Global Domination!

Warning, this is a taunt...I will destroy the Red forces threatening the lives of the Proud Blue Army. Despite only controling two territories, we will thrive. We will defeat all enemies. One battle ant a time, one enemy at a time, we the Blue Army shall defeat our foes without mercy. You should have destroyed me when you had the chance, now you will kneel before me or die!

Everyone needs to stand their ground

I really hope I get to see this play out the way I would like it. I didn't plan on saying anything about this situation, especially with more important things going on in the world, like the extremely bad luck of London. Will that ever end?? Anyways here is what I'm talking about. Mr. Terrell Owens, who decided this offseason to change agents and get himself the self proclaimed "Shark" to get him a new contract, which is code for more money.

Here is the back story on his new agent, Drew Rosenhaus. His philosophy is that if a player performs better than his current contract, that player is entitled to a raise. If a team can cut players or ask them to restructure their contracts for less money to make room for other talent, then players should have the right to demand more money for exceptional play.

However, T.O. isn't saying this. In fact, he's doing this for his family. Now that didn't go down to well for Latrell Sprewell of the NBA, so why even bring that up as your reasoning? Let's think about this, you have a current contract which will bring in 49 million in six years. Hmm, I probably will never make that in my life. Still, I work everyday, take my time off when I have the days and still provide for my family and I make no where near as much money as you make. So why do you need so much frakin' $$$. You should be able to do just fine with that amount of money. You then go on to say you've explained to your teammates that your doing this for your family but how many guys actually make more than you? What about the guy make $300,000, doesn't he deserve a bit more? Guess not, because you're T.O. and you deserve everything and you'll cry when you don't get it.

Oh, and to top all this off, you didn't even contribute to getting the Eagles into the Super Bowl. You were injured and missed both playoff games to include the NFC Championship game which was the game the Eagles lost in three straight times. Sure, you played like a champ the first 14 games and played brilliantly in the Super Bowl but the Eagles didn't win. You did not accomplish what the Eagles brought you in to do, which was win the Super Bowl. But hey, you don't care about that, you'll play with anyone for a year as long as you get paid $$$$.

So, I hope the Eagles stand their ground and refuse to give you a new contract, release or trade you. I hope you stand your ground and stay off the field the entire season. You'll look as good as the NHL players when they sat out the entire year. Oh and just so you know, if you don't play, you don't get paid which means you are not providing for your family by holding out. If I was your family member, I'd be smacking you across the head, and urging you to put the pads, the uniform and helmet on and show me the money! Show me the money...bounce bounce...Show...bounce...Me...bounce...the...bounce...Money!

Yawnnnnnnnn

Now I know I'm not the most exciting person nor do I have the most interesting blog but there are some out there that can put you to sleep. For instance, Pro Cynic, will definitely put you to sleep. He goes on and on about things I really don't care about. The only thing he's got going for him is that he's a Cleveland Brown's fan but you know what dude, stop. You'll ruin it for the rest of us. I know the Browns have the coolest fans and you want to be apart of that but you just can't join the party. So get out of the Dawg Pound and stay in Indianapolis.

I'm gonna start a new thing, as I develop the lovely little blog, I will be adding the blogs that really get the Z's rolling. Any Mr. pro cynic has just become the honorary first nominee. Congrats dude!

For my wife

I get the feeling that sometimes I don't do enough for my wife. I don't express myself enough, don't tell her how much I love her and I'm not outwardly show affection enough. I owe her writings that I promised her a long time ago, and honestly, I have no idea where I left off. It's embarassing. I don't want to let her down. I want to be her knight in shining armor. I want to share the time that I have with her. Most importantly, I want her to be happy and feel loved. Unfortunatley I feel I have too many don'ts and wants and not enough do's. I'm really not doing anything. I care too much lately about dumb things like how well she does in school, which has gotten to the point where I don't want to be around her until she finish her school work. Really dumb idea. She's an adult, if she wants to turn in her assignments late and not put in the effort to be perfect and would rather spend the time with me, then I should take that time and run with it but I feel like I can't do that. Maybe it's because I think she's not like that. In my mind, she strives to be perfect and bends over backwards and goes out of her way to be perfect. She even admits to being a perfectionist. If she doesn't want to be perfect and be "normal" for a change than that's fine with me. Either way, she's my wife and I love her. Hopefully she doesn't hate me for blogging about this. Sorry, I just feel like I don't use this format enough.

