So uh, lets have a look at him…..he’s a catch right? Check out Bobby’s moves here. I jacked up and cut the music ten seconds short but its not bad for my first effort with adding my own background music.

Arrgh, so it’s me buried treasure yer after matey

Take 41,000 tiny “buried treasures” in 161 countries; add tens of thousands of computer geeks worldwide putting down their mice and keyboards in favor of their GPS to find them, and what do you get? Geocaching!! Me, Marcy and the kids will be heading out to explore our community in search of these caches this weekend, what will you be doing? This is our first exploration so we are keeping it local, but with caches in just about every area of this, and many other, countries our adventures could take us around the globe. Not since Lewis and Clark has a family braved the elements in the spirit of exploration. OK, so that may be an exaggeration, but it will a great way to find places and things we never knew were there.

I’m tired of it. When I do have one I get tired, and when I don’t have one I get sketchy. I’m friggin sick of it. What’s a guy to do??? I finally came to work today without any cigarettes on me, and the only other guy that smokes here at work is off today, Thank God. I just want to break this friggin cycle once and for all and be done with it. I have some Nicorette with me, but I only want to use it if I am in dire need, e.g. ready to go into my boss’ office and strangle him. Hopefully that will not happen, I honestly like the guy and I wouldn’t want to do that to him.

Battling a virus on my network here wasn’t helping matters either, but it looks like I’m in the clear. With the help of InnoculateIT running on our Novell Network and AVG 6.0 to scan local drives, I may just have beaten the beast. One beast down, one to go.

Alright, my sister just sent along the new 2003 Hooters Calendar. Check it out.

Finally someone begs the question….Work or Spoon… Which will you choose?

I absolutely love getting a chance to play with something new, whether it’s a new computer which costs more than a few car payments to say the least, or it’s a free piece of software. Find me something to tinker with and configure and I’ll stay busy for hours on end. That’s what happened this morning when I finally checked Avant Browser out. Can you say ooooohhhhhh. I did. It’s as fast as Internet Explorer and it kills pop-up ads. Yes, I know about Mozilla too, but I didn’t like Mozilla (even switched back to IE and put up with Pop-Up Ads) for two main reasons:

1. I did not like having to keep Mozilla open via the system tray to speed up the opening of the browser itself (which otherwise is sluggish) – AND
2. Getting to the preferences to turn off the Pop-up Killer, which has to be done on certain occasions (using bookmarklets primarily) is too intensive

Avant Browser runs on IE’s engine so it is just as fast starting up without the need to reside in your system tray hogging resources; and you can turn the Pop-up killer on and off via a button on the tool bar when needed. Plus the multi-tabbed experience in Avant Browser is quicker on both my computer at work and at home than Mozilla’s. I was sold on Mozilla for awhile, but headed back to IE to due a few annoyances, but I think Avant Browser has addressed where Mozilla went wrong and then some. Check it out for yourself, and if you have already, let me know what you think.

A couple weeks ago, theWife, theInLaws and I went up to Jackson for a little gambling fun. We took theDaughter with us but do you think not being able to gamble stopped her from having any fun? Hell no, I’ve got the evidence here. I swear she’s gonna end up being a model or actress or both. That girl loves the camera. At least she had more luck staying outside than I did inside, that’s for sure. Woops. I let it ride, one too many times.

I don’t get mad about many things, in fact most times I’m down right annoyingly passive. But if there is one thing that gets me seeing red, it’s constant talking during a class. I pay damn good money to attend classes so that I can learn something, I want to be able to learn something without having to hear about someone else’s life through the whole friggin class. The funniest part is the people who are doing the talking are the same ones complaining that they can’t understand the material or keep up with the teacher. Then they find a way to blame the teacher for going too fast. Shut the F up and pay attention. It works wonders.

I told myself that I was not going to drink too much at yesterday’s Super Bowl Party me and Marcy attended. As it turns out….I lied. Don’t worry though, I am paying the price for it today. “Are your Monday’s not hard enough? Do you actually enjoy Monday’s? Well do we have a solution for you….Beer, lot’s of it. Order today and your order will be shipped and at your door by Sunday, guaranteed. If your not completely satisfied with your hangover, we’ll send you, at no cost, a beer bong. Drink one, two, even three beers in the time it takes your neighbor to just take a sip.” Things wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t have school after work tonight. Oh well, I’ll manage to get through it. I have before, that’s for sure.

A quick Saturday recap of events at Michael’s Pinewood Derby for those interested….Michael’s car came in third place and gives him the right to compete in the District Championships. Yes, these events can even go to national races. I wonder what type of competition are at these events….Do ya think parents sabotage other kid’s cars? I bet it happens. It would be easy enough. Superglue could be made to look suspiciously like lubricant that’s used on the wheels of these cars. I think I’ll make a movie about that……“Coming to a theater near you, Tom Cruise is Little Timmy in….Pinewood Days of Thunder.”

I thought I would be able to get some homework done before I have to pick Marcy up from getting her massage, but distractions are a bitch aren’t they? Maybe someone can help me, I’m taking Math 70 which is an Algebra I course. Here’s my problem:

St. Louis and Portland are 2060 miles apart. A small plane leaves Portland, traveling toward St. Louis at an average speed of 90 miles per hour. Another plane leaves St. Louis at the same time, traveling toward Portland, averaging 116 miles per hour. How long will it take them to meet?

Meet?? Will they really be meeting in midair? How long will it take Mike to realize this and jump from the airplane using the plane’s only parachute? That’s a better question.

Between Tyler’s baseball tryouts this morning and Michael Pinewood Derby this afternoon, I may not have much time to post anything today. I will try though. I’m looking at revamping my photo gallery and still working on my digital vids.