they found another sniper

remember that guy that bought a toyota with $10 coupons he clipped from newspapers? i wonder whatever happened to that case. well, finally toyota did get some good press… woman wins free car for being 5 millionth buyer

hot or not: scratched is kinda funny, kinda not.

hey - nice beaver

yesterday i joined STLBloggers.com for bloggers in Saint Louis, MO. at first it looked cool, but now I think it’s about 10 different friends posting to the site, and i’d probably be an outcast. i’m all for a central blogging site for my town but i just don’t think i ‘fit the bill’. maybe i do. dunno. i did like the idea of having people to play poker with…

jury heros: two dads beat up idiot who raped their daughters. jury sympathizes with dads

Breaking News: workers are removing monument from rotunda as we speak… (we can’t afford those fancy monuments like Alabama has)

digital watergun museum?

there’s a cat under there somewhere…

facts on farts - yeah!

well i missed National Slacker Day although i’m sure that i participated, nonetheless

today is my son’s 11^th birthday. he wants to learn how to write his own webpage, just like his pa. poor kid, i had such high hopes for him…

today is also towel amnesty day at Holiday Inn. they don’t want their towels back, though.

as my brother says, if they were smart, they wouldn’t be criminals…

i worked from home yesterday. carol wasn’t feeling well so i just sat in our living room with the laptop and watched Fox News. there was a big to-do about the 10 commandments monument, and a breaking story about a bus wreck. a parents nightmare. actually, our kids don’t ride the bus, but nonetheless i hate to see that kind of stuff. apparently 3 kids were airlifted and around 15 hurt. scary.

guy goes on wasp hunt with cigarette lighter and insect spray. guy now looking for place to live (preferably non-flammable housing)

Luke and Bo, Boss Hogg, squealing pigs and a burning KFC cross. finally, something on the internet worth watching.

more socks with sandals news

ouch

would you like some maggots with your McMuffin?

mmm… stinky feet

guy dies in motorcycle accident. motorcycle rally held in his benefit. motorcycles crash during benefit - so, do they hold a benefit for the crash victims of the crash of the benefit?

i know just how you feel, Jesus…

IMPURE THOUGHTS
Little Johnny was taking confession, when he told the priest he was having impure thoughts about his sister. “Is this a sin, Father?” he asked. The priest nodded and said, “Yes, Johnny, indeed it is a sin. Look at the two beautiful brothers you have!”

Americans consume an average of 30lbs of cheese per year. i had 30 lbs of cheese on my lunch.

me thinks the enemy is shootin’ at me, but ah can’t hear a dang thing over those bagpipes…

ok, maybe i’ll sell the SUV and get one of these 1001HP bad boys

there was an old woman who lived in decided to sell a shoe (house)…

one dead, many injured as woman attempts to parallel park

looks like i could park my bus in Illinois town afterall..

here’s how carol and i are gonna go

match the couple - i’m once again underwhelmed…

we went outside the other night and saw mars. it’s getting close. so close, in fact, i’m a-fearin’ fo my life!

school discourages teachers from sending kids home with homework - like they do it anyway…

catering truck with 500 lbs of propane explodes. cajun guests are unhappy with "blackened" chicken

now we know.

thieves bring new meaning to the phrase hot donuts

because i drive an SUV, you pay higher gas prices. ridiculous.

how many lol’s can you put in one post?

i have this eerie feeling that someone is watching me…

i have a neighbor who loves to brag. every sentence starts, includes, and (if possible) ends with I or me. he’s also a computer geek (or so he tells me). he told me about 4 weeks ago that he has a wireless router hooked to his DSL line. he’s got encryption and a VPN. and i’ve got a laptop. i just ordered a PCMCIA wireless ethernet adapter, and my only mission is to break into his system and borrow some bandwidth. i’m tired of hearing about his trips to Vegas and his PC sales going out the roof. i don’t even care about all that. i just want to prove to myself that he isn’t as invinceble as he likes to think. and i might even tell him. first up: netstumbler. any suggestions?

always pay for your gasoline before dousing it on your body

long article on car salesmen and their techniques, etc. i read the whole thing, and now i’m mad. i’m selling the Durango and … oh, nevermind, i’ve already been screwed…

i still want a bus, and if i ever lose my job, i know where not to go.

well i was done posting for the day when i found this…

guy donates couch to church, forgets to remove his cocaine stash

cool game over at design reactor - udder insanity. don’t hold the space bar down (or do!) because the cows blow up…

my brother had his first acupuncture session today… willsthrills was there with the camera.

carol, you gotta learn how to do this.. or this?

a funny caption, i think…

umm… huh?

alright! another bike race!

$100,000 in blogshare monies to the person who tells me what the difference between the two bottom chevrons means…

plane vs. hailstorm

dangit why didn’t i think of this?

who ever said guys were dumb?

Sprint PCS, In-Laws, and more crap
I’ve got a few things to talk about. This was going to be a long, drawn out post but I’ve decided to write a separate article (linked below) for the Sprint stuff. In-Laws complaints follow. Maybe I’ll even post some Friday Photos or Movies today.

Sprint PCS
Sprint, like all wireless providers, is a tricky group. From an internal view I’d consider their business strategy very business smart because most people are, well, dumb. I was dumb, too, but I’ve cracked the code, at least a little bit.

So, I’ve written an article (and will be writing a few more) on my experiences with Sprint (although most likely the same applies to Cingular, AT&T, T-Mobile and whatever other companies there are out there). Feel free to link to the article or this post to help out your wireless friends…

On a related note, I bought Carol an LG 1200 today. Someone had given me a Best Buy Gift Card so it didn’t really cost me much. i hope she likes it.

