Great Game!
That game between KSU and Texas was awesome! Did anyone have a chance to go see it in person? I’m not going to pretend to know all about football, but I sure do enjoy watching it and the game Saturday night is one reason why… I was all by myself, yet kept finding myself jumping up off the couch and hooping and hollering. At first I was excited simply because we were just making it a ‘good game’. That third quarter it dawned on me that we can actually WIN! Beating the team ranked fourth in the nation is quite a feather in Prince’s helmet!
So….are the Wildcats going to a bowl game this year?
New Show Clips!
New show clips are up on the Matt McBain Show page! Check them out before the world ends!
Here’s My New Car
As you know, Matt and I put some model cars together. Mine is cooler than his tho! hehe
Mine is a 1968 Chevrolet Corvette Roadster (as pictured above). What do you think of the huge motor? Pretty cool, huh?
I got some black paint specs on the body, but luckily in this picture you can’t really see them.
Oh well, that’s my car. Enjoy!
11.2.06Laugh Out Loud!
Ha ha! “Proof” that all those studies that tell us what’s good for us and what’s going to kill us are B.S. But if they’re B.S. then this one is B.S. too! GAAHH! It’s a paradox!
Drink wine, eat junk food, live longer? It works for mice
11.2.06Every candidate has officially annoyed me out of voting for them.
I am so ready for election time to be over. When it’s not local politicians coming into record commercials at the radio station, acting like total a-holes, it’s friggin’ regional ones calling your phone interrupting your life. I’m so sick of the negative ads, and even the worst, “I’m disappointed my opponent would run a negative at about me. I would never run negative ad just to get more votes.” Uhh…you sure about that? AARRGH!
I’m officially out of people to vote for.
A new car!
And I built it! It’s been a long time since I put a model together. I honestly can’t remember the last time. But I used to build them all the time. I had them all over my room, hanging from the ceiling, on shelves, pretty much anywhere I could set one. Putting this one together brought back a lot of forgotten memories. The smell of the glue, the way it feels if you get it stuck on your fingers. How you have to be really careful poping some of the pieces out without breaking them.
Andrea built herself one too. A ’68 Corvette. We were looking for something to do together, so we each picked out a kit. It was fun working together for the most part, but there were times when tensions were high too. =) Sometimes it can be a little stressful trying to make the actual product look like what they made on the box.
It was fun. But I don’t think I’m going to take it up as a major hobby. I don’t have the tools or the skills to make them look really good. But this lil’ Monte Carlo looks pretty good sitting there on the shelf in my office.
10.29.06desktop
i havnt done this for a while heres is yellowjackets final theme i like this one and i think it will stay like this from now on.
10.25.06A lil’ history.
Well, this all started probably a month ago when I decided to take an alternate drive out to Hays to visit Biebs. I decided to take Old Highway 40 instead of boring ol’ I-70 the whole way. It was a really pretty drive, and a lot of old downtown areas. There were also a lot of old stone buildings too. Outside of Junction City, I drove by an old schoolhouse. I remember as a kid, driving up to Sabetha, and when we’d get close to Junction City, Mom would tell us to look off to the south and you could see her old house, and that it was an old stone church.
I thought for sure this was the place!
I was wrong. But hey! In my defense, it’s not like I had ever seen the place before! I had been talking to Grandma on the phone for a while and she said it was further down the road. About 6 miles from Junction City. A couple days later, I got some pictures in the mail of the old house.
I think I recognize those pillows!
And I also got a few pictures of family.
So armed with this new information and a rare sunny day, I set out to find the place as it exsists today.
The guy that Grandma sold the house to, Lyman Budden still owns it. I got to talk to him a bit, and he’s a pretty interesting guy. He put the addition on the front. Said he pulled it in on a trailer with a pick-up truck, backed up the the house, then let the air out of the tires of the trailer to set it down and hasn’t moved it since! He said he bought the house back in the day for $10,000. Now the road that heads up to the house is a paved path. There’s several small buildings he built around it for vehicles and equipment. And from what it looks like a lot more trees.
As we chatted, he talked about shortly after he moved in, and he was out in the pasture northeast of the house, and he found a bunch of marbels on the ground. He raked them up and still has them to this day! Think mom, and uncle David played with these?
The old guy sure liked to talk, and while I found it interesting, I think he’s a bit of a storyteller. He said he took these marbels to an antique shop in Junction City and a guy told him there was a marbel in there worth $1200, and that that whole dish was worth $1500. I find that hard to believe, but then again…I don’t know much about marbles!
One last question was…was it a schoolhouse, or was it a church? Grandma kept saying it was a schoolhouse, Mom always said it was a church. Maybe it was used as both. But the corner stone displays the date the building was erected, and that it was…a church.
“In memory of Chas N. Mc??? by his wife Susan.”
So it’s been an exciting adventure for me at least. I find things like this interesting. Imagining what it was like to be around then, all the stories these places could tell. I hope you find it interesting as well!
10.18.06Days like this, I could live without.
You know…when it’s definetly not summer, but it’s still not winter? I wouldn’t call it fall though. Fall is brisk mornings to get you out of bed and get your blood moving, and cool evenings to wear a jacket and go on a walk with a friend and enjoy the golden hues of the leaves as they fall from the branches that you didn’t know were there all summer.
No, today is not fall. It is indecision. One of those days when the world calls in sick, but you still have to go to work. A stiff north breeze cuts through your underdressed outfit, through your skin to your very core, and sun only does barely enough work to not let it be night. The worst of it all is there’s no escaping it. It envelops you from every direction, like a bad dream when you can’t wake up. The only relief is to retreat into your shell, full of artificial lights and stale old smells. You pull up a blanket, you grab a book, a warm cup of cocoa and try to put as much material between you and the day as you can.
Yes, I could do without days like today. I have enough indecision in my life as it is. But the best thing about indecision is that it can’t make up it’s own mind. Tomorrow will be sunny and 65. And I have a friend and a walk already in mind.
10.10.06I’ve been robbed!
Robbed of 88 minutes of my life. Andrea’s a big Jennifer Anniston fan right? And coming from someone who was obsessed with Helen Hunt back in the day, I’m fine with that. I’m sure I have seen my fair share of terrible movies just because Helen Hunt was in them. But the movie I saw last night was by far the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life. At least it was ONLY 88 minutes!
If you haven’t seen the movie “Friends With Money” then you’ve already enjoyed it more than I have. From what I can surmise it’s about a bunch of people who know each other. They all have various levels of income from poor, to more money than they know what to do with, and they’re all friggin’ miserable. Great movie so far right!? Well after 30 minutes it was reavealed to me that this movie had no plot, and was not moving anywhere. All it was, was these characters in various stages of being pissed off and dissapointed about various random happenings. So I think…all right, at the end of this movie, something good must happen to all these people to make them realize that life doesn’t suck. Then, it’s over. Credits are rolling. Life still sucks. That’s it. End of movie.
This is the reason I think I don’t like movies.