Wisdom of the Chiefs Cheerleaders

Missy- I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray for friends and family; drink water! Tara- I make a conscious effort daily to - Talk with my family; laugh at myself Trisha- I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray and keep in touch with family and friends Ashley- I make a conscious effort daily to - Drink water and keep an open mind Cathy- I make a conscious effort daily to - Be thankful for all my blessings Natalie- I make a conscious effort daily to - Treat others as I would like to be treated Shanna- I make a conscious effort daily to - Read my Bible, tell my mother how much I love her Annie- I make a conscious effort daily to - Bring smiles to other people’s faces Monica- I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray, smile and talk with someone new Sharon- I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray before bed; sing loudly in my car Jackie- I make a conscious effort daily to - Work out and make time for people I care about Sarah- I make a conscious effort daily to - Tell my family how much I love them Stacy- I make a conscious effort daily to - Read the Sports section of the newspaper Amy- I make a conscious effort daily to - Work on my Chiefs routines and do Crunches Dionne- I make a conscious effort daily to - Surround myself with positive people Holly- I make a conscious effort daily to - Smile and reach out to others Stacie- I make a conscious effort daily to - Care and think about others around me Amy- I make a conscious effort daily to - Tell my husband I love him Lindsay- I make a conscious effort daily to - Talk with my mom and dad Kendrea- I make a conscious effort daily to - Tell my family I love them Becca- I make a conscious effort daily to - Learn something new and encourage someone else Shanna- I make a conscious effort daily to - Thank God for my blessings Sara- I make a conscious effort daily to - Take a deep breath, smile and laugh Brandi- I make a conscious effort daily to - Give someone a compliment Ginger- I make a conscious effort daily to - Practice what I preach Mandy- I make a conscious effort daily to - Not sweat over the small stuff Laura- I make a conscious effort daily to - Thank God for my many blessings Laura- I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray, smile and eat chocolate Shauntel- I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray, smile at people I make contact with and be thankful for what I have Erin- I make a conscious effort daily to - Positively influence the days of people I interact with Kara- I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray, laugh and love Raquel- I make a conscious effort daily to - Accomplish task-related goals Kim- I make a conscious effort daily to - Read my Bible; work out Megan- I make a conscious effort daily to - Work out and spend time with my friends Deanne- I make a conscious effort daily to - Drink 8 glasses of water; make someone smile Heidi- I make a conscious effort daily to - Eat right, have a little fun and relax ------------------------------------------ Given the striking similarity of many of the answers, I have a nagging suspicion that there was a lot of cheating going on while this test was being given. Perhaps the NFL should investigate this...

Gorram Dave anyway...

Damn damn damn Dave. Last night he brings up this little factoid, that eight quarterbacks have started in the Superbowl who were not the opening day starters of their teams. Seven of the eight were on the winning team in those Superbowls. He does this in the presence of two of the biggest football fanatics on the chat, being myself and one P.J. Shapiro. So we automatically start trying to name off who they are. Three are easy, being Dilfer, Brady, and Hostetler. Then it gets a bit harder, heading back into those murky days when we were younger. Or not even born yet, perhaps. So I'm thinking maybe Griese took over for Earl Morrall on one of the Dolphins championship teams. P.J. is desperately searching through Superbowl.com and we're just generally going nuts. DAMN YOU DAVE! So I get up this morning, and it's still pressing on my mind. So I go looking around... my thought is to cross-reference Superbowl.com info with team pages that might, just might list opening day rosters for each season. Hah. Dream on. I think. I'm rather bogged down right now in the Chiefs cheerleader section. I have discovered this tidbit about one Missy, a woman of supreme intellectual depth and accomplishment... "I make a conscious effort daily to - Pray for friends and family; drink water!" We could all learn a lot from Missy. So I haven't really had the chance to look around and see if the Chiefs have a listing of their year by year opening day rosters just yet. There's 37 more cheerleaders to go through on the Chiefs alone...

Yeah

Recent headline in Texas Lawyer magazine. "Texas Court Okays Butt Search for Crack." No, you really don't want to know.

