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PChat19

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell

About Me

Now that we have all that out of the way....I'm just another person scurrying about trying to find balance in family, work, life and time for myself. I'm always open to suggestions!!!
It seems as if my world revolves around my work schedule. Hopefully a Powerball ticket will liberate me from this anchor someday!!! I try to utilize my spare time teaching my pride and joy all the things he will let me teach him. He's closing in on his teens so he's close to knowing everything already!!!! Luckily, I can still knock him around at the video games but he is definitely closing the gap. I try to spend some time with my wife as well going to dinner, movies and other recreational activities. She's been very understanding of the time obligation that my work requires.....or she just likes the money!!! I like to think it's me.
I am an Ultimate Fighting maniac. I've been watching it for years and cannot get enough of it. My fantasy would be to step into the cage and pound the living crap out of Diego Sanchez. Alas...reality and the weight difference will never allow it. Ken Shamrock would be a suitable replacement!!!! You hear me Ken?? I hope not...........just kidding!!!
If I am not at work, you'll probably find me at the local gym either pushing around some weights, beating a racquetball to oblivion or embarassing myself in an attempt to retrieve my early 20's basketball skills. Like most men...you can also find me in front of the television cheering on my boys during their respective seasons.
I am a music freak. My musical radar is huge. Big guitars, fast drums, witty lyricists, coffeehouse strummers, Dre-style beats, pianos, songwriting philosophers and a soft spot for the hair metal era...hit one or more of these and I've probably heard it. If I haven't....I want to.
I'm dying to play guitar myself but the brutal reality is that I stink. Perhaps a foray into some sort of avant garde variation of noise and acoustic guitar is my future path. Meet my favorite band...the criminally overlooked and underappreciated
-KING'S X -
Old school "Over My Head" from one of the greatest albums EVER recorded.

My Interests

On those occasions when I am not working, you'll find me doing things like....

    Sports...watching or playing. I just can't grow up. Music...more on that below. Talking...anyone who knows me can attest. I'll talk about almost anything; sports, music, politics, current issues... Good conversation is one of life's greatest pleasures. The PS-2...I've spent way too many hours captivated by those pretty little colors. My wife is part of the Madden widow multitude.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone and everyone who shares a common interest. Heck, even some of those who don't. Hit me up about whatever.
As for the more celebrity type, we all have our heroes and folks we admire for one reason or other. Here are some of mine that I would love to meet.

My new girlfriend.... Gina Carano

STEVE YZERMAN
My hockey hero. A superstar on the ice and a model of professionalism and poise, on the ice and off. Happy retirement.

Career Stats
692 Goals - 1063 Assists
1755 Points
3 Stanley Cup Championships
1 Conn Smythe Trophy (Playoff MVP)

FRANK MIR
My favorite MMA fighter...recent struggles be damned. The antithesis to the modern misconception that surrounds MMA fighters, Mir is the model of the cerebral fighters. Brains and braun. Nasty...

Click here to see Frank in action against the "legend" Tank Abbott.
Mir vs Tank

GREG GIRALDO: I think he is absolutely the funniest comedian on the circuit today. His social perspectives and middle age insights are hilarious and frighteningly true.

If you haven't heard his CD "A Good Day to Cross A River", you have to add it to your list of things to do. You'll thank me later..... KAY HANLEY
The former lead singer of the tragically overlooked 90's alternative band Letters to Cleo, Kay has been kind enough to continue making music to appease her fans like myself. Armed with an enchanting voice and a keen mind, Kay is an icon in the making. Now if I can only convince her to make a tour stop somewhere in the Ohio region. What if I say please ??

BERNIE KOSAR
The man whose name is still synonymous with the Cleveland Browns. All of those great memories when the Browns were one of the leagues best teams...yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that was quite awhile ago!! You can never take the memories away from me!!! I actually had the honor of "meeting" Bernie at a Browns game back in 1992. He was gracious enough to sign my program, shake my hand and thank me for making the trip just to see the Browns.

