Best news I've heard in a long time

This is the best news I've heard in a long time. Go Repubs!

Ever thought about eating...

from a urinal? Yum.

Dippy Dawg

No, I'm not talking about some gangsta rapper. I'm talking about a dog that's dippy. Goofy. Check this google search. It's pretty funny.

facebook = no blogging

So, my friend Cory asked me to get on facebook. Ever since that fateful day, I haven't posted a single blog. The thing is strangely addictive and surreal. I believe that this is just a phase, but who knows. Anyway, as you can tell on my wife's blog I'm alive and well. I just thought that I would take a minute to post something. Anyways, if you read this and do have a facebook profile, go ahead and become my friend if you haven't already.

Natural Ingredients

What was the pepperoni made of before?!?!

Piratic Justice

I know Kathleen has a fascination with pirates based on her posting here and here. This story that I found shows some good ol' poetic justice regarding pirates. Serves 'em right!

Cool Christmas present

Since Alex and I don't have kiddos yet, we went all out on our nephews, Jackson and Brandon. We got them this awesome Black and Decker workbench. They are pretty ecstatic and so are we. Jackson asked me to help him build the birdhouse 2 times. I'm sure that will become a headache eventually, but it's cool for now.

Fire meats desire

This news story caught my attention for Flame. A new fragrance from... Burger King?!?. It's described as "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat." Yum.

Last time I checked they were all sold out :(.

Update: I seriously suggest if you go to the website that you click on the spray bottle repeatedly. You will be rewarded.

Sam Bradford

1 word. Boomer!

Good Christmas Songs

I posted on Cloark's blog about how there is a group that is great for Christmas music. Their name is Straight No Chaser and they are talent and ingenuity all mixed up together. Here's the song I was referring to. In my opinion much more depth than Barenaked Ladies. Don't get me wrong, the Barenakes Ladies are great, but this is better. I think you'll agree.

Sirius the Rat Terrier!

I haven't posted in a while, but there was one that I've been meaning to for about a week now. I've been running with Sirius my dog for the last few weeks. It's been good for me and for him since we're both overweight. The unintended consequence that came out of this is a bit of agression that Sirius has started showing... towards mice.

Alex and I have had a bit of a mouse problem that we've been trying to remedy over the last month or so. We've been plugging all of the holes and cracks in our subfloor with foam and steel wool. We've also been setting traps for the ones that may already be in the home to get rid of them. So far, we have had 7 fatalities (I know a lot!).

Last week I was up really late since it was the Thanksgiving holiday and I head a snap come from under the sink. Sirius heard it too. He was over by the sink before I was and as I opened it, he started lunging to get in there. I blocked him with my arm as I looked in there. There was the mouse, but it was only caught by the tail (those with weak stomachs for mice stop reading here).

As I tried to pull the thing out by the lever on the trap the mouse was scurrying, trying to get away and suddenly Sirius lunged at it. I couldn't stop him this time. He grabbed it, chewed on it and spit it out. It was very dead at that point. All the while I was yelling at him not to eat it. I was relieved that he didn't. Anyways, he's got the bloodlust in him now and is on the prowl every time he hears something coming from the kitchen like our filter system regenerating or something like that. Pretty awesome if you ask me.

Barry Manilow is torture!

...at least according to this judge.

bill one down

Got a bill this week for the surgery. It was the hospital stay, ER use, etc. The initial charge was over $22,000. I ended up paying about $850. Sigh.

You can do it quick, or you can do it right

For those of you who have been reading this blog, you know that I'm no stranger to toilet stories. I just thought of an anology regarding all of the bailouts. I'm likening those in favor of the quick as the ones who are for the bailouts. The ones against it are "right".

The reason is because of perception. In reality, the ones who think that the bailout will cause the recession be quick and easy are in for a surprise. Just like those who do number 2 quick. A quickie may ease the pressure right now, but it just means that stuff will come back to haunt you that much sooner.

Running with Sirius Part 2

Shortly after I had my appendectomy, I caught a nasty head cold. Not something to take joy in. As a result, I haven't been running like I've wanted to. I decided to take Sirius along with me this morning again. He still drags behind. I started dragging also. Fun fun fun!

Woolly Mammoths...

So Alex and I were on our way home when I mentioned this article about how they are now able to clone animals that have been frozen. This is actually pretty amazing seeing as to how scientists have said that they previously thought that cloning animals that had been frozen would have been impossible due to the theory that the dna would be damaged in the freezing process.

So, I said to her, "they may actually end up cloning woolly mammoths."

Alex responded, "Isn't that pretty Jurassic Parkish."

I asked, "How's that?"

Then Alex said the awesomest thing ever.

"Didn't they eat the Vikings?"

Don't worry, it gets better....

Then I said, "No honey, they were plant eaters like all the elephants."

And then...

"That's impossible. It was the ice age, there were no plants!"

And one for the road.

Jogging with Sirius

Since since my surgery I can't do lifting, I've decided to go ahead and start running. I've done it every day except Sunday since last Thursday. I've decided to take Sirius along with me. When we walk he pulls, but I've found that when we run... well, he drags.

Need blood pressure medicine?

I like the natural kind.

Anchors Away!

So I was driving to church on Sunday when I realized that the car was making a rattling noise. I got out and looked all around and saw nothing on top, so I looked underneath. The muffler anchor was broken and my tailpipe was banging on the wheel well. AWESOME! So I took it in and I didn't have a broken tailpipe, just a broken anchor and it ended up only being $70. In my book, not too bad. Thank goodness since I just had a surgery and all of those bills coming up!

Who knew?

Stayin' Alive might actually keep you alive.