Spew

I remember it was the early 90s.

Kurt Cobain was dead.

I remember year later, Jerry Garcia was my god. Then he died too.

A few years later, Pantera was my poison.

A few years later, not a band I found was on store shelves.

A few years after that, I learned why.

Then I got old.

Old music was new again. Oldies filled the spaces in my heart.

I felt, somewhat reborn. Drugs gone, real emotions taking their place.

And for a time, it was good.

But it only got better.

Now I listen to those songs as a time not lost, just, ever and ever remembered.

3 years seemed to pass like a strong breeze, but I cannot forget those times of the formative years.

I never played a mean pinball, I never had an alabama getaway, and as far as I recall, I never went to the cemetary gates.

But I had a damn fun time which I cannot say I regret.

/random spew.

Vernon

Today I went to see my wife at work, she usually has me deposit her paycheck since I am off work and she is rarely out of there in time to get to the bank. That and I often run errands for her as well as opposed to staying home and watching daytime TV or housework.

Anyhow, when I got there today there was a short native American man who was asking what bars might be open. He reeked of alcohol. It was about 11am. I tried to think of a few, explained to the man the various sections of businesses in town and what the closest bars were and that they would probably not be open. He was obviously a hitchhiker, wearing a big camouflage hikers backpack.

My wife finally thought of a dive bar downtown that would actually probably only close in case of tornado/hurricane/natural disaster and the man finally asked if I could drive him there. Going against what I normally would do, due to the whole getting stabbed in the neck while giving a stranger a ride scenario, I agreed and drove him downtown to the bar.

Vernon was his name. He was quite drunk as I said. He had spent the morning drinking in the woods back behind my wife's store. He wanted to get out of the elements and chill in a bar that offered cheap drinks. He was coming from Madisonville Kentucky, after his girlfriend broke up with him. So he was drowning in his sorrows and heading back to Texas by hitchhiking, back to there apparently because he has some sort of arts and crafts "business" and plays in a band. For the most part, he was pretty quiet.

I explained a bit of the history of this wonderful butt hole of a town, the whole story about chief paduc and Lewis and Clark and all that good stuff.

I began to notice a very strong almost chemical like odor which with the slight cold and stuffy nose I have, I just wrote it off as his booze odor.

When we got to the bar, I dropped him off and he told me his real name.

Stumbling Bear. No joke..... Stumbling Bear.

He was trying to get out of the car but had not released his seat belt. Which I clicked the button for him as stumbling bear stumbled out of the car into the parking lot. He then thanked me for the ride and I wished him the best of luck, then, he walked off into the horizon. Well, actually just into the bar.

Vernon the Stumbling Bear. Hope he gets back to Texas okay.

Vikings rule Bears Drool.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—Minnesota’s recruiting pitch to Brett Favre(notes) was heavy on the no-pressure part: just steady the offense, let the running game and defense do most of the work, and join in the fun.

The Vikings are enjoying themselves, but Favre’s surgically repaired right arm is doing a whole lot of work.

Favre completed 32 of 48 passes for a season-high 392 yards and three touchdowns, and the Vikings intercepted Jay Cutler(notes) twice in a 36-10 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday.

“I figured we’d have to throw it some,” Favre said. “I didn’t come just to hand it off. I love to play.”

They make it sound like he is some sort of cyborg....jeeze, but he just threw the ball all about the field to everybody out there. Excellent! My bro and I both enjoyed the win.

And to credit the pass completions percent, most of them were drops, only less then a handful were bad passes. I have monday off, and I'm only going to do minimal housework after the black friday weekend.

Hobo Dinner

Surely you've heard of this. But here is what I come up when the wife is out of town and my hopeless self needs to eat.

A HOBO MEAL!

For those who either never camp or are blind and deaf or possibly lived a sheltered childhood, the following steps is how you create a hobo meal.

1. Foil.

2. Butter.

3. Veggies

4. Meat

5. Seasoning.

Start by putting some butter, how much according to the total amount of food, just figure it up about the same way you would when pan frying something, or do what I do, and just goop it all over.

