jake day. We brought him to the ultra lame movie 'Robots'. Then whisked him off to a local ghetto version of Chuck E. Cheese. It was pretty coool. It acomplished what we had set out to do...tire the boy!

Well, I have full slate of things to do today and I will be back to blog. Nice to see comments back up. I will drop a line again soon.

total crap

I know I promised that I would be in a better mood in my next post, but I am pissed. I have been browsing some blogs and seeing some cool stuff out there. I go to leave a fricken comment and nothing. Blogger is obviously having problems and that just sucks. I am mad!! I was trying to get the good word of Kow's Corner out there to what seemed to be pretty neat blogs. S.O.B!

I might as well get this little gem of a story out there while I am pissed and am not happy with bloggville today. Just be warned it is another poo story. I am a huge fan of crap. I guess you could call me a shit talker.

Today, while I was writing my whinafesto I had the feeling of going poo. I held off for two reasons. A)I stayed in order to get some lame thoughts down. B) The optometry bathroom is in the waiting room.

Well, I could no longer hold out. It was crowning. I slowly walked into the bathroom and as I did I saw a patient sitting down. I thought she had left. She is in her mid-20's and fairly attractive. Great!! I have a phobia of using this bathroom for reasons just like that. It can be a man out there and I would still freak out! So, I quick undo pants and as my boxers clear my ass it's bombs away. It was horrible! I am not sure how loud it was but there were a few small explosions. It stunk big time. I had to give MYSELF a courtesy flush. I am not even close to being done. I know this woman is still out there. She heard the flush. She probably thinks I am done. No way Jose! I dropped a few more pounds and was finally done. There was another flush before I was officially done.

I sinch up and wash my hands. Look in the mirror and I look visibly shaken. It was a rough one. I walk out as if I had just walked out of my office. I look at the young woman and male eye contact. What the fuck was I thinking? Never ever make eye contact. I get a blank look as I flash a smile of relief. I hate where this bathroom is.

Lastly, I have a huge fear of someone walking in on me while pooing. I think mentally I could poop in front of my grandmother and be ok with it. It's those few seconds that I have my hand in my ass that freaks me out! The shame, the humilation.

I promise now no more poo stories for a while. I will have some good positive non-fecal subject matter soon enough. Wondering why people don't leave comments! How much could a sane person say in a comment about the escapades of some guy's poo history and phobias. I now see why nobody is writing...what a moment of clarity. Well, to my one and only active commenter I am sorry and do thank you for commenting on one poo story. To my phantom readers you get what you pay for and will until you show your faces!!

I do promise to be better...

Where my dawgs at??

Hmmmm, where do I go from here? This is going to be another self pity blog moment for me so if you don't want to read give me a few hours and I will post something else.

I know I have some phantom readers out there and that's cool with me. The thing that sucks is I have Smoov and that is pretty much it. I give her a shout out all the time. She even has me in her 'blog I read' column. Wonderful!! I thank her for that. I read my comments and see her drop me a line. She is giving me hope that this is worth doing. Sure I have a decent amount of hits and people are stopping by but say something.

I know that what I write is pretty lame and can be and will be disgusting at times. I do believe a well placed fuck is better than any word I could find in a thesarus. I love my wife and son and will write about them from time to time. I enjoy the outdoors and will relay any cool stories to anybody that reads this damn thing. I like controversy and like to put my opinion out there. I like people that drop me a line after I have said something in their blog.

I am not into writing zany shit that didn't happen to me or embellish what has happened to me. I try to tell it like it is. I am not happy that when something funny does happen I mess it up in the translation to bloggville. I am not into you phantom bastards. I am not happy that I write in other peoples blogs and I never hear from them again. I am pissed that nobody ( I know you helped a bit smoov) helped with music for my "Music to Blog to" CD.

What gives? Where my dawgs at?? I have one person leaving comments? I am only interesting to one person out there in bloggville? Why so little feedback? Should I be zany? Have I worn out my welcome in bloggville? Are blogs just for nosy people?

I have said my peace and will not continue my banal existence in bloggville. I promise to be a bit more upbeat when I write again. So feel free to read and continue onto the next blog. Bastards!!

