The title of this post has nothing to do with any of this... I just like to see if anybody ever gets them.
Hey whats up? Happy Reward Friday! Make sure you reward yourselves today. (Mmmm. Dunkins breakfast sammmitch...). I was walking out the door for work this morning and I noticed I was wearing the same shirt that I had worn last Friday (clean of course). Isn't that weird? I wonder if the people at Dunkin's noticed... Hmmm.
So I was planning on posting my Turbonegro story today but I spent the majority of last night, along with my Wife, searching around in the yard with a flash-light, looking for a hysterical child's missing stuffed animal, a fuzzy blue webkin hippo named 'Snowflake'.
Snowflake is not supposed to be brought outside as he (or is it a she? I don't know.) has been lost in the yard several times already. His (or her) webkin friend, a stuffed animal chewawa named 'Sweetie', has also been lost outside in the same way, resulting in simelar hysterics and a simelar search around the yard, though at least the last time it was during the day.
Sweetie and Snowflake are also not allowed to take car rides unless it is in Mommy's van (nicknamed 'The Bomber' by the way, because my Wife says whenever they arrive somewhere it's like a bomb went off), as they are often forgotten and left behind in the car, resulting in the webkins taking an unexpected vist to Grandma's house for a few days, which usually results in, you guessed it, hysterics.
Normally we would have used Snowflake's latest dissaperance as a way to teach a little lesson on taking care of your things but it was supposed to rain last night and if the thing gets wet and ruined, who's got to deal with it then? Exactly.
In any case, the missing blue hippo was eventually found, thankfully before the rain started, after said hysterical child gave us a tip on where in the yard to look for the dang thing.
So I got the Turbonegro thing half-written. I want to finish it up before the details dissapate into a generally vauge but cool memory so I'll be trying to finish it when I have more energy later on.
In the meantime, Jess from The Army Wife has tagged my site as her first 'favorite blawg of the week'! Since this site has never been tagged as the anything of anything before, I think that's pretty cool! Thanks Jess! She has given me 10 questions to answer. What? Wait a minute! What is this homework or something!? I thought being blawg of the week was enough!
Just kidding. Here are the answers to Jess' questions:
1.) If you can be any animal, what would you be and why?
- I would be a T-Rex. T-Rex kicks ass and I could stomp on things. That would be fantastic. (check Dinosaur Comics to see T-Rex in action)
2.) Who do you think is better, Batman or Spiderman?
- Hmm that is tough because being a former comic nerd I have vast collections of both in boxes in a closet somewhere. I'd have to go with Batman because under it all he is just a regular person. No super-powers. And he's a detective. He uses his brains more than his muscle.
3.) If you were stranded on an island, what three things would you take with you?
- Ahhhh. That is a hard one to answer. Prob my acoustic guitar, a lighter.. does my family count as one thing? If not then a satellite phone so I can call someone to come pick me up!
4.) What is one of your biggest fears?
- Losing my job. This is what supports my family. Nuff said.
5.) Have you ever went sky diving? Would you want to?
- I had the chance to once but declined. This is something I have no interest in doing. I know I'd be the one to pull the cord and a bunch of laundry would come out, just like in bugs bunny cartoons.
6.) If you won a million dollars today, how would you spend your money?
- Pay off the house, and all the rest of the bills, put money away for the kids school. Buy matching set of Mustang Shelby GT's for my Wife and I. Or maybe I'd get a Dodge Challenger and she could get the Shelby Mustang. That way we could switch. I'd insist on her learning to drive a stick though!
7.) What is your most embarrassing moment?
- Well when I was in college I was in this battle of the bands thing. The guy that was helping us out with the gear, pretending to be a roadie or something, was messing around and knocked my guitar off the stand, putting it totally out of whack. I didn't have a tuner and I had to spend like 15 min trying to tune the thing by ear. It was impossible because I could hardly hear it over all the people talking and the general noise from the audience. I felt like a complete idiot standing up there trying to tune that dang guitar while everybody stood around waiting for me and watching me fool with the tuning pegs. Finally I gave up and just played it out of tune. Sounded terrible.
8.) What do you think about tattoos? Do you have any? Would you ever get any?
- I think tattoos are cool. I think it's interesting to see what people get on themselves and what the different meanings of people's tattoos are. I think full sleeves and stuff like that are cool looking.. It's painful to get one but I think if it's special enough to have something permanently done on your body then it's a good pain because the pain of getting it only adds to the meaning of the tattoo.
9.) What talent do you wish you possessed?
- I wish I knew how to work on cars, and re-build them, like Chip Foose (from the TV show Overhaulin'). That guy is my hero.
10.) What five things that you have done in life are you most proud of?
- Well my family is number one, I guess number two would be my guitar playing. I'm not the best but I'm not the worst. I've been playing for over 20 years and I never gave it up. 3 would probably be the improvements that I've done to my house, landscaping the yard, making the basement into a finished room.. 4 would be that I am proud of my team, the New England Patriots. I've been following them through good times and bad, I never gave up on them and now I'm enjoying the fact that my team is the Dynasty of this decade. 5. I guess I can make a mean bowl of chili. My spaghetti and meatballs are pretty good too.
I think Curt Shilling is great and of course I think his blawg, 
