I Used To Get Around A Lot.

I hope I will still travel a lot in the future.

Your Travel Personality Is: The Adventurer

For you, travel is how you learn about the world. And you like to learn the stuff that's not in guidebooks. You truly have wanderlust. When you're not traveling, you're dreaming about where you'll go next. And your travels are truly legendary - they leave you with stories you'll be telling for the rest of your life!

What's Your Travel Personality?

I Have To Admit: I've Always Wanted To Learn It.

Could I be the next Kenny Wayne Shepard or Eddie Van Halen?

You Should Play the Guitar

You're very independent - both in spirit and in the way you learn. You can teach yourself almost anything, even if it makes your fingers bleed. You're not really the type to sit patiently through a music lesson - or do things by the book. It's more your style to master the fundamentals and see where they take you. Highly creative and a bit eclectic, you need a wide range of music to play. You could emerge as a sensitive songwriter... or a manic rock star. Your dominant personality characteristic: being rebellious Your secondary personality characteristic: tenacity

What Musical Instrument Should You Play?

Good Luck At The Bar (Exam)!

Today is the first day of the bar exam. I only know one person taking it this year. Good luck to all. The exam is a right of passage and intellectual marathon. Honestly I think anyone who is pretty smart,has good analytical abilities, and takes a good bar review course can pass the exam. Notice I didn't say attended a law school was a requirement.

Once you're finished with the exam tomorrow go drinking. Trust me that was the best part of the exam: FINISHING IT!

The Hits Just Keep On Coming.

Speaking of the death of the middle class, I just found out the Fabulously Gay Roommate was laid off Tuesday. Okay I'm somewhat disturbed he didn't mention it until today. Actually I asked him if he had today off and then he explained he was laid off.

Ummm...perhaps we don't communicate as well as I hope. Granted I didn't even get home until very late on Tuesday, but he could have mentioned it on Wednesday.

Is there some cosmic force that allows only one person who lives here to be employed at a time?

The Numbers Don't Look Good.

In response to rising gas prices some employers are offering 4 day work weeks with extended hours. Many people are jumping on the chance to commute one less day a week, spend time with family, and get personal things done.

Small Town isn't offering such a policy.

Our office is so small we couldn't serve people if we split the staff up into 4 day shifts and still cover a 5 day week for the public. The days we have been down 1 or 2 people due to vacations and illness put too big a strain on the rest of us.

Yet if such a policy were in place I would take it in a heartbeat. A third non-working day to my life would help me get so many things done. It would help my finances a bit too. I got my credit card bill today. I spent more on gasoline for my commute than I did on my student loan payment!

I think the American middle class is finally dying. We're certainly struggling mightily now.

The Rules Of Life.

Just one question: can someone explain to me why as soon as I have some money in my checking account something happens that requires me to write a big check? On the plus side the car runs so much better now so it might be worth the expense, but that hurt my wallet big time!

X Marks The Spot

No I'm not dead. I've been busy at work or not around during the weekend. Hopefully I'll explain the weekend later. It was fun. In the mean time here's a quiz just for you to play with.

You Belong in Generation X

You fit in best with people born between 1961 and 1981. You are fun, laid back, and very independent. You are willing to take risks and live your life however you see fit. You are casual, accepting, and friendly. You see everyone as your equal.

What Generation Do You Belong In?

I Disagree. Darth Vader Shall Always Be #1.

Lists are often created to be a source of debate. Someone came up with the list of the best movie villains of all time. I do like the list because it isn't focused solely on the modern era. It has villains from the 1930's, the 1950's, and many icons from the last 30 years. I'll give preview of some of my favorites; Khan, the T-1000 Terminator, and Hans Gruber are on the list. These are the villains that made the best of the good guys so good.

My problem with the list is Darth Vader is NOT #1. He has Jedi magic to kill insolent people with. He has a dark foreboding baritone voice. He had a Darth Star that destroyed planets. He chopped off his own son's hand. He dresses in all black and has a cape. He even a has iconic soundtrack! It is as if the list penalized Lord Vader for George Lucas' crappy rendition of his new trilogy. Darth Vader didn't even really exist until the middle of the middle of the third movie and the character shouldn't be penalized for that.

My Lord, when I finally turn to the Dark Side, you are the evil I aspire to be!

How I Feel Every Morning.

Max: Rise and shine, Professor.
Professor Fate: You rise! You shine!

-The Great Race

Quote Of The Day.

I finally figured out what a lot of these people need here. The Chuck Norris Roundhous Kick Of Justice! (tm)

Time For Some Campaignin'

They're at it again.

I Have Such Eclectic Tastes

What Your Taste in Music Says About You

Your musical tastes are intense and rebellious. You are intelligent... but in a very unconventional way. You are curious about the world. You love doing something new. In fact, you enjoy taking risks and doing things most people would shy away from. You are very physical. It's likely that you're athletic, but not into team sports. You have the soul of an artist. Beauty and harmony are important to you.

What Does Your Taste in Music Say About You?

More Is Better.

If one 300 Saturn Missile Battery is good, then TWO 300 Saturn Missile Batteries must be better. A guy at the party and I reasoned that bit of wisdom. We both purchased a battery and we lit them together to start the show Saturday night.



From this video I can tell someone took our idea a little further out. A 6,400 Saturn Missile Battery must be bad ass!

Misfire.

*Setting off my finale shots for the 4th of July. Upon watching the first shot go horizontally along the ground into some brush and exploding*

The Crowd: Uh-oh!

ME: Oh that's not right. I hope the other 24 shots go up.


Analysis: sometimes I wonder about my underwhelming style. In the face of danger I guess it's better to be underwhelmed and rational versus panicked. I hope so anyway. Oh, the other 24 shots did rocket up and explode. It was a cool finale.

Where's DogHound?

Someone is going to have to find DogHound again. He likes to go hiding at times.

The Bombs Bursting In Air!

I'm heading to a friend's for the 4th. He and his wife recently built a home in the country. They have 10 acres and a small pond out there. I helped work on their bathrooms during the winter by installing tile. Anyway the invitation said to bring fireworks if you wanted to. Oh really!

It has been forever since I've been in a fireworks store. In Big City there simply isn't any place to fire them off. Big Sky Country on the other hand is a whole lot of empty! I hit the ATM ahead of time. I simply needed some cash. I wasn't even planning on hitting a fireworks store. Then I figured $20 could buy some decent stuff.

American: Celebrate It's Birth By Blowing Stuff Up!

That should be the name of every fireworks store. Buy one: get one free! I don't understand the economics that allow all the freebies, but hey I'll accept it. The dude tried to sell me various things. Some made big boom. Others made big sparks. Some stuff for $5 gives you what $5 will give you. Mortars for $50 sound like fun, but that might be for next year. Anything that advertises 300 rockets is a must buy. Sure they're itty-bitty rockets, but it had 300 of them for $12! At the cash register they GAVE me a 5 pack of bottle rockets and then just tossed in a 4 pack of something when they finished bagging everything. What are they? Who cares it was free!

Now I need to buy a cheap lighter for Friday night :-)