Twenty Five Pages!!!!

Yep, I've got around twenty five pages written so far!!!! Not bad since I just started the other day!!!!

I haven't heard from the administrator of the rights to the intellectual property yet so I'm proceeding as if I have permission. The actual idea is what I'm after, the story has been changed enough in characters, actions, and even plot that it resembles the original but doesn't at the same time.

Well it rained hard yesterday on the way to work and very very hard and loud last night. Woke me up it was so loud! Well normally this would be my Friday however not so this weekend. We have to work Sunday. I'm low on the overtime list so unless there was a volunteer to work I have to along with five others. A full regular work day.

I really value my time off more than the overtime but the money will spend just the same!

Progress!

The story is coming along, nearly twenty pages are done now!
I have to admit, the TV came on for Ghost Hunters and that kind of killed my writing momentum.

I'll keep you informed, I'm in a bit of a hurry this morning. It is starting to rain this morning already again. That's alright, I'm starting to like living in Seattle, Oklahoma.

Inspired!

I was listening to my ipod yesterday at work when I came across an old file I hadn't heard since I was a young'n. Yeah I got it a few years back and didn't really listen to it I guess but it was there so I selected it and listened to it.

Then I was struck by something akin to lightning....inspiration. Now for those of you who know me know that I get ideas all the time, some good, some bad, some stupid but this one really seems good.

Well at the time they all SEEM good but upon further review they might not be as good as first thought.

Anyway this audio file seemed like it would make a good STAGE PRODUCTION....yeah coming from the film guy.

Inspired? Yeah, I was so inspired as soon as I made it home I started writing it, well typing it and got thirteen pages finished. My TV never came on last night. I am going to pick up a notebook where I get coffee this morning and write more at work. I have the audio file on my ipod so I have been listening to it while I write to make sure I get it right.

I'll transcribe what I write today and soon have a good first draft to rewrite. I know how most of it would translate to the stage, that was the inspired part. It just came to me in a flash. It would look impressive and yet not be that difficult to a set builder with some minimal skills.

I know I shouldn't be talking about something like this at such an early stage but this idea might be a good "good" idea. Not like have the times on the paper route when some of those good ideas really weren't "good" ideas....I know at least one of you out there knows exactly what I'm talking about and can probably still remember several of the good ideas that really weren't so good.

I would have done some painting last night but it was too hot for it. It has to be around 70-80 degrees to give yourself enough time to manipulate the paint on the poster board. Over 90 and it dries way too fast UNLESS you are very good and I'm just not yet.

I'm testing to see what works for me and it takes longer that way. I have bought more poster board though and I'm confidant that soon I'll be making some ten minute paintings with ease. I have the skies down, they are easy, what isn't as easy is the finishing part. It is hard to tell where to stop and what makes a good painting a bad one.

Is There Anything Better Than

Ice cream with chocolate syrup on a hot evening?!?!
Talk about a simple pleasure of life, that has got to be a big one right there. Now usually I just get rocky road, cookie dough, or a variety of Ben and Jerry's flavors since they all pretty much rock.

But sometimes it is hard to resist the pull of a simple bowl of vanilla with chocolate syrup on it. The way it melts together along the edges and blends into a very cold and sweet chocolaty concoction is just too much!

I feel for countries who can't explore something like this. I've seen documentaries about various tribes around the globe and they won't get to taste such a fine dessert as this but then again I won't be able to sample fresh cow's blood mixed with milk either....I wonder if they think the same thing about ice cream as we would about their version of a delicacy.

I wonder if they would look at a bowl of ice cream and it would revolt them. After all it is mostly a cow's product as well and to me cows are one of the most tastiest creatures on the planet along with the pig.

I've seen some of those tribes do some very bizarre things with a cow, it might stem from boredom, I don't know. If I were stuck out there in the wild and just had a herd of cows to pass the time it might be difficult to amuse myself and the rest of the tribe without involving the bovine in some way.

I Saw A Iphone!!!!

I forgot to talk about this at the Friday night party. I saw a real life, working, beautiful Iphone!!!!

I have to tell you that if the storage space was more than 8 gigs I'd get one and dump my landline!
I'm sorry but 8 gigs just don't cut it for me. That is twice the RAM alone I have in my main PC!

Now let me tell you about it, the screen was bright and full of detail. The touch screen worked flawlessly, the keyboard was amazingly simple, the web looked like the web should look like, email and chat a breeze! It is essentially the first widescreen Ipod but with only a limited amount of storage in which 700 megs of that is taken up by the OS.

It takes great pictures and is a do it all device! The service is a mere five dollars a month more than I'm paying for my landline now so it really wouldn't matter much at all cost wise.

It was an amazing experience for a techie guy like me who loves new, shiny gadgets and this is from one of the few holdouts of the cell phone revolution!

The Embarrassment Reunion

The Charm School Reunion show was last night. Oh my what a train wreck some of these girls really are. There were so many language edits I thought I was watching a Roadrunner cartoon with all the beeps.

I wonder if there is going to be a second season. I really kind of hope not, this was painful to watch. Some of these women were devious, mean spirited, horrible examples of human beings, and out and out classless. Now there were some good and genuine women there too but they were easily out numbered.

Yesterday I helped fix a laptop for a dear friend, did three test paintings, finished mowing the yard, and did my laundry.

That was the most productive day I've had in the past five, that makes for a pretty good few days off!!!!

Live Earth Bust

The hypocritical Algore crowd was at it again yesterday, burning up thousands of gallons of fuel, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles in private jets, powering thousands of lights and amplifiers, and telling YOU how to live your life while not following their own advice.

So why does a rock star (and washed up hypocrite politician) have more knowledge about climate change and have more insight into a problem that IMHO is just a normal cycle of weather patterns than you do?

THEY DON'T!

Have you ever noticed that those who champion socialist programs are only championing that YOU LIVE UNDER those socialist programs while they live they way they choose. That is called elitism. Remember it. Congress if full of elitists.

Keep in mind every single time you hear about you reducing your carbon footprint that means that they get to keep their private jets, massive mansions which cost as much as four houses to heat and cool, and lifestyle of doing as they please because they justify those things by "saving the earth" and working hard for them.

Well I work hard for what I have as well and they have no right to tell me how I should live. I'm all for being able to better yourself and living the way you choose. Keeping what you earn free from an oppressive tax system which favors lobbyists and for a fair tax that makes paying taxes simple and doesn't penalize success.

Name me one socialist dictator who lives in a normal house as a common man. Do you think Fidel Castro got the same health care that his citizens get? NO! Because it wasn't good enough, he brought in a surgeon from Spain when he was at death's door because he can afford it while keeping his population in poverty!!!!

Educate yourself on the issues my friends and always keep in mind that if it is some kind of centralized socialist program that the people advocating it are getting something better for themselves.

What A Night!

It all started a little after 8 p.m. last night as I headed over to a party for a guy who was involved with Gaslight a few years ago. He had returned to visit after his wedding.

So I gathered up some margarita mixtures, a couple of bottles of tequila, a blender, and some ice and went over. I came back home about 3 a.m. and was pretty sober. I had quit drinking about three hours before I left and did a jump into the pool for a few minutes.

Most of the regulars were there that I know and enjoy. It was fun all the way around! There was food, drink, and frivolity!

Now I have to motivate myself to mow.

Cover Of Life Shirts!!!!

There are now Cover of Life shirts on sale here!
And here is one designed with the cast and crew names on the back that is a little cheaper and has free shipping.

Cover of Life is the production I was involved in as stage manager and it so happens that I was in the main picture that promoted the show as well. If you look close you can see me on the left in the picture that the girls are holding. Catina played Sybil who was my wife and also on the left, I drove her to suicide....go figure....but it wasn't MY fault, I wasn't even in the play just the story!

Anyway it is cool that they made a shirt for the show, it was a great show.

This is the only show that got a T made for it for the season. Well there are also other things you can get such as mugs, mousepads, etc.

I could be a day off but the newspaper report came out on the 8th of July but I believe today is the 60th anniversary of the crash at Roswell which pretty much launched the conspiracy theorist, UFO, and most unexplained phenomena cultures.

What really happened? I don't know. There are lots of people who swear they saw something including Public Relations Officer Walter Haut.

He was the man who issued the famous "Flying Disc Captured" news story and then was ordered to issue the infamous weather balloon statement afterwards. He died in December 05 and left a affidavit to be opened some time after his death. It was opened and read a couple of weeks ago and it verified that everything he originally issued was the truth. He swore that he would never tell the truth while he was alive and he never benefited from his knowledge while he could have written several books, appearances, and the like.

He would have been a high profile (in Roswell UFO circles) figure and could have been a minor celebrity. He swore he wouldn't and he didn't but he left his sworn statement.

Now I know that no amount of disclosure information from the military or the government would ever be enough for most UFOnicks. Nothing short of saying they are here and operate every single McDonald's franchise and even then there would be some controversy that would spawn another theory.

So it doesn't surprise me at all that if nothing crashed, nothing happened and the military and government was 100% truthful about it that no one would believe it. So will we ever get the full truth? I guess it just depends on what you want to believe.

Errand Running Day

I've got a few errands to run today, I just have to make myself get out and do them.
I'm not really feeling the urge to get out but I know I have to. Those bills just won't pay themselves.

I know I need some Coke, I'll go into caffeine withdrawl and it'll bring on a headache and I want to avoid that. I'm drinking my last can now so I've got to get out!

It is getting hot out, it is so humid out. It didn't rain last night but it was cool and sprinkled. My cat is trying to find a way to get into my lap but it is so hot right now (yeah I just turned on the AC so it'll take some time to cool down) that I just don't want them both make it hotter.

