Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Dearly Beloved, We've gathered here Today, To beat our heads against the WALL!!!

There are three things I want to talk about today. Work, media, and MultiVi's.
These three little items have got me feeling a little confused right now.
Let's start with work first.
Well, I started a new job recently and I love it. It's challenging, always different, and requires lots of class time and research. All in all, a nice change from construction. My co-workers however, hate it. I mean hate it with vengence usually reserved for root canals and murderers. They believe they are worked to hard and are underpaid. I on the other hand, disagree. I have never made so much money and had to physically, work so little. I also happen to like my boss. (Brown Noser)
I know, I can hear it being said. The fact is however, He's decent guy, he's human like all of us, but still, He seems O.K. to me. Here is the dilema, When the boss asks me if I think we all need more money what do I say? Should I lie, just to get everyone more dough, or be say what I think and make my life with my co-workers a living?...Well, you get the idea.
Second, Media.
You see I asked a friend for some music suggestion for my radio show and boy did he deliver, handing me a huge pile of burned C.D.'s hastily scribbed in sharpie and just barley legible. The one stand out so far has been "The Hold Steady". Now, the confusion here arises from the music itself. Very gritty, very Boozey, Very , well , I don't know. That's it, I don't know what to make of it. I can't say I don't like it, I can't stop listening to it! But I can't say I esspecialy enjoy it. The guy sounds like Bruce Springsteen on cocaine reading the memoirs of Andy Warhol. Yeah, it's that weird. Try it, you might learn to need it.
Third and last, Vitamins! or MultiVis as my friends in Africa would say. Well a new study out of Germany says that daily use of Vitamins may actually shorten your life span!!!!
That's right SHORTEN YOUR LIFE!!!!!
Great, I guess it's not long before we find out water causes Cancer.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Monday, February 19, 2007

Saturday, February 17, 2007

So, there I was. On the verge of poetic when...Poop! I fell.



I commited a crime yesterday...I took a sick day.
I never do this, I feel,(as idotic as it sounds) that this is sign of weakness. I know, old school stubborness. After 2 days of shoveling with a bad cold, I'm beat. There is an upside however. I get a chance to read, which in-turn, kickstarts my brain back into action. It's true. Most of the time my brain is to busy dealing with work, family and everyday type stuff. Somewhere in between the cough syrup, snot, vitamin C, and unfinished low brow sci-fi books, my brain begins to tackle the big issues of our generation. And what, pray-tell are these great issues?
Canned fruit.

Yup, Canned fruit. While I was eating one of these truly appetizing dishes i began to wonder. "Is it possible that there is any nutritional value at all left to these pathetic little globules of fruit?"
I can't accept the notion that these are taken right from the tree, chopped up and packaged by happy little elves into these delightful little cups. No, I believe they are the product of a far more sinister and demented proccess. I bet these are the scraps found in the machinery after mass producing various other items needing fruit pulp. More than likely they are left in large vats that will drain their remaining color and syrup through simple osmosis. Then the evil men at the "Giant Bad Food Coglomerate" inject them with fake food coloring and high frutcose corn syrup. You see this is just the kind of thing the "MAN" would try to pull on us! Take a complete snow job and re-package it as some kind of wholesome treat straight from the bossom of Mother Nature. This is the kind of subtlety that will tear-apart the very fabric of AMERICA!!!!!
So, once again, I ask, "Is there any nutritional value left in this?!"
Maybe I should lay off the cough syrup....

Friday, February 16, 2007

Feb 14th is for Snowflakes and Sickos!





Quick and simple post. This valentines day will be remenbered as the day the Atkins men all got sick and the Skies opened up....

Sunday, February 11, 2007

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Little ol' Me?