Then take your veggies and meats and make a pile on top of the butter. Fold your foil up a big to form a bit of a bowl. Add whatever you want and season with whatever you want. Once done, add about a tablespoon or two of water or beef/chicken broth, then wrap the foil closed. Layer more foil to make it a solid packed ball of goodness, so the moisture can't escape. I use at least 5 or more layers of foil. The way I figure, the more the better, as you can't use too much to keep your pouch of NOM safe from leakage.

Several ways you can cook the things. They call it a hobo meal because you can just chuck it into a fire for about an hour and that works. But for the non-homeless, you can use a fire if you want, but a grill or oven works. About an hour in either. Check it after a half hour if you are unsure, but its a pain if its not done when you check it because you have to wrap all that shit up again.

I used in mine...

1. Two large potatoes, sliced about 3/8" thick.

2. About 20 1/2" thick slices of Polish Sausage.

3. 2 cheddarwurst franks sliced about 1/2" sections.

4. Long green onions.

5. Celery.

6. Carrots.

Simple salt and pepper to season. I also took the time to grill the sausage and 'dogs prior to making the hobo meal, that way they had that smoky char grilled taste to them. Then sliced them up.

As you can imagine, with the greasy sausage and equally greasy franks, the potatoes taste friggin' delicious!

Its one thing you can get really creative with. This came out great but next time I am adding some bacon too, as well as some white onion cut into rings. Maybe some more greens of some sort, cabbage would be good as well.

But now with a full belly, I am going to watch the Chicago Bears lose and embarrass themselves......again. Gotta love it.

And, oh yeah.

FOOTBALL!

My two teams, The Iowa Hawkeyes and the Minnesota Vikings are both undefeated. Vikings have a hard sunday, visiting the Steelers. I hope they can edge out a win, but their defense is going to be hurting if Antoine Winfield isn't back and healthy yet. Though, my hopes for a super bowl win ride on one team, and thats not any of my teams.

That would be the New Orleans Saints.

Nobody is as consistent on offense (powerpacked for that matter) as they are. Putting up points and long bombs from Drew like its childs play. Now Patriots looked stellar in their last game, but against the hopeless new breed of the Tennessee Titans, thats not saying a whole lot.

I have not looked much at the schedule of the Hawks coming up. Guess I should do that quick before blogging much more about them.

Well, it looks like they go to Mich. State. Which I think they will handle just fine next. With a little luck, both Vikes and Hawks will be 7-0.

But the Vikings defense is really going to have to show up. I hope to see Jared Allen get at least 2 more sacks in that game, and at least 1 forced fumble.

In other news, I finally found one of my good friends online who I had lost contact with. This one time, in band camp (sorry lol had to say it), this one time in my first apartment. He showed up with a quarter pound of pot and was going to try morning glory seeds with me. He failed to mention he took 24 pills of DMX ridden cold meds the night before which (as I learned later) conflict with anti depressants causing psychotic breaks! I still love the guy to death, but that night was hell. When he finally snapped out of it. I had a chance to relax and enjoy the best over the counter high there is as far as I ever experimented. LSA's.

Around sunrise 6am, I had time to watch my surroundings swirl with colors and get sucked into the TV for a good few hours while he recovered, quite passed out on the floor.

I knew things were going sour when he said he found the answer. To what I queried? EVERYTHING was his answer. He asked for pen and paper and began to write, L...S....D, follow by a deep guttural and quite scary laugh. The rest was history. It was like babysitting a psychopath with enough drugs in my apartment to land me in prison.

Good people! Good times!

Well, just in case you are curious. LSA's do not effect everybody the same, LSD is a particular Amide of the family of lysergic acid amides. LSA's are a whole hodgepodge of them. But if you are hard up for a trip...Buy some morning glory seeds. This is how I did it.