I've been putting off getting paint and I need to find a place that has all the colors I need. I've just been lazy the past couple of days although I did find the time and dug up the effort to watch a lot of the Twilight Zone marathon yesterday on Scifi.

I wonder if I can muster up the same determination it would take to see the Dead Like Me marathon that is going on today?

Oh well, this is a five day vacation, I don't have to do anything right?

I did watch the last few minutes of the big hot dog eating contest on You Tube. Wow, it made me sick just watching. Wow, the winner ate (I use that word loosely) sixty six hot dogs in twelve minutes.

It was a bit sickening to watch but the winner is from America and won the first championship in six years from Kobayashi. Look it up, it is unreal how much and how fast they can eat.

Happy Birthday America!!!!

The country I dearly love, the greatest country in the history of the world, the beacon of freedom, the only country in the world people will risk their lives braving vast oceans on rickety, makeshift boats to get to.

The chance at a better life, the chance to experience freedom as FDR sums it up in his "Four Freedoms" speech which I'll excerpt here for you:

In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look
forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression
-- everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his
own way -- everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want, which, translated into world
terms, means economic understandings which will secure to
every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants
-- everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into
world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments
to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation
will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression
against any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite
basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and
generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of
the so-called "new order" of tyranny which the dictators
seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
excerpted from the Annual Message to the Congress,
January 6, 1941

Please my friends, remember why we celebrate today.
Please remember those who are in harm's way right now and those who served and suffered to give us one more freedom which is more prevalent today, the freedom not to care.

Its Friday!!!!

In a very real way! I'm off tomorrow for the 4th of July and then Thursday and Friday I'm off and it doesn't cost me any leave! We have this program at work where if you donate to charity a set amount, usually around sixty dollars you get eight hours of leave! So I donated to two charities and got sixteen hours!!!!

How cool is that?!?!?! So now I've got a five day weekend coming up with today being Friday:)
I plan on looking for spray paints and poster board. I went to Wal-Mart over the weekend and amazingly could find only a limited amount of colors in one brand. That is important, take it from someone who has over twenty years in this field, brands usually don't play well with other brands.

So the trick is finding about nine to ten colors in the same brand. Krylon had a lot of off beat colors at Wal-Mart but none of the basic important colors. White, Black, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and then a light color of Blue, and whatever fun colors you can find such as Purple, or brights, and top it off with a can of Clear to lay over the whole thing for protection. And then triple your Black, Red, White, Orange, and Blue because you will be using a lot of those colors.

So that is the plan for my time off:)

Not Your Average White Chick Chained Up By A Black Guy Movie

Black Snake Moan is quite a movie. The premise is simple, a young town slut goes to a party after her boyfriend goes off to the National Guard, gets very wasted on booze and pills, has sex a couple of times, is beaten up, and finally dumped across the street of Lazarus's house. A bluesman who just had his wife of over twenty years leave him after having an affair with his brother.

Well he heals her and since she has a fever and is pretty sick she wonders around his yard only to have Laz track her down, so he does what every normal person would do, chains her up.

This is really a touching movie.
It is about broken people.
It is about love.
It is about how people can be redeemed.
How people heal each other.
How there is good in people despite appearances.

There is a very powerful scene where there is a storm rolling in, Laz breaks out his electric guitar for the first time in years and starts to play for Rae. I couldn't get the volume high enough for this scene. Very cool!

Christina Ricci is very hot now. She really developed and has become a very good actor. Samuel L. Jackson is always stellar and shines in this role. Watch it, you'll like it!

Charm School ended last night as well. Saaphyri won. She gave the most touching speech at the end and sounded like she could use the money the most to buy a house. This one really didn't have any of the drama of the past shows since all of the main troublemakers have been expelled in shows past. It was still good for a show I hate though.

We Won And Lost!

Well we only played one game last night and we beat the always formidable Dodge City by one point, 94-93! However we didn't qualify to be in the championship game.

So today at 2 p.m. Brooklyn will face off against the Kansas Cagerz.
I really have no desire to watch two teams that aren't my team to play.

I'm grilling four hamburgers this morning for brunch as I just got up about forty five minutes ago. I'm now starving!

I'm watching an old slasher movie, The Slumber Party Massacre. One of the better post Friday the 13th era additions to the genre. A seemingly unstoppable killer, a bunch of half naked chicks, and some campy fun.

Blown Out

Well the first game yesterday in the USBL tournament was pretty good. It had some good close moments and was competitive. The second game was a blow out, guess which one we played in?

We trailed by close to thirty with less than two minutes left. It was a bad game all around. Got home around 11:30 and was tired. We play the number one team tonight, that is going to go really well....

It rained all yesterday and the city shut down my intersection due to flooding. Actually my intersection and the one South of me. It is pretty clear now though. We have had so much rain the past couple of weeks my swimming pool is nearly three quarters full after being dry.

The Barry Bonds march....er....hobble towards "history" continues. He hit 750 yesterday. Only five shy of tying and six shy of cheating his way past the most famous baseball record. Bonds just can't help himself. His ego is larger than his steroid grown head and even if his leg falls off this year and his knee explodes he'll do what he has to next season to own the record. Unless his is banned Pete Rose style from baseball forever.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Other than that everything is rolling along really well:) The bright side keeps getting brighter!

Brooklyn Fell To Dodge City

It was a pretty tight game though all the way. In the end Dodge, probably the best team in the league won. It was a very very rainy night too. I didn't stick around for the All Star Challenge. Just didn't feel like it.

It will be quite a while before everything dries out. I don't think the dog has gotten off of the patio in about two days. He doesn't really like getting wet unless it is really hot out. I have an industrial strength bug zapper that is keeping the insect population under control. It stays on full time.

There are two games tonight. The last one probably won't end until around elevenish or later.

USBL Tournament Starts Tonight

There is one game tipping off at 5:30 followed by an All Star Skills Competition!
Two games tomorrow night and two games Saturday night and the championship game Sunday!

A really good place to be if you like basketball!!!!

I was going to go by Wal-Mart yesterday and pick up my art supplies but it was like a hurricane after work so I'll just wait for a dry day. Don't want all of that new poster board to be damp. Wonder what they will think if you go in there and buy twenty cans of spray paint?

I did a little practice at work and it is actually simpler than it looks if you can believe that. I think it really comes down to if you have confidence using spray paint or not. I noticed that there really isn't any way to screw up a painting, mistakes can be covered really easily.

There are some skills that are a little bit more advanced than others but overall this will be a blast to "learn" I think. I use quotations around learn because of what I do for a living anyway. Learning this would be for someone who has never picked up a can of paint before. This is simply about manipulating paint on a surface to make it look original but impressive!

The real skill in this is the speed at which this works of art are accomplished. That is the appeal and why people gather around to watch these artists. They look very complex in a short amount of time. The colors just jump up at you and grab you. They free your imagination since you are placed in an alien setting and start to ponder what it would be like to see that in real life.

This is going to be a blast....well once I get the needed supplies and some weather that will cooperate so I can do this outside. As it is my yard is a very wet and soggy patch of land!!!!

Pan's Labryinth

First of all this is a spectacular movie. Second it is not a kid's movie even though the packaging would lead you to believe that.

It is rated R and has some intense and graphic moments in it.
Pan's is essentially a fairy tale for adults. The mood is gloomy (which really I have a hard time watching right now) the tone is somber, the colors are muted in the blue and gray palette unless by natural or fire light.

I enjoyed it quite a bit even though I really had to struggle to keep it going because as I said as of late I find it difficult to watch sad things or listen to sad songs. Usually I love such things.

Another reason is this, a few years back, like five or six, a couple of friends and I drove to Dallas. She had won tickets to a N'Sync concert I think and she and their son were going to watch it while he and I explored downtown Dallas and got something to eat.

Well there was this street artist there that was just amazing to watch. His medium was spray cans. Now I don't know why but I decided to search You Tube for spray can art last night.

I found lots of these guys!!!! I had no idea it was so big! They have conventions and everything!
Now since anyone who knows me knows what I do for a living and have around twenty years of experience at it I believe I am going to get some supplies and experiment! This looks like so much fun and after watching a few of them I can see the techniques, while they look complex, are actually very simple.


I've done more complex things even in my non-complex job.
I spent a restless nights sleep pondering and thinking about how to do different things and for a more complex work of art.

I'll keep you posted on what I decide to do:)

A Good Day!!!!

Work was fairly busy, made the day short.

We won last night, knocking off Dodge City in the final game of the regular season! I left with about five minutes left in the second quarter and met Catina from the documentary project for drinks! She had aced her examines and got out of the musical rehearsal and we were able to catch up!

I haven't seen her in probably six weeks so it was really nice! We talked for about forty five minutes, we will have a happy ending to the documentary as well!!!!

I made it back to the game with about a minute left to see us actually blowing out Dodge! The season ending tournament starts this Thursday with one game and an All Star competition. That'll be fun!

So overall it was a good day, an exciting day, and a day that is becoming more typical for me! Those days make me look forward to tomorrow to see how much better the next day is going to be!

Started Good, Finished Good

It was a great weekend!

With Friday's get together after work all the way up to a quiet yet mildly productive Sunday! I got groceries and supplies for the next couple of weeks, bills are all paid, plenty of money left over, purchased my post season USBL ticket for the tournament late this week, and tonight is the final Storm game, My Spaced chatted with several friends, and hung out with a few too.

Very good weekend, very good!

Good Meeting

It was good and informative. We are closer to planned rehearsals and our first shooting day.

