I Love You McGriddles

Gotta love the food while on the road.

Hulk Hogan's House

Clearwater, FL

At Our Christmas Party

My Beef With LOL vs. non-LOL'ers

I'm a fairly confident person and, as such, have no problem doing
something that may be considered "dorky" or "out of the ordinary"as
long as it makes me happy. For example, I own a blue colored Chicago
Bears replica football jersey with my last name, and the number "0" on
the back instead of one of the Bears actual players. Some guys in the
NFL community (and sports communities in general) consider this a
no-no (See: Bill Simmons "The Sports Guy", Page 2 ESPN Funny
Guy/Blogger/Writer/Fellow Geek).

My reasoning for going with my surname instead of someone else's: 1)
I don't really have a favorite player on the team, so why commit
myself to a guy that's not even my favorite? 2) Odds are, whichever
player's jersey I decide to purchase, that player will end up on a
different team at the end of his current contract (See: My #8 Rex
Grossman jersey). 3) What if I pick Robbie Gould's jersey, and he's
convicted of manslaughter 2 weeks later? Do I really want to be
wearing the jersey of a murderer? Sorry to digress...

So even to the most casual of observers, it would seem I make well
informed, and well thought out decisions, but don't ask my wife about
that, OH BOY!!! Sorry, terrible married joke. Anyways, what's with
people that OVERuse "LOL" when e-mailing/texting/IM'ing? It seems to
be generation Y or whatever this latest rung of teeny-boppers is
considered. "I needz 2 go 2 the store lol What are u doing 2nite lol
I need herpes ointment for my 89 year old grandmother lol Seriously."
Last time I checked, LOL means Laugh Out Loud and does not take the
place of punctuations such as periods or exclamation points. It's
these freakin' LOL-overusin' youngn's that lead to perfectly normal
people to shy away from the correct use of LOL, like my wife.

Here's where my decision-making process comes in. I thought about
never using LOL again mainly to distance myself from those Gen Y, Z,
i, whatever they're called, kids. Then I thought harder (I had a lot
of down-time in college) and realized if I use it sparingly, ONLY when
I actually LAUGH OUT LOUD, then there's no reason to be afraid! My
wife vows never to use LOL when emailing me with the rationale I just
mentioned. She would rather take the time to type out "oh my goodness
gracious, you may very well have made a joke funny enough to actually
make me emit a joyful noise, coupled with a smile! I believe you just
made me laugh here at my desk! By golly you did!" When she could
have just said "oh LOL! LOL! Nice!"

Oh sure, you say, that will save a good 10 seconds per day, but who
cares? Well I've been carefully crafting my humor to effectively mesh
with my wife's for almost 12 years now, and I believe I make her "LOL"
via email around once/day on average. We work about 50 weeks/yr times
5 days/week = 250 days. 10 seconds per day = 2500 seconds = 41.6
minutes that my wife wasted instead of simply typing "LOL". That's
right, if she would only have been confident enough to say "Oh Mike,
LOL, love you!!!" she may have found the cure for ALL CANCERS.

Ah well. I guess that's why I'm writing this rant. Don't be afraid
of LOL. Embrace it. Don't overuse it, and please, PLEASE, teach the
over-users to LOL in moderation. Good night.

Got It!

Line Behind Me

At Best Buy.

Rock Band Line at Best Buy

I'm sitting in line waiting for the release of the game "Rock Band" for my Xbox 360. Some guy just drove by us saying "look at all those people with no boyfriends and no girlfriends" while his girlfriend sat cackling in the car. I hope they miss a McDonald's breakfast tomorrow by 30 seconds, that will show them!

Oh, I'm about the 15th person in line, and the Best Buy guy said they should have like 50 Xbox 360 bundles in stock, so I should be good to go!

Microwaved Cheese Omelet

I made this omelet in the microwave at work. Many people don't know you can make some good scrambled eggs in the microwave. I learned that from my little brother back in the day.

Rock Band Demo

That's a picture of me holding the drumsticks for the PS3 version of the Rock Band demo in a local WalMart. The drums took me the whole Weezer song, "Say It Ain't So" to get the hang of, and I was on my lunch break so I had to hurry. From what I played though, this thing is a must-buy for me.

I just found out the Best Buy in South Tampa will have a midnight release of the game, so I'll probably be there to get it in time to show it off on Thanksgiving. See you there!

Super Target

Across the street from our house.