What a weekend

Greetings welcome to bog 1.011. So what did you do this weekend? I bet it wasn't as exciting as mine (unless you went to all 5 of Garth's concerts in LA)!

Friday - Nothing special, it was the calm before the storm!!!! I did watch the CBS 1 hr broadcast of GB's concert (live on the East Coast). Two things here, 1) why only an hour CBS? You could have bumped the other show and shown all 2 hours of the concert. and 2) Why is everything always "Live on the East Coast". It seems that nothing is ever live on the west coast.

Saturday - What a day!!!!!! First I went to go see the Aztecs basketball team take on UNLV. UNLV ended up wining the game by a final of 72-69. Fine job Rebels, but even you have to admit the officials were horrible in the game against BOTH teams.

After the game, I headed up the 5 to Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Normally, I avoid downtown LA like the plague, because everything in LA (please notice I'm differentiating between LA & Orange County) sucks!!!!!! Except for Staples Center! Staples is the second largest arena I have been in (behind Pepsi Center in Denver). I have been there three times now for three different types of events (Clippers BBall, Avengers, and now a concert (the first concert outside of San Diego County)). The drive wasn't that bad, as I went through some wonderful points of interest like Camp Pendelton (Thanks guys for what you do, but can't you spruce up the view alittle???), San Clemente, Sa-na-ta-a-na (Jeff Dunham reference), the 91 freeway, and downtown LA.

Then come the moment I've been waiting for since my mom gave me the tickets for Christmas, GARTH BROOKS!!!!!!!!!! I saw him in concert in June of 1996 as a HS graduation gift for myself. Once I saw that he was coming to LA, I was trying to figure out how I could get tickets. I figured I would just have to wait, as it ended up, mom got them for me. I have also made a vow, if Garth comes within 6 hours of San Diego, I will find a way to go!!! That man can entertain the shit out of a crowd. I will even forgive him for starting 30 minutes late. NO WORRIES GB!!! The only thing that disappointed me was the fact that he didn't sing my favorite song, Learning to Live Again. It was a minor hit, so I can't exactly blame him.

After the concert, what could have been the worst ride of my life. I meant to take the 110 to the 405 all the way home. What actually happened was I hopped onto the 10. I took the 10 to the 5 south, great idea, two freeways and your done, WRONG! I get on the 5 and then I find out that all lanes are closed at Trigg street. Well, thankfully, 1/2 mile before Trigg is the 710, so I take the 710 and I'm thinking ok, either the 91 or the 405. Well, I hear that the 405 had a bunch of accidents, so I am planning on taking the 91, well before I get to the 91 the 710 comes to a complete stop. All lanes, I'm thinking, well hell I might as well have stayed on the 5. After about 25 minutes traffic starts to move again. What had happened was 3 cars got into an incident, and two of the cars were blocking lanes. After they were cleared, traffic started moving again. So I got to the 91, got back on the 5, and made my way thru the traffic and rain and wind. Finally getting home around 3:30 Sunday morning.

Sunday - Well after getting about 4 1/2 hours of sleep, it was back out we go. This time to meet up with Matty at his house so that my dad & I could get to the Buick Invitational to see how bad Tiger Woods could kill the field. He ended up winning by 8 shots. So we went to Torrey Pines site of the US Open this year to watch the tourney. I was about 5-10 feet away from Stuart Appelby after he hit his drive on the 7th hole into the left rough. I had taken a great shot of Tiger Woods latter on the 16th tee, but the same idiots (SDPD) that pulled me over for my headlights a couple of weks ago, told me I'd have to erase the picture or I would have to wait until 3 hours after the tournament to get my cell phone back. So even thou, I didn't want to, I erased the picture, and turned off my cell phone, only to turn it back on about 5 minutes later. I ended up being about 5 feet away from Tiger when he went into the media tent for his post-tourney comments. And then again when he came back out and before he was taken away, he signed a program book for a kid that is 7 yrs old, that is cool Tiger!!!!