I'm almost positive that the Storm won last night, we were up by around ten with about five minutes left. I went to the Shakespeare in the park to see a couple of friends and support them.

I caught maybe the last fifteen minutes of the show and sat with the amazingly talented Marshall who also got the lead of Annie.

All in all a productive day:)

Costume Department Meeting

Just a normal meeting to see how the costumes are coming along over lunch today.

Since I took off early yesterday I mowed the rest of the yard, hooked up the satellite radio I bought to replace the one I gave my dad for Father's Day, hung out with friends after they got off work, and made a surprise visit on a friend who is having a rough time.

All in all a good day:)

I just say a Pillsbury commercial for cookie dough, the kind in the tube. Man I love that stuff! I think I'm craving some now.

True Beauty

I have faith that there is genuine beauty in the world. Not only from an unlikely source but beauty that has reduced me to a mushy weepy mess.

Now anyone who knows me knows that I tend to cry at movies that really get me emotional. I can't help it, just the way I am. Sometimes books and stories, songs, but mostly visual things like movies and TV shows.

This man has absolutely refreshed if not redefined my perspective of beauty. A quiet, humble, very shy man who shakes up everyone's idea of what beauty really is. I know that deep down inside that I have nothing, not even a tiny fraction of this beauty in me. Perhaps that is why I weep in its presence and am easily touched by it.

If this doesn't touch you, I really feel pity for you since few things probably will.

This is a mountain sunrise.
A tropical sunset.
A beautiful Summer thunderstorm.
This is watching a blazing comet in the sky.
This is a newborn.
This is human and beauty incarnate.
It is love and compassion, kindness and generosity.

Well

I believe we lost last night. We were down by 11 with about a minute left. Dodge is good and we just can't seem to beat them.

It's Payday Friday and I really should be calling into work this morning, I've got a lot to do today and work just really shouldn't factor in to it but I'm dressed and ready to go anyway. I plan on taking off half a day, we'll see how it goes.

I make enough leave now I can take off a full day every two weeks and gain leave. How cool is that?

There is a get together after work to celebrate the week being over with. It is nice and cool outside right now, feels good, I have a cat wanting to get into my lap where the keyboard is, she looks jealous.

I've got some great friends, (Beersnob, Chianti, Weezy, and two dozen more) I've got a good house, steady work that allows me to pursue my passion, I've got it made!

Reminds me of a John Anderson song from several years back called "I've Got It Made".
It's about the simple pleasures of life:)

Supper At The Pub

I had supper last night at one of my favorite places last night. It's a day until payday and I've been meaning to get out and treat myself anyway.

There was this girl there who was playing the guitar and singing. The bartender, Naomi said she was from LA and just traveled around and played guitar and sang. She was very attractive and talented and worked only for tips and to sell her CDs.

I saw someone who was living their dream. I tried to play guitar when I was a teen and even took a college course in it but just didn't have the talent required. I told Chianti last night I had visions of being like Stevie Ray Vaughn but on a big island and playing the places for tips.

I wish now I would have at least gotten her name so I could have ordered her CD later on. I didn't have any cash on me after I tipped her.

Traveling around the country, going where you wish, doing something you love (and good at), how cool is that?!?!?!

What A Good Evening

It was quite a thunderstorm last night. Those are the best nights to sleep.

I don't think I woke up once, I also don't remember dreaming. I mowed my back yard before the storm hit so that was out of the way, I still have the front part to go but it was pretty low anyway so it is alright and will be easy.

We don't have a Storm game until tomorrow night.

Just not very much to write about this morning but it is going to be a good day:)

I've Heard That

The best gift you can give someone is to hold an image of them in your mind of them at the pinnacle of where they want to be. No matter how good or bad they are feeling right now if see beyond what is happening now then you can help them get there later.

So I'll hold these images of my Drinkbuster friends for them:)

Beersnob: I see a grand image of him working normal hours! He doesn't really like the oddball schedule he works now but I hold this visual image of him at scifi conventions with the fanfilm and reveling in all of the attention it produces and all of the opportunities to follow!

Chianti: I see her on a beach, very tropical and lush, perhaps her own island even! No worries or concerns to damage her amazing spirit and personality!

Weezy: Nothing less than on stage accepting an Emmy or an Oscar! More roles to act in than she could possibly believe!

They are all happy and content!

This does not exclude all of my other friends which I also have images of (you guys up North) and haphazard friends who aren't as close but I wish you well and super success as well!

Screech Goes Out An Idiot

He started the Celebrity Fit Club with a horrible attitude and it just got worse until last night when he lashed out against Cledus T. Judd and Da Brat in personal attacks.

He is an idiot and probably one of the most miserable people formerly on TV. He is lonely and seems to want to make people mad instead of making friends. Not just mad but mad for no reason at all other than to cause drama!

Why would you wanna be like that? He is going to die alone and unloved but I still bet that VH1 will find a way to make a reality show out of him and his antics since people just want to love to hate this guy. Dustin Diamond is still a miserable individual.

Ice Road Truckers....wow what a great show that is! This is a History Channel show about the road built on lakes between Yellow Knife and the diamond mines about three hundred miles north in Canada's Northwest Territories. It is a take off of Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel.

The lakes are usually frozen solid and sixty days is the window to get ten thousand loads of
supplies to the mines before it starts to heat up again. Talk about harrowing, when you are driving on the frozen lake road the ice cracks in front of you, there is the danger of winds which cause a white out and you can't see....at night!

The trucker is really the last cowboy and these guys are elite among truckers. They create a backstory for the truckers they ride with which consists of veterans and rookies who have never driven over the ice before while they keep track of how many loads have been hauled on a scoreboard.

Anyone who knows me knows my dad was a trucker when I was growing up until I was a teen. I grew up around trucks and truck stops. There will always be a special place for me for truckers. I have my taste for obscure country music (Red Sovine, Tom T Hall, Johnny Cash, Dave Dudley, well you get the picture) because of it and a love for the open road.

This is a great show that captures that freewheeling daredevil spirit, especially when the lake you are driving on is over two hundred and fifty feet deep.

My Favorite Has Been

Gary Coleman is on a new commercial!

I love this guy! He is a great example of someone who doesn't understand the opportunities that he actually has available. He had it all, arguably the highest paid child star of his day now a struggling individual who leaps at any job opportunity.

There should be no has been actor out there. They have worked with good to great directors, they know the process, have contacts, they know the ropes. Why in the world can't they pick up a camera, start writing, cast themselves if they must, but get to working on their OWN PROJECTS instead of waiting to be hired!!!!

There is no reason in the world they should be just hoping someone auditions them, take the initiative and get the ball rolling on their own. The Corey's, Gary Coleman, Emmanuel Lewis, and pretty much everyone who has been on the Surreal Life who was an actor. There is no reason to be just getting by.

No reason at all to be unemployed. No reason to be a has been. No reason to be a punchline anymore.

A Good Game

But we lost in overtime last night against our biggest rivals, Dodge City.
It was a close game all the way through when we were behind by two towards the end of regulation, we hit a field goal to tie. Dodge had a last second shot that missed and into OT we went.

They quickly put six points on us and we couldn't pull close. Tonight we play the Cagerz which is always a good game as well!

So most of the day, like most days this week, it was pouring rain. I believe that my door buzzer in my suburban had decided to freeze and keep on buzzing.....even after the door was shut and the engine started. So I have to hit the ATM before tipoff for snack and drink money and the buzzer hasn't stopped as I had hoped.

I park, turn off the engine....and the buzzer is still buzzing, even without the key in the ignition now! I get down by the fuse box and start looking for the right fuse to pull but it is really wet and I just decide to go to the game and think about the solution.

So about half time a co-worker who was on vacation all week comes and sits by me to catch up on everything that happened while he was gone. I tell him about my buzzer and he suggests the fuse pulling thing and I tell him I thought of that but couldn't find the right fuse. So he ponders it for a second and at half time we go out there.

He examines the plunge trigger at the door jamb and says if we pull that and unhook it then the buzzer will stop. I break out the tools and quickly dismantle the trigger, I snip the wires and then....peace and quiet!!!! The dreaded buzzer has stopped!!!!

Life is good!!!!

I Won!!!!

Two sets of tools. Each set consists of a pair of side cutters, water pump pliers, and two screwdrivers. How did I win such a magnificent prize?

Well Colin Cowherd was talking about the terrible ratings of the NBA on TV and what needs to happen to make the game more exciting and thus bring up the ratings. His idea was installing trap doors.

So I emailed The Herd and suggested banning shoes, only socks on a well waxed floor were allowed.

That was in the morning and then later that afternoon I got an email from the show and it said, "Congrats, you have won pliers. What is your address?"

Yesterday I got two sets from Channel Lock no less!!!!

How cool is that?!?!?!

Ok, now the rehearsal episode that Beersnob and I edited last night is now up on You Tube. You can check it out here!

Have a great day my friends!

Gratitude

Have you ever just gotten up out of bed and thought, "I'm so thankful I have a bed to get out of, a house over my head, food to eat, and electricity and water to light my way and drink."

It is a good practice since there are so many people and places that have much less than we do as a relative whole country and people. I am grateful for a lot, believe me I really am. Anyone who knows me from years ago knows that I deserve much less than I have based on my actions as a teen.

I have some incredible friends now who I am also fortunate enough that they also share a love of acting, while I'm not an actor it is a great fit since I love the behind the scenes parts. They want to act and I want to make them look great on film. It also helps that they are really good while I've got a modicum of skills at the moment I hope to show them at their best and be able to match the high level of their acting abilities.

