Limericks, tall tales and bears.....oh my!

Baur has more friends then I do

2008-07-22T15:25:00.002-06:00

My nephew Baur is turning 1 sometime this month but we are having his party on Saturday, that may even be his actual birthday. I dont know.

Am I getting him something? yes, because Amy is making me. Would I normally? Nope, he's not going to remember it and I give gifts strictly on the principle that you will remember that I gave it to you and thank me for it. Will he remember it? Nope, but apparently someday he will spend two minutes looking through the thousands of pics his mom took that day.

Where are the pics of when I was one? I am sure my parents said the same thing but I dont see any pics. I plan on skipping my kids first birthday, talk about a pointless celebration that gets way out of hand.

And a perfect example of a birthday party getting out of hand is going to happen this weekend. He has 32 people coming. He wont even remember this day and 32 people are going to show up and shower him with presents. I am so jealous. I want presents and a bouncy house for all of us to play in. Hes not even 1 yet (maybe he is) and has more friends then I do.

Too cool for school

2008-07-17T10:49:00.005-06:00

Lately we have been doing some very cool shirts for schools. I though I would post a few see what yall think.

Ugg Boot are just Ugg -ly....get it!?!

2008-06-20T14:50:00.002-06:00

I hate Ugg boots. Unless you are dressing up to be pocahontas for Holloween or live where it is always cold and there is no access to socks and normal looking shoes, then and only then is it ok. The stupid things are expensive and unnecessary. When in Texas does it ever get so cold you need extra calf warming? No one would possibly buy these things for fashion. Look at the boots above. There is rubber, leather and fake fur all on one boot. That a smorgasbord of ugly.

At one point I had a lot of good stuff for why I hate them but I forgot all of those reasons and am left not caring anymore.

The Slow Times

2008-06-19T14:47:00.002-06:00

June is supposed to be our slow time of the year. I should be able to come into work late and leave early. I dont really have any plans to take a vacation and skip out for a week so instead I am just going to coast for then entire month of June. So far its been great. I leave at 5 everyday and go hang out with Amy.

The only flaw to my plan is that things aren't slow here. Not at all. Which makes taking it easy and just relaxing through the day quite difficult. In fact its just made me a lazy worker and that sucks. So much for my quite June.

In other news, does anyone else ever delete messages from people you dont want to deal with hoping that they will just go away? The never do.

Just Keep it to yourself

2008-06-18T11:51:00.002-06:00

Until last week I was eating in a state of blissful ignorance and it was wonderful. You may not have known this but I will go ahead and enlighten you. Somebody somewhere did a special on TV about a study that was done by someone else about how no one washes the lemons that are cut up and used to flavor your tap water at a restaurant. Apparently they run these lemons through the trash before they cut them up and stick them in my ice tea or water and people are getting sick from them.

Its kind of ridiculous because I am the type of guy who would normally do the 5 second rule on just about any food but for some reason now I cant enjoy my drink with a lemon in it. My mind starts to imagine crazy things that could be on the lemon and ever since Nick gave me the amazing talk about just how long it takes bacteria to grow on most of our food I dont eat leftovers either.

So I just wanted to give a big thanks to nick and Gi for ruining the small things in life that I enjoyed.

Anyone else have anything to add?

Scrubs is back for another season

2008-04-28T09:36:00.004-06:00

It will have two more episodes left on NBC and next year it will move to ABC. HERE

Pop Candy's top 10 Lost comments. HERE

Since Nintendo's patent on the NES has new NES gadgets are starting to pop up. How about a portable NES? HERE

Next month you will be able to watch Warner Brothers shows online. Its good babysitting material. All you have to do is turn on Batman and leave the room. HERE

Cool things you should know about

2008-04-24T10:24:00.003-06:00

Readers submitted lost theories to the guys who write the show and they commented on them. HERE.

Nintendo is finally after over a year or not being able to find one easily they are upping there manufacturing of Wiis by 30%. HERE.

These are the coolest RC car ever. I am not a big fan of RC cars but these are amazing. You control the car from a First Person Perspective. You could make all sorts of sweet tracks and race your friends. Its like having a real live version of Off Road. HERE.

Rands has a new post. He is pretty much my hero. HERE.

If you have a cool website that you read daily or find a fun article anywhere post it as a comment. I always need things to look at.

Revamped Rocksports Website

2008-04-24T08:37:00.001-06:00

www.t-shirtsroundrock.com

This is just a link to our site. The real address is www.rocksports.net but I needed to put up the other one for a google reference.

Here is to almost having a perfect night

2008-04-22T09:37:00.002-06:00

Do you know what I love about bowling the most? Bowling requires total concentration and forces you to change throughout the evening. You may start out with one shot but by the end of the night you will have to change and move because the lanes change. The oil dries up and moves and you have to adjust.

To have any success in bowling you have to be able to do the same motion over and over. I dont know if you have ever tried to do the same exact motion over and over but its really hard. Especially, when you nerves start going and you start thinking to much. Is the lane starting to dry up? Should I move over now? Maybe I should stay in my spot and just throw the ball a little harder? All these questions are in my head constantly throughout the night. Well, those and there is always the constant....dont throw the ball in the gutter!

I have a tendency to have a great game going and then throw a gutterball. I havent dont it in a long while but that was my theme for last season. Four strikes in a row! I guess its time for a gutterball!

Last night I Didnt find my shot until the 5th frame and by then it was too late to salvage my first game. Normally we get there early and I am able to bowl a couple practice games on another lane and just get warmed up but because yesterday was Brads birthday we were late getting there and I missed what little practice there was so I started out slow and had a crappy first game as the result.

My games were 158, 241, 256. So after the 5th frame I started to strike and I kept striking. All those questions kept going through my head but last night I somehow managed to keep the ball on the lane and bowl well. I had a 655 series and thats the 3 600 series i have had in the last 4 weeks. Things are looking good.

Fort Worth Zoo / Best day ever

2008-04-08T18:00:00.018-06:00

Amy and I went to the zoo on Saturday along with half of Fort Worth. There were so many people there we had to park half a mile away but that actually turned out to be a good thing because we didnt have to pay for parking. We walked and talked and gave all of the animals personalities and accents. We also took a bunch of pics and here they are.

Ender will save us all.

2008-03-22T19:54:00.006-06:00

Meet Ender, he is 8 weeks old loves cuddling and "the ladies". We spent most of the day in the car and he got lots of attention when we went to Petsmart. He was so cute he made the lady who checked us out cry. Well that and the fact that her 15 year old lab just died. That was an awkward moment.

Anyways here are the pics thats what everyone wants to see.

All these gadgets and none of them take a check!

2008-03-19T14:27:00.002-06:00

I have had the worst time trying to buy my artist a new Mac. You would think it would be as easy as going to the Apple Store and picking one up but that is not the case. They have one on display but apparently that is just for looks.

When you walk into the store you will be greeted by someone who stands next to the door and says hi. They wont open the door for you or help you if you need it. Apparently their job is to say HI and GOODBYE and thats about it. So we stood around for about 15 mins. waiting for someone to help us. Not a big deal. They were busy and there are plenty of things to look at while we waited. The sales rep that helped us said he had never sold a mac pro before. For those of you that dont know which one it is, its apples biggest machine, very powerful and its starts around 2,500 before you add the stuff you need to it, and we were adding enough to double that price. Not a small sum of money.

We ask for a few upgrades, all of which the guy says they have instock and can apply to our machine. It will take a day to install everything but thats not a big deal. We go through all of the option with our stuff. None of which are a problem. The sales guy was nice and although not really informative I knew what I wanted and he got it no problem. All the problems we had were when we went to checkout.

Apple doesnt take checks or cash. Our check was declined because the amount was too great. When we called the company that handles their checks we were going to have to sing up and set up an account with them! Stupid. Why in the world with technology the way it is can I pay over the phone all my bills with a check, Over the Phone but when I go to the tech savy store of Apple I have to go through hoops just to pay. We talked to the manager and he said our only option then was to pay with a credit card. Apparently, us walking out not spending five grand on a computer was no big deal to him. He said and I quote, "It only happens a couple of times a month." You let ten thousand dollars walk out every month? I hate apple.

YAAAAAA!!!! It's Spring Break! ...oh wait.

2008-03-12T13:53:00.004-06:00

Man it would be great if spring break meant anything but alas, it doesn't. I still have people who need their jobs by Friday and it just so happens those people have more time to come by and ask me if their stuff is done yet. Fun times.

Cool things to note.

Zooey Deschanel's new cd is streaming here.

A very cool lost theory is here.

If you dont read Pop Candy you should. I am pretty much listing highlight off of it.

How I met your mother news: Britney Spears is going to have a small role and so is Scrubs star, Sarah Chalke, is going to replace Alicia Silverstone. I personally like the switch. Read about it here.

Demetri Martin Quotes

Stupid 63!

2008-03-11T10:08:00.002-06:00

What if I told you to forget the number 63! Just forget it, don't even think about. When you are done reading this you wont even remember what number you just read (63)! I mean its a stupid number anyways and you dont really care about it. At no point in your day is this number just going to come into your mind and disrupt all your other thoughts, it wont. Just rest easy knowing that you have already gotten the number out of your mind. What number you say? 63. Crap. Now its stuck in your head isnt it? Now, you wont be able to get it out of your mind. Its there, all because I told you to forget it. Thats what you get.

This is pretty much what Gibbs did to me yesterday and now it wont leave my head.

You call it being a nerd..I call it having a little passion

2008-03-06T17:14:00.004-06:00

I dont think the term nerd has much relevance anymore. When I was in middle school only kids who played with magic cards and collected comic books we considered nerds. Computers were not very common (still to expensive) and nintendo was newly introduced. Video game nerds weren't heard of because only a few of my friends had them. I had one, on doctors orders. Now, everyone has a computer or two and most families have at least one gaming console. When people talk about being nerds they have to specify exactly what they are a nerd of be it books, gaming, blogging or pretty much anything.

I think as a society we have just replaced the word nerd with passion. Have you ever known someone to call themselves a book nerd and not really care about what they are reading or if you ask them what they are reading you will get a 20 min answer in full detail about it. If you asked me about my gaming I could tell you all about my toon in game, not that you would care, but I do.

I dont know where I was going with this it was just an observation.

Picking a book

2008-03-04T15:39:00.001-06:00

I am reading a few books at the moment but They are all almost done with. Well close enough. I need something new. Any suggestions?

I was tagged!