Back to my point, I love my wife. I need to get off my butt and show her. Maybe some surprises here and there. Maybe I should write to her more. I need to get my creativity back. I have no clue where it went. It's probably swirling around my head with all the other things. If you're reading this sweetie, imagine this over the phone...I love and I'll talk to you later...isn't it just annoying.

Follow up-if you really care

Just to follow up on the GTA San Andreas. I has been reported that the game rating has changed from "M" to "AO" that's adults only. Now you just made me really want to go out and buy the game. Only problem, it will probably sit on the shelf with the other games I have yet to play. Oh, and I have to get permission from my lovely wife.

The watchdogs need to redirect their fire

What is the problem here. Now it's not as bad as I may make this out to be but I just don't get it. Here is the story. A media watchdog group along with the Parents Television Council have voiced their concern over the video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," and want it recalled because of a game modification dubbed "hot coffee" which allows gamers to engage in sexual activities. How about go after the hackers who created this modification and shut them down. The makers of the game did not intentionally make that part of the game. The game is already rated "M" so parents shouldn't be buying the game for their children in the first place. Besides, this added feature isn't available in an unmodified game, so again go after those who created the modification and make it unavailable. You can't stop the sex by recalling the game. It's not in the original game so what's the point.

I may have missed this wave of controversy but what about the game "Fable?" I found out a couple of months ago how to have sex with my wives. There isn't anything graphic but you can hear it, though it's a big let down. Oh and don't let the conservatives know, but *whishper*you can be a homosexual and *yell this really loud*engage in the lewd acts of sodomy and have your character sent straight to hell and burn for all eternity. I was kidding about the sending your character to hell. That doesn't happen. And I'm sure if I searched, there was probably some screaming about "Fable' as well. The gaming industry is really pushing the envelope and I'm not convinced that sex belongs in video games. If I want to watch sex then I'll go endulge in porn. But I have to admit, it was kind of fun to see how many times my character could have sex even when he was old and wrinkly. He was such a hero. Heck the game even encouraged the sex by keeping track of the number of times you had sex.

I may side with curbing the sale of violent video games to minors but I havent' made up my mind on that issue. But I really don't agree with trying to get a company to recall their product simply because someone out there modified his game and made it available over the internet. It seems these watchdogs need to redirect their fire and focus on those who started this controversy.

Why does this woman have cats??

Okay, this story about a woman and her cats broke last week, so I'm a bit behind the power curve. Apparently this woman, Ruth Knueven, had a house full of cats, 222 dead, and the house has extensive damage and a nice coat of feline waste. What I don't know is did this woman actually live in this house? How or more importantly why would you live in such a house with all those cats. In fact, why does she have all those cats. According to the article this woman had 488 cats, which I assume includes a previous encounter with authorities in 2001 for the same thing, where they took more than 100 cats from her.

I love animals. I miss our little Pepper and I enjoyed having Phillip's dog Cider over for a week. But I can't see myself having hundreds of cats, letting them do their business without cleaning it up, not taking the sick ones to a vet, and especially not disposing of the dead. I would get frustrated when lil'Pep would pee on the carpet. I would go out of my mind if hundreds of cats did the same and far worse, let a number two go inside the house. I guess I really don't understand what this woman is thinking. Heck, I don't know what her family is thinking. I left out the part about her daughter's townhouse and the hundreds of dead and sick cats in there as well. What is up with this family? How did they get all those cats? Hopefully the eight that survived that catastrophe are placed in goods homes with people who will love those animals and give them the proper treatment. They desire at least that much love. Maybe one will get lucky and have someone who will flat out spoil and pamper them.

I really hope no one in Ruth Knuevel's family, including herself, ever own a pet or hoard cats again. They don't deserve them.

Finally!!

So, I really don't have anything to do here at work, so why not talk about the NHL. Finally, the NHL and player's association reach an agreement. Though I really didn't miss it, but I'm glad to see there will be an NHL season. Go Leaf's! I'm not going to go into the details of the agreement because I really don't care. The only thing I care about is that there will be hockey games on TV. I can actually watch out for Caps ticket sales. Yeah, I live in the DC area so I have to go see Caps games which is better than nothing. I grew up in near Cleveland (more like Akron) and we had no team. They still have no NHL team but they do have a farm team(San Jose). Unfortunately for the NHL, the NFL is about to get started so my focus will be on my Brownies from late August until January. Well maybe late July. Sorry honey, I'll be in football lala land for awhile and Pelican Pete's every Sunday.

Hopefully the Caps are at least a playoff team because those games are crazy good. The energy is amazing and maybe I won't spill my soft drink on the ground and soak my wife's purse.

