A LONG WEEKED
What my weekend lacked in orginality, it made up for in humor.
Let's see, Saturday I worked all day till 9ish, came home and then went over to a friends place. We were going to go whoop it up downtown, but the weather did not co-operate and the driving winds and torential rains stopped us from getting serious. So we basically watched TV until I thought I was going to fall asleep. I headed home around 10:30 or so.
The thing that sucked on Saturday is that my gif was supposed to go out with her best friend. She had been telling me all week that they were going out to have some beers. Saturday night comes and I get home. My gif is looking rejected on the couch. She tells me her friend called and cancelled. I felt kinda uneasy, because I made plans based on her plans. Now her plans fell through and I almost felt like calling my freind and telling him that I wouldn't be coming over. Oh well, I kissed her on the forehead and went anyways.
Saturday was a long fucking day. I worked all day for the bike man and it was gruelling. I had to grind out 1K in sales. Much to the chagrin of my mechanics, I seemed to have started some kind of inside joke. It was soooooo fricking busy that bikes were taking 45 min to get ready. So I told the guys they should start doing the "Fonzi" OTD (out the door). That's where you look at the bike and just say, "Aaaaaaaaaaayyyyy." and tell the customer thier bike is ready. It must havce caught on. All day long it was the running joke in the shop - too funny.
Sunday came and I got lucky on a few bikes. It turned into a 4K+ day for myself. Top sales of the day, followed by a 3 and half hour clininc on Triathalon bikes. The clinic made it a VERY long day.
So that was the weekend. I got lucky on Saturday to hear George Nooray on coast to coast AM . He had David Bannon on. Now, most people have not heard of the guy, but he wrote an amazing book that tells of his job as an Interpol "cleaner". I'm ordering the book today from Amazon. From all the reviews I've read, I'm anxious to read it.
So what else happened? My Gophers Hockey team took the gaspipe and got elimiated by fricking UMD!? Oh well, I didn't even think they would get that far. Ummmmmmmmm Manchester TIED Arsenal at Highbury. The REd Devils are in shambles right now, and I would just as soon get this season over and forget about it.
Can't think of much more, other than I love working at ERIKS. I made a transition to SLP this summer and it has made all the difference. My manager can see the change and the VP of Sales is happy to have me kicking ass again. The SLP crew laugh and joke all day long so it makes the day go quicker and makes work fun. This summer will be great, and for the first time in many. many years, I look forward, not back. Guess I gotta find some shades, huh?
That's all I got for now brah. . .
Too much on my mind to get all down in one post, so like U2 once said,
"Another time, antoher place."
RACK ME! I'M OUT!
MILLIONS OF DEAD TERRORISTS
Alright, so as I write this, tricky Dick Clarke is being grilled by the committee on terror. I read somebody else's blog that America has just basically screwed itself and now we are in Iraq and cannot get out. We have isloated ourselves and now the great European Community is going to be the next economic and political superpower.
Wouldn't that be great? Apparently not to this guy. He seems to think that we have overstepped our bounds in going after these scum that hide behind their religion and fight like cowards. He thinks that although we are the only superpower, that we have coerced other nations into helping us go into Iraq and that we are basically there of our own accord.
Ya know, it would be really nice if we finally became isloated and the Euro's finally got off of their ASSSSSSSS and see what's happening in the world around them. Then at least when there was a diaster somewhere, we wouldn't have to pour millions and millions of dollars of aid into these countries that can't afford to help themselves. Then when these countries had neighbors that don't like them - invade them, kill thousands of their people and humiliate them, they would call someone else for help. It would be soooo grand if someone else finally stepped up to the fucking plate and help out. Being the only superpower in the world really sucks. I once heard a radio announcer talking during the Iraq war and he said that America does not want to lead the world, but that the world wants us to lead it.
I thought it was quite fitting - considering all things. The UN is a fucking joke and has never settled any global conflict anywhere. It's basically a club of well to do countries. When something happens, they all get together, converse on a plan of action, and then whatever countries want to chip in military, money or aid do. Perfect example? Iraq. Some 23 UN sanctions, 15 years of a madman skirting the rules and thumbing his nose at the US and its combined allies, as well as the UN. At what finally happened? Yeah WE, the US, the ONLY fucking Superpower had to go in (with the allies that had the balls to stand up with us) and take him down.