2008-02-28T17:02:00.002-06:00

the questionnaire post

10 Years Ago:
i was 15. therefore, i was most likely doing one or more of the following:

1. Playing soccer 4 nights a week.
2. At church getting kicked out of whatever class I was in.
3. Wearing my super awesome sweatpants. Probably getting made fun of for them but never to my face.
4. Dating Jennifer for all of 1 month.
5. talking on AIM I was addicted to it.

Things on My To Do List Today:
Play Catchup at work. Try to calm all my freaked out customers. Indoor soccer tonight at 9:45.

What Would I do if I Suddenly Became a Billionaire?
I would take a trip around the world. A very long trip. It might take 10 years. I would stop at every place that looked interesting and enjoy the food and culture. I would pay off what little school loans I had. I would sell all my "stuff" and just travel.

3 of My Bad Habits:

* Selfishness
* lazy
* Poor spelling (but I am too lazy to fix it)

5 Jobs I've had:

1. Working for RockSports. I have had plenty of jobs here but this is the only real job I have ever had.
2. Running concession stands. It kind of counts I make alot of money doing it.

5 Things You Might Not Know About Me:

1. I like chick flicks
2. I have a sister and shes crazy
3. I only have 2 pieces of furniture in my room, a bed and a book shelf.
4. Every book I have on my bookshelf I have read besides the atlas and the dictionary.
5. I only own 3 loads of wash worth of cloths. When a basket of mine gets full I do a load of wash.

The most frustrating day ever

2008-02-22T17:21:00.002-06:00

It felt like i didnt do anything right today. I am so tired and just want the week to be over. I have got one more delivery when I leave and I get the pleasure of telling my customer that I promised I would get the job done that I ran out of vinyl and 10 of his jerseys dont have numbers. I feel like an idiot.

Question

2008-02-20T14:50:00.004-06:00

Has anyone ever met a vegan that didnt smoke? Whats up with that? I met four over the weekend and while they were outside smoking, they were trying to tell me what was in the food I ate. Is there a better example of irony? I think not.

Mafia night = The greatest night ever

2008-02-18T10:41:00.002-06:00

Last night I was introduced to a little game called Mafia. Apparently everyone had heard of this game and it was common knowledge that it was the greatest game ever they all just waited till I was halfway into my 25th year of my life to inform me about it. Thanks guys.

If you haven’t played the game before quickly invite 10 people over to your house so you can enjoy the arguing and figure pointing.

I would be so sure I knew who the mafia was and then someone would wink at me! What was that? My mind would try to figure out why he would wink? Was he winking at me or at the person next to me? Are they forming an alliance? So you confront them.

Me: Why did you wink?
Him: I didn’t wink?
Me: Yes you did!
Him: No I swear I didn’t!
Me: I saw you. You like right at me or the person behind me and winked in the middle of your sentence.
Him: NO I DIDNT! (Yelling louder)
Me: YES YOU DID! (Rising above everyone’s laughter)
Me: I think you are the mafia!
Him: Well I think you are the mafia!

You see the amazing logic and reasoning behind my arguing? I should be a kindergarten teacher I could argue with the kids all day. "Yaaahuuuu" "Naaaahuuuu". I ended up being wrong and me and him were the last two people alive only to be killed by the most cunning and elusive Amelia. I didn’t even see it coming!

We played for 6 hours. It was pretty amazing. I lost my voice, and all reasoning and logic by the end of the night.

New tight Pants Diet

2008-02-12T13:51:00.000-06:00

So apparently I washed my jeans wore them once and then washed them again and now they dont fit. I went from having 5 great pair of jeans to 2 in on month. Last week I ripped the crotch in both of my best jeans. It was very sad. Normally, after I wash my jeans it takes one good wearing to make them "good" again. Once they are broken in I wear them until I get something on them or I feel it is not socially acceptable for me to wear them out anymore because it may or may not have been a month in between washes, I never can remember.

For some reason I did two loads of laundry in one week and for another crazy reason I put these jeans in with both loads! I put them on this morning and could hardly exhale. I wore them anyways because I figured I just needed to stretch them out. Its past lunch time and not only are they still tight but I wasnt even hungry for lunch. That never happens. I blame the pants.

Places I will be after work: Old navy to buy 2 more pair of jeans.

Congratulations you have won a boat!!!! sort of....

2008-01-31T16:19:00.000-06:00

Yesterday while I was out a guy trying to get people to apply for a credit card company was standing out in front of Circuit City. Normally when you think credit card application you think, "No thank you", but I saw the sign that says win a free boat and well, I was intrigued. I wasnt really interested, I dont have any credit cards and dont plan on getting any but I hesitated for a second and like all good salesmen he saw it and cornered me (he really just asked for a minute of my time).

So I asked him, "Whats up with the boat? What kind of boat is it." Seems like a stupid question seeing that there was a picture of the boat in the water but it turned out to be a good move. He quickly reply that it was the latest RCA model. I thought Wait a sec....when did RCA start making boats? So I asked him if it was just a remote control boat. Of course it was. He sold me on a boat. I was interested and MIGHT have applied for a chance at winning a big boat, one that I can get in while its in the water and fish from. Not a toy that is going to cost me 1000 dollars in batteries What a coincidence though I that would have a credit card with which to purchase them, how convenient.

So I smiled and said, my late, "No thank you" and walked in the store to buy batteries for the 15.00 helicopter I bought so me and Zimmer could crash it at the shop.

Being out numbered

2008-01-28T14:48:00.000-06:00

Gibbs the other day was making fun of me and my gaming habits only to look up at the people he was with and realize that he was the only person who didn't play wow. With Jules and Jenkins getting on the Wow train and Andy already playing he quickly retracted his statement. Its fun that more and more of my friends can enjoy the greatest video game ever made. The sad thing about it is none of us play together and we cant play together, unless we all start over. Its very sad.

This will be in my next build

2008-01-28T14:46:00.000-06:00

It doesnt come out for a few weeks now but it will be the focal point that I build my new computer rig around. Its the fastest video card to day and its not even over 500 bucks! Sign me up!

The Latest and Greatest

Head Tracking

2008-01-24T14:37:00.000-06:00

This is the coolest idea that I have seen for quite some time. It takes technology that is already being mass produced and tweaks it for a new gaming experience. If the Wii gets a game using this technology I will get one.

Youtube link

Oh the choices

2008-01-22T15:05:00.001-06:00

It sucks that as you get older your toys get more expensive. Right now I want a new lens for my camera. It will only run me about $600 bucks and that is not the good one. I would also like to build a computer. A good one. To go along with my sweet monitor that I just got. That will run me around $1500. And last but not least I need a new bowling ball, around 200 bucks. Well I dont NEED but I could really use a new one. JL, a guy I bowl with, says he is going to hook me up because he has like 30 at home so we will see if that happens or not. It would be sweet if he did. Then all I would need is for them to be re-drilled.

Do I need any of this stuff. Nope. Now I just need to choose what I am going to get first. The lens is a pretty big upgrade my lens now is just a generic one and it has very little zoom.

The more I try and justify getting a new computer the more I realize I dont need one, so that will be the last thing I get.

what to get? ohh the choices.

Another T-shirt Site

2008-01-21T15:22:00.000-06:00

Shirt a Day

It seems like last week every other phone call was from another online t-shirt website. I love the fact that everyone thinks this is a good idea. It is, but you have to watch out for the pitfalls. There are a thousand t-shirt sites and you have to be specific. If you are generic about your website it wont get any hits and you will be lost in the all of the other sites. Anyways I dont want to jump on soapbox.

This website is a good one and it looks like we will be printing their shirts.

What no tic-tac-toe application?

2008-01-17T16:16:00.000-06:00

When I first joined facebook I really liked how clean it looked compared to myspace. You didnt have adds everywhere and it seemed to work 90% of the time as opposed to the 10% that myspace worked. Lately though it seems that there is an application for everything.

At first I just accepted any and all applications just to see what they were but last week I wanted to look and see if I could find an old comment someone had left me and it took like 10 mins to find because I had to scroll through 100000 lines of crap just to get to my comments. That was when I killed all the applications. Done.

Dont invite me to take a quiz to see if I know quotes from the movie Snow White, or if we are compatible as drinking buddies. No, I dont want to play poker with you.

What is Flixter?

Last random note. Say the work application 10 times and it starts to sound weird.

Shirts Unique

2008-01-16T16:43:00.000-06:00

Shirts Unique

The website is just starting up and we dont have many designs at the moment but give it time and we will have more. If you have any Ideas for t-shirts let me know and I will make it happen.

Bookmark the link and check us out from time to time. We will be making changes in the near future.

Big Money, Big Prizes....I love it!

2008-01-16T12:10:00.000-06:00

I got in my new monitor today for the computer that I have yet to build. I figured I would not go the cheap route this time and buy a good but dated computer. I want to go for the next best thing, so I wont have to upgrade for a few years.

The monitor I got is a 22" wide screen and is huge! I hooked it up to use it as my work computer and everyone who walks by my office stops in to take a peak. I will be watching lost episodes during lunch ...and after.

Two bands worth listening too.

2008-01-15T11:28:00.001-06:00

Jenkins found this band and told me to listen to them. I think they are pretty good. Last time we found a band like that it was Panic at the Disco and 4 months later they were everywhere so who knows.

Paper Route

This is a singer who is already big. I saw her last night on Conan and really enjoyed her music. So much so that I used my Itunes gift certificate to get her album and its really good.

Ingrid Michaelson

Take the money and run?

2008-01-14T10:05:00.000-06:00

If you haven't seen No Country For Old Men and plan to you might not want to read below.

I watched No Country for Old Men over the weekend and I loved it. Its the most intense movie I have ever seen. There is no soundtrack that plays awful high pitch dissonant chords to create a suspenseful moment, it was the look on the characters faces, you could feel what they were feeling. I am pretty sure if I ever ran into the guy who played Anton (Javier Bardem) in the street I would turn around and start running.

There was one question I had throughout the movie though. Why take all the money? In the movie a guy is out hunting in the middle of the Texas desert and out in the middle of nowhere runs into a drug shootout. No one is alive and there are trucks and dead people everywhere. He looks around for a little bit and as he is leaving finds a man who tried to get away only to die sitting next to a tree. Next to this man is a big satchel full of money. Why in the world would you take all of the money?

If he is going to take the money, which is a stupid risk, then I would suggest not taking all of it. Do you think they are going to hunt you down for only two or three bundles? That is still a good sum of money and I dont think they would even realize that part of the money is gone until they counted it and by then all your tracks and whatnot would be gone.

Would you take the money?

