You never know till ya know

Well if anyone is reading and wondering where all my wonderful pictures and posts about my trip are I am sorry. I am having a hard time getting the pictures off of my camera...er I mean phone. I was able to look at them on the computer for the first time yesterday and they looked good...or at least some looked ok. Soon I hope, Soon.

See ya on the flip side

So I realize that pretty much nobody reads my blog anymore but soon I leave to go on vacation and I am going to blog about my wild escapades up north in the great pacific northwest. So if you do happen to stop by I hope you enjoy...there should be plenty of pictures! (oooooahhhhh)

heh I just found this saved draft from ages ago...musta been drunk

Oh I've been through the internets with a post with no name it feels sad the SB goes with no rain on the internets nobody knows you're real name cuz you might be ousted like ol' valerie plame...la la la lalalala la la la laa.



thats just what I had to put because blogger won't let me add a title to this post

How could I miss that!

I found something even more hilarious on that ad...it actually says this!

The Santa Barbara News-Press is committed to excellence, quality and professional development throught our organization. We are seeking qualified individuals to join our highly talented team.

What team...? HAH!

does that count for everyone?

I was poking around the internets looking for some new digs and found myself looking at the one aspect of the new-press that is free to look at online...the classifieds. For some reason or another I was looking at the job postings when I came across a little add from the news-press looking for people to sell ads from already existing accounts. I thought to myself how fun would it be to get that job and start working with the various customers they already have...like my employer...and just start talking to them like such an a-hole and tell them truly how few people are actually seeing the multi-thousand dollar ads they are placing and see how many I can get to cancel before they find me out and fire me...that would be fun. My very favorite part of the whole thing though is what the ad says at the bottom:

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that supports a drug-free workplace. Offered a position with the Santa Barbara News-Press, candidates are required to pass a pre-employment drug and alcohol screening.

I am not sure but wasn't the op-ed arrested for drunk driving because he said that’s what he likes to do when he is stressed and under pressure? I may be wrong.

But I did find this in on Forbes:

This spring, Travis Armstrong was arrested for alleged drunk driving, and a brief appeared on page 3. Armstrong cried foul and accused Roberts of running a vendetta. No such thing, said Roberts: Armstrong was a public figure, a person of standing in the community, and the arrest was news. When Armstrong was sentenced, a story was written, but on orders from the top, it was killed.

and this from the LA City Beat:

When the scabrous editorial page editor, Travis Armstrong, was arrested for drunk driving and the story appeared on page three of the paper, she threw a fit, accusing Roberts and his deputies of waging a personal vendetta against Armstrong in the news pages. A news story on Armstrong’s conviction (four days in the slammer and a $1,600 fine) was killed and, since McCaw and Nipper were off to the Mediterranean on a cruise, Armstrong was named acting publisher in their absence. That was when the resignations began in earnest – also fueled by a ludicrous complaint from.

Hrmm maybe I am just a jerk...but it doesn't look to me like everyone has to pass a drug and alcohol test. Just don't be surprised when everyone who works at the news press has to have the same short hair cut, mao cap, and grey army fatigues. Kinda like this guy from N. Korea.

ummm when you do that I can't see

I have just come to the conclusion that I am a much better back seat blogger then I am at just driving the damn thing. With a bit of hard work and a lot more time working on getting outside my comfort zone I just may be able to even get this thing started again...its almost as bad as my brothers old Plymouth Volare...which you all would be surprised to find out was the 1976 motor trend car of the year...as both the Plymouth Volare and the dodge aspen. Now: Gentlemen start your engines!

Eight is great...this will make me lose a date

Thanks to my great friend over at INOTBB who felt bad for me because my mind is so gunked up right now he thought I needed something to try and get my blog started...so why don't we get to know each other.

1. I have to post these rules before I give you the facts.
2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. (You’re not the boss of me!)
5. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

This seems almost like speed dating:

1) As a young lad...just a mere 4 years old I was playing "spray each other in the face with the garden hose" with my brother when I took a few steps back and fell into a box of old rusty barbwire. I still am afraid of barbwire.

2) After High school I jumped from college to college before ending up going to bicycle mechanic school to learn how to fix bicycles, suspension forks, weld bicycles, and how to fit and ride bikes. HAH I went to school to learn how to ride a bike.

3) **gulp** I used to play dungeons & dragons, Magic the gathering, and Warhammer 40k.

4) On a train ride from Eugene, OR to Santa Barbara before I lived here they were showing the movie Signs and I had twelve people on the train tell me I looked just like Joaquin Phoenix.

5) In my 11th grade year in High school I played "crazy old peters the hermit" in George M. Cohan's play Seven Keys to Baldpate. It was a huge success!

6) When I was about 10 or so I was hit in the mouth with a baseball...I started collecting baseball cards instead.

7) I am half Irish and half Mexican...which explains why I really like whiskey and cerveza.

8) I have actually hiked all the way to the crater of Mount St. Helens...and back!

and as for tagging 8 other bloggers...I don't think I know 8 others and when checking my first one to see if they had already been tagged and I noticed they had and subsequently tagged pretty much the remaining bloggers I know...oh well...thanks Esau! :-)

ooops...sorry!

I suck!

ahhhh ya think!

I read in the news a few interesting things today I guess good ol' Colin Powell is trying to act like he can still make a diffrence. It said this:

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba should close "not tomorrow but this afternoon".

and...

"If it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon," Powell told NBC's Meet the Press television program.
"Essentially, we have shaken the belief the world had in America's justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like the military commission."

If I was smart enough I am sure I could think of all sorts of things to write about this but alas all that comes to my mind at this point is...well duhhhh!

I could think of some thing

Today the AP reported this little story:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is "lost," triggering an angry backlash by Republicans, who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops.

I am not sure about anyone else but to me saying the war is "lost" sounds more like sticking up for the troops more then anything else...keeping them in this senseless war so they can get killed seems like turning your back on them.

it goes on to say this:

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday," said Reid, D-Nev.

Republicans pounced on the comment as evidence, they said, that Democrats do not support the troops.

"I can't begin to imagine how our troops in the field, who are risking their lives every day, are going to react when they get back to base and hear that the Democrat leader of the United States Senate has declared the war is lost," said Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

I can imagine how our troops might feel...

"Thank god I get to come home!" or "Yes I am going to see my newborn after all!"

In my opinion the best thing we can do for our troops is to bring them home, anything else is turning your back on them.

This little post went wee wee wee all the home

I changed my mind about posting the post that was posted in this post. Now you just get this lame post with a nice picture I took to represent how devoid of ideas I am at this point.

I really hope that you do enjoy!

Under pressure

Well I thought I best put something up on here but I never thought I would be under so much pressure. Good thing is now I have more then one entry...bad thing is I still don't really know what to write about. I'm sure it will come to me some day. My friend over at INOTBB makes this look so easy...well its not! This is going to be hard.

Well I just thought maybe...

I thought that if I created a blog and wrote down some of my thoughts then maybe I might write something someday that actually makes sense and is interesting...may even stir the stagnant brain juices in my head which are currently cloudy from a low paying miserable line of work. Either way don't look for anything to exciting here but feel free to read whenever you like...lastly welcome.