someone please watch it with me!

and i have to train the australia folks at 3pm!

good – my fantasy football team scored more than 100pts
bad – my fantasy football team lost

good – the raiders lost again, making them the only winless team in the whole nfl
bad – the niners lost like crazy to the chargers. lt went off for 4 td’s.

(this reminds me of when the raiders played the bucs in the super bowl)

good: alyssa is doing well in her spanish class
bad: alyssa is not doing so well in her english class

good: i am moving to a new job with more pay and more responsibility
bad:  i have to leave my old job and it’s cushy work schedule and compartively high salary

good: i get my last check from ipass at my new, higher pay rate
bad: it’s already spoken for by the billmaster

any takers?

happy friday from manteca!

i get the results of my memory testing today at 10am

and

i officially re-became a system administrator today. somehow, my wife fears i will suddenly turn into a creature like this:

i’ve been running and playing basketball the last week or so, trying to whip my body into some semblance of shape. having the tummy is a nice way to prop up marcos but i think it sends the wrong message – gaining weight for utility purposes.

this may be the only way i can get into shape and keep up with the digital world:

i’m back at work after a nice week off hanging out and taking mid-day naps.

since my parents live under a main airplane route by san jose airport, there are always a bunch of planes flying over. now, anytime there’s an airplane-type of noise, marcos looks to the sky for the airplane. he’s pretty good at spotting them – almost as good as daddy, who can still identify airlines and airplane models. you can thank grandpa for working at lockheed and us going to every moffett air show.

i ran across this picture of planes landing at the airport in st. maarten in the netherlands antilles. apparently, you can hang out at maho beach, which is like 30 feet from the runway and get pictures like this:

i think marc might be a little overwhelmed if the plane was that close but it would be pretty neat.

since mom and pop are heading out of town to visit the whiteside, i’m taking a few days off work to hang with marcos since he’s not quite old enough to stay home on his own. I think he probably could stay home on his own, but then I would go to jail and that wouldn’t be the right thing to do. i have a huge list of things i want to get done during the days off, but who knows what i’ll get around to as the days roll on.

i want to be lazy during these next days, but i think hanging with marcos will prevent that from happening.

unless pittsburgh’s defense has 10 takeaways, then i will be at 1-1 by tomorrow night. 1-1 is a good place to be, way better than 0-2. way better.

i had a pastrami and swiss on rye pannini (the “pacific”) at safeway today that was probably one of the top 5 best sandwiches i have ever tasted. why is this called a pacific? it’s more chicago or boston than anything else.

i have only a picture of a partially-eaten sandwich because i was too busy enjoying it to bother taking a picture of it.

so if you need a favor from me, bring one (or two) of these along and we’ll talk.

seems that dog the bounty hunter had his roles reversed when he took down andrew luster, the convicted rapist, out in mexico. turns out that kidnapping of any kind, of a regular person or fugitive, is illegal in mexico and now dog and a couple of his cohorts are in a mexican jail.

court tv has more information on the whole thing.

that’s all…no pictures or anything. i’m working this weekend anyway – so i’ll post some more stuff tomorrow.

i remember alyssa and i used to watch jackass, but we wouldn’t let her say the word ass, so she would say jackbutt. strangers who visited the house had no idea what we were talking about. these episodes were pretty funny.

visit cracked.com for the collection of youtube videos.

The art of covert napping

The Washington Post notes that there’s been no shortage of media reports over the last few years about sensitive employers giving workers permission to nap. Some even provide “relaxation rooms.”

But with companies demanding more from smaller staffs in recent months, employees aren’t so interested in that perk anymore, fearful that they’ll do most of their dozing in the unemployment line.

So on-the-job napping, while not going away, is being done on the downlow, according to the Post.

William Anthony, author of “The Art of Napping at Work” and operator of Napping.com, tells the newspaper that one of the most popular tactics is to escape to the parking garage to catnap in the car.

“Another odd place people say they nap is in the restroom, sitting on the toilet, resting their head against the side or back wall,” Anthony says. “It’s private; they can lock the door. The more industrious nappers construct pillows with extra toilet paper rolls for maximum comfort.”

Even cubicle dwellers can catch a few Zs if they’re resourceful, says Anthony.

“The cubicle is a most nap-unfriendly environment, but some manage by spreading papers out on their desks, clutching a pencil in their fingers and pretending they are absorbed in reading. Others assume the ‘thinking position,’ with their head in their hands and their back to the door.

“But the best one I’ve heard lately came from a guy who holds a bottle of eyedrops in one hand, tilts back in his chair and closes his eyes. That’s truly artful napping.”

someone call me and we’ll jowl for the camera:

You can see more jowling pictures at jowlers.com

i was thinking to shave my head, but then will it make my already bulbous head seem way out of control? maybe some feedback or opinions?

i’m just glad i don’t have a hairyback to contend with like this guy:

Happy Labor Day!

liz sent me this…i am still trying to figure it out. maybe the taste is so strong that it’s like a kick in the balls? or maybe it’s the preferred food of latex bodysuit-wearing androids? Very curious.

so, i think it’s time to begin posting again. after getting out of the hospital, i think i’ve had to catch up for the last 6 months. things are calming down a little now that softball season is over and we’re clearing out the to-do list a little. by the time i got back to the blog, i realized that a few posts are missing, but i only have one reader anyway, so whatever.

i’m at work today till midnight covering a shift for one of our australian guys. i had a couple beers today at the art and wine festival so even a small nap might be in order.

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said some interesting things about the Internet during the recent hearings on net neutrality:

“I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?”

“Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially…”

“They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck.”

“It’s a series of tubes.”

“And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”

Here’s the full story