Has anyone else ever noticed that those awareness ribbons (red for AIDS, pink for breast cancer, etc) look an awful lot like the Jesus fish symbol turned sideways?

What would possess you to think that putting neon license plate illumination on a 1990's era Mercury Villager would be a good idea!?!

Would I want a rhinoceros as a pet?

Blog Question Of The Day:

Would you ever consider going parachuting?

I would just like to take this opportunity to AGAIN point out how much of a big stick in the ass Windows Vista is.

My resolve to switch to a Mac grows even further.

Ladies:

You can NOT get tattoos on your breasts. I really can't stress this enough. It always looks trashy.

I gotta lay off the WEED!!!

For the record . . .

Radio stations that put their advertising station identifier, into the middle of a song, are a bunch of ASSHOLES!!!

The cost of everything just keeps going up. The escalation never seems to end. However, I think I've found a way for the cost of something to actually go down. It came to me as I drove to work this morning. We could bring the cost of vehicles down if we just removed the signal lights. You wouldn't need the lights themselves, the controls for them on the steering wheel, or any of the wiring that goe along with making them operation.

We might as well dispense with signal lights. No one is using them anyway.

Commanda is clearly the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie of all time.

Blog Question Of The Day:

Are there any girls that want to play on my soccer team? We're starting the outdoor season (even though we play indoors - weird) and apparently we could use a few more girls on the roster.

Hello world!

I'd like to introduce you to someone.

This little guy that you see here in my blog is my new nephew. His name is Grayson Gunnar Bigoraj. That's an awful lot of name for such a small little person but I suspect that he'll grow into it. His feet are already on their way there. Consensus is that Grayson's feet are already bigger than his mom's.

Grayson is not a name that you hear very often. And for that I am glad. A little guy like Grayson needs a way to stand out from the crowd. But don't pick on him too much when his dad explains how he got the name. Some people are named for presidents, while others are named for quarterbacks or cowboys. Grayson was named for a cat, and I'm alright with that.

For those of you that are into statistics, I can tell you the little guy was born at 7 pounds and 4 ounces. That doesn't explain a whole lot to me, because I don't know what a baby is supposed to weigh when its born. I've heard more than Grayson and I've heard less, so I'm going to assume that he's right in the middle.

I've been told he was born at 22 inches long. What I don't understand is why a baby is measured in length, while all the rest of us get measured in height. Perhaps someday one of you can explain to me the rules on measuring people. At what point do you stop being long and start being tall?

I'm kind of late in announcing the little guy's arrival. Grayson was born at 4:24 AM on Tuesday April 8th, 2008. I wanted to post a picture of the guy, to go along with his announcement, but neither the baby, nor his mom, came home until Friday. When you throw in some time for getting the pictures off the camera, we find ourselves on Sunday night.

Grayson and I met for the first time on Saturday. I suspect that he won't remember the encounter. But I am sure that there will be able time for us to get to know each other. As I'm sure there will be a chance for all of you to meet him.

Hey world, say hello to Grayson!!

I went to the mall today. As I'm walking across the parking lot, I saw a Carolla CE. Something about that caught my attention. I really don't know why.

Carolla CE

I stopped thinking about it and went about my business. Then I walked through a completely different part of the parking lot and saw another Carolla CE.

If you run it all together, like it is on the back of the car, it looks like CAROLLACE. Put a break in that and doesn't it sound like a stripper name?

Carol Lace

Do you know what really grinds my gears?

If you listen to satellite radio at all, you've no doubt hear the following introduction:

"Are you drowning in more than $10,000 in credit card debt!?!"

The commercial goes on to blab about how their credit counsellors can work with you to restructure your debt so that you're paying 'pennies on the dollar'

What kind of crap is this!?! I dutifully pay all my bills, stay on top of my credit situation and you're gonna swoop in at the last second and only pay 'pennies on the dollar'? That's a bunch of garbage. You were the dumb-ass that bought more stuff than you had the money to pay for. You should get stuck with the whole bill.

And don't give me that nonsense about not having the money for necessities. If your situation is desperate enough that you don't have money for necessities, then you should be looking for help THEN, not after racking up $10,000 or more on a credit card.

And then there's the jerk-offs that want to help you secure business credit, so you can incur even more debt, after you've exhausted your personal options. How irresponsible is that? You can't get a bank to lend you any money on your own name, so you'll create a corporation so you can get access to even more money you're never paying back.

Christ do I hate irresponsibility.

Blog (Old) Song Of The Day:

George Michael - Praying For Time

Failing an interest in seeing 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' (which I still want to see but will probably require a girl for a companion to it), here is a list of other movies I want to see, and are coming in the near future (as witnessed by the commercials I saw while watching basketball tonight):

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (I know, but its a complete list)
Street Kings
Iron Man
Speed Racer

Now that my sister is not likely to be free to see any movies with me (new baby and all) I need to find someone that will go with me to non-traditionally-guy movies. Up first - Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Any takers?

Blog Question Of The Day:

Even though they lost, should I still buy a Memphis Tigers basketball jersey?

Dear Smirnoff Ice Company:

Could you please not put the bottle caps on your beverage with a 150 ton hydraulic press? The exertion that it takes to remove them has removed most of the skin on my hand.

Thank you.

Every time I see one of these young, pretty, very girly pop singers dancing around, singing into a pink, sparkly microphone, I can't help but think they look like they're singing into a sex toy.