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Ah, my first post out of what hopes to be many. I am looking forward to watching this site grow with the same intensity of Chase’s ego after taking “supplements”…
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There comes a time in every college dropout’s life when he must start thinking of goals. I have not gotten there yet. So instead I will be posting my daydreams full of wishful thinking, with odds of these occurring being similar to Culpepper’s QB rating.
My first dream: Become a profession baseball player. Not even a hall of famer, but just a role playing average Joe (that wins a WS with a walk-off HR). This is a dream, of course, because I have never actually played the game of baseball, but I did play fastpitch softball, and that’s close.
Dream doo: Have a nationally renowned sports column, where I offer my (obviously correct) opinion on the sports world. After easing my way up the ranks of writers, I one day retire after a head-to-head battle with none other than Joe Morgan. When I defeat him, everyone at ESPN awakes from his curse, and realizes he knew nothing about baseball, and surprisingly, didn’t even know the name of his co-commentator, Jon Miller.
Dream two-and-a-heif: I live a long and satisfied life, not ever having to work, but rather living off the earnings of my youngest sibling Beth after she becomes the next Mia Hamm. She has the richest contract in women’s sports, until her personal trainer Chayson Hewer, is discovered to have started a company called “Not BALCO”.
Last dream: I get half a foot chopped off on a power tower at a six flags amusement park. The settlement includes an 8 figure check.
Conclusion: I know my odds are good, but I think I’ll just go back to school for graphic design.
And good luck to the Raiders (Moss isn’t there anymore, Daunte).
Last
night as I lay in my bed dreaming away, I had some extreme dreams that I
had to write about. So here’s the scene. I’m driving my Jeep Wrangler,
Brad
is riding in the passenger seat, and someone else is in the back seat,
not quite sure. Just an anonymous 3rd person, or maybe it was somebody
that I just forgot cause you tend to forget dreams right away. Okay so
I’m traveling very specifically West on East 26th street heading from
HWY 11 to Sycamore Ave in Sioux Falls. Some may not be familiar with
this road, but I grew up on it before I moved to Harrisburg. Anyway
we’re cruising down this road, and as I turn right onto Sycamore
(heading North now (love you baby!)) A cop in a beat up muscle car
looking vehicle pulls me over. The cop tells me I was going 95 in a 30.
I argue with him and then take off. At that moment, the cop car
suddenly has 3 people in it and it begins to pursue me.
Well it was about this time I look in the review mirror and see that this cop has a RPG
and is about to shoot one at our vehicle and try and blow it up. I’m
sure Brad was talking to me in my dream, but I’m sure he wasn’t very
scared, he probably figured that would have happened anyway. The 3rd
person vanished at this point. So after three missed shots, mostly
because of my insane Jeep driving skills, we finally got hit, however it
was not a direct hit but it sent the Jeep end over end and we flew out
onto my dream image of Great Bear. Not the normal Great Bear in Sioux
Falls, but this is a legit ski hill, but I always recognize Great Bear
stuff there. Anyway so we land in the snow, which already baffles me
cause their was no top on the Jeep. Heh. So the driver of the cop car
drove into the pot hole of the blast that hit us and at that point it
was a pursuit on foot.
Brad and I were running through the snow until we got to this cliff point,
the cop chasing us came up behind us, and I don’t know if he had a gun.
Anyway Brad jumped down the cliff, and I followed him down, instead of
having that intense free fall dream, we basically float down like Halo
characters and land on the ground at least 100ft down. And that is
where the dream cuts off, I presume this is where I wake up, or stopped
remembering, or whatever. But lets recap.
Driving Jeep, get pulled over, take off, chase scene, RPG rockets, snow hill, cliff jump, wake up.
That’s one hell of a dream. Hopefully tomorrow’s is much more exciting!
Ive read #1, but I enjoy #3 much more. Its light reading and I dont have to use punctuation.
Telling someone you’re better than them - that’s cocky.
Putting money where your mouth is - that’s cocky and confident.
Putting money up, and making your opponent risk nothing - that’s cocky, confident, and stupid.
In Mitchell, Adam and I were running a beer pong table, like we usually do. Our first loss came to a couple of guys who came from behind and made the same cup so we had no rebuttal. This happens sometimes in beer pong, and there’s nothing you can do about it. We congratulated the team and went on partying.
Half an hour later these two guys are bragging it up about how they beat us, and they must be better. Adam says, “Let’s play again.” They decline, saying they’ve already beaten us.
Then to my horror/pleasure/WTFness Adam pulls out a 100 dollar bill. He then puts out the challenge, “If you beat us again, you get $100.” They say that they don’t want to risk any money on beer pong. Adam says they don’t have to. If they can beat us again, when it counts, they get $100. If they lose, they owe nothing.
Obviously they accept the challenge. The beer pong game itself started out with them getting to an early lead, but overall was anti-climatic. The better team won, and hopefully Adam gained $100 worth of pride to match his crazy.
Edit: The winner of the big game was myself and Adam. For any future reference “the better team” always refers to myself and Adam… unless it is myself and Slater from Saved by the Bell. Then Slater and I trump anybody.
With the semester approaching everyone is returning to school. I received a call from one of my room mates to pick him up from the airport. Most people would drive there, meet him, and return home.
Not me.
I found a giant piece of tag board, and wrote in big letters “Mr. Alexander Geiwaud.” My roomies name is Alex. His last name is not, nor in any way resembles gaywad. So I call him when I get there and tell him I’m waiting outside. I then stand outside of the car, holding my Mr. Alexander Geiwaud sign and scream.
“Mr. Gaywad!”
“Mr. Alexander Gaywad!”
Alex, smiling, says, “Yes. That’s me.”
I say, “Let me get the trunk for you, Mr. Gaywad.”
I’m sure he appreciates being back in South Dakota.
I couldn’t think of anything funny to write so early in the morning, so here you go, from explosm.net.
Just so you all know, I’m making pancakes for breakfast. I hope they’re good!
Update!
The pancakes were amazing!
So here is my rant against USF and the dirty money hungry bastards they have running that school. It’ll be short and sweet.
We have me who has completed everything and taken all the classes.
We have Ray who has one credit to do, needs to take a workshop.
Ray needs to pay $125 and attend a weekend workshop, where USF will pay a teacher to run the class.
Jordan all the sudden, the school alerts Jordan that he hasn’t taken a CPR course. Jordan shows them the CPR card. School says Jordan didn’t register for it, so it doesn’t count. Jordan in a furious anger concedes knowing he should have paid closer attention to this type of thing. USF charges him for a credit plus student fees. $280+75. They also throw on graduation charges again $75. Jordan again calls USF, gets the grad charges fixed. Yay -$75. Jordan calls registrar’s office, because my credit is a requirement I have to pay that.
So USF doesn’t teach me the course, they pay nothing for my troubles and collect $355. I won’t pass go, but I’m sure as hell passing buy the alumni office and telling them never to ask me for my donation, cause the only one they’ll get is saving their time and stamps by not bothering me. BTW I’m glad Ray only has to pay $125, I would have felt bad if they fleeced him and then tried to fill his head with more Conservative-Liberal bullshit.
In the long run I win cause I never feel guilty not donating to my school. Haha!
****Update****
My recently non-tenured adviser responded to my USF hate mail by saying she looked into it for me and found out that I was only a part time student my final semester and one more credit would have made me full time, Which would have cost me $1500. So I guess I win, none of it makes sense, but I win dammit. Haha USF still not getting donations from me! Assholes! Oh yeah, send me my Diploma like stop holding it hostage, Ugh.
So I’m getting a new TV and BluRay disc player mostly cause I’m a whore for great electronics. Buying the BluRay Player (I’m getting the playstation 3 model, I heard you can like play games on it too if you want to do that and hate xbox, and its the cheapest) Anyway with the BluRay disc player there is a offer for 5 free DVDs. However you have to pick them from different categories. So here’s my choices and likely picks, I want to know if I’m wrong.
Category 1: The Prestige, Wild Hogs, Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl.
-Likely I pick the Pirates movie, that’s assuming its the 3rd one, if not I go for the The Prestige cause I have no desire to see Wild Hogs and I’ve seen the other two Pirates movies
Category 2: Swordfish, Superman, Full Metal Jacket
-Toss up, Full Metal Jacket in High Def would be sweet, but Swordfish would too. Not sure I care about superman
Category 3: Stir of Echoes, American Psycho, The Devil’s Rejects.
-Never heard of any of them.
Category 4: THe Patriot, S.W.A.T., Ultraviolet
-Ultraviolet is a fun movie, never seen SWAT and the Patriot is alright. Not sure…
Category 5: Chain Reaction, Omen 666, Flight of the Phoenix, SPieces, Hart’s War, The Last Waltz
- only seen Hart’s War, and I’ll pass the high def version of that. The Last Waltz sounds stupid, What is Chain Reaction?
Thanks for your suggestions and comments! I love you guys!!!
So its like 3 weeks before pitchers and catchers report (they go to start preparing for spring training before other players do) And I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to fill my sports void. The Cowboys lost, the NBA is just not fun to watch, Golf bores me, Tennis isn’t even that great, and Hockey is the same thing just not my cup of tea. Maybe I’m not a sports fan, I’m just a baseball lover who also likes football during the off-season.
What’s the point of my post? I just really miss baseball, the Mariners are likely to flop this season and that doesn’t even bug me. That’s so weird. But I can’t wait to see the breakouts this year, the disappointments, the race in the East, where does Johan go? Basically I just want to follow my fantasy baseball team. I’ll stop boring you. But seriously, bring baseball back!
Because that’s what this guy apparently did and he was disqualified. [Story Here] “It was a severe headbutt, a very serious incident,” Tour Down Under chief commissioner Michael Robb told Australian media. “It was one of the worst headbutts I’ve seen in a very long time.”
Hmmm it sounded worse from the headline, but apparently when you’re racing bikes at high speeds, you don’t want to use your head to knock other racers off the bikes. I’m not sure why they DQ’d him, rubbin’s racin’….Right? If they DQ for this type of behavior I could never get into watching professional biking. Missing baseball still….
So I got my bluray player and 1080P HDTV today (finally) and purchased my first bluray disc. 300. Got it used at FYE for $20, figured it was a good deal. (Used on Amazon was for $17 plus shipping.) The TV came with 3 Blurays, Night at the Museum, 50 First Dates, and Invincible. Not bad for free I guess, I’ve seen the Adam Sandler movie, haven’t seen the other two. Likely I’ll watch them and then trade them in for others. But free is free. The Bluray player AKA the Playstation came with Spiderman 3. I’ll also watch then trade this in, unless it has a Kirsten Dunst nude scene or something. Doubtful… (just kidding honey!!!!!)
So that with the
other 5 that I’ll be getting, I have myself a small collection. By the
way it looks beautiful. Especially with the $60 HDMI cable I got from
the yellow ticket store (Thanks Lace, got two for $4/each), is just
incredible. I made out like a bandit. My offname brand TV the Insignia
is actually a Phillips TV with a different label. Phillips version
$1699.99. Same model different name $989.99 (plus a certain discount of
$120). I feel good.
Come check it out sometime, no cover charge, you just need to buy some pancakes!
OMG awesome. It was just awesome to watch. The movie is a mind fuck as well… But its the 1-Year for Sara and I so that’s all! Good night!
Image 1: Kyle
Image 2: Hanlon
Location: Right outside of our house.
Thanks Mr. Hanlon!
Playing video games are fun. Whether your game of choice is a first person shooter or a playing a fake instrument, odds are you paid a pretty penny for it.
But recently me and my room mates have been going old school.
One week ago we were playing Halo 3 on the xBox360:
Then started playing Mario Kart 64 for Nintendo 64:
This is reasonable. No one can resist a good ol’ grand prix.
But now for a game that had us up with an all-nighter last night. It is one that you probably haven’t heard of (or remember).
Originally played on the NES (regular Nintendo) I give you Marble Madness:
Can’t say we were playing it for the graphics… but gosh darn it can you spell addicctinig? Because I can’t.
For the record, as I typed this I was watching Love and Marriage. Gee the early 90’s were a great time to be alive!
Sara and I went to Juno yesterday on our one year (which was a perfect day, a special COMPS to pops and thatonegirl) and it was a different film. We both liked it, but they definitely seem to make a joke out of pregnancy. The lead actress really reminds me of Beth (except for the pregnant part) and there was plenty of funny parts. It was also a good mix of comedy and story. However I left not quite sure what to think of it all, and if you have seen it let me know what you think. I’m still trying to decide what to make of it all.
In the mean time, I bought Underdog and a Blu-Ray four pack including, Pearl Harbor, Deja Vu, The Guardian, and Gone in 60 Seconds. So the collection begins, I bought those 5 and MLB ‘07 the Show for PS3 all on Amazon for under $100. I was pleased! I am sad that Transformers isn’t on blu-ray from what I can see. Bummer!
Since Jordan doesn’t know what he thinks about Juno, I will tell what I know about Rambo. It’s BA. Bad Ass. It is 90 minutes of special effects that will leave you with an accelerated heart rate and larger forearms.
Sylvester Stallone not only pulls off the impossible, but he does it with style. The story line is very weak, but for once this didn’t ruin the movie for me. Don’t see this one if you can’t handle gore, because it is Hostel in the jungle.
Definitely a must see for any action lovers.
My
alarm this morning was a Feeling This ring tone by Blink 182. The song
starts with “Get ready for action”. The song then goes into this whole
sex thing. To bad for me, I got up and got ready for a meeting. Lame
Oh sweet 9th and 3rd party house, we ran you into the ground as long as we could, but all good things must come to an end.
When our year lease is up, 4 out of the 7 of us will be living in a new house. Here is my list of advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages to new house over present:
Disadvantages of new house of present one:
So all in all it was very tough decision for me. But when it is all said and done we should be signing the lease towards the end of this week. As of right now most spots are filled… but if you know of anyone at SDSU that wants to live in the kickass-ist house in town, send them our way!
The Song: Feeling This
The Performers: Brad and Jordan
The Audience: An Unfortunate Sunday Night Champps Crowd
The Original Band Whose Song Was Slaughtered: Blink-182
If you are ever going to laugh at us, here is your chance.
Yes, this is Jordan and myself (from right to left) singing karaoke at Champps. It couldn’t have gone better. But you’re thinking, “Brad, you hate singing. Not only that, but when you try it sounds like a dying giraffe… that’s dying from throat cancer.”
Well yes, you’re correct. I do hate singing, but I was intoxicated (the beer was flowing like, uh, beer). The other reason this couldn’t have gone better was because my microphone was either turned off, or down severely low. I’m sure this was thanks to the DJ, after hearing me attempt the first note of the song.
Hey Brad, Fran Drescher called… she wants her voice back.
So I got bored tonight, and started playing with things. I’m not done, and I’m aware that the image title is off center. Anything comments, concerns, death threats?
Brad a while back made a video, we’re on YouTube, we’re famous! Anyway if you click the Adventures link at the top you can see it!
January was officially our best month for unique daily visitors. People came to our site 1,261 times last month which topped our previous best month of September ‘07 at 1,043 visits. When I started this in August I didn’t think it would stay steady like it has been and that it’d turn into a site for me and Brad to waste our free time with. However our hits don’t count in the stats so that means other people are coming to our site! Nice! Anyway from our first day to tonight we’ve accumulated 5,699 hits. I hope to get to 25,000 by 2009. I’d be happy with a few hundred thousand as well.
If anyone is curious our best day ever was Sunday, December 23, 2007 with 179 hits. I love stats and records.
I’m
a bit more than a little shocked that I just saw this. If you know
Chris Berman (Sportscenter icon) you must check this out! View Here!
I really like Chris Berman, if I were working on the set, I wouldn’t duck under the camera or do anything to distract him.
And if I was there and someone distracted him, I’d rip out their esophagus right there on set. No questions asked.
No longer do you have to log in to comment on our site. We just need your name and e-mail. Hopefully it gets out of hand!
You can still log in if you wish to, but its no longer necessary to log in, to comment!
Hopefully our moderator the Zoo Keeper won’t have to clean to much up!
I think Brad just sharded himself.
I am writing a piece for collegehumor.com. If you have any insight, please let me know.
These are all common questions asked by females. These are truthful answers by guys. (Full truth in parenthesis).
Do these jeans make me look fat?
Absolutely not. (You look fat no matter what you wear.)
Do you like my parents?
Of course. (As long as they don’t know we’re boning.)
Am I crazy?
Yes! Haha… JKing you… (Yes. Oh my God, yes.)
I totally believe in ghosts! Do you?
Yes! (When I was 7 and watch Ghostbusters for the first time.)
Is my friend Melissa hotter than me?
Not even close. (Unless you’re asking for a threesome.)
Brittany Spears isn’t that stupid, is she?
*shakes head no* (I’m only shaking my head because I threw up in my mouth.)
Do you love me?
Let’s talk about this later. (No.)
Are you just trying to get in my pants?
I can’t believe you’d say that. (Yes.)
Would you ever cheat on me?
Not in your worst nightmare. (But definitely, DEFINITELY in real life.)
HAVE you have cheated on me?
Not in this life time. (Starting right now. For sure don’t count last night.)
Have you ever lied to me?
Lied is only deli spelled backwards. (I hope you think about that long enough to forget what you asked.)
Should we go get a sandwich?
Let’s! (Thank God you forgot about lying.)
Can we hang out tonight?
Sorry, my grandma is in the hospital. (And I’m getting sympathy sex from Melissa!)
Do you think we have a future?
Absolutely. (If by future you mean I can last at least 30 minutes in the sack.)
Do you even love me anymore?
I love you. (As long as you keep putting out.)
Do you think my mom is hotter than me?
Not even close. (Unless you’re asking for a threesome.)
This guy probably should have seen this coming….. Ha.
(Possible Spoilers, Its a movie that I don’t particularly recommend, but if there’s nothing else on TV you might as well pour 90 minutes into it, but if you want to not know what’s going on, just go ahead and not read any of this.)
So tonight after my night at Hollister Co 266 I drove over to Eric’s new house and watched The Invasion. Of course he has 
the
TV and BluRay Player (PS3) but get got a normal DVD (bleh, but whatever
;)). Anyway The Invasion is a “thriller” with Nicole Kidman (left)
and basically alien or foreign or whatever virus turns humans into
emotionless robots. The the whole movie Kidman’s character has been
affected and she’s doing her best to stay awake because apparently if
you don’t fall asleep the virus can not assimilate itself in your brain
and take it over. Whatever. So this virus takes over the world and
there is peace among all the nations, everything is stable, and life is
good. Except for Kidman’s character because her son is immune to this
virus. Despite the thought of a stable happy Earth she’s not willing to
sacrifice her son, so she basically murders a large number of people to
get her son to a group of scientists working a cure. She succeeds, they
find a cure, spread it among the world, and the world goes back to war,
hate and calamity. Cue credits.
I felt the movie was alright, like I said, I wouldn’t buy the DVD, now that I have seen it I wouldn’t ever rent it again, but if it was on TV I could watch it again. I give it 2 stars out of 5. Mostly cause Nicole Kidman strips to her tighty whities a few times. Oh and it has the new James Bond. He however does not save the day. Sad.
The
movie did however give me a great idea for a name for a son (you know
when that time comes in 10 years). Yuri Gillis sounds pimpin. I could
totally handle that. He’ll be just like Vladimir Guerrero (right).
People like the Russian names.
So
instead of posting a new blog every time I make a Curly Says, I just
gave him his own little section. So every time you visit ABJ.com, after
reading everything interesting we have to say, you should totally check
out to see if their is a new Curly says linked on the left column. I
also spent an hour or so updating the whole Curly sight and so now you
can comment on each cartoon individually and go back and forth between
them as they were made! YAY!
So after starting to watch the super bowl with my Mom, I decided to blog about it as it happens… So here we go!
Coin Toss: Only the punter shook the children of Bill Walsh’s hands.
First commercial break: The Bud Light breathing fire commercial was very good.
Ahmad Bradshaw’s first run: Mom, “Is that a little Terry Bradshaw?” Me, “He’s black.”
Diet Pepsi Max Commercial: Awesome! Baby don’t hurt me! NO more!
(brad texts, I wish Joe would have broken his neck, I told him it’d made the commercial even more funny)
5:47 PM: Starting RB at kick return, awesome!
5:49 PM: I wish I liked Bud Light, it’d make their commercials better.
5:50 PM: Brad says Hi!
5:57 PM: Pass Interference. Giants are cheaters.
5:59 PM: I want some Bridgestone tires….They saved the squirrel!
6:05 PM: went to godaddy.com, no boobies.
6:06 PM: I want a mutant carrier pigeon…
6:10 PM: Tom Petty just isn’t Super Bowl half time material, I’m sorry.
6:12 PM: Plaxico (Plexico) Gillis, it works.
6:13 PM: Austen and Darren joined our party
6:15 PM: I’m happy for Hank the horse.
6:20 PM: Brad says its funny that people chat during the game, but not the commercials, and thinks that’s funny.
6:21 PM: Whoops! Too bad Bradshaw.
6:24 PM: Mom and I thought it was a boob, it was a heart….
6:25 PM: Mom “Yeah when you saw Thriller you guys were balling and shit”. Austen and I, ” yeah we were fucking children!”
6:27 PM: Two sacks in a row!
6:31 PM: Brad and I agree that Carlos Mencia is just garbage.
6:35 PM: Mom and I decided that Darren doesn’t speak much.
6:36 PM: Illegal pass? What the fuck?
6:37 PM: I don’t want peanuts or cashews anymore after that, but it was funny.
6:41 PM: I like Charles Barkley!
6:43 PM: Mom and I declare Pepsi the early winner! I hate JT less.
6:48 PM: WWeeeeeeee Woooooooo ( I love Gwen)
6:55 PM: Half time, 7-3 New England. The Giants are playing at a high level and losing. The Patriots are too fucking good
7:09 PM: texts between Brad and I, Me, He (tom petty)
sounds likes a grandpa. Brad, He looks like a grandpa too. Me, I wonder
if he smells like a grandpa?
7:13 PM: more texts, Me, And I’m free ballin’! Brad, “I’m not wearing pants!”
7:18 PM: I decide that I need to own the super bowl, so
I can ask Blink 182 to play half time. They’d have to get back
together for that.
7:27 PM: Pam Oliver just called the red zone the green zone. I point this out, and mom says women shouldn’t be down there.
7:30 PM: Mom says that Sara is just sexy as all hell while drumming on Rock Band.
7:34 PM: Go Vitamin water! Shaq would be an awesome horse jockey! He sucks as a NBA player now….
7:52 PM: Mom decided she doesn’t care who wins, we just need points, I agree.
7:54 PM: I like how Bud Light is trying to provide us
with abilities we all wish we had but we don’t. And showing us why we
don’t need them. They’re funny.
8:07 PM: Charlie Brown finally wins.
8:12 PM: Touchdown Giants. Really?
8:20 PM: Still confident in a Patriots victory…..
8:24 PM: I like Troy Aikman, I think he should come
back. Screw Romo. Mom thinks Joe Buck is gay. Flat out. “Ryan Secrest
is metro, but Joe Buck is just gay.”
8:28 PM: Will Ferrell “Bud Light. Suck One” ha
8:32 PM: Giants defensive linemen are sucking air on the sideline, ugh oh!
8:41 PM: TD Randy Moss. Baller!
9:04 PM: Fuck.
I don’t think this is the video that aired during the Super Bowl. That’s okay, this one is better.
Sorry about the hassle. You need to click the link, then click on the Will Ferrell video at the bottom right. If you think you saw it, watch it again… I’m pretty sure this one is different.
Or click on the comments to this story. I’ll throw it in there too.
I’ve been saying to football friends since the Cowboys beat the Packers in the regular season. Teams playing not to lose, just lose. Now they don’t lose every time, but in the big games, when the Underdog has nothing to lose, and the superpower is playing not to lose, its just meltdown on the verge of happening. I’ve seen lots of Patriots football (in comparison to other football games played, cause I worked every Sunday) and what I saw last night was almost the exact opposite of what they did all year. Were they trying to shock the Giants? Did Bill really think that if we went total conservative, pick our punches, and play smashmouth football that we’ll beat the Giants? I’m sure he did, it almost worked. Had the Patriots defense not shown its age and its lack of size all season and made the stop on the final drive, the Patriots would have been 19-0. Granted the Giants made two really really lucky good plays, but Manning should have been planted six feet under both times. He’s not even elusive. The Patriots corners were tired of jumping for every ball (when you’re 5′10 guarding a 6′5 WR, every pass is a battle) it was just a meltdown. And the Patriots only lost by 3. If anyone tells me the Giants are a better team, I have to grant you the fact. They are super bowl champs, but they played great football, and the Patriots played piss poor. Do you even remember seeing the Patriots running 5 wide receiver sets? I don’t…. They were deadly with those types of sets. The Patriots offensive line is great, but they can’t block six guys. So why put Tom Brady’s protection in the hands of a running back or a pass catching tight end? The Giants blitz all night long and they were able to cause the line backers were on the field. You have 5 of the fastest wide receivers in the game, let them run. Randy Moss is always going to be double covered especially when he’s one of three receiver options. The Patriots just did nothing to confuse the defense. If you send out 5 wide outs, maybe some guy gets confused and forgets to cover Randy Moss. Or misses his zone, or something happens. Rather the Giants just sent that guy on the blitz every time putting Brady into the turf. Set up four or five wide outs and just run slants to Welker all day, that was working too well. If he catches 2-3 straight passes for 4-5 yards they will start to adjust to it. That guy won’t be blitzing anymore. It opens up the big play.
Ugh I’m just being an armchair quarterback coach. Its all useless. The Patriots changed their game for no reason and lost playing a game they weren’t seasoned at. Makes me sick. If you lose by playing your game, fine. You got beat. But don’t lose playing something different. It’s to much psychological bullshit.
Thank God for baseball, the team sport where individuals make the differences. Its not perfect, but its better. And only 7 weeks away!
Oh and congratulations to the Giraffe for putting all his money on Eli and the Giants. He’s rich!
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.
- Charles M. Schultz
I’m not sure how to interpret this one, but apparently Charles Schultz is a dog. Is he snoopy?
He just can’t see that on his profile, so just to ease his mind, here you go Brad its a picture of facebook telling me its your birthday! Hopefully you can make it to midnight this time around!