I would rather breathe water

Today when I came home from work my wife was taking a bath. I had a few matters to discuss with her and yet I had the need to poo. I figured I could accomplish both at the same time. Getting good at this multi-tasking stuff. I unbuckle the old pants and drop trou. Before I could get 3 words our of my mouth my wife was freaking out on me. The nerve of me taking a shit while she took a bath. I tried to conversate with her but it didn't go to well. She started cracking jokes and I started to weez and snort....it has to be funny for me to do that. At one point she told me, "I would rather breathe this water than that!". That put me into convulsions and I had to get out of there.

That bathroom fan does nothing for a stinky poo. My wife is always telling me to put mine on. It does nothing! I have no idea why she gave me the bathroom in our bedroom. It's gonna happen...shit stinks. Maybe when we finally get a house I will get the dingy bathroom in the basement.

All of this shit talking has made me think of when I was in high school and we would sit around a fire and have beer that a stranger bought for us at an unbelievable price. We would always think up some insane scenario and ask what we would do in that situation. I remember I had asked one that was taken from real life. Mind you this is from the mind of a 16-17 year old boy.

You are at your girlfriends house and you have to go to the bathroom. Not just a pee but a full fledged number two. You coil major rope and stink the place to high heaven. (Think diarrhea scene in Dumb and Dumber) You get done with your business and are even disgusted and the fecal smell. You see that there is a can of good smelling spray and over by the sink or on top of the toilet is a nice basket of potpourri.

What do you do?

Do you spray or let the potpourri do it's job?

Oh yeah, and right after you leave you see the mom go in not even 5 minutes later. Wonderering what decision I made? I trusted that the potpourri would work. If you spary the can of whatever it is usually pretty strong. Therefore, the next person who comes in knows that you dropped a bomb. I played the odds and I guess I chose wrong. I never made eye contact with the mom for the rest of the night.

WTF....

The weather here is zany. Yesterday it was 70 degrees and we were playing in a t-shirt. I wake up this morning to rain and cold. It started to snow about an hour or so ago. It's really coming down here. I guess DC is even worse. I hope that patients here freak out and stay the fuck at home. My day will go by fast and I can go on my merry way.

I had a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup for lunch. It was pretty good stuff.

I have been having an ongoing "discussion" with my wife about MY rain jacket. She loves it and so do I. I bought a Land's End Rain jacket about a year or so ago. I was given a gift certificate and finally used it on a kick ass jacket for me. Well, it turns out my wife really liked it as well. So she has been on a quest to find a jacket to equal or better mine. I bought her one for Christmas and it turned out that it sucked. We returned it and went shopping at REI. All of them were either too big or too small. Nothing that fit just right. So I started to look for jackets. I saw some nice ones but in the $150 range. I just wanted a nice rain jacket for town and to take when I backpack. I wound up buying one on eBay and wasn't to happy with it. It will be nice to scrounge around in but not my favorite. I have also located another sweet gore-tex rain jacket on the Land's End site. I like it but my wife is freaking out because then I would have 3 jackets to her none. So I suggested that she look at the jacket I eyeing and maybe get it a few sizes smaller than what my tubby ass fits into. Women are so damn picky!!

Modern MVA

I finally got my car transferred to me. I had to pay tax, title and tags. It was a wonderful $800. I should have cheated them bastards.

I am not sure how MVA's or DMV's work where everyone else is from but I enjoy my experience today. I am used to the DMV in Minnesota. We only had 2 in for a city of around 100, 000. So it was a hectic place. Then when I lived in San Diego it was insane when I had to go there. Hundreds of people nut to butt and pissed. I wasn't wanting to do this. I went down with my wife at lunch and was hoping for the best.

I was done doing everything I needed to do in about 20 minutes. That was including walking out the door with my plates and registration. I was expecting temporary plates or something. My wife had decided to get a Maryland DL since her PA one had expired months ago. That was another $45 and she too was out the door with DL in hand. I am used to waiting a few weeks and getting it in the mail.

The future is now and it looks pretty bright. Although I realize that I am in the boondocks of Maryland, but still was impressed. Because if boondocks MD has this stuff bigger places do as well. I was pretty stoked.