As a kid, if your mom says, "hey Billy, do that again and your going to get spanked." As a parent, if you don't follow up with some form of punishment, you understand that when your mom says she's going to spank you - it doesnt hold much water. The kid KNOWS she wont and can continue doing what he wants. Is it a little more obvious now?
As for these terrorists, I find liberals and anti-war people to be rather amusing if nothing else. They seem to think that we have the possibility to sit down with these crazy bastards and negotiate some form of treaty or "cease bombing" to get them to stop killing innocent people. Guess what? THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKED IN THE HEAD. IF YOU THINK YOU CAN NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS, YOU NEED TO HAVE YOUR HEAD EXAMINED!!! If you think getting out of the middle east is a solution - it's not. Since we've been in Afghanistan, we captured and imprisoned 3,000+ Al-Quaida operatives. The Taliban has been crushed and misplaced, and Iraq is in the process of being handed back to its people. Isreal has just assassinated Hamas' spiritual leader and finally has targeted the entire group for death. WELL ITS ABOUT TIME! The only way to rid the globe of terrorism is to be on the offense. Kill them before they kill your people. Exterminate them whenever you can. Drive them out of their strongholds and safe havens. Keep them on the run, and hunt them down and eliminate them. There is no other way to deal with these people.
Democracy and Freedom cannot live until these cowards are dead. Millions of them until they give up hope and stop. The war has started, the US is driving, wide open to stop these people. WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. THERE IS NOTHING YOU COWARDS CAN DO - NOWHERE TO HIDE ANYMORE. YOU ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE.
A NEW DAY
Tis Tuesday - or if your German like me, it would be Dienstag. So one of my favorite skating sites Platinum Seagulls is down today and there are a few rumors swirlling around as to the cause. Oh well, patience is of the the essence in cases like this.
Not much going on, my hunt for work continues. I'm still employed at MCU, but the offers and interviews I've gone on have not done anything for me. I want out of the wireless biz, and outside sales is not all that exciting for me. Been there, done that. I've had the stress and lived under the quoatas. I can do it - but usually at the expense of my hairline and heavy alcohol intake - which carries its own shit.
So the things in the news are the Isreali's finally offed the second in command of Hamas. Thier "spiritual" leader Ahmed Yassin in a brillant missle attack. I guess they wanted to make sure that they got him, huh? Now all the Hamas leaders are vowing revenge and more terror attacks at suicide bombings. Of course Isreal has marked their entire leadership for death and will not wait for more attacks. It would seem that Isreal is tired of the terror and has launched a massive offensive to wipe Hamas out - no prisoners, no survivors. All I can say is, WOAH!
Oh yes, and who could forget tricky Dicky Clarke. The former terror czar that just happened to write a book about how he "warned" Bush about the 911 attacks. Funny Mr. Clarke, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU DOING FOR 8 YEARS UNDER CLINTON?? The fact that Bush "botched" the war on terror is absurd. This guy is bucking for a promotion and hoping that Kerry wins so he can get his old job back. I'm just glad everybody is calling this guy out and showing him for what he is - a coward and an opportunist.
So what else is new? Nothing, My Gopher hockey squad pulled their season from the ashes and made into the final frozen five. Man, if they could take the National Title again this year - that would be insane!
Oh yeah, the basketball tourney is going on, so who cares? Maybe Vegas and some rubes doing their brackets, in hopes of winning the elusive office pool.
Oh yeah, we had our all brands clinic this past Sunday. Not a good night to have it. I stayed out late (12:30 ro so) and drank a bit too much. Even though I stopped drinking at 10:30pm and was drinking water the rest of the night - it was a lot of fun. It's cool because you get to chat with the guys that make the bikes and the R&D guys. Cannondale had their number one engineer and second in command show up to highlight their new six13 bike. the guys in our shop got a chance to ride it and they were all blown away by it. Super stiff in the bottom bracket, and as one sales person out it, "It just lunges forward, you get out of the saddle, and it literally feels like it's pulling away from you." But alas, that was pretty much all they had in their bag of tricks. Now Specialized, I was continually blown away by their marketing and targeting. With such a huge segment of the population easing towards retirement, they have concentrated their efforts on providing comfort and performance in all their bike lines - especially their road bike line. These guys are absolutely on top of the curve. After seeing and hearing what my customers ask for, they are poised to have a very good season - that's for sure.
