Heading on Vacation

Just a quick little post, I am heading to Chicago until the 5th so everyone have a great and safe holiday weekend!

No wood for Limbaugh

I find this absolutely hilarious and most pleasing to see this asshole go down in flames

"Rush Limbaugh could see a deal with prosecutors in a long-running prescription fraud case collapse after authorities found a bottle of Viagra in his bag at Palm Beach International Airport. The prescription was not in his name."

Viagra threatens Limbaugh Plea Deal (CNN)

The asshole that he is said on his show:

"Limbaugh joked about the search on his radio show Tuesday, saying Customs officials didn't believe him when he said he got the pills at the Clinton Library and he was told they were blue M&Ms. He later added, chuckling: "I had a great time in the Dominican Republic. Wish I could tell you about it."

Just like the piece of shit he is, he attacks someone else because he is an idiot. Hopefully this gets his show cancelled.

How Liberal or Conservative are you?

I saw this on another blog and figured I would try it out. I thought I would be more liberal but it is the whole Defense and Crime thing that moved me more towards the middle. Thanks ... and this is while god invented condoms blog

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 40% Conservative, 60% Liberal

Social Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

I am who I am, who I am. Well who am I?

For my fellow DMB fans you will know where that comes from.. Show 43 in the books at Hershey this weekend. I must say it was a pretty good set, I didn't hear Too Much, Crash, Where are You going, Jimi Thing... the stuff I have heard so many times. Our seats absolutely blew but other than that I had a good time.

Yesterday was one of those Who am I days. I was talking to a friend about how this wasn't where we expected our lives to be at this time. It made me really ponder everything and sit and wonder if I made a wrong turn and who I really was.

I don't know if I will be able to answer that question anytime soon. Fundamentally I am the same person, but I have lost a huge part of me lately that I somehow have to rebuild or refill. With what I have no freaking clue. I just find that there are days that I feel totally lost, days I just go through the motions etc.. Rarely is there a day that I feel like it is new and refreshing and that I am starting to be fulfilled with life again.

I find myself being really weather affected. Yesterday was shitty out all day and I just was a bum. I did one load of laundry and nothing else beside feel sorry for myself. I need to stop doing that and I am trying to but just when it turns around I get phone calls about my Grandma being in the hospital.. just seems I can't catch a break.

Guess I have Chi-town to look forward to in a few days.

Redd Up Pittsburgh

redd up v. intermediate step between tidying and cleaning ' Yinz better redd up this room ' (from wikipedia)

Well our illustrious mayor is at it again. Pittsburgh is fortunate enough to bring the MLB All-Star game to the gorgeous PNC Park so big Bobby decided to start a new campaign: REDD UP PITTSBURGH.

If you are a 'bugher you have heard good old Bob basically take credit for EVERYTHING that has happened here lately. PNC's new building on 5th and Forbes was all his idea, it had nothing to do with the 3-4 plans Mayor Murphy worked on his entire term. Pretty soon him and Al Gore can get together and claim they both invented the internet together.

Now don't get me wrong peeps, I think the 'burgh could use a good cleaning but my god of all things to call it. Pretty soon Bob will be sporting a mullett and wearing AC/DC and Bon Jovi t-shirts to work.

He is a douchbag of the N'th degree.

Superman = gay (?) = who cares

So the new Superman movie Superman Returns comes out soon. There is all this "buzz" in the media and toward the director etc.. that Superman is gay. Well after having a conversation with my favorite 'mo (as he would say), this is what I said :

"like I care if he is a top or a bottom, I just want to see him go and pick heavy shit up and beat up bad guys.

I just recently learned the "top" thing but I think you can draw the proper conclusion. So Superman, get out their flying (I wish I could do that) and don't get stuck with any kryptonite, no matter where you choose to get "stuck".

OK speaking of kryptonite I found this when googleing a picture. I should have assumed this existed:

Bored at work.. what to do?

Well Fathers Day has come and gone and it has now been 5 months since my fathers passing. Hard to believe.

