'til the cows come home

So my New Year didn’t start out very well
Shortly after I posted my last entry I got a call and was informed one of my friends had died. Not one of the golfing and fishing buddies but a friend all the same.
So, needless to say, that put a damper on things.
My friend Oliver was a kind person and a funny man.
He enjoyed playing pranks on people and would especially take great pleasure in making people who were up tight all the time mad – this was a trait I very much admired in him
He would say something to someone who was just too pompous or high strung and then sit back and grin as they exploded and their blood pressure would quickly raise. I will miss those days.
He was a good friend and all around great person
I hope I can be more like him in the coming year – always being able to find the bright spot in the day and not letting things get me down too much
So my friend I will miss our many conversations and more so your humor and outlook on life.

The invisible don and dog show

OK Tuesday and I'm back at work -- I really hate the long weekends because it is so hard to come back to work after them --

It's dogs first day alone in the house and I'm kinda worried about that because he was fairly hyper at 530 this am when I left --

Dog you better be sleeping -- I'm sure after 4 days of living together our cat to human psychic-link is working

I mean wherever I go in the house there he is so I'm sure I have no problems with the cat to human esp thing

dog also has a rude trip to the vet coming up soon too

The ol' snip snip visit -- dog was an abandoned kitty and I'm not going to contribute to the problem of abandoned kitties

So after a few more weeks our relationship is going to be put to the test

I'll let you know how that works out

I'm sure his opinion on the matter will be much different -- but he can't type so you'll have to take my word for it because I simply do not have the time to teach him to type

Oh and this is not going to become the invisible don and dog show either -- he is new and gets some spotlight and in few weeks you'll be asking what happened to dog??? And I'll be like nothing he sleeps all day and eats -- i want his life he can come work for the museum.


Speaking of working for the museum - I need to do that so I'm out

We got chewed out by the life guards and they were not like the girls on baywatch

So I'm being very bad about updating all of a sudden -- it's the busy thing again


I just read sunshine17's entry on surfing


It reminded me of when the other one and I were learning to surf


We were out on the waves mainly sitting --trying to look cool without actually surfing -- but we were doing OK and had actually ridden a few in without falling off the boards.


Well at one point when the beach is packed with people I'm sitting there on my board and not paying attention to anything really


All of a sudden I'm yanked under the water something has my ankle


I barely get a breath before I'm under and trying to pull my leg away from whatever has me


My mind is all SHARK OH PHUCK


I think that I'm gone


Then I'm free so I get to the surface and climb on the board and paddle toward shore


Boom


I'm under again


I'm really freakin out now I'm kicking and punching under the water at nothing


I get to the surface again and this time I pull my legs up on the board and paddle with just my arms


The other one comes up and is choking and laughing


He grabbed the leash and pulled me under both times


He thought it was funny until we both noticed the life guards were on the shore yelling to see if we were alright -- because I guess one of them saw me go under both times rather violently and thought what I thought -- shark bait -- we got chewed out by the life guards and they were not like the girls on Baywatch -- they were both guys and we didn't care much for them pointing and telling us that we weren't being very cool -- we went back out and surfed for a while longer then left the beach



Well I laugh about it now but at the time I wanted to beat the other one silly -- I'll have to see if he remembers that one


I didn't do anything over labor day and couldn't even have a beer because I'm still on an anti-biotic from when I was sick -- funny how they don't work when you drink


oh dog is fine he is sleeping now but I'm sure he sends his best too

They took the serious beat down

Invisible don is sad -- his college team got beat


They took the serious beat-down too


49-14


Marshall Thundering Herd drops the season opener in the Swamp -- Gators suck --OK anyone in Florida -- I'm sorry



So I didn't really expect them to win but you know it would have been nice to see them go in a win but not every wish can come true


dog is sleeping now


I will be soon too

I named it Dog

OK -- I have noticed something that may not seem like earth shattering news to anyone and not even to me

No one comments on the difference in the banner that runs on d-land and the one that runs on my older pages.

