THE NEGATIVE REACTION

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!

Almost a month under the waves, I thought it was time I came up for some air and drop some thoughts on the catastrophe in Naw Lans (New Orleans for you city folk out there), my new house, and some new conspiracies fresh out of the oven!

So the past week or so, the country has collectively, gasped, sighed and sat with mouths agape as the tradegy unfolded in Louisana. A category 5 hurricane just cold cocked that state in the grill, a levee broke and 80% of the city was flooded. What should have been a standard FEMA operation quickly got ugly when search and rescue people couldn't get into the city, and nobody could get out. With such hopelessness, the human condition suffered terribly. Looting, murder, rape and general chaos was rampant. Reporters basically said that the city was too dangerous to stay in after the sun went down at night.

Read all about it here

I don't know why I just used a British news source for an American story. . don't ask aight?

Aside from all of that, the loony left wingers got out in full force and jumped all over Bush - so what ELSE is new? Having given up on the UFO and Chemtrails conspiracy, these nutbags came up a grand new conspiracy - BUSH WAS AT FAULT for what happened. Not only that, but they also said since he is part of the NWO and Bilderberg group and skull and bones, he actually delayed aid getting into to help the mostly poor black residents since he wanted to see them die?? Kayne West is such a fucking loser. He added fuel to the fire by saying at a televised fund raiser that Bush doesn't care for Black people and is allowing the national guardsmen to shoot them. What does Kayne West do again? Oh yeah - he's a RAPPER. Well maybe YOUR people shouldn't shoot at the rescue helicopter when they're trying to save YOUR people ya fricking idiot!!! What an asshat that guy is. . .

More me and less news, right? What else is new?

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, screwed up my knee playing soccer - big surprise. Although this time I think it may be a bit more serious than I initially thought. I'm going to see my doctor tomorrow in the afternoon to really find out how bad it is. It's been almost a month and it still gets sore and when I turn over it bed I get sharp pains that I don't think are good. On a better note, the team did make it to the championship game - but came up short. We lost 4-1. I have NO idea we would actually get that far in the first place, so I was happy with the season as a whole.

What else? Work is going great. Still making quota and having a blast. Mobile Celluar who?

Some other notes as of late:

- Watched "Miami Ink" again last night. Everytime I see that show I want another tattoo. It will take some time to figure out exactly what I want to do, but some thoughts:

1) BIG Type O Negative logo on my calf or between my shoulder blades
2) Man United crest on my calf or on my quad (top of my leg)
3) Some sort of theme to incldue my fathers initials and the Iron Cross on my bicep.
4) The word B E L I E V E across my back in large letters

Either way, I need some C O L O R in my tatts, and something fairly big, colorful and incorporates what I already have. . . .


- I tried switiching one of our laptops over to Linux. I went to CompUSA and picked up a $50.00 copy of the Linespire OS. Boy was THAT a mistake! You get the OS, and nothing else. Unless you're familiar with how Linux works (mostly at the UNIX/Dos level) then you will get frustrated quite quickly. Linespire has a CNR (click and run) option for these people. Oops! It costs around $50 for the year, and you can only pick and download what they have in their little CNR shop. How lame is that? What I do? I downloaded the free copy of Mandrake and now just have to burn the 3 cd's and load that onto the laptop. Hopefully things will go better with this copy.

- I had an interesting run-in at a nude beach when I went riding at Thodeore Wirth in Minneapolis. Nothing like riding a mountain bike into a nudist beach and dudes looking you up and down like a piece of meat. Not cool, not cool AT ALL. I quickly retreated and had a good laugh afterwards.

- ERIKS has been trying lately. Crazy Eddy has been having girl problems and seems to think it's ok to take them out on his co-workers. Nut up man and either move on or balance your riding lifestyle with your personal relationships. I love the guy to death, but this crap gets on nerves a lot. Even funnier was the store got slapped with a five day penalty for listening to "unacceptable" music, no kidding. Dave-O tried to sneak in on Saturday to check up on us. What a goof. He tries to go all James Bond and park like halfway down the lot so we can't see him coming. Guess he doesn't trust us so much, huh? Until next week, it's ALL Salsa music. *GAG*

- Not much else on the domestci front. My sister's daughter's birthday was on Friday. That was WAY fun. Taco Bar, relatives, got to see my mom and dad, it was all good. Her two daughters just crack me up all the time.

- One disturbing note. My mother switched the beneficiaries on her will from my dad to me and my siter. Don't know why and know I feel bad for my father. i don't know the reasons or the details. Just a bad feeling that if my mother dies, he won't get anything from her. On the flip side, I would make damn sure my father is taken care of and is not left on hardship - ya know?

- Another funny note. MY SON IS HITTING PUBERTY!!! He called the other night and was having some "guy troubles". I can't describe it like he did, but to hear him talk about his "wet dreams" was pretty funny for me. His mother told him it was normal and I had to reassure him it was. After a long talk about what he's going to go through over the next few years, it all made sense to him.


Oh well, that's all I have for right now - time to get back to the grind!!!


Here's the pic for the day too:

My fondness for this band now knows no limits. Their follow up to their scorching intial release "Sweet Vengence" is "Descend of Chaos". I downloaded the single "Being Nothing" and just love it. The song just rips. It's about all fo these people that go through life empty. They take the life out of you, and those around you. No good. Here is a pic fo the band. . .if you want to listen to their single "Being Nothing" you can find it here


Here they are in all of their glory:




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