Motivational Poster of the Week 11/13/10

Ya'll have a great weekend!

-Doc

Happy Friday, I need one of these

So how is everyone doing this wonderful Friday? I'm doing great so far. For some reason a whole bunch of people decided to take the day off from work. This is just fine with me. There will be less people for me to deal with and I will surely be able to slip out a little bit early.

So since it's apparent that I'm phoning it in today I figured I would do the same with my blog posting and skip a post today. Then I saw this awesome picture below and knew I had to share:

My parents and In-laws keep asking me what I want for Christmas and I say forget the I-Pod I want get me a "Toast Saber" Completely awesome and a quick time saver... Toast is so yummy with a little butter and grape jelly but I don't eat it all that often because I have so little time in the morning. This would solve all those problems. Please somebody get me one of these.

Ok so maybe I still mailed it in a little bit on my blog post, but give me a break. IT'S FRIDAY!!

-Doc

Thursday Random Thoughts 11/11/10

Stuff I have been thinking about:

-First and most importantly today is Veterans Day. Please say thank you to those who have served and protected us and allowed us to live in a free country.

-Since it's a holiday and schools are closed here my wife and son get to come and have lunch with me. I really love when they come and visit my office and most everyone here enjoys seeing my son. Plus he gets to pick where we eat and he loves Jimmy Johns!

- Someone from Lockheed Martin found the blog yesterday searching for information about the mystery missile over Los Angeles. I wonder if they liked my theory. HA HA!


-So far so good with the switch from DirecTV to cable except for one thing. The DVR only holds 25 hours of programming as opposed to 100 hours that our TiVo held. That is kind of disappointing but everything else so far is great.

-Apple Jolly Rancher candies are filled with awesome!

-I heard that Kanye West has taken back his apology to Taylor Swift for jumping up on stage and ruining her acceptance speech. Really Kanye? Are you really sure you want to do this? Taylor kicked your ass last year in the court of public opinion and my bet is she does it again. That is if you are still relevant enough to matter. No offense but you really haven't had a good song since Golddigger.



-So what is it with this new fad where women are wearing these shaggy high heeled boots with skirts and skinny jeans and stuff? I couldn't find an exact picture of what I'm talking about but these are close. I have seen this a lot especially out at the football games I have been to recently. Seems to be a trend for the late teens and 20 something ladies. I'm pretty sure I don't like it.

-I am loving my new smartphone! We were finally able to extend our plan and get smartphones this past weekend and decided to go all out. I got the Android. A 4G Samsung Epic with QWERTY keyboard and it is pretty amazing what all it can do. I am so glad that I didn't go with the Blackberry and it was certainly worth the wait. Only problem is the battery seems to run down very quickly. I know that this phone does a lot of stuff that can suck down battery life but you guys find the same thing is true with your smartphones?

-To continue this weeks "Google" theme I wanted to share this. Yesterday when researching my post I came across this website Bing vs. Google. Check it out sometime. It gives you search results at the same time from both Bing and Google. Kind of cool!

Until next time...

-Doc

Ok who has been shooting missiles off?

I am sure that by now everyone has heard about the "mystery missile" seen over Los Angeles by a news helicopter on Monday night. In case you missed it I have posted a couple of pictures of it here so you can see. Pretty neat huh?

What is it? Is it a military missile or something else. "The U.S. military says it's not theirs. A spokesperson for the Navy says no activities were planned in the area at that time.
Officials at the Pentagon also did not know any details about the launch and said that it could not have been planned military action." NORAD says its not a "foreign missile" So of course speculation is running rampant. Are we under attack? Was this a military exercise they are trying to cover up for some reason? Is it just a an airplane contrail as some civilian aviators have postured? Who knows?

The FAA says that it could have been a projectile launched by a private company although none had been given the required license to do so. With this in mind I have developed a theory. I think that Google did it. We all know that google is trying their best to take over the world and this is the logical next step.

Google has a lot of enemies and needs to protect itself. There is censorship in China and we know the Chinese government is no fan so maybe this missile thing is the way that they can get back at them? Maybe they were trying to show the people of LA the they are far superior to Yahoo! who could never shoot off a missile. Or perhaps Google was trying to blow up Bing and take them out? This actually seems like about as likely a cause as any, so that's my answer. Google shot off the missile.

What do you think?

-Doc

Obsessive Compulsive or Just Cautious?

