A Little Less Conversation

I have the coolest girlfriend ever! Or at least for today! Hazel got me a subscription to USA Today which started coming yesterday. They deliver it with the mail so I read the day's news at the end of my day, but I do love that newspaper. My dad should be happy that I'm reading a newspaper, even if it is one of the more liberal ones out there. Better than wasting my time watching the crap on Fox News and such. Thank you Hazel!

Few things on my mind today. First, there's a new look to Yahoo! webpage, but only for those people using IE. If you're using Mozilla Firefox, it looks the same. Not sure what's up with that. But I saw this article about a dude losing 100 pounds by walking across America. It's actually a very good read (and inspirational enough that he made Oprah.... you're a nobody till you make it on Oprah - says Hazel) and something I should try. I am down my first 10 pounds in my quest to lose weight. I'm actually down 20 over what I was late last year so I'm well on my way. Trying to lose another 20 by 4th of July - we shall see. Best part of the guy's webpage was the URL..... TheFatManWalking.com. Nice!

I have some new ideas for smells for Candles that I should submit to Yankee Candles or whatever. First one is the smell of a Brewery once the Yeast has been added. I love that smell! When you know it's not ready to drink, but there's still a hint at the good flavoring. I also thing there should be one of fresh cut lawns in mid summer, with the grass stains all over your shoes. There should be one with the smell of gasoline too, not sure why I like that smell. I also would like one the smell of Play-dough, and magic markers. Yes, I'm known as the marker sniffer in my Leadership Class. They actually have these cool ones though that are scented that we had in class. I loved these things and was caught many times smelling them. Yum! Another cool smell would be of Granny Rolfsmeier's (yes, I spelled that correctly) kitchen when she was cooking that coffee cake. I loved going over there when she was cooking up a storm. Small apartment that was full of the smell of goodies and all the stuff that Mom wouldn't want me eating. But Great-Grandmother's have the trump card over everyone else as far as what I can eat and what I can't eat. Just like Grandmother's have that same trump card over my mother. And mom has the trump card over girlfriends;) The natural evolution of authority in a man's life.

The other thing I saw this morning that I know will piss some people off. It actually bothered me, even how liberal I am. I see the rainbow triangles and that doesn't phase me.... but this morning I saw a girl with numerous liberal bumper stickers and she also had a Jesus Fish sticker on the back of her car - with a rainbow inside the fish. That isn't cool even in my mind. To each his or her own though I guess, but that one is bound to upset some people.

Song of the Day - Tonight is Elvis night on American Idol, so here are my "top 4" Elvis songs (it's so hard to pick only 4 but I'll try) - Viva, Las Vegas!, Can't Help Falling In Love, All Shook Up, Don't. With In The Ghetto getting honorable mention ONLY because of it's fame from my Southpark days and Eric Cartman singing it to Kenny. It'll be interesting to see what is chosen to sing tonight.

Video of the Day - Another movie I saw this last weekend was Unleashed which has Jet Li and Morgan Freeman. It's a violent movie, but pretty interesting. I liked it enough to recommend it if you're in that mood to watch a lot of butt kicking with little plot. Morgan Freeman plays so many different characters, and plays them well. He doesn't do any fighting in this movie though.

Webpage of the Day - I think I'm one of maybe 20 people in the US that is still watching The Apprentice 5. It's down to 5 folks (none of them impress me enough to hire) and it's been a pretty pathetic season. I do have to say that I have been going to the webpage though and found the link above to "Lessons Learned" that takes an episode summary, and the TRUMP UNIVERSITY analyzes it to point out what they did well, and what they didn't do so well. It's good from a business perspective to see what is suggested to do rather than the screw ups that we see on the show week after week. Note: The link above has spoilers, but currently is still on last week's Lesson.