It's Official

Rachel is addicted to Geometry Wars on XBOX live Arcade...

For Niel...

Drew Barrymore

Hey cat lover...

I dont really like cats much, and apparantly neither do alot of people who own cats. Check out this website. Its pretty entertaining...

Cats

Hey Everybody...

I like pie!!!!

The key to success...

I think I figured out why Steven Spielberg is such a great director. He appears to have great concentration. Here he is looking Drew Barrymore straight in the eyes, while the camera man behind them and the giant woman with Shirley Temple hair in front of them, appear to be stairing straight at Drew's breasteses.

And I think Phillip Seymore Hoffman is turning into a muppett or Bruce Vilanche. His beard looks so fluffy.

Stop and think about it...

You ever stop and think about life. I mean really stop and think about life? I took some philosophy calles in college, and at the time, I just did the work to get a good grade, I never really thought about what philosophy was all about. But now that Im older (and hopefully wiser), I started thinking about what life was really about. So I started doing some research and there are some fascinating theories out there. There are two that I have read about that really peaked my interest. They are pretty much 180 degrees from one another, but each makes their own interesting arguments.

Im by no means an expert on this, so some of the terminology I may have wrong. The 1st theory is predetermination. The basic points of predetermination is that free will is just an illusion. Supposidly, free will and reasoning are two qualities that make us superior to animals. But what if our lives are predetermined the moment we are born. One of the things about life is that you need to make a choice and go with it. We make choices all through our lives. We pick which schools we want to go to. What subject we wanted to major in. Who we want to marry. Where we want to live. I look at my choice to move to Virginia as a perfect example. In my mind I weighed the pros and cons, and made a conscious decision that I wanted to move. At least thats what I like to think. Maybe I didn't really make a choice at all. Maybe I was destined to move from New York.

What if I hadn't moved? Where would I be working? Where would I be living? Am I married? If so, who did I marry? What would have become of Rachel? If she hadn't met me, would she have gone back to school? Would she be married now? Would she still live in Virginia? Would she be happy? How different would our lives be, if we weren't together. When I look at things that way, it almost seems like predetermination or destiny is 100% believable. Things just feel right, I feel like her and I were meant to be together. I feel like we complete one another. I'd like to think that Rachel and I are like 2 pieces of a puzzle, and her and I are the only two pieces that fit together. But what if that's not the case? Think about this for your own life. How you came to meet your signifigant other and how they changed your life, and how you changed theirs.

My father was injured during WWII. He was hit in the ear by a piece of metal from an explosion. He nearly bled to death. What if he did bleed to death. What if he didn't get medical care in time? He would have never met my mom, I would never have been born, my sisters would never have been born. Their kids would have never been born. I guess this is sort of like "It's a Wonderful Life". You never know how many peoples lives you influence.

This leads me to the 2nd theory which subscribes to the belief that the slighest action, can trickle down and have disastrous results. Often times, serial killers become the way they are based on interaction with an influential person in their lives. Jeffrey Dahmer was molested as a child, by a neighbor. Dahmer parents moving to that particular house, put a young Dahmer in contact with a molestor. What if they had picked another house to live in? By the age of 10, Dahmer was experimenting with animals. Decapitating rodents, bleaching chicken bones with acid, nailing dog carcasses to trees. What if someone had intervened at this point and got him the help he so desperately needed? How many lives could have been saved?

I could go on for hours, but I won't. Just something to think about.

Motherhood can be a bitch...

Remember Melissa Joan Hart? Hot...young...sexy. Well she got knocked up, and apparantly she's eaten some babies too. Wow...

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Life's Lessons...

You know how a puppy gets picked up by the scruff of the neck by it's mother? Well here's another one of life's lessons. When a filthy rich, drunken slut falls down after a night on the town, remember to always pick her up BY THE BREASTS.

WTF!?

When did the Geico gecco become English?

Gay?

John Malcovich...Straight or Gay? Discuss...

Squilky...On the Aisle...

Over the weekend we watched "The Diary of Emily Rose". It's a story of a college student, who dies during an exorcism. Supposedly it's based on a true story. It wasn't a great movie, but it was definitely different and thought provoking. Most of the movie revolves around the murder trial against the priest who was present during the exorcism. Basically the prosecutor takes the stance that Emily was not possesed and that there was a medical explination for her behavior. It was a pretty interesting movie. It's basically science vs faith, sort of reminds me of the whole issue with creationism being taught in the schools. On a scale of 1-10, I give The Diary of Emily Rose 7 upside down crosses.

