Watch out for this guy at your next birthday party.

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After last night's trivia game at the P&H cafe www.pandhcafe.com I now know how the South Korean gymnast feels after losing the gold medal to Paul Hamm on a scoring error. Evil Petting Zoo, as we are called, was in the lead until the end of round 4. We slipped just enough to let some other team nudge ahead of us. But after a hellishly difficult round 5 they host team totalled our points and said we came in 3rd place. They handed the prize money out and people started to leave. However I quickly conferred with Greg(foolish consistency) and we found out that they had not given us the correct score. He showed them their error and they made a public announcement claiming us to be tied for 2nd place officially. But they didn't offer a tie breaker round. They decided to just give us the moral victory and record it as so. Sometimes I guess a moral victory is better than no victory.

Since Monday afternoon I have felt like a sack full of beat assholes. I think it is the flu but my throat is also beginning to get scratchy and sore. I bought some nyquil last night and took a shot of that before bed......ahhhh....I passed out on the bed in no time! Hopefully I can make it till 3pm today. I have a meeting and hope to close a really good deal. B ut as soon as I get home I'm downing som nyquil and hitting the sack.

Aaaaaaaaay! Bada-ba-da-daaaa I'm lovin' it! I finally got the cable internet working. I had to go to the cable office and pick up a USB cable. The ethernet card wasn't working. So now I am surfing the net in the fast lane!

Sept 4th will be my 10 year high school reunion and this week marks the 10 year anniversary of my first week in college at UT Martin. Last week a friend of mine sent me an email containing photos of my old college dorm, Austin Peay, being demolished. I'm sure going to miss that place. But I got to thinking..nostagicly again, about how much technology has changed in the last 10 years. When i was a freshman in college the internet was just in its infant stages being open to the masses. The computers we had in the computer labs were tiny apple machines used only for campus email and typing papers. There also were "new" IBM machines with very slow speed internet...28.8kbps! And cell phones were still considered a status symbol to many small town kids like myself. If you saw some little girl with a cell phone back then you thought, hmmm well looks like her rich daddy got that for her. Ok in that sense it hasn't changed much today when I see all the teeny boppers holding their tiny $300 phones up to their head while driving their brand new Lexus. But I digress...actually I cannot really digress. I try to keep this blog on such a low level that it's hard for one to digress from such a low base....but I digress from digression.

The next generation after mine will never know what it's like to do homework research without the internet. They'll never know what it's like to have to borrow that Metallica cassette tape from a friend and "dub it" on your sony dual track stereo. And nowadays cell phones are much more affordable. So much so that I have even seen homeless bums with cells! Now I know why they're panhandling on the corner downtown....them text messages can add up man! So yeah things have really changed...I'm amazed how fast they've progressed in 10 years....hope to see the next 10 grow just as fast.

One night while lying around the dorm room my buddy Ashley( LateNightDriver) and I got into a conversation about house flies. I wondered outloud about how quick a house fly's reaction time is...like when you try to swat it. I guess if I had compound eyes and saw a few thousand fly swatters coming at me I would move really fast too! But I asked Ashley what if you were in a room with a housefly..an empty room with no furniture or things for the fly to rest on. And could you swat at the fly continuously ( or is it constantly?) and keep it from resting on the wall? Would the fly ever get tired or just fall over dead? Or would it just stop and say "look man, I can only take a dump when I land on something and I have a turtle head poking out seriously!"

that's what I think..but I could be wrong.

just an update. i had cable internet hooked up wednesday afternoon but i'm having problems getting the modem and my ethernet card to cooperate. therefore i will have to stick to office internet only till i can get it fixed.

hopefully tonight i will be back to surfing the net..this time weelie weelie fast!

heard about this on the radio this morning. Last fall a scientist witnessed the first documented case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. Seems that a drake mallard flew into a window and died. Immediately following it's death another drake mallard proceeded to have intercourse with it....for 75 minutes!

for the complete story here's the link.http://www.nmr.nl/deins815.ht...  you can open the full story there in PDF form.

I really don't have much to say this week.  This is the first week I have had 4 nights off in a row! It's good to be able to come home and just relax all night. I've taken the time to see a couple movies, Metallica "some kind of monster" and last night "Napoleon Dynamite".