Things I dont get

2008-01-08T18:00:00.001-06:00

- Website who have a cool product but don't put the price. (Yes we know you love our product but you must e-mail us to find out how much it costs!)

- Guys who refer to their girlfriend/wife as their "old lady". (I didnt even realize you weren't talking about your mom until halfway through the conversation. Can't you think of something nicer to call her?)

- Drinking with no game or food in front of me. If we are all sitting around playing somthing (anything) then things are good. I don't understand the point of a bar.

- People who have no pride in their work. I don't care what you do take pride in it and do it to the best of your ability.

- Vegetarians. I dont understand not eating meat. If you dont like it thats one thing but not eating it on purpose? why? I love veggies, mushroom and tofu I completely understand how people could get addicted to it but most of the time my Vegetarian friends are eating a soy burger or a chicken paty that isnt chicken. Why? Just eat the real thing. I promise it wont kill you.

- People who don't call to confirm e-mails when they arent getting a response.

"Yes, I have left you 10 e-mails and you havent responded to one of them and I need my shirts tomorrow, what are you going to do about that?"

They always have my e-mail address spelled wrong.

Starting the New Year out with a blog

2008-01-03T11:03:00.000-06:00

Ok, So last month I didn't post. I know its bad, but I was on vacation and just didn't feel like it. I had a blast in Vegas. I started to write about it two or three times but only ended up saving the draft and walking away.

For Christmas I got a bunch of DVDs: LOST season 1,2 and 3, Phantom of The Opera, SNL Season 2, and a bunch of old Disney classics. I love it when my mom buys me stuff off of my list. I am tired of opening gifts on Christmas and seeing a velvet long sleeve button up shirt or "cool" corduroy pants. (Just a quick side note. Have you ever spelled a word so wrong that the spell checker couldn't help you? I just did that with the word corduroys. I wont even tell you how I tried to spell it.) My mom used to come up with stuff that I am sure was bought to see our reaction.

After Christmas Lindsey, Chaz (her dog), Nick and I all jumped in my car and drove to Keystone CO for some snowboarding or that was the plan anyways. Just in case you guys didnt know. Its really cold up in the mountains. So cold in fact that the whole time we were there the temp was either in the negatives or single digits. We did get one good day or boarding in. When I say we I mean Nick and Brendon who can actually board. It was the first time I had ever tried and I didnt plan on just picking it up quickly but I didnt expect to spend the whole day picking myself up off the mountain.

Here a few quick things you probably should know before you go snowboarding. If it is your first time....take lessons. I dont care how much they cost. Whats not a good idea is just to head straight to the top of the mountain and teach yourself. Yes, I did this. Why would I do this? Because everyone in the line on the bunny hill told me that you couldnt learn on the bunny hill because its not steep enough. Well, that just happens to be my favorite part of the bunny hill. But after 30 mins waiting in line to get on the ski lift to take me up to the top of the bunny hill and not moving anywhere I decided that they were right and somehow talked Lindsey into coming with me.

I would like to say that I successfully got off every ski lift that I went on without falling down. That the only thing I can brag about the whole day. From the top of the mountain to the bottom I was eating snow. I fell hard and a lot. Every time I fell I heard a unanimous "oooooooo" come from everyone around me. Sometimes there was laughter. It was alright though even though I ate it and probably spent more time resting on the side of the mountain then actually sliding down in the end...I made it. And by the time I reached the bottom I finally had gotten the hang of the whole thing. My body was shaking though from picking myself up over and over so I was done for the day.

The next two days were pretty much a whiteout, meaning it was snowing and the wind was blowing so hard that you could only see white in front of your face. Not really something I want to go out in for any reason.

too be continued.....

Christmas Secrets

2007-12-19T16:49:00.000-06:00

Me: "Hey Zimmer what do you want for Christmas?"

Zimmer: He walked over too me and did the wave that says he wants to tell me a secret. He whispered with a big smile on his face, " I want a Monster truck but dont tell my mom."

Me: "Really! What kind of monster truck?"

Zimmer: "A big one!"

I am going to get him the biggest one I can find!

December is my Holiday

2007-11-26T14:56:00.000-06:00

I have two trips planned in December. This might not be out of the ordinary for most people but I am not really a traveler. Not that I dont enjoy driving or being in new places, I just would rather sit in my comfortable chair and relax that way. Planning a trip was always stressful and I dont really like the idea of stressing out when I should be relaxing. Traveling with fewer people makes it less stressful. Its nice.

Next weekend I will be in Vegas. Just me and my dad. I am pretty exited about this because I have never been there. He has been there plenty of times and when I told him we had the tickets I could see the plans already forming in his head. The only things I really want to do when I go there is see "O" and eat the 5 star buffet at that one place whos name I just forgot about, but its going to be amazing. I know I have an addictive personality so I am going to try and gamble as little as possible and on a strict budget. If you know of a fun place to gamble or a really good show let me know.

My next trip is still in the works but so far my plans are to leave on the 26th and head up to Keystone and stay with a friend. Its minutes from the slopes and free lodging. Plus I havent seen Brendon in about a year so its a good time to catch up. This will be my first time to try snowboarding. I have been skiing a bunch of times but never got around to trying snowboarding. I am sure I will have a good post to put up about that when I get back.

Things at work are still pretty crazy and I am exited that I will have a breather next month.

TNT holiday reruns

2007-11-20T11:30:00.000-06:00

As I am sitting at my desk avoiding work I was going to try and watch "Charlie Browns Christmas Story", but I couldn't. Its depressing. Charlie Brown makes me sad. I dont know why people would want to watch him. Maybe its just the mood I am in today. Another movie that does this to me is "A Christmas Story". Everyone know this movie and every time I watch it it makes me sad. The dad who wants the ugliest lamp known to man (actually thats pretty funny). The kid who gets his tongue stuck to a poll. The whole you'll shoot your eye out. The kid goes crazy and beats up the other kid. The fudge bomb slip and the kid who gets spanked for no reason. All of it! Its all depressing.

There is no real point to this blog. I just wanted to let the world know how I felt and when I type "the world" I mean the 3 people who read this blog.

Its me in an essay

2007-11-16T12:11:00.000-06:00

Its weird and kind of fun to read an article that you can relate to in almost every way. I don't know if anyone else will find this interesting but I did.

Rands In Repose

My first time #1

2007-11-15T11:54:00.000-06:00

I almost killed myself my dad and some poor old lady the first time I drove. I had turned 16 almost 5 months before. I had not taken any classes and I failed the driving test 3 times before I passed (Its all the fault of the stupid fine questions). Does anyone remember how much a ticket is if you get pulled over and dint have a seat belt on? Ya, well I couldn't remember either. I had just received my license and we were only going two miles up the road. My dad thought it would be a good idea for me to drive. We were going to visit my grandad who was in the hospital and I think my dad logic here was, "If we get in a wreck at least we will be close to the hospital." Most people by the age of 16 have already driven on many occasions, not me.

I climbed into the beast of a truck that we owned. A 1982 Chevy limited edition all steel beast. It looks like one of those old 1930's trucks. Very cool and I was very proud of it. My dad got in on the passenger side and my mom and the rest of the family were following in a car behind us. I started the truck and we pulled out of the parking lot. I didn't realize how hard you had to push on the gas to get the truck moving. I had to practically stand on the gas pedal and then it went from sitting still to 60 mph. It was a bit touchy. The hospital was just up the street and everything was going fine until I had to turn into the tiny side entrance that leads to the ER.

I would like to state for the record that my technique was flawless on the turn. I just didn't realize that you needed to slow down past 35 MPH to make a turn. When I took the turn a little old lady who probably just got out of the ER was pulling up to the intersection and I turned right into her. I am not sure how I didn't hit her. I just know that our eyes met and she looked like she was going to wet herself. I barley missed her car and was on the road and then off the road because I was still turning. I went off the road on the right, clipped a sign, just a little bit and skidded to a stop.

At this point the tea that my dad had been carrying was everywhere. I think he was mad but I really don't remember, I was kind of in a shocked state. I do remember looking over and seeing a whole car of my family laughing like they had just seen the funniest thing ever. My mom was crying she was laughing so hard. After that every time I wanted to drive everyone put on their seat belt and sometime fake scream when I turned.

That wasn't the first time I embarrased myself and it wont be the last.

Does a good review ruin your opinion of a movie?

2007-11-12T14:51:00.000-06:00

This last summer we had about 4 weeks of horrible blockbuster movies come out. I was exited about each one and every Thursday night I was at the theaters at midnight exited and giddy to watch a movie I had been wanting to see since the Christmas before. Each week I went home tired and pissed off because the movie sucked. I guess its my own fault really for getting exited about "The Silver Surfer" but come on! I am nerd I like comic book movies. I didnt have high hopes I just wanted more. It didnt help that ever five minutes Jenkins kept muttering, "This is the worst movie ever!" He hasnt seen "The Page Master" so he does really know the full extent to a crappy movie. Seriously though, if you haven't seen "The Page Master" I suggest getting a group of people together and watch because its two hours of the worst writing worst storytelling ever. Its amazing.

After those four weeks I was out 32 bucks and alot of sleep. I decided I would find a site that did reviews on shows and only see movies he liked. It took a couple of days for me to find someone who explained why a movie was crappy instead of just trashing the movie and not really listing any reasons. Finally I went to Movies.com and used their reviews. It was tough because you see previews and you really want to see the movie and he tells you it sucks. Not only does he tell you it sucks he tell you that it isnt worth watching for free. Do you take the chance and waist your money? or do you just wait till you can find it on the net?

Good Reading

2007-11-08T11:39:00.000-06:00

Boundless

This is a great source of good reading. If you have a chance I would recommend browsing around on the site.

Oh the joys of 6th Street

2007-11-06T11:52:00.000-06:00

Friday was a long day for me. I spent most of it loading and unloading cookie dough. The most delicious cookie dough ever. I was pretty tired and I wanted to go home and just sit in my chair, play WOW, while eating Panda Express but I recieved a text saying that we were "going out". I wasnt down for 6th street but dinner at Baby A's sounded good.

I got off of work around 7:30 and made the drive up to Baby A's. I was just about to pull into the parking lot when I notice someone walking in a very exagerated, puffed up, elbows out, comical jaunt down the side of the road. After a quick laugh and a second glance I realized it was my friend. So, I stopped put the car in park and reached across my car to roll down the window. Why does it take all that effort to roll down my window? Because my arms are short and I dont have automatic windows. I have to lean over and reach as far as I can to turn the nob that rolls down my window.

So I finally get my window rolled down and I pull up next to him.