I'm grateful for my house and while I'm not very good at home repair and there are some things I need to give some attention to, it is a great house!

I'm grateful for my job even though it is less than challenging there are some good people I work around and it pays plenty so I can pursue my passion of film!

I have been reflecting on something I'm grateful for every morning, it is great for putting things into perspective. It feels good too:)

We Won!

And we will play the same team again tonight. The third home game in a row with the same team in fact.

Then Friday night we play either Dodge City or Salina and then the team we didn't play on Saturday night. The post season tournament has been moved from the fairground arena to where we normally play which is great! Everyone likes that arena better anyway!

It rained a little last night but not much. I needed to mow but I didn't:)

The Spurs are one game away from sweeping the Cavs out of the championship. If the Cavs had at least one game in them to win it was the first home game and they lost. If you are a LeBron fan though don't worry, King James will bring probably six championships to the city. He just needs a Scotti Pippen and he doesn't have one yet.

Since finding Ten Yard Torrents, the old NFL game site where you can download games, I remembered I had two full championship runs of the Bulls in my closet on VHS. Their last two entire playoff runs in fact.

I put one in the VCR and played it and it looked pristine for VHS in fact! I'm going to have to get a VHS to DVD player and transfer them all to DVD and make torrents out of them, that might be a good Summer project! It would have been a great Winter project but I just didn't remember them soon enough.

Another Small Rehearsal Last Night

Between Adama and Orin. Beersnob is working late this week so he could not attend but I was there with camera to capture some excellent footage. They are so happy to start rehearsals and we plan on rehearsing every cast member while the costumes are being made.

Beersnob and I are going to edit that for You Tube soon, I don't want to let anything out spoiler wise and he knows what is and isn't safe to let out so this will be a great opportunity for him to use the software and speed up the learning curve while I get to be more familiar with what is safe to tell the audience at this early stage.

The cast will be very comfortable with their characters by the time we are ready to shoot. Preparation is key and we will be very prepared.

There is a Storm game tonight, tomorrow night, Friday and Saturday night this week!!!!
Wooohooooo!!!!

It is going to be a great week my friends!!!!

The Sopranos Finale!

This episode was definitely a mixture of elements from previous episodes.

Yeah the old Avante-gard vs. Traditional storytelling debate, well both appeared in this episode like they have in the whole series. Good episodes peppered among bad episodes.

I'm glad it is over though. I can see how this ending for most was like ordering the six foot tall monster from the back of a comic book that was just too amazing to believe and then after 6-8 weeks of going to the mailbox daily it finally arrives to absolutely destroy your day.

But Sopranos fans who loved the ending will say that it wasn't about the arrival of the package but it was all about the imagining how great it was going to be once you got the six foot tall ghost and could ride its back around the room, fight your fights with it, and basically do as you please!

All in all it is a show and David Chase's ending, good or bad, got people talking about it and I'm sure that was the goal.

Long live better TV shows!!!!

After Innonence

I watched this incredible documentary yesterday about people who are convicted for a crime they didn't commit and were then later released and proven innocent by DNA evidence. This doc was about what happens to these people afterwards.

Many states don't have anything to offer them BUT if they were paroled then they would qualify for lots of benefits. So essentially they get ten to twenty years taken out of their lives for a crime they didn't commit and then are turned loose with no way to help themselves.

A lot of states don't even expunge their records.

The amazing part of this is that they nearly instantly forgave the people who put them there and were just happy to get out and start the life they were robbed of. Want to talk about a powerful moment.

How would you react if you were robbed of the prime years of your life, caged, and no one believed you were innocent?

"I'm Not The Whore Of Charm School!!!!"

She said that right before flashing her nipples on Charm School....(shaking my head)

This is someone who just doesn't get it. Brooke just wasted on the last charm school challenge, threw herself at nearly every male on the show except the good guy, and got expelled.

Man I love this trashy show!

Meanwhile Screech couldn't handle riding a bmx bike, quit one half of a lap in his second heat after complaining nonstop, and caused his typical amount of drama.

I know I rail against Barry Bonds but at least even HE has made some accomplishments that turn heads and he is a miserable human being but will be remembered. Screech will be relegated to the ash heap of human debris.

The Spurs are dominating the Cavs. I feel a bit of a link to the Cavs since Ira Newble plays on that team. He used to play for the Storm and we hung out at JT Grizzley's after a game one night. He was very polite and cool to hang with for a couple of hours.

Sunday Morning

I didn't get out much yesterday. Got some groceries and a hair cut. We had a two person rehearsal for the fanfilm and scheduled one more Monday night.

We will film that one and Beersnob and I will edit it together. This will have a dual purpose in that I don't want to let spoilers out and as such I'm too careful when I edit and we'll get Beersnob up to speed on how to use his newly purchased Adobe editing suite.

It rained last night and there is a storm coming in now after looking at the radar.

It is going to be a pretty good week! Just feel pretty good about it:)

The Paris Saga

Well Paris Hilton, the poster child for stupidity and genuine clueless living, was in jail and out and then just yesterday BACK in jail again!

She was reportedly hysterical when she was ordered back into jail after the sheriff put her on home arrest less than three days after she was incarcerated. I believe the judge ordered she serve her full sentence.

I'm no fan of Paris Hilton at all and I feel America is collectively better off with Paris behind bars. I keep hoping that evolution will take over somehow and thin that part of the herd. So now lets see what we can do about getting Barry Bonds banned from baseball in Pete Rose fashion!!!!

Good will overcome, things are looking up!

Woooohooooo!!!!

It is payday Friday!!!!

I had some very cool dreams last night as well!!!! It is a shame that I have forgotten them already but I can tell you that I woke up feeling great and in a great mood!!!! Those are dreams that you love to have:)

We also won last night! Knocking off the Gary Steelheads, who are a top team in the league this year. We play them again Tuesday night!

Wow, I'm actually pretty giddy for some reason, it is hard to concentrate enough to write this! Must have been some great dreams!!!!

Weird huh?

The Storm Open Again Tonight!!!!

After a two week road trip they are back home again!!!!

They didn't fare too well, I believe they dropped nearly every game to the East Coast teams except for two games they won by forfeit. Anyway I'm all excited to get back to the arena and enjoy one of my favorite activities here in town.

Go Storm!!!!

Ok So There I Was

About ready to go to lunch today. I start my truck and then the key ignition locks up! I can't turn the key backwards to turn it off!!!!

So I go ahead and go to lunch and ponder my options as I run to the border.....it was close to O'Reilly's where I knew I was probably going to have to go to find the solution I had in mind. So I buy a new ignition and head back to work to try to work on solving my second problem.

How do I get a diesel engine to stop and then how do I get it started again?!?!?!

Diesels work on compression so the only way to stop them is to stop the fuel flow so I had to find the fuel pump solenoid and disconnect the wire but then how do I start it again with a locked up key that won't turn?

So I call the auto hobby shop where I work and they believe that by finding the ignition wire and jumping it from the battery it will fire up! So I take off work and head over there, get the engine stopped by disconnecting the right wire and then set about changing out the ignition.

It is a sizable process, not really labor intensive but there are a couple of tricky places that take some skill and patience. The lock ring for instance that holds everything underneath the steering wheel together. You have to use a tool to compress it down and try to get the lock ring off and even with snap ring pliers it is a tough job for such a tiny part.

So I finally get it off, find the set screw that holds in the ignition and remove it, remove the ignition itself, and put the new one in place. It took about an hour to get it apart and I kid you not, I had it back together in less than five minutes!!!! It goes back together much easier and no, I didn't have any spare parts.

So now it starts and more importantly it stops!!!!

Star Wars Logic

I'm reading a book right now about Lucas's actual logic used in Star Wars. The story going on between the frames and what it implies if you follow it to its logical conclusion.

Alright you have Darth Vader, bad guy responsible for the deaths of literally billions of people in the galaxy. A lot of them on Alderaan alone when Tarkin and he blew it up. Then Vader of course kills the Emperor while saving his son and dies a good guy and then there is a huge Ewokian celebration!

So lets find a comparable person here on Earth and probably the most popular bad guy for showing how evil the human race can be is Hitler. Responsible for the deaths of millions and then committed suicide in his bunker. So let's alter history just a little bit and throw in this bit to see how George Lucas's logic would play out today.

Say the Allies capture Hitler and put him on trial at Nuremberg. The prosecution reads the rather long list of war crimes when the defense jumps up and says, "But he saved his own son and killed Himmler!"

Do you think that Hitler would be getting an Ewok parade down the streets of Berlin???? Redemption is a fine and upstanding motivation for a story but isn't that a stretch?

Another of the tragic logic flaws is the moral quandary that if you could go back in time to find Hitler as a young and innocent boy would you kill him? I think you would after rationalizing that you would eventually be saving millions of lives but you probably wouldn't like it much.

Now to Lucas Logic 101, we are pretty much hammered over the head with how brave, cute, and special Anakin Skywalker is only to later learn he becomes the scourge of the galaxy. So if Qui Gon Jin (one of my favorite characters in the whole saga) could detect that The Force was not in balance somehow, which also really didn't make sense, then couldn't Qui Gon maybe have used his midichlorians to pinpoint that Anakin might someday turn into the most evil person alive????

And how powerful are these midichorians anyway? You are asked to believe that you can lift an X-Wing fighter out of a swamp but you can't even detect that your OWN DAUGHTER WHO YOU ARE INTERROGATING WITH TRUTH SERUM doesn't have The Force and YET you know she is on a "diplomatic mission" with the stolen plans for The Death Star.