Text from Beth, “Happy day of birth brohume.”
It has a nice ring to it. She almost lost points for sending it at 6:30 in the a.m. But it’s all good.
If you were wondering she was referencing this video.
I recently uncovered a to-do list that I made sometime back when I was working at Sencore. Not sure what my thinking was then, but it inspired me to make a new to-do list. First take a look at my old one.
I don’t even ride dirt bikes. But I am happy to announce I am 0 for 7 on that list. Well I have caught a bullhead, but not since this list was made. Hokay, “Things to do before I’m 23.”
Damn I’m good. It’s a leap year, so I’ll procrastinate on the rest until tomorrow… but then I’m on it like I’m on one dollar bills in a money booth.
Or in this case very, very stupid.
My friend with a newly half-shaven head:
That is someone who is going to be upset with himself in the morning.
The story, from the beginning:
We have a poker game going at our house, like the usually Thursday night. Around 11 or so, in stumbles Phizzle (pictured above). He is severely intoxicated, and his word of the day was apparently “tool.” He keeps on harassing a player in the poker game, Brian O.
After several minutes of this, Brian begins to get upset. Phizzle then points out the fact that Brian is bald (Brian shaved his head a few days ago just for fun). Phizzle throws together every form of the word bald and tool he can think of. A small altercation ensues, but Brian is a nice guy and never punches Phizzle.
We send Phizzle on his way home. A short time later we get a call from Phizzle’s house, and they want him out because he is causing problems. We go pick him up and bring him back to our house.
Being the average happy/sad drunk person, he is now apologetic towards Brian. Brian doesn’t care. No big deal. Phizzle says, “No, I’ll shave my own head.” None of us take this seriously. Phizzle persists, so we give him a clippers and send him upstairs. Assuming he has long since passed out no one thinks anything of it until Adam goes to bed.
What he found was a bed full of hair, and half bald man.
Sorry the picture isn’t that great, but he rolled over seconds after this was taken, and we didn’t have the heart to wake him up.
As you are well aware, we have a Facebook fan site for this blog. I’m not sure what its main purpose is yet, but I’m sure it will come in handy somewhere along the lines.
With this feature, Facebook offers some neat tracking tools. The admin (Jordan and myself) can see charts of how many people look at the page each day, or how many wall posts the page has had in a week, etc.
While I was surfing through these categories I came across this one. It is how many fans our page has each day. The only way this number can go down is if someone removes us meaning they are no longer our fan :’(…
So there are only a few possibilities. Either…
We can rule out 3 because… c’mon, that’s comical to think about. If Facebook is wrong then Hitler was right. Choice 1 doesn’t seem likely either, I know John Jensen Jr. wouldn’t de-fan us. Ever.
So what this really does is unravel a bigger ball of mysteries. A skipped day? Accident? No. I’m talking conspiracy theory. Why do we add an extra day to February when all we’re doing is subtracting a different one? Sneaky bastards… 366 my ass.
So
finally I have some time to write about the adventure Brad and I had
last Wednesday on his 22nd birthday! Unfortunately most of the time the
camera was MIA, but the memories were not! Hooray! I finished my 10
hour work day at Hollister and started my drive up to Brookings, SD, to
go have a drink or two with the one and only Brad Tyler. 
On
my way there I tried putting on my seatbelt, but it just ended up being
broken. A wiser man probably would have let that be that, but I spent
most of my trip singing along to Blink 182 and trying to fix my
seatbelt. As you can see in the picture on the right, that my seatbelt
was not retracting, and since I’m not as big as a fat Chase Hewer, it
probably wasn’t going to save my life in case of accident. (Probably
should have thought about that when I was messing with it while
traveling at a (Jeep record) 82 MPH. Oh well I survived right?
Little did I know that it was the least of my worries. On the left you see the picture of their “party” bathroom.
After driving 45 minutes I really needed to pee, and when I found the
in house facility, I would have been better off peeing outside. Oh well,
they said it was the party bathroom, (but the bathroom upstairs,
probably hasn’t seen any cleaning….ever…..either. I walked out with
toilet paper stuck to my shoe, which everyone found very funny. I didn’t
take a picture of that however I did just leave the removed piece in
the middle of their floor. (gotchya bitch!)
I then had a slice of Brad’s birthday cake that Katie J had made for him. It was delicious. Brad also served me some high
class Ron Diaz in Mt Dew. It wasn’t like Private stock, but it did the
trick regardless! After a drink we decide to go to a house with a
bigger TV to watch the Duke vs UNC college basketball game while we wait
for Adam (celeb poster) to get done with study hall. This game was
starting of pretty good, however Chase missed it completely because
apparently he only slept 8 minutes the night before. Brad put his balls
in Chase’s face, I took a picture, and poked and prodded Chase. Nothing
woke him up. Until his cell phone vibrated, and he was awake like he
had won the lottery. It was amazing.
Eventually we left cause Adam finished his study hall. Brad, Adam, and I continued our adventure by going to Royal River Casino to watch Brad participate in the money booth. He was very successful, he pulled out 15 bills. Unfortunately lucks ran out of luck as usual and only netted 19 dollars from the 15 bills. After the money booth Brad and Adam tried their best at black jack (a game that I shouldn’t be allowed to watch, cause the house wins more than 50% of the time under my watch) and basically donated to the Native Americans in South Dakota. Good job boys! After a few shots at big bertha we decided to stop gambling and restart the drinking.
A drive through some very thick fog and we were back in Brookings headed downtown to see how many free shots we could get Brad because it was his birthday. We walked through one bar which denied Brad his birthday gift and we promptly left the place without spending any money. At the Nine we got Brad his first free shot. Shortly afterwards a friend came up and bought all of us a Jag Bomb, and after two beers we were done at the Nine. (20 minutes tops) We then walked down the street and went to the next bar which also offered Bradley a shot, and we decided not to stick around, and we decided for the first time, we finally cost a bar money. We won a small battle.
The final bar of the night was hosting “Midweek Morgans” which meant Morgan in Cokes were 2 bucks. However it was more like Morgan in a glass with a hint of Coke. Not bad! This is where I got my first victory in darts ever vs Evo. It felt great! Brad and I teamed up and beat Brett and his friend as well. I was on fire! After visiting the bathroom I noticed it had a chalkboard hanging up. Brilliant! We’ll give them a place to write all the stupid shit they want to say on something we can remove and erase without painting over it…Brilliant! So of course we needed to leave our mark.
(chalk board advertising!)
After a few games of photo finder (two same pictures and you picked the 5 errors between them) and a new bar record, we started getting a little tipsy. (Ignore the fact that we probably spent $20-30 on 2 dollar morgans) Brad and Adam were challenged in foosball. After winning the first game outright, Brad and Adam were “beaten” twice in a row. This made our new friend very happy. I was watching the games and I know the score wasn’t even remotely closely kept, and that Brad and Adam won all three games easily, I wasn’t about to ruin this guy’s fun.
Brad and Adam taking their shot of Morgan
And me, having a great time!
In hindsight, I probably should have had the camera out more often, and passed it around some. Too bad I wasn’t much of a quick thinker that night. I blame the Diaz. Anyway after the shots and Morgans and foosball, we decided to walk home. This walk home started a long debate between Brad and our new friend about who really won the games. Brad was just fucking around with a drunk guy, and the drunk guy just begun to get upset. So upset in fact that when his drunker buddy passed out by falling over and bouncing his head off a bench on the sidewalk, he didn’t hesitate at all to keep trash talking Bradley. His friend who was alive, but barely functional laid there in the snowy sidewalk while Brad and this guy continued their quest to define a champion. It ended by Bradley and I eventually just walking away and going back to his house.
(Edit by Brad) - Picture four people walking down a sidewalk. The one on the end runs into a bench, falls to the ground, not moving. The three of us left standing stop, look back, then continue walking, picking up our conversation like nothing happened… in our defense, it was cold.
Back at 9th and 3rd we went downstairs to play some beer pong. While Brad and Adam were cleaning up the competition as usual, Chase and I started bullshitting with our new friend who followed us home. Chase was (now wide awake) ready to just beat on people like usual. So he was provoking this guy pretty well to try and get him to start something. I did my part in adding fuel to the fire, but our efforts were dashed by him just giving up.
Around
this time I became very tired, and walked up to Brad’s bed (my old
futon), and passed out. Thankfully I woke up unharmed in any noticeable
way, and was pleasantly awaken by some of Brad’s buddies who after
waking me up at 7:45 AM, figured out that I was not in fact Brad. At
this point knowing that I had to work in a few hours, I began my drive
home back to Sioux Falls. It was just as cold as it was on the way
there. The seatbelt still lacked function, but by the grace of Blink
182, I made it back safely! It was an interesting adventure to say the
least, it was fun, and Brad did make it through the entire day alive!
Good thing I didn’t gamble anything…
(Edit by Brad) - The reason they came in and woke Jordan up is because they had already had to get up at 5:30 that morning for football practice. Apparently the night before we woke them up at 3 a.m. or so. So to get me back (once they found the correct room) both of them jumped on me - shoulder to my chest style - at 7:30.
**I was slightly tipsy while writing most of this, so I give Brad permission to fix any grammar (however I believe that writing tipsy is probably a good thing for me). He may also edit and add to the story as he pleases. It was his birthday, he’ll cry if he wants to.
For those of you who are sports fans, you will love this.
For those of you who are not, it is a video of a crazy man talking about Canadian drugs.
Du-du-du’s? Can that be real? WHOOP!
This has come a long way from a week ago.
See?
Jordan, as a house we’d appreciate if you posted the top pick next to the bottom one on facebook. At lease give us some credit.
Thanks to Adam for whipping that bathroom into shape.
So
Angels and Airwaves is playing at the Myth on Saturday March 1, 2008.
They’re also playing at Best buy doing a signing and acoustic
performance. So Brad and I are all over this cause we <3 Tom Delonge.
(pictured right at our last visit to a AvA concert). So we’re getting
excited about going, not really worrying about the necessary details;
(how we’re getting there, where the money is coming from, etc.) just
more worried about the right details (what to write on the sign we’re
making, how to make Tom remember us forever, whether or not to offer
ourselves as groupies, etc.)
So everything is cool right? I’ll get off work Friday we’ll drive up, hit a club or two, then crash somewhere in the cities, next day wake up go to Best Buy, go to the concert at the Myth, drive home. Easy as pie, sounds like an awesome adventure. Today Brad texts me saying he forgot that he volunteered to be a judge at a Destination Imagination contest. Just imagine the car crash sound effects that went through my head. I’m at work and trying to fight emotion. I’m wrecked.
So this is where you guys come in. Brad is out, screw him. Who wants to go to this concert with me (you’d be twice as cool if you have a better ride than the Jeep) and have a great time? We can leave Friday night or Saturday, I just need to be back to work Sunday at 8:00 AM. So Brad’s crossed out, who wants his spot?
He’s dead, its your turn!
Pictures often make me laugh. They make me laugh even harder when I know the person/people involved.
Here is one of our good friend Brett from 8th and 8th in Brookings.
I can’t help but laugh at that.
Again, Brett and his relatives all have a sense of humor. Here is a picture of that same niece of his. I’m assuming this saves them from putting nicks in the wall to check her height each year… maybe?
Instant classics in my opinion. If any of you have any humorous pics send them in. We like to laugh at ABJ, whether it’s infants and guns or infants flying high.
***No kids were injured while making this post.***
Highly
doubtful we get many readers from NIU, but ABJ sends our deepest
sympathy towards the survivors of the tragic school shooting. We will
never know exactly why people do what they do.
Situations like this stir up emotions in all of us (hopefully). While I hope this never happens close to home - Omaha was too close - it makes you think. What we can be sure of is that life is precious, and shouldn’t be taken for granted.
Happy 20th birthday to reader JoAnn. You are now the most worthless age there is… besides 22.
So while closing the store (Hollister Co 266) last night over the speakers came a song called “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit. A song I have not heard in quite some time. However I heard it and instantly I was blown away with my Junior year of USF memories. What a great year! So here’s the songs lyrics with my added comments for fun!
Can we forget about the things I said
When I was drunk (well at least they are funny to remember now)
I didn’t mean to call you that (well I probably did at the time, seriously eat shit and die, j/k)
I can’t remember what was said or what you threw at me (I don’t remember anything thrown at me, so yeah)
Please tell me, please tell me Why (Please do, I bet its funny!)
My car is in the front yard, (Promise that never really happened dad :))
And I’m Sleeping with my clothes on (I don’t think you can call that sleeping, but close enough)
Came in through the window last night (Yeah, we never used the door.)
And your gone (whoever typed the lyrics out has bad grammar)
Gone (They always came back)
It’s no suprise to me I am my own worst enemy (The only person who can stop me is me!)
‘Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me (Well, I didn’t think that’d happen)
The smoke alarm is going off, (It was until I pulled the battery.)
And there’s a cigarette Still burning, (I never smoked, so this line doesn’t apply sorry.)
Please tell me why my car is in the front yard (Well I know why, but seriously why?)
And I’m sleeping with my clothes on (Makes getting up for class the next day easier)
Came in through the window last night and your gone (Senior year I had to scale a wall to do it, but I did)
Gone (I promise they came back)
please tell me why my car is in the front yard (its a Jeep bitch, I can drive where I wanna)
And I’m sleeping with my clothes on (Even if I took them off for whatever reason I usually put them back on so I could wake up 15 minutes later, seriously)
I came in through the window last night (I never broke anything thank God!)
It’s no suprise to me (Hell yeah I knew what I was doing every step of the way)
I am my own worst enemy (Wendy is a close second)
‘Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me (Pain is weakness leaving the body!)
Can we forget about the things I said (Yeah I changed my mind, lets blog about it)
When I was drunk (I’d rather not forget 361 days of Junior year)
I didn’t mean to call you that (Well unless you’re that one chick who came to town with that other chick from Minnesota, I meant everything I said to you. So did everyone else, Ms. Cuntworth, hahaha Austen that was gold.)
That was fun, I laughed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKKqPOiJxI
Just a little bit of hazing.
There are too many sad things with this to count, but I’ll try.
Harry Potter is a good read, and apparently a new religion in Sioux Falls.
The Bible? I don’t know what’s worse… that it isn’t first, or that it is even on this list. Who has actually read the Bible? Props (or comps) if you have, but I’m willing to bet most of the Facebook community doesn’t sit down with the Good Word for an evening read.
‘Dont Read.’ Number 3. This doesn’t count all of the people that said “Don’t Read,” “I hate books,” or “Haha, reeding blows worse then having too tell time on a clok. For realz, get a digital one! They rock my retarded socks off1111!1″
I’m afraid for numbers 4 and 5 people ran out of space in their favorite movies section.
I think I’m going to write a book and title it ‘Dont Read.’ It will be 200 blank pages, but what does it matter, I’ll be #3 in SooFoo’s heart, right behind J.K. Rowling and God (in that order). I can handle that.
Sports announcers are the people who pollute average sports fans’ minds with useless analysis and garbage statistics. They also usually like to call things out, in hopes of being the next Al Michaels (”Do you believe in miracles?!?”, Yeah they made a movie about that game and his call). Well these announcers got one right, and even they are thinking they probably shouldn’t have.
Link: (or check comments for embedded)
South Dakota, you suck. My MacBook Pro just told me.
Current temperature. I’m assuming this is in my room. So I’ll blog until I can feel my feet again.
Some of you have already received an invite from me for this, some of you haven’t. Facebook only let’s me send out 20 a day. What is this? Well this is this years ABJ challenge. It’s the Facebook app that lets you pick your March Madness bracket and go against all of your friends. You can join it (and please do) by clicking here, here, or here… but not here.
You don’t like sports? Not a big deal. At all. If anything, the better you know the game, the worse you will do. I haven’t double checked that, but I’ll go ahead and say it’s a fact. I know a few years ago a lady in Hartford (SD) picked every game correctly up to the final four. She picked 60 games in a row correctly. I don’t think she could tell a basketball apart from a baseketball… am I right!?
I haven’t decided on what to give away yet. It could be anything. Or it could nothing.
An update from my room’s weather department: -22.
An update of my tolerance for winter: -Kevin Bacon.
Best thing to happen to legos in a long time. Actually, ever.
First off, here is the original video for Blink-182’s Always.
Next, here is a close (and clever) second.
If you have time, please view both. It brought a huge smile to myself.
I will put both in the comments, but if you are viewing on Facebook, you won’t see that.
So
I have recently applied, interviewed, and accepted a summer internship
with the Sioux Falls Canaries. Since I can remember I have always wanted
to get into baseball. Now that I know I won’t be a player, or be the
youngest GM of the Seattle Mariners ever, but I had to get my foot in
the door somehow. This was also tough to do cause I like my job at
Hollister right now. But encouraged by my loving girlfriend Sara I put
in my resume to the Canaries and got a call back asking for an
interview. Today I had the interview and it went extremely well. I will
be a summer game day part time intern. They are going to work around my
work schedule and basically I get to learn all of the tricks of the
trade called baseball business.
Since sports
jobs are very competitive its not uncommon for everyone to have to get
in the door and then make something of themselves before they find
themselves a career in the sport. Hopefully this is my foot in the
door, and I can shine my awesome self and make a case for something
bigger than a part time internship. My future is very unclear so we’ll
see what happens. Who knows maybe Hollister will offer something
special, or maybe something different all together will become
available. But I work 50 hours a week now, whats a few extra hours
working baseball? Not too much I don’t think Anyway it starts in the spring, so I will be keeping you guys detailed on my journey as a baseball intern.
Who knows…this job might be the beginning to my future presidency and take over of the world. A man can dream right?
The seemingly magical powers of YouTube give us the opportunity to see anything from anyone around the world. Recently I stumbled across a few clips that are very funny. Especially for a group from South Dakota.
The series is called “Vermillion” and is filmed by some college kids at USD. So far they have five episodes filmed and up on the world wide web. Once you watch one, you’ll have to watch the rest, they’re addicting!
Episode 101 - Pilot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHQ7asN0df4
Episode 102 - Gay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lq0SKqUTu0
Episode 103 - Q-Tip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkweYqK6Teg
Episode 104 - Gift Exchange:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNR91nC6NJ0
Episode 105 - Pussies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBmb1lCOPzw
I’m not going to embed the videos in the comments. If anyone is too lazy to click on those links, then you don’t deserve to watch them. But if you aren’t too lazy, then definitely voice your opinion in the comments… I’d like to know what you think.
The title is a baseball reference, don’t worry if you didn’t get it.
This Saturday I could be in Minneapolis, watching this. Instead I will be at Tri-Valley, judging this.
Oh well, maybe I’ll find the next Jim Carrey. Besides, Tom looked kind of lazy this time around, and about 95% of the people are hoping Mark jumps out from back stage and says “Just kidding!” If you listen close at 3:41 someone shouts, “Blink-182!” and everyone that hears it cheers wildly.
If Blink-182 does reunite at the Myth on Saturday, I am not sleeping until I build a successful time machine.
So its my day off today, and I’ve spent it so far waking up, washing my face, eating some food, finishing some laundry, all in anticipation for tonight. Tonight Curtis and I are having our weightlifting competition for the double date dinner. The loser pays. Its 5 events and only two are likely decided before hand. Curtis will no doubt unless he blows a pectoral muscle or shoulder joint will out bench press me. I should have no problem beating him in the crunches competition. So the last three will make all the difference. Bicep curls, Pull Ups, and Squats. I’m not really nervous, I wish I had trained harder, but what can you do? Either way I’m in really good shape, down to 142lbs naked and if I stopped drinking (booze) my outline of a six pack would be cut enough hurt people. Probably lose 5 more pounds too. But who’d want that? So in twenty minutes its off to the gym.
The bet for all purposes was to motivate ourselves to get into shape.
That goal was accomplished. Could I have tried harder? Yes, but I still
feel pretty damn good. If I get swept I may be telling you a different
story tomorrow. We shall see. I’ll let you know how it goes! Your
favorite Underdog going to battle!
Update: Jordan wins, Curtis loses, I can almost taste the steak now! Well it took 2 and a half hours to go through the 5 events. It really was a battle. The first one was the bicep curls and I whooped his ass pretty good on that one and I was feeling pretty good after that. After that we did pull ups and I pretty much willed myself to do 18. He then stretched his neck out for 18 himself. And in a tie breaker round he went first and netted 15 more pull ups. I got up there and did another 18 to match my first set feeling extremely good. Curtis was going to try 3rd time and make something happen but he couldn’t match my second set of 18. So I was quickly up 2-0. We moved on to the bench press and started to work our way up to our max bench. I’ve never pushed more than 180lbs in my life, but I again reached and pushed 195 one time. Curtis then had to match the calculated difference (he had a 30 pound advantage weight wise) and he ended up beating me. However he made it very dramatic by not doing it the first time, but trying again and pushing it up with relative ease.
So the contest was inched closer to 2 to 1. Knowing I had the crunch contest without trying, I was feeling pretty good, but I wasn’t about to get excited about anything. We moved over to the Smithcage and did our squat contest. We pushed each other pretty hard here, we both smashed our predicted amounts. I squated 365 2 times and that was enough to eliminate Curtis and guarantee my free steak dinner. So pressing on to the 5th event even though it wasn’t necessary we had to do as many crunches as possible in 60 seconds. I crunched out 50. Blazing. He hit 26 before giving up and conceding the total victory.
I’m feeling pretty pumped about the day, Curtis put up quite the battle, but in the end I almost nailed all 5 events. Granted I’ve been working out for quite some time and had a lot more experience in it. But we are both pretty fat free and he had tons more weight in me. To be honest, I don’t think he wanted it as much as I did. Afterwards I could barely hold my head up, and he was completely fine. Nothing wrong with that, but its tough to win when you walk away not giving it all to the contest. Anyway, HooRay to me! Congrats to Curtis, at least you still look really good!
Apparently it is now sentence of the day.
Poor quality video, high quality dunk.
That is our friend Nate, on a 9′6″ hoop. 360 between the legs… is that all you got?
Comps.
So today I woke up this morning to find out that Sara is ill. Obviously my first reaction was “that’s nice, its 9AM, I work at 1PM” followed by a prompt rolling over. When it was clued in that she was for real my butt kicking boyfriend skills definitely set in. She probably has AIDS, Monkey Pox, Baseball Fever, or SARS, but her mom diagnosed her with Influenza A (influ-a as like to call it for short). Obviously this virus got an A for ass kicking in school. So I prepped a bath for her because she wanted to relax and relieve these out of no where aches and pains (apparently a precursor to what’s to come.) Which afterwards I resumed my peaceful slumber that was interrupted kindly by her beautiful voice asking me to turn on the heat lamp once or twice. I then preformed my morning version of massage therapy (still entrenched in bed using one or two hands depending on the angle to rub various areas of her aching body.)
After that I made her some lunch because I didn’t get out of bed early enough for breakfast. I know I suck, but she didn’t seem to mind, she wasn’t terribly hungry understandably. I then looked in my kitchen to find food and honestly found nothing. Worried that I would fail to feed my baby I went to the classic peanut butter sandwich. Just like anything else she eats there came a special order with this sandwich. I believe the direct quote was “Make sure you spread the peanut butter all over each slice of the bread, covering every centimeter with the peanut butter. Then cut the sandwich in half.” I can proudly say I won chef of the day with that one! By then I needed to go to work so I left her with my TV and kissed her goodbye (I’m doomed if its meant to be anyway.)
About an hour or two into work I got a call from her asking me to pick up some medicine from the store on my break. Glady I obliged and even got her some Campbell’s chicken with stars soup and cooked that for her. She’s was happy as she could be in her condition. The lunch hour quickly passed on and I was headed back to work. With the medicine she was able to get herself to do some daily tasks, but however she definitely isn’t faking it to get out of school. Anyway after work I grocery shopped and brought the $70 in groceries in one load (three flights of stairs and parking in the far lot, muscles baby, muscles!) in less than 30 minutes. So now we’re stocked on simple food, bananas, and facial tissues!
Knowing that I could find myself in this same position scares me cause I need to work and stuff, but hopefully my immune system is tough enough to beat influ-a into a failing grade! Wish me luck! Also wish Sara the best, she’s not feeling well and she would appreciate well feelings! Go human race! Boo viruses or virii? Here’s to hoping to not actually becoming sick like the wind… hahahaha
Tom Delonge is a caring guy. He knew we missed him when he was in Minneapolis a few days ago, so he’s giving us a second shot. Sunday, August 3rd Angels and Airwaves will be in Minneapolis for none other than… the Vans Warped Tour! That’s right, they’ve decided to play the entire tour, which will be stopping at the Metrodome.
Glancing through the list here are some other notable bands that should be fun to watch:
All-American Rejects
Gym Class Heros
Motion City Soundtrack
Pennywise
Reliant K
Story of the Year
Sum 41
So I’ve been sitting here for about 10 minutes trying to figure out what to write about. I have nothing. So I’ll ask a question. Are you ready for this winter bullshit to be over yet? I want to wear shorts for real!
Random Photo:
(I have randomly selected a photo from my photo library, enjoy!) (click on the photo to expand it)
So now if you bookmark our fine blog, you should see Curly Q in the bar. And he should be in your address bar as well! YAY! I’m glad I figured that out, if anyone has a better idea than Q let me know, the picture can only be 16×16 pixels so we’re not really able to get detailed.
So I went over to himynameismark.com which is Mark Hoppus’s blog. If you don’t know who Mark Hoppus is, well I hate you, but he’s the bass and vocals for Blink 182 and +44. Anyway this was linked on his blog, and its awesome. They used Mario Paint to pull this off, pretty damn good.
Click to watch at youtube, or look in the comments!
Coming to the Myth in Minnesota this weekend is NOFX… Sunday to be exact.
I am assuming a lot of you are not familiar with the band, so let me fill you in.
NOFX
That picture explains a lot. They are a punk rock band (ska, if you want to sub-categorize) that jokes around a lot. They have been around for a long time. They were ahead of their time when they started in the early 80’s. As far as bands go, consider them the Metallica of punk. Their music sounds like Blink-182’s oldest stuff (Cheshire Cat).
I have always wanted to see one of their shows live. They are often a Warped Tour band, but unfortunately not this year or last. The type of crowds they bring in are always energetic, and very into the music scene.
Point being, if I happen to find myself in or around the Minneapolis area on Sunday, I am definitely hitting up this show.
