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Climate Crisis

Bored at Work

Your Superhero Profile

Your Superhero Name is The Death Star Your Superpower is Seduction Your Weakness is Garlic Your Weapon is Your Web Slingshot Your Mode of Transportation is Fire Engine

What's your Superhero Name?

How the heck do they come up with this stuff?!?

MySpace Addict...

You Are 12% Addicted to Myspace

Your Myspace addiction factor is: Very Low When it comes to Myspace, you don't know what the big deal is. Frankly, you think it's over hyped.

Are You Addicted to Myspace?

DOWN WITH MYSPACE!!!

New Computer

Me and Lauri got a new computer from which this blog is being written. It is so totally bitchin', it has a high speed internet hook-up and everything. Rock on new computer, Rock On.

Damn it's early.

So it's like 6:05AM and I am at work. Craziness shall ensue.

sleeping at work is gooood.

Call Center Cat Nap

This is me at work...90% of the time.

we are the generation that bought more shoes and we'll get what we deserve

The ten commandments? meditations on the 'moment'? threats of expulsion from the blog?-tumultuous times in the blogging world it seems- maybe the rat race needs a little welsh balm to soothe its excitable californian head. you could all take a leaf out pete's book and start listening to Iron and Wine. get the album 'our endless numbered days' pete if you aint already- when emily and me were down in Baja I tried presenting I and W to some san diegans as a much more sophisticated alternative to jack johnson, but they weren't ready for it. I havn't blogged for a while due to spending my time trying to enter the rat race for real, which I have, kinda. On monday I will become an advisor for Cardiff Community Housing Association- they provide affordable housing for homeless and vulnerably housed people. the pay isn't too good but the kudos is high! also have new apartment from tomorrow- its completly detached from the places either side so noise issues from the neighbours (although it does make their ass harder to covet). there's glitter in my beard.

The Ten Commandments

So I was taking a shower this morning before I went to work and had an interesting idea pop in my head for a blog. I am not sure what it is but I seem to come up with some of my best ideas in general when in the shower. I find that interesting. Where do your best ideas come to you?
Anyway so I was just doing my shower thing and for some reason I started thinking about the Ten Commandments. Really I don't know why. But I started thinking so like these are kind of like God's Laws right? Like follow these and you are into heaven easy. So while thinking about these I remembered a few of the top of my head and realized that out of the 3 or 4 I remembered I had broken all of them. So this was a bit disturbing to me. I'll admit I am the first one to find a fault with religion, any in general. But some of these are just good rules to follow you know, like moral guidelines, you know.
After my shower I grabbed my Bible(yes I have one, who doesn't somewhere in their house). On a side note my brother has a really cool picture Bible. It's pictures are great. It took me a while to find them I am not exactly a Biblical scholar. They were in Exodus btw. So after looking at the 10 I didn't feel so bad anymore cause there were some I hadn't broken(not many). But now for your reading pleasure I will break down each commandment one by one and tell you how I have broken them or not. Let's go.

