2010 – Resolutions to Ignore

Again I am faced with imaginary improvements that I want to make with my Life whether it be health related or skills improvement or even to cut out items/people.

Again I am faced with either doing them for a short amount of time before the desire fades or just ignore them all together.

But, I think I have found a way around this.

Don't Do It. No resolutions. Just suggestions for a different (not necessarily better) 2010.

So here is what I have on tap.

1. Put a Calendar reminder (on my work calendar no less) to Blog twice a week – Tue and Thur.
   
2. Vowed to cut back all Fast Food (includes Subway, Fazolli, QDobas) in 2010 which will be hard to do since I LOVE Taco Hell and the breakfast burrito at Carl Jr's
   
3. For every cup of coffee I drink at work I drink 1 cup of water.
   

That's it.

If I can do these three small items for at least 3 months then I can add one more for another 3 months and then another to end the year with 6.

Is that going to be too much to ask – cascading "suggestions"?

Hopefully not.

We'll find out on Thursday to see if I keep #1….

Fly the Assinine Skies

Here are some thoughts I had traveling to NY in November for my Grandmother's funeral.

Airplane thoughts - boarding

I hope I don't look half as stupid boarding a plane as do many of these folks. They look like they are monkeys trying to get it on with a football. Trying to either wheel their oversized tiers of carry-on bags down the narrow aisle or balancing three cups of coffee, a baby and a small child plus care seat. Wtf, is this your Volvo you're trying to load here?

 

Airplane rants - costs

So why now are the airlines are wanting to charge me for in flight snacks, wi-fi and the "luxury" of stowing a bag under the plane?

Whatever happened to the world of complimentary items as a thank you for choosing their airline?

Do cabs, busses, trains charge you because you have an oversized bag with your week's worth of clothes? No. So why should I pay an airline for this necessity.

They should have to pay me a "noise" fee for having to endure a jet engine howling next to my head for 4 hours.

 

Human Nature 101

I don't think I'll ever understand what makes people do the strange things they do when in a social setting and especially surrounded by a group of people unknown to them from across the country.

Case in point was last evening's encounter with a total knob that we'll just call Tschep for the hell of it.

So me and a couple buddies decided to play Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 in the public matches and came into the lobby with the fore mentioned, let's describe him as Douchebag. So this TDouche starts going off on how I must suck at golf and my gamer tag (COGolfBuddy) is dumb and I suck. Now, granted I do suck at golf, but that is no way to great new folks who enter the game lobby.

He continues to be a dick when my buds start mouthing back and even when we're on the same damn team he's talking smack. Same team. Not like he'd want to actually win a match, but he wanted to just be alpha male of the gaming universe I guess.

Needless to say we actually listened to him spew his shit and mock our skills (despite the fact we out scored him on some maps and he's 20 levels higher than us). It felt good to put a bullet in his skull a couple times. He did eventually drop out and I filed only my second official complaint ever to Microsoft about a player who was abusive.

But I can't understand what drives a person to totally rip on folks, unprovoked mind you, and even bypass the desire to have your team victorious by shitting on teammates. He even ripped on newer people who arrived in the lobby telling them to shut the fuck up when they were chatting to their buds.

I guess we'll never know what lives in the minds of men; especially the angry ones.

12-Year-Old Jerk Murders Moose for No Good Reason

This girl is 12. She murdered a moose as big as her house because she could. Moose are rare. Jerks are not. I'm sure that she is a smart kid but I bet she could be better spending her time doing her homework than using advanced technology to murder megafauna for sport. Idiotic. That smile will come off her face soon enough when she finds out how fun it is to wash dishes at the diner the rest of her life up there in Mooselick, MN.

Kelly Holmin, age 12, sits on a bull moose

she murdered for no good reason last

weekend because her dad is gun nut who got

bored and thought, 'I want my baby girl to

kill something big today. '

Ok, some good news actually...

Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might not like but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She's posed for Playboy magazine.

After more than a half century featuring women like Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Crawford and the Girls of Hooters on its cover, Playboy has for the first time given the spot to a cartoon character.

And the magazine is giving the star of "The Simpsons" the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold.

Sweet Georgia Brown! Consider me in for this!

Like my day wasn't dumb enough...

Six-year-old Zachary Christie was so excited to become a Cub Scout that he brought his camping utensil to school. The tool serves as a spoon, a fork and a knife, and Zachary wanted to use it at lunch.

What Zachary didn't know was that the gizmo violated his school's zero-tolerance policy on weapons. And now the Christina School District in Newark, Del., has suspended the first grader and ordered him to attend the district's reform school for 45 days.

What the fuck is the World coming to these days?
Are we that paranoid about 6-year olds stabbing other 6-year olds with sporks?
Couldnt they just confiscate it like they used too in the old days when Life wasn't so IDIOTIC?

The Return of MS Blog Posting

Now that I have reconfigured my Word to be able to post Blogs on the fly I can give it a go again.

However it's 6:30am and I am not fully awake. That is starting to worry me that doing the morning shift is going to wreck my health.

I have been feeling tired and run down all the time. The brain takes longer to work it seems.

But having extra time to see the G-kids might make it worth the personal torture I am putting myself through…

Holy Crap

I am still alive.