So that's all I got for right now. Mo laters brah!
Toast
ITS FRIDAY, Woah!
Alright, so not much different from yesterday, but a couple things have happened,
I now consider myself and "advanced" blog user. I finally got off my
AZZZZZZZZZZZZ and figured out how to post pics and add links to my blog. Forever, all I did was jot down my random thoughts and left it at that. Now I've got some more creativity - so watch out!
Oh yeah, onto the sporting news. . . my poor poor Red Devils. Rio Ferdinand had his appeal denied and now he must sit for another 8 months. He doesn't look very happy does he? No England duty and the Reds defence is struggling terribly. The only chance to come away with some hardware is the FA Cup. Whoops! We have to play Arsenal in the FA semi's. If Arsenal don't scoop up the treble, I'll be very surprised.
Unfortunately, I think Manchester is possibly on the way down. This year was a disaster, they lost Beckham last year, and the future does not look very good. I think Beck's probably sensed that the team was about to slide and got out just in time. Oh well, give em' a few years and they'll be back on top!
AH! So the woman I spoke of yesterday dropped me a typewritten note that the info I got her off the net was very helpful, and if I had any more stuff to mail it to her "in a plain white envelope". So that was pretty erie - again.
Ok - no more Bush pro-war banter, no beating up on Kerry. . . .
This was pretty funny though. I've been skateboarding for years and still go as often as possible. One of my favorite sites is Concrete Disciples. This week a bunch of fruit booters (rollerbladers) thought they could get on and take over the site. Here's a sample of their juvenille humor:
Click Here for juvenille fruit booter humor
Oh well - like Mike Tice says, "ENJOY. . .the weekend!"
more on deary Monday!
late
THE INTERNET IS A FUNNY THING. .
Shit man, I should have waited another day before posting. That way, it would have been a full week since my last post. So what's new in my dull life? Hmmmmm interesting thing happened today.
Here's the link for the day kiddies:
Mind Control
So I work in wireless (cell phones) and I get a lady in my office this afternoon talking about how she thinks she has an implant in her neck. She's talking about frquencies and how when she gets near to some electronics, she gets "static" in her ears. This has been going on for many years. She said that when she was in the hospital for a surgery, that she awoke in HCMC (Hennepin County Medical Center) with a guy at her bedside asking her if she was ok, and then proceeded to ask her a few more questions. She says the memory is pretty fuzzy and she had no idea who the man was. She was also telling me she was having a lot of problems with her short term memory. She's been to doctors and they wont operate on her or take any x-rays, or do any tests to confirm or refute her claims. My final advice to her was to find a support group, do some investigating of mind control and implants and see what you can come up with.
Strange, strange indeed my friend.
So now I'm listening to internet radio. Frank was just on, and now they're playing BB King with Eric Clapton. What a life I have right now. I guess we all have our pockets of sorrow, but since I met my gif, things have been oh so much bettah. It's like I'm finally living the dream I always wanted. Or maybe my life has just finally panned out a bit and things are back to normal, and I can take some inventory and enjoy life again. Who knows? Alls I know is that I feel fortunate to be where I'm at right now.
So whats new in the world? Turns out we got some high level Al-Quida guy cornered in Pakistan. People are scrambling to figure out who it is. The gun battle has been raging on for five days already. Video at 11.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, hockey starts up again on Friday and I'm excited. I dont know if I'm playing soccer this summer. Roller Hockey has me intrigued and I'm considering that instead. Who knows what I'll do, I'm just excited for the summer.
Work is going like fucking gangbusters lately. Over the past two weeks, I've sold over $12,000 in bikes and accessories. I gotten several nice emails from my boss at ERIKS, so that's pretty cool.
Skateboarding has been put on hold for right now. The last couple weeks I had to work nearly everyday just to get the first weekend in March off. So hopefully, I'll be hittin the 3rd Lair bowl sometime this next week.
That about covers it - other than my son is coming up in the next few weeks and I'm really excited to see him again. So that should be fun.