1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me - I don't think I have broken this one. I can't really think of anything that would go with this. SO yay me! 1a. Thou shalt not make an idol or something - This kind of goes with the first one in some religious circles. I don't make anything so I am safe on this.
2. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain - Yeah you can say I have broken this one a number of god damned times. Oops, I did it again! So it's only one so far.
3. Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you - Ok that's two. But no offense to anybody reading this but God don't pay rent, ok. I do. I have to work on Sundays(the Sabbath) because I have a shitty apartment I have to pay for every month. So God will have to understand this one.
4. Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God commanded you - The Lord God commands a lot... So this one is a toss up. Sure occasionally I have been mean to my parents and not done what they said or broke a rule they set or something. So that could be perceived as not honoring them. But I don't know. For the sake of argument let's say I have not done this well enough. That makes 3 out of 5 so far.
5. You shall not murder - Simple enough, right? Obviously I have never killed anyone directly. There is the key word though directly. Abortion is considered murder now while I have never had one obviously or otherwise needed someone else to have one I have not stopped it therefore indirectly aiding these murderers. To clear up a point here I am for abortion btw, woman's choice and stuff. What about the car I drive? It is a beast of a vehicle that pumps out toxic fumes like nobody's business causing harmful chemicals to enter our air and that will eventually lead to the deaths of people. I could keep going on here with other things that I do to facilitate murder but don't want to bore you. The question I pose is does God hold some of these against me or is he only considered with deaths cause directly by me? According to this he does "Forbids taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbor, unjustly; and, anything that tends toward depriving life." That makes 4.
6. Neither shall you commit adultery - Obviously this one is a gimme since I am not married I can't have committed adultery. YAY ME!
7. Neither shall you steal - Well it may surprise you people out there but I have occasionally applied the five finger sale to some of my purchases. I can't really remember what or why. but I can't guarantee you it has happened. A CD here, a cassette tape there, a book. Anyway that makes 5.
8. Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor - Now if this just applies to neighbor's I am cool. Somehow though I think it is a bit more encompassing that that. BRB. OK I am back where was I, oh yeah. So like I was saying I think it encompasses lying in general. Now this may come as a shocker or maybe not. But I think I have lied at least once to every single person I have ever known. Some people multiple times. I have lied a lot. So there is no denying this one. 6 is where we are at peeps.
9. Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife - Now taken literally I got nothing to worry about. My neighbor's wifes on both sides of my apartment are nothing to write home about. Not attractive in any way. So in that sense I am not coveting jack. Take it as not so literal and there are some women out there I covet, oh hell who are we kidding I have a Top 5 list people. That's called extreme coveting. Again so taking God's word and applying it in a more liberal fashion I get another strike that's lucky number 7.
10. and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's - I know it's says 11 so I told you 1 and 2 went together but I didn't feel like renubering everything. So yeah back to the whole neighbor thing. God is big on commanding things and neighbors. So anyway I don't covet anything of my neighbors. He has no field, no servants, no ax and ass. I assume ass is meant to imply a donkey or some other animal. If not all these people in an uproar about gays need to check out this Command. I really have nothing to riff on this one.

So ladies and gentlemen with a score of 7 out of a possible 10 Randy will be spending eternity in HELL. God dammit. That's right people I have in some way or another broken SEVEN of Gods Commandments. There were only 10. Man think about that...
All is not lost though in some religions which btw are all based on the same thing thus offshoots of each other. It is cool as long as I confess and allow Jesus/God into my heart, I am saved. This goes for anybody as well, Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, Adolf Hitler could all be waiting to party with me when I enter this pearly gates. I can't wait. How about you?

Disclaimer: This blog is in no way intended to offend or disparage anybody's beliefs in any religion. These are just the thoughts of a deeply jaded 28 year old male who likes to think outside the box and come up with interesting topics so that people will leave comments on his blog. He himself does not believe in religion and therefore is particularly biased towards all forms of religion. He does believe in a higher power in some form or another but does not believe that going to church every Sunday is the answer...
"Religion is the opiate of the masses."---Karl Marx

Some new music choices and stuff...

Well, its 1:45 in the A.M. and I have to be up at 6. I have taken a tylenol PM and I can't even concieve of sleep right now. This is the curse of insomnia. Chances are I will fall asleep at 5am, making a 6am wake up after an hour sleep all the more bitter. So what is there to talk about? Why can't I sleep? I don't know, but I know I have three bouts of insomnia in the last four days. I haven't had a drink in two weeks. Saturday was the hardest day. There was nothing to do and I could have started drinking at noon and been nicely toasted all day, of course I was thankful for the absence of headaches and beer shits on Sunday.
I have a new favorite song that I'm listening to right now, its called Shelter From the Storm and its by Bob Dylan. I'm always finding new Bob Dylan that I like. I have to admit my music taste lately is skewing way towards the college radio stuff. Lots of Iron and Wine, Flaming Lips and Death Cab for Cutie. Is this my nearing thirties, everything is too loud phase, or is it just pretentious hipster music to go with my new beard and brown corduroy jacket? I'll let you be the judge. I will say this though, If you haven't heard Iron and Wine's Love Vigilante's you should give it a listen. That dude can sing circles around Jack Johnson and thier lyrics are "very dense, very interesting" (Squid and the Whale...anyone, anyone? moving on.) Enough about me whats going on in your life? I know I've been sabre rattling about cutting folks from the blog, but I'm all talk. You can all stay as long as you want, post when you can, or not at all its all good.
Also, check out a song by the Beta Band called Dry the Rain. It's the song in High Fidelity when John Cusack says "i will now sell 5 copies of the Beta Band EP" he only plays the last part of a five minute song, but the whole song is good if you give it a chance. I'm not sure what I would do without itunes. I don't even know what they are playing on the radio these days. I know Raggeaton came and went, without my ever caring.
So here's an interesting anecdote: I was in Hollywood video looking for Movies to rent. They were playing some Bob Marley DVD on the TV's (Randy will tell you this is against store policy, only G rated movies are allowed.) I was struck by how heavy Bob Marley's patois was. I guess I've never heard him interviewed before. They were playing "Stir it Up" really loud in the store and it sounded really good. There was nothing to rent so I left. It was sunny out and I could still here Stir it Up on my wat through the parking lot. I thought it would be a perfect day to Bar B Q and listen to Bob Marley in the sun. I thought that would be perfect. But then I realized that that moment was perfect. The sun felt good and the music sounded good. Nothing I could have planned would have felt as fitting as that did. It got me thinking about how many times we try to manufacture moments. We think "Today is the perfect day for a Barbaque" and we try to get everyone together and go shopping and get everthing together and in the end , it just feels like a lot of work. Or you think, this would be the perfect night to have a beer and talk, so you go to the Crown, but when you get there, you can't think of anything to say and you just get bored. I realized that every moment where you get that feeling that everything fits is an unplanned spontaneous moment. The best times I've had at the crown are just when you go becasue you have nothing to do and it just so happens that everyone you know is there and you end up having these really fun unplanned converstations. I don't know what I'm getting at except that when you have those moments when things just feel right, you don't have to be doing something special or monumental, just enjoy them as they come. Well its now 2:15 and I'm gonna give sleep another try.