To give you a little taste of their style humor, they released a Live album (music that was recorded from their live shows) in 1995 and called it “I Heard They Suck Live!!” Then in 2006 they put out another Live album, this time calling it “They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live!”
Here is an article I wrote for our kickball team last summer. It made me laugh.
Underdogs Remain Undefeated; Squash Steelers
Unfortunately, for this writer, that title is all I have left of what was a very good, funny, clever article. Before it could be copied down electronically, team buffoon Chayson Hewer grabbed it away. After mumbling something about “foot…giraffe…snurfcycle…small genitals,” he proceeded to rip up the paper, and put the shreds on a cooking tray, and into the oven.
When I confronted his parents of this strange occurrence, they started to cry. “We’ve tried mentally and physically abusing him, but nothing will work… he’s too dumb to understand he’s being punished…” After concluding my disturbing conversation with his fine, upstanding parents, I stood in awe of what came next.
Chayson set down the tray of browned parchment (formerly my amazing article) on the kitchen table, covered it in ketchup, and began to eat it. Or so I thought – after chewing for a while he made a pterodactyl type sound, lifted his neck up, and spit the ketchup stained paper onto the chair next to him.
I swung my head quickly to look at his parents, who did not meet my eyes, but simple said, “That is how he feeds his imaginary friend…”
I concluded the evening with a proposition for the disturbed boy’s parents… I asked if they have ever thought about putting him down.
Neither one protested the idea.
New article (related to kickball) to come later today.
My room mate Cody was in a car accident near Chamberlain today. I don’t want any rumors starting because of something I say, so I’ll keep it short since I haven’t talked to Cody yet.
What I do know is that he was air lifted to Sanford in Sioux Falls. His injuries are serious. Whether you know Cody or not, please keep him and everyone involved in your prayers.
These guys impress me.
Vermillion Episode 106 - Rapist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rddWxM4-tI
Vermillion Episode 107 - Dollop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laQxW_pk0Os
In case you missed it, I linked all of the previous episodes in this post.
So for the next few days, weeks, months, years, decades Brad and I will be working on a special project, and while we’re hard at work we’ll need something to supplement the blog. I promise that this project will end up being apart of your daily routine, so do your part, and write for us! Ya go ahead and write about anything, important, not important, random or serious. We don’t care. You’ll get special celebrity post credit and all you have to do is write a blog and send it to gillis27@gmail.com.
Looking forward to all of your creative writings! As well as the completed version of our project, which will blow minds. Seriously. I might wear a hat to help keep my mind in.
So ya Brad wants to go into advertising… Awesome, can you compete with these guys Brad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC0sR5_NTFo
I don’t think so! They got skillz!!!!
So I was thinking to myself while in the car with Brad one day and I stumbled upon an idea. In no way could I ever remember all of our fun adventures at one given time. Its just not possible. There are too many. However if you randomly said any word, there’s little doubt in my mind that I could come up with some type of funny, relevant, or at least entertaining story about my history with that word. Granted I’m sure everyone here has the same capabilities, but however we have a website, and we’re cooler than 99% of America. So I proposed this idea to Brad and he instantly bought it. We just picked up our four dollar Little Caesars pizzas and were headed back to my apartment where he randomly said “window.” Could he have premeditated the story to go along with it or did he just see windows as he was driving to come up with a random word? We’ll never know. (He says it was random, I believe him.)
Without speaking we both came up with the same adventure night that ended up like this.
You may click on that for the full view. Anyway I’d finish out the story for you but that’d be no fun. As you can see from the picture, you’re probably wondering how window derived into that. Well us too. (Well we know how that happened, so actually we’re not wondering, I lied.) Anyway this was a big round-about way of saying hey, I added an adventures category just in case I (or we) wanted to have them all in one place. This site wasn’t really created to look into our past, but more for our future and present endeavors. We plan on saving most of the good stuff our co-authored auto-bio-filler-bio-auto-grahy (ABFBA for short (aka A Book for Future Bad Asses, seriously, just came up with that, yay Corona, it makes you think, and use lots of commas, I just can’t stop, I just won’t….nevermind. ). Meaning that we’re both going to write about ourselves, and each other, and a good filler to tie it all up. So its two autobiographies, two biographies, and some fun fillers, all in one. Its like 5 books in one. What a deal right? Yeah.
So here’s a reminder to all the boys and girls out there to fill out your facebook brackets and join the ABJ.com pool!
You can join the pool by clicking here. Games start on Thursday so make your picks ASAP!
Good luck!
Time for a funny…er…creepy…er… well here’s a video.
Also, I realize I’m 30 minutes past Easter. But it’s my website, and I’ll procrastinate if I want.
As always, the video is also in the comments section.
South Part meets Harry Potter. Quite interesting.
Funny. Whether you read Harry Potter (me, Bradley) or watch South Park (Jordan, and me - Bradley).
One of the best moments in television history. The explanation is in the comments.
My aunt, Denise, had every good intentions in mind when she posted this…
…on her own wall.
She doesn’t quite understand facebook yet. In fact, let’s start from the begin. When she added me as a friend, this is what I found on her wall:
I felt compelled to say SOMETHING, so I responded:
Now all is well, right?
Nope.
“Oh snap! Is it my parents anniversary? I had better check my aunt’s FB wall!”
I’ll let it slide. She’s no Cole Gillis…
For anyone who is curious about what duct tape pics are being sent to Red Green, I’m guessing it’s these:
Seriously, who hasn’t used duct tape for a back window?
What? None of you?
Losers.
So I work at Hollister for 45-50 hours a week and get to listen to the Hollister collection of music for 90% of those hours. The nice thing is that Hollister seems to be ahead of the curve in picking music that isn’t big yet, but soon catches on. Unfortunately for these bands and Hollister these bands still suck, and I really believe music is washing out and eventually something or someone will bring something ever so slightly different to the stage and make ears happy again. Cause right now its almost all ‘emo’ music and they won’t allow their ears to be happy or any part of themselves really to be happy. Anyway of the tolerable (not awesome by any means, but I can handle listening to it) music right now is from The Bravery, 2nd Day Crush, I Hate Kate, Vampire Weekend, Zox, Bloc Party, and a few others. There are some obvious likes in there as well (Angels and Airwaves, Motion City Soundtrack, MxPx) but they don’t count cause well they’re likely on their way out of the Hollister jukebox.
There is one song that sticks in my head and I find it really cocky and clever and catchy. Its ‘Suspicious Character’ by the Blood Arm. I can’t believe I didn’t write it first.
Have a good day!
Well everyone in our pool has seemed to have some sort of bracket breaker from sweet schools like Duke (haha you bastards!) and Georgetown. So with the 2nd round of games starting up soon I figured I’d spend some time looking at our pool.
(starting from the bottom of the standings)
First of all sitting dead in the water with 10 points is JJJ. He picked the ‘Nova upsets however that won’t be enough for him to take the bracket home. Props to him for banking on the play-in winner.
Sheldon is next in the bottom but he has 4 final four teams alive, so he could be jumping really fast.
Chris C’s bracket looks all but done, is not good and he’s missing 2 final four teams, however a UNC win over Texas would make it really good.
Katie J put a lot of faith into OJ Mayo who decided to play like an NBA player instead of a teammate, however if UCLA beats UNC in the final game, she probably has an outside shot of taking it.
Our own Brad Tyler is next, he has 7 elite 8 possibilities alive, all 4 final four teams, and a Wisconsin over Xavier win would almost seal the deal and make Bradley the best thing there ever was or ever will be!
JD has very few possibilities left, but like Chris’s bracket a UNC over Texas win would make their brackets both strong, and depending on the few other games they have left might decide between the too. (unless other people have UNC over Texas, hah)
Eric D has the next spot and he has Kansas over UCLA. Since these championship games are worth 25 points or something, getting those two right would really strengthen his bracket.
Brooks is all but done, he has Memphis winning it all, it might work out for him, but with Georgetown and UConn done for him, we might as well stick the fork in this bracket.
Kyle H has UNC over UCLA, but like Brooks, has very few options to pick up those sweet 16 and elite 8 points.
Kris K has UCLA over Georgetown, his bracket is done. If UCLA wins, Katie J will likely pass him in the meantime.
Richard D is another UNC over Texas and probably an advantage over the previous two because all 4 final four spots are alive and 7 elite 8 teams are as well. Good job so far Rich!
My own bracket is breathing its last breathes, UConn and Georgtown really let me down, however a UNC win over Kansas and a Memphis win over Xavier in the final four followed by a UNC win over Memphis, could be enough to get me all the glory!
Unfortunately for the love of my life, Sara’s bracket is all cooked. For her to win the pool here she’d have to get UCLA over Texas and a Davidson over UNC and Davidson to win it all. Its her only hope, and my guess is that even that would still put her a few points behind. Sorry babe!
Chris K has UCLA over UNC and Stanford over Texas. With those two games, so between him in a Katie J in the UCLA over UNC games its between Texas and Stanford for them too.
Scott T has Kansas over UCLA like Eric, likely making Eric’s bracket futile, but he picked Tenn over Louisville and UNC, if Tenn loses to UL and UNC beats UL, Eric has a shot still.
Paul O is sitting very good for picking 4 1 seeds for final four teams. UNC over UCLA in the final game, his bracket is very alive!
Beth Tyler has UNC over Memphis, thus ending my dreams. Way to go girl! Unless the Xavier pick can get me some bonus points, and Kansas loses, I think she will edge me.
Chad B also has UNC over UCLA, Paul O and him will be neck and neck through the finish.
Tyler A is our current leader and he is prime to carry this one home. He has every game alive still. He has UNC over UCLA which puts him over the other two in the top 5 also if Stanford pulls out and beats Memphis, he’s got this one wrapped up in style.
So with all of that in mind, you’d be crazy not to give most of the odds of winning to Tyler A. Beth T has the 2nd best shot in my opinion just because Tyler has Chad and Paul covered. However the darkhorse here is Brad Tyler. If he gets a Wisconsin over Xavier battle, he will win. Everyone else is pretty much covered and needs some serious picking accuracy from here on out to pull this debacle out. I guess I’ll just watch UNC and hope they don’t piss it down their legs. My bracket is officially busted. Thanks Beth!
I like the karate chop! (in bedded in comments)
Yes, I know most of you don’t like baseball, but tough shit, today it opens for most of the teams and while I get stuck working during 90% of the games, I still just get all giddy thinking about it happening. The six inches of snow makes me cry a bit inside, but that’s ok, its baseball season!
Anyone want to play a game of catch? Seriously?
Go Mariners!
So
today I just quit my job, I basically went in there to management
meeting, they said that from now our we have to wear our clothes styled
in a super specific way, and I said I’ve finally had it. I wasn’t going
to be treated like that. On the way out I made sure to leave little
presents in the store that will help show my appreciation for the time
being. I’d rather be poor and living in the streets than looking like a
retard with their shirt tucked in only half way. Give me a break. I
believe this is me turning a new leaf. Making something real of myself.
My chance to say, you know what I can do what I want to do! Its
baseball season! Since I’ll no doubt risk losing everything in my life,
cause of unpaid debt, and zero income, I totally plan on whoring myself
off to rich women. As a professional escort, I plan on giving them a
ride for their money. And for the record I leave no paper trail. Your
family doesn’t have to know. I’ll be building a new website with my
Apple that comes in the mail tomorrow. You’ll need to subscribe to see
the nude pics. Thanks everyone for your support!
At first when I watch this video I thought, “Wow. That is the craziest thing I have ever seen.” But now that I think about it, I would rather jump out of a plane without a parachute than attempt a double back flip on a dirt bike.
Either way, Travis Pastrana is insane. A real modern day Evil Knievil.
Last night I went to comedy night in Brookings. I have never been to this before, so I wasn’t expecting much. There were two comedians - both of whom I thought were funny.
Out of the hour and half show I laughed too many times to count. But the one joke that I knew I had to remember was from the second comedian, Bill Blank.
He was talking about short people (midgets) being in karate. He thought it would be funny to see that cage fight. He said Joe Rogan would turn into a baseball commentator. “Chuck Liddell takes him down, throws him out of the ring… he’s going back, back, back… I can’t believe what I just saw!”
The joke probably wasn’t that great, but I was one of two people who caught the Kirk Gibson reference, which made me love it even more.
Long story short, I am going to have to make it to more comedy nights.
Since I can only try to be funny, I’ll leave you with an excerpt from a professional. This is from Bill Blank’s website, responding to why people may be visiting his website:
“…or you saw me, hated me, and wish to express your distain. In which case, I will save myself the trouble of answering your email by telling you to blow me right now. They are just jokes, if you take what I say seriously, then you are an idiot, and I hope you get hit by a train.”
Me personally… I hope none of you get hit by a train. I guess I don’t have it in me to be a comedian.
So
I’m sick in bed with a virus (meaning that there’s nothing the doctors
can do, they took blood and will tell me what it is tomorrow, could be
full blown AIDS, I’m hoping for something less severe) that won’t go
away. I’ve had a fever two or three times and it keeps coming back. I
just can’t seem to get past this. Anyway sitting in bed I was able to
move my fingers enough to make a comic. Katie J gets credit for the
idea, I can barely think of anything on my own right. For all I know its
not even funny. But I thought it was? I’ll let the world critique!
Back to bed. Bye
I planned on making you all wait so the dates are post dated, but I felt generous. Enjoy! Send me well wishes…please!
Well I made us a new colorful banner! Please critique it! Thanks!Also with the new banner, I can theme it! So here ya go, the first them, National Championship night!Douglas-Roberts 4 Prez! Go Tigers! (if you didn’t see the original it’ll be back Tuesday)
…Me.
Amazing game though. One of the most exciting games of the whole tournament. Plus yours truly won a rather large $1 dollar bet. The bettor is not paying up though. I might have to hire the squirrels to come collect for me.
I
woke up this morning feeling really good for the first time in over a
week. For those of you behind in the life and styles of Jordan Gillis,
I’ve been sick with a virus that pretty much limited me to watching
Mariners baseball, movies, and working from the floor of Hollister.
Yeah I was pretty sick. Anyway I felt really good this morning….after I
blew my nose (or what’s left of my nose) for the first time. Awesome
right? Well I learned from Sara that it was raining outside, so that’ll
cancel my run today. Not the worst news in the world, my body probably
could use just one more day off. I plan on starting an indoor core
workout here in a bit anyway to make up for it.
So its my first
day off in forever ( I don’t count the three I got while I was sick
because that was work just to survive) and I don’t know what to do. The
nice thing about being sick is that my laundry did not pile up for 5
days. So check that off the list of things to do. I will end up doing
the dishes, maybe pick up a few things, and be done with that. After
that it’ll only be 1PM or so. Guess I’ll start sketching!
Anyway I
did get my haircut, it looks good, (shameless friend plug) if you’re a
guy and need a haircut, go to Sports Clips at 57th and Western (behind
Borraco’s) and see Lindsey Koster. She’s great! While I was there I
was watching Sports Center and learned that Brett Favre is probably
coming back. Sweet life for him and Packer fans.
If you’re still
reading this you must be really bored, I haven’t said much of substance.
I’m pretty excited about softball and cartoon making…Oh Good the
Mariners game is starting! Go Mariners! Bye!
So
I was looking around on the iTunes for some new (or old) music to add
to the collection. I saw a page for “The Next Big Thing” sale and
noticed this band Air Traffic which has a song or two on the Hollister
playlist that I can tolerate. (And tolerating is no diss at all, if I
can tolerate it after listening it 5 times a day for 4 weeks, its
probably good stuff). Anyway I had a iTunes gift card for a snowy day
like this so I put down the 
$5.99
for their new album and dedicated an hour to listening to it. Its very
light and easy listening in my opinion. First three bands that came to
mind while listening to it was Motion City Soundtrack, Cute is What I
Aim For, and The Killers. Obviously after one listen I don’t know wether
or not I can really put them in that category of good music, but I’m
not upset I spent the 6 dollars on the album. Its pretty good. Some of
the songs that stuck out were obviously the Hollister songs, but I’ll
list them anyway “Charlotte”, “I Like That”, and “Just Abuse Me”. I
think if you have iTunes you should invest your money into this CD. The
band has a good record and I believe if you like the same types of music
that I do, that you’d enjoy this album. Its especially good on a day
like today, where you have nothing to do but to sit back and listen to
some good music. Also if you have any new music that I need to listen
to let me know, I’m looking. Also if you dabble with www.last.fm add me
as a friend. And if you want to know what I listen to, check this out. I like Blink 182 apparently.
The last few days I’ve been really trying to get out and play catch. My two days off last week when I was sick, it was 50 degrees, sunny, and no wind outside. It was beautiful. So awesome outside that I thought about getting off my death bed just to roll around outside to enjoy the good weather for a bit.
Then this week when I’m feeling better, and I’m ready to break in ball glove again it snows on Thursday my first day off. Fine the last snow of April, it was bound to happen right? Well I guess Saturday the sky’s had a little more to offer me cause its falling even somewhat slowly right now and pissing me off. Why the heck can’t I just play catch. I was going to drag Sara out there to toss the ball around out there even though she’s not confident in her ability, I’m really ready to play.
Well since I’m stuck indoors where its comfortable I got a few options today. I can start drawing since my tablet is here, I can watch some movies, or I could rage. I’m game. Anyway I upgraded the blog’s software so if you notice anything not working right please let me know!
While
I wait for Brad to give me some screen play action, or something of a
bit of direction I put my new Wacom pen tablet to use. Its pretty sweet.
I’ve had fun with it for a solid hour or so and I drew Sara. She wanted
to be a cartoon. So I made Sara into a cartoon. I like how it turned
out. She’s pretty good looking Anyway these cartoons are pretty much going to rock your socks! Too bad they’re no where close to being done!
Come on. Seriously?
If applications are going to be this gay, at least let me know who is ranked last out of those 27,033,523 people.
“Find out who is interested in you” - Maybe I will. But if they’re using this facebook app to tell me that they like me, then I don’t want to know if they’re interested… they are dead to me.
Don’t get me wrong, I love facebook. It’s a great way to keep in touch with people. They are even coming out with Facebook Chat, which will no doubt double the dropout rate. But when I have to scroll down for schfifty five minutes to write on someones wall, I get irritated. Why can’t people just do it the old fashioned way and text flirt?
While we’re on the cell phone tangent… I remember my first phone:
What a beauty, huh? It couldn’t tell the time, or tell me who was calling. All it would say is “Call.” It couldn’t remember peoples phone numbers for me, and I certainly couldn’t play solitaire on it. To get reception I had to practically climb to the top of a cell phone tower and plug it in. It couldn’t calculate a tip, or tell me that 5 + 5 is 50. It couldn’t play MP3s. Hell, it probably couldn’t even play MP2s. It couldn’t take pictures. Texting hadn’t been invented yet. But damn it, I loved having a phone.
My new phone doesn’t have a camera, and every time I think about bitching about it I laugh. Because who needs a camera phone to flirt? I have facebook.
So I’ve played around with last.fm (http://www.last.fm), for the last few days, something I’ve been a member of for quite a while, but I rarely ever payed much attention. Since September 2006 I have played 62,368 tracks. Now that number in inflated cause I know I have not listened to that many tracks. 95% of the time I turn my iTunes into a radio station by using the party shuffle with the play higher rated songs more often option turned on. So my favorite songs play more often. My music got left on pretty often. Now that I primarily use my apple, the music stops when its shut, so lately its a more “realistic” reading. But I don’t often skip songs, I usually just let it roll. So theoretically if I had been paying attention or at my computer, those songs would have played anyways. That was a long way of saying, I haven’t listened to that many songs in a year, but if I had these numbers are pretty accurate.
Here are apparently my favorite albums in numbers of plays. The number of plays aren’t full album “spins” but each time a song is played off the album it gets a tick.
So we’ll begin this top 10 with honorable mentions:
The Offspring - Americana 1,214 plays 1.9% (1998)
With songs such as The Kids Aren’t Alright, Pretty Fly (for a White Guy), and Walla Walla it was the first album that my mother ever took away from me. I really think she hated the song Why Don’t You Get a Job or something, but yeah, she jacked it one day. Oh well, after 10 years this album still rocks!
Eminem - The Eminem Show 1,197 plays 1.8% (2002)
This album played in my Jeep almost on repeat daily when i was 17. I was growing through my high school rap phase, and I found Eminem catchy, easy to rap along too, clever, and very funny. I could listen to this album for a good laugh, when I am pissed off, when I want to get pumped up, or as background music. There isn’t a song on the album which hasn’t been a favorite song at least once, and I have no doubt that if last.fm and ipods were around way way back in the day, this album would be top 3. Right now ‘Till I Collapse, Cleanin’ Out My Closet, and Without Me are my highest rated songs.
The Killers - Hot Fuss 1,070 plays 1.6% (2004)
The Killers
broke onto the scene and into my listen world in 2004. That summer of
2005 they really took off for me. I fell in love the record and played
it on repeat while playing fictional baseball in my apartment when I had
nothing better to do. (Brad hadn’t moved in yet, I was taking a summer
class in Human Anatomy, and working part time at Triple Plays Sports
Cards, making just enough to live, have the internet, and eat party
pizzas) The people paying close attention will notice that this all
happened before my last.fm beginning so this is another album that
probably deserves some more love, but just falls off the top ten list.
Highest rated songs Mr. Brightside and Somebody Told Me, however there is not a song on here that I don’t like, Jenny Was a Friend of Mine, Smile Like You Mean it, On Top, Change Your Mind, I mean seriously I should’ve just listed the whole album track list…. But I won’t!
Eminem - The Slip Shady LP 998 plays 1.5% (1999)
The CD I bought
with my dad one day and after listening to in on the way home I was
instructed to not let mom know much about it. (Most of you wouldn’t know
it, but she is a mom She only wanted the best for me I know). Back in the day my favorite songs were Brain Damage, Role Model, and My Name Is, but now that I have become less naive, and understood the CD more, I like the wittier songs like Bad Meets Evil, As the World Turns, Just Don’t Give a Fuck, and Still Don’t Give a Fuck much more. The Slim Shady LP got a lot of play in my portable CD player (remember those?).
Motion City Soundtrack - I Am the Movie 949 plays 1.5% (2003)
Suggested to me by Mark Hoppus I caught onto this band a year ago and picked up their first two CDs (including this one) and fell in love with both of them. It was about time I found some new stuff to latch onto and I was really hooked. I listened to the CDs a bunch and since it was post last.fm, got some great headway onto my charts. These guys are ridiculously good, and they deserve you to at least illegally download their songs so I will suggest The Future Freaks Me Out, My Favorite Accident, and Modern Chemistry as my top three from this album.
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This to Memory 939 plays 1.5% (2005)
Fitting that they were right next to each other, as you have read I bought them both the same day, and they’ve received almost equal play time. I can’t say much more about the band, but if you’re looking for songs to download from this album I suggest Everything is Alright and Feel Like Rain.
Eminem -The Marshall Mathers LP 932 plays 1.5% (2000)
Released in between my two favorite Eminem albums it falls just behind the other two in attention getting, just like a middle child. (We’ll just forget that he released the forth one which was okay, but not awesome, like that surprise “gift” child you get after you’re supposed to be done.) This is easily the meanest and angriest Eminem album there is and probably the most overlooked for quality. The album is solid. I find it very clever, very interesting, and very catchy. My favorites include Kill You, The Way I Am, Who Knew, and Criminal.
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch 885 players 1.4% (1997)
Had I owned this CD any earlier it would no doubt be much higher. This CD is raw Blink and it was their 2nd release. I didn’t really pick up any of the songs until after listening to the live album, and at that point I had to have this album which I picked up used for about five dollars. Money well spent. I could go on and on, but Blink will get lots of mentions. My favorite songs: Dick Lips, Voyeur, and Apple Shampoo.
Before I jump into the top 10 I want to just throw out a few more albums that you should all know about and I’ll just list them to save you and me some time.
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
MxPx - Life In General
Cute is What We Aim For - The Same Old Blood Rush to the Head
Blink 182 - Buddha
System of the Down - Steal this Album
Hawthorne Heights - If Only You Were Lonely
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin’
T.I. - King
Dr. Dre - 2001
Now for the what the fuck is wrong with Last.Fm entry. For whatever reason +44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating was not on my list of top 100 played albums. This cannot be true cause I have like 1600 plays for +44 and they have just one album. So who knows how that was fucked up, but so the bonus mention goes to Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker of +44 for releasing one of the better albums of 2006. Still one of my favorites that gets plenty of plays. Brad, Lace, Nate, Maren, and I trucked up to the cities to see them play that winter and saw an awesome show. Mark was great, Travis played the drums with one arm, Brad confessed his love to Mark, and I hit a kid in the nose. It ended up being a very long day, and the trek home was one I’ll never forget (cause of how horrible it was in the car, not cause it was awesome) but the band really rocks, and I hope they release a second album at some point. This album got lots of play from my bedroom and deservingly so. The whole CD plays from start to finish in a fashion that offers different varieties of music that you could pick apart and put into your several play lists, and in an amazing way listen to them all straight through and touch all of your emotions. The album offers a lot of depth and if you don’t own it, go buy it. Best songs: When Your Heart Stops Beating, Lycanthrope, No It Isn’t, and Chapter XIII. No It Isn’t really offers a look into the Blink 182 split, and for any fan will reach them on a very deep level. You really get to feel that Mark feels like he lost a best friend, hate the fact on so many levels, but is not willing to dwell on the fact, and in fact just “burn down something beautiful” and move on. I get really sad when I listen to this song, but I can’t not listen to it.
#10 (its a tie!) Blink 182 - Enema of the State (2002)/Nirvana - Nevermind 1398 plays each 2.2%
At the time I
started writing this, these albums have been played exactly the same
amount of times. So I decided to combine both and write about more of my
favorite music. Deal with it!
As with every Blink album on my entire write up Enema of the State
loses a lot of players to the Greatest Hits album, but we won’t make
excuses today. Enema of the State has many great songs that make you
think why Blink 182 doesn’t get more recognition among the greatest
bands of all time. Not many can release several albums that
progressively get better as they go. The music is different than
previous iterations that is slightly more mature, sounds better, and
mixed well. But it still offers the punk rock vibe that fans adore.
