Monday, February 18, 2008

Quote of the day

Speaking to Captain Alex regarding methods of birth control.

Me: "Y'know what Alex? When you really think about it, the only 100% effective means of birth control is homosexuality."

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Powerless

The weekend ended on a stressful note and it's partially my fault. Whether by genetics or by learned behavior, my nature is to be a procrastinator. It never fails that I will wait until the last possible minute to complete a task. Then I suffer and stress while trying to complete whatever needs done at the last minute. I know that I do this and I hate it! Yet I always seem to fall into this procrastinator's trap. I can't avoid it. I simply can't make myself work ahead and it sucks!

This weekend, I deliberately waited until Sunday to begin preparing my handouts for my Thursday class. It's a harrowing ordeal that takes dozens of hours to complete eat week. So as usual, I planned on working on it all afternoon Sunday, but amazingly our power went out around 9:00am.

So we sat at home and waited for it to come back on. And waited. And waited. And missed lunch. And waited. And missed dinner. And waited. Until we finally went to Wendy's parents house for a late dinner and a shower.

And amazingly we returned home to a house with every light turned on like a beacon in the night. It was after nine pm and I didn't really feel like working on my class material then. So I decided to put it off until Monday.

Friday, February 15, 2008

A Blast from the Past!

I got a surprising email today from a Mr. Lloyd Xxxxxxxx (Last name withheld because he's cool like that!), a friend who I've not spoken to since my sophomore year in high-school. It was good to hear from him again. There are lots of friends who I've lost contact with over the past two decades and it's nice to catch up with them once in a while.

Lloyd found my website by doing a search for Erv Coppi, the host of a local horror movie show when we were kids. How funny is it that I was found because of something as strange as that. Yes, Mr. Erv Coppi – reuniting friends without even knowing it.

Here are some excerpts from the email conversation in case other people who knew Lloyd have been wondering what he has been up to.

Hey Derek!

This is Lloyd Xxxxxxxx. I don't know if you remember me but we went to high school together at North Clay. I graduated in 1989. I am currently living in Fairfield, CA near San Francisco. I have been in the Air Force since 1990 and I am an E-7 (Master Sergeant) working C-5 cargo aircraft maintenance. I found your website by accident when I did a Google search for "Erv Copi". Weird huh? Anyway, I enjoy your website; keep the funny coming!

Any chance of putting the "Stayin' Alive '85" book you were working on in high school on your webpage?

Take care, write back if you want to/get a chance or would like more info on what I have been doing the past twenty years.

Lloyd "Eggroll"

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Tojo!!!!

Hey Lloyd! Of course I remember you! Sounds like things are going good for you. Just a few more years and you'll be retired, right?! That's funny that you found my site by searching for Erv Coppi. Why in the world would you search for him?!

Just kidding, I'm the one who wrote about him after all. As far as the Stayin Alive in 85 book, who knows, maybe someday. But I'd have to type it all out first.

It's so cool that you got ahold of me. Is it okay if I post your email on my website. I won't put your address in it though, that way you won't get spammed.

Great to hear from you man!

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hehehe...I forgot that they used to call me Tojo in high school. Political correctness wasn't the fashion back then. I saw on your website that you linked to Coast to Coast AM. I work nights, so while I'm driving around on the flightline, I listen to the show. One night, it got me thinking about the Friday night movie guy on Channel 8/16 I used to watch when I was a kid and I was tortured for about three days before I remembered Erv Coppi's name. I was wondering if he was still alive and did a Goggle search, found your website and thought it was pretty cool. So, is Erv Coppi still alive? Or was he found in dead in a hotel room with his head bashed in with a camera tri-pod? Wait, that's Bob Crane.....

I should be retiring in April of 2010. I haven't decided whether or not to stay past twenty, it depends on what the economy looks like at that time. If things go to shit, why would I leave a decent job with benefits to take orders (maybe literally if it's a restaurant) from a 25 year old making minimum wage? I still don't know if I will return to Illinois when I'm done or stay on the west coast.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

What are the odds?

What are the odds of a comet striking the earth tomorrow? Or that I will win the lottery? What are the odds that I will be accosted by a drunken clown while on vacation in Borneo?

What are the odds that two people fall in love early in life and somehow manage to grow even closer than they had once been? A million to one? A gazillion to one? A mega-gadillion-billion-scadillion to one? Probably. But somehow it happened to me.

Sure, there have been rough times. There have been tears (pronounced “teers” not “tares”, although there were probably some “tares” along the way too) fights and arguments, but somehow we've kept it together against the odds.

Somehow fate brought us together. Me and the one woman who could tolerate me. The one woman who can watch me be crazy and then bring me back to reality. The only woman who can suffer through my fits, put up with my temper, and tolerate all of my eccentricities. Through good and bad, happy and sad, there is only one woman who I can picture growing old with.

