Update: I have not worked since August 13th. I still have one more week to go - new job doesn't start until Sept 4th. You know when you have time off at home and you say to yourself, "Damn, with 3 weeks off, I'm going to get so much done" ? Well, what I've done with myself amounts to a hill of beans. I've done literally nothing except play ( Read more... )

I resigned from my job this morning. I gave a notice that my last day would be August 30th, and they told me to stay home and they'd pay me. So, I'm on a paid, 3-week vacation until I start my new job on September 4th. This is one of the greatest things ever to happen. If you want to go to lunch or hang out in the middle of the day in the next ( Read more... )

Starting Friday, I'll be going dark for about a week and a half while I take a trip to the lovely Redneck Riviera. Was the light on to begin with? I haven't posted in a while and don't make a habit of doing it anyways, and I haven't seen you people in a long time. So, I guess while I'm gone, it'll kinda be more of the same.

Have you ever seen Jesus Camp? Documentary about some lady from Missouri who runs a Christian summer camp for kids in North Dakota. Sounds relatively harmless, right? I mean, I know none (none?) of you are Christians, but it doesn't sound evil or anything, right ( Read more... )

So in case you didn't know, I don't really watch the NBA. I'll watch if the Rockets are in the finals, so it's been a solid 12 years since I've really paid attention to pro basketball ( Read more... )

Every now and again I like to go to barnesandnoble.com to check out what new books have come out recently. I was doing that this morning and I was looking through the 100 top sellers. Of those, about 15 were books about "if you think good things, good things will happen". Crap like The Secret. If this is what America needs to make it through ( Read more... )

1. The phone rings. Who do you want it to be ( Read more... )

For those of you who missed the State of the Union, here's your recap ( Read more... )

Ramonce Taylor declared for the NFL draft. I'll leave it to you to make funny comments.

This is the best thing I've seen in a long time - http://futonreport.net/index.php/2006/445151