I'm just asking for a little bit of continuity and logic. Anyway yeah this is one of my top ten films of all time STILL after being asked to jump over logic gaps the size of the Millennium Falcon.

A Good Day!!!!

First of all my dad came by and helped me fix my electrical problem. Turns out there was a burned up wire between the meter and the breaker box. I know nothing about electricity but I can paint anything that moves and film it at the same time, edit it all down, add title cards, and hopefully help you to laugh!

So now the power is on where it should be which is nice! I gave him a Sirius radio for Father's Day. He travels a lot and has stone age FM to listen to.

Next up I'm going to meet Sass for a final drink before she moves to Mexico in a couple of days. Since she has been a wonderful drinking partner lately I'm going to miss her company.

Everything is going very well:) Remember the documentary project? Well it looks like we are going to have our happy ending that I've been waiting on to complete the project!!!!

I'll keep you informed:)

Desktop Tower Defense!!!!

If you want to kill some time on a great fun game try this one!

It is pretty addictive and a blast to play. It will take a minute or two to understand what is going on but you will quickly get the hang of it!

Once you understand what is going on (it took me a bit longer since I didn't read the instructions) you can start with the strategies! Then it becomes even funner! My high score is over five thousand with twenty lives! Beat that!

I read an article on the creator of this game and he is bringing home around six figures just off of advertising on this game. What a great idea!!!! Make a creative, fun game and sell advertising on your site, retire!

How cool is that?!?!?!

Rollin' In Around 3 A,M,

Yep, went to a b-day party last night that really started around midnight. Beersnob and Chianti were there and guess what?!?!?!

Weezy is coming back for a visit early next month!!!! Chianti thought it would be a good idea to do a Drinkbusters when she is here!!!! Woohoooooo!!!!!!!!!

I really can't tell you how excited I was to hear that news!!!! Thrilled really doesn't sum it up for me!!!! So anyway there I was, drinking a vanilla coke last night, my friends all around me and I was thinking, "This is pretty cool! I'm happy I have all these cool friends, cool projects to work on, I can see some great times ahead!"

Projects were talked about and kicked around. It was a good time!

Let's see, I saw a show that reset the coolness factor for a show. Afro Samurai! That show was just beautiful to watch. The animation was top notch and the voice talent, WOW! Samuel L. Jackson and Ron Perlman! The fight scenes were great, the characterizations were amazing, the soundtrack was alright, there was a considerable amount of violence but it was done in the Kill Bill style and kind of cartoony and not gory.

The show is just cool though. It is a cool experience, watch it when or if you can!

So far it has been a great weekend!!!!

Weird House Problem

So I get home yesterday only to find that part of the power was off in the house. The power had been off the night before because of the storm so I figured no big deal. Probably had a power surge and it flipped a couple of the breakers.

So I go to the breaker box only to find that they were all ok. HHHHhmmmmmmmm, now I had a problem. Well not that big of a problem because the fridge was ok, not that would have been a problem!

Nope, so I get on the phone and call the power company. They had been out all day and part of the night fixing such problems. They pull the meter and turns out one of the wires was pretty burned up. Now tomorrow I am going to replace the bad wire and restore power to the entire house.

No big deal, just a few screws and voila! Done!

Firday!!!!

Woohooooo!!!!

It rained again last night, this is an insane amount of rain we are getting!!!! I can't remember a time when we got this much, it had to be about fifteen years ago to my best recollection!

Anyway, hope you all are going to have a great day!!!!

I'd post a real post right now but I'm running a bit late this morning. I seem to have a breaker going bad in my fuse box. The power is intermittent on some of the outlets in the house and stable at others, freaky....

Wallow For Health

There are usually two types of people in the world, different people break them down into different categories, for example I recently had a friend tell me that there were cell phone people and Ipod people. The cell phone people crave being connected all the time while the Ipod people were more solitary.

Tarantino via Pulp Fiction said there were Elvis people and Beatles people, a friend at work said there were people who wanted to have sex with Pam Anderson and those that lied about wanting to have sex with Pammy.

Well I guess my two types are those who love misery and those that love happiness. Now here is the weird part, EVERYONE wants to be happy! It is just that those who love misery are happy when they are unhappy, they kind of have their directions backwards.

They aren't sure how to be happy, maybe because no one has told them or taught them what happiness is and how to do it? Those who love happiness will wallow in a tough time but it is always temporary and short lived and then they are better for it. They see it as a natural part of the healing process and will soon look to get back up again and carry on, better than ever.

Those that love misery are happy as well but they are only comfortable with feelings that tend to hurt them. They will self destruct their jobs, relationships, finances, whatever it is that they can mess up to get those feelings of unhappiness back, that is what they do to feel misery or in their world happiness.

They don't realize that it is a cycle and that their definitions are messed up but somehow they manage it every time. Ever see someone go through many girlfriends and still not be happy even though they had some really nice, kind and sweet ones? And yet they manage to drive them all away.

So cheer up, if you are a happiness lover or a misery lover, well you are still happy, right?

Second Draft

Here is the link to the second version of the cast read through up on You Tube.

There are a couple of minor edits to help it along and smooth it a bit but overall the same version.

Cast Read Through Day

I edited and posted a video of the script read through for the full cast last night. It is funny:)
I'm going to trim a couple of places and see what I can add in but for now here is the link to see it, I hope you enjoy it right now:) We had a LOT of fun that day and I hope the video shows that feeling!

The link will probably change soon when I do a couple of additions and subtractions but I'll repost the link then as well:)

It is pouring rain out! I mowed most of my lawn last night, the big part but I didn't mow around the pool in the back yet. I don't know if I'm going to get to tonight or not, we'll see!

Have a great day my friends!!!!

That Was A Good Weekend!

Four whole days to do whatever I wished. Four whole days to not really mow my yard, that was nice:)

Yeppers, everything is good and getting better! I got groceries yesterday, picked up the Fanfilm read through tape and plan on editing it this week and posting it on You Tube. I posted another episode by the way as well.

It would be great if anyone who watched it would follow the advice:) I honestly think you can make a difference to someone by doing so. It might not be big but it could be big enough, especially if they do the same. So go ahead, change the world, you deserve to feel good too!!!!

Memorial Day

Keep in mind that today is Memorial Day.

Today we honor the heroes who have died protecting our freedoms that we take for granted.

Today we honor the men and women who have fallen in defense of this country.
This country, America, is the beacon of hope and freedom for the entire world. The one standard that others world wide, look to who crave freedom from oppressive governments.

Our country is the greatest country in the history of the world because people are willing to sacrifice their all to defend it and what it represents.

Every country has its heroes but our heroes are the only ones who will die to buy the freedom of another country and its people.

A Great Race Day

Yesterday I went to a Memorial Day cookout/pool party. Had a great time with a lot of my Gaslight friends! Lots of just hanging out and talking while enjoying the fine weather!

Went to Beersnob's house afterwards to watch Episode III and IV of Star Wars (I and II were last night) and then came home. It has been a great weekend so far but today, if you are a racing fan, is one of the best days of the season.

You get the Indy 500 (alright but not great) and then you get the longest race of the NASCAR year, the Coca Cola 600!!!! Now that race is one of the best, it is on a fast track in Charlotte and is a marathon race in length. The 600 is the longest race of the year. A race of attrition where the fastest car doesn't always win. It is usually the engine that holds together for 600 miles.

So you have forty three cars hitting around one hundred eighty miles per hour on the same track for six hundred miles. It is a marathon race as I said but it is also one of the more exciting races since there will be many lead changes and lots of tight, close racing. One car just won't dominate this race. There will be lots of engine failures, especially during that last one hundred miles where races just don't go.

That last hundred miles is probably the equivalent of NFL over time. Very exciting, very intense!

You would be doing yourself a favor if you have even a tiny interest in racing at all to watch this race. You'll be happy you did!

Rosie Is Gone

The rotund and volatile Rosie is now gone for the time being from day time TV.

Her contract was up in a few weeks I believe but after a fight with one of her co-hosts she was let go early. Rosie caused nothing but trouble on the show and was a massive headache for Barbara Walters.

Since she was hired Rosie has accused our soldiers of being terrorists, said 9-11 was an inside job orchestrated by the government and has real problems with playing nice with others. She might have self esteem problems, she might have some serious mental health issues, I don't know but I do know she is gone.

Rosie is mean spirited, abrasive, arrogant, and seems to live to cause problems. In fact here is a link that documents many stories of her controversial exploits on The View. She gets ratings though. I'll give her that for sure.

Rosie O'Donnell will wind up with a new show. She will get some big dollars to do it and she will be as controversial as ever. She will say something bombastic, loony, and offensive. She will probably get suspended, maybe fired but she will be a headache for years to come.

Enjoy this brief respite from the insanity that is Rosie. It probably won't last long.

May 25, 1977

The day that changed the world and innovated, if not created a massive industry.

Star Wars was released to theaters and everything changed. Yeah perhaps Jaws was the first summer blockbuster but Star Wars took that success and built upon it, no not built upon it, put it on top of a rocket and launched it into a level so high that it might not ever be seen again.

There have been movies and franchises that have come close. If you look at what three movies did all by themselves, soundtrack sales, inventing a toy industry, books, shirts, posters, spinoffs, and all of the intangible things such as dreams, kids wanting to fly a X-Wing or have a lightsaber, have a Wookie as a new best friend. The list goes on.

Fast forward to today when you can put some money into a PC, camera, software, and a few friends and you can make your own Star Wars fanfilm. You can literally fight with a lightsaber now, you can fly an X-Wing, and you can have a Wookie as a best friend.