In-Laws
There are times when I’d love to nominate my in-laws for the prestigious tag. Last night they nearly won the honor.

We babysit for carol’s brother. He has two children, ages 3 and 1. Our agreement is to watch them until 9:30 PM and then they are dropped off at their house (by us) because their mom gets home then. Last night she called and said she’d be late, as in 10:30. Wrong.

On Thursdays I get up around 2:30 AM to get to work by 4:00. i also work until around 4PM to get a few hours off on Friday. it’s a long day for me. so the fact that she was telling me that i wouldn’t get to bed until 11 didn’t sit well. carol called her mom and dad (who live right next door to the kids’ house) to ask for help.

can you guys watch the kids for an hour until (their mom) gets home?

no.

no real reason, they were just tired. or just didn’t want to help. aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! i wanted to scream.

so, let me ask a question to the 25-35 year old married people with kids. do your parents help out? is this normal? i doubt it. now, there’s been times when my mom was too busy or tired to help, but in a situation like this she’d help. shoot, she lives 60 miles from me and she’s come to our house before to babysit just so carol and i could have a night out.

are all in-laws this un-helpful?

sure, there have been times when we were low on food and they’ve helped out. but nearly always, in a crunch, they don’t help. in fact, there has never been a time when they’ve been able to ‘emergency babysit’ for us if something happened. there have been times when carol and i haven’t gone on a date for months and she’ll call to ask if they’ll watch the kids. they won’t.

i played guns when i was little. however, until recently carol and i didn’t let our kids play with them. i don’t think it’s related to the Sept. 11^th deal, but probably more because i’m lazy. i’d prefer that our kids learn that guns are not for pointing at people. they are to be respected and used only in their place (which means hunting or practice). over vacation we bought each kiddo a water gun for the pool. they are bright oranges, pinks, and greens. however i still wouldn’t buy my 11 year old a gun that ‘looked real’. too many whackos out there.

your nose is sidledywry - from the 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - via driko

looking for a job? inluminent has a great piece of advice for those upcoming interviews

I live in a town called Arnold, Missouri. I love Arnold. well, not that… i mean.. umm.. oh nevermind

<soapbox>you go, man. don’t back down. what i find surprising most about this article is the fact that the monument was only placed there two years ago. with that putting in the pre-Clinton era, I wonder how they pulled it off. with all this self-centered crap that goes on nowadays (especially when anyone mentions GOD in the middle of it) it really surprises me that the monument got as far as it did. cool.
- on a related topic, i was also a bit surprised to see that GOD is alive and well in the south. He apparently isn’t as shunned as ‘up here’ in the North. in Tennessee and North Carolina i’d see posters for ‘revival’ and ‘youth groups’ in the local grocery store, heck even ON the door of the store. you wouldn’t see that up here. not without some moron whining about it… </soapbox>

David Blaine to be suspended over the River Thames for six weeks with no food. i seriously hope he doesn’t die…

why your snooze alarm is 9 minutes long, and also how to remember your dreams. i prefer not to.

the monopoly money will be here in October. soon to be peso equivalent.

umm… speed bandage? butt monkey?

am i governor or not?

couple finds 1978 class ring in park. returned to owner. maybe they can find mine.

steve over at Off On a Tangent is having squirrel problems. kill them all! hey steve i’ve got an awesome (and legal) pellet gun that could go through two or three squirrels at a time…

wow, i’m definitely impressed… good stuff

this game is fun, too

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last week as we drove through Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, we saw it. Cooters garage. The General Lee. for some idiot reason I didn’t stop and get a picture. im a dunce.

i got married in the living room of a pastor that we know. i had on jeans and a t-shirt, carol had the same. our honeymoon was in our basement one-bedroom apartment with hardly any furniture. but, it wasn’t bad. in fact, it was fun. oh, and she’s HOT!

ok road rage game - just hold the up-arrow key down and floor it.

guy shoots guests that show up at his surprise B-day party. apparently the party was then cancelled. but why?

umm… err… wha??

two weeks ago we sent our kids to a VBS camp and they really liked it. so this next summer i’m considering sending them away to some far off, exotic week-long camp where they can find alligators and tarantulas. whattayathink, carol? maybe we’ll even get some hello muddah, hello faddah letters…

umm… how to catch and cook a chipmunk - maybe the kids could use this at camp.

ok wtf?

welp it’s monday, here i am again. too bad for you.

vacation was a blast. we spent two days in Knoxville, TN before moving over to Asheville, NC. we had a cabin in the woods on the side of a mountain in NC. the cabin was ok, but a bit too rustic for us. it had AC but no linens, no phone line, and lots of bugs. so we spent a decent portion of our vacation money on bug spray and other crap. the phone line was no big deal, except our cell wouldn’t work out there, and i was still on call for work. when we’d go into town i’d have to check the cell for voice mail, etc. oh, and i missed my broadband! oh well. it was nice.

we did see quite a few animals. i grilled some hamburgers and hot dogs and two wild deer and two babies (fawns?) came within 5 feet of me. they just grazed on by, hoping i’d go in for another beer i guess so they could swipe my food. we also found a huge snail and even a BIG rattlesnake. add that to raccoons, horses, squirrels, spiders, and a few lizards and you’ve got a fun time.

but alas, work calls. here i am, blogging. don’t tell the boss, k?

i’ll be on vacation after today. don’t expect anything exciting next week. i’ll have a laptop with me for business purposes, but i plan on sitting on the back porch of my cabin in the mountains and just relaxing…