I’m leaving on an overnight trip for work. I’m usually pretty excited to get out of the office and change the routine my life for a brief period of time. Don’t get me wrong I still am excited for the change of pace. The problem is I have office mate that has spread her obsession and fear of bed bugs on to me. I don’t mind bugs. I once dated a guy that wanted to be an entomologist so I got to learn about bees and beetles and even held his pet Madagascar Cockroach named Andy (the cockroach not the ex-bf). Andy was not a very happy cockroach, and would hiss when petted. It was fun to make Andy hiss. Making the ex-bf hiss wasn't as much fun, and even when innocent I usually got the blame - but it was his female roomate from Germany that was the final nail in the coffin of our relationship. They got married less than a year after we broke up, and last I knew still married. But I digress. The picture surrounded by this paragraph is what a Madagascar Cockroach looks like. I know you probably didn't have the opportunity to date my ex, and may not have an opportunity to know what one looks like.

I’m the kind of person that has considered bringing in a black light to check out the hotel room. Many, many, many people have said don’t do it! Needless to say I haven’t. It would be nice to know – don’t sit in that chair, or even wonder WTF happened here. Unlike my friend JY, I’ve never been shown a room I thought a murder occurred. Yikes!

Because of the office mate I downloaded how to search for bed bugs. Here is my plan of action. I’ve already checked two national registries and they are clear. I’m going to leave all bags zipped and place in the bathroom. This should be my pull bag, purse, lap top, and my backpack will contact the list of places to check and a flashlight. I will check the where the ceiling and wall meet because they like to hang out there. I will try to remove the drawer by the bed, but if I can’t I will look underneath because that is also a favorite hideout. I will then unmake the bed and check out the mattress and a small part of the box springs because they are after all, bed bugs. I would like to pull the headboard off the bed, but since I’m solo this would be a challenge. I will see what I can do to look behind it. Hopefully the bathroom is big enough to leave the bags in there overnight – or at least while I shower. Maybe this will help me get ready and packed faster in the morning.

Am I too easily influenced by others? I had a former boss never get into a hotel hot tub. He told me about someone he worked with that traveled regularly and stayed at very nice hotels. Apparently one time he had a scab on his leg, and got into a hot tub. The hotel didn’t do a good job treating the hot tub, and bacteria in the hot tub that gave him an infection that caused him to lose his leg. Needless to say if I have a scab anywhere on my body I avoid public hot tubs. Well, since I don’t have my own I avoid all hot tubs.

Better off safe than sorry, right? We don’t live long enough to make all the mistakes for ourselves so we do need to learn from others. I really don’t want to lose a leg or another appendage to my body. I also don’t want to spend at least $1,000 for bed bug removal – so maybe it is a good idea to let the phobia of others influence me to take five minutes to check out the room. May I’ll get a black light bulb tonight too.

-Disaster Chick, weekly correspondant

Isn't this the Truth?

-Doc

Motivational Poster of the week 11/6/10

Admiral Akbar is everywhere!

Have a great Weekend

-Doc

Randy Quaid Has gone Crazy

Have any of you all been following the recent news stories about Randy Quaid and his wife Evi? If you haven't been then let me give you a quick recap.

-Last year Randy and his wife were sought on fugitive warrants claiming that he defrauded an innkeeper of more than $10,000 and they fled justice.

-After being caught and sent back to Texas they cleared up the charges but not before Randy brought his Golden Globe award to court to try and show as collateral.

-This year Randy and his wife were arrested for illegally squatting in a home owned by others and accused of serious vandalism of the property.

-Evi had a restraining order taken out on her for threatening and menacing the owner of the home they were squatting in.

-Once again they fled justice and went to Canada, claiming refugee status and trying to become Canadian citizens because, (get this) they are on the run from the "Hollywood star-whackers" who they say may have contributed to the deaths of stars such as David Carradine, Michael Jackson, and Heath Ledger.

OK did you get that? Hollywood star whackers... Yes there are some crazy things out there but thinking that someone wants to knock off cousin Eddie and his wife is ludicrous. First of all if there were star whackers wouldn't they have already done in Lindsay Lohan and Heidi Montag? Yet we are still being harassed by them every day. Even if there are Hollywood star whackers what makes Randy Quaid a target? Are they planning on making another Vacation movie that I am not aware of?

My next thought is that Randy is starting to look crazy too. I almost didn't recognize him in the picture to the right when he got sprung from Canadian jail the other day. When I saw it it made me immediately think of Gene Hackman's paranoid crazy character in Enemy of the state instead of Cousin Eddie. What do you think?

I am thinking that instead of political asylum this pair needs to be locked away in a different kind of asylum.

-Doc