Look at how good Lord of the Rings and The Matrix did at the box office, do you see the playsets, marketing tie ins, Lord of the Rings glasses at McDonald's on the scale that you did with Star Wars? Take Spiderman for instance, do you see anything resembling that kind of exposure? No, despite the massive amounts of money that franchise has pulled in it hasn't reached the level of fan intensity that Star Wars has.

George Lucas captured lightning on 35mm and changed the landscape of films forever. Yes episode I,II,and III were weak compared to IV, V, and VI. There were many inconsistencies, almost as if they forgot which movies came first and what happened in them, it is frustrating but I guess that GL could do as he wished since he created the movies even to the dismay of the fans.
Star Wars was the innovator, the Galaxy far far away where you wanted to live and join The Rebellion and oppose the Dark Side.

Thirty years ago pop culture changed forever and opened its own Star Wars wing in America's history.

May The Force Be With You!

A Four Day Weekend!!!!

Yes it is a four day weekend! Those are always good!

Last night I went out with Sass for a couple of drinks at Callahan's and then went to another place to watch karaoke. Sass's brother showed up as well and has a script for me to read over and see about filming it.

There was an internet outage since last night and it just came back up. I just warmed up some left over lasagna for breakfast and have made out the monthly bills. It is a nice day out and I still have many errands to run today.

I am thinking about going to see Pirates 3 today. That looks amazing! I can't wait for this one, I am hoping that it won't be another Spiderman 3 disappointment. I don't think it will be, the last two have been incredible!

Its going to be a good weekend!

You Tube Project!!!!

The time has finally arrived to put the You Tube project on my blog. I've come up with a satisfying conclusion (maybe) and that was the point I had in my mind when I wanted to release it to my friends and long time readers.

I have to remind you, especially those of you who know me well, this is fiction. This is a character I invented and since I couldn't find an actor to play the part as often as I wished, I had to do it myself. I wish I had the skill and ease of being on camera that Beersnob, Chianti, and Weezy had but I simply don't and I'm not very photogenic.

I also have to remind you I'm not an actor and frequently found myself stumbling over lines and that is just the stuff that made it to You Tube, you should see all the times I turned the camera off and started over!!!!

There is also a new direction that can be explored with this character now and that is where the hope lies with this story.

So without further delay I now give you the link

I hope you find a modicum of enjoyment in this project!!!!

Fun With Squidbilly Words

Take a common word such as Drink and add ification, ify, or ulate to it and all of a sudden you are the life of the party! This works for a great many words for comic effect such as Caffeine as well if you aren't a drinker. Use your imagination and have fun with it!!!!

I've watched too many Squidbillies episodes lately. I have them on my Ipod and it is a show about some backwoods hillbilly squids on Adult Swim. Hilarious if you enjoy stereotype humor!!!! Yes it can be offensive as well so watch at your own risk.

Early Cuyler is the main squid and essentially fights, gets drunk, gets arrested, and is the life of the show. Rusty is his illegitimate son who usually takes the brunt of Early's abuse, Granny and Lil' round out the cast.

Think the Anti-Beverly Hillbillies.

The Ipod experiment has been a resounding success, my days at work have seemingly flown by. It is just a blast to have around you to provide a much needed escape from the tedious nature of my job. I've got just over three thousand audio files and just over two hundred video files and I still have around twenty gigs free!!!!

I love technology!!!!

Bizarre Dreams

Again I've had some weird dreams. The other night I had a dream about my very first friend. We lived next to each other and she was really cool, a tomboy and about a year older. It was 75-76, around in that time.

I lived there until about 81 before moving here.

Anyway I don't remember what I was dreaming about other than it was about her. It woke me up though at 2:30 in the morning. So last night I did a couple of searches and couldn't find out anything about her, a couple more searches and that yielded her phone number. So I called and she hadn't made it home from work yet but I talked to her mom and she remembered me and we chatted for a few minutes.

It was really nice and I left my phone number for her to call me back sometime.
It just felt like I should call after such a dream.

Weird huh?

Sass and I made plans to meet for a drink after work. Time is precious now that she is moving away soon. Another drinking partner bites the proverbial dust.

Screech Is An Idiot

He has nothing but excuses and just wants to be a pain for who knows what reason. He gained five pounds while everyone else met or exceeded their target weights.

Then he threatened the little host guy and then the drill sergeant guy jumps up to defend the little guy which is admirable. Then Screech gets all super defensive and everyone else leaves as they just want nothing to do with the drama.

I can't see this guy being that same kind of guy when the camera is off. There is just no one out there that can argue with you if you told him the Sun comes up in the East every morning. He would argue with you about it with logic and reason all the while knowing better.

He is an idiot. I am hoping someone just goes off on him and gives him a beat down. I'd pay to give him a beat down! Pay a buck and get to take a punch at Screech, yeah I'd do that! He'll probably parlay this into a VH1 show after Celebrity Fit Club is over with.

The Charm School girls, oh man....I don't understand how some of these people are capable of getting out of bed in the mornings without getting lost!!!!

Some of these women are evil, really evil. They are so clueless and self absorbed. I really, honestly don't understand, they have no regard for anyone or anything around them. They are just in this little Paris Hilton bubble that has the world revolving around them and them alone.

Yes I understand it is a competition and that this is the kind of material that has the producers doing the happy dance but come on, is this the best you could find or just the best example of self absorbed people with unstable personalities?

How Do You LIke Your Steak?

I'm watching one of my favorite channels, The Food Network and they are having a steak cooking challenge.

They are grilling black angus rib eye steaks. I have heard them repeatedly say, "Never overcook your steak", whatever.....

Anyone who knows me and has heard me order a steak before knows I'll tell the waiter or waitress to burn my steak. I like a well done steak. No I LOVE a well done steak. I like the charring. I like the flavor. To me that is what a steak should be. It is what tastes good but I'm probably in the minority.

Not medium well, not rare, not anything in between. Well done is the best tasting grilled steak you can get IHMO.

I can cook them anyway though. I can cook a steak to order and I don't mind saying I'm good at it. Love grilling and this is the grilling season!!!!

I'm probably going to have to get a new grill this season. I've been using the small portable grills but the ones I usually buy last about one season before they burn out. So I'm looking at the Weber Q grill series for something that will last much longer and has a bigger cooking area.

So have a steak cooked the way you want next time you order one, don't let other people influence your decision, they aren't you and only you know how you like your steak!

Guess What?!?!?!

I'm watching at this very moment THE Monday Night Football game from 1985 between the legendary 85 Bears and the Dolphins!!!!
Everyone knows the story of how the undefeated Bears on a balmy Monday night, went into Miami looking for an easy roll over victory, ran into a very determined Marino's Dolphin team that was intent on ruining the perfect season.

Frank Gifford, Joe Namath, and OJ Simpson host this game. It makes for some interesting commentary in the booth. Namath seems sober, Simpson is the Simpson of old, the premurdering Simpson, the happy go lucky affable guy. Gifford is always the class act.

This is a great game. Marino is at the top of his game even though he has 19 TDs vs. 17 INTs, he lead the NFL with over 3,500 yards. It is great to see the Payton Suhey combo on the Bears side just run wild and to see the famous Bears defense take on the powerhouse Miami offense!!!!

Can you say Football Heaven?!?!?! I can!!!!

I'm caffeinicating myself right now, want to wake up. Not much on the agenda today, I have to do laundry, have to get some food in a bit since I'm out here at home except for some ice cream. While I'm not opposed to ice cream for breakfast, I am craving something a bit more salty like bacon and eggs.

Enjoy your day my friends!!!!

A Good Meeting!!!!

It was very constructive as we talked over character development, background story, and technical matters.

Everyone was really into it and asked some great questions! Arrangements were made between actors who have key scenes with each other to get together and develop their scenes more fully between themselves. To explore their character's chemistry against the background of the story and the context of what is transpiring between them.

Preparation and the willingness on the actor's part to go the extra mile during the preproduction stage is going to show on screen. A better cast could not be asked for as everyone is professional and delivers more than asked or required. They want to be prepared and want rehearsal time to better do their jobs.

They are the best and this project is genuinely fortunate to have them all aboard.

My Name Is Earl Season Two

I just watched the second season of this wonderful show.

For you long time readers you will probably recall my review of the first season. I enjoy this show immensely. It is hilarious and I frequently found myself laughing out loud at parts. The brilliant writing, inspired message, and excellent acting form the perfect storm of comedy. (how is that for reference humor?)

Even more than that there is a overall positive message that people can change for the good. That they can make up for the bad with good. The bad part though is that I watched it so fast that now I have a long wait until the show starts back up again and go through its full run so I can watch it!!!!

Great show, give it a shot!

Yeah I know my reviews are lacking, I am just very aware of spoilers as I've stated many times and as such I'd rather give not enough information than too much adn take away the pleasure of a show.

This week at work was surprisingly busy. The Ipod experiment is working beautifully! I am able to pass the time very quickly and boredom is a mere memory!

Today at noon as I mentioned previously there is a cast meeting. I'll report back later and let you all in on the details!

A Fun Time!!!!

As it always is when you get to hang out with a friend over a drink:)

It is always fun and enjoyable!!!! I have a bit of a hangover this morning though but it'll be gone in a bit. I just didn't drink enough water after getting home. No headache just a bit drained.

Its Friday! Tomorrow we have a cast meeting at a local coffee shop for the main cast members! I'm excited about that!!!!

So now I just have to say WOOOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Its FRIDAY!!!!

Have a great weekend my friends!!!!

Drinks With Sass Tonight!!!!

Yes my friends tonight our pub has a live band consisting of two guys and the energy is really fun and exciting!

