remember me?
back at work today, finally i get some rest hahaha…

i guess kevin is ok, haven’t heard from him. he was apparently kept overnight and should have went home yesterday. i think they are putting pins in his feet. lucky guy, eh?

teen killed by 84 year-old bomb

priest, serial child molestor, same thing

the killer in Arizona that shot 3 people and then himself apparently typed a 22 page letter to a local newspaper describing his problems, his justifications, etc. psycho.

vigilante justice in South Africa

all work and no play makes jack a dull boy - this is almost as stupid as one of my favorite sites, superbad

lisa marie never married nicholas cage, never met michael jackson, and more shocking developments in her new book

AP released the toys that are expected to be hot Christmas sellers this year. among the entries: We Did It the dancing Dora the Explorer doll and Amber’s favorite: Bratz Funk ‘N’ Glow - The latest installment of this funky line of dolls has fiber optics sewn into their mini denim jackets, which light up in two colors.

what kind of blogger are you? I guess i could fall into the techie but more likely the link blogger…

some funny costumes located at retrocrush - i like the rubik’s cube, oh, and asteroids

i know people who would do this

teacher gives birth in her classroom behind desk while another teacher becomes a calendar girl

busted - boy, 4, draws picture for cops of granny’s meth lab

yeah i’m still alive. been packing, moving, storing. still haven’t found a house, but oh well.

kev was in an accident yesterday, hes’s in the hospital with broken toes, hand, various and sundry scrapes and bruises. lucky guy huh. and it was on his birthday. ugh!

nothing else going, will be back to regular blog broadcasts tomorrow.

where do i go from here?
so now we have until Thursday to move out of our house. yet, we have nowhere to move to. looks like we may end up at don and pats although we really don’t want to. it sucks. i feel like i can’t provide for my own family. rentals are apparently hard to find nowadays. especially when you have 4 kids. no one wants to rent to you. they think if you have that many kids that their house will automatically be destroyed. sheesh.

i’ve always been mystified by magic. i don’t mean witchcraft crap, just the neat, fun stuff like David Blaine or Penn & Teller. entertaining stuff. i’ve always wanted to cut a string in half and make it come back together. i’ve wanted to push a cigarette through a quarter. over the weekend i watched World’s Greatest Magic II with Rian. i’m just as starry-eyed as he is about that stuff. it’s cool. now i don’t care for people turning women into tigers, etc. that’s boring. i like the up-close stuff, the on-the-street stuff. i can do a few minor ones, but nothing exciting.

out on dvd tomorrow, the sum of all fears (tom clancy) and spiderman. i’d rather see sum but i’m sure the kiddos are going to want to see spiderpuke…

father-son duo of the day: dad lethally burns his kid with kerosene in fight

did you know that Utah still allows death by firing squad?

with all this craziness, the wtc, the pentagon, recent shootings in jordan, and the sniper, the muslims are worried: has anyone noticed that these idiots who are muslim are always proud to say so, and the muslim community accepts them, well, until they go psycho and kill a bunch of people. then they worry about ‘backlash’. gee, you don’t see too many fundamentalist christians in the news nowadays hijacking planes, oppressing women, going on sniper hunts now do you? hmm… remember: it’s a war against terrorists, not muslims. even though they are all panning out to be muslim, we’ll ignore that fact.

speaking of ignoring things: police now cannot raid a house simply because they smell burning marijuana. no, they need real proof. sheesh. i smell that crap in my neighborhood all the time.
also: i called the cops saturday on some neighborhood kids. they were slithering into the sewer while another kid help onto their feet. i considered this a bit of a safety hazard, and called the police. i had to leave the house shortly thereafter and when we were all getting into the truck, i saw the cop. he said a few words to the kids and drove off. so i got in the truck and followed him and pulled him over 2 blocks away. i told him it happens a lot and he pretty much said ‘oh well’ kids are kids, etc… i was reather shocked. yet another reason to get out of that neighborhood…

hunter shot by dog

for those really lazy people - the ebay feedback generator

if you listen to a UNIX shell, you can hear the C

prawnography - warning, this site contains shellfish

ask the pilot article about an unagreeable toilet

ok, so our president isn’t the brightest guy in the world…

can you believe it, compact discs celebrate their 20^th birthday

tragic - father killed while teaching his daughter how to drive

goooood morning…

great article on the sniper, the Angry White Male Theory, the moronic media and their glorification of the whole event(s) | the white-van-red-herring | oh, and check out this quote: Muhammad bought the car last month for $250 in New Jersey. The name of the car dealer, believe it or not, was Sure Shot Auto Sales. | oh, and this one’s good “Eyewitnesses are not reliable,” said James Starrs, professor of forensic science at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. - like the cops did such a great job without the eyewitnesses, huh? | up for grabs: $500,000. do you think he’ll ever see the money?

hit-and-run suspect arrested by police dog - arf!