Go Wei Go

I was going to comment on her play from last week at the John Deere Classic but of course I didn't because I really don't keep up with this blog. Oh for those of you who don't know who I'm talking about, she is Michelle Wei, a 15-year old girl playing in a men's tournament. According to the article, she earned her right to play at the U.S. Amateur Public Links, so all who say she doesn't belong need to just stop. So she hasn't made the cut in the two men's events but she's fifteen, come on. She doesn't always play with the men, so how can anyone expect her to really compete. Maybe she should stop the women's play, go through the Q course and play with the men.

People griped about Annika Sorenstam playing in a men's tournament and even tried to say she is the greatest golfer. The critics say Annika cannot possible be the greatest because she hasn't beaten the likes of Vijay, Ernie or Tiger. Well, maybe if you let her play continually with the men, she will eventually make the cut and possible beat some of these guys. The same thing goes for Michelle Wei. Let her play. Stop complaining that she belongs on the women's tour because if she ever wants a shot at being the greatest, she has to play the men. It's stupid, but it has to be done. Annika has better numbers when compared to Tiger but Annika cannot be the greatest because everything she has achieved was against women not men.

Oh, it would be great though if Michelle wins the event. Apparently, the winner is traditionally invited to the Masters. Ol' Hootie would be in the spotlight again since his club doesn't allow women to play on his course, which is where the Masters is held. Hmm, we may even get to see Martha Burke again.

So much for doing it for your country

I recently came across an article about good old Gary Sheffield. Yeah, that's Mr. I didn't know they were steriods. Sorry, I can't help taking a shot at a Yankee(serious Yankee hater). The jist of the article is that Sheffield will not participate in the World Baseball Classic in March 2006. In fact, he even uttered to the New York Daily News "my season begins when I get paid." Way to go Sheffield! People love nothing better than greedy stuck up athlete, but what's new about that? I can understand his concern about possible injury but to continue on and say that you don't want to play in something made up, than I suggest you may want to stop playing baseball altogether. I believe someone or a group of people came up with the concept we now know as baseball, America's pastime. Sheffield even compared this start up WBC with the Olympics by saying to the New York Daily News "This isn't the Olympics...that's a big difference. This is something you made up." Hmm, at one point the Olympics were made up.

The World Baseball Classic will be the only format for the world to see their favorite baseball stars compete. Recently the IOC elimanated baseball and softball from the event. Were is the pride in playing for your country Mr. Sheffield? Oh, that's right, you only care about baseball if your getting paid. I'm all for this World Baseball Classic. Hopefully, in the years to come, it will pick up interest and continue on, even if it doesn't receive the attention of the Olympics or the World Cup(oh yeah, that was made up as well).

Not so brilliant

Well, on my way to an interview today I witnessed a not so brilliant decision. First off, sometimes people baffle me. I know we all make mistakes and make poor decisions but this one definitely was not a good decision. While I waited at a red light, I noticed a woman get out of a car waiting across the road in the far left lane. Apparently, this woman wanted cross the street to stand at the bus stop. Only, this person decided to exit the car during a red light and stand in the middle of the road talking to the driver of the car they justed exited. Their timing was so great that the light turned green and cars began zooming by. This woman stood in the middle of the road holding up traffic, cars honking, so she could walk over to the bus stop. Not only was this an unwise decision but it was also an unsafe act. I thought for a moment I was actually going to see someone get hit by a vehicle. If she had been struck by a car, I don't know if I would feel sorry for her. It would have been unfortunate, but she did put herself in that situation with a not so brilliant idea. Hmm, lets get out of this car and stand in the middle of the road and try to cross it with oncoming traffic. I don't think so.

We don't need any stinking sleep

Why do we need to sleep? Why can't I just function without taking a break for hours at a time? I don't get it. I reach that certain point during the day where my eyes feel heavy and the only thing I want to do is lay down to sleep. We spend approximately one-third of our life asleep(don't hold me to that figure, my wife was looking at it.) What a waste of time. I've been awake once for at least 36 hours and I can remember just how badly I wanted to lay down. Those were dreadful hours, especially when I had to drive a HumVee in a convoy. At one point, I swerved trying avoid a port-a-pody that magically appeared in the middle of the road. I can only imagine how damaging no sleep can be on a person. However, that wouldn't stop me from volunteering to stay awake for as long as I could for a scientific study. Is it possible to break the cycle of sleep? What I mean by that is, if I stay awake long enough, will I reach the point where my body doesn't try to shut down for sleep and therefore, I can stay up forever? That would be awesome. I could accomplish so much if I didn't have to sleep.