time keeps on tickin....

Tonight KayBee will initiate 17 candidates, by far the largest class in a while. And also there is the usual underlying turmoil within the chapter, most rooted in the extremely close relationships that inevitably grow between the brothers. At any rate...I have spent time this week listening to upset brothers (actives) complaining about this or that wrongdoing by another brother, which in the end are personal situations that should be dealt with between brothers, but spill out into the circle because it is virtually impossible to keep "business" separate from the "personal" stuff.... I have also spent a lot of time remembering the same stuff happening when I was "active", and shaking my head to myself and wondering "how much time did we waste over silly stuff?" It always makes me miss my friends from that time, as well as all of my friends. As I have said before, it seems that my time spent with any friend really seems to be getting more and more less frequent. Jobs....family...KIDS...well, these things certainly become a priority, and idlin time away at Huddle House until 3 in the morning aint going to happen...probably ever again. And it makes me really sad....

...at any rate, the other night i caught the end of Celebrity Apprentice and Trace Adkins sand a song that found somewhat profound, and am going to read these lyrics to the chapter tonight right after Rit... and while it doesnt talk about this type of situation im talking about specifically, I think you can see the analogy.....

She was starin' out the window of their SUV
Complainin', sayin', “I can't wait to turn eighteen”
She said, “I'll make my own money and I'll make my own rules
Momma, put the car in park out there in front of the school”
And she kissed her head, and said, “I was just like you”

You're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast

These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Before she knows it she's a brand new bride
In her one bedroom apartment and her daddy stops by
He tells her it's a nice place, she says, “It'll do for now”
Starts talkin' about babies and buyin' a house
Daddy shakes his head and says, “Baby, just slow down”

Cuz' you're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast

These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

Five years later there's a plumber
Workin' on the water heater
Dog's barkin', phone's ringin'
One kid's cryin' and one kid's screamin'
And she keeps apologizin'

He says, “They don't bother me
I've got two babies of my own
One's thirty-six, one's twenty-three”
Huh, it's hard to believe

But you're gonna miss this
You're gonna want this back
You're gonna wish these days
Hadn't gone by so fast

These are some good times
So take a good look around
You may not know it now
But you're gonna miss this

You're gonna miss this
Yeah, you're gonna miss this

--Trace Adkins

G.I. Joe!!!!

i just found out...oh my..this is better than Transformers... to me at least...They are making a G.I. Joe movie....I dont know how its going to turn out. it might suck...but...what next? A Sgt Rock movie...maybe bring out the Shogun Warriors???

two thoughts....

The tourney starts today... cant wait to see the game where the "favorite" doesnt put away the directional school and all of sudden some random guy you've never heard of starts raining 3's and you start to see the "favorite" get this "deer in the headlights" look...then its upset city and you get the previously mentioned shots of the cheerleaders and the pep band...or now...the sorority girl in pink school sweatshirt and facepaint, or the frat boy who blew his entire spring break budget to get to the site with this stunned " i cant believe this is happening" look...

..Obama is now officially polling BEHIND Clinton now in the Gallup poll. While I am still leery of polls, i do have a little trust in the Gallup poll. Yeah i know he still has the lead blah, blah, blah..but he has work to do or it will get really nasty come convention...

was that a bullet i just sidestepped?

So Obama made his speech today... no doubt this "episode" has hurt him..polls show it (although i am leery of polls)...lets see how long the press hounds him about it, or if it goes away in a couple of days... my only thing is no matter how much a father figure, friend, whatever this minister is...Obamas prescence in that church gives a tacit approval of that minister's rhetoric. Now...does Obama believe that stuff?..i dont think so. Does Obama not want to blow up his friend?...yep... but... a sitting Senator who repeatedly sits in audience with someone who eschews that type of hatespeak presents a problem to me. But... i know that the church...Church..in the black community is an entirely different animal than most non blacks realize. There is a lot more to it than simply dropping in on Sunday. Its family. And everybody realizes that while you dont always like your family or what they say, if someone attacks them, you will probably defend them fiercely. Its easy for me to sit here and say that i would blow that minister away a long time ago. but...i'm not walkin in Obama's shoes. I say that this is an issue that I am satisfied with his answers...for now. I know a lot of people are not. And i can definitely see that side of things... and I am dissapointed that Obama did not distance himself a long time ago because he has obviously had aspirations for some time now and surely knows that this would come to light eventually...sigh... either the press/media is going to be satisfied, or they are not going to let go, and this might very well be Obama's jumping the shark


by the way, Jessica hadnt ever heard of The Dropkick Murphys either....