Superbowl something something

Okay, the game of the year is upon us. The very reason why they have a season. The culmination of a year's worth of planning, playing, and dreaming. Panthers. In a blowout. I mean, it's not even going to be close. P.J., don't read this next part. ---------------------------------------- Actually, I'm projecting the Pats by a touchdown. I wish I'd put some cash down on this matchup before the conference championships, because I figured the Eagles were weak in all the areas that Panthers are strong. No run defense against a strong run game. Crappy offensive line against the best defensive line in the league. The cats couldn't have asked for a better championship game matchup. Nevertheless, the Pats have the experience, and it's hard to bet against Belichick these days. I just posted that part about a Panthers blowout as a cheap attempt to lure PJ into posting again. I'm devious that way. Now you're probably sure that he's reading this, but my pal PJ is a straight-up honorable dude who would NEVER read anything he's not supposed to, right PJ? Heh heh heh. ------------------------------------ You can resume reading now, o' mighty guitar-sensei. I was reading an article at Sportsline about the prospect that Belichick might be a better coach than Parcells. Now nobody can argue with Parcells ability to motivate and lift otherwise hopeless teams to respectability, but one does have to question his career. His post-Giants career has been two stops, where he did lift teams up but not quite get them over the hump. And as the article pointed out, Belichick had a place on both those teams. (At least in his post-Browns days, that is.) Then Parcells bailed. His talent-selection is questionable, and his ability to build long-term winners is heavily suspect. But then nobody has consistantly managed to pull off the coach/GM business in the modern day. If Belichick is still around with the Pats in five or six years, and they're still contending in the fashion they're doing now, then he aces Parcells in terms of coaching quality. There was supposed to be something deep and profound in here, but I'm tired and not feeling up to it. So anyway, Panthers by at least fourteen. Nyah nyah.

Baayack

Here I be. Long run, nasty stuff. Winter sucks. What I'd love is that ideal combination of winter traffic (light, easy parking availability) combined with summer weather. (Minus the bugs of summer.) One gets the briefest period of that during the fall, before the ghastly white stuff starts hitting the ground. Sorry Gem, but snow makes for a lousy working environment. Went here, went there, went back to Duncan Oklahoma, my home away from home for a year and a half. Got a post about that in my head, may get around to writing it up. See ya'll soon.

A Real American Hero

At the risk of lowering everyone's opinion of my workplace even more, I offer you up this little peek of another day at the office. There I was, toiling away, when who should happen by but the lovely and talented UCAC. She had her hands behind her back, which could mean a lot of things. I was guessing I was about to get hit with something, but I was wrong. "Do you want to see my new toy?" Now if you know UCAC at all, you really want to see her new toy. So, of course I did. She turned her back to me and seemed to be fiddling with something. The thought crossed my mind again that I was being suckered and would soon be hit with a flyswatter, or ruler, or a cardboard tube...One of these days we are going to have to explore this whole hitting thing... Anyway, she turned around and presented me with this: G.I.Jack How was your day at work?

Heard any good TV lately?

I am a multitasker. It is not unusual for me to be watching TV while chatting with the folks in #firefly, IMing someone else, working on some other computer project, eating, drinking, and maybe reading a book or magazine. There are usually just a lot of little things going on. I didn't realize how adept I had become at watching TV with limited visual interaction until I started watching Cowboy Bebop. The Japanese language version with the english subtitles was recommended to me, so that is what I am watching. Subtitles demand attention. Rather than focus on the computer screen, glancing at the TV occasionally to get your bearings (Or when Faye speaks, because she is just so...Faye), you have to focus on the TV glancing away to make sure what you are typing is actually readable. This all got me to thinking, why not burn good tv to cd and listen to it on the road? Has anyone done this, or is anyone interested in the idea? I like the idea of leaving for work and hearing Our Mrs. Reynolds. It certainly would work well with things like that, which have been seen enough times that the video is no longer required. The software end of doing this should be pretty simple. If you already have your episode in DivX or mpeg you can use virtualdub to create a .wav file of the audio. That file could then be burned directly to CD, or compressed to mp3. I'll report back after I have done the actual work of it and have some Firefly CD's to listen to. Thanks to Annie and Wil at the Rubble for tipping me off to the 1and1.com hosting special. You can see the beginnings of something, still not sure what it will be, at http://sparkx.webhop.net Now, let me close by pointing out that pink is the panty color of the day. Happy Friday all.

Just shut up and fuck!