Napoleon Dynamite is a very unusual movie but it's the first film I've seen this year that I can say I would definitely go back to see again. Only 86 minutes long and leaves ya wanting more. Some of the scenes are a bit corny and/or dorky but the audience was always laughing and some in tears.  here's a trailer if you want a sneak peek.

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Well it's almost time for football. I can't wait for the college and pros to get started. UT is a little down this year. We don't have a bonafide leading QB at the moment but as long as we have a couple running backs we'll be fine.

I've joined a few fantasy football leagues. A couple with sandra(tngirl) and her hubby jason(rednecks). I can't wait to kick their arse! :)

Also have a league with my brother, cousin Brian, and my college buddy Scott. Losers buy the winner a steak dinner. I like mine medium well thankyou.

I knew it had to be; so off to google I went to see.

I did the search...looked around...and sure enough the dr. seuss quiz i found!

So Sam I Am is who I be. Now it's your turn, check it out it's free!http://quizilla.com/users/ami...%20Dr.%20Seuss%20character%20ar e%20you%3F/

Well it’s another bloggy day at Otherlands, the Bohemian Java Oasis. For lunch I had a pimento cheese sandwich (no tomato) on toasted wheat bread, a can of cream soda and slice of carrot cake with an iced mocha chaser. I’m writing this Tuesday but won’t post it till Wednesday. There are a few women over in the corner with their babies. I think I’ve seen them here before. It must be a few house wives who, unlike me with my laptop, substitute a baby but like me cannot access wireless internet. I think the rule around here is either you bring a laptop OR you bring a baby. Uh! Another just walked in..and another! Babies now outnumber laptops 4:3..no wait..this guy just walked in w/ a laptop….it’s a tie ball game. Uh-oh! One of them is breast feeding her infant….yes! This is where a moblog would come in handy. They’re stepping up the competition…I better turn up my music or change my laptop’s diaper. “who’s the cute widdle waptop….you are…yes you are…mmhmm.... And what’s this?....in front of me once again is the guy who a couple months ago was my twin…shaved bald head still but his stubble has turned into a full out beard. We’re no longer simpatico.  I think he’s plagiarizing something out of a book but who am I to judge. CHEATER!

Both of my jobs require my coworkers and me to walk to and from our office to other locations in the office building (or @ Bass Pro Shops-from one department to another.) If you work in places like this you know that having to do all that moving around will no doubt guarantee you will walk by fellow coworkers…some more than once..and likely many times. It’s standard operating procedure to acknowledge the other person with a head nod, a smile, a hello, how are you, how’s it goin, what’s up, sup, supy, hey there, a handshake, etc. That’s perfectly acceptable when you’re establishing first contact of the day or shift. In fact I would think it to be rude if my coworker didn’t at least say hello the first time I pass by him/her. But as the day goes on there are times when you will pass that person again and unless you plan on engaging in business related dialogue there’s no reason to actively acknowledge them. Well I’ve noticed that some people feel the need to repeat the process over and over. Perhaps they feel uncomfortable not saying anything even though I just saw them and spoke to them 45 minutes ago. At Bass Pro Shops there are “those people” then there are the ones who go through a 5 step greeting acknowledgement process aka “GAP”.  The first step is the upbeat, initial conversational greeting “Hey Matt!”. Hey there!” What’s up”, What’d’ya know”….etc. The second step is a little less enthusiastic yet still friendly “heeeyyy”…the third is a neutral emotionless head nod…the fourth is the most mutually uncomfortable “sigh with raised eyebrows directly proportional to the length of the exhale.”  This sigh indicates to the other members of the herd that “man this day is dragging on with no end and I really don’t know what to say to you…who are you anyhow?...you’re the new guy….I would talk to you about sports but you might not like sports and I would end up looking like a dumbass and boy, what an awkward situation THAT would be.”  The fifth and final step in the GAP is nothing more than a blank straightforward  exchange of eye contact followed by an immediate diverting of attention to some nearby random object that suddenly needs one’s undivided attention as if it’s the most important thing they’ve ever looked at….examining it could possibly open up a door to another dimension, cure the common cold, or maybe save me lots of money on my car insurance… and maybe if I concentrate hard enough this guy will walk by me without thinking I am really interested in this thing.

Then again there are the guys who get stuck on step 1 and never progress…..and that’s just as annoying…..the “Bill Lumburgs of the world…..mmmmm yeaahh,,,,hey Peter, what’s happening….