carol, if we ever make it to Australia, let’s beware of crocodiles

yeah, the new craze really is deep-fried twinkies

now this is too cool

mariah carey is doing def leppard songs? uhh.. what?

intruder breaks in, puts on pajamas, gets in bed

cool fireworks applet very pretty colors

blog schmog

payment shock
took the day off yesterday. went and met a guy about a house loan. this one sounds like it might actually fly eventually but it’s a better position than where we’ve been for the last 2 years.

going to do some freelance work this evening, won’t get to see my babydoll until bedtime. but i should come home with a fat check. fixing a website for a client. the guy screwed it up and can’t get it working, needs some things changed, needs it documented, etc. no problem. also did some updates to my friend Bob’s website.

house situation: our house now has mold, lead paint, rotten steps, no cellar doors, and a myriad of other problems. after consulting about 8 lawyers, i apparently have no recourse. great. so i guess we are moving (where?) by next Thursday…

looks like they’ve caught the moron sniper. good.

i finally have a minute to blog… been working my tail off today…

tragic, tragic story about a guy who backed his car over his 2-year old warning - do not read this if you have young kids and/or are squeamish.

CNN reports: Sniper task force releases quote from Saturday note: “Your children are not safe anywhere at any time;” says it will respond to new message. this guy’s lost his mind, big time. he killed yet another person this morning.

apparently i’m not the only one with a crazy sniper theory

i wonder how much the webmaster charged for this site

bust a supermodel in the mouth

interesting article about an artifact found that references Jesus on a burial box

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not much of a weekend, looked for rentals, packed up more stuff, fixed my brother’s puter. yee haa

gunfire at another school? no, fried squirrel

former president clinton was elected into the black hall-of-fame

burgular shot by bow-and-arrow hunter, dies

get on with it then
the book i’m reading, From the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz is quite interesting. it’s a bit of a hard-read for me, i’m used to the smooth flowing Tom Clancy. Dean Koontz seems to drag things out a bit more, maybe a bit more than necessary, but nonetheless he really gets you in tune with the characters, their thoughts, etc. as for Eye, i’d recommend it, at least from what i’ve read. i’m about 2/3 of the way through it and it’s good. carol says the last 1/3 is really good so we’ll see. carol is reading Potent Pleasures by Eloisa James. i tease her that it sounds like a porn book to me, but she assures me it is not. every once in a while she will suddenly giggle while reading and of course i immediately want to know what’s going on. oh nothing she’ll say, and then smirk. yeah right, i think. i know what’s going on. hehe

remember my bit about feeling guilty even though i hadn’t done anything? mom said she’s been that way all her life. interesting. too bad we can’t pick the traits that we want to pass along to our kids.

speaking of kids, dylan has really been hanging out with ‘ole dad lately. i’m thoroughly enjoying it. also last night i went and signed up amber for girl scouts. i guess she’ll need a little green uniform and all that…

on a lighter note:
husband refuses sex from wife, so she bites him to death. that’s a nice woman you got there, dude.

bad things that can happen to you

for those of you (adults) who refuse to grow up, you can now be an active member of the World Adult Kickball Association

hey, i enjoy hockey, and i like football. but i’m not much of a fan of streaking. in fact, it would be downright embarrassing to run across, say, a hockey rink, while streaking. and ceratinly not a freeway. but, if i were wacky enough to do so, i’d wear some shoes at least, and some shoes that allowed me not to fall and be knocked unconscious. that’d be downright humiliating!

my son rian keeps forgetting to do his homework. i’m not sure if he’s so caught up in the ‘I wanna go play’ mode when he gets home, or he just doesn’t feel like doing it, or what. nonetheless, i see someone has provided solution to the problem. i’m considering it.

don’t run your car on gas anymore. try a cheaper, better smelling alternative

is there something about turning 30 that includes sudden mass buildups of gas pressure? i’ve been like one huge never-ending gas bubble for the last few months. i have no friends, my enemies call me ‘stinky‘. my wife won’t lay by me, and she wears a really ugly gas mask to bed. sometimes i have bad dreams and i wake up and see that alien-looking gas mask on her and i freak out. ok so its not that bad, but hey what’s the deal? maybe it’s one of those you can’t eat like you did in your twenties kinda thing. i do, however, have a great idea for halloween… sheesh, am i going to have to start studying up on things like Depends and Geritol? oh great (carol will enjoy the fact that i had a chili-dog for lunch…)

going to Sumner High School this morning. doing a cheesy presentation on web design and having the kids do a few little JavaScript thingys to spiff up their pages. spiff - now there’s a good white boy word… alert boxes and mad-lib

terrible story about 7 people who attacked, raped, murdered a 13 year old girl

learn your bible verses or else!

