I've worked about 18 of the last 19 days, am tired and fairly annoyed at the moment. I just felt like making a list of things that bug me so I can get them off my chest and hopefully leave them in the year 2007!
1. The mall staying open till 11pm.....utterly ridiculous
2. People looking at the license plate section then asking if thats all we have( No we're are hiding the good ones in the back but you can't see them!)...duh
3. People who don't use their turn signals
4. People who bitch because we are out of product in the final week before Christmas....you snooze you lose!
5. Hearing Christmas music starting Nov. 1rst immediately after Halloween
6. People who expect you to give them boxes and wrap their gift just because they bought something from you.
7. Employees who ask for more hours, then complain about working so much!
8. Children who find it necessary to touch everything in the store and put it back in the wrong place.
9. Girls who won't just tell guys how they feel. Have to play all the little mind games
10. Girls who give guys their number when they aren't interested. I know they want to be nice but giving the guy false hope is worse.
11. People who allow themselves to stay in bad relationships then bitch about it.
12. People who don't understand stop sign rules.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
It's A Movie People!!!
So something has been bothering me lately and it just drives me up the wall. I have seen all this press about The Golden Compass and that it is Anti-Religion. Ummm....am I wrong or is this not a movie that is a FANTASY! It's not intended to be a realistic take of someone else's ideal of religion but a form of entertainment. I don't seem to remember a huge uproar over the Lord of the Rings Trilogy with people attacking it and saying it is anti-religion even though there were elves, dwarves, beings who lived forever, a different take on heavan, etc, etc....So why so many complaints about the Golden Compass?? Some people just have to complain about everything, if you're not interested in it, don't see it. It's a pretty simple concept. It's a fictional piece of entertainment, grow up!
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Reality TV....I'm disgusted with myself!
So I have to admit it, I'm a reality TV junkie, I just cannot look away from train wreck after train wreck. Real World, Real World/Road Rules Challenges, Survivor, Flavor of Love, I love New York, Surreal Life, The Hills, Laguna Beach, Shot of Love with Tela Tequila, America's Most Smartest Model, Ultimate Fighter, Rock of Love, hell even WWE and TNA Wrestling can be included. You name it this year and I've probably watched it and wasted numerous hours doing so. It used to be I liked reality shows that had physical challenges because I enjoyed the competition part. Then I slowly picked up a couple of shows cause it had hot girls( I know I'm shallow). Slowly I began to realize how amazingly full of garbage these shows were. They aren't even pretending anymore to be anything but trash. I love how at the end of the Rock of Love the girl Brett Michaels picked just kinda came out and was like well the show was fun but we're not dating. According to her they had a 6 month period of non-contact between final filming and the live Re-Union show. Ok you've spent a week with a person, say your interested in them and choose them to date, then spend six months not even speaking to them cause of the TV contract...WHAT A LAUGH! How could you ever find true love on TV? I mean both Flavor of Loves, I Love New York, and any of the Bachelor/Bachorlette shows the two never end up together, but thousands tune in each time expecting them to. Of course we all know about editing, starting fights, people going on with an idea that they are going to be the villian, etc, etc....But it's not even about that. It's about the train wreck of how these idiots trully believe in whatever is going on and interaction with each other. The worst is these dating shows where the whole time 1 person, "looking for love" makes out with every contestant on the show, then kicking them off one by one. On the Real World before the quote 1on1 interviews the producers are telling then what a roomate has said about them to either instigate a fight or love connection. I know all this but still cannot turn away. I am ashamed at myself for watching all of these but I can't help it.....drama, love, comedy, action, sex all rolled into 1 hour....sometimes it really is just Must See Tv.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Kentucky Basketball: Merely Mediocre??
So I'm trying to deal with something that I just never thought I'd have to....Kentucky as a mediocre basketball program! How'd this happen? It seems like yesterday we went to 3 straight National Championship games winning 2 which hadn't been done since the days of UCLA and John Wooden in the 1970's. Kentucky the #1 program in Collegiate Basketball in wins, tournament wins, SEC regular season championships, SEC Tournament Championships, 2nd in National Championships. Now we lose to a team whose gym holds 1000 people and is their first year in Division 1 Basketball. Now When North Carolina comes to town, it's an expected 20 points loss. No Final Fours or Championships since that fateful 1998 season. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those who believes a Championship is needed for a successful season because winning the NCAA Tourney Championship is the hardest Championship to capture in sports. Even UCLA's 11 championships runs them to about 1 every 10 seasons of basketball and thats the most. However for Kentucky to be unranked, losing to weak teams( no offense Gardner-Webb) and not even be competitive when the elite come into Rupp Arena. Once again How did we get here?
