Obsessed...

For those of you that believe I am obsessed with my fish. I would like to submit this gentleman for consideration.
Dakota Reef Live Fish Cam

I don't look so crazy now do I?
(However, I would like to admit that I do check out his site quite often because I am a fish geek)

Stimulis plan...

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House. One is from Chicago , another is from Tennessee , and the third is from Minnesota .All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring,then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100profit for me."

The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me."

The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700."

The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"

The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you,and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence.""

Done!" replies the government official.

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I love politics

Quote of the day...

"Remember the grass is always greener on the other side....unless you sneak out after dark and burn it."

Another week gone...

I have read many different posts about what other individuals have accomplished in the weeks gone by and I wanted to add my own list in to the fray. I am sure I could come up with one or two actual accomplishments, however, I am going list the accomplishments that I have not made over the past few weeks. One of my un-accomplishments would be performing oil changes on both scratz and my vehicles. This auto maintenance task can be added to the fact that I am yet to replace the shocks on my car and to the task of fixing big red's strange noise that makes it sound like a tank. All of these things are "must do's" but I still haven't completed them.
Another thing that I have not accomplished is listing a few items I need to sell on either the local classifieds or on eBay. I have had a few things I was going to list about 2 months ago, but again I have not completed that task either. I was able to take the pictures of the items, but I failed to transfer them to a computer from the camera. Even though I am closer then I was, I still came up short on that task.
If you were to come over to the house you would quickly seem multiple projects that I have failed to complete. These would include moving all the junk from the 3rd car garage to the basement, finish connecting the stereo equipment in the living room, moving miscellaneous items to the basement from the rest of the house, and organizing my "junk" drawer in the kitchen. All of these lead to even more things I have not accomplished. For instance, I still need to organize the basement, but in order to do this I need to move all the stuff from around my house to the basement so I can organize it all at the same time.
Next on my list of un-accomplishment, I have yet to unpack from the trip to Cancun. So I still have a suitcase sitting in the walkway of the living room. This is a nice addition when you have visitors because they have to walk around it just to enter/leave the main living area.
also haven't given the dogs a bath or cut their nails in the last 3 weeks. Luckily for me, they are locked in their kennel area most of the day and night so they don't get their dog stink everywhere.
Now that I have listed my un-accomplishments, I will list a few things I was able to complete off of my "to-do" list. One thing that was on my list is loose weight. Luckily I was able to get food poisoning the other day which helped me loose 10 pounds. Next, I was able to kick and hurt my toe almost every single day since I have been home from the trip, therefore it still isn't healed. And for the final accomplishment this week, I was able to write a new "to-do" list of everything I still need to accomplish for next week. By adding "make a to-do list" to my "to-do" list allows me to have at least one item I can cross out before the next day arrives.
I hope everyone finds this post as uninformative as I have. I figured I needed to write something since I have been slacking off again. Pretty soon here I am going to start posting about how long it takes me to get ready for work since I am running out of time to do anything really exciting to post about.

Back again....

Well after a nice few days in the sun, here I am. The first part of the trip was pretty much uneventful, which is the way I wanted it to go. However on the middle of the second day, I happened to kick a rock on the bottom of the ocean. And of course, I kicked my "almost walkable" toe, so now I am back to limping like an old man who lost his toe in a terrible lawn mowing accident. I wonder, do they make bionic toes yet? I mean, a man has walked on the Moon so there has to be hope for a replacement toe so I might be able to walk again, right??? Anyway, on the 3rd day it was cloudy so of course I ended up getting super sun burnt, which is a blast any time of year. I think there should be a national holiday for the sun burnt. That way we all could enjoy this pleasant experience. I did spend quite a bit of time digging in the sand and looking for sea creatures. I found a ton of amazing things that I wish I could put in my fish tank, but unfortunately it is against the law to bring anything back into the USA. Then for the last day, we actually switched hotels because the hotel we were at over booked our room so they offered us 3 free nights at their hotel if we stayed at a hotel across the street. Since we only had one day left we decided to take the offer which we could use later in the year. The entire trip was great except for the trip home. Our plane from Cancun was late which made us miss our connecting flight from Denver, so we ended up having to stand in a line for almost 2 hours for UNITED AIRLINES to tell us they couldnt help us and that we would have to just get the next available flight to our destination. This really sucked. So after that crappy delay we finally made it home at 12:30am. Now it is almost time for me to go to sleep.

I would like to thank "the parents" and the "Creator" and Liz for taking care of the baby for us while we were gone. Thanks again

Copying everyone else....

To show that I am still just as gnarly as the rest of the "Myspace" crowd out there, I am going to fill out this post like about 10 million others have done since early 2001. Here goes

1. Color? If I have to pick one, then blue or maybe silver...Hmmm that's hard
2. Movie? Im gunna say Billy Madison....Hoooray for schooool!
3. Band? The Stiff Leggers
4. Song? By them? I'm afraid of the Great Salt Lake
5. Car? Truck? BMW 6 series (scart can I buy mine yet?)
6. Food? Yes, please
7. TV show? who has time to watch TV???
8. Animal? Fish, that does count right?
9. Sport? sports are for jocks (which I am not)
10. Dessert? I'll take two
11. Item of clothing? hair net
12. Accessory? gun, Santa always has one with him
13. Number? 46
14. Past time? killing.....on video games I swear
15. Season? not too much garlic
16. Holiday? My birthday since I have 2 each month :/
17. Shape? currently round
18. Drink? Strawberry daiquiri or bloody mary
19. Gum? None, it all looses its flavor within 10 seconds and it gets stuck in my hair
20. Candy? a gallon of milk
21. Day? nope its nighttime right now
22. Actress? hmm...none I think all the ones I liked are in jail
23. Piece of Jewelry? a hammock
24. Restaurant? the homeless shelter because the food is FREE
25. CD? the audio version of the holy bible in Arabic
26. Store? I store all sorts of crap, you should see my basement.
27. Hair product? I dont like hair in my food
28. Time of day? 4:09AM ( I'm really a vampire)
29. Vacation spot? any where there is sun, a beach, and I can run around naked singing my favorite songs from the Westside Story
30. Actor? Not any more, I have retired since my staring role in the hit movie "Losers"
31. Are you Awesome? Why Yes I am, I am a member of the Awesome Family. Thanks for asking

The Cancun Curse...

Two and a half years ago, we were planing a trip to Cancun and some how as I was walking out of my old house I stepped on the side of the sidewalk and broke my ankle. I just had lunch with scrat at my house and she was headed back to work for the day. She had just driven out of view as I stepped on the edge of the sidewalk. As I did this, I heard a loud "POP" and instantly felt the excruciating pain in my ankle. When I fell, I also managed to toss my cell phone about 10ft away from where I was laying there dying. When I finally got up enough straight to drag myself to my phone, I tried calling my mother for help but she wasn't home. This resulted in scrat having to leave work because I couldn't get a hold of anyone else to help me. I even had neighbors drive by without stopping to see why I was laying in the dirt in front of my house. So because of my great talent, I got to wear a walking cast to our first trip to Cancun.
What does this story have to do with anything...Well again I have injured myself just weeks before leaving for Cancun. This injury is almost as grand as the previous one. I was walking to my car after work and I stepped in a rut left in the snow by a car. Someone in the process, I snapped my big toe. On top of that, I am sick as a dog sitting her at work. We have 3 days to go before bording a plane and flying to Mexico. I really hope that I can at least get rid of this cold before we leave. But because of this is making me wonder if there is a curse trying to keep me from Cancun. I guess we will only find out if I break something else next time we decided to head out there.