Anybody watch my suggested TV last night. I just caught up on it now and was somewhat impressed. Good stuff. Learned a lot!

Team Cackmandu's next adventure is driving to the closest Ikea and buying a "big boy" bed for my son. Actually we are planning on doing his whole room over. It should be pretty kick ass. Plus, next Tuesday we will be going to the Barnum and Baily Circus in B-more. I will try to get a few pictures and send them up. Maybe I will be a tard and take pics of my Ikea shopping spree. I heart Ikea!! It is a great place for weird shit. Call me trendy or what ever you want, I love that place. I had only heard of it but my wife again opened my eyes to a wonderful place. I will get into more later!!

Couch Potato

Thank God for TiVo! Tonight is my mecca of Tv viewing that I have been chirpping out about. First off is "In The Womb" which looks great. At 9 o' clock is "Deadwood" which is a mans man show. Have to love the old west. Then at 10 is "Intervention" on A&E. Looks to be a cool new series.

I will fill you all in on my lazy ass escapades tomorrow.

Don't know....

Well, I was reading Smoov's blog the other day and she was blogging about the crappy clothes out there for her kids. She went to communist places like Gymboree and Gap. I shop there from time to time for my son so I am guilty as well as helping the cause. I had posted about how I had a great Ramones t-shirt for my son, Jake, but I can't seem to find any pictures of it. I could only find the one of the classic Ramones logo. As you can see he has a history of cool shirts. I am a fan of them myself. My wife says I have too many t-shirts. Is that even possible? I like stupid shirts sorry.

In the crabbing picture below he has a Jimi Hendrix VooDoo Child shirt on. Very cool. I would suggest going to Hot Topic and see what they have that is uber cool for your youngster. This way he/she is cool and you will be the talk of wherever you are. Screw that Gap and cute gear these places peddle. Be original and let everybody know what kind you're thinking via your son/daughters shirt. Works for us!

Well, I hope you enjoy the pics and can see what's out there as far as decent fashion for your kids. My son has since had a haircut which was a heartbreak around here. He actully cut it himself and we had to go fix it. It really stunk. I hated when people called him a girl. He never dressed like a girl and if I did dress my daughter like that I should be shot. People saw the culry blond hair and automatically thought girl i.e. Shirley Temple. Fuck you!! He was a gnarly looking dude that had a skateboard and rocked out. Now we no longer live vicariously through is hair.

Jake eating as youngster. This picture made me laugh during the war. Great shirt! Beats anything Gap has to offer! 

Jake at Baltimore Aquarium. Scary Shark!! 

Jake eating Twizzler and crabbing. 

Wife (Danielle) looking sporty. Getting ready to take another picture of Shenandoah NP. 

Wife and son taking pictures of fall leaves in Shenandoah NP 

Big Jake looking for goodies on shore of Patuxent River (about a year ago) 

i have nothing

I have nothing to say. It's kind of like my pal was telling me the other day about the people that try to be zany and write insane stuff. Sure it works and thats the direction I wanted mine to go. But as we all see its far from it.

I am thinking I will post a few pics and be done for the night. Enjoy!!

mama never said there would be days like this

Man alive!! I just arrived home from work at about 8:30 p.m. I have duty today so that means that I am the man. I had to show up at 6:30 a.m. today and get a rundown of what was happening at work. Then make sure that the cronies that I work with put the flag up without incident. Then of course I had to go and do my normal job. That is always lame. Then back to the main clinic and make sure that people are where they are supposed to be.

We are usually done seeing patients at about 6:00 p.m. But not on my night of duty. Turns out we had a woman come in with a broken nose. Seems that she was a bit reluctant to tell the docs how it happened. Well, she finally broke down and told the nurse and doc that her husband beats her. Nothing against this woman and her situation but now I am stuck there for who knows how much longer. The docs call the police and report the situation and all seems to work itself out. I guess this happend about 2 days ago and she was just now coming in to be seen. her husband is in San Antonio with work. He is a Marine so that should tell you something right there. Not all Marines are bad bust some are real fucking douche bags. So, all was well and then I was ready to get out of there and I take a walk around and see the lazy cleaning crew there doing sqaut! I shooed them out and was on my marry way.

