94 posts tagged “moblog”

I went walking today. Nashville greenway near Opry Mills.

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CNN is just as bad as Fox News.... my proof below.
This... is on the front page of the website?

If it meant to be funny, awesome... could you put it in a humor section and
let me retain some faith that I can find real news?
I need to stop going to these sites for news.

Perhaps I can live in ignorance? Better than living in fear or with a
perpetual face palm.

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I am El Jefe when it comes to our knowledge tool.
I am the Captain...
The King
The All Consuming, Cold Hearted, Fist of Justice God of it.

I am the Key Master and the Gate Keeper...

I am ....Zuul and Gozer

I am the Chuck Norris of our Knowledge Base.

So....

Why would you plan something to be done and not even involve me in it?

I just got an email saying "Hey Everyone... we are going to do this... so
let's all get involved and excited...."

Ooooh Really?

Welcome to 2009!!!!

More of the Same with One Extra Digit!

From CNN: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,474012,00.html

It appears that the astronauts died of "Lethal Trauma".

I am sure glad it took 5 years to give us this assessment.

I mean, if I am in a shuttle and it is blowing up, falling to pieces and I
am falling out of the sky. The following forms of death would not make me
wonder if it had been "Lethal Trauma".

1. Falling from the sky. - Sure enough, I am going to hit the ground and
that will be "Lethal Trauma".
2. Exploding - I am sure the act of being in something that exploded or
oneself spontaneously exploding would be "Lethal Trauma".
3. On Fire - Yeah... if I am on fire I am sure that is "Lethal Trauma".
4. Asphyxiation - No oxygen... I could say that is a form of "Lethal
Trauma".... I mean it is traumatic on my system if I have no oxygen and that
would be pretty lethal... so yeah.... ok....
5. Disintegration - Lethal Trauma
6. Cut in Half by the Bulkhead - Lethal Trauma
7. Fused Together with Another Astronaut - Lethal Trauma
8. Being Blown Out of an Airlock by a Computer with an Affinity for
playing Chess and Singing "Daisy, Daisy..." - Lethal Trauma

I cannot think of one single incident where they did not die of "Lethal
Trauma"... well unless time suddenly stopped and Kris Kristofferson showed
up with some people from the future and replaced them with already dead
people and took the living people into the future to save mankind in an
eerie continuation of the 1989 movie Millennium... then there would be no
"Lethal Trauma"...

Rocket Scientists eh? Do they give those degrees out when you purchase any
item off of Wendy's value menu?

I have not written much this year. I kept my head down and my nose clean and
just prayed for this year to end.

Then these small incidents of good fortune or tiny miracles or whatever you
wish to call them began to happen in my life and the last couple of months
of this year turned out to be not only "Alright"... but pretty freaking
fantastic if you ask me.

Christmas and in turn my 35th birthday came and went quickly however they
were so much fun and prior to this even Thanksgiving was really nice.

I am thankful for that.

2009 lies ahead of us and once again I am looking forward. I am not looking
for a brighter tomorrow however, this year taught me to stop thinking about
the "What if" and "When this" or "When that" and instead to try and make
each day brighter for someone around me. Be it my own wife and kids, my
friends or my co-workers.

This year I learned that nothing is for certain and I came to understand and
accept the cold realities of loss and disappointment.

Each day has the potential of being the best day of our lives, we hear this
time and time again... but after this year I have come to fully realize my
own understanding of the truths of this statement.

I am going to be blogging more this year. I have the desire to express my
creative side more however, perhaps this is the year I can buckle down and
finish my book.

I am not making any resolutions however... I never stick to them.

From the Bob and Tom website

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My last post was a downer.
Sorry about that... at that point in my life things were a bit of a downer.

So, last week my Uncle and I went to see the new Bond movie, 'The Quantum of
Solace".

Then the next day was my Niece's 5th birthday and my Uncle was there and it
was at a bowling alley. My 2 year old would carry an 8 pound ball and put it
on this wire ramp thing they have and would actually bowl. He got a spare on
one of his later frames.

Now, we just made it through a nice quiet Thanksgiving. Where we sat around,
ate lots of food and watched the best holiday movie ever... 'Mystery Science
3000: Santa vs the Martians' Oh yes...

So to sum it up... I am in a good place right now. Next weekend will be
rough, it will be the 1 year anniversary of my brother's death... but right
here and right now I am in a very good place. A relaxed place... a
comfortable place.

- My brother died in December
- My wife and I lost a baby far along in our pregnancy over the summer
- My Uncle was in a coma through the month of September due to a bleed
out in a brain anuerysm
- My wife's cousin on Friday was beaten within an inch of his life
- I have torn my Meniscus and had to have my knee scoped... well... I
have torn it....AGAIN. It hurts... 'nuff said.
- Now the wife is having chest pains and the cardiologist we took her to
says that it is enough to investigate further.

I have a lot of smaller more petty things I could add to this list.

Was there any good from all of this?

- My Uncle is alive and has his mental capacity... well mostly. He has
trouble with math these days...and he was always good with math.
- The wife's cousin is alive... only because he was beaten so badly that
his skull broke apart and gave enough room for his brain to swell. He is
currently in one room with a special helmet on and in the other room is half
of his skull..... in a freezer from what I understand.
- Well the cardiologist did not immediately admit my wife or anything.

Halloween was a ruin in the end.
We had gone to Potty Mouth's house and we intended on having a blast...and
things started out soooo incredibly well.

I don't know if I even want to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Why bother eh?

And Christmas?
We have a little money ferreted away... it's mostly gone however.

I hate griping about my life here on this blog. I really wanted to blog and
say well meaning and interesting things. But this year has just been...
horrible. And I also really don't like showing my anguish in front of my
kids... oh I am grumpy and a grouch. I try and keep things positive with the
kids. If they hear of something... I try and relieve their fears with "Oh
but this is happening..." or "They should be fine... " or something. I want
the kids to live in a blissful ignorance of childhood for now.

Getting it off of my chest helps.

Some things I am looking forward to in 2009 are:

- Paying off a bill, last really big debt besides the house and it is not
really a big debt.
- The Kids all getting new furniture... this is a priority for 2009. It
was supposed to be this way for 2008... however.... this year has sucked.
- We are going to build a new computer. Having 2 macs is great, but I
need a windows box. So much of what I do for work requires Windows.
- Dental work... everyone in the house needs a little something done.
That sounds unfun... as in the polar opposite of things to look forward to.
However... this year... again.... has sucked and getting this handled will
be good.

I have 1 last day of vacation until the end of the year.
I think I am going to ask to use it this week and hide away.

Play some World of Warcraft... play some of the WoW trading card game with
the kids... Pull out some Heroscape.... read to the wife.... play some Fable
2 and just ignore everything else.

My boss brought me goodies!!

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