The deterioration continues...

Rachel has been telling me for years that I need to go get my hearing tested. At first I thought she was crazy. I blamed her and said she mumbled. But then I started noticing I wasn't able to hear people at work that well either. Those who know my immediate family, know I come from a long line of "loud talkers". So when I speak to them in person or on the phone I hear them fine. But when I speak to people with a little less "gusto", I find myself saying "WHAT!?" more and more. Rachel is always telling me to turn the tv down, and lately I've found myself watching movies with the subtitles on because I was tired of straining to hear dialogue. I also found that whenever I talk on the phone (which is rare), I tend to always put the phone to my left ear.

So I finally went for a hearing test. I went to my regular doctor who did a preliminary test and agreed that I needed further tests. Yesterday I went to an audiologist and she confirmed what Rachel has been saying. She told me I needed a hearing aid. She said I was a candidate for a hearing aid in both ears, but my right ear is much worse than my left. I was only able to hear about 40% of the tones in right ear vs 70% in my left. So I think I'll try getting a hearing aid for my right ear (please dont stare next time you see me), and see how much of a difference that makes. Plus the newer hearing aids are not cheap (about $2-3,000) and Im not sure how much of that gets covered by insurance.

I did some research last night and read a few of the pamplets, and the new hearing aids are pretty cool. If they do all they are supposed to, I'll be quite happy. Supposidly, they have wind blockers, so if you're outside walking or biking and the wind is rushing past your head, the noise of the wind is supressed so you can hear other things around you. They are supposed to help create a smaller arc of sound as well. So if you are talking to a person across the table at a restaurant, their voice should be louder and more clear than the background noise from everyone else in the restaurant.

So this is stage one of my plan to replace all my existing body parts with newer, more technilogically advanced parts...

Oh and on a completely different note, Im thinking of doing a colon cleansing. Not one of the ones where they shoot water up your ass. One of the ones where you take a series of pills over several days to cleans your body of toxins. The local morning show on the radio has been trying it, and their experiences have me intrigued. Supposidly you can lose like 10 pounds, and you feel great afterwards. Im just a little nervous about trying it because of what could happen at work. I don't want to be in the middle of a meeting and suddenly have to bolt out of the room. One of the guys on the morening show also reported that he woke his wife from a dead sleep because of some gas "leakage". If anyone has any experience with this, or has tried it, let me know.

Oh and congrats to JoePa and the Nittany Lions. Holy crap that was a good game last night. Actually all three BCS games have been really good. Hopefully tonights Texas vs USC game is just as good. Im pulling for the Longhorns. I just hope the game doesn't end at 1:00 AM like last nights game did. Man am I tired today.

Oh What A Year...

Well the year ended rather "shittily" for me. I haven't really felt right for about 2 or 3 weeks. I figured it was just from all the running around associated with the holidays, lack of sleep, etc. I also noticed my eyes had been really bloodshot lately. But I recently switched my contact lenses to a new brand, so I attributed that to my eyes adjusting to new lenses. Well as Christmas approached, I started feeling a little worse, but I trudged on. Well On December 28th the trudging stopped. I had a wicked case of the flu, which is ironic, because I got a flu shot this year. I had never had the flu before (at least not as bad as this year), so I don't think I'll ever get a flu shot again.

With all the football on TV lately, it wasn't a terrible time to be laying around in bed. But it sure did make for a pathetic New Years Eve. I was struggeling to stay awake till midnight. Then I look over and see Rachel bored out of her skull sitting on the couch. Which made me feel even worse because I felt like I was ruining her evening as well. But she didn't hold a grudge, and made me soup, and bought me all kinds of over the counter cold and flu medicine to make me feel better. She got me this one kind made by Tylenol which she had to sign and show ID to buy. Apparantly there is some ingredient in it "kids" are using to get high. They melt the tabs down and mix it with something else. How lame is that. I totally got wasted on Tylenol and Pepto Bismol. Got this current generation of 15-25 year olds are pathethic.

I finally started feeling better yesterday, just in time to go back to work. (Oh Joy!). Im still not at 100%, but I'm back to about 80%. The horor of it all, I haven't touched my XBOX 360 in about 5 days. People were willing to sell a kidney to get one, and here I am with one, and just letting it sit there. The horror...the horror.

Congrats to the Ohio State Buckeyes. This will be a rough week for my brother in law Mike and I. He likes Notre Dame, I like Ohio State. He likes the Carolina Panthers, I like the Giants. So far thanks to the Buckeyes impressive play yesterday, advantage Kraus!