Deadly Games

Vern and I are hitting the gym a lot lately for a few reasons – it’s fun, he wants to get into shape and I want to get more cardio. With that being said we normally work a muscle group then either play some basketball or squash. Sounds boring eh??!! Well, so far in about 5 trips to the squash court I’ve been hit by three shots (neck, ear and inner thigh) plus a nice racquet tap to the elbow and in about 3 trips to the basketball court I head butted Vern one SOLID time in the eye! Who knew squash and basketball could be so painful?

Who’s up for a game?

Cheers!
Andrew

“If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”

-Jack Handey

Iceland vs. Greenland

If I were to say to you that Iceland is hotter then Greenland, would you tell me I am wrong?

I ask this because although I am correct in stating that Iceland, on average, has a higher temperature then Greenland I am told that I cannot use the descriptor “hotter”.  Apparently since Amy and Matt define hot as being something completely different then a relative term I can’t use it in the above statement.

By their standards I’m not even allowed to say “It’s hot in here!” or wow “It was hot in the gym today.”.  Well boo on them!

Leave a comment, but personally the term hot (hotter) is a relative term and relatively speaking Iceland is definitely way HOTTER then Greenland!

BTW, whoever named those countries was clearly on crack!

Cheers!
Andrew

WEEKEND

Giggitty Giggitty, ALRIGHT!!!

Cheers!
Andrew

The Dominican, Cuba or Mexico?

I’m taking my first trip EVER (aside from the always exciting family trips – 15 years old + Portugal = CHURCHES) in March with Mike and possibly Craig. We’re trying to weigh our options and since neither of us have ever been to any of the places I’ve mentioned, I thought (Amy actually gave me the idea) I’d ask for a little help. If anyone has opinions of where we should go (insert jokes here) then please inform me because I can’t make up my mind!

Oh yeah, almost forgot…we’re doing the “all-inclusive” resort thing, so keep that in mind (site seeing isn’t top on our list).

Cheers!
Andrew

“We used to laugh at Grandpa when he’d head off and go fishing. But we wouldn’t be laughing that evening when he’d come back with some whore he picked up in town.”

-Jack Handey

Preemptive SHUSH!

You know those people that just like to “SHUSH” people? Yeah well today I finally found out who their leader is!

OK, so I talk a lot and I can take a SHUSH here and there because I probably deserve the one’s I receive, but, today I was “preemptively SHUSHED” by someone *cough cough*Amy*cough cough* and it was very disturbing! I mean I KNOW that I like to hear the sound of my own voice and that sometimes it gets on peoples nerves *cough cough*Amy*cough cough* but this time I have to say, the shush was unwarranted!

Anyhow, to those who talk a lot like myself you now have been granted one “ignore that SHUSH” ticket to be used whenever you are shushed next because today was the day when their leader broke one of the shush commandments:

“Thou shall not SHUSH in a preemptive manner!”

Cheers!
Andrew

P.S. Bring on the “Andrew talks endlessly” comments and blogs…I deserve it!

Proud Poppa…

I don’t know what it’s like having a child of my own (that I know of anyhow). I have a dog and I felt pride in watching him learn and progress in dog school, that much is true. However, I never thought I’d feel the similar type of pride over a project I’ve worked on. What do I mean? Well, besides the obvious pride one would feel over a job well done…I feel the pride (I’m guessing) that one might feel in watching their first born learn how to walk or make friends (probably the 5am talkin’ here) or even bring home their first ‘A’.

Ok, so now you’re asking WTF are you talking about…well, let me explain. My first “web development” project was to build the Publication Reporting Tool. In order to do this I had to teach myself PHP (scripting/programming language for the web) as well as MySQL (database stuff). After slowly getting off the ground and slowly gaining speed I finally finished version 1.0 (I think) and have released it within the school. That means I’ve finally got REAL users and REAL data being entered into the system…and guess what…IT WORKS!

Anyhow, nothing special I guess…but after demoing the application at 7am to the department of Surgery and receiving a few “Support” emails, I have come to realise (knock on wood) that the application is pretty solid. After all those hours of stressing, writing and re-writing modules I’ve finally seen the finish product do it’s thing and it is good! And to make it all make even more sense, it’s like a child…it’s not perfect, but it is good enough for me!

Cheers!
Andrew

Cosmic Dust…

Yeah, I’m a geek and I find articles about space discovery intriguing! With that being said the seven year long journey of Stardust has come to an end. Stardust was a mission by NASA to fly a probe through the tail of the comet known as “Wild 2″ in an attempt to capture some of the comet’s particles. Although they only grabbed a thimble full of the comet’s tail, it will apparently take years to analyze the dust.