HAPPY EASTER

Happy Easter

They finally left the nest this morning at like 6am! They are pretty clumsy flyers though. The mom calls them from different areas like a training session. Can you believe how big they are? The one on the far left is a bit younger i think. He/she isn't very confident in flying yet. It calls to its mom when its alone. So the babies are all grown up and are finally exploring the big world. My plant is a disgusting mess though. Caked in bird poo. Oh well. A small price to pay for seeing wild animals. Have a Happy Easter everyone!!

Two Blogs, One Day...

Yes yes I am back just hours after finishing up my blog A Climate Change. I am back to waste some time and entertain you with tales of I don't know. Really though it is a Saturday and I want to go home. But this will not be a post of sadness. I refuse to let my situation get me down.
I am not sure of what to talk about today though. I got nothing. This sucks, I have to have something to talk about. I don't want to write a Celebrity Gossip blog because I get the feeling those are frowned upon among this blogging community. I could be wrong but I don't think so.
My co-workers are talking about racism and how they won't date certain races. I say they are stupid that they shouldn't discriminate but they disagree. Well they are weird. I am right, I am an equal opportunity dater. Love is color blind.
Now they are talking about torture of the Japanese and Koreans in WWI. They are really getting into this. This is making me a bit uncomfortable. What am I supposed to say? I can't really relate to the conversation. I am just keeping quiet in the corner.
They have stopped talking now. This was by far one of the worst posts I have ever written. I am so, so sorry there is nothing going on though. I shouldn't have tried to blog twice. Oh well. What's done is done. I am out of here. PEACE!!

All growns up, but not ready to leave.

Well, as you can see the babies are just about grown up. They did some flight training today where one of the parents flew off and then called them. They'd stand up and do some tentative flapping, but thye don't seem quite reeady to leave yet. ( Who would be, with rents the way they are in this city.) It's going to be any day now and Lauri and I will be empty nesters.

A Climate Change

So I was sitting around yesterday with not much to do. I had the day off as usual. A little off topic but you know what the weirdest thing about not drinking is for me. It results in a lot of sitting around with nothing to do. When I was drinking I could go to a bar or call somebody up and go to Happy Hour or just sit on my couch and drink a nice, cold beer. Now I have a lot of down time that is spent in my apartment. I realize I could get up and go out, take a hike, run around the block or some other activity. All that is great but another realization I have come to is I don't like to exert myself very often. Anyway this is all beside the point back to my original thought.
So I was sitting around yesterday with not much to do so I turned on the TV. After all I HEART TV. So I was flipping around the channels. I know what you're thinking no nothing good was on The Disney Channel. I started watching those lame sports shows where everyone has an opinion about someone or something and they all don't agree. So I grew weary of that quickly and kept flipping around.
Then I change it to HBO and "Day After Tomorrow" was on. Now this was only a decent disaster film I mean the effects and visual disaster scenes were awesome but the characters were stereotypical and the story was about as predictable as the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. I sat there though for a good two hours watching this movie that I had seen before and the funny thing was I was entertained by it and actually found myself wondering what would happen if something like this really happened. A climate change so drastic that we would within a day enter a new ice age. I
magine starting anew, knowing what we know now would we rebuild our country exactly the way it is now? Or would we learn from mistakes made in the past? Would we create a country as dependent on gasoline as ours is now? I found myself pondering those questions as well as some others, most fallacies in the film but let's ignore those.
If thrown into a new Ice Age would us and by us I mean the people I know survive? Would we be able to adapt to the change? Would we strive to make the world a better place? Would we relish the chance to start over and shape the world? Or would we just do the bare minimum to get things back to the way they were before disaster struck?
Anyway so as you can clearly tell I was in sort of a philosophocal mood yesterday. I was gonna post all this last night but I got tired and went to bed instead after watching some of my Disney Channel of course. So think about those questions and answer themif you like in a response post or comment. See ya later!!

