Archive for the ‘autobiographical’ Category

From The Noodle Incident

March 21, 2007

Good meme from Noodle Incident

1. What bill do you hate paying the most?
Mortgage and my wife pays all the bills. I hate our neighborhood. We pay too much for what we have.

2. Where was the last place you had a romantic dinner?
We eat at a sentimental place on our anniversary and on the day we met. It was a 50’s place where we met.

3. Last time you puked from drinking?
1996. Saw my ex-fiance at a wedding

4. When is the last time you got drunk and danced on a bar?
Same day

5. Name of your first grade teacher?
Mrs. Adams

6. What do you really want to be doing right now?
My ex-fiance??? I would like to be riding in my old Jeep with the top down or riding a train to someplace.

7. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Professional baseball player.

8. How many colleges did you attend?
Total, it’s misleading as I have also done graduate work and extended courses. 4

9. Why did you choose the shirt that you have on right now?
It’s hot out today

10. GAS PRICES?
Too high

11. If you could move anywhere and take someone with you?
Pleasanton, California

12. First thought when the alarm went off this morning?
Crap

13. Last thought before going to sleep last night?
X-rated

14. Favorite style of underwear?
boxer briefs

15. Favorite style of underwear for the opposite sex?
Commando or thong

16. What errand/chore do you despise?
mowing the yard

17. If you didn’t have to work, would you volunteer?
yep, sure would

18. Get up early or sleep in?
Early

19. What is your favorite cartoon character?
Superfriends

20. Favorite NON sexual thing to do at night with a girl/guy?
Talk … talk talk talk

21. Have you found real love yet?
yes

22. When did you first start feeling old?
Last year when I had my first colonoscopy

23. Favorite 80’s movie?
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

24. Your favorite lunch meat?
Salami

25. What do you get every time you go into Sam’s Club?
A big bill

26. Beach or lake?
Mountain

27. Do you think marriage is an outdated ritual?
Nooooooo!

28. How many people do you stalk on Myspace?
I don’t even know how to use it.

29. Favorite guilty pleasure?
Chicken Express or Long John Silver’s or porn

30. Favorite movie you wouldn’t want anyone to find out about?
Joe Vs. The Volcano

31. What’s your drink?
Red Elephant or Red Wolf

32. Cowboys or Indians?
Cowboys

33. Cops or Robbers?
Cops

34. Who from high school would you like to run into?
Anyone, although I ran across her picture yesterday.

35. What radio station is your car radio tuned to right now?
WRR 101.1

36. Norm or Cliff?
Norm

37. The Cosby Show or the Simpsons?
Cosby

38. Worst relationship mistake that you wish you could take back?
My ex-fiance

39. Do you like the person who sits directly across from you at work?

Well my office faces the women’s restroom so, uh ya I guess so.

40. If you could get away with it, who would you kill?
Wife’s ex-husband

41. What famous person(s) would you like to have dinner with?
Adam and Eve

42. What famous person would you like to sleep with?

Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sara Evans, Elisa Bridges,

Rene Zellweger, Faith Hill, Liv Tyler, Jessica Biel, Erika

Eleniak

43. Have you ever had to use a fire extinguisher for its intended purpose? Nope

44. Last book you read for real? No Plot No Problem – book about how to write for NANOWRIMO

45. Do you have a teddy bear? No

46. Strangest place you have ever brushed your teeth? Airport bathroom

47. Somewhere in California you’ve never been and would like to go? Monterrey

48. Number of texts in a day? 0, I don’t pay for them.

49. At this point in your life would you rather start a new career or a new relationship? Retire. I’d like to meet new friends.

Of things random and so on

March 13, 2007

So today I didn’t take little a to school. I always take little a to school, but we needed me to be home to meet the floor people to repair a plank of our fake hardwood floor. Quite fun … So I went to tell little a goodbye and that mommy was taking her to school and she reaches up with her little paw and kind of does that open close thing with her fingers. Then she hands me her blanket, her most sacred of all possessions, to take with me. I told her there was no possible way I could EVER take her plain blankey so she handed me her tiny pink bear to put in my pocket to keep with me during the day. THIS KID IS FRIKKIN’ AWESOME!!!!!

My boss got this portable keyboard for her palm pilot. I wasn’t so much jealous as I was recognizing it was really handy for taking notes. My office is really long but not very wide. It’s really a closet that’s been converted to an office. So I usually leave to meet with people and that happens a lot during the day if I’m not writing code or designing web sites. So 2 +2 = 4 and Bob’s your uncle and I got in touch with Casio to see if I could hook a keyboard up to my PDA. They said I could and low and behold the wonders of Ebay and the 77 key keyboard to the right. It’s sitting on top of my normal 102 key keyboard with a quarter on the upper left corner and a 3×5 card behind it for perspective.

But, still no worky so I’m going to have to call Casio to see what needs to happen.

Happy birthday to Sunshine. I hope you get the trifecta.

BTW – I was asked to participate in 2 college basketball brackets ( thanks Phats! ). Anyone who knows me knows I am the bizzaro of anything basketball. My two best friends are basketball fans. I’m a short white man, that should tell you enough about my interest. Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions as to who I should pick in my bracket?

Ladies, I need some waxing questions answered. Not for me. I’m wondering about cost and duration.

Sad Day Reprise And Other Stuff You Won’t Believe

March 8, 2007

Sad Day ( Reprise )
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Well, it’s gone better. We saw and attorney and now we have verbal agreements and papers that back us up. Very interesting, but in the interest of not letting the cat out of the bag, we are in a good position.

As far as my wife being up since 1:30 AM and sitting in the shower crying while I held her. Mmmm, maybe not so much good. But today was an unusual day. Most day’s we get along well.