"Hey, where are you going?" I yelled at him.

"I Don't want any!" He yelled back.

"Hey, you need a ride." At this point I think he actually notice me. He started at me with squinted eyes and a look that said, "stay back I could vomit at any time". I wasnt worried though. I should have been.

"James?" He asked as if he hadnt seen me in years.

"Hey man, Where are you going?" At this point I knew he was wasted.

"I'm walking home." He almost started to walk again. It was like saying something also triggered the rest of his body.

"Get in Ill take you." It was a long walk home and I wasnt about to let him try and make it.

"Really? Sweet man I really appreciate it."

He got into my car and didnt roll up the window. about ten seconds after he got in he started to spit out the window, like he had a bad taste in his mouth and couldnt get it out. "Please dont throw up in my car." I said half joking.

To his credit he didnt. He leaned out and threw up all over the side and who cared about the side of your car? I dont. It took five mins to take him home and three were spent leaning outside the car one was spent apologizing and the rest was telling me about how he got engaged the week earlier and he was Celebrating.

Back to the old drawing board (this post is long)

2007-10-29T13:37:00.000-06:00

I took a good hiatus while things were busy here at work. Its been a crazy 4 months and I am glad they are behind me. Now I just get to coast till the end of the year. I am not saying I wont be busy its just a much more of a manageable amount of work.

Well getting away from work. Halloween was a blast. We threw a party and everything was going great until beer pong was started. At that point things (people is probably a better word) got sloppy. I think I almost won on three different occasions. I know...I drank for two because Lindsey wanted to drive home. Rule number 1 when playing beer pong...find a partner who will actually drink their share of the beer. Otherwise you might as well just start chugging. Needless to say I had fun, not because I got trashed , that part sucked. It was the friends and fellowship that made it a fun night. And Julies outfit was a plus.

Things I have been reading or listening to:

John Sanford - Books

He is a Murder Mystery writer and his books on CD are great. I So far I have listened to 4 of his books and have enjoyed all of them. ts a good change of pace to watching TV. Go home plug in my computer start my headset and play wow while I listen, next thing you know 5 hours has gone by. My mom got me 3 more for my birthday so i have plenty to listen to.

CS Lewis - I will probably for the rest of my life always be reading one of his books. He is amazing. Right now I am rereading "The Great Divorce". I love the stories and finding myself in the characters. I find a little of myself in each character. I just want to know what the significance of the unicorns is because I have no clue.

George RR Martin - I am listening to an old classic, "A song of ice and fire" series. The first book is 33 hours. I read the book last time. Its fun to listen as a professional reads the book to me because I have come to realize i was pronouncing every ones name wrong. I get to a character that I loved and do a big "Ohhhhh! thats how you say that name!"

Birthday gifts:

I got myself all 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1. Was I a fan before? Nope. Then why would I spend 270 bucks on a series I had never watched? Because, well I dont have a good answer for that. My brother said it was good and I really wanted to buy myself something so I did. It was an impulse buy. So far I through with season one and halfway into season two and its really good.

I also got myself a subscription to Audible.com so I would have plenty of books to listen to. Its a great site.

I should be back to my normal twice a week updating. I dont expect anyone will really read this but if you happen to have made it to the end you should leave me some love in the form of a comment.

Story Time

2007-08-01T11:13:00.000-06:00

One of my favorite memories of my grandmother is when she used to read to me. It was almost always a Hardy Boys book. She could always capture the essence of a character and really bring it to life in my mind. When we moved to California she would mail me tapes of her reading. I would listen to them before bedtime and go to sleep dreaming about finding a treasure map or discovering a lost city. She really enjoyed reading to us and I know she is the reason I enjoy reading so much now.

I was reading to my nephew the other day and I think he really enjoyed it as well. I know I enjoyed it more though. Its fun to dive into characters and make up a voice for them, even if its just a ninja turtles book. I looking forward to all the times in the near future that I will get to open up a book and really become the story. He cant read. I could make up anything I wanted to. I get to make the story as scary or cheesy as I want. Its fun because I am not the best reader. With my dyslexia I stutter and sometime goof up words but he doesnt care. He only cares that I do the right voice for Splinter...apparently he doesnt have a British accent.

I am an Uncle......again

2007-07-30T08:26:00.000-06:00

Announcing the arrival of Joel Bradford Payton, IV!!!!! He is going to be called "Bauer". Bauer arrived at 10:59 AM, Friday, July 27, 2007. He weighed 7lbs 12 ozs (3 lbs more than Zimmer!) and was 20 and 3/4 inches long. Mom had a tough delivery, but all are doing well. They came home Sunday.

Brad has held up better than we predicted! He has actually spent the night both nights with Mom releaving first thing in the morning. Bauer is a GREAT baby. He seems to be very contented almost all of the time. He actually came out screaming, and screamed for about the first 5 minutes, but he's been doing great since then. He's really alert and already picked his head up off of my shoulder.

Not a good night of poker.....I blame it on the rain.

2007-07-26T10:50:00.000-06:00

I lost $20 bucks last night at my weekly game. It was a frustrating nights of bad beats and just not catching any cards. I hate poker stories so I will spare you mine but lets just say it was a rough evening but I still have some fun and lots of homemade queso that was delicious. So all was right in the world.

I have been throwing around the idea of completely changing up my room. I want to put up a ten in my room. Is that a bad idea? It seems like it might be hot and the one thing I love about my room is that it is cold at all times. If only I lived where it was always cold I would just always wear one of the sweet sleeping bag suits. If only...

Calling all drunks...free poker.

2007-07-25T09:03:00.000-06:00

There is a free poker league in Austin when they play at a different restaurant every night.The poker is free the the food is not. There are two games. One at 7pm and one at 9pm. If you win the second one you get 50 bucks. Its usually a fun atmosphere.

Free poker is a lot different than playing in a money game. All kinds of jokers come out. Last night I had a guy on my team who pretty much made it impossible for me to have fun while he was at the table. I felt bad for him because he was trying so hard to be cool but he was wasted and looked like and idiot. I knew the night was going to be bad when he sat down and complained that he was the only one drinking. Then proceeded to spill his beer not once but on two different occasions and then look at everyone like it was the tables fault. He didn't even try and help clean it up. He just sat there. I mean he couldn't have helped even if he had wanted to because he was so wasted at this point that he could bet he chips without knocking over his drink, so getting up and getting towels to soak up his mess was out of the question.

The worst part about the whole thing is that he kept getting cards. It always happens that way. If you have no clue what you are doing (he didnt know how to play, we had to constantly help him understand) then you WILL catch cards. There will be nothing anyone can do to beat you. Which is normally fine because those people just collect alot of chips and then go in a huge pot against someone later down the road and lose it all in a few hands once their luck runs out. I didnt want to wait around. Its free poker and if its not fun I just lose and go home. So thats what I did. I gave my money to the guy next to me and me and kevin went and got some star bucks.

The very cool thing about the night is that Kevin won the first game at 7pm. He didnt win any money but he is automatically in the running for the final game. If you win that you get a trip to Vegas. The second cool thing happened is that Andy won the second game. That was the first time Andy had ever played in this tourney.

Harry Potter

2007-07-24T11:51:00.000-06:00

I didn't plan on waiting in line all night Friday night but I did. We went to see Live Free or Die Hard at 10:00 and didn't get out until about 12:30. It was only then that I even remembered that the book release was going on. As I was driving home I just started to get exited and had to head by B&N to see if they had anymore copies.

I was amazed when I pulled into the Parking lot. I had never seen the place so full. It filled up the entire parking lot. The B&N that is closest to me is in a major shopping center and there is normally plenty of parking for everyone but tonight I parked a good football field away. It didn't matter though I was going to get a book, even if I had to take a kid out as he was walking back to his car with one. I probably wouldn't do that but I wanted to as I walked in and saw just how many people were there.

Nick, B and I all walked around the store and found various books to talk about. It was alot of fun. Neither Nick or B even read HP but they just happened to be unlucky enough to drive to the movies with me so they were stuck. I only waited about 45 mins before the place emptied out and I was one of the last people to get a book. I ordered a Venti Chai and headed home to start reading. I read a good 200 pages in when I saw the sun coming up so I figured I better get to sleep so my schedule wasn't all out of whack. That didn't work very well.

I woke up around 2pm and just rolled over in bed and started reading again. I had an indoor game later that night so I stopped reading for a bit and went and played. I finished the book at 9am on Sunday morning. I guess you could say I am a slow reader. It took me quite a while to finish the book but I am not a big fan a rereading a book right after I finish a book so I took my time and really enjoyed it.

SPOILERS HERE!!! DON'T READ BELOW!!

I really didnt like from pages 100-300. I found the whole Harry, Ron, and Harm running around with no idea of what to do very boring. It was very slow reading and I just didnt see why you needed so many pages of them yelling at each other. They go through a stage like that in every book I was really hoping they would grow out of it for this book but nope. It was even longer.

The more I think about the book and reflect on what I thought of the book I would say it was enjoyable but not my favorite. I really liked the story of Harry and I love the world that she created. I just keep thinking that she could have done more. It was to short. When Harry lived in the end and there were no suprises in the last book I was a little let down.

I hope she feels that she has another story to tell in this world she created because it would be sad for it to end. I would enjoy reading another tale about his son or maybe something happends 1000 years later. Future harry potter! It would be fun to see how magic would match up against technology of the future. That would be cool!

Just another day at the zoo

2007-06-08T09:16:00.000-06:00

I am having a blast with my camera. I havent had time to photoshop any of the pics like I wanted but this week has been a bit on the crazy side. I took 238 pics while at the zoo and I would say 100 of them are pretty good. The other 138 is me getting picture happy and just shooting everything. I am sure no one wants to see 5 pictures of the same fish :). I might get rid of this blog in a bit and pick up a flicker acount because its easier to post pics up on flicker. Anyways here are a few good ones.

My new ride and the reason I cant hang out with you anymore

2007-05-17T09:38:00.000-06:00

Well, after three weeks of test driving and dealing with car salesmen, who may be my least favorite people in the world, I have finally found one I want to purchase. And I did just that yesterday. In the beginning I wanted a VW Rabbit but after much contemplating and the dealer not really caring to sell me one, I ended up getting a Chevy Cobalt. I am pretty exited that I didnt get a Rabbit though because in the end it would have been too much for me to handle financially.

Here are a few pics.

The Express and Jenkins welcome home party

2007-05-15T13:26:00.000-06:00

This is my favorite photoshoped pic so far. I took the pic at the express game.

Look at all the fan waving RockSports rally towles.....All 5 of them.