Favorite Songs: Going Away to College, Dumpweed, Aliens Exist, Dysentery Gary, and Anthem. Going
Away to the College is a love song that offers its light side of the
subject. Its a very fun tune that if you listen to the lyrics you find a
deeper look of a guy chasing that girl. Aliens Exist is a fun song
about having an alien best friend, Dysentery Gary is a great song about
the guy who is a pretender you just like to make fun of, that gets the
girl you want.
Nirvana’s Nevermind is labeled as one of the greatest albums of all time. It opened up a new genre of music to a generation ready to move on past hair bands. I just remember growing up and seeing the album with the full nude baby on the front. My dad owned the album and while I was too young to have a clue what I was listening to. Anyway Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of my favorite songs of all time, and I even sung it once karaoke style at Champps. Its a song that you can just scream out and rock your socks off to. A lot of the songs you really can’t make out a lot of the lyrics but if you read them, you find out that Kurt Cobain was an unreal writer. Half of it doesn’t make sense on a first glance level, but it is real music. For your entertainment you should read through the lyrics someday. Other favorite songs: Come As You Are, Breed, Lithium, In Bloom.
For the record, I do not believe he killed himself, he was cryogenically frozen to save another generation of hopeless young adults sometime in the future.
#9 Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001) 1,432 plays 2.3%
Blink 182 turns around and makes another appearance on the list and this Blink album offers you more variety of Blink 182, and more reasons to fall in love with the band. Anthem, Pt 2 has the 2nd best Blink instrumental intro (behind Carousel) its an anthem for kids to make a difference and stand up for themselves. Blink 182 really plays the role of the good guy finishes last throughout the album. In Story Of A Lonely Guy and Roller Coaster you really get that feeling that if you’ve ever felt that role in your life before you need to listen to these songs. Reckless Abandon is a fun song that can really get you going, and the rest of the album is worthy of attention. If you want a good laugh listen to Happy Holidays, You Bastard, its a little immature, but that’s half the fun. However this album really reminds me of some of the greatest chases I’ve ever had, some failed some successful, regardless of the result, Blink is always on my side!
#8 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory (2000) 1,507 plays 2.4%
Linkin Park broke onto the scene with one hell of an album. These guys received unfair amount of radio airplay, and might not have changed lives like Nirvana did, but I really pushed the limits by incorporating different genres to make one sound. The hip-hop lyrics on some songs really keep you going, the heavy metal scream rock gets you going on other songs, and the modern/alternative rock band behind the voices really give the group a previously unknown sound for myself at least something to really groove on. Again the music on this album really got underneath you and brought out your best or worst emotions in all the best ways and just kicked ass. My iTunes highest rated are Pushing Me Away, In the End, One Step Closer, and Papercut. They all rocked and in a time when playlists were just becoming possible, the CD was good enough to stand alone and be right for any mood.
#7 The Offspring - Smash (1994) 1,517 plays 2.4%
This album first brings me back to a time that in my family is best not remembered, but none the less it was awesome music. After that time passed the CD is better remembered for summer cruises in the Jeep with dad for Jordan and Pops time. We probably listened to this album more than a lot together and now days when we’re riding together I like to change the iPod over to my Smash album. This is the Offspring’s first major album and most of it never hit the radio. Everyone is likely to recognize Come Out and Play (you gotta keep ‘em separated!), and while that song is kick ass, and the guitar in it is burned in my mind. My favorites start with Nitro (Youth Energy) which is my 2nd favorite pump me up for anything song (after Blur - Song 2). After that I love Bad Habit, Gotta Get Away, and Genocide. Also if you’re ever in a need lessons in self esteem I suggest you listen to Self Esteem. Cause saying no is hard when she’s ready to go.
#6 Linkin Park - Meteora (2003) 1,556 plays 2.5%
This Album has
more listening ability than the first one. It is better put together and
shows how a band if done right can grow into something special. Very
few music entities grow as they get older, but Linkin Park for me is one
of them. Songs like Don’t Stay, Somewhere I Belong, Lying From You,
offers you Linkin Parks second straight CD of playlist made just for
you. This CD brings back the memories of freshman year, it was one of
the only music that my roommate and I could really agree on and listen
to without forcing each other from the room. (I usually won the battle
cause my music was louder than his.
In fact it really shook Kroske Hall a couple times during blast hour.)
The CD can be whatever you want it to be for you, that’s the best part.
Listen to it.
#5 Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer (2002) 1,559 plays 2.5%
I had no idea Box Car Racer ever existed until after the Angels and Airwaves concert. Tom started signing There Is and I was hooked. I demanded that Brad give me his CD to rip onto my computer that next day and I listened to it…. A lot. Box Car Racer was a side project created by Tom Delonge which also featured Travis Barker of Blink 182. My favorite songs each ring a different bell for me. Starting with Cat Like Thief. First thing that comes to mind from that song is the trip down to Omaha with Sara. I probably played the song 15 or so times. It annoyed her, but I liked the song so much and the verse “Call me back when word is that she’s gone, cat like thief she stole air from my lungs, leave me standing on this lonely grave, I dug it out in case she turns away” really has some meaning to me that hits me so deep to reveal it to all of you would cause you catatonic shock. However this song played quite often while Sara and I went through rougher times and I inspired me not to give up with her, mostly cause in the background you hear “don’t leave her” over and over again. The next favorite song is Elevator which features Mark Hoppus. A song likely about the 9/11 event, but can mean anything for anyone, for me it represents a phoenix rising from the ashes type of revival. Something you don’t like is done, you move on, and forget it all. After that Letters to God is a softer song that I feel is someone who is dying and wants a second change. They know they’ve done wrong, and if given a second chance they’ll clean up. Finally There Is is the must download song of the album. If you haven’t already bought the whole thing, at least venture out and get this song. Its a beautiful song about a boy who loves a girl.
#4 Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight (2007) 1,621 plays 2.6%
This one surprised me. The album released after last.fm really helped sky this one to the top 5. It really doesn’t deserve the spot. Its actually quite a ways behind the first two offerings from Linkin Park. However that doesn’t me that its not an amazing work of music. What I’ve Done offered the radio hit that you heard for the longest time, but my favorites are Bleed it Out and Given Up. They are really high energy songs that can really get you going. The CD is another great offering from Linkin Park, but its not top 5 material in my list of music. So its getting a shorter write up!
#3 Blink 182 - Blink 182 (2003) 1,753 plays 2.8%
This is Blink 182’s final album and it really is split in half. You can tell by just listening which ones Mark wrote and which one Tom wrote. In whole its a much more mature album that really offers many hits that hit the radio. In fact had they not split up, they were planning to release two more songs to the airwaves (would have been #5 and #6 singles from one CD!) However the band met its demise and split into two different ways, much like the album probably had suggested. But lets focus on the positive. Before they split ways they made one hell of an album that has so many favorites that I might just list each one off. Obvious is a song about a guy who lost a girl and its obvious that its over, but he’s not handling that very well. Violence is a song that has a new sound to it and I get the feeling its the drunk guy who is trying to drink his sorrows away and it offers a very moody chanty song. If that doesn’t describe it, I don’t know what does. Stockholm Syndrome is the song for me that when I have “lost it all” I can fight to take it all back. The guitar and bass playing is some of my favorite and if I could choose a song for Rock Band, this would be up there. All of This is the dark undertone Blink song that says hey I’m with her, but I’m always wanting you. Here’s Your Letter is for me that song where someone just needs some more time to fix things, all the while you’re trying to figure out if “we’re cursed to this life”. Its a song that when it comes on I love to just crank the shit out of it. There are other great songs on here, but the last one I’ll mention is I’m Lost Without You which features one of the sickest drum solo’s from Travis Barker, which make the song very long, but its a good one.
#2 Angels and Airwaves - We Don’t Need to Whisper 2,462 plays 3.8%
This is probably my favorite album of all time, it only gets number two cause number one kind of cheats. However according to the stats its number two for this lists intended purposes, so I’ll treat it as such. This album I bought the day it came out in anticipation of finding out what was so awesome that had to break up Blink 182 for. Tom Delonge broke from Blink 182 to start this band and he wanted it to be an album of Epic music. For me the first two times through the album I hated it. I was pissed. I couldn’t understand why Tom broke up Blink 182 for the garbage I listened too. However being the resilient listener I’m not, I went back to it. I read a passage on the myspace page saying that Tom wanted someone to listen to this CD in a dark room possibly lit by candle light and just 50 minutes of dedicated relaxing and listening. I gave it a shot, and I was hooked. The music really spoke to me and touched me in all sorts of ways. The album makes me feel so good in so many ways. The CD lacks the hit after hit singles that most music listeners catch onto, but you can hear The Adventure playing in commercials, and other places in the background. However this is one you need to listen to start to finish and just enjoy listening to music. Right away its not music you can multitask to. You really need to hear it first. I’m not sure if I can explain it any better, but if you give a shot, its more than something special to me, and it can be for you. Their 2nd album wasn’t anywhere as good as this one, and I really hope that Tom gives up and goes back to Blink, it had good songs, but this type of Album is a shot in the dark that had success and lets leave it at that. I have favorite songs on the new one, but as you can see it didn’t even get extended honorable mention. But this much like Box Car Racer is Tom running on a good idea and making something of it. He’s a talented musician and he deserves tons of credit. Now go back to Blink dammit! (If you decide to reunite at Warped Tour in Minneapolis this summer, I’d be ok with that!)
#1 Blink 182 - Greatest Hits 3,321 plays 5.3%
I said this album cheated and it does. Its my favorite band’s greatest hits CD and since I put it into my library first before the other CDs it basically sapped the greatest songs from the other Blink Cds and put them into one here. Which is okay because otherwise the top 5 would be Blink Blink Blink AVA Blink. So yeah, it works out better this way. This album is basically all their singles put together in order of release and its just 100% kick ass. I also have the side released great music video hits DVD. Very cool, come over we’ll watch it. Carousel like previously mentioned is the best intro to a song ever. Its my favorite, I never get upset when I hear it, and neither should you. M+M’s is a song about a guy telling a girl he wants to be her only one, can’t hate on that! Dammit is fun song about break up. Its all apart of growing up.
What’s My Age Again? is a song you have all heard, and if you haven’t I will personally come over let you out of your cage. All the Small Things is the other radio hit that you should have heard, and if you haven’t you would recognize it after hearing it. Its just an awesome punk rock song. And Mark’s the best na-nah-nah-nah’er ever. Don’t deny it. He’s awesome at it. Plus everyone agrees that work sucks, and its fucking awesome when everyone says it in unison when you’re at a busy place (not counting Shenanigans on a karaoke night, they didn’t not appreciate it what so ever. People who listen to country music are giving into Satan. Adam’s Song is about suicide and its a great song that really hits you deep and some people won’t like it, but music is like life, not everything is good and you need music for the rough times as well. Man Overboard is arguably one of my favorite songs. It was written about Blink’s first drummer who fell into alcoholism and was released from the band. Its catchy, it has a lesson to it, and the opening verse works as a great check for a friend who may just be partying to hard. The Rock Show is a fun song about a guy who meets a girl at warped tour. Alcohol, sex, and rock and roll baby! Plus the music video is fun to watch, as they filmed themselves blowing 1.5 million (a check from the record company to pay for the music video) by giving it away and buying stupid shit. Stay Together For the Kids is a song about divorce and how it affects the kids, and if a poem could fix this home, I’d read it everyday. The music video leads in saying 50% of marriages fail, and fades out with the message 50% of marriages work. Work on it!
Feeling This is the song Mark and Tom wrote at the same time in different rooms and put it together into the next hit single. Its all about sex and it rocks. I Miss You is the somber love song in it own weird way. Its very dark, but very very much alive. And yes if you were watching me at the Angels and Airwaves concert when Tom started playing this song, there was a tear or two of happiness and emotion streaming down my face. I’m cool to admit that. Always is the song about being together always, love is the gift and the curse, we’ve all probably been there before a few times. Its a great song, and the music video is awesome, and the lego version is sweet as hell too. But the song is basically a guy who is ready to swallow his pride for a second chance to start things over and rebuild the once lost love. Not Now was one of my favorite songs for the longest time. The song really has a spiritual awakening feeling for me. You can’t do it on your own, sometimes you just need to let go and God has it all figured out for you.
The whole album is a mix of singles that just will rock your socks off, there is a song for every mood in the book, and each one touches me every time it plays over my speakers. If you managed to read through all of that, thanks, I’m glad that you got to spend some time getting to know the music side of me. There way more than this to me, but its a bit of insight. My dad always said that music influences who you are, and he wasn’t joking. It really makes you who you are. This list also shows me how focused my music universe really is. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, I always try to expand on it, and there’s a few that always catch on, but Blink 182 will probably forever rule over all. So a reunion album wouldn’t be a bad idea…. Seriously guys!
Jordan inspired me.
Also, I played softball in the lovely 65 MPH South Dakota wind today. Not my most flattering appearance at a sporting event.
Virginia
Tech. One year ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. Surreal. It
felt like it was something that was happening in a movie. Is that what
makes movies good? According to Hollywood it is. But in reality all it
does is numb us to the sick shit that actually happens (excuse my
language).
While watching ESPN today (my main [but not only] source of news) I learned that there were lots of anti-gun protests today. Is that right? In my opinion, no. I feel that if it were okay to have guns on campus (via permit), there would have been two, maybe three deaths at Virginia Tech… one of those being the shooter.
I do own a handgun. If it were lawful to bring it to class, I would. Never…NEVER… out of cockiness or showmanship, but out of safety - for both me and my fellow classmates.
On the other hand, if there were stricter gun laws, there still would have been 32 deaths at Virginia Tech. Because guess what… criminals don’t use permits. They get guns regardless of laws and do what they were set out to do.
I am not telling you who to vote for, but both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama plan on banning semi-automatic weapons. Semi-auto? Being from South Dakota, my view is somewhat skewed on this one… I can see why they don’t want them in Detroit or LA. But c’mon. I have been shooting semi-autos since I was 12 (legal in South Dakota).
In cities where violence happen (often), whether a gun is legal or not is the least of the murderer’s worries. If I were going to shoot someone would I think, “Oh shit, throw me the pump-action… the semi-auto is illegal now that we have a woman Prez!”
No. No I would not. Granted, I don’t plan on shooting a human being ever, but seriously… criminals do what they do regardless of laws. That’s like a Congressman saying, “Maybe if we give them DOUBLE life in prison they won’t commit murder!”
People do bad
things. They have done them ever since large rocks were the best weapon
available. Taking the ‘large rocks’ aka ‘guns’ from the people
who mean no harm is not the solution.
If you have a different opinion/solution please post it. I’d be happy to hear/read it.
By now I’m sure most of you have seen this video. It’s the one where the mom is yelling at her daughter for being out past curfew. Same old story.
But now is where it gets real. The person who she was out visiting wasn’t a friend from school, but a Myspace friend. If only the Berenstain Bears were still alive, I’m sure they’d have some input on the subject.
Most people are good. In fact Jordan and I had a couple Myspace friends come over when we lived at apt. 7. One was a guy to play poker - the other being a girl (by herself). Now from our side, we weren’t looking to do either any harm, but how did they know that?
Well… actually the girl came over and we played Halo 2 and she watched for a couple of hours. Some people may consider that painful. But if that makes me a bad guy, then I don’t want to be good.
Ah, Red Sox - Yankees. You think this rivalry isn’t intense? This is the view of a Boston fan at Yankee stadium.
Warning: Strong use of the word asshole and the middle finger.
(click here to watch animated cartoon, turn volume up!)
Please please please let us know if you liked it! We have plans to do more cartoons featuring our Chase character. If you have suggestions, or any critiques, we need to read them!
Here is the first facebook chat session between Brad and I. Time to go back to work!
I was out at Nutty’s south tonight with Katie J who just earned the right to drink in the United States. It was a great time. Well going out with Katie and a couple of her friends was a good time, and watching the older gross people dance, eventually take their shirts off, and make complete asses of them selves made it a memorable occasion. So happy birthday Katie! Hope the next 22 hours and 19 minutes go as well as the first hour and a half!
Category: Necessities.
Answer: Cake.
Question: What is needed to make a birthday official?
My house mate can sleep. Actually, we were talking the other day and concluded that he doesn’t sleep… he slips into small comas. Elephant tranquilizers are made from his blood.
I am going to give you some visuals that you may not believe, but I promise they are true.
This is during one of his midday power naps. He had been sleeping for a couple hours. Another house mate and I were watching tv (sounds don’t phase Adam either). All of a sudden Adam slides off of the couch — halfway off. As you can see one arm and one leg didn’t make the transition.
He is now face down on the floor. He continued to sleep for another 45 minutes.
He is the opposite of an insomniac. Does that make him a somniac?
So today i realized that I’m like almost 23 years old. Now I know for some of you guys, 23 isn’t old, and you’ll think I’m crazy. But it really hit me today. Its now been a year since I’ve been out of school, I’ve started a career, moved out on my own, and begun starting my own personal life adventure. In reflection of the last few years I can really say each year has really been a large step for me.
Its hard to believe that Junior year of college is over 2 years ago. It was the year of 1000 memories, that I can’t remember unless they’re sparked. Honestly I can’t wait for the day when I’m 82 can’t remember shit, and then i hear someone say window, and I laugh at the time I helped Bradley out a window. Or when I’m 58 driving listening to oldies music and I hear Fall Out Boy “Sugar, We’re going Down”, and I instantly think of going to the homecoming football game, finding Amber with her water bottle of tequila, taking more than a few shots, finding Josh and Katie, and then bringing them all back to my place. At which led to Brad, Cyle, Josh, and I racing around the apartment running, eating Everclear watermelon, getting Cyle to drink the 50/50 Everclear Pepsi blend, and having him alert us of the time every minute when we all tried to pass out at the same time. That year was a lifetime worth of events…hopefully I can add a few more (years).
I’ve now been at my new job for seven months and it has become a chore to go to work everyday. Its still fun some days, the associates make it worth going most of the time, hopefully something will happen to help peak my interest again. If could have read my mind and had asked me to map out a plan of how I wanted to be 5 years from 18, I would have painted a picture similar to what I have now. Out of the parents house, having nice things, and enjoying life. However I could have never predicted how I have gotten here. There’s been good days, bad days, easy times, and rough times, but I can not honestly be upset for anything that has happened. If I could go back and do things differently there’s things I would have done, however I don’t regret not doing those things. I’m satisfied with where I’m at.
Its 2008, and its likely that I’ve barely started my life, but so far as I reflect, I am happy with where I am. If I had a chance to do it again, I’d probably try to take everything a step further, and I’d probably wouldn’t have faired as well. And that’s ok. I only got two underages, I can’t count the times I’ve been around police busting parties when I was underage and not just drunk, but carrying my trusty 1750 of morgan.
Which leads me to the next thing. Junior year, I had no money, I worked 12 hours a week for $7.00/hr. I made roughly $60-70 a week of net income each week. So rent was like $500 a month and if you add that up real quick I was bringing in around $250 a month. Brad also chipped in like $225 a month but that still leaves a bunch to be picked up, electricity, internet, food, booze, and gas (except the month we had the Zuma, that was cheap). So thank God for being good at poker. Cause it paid a lot.
The next thing is at one time we had 73 physical empty bottles of Captain Morgan 1750ml. This was not all of them. Only probably most of them. The average bottle cost $25 plus tax. For ease of use we’ll say $25 (and that doesn’t count if we tipped for it). That’s $1,825 in Captain morgan. It was probably closer to 16 months of collection for those bottles so that’s about $115/mo in Captain morgan. Wow. Then if you consider that each bottle required a 24 pack of coca-cola to mix it with, that’s another $450 or $30/mo in pop. Granted people pitched in, and helped out in some way, and obviously we made it work, I didn’t have credit cards back then.
That’s ridiculous! Ridiculously awesome! And that’s just the Morgan, who knows where the rest went. You may think I have nothing to show for it, but I have 1000s of memories, and a path to a where I’m at now. Well if anything this post has really helped me remember how incredibly fortunate I am, and I get to re-appreciate everything I have. Time to make it all happen again in a more adult manner! And in ten years I can start having/grooming my children. They’ll know what its all about by then, assuming I’m still alive (the good die young!)
Top 5 (off the top of my head) things that got me through college:
1. Captain Morgan
2. Poker
3. Halo
4. Working Out
5. Party Pizzas
If you’re a Linkin Park fan you’ll love this — even if you’re not you’ll still probably like this song. I dare you to try and not bob your head while listening. The song is “Handlebars” by the Flobots.
Not only is the song catchy, but the lyrics are clever too, which is a huge plus in my book.
Some of my favorite lines from the song:
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
It’s cocky and I like it. If you want all of the lyrics I was nice enough to find them for you. Enjoy.
“The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, The 5th Of May, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862.”
Celebrating a victory over the French? Isn’t that like celebrating because you beat up the kid in school with a prosthetic leg?
So Sara’s little 17 year old brother, whose name is CaribouLou07 on Call of Duty, surprisingly turned me onto this new drink. Caribou Lou is a title of a song by Tech N9ne who raps about the ingredients to a drink he calls Caribou Lou. Just so you get a little example, the song’s chorus: (listen to the song here)
151 Rum, Pineapple juice and Malibu. Caribou get dem all numb. Make baby girl cum, out of her shell and raise hell. Don’t stop till the cops come.”
So after the softball games last night rained out Brad, Adam and I went to Hy Vee and I got some 151 Rum, Malibu and pineapple juice. I also got a 1 gallon jug of water to use as a container. As soon as we got home Adam decides to challenge himself to a water drink off and drinks a few cups of the water before we just dump it down the drain. Immediately the mixing began. A half bottle of 151, a cup of Malibu, and filled it up with some pineapple juice. Holy cow this is a good mix. The pineapple overpowers the fact your drinking the 151. It’s got that jungle juice feeling to it, where you probably could drink a lot before you think you’d even get drunk.
Well Brad and I had 3 glasses before he left and I had another 3 after he left while playing Call of Duty. I know I wasn’t playing very well, however the “Halo effect” took over, meaning I started playing good in spite of my condition. And then eventually I woke up. Luckily I managed to put my phone on the charger, but for some reason I turned it off….or it died. I don’t really know. I think I remember saying I was going to bed to Austen. I’m not quite sure.
Anyway its an awesome drink. You should try it! Bye!
So i stumbled across this commercial for Derek Smart’s Desktop Commander. It looks sweet. I am glad I don’t have nightmares involving giant mutant vampire oak trees. Link!
Remember when Chris Berman lost his cool? Bill O’Reilly just demolished that tirade.
I’d do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDZPN0mjaAA
So Brad doesn’t have internet right now because he moved into a new house. Hopefully it manages to stay better than the old one. I’ve been pretty busy with work, friends, girlfriend, wedding stuff, and video games. And I’ve had a distraction for my normal musings and postings, because I’ve been sketching and brainstorming for the new Chase cartoon episode. Next week is vacation week and sadly, its going to be just as busy as any week for me and I’ll likely get little to no relaxation time, and minimal drawing time.
Notice to all my friends, stop getting married. Its killing my personal time. Selfish bastards. Well I’m just playing, they’ve all been fun so far. Anyway maybe I’ll get lucky and find a job that will allow me to blog at work. Then we won’t have these problems! YA!
I really hate how they seal every bottle of ketchup and syrup with that sticker thing, its never “easy” to get off the bottle and it always seems like you’re trying to use the new bottle when you’re eating in a hurry and that stuff slows you down.
On second thought, if my new bottle of ketchup didn’t have that sticker, I’d probably flip out and overreact and think my item from the grocery store had been poisoned.
I don’t like how Seattle Mariners management think they can turn around this season when they’re not just the worst team in baseball, they just lost 2 of 3 to the next worst team.
I really like Lil’ Wayne’s music and I’m not sure why.
I have so many ideas for these cartoons, as soon as I put them together I’ll probably laugh the hardest.
Luckily Brad has even more ideas, so they’ll be twice as clever.
When I watch music videos like “All the Small Things” and “What’s My Age Again”, i shake my head and wonder how could someone not want to keep making that stuff.
Sometimes I wonder why artists make remixes, but then when I see people flip out and get all excited to see the same song they were sick of a week ago redelivered, I see that even if they could just make something new, why would they, they have gold and they can stretch the same stuff out for a few more dollars. I’d do it too.
I think I like my fictional ball players more than real baseball players. If someone could get me a George Blain of the Sioux Falls Cereal Killers baseball jersey for my birthday, I’d be pretty happy.
I don’t know what the Cereal Killers jersey looks like, but they’d be sweet I promise. Well I do cause the game designed some, but I don’t like those ones.
If you don’t know who George Blain is, that’s okay he’s fictional.
I think I should change my Cereal Killer logo into a mean looking large spoon attacking a bowl. That’s be ridiculously funny!
I think facebook is losing its luster.
I think the NFL is regaining its luster for me again. I am going to lie to myself and say that the teams will learn from last years playoffs and super bowl and say to themselves, “Maybe we should stay aggressive instead of playing not to lose so the Giants can upset 3 great teams and make themselves think they’re anything more than in the right spot in the right time.
Reflecting on that idea, I think I wish the Mariners had an ownership group more interested in the Mariners. Half the reason I’m excited for the Cowboys each season is because Jerry Jones always goes out and does whatever he can to make the Cowboys win. Obviously he has the money to do that, but I think Nintendo (they own the Mariners) has a few dollar bills as well.
If the Mariners don’t washout the front office and get some fresh blood in there, I’m declaring myself a free agent fan.
Maybe I’ll focus on fictional baseball.
If Curly Q was a baseball player he’d be a left handed starting pitcher.
Last night some people recognized me. I get that a lot.
I’m going to go to get ready to go to Jared’s wedding weekend in Aberdeen. See you guys later!
Best music video I’ve seen in a long time.
Out of all of the references Weezer throws in here I recognize:
The mentos/coke guys.
Charlie the Unicorn.
Peanut butter jelly time.
Star wars kid.
Chocolate rain guy.
Dramatic chipmunk.
Chris Crocker.
Ninja guy.
Picture every day guy.
Miss South Carolina.
Evolution of Dance guy.
Kelly from “Shoes.”
The harder/faster hands and body worded people.
That is no particular order. Anyway, the more internet videos you have seen, the funnier this video will be to you. Also, I am super glad Weezer decided to come back. I think finally all of my favorite bands are back together… but there could be one I’m forgetting, can’t be sure.