About 10 packets from your ordinary store. Wash them good in cold water, real good. A bit of soap even. Just rinse very well. Afterwards, pat them as dry as you can, or let them dry out given the proper amount of time. Use something such as a coffee grinder to pulverize that stuff. When its all done, soak them in water. But it must be very cold near freezing water, or regular out the tap and freeze to chill it then put in the fridge. Something like that. Cold water soak either way. I don't recall the soaking time. More the better I guess. But sift the junk out and drink the stuff. We mixed it with V8 fusion juice. Its bitter otherwise. Gives you a slight tummyache at first, but, then, ZANG! it worked for me, obviously, I just had to spend most of the nightbabysitting before i could have fun.

But it was nice to hear back from him. He is doing well, working not far from where I last lived in iowa at a 3m factory. Making good money.

Raoul Duke: Madam, sir, baby, child, whatever.

Dr. Gonzo: As your attorney, I advise you to buy a motorcycle. How else can we cover a thing like this righteously?
Raoul Duke: We'll just have to drum it up on our own. Pure Gonzo journalism!

I was his duke him, he was my dr gonzo.

Again, good times. I can say I miss them, but I have grown up. Well, at least I don't touch psychedelics anymore.

I leave you tonight with this little tibit of a song, which is fond to my memories and something I grew up with, in my formative years.

"woke up quick, at about noon
jus' thought that i had to be in compton soon
i gotta get drunk before the day begins
before my mother starts bitchin about ma friends
about to go and damn near went blind
young niggaz at the path throwin up gang signs
ran in the house, and grabbed ma clip
wit the mack 10 on the side of ma hip
bailed outside and pointed ma weapon
just as i thought the fools kept steppin
jumped in the fo' hit the juice on ma ride
i got front back, and side to side
then i let the alpine play (play)
pumpin new shit by NWA
it was gangsta gangsta at the top of the list
then i played my own shit and it went somethin' like this
cruisin down the street in my six-fo''
jockin the bitches, slappin the hoes
went to the park to get the scoop
knuckleheads out there cold, shootin some hoops
a car pulls up, who can it be
a fresh El Camino rollin kilo G
he rolled down his window and he started to say
its all about makin that G.T.A."

coz the boys in the hood are always hard
you come talkin that trash, we'll pull ya card
knowin' nutin in life but to be legit'
dont quote me boy coz i aint said shit

PEACE OUT!

You can't park your car here!

So where to begin.

Where to end.

I can't seem to catch up with my brain lately. I speak before I think, I think after I speak.

I'm not sure what is my issue lately. I should be happy. I love my wife and life. love my father, love my beloved pets.

I'm just so frustrated with a lot of things most of which seems that I can't seem to control my emotions lately.

Reminds me one day when I was young, I don't remember what I did wrong, but my father was balls to the wall mad at me and he kicked my door putting a big hole in it. And my father was never violent. But I might say the same about myself. I normally am not either.

Guess its in my genes to just snap and act out of character sometimes.



As I lick the drip of my wine off my thumb in kind of occurs to me, maybe that's a trait i carry. Fly off the handle when its not a normal thing for me to do. That or, maybe i'm just bound to do it regardless, I don't know, and frankly, I don't care. I am who I am and I always will be. I can't change the core aspects of my intentions when its just raw emotion.

If i fail at that, I guess I'm bound to fail in general. I've proved that true so far in my life, short of finding a woman that will accept me. Which without her, I'd be cannon fodder of a depressing back page article on some small town newspaper.

I'm 100% thankful its the former, or else I wouldn't even be here posting this right now.

So what is my point? I don't have one.

I don't even really know why I decided to post again.

There was one day, when I was a young boy
I stepped outside into a day with many toys

I didn't want to play with them, so I looked at what else I could do.
I found fire and mischief, what touble could i look into?

I found it and it brought me to no happiness
I grew up and found much more stress

A mother that could not be the same
A son that could not be tame

I grew up and found my place
In the arms of a great womans grace

Never thought I'd find my place.





I should just shut up now and listen to some music.


ONE TOKE!