1.)College Basketball has changed since the powerhouses of the mid 90's being ravaged by early entrants into the NBA draft. Also there has now been a limit placed on the number of scholarship players each team can have allowing for a more competitive balance. Lets look at the Kentucky 1996 team that everyone around the State longs for....well in today's basketball that team would never have existed. First off Antoine Walker, Ron Mercer, Derek Anderson, Walter McCarty, Wayne Turner, and Nazr Mohammed wouldn't have even made it to school or only played a year. Thats all the starters and half the bench wouldn't have even set foot at Kentucky plus we could have only had 11 guys on scholarship instead of 14. 8 of the players on the 1996 Championship team went on to have solid NBA careers with 6 drafted in the first round.....Today you're lucky to have 2 players on a roster drafted in the first round and if you do you're an elite team. Also simply put Kentucky is not the only team in the last five years to have taken a drop from the elite. Duke, North Carolina, UCLA, Louisville, Indiana, and Arizona are all basketball powerhouses who've had a recent season in which they fell from grace. The landscape of college basketball has vastly evened out over the last 10 years and thats part of the excitement, case in point The Final Four run of George Mason 2 years ago. It's fun to root for cinderella, except of course when cinderella beats you!
2.) The Tubby Smith Era was a very interesting time of great success and ultimate failure for the Kentucky Wildcats. First off I am a staunch Tubby supporter, the man never won less than 20 games, never had a losing season, won 76% of his games, 4 elite 8's, 1 final four, 1 national championship. He is a top 5 coach in America today but it was time for him to go, if not simply cause he wasn't wanted at Kentucky by the majority. However when he did leave he left the program in shambles with 2 seasons of 10 losses or more, back to back 8 seeds in the tourney and back to back 2nd round exits, and a roster with many holes. I think the problem dates back to 4 years ago with the recruitment of Rajon Rondo, Joe Crawford, Randolph Morris, and Ramel Bradley....highly touted McDonald's All Americans, 4 players who never accomplished much at Kentucky. Also the year in which we passed on one Kentucky boy, Chris Lofton. The previous 4 years Tubby recruited solid, workmen like players who fit his system and played hard. He also had signed the Kentucky Mr. Basketball during this period and all had failed to be solid players. The fan base clamored for Tubby to step up recruiting even though we'd had great success. So pass on another Mr. Basketball with question marks in his game and recruit 4 Mcdonald's All Americans. Rondo was selfish and disliked by most the other players on the squad and was figuring to be 1 and done. Morris as well was figuring 1 and done and didn't quite supply the effort needed to be an elite player in the SEC and of course we all know he left, only to come running back when not drafted. He gave us 1 and a half more years after being declared ineligible but by then the damage was done. Joe Crawford wanted to go home half-way through the season and has shown flashes but not consistency. Meanwhile Chris Lofton was lighting up the SEC at Tennessee averaging 20 points a game and freshman of the year honors in the SEC. Through all of this the fans blamed Tubby, Tubby, Tubby when all he did was break his way to appease the fans demands and the hated him for it cause one of their own slipped through the cracks. Recruiters were able to use fan discension in the bluegrass to lure blue chip recruits away including Tyler Hansborough, Brendan Wright, Darrell Wright, and Corey Brewer who all went to rivals. If we'd have landed any one of these guys we would have been an elite team. So Tubby went back last year to what worked for him previously but that would take time. Meanwhile fans were putting For Sale signs in his yard and halfway through the season his agent was making a deal with Minnesota......Leave Kentucky for Minnesota. Tubby Smith was frustrated, unwanted, and hurt plus he knew that he was losing his two biggest recruiting targets to Florida in Patrick Patterson and Jai Lucas so he bolted. Now he's at Minnesota where if they just make the NCAA Tournament he'll be praised. All he did was win at Kentucky and all we did was complain it wasn't good enough. The fans have as much guilt in the current state of affairs as Tubby Smith does.
