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so thursday, i get all excited to watch the office… and i’ll be honest, i didn’t know what channel nbc is here. so i’m flippin through the local channels… 4? no. 5? no. 11? no the olympics are on that channel. 13? no. 8? no. okay, let’s go to that stupid tv guide channel… of course, i just missed the local channels, so i’ll have to wait, and wait, and wait. remember when john henson used to be funny on talk soup? yeah, me neither - and he’s still not funny.

finally, the local channels are back. abc, cbs, upn, nbc - channel 11! damn. so i go check the website, sure nuff… ‘next on ‘the office”… march 2nd. drat.

so i try to watch the olympics. i just can’t get into the winter olympics. there doesn’t appear to be the olympic element to it aside from the hockey. i’m not sure why. maybe the snowboarding and all the new events they’ve made up just to try to add some excitement - team pursuit? skeleton? ice dancing? what the crap? all i’d even think about watching is the cool flippity flip skiing, hockey and curling. haven’t heard much about the curlers this go-round. a bunch of northerners basically bowling on a lake. (yeah, i know there’s much more to it than that). i just don’t see how recreational activities so quickly become competitive events that are apparently easier to win if you’re under the influence of a magical herb. and how can one get excited when the first black american to win a speed skating event doesn’t seem too excited himself?

i actually felt like watching tv thursday. i actually heard ‘my name is earl’ isn’t half bad and that is right before the office. so i was going to actually watch two shows. that doesn’t happen too often. usually, i’ll flip on the boobtube when i’m eating by myself for some noise - quickly turning it off when i’m done eating, because i can’t stand half the crap on there anymore. now, we only have the basic of all basic cables - and the only reason we’re doing that is cuz we get a $15 discount on the internet service and it only costs $8. so we’re gettin paid to have cable tv. a pretty slick deal, actually. which is good, because, neither katie or i watch $8 worth of tv in any given month (save sat/sun during the football season, of course). i’m also finding myself loathing pop music, but we’ll save that for another day and another rant…

yesterday was valentines day - one of the few times many people across the globe (is valentines day a global event or just a marketing holiday restricted to the american borders?) will celebrate and cheer VD.

in a glorious and completely selfish way, i will rub it into the faces of my good friends who were alone on a couple’s holiday… i am a very lucky guy. my yesterday? nothing too special. but it was very wonderful. a nice, relaxing dinner - KFC by candlelight. with the centerpiece the rose i gave her that morning. yeah, it was my idea - and SHE LOVED IT!!! and we topped it off with a playstation game and icecream sandwiches. a lovely evening with a lovely lady. life is good.

have you happened across the show The Office?? i have recently become insanely addicted to said sitcom. and i’ve only seen one on the tele. of course, i was able to find a certain place to download every episode to date… now i just can’t wait until thursdays… between this show and the movie Office Space, i find myself wondering if finding joy and laughter in the very situations i wake up to on a daily basis is wrong and/or morbid… but then i just laugh it off and get ideas, muaha ha ha!

a two post day… when was the last time you saw this?? i don’t know either, i was actually asking… NEway, i got this from a college buddy today, and it made eric giggle…

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their
infamous sketch, “Who’s on First?” might have turned
out something like this:

ABBOTT: Click on “START”…….

the greatness of a conquest is an amazing thing. many of you may not recall that almost three years ago i had begun a quest… a quest that had slipped into some comatose slumber until just recently. my quest to beat every game of freecell… (dun dun duunnnnnnnnnn). well, due to the lackluster job of keeping track, i have restarted the quest i so earnstly set out to conquer those many years ago at the point of which i can last recall… and this point being a post in this very blorg, see post. now i had written down the current game somewhere on a piece of paper… but who knows where that is and if it even exists today… chances are with the move and everything else that’s been going on, it’s found it’s way to the garbage or recycling center - for i have not seen it in quite some time. because of said post, i re-began my quest at game 3020. and due to the schedule at hand, will occasionally play a game or two here or there. of course, the first day is always the easiest - i’m already at 3030. i’m thinking we needs to have a counter on this here page over there —->

i’ll get to work on that. stay tuned… of course, it seems as though the freecell gods are against me, because instead of there being a mere 32000 games, there are now apparently 1,000,000 games - a task worthy of only the mightiest of mighty warriors… maybe this is my vision quest….

got this from katie’s mom in the emails today… and yes, it’s worthy of a post - i could elaborate on it and add a plethora of examples… but i won’t, for now.

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Common Sense.