Sass and I are going to meet around 7ish and I'm trying to get another friend to join us but I don't think she will. She is stuck in a rut like I used to be and it is tough to get someone in a rut out of a rut, especially when they believe they are in a rut but don't want to get out. I've tried for the last couple of weeks to get her to just get out of the house for a hour or so to join me for coffee even.

She has her two children at home and her mom works and her dad isn't feeling well lately so it is tough. But it is healthy to get out a bit and enjoy your environment. To spend some time with people your own age. Even though she is a lightweight drinker and I'm desperate for a drinking companion this isn't about drinking. It is just about experiencing a different environment for awhile.

Breaking your routine, even if it feels uncomfortable at first. When I did my rut breaking it was uncomfortable but I felt a lot better afterwards, still do. Things have gotten progressively better in so many areas!

I hope she shows up but even if she doesn't Sass will!!!! She is a great drinking companion and can hold her own with nearly anyone I know. The conversation is always fun, interesting, and lively and if anyone reading this cares to show up, you know where I'm talking about so feel free to be there around 7ish!!!!

The first round is on me!!!!

20 Years....

This July it will be twenty years since Guns N Roses Appetite For Destruction was released. Can you believe that?

One of the most influential albums of all time. It took 80's metal and gave it a razor sharp edge and steered it away from the glam band sound. Twenty years later and Welcome to the Jungle is still well played, you can hear it during football games, and clips here and there.

It is amazing too, every song on that album was solid, you can listen to it all day and not get bored with it. There are a few albums for me that I can do that with but Appetite is one of the top five, easy.

Metallica Master of Puppets. Astounding album that really started to separate Metallica from the thrash metal bands and put them into their own category that Megadeth seemed haunted by even though they achieved some level of fame on their own, never at Metallica's level.

Guns was too good to last though, after Lies, and Use Your Illusion I and II they pretty much self destructed as the band lineup underwent and is still undergoing numerous additions and subtractions. They will never be the same and they will never recapture that lightning in a bottle, the magic they once had that made them the top band in the world at the time.

Twenty years ago.....man I'm feeling really old right now.

Jerry Falwell And David Allan Coe

Never thought you'd see those two in the same place together but hey this is my blog and I can put them there if I want to.

First off Reverend Jerry Falwell died today. He was a polarizing figure, even among Christians but he was a genuinely good guy who wasn't afraid to take his beliefs and share them with anyone. He united a large portion of America and gave them a political voice in a time when a large part of America felt they didn't have a voice. He was 73 and he did a lot of good for a lot of people. Rest in peace Reverend.

Today my Netflix selection is David Allan Coe live at Billy Bob's!!!! DAC is also a very polarizing figure who has written over two hundred songs I believe that have been recorded by Waylon, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Pantera, Willie Nelson, and a dozen other stars.

He is largely overlooked for his contributions to country/outlaw music and revels in that fact. He'll never be recognized for being one of the most influential singer songwriters of all time. You can just google his name and see why. His infamous XXX album will give you an idea of how his career started.

A lot of DAC is myth, a lot is fact, only he knows for sure what is real and what isn't.

Is he a racist? Don't know, he has a black drummer and a guitar with the Stars and Bars colors on it. You make the call.

Has he been in prison as he claims? Don't know, he swears up and down he has but there are no official records of it.

Is he a legend? Yes, in a way. He is an underground legend in the vein of the Ramones or the Sex Pistols. He is punk, he is an outlaw, he is controversial, and he is one of country music's biggest enigmas. He is a workaholic but you'll never see him at the CMAs or the Grammy's even though he has probably written songs for the winners.

The Drive

Finally I found a video converter that got the Drive game right so I was able to load it up on my Ipod. I converted it twice with another converter but Itunes would not load it onto my Ipod. So after a couple of minutes of searching I found another program.

With joy and happiness I was thrilled when it converted the game and loaded into Itunes. Then I synced the Ipod and BAM!!!! The Drive was there, waiting for me to watch it!

The great duel between Elway and Kosar for the AFC Championship!!!!

What an incredible game it was too! Cold, windy, and just the right setting for one of the most talked about feats in the NFL. An Elway comback!

Tonight there is a Storm game, we take on the Brooklyn Kings. Always a good game when the Kings come to town. It is sprinkling a little outside right now. Nice and cool.

Looks like it is going to be a really good day!!!!

Another Win!!!!

After the last second loss to the Cagerz on Friday night we blew them out last night!!!!

It was a good game for about the first quarter and then we just took over and controlled them the whole way. We have one more home game Tuesday and then they go on a four week road trip. Yeah, a long one.

It is early in the morning and I'm watching the very first episode of Monday Night Football! The Jets vs. The Browns from 1970! Complete with commercials and halftime! The magic of torrents and people who love football! Man I love the net!

You can find it at Ten Yard Torrents if you are interested in finding incredible games like this for yourself!

Next week Screech has his big Fit Club meltdown. That is the episode where he is banned from show. Can't wait!

Have a great week everyone!!!!

Happy Mother's Day

To everyone out there who it applies to! Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!!
Call your mom, alright?

Been pretty quiet around here. The race was rained out last night so now it'll be on at noon today. Darlington, the track too tough to tame. A shame too, it would have been a night race which are a lot of fun to watch over an afternoon race.

Not much on the tube. I'm getting close to wrapping up the You Tube project with the event that I have been planning. The time just isn't right yet and I'm still fermenting a couple of ideas on the best way to approach the last episode. When I finish it I'll post the link here so everyone can finally see it.

The History Channel has been endlessly promoting Hippies for tonight. I have to confess I'm not a fan of hippies. The movement from the late 60's, the neohippies that you can see around schools today, the socialist ideals, the allergic reaction to soap and bathing......blech......

Not a fan, I'm more Eric Cartman than Abbie Hoffman regarding the hippie culture. Just had some pizza for breakfast. I'm craving some ice cream right now.....mmmmmmmm.....Ben and Jerry's. Yeah I know the irony there considering my previous few sentences but those two guys, politics aside, make some of the best ice cream ever!!!!

Guess something good did come out of the hippie culture!!!!

What Do You Want?

You know it seems like a real easy question doesn't it and most people can answer it without even thinking about it. The problem is that what they want, myself included, is that what I think I want is usually something that leads to something else and something after that, whatever it is at the core of what you really want.

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I want and I started by thinking about what I don't want. Well that is easy to figure out. Everyone can tell you exactly what they don't want, down to the final letter.

The thing is that you have a core desire, everyone does. What they do is that they try to figure out how to get what they really want and it turns into a long chain to get there. A to Z, first I have to do A to get to B etc. Over time you just forget what it is that you really want.

Every thing you want has an emotional attachment to it. You want A so you can feel B which you might be missing. It nearly always leads to happiness. There are some weird freaks out there who are only happy when they are unhappy. Even then their end result is happiness. Freaky huh?

They will do things to sabotage themselves so they can bring about the circumstances that will make them unhappy that will conversely make them happy.

Most people think a large amount of money will make them happy when in reality it is only a way to bring about what you desire. Freedom, security, things that are intangible but things that we desire. Money is a means to an end....a feeling we crave, not much more.

Be happy now. Cut right to the chase. You'll feel better.

We Won!!!!

With four seconds left in the game we hit a three pointer at the top of the key to beat Dodge City 97-95!!!!

That'll teach me for leaving early!!!!

Friday Friday!!!!

Had a Storm game last night, have one tonight too. Last night we lost (I think) to the Legend. I left with 54 seconds left because I was meeting some friends at Callahan's. We were down by 5 though and the Legend had the ball. Not a good sign for our team.

Tonight we play the Cagerz. We should beat them but our team is kind of up and down this year. It isn't a given at all, anyway yeah, its Friday!

I had some really good Ben and Jerry's ice cream last night though for supp....er.....after supper I mean:) It had brownies AND cookie dough!!!! Oh man................sorry.........was thinking about how good it was.

Have a great Friday everyone!!!!

Rain Every Night

I can't remember the last time we had rain like this every single night. The past four nights in a row.

It is nice but at the same time wow, it is a lot of rain! It does make me sleep really well though.

A fairly uneventful night, had supper at the pub and was unexpectedly joined by two co workers and one of their friends.

Tonight is a Storm game and one of the cast from the Fanfilm asked me to join him after that for a drink. He is in the new Gaslight production and tonight is their last dress rehearsal before opening so tonight is have a beer after the rehearsal night. Which seems like a lot of nights from my brief experiences:)

The Tuck Game

Yep I have uploaded the Tuck Game onto my Ipod now for work viewing. The full game. Even though it was a call that went against my team it was a great game and a snow game which made it great to watch!!!!

I also have The Drive game but I didn't upload that one. Yeah you know the one, Broncos vs. Browns? Elway vs. Kosar? Anyway I have a few games like that on my hard drive and they make excellent work viewing. My Ipod is really making being at work a joy lately! I don't dread going and just being there. It has enhanced my normally peppy/happy mood!!!!

Today should be a decent day but on the slow side but I don't care! To paraphrase the great song that Ricky Nelson and Dean Martin sang in Rio Bravo, As long as I have my vehicle, my Ipod, and Me!

What An Idiot

Yeah anyone who knows me knows I throw that term around fairly freely, especially when it fits. In this case it really fits.

This is a Paris Hilton sized idiot. Tom Sizemore has been arrested YET AGAIN for possession of drugs. I watched Shooting Sizemore, the Celebreality show on VH1 when it aired and wondered how this guy was still alive. He has done some Keith Richards quantities of drugs, he seems to have been trying pretty hard to get his life back together. He took a role in a C movie as a starting place.