Alright, Nat King Cole is calling, "Stardust" is lingering in my ears. . .
bu-bye folks
A WEEK GONE. . STILL HAPPY
So, here we are. . .Friday is here and I feel like I'm getting a cold. I got back from my trip and it's been non-stop go. I got back late Sunday, crashed HARD, and then I've had to work Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs. I think it took its toll on me. Not having any real down time has affected me and now I have a shitty sinus infection.
All that crap aside, the news in all the papers is about Bush v. Kerry, Martha Stewart, and the Todd Bertuzzi hit on Steven Moore that hospitalized the guy with a broken neck.
Let's start with Bush V. Kerry. OVer the past few years, I've steadily become more Republican, and more pro-Bush. Kerry is a joke to me. If I was a Democrat or a Liberal, I couldn't support a guy like him. The guy has flipped flopped on every issue he's ever voted on, he's not tough on terrorism and his mockery of President Bush's service record is laughable. Funny, when he stood up in front of congress talking about how service shouldn't be an issue while Clinton was getting HAZED in his re-election. Now it's all different and suddenly it's important. He just seems to be the convienent canidate. Whenver it's convienent, he votes. He doesn't take a stand on anything, and hardly impresses me at all with any of the issues he's trying to stand on. Bush has my vote - Kerry's an idiot.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Martha, Martha, Martha. What a stupid bitch, She thought she could weasel out of this one. I was laughing when they read all the verdicts. Maybe this will FINALLY send a message to those elite bastards that laws will not bend from them. Do a crime, lie, and manipulate - and go to jail, same as everyone else. all the commentators were all saying that had she come clean right away - MAYBE a slap on the wrist. Now, her empire is crumbling and now she gets to feel the sting of the long arm of the law. Good riddence and don't bend over to pick up the soap!
The hit heard round the world. Todd Bertuzzi sucker punches Steven Moore, knocks him unconcious, then bulldogs him into the ice, breaking his neck. WTF is hockey coming to?? This game was out of control and the refs did nothing to control it. I think more of the responsibility should be put on refs to keep tighter control. Had they dished out some more penalty's, and been harsher, I don't think this would have happened. Personally, I think Bertuzzi should have kicked out of the league and the only time he straps skates on will be for his kids practice. I have ZERO remorse for this guy. You need to keep your emotions in check. Moore fought already once in the game and that should be good enough. So a suspension for the remainder of the season, and a looming lock-out I think still spells the end for his career anyways. I feel sorry for Moore. The guy does the right thing, and still got gooned. Like I said - WTF??
Anyways, more later. I gotta work all weekend, OH JOY!
TOAST
THE SNOW GODS SMILED UPON US,
. . . .AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOYCING!
Well, well, well, I was going to try and rip out a quick entry before my trip last week. As it turned out, we got smoked at the end of the day and I was unable to complete the entry.
So here I am Monday morning, still contemplating what a glorious trip it was. We left late Thursday night and got into Hurley around 11:30pm. It was dry and warm (around 40 degrees). We drank unitl 2am then headed back to the hotel. As we crashed, the Mozz man wondered it we would indeed get snow. It was funny, because as we were watching the news in the lobby, wondering out loud if we were going to get snow, the clerk muttered "Dont bet on it. . " What a dumb bitch! When we got up at 8am, there was already 4" of fresh on the ground!!!
Needless to say, it was a great day, Long powder runs, ankle to shin deep. Drops into piles of soft powder. It just couldn't get ANY better! I was stoked beyong belief - it was a great way to start our trip.
We drank late again that night and then got up and decided to try somewhere else. We spent the day at Indianhead (about 15 min from our hotel) and had another great day. Indianhead had longer, groomed runs that made for more smooth riding all day.
All in all, the trip was a success, we drank ourselves silly again and crashed, knowing we had such an incredible trip. The drive back was a breeze. By the time we got out of Ashland, it was dry and sunny till we got back to Minneapolis.
We both agreed that we had found a great gem in Whitecap and agreed that the Days Inn was the place to stay, Next year will be even better!
Oh well, back to grind - I'll have more this week about work, my serach for a new job and how simply awesome things are right now. Positivity is all around. . . The Mozz and I kept asking ourselves if it could really get any better? Plenty of snow, great riding, fun nights. . . who knows?
In any case, its good to back home and sleep in a familiar bed.
More later this week on the start of Spring, ERIKS, and what promise the summer holds. . . .
TOAST!