I definitely want to meet the guy who took this picture!!
Go BROWNS!!!

-- My Favorite Fighters -- Frank Mir - Antonio Nogueira - Renato 'Babalu' Sobral - Matt Serra

Music:

I am very much into music. I've got my favorites, the old reliables if you will, but I'm always on the lookout for good tunes. I know they are out there, you just won't find them on MTV or the radio these days.The CD's I am currently into:
"Don't Look Away"
- Kate Voegele -
This girl has the goods. Love the voice, love her style and love her writing. As a whole, it's a little poppier than I usually listen to but good is good and this album is darn good.

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"The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter"
- Josh Ritter -
Americana, folk-rock, folk-pop...it's pretty tough to classify. How 'bout we just call it really da-- good. Think Bob Dylan with much improved enunciation. Now sprinkle in a touch of Ryan Adams and a pinch of Bruce. Finally, pretty it up real nice and it will be better than the records those others have put out in the last few years.

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"District Line"
- Bob Mould -
Truthfully, this CD doesn't come out until February 5th (make a note) but I'm putting it up here early out of anticipation and belief that it will be typical Mould greatness.

A clickable montage of my self-described "classics"...

Some of my favorite artists:

King's X

Shawn Mullins

The Indigo Girls

Dishwalla

Rilo Kiley

Aimee Mann

Dar Williams

Pete Yorn

Harem Scarem

Movies:

My Movie Wall of Fame

Television:

I don't get to watch a lot of television but I try to make time to keep up with...

  • South Park: Funniest show on the tube....
  • The Ultimate Fighter: The show that makes me wish I were younger...and in better shape!!!!
  • UFC PPV's and UFC TV specials: I may need professional help....
  • Buffy...The Vampire Slayer: I know it's not on TV any longer but this show was one of the best ever and I still watch it in syndication.
  • Stump the Schwab: What sports fanatic wouldn't like to take on the Schwab?? If they would only drop those Nascar and golf questions, I could probably talk myself into trying him.

    • Books:

    This used to be the area where I would whine and lament about my lack of reading time. Alas, things are looking up for me here. I've found myself able to lose myself in some fun reads lately. Currently occupying my eyeballs...

    Ooops....my bad. My eyeballs are currently reading.....

    What can I say....I'm old and bored with today's rehashed fiction. Sooo, I'm reading Eric Hoffer instead. Briefly, it's about individual and sociological evolution of the mind as we encounter and either adapt or reject change. Oh yeah....I don't want to forget to pay homage to my Calvin and Hobbes collection and those Far Side books that I reread on occassion. Who couldn't use a good laugh??

    If anyone has some good recommendations....I'm all ears, or would it be eyes??!!!

    Heroes:

    "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." - Bertrand Russell "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." - Mark Twain "If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm." - Bertrand Russell "The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself." - Mark Twain "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain "The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts." - Bertrand Russell "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place." - Mark Twain "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." - Voltaire "Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long." - Lucius Annaeas Seneca "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - Mark Twain "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - Benjamin Franklin "Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." - Voltaire "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein "Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." - Bertrand Russell "An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head." - Eric Hoffer "Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience." - Brad Slipiec "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde "Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself." - Lois McMaster Bujold "Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is." - Francis Bacon "There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance." - Gautama Buddha "It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." - John Templeton "With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton "Man —every man— is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life." - Ayn Rand "Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid." - Albert Schweitzer "The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not commit adultery and Thou shalt not lie in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment." - George Carlin "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." - Eric Hoffer "…man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts." - Ronald Reagan "I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money." - Arthur GodfreySorry, had to do it...
    Mariusz Pudzianowski
    4 -time Worlds Strongest Man
    2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007
    WSM Runner Up 2004, 2006
    The man who saved MMA...THANK YOU!!!
    Dana White