I have to say I am fucking bored out of my mind at work. This happens all the time, I finish a project and there is nothing else for me to do. Half the time I sit around and make up my own work but I have even ran out of that. I am curious to find out what other people do when they are bored at work.

Personally I have read the entire internet today, well at least all of my normal sites plus blogs plus other stuff. It is 3 so all I have to do is waste one more hour, I think I will devote that to porn and myspace. If anyone has anything out there remotely interesting let me know.. otherwise I think I am just going to take a nap.

Movies

I tend to think I am a movie buff and since it is the weekend and the fact I had this conversation with Dwight today about my favorite movies so here is the list:
First off is Garden State:

This is one of my all time favorites. I love Zach Braff and who can't love Natalie Portman (yes of course I want to do her). The movie is very symbolic and really makes you think and look around at what is going on rather than what the dialogue is leading you towards.



I also must admit my love for Teeny Bopper movies. I don't know what it is but I just like em: Whatever it takes, Boys and Girls, Loser, Euro Trip, stuff like that just amuses me. Also on the comedy front I have to mention Old School and Wedding Crashers .. how can you not love those.

I also love Pauly Shore Movies... all of them except Jury Duty.







Here are a few more that I love:

Casablanca









Clueless












And of course my Julia Styles obsession:















So that is where I will cut it off, this post looks like crap b/c I am too lazy to format it right now but at least it gives the info. Have a great weekend!

Pittsburgh-ese

For those of you non-burghers here is some interesting stuff on our wonderful dialect here. Growing up in West Virginia y'all was the abbv. for you all, but in Pittsburgh it is yinz. Here is a great wikipedia article on Pittsburgh-ese and a good website on it. See yinz dahntahn n'at.

R is For Rant, P is for Pussy

Who is sick and tired of hearing about Big Ben and his accident... raise your hand. Granted the great thing about living in this country is you can pretty much say whatever the fuck you want and this blog is a great example, but come on people.. he is a fucking HUMAN BEING!! I am as big of a Steelers fan as the next person but the kid is 24 years old. People make mistakes, we all do, and I guarantee we have all done something that we were told not to and had to learn from that experience and hopefully Ben will too.

What is my opinion on the whole situation? I think he should have been wearing a helmet, truthfully I think it should be a law and I know there are both sides but I will explain why I think that way: I think of the other person in the accident, if something would happen and say the rider died the other person would have to live with that the rest of their life because the moto rider didn't have a helmet on. So that is kinda how I think about it. I am digressing here, back to the rant.

Fans of football teams in our division are complete douchebags. (Ravens, Bengals, Browns). I loathe their teams just as much as they do mine but I would never post some of the garbage they have on their message boards (read about it here). Everyone glad that Ben got hurt.. Laughing and cheering about it. I think it is really interesting what was said in that article that peoples brains don't develop fully until they are 25, which I didn't know until today. People need to get a grip and not cheer over the misfortune of others. Here is also a little article from the burghblog about the same subject

NOW on to the P.....
CARSON PALMER IS A FUCKING PUSSY
I am so sick and tired of reading and hearing about how Kemo "cheap shotted" him and hurt him. That the Steelers cheated their way to the Super Bowl. It was a perfectly legal shot and don't even make me pull out all the shots on Ben last year that no one really said a damn thing about. I am tired of Carson and the Bengal fans whining. He has never proven a thing to me. The Bengals may have won the division for the first time in god knows how long but it wasn't just because of him. If he makes it back from his injury and has a good season, good for him. I don't call the man a pussy because he got hurt because I thought that sucked. I wanted to beat them so they didn't have an excuse and the kid does have some talent, but stop whining. It happened and get over it. Stop telling the media if this didn't happen then we would have done this. Hell if that was true I would be fucking every girl that graces the pages of playboy.