As always, the video is in the comments section.
So if someone high-fived a teammate of mine like this, I’d have a hard time just watching saying wtf. And we all know all you have to do is throw at a ball at a teammate to get me fired up….
Some peoples children… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24845760#24845760
So many of you probably know that I’m doing a summer game day internship with the Sioux Falls Canaries. Last Sunday I worked my first game and it was a good introduction into a new workplace world for me. The last eight months I’ve been folding clothes, telling people what to do, and working in a very dim lit, loud music environment basically babysitting peoples children while they play house in my fitting rooms. Anyway it was nice to change that for the ballpark on a sunny day. It got to about 87 degrees at the ball park and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. They started me off in promotions and on this day kids eat free with a ticket purchase, so I started off in the concessions working a beer and grill stand with another college student. She had been working at that stand for the last 3 years so she knew what she was doing. So it was time to hand out some free hamburgers, pour some beers, and deal with people upset that we didn’t have 100 hamburgers pre-made.
Now if I walk into a restaurant and my food order takes a bit of time to be ready, at first I get impatient cause I’m hungry, but I realize that at least my food is being made fresh. This was not the case for many people at the Canaries game. They wanted their FREE hamburger now. That wasn’t happening so we had some angry patrons. I felt bad for the girl working with me because I have a feeling she doesn’t deal with people with kids often cause they’d go to other stands. Anyway we got through that and after five innings I got to go and work with a few other interns working the on-field promotions. This was nice cause I could watch the game from this area enclosed by seats and grass seating area.
After an inning or so Cagey made an appearance and was in the gate to the field area and it was before the jousting competition. I had met Cagey before the game and he was a pretty cool guy. Anyway while I was watching the game Cagey picked up one of the jousting sticks and whacked me on the back of the head. This wasn’t hard at all and mostly playful. However I picked up another stick and proceeded to give Cagey a tap in retaliation. The kids watching from the grass were less than impressed. In fact they started booing me and yelling and screaming that, “YOU CANT HIT CAGEY!!!!” Kind of laughing about it and realizing that I just whacked an icon I decided to be done with it. Still holding my weapon Cagey got me again and then from inside the bird suit I hear, “(kind of a evil laugh) I’ll fucking kill you.” So I’m not quite sure what to do at this point. I’m pretty sure these kids would let the bird get away with murder so I tried to play it cool and play around with the mascot not fighting him back but putting on some sort of a show. At which point the kids were sure the Cagey was a hero, when really he’s a murder threatening, cheap shot throwing, dirty bird.
Oh well after all that I got to help kids do the YMCA on the field, and after the game helped with the autograph session and kids running the bases. It was a really fun experience and I look forward to doing it again this Friday night. Hopefully I get to try some more things, and hopefully by the end of the summer it gets me a job in baseball. And if I turn up dead. It was Cagey, you heard it here first.
Just a typical morning for my brother getting ready.
Way way back in the day when it was Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon everyday this show was something worth watching and getting a better version of sports center. Anyway lately the only thing good from the show is the Red Stripe commercials. Hoorray Beer! I’ll have to try some sometime. That’s all! Hooray Beeer!
Witty comedy mixed with great music and well placed sexual innuendo… 17 year old Bo Burnham can do it all.
If you have time, watch all of his videos on YouTube. If you don’t have that much time, let me recommend New Math, 3.14 Apple Pie, A Love Ballad, and all of his stuff. Honestly, I love every one of his songs.
So today I was listening to some music, listening to my new Weezer CD, and everything was fine and cool. Really it was. I love music. I even start listening to Bo Burnham, who Brad found on the youtube. Very clever stuff. However for the last half hour I’ve been listening to Blink 182. What mood am I in that makes me want to listen to more Blink 182? Well currently I’m missing Sara. But even if I was just in greatest mood ever, I think I’d want to listen to Blink 182. If I was angry cause I lost $100000 I’d want to listen to Blink 182. If the Mariners just fired its front office and cut its losses and begun rebuilding a roster built on “new aged” principals, I’d listen to Blink 182. Why? Mostly cause its what I need almost everyday. Some Blink 182. No matter what mood I’m in it is the music that helps me see that I can be just me and that’s all I need to be. Happy, sad, mad, glad, pooped, energetic, fun, bummed, etc, I listen to Blink and I just feel like I can do anything, and even if I don’t do it all now, its alright. I’m doing pretty damn good for myself as is. If I can be smart, clever, and the best, and still act like a five year old while having fun and being successful, well that’s great! Yeah!
In other news, when I start my own bar, I want to create a personal/social experience. I understand the bars nickel and dime you to make money, but I think if a bar offered you a place to get out of your house see some people, but at the same time allowed you to converse and be “apart” of your party that you’re with, it’d be perfect. Somehow I have to figure out how to mess with acoustics or something so that the acceptable volume of music/noise is reaching the individual seating areas, while the music is blaring everywhere else to keep the ‘mood’ going.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Blink 182.
I think this guy definitely has issues.
http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/
Just cause the people who started speaking English can’t spell, doesn’t mean you need to spend money telling the world how to spell it right. Or do you? I don’t know. After this I assume Sara will start up her own web site called to-two-too.com. :) I love you sweetie!
So tonight after getting off work, dealing with my bad back spasms, I decided to pick up some old fashion medicine. So I got a twelve pack of Corona and proceeded to approach my mother who recently picked up a job in the Hy-Vee liquor department, (they recently renovated and it looks nice, check it out), anyway after a brief conversation I set the box of Corona’s on her checkout table and she then asked for my ID. I stood there and looked at her like she was nuts, and the she proceeded to say that she’s on camera and she has to ID me. I did not see any camera, I believe my mother has forgotten who I am, and she might be losing her mind. If anyone has any good brain doctors they should comment on this post, my mom most likely forgot my birthday, or worse failed to recognize me, so she’s in serious trouble mentally. For that matter if you know any doctor that can help with my back spasms let me know. They suck bad.
So a few years ago on the internet before youtube was around I came across this Blink-182 remix, which was pretty crude and retarded (but really clever and funny in a stupid kind of way :)). Anyway check this out. Blink-182 remix
If you are bored, like I have been for the last few nights when I’m actually ready to go to bed ( these meds are like the worst joke in the world, when I want to be awake, I fall asleep, when I want to sleep or pass out, I could stay awake for seemingly 40 hours straight. At least I’m pain free! ……anyway) so the Do A Barrel Roll Reference is from Starfox 64 and it was made popular over internet gaming, and on the Tom Green show and all sorts of garbage, I used to say it for fun and I might just bring it back.
Also I guess its also a cure-all to life problems. Here are some scenarios:
Guy 1: Dude my dog died.
Guy 2: DO A BARREL ROLL!
Guy 1: Alright!
Dude 1: Oh man I have AIDS.
Girl 1: You have WHAT?!?
Guy in the closet watching: DO A BARREL ROLL!
(awkward silence)
Guy in the closet watching: DO A BARREL ROLL! (walks out of the closet and room)
and finally
Kid: I got cut from the basketball team dad.
Me: Do a Barrel Roll!
Kid: Dad, that’s all you ever say, what the fuck is wrong with you?
Me: Do a barrel RolL!!!!
Kid: You are crazy
Me: WoooooSH! Get back here and DO A BARREL ROLL!!!
Wow I got a bit out of hand there. Wow. Good night!
Oh wait……
if you’re curious who Brian Peppers is, well here’s a picture: Brian Peppers
Goofy.
So lately updates have been pretty spotty around here. I’m sorry for that and while I can’t speak for Brad, I have been incredibly occupied with things to do. And sadly for me its not looking up any time soon. Weddings, Canaries games, back to school shopping (clothing retails summer Christmas), softball, juggling time with the girlfriend, family, friends, and myself (everyone needs a little time for themselves).
I am loving the busy life for the most part, it keeps things flying, but I do miss writing to the blog a few times a week, and loafing around on the internet. But these stupid school bills, living bills, credit card bills, internet bills, all add up. So there you go.
Anyway in my free personal time that I have had I have been working on three or four projects. I want to start web designing again so I’ve been reading up on that (not as much as I should), I have also started plotting out the next cartoon and sketched some drawings (its fun to draw, write, and watch, animating it though is a daunting task). I also have been dabbling in some fictional writing, I’m doing it for myself really because I feel like since I have been out of school my writing skills have become slightly rusty. It also keeps my creative juices flowing. Who knows maybe it turns into a best selling novel and I can make millions and then live off that. Or live off the cartoon series, or doing web design, or prostituting myself on the corner!
Whatever it takes right? DO A BARREL ROLL!
Jordan
I’m not dead.
Brad
Yay! Go blow some shit up, burn some shit down, reshape the world as you’d love! Or just have some fun, light up some sparklers, and be safe!
…highlight my hair.
…be good at math.
Now I…
…cut my hair when I have a wedding to go to.
…don’t know what any of that gibberish in the background means.
But I still wear that t shirt, so at least I’m not getting fat.
If anyone asks, I won the New York Marathon this year. That is what two girls believe that we met this fourth of July.
As Jimmy Nytroe put it, “He beat all of those stupid Ethiopians.”
The real winner, he could be my double.
I laughed at this.
Life life to the fullest, put in your best effort every time, you don’t know when your time is up, and when He decides there is not do overs. Treat everyone you love the best you can, every day, get involved, get to know, get out and do. Whatever that means to you, get it done. For a couple of kids its the end, for the rest of us its a new beginning. A new appreciation. Make the most of it, or lose it. Remember the good times, forget the bad, The good times are great, the bad times are forgettable, focus on the great times coming forward. Make it happen. Good attitudes are contagious. Make it happen. One happy person at a time. Love yourself, your family, your friends, the people you don’t know. Don’t ever give up; WILL greatness to happen.
I feel like a little kid on the playground again. This was my knee
after this
happened to my cleat. I was rounding third base to go home when the bottom literally fell out of the bottom of my cleat. The shoe in turn lost its main goal in life which is traction. So I tractionlessly ran home only to be thrown out and now sport a knee that looks like it had a cheese grater taken to it.
Welcome to the blog world sweetie!
This is a video my dad put together showcasing my brothers 2 week training in the woods of Georgia. Pretty sweet!
So I stumbled across this blog, its stories shared about retail workers dealing with customers, its a very funny read.
Here’s a post I found pretty funny…
(I’m working in an electronics retail store, and see a man in his late 40’s with a kid no older then 10.)
Me: “Welcome sir, did you get…”
(I look in his cart and see that it’s mostly filled with identical Spongebob DVDs.)
Me: “… everything?”
Man: “I guess so.”
Boy: “MORE SPONGEBOB! SPONGEBOB! SPONGEBOB!”
Man: “Alright, let’s go get some more.”
(About 5 minutes later he comes back, with more Spongebob DVDs… the same ones, to be exact.)
Man: “Alright, I think this is enough.”
(I ring him up, and the total comes to about $550.00 USD.)
Me: *whispering* “Uhh, sir… these are mostly the same thing.”
Man: “Oh, don’t worry about it. I hate my life anyway.”
My friend and house mate Nate put together a video of himself dunking for a Youtube contest. Good luck to him.
At the beginning of the video you may notice it says “Nate Hogan a.k.a. Deuce.” When I asked why he picked Deuce he said, “Because my favorite number is 2… and I poop a lot.”
HI!
I bought a new car (2008 VW Jetta, its tight)
I went to Warped Tour is it was great!
I also still have a belly button!
Stories soon to come, I promise!
Love you all!
Bye!
So on June 26th, I did something I’ve never done before, I bought a new car. Since the beginning of my driving career starting at 14 I have been driving the Jeep Wrangler. After 8 years of driving an awesome car that was more reliable than I could have truly asked for, it was seriously time to start shopping for a new car.
I did know that the car buying world was a stressful and ridiculous process of negotiating, lying, and hair pulling. But I didn’t think that if you showed them that you knew what was going on, that they’d still try to jack you around. So I started my car shopping experience with a few things in mind, it needs to be affordable in my budget, needs to be gas friendly, needs to be a manual transmission (I like to drive my car, not just ride in it), and it needs to be dependable. So fitting those needs I started off at Honda. Which ended up being a week long ridiculous neogotiation for nothing. Honda says they’ll lose a deal before they lose their reputation, well with me they lost both. This ‘Christian’ car dealership, really tried sticking me in a car at a deal that I said I couldn’t afford. And when I set my deal up, they counter offered with my deal, but adding in the money they wanted in different ways. Each counter offer it changed the numbers in some way hoping that I wouldn’t notice the extra grand they’re trying to stick me with. So after getting my deal, they check my credit and say its shitty, and the deals, off I got up and walked out, and when they called me back, I told them I’ve never been so offended in my life. So no Honda for me.
No sweat, the next day I went out to Dell Rapids Chevy/Pontiac and looked at a G5. It was an alright car, but it was expensive, they weren’t giving me any trade, and it was a candy apple red. It was not good enough for me. The deal wasn’t any better than the Honda, and I’d rather have the Honda. So the next day I traveled to Graham to check out the Volkswagens. I ended up test driving and loving a Jetta. It was a 4 door 5 speed manual, black Jetta. I knew to be very careful cause the deal could fall through over a few percentage points, and all that jazz. However this time I was aware of my credit scores, I was aware of my situation and I knew how much I could afford.
The dealership didn’t really appreciate dealing with me cause my homework was done. They had a special going on and I was going to get that special, or no car. The first hitch came when they offered me jack for the Jeep. So I decided to come up with cash for the car. And negotiated the deal to my part. They were close but weren’t hitting it. I submitted my final offer, which was the online deal, x amount in cash, and they were going to tint the windows. They came back and said they couldn’t do it. However they wanted me to test drive the car overnight. I said fine whatever, it was fun to drive, and its their gas not mine. The next day I went in and told them they had to throw in a wing on it, with the window tint. They obviously weren’t thrilled about that, and said no several times. The finally came down to my offer and as I was signing papers I see the deal and see that they squeaked in a $300 dealership charge for who knows what. At which point I stopped signing mid signature and asked what the hell that was. And he explained that its on every car they sell, and showed me to prove it and it was built into the deal. Well I didn’t like this. I told them they have to take it off or I’m leaving. After a few rounds we met in the middle and I ended up not paying for that charge but paying for my window tint. Whatever. I had my car. And here it is!
Now the hard part is to decide what to name it. Vanity plates are $25, so I figure I can spend that to personalize it a tad. Here are some suggestions so far, I hope you guys can throw in a few more,
1. WALLEEE
2. ILIKEME
3. UNDRDOG
They are alright, and I might choose one, but I’m looking for that super clever one that is just awesome. I get 7 letters to play with. Hopefully I think of it soon, I only got a couple weeks.
Three weekends ago I bought a new car. Last weekend I worked the entire thing. The weekend in between also known as the weekend two weeks ago was Warped Weekend. It was time to take my first road trip in my first brand new car to my first sleep over at Jared’s new place, to my first twins game of the season, and my 2nd ever Warped Tour. The weekend ended up being a total blast throughout and the car drove like a dream. I was really impressed with it all. And here’s why!
On the way up to the cities we ate at McDonals. I had been craving it for about 2 weeks before hand and managed to not gobble up the calories until we got to the road trip (yay!). We found Jared’s place pretty easy and after only one wrong turn that set us back a few blocks, we found Jared. We parked my car, brought up our stuff for the weekend and begun drinking some beer and Morgan while catching up with Jared and Amanda. After an hour or so we decide to start our trek to the Metrodome that was about 2 miles away, give or take.
We decided not to make this trek empty handed so we filled an empty Mt Dew bottle with the Captain and proceeded to take pulls on the way to the stadium. By time we got there we were all in great moods and ready for some baseball. Since we got there before 5PM we were among the first 20,000 fans to enter the game so we all received free Twins baseball hats! Woo! So we found some seats, ordered some beer and proceeded to watch some batting practice.
Sweet hats!
After watching the Twins lose by giving up home runs to players who just shouldn’t be hitting home runs we started our walk back home. Not without first stopping at some store for some Coke to mix with the Morgan. Apparently I was a show at this point, I just remember buying the coke. After a drink at Jared’s place we got ready and went out to some campus bar and enjoyed half priced night! We played some pool, I ate some wings, did a shot at least, and drank more beer. It was crazy. After that I don’t really know what happened other than that I met another guy named Jordan and lost in pool. Oh and that I woke up at some point to throw up twice I remember that part.
That next morning was a great one cause I woke up chipper as a bird! I promptly cleaned their toilet, and then took a shower, then got ready for warped ‘08! Brad and I set off for Warped around 10 AM and that’s where the fun began…We saw some pretty rocking bands, saw some not so rocking bands, and saw some bands that would probably be rocking if we knew what the words to their songs were. While rocking around, we saw Tom Delonge sneak on top of his Modlife bus.
He stood there just for ABJ.com!
Anyway the AVA set was pretty good, I had a great time, however it was held back by Tom not really being into it himself. Which was a bummer, but no deal breaker at all. Overall I really liked Angels and Airwaves, Motion City Soundtrack, Story of the Year, most, Reel Big Fish were funny and good, and it ended up being a decent day of shows. Wasn’t quite as special as the year before, but it still was a great weekend. Looking forward to next summer already! … Well after my birthday that is!
So I’ve been alive for 8,401 days and so far so good. I grew up, I experienced lots of things, I graduated school, I got a job, I started living life on my own, and now I’m experiencing new things. I’m now 23 years old. Hooray?!? So now I get to shave everyday, look at myself age a little bit, pay bills, and now basically to do all the same things I did when I was 14,15,16,17 I pay to do. Damn. OH well its not so bad, I don’t have to live my parents freaky rules….(ehh there were none)… Well I dont have to drive 10 miles into town from the farm….(ugh I wish I did)…. And I ca do whatever I want almost whenever I want…(I used to be able to do whatever I want whenever I want).. Basically the moral of the story is to have sweet ass parents and be 16 forever.
I’m just playing I enjoy being older, and enjoy fending for myself. And I am pretty happy with my life so far. My job hours suck, but the job is easy and the money pays my bills and gives me extra to pay for some sweet stuff…(car, tv, apple computer, girlfriends gifts, booze)… Anyway so I’m a day/month/year older, but a day/month/year wiser, and since as American’s we’re consumer whore’s here’s my wish list for 2008.
…I know that the day of is late for a birthday list, but well whatever…
First off I really really really wanted someone to buy me a wing for my new Jetta. Mostly cause I’ll buy it for myself if no one else does, but it’d be sweet to A. Not have to pay for it and B. to say you someone helped me make my car a little bit ‘cooler’. If I don’t get it, its ok. But a boy/man/guy can dream!
Jetta Spoiler, Please Buy Me for Jordan!
So who knows wether or not I’ll get that, but I had a few other simple requests for my birthday as well.
For my birthday cake, I wanted Charlie the Unicorn as drawn by Pops on it:
CHAAAAARRRRRLLIIIEEEEEE!!!
Why do I want Pops to draw it? I heard he’s a great Charlie artist with sidewalk chalk. So with cake toppings, he has to be pretty damn good right? We’ll see…. I really hope!
Anyway a few other things I requested were a new Mariners Hat, some new J-Shirts ((baseball jersey t-shirts)) (Felix Hernandez and Ichiro specifically)
New Era Mariners 59Fifty Hat Size 7 1/2
IIIIICCCHHHHIRROOOOOO!!!
So yeah my list isn’t to extensive or ridiculous, my last request to Sara was that we eat at Outback steakouse so I can eat some steak, potatoes, and drink some beer or something good. YAY!
HOOORRAY FOOD!
I’ve already tried going to bed, and it didn’t work, so so much for getting over being sick, I just want to have an awesome birthday! Wish me luck! I guess I don’t really have to wake up until around 11:30 when Lindsey will cut my hair, and my day starts. (rear spoiler, rear spoiler, charlie cake, rear spoiler, mariners merch!)
So thanks to my dad and his coworker Amy I got this for a cake.
CHHHARRRRLLIEEEE!!!
So yeah, that’s my 3D Charlie the Unicorn themed birthday cake. It was awesome, tasted amazing as well!
So now I dove into the smart phne era. Thanks to Brad’s mom among others I now have one of my own. Its great, I suggest getting one!
So today I stand in line cause the other day I forgot my checkbook of all things. I’ve been in line for quite some time and I’m having xbox 360 line waiting flashbacks. However there is two differences:
1. The windows are open so I’m not waiting for the store to open.
2. The average age of the line is much older and less patient. Who would have guessed?
Bonus difference!! Brad isn’t here racing Andelko for fifty dollars and nearly getting kidnapped and killed. For ten dollars. Heh
So I’m now ten people back it was about fifteen when I started a half hour ago.
Fuck my life!
So after my voyage through the line at the Minneahahahaha county administration building, I finally got new plates! Check them out:
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Well they have to come from Pierre cause I ordered personalized ones. So in two to three more weeks you’ll see a black Jetta with ‘UNDRDOG’ on the plate! Yay! Kudos to my brother Austen for the suggestion.
Its cool cause Underdog is a favorite cartoon character of mine and being the short kid all my life, I’ve always fit the role of the underdog. Which is cool with me cause hate it or love it the Underdog is on top!
So the last week has been a busy one here’s some recap for everyone:
Yesterday: I woke up got my car registered. Worked all day. Then played some poker with Brad, Eric, and a couple other friends. It was an awesome time and I won twenty dollars. Yay!
Sunday: Woke up played some video games and went into work then had a great close at work. Ended up falling asleep after watching some Scrubs on DVD.
Saturday: I worked pretty much all day. The end.
Friday: It was a day off, I did laundry, dishes, cleaned the kitchen all by 10AM. I then started playing video games until Curtis came home. Then we both played Madden and NCAA football. At three Brad came in to play frisbee golf. We went, had fun, got ‘failure to follow signs’ tickets (they weren’t in Spanish, I don’t know English!), then went to get my car lisenced, but forgot the checkbook. Night ended in pizza, beer, some Captain, and more Scrubs.
Thursday: I woke up and golfed with Ray and then worked. Should’ve just golfed all day.
Wednesday: I woke up then worked and then went to Sara’s going away party. It was pretty fun.
Now today I got softball tonight. On lunch break at work. And I had to go visit the license plate place again to fill out a form that was missed. No line standing this time. But the people I got to cut through gave me the evil eye pretty good. It was pretty scary and funny.
Cheers to “back by popular demand (that demand being one… big enough).”
Jeers to power tripping cops.
Cheers to Eric D… for always being himself.
Cheers to college, without it I have no reason to play five intramural sports in three months.
Hooray beer.
Cheers to sleeping.
Jeers to me ending early. I’m tired. Screw you.
So after a few months of debating about how to spend the rest of my life, I have finally decided to go into teaching. Why? Because while in school I believed I didn’t have the patience to do so.
Well having a serious relationship and working a year in retail management, I’ve found out that I have more patience than I could have ever dreamed. So with that behind me, and wanting a fulfilling job where I help kids is what I want to do.
So the plan is to try and start back into school in the spring. However I have not decided what to teach. I originally was thinking elementary, just because kids are fun and I feel like I could make a large positive influence on them. My academic advisor introduced the wild card suggesting teaching at the college level. So that’s where the debate lands now.
Anyway that’s what’s new with my life. The nice thing is I can do my classes online so I can keep my job through next summer. Who knows! Its pretty exciting though!
That’s all I’m saying….
http://womenagainstfantasysports.com/
That’s right, there’s a website out there for women against fantasy sports. I know there are guys who spend a lot of time doing fantasy sports, but honestly c’mon. To go out of your way to stop it cause he annoys you with it? Heh…. My woman has to not only put up with fantasy sports, but fictional baseball. She hears me rattle off things about my fictional players by name, and they don’t even exist. I found a good one!
Also the guys who posed in those pictures, wow. ha
I just found this particularly funny….
Better Photoshopping on the Republican side… or would that make the Democrats better?
AdventuresofBradandJordan.com are proud to announce that we are the top search for “I can lead a nation lyrics” and several variations of the song. We should get royalties!
So Canton, SD got some recognition, if you want to call it that on the Colbert report.. Its kinda funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4O6MqO6qA
Canton is pretty much a shit hole town, so no apology needed.
So one of the perks of working at Hollister Co is the music. Lately there’s been bands and artists I’ve never heard of that I have really become a fan of. Matt Pond PA, I Hate Kate, Ludo, and The White Tie Affair were all groups I never heard of that showed up on the touch tunes. They’re all very good and I suggest checking them out on myspace at least.
My current favorite however is We Shot The Moon. Their song “Sway Your Head” is very good and catchy. The song first caught my attention cause the album cover has a giraffe on it, and everyone knows I’m a sucker for giraffes. I haven’t checked out any of their songs cause we only feature one, but I’m very likely to pick up the album when I find it in stores. I think the song has a good sound and the lyrics are meaningful. Check them out:
We Shot the Moon
Sway your head
Move your feet
Wake yourself from the sleep
If theres a day, theres a way
You can get yourself there
Golden smile, you got style
That they can’t take away
Scream and shout, get it out
Before it swallows you
No surprise in these times
How it really gets through
All the walks and the thoughts
But can you break through?
You’re alive
So alive
Now c’mon
You gotta pull yourself back together
Give it one more shot
Its now or never
With the new day falling for you
You gotta believe
(Woah)
Build a plan, yes you can
You’ve got nothing to lose
Look around, up and down
What are you gonna choose?
Can you see the sunrise
That came up for you
You’re alive
So alive
Now c’mon
You gotta pull yourself back together
Give it one more shot
Its now or never
With the new day calling for you
You gotta believe
(Woah)
You gotta pull yourself, back in the water
Take in one deep breath
You’re getting closer
After all you’ve talked and seen
You gotta believe
(Woah)
I think its coming back
I think its coming back
I think its coming back to me(x2)
Now I, I feel I’m getting better
Now I, my world is getting better
You gotta pull yourself back together
Give it one more shot
Its now or never
With the new day falling for you
You gotta believe
(Woah)
You gotta pull yourself, back in the water
Take in one deep breath
You’re getting closer
After all you’ve talked and seen
You gotta believe
(Woah)
I really enjoy the song and hope you check them out
While perusing a website I often read for clever articles and the occasionally funny viral videos, I was surprised at a link www.collegehumor.com had put up. Let me give a background first.