Anyhow, I guess that isn’t overly exciting, but for some reason I think it is! Maybe it’s the element of the “unknown” with respect to what they’ll find. Will they find that the theory of how our planet came to be is completely wrong? Will they find that the dust they captured is actually some new element that is capable of generating ridiculous amounts of energy? Or will they find that the dust is really only…well…dust!?

Anyhow, that’s all I’ve got. Take it or leave it suckas…

Cheers!
Andrew

“When you’re riding in a time machine way far into the future, don’t stick your elbow out the window, or it’ll turn into a fossil.”

-Jack Handey

Two And A Half Hours Of My Life I’ll Never Get Back…

A couple of days ago while at work I got an instant message from Shelley telling me that she just heard Mike on KROCK and he had just won tickets to see some movie. I thought “Nice, I better email him and call dibs on one of the tickets” – thinking that hey, a free movie is good no matter what it is.

WRONG! You see, the free movie was “The New World” starring Colin Farrell. This was BY FAR the worst movie I have seen in years. I had very low expectations going into this movie because I had seen the trailer and it looked horrible (but as I said, I figured a free movie was good no matter what it was). Now, normally when I have lowered expectations for a flick I end up coming out pleasently surprised (i.e. Fantastic Four) but not even that could save this movie!

This movie was sooooo slow in building to a climax that never happened – sometimes there was about 5 to 10 minutes without dialogue. Instead, we were treated to a symphony of whinning violins and fluttering flutes! GARBAGE! I think we can all agree that I’m no artist, but I am capable of appreciating “artsy” flicks if the movie is done with some sort of plot in mind. But this thing was trash. I found it hard to even grasp the point of this movie. The same old stuff was in there, like modern people coming in and taking “the naturals” land, destroying their habitat, converting them into mindless workers, blah blah blah…now, all that stuff normally works in a movie but they took these concepts and crapped all over them with horrible dialoge (or a lack there of) and transitionless scenes – there must have been about 20 to 25 black screen transitions in this movie.

Now, I could go on and on (kind of like this movie – felt like it was never going to end) about how brutal this thing was but I’m starting to have flashbacks to sitting in the theatre so I think it’s best I just stop now before I go postal and throw my monitor off the balcony here at work!

Anyhow, all I can say is that this “sneak preview” COMPLETELY back fired on who ever made this POS movie because the applause that rang out through the theatre after this thing was over wasn’t because it had a Star Wars cult following that was still creaming over Yoda’s swordsmanship, but instead were applauding because it was FINALLY over.

Quote of the night goes to some guy leaving the theatre after the movie:
“Thanks KROCK for not letting me spend my own money on this crap!”

Cheers!
Andrew

P.S. Miami Vice better be amazing for Farrell’s sake and that the next Batman better kick ass so Bale still has at least two good movies to his credit!

Saving

So…back to the usual BORING and completely pointless rants. I know what you’re saying “Did he ever get away from that?”. But in reality, I’ve actually blogged about some pretty serious stuff as of late, i.e. Politics and…uh…Politics. OK, so you’re right!

Anyhow, I think I’ll talk a little about my evening last night.

It all started with taking Max outside for some fresh air then coaxing him back inside after 5 minutes (It was shitty out alright!). Then after playing fetch in the house for a half hour or so with the little guy it was time for dinner. Had some roast beef and mashed potatoes with a nice little side of peas (gotta eat something green here and there – apples don’t count apparently). Did some dishes. Played with Max again then it was downstairs to play some Halo 2 (YES RANDALL, VID-E-O GAMES)! After that I hit the shower (break a sweat smashing on that controller and cursing at the 8 year olds over my headset – YES RANDALL, HEAD-SET!).

I went back upstairs, got ready for bed then watched some tube with Max. Good times!

The point…nothing really, other then the fact that no matter how painful last night was (not going out and doing anything in particular) I think I’m actually getting used to it! Which, is good because I spent a whopping $0 last night!

Well that’s it…

Cheers!
Andrew

T-Shirts

Ok, so I say what comes to mind and sometimes these thoughts are stupid but somewhat humorous (ok, stupid more then humorous). With that being said, I decided to start selling my thoughts on T-Shirts and other apparel. Go to my store and take a peek. I’m not doing it to make money (I would need to sell 8 million things to make a profit) but I thought it would be fun to see if there is anyone out there that would actually buy something I came up with! LOL

Anyhow, that’s all I’ve got for today…

Cheers!
Andrew