False Hope (I Think)

Hey guys what's up. I just thought I would blog cuz I haven't and I should. Cuz That's How I Roll! anyways last friday I had a audition for a sprint national commercial. I thought of it like a normal audition and that means no callback or anything. But this week on wednesday I had a callback and I got excited so i did the callback and I think I did better than the first audition. The casting guy said they were gonna make a decision by video. My agent said they were shooting this saturday and I haven't gotten a call yet. I probably wont either. I thought everything could get done easier if I got this but I guess it's not time yet. It would've been great the commercial was Will Ferrell which would've been fun. I know friday isn't over yet but I think I wont get a call. I'M TIRED OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now about D&B I know the servivce is bad. But we are not a normal restaurant. We don't have a bunch of servers with tables close together (like Islands). But I'm sorry Tim, Tom, Grace, and Carly. Anyways have to do laundry to get ready for late night Friday work. YAY!

Dave & Busters is the worst place on earth

We went to Dave and busters yesterday the service was horrible. Although I must say that the bus boy was on top of everything it was great. He kinda looked like this guy I see on scrubs now and then. It couldn't have been him he was just to ugly. Anyway I gotta go take a shit.

All Grown Up

I think the birds are ready to leave the nest. They are huge now. Is it actually possible for something to grow that fast in such a short period of time? I've seen them stretch out their wings and they sit on the edge of the plant looking longingly at the big world. The parents come together now to feed them cuz I think they demand more food now that they are bigger. I took some pictures of them this morning because I just felt they that they won't be there when I come home from work. Its so sad. I don't want them to go. I can't even get up next to them cuz they are wild now. They know that I'm "bad". They click their beaks and get very restless. So I can only watch them from a distance now. I'll have Pete put up the new pictures this weekend. I hope the parents come back and lay more eggs. Of course my poor plant needs some poop removal first. I'll keep you all updated on their departure progress.

The Eternal Struggle

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The eternal struggle between ninjas and Pirates continues it seems. Of course the cops are gonna throw a beat down on a ninja. Its because they know a ninja uprising would mean the downfall of thier tenuous hold on society. The ninja revolution will not be televised. It will be in the dark, when you least expect it.

The Great Cleansing??

The Founders (Me and Randy) will be meeting this weekend to discuss the Future of Life Outside the Rat Race. We will confer on who is worthy to remain. Its not looking good. I'm definitely leaning towards quality instead of quantity. I think we're taking a major hit from Myspace. Because I know you guys are busy over there. I won't come on to myspace. Its populated with creepy people who lurk in the digital shadows. No, I'm happy here pouring out text.

I've gone mad!