About once a week they do this thing called “Ruin a Poll” that everyone loves - myself included. The idea is that they post a link that has a poll question, but they also tell you what to vote when you go to this random website.
For instance, they would post a website based in Green Bay and say vote for the Lions. When you click on the website you see the question, “Who will win the NFC North this year?” and your choices are Vikings, Packers, Lions, and Bears. Being out of Green Bay, obviously the Packers are going to win the poll, right? Nope. After you cast you vote for the Lions you realize the Packers have 2,000 votes… to the Lions 15,000. If you’re not a sports fan let me point out the obvious… the Lions should not win this poll, hence the poll is ruined.
Yesterday I see there is a new “Ruin a Poll” and I immediately go to participate. The website I was sent to ruin was, to my surprise, www.rapidcityjournal.com. The question was, “What crime would you be most likely to defend yourself in court?” The options include Hit and Run, Traffic Violation, Murder, and Drug Trafficking. Those that sent me ruin the poll told me to answer murder, so I oblige. Murder is winning with 12,000 votes, to traffic violation as the runner up with 1,000.
I feel satisfied. The poll is ruined. Until later in the day I see this on College Humor’s site:
Apparently the person in charge of the poll in Rapid City realized it had been tampered with. So they changed the question to “Where would you least likely be stranded?” The answers were now, The Badlands, Black Hills, Spearfish or Pierre.
College Humor also realized the poll had been changed, that is why it says “UPDATED” at the top. They think they are going to take all the steam out of west river South Dakota by answering Black Hills. This also seems funny to me, so I participate again. But this is where the real humor comes in.
After voting that the Black Hills is the worst place to be stranded it takes you to the results. Those results being:
The Badlands: 130 votes
www.collegehumor.com: 9,000 votes
Spearfish: 40 votes
Pierre: 80 votes
I immediately laughed and excited collegehumor.com, because who wants to get stranded there?
I am about to show you one of the funniest message board threads ever… I am convinced that this is why the internet was created.
You may have to click on the left side of the screen to zoom in.
It’s Friday. Eat some pie or go to a ball game.
Or look at funny pictures on the internet, whatever does it for you.
Travis Barker was involved in a plane crash last night. Apparently he and singer DJ AM survied, while the other four on the plane passed away. Both men that survived received serious burns.
I’m not even sure what to say about this yet. From what I understand the two survivors were thrown from the plane, while the four casualties remained on the plane.
DJ AM and Travis Barker
It seems like a mere four and half years ago when I turned 18. Probably because it was, but that’s beside the point.
Happy 18th birthday to Beth, whose face is permanently stuck like this:
So since I was like 10 and my parents splurged on that one Halloween and bought our first Sony VAIO (yes it was on Halloween, I don’t even know if I went trick or treating) I started playing the Command & Conquer Series. Well Red Alert 3 is finally coming out in November and I was pretty excited, and now I’m super excited after seeing this video game trailer… I have no idea why, cause there’s little game footage, but it looks awesome.
Since the beginning Red Alert always used live actors for the cut scenes and Jenny McCarthey plays my beloved Tanya, and well she looks good. I’m ready to kick some Soviet ass! I love Tanya for her….C4… yeah her C4 explosives…
But honestly the game has always been pretty sweet, and it doesn’t look like Barry Corbin the old general made it into Red Alert 3, but its got some pretty fun stars, JK Simmons, Tim Curry, Kelly Hu, and of course Jenny. I really can’t wait!
So if you’re a cleaning crew to hired to do a job, you show up and you see this…. What do you do?
A) Shake your head no, and turn around.
B) From the shock, have a heart attack and die, adding to the mess.
C) Demand double time, and put on a rubber suit.
D) Check for leftovers.
Please vote.
Two girls in Sweden apparently felt it was necessary to play the human version of frogger. Read the story here and you can see in the video one girl actually getting hit after being detained and question, she breaks free and then both girls just jump back into the mix both getting hit. I think they should have practiced on a slower speed and made sure their skill level was ready for the interstate. Impressive!
Those are the exact words that I remember from my dream last night. My dreams as usual have little or no audio, I only usually hear my thoughts. This time I heard this. And immedately afterwords this God lke robot crashed into earth and started stomping everything. It was a cross between a transformer and the things from War of the Worlds.
Anyway I start running away from this creature/robot/godlike thing and as I’m running away I end up in this old house. A house thats similar to the one in all of my mass tornado dreams, which is also a hybrid, mix, of some house and my old house on the farm. So as I’m sitting in this house trying to figure out what to do I see this thing start changing sizes and going into other houses and smashing people. Wondering what the fuck this thing is, it starts shooting out tentacles that start grabbing people, to which it stomps.
So after finding Sara in this house, and who knows what went on there, I don’t remember her being scared or anything. And I don’t remember being scared, I know I just didn’t want to be stomped. So after this thing shrunk small enough to get into a window, I got it to chase me out, (I assume this protected Sara, she could have gotten stomped, who knows) and all the sudden I ran onto this interstate on rap, but it was like a bridge that had 4-5 roads underneath it and the monster stomped the road causing me to fall among cars and all that garbage. Its at this point I realize this monster is after me and as I catch myself and get myself up after falling a few stories among all this shit I start running and then I was at my grandmas house and I went inside and there was some friends and nothing was really going on. The monster was gone.
I’ll just assume that I was cool enough to be the only one that could live.
I could write pages and pages about my vacation, instead I’ll just highlight it in 90 seconds or less:
-Taffic sucks in big cities. I never ever want to live anywhere where its takes me 4 hours to go less than 10 miles, barring a 30 car pile up on a one lane road. Just ridiculous.
-Weezer was amazing in concert. Man oh man, it was a 2 hour show, they played a couple dozen songs, and they sounded amazing.
-Angels and Airwaves was…alright… Tom, just go back to Blink when Travis is healthy. Thanks.
-(I just don’t know that he’s having fun anymore, he seemed like he was trying to hard, so he’s either lost his mind, or he’s bored.)
-Thank you Mickey’s Dinner for the free parking! And good burger!
-I love campus bars. 2 for 1’s from 10-midnight. Yay
-The Minneapolis Zoo doesn’t hold water to even the Sioux Falls zoo. Crazy? Still had fun though!
-Watching the Cowboys this weekend makes me think that I just can’t watch football anymore. I can’t handle how they play. I miss the Patriots that won 20 straight games last year. They were going to kick your ass and like it. For 60 minutes. Not 35.
-(its not just the Cowboys either, all the teams seem to be over conservative in the wrong spots.)
-Went to a gameworks, had a great time, until Sara’s car got towed for being parked on a street that doesn’t allow parking after 4pm. We missed the sign. Pretty much a bunch of shit.
-Went to MNF with Jared and Sara, the game was slightly better, the Vikings obviously forgot to give ADP the ball. Wasn’t shocked.
-Tuesday I got to just hang out with Sara and relax. It was nice. Relaxing. Watched the debate. Watched it on CNN which was a mistake. The media has a chokehold on this election, and its sick. CNN has pulled all the stops, they have done everything but put up a banner on the top/bottom/left/right/ of the screen saying Obama ‘08.
-Wednesday I woke up drove home, got home, cleaned my apartment, applied for financial aid and grad school, and then my brother surprised me by calling and asking for a ride. So he’s back in town.
Back to work
I’ve had a few wheat beers in my day, and this weekend I had the opportunity to try two new ones. My coworkers suggested Fat Tire, and a bartender suggested Goose Island’s 312.
Basically I had the Fat Tire first and I liked the 312 better than the Fat Tire. But I think its a taste I need to really acquire before I start judging the beers. However it’ll be quite some time before I really care to start exploring beers on a regular basis. Corona is still the best!
So before I left for Minnesota I purchased the new T.I. - Paper Trail CD. Its pretty good, not the T.I. sound I’m looking for, but that’s not because its not a good album. The songs on it are pretty solid. (Anyone else noticing a trend of CDs being listen-enable from front to back, and when taken out of context (played out of order in the album, or in separate playlist) the songs just don’t quite work as well as they used to? I think that with iTunes, they’re less reluctant to release chart topping singles in favor of making solid albums. $9.99 > $.99. )
Anyway I’m sure you’ve heard T.I.’s new song ‘Whatever You Like’ on the radio, it was played every 10 minutes in Minneapolis anyway. When I got home I found this little ditty advertised while looking at SOCOM Navy Seals screenshots (new video game) (I’m a nerd!). Anyway Weird Al must have spent all of 20 minute making this parody, and its great. He’s talented, I care not what you think, he’s got talent.
Anyway check it out, and if you haven’t heard the T.I. song to compare, its on youtube. Enjoy!
So this is what we miss cause we live in South Dakota, where the most excitement we get from sports is a pretty poor version of high school sports….. Link
That’s some spirit! Go Tampa Bay Rays!
Quote:
It’s the second most popular style to sweep the Rays craze.A bikini wax. Mohawk-style.
Michelle Foster of Skin Deep Spatique in St. Petersburg says she was inspired by her son’s Mohawk, “I stopped and thought about it a minute, and thought, well now everyone can have one!”
It seems to be making a lot of men happy, Michelle says, as women come home with what she calls a big “surprise.”
I just wanted to stop by and thank you all of visiting and inspiring creativeness in me. Granted with my current position, I can’t be super creative, (my job is best described as a life style :() however I will be going back to school soon, and eventually departing from Hollister when the opportunity presents itself (please God before Christmas, k thx!). I’ll still be crazy busy, balancing grad school, a part time job, and Sara. But I will have time to pour into drawing, into animating, into more creative writing and thinking. Thanks!
That probably less than random, but I found them funny none-the-less. I-think-I-like-to-throw-not-so-random-hyphens-to-replace-the-spacebar-mostly-cause-I-love-to-run-on-and-ramble-haha!
Sweetest sentence ever that probably doesn’t qualify as a sentence. Self proclaimed.
Anyway image numero uno:
I find that quite funny actually, and I don’t know why. Maybe I’m fucked up.
Round 2:
I’ve already kept a mental note. Glad I didn’t screw up before seeing this one.
Last but not least….
I can’t wait for that movie to come out on bluray. Whoever drew this, kicks ass too.
Well I found all three images to actually be laugh at loud funny. Hope you did too! If-not-I’ll-ramble-until-you-either-laugh-or-cry….Or-cry-from-laughing.
A large part of maintaining this blog is deleting spam comments. If I didn’t do this you would see 5-15 comments a day urging you to buy Viagra and play black jack online.
Normally I delete these without a second thought. However, I was glancing through them today and found this gem:
“Hello adventuresofbradandjordan.com , grim for my spam, I realy emergency moneys, I’am a as a church-mouse student…”
Followed of course by links to male enhancement pills. Church-mouse student?
Google image search for church-mouse student:
I’m on to you… you church-mouse devil-girl.
Color me excited for this situation: Palin as President
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another video….probably couldn’t do worse in a best man that this guy though….. link!
So most of you know that I bought a 2008 Volkswagen Jetta a few months ago. Its a great car, would recommend it it anyone, but VW kindly sent me this deck of playing cards that are supposed to be a never ending conversation game. I assume this is for long road trips and what not, to keep things new and interesting, but I think I’ll use the cards for ABJ instead.
Instructions to the game:
I post a question, and offer my answer. If you have something to add, or disagree completely and can offer another answer please do so in the comments.
Rules:
If you choose not to reply, I will assume that you believe that I am right, and that I am the smartest man in the world.
First Funfversation (its German I’m sure…) Question:
My answer is no. Fish do not get thirsty. They do not drink anything. Even out of water, they do not ask for a glass of water. They flop around looking for water so they can extract the oxygen from the water through their gills so they can breathe. But all of that is besides the point. Fish have little to no memory. So even if they thought that they were maybe thirsty, they’d be unable to keep the thought long enough to do anything about it.
For more information, the card game also offers these sweet notes:
You can’t always have witty banter and insightful conversations when driving (in this case blogging) with your friends — let’s be honest, sometimes there’s just not much to talk about. That’s why we created Funfversation, the best way to kick-start some great conversation. Funfversation, it’s the game that will have everyone talking.
Conversation is an informal exchange of ideas through spoken words. Funfversation is a lot like that. Except, you know, more fun.
A fun game started with this post..
Instructions to the game:
I post a question, and offer my answer. If you have something to add, or disagree completely and can offer another answer please do so in the comments.
Rules:
If you choose not to reply, I will assume that you believe that I am right, and that I am the smartest man in the world.
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Well I’m not sure why the German’s decided to put hot in quotes. I mean do they think is how hot does a girl have to be to make a guy “hot”? And that could go any different way depending on who/what you may or may not be attracted too. For the sake of easy, I’ll go ahead and reword the question. What temperature does it qualify as hot when you walk outside from a room at 72 degrees Fahrenheit. And to be further specific its only on days where there’s not a cloud in the sky, its 2 PM and a 10 mph wind from the south while standing outside of my apartment building next to the pool. The correct answer is 87 degrees Fahrenheit. That is when it is hot.
A fun game started with this post..
Instructions to the game:
I post a question, and offer my answer. If you have something to add, or disagree completely and can offer another answer please do so in the comments.
Rules:
If you choose not to reply, I will assume that you believe that I am right, and that I am the smartest man in the world.
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This one is the easiest one yet. God put plants and animals to be ruled by humans. It says so in the collection of stories called the Bible. So with that its easy to go ahead and say that you should just eat the animal with the plant on the side. If the species was meant to go instinct, it’ll go instinct. So be it. Unless of course this animal is the giraffe, then hopefully the giraffe kicks your ass, eats the plant, and does a dance.
A fun game started with this post..
This question is a toughy…. Its really funny how ground beef stole the “ham” out of hamburger. Maybe it should be a beefburger or a cowburger.. However the cows obviously won the battle and the pigs probably lost a bet or something. Anyway if pigs decided that they were going to produce a burger of their own they’d have to call it a Mahburger. Yes a Mahburger. Ham spelled backwards. I would probably never eat mahburger, but what would you eat ontop of a mahburger? Cheese? Eh… Yeah well it would be a mahburger, with pigburger coming in as a close second.
Okay, maybe not quite Billy Madison style, because Graduate school is a bit different than grade school. And I don’t think my dad feels that I’m a fool. But I started my orientation class today and took my “READI” assessment. I’m happy to report that I am above average in all the categories, and for some reason in the top 1% in technical categories. I was docked for having a Macintosh based OS vs. Windows. They’re goofy.
Anyway under the Locus of Control portion of personality they had this to say about me:
Locus of Control is a measure of the degree to which you feel that you are in control of what happens to you. A person with high (internal) locus of control believes that their experiences are controlled by their own skill or efforts. Your score indicates a moderate degree of locus of control. This may leave you having feelings that regardless of your efforts, your grade will mostly be determined by how much the teacher likes you or just fate. You are encouraged to periodically discuss your performance in the course with your faculty member.
Dead on. I would love to believe that my efforts would put me where I should be. But if they did, I wouldn’t have ever graduated college, so I am glad that they do not. I found it interesting that after answering 150 questions that this was the conclusion.
I also scored as a likely procrastinator, and someone who could lack a persistent style. Both true since I’m like to wait until the last minute to finish things, and I’m a one shot and done type of person. Although I have gotten slightly better at going back and reviewing and fixing my work, I still have room for improvement.
Anyway the online class format is a change of pace, the presentations are amazing, but I wish there was a fast forward button. I know there’s people who don’t know how to use a message board, but I haven’t had issues with that since 1994. And the only issues then was that our 14.4K modem could only handle AOL, getting the internet was impossible. I like the style of discussion, I think its obviously less intimidating that being in a classroom (which was rarely a problem for me, I had no problem showing up hungover, raising my hand, giving my completely uneducated (unless for some reason I reviewed notes for that class or read the readings for that class*) opinion, and raising discussion between the 2 prepared kids, the professor, and myself. This way everyone can throw in their opinion, and it will also challenge me to read and learn, because I feel less confident bullshitting while writing, its way easier in verbal discussion.
Anyway back to my busy off day and finishing my orientation! BYE!
*assuming I even owned the book for that class.
A fun game started with this post..
This one is tough, if knees were backward, first of all, we’d be goofy looking beings. I’m not sure that would give us any biomechanical advantage at all. So thank goodness God got it right by making our knees work like they do. However I’m getting off topic. If our knees bent the other way I would have to say with a guess that we’d sit in some sort of kneeling position. In fact after thousands of years of human evolution, I’m pretty sure our knees would be much bigger, and stronger, to hold the extra weight of just sitting. I also think our butts would be smaller cause they were not have to be the cushion for the seats anymore. I wonder if big booty guys would check out big knee girls then?
Today is election day, you should really consider voting if your eligible, and if you need reasons why read this blog. If you choose not to, that is your right as an American. Good luck!
Wit always has a place in the world. Some people have more than others, specifically my sister Beth has more than me.
As we were walking into the West Central football game last night I saw two full length buses and one short bus from the opposing school.
Brad: Oooo… they brought two and half buses. I wonder who got stuck on the short one?
Beth: It must have been the special teams.
Game, set, match goes to Beth; who outwitted me on a football joke.
Last Friday my father (pops) gathered Brad, my brother Austen, and I together to film our first short film. The idea sprung when at a the Phoenix lounge in Harrisburg pops told Brad he should be using his wit to write scripts. And after that what shortly followed was Brad’s first script, which was funny to pops and myself. We took that script and rearranged my apartment this last Friday and began filming. This was Brad’s, Austen’s, and my own debut into the acting industry and while it shows, I feel we still did a great job. It was our first short film and I welcome you to watch and enjoy it:
I really enjoyed making it, and you better bet we will be making more of them. The script ideas are floating around, soon they’ll materialize, and then we’ll be putting them into production. We had lots of fun, and I hope you find them entertaining!
One of my favorite bloggers is up for blog post of the year, and the winner recieves a $10,000 scholarship. This guy writes for ussmariner.com and fangraphs.com. He is very intelligent and the blog he was nominated for was featured in the Wall Street Journal because he wrote a post dissecting Felix Hernandez’s (22 year old pitcher for the Seattle Mariners) throwing pattern and basically showed why he could never fail if he mixed things up differently. The Mariners pitching coach found that blog and showed it to Felix himself, and it made a Seattle Times news story. Felix being 22 still wanted to throw fastballs by everyone, but he did get better. Either way David is in 2nd place and the voting ends tonight, I ask you to vote for David Cameron.
A fun game started with this post.. All posts can be found here..
I’m not even sure why the grading system started with the top of the alphabet. Maybe it was just easier back in the day. I’m sure they skipped to F because its easy to associate F with Failure/Fuck-Up/Fucktard, and in the grading scale you get 4 strikes before you’re a failure anyway, so a 5th was not so necessary. I do remember in grade school and middle school getting Effort grades, but those were not on any type of E scale. First three E words after that that come to mind are Excellence/Elephant/Egg, and since A already took E’s excellence away from him in an assumed battle royale of letter grading, E had little left to stand for in that system. So maybe E had its letter removed because of the Embarrasment of losing the title of Excellence. Or maybe the other letters are discriminatings against E and started an Embargo against the letter E not letting E play in their letter grading games, much like Rudolph faced while missing out in the reindeer games. So maybe E will soon visit the island of missfit letters and come back and lead all the other letters, kick A’s ass and resume its spot on top of Excellence!
Being the fan of the push and most Underdog’s, I’m rooting for E to come back.
Now I know why the dipping sauce is so addicting…
A fun game started with this post.. All posts can be found here..
This is a funny question. I know here in South Dakota they let you put down your own information, and I’ve never been disputed by giving incorrect heights or weights, so why would they dispute hair color? If you’re a bald man (maybe Pops can help me out on this one, j/k! ;)) I assume you put down whatever hair color you would have if your head didn’t refuse to grow it. Or in the other case thaty you shaved it bald you would probably fill in your original hair color before you cut it off.
What if though I were to go bald (hahaha never happening thank you Grandpa!)… I would totally throw down orange, turquoise, or some odd color. Or maybe I could be like that rainbow fan guy (pictured below) and like him, I assume, put down Rainbow for hair color. If they tried to refute that I’d probably sue them for discrimination and take all the states money and buy more rainbow wigs.
As most of you know, Jordan and I are huge Blink-182 fans. So when I found out Travis Barker was injured in a plane crash I was devastated, because he is one of the best musicians I have had the pleasure of watching. Not only that, but I believe that the bands he has been involved in were always having fun and playing for the right reasons, which is great for a fan.
If you are a Blink-182 fan, I think you should read this whole blogpost by Mark Hoppus in context, but I will give you the gist of it.
He spends the first three paragraphs talking about how hard the past two months have been. They lost their producer, Jerry Finn, and then the plane crash took the lives of two of their really good friends. As bad as this is, a glimmer of hope shines through in his last paragraph:
in the midst of everything else that has happened lately, tom, travis, and i have all spoken together. first through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. they’ve all been great, very positive conversations. we’re just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. it’s a good thing. obviously the first question for a lot of people will be “does this mean a blink-182 reunion?” the answer is none of us know. we haven’t talked about it at all. right now it’s just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect, and let the past be the past. the events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. life is too short.
Life is too short. Well said Mark, well said.
This is the best video I have seen in a while.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1892552
And proably the most worthy cause I’ve heard of… ever.
Adventuresofbradandjordan.com finally handed out its first rick rolling. If you have no idea what it is, check it in the last 4-5 comments of this post. Props to Bradley on that one, it was solid!
In other news you should check out this new youtube video that has gained nearly half a million views daily its called (not safe for work) “Jizz In My Pants” - The Lonely Island
Justin Timberlake as the janitor cracks me up everytime. “When we hold our hands its like having sex to me” lol watch it. It was on Saturday Night Live, its great. Andy Samberg is pretty good, and he also made Dick in the Box. Which you should also check out. Pretty sweet stuff.
I met Will Smith last night. He was a nice guy. He agreed to have his picture taken with me.
He insisted on giving the peace sign; fine with me.
Here is the picture:
His wife took the picture with Jordan’s camera phone.
Isn’t dreaming fun? Especially when you remember it.
I upgraded wordpress to 2.7, and now I can use quickpress, which basically means I can quickly blog about something and have it posted. How freaking sweet is that?
See look I can even add pictures! Man Bradley is sexy!
A sexy picture of Brad Tyler with pink sunglasses.
I wish you all safe travels, I’ll be at the mall working until 5pm if you’re around still shopping. Otherwise enjoy your holiday!
Enjoy safely, and if you do not know how to do a shot, here’s a picture of Brad and I over the summer practicing!
Bradley and I doing a shot
I got two unexpected gifts today, one from Bradley, and one from God. Yeah I know right? Which one is cooler? Well Bradley wins that one hands down before you even know what it is, (he owns in creativity and originality, I mean God hasn’t even given us flying cars yet, yawn) but it was a nice surprise to say the least.
Bradley got me a t-shirt that says Cereal Killer on it. This is a very cool gift. You really have to be in Jordan’s inner circle to know what that’s all about. Since you’re not I’ll clue you in on my nerd baseball love in 5…4…3…2…1 In my fictional (not real, all simulated, only a step up from World of Warcraft cause its a) baseball and b) doesn’t suck my life away) baseball online league, I have named my team the Sioux Falls Cereal Killers. Basically its like owning a baseball team in a video game for people who don’t understand. Anyway I’ve been in that league for almost 5 years now, and now I finally got something to show for it!
Thank you Bradley for thinking of me and finding something so random, but so perfect.
Anyway the other gift I was “given” by God today at work. I was coming back from break and noticed someone had stuck something in the pocket of one of the mannequins at work. The emo kids usually stick stickers and shit as they loiter our porch (”to cool” to go in, but they sit there and hang out anyway?) so I went to tear it off. As i got closer I realized something was in the pocket and it was a church business card connected to a dollar bill. So I took a look at the card, didn’t see anything interesting and took the dollar bill, took a picture and put it in my pocket.
So what do I do with this dollar? Obviously its a sign that I got two unexpected gifts on the same day, so I need to wear the Cereal Killer tee and hold my dollar bill until I’m “impulsed” to buy something with it. Or maybe I could donate it somewhere. Or tip someone.
Heck maybe I should start printing out ABJ.com cards and sticking dollar bills to it and see the web traffic roll in.
Anyway Brad has been writing scripts like a slave child in a sweat shop, and I really hope to be making some movies again here soon. He’s very talented and I’m honored to be apart of it. I mean I made an animated short, but he’s got comic gold that has to be developed. He wrote another one today and I laughed.
Hope you all have a great Christmas: (dollar bill from God) (tee from Bradley)
It was a day of finding out what hardcore really is for Brad Tyler at Great Bear Ski park. We had some fun messing with my new camera and very quickly put this together:
Bradley plays the role of teacher out on the bunny hill. Jordan thought he was getting a good free lesson in skiing…
Found this little tidbit in the Argus Leader today:
Well I guess aparently a congratulations is in order. So congrats Melissa, your present is in the mail.
Also, next time you get married, maybe use a little less makeup. I always pictured you looking, well, more like you at your wedding.
Pretty funny!
Had enough of our videos yet? Well if not, here is my new favorite.
I was watching Comedy Central’s Stand Up Showdown tonight. While listening to the comedian that was voted as the third funniest (they showed the top 20) I was amused by this joke (paraphrased):
I saw a guy with a dragon tattooed on his face. That made me think. If I had to get a tattoo on my face, what would I get?
I would get a tattoo of a face, on my face… only slightly to the left. Then I would go stand outside the 3D movie theater and freak people out.
Now, I wouldn’t say I was so much amused by the joke, as I was by the fact that I wrote roughly the same joke into a script… a month before hearing that joke.
This has a happened a couple of times now, where scripts I’ve written have heavily bordered plagiarism. But if you know me you know that I would never write something if I didn’t think it was original.
I guess that means I’ll just have to write more, so maybe something original will slip through the comedy cracks.
So my life has been extra busy lately, which is all fine and dandy, but for the oddest reasons, its been less than stressful. Yay! I’m still at Hollister for the most part, my fleshy body is there, my mind and passion, and work ethic are all focused elsewhere. At first I felt bad because I like to do a good job and give it my all, but I have done the job for so long it only requires a small slice of my attention to do even at a better than great 110% level. It is really that easy. Along with it being that easy, it is equally unfulfilling, and unchallenging, and well boring.