Band names...

Names for bands these days amuse me... I downloaded some more songs last night for Guitar Hero and some of the songs are by some band called The Dropkick Murphys. I found that highly amusing... Tigers getting some luv nationally in regards to the tourney...lets see what happens if they dont hit their free throws down the stretch on Friday night.... I remember the last time the Tigers were in the Ncaa's..Chicago... watchin some punk from Western Michigan get his "one shining moment" bowing to the TV, while watching Brown stare at the Stanford tree jumping around as we were ushered out quickly... i will say it again...those pictures of the cheerleaders crying and the pep band members in shock are because they know that in about 45 minutes they will be on a plane back home...it ends very, very quickly... Trust me..I remember all too well a trip to New Mexico where i left on Wednesday night and was back in Clemson in time for 8am classes on Friday...heh, heh..too bad Josh couldnt get his sagebrush on the plane...

is this what I can expect????

WHY THE FRAK CAN'T THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN GET ENOUGH FRAKKIN T-SHIRTS OF THE ONE I WANT THAT IT DOESNT HAVE TO FRAKKIN BE BACK ORDERED!!!!! JESUS FRAKKIN H-CHRIST!!! YOU WOULD THINK WITH THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PEOPLE ARE THROWIN AT THE CAMPAIGN THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO SEND ONE OF THEIR DULE FLUNKIES DOWN TO THE LOCAL T-SHIRT SHACK IN CHICAGO AND GET A COUPLE THOUSAND T SHIRTS PRINTED AT 2 OR 3 DOLLARS A SHIRT AND RAPE ME FOR THE 20 SPOT I AM WILLING TO THROW AT OBAMA, EVEN THOUGH I MIGHT NOT EVEN VOTE FOR HIM.... ENOUGH ALREADY!!!???? IS THIS WHAT I CAN EXPECT FROM HIM AND HIS WHACK JOB MINISTER AND THEIR PRESIDENCY??? WANT MY VOTE OBAMA???!!! GET MY DAMN T-SHIRT ON YOUR WEBSITE...LIKE...OH...(and i'm not going to say "sorta"... see the next post...)...SAY.. YESTERDAY!!!!....FRAK!!!...YOU'RE KILLIN ME, PETEE!!!!

the #29 and #20, brackets and the tourney

went to Bristol on Saturday. It rained, but we did see the race that was run. We had even better seats and it was pretty cool... took a look at my man in the #29 and well...he got a little loose in the corner and, as they say... 8 wheels turns better than 4 wheels in the corner...heh, heh... too bad for the #20....

...I am NOT doing a bracket this year because it makes me root against teams i want to root for and changes how i watch the games..kinda like fantasy leagues... and I want to be able to watch and not be pissed when an upset happens that it blew up my bracket. For example...logic tells me that I should pick Villanova over Clemson. I kinda would prefer Clemson win the game. This way I dont have to have that type of conflict... Clemson got kinda screwed in their bracket. they kinda have a gauntlet to run if they want to make a deep run. Plus they have have to be 10 points better than anybody they play because..well... here's that free throw thing again....

...by the way...I'm workin on a post where I use kinda and sorta as much as possible. I will come when you least expect it...sorta....

Bristol, baby!!!!