3.) The Billy Gillisspie Era begun with a roar as he was annouced as the new head coach of Kentucky. Now the bad part was he was the 4th choice behind Billy Donovan, Rich Pitino, and John Calipari who all said thanks but no thanks. Even so he was able to land Patterson, thanks to Donovan leaving Florida for the Orlando Magic long enough to convince Patterson he couldn't be trusted to stay and also got another All American in Alex Legion who backed out of his Michigan commitment. Problem is the team is young with only 2 senior players and the rest freshman and sophmores and no anchor in the middle since Randolph Morriss bolted for the NBA. Then came the home blowout loss to Gardner-Webb and injuries to Jody Meeks and Derek Jasper. So far, not so good!
So now Kentucky is just plain mediocre and this shall be a long season. My prediction from the schedule is 18-13 with our first trip to the NIT in a long, long time. I think Billy G. needs about 2 years to get the program back on track to being a ELITE program again. Hate to say it Kentucky fans but get ready to be just OK and remember the days that Tubby Smith was here winning 22 games, and SEC Championship and Losing in the Elite 8 because those seasons will look like a dream compared to what you are in store for the next couple years. When you're looking for someone to blame, just look in the mirror and realize you ran off a top 5 coach who was highly successful and got stuck with 4th choice. Good Luck Billy G. I'll be behind you win or lose because I'm a Kentucky Wildcat true fan!
1.)College Basketball has changed since the powerhouses of the mid 90's being ravaged by early entrants into the NBA draft. Also there has now been a limit placed on the number of scholarship players each team can have allowing for a more competitive balance. Lets look at the Kentucky 1996 team that everyone around the State longs for....well in today's basketball that team would never have existed. First off Antoine Walker, Ron Mercer, Derek Anderson, Walter McCarty, Wayne Turner, and Nazr Mohammed wouldn't have even made it to school or only played a year. Thats all the starters and half the bench wouldn't have even set foot at Kentucky plus we could have only had 11 guys on scholarship instead of 14. 8 of the players on the 1996 Championship team went on to have solid NBA careers with 6 drafted in the first round.....Today you're lucky to have 2 players on a roster drafted in the first round and if you do you're an elite team. Also simply put Kentucky is not the only team in the last five years to have taken a drop from the elite. Duke, North Carolina, UCLA, Louisville, Indiana, and Arizona are all basketball powerhouses who've had a recent season in which they fell from grace. The landscape of college basketball has vastly evened out over the last 10 years and thats part of the excitement, case in point The Final Four run of George Mason 2 years ago. It's fun to root for cinderella, except of course when cinderella beats you!
2.) The Tubby Smith Era was a very interesting time of great success and ultimate failure for the Kentucky Wildcats. First off I am a staunch Tubby supporter, the man never won less than 20 games, never had a losing season, won 76% of his games, 4 elite 8's, 1 final four, 1 national championship. He is a top 5 coach in America today but it was time for him to go, if not simply cause he wasn't wanted at Kentucky by the majority. However when he did leave he left the program in shambles with 2 seasons of 10 losses or more, back to back 8 seeds in the tourney and back to back 2nd round exits, and a roster with many holes. I think the problem dates back to 4 years ago with the recruitment of Rajon Rondo, Joe Crawford, Randolph Morris, and Ramel Bradley....highly touted McDonald's All Americans, 4 players who never accomplished much at Kentucky. Also the year in which we passed on one Kentucky boy, Chris Lofton. The previous 4 years Tubby recruited solid, workmen like players who fit his system and played hard. He also had signed the Kentucky Mr. Basketball during this period and all had failed to be solid players. The fan base clamored for Tubby to step up recruiting even though we'd had great success. So pass on another Mr. Basketball with question marks in his game and recruit 4 Mcdonald's All Americans. Rondo was selfish and disliked by most the other players on the squad and was figuring to be 1 and done. Morris as well was figuring 1 and done and didn't quite supply the effort needed to be an elite player in the SEC and of course we all know he left, only to come running back when not drafted. He gave us 1 and a half more years after being declared ineligible but by then the damage was done. Joe Crawford wanted to go home half-way