Monday, January 31, 2005

2 THINGS.....

First and foremost... im alive. Tired, broke, and my brain is pickled from all the booze, but I am alive. Vegas is an unforgiving whore. She takes and takes while only giving sleeplessness nights and hangovers. It was a ton of fun, but I need a vacation to recover from the vacation. We didn't do as much of the tourist type things this time. More gambling and just hanging out. I don't think that it is a place that I could go often but every few years wouldn't be bad.

Secondly, the damn Cyclones won. How in the fuck do you lose to Colorado, but pull a win out of your ass against Oklahoma. Get your shit together and start playing or quit. Don't ride the fence... Its killing me. I would add a little more but the screen makes my head hurt. Good thing I have 4 more hours of staring at it today.

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Thursday, January 27, 2005

FOR SALE

If anyone is interested i am selling my remaining tickets to ISU basketball... they fucking suck, and i dont even want to see them play. How can you take a team that won 20+ games last year and run it into the ground like this... its brutal. We havent won a game in the big 12, and at this rate we wont even make the NIT. Pretty shitty for a team that was projected to make the NCAA. I guess i should just learn to accept the fact that i root for a school that is mired in mediocrity in the 2 biggest sports. Fuck it. The bastards.

Sorry about the rant, but i couldnt take it anymore. I needed to get that off my chest before i leave for Vegas tomorrow.

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Minor updates

Just in case anyone one of my 4-6 readers care, i have added a couple of new links. These wont be new to some of you since we seem to run in the same blog circles but to others they may new and exciting.
Trashman is a great read... check him out.
Texas Music is really one of the most interesting reads i have come across. Great stories that are well written.
Evil White Guy is really only 72% evil... but i think that is more than me.
Tastes Like Burning is another New York perspective similar to Toole's blog.

Make em feel welcome and give them a read.

Thanks for the blog day wishes... and Bones... this blog is still shitting itself and crying!

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Monday, January 24, 2005

Happy Blogday to me

I actually missed my blog birthday.... it was Saturday, but then again i dont do much on the weekends. I cant believe ive actually been doing this for a year. The beauty of it is that it still sucks as much as ever, but people keep coming back so i will keep on spewing the shitiness for everyone to read.

Ive found that my brother-in-law is a regular reader but is too much of a pussy to ever comment.

So happy Blogday to me... ill drink a beer or something.

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Friday, January 21, 2005

WTF

Why is that some cops have to be fucking assholes... is it because they have a badge and think they are smarter and better than the normal people.

I only ask because my wife got pulled over yesterday. When the cop came to her window and asked if she knew what she had done she said that she didnt. He said 'Your stupid'. If you know my wife this didnt go over well, nor should it. This dipshit said that you may never pass a police officer, and she had, therefore she was stupid. First off it was a 4 lane street, the cop wasnt going the speed limit and my wife was, so just by common sense you will eventually go around the cop. Not a big deal. Except i guess it makes you stupid. Then this guy had the nerve to tell her that he didnt have to give out his badge number so she could file a complaint. What a fucker.

He didnt give her a ticket (because she didnt do anything wrong) and did give her the number. She filed the complaint immediately. I hope he gets an ass chewing.

So dont get me wrong. I appreciate the men and woman that comprise our police force, and for the most part they are all really cool and helpful. Every once in awhile you get an asshole, just like anywhere else, that gives cops a bad name.

Have a great weekend!


Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Freaking heat wave

Its hot... im talking like 30 degrees today. Im about ready to put on the speedo and head to the pool. Ok its not really hot... but compared to -3, 30 is fucking balmy.

8 1/2 days till i hit Vegas for the 2nd time. Should be a lot of fun, since most everyone i work with is pretty cool... even my bosses.

I gotta go get some sunscreen and start woking on my tan.

Later

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Friday, January 14, 2005

My little girl!

I was just checking out Zelda's site and she was talking about her little girl's birthday. It seems I link to her a lot. Hmmm... some weird infatuation? Probably, but that is for another time.

My little girl took the phone from my wife last night and said Hi to me. She is almost 2. To hear her little voice in the phone was awesome, one of the best moments of my life.

Ever since she was born it has been awesome to watch her grow and change. Just in the last month she is starting to put words together, although some are still hard to understand but she is trying her ass off.

She was a big baby. 10 1/2 pounds. My wife is 5'2". She had an ultrasound right after her due date and the doctor said that if it showed the baby to be over 10 we would be scheduling a c-section, if it was over 9 we would induce, and if it was under 9 we would let it cook. It showed her to be almost 11. The doc said we would admit my wife immediately and induce her in the morning. WHAT! you just said we would c-section, but no... i think you can deliver this baby.

Anyway that wouldnt work anyway. My grandfather died 2 days before and the funeral was the next day. Talk about mix of emotions, but that is for another post. We pushed the day back so I could attend the funeral. I went to the funeral 2 hours away, drove home and picked up my wife and took her to the hospital for admitting. They would induce her in the morning.

The next day they got us up about six to start the pitocin drip for the induction and then they would break her water at 8. When they did the ultrasound they told us that she had enough amniotic fluid for twins. That would explain why she got so big.
Now if you have never seen water being broke it was disgusting...im glad it didnt happen at home. They break the sack with something that looks like a knitting needle and man did the fluid come out. All over the docs nice sweater and everything. I was sitting on the couch in the room and then i hear the doctor say "Oh God" so i jump up and run over and end up standing in the puddle. Great. Wet socks.