He kept on whining about everything he has lost and how getting it all back is what he is after meanwhile he had meltdown after meltdown and tried the patience of everyone around him. I have to give them credit, they had the patience of a saint.

Now after being on three years probation he has been busted again. He was likely capable of regaining a portion of his fame and making up some lost ground if he had put any effort into it and now he should be prison bound.

To me this is on the same level as pro athletes resenting the fans, the people who buy the tickets to pay their salary. Sizemore had a good thing going but he had enough idiot in him to destroy all of it.

If I'm ever in the same position I would hope the people around me would care enough to keep me from being that kind of idiot.

All Loaded Up

My Ipod that is. All loaded up with over sixty gigs of boredom remover for work. It now has the entire series of Star Trek: Enterprise with the very hot Jolene Blalock. I really didn't catch this show when it first aired but kind of went with the conventional opinion that it sucked like everyone else was saying.

Well it is a very good show. It has really good storylines, well written, and good acting for a Trek show. I'm kind of surprised it didn't last a full seven season run like its siblings did. Anyway that and Dexter, Squidbillies, Robot Chicken, a couple of MST3K episodes will accompany me to work today. Very soon I'm going to start on the NFL games I happen to have stored on my hard drive and get them loaded as well.

I love technology.

Oh by the way it is raining AGAIN!!!! We have to be setting some kind of record for rain lately. That also means a slower than average day at work. If there is lightning that means that we aren't allowed to walk from building to building which means no hanger work.

Slow day? Bah! I laugh at you now!!!!
No more super boredom and pestering my friends with email:)
I'm sure they will appreciate that!

First Day With My Ipod Video At Work!!!!

I worked all weekend to put lots of content encoded and uploaded to my new shiny toy and what do you know? It rocked at work!!!!

It is plenty small enough to conceal when need be, big enough to get plenty of enjoyment out of the content on the screen. I could put it at arms length and easily see everything that was going on in a very well lighted environment. If it was darker it would have been better but as it was it was more than satisfying.

I watched two episodes of Dexter, not the beloved Cartoon Network toon but the series about a forensics investigator who is also a serial killer. It is pretty cutting edge as far as subject matter goes. It is witty, excellent writing, and so far a very good storyline that seems like it is going to span the entire season, which I have the whole thing loaded on my handy little gadget:)

What a wonderful time we live in!!!! I can only imagine what another twenty years will bring!!!!
So all in all I believe it is a more than worthy investment and will soon be loading content to help bring more creativity to my writing....as soon as I find out what that content is:)

Up Already

I went to bed last night just after midnight and here I am, up at 5ish. I know it is about ready to storm here, I just looked at the radar and a big line of severe thunderstorms are moving through here in about a half hour.

A small town in Kansas got wiped off the map yesterday from a line of storms like this. What a horrible tragedy. I live in Tornado Alley which has lots of tornadoes per year so it is always something you look out for and prepare for but it is devastating in just less than two minutes to lose everything you have. Your house can't even burn as fast as a tornado can destroy it, think about that.

I don't know, I just can't sleep right now. It is rough, I want more sleep. Five hours just isn't enough. So do I fix some coffee and just go with it or try to go back to bed? Oh to sleep or not to sleep, that is the question!

Eh, I went to a Cinco De Mayo party last night and most of the people there are Shakespeare and Gaslight people so there were a few Shakespeare discussions going on. There were lots of good conversations to join in on. It was a very fun time and I'm happy I went.

Well I feel pretty awake now so I guess I'm up, might as well go fix some coffee.

The Bonds/Hilton Debacle

It is almost a given unless someone pulls a Tonya Harding on Barry Bonds' bad knee that he will break Hammerin' Hank Aaron's home run record.

I think America speaks with one voice save San Francisco's isolated and out of touch voice that everyone is against this milestone being broken by such a pathetic individual. He never tested positive for steroids and yet there is a mountain of evidence in the Game of Shadows book that has around 230 individual people who point the finger and Bonds and others. So who is right? My money would be on the people who have nothing to gain by pointing the finger at Bonds.

So how will the sports world handle the eventual day when the record falls? Well you can pretty much guarantee that it will happen in San Francisco. Any other ball park in the US and you will have people booing, walking out, throwing things on the field, and heckling the ceremony. In San Francisco it might be a little bit better than that but that is the only place it can happen. Look for the manager to massage his playing time to make sure it happens at home.

You can bet that there is a security detail around Bonds, the most hated man in sports today, to protect him from some psycho who has ill intentions towards the man. It would not surprise me if there were many threats on him, his family, and maybe anyone around him.

The poor pitcher will be remembered as the person who gave up the record homer to a cheater and will be linked to this disgraceful act that the commissioner of baseball will be loathe to attend while Hank Aaron stays as far away as possible to protect his stellar reputation. Its as if Bonds has leprosy, ebola, and a really bad cold and you will catch it all if you get too close to him.

Paris Hilton is going to jail. Who didn't see this coming? The world's most infamous party girl gets forty five days behind bars to cool her heels for violating her probation. She showed up ten minutes late to her court appearance. Here is a tip....if you have the possibility of being sentenced to jail time, don't make the judge wait on you.

This clueless heiress is the epitome of the self centered generation. A generation where nothing happens that is worth caring about outside of their sphere of space. I have to say that I don't know anyone like that in my circle of friends. I'm kind of proud of that. Man I got some great friends!!!!

Spiderhhhmmmmmm........

Well it wasn't quite what I was expecting. For example there were THREE musical numbers.....in a Spiderman movie.......not exactly what I or anyone in the theater were expecting to say the least.

The parts I were expecting like the Venom storyline had just a few minutes of screen time in a two hour and twenty minute movie.

There was an extraordinary moment of cinematic beauty though in the creation of The Sandman. It was at the same time beautiful and heartbreaking. It was one of the best screen moments I have seen in recent times.

The pacing of the movie was very odd. When there was action, it was very fast and hard to keep up with. I felt like I was watching a disorientating and unorganized Star Wars starfighter scene. I found myself feeling bored through most of the movie while I enjoyed the first two movies immensely. This one seemed lackluster by comparison to the epic storytelling of the first two in the series.

Spiderman 3 Day!!!!

Yes my friends a long awaited day has finally arrived!!!!
Spiderman 3 has finally arrived in the theaters and I plan on seeing it today!!!!

I believe that the first showing is at 10 am this morning and I probably won't make that but there are plenty of showings today so I'm going!!!!

I don't make it to the theaters very often anymore, they just aren't as fun as Netflix and I don't have to deal with children kicking my seat from behind which has happened with Superman Returns.

Anyway, I've been having fun with my Ipod. I did find a pretty big glitch though. Itunes doesn't support Vista64 which I happen to have so I've been using my laptop which has XP on it to load up my new gadget. OH and I've been converting my video files into Ipod versions which can take a while.

Pretty Slow Week

At work.

I've usually been done with my work by 8:30ish in the morning leaving me scads of time to kill.
So what do you do when you have that kind of time and can't get on the net to keep yourself from going nutso AND want to conserve some of your vacation leave by not going home early?

Well I got a Ipod. It should be here today.

By August though our work load will at least double so that is a good thing. It is just rough right now because there is so little to do. So I plan on the Fanfilm project, go over the documentary in my mind and how to do the edits when we have an ending to it, think about movie projects, lots of things like that.

However I've been doing that for a long time now and just need a shinier diversion I guess. I had a PSP for a while and that was fun but got old fairly quickly since the game support at the time was limited.

So now it is Apple's turn to help with my low job satisfaction. I have done some research into how to convert your DVDs and put them on your Ipod so being able to take movies to work on a concealable device will be fun.

I'll let you know when the new wears off, hopefully it won't be before August.

No Blog Update Today

I just don't have much to say this morning. I slept kind of restless, had some funky dreams. One of them I really liked though! I wanted to make a pub that was better than my local beloved pub! That was a pretty nice dream!!!!

I had lots of plans for it, lots of plans that don't really come to mind now that I'm sitting here trying to tell everyone that I'm not going to have a blog post today. But it was a very nice place from what I do remember! A place my friends would love to come to and hang out with me. A place where even people who didn't like me would love to hang out at!

A place where everyone felt very comfortable and at home. Yep a really nice place.

Anyway I have to get on quickly now to tell you sorry, there will be no blog post today, sorry for the inconvenience.

Good Thing I Mowed

Anyone who knows me knows I don't really like mowing my yard. I haven't mowed since that big rain storm a couple of weeks ago but I mowed the front yard last night because it was getting out of hand, even for me.

Sunday I mowed the back yard so I usually break it up into a two day process but it is a good thing I did so. I woke up to rain this morning. That would make it just be outrageously out of hand. What a narrow escape that was!

In other news I'm trying a personal fun project and you at home can play along! I have offered to buy everyone lunch on an email list I'm a subscriber of with no strings attached at all. But if they feel the need to do something then I ask that they purchase lunch for two people randomly and as anonymously as possible. The goal? I'm not real sure what the actual goal is for me but quite a few people have taken me up on the offer so far and said they will return the favor.

I guess I want people to know that there is good out there and to cause a little surprise in someone's life. Give them something good to think about and maybe just maybe they might buy someone else lunch and pass it on. It is also a good way to get out of your own head and think about what other people might be going through that might not be as fortunate as you are, then your problems might not matter as much. The main thing that it is a guaranteed way to create a little happiness in your own life.

It isn't selfish to want to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is the third part of the Life and Liberty part of one of our founding documents remember? So do yourself a favor, buy lunch for two people randomly and anonymously as possible and see how you feel afterwards!