I have my own addiction these days. My addiction is my apartment. I've realized that i've been in this particular place for over two years now and that's the longest i've ever been in an apartment. So i'm starting to feel crammed and messy and old. First thing i did is made my balcony nicer. I got rid of shit and i stored other shit away. Then i moved on to my closets. I donated stuff and threw away things. I bought a new dresser that i've never had before. The one i had was owned by my grandparents like forever ago. Now i'm on the sofas. They too belonged to my grandparents. The cushions have been flipped so that the springs won't get me, and they are covered up with sheets. Its not cool. So i'm on the hunt for new sofas. The one i really really want is at Ikea. I'm gonna go check it out today and maybe purchase it. Thing is though is that this won't satisfy me. Its like i'm in a weird nesting period and things just won't be right. So my addiction continues to finding a whole new place. A bigger place. A two bedroom apartment. I can't afford alot unfortunately. So the search is becoming desperate. A two bedroom opened up in my complex so i talked to the manager who said that the rent was $1350! Now that may not sound like to much but for this particular place, its a bit extreme. Not to mention that the security deposit is $1500!! Outrageous. Everyday i check out Craigslist. This web site is awesome cuz even if your totally bored, you can search for anything. I check all areas and if i see something i like i stress over it for at least a week. Even if i know i can't afford it. Here are some examples of places i love but can never get...maybe...................ok so i realized that i don't know how to add links and i don't want to put a huge copy and paste thing on here. So just take my word for it. But anyways, the obsession grows. Not only do i internally stress about it but i've started to email these people from Craigslist begging to let me rent the apartment/house for less. They actually write back sometimes. Its degrading, i know. But if i want something i'm gonna try to get it. Life is short. And more times than not, i let things go and wish i'd done something. So i write the lame emails cuz i also figure, no one knows who i am. I actually called a realtor this morning and told my situation, i'm not expecting a call back. The rent is $2650 and i said i could afford $1050. That's a joke to those people. But my addiction continues. What's next for my apartment? I think i'll clean the carpets. Its exhausting being crazy.

Addiction

ad·dic·tion
1. Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit-forming substance
2. The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.

As you can see these two definitions of addiction have something in common the word habit.
For some people addiction is a serious problem. I never have really had that problem. Either I am too dense to realize I am addicted or just generally speaking don't have an addictive personality. I used to smoke, I stopped. Haven't smoked for a while. I can't say how long cause I forgot. I drink, usually copious amounts. I have not taken a drink fro 11 days and will not for at least 19 more days after that who knows. The closest thing I am addicted to now would be caffeine. Well caffeine and The Disney Channel. I changed the color of that last part to more closely match the background of our blog because it is a bit embarrasing. I am sure you can figure out what it says but if you are really having problems with it just scroll over and all shall be revealed.
I am a 28 year old man who for some inexplicable reason is addicted to The Disney Channel. I don't know what it is, I come home from work and usually not much is on but I could play a game or surf the web or any number of things yet I choose to sit down on my couch and change the channel to Channel 48 on my TV and watch some of my favorite shows. Those shows are

• The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
• That's So Raven
• Phil of the Future

Now these shows if you haven't already guessed by the titles and summaries I have linked to are not geared for the age bracket I reside in. They are more geared to the age bracket I was in about 15-16 years ago. Maybe that. These are just the shows on from the hours of 11PM - 12:30PM. These shows make up a good portion of what I watch on The Disney Channel. What I haven't included is one of the new shows I watch religiously.

• Hannah Montana

I realize what you are either thinking to yourself or saying out loud to yourself. It probably is somewhere along the lines of "WTF"! Which if I have to explain the acronym. Never mind. So I have now told you some of the reasons I inexplicably watch The Disney Channel. Now let me give you some more. BTW I do realize about half of you stopped reading this awhile ago. Your loss. So not only are the TV shows oddly entrancing, but so are the Original Movies slyly coded as DCOM. I am sure by now you have heard of the most popular one ever.

• High School Musical

High School Musical has been tabbed a "Grease" for the generations of tweeners and teens who watch The Disney Channel. This thing has blown up read the article I mean it is amazing what it has done. Anyway it is just another reason I can't turn away from this media giant that has ensnared me.

I know by now you all probably think I am a big weirdo who enjoys watching kids shows. Don't judge me. I am not sure how it all started or why I can't just stop and do or watch something else. I have over 100 channels I am sure something else is on. Oddly I don't seem to care. Oh well. Bye for now!!

Maybe this will light a fire under our asses

So... I've heard a nasty rumor around town. I heard (from his own mouth) that Pete is tempted to delete us all from blogging privileges (except for himself, Lauri, and Randy). People, do you know what that means??? We will only be allowed to comment on their blogs, nothing more. I think this might have something to do with their pact to not drink until Vegas. Are they mad at us because we have not made some crazy decision to not stop stop drinking? So, get it together and blog up a storm so we don't get kicked off this party of a blog.

Feathers in bloom

Yes, That substance in the foreground is Bird shit, and lots of it. But we love them anyway.

Top Ten Sceenplays

Here's the top ten screen plays according to the LA Times Calender section from todays paper, according to the Writer's Guild.
1. Casablanca
2. The Godfather
3. Chinatown
4. Citizen Kane
5. All About Eve
6. Annie Hall
7. Sunset Blvd.
8. Network
9.Some Like it Hot
10. The Godfather II
Here's a list from one who doesn't have his head up his ass (Me.) With a selection of favorite lines from each.