Anyways, so that was the weekend from heaven, and now I start back to regular spring semester over at "Harvard on the Hill". BTW, with all of the rain that was falling here in So Cal this past weekend, was anyone building an arc? Oh and one final comment from the Garth Brooks concert. I had a bunch of people laughing when as I was leaving Staples Center, I was saying "Aw, can someone please turn off the sprinklers, the ground is wet enough already!" They thought it was funny!!!

For the guys!!!!

OK, so this one is for the guys out there. Who is the sexiest female athlete????

I will give my top 5.....

1) Jenny Finch
2) Amanda Beard
3) Natalie Gulbis
4) The Force Daughters
5) Danica Patrick

Please post your top 5.

For those you are not good at thinking on thier........feet. Here is a link that might be able to help you.


http://www.barstoolsports.com/article/top_hot_female_athletes/1298/
or
http://www.sports-wired.com/women/athletes.html



BTW, I'm going to Garth Brooks tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rain, late night runs to JITB, and dumb ass cops

Welcome to bog 1.010 (wow we made it to double digits =) ), this time around some late night adventures to JITB and San Diego drivers & rain, not a good combonation.

Well, let's start withthe rain, becasue it came first! On a normal day, according to the CHP they get between 25-35 accidents, between 7 & 10 last night they had 88 incidents, two words to my fellow San Diego drivers when it rains "Slow Down"! If you slow down, you will not get into accidents. Even I slow down when the roads are slick, and I don't slow down just because I see a police vehicle, unless they have thier lights on and are behind me!!!!

Late night runs to JITB can be quite hillarious. I just got done with one, we have a JITB (Jack In The Box in case u couldn't figure it out) right around the corner from work and they are open 24 hrs on the drive thru. I pulled up and ordered the Steak & Egg burrito, no Chipoltle sauce. At this the gal taking the order says, "do u want eggs in that?" I respond with a sure, whatever. I pull around to the window to pay and the guy doesn't even say anything he just holds out his hand. Maybe its me, but I'd be asking why I was up, in a conversational tone. This guy didn't even say "Hi". I gave him the money, and when the burrito comes up, he doesn't even ask if I want the salsa, he just puts it in the bag (even with me looking at him and shaking my head no). The amazing thing is that it was right!!!!!!!!!

Last night I was in PB (Pacific Beach for those of you not in San Diego), and was going from Longboards to Moondoggies. Maybe a 5 block drive, and I leave Longboards parking lot, turn onto Garnet go about a half a block and a SDPD is going the other way. He passes me going east, I don't even look then all of a sudden I see the tattle tale Red & Blue lights in my rearview mirror its the same cop. I pull into a parking lot, turn the car off and roll down my window. The cop comes up and asks for License and Insurance. He asks how I am, and I say I'm fine (and brownie points were earned by) and I asked him how he was. He was kinda shocked by my asking how he was. He then asked why I was driving with my brights on, I informed him that my regular beams had burned out on my way down to PB from my home in Mission Valley and I had yet to get to a auto parts store to get them fixed. (The truth is that I have been running with only my brights for about 2 weeks) He asked me to put just my regular beams on, I did, he went to the front and checked them out. He came back and said, well, you have a plastic cover on your plates, get the plastic cover off and fix your headlights. I say yes sir (while I was thinking, ok dumbass, you chose to pull me over instead of going after drunks or folks speeding?). He just let me go with a virbal warning.

That is it for this early morning/late night entry. Oh, I got my grade for Elementary Statistics, and I got a "C"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)))))))

Til bog 1.011 see ya! T- minus 2 days and a few hours until GB & I are back in the same building!!!!!!!!!!!

Never bet against the Patriots in 2007-08

Wow, it's been a week since my last bog. My bad. Welcome to bog 1.009!

It's been a very profitable day for me. Let's rundown all the bets, and then we'll get to some news that might just make you shake your head and say "WHAT?!?!?!?!"

Bet #1 - Matty - Keeping in mind that Matty & I work together at the home of the Chargers, and we bet all the way back in week 2 the loser would get a car wash, I finally got my car washed on Friday - the loser buys the winner a new visor. I would like a championship visor sir!