through the season and has shown flashes but not consistency. Meanwhile Chris Lofton was lighting up the SEC at Tennessee averaging 20 points a game and freshman of the year honors in the SEC. Through all of this the fans blamed Tubby, Tubby, Tubby when all he did was break his way to appease the fans demands and the hated him for it cause one of their own slipped through the cracks. Recruiters were able to use fan discension in the bluegrass to lure blue chip recruits away including Tyler Hansborough, Brendan Wright, Darrell Wright, and Corey Brewer who all went to rivals. If we'd have landed any one of these guys we would have been an elite team. So Tubby went back last year to what worked for him previously but that would take time. Meanwhile fans were putting For Sale signs in his yard and halfway through the season his agent was making a deal with Minnesota......Leave Kentucky for Minnesota. Tubby Smith was frustrated, unwanted, and hurt plus he knew that he was losing his two biggest recruiting targets to Florida in Patrick Patterson and Jai Lucas so he bolted. Now he's at Minnesota where if they just make the NCAA Tournament he'll be praised. All he did was win at Kentucky and all we did was complain it wasn't good enough. The fans have as much guilt in the current state of affairs as Tubby Smith does.
3.) The Billy Gillisspie Era begun with a roar as he was annouced as the new head coach of Kentucky. Now the bad part was he was the 4th choice behind Billy Donovan, Rich Pitino, and John Calipari who all said thanks but no thanks. Even so he was able to land Patterson, thanks to Donovan leaving Florida for the Orlando Magic long enough to convince Patterson he couldn't be trusted to stay and also got another All American in Alex Legion who backed out of his Michigan commitment. Problem is the team is young with only 2 senior players and the rest freshman and sophmores and no anchor in the middle since Randolph Morriss bolted for the NBA. Then came the home blowout loss to Gardner-Webb and injuries to Jody Meeks and Derek Jasper. So far, not so good!
So now Kentucky is just plain mediocre and this shall be a long season. My prediction from the schedule is 18-13 with our first trip to the NIT in a long, long time. I think Billy G. needs about 2 years to get the program back on track to being a ELITE program again. Hate to say it Kentucky fans but get ready to be just OK and remember the days that Tubby Smith was here winning 22 games, and SEC Championship and Losing in the Elite 8 because those seasons will look like a dream compared to what you are in store for the next couple years. When you're looking for someone to blame, just look in the mirror and realize you ran off a top 5 coach who was highly successful and got stuck with 4th choice. Good Luck Billy G. I'll be behind you win or lose because I'm a Kentucky Wildcat true fan!
The Greatest Game EVER!
I'm here right now to discuss the game ROCK BAND. If you've played any of the Guitar Hero games then you shall be familiar with the concept but that was just the beginning, if not I'll explain the basics or you can head to rockband.com to watch video. Here is a game that is just plain ole FUN! no matter how good you are. I've jammed online with men, women, kids or all ages and everyone has said the same thing....this game ROCKS! Well lets face it, it literally rocks.....Rock Band comes with a guitar(a replica Fender Straticaster), drum set consisting of 4 colored pads and kick pedal, microphone and game disc. The concept of the game is to start your own band, name it, and rock your way into eterninty with a Lead Guitarist, Bassist, Drummer, and Singer. The game is played on 4 levels easy, medium, hard, and expert and obviously gets harder as you advance each level. Basically you select a song and the fret board will appear onscreen in which the notes scroll at you and you strum the guitar and hold the corresponding colored fret, or hit the colored pad on the drum set. For vocals the words scroll across karaoke style with a line showing pitch. You score points based on how well you play each song, with bonuses called overdrive. Now what is most fabulous about this game is that even playing on easy you honestly feel like you are bringing down the house. You can play solo, offline with 4 friends, or online with 4 friends or random people over Xbox Live. Even playing with others you can have some playing on Expert, some on Medium or Easy and each player is scored separately so that it doesn't hurt you if you aren't as good as somebody else. As long as you play your notes everyone wins! How great is that where people of differing levels can play together and it doesn't matter. Now for what makes this game so great, the song list.......