1. The Big Lebowski ("yeah, well...The Dude abides.")
2. Rushmore ("I always wanted to be in one your fuckin' plays." " I know you did mate.")
3. Lost in Translation (The unknown line Bill Murray whispers in Scarlett Johanson's ear)
4. Miller's Crossing ("Whats the rumpus?")
5. The Empire Strikes Back ("Luminous being are we, not this crude matter.")
6. Clerks ("Try not to suck any dick on your way through the parking lot!")
7.Goodfellas ("Now go home and get your fuckin shine box!")
8. Kelly's Heroes("We like to think we can get outta trouble quickern' we got into it")
9. Cool Hand Luke (Ain't ya scared Luke? Ain't ya scared a' dyin'?)
10. A River Runs Through It ( some of the best parts of this movie are unspoken. When Tom Skerrit, as the father goes to raise his hand to wave, but then restrains himself, or when he goes to put his hand on Norman's knee but has trouble finding it.)

Your contributions to this top ten list are eagerly awaited.

Beer Shits (Not necessarily in that order)

There's a major drawback to working in the morning that no one really thinks about. Or maybe they do think about it and no one talks about it. Well I'm talkin about it...Taking a shit. Thats right, If I have to be at work before 9am, I can't take a decent shit in morning. Oh sure, I could rush myslef and try to pinch one off really quick before a shower, but what kind of satisfaction does that bring? My bowels don't wake up until an hour after I do. At my job the morning is the busiest time and I carry a walkie si i have like no privacy until things slow down. And its not like I have a private bathroom. I have to plop down in a public restroom, How barbaric. So most times I hold it, wait for it to pass and put it off til later, all the while making strange faces. I think my co-workers believe I have a facial tic that only affects me in the morning. Should I start to get up early and wait for my bowels to wake up? I'm seriously thinking about that. Anybody out there have any suggestions for a comfortable shit at work? I'm talkin about a long comfortable shit where you can bring the paper and really get into an article and wait for any stragglers. Lemme know. How can I expect to be effective if I can't get a good shit in the morning? When I become supreme ruler of the Galaxy, the rule will be that no one will be ALLOWED to come into work until they've had a nice comfortable shit.
On another note, Randy and I have given up beer for a month. That's right. It was easy until today. I was driving home in friday traffic and God Almighty did I need a beer. But I guess when you NEED it, thats when you have to really take stock in your drinking habits. Its about 7 now and the need is passing. I'll tell you though, I could really use something for my head. (A wiser man than myself once said, "Hard work good and hard work fine, but first take care of head.) It may not show, but I've come to terms with the fact that I'm the nervous type.

Babies First Pictures!

rain & birds, do they mix?

So last night around 4:30am i was awakened by the rain. Did you hear it? Just when i thought it couldn't possibly get any louder from the rain hitting the roof, it did. Finally i got up to look out the window and it was pouring so hard. Then it started to hail. Then the grand finally, thunder and lightening. Have you ever noticed that lots of mother natures events go on at about 4:30am? Thunderstorms and earthquakes happen then. Weird. Anyway, so it hailed and poured buckets. Now if you recall, Pete and I felt concern for the Doves and the then eggs, that they would drown in the waterfall that is my balcony. Well we had moved it out of harms way but the mom didn't come back. So trying to do all that i could, back then, i moved the birdfeeder back to its position hoping the mom would come back. So now that its 4:30am and the babies are born and the birdfeeder is close to its orginal position, i was concerned about the nest and the rain again. I kept an eye on them but didn't move anything. The mom was super puffed up while sitting on her babies and as far as i could tell, they were as dry as they could be. Pictures haven't been posted yet of the new borns cuz the parents keep them pretty covered up. They're eyes aren't open yet and they look fake. Mechanical almost. So maybe this weekend or next week we can take some pictures of them. Apparently the parents started leaving the nest more and more often as the babies get older. That was my evening. And of course i was late to work this morning cuz i'd lost some sleep and i think it was pouring when my alarm went off and i couldn't hear it for like ten minutes. Oh well. Tonight i'm working at the civic and then maybe i'll go to the Crown for a drink...maybe. have a great day everyone!

