Nanananana Batman!!

I should probably seek help over this feeling, but everytime I see the preview for the next batman movie coming out this summer I get extreme pleasure out of the stadium explosion. See its Heinz field, home of the steelers, and as a browns fan I must be content with make believe destruction because I know beating them on the field just isn't going to happen. So boom goes the fantasy dynamite.

segment 4 picks

Well my chances of winning this year are waning, but I am not giving up. Here's my hail mary for seg 4.

Kentucky - Kyle Busch to repeat, for the tracks sake I hope that is the only repeat from last years race.

Daytona - Kenseth, well I figure most will go with Jr., so i'll go with the 17 and if I make up a lot of points ok, if Jr. wins, Yes!!!!

Loudon - Johnson, duh, won't make any points with this pick, but shouldn't lose any that way.

Indy - Bowyer, well shit he frickin won Sonoma after being close the last few years, maybe the same will happen at Indy. MWR is en fuego, good for Mikey.

My last few weeks in pictures

Havent felt like writing anything in a while, but I've been busy so here are some pics....

Dances with your money

Saw this commercial at my brother in laws and thought I read something that couldn't be true but he doesn't have dvr so couldn't rewind or pause. Last night it came on at home and I could pause and confirm...

That white lady in the photo must be Poca-rob-us of the wester sky indian reservation where you can get up to a 10k loan online/same day! Thanks! Why is the indian reservation key? Because the APR is 89.68%!! That's right, Don Crooked Feather is the loan shark for the 21st century, the fine print also lets you know a typical loan can be repaid with 84 monthly payments of 774.99 (about 64k). Whose getting scalped now whitey?!! I guess the native americans no longer do rain dances in the sense of farmer/crop, but now do rain dances in sense of rapper/stripclub! So if you need a loan quick and don't mind a tonto stick to the bunghole, contact western sky, it only took a few hundred years but they have learned to be on the profitable side of a very lopsided financial agreement. But they still arent getting manhattan back! (maybe, our national debt is like 16trillion, hmmm wonder what the monthly payments would be?!)

Small talk

One of the perks of my job (when the weather is nice) is I get to leave the office everyday to go to the 5 banks around my office and drop off deposits. Bank tellers unfortunately are the kings of small talk and I hate small talk. My favorite tellers are the ones that keep it to the very minimum. The ones that I dislike the most act as if we have (or need to have because I try with short awnsers to not encourage the behavior) some running dialogue and connection beyond what we really have - a work acquantence. I dont care that you saw me here or driving there, really - you were on break and saw me next door at the other bank? Shocking, because I go there every fucking day Mr. Holmes!

My real curiosity is if anyone ever gets truthful with them? We tell kids not to lie but we all do. How many times a day are you ask hows your day or how is it going? Probably 3 times a day on average? And no matter how bad your day is, what do we say in a employee/consumer situation like teller/depositor or barista/caffeine junkie... You say fine/ok/good thanks or something along those lines. But you never ever say, well since you asked I'm in the depths of the lowest I've ever been where I'm teetering between angry and scared and euphoric misery that I thought only capable with drugs created in a cia lab to coax the truth out of terrorists... Or something like that - equal parts truth and embellishment designed to get you to never ask me how I'm doing again!

Probably not, but if it ever does happen, I hope I'm in line behind them so I can see it and smile.

one of those things

There are some things (not as many as people tell you there are - narcissism runs rampant) that you can hear or witness others going through and think you know, but till you go through them you just don't know. The other day I was telling my wife that i'm having one of those type of moments recently where I wildly swing emotionally from 'I can't wait for the baby to be hear and to be a father now!' to 'what/who/how the fuck am I going to be a father, i'm an insane self-centered bumbling idiot who does good to not get arrested on a daily basis...' - I've read/heard about feelings like this, but really I must say that it is hilarious to experience. Almost an out of body like experience where you look at your self and say "hey crazy man, take some Xanax already". Any way, here is a clip from one of my favorite movies where a guy flips out in his car over his friends return after disappearing ten years earlier right after graduation. Oh yeah and this is also the similar reaction I had in the car driving back from the 2005 OSU v Michigan game with my friend Munish; whom was equal parts terrified and hysterically laughing as I pounded my steering wheel every minute (in Joyous disbelief) screaming 'I can't believe we won that fucking game!!' in bumper to bumper traffic heading home. So enjoy this clip and remember a moment where the only reaction appropriate is to wildly expel disbelief at a moment or situation doesn't happen often so enjoy them when they do...