Bet #2 - Elizabeth Carpenter - She started the trash talking in week 15 of the regular season. So since she is only 16 I thought I would give her a break. She doesn't have a job so I had to tame this one down, a McDonald's double cheeseburger from the $1 menu, No Ketchup, No Onion, extra pickle!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bet #3 - Heather, my niece - She is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, why I have no idea, but she started talking trash as her Cowboys were losing to the Giants. I ratchet this one up just a smidgen, but knowing that my sister will probably end up paying for it, I figure I will never get this bet. The bet was: If the Chargers win, I would get her a pair of the boots with a fur lining on the top. If the Patriots win, and since they did, I will be getting a brand new Patriots blanket.

and the last bet.......

Bet #4 - Cathy Washbourn - Every year, I usually get an extra copy of the Chargers media guide and give it to my good friends Kevin & Cathy, they are huge (no pun intended) Charger fans, so I'm nice & get them a media guide. We were at the SDSDA 3rd Saturday roundup on the 19th and they were talking some crap about the Patriots, and then they remembered that I'm a Patriot fan. I looked right at Cathy and said, would you like to place a wager on the game? She looked back at me and asks how much, this is when I told her that unless I'm in Vegas I don't bet money, I bet property!!!!!! She asked what I had in mind, and I asked her the same, she offered a $5 Arch card from McDonald's, I accepted, and will be using it for dinner before my night classes that start next week.

So, now on to the NY Giants. I have at least one friend that is a devoted Giants fan, and I started the trash talking when the two teams met just about a month ago. I will be giving Ryan a ring probably on Wednesday to see if he wishes to place a property wager on the game, hell, this is the "Roman Numeral Classic" (Can't use the term Super B...., because I don't want to get sues by the NFL) I might even bet $$$$$$. Remember kids, I'm a trained professional don't try this at home, unless I come a knocking!!!!!

Other news from this week, I took my final in Elementary stats, I have no idea what my final is, because my instructor has yet to e-mail me the grade, even thou I asked me to do so after he graded it. I was also installed into the SDSDA Executive board as Representative to the Back Country Association (first meeting is tonight).

OK, now for some weird news...........
Courtesy of the AP and the San Fransisco Chronicle

Pullman police said a WSU student was arrested twice the same night for
smoking marijuana. The 20-year-old was arrested Tuesday night with two other men for smoking in a parking lot, police said. They were cited, fingerprinted and
released shortly after midnight.
Less than two hours later, an officer saw three men passing around a pipe in a pickup truck and arrested the student again and the two others for possessing marijuana.
Police Commander Chris Tennant said he hopes the student isn't kicked out of WSU because it seems he needs a bit more education.

well................................I've never done pot, but I'm thinking that if you already got caught once, you would make sure not to get caught twice in the same NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!! some more "huh????" news.

Again, Courtesy of the AP & the San Francisco Chronicle

A man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience
store Tuesday, police said.
A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes. The clerk put the cash in a bag and as she turned to get the cigarettes, she heard the gun discharge.
Police say surveillance video shows the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants. The clerk wasn't injured.
A short time later, police found 25-year-old Derrick Kosch at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg.
Kosch was released from the hospital Tuesday and booked into the Howard
County jail on a charge of armed robbery, criminal recklessness and battery. He
is being held on a $100,000 cash bail. A jail official did not know if he had
retained an attorney Wednesday.

Ummmm, last time I checked, if you are going to have an automatic or semi-automatic weapon, in the waistband of your paints, you should really put the SAFETY ON!!!!! As Walter would say, "dumbass"!!! If you don't know who Walter is, check out youtube and search for "Jeff Dunham & Walter"

Until apparently next week, when I get to tell you all about the fun of learning how to be the studio engineer for an Aztecs Basketball game, Garth Brooks in concert, & the Buick Invitational final round. See you in bog edition 1.010 (WOW, I've made double digits).

Greetings from a very bored person

So welcome to bog 1.008, with a week between bog's you would think alot is going on in the life of Chris, well, you would be wrong.

