I think it was the summer between my 9th and 10th grade years. I didn't want to be there. My brother didn't want to be there. I am sure my parents were tired of both of us. Spoiled, right? Complaining about being in Hawaii. Smart kids we were. Keep in mind, though, we traveled a lot. We lived in Europe for over 6 years and went everywhere. So to us, this was nothing. But that is not the story.

It was our 2nd or 3rd day there and my brother and I are swimming in the ocean. Suddenly, I get stung on the ankle! It buuuurned. Hurt so much. It was a Portuguese man-o-war! One of its tentacles clipped me.

Well that was enough to keep me out of the water for the rest of the trip. My brother, however, swam everyday and nothing ever happened to him. Well, it was the day before we were scheduled to leave. My brother convinced me to get in the water one...more...time.

Wouldn't you know it, another damn man-o-war got me. This time, it wrapped itself around my forearm. My whole are blew up to a puffy red. Talk about pain. To this day, I HATE going in to the ocean.

Isn't it funny that the only real thing i remember about this "paradise" was those damn Portuguese man-o-war's?

womanizer by britney spears

Makes me want to kill myself.

Italian, of course. Pasta, pizza, yum!

I loved this book as a lil one. I still remember getting scared as my mom read it to me. After my wife and I had our lil bundle of joy, this is the first book I read to her. She was only a few days old, and asleep, but whatever.

It doesn't rank very high on Piper's reading list, though. Even at 2, she has her favorites. And this isn't one of them! I am beginning to wonder if it really is my kid! ;-)

I am never the first to jump on new-gadget bandwagons. It's not that I want to wait, it's the fact that my wife won't let me waste the money. We just got an HDTV last Thanksgiving (killer sale). I finally got the iPhone I had been wanting since its release; but the only reason I got that was because work provided it.

One thing I have been want for years is a Macbook. I have always been a Windows guy but I really, really want this new toy!

This book is not funny. Not at all. But it is my favorite book. Ever. Period.

Go get it today. Seriously. Go. Now!

Thanks to my buddy Joel for turning me on to this bog years ago.

Money is no issue in this little fantasy, right? So these wouldn't be my golden years; this would start tomorrow! I have been to a lot of places, both on business and vacation, and there is something about this 46 sq miles of land. So much you can do, great restaurants, anything. I love it.

Hmmmm. Can't really think of any good pranks that I have seen or pulled. As to pranks on TV, my memory is so bad, I could have seen the best prank ever and would never know it.

But I do have a story to share. Sometimes the wifey and I will try to push each other into things. Like at the store, out of nowhere, my wife might give me a nudge to get me to run in to a wall or something. We aren't trying to hurt each other, just have a little fun.

It rarely works anymore because we are both on our toes--ready for the other to strike.

But a few years ago a got her good.

We were in Wal-Mart and happened to be walking by stacks of those Styrofoam coolers. I mean, LOTS of Styrofoam coolers stacked very, very high.

I gave her just the slightest nudge and WHAM! She went right in to the coolers and down they came. Just about all of them. Laughed for days about that one. I tell you who wasn't laughing: the 2 guys that had to clean our mess up.

"Well I often visit a certain city for work's sake.
It's an odd little place near a Salt Lake."

I envision a cross between gangta-rap and just a bit of some polka beats.

Word.

I was at my old company's HQ. It was crappy weather. There was nothing to do. I was forced to look at my division boss for way too long.

And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take...our FREEDOM!

more cowbell!