no school like old school

Growing up in the age of rapidly developing video games, I'm a little suprised that my gaming growth was stunted shortly after the glory days of Super Team Games. This was a classic in the charron home.

Intense competition was born on power pad and the race always seemed to come down to two events. The Crab Walk and the Belly bump. My favorite was the Belly bump. Sprinting in place my man would run into a ball bigger than him and lunge his belly into it with a perfectly arched back. The reward of the good hit was worth the 2.2 calories I burned to move it. Arnold once said, "If it werent not for the belly bump, these abs would be not flat."

Joxter, Dexto

Some crazy person thought it would be a good idea to give me an intern. His name is Dexter and I will meet him on Monday. I don't know anything about him so I am going to make some guesses.

1. I bet he likes animals with people names.
2. I bet he like harmony.

If I am right, then I am in super luck. Here are my families pets, hanging out in the normal position. The cat, Dirt, always is sitting on Gary, the guinea pigs cage. And Emily the dog has convinced herself that she gave birth to both.

My boss cc'd me on the email he wrote D-$ in which I am referred to as a "very special person".

Today was my first sick day of my professional life.
After talking to my boss this morning, I slept until 5:10pm.

i'm the first loser

I'm not good at ms packman and was unfairly pitted against the mexican and cowbow. i may need to buy that game and other neat stuff for some pre-season practice.



I have such funny, talented and creative friends, I feel lucky to get get to call them that.

Get Well Soon

(photo by Thomas Hawk)

Last week my office sent a get-well card around for one of the ladies I knew to be in the hospital. There was even a checklist to ensure all staff would sign it. When I first saw her back I thought she looked really good but wouldn’t tell her that for fear the change was a sickness induced weight loss or something. Surely no one can think it is a compliment to look better sick than healthy. I didn’t ask why she was ill, I think those things are private so I just told her I was glad to see her back. A few minutes later I heard her talk about her “staples” I turned to look and saw they are in fact in her face, more specifically, in her scalp. My first thought was that this poor woman had her face ripped off by a vicious dog or large bird! So in a genuinely concerned voice I asked if she was ok now. She replied by telling me about the pain she still feels in her ear and how her face is swollen still after a week. It could have been the confused look on my face but she realized I didn’t know how this had happened to her so she finally told me. She had a face-lift.

Is self-induced pain worthy of a get-well card? If I went to get my boobs done, do you think they’d buy me flowers?

They didn't call me joLo for nothin'

Just checking.

Discovery of the Day

A soy latte really compliments a bean burrito.

Lord Of The Pants

This is sister Jill. Jill is wearing a shirt that says, "Dreams Do Come True" with a picture of an RV on it. She dreams big.

Over Christmas, Jill got all the sisters to watch a very good movie "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" and while discussing movies we got the title to King Kong confused and began the pants movie game. Only rule is, you have to subsitute the word 'Pants' into other movie titles. I think you might like it.
Some favorites: 'King Pants', 'Fun with Pants', 'Pants Face', and Jen cheated with a TV show 'Sponge Pants Square Pants'. The fun is endless, just like hanging with jill. You will laugh till your face falls off. I'm on my 4th face. That's actually why I had to move out.

Jill has no pain tolerance, by that I actually mean she doesn't feel pain. She once shattered her wrist snowboarding, then managed to get her jacket off and drive her stick-shift truck all the way back to Denver before going to the hospital. They gave her frankenstein bolts to hold her together.

She can also freakishly traverses very high mountains. She has cartwheeled up about a bazillion 14ers.

PS Jill thinks Jello is grossss too. Just because of that, she can be the boss of me anyday.