Bored at work

Raise your hand if you think the last inch of a Tillamook Baby Loaf is a sufficient breakfast? With a glass of juice. (*raising hand*)

In high school, we're knee deep into the Age of the Ipod, which by in large, I'm ok with. But there is one trend that has me a little mixed up inside. It's when 2 guys share an ipod. One earbud apiece. The image I keep getting is when couples get 2 straws for one milkshake. I can't seem to separate them.

The Hilander Bowl and Family Fun Center is no longer, but a new bowling business has taken it's spot. It's called Splits. The resturant part of it is called Grinders. The backdoor bar is called The Tailgate. A student of mine, who has a horizontal lisp btw, made the comment, "It sounds like 3 pretty sweet strip joints."

Dash is going to his first birthday party on Saturday. It's for Colby Knudsen - who is about a month older. I don't know how he feels about it, but I'm pumped.

Spring break is next week and I'm not doing anything for it, yet anyway.

This blog is getting stale so I'm going to liven up this post with a fond recollection: In 3rd grade, Mrs. Soderman's class, Jason Roe and I brought a snake to class. I can't remember who caught it, either of us were capable, but we kept it in a big mayonaisse jar. Long story short, it escaped into the classroom when we were out at recess and Mrs. Soderman freaked! We got into big trouble - Sandlot style. Never did find that snake either. I hold to this explaination - Mrs. Soderman did end up finding it and tossed it out the window, never to be brought back again. Boys and their snakes...

Last weekend

I played in a bball tourney in Kalama (from left to right: me, Sunday, Webb, Tack, Oskey, Knudsen, Deitz, Hight, Edwards) and our team won. It was great. Played some good ball too. I shot really well but my free-throws were baaaaad. Someone suggested I see my optomitrist (I didn't spell that right did I...) but it's Jeff Tack and he was worse than me. We were the "old" guys - only one guy in his 20's.

The team we beat in the finals supposedly had some guys who played professionally overseas. They were good too....but they had 3 girls on their team?! Sometimes they played 2 at once. Granted, the gals played college ball, but still... A girl wanted to guard me right off the get-go and I promptly hit 2 3's in her face. 6-0. Sorry lady. Then she switched. I vowed to score every time I girl was guarding me - just to treat her like an equal - because that's what she wanted. Later on, I got fouled pretty hard and landed on top of a different girl and hurt her. I sort of felt bad. When I was younger, I felt ackward playing competative co-ed sports. It doesn't feel right. Not that I'm afraid to lose to a girl. But, it's . . . well, girls should play with girls and guys with guys. I don't know if the team we played thought the girls were good enough to carry their weight vs. guys or if they believed they were good enough to win despite having a few girls on the team. Either way, it was sure fun beating them. Don't get me wrong, girls can play with guys all they want, but I'm not going to give them anything or feel bad if I thump em'.

It reminds me of a joke I heard recently: "My girlfriend just wrote a paper on Post-modern Feminism. It was pretty good . . . for a girl." I can't wait to get the texts from this post...

March 14th is known as Pi day in the Math world: 3-14. Mom made pies. They were consumed (not by me). Happy Pi day.

I received a lot of texts about stocking caps from my last post. This is how you're supposed to wear them. This . . . is not: Dork.

High School Fashionista

Allow me a mini-rant on high school fashion. I already know that this will make me sound old so save the remarks.
Every generation of students has their own "cool" things they'd wear or do to make themselves look good - that would probably get you laughed out of your friend's house if you tried to pull it off today. For people my age you can probably relate to pegged jeans, Hammer pants, mesh football jerseys, neon, hyercolor, and wearing your baseball hat half-way atop your head (but still styling your hair). Totally sweet at the time, but now . . .
Today's youth is no different. I see kids all the time trying to take today's fashion trends and make them their own. But in trying to look unique and original (they try so hard sometimes) they end up looking like everybody else. Too bad they won't realize this for another 15 years. Here's a few examples of some odd fashion statements I've seen walking the halls at KHS:
1. guys and girls have taken the "high-rise baseball hat" look from my era and morphed it into stocking hats. They fix their hair and then loosely attatch the cap on the back-half of their heads. I find this very funny. They looke like one of the 7 dwarves - Dopey to be exact.
2. I've mostly seen this with guys - scarves are all the rage these days, but some fellas want to wear them around their necks like a Christmas wreath. It doesn't even touch their necks! This usually cancels out their v-neck shirts. Also very funny.
3. Tight pants are back. Which is good for some, and a very bad idea for others. I'm afraid for some folks wearing tight pants has a "muffin-top" affect.

I know there's more but those are the blatant ones that stick out to my eyes.

Living Room Photo Shoot

Dash is starting to like getting his picture taken less lately so I thought I'd snap a few just in case... The hair in the front of Dash's head still has not been cut. It simply does not grow.


He enjoys a good silly picture too.

And this is his new Dino-Sour shirt....

What word do you think he's saying when this picture was taken?