The doc said he would be back in a couple of hours to check on us. The hosptial has private delivery rooms with a couch, tv, stereo so it was comfortable just to hang out. My wife really didnt have horrible contractions at first, then the pitocin started to kick in about 11 and they gave her and epidural. Very creepy to watch but she was a trooper. She wasnt allowed to move from the bed and the nurses would come in every 15 minutes to roll her over after the epidural kicked in. She never really dialated a lot so they kept uping the pitocin. The doc would come it and check and up it some more. My wife labored through her epidural 2 times, they had to add extra and they ended up doubling the pitocin. She never got passed 7 centimeters. By 7 they were going to up the pitocin again. We wife was shot. She had labored all day. Was crying and miserable. I told the nurse to get the doctor, it wasnt going on any longer. He said fine we will do the c-section. They get her prepped and wheel her out while i put on my scrubs, that barely fit. Im a big man. 6'6" 300lbs. Im not super fat by any stretch but i could use to lose a couple of lbs.

Just as i get dressed they bring her back. What the fuck! Emergency c-section on someone else, she got bumped. We waited another hour before the wheeled her back, and they put me in the recovery room to wait for them to get me. The poor people who had the emergency c-section were there. I couldnt see them behind their curtain but i could hear them both crying. They hadnt seen the baby yet and didnt know what was happening. It had to be over and hour since the procedure. Very uncomfortable, but it turned out the baby was fine. (They tried to deliver and 11 lb baby and after the head came out it got stuck). Anyway they forgot me. Why doped up wife had to remind them to come get me. I got in the room just and they were starting to pull out the baby. It was awesome. I could see in my wife, and the whole thing is super violent. They really have to pull the baby out, it lifted her off the table a bit.

The first time i saw our little girl was awesome. I was always worried that she would have some defect or something. I dont know why and i would love her no matter what, but she was perfect. I cut the cord and showed her to my wife and then they took me and the baby away. Talk about hard. Your wife is laying on the table cut open and you have to leave.

Well its been almost 2 years and she is still perfect and so is my wife. She went from being a huge baby to a little girl. She is really small, thanks to my wife. I guess that would be better than to have here end up like me. Probably not a lot of dates if she was my size with a goatee!

I apologize for the long post but I had to put it up. If anyone is thinking about having kids but isnt sure. It is the greatest thing ever!

Im spent.

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Thursday, January 13, 2005

Fucking Clones!

In case you didnt know Im a Cyclone fan. I get my hopes up every year that we will make the turn and then the bastards go and pull some shit that leaves me broken and crying. It happens with football and now its happening with basketball.

We have huge talent on our team but they dont play as a team... especially at the end of the game. We #2 ranked undefeated Kansas on the ropes last night and we couldnt finish. They just turned into a bunch of ball hogging street ballers. In my opinion thats the coaches fault. You need to make it known that this is a team and not the playground where you go to show off your moves. We were supposed to make the NCAA tournament, but unless these bastards get their shit together we will be lucky to get to the NIT.

Fuck it... im pissed and sick.

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Carpentry woes

Im not the most handy guy in the world but i can hold my own with most things, or i can learn. I built a shed last summer and now its time to get on with the next project. Finishing the basement. Is not that big (we live in a split level) so i really am only building 1 wall. I have most of the tools i will need, i just havent ever done it. So im a little leary that it will turn out looking like shit. I guess i just have to jump in and get it done, as long as i can find a place to put all the junk i need to move to start.

How is it that we have only lived in this house for 2 years and we have a whole basement full of shit. I dont know what it all is, but i know we need it. Whether it be baby clothes or cooking shit or christmas shit or holiday shit, its all there and i dont know if we have enough room to consolidate it all into 1 room. We need to organize. I need to do it this week so i can start my learning process of framing possibly this weekend. I will try and get some pics of before and after!

Later from cold, wet, icy Iowa!

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Holy buckets of snow Batman!

Well unlike Jethro and Zelda down in Houston, we here in Iowa get snow... and last night and today we will be getting lots of it. We have like 5" already and its supposed to snow today and tonight adding up to another 12". WEEEEEEE! Dont get me wrong, I like the snow and its nice to see, but fuck. I HATE SHOVELING!. So at least my little monkey will get to play in it and enjoy it, so at least i have that going for me.

On other fronts, I have mentioned before that i have a really close friend who is in the Navy serving our country on the U.S.S. Lincoln. Now if you havent heard that is the carrier that was sent to provide aid to the tsunami stricken countries. He has been kindly enough to pass along some pictures that were taken from the choppers that are delivering supplies so i thought that i would post them so you could take in the devastation. Its heartbreaking to see the destruction.


Some of the choppers on the carrier.


Some of the destruction.


More destruction.


Last one.

It just goes to show that no matter how powerful, rich, strong, or whatever that mother nature still is in control, and when she is PMS'ing it gets ugly in a hurry.

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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Saturday, January 01, 2005

Heartburn and Hangover

Im back... we had a great Christmas with both of our families. The Cyclones pulled off the 'upset' of the Redhawks, so life is good. Except for feeling like shit this morning from boozing it up last night. It seems that im getting too old for this, since i feel like shit today with the hangover and the serious heartburn i have going on. I guess i will just have to hang out with family and nurse myself back to halfway human.

It was a wierd night... when we went to bed it was decent weather, but when we woke up everything was covered in ice. Im talking streets looking like mirrors ice. Crazy, considering for the last 2 days we have had 60 and 50 degree temps, which is more than just a little odd for Decemeber in Iowa.

Well i need to go lie down or something, this computer is making my head hurt.

Learn it, know it, live it!
Turf

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