So I have started the personal training thing, it will be a slow transition (not my choice, but better than no transition at all) and I really do feel like God is pushing me in this direction. All the pieces in the puzzle to make this transition all seem to be falling into place all so convientely. It is very nice, but very hard to remain patient until everything has run its course. One of those pieces is a part time job to sustain income coming in especially if I can’t get a great clientel right away.
It started like any normal Monday, wake up at nine, eat breakfast
catch 15 min of sports center just to make sure I still don’t like it.
Not that I want to hate it, I don’t, but I want a smarter sports
center. Anyway I checked on my newest fictional baseball universe,
whined to myself that I can’t just play that all day long, showered,
left for work.
On my way to work I paid rent, stopped at walgreens for some bottled
water, I got the cheapest one, but I guess the sign was wrong so I
ended up paying 2 dollars more than I wanted, but it was a Monday and
I should have seen that coming. I got to work to find out that Barb is
back. You guys don’t know her, but imagine a retarded foreigner who is
29, wishes she was 19, who likely slept her way up to her position.
She’ll be back to babysit for good. Ugh.
Whatever I plan on turning in my 2 weeks any day now, so I try to get
over that. Then walks in a former employee to make an exchange. This
employee was the biggest whiner, most undependable, waste of garbage I
have ever met. I couldn’t fire him for no reason though and he was one
of our top 5 guys (good looking I guess by our district managers
standards). So I wrote him up for not showing up twice, and when he
did come I asked him to acknowledge them he didn’t, he bitched and I
fired him. This was 6 months ago.
Now he’s here to exchange some jeans with no receipt. They recently
went on sale so I followed store policy and could only give the sale
price. Which at this point he flipped out and went bipolar and started
to get upset. He said I could do something for him, I said I can’t and
he said to not fuck with him, and I said I wasn’t. He then said
whatever he cares not about the $10. I said okay. Then he says “do not
mess with me man, watch out” and I’m going to get it, and that I fit
in here.
I pretty much stood there and watched him leave. Then like Nicolas
Cage at the end of The Rock where he got caught and is sitting in the
cell and just repeating what the guy said to him over and over again,
I walked around the store saying don’t mess with me man, watch out.
Its just ridiculous. What a morning and it wasn’t even noon yet.
I realized that I have never written about one of the most absurd occurrences in my life. My real life ghost story. Written in present tense, because it seems scarier.
This takes place in June of 2007. It is a Sunday about 5:30 in the morning. I am talking to a girl named J.J. The next thing I know she vanishes.
Let me rewind the story about 8 hours.
I have just moved into a six bedroom house in Brookings, SD. None of my house mates have moved in yet, even when they do I will only know one of them.
My girlfriend (at the time) has a flight leaving Sioux Falls at 4 a.m. on Sunday. I agree to stay in Sioux Falls and give her a ride to the airport. About 10 p.m. that Saturday night I get a phone call from a house mate I have not yet met, I let it go to voice mail. I will check it later, I am dead tired.
All goes well at the airport, I drop her off at about 2:30 a.m. and head off to my house in Brookings, an hour away. While on the road I decide to listen to that previously mentioned voice mail. My future house mate, Adam, tells me that this weekend he and his softball team have a tournament in Brookings, and will be crashing at the house. I assume he tells me this because I am the only house mate who has moved in so far.
I think to myself, “Well that’s fine… but… by “this” weekend does he mean THIS weekend we are currently in, or this upcoming weekend?”
Well, I am sure to answer my own question as soon as I arrive home. I get to Brookings around 4 a.m., and walk in half expecting to see people sleeping on the couches. When they aren’t I’m not surprised, and partially relieved, because it is June — and with June comes heat. My bedroom is upstairs, and I like to sleep in the living room where it is about 20 degrees cooler.
I strip down to my underwear, and as soon as my head hits the pillow and couch cushions I am out. That is, until I hear the back door open. From the couch I am laying on I have a clear shot of the kitchen, which is where I see the outline of a person. In my dreary state I remember the voice mail, and the fact that it might be this weekend there are visitors. However, I am so tired that I try to blink my eyes but fail to open them. I am asleep again.
Now my pillow is getting pushed. My head bobs up and down with the rhythm of the hand that is trying to wake me. I barely open my eyes, and see the silhouette of legs.
“You must be Adam’s friend,” I sleepily mutter.
“Yeah, I’m J.J.” she replies.
My heart skips a beat. It’s a girl. I think quick because I remember that I am in my boxers, “There is a light switch in that room,” I state as I direct her away from me. I know there is a light switch in the room I am in, but I need her to turn away so I can slip shorts on.
She turns and walks. As she turns away I notice she is a brunette with straight hair just past her shoulders. She is wearing short jean shorts, with a dark blue t-shirt that is tight on her. She has an attractive slender build.
As soon as she gets to my feet, still walking away, I sit up and throw on my shorts. It takes me no more than a second. When I look back to make sure she is getting the light, she is gone.
“Hello?” I ask the darkness. Suddenly it doesn’t feel like hot night in June. My sense of fear overtakes every other sense my body should be feeling. I don’t dare go into the next room. After calling out to no avail a few more times I stand up and turn on the light in the room I am in — the one that I hadn’t direct J.J. toward, for worry of a stranger seeing me in my delicates.
I now search the well lit room she had disappeared into, hoping this is a bad prank. But I know it isn’t. There was no time for her to get away in the split second I looked away. No chance she could have gone anywhere in that old three story house without making noise.
I am stuck. It is too early to go anywhere. I don’t have a TV in the house yet, but I do have a radio. I turn it on nearly full blast and sit without blinking - the definition of ghost faced - until the sun comes completely up. I spend the entire day outside, in Brookings, by myself. I am in a state of shock all day, not knowing whether I believe my own story - no, not story - whether I believe my own mind and memory.
To this day I could draw you a picture of J.J. if I were an artirst - all but her face anyway - which may be be a good thing. I don’t know too many people that have looked a ghost in face and lived to tell about it.
But then again, if anyone told me they saw a ghost I probably wouldn’t believe them anyway.
I watched the Grammys tonight, and it was worth it. At about 8 o’clock central time, this 8th day of February, 2009, my heart nearly stopped. After a bunch of poor performances and stupid awards — it happened. Here’s a play by play:
A female voice resonates through the crowd, “And now back together again, here is Blink 182!”
They walked on stage. From left to right it was Mark, Travis, then Tom.
Mark said, “Isn’t it nice to see the Jonas Brothers and Stevie Wonder back toghether again?” The crowd laughed.
Travis comes forward to the mic, “We used to play music together, and we decided to play music together again.”
“Blink 182 is back!” Mark shouted.
Tom proceeded to introduce the bands for the award they were presenting.
I watched it three times and pinched myself four.
We’re putting these videos out like those Now! CD’s from the ’90s. I own Now! 3 if you were wondering.
But like clockwork, here is the sequel to Becky the Bookie, cleverly titled: Becky the Bookie Episode 2. Enjoy.
Please watch it in HD, by clicking that box in the lower right hand corner. It’s like black and white to color.
I am speechless.
http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=853742
Blink is back. I have NEVER been happier. If this is a joke, I will kill somebody.
Hat tip to Lucas over at postblink.com for the heads up.
They can say it the best themselves.
From their newly redone website, blink182.com:
Click to enlarge.
Lately
I’ve been less than busy, but still really busy. When I have free time,
I have caught up on TV, killed some time, and really enjoyed it. Lately
I have been reorganizing my life, and finally put in my 2 weeks notice
at Hollister. yay!
More to come!
Last night my parent’s van was stolen. Now that in itself is sucky, but the fact that it was taken from their house is the worst part.
They live on a farm about 10 miles outside of Sioux Falls. They have always felt safe out the country, but now not so much. It is extra bad because of how nice my parents are. I’m sure they feel bad that someone was that desperate they had to steal a vehicle.
But me, I don’t feel bad. Whoever took it… stole a Dodge Caravan. You can’t sell a stolen car. You can’t drive it, unless you switch the plates, and even then it’s risky. Stolen cars usually go to chop shops, where they are stripped and sold for parts. Which brings me to my next question(s).
A Dodge Caravan? A chop shop in Sioux Falls? Caravans are a dime a dozen and surely their spare parts can’t be worth the trouble. I can’t imagine a chop shop in Sioux Falls being that lucrative. Maybe the caravan was on Nicholas Cage’s second list? Is there a “Gone in 61 Seconds” coming out? Or would the sequel be “Gone in 59 Seconds?”
I digress.
I hope whoever took it had a fun joy ride and ditched it somewhere. That would be the best for both parties.
Here’s a brand new game I totally am copying from someone else. Basically its an interactive story. I have painted the picture to begin, and from here on out I will be fielding commands from all of you lucky people telling Chase what to do. You can check his book bag to see what he’s carrying, go left, go right, feed slagathor, look outside, exit the room etc. Pretty much anything, let’s let this get creative!
Streeter and Amir at collegehumor.com have this running prank war going. You should check them all out here. (Start with Prank War: Audio Prank)
The Yankee Prankee is actually one of the most famous pranks ever pulled. Now there is this to go with it:
Jordan and I refereed a kids basketball tournament last weekend. More specifically 5th grade girls. Then today I stumbled across this. Apparently a parent at 5th grade girls basketball game got thrown out after swearing at the refs for 30 seconds.
The tournament that we reffed was for charity, and we volunteered to help. The crowd was still a little unruly at times. I don’t get it. It’s not college, there are no scouts at the game, calm down a little.
Even high school ball fans need to calm down. I don’t remember one game from my high school career, so obviously one bad call isn’t something I am going to remember… so why make a fuss over it?
Update: After reading the article Busted Coverage links to I was wrong. The dad actually got tossed 30 seconds into the game. Wow. Impressive guy.
Those instructions seem to make sense…..
And for all those women out there, a brand new video game for you:
FTW!
Call me the party pooper, but this is exactly how I feel. I am never twittering again.
Every once in a while, when I’m flipping through Facebook, I get the urge to comment on something. I try to make a sarcastic comment or joke and then I’m on my way.
However, a lot of times I can’t bring myself to hit the “Comment” button. I frequently type out replies and then exit the page before I stamp my sometimes witty humor on the victims page.
Why do I do this? Different reason… sometimes I don’t know how well the joke will be received, or I just can’t find a good way make it sound as funny as I’d like.
Well here is one of my works of art, from the Still Born Comments collection:
Enjoy your day. See you at the park.
We filmed another short sketch.
TING! Here it is.
So I seen this on iTunes, and I’m not saying that Asher Roth is a great rapper, but he was smart enough to write something that rhymed, was catchy with hooks, and dealt with drugs, sex, and alcohol.
Anyway I also loved college, and like Asher said, I wish I had taped it.
Yesterday Brad and I made this little sketch.
I would have posted yesterday, but youtube wasn’t being friendly.
I remember that Blink 182 had a song in the 1999 hit, American Pie. I remember the scene - vividly - and telling my friends, “That’s Blink-182 playing!” I was shouting it like I was their producer and they were a band that had no business getting play in a huge movie.
What I don’t remember is that they acutally had a cameo apperence in the movie.
For all of these things, I am sorry Mark, Tom, and Travis. You deserved more from me.
My sincerest appologies,
Jason Biggs… err… Brad Tyler
Eminem has a new video out. I usually enjoy his music - but this song not so much. However, if you throw your computer on mute and watch this video I promise you’ll be entertained.
He went the same route as Weezer did with their Pork and Beans video. If you throw in hot topics and things people relate to, you have a successful video.
If you’re really bored here is the Weezer song I was talking about, and in my opinion one of the best music videos ever made (but I love the internet).
As a side note - both the Twins and Michigan St. lost last night. Why do I watch sports when they never make me happy?
My house mate broke his wrist playing football. I am not feeling very sympathetic today.
It’s all in good fun. Now excuse me, I’m off to laugh at the homeless.
Dave T.
Dianna T.
Melissa T.
Beth T.
Ralph T.
Troy W.
Jordan G.
Dustin A.
GerriAnn C.
Catrina A.
Johnn C.
Jamie P.
Chayson H.
Adam E.
Colin C.
Alex B.
Cody T.
James C.
Janelle M.
Tyler S.
Mike H.
Nate H.
Zach L.
Jake H.
I have lived with 24 different people in my life. Next month that number will grow to 26. Only five of those were family members (parents, sisters, and grandpa).
This has no pertitent meaning; I just thought it was interesting.
Facebook added a new language to their settings list. Pretty good stuff. Here’s an example of a couple people liking my status.
Call your mom or do something nice for her. One or the other, not both.
Here’s the only picture I could find of me and my ma. Unfortunately the rest of my family ruins the picture.
On a fun side note: I found that picture off of the best put together website in the world. My mom’s. I made it for her back in the late 90’s and it hasn’t changed since.
My sister Beth is graduating high school today. Her GPA is over a 4.0. Outstanding.
What does that being that smart mean for her? Well even though she is basically getting a full ride to college, she isn’t smart enough to not listen to her brother when he tells her to wear a pirate eye patch.
I almost started this post by saying, “Sorry about not posting in so long…” But who am I kidding? It’s my blog. I’m not that sorry. I’ve been busy, deal with it.
Now starts the real post.
I’m really sorry, I didn’t mean to yell at you back there.
Okay, now here it comes.
Are you ready?
The most recent powerball winner of $230+ million was from South Dakota. Crazy right? Here’s my 23,000,000,000 cents on the subject:
In the past few days I’ve had this conversation several times, “What would you do with the money?” Here’s what I’ve come to figure out – no matter what your answer is… you’re wrong. You have no idea what you would do if you won that much money, because it’s an incomprehensible amount of coin.
Here’s my checklist:
1. Don’t have a heart attack after reading and rereading winning numbers.
2. Don’t get murdered before claiming said cash.
3. Watch everyone you’ve ever met get money signs in their eyes.
4. Receive financial advice from everyone that talks to you.
5. Take one million, bury it, and make a treasure map.
Obviously I joke, but that really is because I have no idea what I would do.
Speaking of money, Blink 182 tickets go on sale this Friday I think. If you want to go let Jordan or I know. gillis27@gmail.com or btyler182@gmail.com will work. Or Facebook us. Or yell really loud and see if we’re close enough to hear you.
Hey… hey Jordan… You should put up that sparkler bomb video and those pictures from Minneapolis.
Wyatt is getting fixed today and that means at six months old he can no longer make babies. This is quite normal for dogs, and I think its all fine and dandy. I tried to give him his last drink as a man, but Sara prevented me from letting Wyatt have some Corona. Oh well. So in about an hour or so he’ll be back home, hopped out on drugs. It should be amusing.
But this got me thinking. What if we fixed kids when they turned old enough? Then when the time comes that a certain couple are ready for a baby and they pass a quick knowledge quiz (by quick I mean extensive) that they get unfixed and are allowed to go to town. I think the general population would really benefit from this, and we’d solve teen pregnancy (unless a teen couple passes the test).
All right Obama! Let’s speed up natural selection!
To be completely honest I have no idea who coined that phrase, but the first time I heard it was from my freshman roommate Mike say it. Whatever works I guess, but by time he said it for the 30th consecutive Wednesday, I was annoyed. Oh well!
Anyway Wyatt is doing great, his surgery went well, and I’m not quite sure if he even notices whether or not he is missing anything.
I work the next three overnights at the VOA meaning I go to work at 11:00 PM and leave work at 9:00 AM (on good days). Here’s a pro’s and con’s list for working overnights:
Pro: Get paid to read, do homework, play on the computer, watch dvd’s.
Cons: Fucks up your sleep schedule, staying awake sucks, no booze,
alienate the girlfriend, and sleeping when its bright outside.
Overall it could be worse, but hopefully one of the prospecting jobs I’ve applied for call me in soon, or the one I’ve interviewed finally makes a decision. (A good one I hope). Anyway I trust in God that his plan for me is set, forgive me for getting anxious about it. Its time to do some homework that is due today because its hump day! Yay!
So tonight its 3 A.M. I’m currently working my third straight overnight at work. Overnights aren’t so bad.
I mean day one I spent the entire night zombified in front of the TV watching Scrubs. Not a bad gig. My role as the overnight includes about 40 minutes of work, and then 30 second check ups on the kids every 12 minutes or so.
Unfortunately as soon as I got home at 9 A.M. I got to take my woman to work because her car sucks. When I got back about 20 minutes later they were working on the siding of the townhouse. Pretty hard to fall asleep to. Anyway somewhere around 10 or so I fell asleep and stayed asleep until…. 1:30 PM when the Blue Angels were practicing their flights about 10 feet above my house. Loud. So I woke up. And then I helped my dad move my sister home. Which was fun, but short lived.
So spending the rest of the day toiling around lacking sleep, motivation, and desire didn’t help my cause. I got back to work for overnight #2 at 11 P.M.
I survived through the night this time also watching Scrubs some more. I took a 15 minute break which equaled about 4 minutes of sleep. It was a long night, but I made it and got home, took the dog outside and he peed and pooped and I went to bed. I woke up around 3 P.M. Meaning I got roughly less than 6 hours of sleep.
Now I’m back at work for my 3rd overnight which I started by doing my homework, then doing my 40 minutes of stuff, made some jello, and now watching some more Scrubs.
Its kinda fun to
get paid to do this. However my lack of sleep is killing me. Tomorrow
I’ll catch some sleep, but honestly this may carry over into Sunday. Oh
well its good money. However I still want a new job, hopefully God has
something planned for me. If not there’s worse jobs than this
I’m just babbling now. I’m exhausted.
I have been going to a lot of concerts lately. As I type this I am actually missing out on the Chevelle, Shinedown, and Staind concert, but oh well.
Of all of the concerts that I should be excited for I find myself giddy for Flyleaf on August 5th.
I have always liked their radio singles. So when I heard they’d be in Sioux Falls I looked into their stuff a little bit more and took a closer look at the lyrics. Not only are they a good sounding band, but they are all Christians and that shows in the music.
Also, her voice makes my ears do the macarena (if you consider that a good thing).
They will have to put on a great show to top Hollywood Undead, though.
On another note there are some other concerts coming up… I can’t remember off the top of my head who though. Some sort of punk rock band I think. Hmmm… maybe I’ll remember tomorrow.
Last night I wrote a blog on my phone about a story that quoted Nomar Garciaparra on his take on the 2003 steroid testing. He said it was anonymous and the security in the testing (as in who actually peed into cups) wasn’t there, and it was pretty ridiculous. What I wrote was not English, and ridiculous, so I’m replacing it with this. Basically I hate the media for digging for these results that have little to no proof of actual truth. While the players are still responsible, the media is digging for a report and finding names and tarnishing baseball over and over again.
Please just release the whole list, get it over with, and we can finally move on. If that’s not possible, just forget about it. Nobody cares anymore. Everyone is tarnished. Let it go. They’re all probably still on HGH which is undetectable anyway. I also through in a rant how I miss how writers used to paint pictures with words. Words used to be poetic, and pretty, now they’re missiles and weapons.
After working for what seemed like forever today during my downtime I realized that I am 23 turning 24. Its not really a big deal, people age, you get older, you know, whatever.
Anyway it really occurred to me that I have really grown up in the last 3 years and while it made me really happy, I still really miss the days in college where anything went, nobody cared, and everyday truly was a holiday. This day 3 years ago would have been a Thursday, and I don’t know exactly what I was doing that day, but I know that it was celebrated by my inner circle as the “Last Time Jordan Can Illegally Drink on a Thursday!” This obviously started the Monday before it and continued through the point that clock struck midnight (Literally) on Monday, August 14, 2006.
That all led up to my 21st birthday which was a show to be polite, and while I held my own, it wasn’t without several embarrassing moments that are fun to laugh about now. Because that summer I had “money” and plenty of ways to get booze, I drank pretty often, and my tolerance was more than the average 150 pound man. We never drank because we were bored, or we had too, but it was always fun, and 80% of the time it was fun every time. Most of you were there and understood the lifestyle. It was a blast.
So I look back at this day 3 years ago and I laugh, it really was a great time. Now I’m looking at myself at 23 and “What’s My Age Again” by Blink 182 plays over and over again. I’m almost 24. A song I loved since I heard it on the radio 1000s of times back in high school, talks about a guy who screws around at 23 and won’t act “his age”. Sadly for my tribute to Blink 182 I did not represent 23 very well. Immature adults usually don’t:
I’m glad that I have made good decisions and figured some great things out, found the woman of my dreams, started to put effort into school, etc. And now I’m really sad because I can’t take Sara out on a Friday night, put on some cologne to get the feeling right, start making out, let her take off my pants, and then turn on the TV. I even set it up, I got my old TV up in my bedroom. How in the hell did I fail at this? This Friday is my birthday, last Friday was the day after the engagement, but the fifty Friday’s before that? Man…..
At least I still have a shot to on the drive home, call her mom, from a pay phone (do they still make those), say that I was the cops, and tell her tell her that her husbands in jail, because the state looks down in sodomy. I’m not sure her parents would catch the reference, hell my parents wouldn’t likely either. Maybe its worth a shot (like I mean someone dare me to do it for a shot).
Anyway the song was probably more appropriate for me at 20-21, than it is now for me at 23-24, but I don’t think that’s really the point. Life is fun, don’t take anything so serious that it ruins your day for you. So here I sit alone because Sara is out of town, its midnight after working somewhere between 15 and 16 hours straight (when you eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner at work, it just sucks), with work looming around the corner again the next morning, drinking a Corona. Why? Well its the last Monday (Tuesday doesn’t start until 2 AM) for me as a 23 year old. Its a holiday!
(where’s the closest pay phone?)
Last night Brad and I played in the Sioux Falls City Championship for our Tuesday night softball league. We entered the playoffs as a 5th seed and after three games came out number one. On my third full season with the team its fun to finally win one. The last two years we played and won around half the games. Anyway here’s a picture with Brad and I and our shiny trophy.
I saw this come up on the twitter. Ichiro once said that Cleveland is a place he would never ever wish to visit ever again. (That was the nice way of translating it.) However someone took the time to make a commercial on why you should go ahead and visit Cleveland anyway! Its a good minute.
So a few guys got together and created this pretty slick video involving sticky notes.
I think its pretty neat, I can’t imagine spending the time to pull that off, but more power to them. They did a great job!
It sure doesn’t seem like eight years ago.
Among all of the bad feelings there were some good ones, including Bush throwing out the first pitch for the Yankees first game after that terrible day.
Last night was an interesting night, I had the hardest time falling asleep, but it worked out okay as I had a sweet dream.
It begun as I am standing backstage at a Blink 182 concert. It was a rocking good time, then all the sudden Brad shows up. Concert ends.
After the concert we’re standing and meet Mark Hoppus and 3 stage crew guys. Mark was really nice, but him and his buddies needed a ride.
No problem because we had a van that Brad was driving that sat 7. However there was 8 because all the sudden Sara was there. No sweat as I just squeezed in next to Mark Hoppus, and we all chatted for a little bit.
We drove by a cop and Brad decided that 3 in the way back was too many, so I moved up in between Sara and Brad in the front seat. We drove a little bit further.
Next thing I know a cop in a hover car pulls us over, and then I attempt to hide in between the back seats, but the cop says we can’t do 8 people in a 7 person van. The cop takes Brad’s license away and we’re stuck.
After that Mark and his crew get picked up and Brad, Sara and I are walking. No idea why we left the van but Brad was pissed. Brad then very upset went to a gun vendor on the street and bought a hand gun and specifically a gun license for 1 day only.
No idea why I thought of that, but I did. Brad then wearing a glove (can’t remember if it fit) walked 10 feet away and started capping off a full clip into all the bystanders.
After the clip was finished Brad threw everything down to the ground, waved at the gun salesman and carried off.
Sara at this point is very upset, because Brad is out of control. He had no business shooting all those people.
So she storms off just pissed as well. I stand there very confused, then Mark Hoppus swung back around, offered us a ride, and eventually picked all of us back up and then we talked about the concerts we seen on tour, and the whole time Mark was just cool, relaxed and just normal. Like a friend it was weird.
Then I woke up.
Good times!
I usually don’t have the best luck when it comes to things like fantasy football. So I am going to document a week to see how it turns out.
That is the projected high scores in each category. His team is on the left, mine is on the right.
My projected score for the week is 123, his is 79.
I am not getting my hopes up. Go Vikings.
Some of those close to me know that I am now writing for coachesaid.com as a content coordinator for South Dakota. The website is a high school sports focused state that has individuals pages for each state. I run the South Dakota page and you can see the link here: http://www.coachesaid.com (assuming you’re viewing the link in South Dakota it’ll pull up South Dakota’s page).
Right now there is not a ton of information available on high school sports, especially in lower populated states such as South Dakota, which is where Coaches Aid comes in. We’re looking to change the trend and bring the passions of high school sports to the front.
To help create awareness of the site in which I can get more original content (interviews, profiles, connections, etc) I have started facebook and twitter accounts, and I would appreciate the follows to help increase awareness of the website.
So I would appreciate it if you clicked these links and followed, became a fan, and friend of my profiles. Thank you!
Facebook CoachesAid South Dakota Friend
Facebook Fan Page Coaches Aid South Dakota
Twitter Coaches Aid South Dakota
Thanks so much! Also point your high schools, siblings, relatives and friend to these sites, I would love to write about all sports, but especially those that don’t get a ton of coverage. Also if you have pictures that you don’t mind sharing, I would love those too. I can be emailed at jordangillis@coachesaid.com with any possible contacts, pictures, notes, news tips, or for whatever reason.
Thanks!
Jordan
Brad is expected to lose 132-112. Here is why:
Yeah, that’s me on the left. Ouch.
Jordan is expected to tie 99-99. Wowzers. Here is his match up:
Jordan’s column is on the right. I hope he ties, then misses playoffs by half a game. But I know that’ll be me.
Go Vikings!
I really want the Detroit Tigers to lose today. That would allow the Twins a much better shot at the playoffs. However, the Tigers got their first run on a bases loaded walk. Here are the 4 balls John Danks threw, via ESPN pitch tracker.
Clearly nothing good will ever happen to any team I root for. Hopefully the Twins chances at the playoffs don’t correlate to this umpires strike zone.
The strike zone is apparently an imaginary place, or today is opposite day.
I hate to rag on umpires… but wow. I know two umps that won’t be making the postseason.
How cool will this story be when he’s in high school?
Average Joe: “I was almost in a car accident yesterday… I could have died.”