Okay, I knew sooner or later I would be asked to do this. I would not blame anyone if they leave half way through this could turn-out to be quite boring. Well, enough talk. Here goes nothing.
100 Hundred things about Hazmatt

1. I have a big immediate family.
2. growing up I had a very small extended family.
3. I married my best friend.
4. I think She did too. :)
5. I have 2 boys and 1 daughter.
6. I have a grave fear of extension ladders.
7. I am an electrician.
8. I use extension ladders all day long.
9. I still feel like I am 18 years old. Insecurities, dreams, desires, and all.
10. I can carry on a simple conversation in French, German, English,Spanish, Eway, and Twee.
11. When I was younger I vowed to never drive a minivan.
12. Yup, I now own one. The worst part is that I love it!. Yeah, It's real cushy.
13. I have seen the sun set over the Sahhara.
14. I LOVE baseball, but rarely get to watch a game.
15. I would rather work outside in any weather than be inside for any reason.
16. I have serious memory problems. Just ask my wife........Esther, yeah that's her name.
17. I have been to Africa but never Canada.
18. I live less than 80 miles from the Canadian border.
19. I never thought I would live past the age of 27. (I don't know why...)
20. I sleep naked. :)
21. I once had a pet Iguana named Ceasar.
22. I hated math in school.
23. I am very good at and love Math now.
24. I am most at piece in the mountains.
25. I enjoy the prospect of being an old man someday. ( again, I don't know why..)
26. Music is one of my greatest passions.
27. I can't sing my way out of a paper bag!
28. I can play the guitar, piano, and a little banjo.
29. My left nipple is pierced.....Ha! Just Kidding Mom!!!!
30. 2 years ago I contracted Malaria.
31. I am more comfortable around Africans than I am around most Americans.(Well off, jet-set, yuppie, types.)
32. Paul was wrong, I am the Chief of sinners.
33. I am that guy who gives his opinion when no one wants it. For that I am sorry.
34. More and more I tend to avoid crowds.
35. My grandmother gave me the idea of being an electrician.
36. She also inspired my love of nature.
37. I plan to continue to visit Africa until I die.
38. I have no plans or intrest in visiting Canada.
39. I believe that the Christian community wastes too much time lobbying for their rights.
40. I have been working full-time since I was 14.
41. My closest confidant growing-up was my dog Scout.
42. I cried when he died, I was 22.
43. This is one of only three times in my adult life that I have cried in sorrow.
44. I once ate lunch with a Voodoo priest in Ghana.
45. I hate goat meat. It's gross!
46. I have had plastic surgery.
47. I have owned six vehcles in a seven year period.
48. 3 maroon, 2 black, and one orange.
49. I am a licensed Fire alarm Inspector.
50. I detest cooked vegtables.
51. I have worked at and been proficent in the folling trades.
Electrical
Steel work
Farming
Chef
Bagger and stock boy
Carpentry
and Concrete worker.
52. I regret working so much as a kid.
53. I have been shot at twice. (No, it was not in Africa.)
54. I talk too much. Hence # 53
55. I love to read.
56. I love foriegn films
57. I hate comedy films.
58. My favorite band of all time is U2. Shut-up, I like them.
59. I have never seen any of my favorite bands in concert.
60. I once hit 60mph on level ground on my bike.
70. I have had more car accidents than I have cars. Hmm...Maybe I should have stuck with the bikes...
71. When the twin towers fell my first reaction was laughter. This troubles me deeply. It was not till days later that I reached an understanding of what had happened. I then cried until my eyes hurt.
72. I never felt angry about it.
73. I love LEGOs.
74. I do not own a cell phone.
75. I do not have a T.V. in my living room.
76. I will refuse to get cable.
78. I love techno gadgets. Go figure..
79. I can't swim
80. I want to be a rock star.
81. I have been caught in a sand storm while walking in Africa.
82. I listen to Public Radio.
83. I am a staunch Republican with eviromentalist leanings.
84. I intend on getting a tattoo someday.
85. I have slept on the floor of grand central station.
86. I own over two thousand baseball cards.
87. I have seen more moose in the woods than most people I know. I think I must smell good to them.
88. The same goes for Turkeys and Bobcats.
89. I have never been on a passenger on a train.
90. I have driven several.
91. I am a real bad speller.
92. I hate self-help books. They bore me.
93. I have seen a man fall 3 stories and land on his feet.
94. I don't drink.
95. I love beer.
96. I believe beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Bible is true.
97. I have good friends in Ghana, Germany, Peru, Canada, Belgum and Poland.
98. I have been hit with 277 volts before.
99. I have seen a man healed before my eyes.
100. I did not post 100 items.