Gadget Review #2! Why not another! Samsung Exclaim for sprint

New Toy! Got this nifty little dual slider phone today for sprint. Samsung Exclaim. It is essentially the successor to the samsung rant.

Mine is blue. As you can see, dual slider, up for the number pad, to the side for the keyboard.


I've only been using it since middle of the afternoon but so far I am pretty impressed with it. Texting has been a bitch, just because I JUST LAST NIGHT cut my damned thumbnail down to nothing. With that thumbnail, it would be a breeze. Without, not so much. Granted I normally keep a bit of a thumbnail there, I just accidentially (and painfully) cut it too short. The built in web browser is sufficient but I plan to try opera out on it when I have some more time.

The thing I really like right off the bat is the construction of it. It feels like the previous samsung slider I was given to use by ATT for free. Now again, this is a sprint one, but has the same very solid feel to it. Heavy, but for its rather large size its understandble and actually feels good in your hand with the weight.

The screen is nearly twice that of the rant. Larger than a nintendo DS lite screen is. I know this, as I used an extra screen protector for my DS on it, and it just covered it barely.






As you can see, they are fairly similar, main difference is size. The slide up keypad made room for a larger screen which makes a huge difference. Allowing for a much higher resolution screen which really makes a difference when viewing pictures and even websites.

It has integrated Myspace and Facebook applications. I could not get logged in using my facebook ID/pw, but myspace worked. Its a fairly limited layout, but with some navigating you can do about all a computer can do with facebook. I updated my status with ease. Will have to look into the facebook login issue. The phone was released on june 8th, but reviews for it on did not show up until just the last few days. It was quite a surprise to the sprint market and I'm lucky to have it this soon.

They keypad is excellent. Nice big numbers. No accidental dialing likely. Nicely spaced just as the qwerty pad is. In fact, even with my gimpy thumbnail I just responded to a text with no problem, dialed my fathers number since I don't have my contacts saved in it yet.

So screen, number pad/qwerty pad all good. Signal, well. It did say it dropped once here in my apt, which was odd since I have a tower in my backyard. But I attribute it to possible provisioning still going on. At my work, signal is normally low, but it was showing strong there. So I think during final provisioning it reset service. Odd, and what makes me think that, I was in the middle of getting new ringtones. 100-300 KB is was smoking like cheap schwag and it was done. Considering we don't have EVDO here, I can't complain there.

This is kind of an impartial review and more of a "first impression", but when a first impression is this good its bound to be a good long relationship.

I mainly wanted to do this because I am just tickled with having another new toy :D

So what else in life?

I spent 3 and a half hours with the craziest bunch of people wanting cellphones in nearly all of my career with the company.

25 year old that ignored my wedding ring and kept leaning in way to close into my personal bubble and practically begging for a free rubberized skin for the phone she wanted.

Equal age "signifigant other" who apparently "left" this woman during the course of deciding which phones to get because we all know thats such a hard fucking thing to do.

And last but not slowly least, the father of the woman, who drooled a lot. And spoke slowly. VERY sl...oo...w...l...yy.......

But Hey, it was a good sale. I got a good chunk of change for it. And I had my new phone on me so I felt good. New toys are always good.

I taped their phone numbers to the respective cellphone box which said number belonged too. 2 hours later, she called wanting to know a phone number of one of them. Go figure....

But I had my new toy, I got off work early. Can't complain.

So...

Movies as of late
-The Grudge 2
-Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
-Total Recall
-Grindhouse - Planet Terror
-House Bunny

Music as of the last few days
-Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck (without you my sparky~!)
-System Of A Down - Darts (screech hehe)
-3OH3! - Don't Trust Me
-The Grateful Dead - Bertha (want to remind everybody, "greatful" is not a word" whilst "Grateful" is the band)
-Tool - 36&2

Oh and house bunny, funny but I only watched it because I bitched out comcast about fucking up my bill and they gave me starz free for a month. Again, the reason I am on the computer at this time, my wife is watching Planet Terror, which I have watched twice already on my gigaware video player at 4am or so. Good night to all and to all a Good night!