This is a really cool pic. If you click on it you can see the catcher is about to catch the ball and the look on the guys face pretty much say, " I knew I should have swung at that pitch!"

This is a cheesecake brad made. It was amazing.

This is a little photoshop fun. Its Jenkins and McBee.

More photoshop fun with gibbs.

First weekend with my computer

2007-04-30T15:30:00.000-06:00

I went out Sat night to the Jeffersons indoor game to take pics and it turns out you actually have to know how to take pictures with this camera for the pics to be in focus. Silly me thinking I could just point and click. It didnt turn out that way. People move to fast in soccer and the lighting is too low, plus you add the net that surrounds the field and apparently you have a difficult job of taking a nice action photo. The whole situation because very apparent within the first 10 mins of me taking pics and then looking at them and every one is out of focus and really blurry.

You know how cool I looked holding a thousand dollar camera taking pictures? Very cool, until someone asks to look at one. Then I got nothing. It was pretty funny. I had a very confused look on my face and everyone wanted to know after the game how they came out and if I got this cool move or that goal. I just told them I am a rookie and couldnt get it in focus but NEXT TIME!

Almost as if my uncle had heard about my fun photo evening he called me early the next day to see what I was up to. We ended up make a quick trip to the rock and he gave me a run through on how to use the camera and what everything does. I could spend 10 days learning about all of the cool things my camera could do but the 2 hour lesson helped out alot and I should be able to take decent soccer pics now.

Here are a few pics from the weekend. Pretty boring stuff...nothing special. I included some of the out of focus ones just for fun.

The Round Rock.

These are the Swallows that live by our front door.

Someone scored right here.....I think.

This is Gibbs.

Say Cheese!

2007-04-25T10:05:00.000-06:00

As of yesterday I no longer have my laptop but as sad as that new is I now have a brand new Canon 10D. I plan to take lots of pictures over the weekend and have lots to post about next week.

Planet Earth

2007-04-23T12:44:00.000-06:00

Is anyone else addicted to this show? I can't get enough all I did yesterday was sit and watch it. Well that and get a bit of reading in but I seriously sat and watched it for a good 6 hours.

I hear it is even better in HD but I dont have access to an HD tv that isnt running sports 24\7. Watching it really makes me want to find a red panda and adopt him. I want a PANDA!!!

The Bartimaeus Trilogy

2007-04-17T15:53:00.000-06:00

I recently borrowed a book from a coworker who was in the middle of the series. Its kind of like Harry Potter but darker. Instead of fun wands, a school full of kids and a really cool game you play while flying on a broom there is only one kid and his demon. Nicodemus is give away by his birth parents to the magicians so that he might grow up to be a magician and they could get money. Nicodemus, is a smart kid who excels in his studies and wants to push his boundaries of course he gets himself into all kinds of trouble and thats where the fun of the book is. Plus the demon, Bartimaeus is very witty and sarcastic and always seems to get the better of his enemies. Its a very easy read and I really enjoyed the story. I am just starting the second book.

Apple Sauce and Yogurt

2007-04-12T14:32:00.000-06:00

While I was testing out all the things I was going to eat I ran across a few old favorites. Apple sauce, when was the last time you ate some? For me I would say the 3rd grade right before my mom stopped making my lunch. Its good stuff. Its way better than a whole apple. I dont see why I would ever buy and apple again when I can eat two apples in the form of apple sauce in the time it take me to eat one regular apple. Plus no seeds and no little sticker that is fused onto the apple.

Also, I would like to say that yogurt is good and someone needs to make the single serving containers much bigger. Is that someone idea of a joke that I can finish one in three scoops? Seriously, I like to eat yogurt by the pint!

Whoever made microwavable mac and cheese is my hero. Mac and Cheese is two minutes, now thats instant gratification.

Stocking up!

2007-04-11T16:22:00.000-06:00

I need a little help. I need to get food that I will be able to eat after I get my wisdom teeth removed. I know some of you have been through this already and was just wondering what yall ate. Am I limited to soup? or will I be in so much pain I wont want to eat?

Also is there anything that I should def not do or eat. I havent gone through the whole rundown of dos and donts from the dentist yet. I already know from Tads experience to straws away from staws...that kid was in pain, but hot and sour soup helps!

Anyways give me some advice.

thanks!

The tea stains are gone.....and next Friday so will my wisdom teeth!

2007-04-05T15:31:00.000-06:00

I had my second cleaning today. The lady there really likes me. I am not sure if she wanted me to take her out or adopt me. I think she gave me and extra step or two in the polishing and whitening of my teeth. We had a good time though which is weird because it was a visit to the dentists office and most people dont assosiate laughing for an hour and fun conversation and getting your teeth cleaned. It happend though. Let me tell you, my teeth are very white. I am sure no one would notice if you just met me but anyone who saw me three weeks ago and then today would be amazed.

I didnt even go to the doctors to get my teeth looking all nice and sparkly. That was on my list of things to do this year but before that I wanted to get my wisdom teeth removed. They bother me and every so often I have a night where they move in my sleep and for the next few days I cant close my mouth. It was just past time to get them out. So next Friday is the big day. I have heard all kinds of fun stories about the meds they are putting me on. Apparently I wont remember anything that happends during that day and most of the next day so dont call me! I wont remember!

Its not that I am going to quit dating...it just that I wont write about them

2007-04-04T13:50:00.000-06:00

TheJamesProject is officially dead. It was a great idea (or so they thought) we just ran into a few minor bumps like no one wanted to go out with me or write me back period. When the entire point of your blog rests on going on dates and you cant even get someone to write you back just to talk...your blog becomes pretty boring. So, instead of trying something else or going to extreme measures and seeing who else my mom could hook me up with we decided to call it quits and chalk this one up to a "nice try but it just didnt work out".

It was awkward and relatively fun while it lasted.

Finally its paid off! ...now I can get rid of it.

2007-04-03T15:46:00.000-06:00

I finally finished paying off my laptop. The only problem is I dont use it anymore. Its not a very practical machine. Its too nice for its own good and you cant really carry it everywhere very conveniently. Without it being plugged into a wall the batter only lasts 3 hours at most. If you are using it alot then it goes down to about 2 hours. I dont know about you but I would like to have a laptop that lasts about 8 hours and most of the newer ones are around that length.

Now that I have talked it down you may be wondering why I would ever buy it in the first place! Because its a beast. It has a great processor and a very good video card for a laptop. I bought it so I could play my games and be able to easily pick it up and take it to work with me or to Bs. Now, I dont use it because I stopped playing.

I would like to sell it. If any one is looking for a nice laptop and you need it to have a nice graphics card, then I have got a deal for you.

Our Magical Forest is gone...so is our cable

2007-04-02T11:23:00.000-06:00

The last Four months have been great living at The Hacienda (thats what we call our house) mainly for one good reason. We havent had to mow. I really hate mowing. Its so hot outside and if I am going to be working I would rather be doing anything besides mowing. We put it off for a good 4 months and the weeds were up to my waist and the city apparently doesnt like. They were kind enough to send over someone to ask us to cut it. This Sunday Jenkins set out to do just that. We dont own a mower so we walk a block or two and borrow one.

I opted to clean the house and do the dishes so I didnt have to walk outside. Jenkins agreed this was a good plan and I was pretty exited about not having to mow. I understand vacuuming is alot like mowing but its inside. So I clean up and start watching the new Bond movie (which I didnt like), when Jenkins walks in and asks if we still have cable. I pause my movie and check...nope. I got nothing. I look over and he is holding a big chunk of cable and does not look happy. I immediately burst into laughter. Apparently there is a small section in the yard where the cable comes above ground and he happened to mow over it. Sure, there is no reason why he would have known it was there and why in the world does our cable go way across the lawn in the first place?!?

There are alot of weird things going on with our cable. When we first had it up we found out that the people who lived there before us were stealing cable from our neighbors. I am not sure the guy fixed our cable when he set us up because the cable that Jenkins cuts goes straight from the outer wall directly to our neighbors house which isnt even close to the direction of our box. So, should we have to pay for the fix? The whole thing is a little fishy if you ask me.

Raving

2007-02-28T17:25:00.000-06:00

There is no way I will miss this one. I love her voice.

Raving

I tried to post just the movie but I am no good when it comes to HTML code. So you are stuck with the link.

Please be a courteous bowler

2007-02-28T12:00:00.000-06:00

Nothing is more distracting while you are trying to bowl then someone bowling next to you just runs up and bowls a ball while you are trying to. General bowling manners says that you do not enter the lane while the other person is bowling. You can grab your ball out of the ball return and get ready but do not step up onto the platform. Its not like there are alot of things you have to remember to do while bowling. That's really the only one I can think of. No, also don't talk to someone about how well they are doing if they are bowling a perfect game.

The only time these rules to not apply is if you have kids with you, and they are too young to understand. Still though you should try to keep your kids in the same lane that they are bowling in. Also they do not really apply to night bowling which I loath. That's where they turn all the lights off and turn the black lights on. No one bowls well except the guy who is loaded on lane 5 and I cant even keep by ball on the lane because every time I go up to bowl the strobe light shines my way and blinds me!

My Weekend

2007-02-26T11:34:00.000-06:00

This weekend kind of flew by. I guess that's what happens when you work both days. Friday night I went and saw Starter for 10 with Jules and B but first we went to a new Chinese place that I had driven past a few times. The Happy Dragon, the price was pretty reasonable and the food was excellent. I had the Chefs special beef, Jules had the Sesame chicken and B had Shrimp with Veggies.

Starter for 10 was a good movie. Its British and I just enjoy listening to people speak with a British accent so that's a plus. There are no plot twists or anything really exiting. Its just about a kid, who knows alot of random information, going off to college where he joins the question team. I don't remember the name of the team but it pretty much reminded me of the Saved By the Bell episode where they go against the other school in a jeopardy type question answer game. The bad guy in the film looked like a grown up dracus malfoy. The movie was mainly situational humor. The kid gets himself bad situations and does stupid things. It was good, go see it.

I worked sat and then went bowling, I am getting better my average is up from a 155 to 175. 20 pins in 3 weeks isn't bad. I just need to keep it up. I went to bed early on Saturday so I could make it to church.

Sunday I woke up late. Well, I didn't wake up late. I woke up on time, hit my snooze button and got an extra 2 hours of sleep. I woke up just in time to freak out, throw on some clothes and make it to service on time. I will make it to Sunday school one of these days. William, my nephew, was being dedicated so I had to make it. For those of you who don't know what being dedicated is, its the baptist way of publicly saying you are going to raise this child in a Christian home. Other denominations Baptism but it all means the same thing. William was great. He just looked around and smiled with his 5 teeth, it was very cute.