i usually slow down in construction zones, now i know what happens if you don’t

remember that time you got on your dad’s CB and tried to find out if there were any cops up ahead on the highway (because you were doing 85)? well, i’m sure your results were less than desireable, and even if the truckers did understand what you were asking, you may not have understood their response. enter: the truckers slang and FCC CB rules of the road - so the next time you’re doing double nickel in your bobtail on your way to bull city, ask if there’s a bear takin pictures and you’ll be steppin on

oh man - i’m gonna duct-tape myself tonight when i get home! yee haa

then there’s the rock graveyard

quit trying to hang yourself! now get back to class!

omg! teen has severe asthma attack, calls 911, no one answers! teen died. man that sucks!

i heard about this on steve and dc - football team scores the runs but lose the game - (i’ll leave it at that, read the article)

no whining today.

my kids in colored pencil

me and carol earlier this year in Memphis couldn’t find a Shoney’s but finally, alas, we did. whew!

as if life could get any more dreary: yesterday i succombed to the pressure of trying to figure this out on my own. i enrolled in a credit counseling service. you know, the people who help lower your bills, debt, etc and help you get rid of excess charges, etc… well they denied me!!! even they can’t help. this is just f*n crazy.

sniper thoughts:
my cube-mate thinks it’s Al-Qaeda trying to disrupt our financial systems. all shootings were near businesses. but there was the kid shot in front of school. no businesses there.

my take: maybe the shooter (male or female) scopes out a spot at, let’s say 9 in the morning. he/she sits there for a good part of the day, parked away from any front doors, etc, far enough away to get the shot off and leave, yet not parked out in the open. other cars are around. the shooter waits. he/she is not choosing a particular subject, but actually waiting for something else: a white van. the shooter sees a white van and quick chooses out a victim and pop. the shooter then starts up his/her car, red, blue, foreign, domestic, whatever and calmly drives off. witnesses see a white van driving by the area of where they think the shot came from. everyone immediately focuses on the van as the shooter drives away, maybe even in the same direction as the van. possible?

i doubt the shooter is driving a white van. surely he/she reads a newspaper, watches tv. he/she knows they are looking for a white van or box truck. after 2 weeks, who would be stupid enough to drive it around and continue to use it to shoot people?

i’ve now written to two different "real estate experts" in the saint louis area about my situation. these are the guys that you see on tv or hear on the radio or perhaps read their column in the Sunday paper. They claim to be real estate gods, that they can help anyone get a house. they have yet to reply to me. just as i thought. they probably have those shows to get clients and they can probably pick and choose which ones they want to take on and which ones (like myself) they won’t mess with. which is honestly silly because that’s supposedly the purpose of their show, to help people. oh well. enough complaining. btw i hope i didn’t upset anyone who was trying to help me with my ’sit ee a shun’. i know there are people out there who are truly trying to help but it’s just not going to happen. we tried, we failed, oh well.

i’m too sexy

did they find Atlantis?

great satire site about the taliban

if i hadn’t met and married my beautiful wife carol, i’d probably have ended up with a russian mail-order bride. why, you might ask?

the rules and methods of time travel

stupid parent of the day: mom drops daughter off at hotel for photo shoot - yeah right, we know what that guy wanted…

straight from the movie American Pie: a man and his pumpkin | check out this pumpkin’s response to previous article!

speaking of movies, the Fast and the Furious was just ok, not as exciting as i thought it would be… of course i’m not really into those little sports cars or whatever they are… nonetheless, they are apparently shooting F&F 2

crappin time?
i entered the men’s restroom today at 10:00 for a disposal. i noticed that all but one stall was full. how odd. did all these men stay up and watch the rams and cardinals? do their internal clocks all hit at the same time?

kill someone, go to prison, start a band, have your own show

i love ice cream. i love to have a bowl of cookies n cream after dinner. but now i can’t. now i have to worry about typhoid fever

having a blast with my new online store. more geeky stuff to come

soldier with one year left, depressed, wanting out of the military, searches the Internet for a guy that looks like him, lures him to his house, and tries to kill him. he hoped that the police would mistake the guy for him and he could get a new identity. what a psycho. now he’s in the Army for a lot longer that 1 year. welcome to leavenworth, kansas, soldier…

watched monster garage friday night. it was the one where they turned a porsche 944 into a golf-ball collector. rather cool

i finally got my first ever Nigerian scam letter. man! everyone’s been talking about them, but i figured even the crooks knew i didn’t have any money so they didn’t write me. this guy musta fat-fingered someone else’s email address in, huh?

An eighth-grader at Morton Middle School in Omaha, Neb., says a fellow student handed him some marijuana in class to “pass on” to another student. Joshua Erdkamp, 13, took it over to the trash and dumped it, keeping a tiny sample as proof. After class, he went to his counselor and reported the incident, preferring to turn the evidence over to someone he “trusts”, his mother said. Principal Ivory Woods says he should have told a teacher immediately. “We want our school to be safe,” she said as she suspended the boy for five days for his delay. (Omaha World-Herald)

bored at work. so, here’s the friday photos. yippee

* guy tries to jump the great wall of china, fails, squish
* carol, can you do this? or this? or this?
* punkin’ heads
* the ultimate ear protection