Monday - School & take care of Elizabeth's dogs.
Tuesday - School, Elizabeth's dogs, and square dancing.
Wednesday - School, Elizabeth's dogs, and watching the CSU-Bakersfield Roadrunners defeat the USD Torreros.
Thursday - School, Elizabeth's dogs, and hand and foot
Friday - School, hosting dinner with friends, and work
Saturday - Patriots football and Clear Channel "holiday" party

As far as stats class is concerned, not going well. I believe that even though I really don't have time to re-take the class, I think that I might have to re-take it.

When the regular spring semester begins on the 28th, I will be taking English, Physical Anthropology, Principals of Information Systems, MicroEconomics, & the crash course is Public Speaking. A very full course load!

News of the weird: Thanks to the AP.
WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - An obstetrician saved his wife and six children from a fire that ravaged their home, delivered a baby while the house was still smoldering and then got cited with building violations. Dr. Herman Weiss said Friday "was just my day."The 37-year-old awoke around 3 a.m. to the screech of a smoke detector and the sight of flames inching up an outside wall of his Long Island home. He got his family to safety, then was paged and went to a hospital to deliver an infant around 6 a.m.The fire brought scrutiny from building inspectors, who cited the Weisses with a discrepancy in plumbing plans and living in the house without a certificate of occupancy. Weiss said the family had hired a lawyer to get one.The family has been ordered to tear down the damaged house. Weiss said he hopes to rebuild in the same place.

Well, lets look at this from a very impartial view. If they have been living there, then why not overlook the fact that they don’t have the permit and let them live there. Sheez, city governments and they wounder why they have a bad reputation.

Unti we get together again for bog 1.009, see ya latter.

PS If you are wondering how the resolutions are going, they are are still in effect.

May I be one of the last folks to wish you a Happy New Year!

I know, I know, Gee Chris, haven't been keeping your new years resolutions have you????

For the record, this is one of 5 resolutions that I made, and also for the record, of the 5, I have kept 3. Technically, just the results have come in for 1 but I'm working on the other 2. Now for the revealing of the resolutions (and how I'm doing so far):
1. Lose weight (It is the 4th day of the year, give this one some time)
2. Better grades in school (I have taken 1 quiz (100%, thank you very much), and I took my first examination today, and will find out what I get on Monday. This resolution is more for the semester grades however)
3. Not (cut down on) cursing (lasted exactly 17 hours, TY Taco Bell)
4. eating & drinking healthier (I have drank a total in 2008 of maybe 100 oz of soda!)
& 5. keep a blog up-to-date (Well, it takes time to get into a new routine).

