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NASCAR Rant
August 12, 2005 1:38 pm

OK, I take it back.

It's gonna be a helluva lot easier to do my regular updating on my Xanga page, so I don't see ant point in duplicating the stuff over here. Go ahead & check out that page for my latest and greatest.

I will reserve this page however, for rants on certain topics that I feel would be out of place on that other page. Like NASCAR, for instance:

Story today is that car owner Chip Ganassi is exercising his option and keeping lame-duck driver Jamie McMurray in the 42 car next year, even though McMurray is already signed to replace Mark Martin in the #6 in 2007. This move forces Martin to stay in the 6 for a year longer than his planned retirement.

This is an enormously stupid decision for two major reasons. One, why in the world would any owner want to keep a driver in a car for over a year, knowing full well he is angry about being there? Angry NASCAR drivers lead to accidents on the track.

Second, and more importantly, if Martin should be seriously injured or killed next year on the track, driving when he shouldn't have had to, Ganassi will instantly become the most hated man in America (by Americans, the rest of the world will still hate Bush more), and if he ever goes back to a track after such an incident, he better have more security with him than the president if he values his health at all.

Gone Fishing
June 23, 2005 12:19 pm

A man calls home to his wife and says, "Honey I have been asked to go fishing up in Canada with my boss & several of his friends. We'll be gone for a week. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I've been wanting so could you please pack enough clothes for a week and set out my rod and tackle box? We're leaving from the office & I will swing by the house to pick my things up."
"Oh! Please pack my new blue silk pajamas."
The wife thinks this sounds a bit fishy but being the good wife she does exactly what her husband asked.
The following weekend he came home a little tired but otherwise looking good. The wife welcomes him home and asks if he caught many fish?
He says, "Yes! Lots of Walleye, some Blue gill, and a few Pike. But why didn't you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?
The wife replies, "I did, they're in your tackle box."

Back. Almost
June 20, 2005 2:16 am

Got my computer working again, but had problems finding my blog program installer so I could start using it again, that's why it's been so long.

Then, for kicks, I just tried running the program as is, and up it came. Apparently nothing is stored anywhere else, so I could've been using the blogger all this time.

I do intend to go back and copy some of the entries from my uncensored blog over here, so be sure and look back at some earlier entries in a week or so, may take me that long to get everything copied over, and properly censored.

BTW, the Road site may take a little longer, still have to reinstall Front Page to get that site updated.

Top Ten Signs Your Favorite TV Show Has Been Cancelled
June 20, 2005 2:11 am

10. They start killing off characters and it's a reality show

9. Your TiVo makes a laughing sound when you try to record the remaining episodes

8. In final episode, actors' lines are drowned out by the sound of stagehands breaking down the set

7. The President's Axis of Evil now includes Iraq, Iran, North Korea and your show

6. When host says, "We will be right back," a group of executives rush in and beat him senseless

5. Instead of closing credits you see resumes

4. The "Desperate Housewives" become desperate hookers

3. You just hired your 23rd Apprentice

2. In promotion spots, the premiere episode is referred to as the series finale

1. Network announces six-episode story arc in which each main character goes out to dinner with Robert Blake

TV Alert
May 8, 2005 10:01 am

His non-compete clause apparently about to expire, Travis Meyer starts on KOTV-6 effective June 1st. James Aydelott is following his wife to Dallas & taking a job there, he'll be leaving the week before. Likely scenario will be: Jim still doing just 5 & 6 pm, Travis doing weeknights @ 10, Dick moving back to weekends, and Katie moving up to mornings.

May 6, 2005 10:38 pm

Was not a good day.

Car wouldn't start this morning. Had to humbly apologize to the person I was taking in to work this week, because she had to find another way in. Was just able to find a ride of my own and get to work just in time.
Didn't get the payroll job.
Still up for the Buddy post, but still haven't heard for sure whether I got it, who my coach is gonna be, or which shift I'll be on.

Car has since been fixed (out $148 that I can't afford). Thought at first it was the alternator, but turned out it was a severely-corroded cable, which caused a fuse to overload.

About the only good thing that happened to me today is that I made it back to the Launch Pod again next week, albeit this time on the evening shift. Off again this weekend as a result. And if the Buddy Pod starts the following weekend like it's still supposed to, my weekends at work are over.

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