...well...at least we hope so...rain is forecast in Bristol, and we will be sittin in Harwood's ambulance waitin it out, perhaps. Headin to Bristol for the Busch, er, Nationwide race tomorrow. first in a line of tracks I hope to get to this year...Bristol, Charlotte, Darlington, Pocono, and Talledega. Charlotte and darlington are definite...still in wait and see mode for the other 2....

This is why I get annoyed sometimes...

...Brown sent me this link...click here to see why it is i sometimes seem to take on a "angry, mean black man always talking about race" stance that some of you think I do all the time, which , if you know me well, isn't something i am into. But it's this type of stuff that makes me always know that if you are not black and you are always wondering why black people are always pissed off about stuff...well, its that type of stuff that happened in South Africa that tees us off...

WTF?

in what may go down as one of the alltime dumbass moves...EVER...a 15 year old kid fatally shot his father because his father had cut him off from using MYSPACE online. Hmmm...wonder how much time he is going to get on Myspace now?

frat stuff

The new pledge class is doing some sorta thing where they are making a quilt of some sort out of the family colors of the colony members, if they had any. They have some of them as some lines still exists. But some lines dont and some colonist family letter info has not been passed down. If anyone knows what if/any family letters/colors the following colonists have, let me know.....
Corey Amaker
Kristin Avolio
Alyson Craft
Clair Compton
Elizabeth Fogel
Angela Giles
Danny Goldrick
Scott Hendrickson
Aaron Hobbs
Katie McDowell

I was talking to the candidate who is heading up the project and to hear her mis pronounce the last names was highly amusing. Also telling them that some are married and dont have those last names anymore...you can almost see a glint of confusion... they live in such a different world...marraige,work, kids...they have a hard time grasping the reality of it. But I also remember that i didnt have a grasp of it either...

Its time for a change

well...anyway, I stayed up last night because i was curious as to what was going to happen with the primary stuff. It was interesting, and annoying, to watch MSNBC (which I never watch) and see how they covered the evening. I was watching the realtime vote tallies online, and could see that Clinton was leading in Ohio and Texas, and the vote total was consistently growing in her favor while MSNBC kept saying it "was too close to call". Tim Russert does a very good job at trying to not be as obvious as to where his allegiances are, but Keith Olberman and Chris Mathews have huge Obama pom poms and are openly rooting for Obama. I really have a problem with that and I was wanting to see how Olberman particularly would react once the inevitable "Projected to win" statements would come. Olberman must have said "too close to call" a 100 times, even a minute before NBC called Ohio, then right before they called Texas too. And the look on his face was priceless... I just dont understand why these people keep saying that Clinton should simply get out of the race when the race is still this close. Arent these the same people yelling about disenfranchisement and all that stuff? yet when it could benefit who THEY want to win, suddenly "we are tired of this and its dragging on too long" blah, blah, blah...wait...didnt THEY start reporting on this way before it was necessary? perhaps if they hadnt starting peeing in their pants for Obama way before it was necessary, they wouldnt be openly having to figure out a way to continue to cheer without being blatant. Dont get me wrong here...I'm eyeing this cool Obama T on his website but I just dont feel right with getting forcefed who i should vote for.

On a side note...kinda funny how when you hit your freethrows, you start winning....

22 inches of glorius screen

OK...so I finally got around to hooking up my 22 inch Westinghouse widescreen flatpanel computer monitor. Oh mercy... nothing like 1680 x 1050 of full glorious internet..yeah, I know...I'm gloating, but...frak, this changes how i view the internet, and it definitely changes how i use Photoshop.Many thanks to Aj for letting me use a 17 incher for a good long while when my 15 inch monitor wasnt footing it anymore.

And some thought she would never walk

Seems like this kid thing makes time go by so much faster... I am always reminded to myself whenever it take Ryles extra time to walk down stairs that she didnt start walking until she was 15 months on a regular basis. An today she joined I-Man on his soccer team for the mid season restart, and seeing her un around just emphasized that he started walking at 7/8 months and she was a full half year later. At any rate... I-Man was goalie for half the game -not the gloves- and ryles doesnt have her Uni yet, so she is wearing an I-Man throwback...