The rest of Sunday was a blur. I went to work and then picked up John from the airport and then went to bed early so I could take John back to the airport at 4 in the morning because his earlier flight was cancelled. This morning didn't suck as much as I would have thought considering I missed 2 hours of sleep. I woke up and went into work early feeling full of energy.

Jeers: To finding out this morning that I have a show and will be in Fort Worth from Thursday to Saturday. Next week I am going to be very backed up.

Get Bent

2007-02-23T14:02:00.000-06:00

This is a cool site I found off of the sneeze.

Get Bent

Cool wire art.

Breaking free of my comfort zone

2007-02-21T14:48:00.000-06:00

I have been praying the last week that God would show me what I should be doing and where He wants me. Last night I felt that I needed to go and pick up a new book. I had finished everything that I had bought and am currently working my way through a comentary of Philipians and Corinthians. After I had finished a chapter and all of my chai I got up to look for something new.

I wasnt sure what I was looking for. I kind of wanted something fun and light but I also wanted to look at differnt comentaries because I am almost through with the one I have. As I was looking for the comentaries I ran across a familure but that I love to read every now and then, Blue Like Jazz. Donald Miller is an amazing writer, he is so honest and open. I saw that he had written a few others so I picked up Through Painted Deserts.

I got 6 paragraphs into the authors notes and felt a strong conviction to get up and uninstall WoW. So, I got up...10 mins later, no more WoW. Deleting it isnt that big of a deal. Ask me 3 months from now and see if I am playing again. I gave away my last computer so I could quit but 4 months later I bought a new computer so I could play again. Its was a big problem. I have spent over 100 days worth of time playing. Thats over 2,400 hours in the last two years....Stop for a sec and let that sink in. Its huge. Its stupid and addicting and I loved every minute of it.

I asked God what I should be doing. I want to do His will and not mine. Over the last two weeks I have been listening to sermons while I play, thinking that maybe if I am not just wasting my time it would be ok, but I was wrong. 6 paragraphs in I knew exactly what I needed to do. Once it was done I didnt feel sad like I did the last time I quit. Not like last time where it felt I was saying goodbye to an old friend.
This time I was pretty pumped and exited.

I hear Austin is a cool place. I wouldnt know. I really have no clue where all the cool coffee shops are. I know most of the mom and pop restaurants in Round Rock but none in Austin. I think its time I found a few.

What is it that you spend most of your time thinking about during work? What do you do when you get home? Does it glorify God? If it doesnt get rid of it.

Sad Day

2007-02-20T13:16:00.000-06:00

There will be no more gelato till may. Cafe Gelato is officially closed. Me and my dad went over there last night and he hooked us up with a huge HUGE sampler. It was probably about 2 pints of 4 different flavors. That was pretty exiting. I will be enjoying that for a good week. The new place opens in May and will also feature the best chocolates in the world. The owner is going to do a little tour of Europe and find the best chocolates to order for his new store. Its going to primarily be a chocolate boutique but will also have gelato. So even though its sad that he is closing his first shop its more exiting because of what is in store. Chocolate and Gelato.

I think i have nintendo arm

2007-02-19T11:14:00.000-06:00

Back in the day when console games were played without waving your arms around I developed what doctors call nintendo thumb. Thats the scientific term. Its when you develope a huge callus under or on the joint of your thumb. It obviously comes from playing too much mario(you can never play to much mario). Last thursday B bought a Wii. This weekend after work I went and bowled 4 games and then played tennis all night on the Wii. I woke up sunday morning and my arm was hurting. It remined me of my thumb back when I was a weee lad. If I play every day I will look like the guy from lady in the water because you never use your left arm!

LOST

2007-02-15T12:07:00.000-06:00

I recently caught up on my lost, with the help of netflix, Julie, and Itunes. It took me awhile to get interested in the show. I didnt get hooked after the first episode and if we didnt have the DvDs i would never have gotten addicted. I think they did are really good job in the first two seasons of making me curious. I really wasnt drawn to many of the characters. The two main guys are so stubborn I could care less if they kill them off in the next episode. Alot of bad stuff happened in there past and most of it was there own fault. Now they all carry around there guilt or sorrow like 4 year old carries around his favorite blanket. It almost makes it to uncomfortable for me to watch at some points.

Now, I feel like I am 400 pages into a bad book. I have invested alot of time and I would like to see how it turns out but I really dont care if they die. I just want closure.

Mr. Consistency

2007-02-06T15:22:00.000-06:00

Thats what they call me. Last night I bowled...are you ready! Its it s big number. I bowled a 246 and to follow it up a 124. The last game I bowled a 201. I was all over the place.

My average is 151 so the first game was not normal bowling for me. Hopefully I can keep up the good bowling.

Too Cute

2007-01-30T14:55:00.000-06:00

I found this on a blog that I read everyday and had to post it. Its is addictive. I keep watching it over and over.

The Shop

2007-01-30T10:38:00.000-06:00

Over the last couple of months I have noticed that my work is alot like the show, The Office. Of course we are a bit different but the same basic principles are there. We have an office up front and a shop in the back. We have a small group of people working at up front and we are all completely different people. We have crazy things happen every day and some days I do little to no work. We are missing the star of the show but its ok because we have better characters.

I could easily write a script from the stuff that happens here everyday. I want to write about all the characters but I cant think of how to do it without being mean or pointing out some mean truths so I will just leave it in the dark and your imaginations. After the show went off the air Cesar could have his own spin off show. Where he has a new job every week and gets fired for yelling "Shut up!" and then when they get mad at him, "Caaallllmmmm Down". I would watch it.

Switching it up a bit I will fill you in on what has been going on in the last week or so. I haven't posted because I just couldn't find the time. I like to write at work and every time I opened the page to write I would get a call or someone would walk in the door. I could never sit back down and get back into the writing mood.

Health update, I had an MRI done on my knee and on Friday I get to find out what is wrong. Up to this point I have seen two doctors and both have told me that they don't know. Something is messed up I don't care what it is I just want to find out and fix it so I can get healthy. I miss not playing soccer and Jenkins and Gibbs are on 3 teams right now leaving every night for a game. My eye is still messed up as well. My tear ducts are still messed up and even though I have gone to the doctors 3 times now its not better. Its the same. I am not a big on doctors. I grew up with parents who when i broke my finger as a kid gave me some Advil and made a homemade splint.

We just toughed it out. Of course I was lucky to not have anything to major happen to me growing up so it wasn't a big deal. I don't like to be stubborn about it either but most of the time common sense will prevail. In the two weeks I have been to the doctor 5 times now and nothing is fixed. Every time I go its money out of my pocket. It is pretty frustrating to go to the doctors and get nothing but another appointment.

Here is a website that I really have enjoyed over the last week. WWW.SERMONAUDIO.COM it is a database website with hundreds of sermons. You can look up sermons by category, scripture, or person. I find the old baptist fire and ice preachers to be my favorite. You can find a few old guys who talk about the evils of this rock and roll music. How right they were.

I figure that I have missed the last 200 or so Sundays worth of sermons so I am going to listen to 200 sermons. Right now I am averaging around 2 a day. I even found one on video game addiction. He really didn't know alot about what he was talking about but he hit all of the important parts head on. It was good. You think it hurts me any that I was listening to it while I was playing my game? Its kind of a win lose situation. There is no way I could sit and listen for that long staring at nothing. But I can sit and listen and play all day long while playing my game. I think I have finally found my happy medium.

Good! Great! Grand!

2007-01-17T13:32:00.000-06:00

Kevin have played in many bands since the time he started to play the sax. Some of them I have really enjoyed and others I just didnt care for. My favorite stuff of his though is when he just picks up his guitar and sings. He is a great song writer and his lyrics are great as well. Here is his myspace page. Its a rough recording that he did this weekend but it works for now.

Good! Great! Grand!

Shopping pandemonium....

2007-01-15T10:52:00.000-06:00

I went to HEB yesterday to pick up a few things I needed to make tacos for dinner. The parking lot was brimming with cars looking for spots. We, kevin and I, happen to get lucky and catch a car leaving, sure it was in the very back but we didnt care. I love shopping but only at the groceries store. I picked out one of the small shopping carts because I knew it was going to be crazy inside and the big ones just clog up the isles.

As I walked in it wasnt nearly as frantic as I would have thought. There was not a long line at any of the checkouts and everyone wasnt running to the water. Why do people run to the water? Its only supposed to freeze..its not the end of the world. I am positive that you will still be able to get water from your house. Or if that doesnt work melt some of the ice. Anyways I got my normal veggies to make some pico and tortillas for the tacos.

I found a few other goodies for later in the week. If tomorrow turns out to be icy then what a better project then to try and make a deep dish pizza? I just got a brand new deep dish pan that i have been wanting to try out. I will let you know how it goes. I dont know how much else I will cook this week because I have enough leftovers from lasts night cooking to cover me for the rest of the week. I grew up watching my parents cook for 8 and when I started cooking I was cooking for at least 5 or 6 people and I have no clue how to cook for just me.

Getting back to the story, I got a bunch of that wasnt frozen and kevin took care of the frozen stuff. He is the microwave king. We headed for the checkout. I was surprised and impressed that they had every checkout open. It was awesome, I love HEB. The lady said that today was bigger then their grand opening.

Bigger then the grand opening?!? That just screams idiocy. I understand that some people were just there to pick up the weekly staples but alot of people were not. They were out of break and most of the water was gone (I still dont understand that one). You can live off of nothing for two days and still be fine. Its not going to last for forever. Just pick up a few things to make for the next couple of days, maybe some hot chocolate, which wasnt out to my surprise and stay comfortable in your house. At least I know the next couple of days will be dead in HEB so I can shop in peace.

Todays word of the day

2007-01-09T12:03:00.001-06:00

belated

1. coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time: belated birthday greetings.
2. late, delayed, or detained: We started the meeting without the belated representative.
3. Archaic. obsolete; old-fashioned; out-of-date: a belated view of world politics.
4. Archaic. overtaken by darkness or night.

I dont know why i like this word so much but it sounds cool and i never use it. I plan to use it more now.

general revenue #1

2007-01-08T17:30:00.000-06:00

I graduated from a crappy school with an assosiates degree almost 2 years ago. When I finished I paid off what i owed the school in cash. About 6 months later the school called and said I owed them 1500$ more dollars. I freaked out because thats alot of money and i know i paid it because its alot of money and you dont forget when you spend that kind of money.