Oh yeah, and I have to get up at 4:30 a.m. to get the clinic open. Which is a waste of time. I am supposed to open up and let people in so they can catch a shuttle to outlying military hospitals. Sometimes theres 6 people and sometimes a big fat ZERO people. Those are the days that make you go crazy.

On the good side, I have no docs tomorrow so I will do nothing and leave work at noon or so. That is always a good thing. I need to try and get the boy to bed and I need sleep myself. Fuck!!

had it then i lost it

I was talking to my co-worker today about blogs and such. he told me how he had read an article that I hope he remembers to bring into work tomorrow. He was telling me about this term that is out there. I want tos ay it's "blogged out" or something like that.

"Blogged out" meaning someone is tired or blogging or in some cases has writers block. It seems that people try to hard to be zany and goofy. Which to be honest is what I wanted with the initial start-up of this blog. I have even been a whiny bastard about it not being that way. I am happy for the most part as to how it has turned out.

I will be sure to read that article and drop a line about what it has to say. Seems pretty good. I will be back soon.

MUCH ABOUT NOTHING

Well, I am sitting here on my lumpy ass having nothing to say. This morning went so slow. Now this afternoon we have no patients and very little work to do.

I have took care of a problem today that involved mean men and my wife. Seems that she signed up for a gym membership 2 years ago and hasn't been there for while and we were still being charged a fee. She has since started using the gym on base here. Just as good except no trainers and child care. I had noticed this a few months back and asked her to take care of this problem. That was $42.95 out of our pocket every month for quite a while now. I was a bit pissed to say the least when I saw the charge on our credit card yet again. I called them up and asked them to stop charging me. The guy (who was the manager) said I needed to put it in writing that we wanted our membership terminated. I pointed out to him that due to an oversight on our part he has made about $500 off my dumb ass. I asked him kindly if he could make that happen with the phone conversation we were having. He hooked me up and now that muscle head won't get another dime from me. Fuck tard!

I am pretty excited for TV this weekend. First off, "In the Womb" will be coming the National Geographic Channel. It looks to be pretty interesting stuff. I think the women will really like this. I am a father so I am interested to see what my son was doing in the womb for the 9 months.

Seems that Sunday will be the good night for TV for Team Cackowski's TiVo. After or during "In the Womb" comes the wonderfully raw HBO series "Deadwood". That show is so awesome and grisly. The language is great. I had something how they used the word fuck 871 times in the first season. I think the language is probably accurate for the time period and location. I can't wait to watch the show again. Means the boy will have to go to bed earlier or I put him to bed and then watch TiVo.

Again around the same time on A&E comes a new show called, "Intervention". Looks like its about these drug addicts and people with gambling problems. All of these people ruining their lives and the people that love them. There is one episode about a "cutter". I am really interested in that one. I want to know what makes these people feel that they need to cut themselves. It seems like a very sad situation to be in.

That will be some of my Sunday night viewing. Guessing I will watch the rest of what I can't see on Monday or something. Just like tonight, I will finish watching the new 'Amazing Race'. I never was into it until this year. It's actually a pretty kick ass show.

I have to let my co-worker do some work. I will be in touch later...

With a little help from my friends...250

I am just stopping by on my lunch and see that I am over the mark of 250 visitors to my place. I just wanna say thanks to all that have made it possible to reach that number. I know it isn't easy to come here and see nothing day in and day out. I will try to get better at that. Or maybe not, seems that it is viable subject matter that some people come back for.

With a little help from my friends I will be able to get this blog looking the way I want it to. You can give me hints by dropping me an email @ cackmandu24@yahoo.com. I am open to suggestions and a few of you know what kind of help I am looking for as far as the look I want for my blog! Any help or guidance in baby babble would be greatly appreciated.

I think I will add a few pics tonight! Which is another thing I want help with. I have the picasa or hello stuff downloaded but am not sure I am happy with it. I will have to write down a list of things I want to do and share that with all of you more computer savvy people. I know how to blog, check email and surf porn. That's it!!

Will be back again tonight. Thanks again for making 250 a reality...in just about a month too. Pretty cool stuff.