Work Day

I woke up about at about 7am this morning, not at all happy about the hour or the prospect of putting a tie on. I know 7 isn't that early but i still hate mornings. I didn't get any coffee before I left so I don't really remember the drive to work. Getting to work at 8am, when you have no Events going on is kind of interesting. My job on those days consists of returning phone calls and cold calling people to get the info for thier upcoming events. But who wants to answer my questions that early in the morning? So I just kind of open up a worksheet and stare at it until about 10am, when reasonable people will start to take phone calls. Of course on the East Coast 10am is already 1pm so I keep some people waiting all day for a phone call. I keep forgetting that and try to call back east at like 3 and wonder why I'm not getting return calls. How embarassing to have to have client remind you of that. So anyway tuesday is meeting day so at 10am we had this strange conversation about how having outlines ready "2 weeks out" really meant "4 weeks out". But that we should continue to have events ready "one week out". huh? My pleas for logic fell on deaf ears. That little meeting I think actually took place at 11 because now that I think of it, we had lunch right after that. PF Chang's Chow Fun noodles, Kung Pao Chicken and a discussion whether its appropriate to tip the to go guy. Lunch went right up to the finance meeting at 1:30 where we find out who owes us money and why they probably won't ever pay us. Right into the Events meeting where we present event outlines and pretend that 1,2, or 4 weeks away we have all the info we need. From Events we go into the catering meeting. Where events that are now 1,2, or 4 DAYS away are changing thier food and beverage needs. The catering meeting takes you to 3pm and the long dark tea time of the soul that is the 3-5 stretch as I like to call it. A stealth exit will be required at 5pm if I want to avoid a retirement party from 5-7pm. Sure its overtime but its also awkward conversations with the people higher up than you. 4:45pm the call comes from 2 cubes over, the one right in front of the bosses office, "Hey Pete! You going to the retirement party!?" and then from the boss, "It would be appropriate for you all to go, the board of directors will be there....." DAMMIT! Okay a quick handshake and I'm out by 6pm. Just as I'm plotting a stealthy getaway is when the CEO takes to the Mic. 5 teary sets of eyes later it's 6:30pm and the presentations are over, my office mates have long since faded into the background (even the boss is no where in sight...) I shake hands and slip out. I console myself with the fact that I just got paid a shitload to eat hors d'ourves and drink a beer. SHIT! I just broke a pact with Randy not to drink for a month and didn't even realize it til I'm driving home. Great. Well that was my work day. Bored? Not as much as I am.