I of course had no way to prove that i paid this money because i am retarted and lost the recipt. I was actually retarted on many levels during this whole thing and it could have been easily avoided if i had just gone to graduation and picked up my deploma when i shoudl have but like i said its a crappy school and i dont care to ever mention to anyone that i even went there.I dont feel that i learned anything and their process of teaching is a joke.

So hear i am 2 years later still talking to the dept collection agency. I would have started posting more about this had i known in the beggining that it was going to take so many calls to fix it. Did i pay the school the extra money? Yup, about 5 months ago. So, why have i been getting at least one call a week from this company? Because they want extra money!

Once a week i get a call and have the same conversation.

Him: "Hi Mr. Payton, this is . I am calling because you still owe (huge number) to (stupid school)."

ME: Hey! Hows it going? I was expecting your call today, it is a monday afterall and i get a call from you guys every monday. I bet now you are actually going to look at your screen and realize that I have already paid it and then you are going to put me on hold to go talk to your manager. Really what you will be doing though is getting another coke or going to the restroom so that i will get another call from you next monday. Was i right?"

Him: One second Mr. Payton I need to get my manager to check this out so that we will no longer call you.

I was on hold for a good 5 mins.

Manager: Hello?

He answers like i called him..

Me: Hello? Is this a manager?

Manager: Yes...who is this?

Me: This is James Payton

Manager: Oh...let me look up something.

I am put back on hold.

Manager: Ok, Mr. Payton ..it looks like you have cleared up your dept and you no longer owe anything.

Me: I know this..can you please write something so i dont get anymore calls from you guys?

Manager: I am doing that just now.

Me: Great! thanks alot.

So...hopefully its resolved but i dont think it is. Next monday expect another post because i bet i get another call.

Movie Trailers

2007-01-03T17:56:00.000-06:00

Here are a few movies that I am really looking forward to.

The Tiger and the Snow
This looks really good.

300
I dont think i have ever wanted to see a movie more...looks soo awesome.

The Number 23
Something different from Jim Carey.

The Aura
Looks interesting

Truco and friends

2007-01-03T16:34:00.000-06:00

We had people over pretty much every night. People I had not seen in a couple of years. It was good to catch up but it was more fun just to hang out like old times. I cant think of anything that makes me happier. We stayed up late into the evening just joking around and play some truco. This game is the best game for just goofing off and hanging out. Its very complex to learn but once you do its loads of fun. Its very hard to take the game seriously because one of the main rules is to try and cheat. There is lots of bluffing and if everything goes right you can slap your neighbor.

I don't have any new years resolutions but if i did it would be to spend as much time with my friends hanging out.

Facebook

2007-01-02T11:00:00.000-06:00

I am now on facebook.

If you use it hit me up with a friends request.

Click Me!

Disco bowling....dancing or bowling?

2006-12-27T10:11:00.000-06:00

I like to bowl. I bowl on a team. I enjoy bowling. I am a night person. Putting these short sentences together you can easily make the conclusion that I would like to bowl at night. This is not possible...apparently there is a rule that all bowling allys turn into disco clubs at night. Bowling still takes place but you cant see so whats the point?

We went bowling last night and when we walked it the music was blaring and disco lights were everywhere, i guess i didn't get the memo because i brought my bowling ball and not my skates. Dont get me wrong. I like dance music and i don't even mind listening to it when i bowl...i just dont like the lights out and some high school girl in the lane next to me wearing nothing taking 100000 mins to bowl because she is doing her best impression of shakira before she throws the ball into the gutter.

There is no night besides league nights where you can bowl normal...i guess i will have to wake up early on a Saturday and go during the day.

Bored at work?

2006-12-21T11:27:00.001-06:00

Pimp A Nutcracker

A fresh start

2006-12-19T11:21:00.000-06:00

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I just haven't been in the mood. I have sat down a few times at work and started to write but then something comes up and I get busy with work and when I come back and look at what I wrote I decide its crap and trash it only to start again and have the phone ring.

I had a friend come to town this week just out of the blue. Over night he had decided to move to Austin, start over. He didn't really have anywhere to stay, he called my bro because he didn't even have my number anymore and was just hoping that I would pick up and let him crash at my place. For most of the morning he just drove around checking out the place while waiting for my phone call and when he did reach me he asked what is so cool about Austin? I had talked it up so much and now he was there to check it out.

My mind was a blank slate. I gave him generic answers like 6th Street, Zilker park, and the Lake, but I never do any of those things. I hate 6th street...every time I go down I never have fun. Zilker park is nice if you like volleyball or enjoy flying a kite, I enjoy volleyball but there are closer places to play. In the 15 years that i have lived here I have been to the lake once and that was to fish. I don't really like any of the main things that most people love about Austin. 4th street is nice though. I like going and hanging out and drink a beer at Fados its much less crazy then 6th.

So why do i love Austin so? It cause of the food. We have restaurants that no one else has. Taquiaras Arandinas (spelled wrong), China Wall, Golden Wok, Chueys, Cafe Gelato, Garcias, El Arroyo, Pluckers, Barneys, Taco C, Free Birds, La Margarita, Magnolia cafe, Kirby Lane, That place next to chueys that serves queso fried catfish, Thundercloud, Texandwhiches, The little mexican hole in the wall place i used to eat at before school, and every other little dive that i cant remember off of the top of my head. And what makes all of these places better? They are all only 15 min drive away. Everything in Austin is close. When i lived in Dallas everything was a 30 min drive. I hated leaving the house because i lived so far away from everything. My job is 10 mins away. My parents live 10 mins away. Bowling is 10 mins away. Its fits my laziness just perfectly.

I think It would be fun to start over. Just get up and move, not know where I was going to work or how I was going to find a place to live much less pay for it. I believe that you would find out alot about yourself on a trip like that. I have things so easy, I have a job that I know is secure. I am never going to be making alot of money doing this but who cares? I don't think i could ever just give it up and go? Maybe one day.

4 new bands to check out

2006-12-13T17:15:00.000-06:00

Here are 4 artists that I have recently found on the net and really enjoy there music. Hope you like.

Liam and Me

Annuals

Lily Allen

Princeton

Christmas Mouse Trap!

2006-12-11T10:52:00.000-06:00

I love watching Myth Busters. The guys on the show are nutty but you can tell they love what they do, and who wouldnt? They get to blow stuff up and send stuff flying most of the time. In the movie above they are seting up something i have always wanted to do since i played the game Mouse Trap. Hope you like it..

The best worst Christmas Carol ever!

2006-12-06T13:42:00.000-06:00

It does make it a little bit funnier if its done on purpose and then stinks but I do enjoy a bad Christmas carol on purpose as well. Let me tell you the local radio station has plenty of them. I didn't know God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen could be sung in 12 mins without making up new verses but apparently it can. The link below is a link to a website I read everyday and has the best worst Christmas Carol ever!

enjoy!

Oh Holy Night

You might have to scroll down if he updated his blog today (dec 4 is the day i am talking about)

I wish i new how to just post the song...but alas i am blog retarded.

The many Roads Ill travel while sitting on my couch

2006-12-04T15:53:00.000-06:00

I just signed up for netflix and put about 40 movies in the que. All of them are oldies. Most have Bob Hope in them. About a month ago my mom bought for me 2 dvds at the dollar store. I didnt think that the dollar store sold dvds but the one she went to did. One of the movies was The road to Bali and the other was Little Shop of Horrors with Jack Nicholas in it. Little Shop of Horrors was horrible (it was so old the sound was awful and hurt my ears to listen to). I enjoyed The Road to Bali so much i decided to rent every Bing and Bob movie i could. The best way to do that was through netfilx.

Christmas blog

2006-11-28T12:20:00.000-06:00

Every year my mom sends out a bunch of cards with the new family photo and an update on all of our lives. Its always interesting what she writes about me because well...i don't do anything exiting during the year. If i was going to write about myself it would be some like this.

James is still working at the shop and still playing video games.

That's all i got. I bet she words it a little differently but that's the basic gist.

So this is my Christmas blog where I update you on my take of what my family has been up to and of course the family picture.

My mom decided that this year we were going to start a new tradition (which I already think sucks) of waking up at 9am on black Friday and taking pictures in front of "the oldest tree in world". This tree apparently makes photos look better and will awe you. If you cant tell that the tree is amazing its because we are standing in front of it and you can only see a very small portion but if we did take a very far way shot where you could see the whole tree...THEN you would be amazed.

Apparently blogger doesn't want me to post a picture so I will have to try another time. Have i mentioned that I don't like the new beta blogger? First of all it tricked me into changing my blog from the old format to the new one and now it wont let me do all the things i normally do. Like changing my is to Is!

Hey finally it worked.

Fried Turkey

2006-11-27T17:22:00.000-06:00

My turkey day was great. If any of you were wondering what the best way to cook a turkey. The answer is frying it. This was the first year that my family decided to try it. (I have been addicted to frying lately..why not a turkey?) Also frying bigger things might be scarier it is also a lot more fun. We also cooked a regular turkey (which was dull and no fun) just in case we screwed up the other one or burnt down the garage.

The entire turkey was black and crispy. It didn't look good, but upon further investigation we found that it was just the seasoning and the skin was in fact delicious. I was already full because we put the turkey in late and I couldn't wait so I ate plate loads of dressing. I figured I would take one bite and it would be gross and that would be the end of it....but no. It was sooo good my eyes teared up (not really) and I fell to my knees and cried (also didn't happen but creates a good effect just how good the turkey was). What really happened is I loaded up my plate yet again and started to finish the turkey. I felt like Joey in the Friends Episode where he is going to finish the turkey himself, only I didn't have turkey eating pants. It was a bitter sweet moment because it was soo good yet i was sooo full. I had the greatest nap later on.

In other less important news. I pulled my other hammy. Now i am like a 60 year old man. My right knee is screwed up and now my left hammy is pulled. Watching me get up out of chairs has to be comical for everyone around me because it takes a bit and sometime I just say screw it and decide i didn't need a refill. Thanks, Gibbs for taking care of me! I should be fine in a couple of weeks but right now ill just have to take it easy. I guess that means more time in front of the computer. Yay!

New and improved Blogger!

2006-11-17T15:20:00.000-06:00

I don't really see a big difference but i wouldn't say i paid to much attention to the old blogger. Hopefully the fixed the problem where i couldn't log in on some days or even access my page....that would be great.