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.

as always… man, i hate stupid people

didja see it? didja hear about it? didja even care?

i didn’t really care who won - i was hoping the game was going to be a good one - and it had two teams that matched up very well on paper so the possibility of a decent game was quite likely.

21-10 steelers over the seahawks. the score doesn’t really show how close these two teams were, primarily because the seahawks got @$$raped by the zebras in this one on some very key plays. the ‘push off, offensive pass interference’ early in the game VERY questionable. rothlesberger was NOT in on that ‘touchdown’. that was NOT a hold on that 3rd and long… there’s probably more, but i don’t remember them at this point. i think this game really could’ve gone either way. two very good, very fast defenses - and good offenses. take the 12th guy away from the steelers, and i still think they win, but they win 21-17 or 24-20. all in all, not a bad game, not a great game, but a good game.

the commercials started off pretty good - had some good ones and we even laughed out loud on a couple - the magical refridgerator was one. and of course, i’m so tired right now i don’t recall the other decent ones. of course, that h3 commercial will always worry me (ugly godzilla cousin and the robot?? that’s not right). and i do remember the point at which the commercials took a disasterous turn for the worse, that dumb escalade commercial on the runway - post that commercial, they sucked like a two dollar whore. overall, i’d have to give the commercials a C, they were working on an A- until that escalade commercial.

i still hate john madden. he’s a retarded, fat, captain obvious, waste of space. everytime he talks i want to shove sharpened pencils into my ears so i don’t have to listen to his blatent unobservant rhetoric of the obvious in absolutely every situation on the football field. the day he just goes away is the day i cheer with excitement about not having to worry if the idiot madden is going to be ruining another game for me.

on a side note, i’m pretty sure the stones are all dead and have been for years - those puppeteers were really working the strings exceptionally well for that ‘half time show’ - although, i’ve heard better ’singing’ at japanese karoke night. i mean, even neumann could prolly sing better than mick jagger there… sheesh.

a good weekend, a super bowl sunday with friends… not too shabby, not too shabby indeed. oh, of course i still hate stupid people.

i don’t know if i’ve grown up or not the last couple years… and i doubt i’ve matured - but i have been listening to talk radio and reading an occasional article or two on cnn or the local paper whilst sitting on the throne at wurk.

and now i know why i never listened to talk radio or read the newspaper ‘back in the day’ - the world is filled with morons and complete idiots. not that this is anything new, but they are louder and are causing more of a rukus than i’ve ever known them to in the past. and the sad thing is that there are supposed to be intelligent individuals in leadership positions to override this stupidity. i know there used to be people who had the balls to tell people they were idiots - but now the ‘representatives’ and other elected officials are more focused on not pissing people off rather than making progress.

to start:

the super bowl in sunday and the biggest story is not the feel good story of bettis’ return to detroit - it’s the seahawks TE Jerramy Stevens making the [sarcasm] asanine [/sarcasm] comment [paraphrase] ‘i think we’re going to win this game’ [/paraphrase] and joey porters rebuttal. and i thought semi-pro was bad - dudes, grow the fuck up. it’s a game and you’re gettin paid millions to play. your paycheck at the end of the DAY is more than the average joe makes in a year (probably, i don’t know for sure, but either way it’s a decent chunk of change). what’s wrong with having confidence in your team and stating that opinion?

in other football news - mcnabb is a racist moron. owens is also a moron. owens’ comments about the eagles being undefeated if favre was their quarterback are a bit far-fetched and not the most proper thing to say about ones own teammate. and that’s another topic altogether. but mcnabb’s comments on owens’ statements being racist (paraphrasing again) and saying that owens was only stating that favre would be a better fit because he’s white? listen to owens’ statement - he didn’t say anything about white, black, green, blue, forest green, olive green, drab green or any other colored players. dude, favre is good. he has been good for a long time. to say that favre wouldn’t be an asset to a team who had an injured quarterback throughout the majority of the season is a fallacy. owens, shut up. mcnabb - get better, you’re a good quarterback, but shut up.

dudes be talking kidnap and murder over a cartoon… wow, where does one begin. peeps been so wrapped up in their own close-minded, no-freedom walks of life that they don’t know a freedom when they see one. nor do they know how to respond civilally (is that a word?). relax people. this doesn’t have to be such a big deal - and peeps be gettin fired over this? oh, and the guns and other threats too… you know, i’m sure a ‘letter to the editor’ would’ve been a good first step, rather than jumping 10000 notches to the threats of murder, death, kill and kidnapping. islamic extremists - shut up.