I love you Wendy!

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Just dinking around.

KG3 went to the Sweetheart dance over the weekend and I was just messing around with a few of the photos that Wendy took (and one that my buddy VanGogh made).

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Try and Try Again.

A few weeks ago I posted a link to a student's Deviant Art page. It's come to my attention that the link that I posted didn't work, so I'm going to re-post it today. If you get a chance, be sure to visit Megan's site. It's full of really cool art that she's drawn.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Monday Morning Doodle

Yes, it's been a long time coming, but we finally get a sketch of Timmmaaa the welding penguin.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Yet another strange conversation.


On 2/7/08 Reverend Ed wrote:

I'll be leaving at 3:00 today to help my youngest daughter with her vehicular consternation. As the Gods will attest, I'm sure to affix my personal script on a parchment in blood, once again committing myself to the depths for an unfriendly, unappreciate, crib midget...........

Relentlessly,
Reverend Ed


On 2/7/08 Derek wrote:

My Gramma had vehicular consternation once. She bled for weeks......and sweet Jesus, the smell was awful!!

On 2/7/08 Reverend Ed wrote:

You can have that removed with bleaching and sanding you know.

On 2/7/08 Derek wrote:

We just used a frozen leg of lamb. Then we cooked it immediately and fed the evidence to the cops. Oh, wait, did you mean have my Gramma removed? Nevermind. Forget I said anything.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Kickbacks

Want to do something just for fun? Go to Google, search for “Find Chuck Norris” and hit the “I feel lucky” button. This is what you'll see:

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Hardwired.

Hi Everybody! Lets do an exercise in hypothetics (if that's even a real word. But hell, if Merriam Webster says bootylicious is an actual word, then hypothetics shouldn't be contested.) This exercise will be a demonstration of the differences between men and women. So here we go!

Let's hypothetically say that a friend of your spouse received some hypothetically dirty pictures of someone that you hypothetically used to work with. Hypothetically speaking, a lot of people that your hypothetical spouse works with hypothetically saw these hypothetically nasty photos. Now lets say that your hypothetical spouse hypothetically has someone send you an edited (work-safe) photo just to make sure that this hypothetical woman in the nasty photos is the one who used to hypothetically work with you.

Now lets hypothetically say that you confirmed that this woman in the photo was indeed the person who used to hypothetically work with you. Suppose that you, being a typical guy, hypothetically asked to see the rest of the hypothetically dirty photos.

Now imagine that your hypothetical wife got angry and hypothetically called you bad names. Horrible names like “pig”, “pervert”, “disgusting”, and “Pauly Shore.” My question is: Is your hypothetical wife warranted with such comments?

I'm a guy – yes, I know it may be a shock to some of you, but I really am. And being a guy, I will always be ready to look at pictures of the dirty variety. It doesn't matter if the women are pretty, ugly, disgusting, or whatever – a guy will want to look. And any guy who tells you different is lying. Want to prove me wrong? If a 85 year old woman with a halter top, a walker, an oxygen tank, and a stream of mucus trailing from her nose were to walk past a group of men, they would still look at her boob-crack. It not something that we're proud of, it's just the way it is. I guess it could be compared to a car crash on the interstate. You don't WANT to look when you drive by, but you HAVE too.

So there's my defense. Good, bad, or indifferent, that's just the way men are made.

But Wendy ALWAYS wins.

Just to show you girls what I mean, men will look at the picture above and notice that my knuckles look like "boobs."

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Wintertime memories.

Its been snowing like crazy over the past couple of days. It seems like we don't get the nasty Illinois winters anymore. Not like I remember from my childhood anyway. I can remember drifts that were so big that I would dig out ice cave in them. I remember one ice cave in particular. I spent hours digging it out from the enormous snow drift in the field across from our house.

I'm not sure why I dug the cave. Nor do I remember what I did in the cave once it was dug. But I remember the digging. Digging, digging digging.

I wasn't obsessed with digging however, because my shoveling was frequently interrupted by sword attacks to the oncoming hordes of monsters.

Yes, I was outside - armed with nothing but a shovel, a replica rapier, and my snow boots. With this combination I would dig my cave, rest inside, then go out to slay wave after wave of massive goblin thingies intent on destroying the village.

Then I'd return to my cave and wait....... for Mom's hot cocoa.

Friday, February 1, 2008

FYI (the I stands for innuendo)

It has been snowing like crazy and a lot of people didn't make it in to work today, including Captain Alex. We had nearly 7 inches of snow where I live, but Captain Alex's hometown had around nine inches of snow, which prompted this email:

To: Captain Alex
Subject: FYI

Hey Alex,

Just so you know.... I've been telling people that you're not here because you got nine inches last night.


Have a good weekend, buddy!


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