The PS3 is official on the shelves of stores well not really. People were killing themselves this morning and last night to ensure that they were not the shelves any longer. I would have to say it was the craziest console release that i have heard of thus far. People got shot, pushed into polls while running (doesn't sound bad but the guys jaw got dislocated), trampled and some of them waited 2 days out in the cold and didn't even receive one. All of that for a system that isn't a Nintendo Wii....fools.

The Wii comes out Sunday and i plan to have one. I will not be trampling anyone or even waking up early. Nintendo isnt stupid and knows that there product will sell so they made enough to please everyone. I will simply walk into walmart and pick one up after working at the fields. I may be sick on Monday morning though..my throat is starting to hurt.

Its kind of crazy to me that Thanksgiving is next week. It came up so fast. I have to cook something for next Tuesdays thanksgiving feast at the shop. I don't know what to bring. I am thinking something with potatoes because i have a whole bag of them in my cabinet. That's pretty much all i have. I cant think of anything else. Any ideas?

ok...the new spell checker sucks...it wont fix my lowercase i's!!!!

MLS Championship pics

2006-11-14T13:51:00.000-06:00

AHHH OHHH DYN-A-MO!

2006-11-13T15:19:00.000-06:00

Last week my dad got 10 tickets to the MLS championship game in Frisco TX. It was Houston Dynamos vs. New England Revolution. I am not a big MLS fan but I couldn't pass up a chance to go to the superbowl of American soccer. It was a small stadium (only 23000 people showed up) Not very big for a championship game and the majority who did were sporting Houston orange. The game was fun, hopefully i will have pictures up tomorrow. There was an entire section of hooligans that were a riot. They threw streamers and all sorts of confetti on the field and it was fun to watch the people run out onto the pitch and try to keep it free of debris. The parking situation was the worst and spending an hour gridlock in it almost ruined the whole drive down.

Houston won in shootouts after the keeper saved the last shot. It was a great save and an even better celebration. A power slide with the ball lifted high! Right in front of us. The regular play was pretty boring. Houston didn't move for the ball very much and was bunched up in the middle to much. They seemed to be playing with a defensive mind set but didn't counter fast enough for it to be effective. The revolution just lacked that one person in the middle of the field that could make it all come together. Alot of the time people made good runs and the person passing the ball was thinking something else and the ball would be turned over. I wasn't really impressed by the playing.

In over time we finally got some action. The revolution squeezed a ball pass the Dynamo defense and one of the guys capitalized on it by putting the ball easily past the keeper in the far lower corner of the net. With only 7 mins left in the game I thought surely we had lost the game but 30 seconds later ching headed in a deflected shot to tie up the game. The place went into hysterics and I hugged everyone around me with an exited "there is hope" embrace. The game is one that I will remember for a long time and it was good to see so many people get excited about soccer. The sport will only get bigger and I cant wait till it is celebrated more then football, or basketball on sportscenter. Its going to happen, its only a matter of time now.

More cheese please!

2006-11-09T14:10:00.000-06:00

My grandma was not big on backing cookies when we went to see her. She instead made the best bowl of queso. I would go to their apt and play rummy with my grandad and she would make us queso and corn. What a weird combination but I love queso and I love corn so it worked for me. My grandad was one of those guys who had the funniest cuss words. He never actually had anything bad but he would just make up stuff. He loved to laugh like woody woodpecker and take "shortcuts" that always got us lost. I loved to drive with him though because he and Grandma would always start to argue and it would usually be about nothing. They were both deaf and always yelled when they talked. The TV would always be as loud as it could go, if you don't think golf isn't exiting you just don't have your volume up high enough.

I have been wanting to write something about my grandma for a couple of weeks. I guess I feel guilty for not going to see her. She has Alzheimers and hasn't known who I am for two years now. Last time I saw her was two years ago on her birthday. She just called me a hansom man. I want to go see her but I know if I do I wont be looking at the same grandma I have so many good memories of.

Consumed once again!

2006-11-08T11:18:00.000-06:00

Since I got my laptop I have been sucked back into the realm of online gaming. Well I didn't really get sucked in, it was more like I run back and we hugged like old friends who had not seen each other for awhile. It was a nice reunion there were numerous people who were happy to see me come back and it was good to catch up with everyone.

Playing really effects my reading time. Once I pay off my laptop though I will get a subscription to audible.com and listen while I play. Right now I am in the middle of State of Fear. So far its good. Next up is Life of Pi.

Questions

2006-11-06T13:36:00.000-06:00

Today is the first time in a long time that a customer walked in and I thought about sending them away because of the content they wanted to put on a shirt. Should I not alow shirts to be printed here that are against what I believe?

Here's to the night!

2006-11-03T11:08:00.000-06:00

Tonight Ben folds is playing at stubbs and Michael who is the greatest friend ever bought a ticket more me (Im paying him back). But I didn't have to go online and shell out the money or remember even that he was coming to town. I am really exited. Its going to be perfect weather and its outside! I am leaving early from work and aside from a few errands The weekend is here. The weeks are just flying by right now, I love it.

My Kind of Weather

2006-11-02T10:22:00.000-06:00

Its cold but not ice on the ground cold. The perfect weather to get in your car roll down your windows and just drive listening to good music. Me and Jenkins will do this often this winter. Where are we headed? No where in particular. It just feels good to be on the move. I also will be hitting up Barnes and Noble up a lot. A chai on a cold day with a book or my laptop in front of me, its relaxing.

Also if you haven't tried hot Dr. Pepper with a lime...you should. Its great.

I watched southpark yesterday for the first time in awhile. I hate this show. Last night was the last time I will watch it. It was just gross. It gets away with way to much and I know there are kids whose parents don't censor what they watch who saw that trash last night.

Its Halloween time and you know what that means!

2006-10-30T14:53:00.000-06:00

Girls, think of something pure and good and totally slut it up. That’s right it’s that time of the year again! All of the myspace pics get to be updated from last year’s pic to this year! It really shows character that you decided to be an angel who is half naked or a nurse in stockings. What you really look like is someone straight out of a porn movie..You might was well have someone walk behind you with a boom box playing 80s porn music.

I just want to say that the front yard of my house no longer looks like field of waving wheat. I didn’t know this but apparently when you rent a house you are supposed to treat it like crap. You can tell that the former renters of this house used this as their motto because my front yard is nothing but weeds. HUGE! Crabgrass covers my yard. It’s really embarrassing. My dad has always been big on keeping our yard nice and planting flowers, keeping the grass nice, the bushes from going out of control and the ants dead. All of those things were wrong with my yard and with the help of Jenkins and Gibbs we made huge improvements this weekend. Jenkins did the mowing and the edging and me Kevin and Jenkins got on our hands and knees and pulled a good section of our yard. It was hard work and my legs are beat. Between that and 3 soccer games this weekend I am feeling it today.

I went on a tear this weekend. I scored 5 goals in 3 games. I was just feeling good this weekend and got lucky on a few of them.

Halloween Fry Night (no costumes were worn at this party) was a huge success. I fried up some Oreos (which actually turned out ok) but I found a better batter for them now so next time they will be even better. I think my next fry challenge is to get funnel cakes down. Pugh did a surprise visit this weekend and it was good to see him. I went and bought a strawberry sweet cream gelato cake for the party. It was excellent! I ate and ate until I was so full I fell asleep. It was pretty funny everyone was tired and gone by midnight. Man I throw wild parties!

I just want to leave a message!

2006-10-27T11:09:00.000-06:00

What is the deal with phone answering machines with incredible long wait times before you can leave a message? Yes, ok you didnt pick up the phone, now let me leave my message. I dont want to have to wait through a press 1 or 5. I would think that this is a nifty little things the phone companies do to make you spend more time on the phone but everywhere you look phone plans are unlimited mins so that theory doesnt hold up well. Latley i have also run into a few that dont have a beep so you dont know when to begin speaking and then right when you start you get a voice asking if you are happy with your message and if not press 1 to start over....of course you mash 1 over and over again but it doesnt do anything you just get the same message again and again.

Standing Jess up...The other side of the story

2006-10-26T10:36:00.000-06:00

I was supposed to go over to Jessicas yesterday for a Lost party. She was going to set me up with a friend of hers. At first it sounded like a good idea, but of course the more I thought about it the more I didn't want to go. I don't know what it is but I always end up doing that. Not just about girls but about anything. If I think about it long enough I can convince myself I don't want to buy the cool foosball table, if I walk around the store long enough holding a DVD I "HAD" to have I cant justify to myself why I need to spend the money on it or a trip I had planed sounds like fun in the beginning but after a week of thinking about it all I can do is dread the drive and then I think about all of the other things I could spend the money on. Every time I stop and think I change my mind.

Most of the time its for the better but with those occasions it usually has to do with me spending money. I wasn't going to spend a dime at Jess's and I still didn't go. I put myself in a crappy situation. I told two different people I would hang out with them. I could have easily told B what was going on and he would have just let me go and Jess would never understand or she just wouldn't care. One was a guaranteed fun night of laughing and gaming with B and the other would have been awkward and at best ..I cant even think of what it would have gone like if it went well. I just kept imagining awkward tension the whole night.

Yay!: To my Ipod and listening to Death Cab all day.
Booo!: to not being able to come up with a catch title.

Who wants to just read a blog

2006-10-25T12:42:00.000-06:00

My blogs are very boring without pictures. I need a digital camera. Once I pay off my Laptop that will be my next "Big Buy". When you see a cool picture it just makes the blog so much more appealing. Never mind that I just ramble look at that picture! Thats what you will be thinking as you read my blogs once I get my camera. It will be good times.

I have turned into a jeans commercial or the down syndrome version of an ipod commercial. I carry my Ipod with me everywhere and dance when I can. No one sees me so its ok. I have it plugged into my speakers at work and things just fly by when I get to listen to frank all day. The day I got it I downloaded all of jenkins CD (thanks Jenkins!) on to my computer which went suppressions fast. I thought it would take days to go through his collection but in 2 hours I had over 500 songs on my Ipod. I just need two things now to be completely geeked out in Ipod wear. The arm band carrier so I can listen while running (the reason I wanted one in the first place) also the tuner for my car so I can listen to my songs in the car through the speakers, instead of the ghetto way of earphones which I am not sure is leagle.

This Sunday we are having a party/get together at my place at 8pm. If you read this and want to come give me a call. There will be pool, gellato or a gellato cake, whichever one I am in the mood for when I go pick it up. A strawberry cake sounds good right about now. Anyways there good times will be had by all.

I work day is getting tiring because some how all of my calls are going straight to voicemail and not ringing. I have to call back way to many people throughout the day and it is very annoying. Of course no one who works here can fix it.