Superbaby: “Oh yeah? I was run over BY A FREAKING TRAIN! …I’ll send you the link.”
If this doesn’t get stuck in your head, I don’t know what will.
Friday, October 23rd, 2009, in the afternoon, a 7 pound 6 ounce Harper Lynn Gillis was born to my baby sister Larissa Lynn Gillis. Being a first time uncle I could not be any less proud, and I will mention that she is adorable. Here is a picture:
This was just minutes after her birth and I got to hold her. I’ll be honest, I had no idea what I was doing, but it was a special moment for me. In the meantime I will keep everyone updated on the baby, she celebrated her first Halloween, which I hear a video is scheduled to be released.
Harper at 6 days old!
Harper’s first day outside of mom:
We submitted this to the Crash the Superbowl contest for Doritos. For our first shot, I think we did really well. I don’t expect to win or anything, but going forward, hopefully other companies do similar type contests and by then we have some kinks worked out and we can turn out a winner. But go ahead tell you friends about this one if you can, we could use the views. Remember if we win, I’ll buy the icecream for everyone. Expensive kind!
From Amir (collegehumor.com):
I pranked Streeter again.
It happened a few weeks ago, and I’ve kept the whole thing under wraps because that video (Prank War 8) is being premiered Thursday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live at 12:05am/11:05pm central on ABC — and Streeter and I will be on the show to talk about it.
It’s not only my first prank on Streeter in over two years, it’s the first CollegeHumor video EVER to premiere on network television. You will also be able to watch it (in its entirety) on CollegeHumor.com Thursday night as well.
It was hard topping the $500,000 shot, but I think I did… And I can’t wait for everybody to see it.
Brad Seeing the Future
Brad and I have not been updating the blog lately, and I have a feeling it has a lot to do with the blog looking tired, old, and bland. So I took the liberty of using this great amount of time off I have had recently (thank you Oba….lack of jobs!) to find a new theme for our website. This will be a work in progress of sorts. This theme is slightly more complex than any of the other themes I have ever used before, but so far I am enjoying the work. So while we get things in order, please be patient!
However as you can tell, we have a setup going that will offer more reasons for more frequent updates. So make sure you check them out from time to time. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or critiques, please forward them to me, as Brad only faintly knows what I am doing here.
This is classic Brad and Jordan getting together and slapping together a video in the matter of hours. We had fun doing this one and its crazy hard to believe that we have not done this since last April. Don’t fret however we have plans for many more great videos to come!
Ever since Brad discovered the funny little drawings the guys from explosm.net I have been coming back and checking our their website almost daily. Their web comic is called Cyanide and Happiness and it features quick hit comedy lines in a stick figure cartoon drawing setting. Often the characters are fairly crude and outrageous, but if you can get past that there is a certain amount of cleverness that is to be appreciated behind the comics. And if you can’t laugh at that, well go away.
In the meantime
they are coming out with a book with over 100 of their favorite comics
and like me you should be very excited about this! I can’t wait to throw
it on the coffee table and let people ooh, ahh, puke, and laugh all
over it!
The very first must see of the new ABJ.com is our personal favorite sketch comedian Michael Swaim. In this series of shorts Swaim and his new partner D.O.B. are the Agents of Cracked.com. The videos are hilarious and full of great one liners such as:
“You can wear all the baby diapers you want now, Jeff”
“East coast…heh…So when does his blimp arrive?”
“Fuck me with a live fish if he isn’t a yammering nutbag”
These videos are on cracked.com and not youtube, so I can’t post them conviently here for you, however feel free to click this sweet link I tossed in here for you!
To be honest, I have been in love with baseball since as long as I can remember. I have always been obsessed with the numbers, records, stats, and the overall beauty of the game.
My longing for simulation begun when I was very young playing with a bat and a whiffle ball in my dad’s Morton building. I would setup dream line ups of my favorite major league baseball players and then have areas set up and where the ball hit the player would go and what not.
Certain players did better than others on purpose I’d say, I played with a bias as Ken Griffey Jr and Jay Buhner would dominate and guys like Frank Thomas seemed to strike out quite often. I kept stats of these games in notebooks all the time with pretty decent accuracy. Obviously they mean nothing, but it was fun for me as a small child.
Next to come out were some computer baseball games that simulated the game for you. You could control the rosters and manage your favorite players yourself. So I would always make trades, sign free agents, or do whatever to try and win. Basically these games were video games without the video. Very boring to most people, but very fun for me.
Sioux Falls Uber Giraffes
These games have evolved through the years and now I play Out of the Park Baseball 10 (OOTPX) and run a live online simulation baseball league. Me and 15 other people (there’s 1 girl, so we’re not all dudes!) use the OOTPX game to coordinate our teams and then communicate over a forum. The major difference her is that everything is completely fictional. The league is called the Classic Baseball Union and my team is based in Sioux Falls, SD and called the Uber Giraffes.
Luckily for me Sara is very aware of my different obsession and supports it for the most part. She agrees that its no different than being very into any fictional based TV show and notes that at least I have some sort of control of the flow of things here.
Anyway this simulation league is pretty fun and if you haven’t quit reading yet you can check it out a little bit more at http://www.thecbu.com/.
Bryan Wigmore
My Uber Giraffes in the 2 seasons of existence have won one division title, but no championships as of yet. However Bryan Wigmore the 3B from Australia is only 25 years old and is a hall of fame type player. He has become one of my favorite baseball players already and he doesn’t truly exist. That does not bug me however as I will cheer all I want for him to hopefully hit 50 homers this season and win Sioux Falls a championship trophy!
Thanks for reading about my obsession, I hope it was a small peek into what I do during my alone time. Its pretty awesome as the players have pictures, and you can create hats, logos, and jerseys for your players and teams. Its a crazy amount of fun!
I’m pretty excited about the new Motion City Soundtrack album coming out on 1/19/2010. I have seen them live a handful of times now and I have to consider them one of my favorite bands of all time. Best of all Mark Hoppus is back producing this CD and the lead single “Disappear” already sounds like their older stuff. All great news in my book. I look forward to hearing a few more tracks from this album and eventually buying it next January.
Here is the music video:
Motion City Soundtrack – “Disappear”
Motion City Soundtrack | MySpace Music Videos
With
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (MW2) releasing last month I never
dreamed I would be writing a blog about something else at this point.
However I feel like blogging about a new kick I’ve started to slide into
in recent months. I still play MW2, and I love the game, I love first
person shooters, however I do feel like I am not satisfied with the
game. This is by no means the games fault, but since I do not have a
team to work together with on a consistent basis I have had my interest
wain over the last week or so. If I had a group of reliable friends who
we could roll together with online, it would be the best video game
experience hands down. However I have about 4 or 5 guys, and trying to
kick ass as a duo or trio just doesn’t work as well, and often can be
very frustrating.
Before MW2 was released I had been playing several differnt xbox live arcade games that were really fun, they were quick to get a handle on, not terribly in depth, but full of strategy and fun. After the release, I looked for one to tickle my fancy just to take a break from MW2 and did not find much. So when I saw Civilization Revolution at Wal-Mart for $20 I was intrigued. However my current finances prevented me from getting it right away, I was able to find the game used and trade some of my older titles for this one.
The
game is the newest in a series of games that I have not played in
years. Civilization 3 came out in 2001 and I purchased it right away. It
was one of the most in depth, turn based strategy games of its time,
and honestly its still likely way up there. Civilization 4 came out a
couple years ago and I never got it as I did not have a computer that I
felt could run it properly, and I would rather not play games on my
apple as lap tops are usually poor gaming machines.
So the game features a lot of the same ideas and concepts as what I could remember, however this game was redesigned for the console versus the computer and they did it incredibly well. A lot of the tedious tasks from the computer game are gone (which were not bad for the game, but to do them all with the controller versus a keyboard full of short cuts is just asking for headaches). The game is now slightly more “noobified” as it is much simpler in the learning curve, but it is still a ton of fun. I am also happy with the newer version as these games take about 2-3 hours versus some of my old skirmishes on the computer would last several days.
This
game does work on xbox live, but I have yet to try it, I would rather
find friends to duke it out with as you need those couple hours set
aside to make it work. Unfortunately you cannot save online games (you
can save the single player games offline). Maybe my post will inspire
someone. Its a better system than I remember it being, we used to have
to play internet games over email, much like people used to play chess
through the mail like pen pals. We would complete our turn, then forward
the game to the next person who would continue it so on and so forth.
Those games often never ended as someone usually dropped out a week or
two into it.
Either way, as a relaxing getaway from the frustrations of poor teammates of the MW2 universe, Civ-Rev has been a riot. I know why MW2 and Halo are so popular, however I would just be in heaven if some of these more strategy based games (Halo Wars and CivRev) would generate a following. Maybe someday they will.
BFF's Suh (in red) and McCoy (taken from ESPN.com)
Last night I watched one of the best and worst football games I have seen in a long time. I enjoy a great players who dominate their sports. I do not however enjoy when those players do not get recognized for their great efforts. Last night Ndumakong Suh the defensive tackle from the University of Nebraska dominated Colt McCoy and the Texas Longhorns.
Suh’s first name is pronounced en-dom-ah-ken and he was really close to Colt McCoy last night. Texas would end up winning on a game winning field goal and did all but solidify Colt McCoy’s Heisman trophy award (best player in college football). However Suh has been a dark-horse candidate for most of the season and is ultimately and underdog (even more reason for me to like him) for being a defensive player. Last night Suh sacked Colt McCoy 4 and a half times. He led Nebraska last night with 11 tackles which he made 7 of them for a loss.
For those who are not terribly familiar with how good this is, 4.5 sacks is a great season for most players. Suh had 4.5 sacks against a Heisman quality QB, against the 2nd best team in the country, on national television. Suh was against a double team of offensive linemen the entire game and made 7 plays in the backfield. This was an incredible performance. Heisman winning quality.
However Nebraska’s offense failed to score any points, mustered just a hair over 100 yards, and lost the game despite Suh’s domination on defense. Thanks to Colt McCoy for the quote of the day saying of Suh’s continual pressure, “Yeah, we became friends.”
Getting hugged and drug to the ground a handful of times will do that to man I guess.
Sara and I have recently been sitting together and watching through season after season of The Office. I bought the DVD’s on TV on eBay from some Chinese seller by suggestion of Brad. I got all five available seasons for around $50 and it was one of the best deals I’ve ever gotten.
The Office
Anyway I wouldn’t call it the best series I have ever seen on TV, but it does round out my top 3. Scrubs is still my go-t0 favorite and the show I can watch over and over again. Behind Scrubs is the show that Scrubs replaced, South Park. South Park was still featured by my favorite episode on TV of all time, with ‘Scott Tennorman Must Die’. However The Office replaced my favorite episode with a season 5 episode where Dwight steals the show.
I don’t want to give the whole thing away, I want you all to go out and watch The Office and enjoy it for what it’s worth. However I will present you with this clip from that episode and the setting is an office meeting where they are teaching the employees CPR. They decide that the CPR dummy is dead, and Dwight takes over. Enjoy.
In an attempt to help keep me awake through my overnight shift here at work, I have decided to keep a list of the things I’m doing throughout the night. Track any thoughts, concerns, or actions that may take place over my 9-hour journey.
11:15 pm – I arrived at work on time, and all the kids are sleeping. Staff take off as quickly as they could, and I settle in.
11:20 pm – Read through all the paperwork since my last shift, nothing really all that interesting, same stuff different day.
11:25 pm – Perform a room check. Nothing to see here.
11:27 pm – Begin my own paperwork, then check my mailbox to see if my boss left me with the training DVD’s I requested, she did!
11:30 pm – Dilly Dallying.
11:40 pm – Room Check… All is well.
11:42 pm – Trying to get a read on the staff that is working with me, we
haven’t really worked much together before let alone an overnight.
Could be good or bad.
11:45 pm – Check phone for first time.
11:53 pm – Went to the bathroom.
12:00 am – Performed a room check, everyone was sleeping again.
12:12 am – Put in staff training video, need some training hours…
12:14 am – Starting “Substance Abuse” training
12:22 am – Decided to apply my education for some training hours, works for me.
12:30 am – Substance abuse video is extremely exciting…… Not! /borat
12:32 am – Check rooms again, seeing them sleep makes me sleepy.
12:35 am – Guh… Why don’t they give me the internet here.
12:38 am – SHHHH… I skipped ahead about 15 minutes through the video.
12:39 am – Checked websites on my phone, nothing is going on. Lame.
12:42 am – Had my first craving for food or drink…. However I’m trying
to get as far as I can before I break. Most likely my partner’s chili
leftovers is causing my hunger, she offered some, I passed, didn’t look
that good. Someone’s parents could be in that. /South Park References
12:43 am – Every time I work an overnight I wonder why I don’t have games on my laptop… Dumb.
12:46 am – My coworker is watching some garbage on TV, Sherlock Holmes trailer plays on commercial, I really want to see this.
12:49 am – Coworker offered Ritz Crackers. They are shaped like snow flakes. Yum.
12:51 am – First training “watched” starting the next one, a full hour
long about Children’s emotional needs. My parents had it easy, a video
game some starbursts and the internet and I was solid for a week.
12:53 am – Read yesterday’s Cyanide and Happiness cartoon on my phone,
its small but readable, and it was a rare funny one by Matt. Nice.
12:56 am – I think its funny when a training instructor asks for an
answer and gets a wrong one, then tries to positively pry another guess
from another person. One of the best types of awkward situations. I
would just rather be told I’m wrong and move on, but they try to be nice
thus alienating the person while the rest of the classroom says nothing
to avoid being put in the same spot.
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12:59 am – I make zero dollars from advertisements, however I feel like they make me more legit.
1:02 am – I rocked some Modern Warfare 2 before I went to work, I wish I was still playing it.
1:03 am – First kid woke up to go to the bathroom. His pants were not
all the way pulled up, I got a half moon. Welcome to my job.
1:08 am – Polished off the package of Ritz crackers, hoping my coworker didn’t want any more. I’m a fatty.
1:10 am – 20 minutes into the training video, a random close up on the
instructor happens for the first time. Pull it back please.
1:14 am – According to this training video 20% of kids did not know they could get pregnant if they drunk. #parentingfail
1:16 am – Surfing the MLB Trade Rumors forums on my phone, making posts for fun.
1:18 am – People on an internet message board who lack a sense of humor are no fun at all.
1:23 am – My nose is cold.
1:26 am – Beginning to fade here… And I have 7 hours left. Ouch… These
trainings need to be done so I can start doing some homework.
1:28 am – Totally skipped again ahead another 10 minutes through the
training. I feel like I missed nothing. Oh my God she told a joke, and
it got some courtesy laughs.
1:34 am – “Kids now days text on the cell phones when they are in their
pockets!” Umm yeah… I rocked that 7 years ago… #youaretooold
1:35 am – Then she transitioned from that shocking development into suicide. Damn.
1:37 am – “Kids are like penguins, they all follow a leader and would jump off a cliff together” …. No comment.
1:38 am – Random thought… I think I slept with Tiger Woods too. Should I go to the police?
1:39 am – Ahhh “penguins are very social, and easily influenced…” Kids =
Penguins… Sara wanting a penguin obviously means she wants kids.
/*#*(
1:40 am – Training is done, I don’t think I learned anything, I’ll assume that, that was the point.
1:41 am – Two more trainings to watch, Needs of People in Crisis, and Principles and Pratices of Child Care.
1:47 am – Took a quick break, got a Coke Zero and some starburst. Brain food!
1:49 am – Bedroom check, been a while since the last one, these kids sleep funny.
1:51 am – The playstation 3 marketing campaign makes me sad I don’t like mine more than I do. #aplusinmarketing
2:04 am – Started doing a blog for my baseball simulation league the CBU.
3:14 am – I finished writing the blog, I had no idea it would take that
long but it was fun to write and I will post it whenever I get home
tomorrow. I probably should have been doing some homework, but I don’t
honestly trust myself at this point as I can barely complete sentences.
Unfortunately my professors hold me to a high standard. Anyway you
missed two bedroom checks, one kid waking up to stare at us for about 5
minutes then konk back out, and me getting an upset tummy from the sugar
I just poisoned myself with. Back to the up to the minute updates!
3:16 am – So since I can’t study worth a poop (not cartoon poop) lets
get back to those pesky work trainings so that I don’t lose my job for
not getting enough training hours complete!
#peoplefindusbygooglingcartoonpoop
3:21 am – Realized I already have that training, moving along to ‘Needs
of People in Crisis’ The teacher started off by saying if you are ever
in her building to stop by and say hi. #superlonelyinstructorsatthevoa
3:25 am – We’re about 5 minutes into the video and she has mentioned on
several times how she usually has 90 minutes for this course, but hasn’t
spent a single second on it yet. “get on with it” /monty python
3:29 am – “How many times have you known at a job that you needed to
leave, but you stayed?” Ummmm… I feel that way right now. Is that
permission?
3:30 am – Hello? I guess not =(
3:31 am – My nose is extremely cold. Holy crap. I need a nose warmer.
3:32 am – Zuma zooom zoom in the booom boom wayyoohhh!!
3:33 am – My boss is at this video taped training, I’ve seen her peer
down at what I can only assume is her cell phone about every 24 seconds
so far on average. Unless there’s something incredibly interesting
about the table….
3:39 am – Room checks, yeppers.
3:40 am – yes! We got another trainer who got a bad answer, and created yet another awkward situation. /evil meanness
3:42 am – Yawn.
3:44 am – and we’re moving along here…
After that I took a nap, buzzed around the room, checked for monsters under the bed, and then eventually passed out medications to the waking children, ate some breakfast, threw up my breakfast, and then got home to bed! Home sweet home!
Me now: (well in theory)
Arguably our most popular video to date. Brad constructed the script and my dad put together the direction and editing to put the video all together. I was sick with mono during the shooting of the movie, but the project turned out very well. In the movie you get to find out that Jordan has watched a full episode of Sex and the City, and that Eric has done about everything else. The night ended up being a great time, and the hour of footage we shot that night brought smiles to our faces. If you have seen this before, check it out again, if you haven’t check it out for the first time!
As a human I understand that people make mistakes. There is never to much patience when dealing with other human beings. In a perfect world I’d be king and everyone would listen to me. However that is unrealistic, and I know that everything has some element of give or take to it, and nothing is more compromising than a relationship.
Sara and I live together and have been living together for just about a year now and we have both learned some of the less than finer things about each other, but we have moved on and learned to love each other for who we are as people, not just how sexy we are. Great!
However today I’m putting my foot in the ground and writing because I made a promise that I would. Sara and I have been dividing up the chores fairly evenly for the most part over the time, and while sometimes its an issue for concern, usually any fight over cleaning is just a facade for some other issue.
This morning I looked on the coffee table and I saw Sara’s hot cocoa cup and her kool-aid glass sitting there. While this doesn’t seem like a big deal, it has been a big deal in the past when I have done this in the past.
So I go to inspect these fine dishes being left all alone out of their place and see that the hot cocoa glass is stained with the marks of chocolate and now caked on there. This blows me away as I will quote, “I never leave anything caked on there, rinse all my dishes, every time.” The love of my life, Sara.
In fact I am so bad at it apparently, and she is so good at it, that she won’t do the dishes as she believes the only reason they take so much time is that I never rinse them. I usually counter with a no, absolutely not, I’m not an all star, but I am not alone in creating this mess. So anyway she has been boycotting dishes pretty much for the last two months doing them once or twice, maybe three times (its a daily job here) over that time.
I’m positive this is not the first opportunity I have had since the promise I made to take pictures and blog about her leaving a sticky icky dish around, but this is the first time I thought about writing about it. So here are the pictures, and for those who think its my hot chocolate glass, I can’t drink it as I cannot digest milk.
Inside the mug
Side view, its even spilled on the sides!
I love Sara for
everything, and don’t mind at all that she actually let this happen when
she said it never happens. But I felt like making a point to not sweat
the small stuff, as its really not that big of a deal. Most of the time,
even when the small stuff piles up, it only takes a few minutes to sort
through it all. That’s why its small. I love you!
Last month Weezer released their newest album to the world and so I had to check it out. I have since given it a few plays in my car and on my iTunes. Overall I am very pleased with the album. Rivers Cuomo, the lead singer, has a serious talent for putting together some very catchy tunes while at other times mixing music and lyrics very well.
Weezer - Raditude
My favorite on the song is ‘Can’t Stop Partying’ which features an unlikely partner Lil Wayne from the rap scene. The song is basically an anthem for party goers and I was brought back to my hay days in college. After that ‘(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To’ is a great song above falling in loveand dealing with that whole new and sometimes awkward stages of a new relationship. ‘The Girl Got Hot’ is a fun song about a dude who passed up on a girl who eventually got hot.
Those songs are the highlighted singles and rightfully so. However the whole album from start to finish is 35 minutes of great music. The only complaint is that its a very short release which I would guess that after releasing all the music they have, they probably set up a pretty high standard for what to put out, and to add 4-5 extra songs that weren’t very good would have just done more harm that good.
Weezer has a great album on its hands when compared to music in general in my opinion. However if you compare this album to some of their others, and I would leave it out of the top 3 for sure. But its like trying to pick out a favorite top shelf alcohol. They are all great, but some float the boat for different folks.
Here is ‘Can’t Stop Partying’ that Weezer did with Chamillionaire filling in for Weezy. I like live music, even in this setting.
Well being engaged means that eventually I will be getting married some time. Unlike Pam and Roy from the Office, Sara and I set a date within a couple of weeks and we will be getting married in July 2010. Yay!
In the meantime planning a wedding is extremely hard and frustrating, and thank God Sara is here to take the bulk of it on her shoulders. By bulk I mean pretty much all of it, I get to say a few things, and help out in some ways, but I love it that way.
Anyway my fiancee has taken her work and blogged about much of it at her website http://www.ecovintageweddings.com.
Check it out for all things weddings, and even check out the few things about the wedding party, etc.
If you are a person into weddings this blog is for you. If you are not, you might learn a thing or two. Check it out!
Tuesday of this week it was just short of a huge blizzard here in Sioux Falls. It snowed a lot lets say, I never heard a final total. Anyway the way our townhouse complex is set up the snow drifted that night all around out house, in front of our door, the works. So taking Wyatt out side to do his duty was quite the chore as there was a drift that went up to my knees (well above Wyatt’s head) blocking us in.
Anyway I decided to film our escapade (leaving out the poop part) and it was cold and windy. But Wyatt toughed it out and got it done. Then I made him walk back in over the drift (I carried him out to get him outside). He was slightly hesitant, but he did it anyway.
This Thursday we went out to finally play in the snow for a little bit. So I brought out his blue rubber ball and the video camera again. He really enjoyed fetch out there even though it was slightly challenging to him. The ball really hardened as it got cold making it pretty hard for him to grip. It also hid in the snow pretty well.
Anyway while you’re checking out this cute video check out how Wyatt is walking. I found it pretty funny as he seems to protect his hind legs as much as he can. Its almost if he is tip-toeing around towards the end. We were only out for 5 to 10 minutes so no animals were frozen in this film shooting. Enjoy!
Back in my days at the University of Sioux Falls I knew this girl named Amanda. She was roommates with a couple of other friends I had and I spent a lot of time around them all. Amanda and I were both standing in a wedding for mutual friends we had two years ago and she was always a pretty talent artist.
Now she’s in Boston, married, and started her own cake company called Amanda Oakleaf Cakes. She has put together some pretty impressive creations that I will let you check out for yourself on her website, but if you enjoy the cake making shows on television you will truely be impressed by her cakes.
Anyway on her facebook page she announced she’s giving away a life-sized Storm Trooper cake. This cake she quotes as a cake that would be worth a few thousand dollars will hopefully stand 5’11 on its own. She has a few contest rules and what not, like being from the Boston area to win, but I can think of several different reasons why this party would be kick ass.
Check it out: Amanda Oakleaf Cakes.
Be sure to check out her galleries, she has put together some mighty impressive cakes in the short amount of time she’s be open.
My grandmother passed away this past Sunday from medical complications. She did not suffer for very long and passed on fairly quickly and easily. I was very close with my grandma and I will always love and remember her and truly appreciate the times I got to spend with her. She has cemented her place in my life and nothing will ever change that.
I will remember for so many things, such as enjoying some fruit, or a glass of orange juice as she always had some ready to serve to me. I’ll remember fond memories of times we spent together when I am watching football on Sundays, or flipping through and catch some golf or tennis on TV I will remember the times I did the same with her. It will make me smile when I see someone drinking caffeine free soda, put some lotion on their hands, or accidentally let out a burp at the dinner table as they will funny reminders of some of my Grandma’s personality. Even when I get out and ride my bike I will be reminded of the times when we used to tear up the bike trails of Sioux Falls together on warm summer days.
She will be missed at our family gatherings while we’re playing Fill-or-Bust, and I will definitely miss enjoying those home cooked pot roast meals and coming over and smelling the meat in the oven already going. I will also miss going to the bathroom and seeing a half finished crossword or word find and enjoy working through one.
There are literally hundreds of reasons for me to remember my time with her and I love her very much. I will always remember the day I graduated college, when she told me how proud of me she was, I will never forget that day. It is really quite unfortunate that she will miss my wedding, but she never held back tell me how much she loved Sara and how proud of me she was that I found such a wonderful woman to love.
I will never ever forget her and every single day I’ll have several reminders of the influences on my life she has had. For that I am extremely blessed and I cannot thank God enough for giving me such a wonderful woman to be apart of my life. I know that she is in a better place right now, I’m just extremely overjoyed that I got so many great times spent with her, and as much as I’ll miss her and selfishly wish she was still around, I can’t help but just feel fortunate of the times we had together, I love you Grandma.
Sometimes there is just things I want to say, but I cannot say them. Well I can, but nobody important hears/reads these thoughts. Blogs fix that. You, the reader, are very important to me. So important that if you want, I’ll send you Christmas cards.
But life has been a whirlwind in 2010. Here’s a quick list of a few things that happened:
All in all the
list looks pretty short, but if you have ever lived that type of time
line, you’ll know that 8 months is not enough time to do all of that
with any sort of sanity. But I made it through, I’m much more mentally
strong (although not physically, no gym membership since March ).
What lies ahead of me is truly unseen, but I feel I must SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD. Or at least give them an opportunity to see it.