1960's
"Gimme Shelter" Rolling Stones
1970's
"Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who
"Suffragette City" David Bowie
"Blitzkrieg Bop" Ramones
"Detroit Rock City" Kiss
"Next to You" Police
"Train Kept a Rolling" Aerosmith
"Mississippi Queen" Mountain
"Paranoid" Black Sabbath
"Ballroom Blitz" Sweet
"Foreplay/Longtime" Boston
"Don't Fear the Reaper" Blue Oyster Cult
"Highway Star" Deep Purple
"Flirtin With Disaster" Molly Hatchet
1980's
"Wanted Dead or Alive" Bon Jovi
"Epic" Faith No More
"Orange Crush" REM
"Tom Sawyer" Rush
"Run to the Hills" Iron Maiden
"Should I Stay or Should I Go" Clash
"Wave of Mutilation" Pixies
1990's
"Learn to Fly" Foo Fighters
"In Bloom" Nirvana
"Say It Aint So" Weezer
"Creep" Radiohead
"Celebrity Skin" Hole
"Black Hole Sun" Soundgarden
"Enter Sandman" Metallica
"Vasoline" Stone Temple Pilots
"Cherub Rock" Smashing Pumpkins
"Sabotage" Beastie Boys'
"I Think I'm Paranoid" Garbage
2000's
"Main Offender" Hives
"Reptillia" Strokes
"Here it goes Again" OK Go
"Maps" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Welcome Home" Coheed and Cambria
"When You Were Young" Killers
"Go With The Flow" Queens of the Stone Age
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" Jet
"The Hand That Feeds" Nine Inch Nails
"Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Dead on Arrival" Fall Out Boy
Not only that but they've already put 3 songs packs by Metallica, The Police, Queens of the Stone Age, along with "Fortunate Son" Creedence and "Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner with more to come including the entire Guess Who album. An amazing song list on an amazing game by some people with an amazing idea. If you haven't played Rock Band or any of the Guitar Hero's you are trully missing out on a great new wave of video games that aren't just mindless violence. Now I'm gonna go play so cow bell on Don't Fear The Reaper....wooooo!
1960's
"Gimme Shelter" Rolling Stones
1970's
"Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who
"Suffragette City" David Bowie
"Blitzkrieg Bop" Ramones
"Detroit Rock City" Kiss
"Next to You" Police
"Train Kept a Rolling" Aerosmith
"Mississippi Queen" Mountain
"Paranoid" Black Sabbath
"Ballroom Blitz" Sweet
"Foreplay/Longtime" Boston
"Don't Fear the Reaper" Blue Oyster Cult
"Highway Star" Deep Purple
"Flirtin With Disaster" Molly Hatchet
1980's
"Wanted Dead or Alive" Bon Jovi
"Epic" Faith No More
"Orange Crush" REM
"Tom Sawyer" Rush
"Run to the Hills" Iron Maiden
"Should I Stay or Should I Go" Clash
"Wave of Mutilation" Pixies
1990's
"Learn to Fly" Foo Fighters
"In Bloom" Nirvana
"Say It Aint So" Weezer
"Creep" Radiohead
"Celebrity Skin" Hole
"Black Hole Sun" Soundgarden
"Enter Sandman" Metallica
"Vasoline" Stone Temple Pilots
"Cherub Rock" Smashing Pumpkins
"Sabotage" Beastie Boys'
"I Think I'm Paranoid" Garbage
2000's
"Main Offender" Hives
"Reptillia" Strokes
"Here it goes Again" OK Go
"Maps" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Welcome Home" Coheed and Cambria
"When You Were Young" Killers
"Go With The Flow" Queens of the Stone Age
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl" Jet
"The Hand That Feeds" Nine Inch Nails
"Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Dead on Arrival" Fall Out Boy
Not only that but they've already put 3 songs packs by Metallica, The Police, Queens of the Stone Age, along with "Fortunate Son" Creedence and "Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner with more to come including the entire Guess Who album. An amazing song list on an amazing game by some people with an amazing idea. If you haven't played Rock Band or any of the Guitar Hero's you are trully missing out on a great new wave of video games that aren't just mindless violence. Now I'm gonna go play so cow bell on Don't Fear The Reaper....wooooo!
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