Ah, it has been a while. I debated whether or not to explain the absence. Then I realized that the explanation would take up a bunch of space and make the visual effect of the entry much better, so here goes. I really did almost post an entry. Then I thought better of it, because I was not sure that anyone wanted to hear that one. Then I almost posted again, had a fine entry almost completed. I took a break to test out a DVD data disk in the laptop. The laptop did not approve and promptly had a kernel panic. Losing the post, and making me curse Steve Jobs once again. The bastard. So I decided to do the next post on the desktop system. No freakish behavior there. As I got into the post a horrid winter storm made the power blink and not even Bill and Windows could save that one. Then the horrid winter storm dumped an assload of snow on me, and you don't want to hear the things I say after shoveling snow for an extended period. And now everyone's favorite curling phenom tells me I should update, so I shall. I was talking with a girl about bookstores today. She had been in one recently and was going through the sex section. Apparently there is a pop-up kama sutra book. Who knew? According to her there are tabs and things you push and pull on too....For those of you not running to Barnes and Noble, I will continue. She went on to tell me they have books on how to be naughty for nice girls. I lost focus for a second thinking about the word naughty. Such a good word. It even sounds naughty. I regained that focus in time to hear about the book teaching you how to talk dirty, followed by the line. "I don't get dirty talk, just shup up and fuck!" I know I can't top that, but i forge on. What is the deal with nipples? Why can't we see them? Not that some of us have weird blindness that bends the light around them, hiding them from view. I mean in our TV and movies. Usually I just figure that we live in America, and that is how we do things here. No big deal. Today however, I was watching a Rob Zombie DVD and there was some concert footage. Now this is a guy that sings about demons, dead girls, burning witches, and all manner of stuff that make the Harry Potter defenders point and go "Hey, what up with that twisted shit, yo?" So we get to the crowd shots and every last nipple is blurred. What the hell? "Burning witches...m'kay...bound up the dead triumphantly...m'kay...super beast...m'kay...WAIT WAIT WAIT, was that a nipple? Blur that right now..." It is a strange world. If you are a Rob Zombie fan though, the Past, Present & Future cd/dvd set is very good. And finally, how did I miss Babylon 5? By some strange quirk of the cosmos, it just never worked out. I am in the process of catching up now, and it is excellent. I am starting to understand what fans of the show go on and on about. I have also just started catching Cowboy Bebop. The Cartoon Network is kind enough to run it right when I wake up every morning. I would recommend both.

Guten Tag, Silke!

Well, this is what Freetranslation.com gave me... Your loving: o) To be sure a little late, but not fewer sincerely: you all a happy new year, all imaginably goods and I hope are had, you well pure landslide (and has you meanwhile already again recovered: o)) I before to think every 3 hours of 6 to 9 h mornings of you, from loose hinge to Sparkx - unfortunately without much success, for I fell asleep shortly previously. Everyone feels retroactively considered you therefore and embraces. Many dear greetings, and we see us in the chat. To which I say Lieb Silke, Wir haben Sie sehr viel verpaßt und haben gehofft, daß Sie Ihre Feiertage genossen haben. Groß, Sie hinter zu sehen, und wir schauen alle vorwärts zu mit Ihnen bald sprechend an. Wir haben die Erde Normale Zeit Ahnung bearbeitet, aber alle Gesetzgeber um die Welt sind faul und Nehmen eines Bruchs jetzt gleich. Which is probably German for "I have a strange passion for albino monkeys." Online translators have senses of humor too, ja?

Frohes Neues Jahr! :o)

Ihr Lieben :o) Zwar ein bißchen spät, aber nicht weniger herzlich: Euch allen ein frohes neues Jahr, alles erdenklich Gute und ich hoffe, Ihr seid gut reingerutscht (und habt Euch mittlerweile schon wieder erholt :o)) Ich hatte vor, alle 3 Stunden von 6 bis 9 h morgens an Euch zu denken, von LostAngel bis Sparkx - leider ohne viel Erfolg, denn ich bin kurz vorher eingeschlafen. Fühlt Euch also alle nachträglich bedacht und umarmt. Viele liebe Grüße, und wir sehen uns im chat. (my first german post. just a short one to see how it looks. and if you all like it. if you translate this and find it does not make any sense, ask cpt buck or get back to me :o))

New Year's

Kind of at the bottom of the barrel for personal dedications, so I'll hiatus that for a bit. Song- Whistling in the Dark, by Firewater. "Long live the queen; the queen is dead, so take the crown off of her head. But is that taps or reveille that she's whistling in the dark?" Evocative imagery for me. Is it the sign-off or the wakeup call? (For the record, I HATE reveille. It's an insomniac thing... we hate being woken up before we're damn well good and ready, what it taking so much frustration and effort getting to sleep in the first place.) I only really have the one holiday, the Fourth of July. That blessed time when you can legally blow things up comes but once a year, after all. But New Year's does have a bit of personal significance. I don't get into resolutions, I don't really take stock of the last year... but I get up, look at the date readout on my watch and say to myself "This one is going to be better than the last one." I don't base this on any evidence, any faith in the notion that the goddess of Luck will suddenly smile upon me, just the notion that by god I will do better and be better this year. The whims of fate will hand me what they want to, and I'll deal with it as needed... But at the end of the year, am I a better person than when I started the year? There's always work to be done.