Saturday, March 18, 2006

NCAA Tournament

For the first time in 24 years, I’m not paying attention to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. I’m not sure why. I have been busy at the job. I think the problem may be that I have been spending too much time with the wife.

The wife was making some strange noises a couple of weeks ago. I know she’s getting older, so I was thinking that her bushings were worn. Anyway, it seems like she just needed a little attention. So I started spending more time with her. She’s quieter now.

However I may have gone too far. Today, instead of watching hoops and drinking beer, I took the wife shopping. In fact, we went car shopping. It was worse than that. We went Mercedes shopping!

I’m not sure how we became a Mercedes family. I’m not. I drive a base model pick-em up truck. No frills, AM and FM radio, plus I have power steering. I have the full vinyl interior, so like my dad says, any kind of mess can be cleaned up with a hose. I’m a basic equipment standard transportation kind of a guy.

Anyway, I would like to submit myself to wimps anonymous. To review: I don’t drink and watch sports, I spend extra quality time with the wife, I go shopping with the wife, and finally (worst of all) I allow her to have a really nice car we can’t afford, while I suffer with a vehicle that needs a power assist to pull all the way up the driveway! Kill me now.

Go Bucks!

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Thursday, March 09, 2006

Mythical Creatures

I read on the CNN site today about the rat-squirrel. It seems that this little guy has gone missing for 11 million years. I just want to be able to hide from the wife for 3 or 4 hours on Saturday afternoon to watch some hoops. I could learn a lot from this little guy.

Anyway, I have some doubts about the story. It has some of the same flavor of a standard story you’d find in the Weekly World News. The story takes place in an exotic far away place that most Americans have never visited. In this case Laos. The creature has not been seen alive. The only specimens have been corpses. Also the only witnesses are exotic people from the exotic place. To wit: Laotian hunters. So I have my doubts.

I want to believe the story but I don’t want to be a chump. I’m not sure what to think. I want to believe in a superhuman creature able to hide from the wife for long periods of time without the benefit of a basement. I love the concept of the half and half like critters. Half rat half squirrel, half dog half chicken, half cat half chicken, half lizard half chicken, half chicken half rooster are all winners. I could really get behind a pet you can grill on Saturday afternoon.