I'm officially closer to 30 than 25. A little depressing yes, but I woke up this morning feeling a little more distinguished. Could just be a 9 meal a day hangover from the long weekend though...I'll let you know.

So what have you done to prove yourself as a animal activist? Bet it's not as cool as my

boy Bao Xishun.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/10532149/detail.html#

I opened a lobster trap and released them back into the ocean once. I fear that might not be near as impressive.

After reading the story of Bao saving the dolphins, I googled him. Apparently he's in the market for a lady friend. Well. here you go ladies - the worlds tallest man, and evidently he's quite the suave dresser.

Look out ladies!

Concert and family reviews coming later in the week.

I got pulled over by this guy the other day.

It obviously wasn't this exact cop. That would be pretty sweet if it was. But this is basically him. Same sweet glasses. I deserved the ticket. I was speeding. I was aware of this at the time. By the time he got to my window I had my license and insurance out. I broke the "law", I get a ticket. So I figured my expediting the process would make me and Ponch square. But hey, captain power trip instead harassed me about my drivers license address not matching my insurance address. Again, I was in the wrong. I should have changed it the past 16 months since we have lived in our new place. I hadn't, cite m if you need to. I deserve it. What do I not need? To be berated by a man with a moustache. I made a witty comment that should have landed me in handcuffs. But, it didn't. I'm happy. I don't want to go to jail...again. What? Anyway - moral of the story? I have no idea. But cops make me laugh. I respect the heck out of them-but they make me laugh.

Other new developments in life:

I am going snowboarding in two weeks. Pretty stoked. I haven't been in 5 years. Last time I went I broke my foot. It was not what you might call an enjoyable time. This could be a long story, I won't bore you. The highlight of the story. While snowboarding home from work one day I broke my foot. Since snowboarding was an Interregnal part of my job, my services were no longer needed so I packed up, caught a ride home from a group of friends from college who happened to be skiing in the next town over, and headed home. All of the cars in the caravan o' rich kids were full except for a Tahoe with two girls I didn't know and due to the excruciating pain in my foot, I had no desire to get to know. I was faced with a dilemma. My foot was throbbing like the dickens, and I wasn't in the mood to make fifteen hours of small talk with two girls whose dad paid not only for their $900 ski's locked into the roof rack up top, but the $35,000 Tahoe the rack was attached to. Solution: I told the girls that the Dr.'s in Vail gave me some really strong medication that made me incredibly drowsy, so if it was OK with them I would just sleep in the back. So to effectively enact my ruse, at the first gas stop, after paying for their tank of gas I took five Nyquil's. (don't try this at home - a mere mortal could die) Legend/rumor is I snored from Denver to Dallas. Don't be jealous.

I orginally wrote most of this blog last Wednesday, but due to the fact I am a very important person I am just now getting back to it.

Sylabus's are great. Know what else is great...reading them. Finals week is this week. Know what I had last tuesday night in my Tuesday night class? A final. What? Aparently, i didn't read the portion of the syllabus that stated to "help" us with our final schedule, we were going to have the final a week early. Awesome. Not my most noteworthy of test prformances, but I came out ok I think.

Two realizations I have come to in the past two weeks:

1.)I am addicted to more things that I would like to admit. Addictions imply weakness. I normally don't choose to recognize my humnaity but since this is my private diary, I feel like I can confess my grevious sins... Dear Diary, these things I can't live without......







Too many I know.

Realization # 2.) I want to see a lot more places than I have seen . Sally tells everyone that if it were up to me I would spend all our money on traveling. I can't argue.

10 places I want to see in the next five years.

BOSTON >see the green monster in person

U.K. > looks like we are going this summer

CANADA> canadian rocky mountains

THE REST OF SPAIN > only seen parts

THE REST OF ITALY> see above

OREGON/WASH ST. > sit and speak with my hippie friends

ISREAL > obligatory Christian destination

AFRICA > i need to adopt some kids and get famous

ALASKA > the home of eskimo pies? are you kidding me?!

AULSTRALIA > 100 year storm (long live sawyze)

So, as of yesterday we officially have yet another celebrity who knows how his teeny little shoe tastes.

Well played Devito. Here's to staying up all night with the sexiest man alive then making a sloshed fool of yourself on National TV. Cheers!

http://news.aol.com/entertainment/tv/articles/_a/view-bleeps-bush-bashing-devito/20061130065009990001

I have never wanted to be famous less in my life.

As hard as it is to believe, Sally and I are going o be married two years on Monday. If you count the three years we dated and were engaged which I do, it's been five years.

I'll spare you having to skip over the mushy details and just say this: I love my wife. Life without her would be as my friends south of the border say "El' Sucko". I know it's not really Spanish. Pretty soon we are going to make the jump from throwing our money away every month renting and buy a house. We are going to look at this one today.

I want to pull into this driveway every night.

Last weekend was one game short of the best sports holiday weekends of my life. The Ag's beat Texas, the Cowboys stomped Tampa and the Mav's waylayed the Spurs. The only thing that would have made it sweeter would have been the Stro's crushing the Cardinals is the 1st ever Thanksgiving MLB double header. Although, we did pick up Carlos Lee for a smidge over what he's worth, so I'll go ahead and call it a Hat Trick.

I rediscovered Ben Taylor this morning. he has a new album out and is touring the world. Hopefully he will pick up his dad's slack and actually make his way to Houston. Check it out.

www.bentaylorband.com Thank me later

Robert Altman died yesterday. 1925-2006.
If you don’t know who Robert Altman is, you have missed out on some amazing movies. Altman made a ridiculous amount of movies and much less importantly, a few of my favorites.

I heard an NPR interview with Elliott Gouldlast night. He was asked bout his experiences and friendship with Altman. He said that actors would stand in line to have a bit part in Altman's movies, because the way he directed forced them to be a better actor. What a legacy. How incredible would it be to have that on your tombstone? “People longed to be around _______ because they forced them to be a better person”.

Almost started to go deep there. It was gonna be my NBC
"The more you know" moment.





Have you seen “The more you know’s” from the Office? Brilliant.


http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/office_psa_meteor.shtml#video

Have a great long weekend. Eat a lot of turkey. Tell your parents how much you love them. Sleep a lot.

I'm moving my blog from the Myspace. I figured if I had a specific blog, I might do so more often. We'll see.

I dig the Holidays. I jump into the Holiday cheer. I exude Yule. That sounds kinda gross. Alas, i like this time of year all the same. This calls for my top ten best things about the holidays. (in no particular order). Due to my love for this time of year the Velveeta might spring up withing me.

1. The Christmas and Thanksgiving Charlie Brown Specials. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" ranks up there too

2. Pumpkin Spice Late' and Egg Nogg Late' from Starbucks

3. The obligatory special holiday episodes of my favorite shows

4. Neighborhoods full of kiddo's out of school

5. Holiday Movies. Not the Hallmark or Lifetime original filth, but Movies marketed for the Christmas season. i.e. Last years The Family Stone

6. Driving around the neighborhood looking at Christmas Lights

7. Candle Light Christmas Eve service

8. Getting to wear my much hipper cold weather wardrobe

9. Bowl Season

10. The inevitable hokey Christmas cards my married friends send out with pictures of their wuss dogs with sweaters on.

Wanna see humanity at it's worst? On Friday, grab a Starbucks and a snack, take your favorite lawn chair and set up camp inside your local Wal*Mart or Target. Disgusting.

Humanity at it's finest? Make a trip down to the Star of Hope Mission downtown on Thursday and watch families serve together with the feeding program. If that doesn't warm your heart your a cyborg.