And this out of Bethlehem, PA.
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I swear, you people in PA never cease to amaze me. You are either the most conservative group around or your pants are off in a drug induced state. Moderation, MAN!! If you don’t know what I’m talking about , Bethlehem police arrested a elementary principal suspected of dealing drugs. the weirdness ensued with the details or the arrest.

Poll at the end

Bizarre’ details emerge in Bethlehem principal’s arrest
From furtive parking lot deals to sex toys and porn, officials describe drug-fueled path of educator.
By Pamela Lehman and Steve Esack Of The Morning Call

When police entered the office of Nitschmann Middle School Principal John Acerra to arrest him for allegedly selling crystal methamphetamine, they found the 50-year-old educator naked and watching gay pornography with sex toys nearby, sources say.

Police also found a glass drug pipe and $200 in marked money on the desk, just minutes after an informant wearing a wire arranged to buy meth from Acerra about 6 p.m. Tuesday, officials said.

Bethlehem schools Superintendent Joseph Lewis said law enforcement officials called him shortly after the arrest, but no one told him Acerra was naked or watching pornography.

”This is all bizarre,” Lewis said Wednesday afternoon after a news conference in his office at the Bethlehem Area School District.

Lewis also said later he never heard concerns about Acerra regarding drugs or pornography.

”I’ve never received a complaint,” Lewis said. ”I’ve been superintendent for five years and I’ve never gotten an e-mail, phone call or note.”

He said police told him they do not believe Acerra sold drugs to children. An internal investigation will be conducted, Lewis said.

Acerra, a 28-year educator and principal since 2000, is in Lehigh County Prison under $200,000 bail. He is charged with possession with intent to deliver, manufacture or create methamphetamine, delivery of a controlled or counterfeit substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

When police received a tip last week that Acerra, of 832 Chestnut St., Allentown, was selling meth, they knew he was the Nitschmann principal and worked fast to set up a sting at the west Bethlehem school.

”We were very concerned and that’s why we acted as quickly as we did,” Lehigh County District Attorney James Martin said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon at the Bethlehem Police Department. ”We felt like we had to take him down as quickly as possible.”

Normally, police may stretch out a drug investigation for months in the hope of nabbing a main drug supplier, Martin said.

”Because this was a school principal, we had definite concerns,” he said.

Acerra is charged with having meth in his office Tuesday evening, but Martin would not comment on the possibility of any other deals from Acerra’s school office.

Outside the school Wednesday morning, parents expressed amazement and sadness.

”I’m just shocked about this happening in a school involving an administrator,” said Mike Roman, a parent of twin girls in sixth grade. ”It’s sad.”

Doug Brock, father of a sixth-grade girl, Tyler, did not cast blame at the district, saying people make mistakes all the time.

”He could have been the janitor,” Brock said. ”He could have been anybody.”

Lewis said that when police contacted him about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, he called an emergency meeting of his Cabinet and installed Nitschmann Assistant Principal Jackie Santanasto as acting principal.

Lewis said he met with Nitschmann’s faculty Wednesday morning and brought in extra counselors and psychologists to the school of about 950 students. Letters have been mailed to parents of Nitschmann students informing them of the charges against Acerra, and Lewis’ staff plans to hold a meeting for parents next week.

”What we are saying to children is in essence sometimes people use bad judgment,” Lewis said. ”Sometimes people who we put faith in may let us down at various levels.”

Seated next to Lewis at his 2 p.m. news conference, Santanasto said the staff’s goal was to make the day as normal as possible, which included holding a scheduled assembly with a guest author.

Santanasto said teachers were told to discuss the charges during homeroom and to direct students and co-workers to counselors if they showed signs of needing help.

”Today went very well,” she said. ”We have a professional teaching staff.”

When school ended, shock, sadness, anger and confusion still lingered outside Nitschmann as students poured out.

”He was a nice man; he would do whatever to help kids,” one girl started to say before being shooed off by school officials who refused to give their names.

”Move along,” said one woman to the students. ”There will be no comments today.”

While she waited for her 13-year-old granddaughter, Judy Landis of Bethlehem planned to make the day’s news a teachable moment.

”You see what happened to your principal?” she said, rehearsing the speech she planned to give her granddaughter. ”You just can’t go taking drugs.”

According to the affidavit of probable cause, police received a tip that Acerra was selling and using crystal meth. Last Thursday, the Allentown office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration set up surveillance of Acerra.

Later that evening, agents watched and recorded as Acerra allegedly sold meth to a man in the parking lot of Kmart on S. Fourth Street in Allentown. Police arrested the man, who then cooperated with the investigation. He told officers he had been to Acerra’s home 10 to 15 times in the past three months, and had seen meth or drug paraphernalia inside each time, the affidavit states.

Police arranged for the informant to buy $200 worth of meth from Acerra on Saturday. The deal happened, under police surveillance, in the parking lot of CVS at 314 W. Emmaus Ave., Allentown.

Police then set up the sting in Acerra’s office. At the office, Acerra told the informant, who was wearing a wire, that he didn’t have enough meth to complete the buy and that he would meet the informant later that night, according to Dennis Mihalopoulos, a DEA agent.

The Associated Press and Morning Call reporter Veronica Torrejón contributed to this story.
Copyright © 2007, The Morning Call

Which Would You Hide First?
Turn off the gay p0rn.
Clear the drugs off the table.
Move the sex toys off the table.
Hide your privates.
Just hide under the desk and sing Christmas carols and hope the police go away.
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Cell Phone Pic Of The Week
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Seen on I-30 on the way to work. In case you can’t read it, it says “Blowmaster, we blow lots of stuff.”