that poor hooters (ex)cheerleader from ETSU… boo fricken hoo. [paraphrase]i was kicked off the cheerleading squad cuz i work at hooters [/paraphrase]. listen to your coach and cheermates - apparently there was more that lead to your been given the boot. now cnn’s reporting and more specifically WJHL’s Nate Morabito did a horrible job of doing actual reporting on this story and not getting any real information on what all went down. hey, nate - do some real reporting and fill in some of those HUGE gaping holes in the report - and poor hooters girl - shut up.

oh, and i haven’t said this before (i don’t think). but i’ve wanted to everytime her name came up - cindy sheehan, shut the fuck up. and that goes to all of your idiot ‘followers’ too. damn hippies. we’re at war. and there’s a reason we’re there. no, it’s not fucking oil. it’s because some dope tried to steal what my grandpa’s fighted in WWII for: our freedoms. maybe if those nitwits in the big sandbox had some freedoms in the past, it wouldn’t be so bad and it wouldn’t be such a radical change. (cuz we all know how people be fearin the change - even when the change be the best thing). now, i’m pretty sure your freedoms end at exactly the same spot where mine begin. i believe in what we’re doing across the big pond. and it sucks loosing the good men and women who are putting themselves on the line for us. but it’s also a sacrifice that they are damn proud to be making. my uncle was over there and i’m proud of what he was able to do while on tour. had i another go-round at life, i probably would’ve joined the military myself. infact, i occasionally wonder if i could still join and where that would take me. i love the United States of America. i love my freedoms and i love and respect all those in the armed forces. thank you guys and gals.

but to those people who are blinded by their own freedoms and stupidity, i say to you: shut the fuck up.

i’m gonna watch the super bowl this year (enough of the stupid people rant). and i’m gonna be hoping for commercials worth watching. i remember when the commercials were fun to watch and we looked forward to them. they were comical and they were special. the last couple years, i’ve seen more movie previews and upcoming ’season premieres’ or ‘next week on 24′ (or whatever other stupid show)… what happened world? the biggest event of the year - millions upon millions watching and those marketing ‘guru’s can’t come up with something new and at least remotely entertaining? at least this should be a pretty good football game. i look forward to watching the game: i’ll even make a prediction. the team with the most points at the end, will win. i’ll even put money on that.

i’ll watch the commercials, too. and i’ll probably be disappointed like the last 4 or 5 or so years… unless… no, that would make too much sense and we can’t have that in this fuckt up world we live in.

man, i hate stupid people

should be a pretty self-explainatory subject.

for some reason that last post got the attention of many casino and pheramine (sp?) spammers - ended up losing the bulk of the post in the process.

now let’s see how many of them fuckers comment on this one…

okay, i’d totally link to this if i knew a direct url, but on CNN.com there’s a ‘video short’ (why don’t they have just a simple link to some of these video stories? cuz that’d make life easier - but i digress). if you happen across the video news and see a headline ‘$3,300 a month won’t get you much FEMA housing’ or ‘$3,300? there’s gotta be a hitch’ - watch it.

wtf - these damn spammers are f$*#&’n up my site: there was a bunch of great words here that really meant something, but now it’s all gone. cept for the first paragraph and this:

man, i hate stupid people.

do you realize that january is almost over? dude, what happened to it? i’m pretty sure it was just a couple days ago when we did that whole new years thing, wasn’t it? (apparently not). i had promised to myself that i was gonna do more regular posting this year - but when it flies by in the blink of an eye (that rhymes, tee hee hee), well, you get what i’m sayin, don’tcha? yeah, so i’m not off to that good a start with the whole regular posting thing… but seriously, what happened to january?

well, for those who don’t know, we didn’t win the national championship down in miami. playin in the orange bowl stadium was flippin awesome! we had some issues controling the LOS on offense and a couple turnovers turned out quite costly (aren’t they all, though, aren’t they all).

this weekend katie and i are going to spend a sunday afternoon with Lindsey/Douglas/(Tommy?) and Korin/Chris. the Vermillionites are in the area and we’re killin birds with a single stone here. should be a good time - right? Korin? Lindsey? Douglas? Chris (if you ever read this)? we’re still on right??

i also scored tickets to Twins Fest this weekend, so my dad and i are gonna go play around at the metrodome saturday afternoon. I haven’t been there for a LOOOOOOONG time, like pre-highschool. I was mostly interested in the HUGE card show on the floor back then. this year, i’m kinda curious as to what else happens there - in addition the the card show

next weekend, da Super Bowl!!! it should be a fun game to watch - hopefully it is anyway. i’ll be kickin it old skool with a couple buddies from the Thunderbirds squad. should be fun times.

i think i had something else to state here… but i guess it’ll have to wait until next time.