People really piss me off anymore. I thought I could be a tolerant person but when people continue to feed of the misfortune of others I have two other letters for them:
F U

The Dave Matthews Band

Show 41 and 42 down and what a weekend it was. DMB dropped two fantastic and energetic nights at the hell hole known as the Post Gazette pavilion. Got to hear some of my favorites with a Best of Whats Around opener to start the weekend and Two Step to close it with and 4 new songs I haven't heard (Shotgun, The Idea of You, Kill the King and Sister) . When I go see DMB I am just in a different world. It makes me forget about everything that is troubling me and I just get in the zone and I must say it is refreshing. I had a great weekend, the best since I went to the Sugar Bowl on New Years if that says anything. Check out DMBAlmanac to see all the great stuff they played. They never fail to amaze me!!

It is nice to see Dave's lyrics are getting better and better.. here is the chorus to the new song The Idea of You..

I fall so hard inside the idea of you
It’s why with you, I can say what I mean
Wanna stay but I think God get me out of here
I fall so hard inside the idea of you

Love it...

Spreading of my Fathers Ashes

I spent Sunday the 3rd spreading my fathers ashes in the back fork of the Elk River in Webster Springs, West by god Virginia. I love WV, it is so comfortable and beautiful. It was probably the 2nd or 3rd hardest day of my life. It is such a beautiful place there, but it was so hard to let him go. Here are the pictures of that day

My dad was an amazing man and it is still hard for me to talk about him because I miss him so much. Every time someone mentions him to me they talk about how great he is. My dad was Mr. Social, he was always out and about and made friends so easily. Rarely would you hear anyone have a bad thing to say about him. He was kind of my rock in some fashion. I talked to him everyday after work to see what was going on, talked about sports, work, life etc.. He had some trouble sometimes giving me advice when it came to some things (like my marriage) because it would make him so upset at the way I was being treated that he just couldn't respond.. but I understood. He is alot like me that he just wanted to find the way to fix it right then and there and that is always tough. I really miss talking to him every day. I don't have that person in my life anymore and it is really difficult to "fill" that void. I still think about him every day..

So if there is some way you are reading this dad, reading my mind, watching over my shoulder... just know that I miss you and Love you.

Lots of updates...

Well since I disappeared for a week I have a lot to write about. I took some time off from writing to reflect on somethings and had a friend in for 4 days so I didn't sit in front of the computer much, but over the next few hours there should be a lot of updates trying to get all this stuff out of my head.

So... here we go

Pets

One of my friends had a very rough evening last night and it really made me reflect on the subject of Pets. Pets are such a wonderful thing, you get that unconditional love from them that you just can't find anywhere else. There is nothing better to come home and have your pet run up to you so excited to see you.

My friend unfortunately had to put one of her pets to sleep last night and it was such a tough decision. The pet had never been sick for 6 years and now was critical and the surgery would cost and ton of money with the possibility of it happening again. It really made me think, especially after I yelled at Piper (pic above) unnecessarily last night.

When I got home last night from our win in darts she had pissed 2x in the dining room. I wasn't happy, but I let it go. What was worse is I come upstairs and the bed was soaked. Thinking that she had let go on the bed too, I got really mad and yelled at her. Then I checked out the sheets to find that it wasn't pee, it was just wet from the bath I gave her. I absolutely fell like shit. I spent some extra time with her last night b/c I just felt so bad.

I think sometimes we take our pets for granted and just look at them as they are a lower life form and really don't need what a human would need. Some people I know absolutely adore their pets and treat them like kings.

I didn't really want a dog and it really does affect my lifestyle. I have to be home a lot more, I can't just go from work to somewhere else etc.. I was really not happy when the ex left her with me, but now I really am. Piper has been there for me when I have gone through so much and she is always there to love me, give me a lick on the nose, cuddle etc..

She does bad things sometimes, but I would miss her if she was gone. I know all of us have lost pets and it is so tough to get over them. There is no good words to help cope, but all I can say is always try to think of the good things and the funny things they did.. I still think about my dog from childhood Zeke. He was fantastic and I miss him, but as I have found time does heal and another pet can help shun the burden. I never will replace a pet, but having another one to love helps a whole bunch.

To my friend: I am terribly sorry for your loss and if there is anything I can do, I am here for you.