I wasn't but I had to

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Baywatch: The Movie yes ladies and gentlemen it is here. The moment we have all been waiting for I am not sure if anything could possibly top this. Unless they cast Jessica Simpson to play one of the busty icons who run in slow mo to save people's lives. What's that you say...? She signed on, well I must say my life is now complete. Well even though pretty much nothing else I give you could top the news of the decade but alas I must try. On we go.
Before I bor all you with lots of entertainment gossip and what not. Here is a little quiz I think is pretty cool. How Geeky Are You? I was deemed Seriously Nerdy and I am comfortable with that. Moving on...
These photographs from the new issue of W magazine depict Kate Moss posing as Marilyn Monroe. Though I was impressed by the portfolio, be warned: She's topless in several of them.
Aren't you glad the Red Hot Chili Peppers have stuck it out all these years -- more than two decades after the band formed, they're still putting on captivating stage shows and cranking out the hits. Go here to listen to the band's new single, Dani California, on their website. In this video interview, the four Peppers explain the song's influences (the Wu-Tang Clan, among others) and meaning (it features the same female character from By the Way).
RHCPs new album, the two-disc Stadium Arcadium, hits stores May 9. The band kicks off a U.S. tour after headlining Lollapalooza Aug. 4-6 in Chicago. Whew...
By now you've probably heard about the Simpsons movie, but you might not have seen the new trailer. Go to this YouTube page to watch it. If it doesn't load, the teaser is posted on several other pages as well.
I don't know how the rest of you are feeling, but I can't wait to see this. It's "The Simpsons" for god's sake.
In case you don't watch TV or read Jeff's blog The Office ran some fake "The More You Know" public service announcements about bears, office relationships and the average male height. NBC.com has posted a ton more that are equally hilarious.
You wouldn't know it by looking at this kid, but he actually caused quite a commotion last weekend at a pizza joint in Austin, Minn. It seems Devin Haskin, 3, wanted a toy from one of those "claw" machines so badly, he climbed into the machine. Firefighters removed him safely, and Devin's parents now have an amusing story to tell at parties for the next 30 years while other parents take notes on how not to parent.
If everything we witnessed in the movies were true, this year dolphins would be leaving Earth and the war between Autobots and Decepticons would still be raging. Five years from now, a virus would kill 99% of the world's population.
This is the cool concept behind The Movie Timeline, an attempt to chronicle the history of the world using only movies as evidence. "Who'd have thought that while Gangs of New York's Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill and Ted?" one reader writes.
The site takes submissions, so if you see something missing, send it in. The list already includes some recent flicks, like V for Vendetta and Brokeback Mountain, so be on the lookout for possible spoilers.
Nick Lachey may or may not be dating someone you've never heard of. I have though.
A trailer and website are up for United 93, Paul Greengrass' film about Sept. 11. The film, due in theaters April 28, focuses on the plane that crashed near Shanksville, Pa. According to the site, it was made "with the full support of the families of those on board." (Oliver Stone is also making a movie about 9/11 starring Nicolas Cage. That will be released in August.)
One question these films prompt is whether we're ready to watch movies about Sept. 11. More than four years later, is it still too soon? Do we want to see "a re-enactment of events," or is it enough to have the images from cable news channels forever in our memories?
Gnarls Barkley has been getting almost as much press as the Arctic Monkeys lately: It seems the hip-hop duo has become the UK's first No. 1 single based solely on download sales. To hear what all the hype is about, go to their MySpace page to listen to four tracks. I have to warn you, though -- after you hear Crazy once, it may stay in your head for the rest of the afternoon.
LiLo is back in news again for the wrong reason though. At the Kids' Choice Awards while bounding onstage to accept her award it would appear she flashed a bit of her bum. Personally I don't see what the big deal is what I do think is a big deal is do you think she was commando or maybe her thong just rode up her crack...? BTW somebody buy that girl a sandwich, Jesus!
How about some TomKat news? Yeah, sound good? No...too bad here is some anyway.
Is Tom Cruise trying to make Katie Holmes more comfortable during her allegedly noise- and painkiller-free delivery by offering her ditties instead of drugs? In a story I urge you to take with a boulder of salt, the London Sun says the grin-happy daddy-to-be has given his glassy-eyed fiancée, who's due to blow any second now, the gift of music to help her through the birth.
"Tom gave Katie an iPod loaded with 300 of her favorite songs," a "source close to them" tells the tabloid. "He wants her to listen to calming music -- but to use earphones so there's no noise in the delivery room." Tom Cruise and all his Scientologist friends are kooks and Katie Holmes must be freed before it is too late. Who is with me!?
And finally, I think it's safe to say Oprah has officially run out of show topics.
Well kids that is it for today I hope you enjoyed my post as much as I enjoyed researching it and writing it. Don't forget if the computers win the terrorists win. Have a good night or day depending on when you read this. Later!!

Once upon a time

There was a blog. There was a man named Randy who posted what he viewed as interesting news about celebrities and gossip involving celebrities. However one day (today) he was in the process of finishing up his fun blog when his computer at worked crashed thus losing all Randy had been working on. He had been working on the blog for over an hour it was filled with links to pictures and sites and music and generally cool stuff. But now all had been lost. He pondered whether or not to start from scratch or just scrap the whole idea and jump into oncoming traffic. Surely that would show the computer who was boss. No that was no good after all the computer was just an inanimate object with no feelings which had wiped out an hour of work. So clearly broken-hearted over what had transpired it was with a heavy heart he decided to abandon his blog. As he bellowed in the hallways, "Damn yous damn you all to hell!!" It was then he realized that was what this beast of a machine wanted. It wanted him to quit, it wanted him to give up. He knew then he had to fight if not...The machine had won, and if the machines won the terrorists won. His hand was forced HE HAD TO WRITE HIS BLOG AGAIN!! But now it was too late he had to leave work in minutes. So...HE WOULD WRITE HIS BLOG AT HOME!! Yeah that's the ticket. See ya soon.

Is anyone out there?

Pete, you were so right. Except for Lauri this place is a blogging desert. Where has everyone gone? I come to the rat race every morning to get the scoop. I don't search us weekly for new about Britney and K-Fed. I come here to read stories about baby doves and drunkin' karaoke with porn stars. Give me something people...anything, make up something I don't care. I'm begging you, provide me with stuff to brighten my day.

Happy Birthday!

Pete and I are the proud parents of two Mourning Dove babies!!!! Born this morning...we think. More to come and pictures too. :)