Now about the Thank You to Taco Bell....Here is why I lost and subsequently altered my resolution. The Taco Bell by my house (located on Paradise Valley Road in Spring Valley) is getting a not so good reputation in our home. Since we moved into this house about 2 years ago, we have been to this KFC/Taco Bell combo at least twice a month. They don't exactly have a good track record of getting the order correct (on the first time). Now her is our typical order: a 2-piece leg & thiegh grilled combo, with mashed potatoes (no gravy); 3 tacos w/onions; and 3 steak supreme gorditas (no lettuce, extra cheese). Not exactly a hard order for anyone with at least half a brian. Maybe, that is where the problem inlies, a half a brian. On New Years day, I went to the KFC/TB and placed our typical order. I pull around to the window and pay for the order. AFTER, I pay, they then tell me "Oh, sorry sir, we are out of grilled chicken. If you wouldn't mind original or extra crispy, we'll throw a couple of extra pieces in." So I say, alright, make it extra crispy. They come back a couple of minutes later, and say "Sir, we appologize, but we are out of legs in extra crispy." It is at this time that I expressed my displeasure with a "God damn, you got to be f'ing kidding me!" I cleaned it up here on the 'net. So, I say "whatever". They hand the order to me, and just because I've had so many things go wrong at this particular KFC/TB I pull forward about 2 car lengths and grab my gorditas (remember no lettiuce, extra cheese) to make sure that they are correct. Guess what? That's right, they are WRONG! So I pull out the driveway, turn right, and right back into the parking lot that they are located in. I retrieve my gorditas, my keys, phone, and wallet, and walk into the resturant. I walk right up to the counter (keeping in mind that the resturant has maybe 20-25 people inside), throw my bag on the counter, and rather loudly say "3 steak supreme gorditas, no lettiuce, extra cheese. What is so God damn hard about this order for you people?" The manager by this time walks over to me and says "There is no reason for you to yell sir." I look him right in the eye, and ask him if it is a hard order? He says no, and I again rather loudly say "Then why does this Taco bell have such a hard ass time getting it right, every other Taco Bell that I go to gets it right the first time, this Taco Bell, always screws it up some how." He obviously wants to get me outta there quickly so he looks and sees that they are all wrong, turns around to the gal on the taco line, and says 3 steak supreme gorditas ....... <--- I think you can figure it out So I go and take a seat at one of the counter seats they have that has a great view of the taco preperation area. I'm watching and they make 2 gorditas the correct way, and a taco (the gordita combo). They bag it up and bring it to the counter, and say "Sir, your corrected order is ready". I walk up already knowing that it is going to be wrong. I look in the bag, and say "Where is the third gordita?" The manager comes over and says "No, sir, you ordered the meal." I look at him and say, really, you know what I ordered, if you look closely at the order, you will notice that is the chicken meal that I ordered not the gordita meal, now go make me another gordita! While he goes and prepares the gordita, I say the steps kinda loud as he is making the taco. "Warm flatbread, check. Steak, check. Sour Cream, check. Cheese, check. More cheese, check. Tomatoes, check. Wrap it up, check." As I was doing this, I heard a couple of people in the back start to laugh. So, I get home, and check the chicken, and yup, you guessed it, there were legs in there, and they didn't give me just 4 pieces, no they gave me a bucket!

On to other things, and as you have seen in previous editions of this bog, there is always a weird news story. For those of you who are woundering why there is always a weird news story, it is because this world has gotten to serious, and most adults forget to laugh. So it is with these weird news stories, that I hope people get a laugh out of them!

VAIL — A 60-year-old man is taking an 8-year-old boy and his dad to court, claiming the third-grader caused a ski-slope collision that left the older man with a shoulder injury.
David J. Pfahler of Allentown, Pa., filed suit in Denver federal court claiming Scott Swimm, of Vail, then 7, was skiing fast and recklessly when they ran into each other in January. Pfahler's suit says he suffered a torn shoulder tendon.
The boy told Pfahler he was sorry and started to ski away when the man grabbed Scott’s legs, cursed at him and said he would sue, Robb Swimm told The Aspen Times.
“I was really scared,” Scott said to the Times.
Scott's father, Robb Swimm, said he saw the crash and that Scott was skiing slowly and in control.
"It wasn't a violent collision or anything, Scott just kind of tapped his ski boots," he said this week.
Scott's mother, Susan Swimm, said her son weighs 48 pounds and couldn't have been going more than 10 mph.
"Who in the world sues a child?" she said. "It just boggles my mind every day." Pfahler's Denver attorney, Jim Chalat, declined to comment on the specifics of the case. "It's a private matter between private parties," he said.
Chalat said Pfahler works in publishing for Reader's Digest and wants to go back to work.
The suit seeks compensation for physical therapy, vacation time, nursing and medical services provided by Pfahler's wife and other expenses. It estimates the couple's losses at more than $75,000.
Clare Huntington, an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Law, said Scott will likely be dismissed as a defendant under laws that allow parents to be sued but not their minor children.

So I've nevered skied in my life, but I've got to think that a 7-year old couldn't cause $70,000 in damages, vacation time, nursing & medical services. Not to mention the fact that is his wife a licensed nurse? If she is not, then why is she even remotly charging that much. Also, I'm thinking that the old guy is just trying to pump up his nest egg.

So that is bog edition 1.006. Good luck to the Chargers this weekend as they face the Tennessee Titans (or as Josh Lewin calls them, "The flamming thumbtack") in the rain at The Murph. See ya latter!