I thought it would be funny to contradict the things but hey that is just me

So one of my parental units has a b-day today -- I'm not calling so I suspect that the peacemaker will have something nasty to say to me later on in the day or I will get a blazing e-mail telling me what a Bastard I am -- and now I can say not only that I'm the King of the Bastards and I am 85% bastard how much are you


any way


So it is a misty rainy morning it is rather quiet here


I have a cat now or more to the point a kitten


I'm not sure why I have this but I do now


I named it dog


So if he ever gets away I can ask people if they have seen my cat, dog.


Can you imagine the looks -- i can


So dog and I are drinking coffee -- I am anyway dog doesn't like his


Side note for all you in the SPCA or PETA -- I'm not really giving the cat named dog coffee -- it's mine and if he wants some he can go to the store and buy his own.


OK well I'm off to go do something productive and see if I can't snag a pizza heat wave bag while the delivery guy is away from his car

Thanks to PITT, Temple, Astate, UCONN,

Well it is Friday and I just got back from the lawyers office -- oh yeah -- so I will be done with the parental's bull about this stupid piece of land and I won't have to hear another word about it ever again -- oh yeah baby -- because they will never agree to do anything together.

So I have procrastinated and procrastinated and procrastinated -- well you get the point I'm a slacker. I would rather screw off than do anything productive -- yet I seem to obligate my self to do all these wonderful things

Why

I like laying around watching T.V. playing PlayStation (which I haven't done in a really long time -- like weeks before the beach trip -- tell the priest not to bring the PlayStation)

I'm not a priest either -- thought I wanted to be -- but a certain young lady presented a rather strong argument against that choice

What can I say she really made her point well. I recall that she made the point three times that night.

Plus can you imagine an invisible priest -- the host just sort of floating there -- creepy


OK I shouldn't poke fun at the priesthood it is a very serious ... profession, calling, order, something or other


Well that is neither here nor there - I didn't continue in the seminary after that and began my personal crusade to be ... what the hell was it I wanted to be then .. doesn't matter .. why because I didn't do it ..

My students are a bit odd this semester I have 3 classes at the college 36 in one class 20 in another and 15 in the other class. They just look at me and don't say anything -- well the invisible thing does keep them guessing where the hell I am but as long as I'm talking it shouldn't matter


Here is something you can do to make teachers, instructors, professors uncomfortable. Now it takes practice and you can't break off but look at them as if their fly is down -- they will eventually break and have to check


Get that I really don't understand what you just said look on your face when the teacher looks at you -- this is better than a question to get a teacher to not continue in the lecture -- try it and see if they don't say does everyone understand this -- then you have to say no --


Or pretend to raise you hand and when they say what to you or ask you what you want -- say I didn't raise my hand or I was just moving my arm


OK I guess that is enough classroom mayhem for now


I've noticed a lot of schools on the stats so that's why I included harmless classroom entertainment -- you need something to help keep you busy or awake in class -- oh here is something fun that I used to do in college


I graduated with honors in undergrad and had a 3.67 in grad school I know if worked harder it would have been better


Anyway the thing I did was well first I would sit in the back because they expected bad students only in the back


Ace the first test and then all the bad students who are back there anyway notice that hey you got an A


-- next test they are all looking to copy off your exam


-- I'm not saying cheat -- but if you can make a few bucks by making the answers visible enough for everyone to see hey there you are


-- make sure you mark a few wrong and then change them later so you don't look like the guilty party -- in the cheat thing --


oh and if they don't pay you by the third exam or final mark them all wrong then change the answers after they turn in their tests.


-- I had to do that once -- it benched the entire first string of our college basketball team -- man did we suck without those guys --which does open up the market for making some money on a game or two with the bookies


Not that placing bets is a good thing to do but if you have a sure thing hey use it



Thanks to PITT, Temple, Astate, UCONN,

and a few other for stopping by the site



I promise I'm going to do a g-book update soon I really need to because its getting big oh and Sunshine17 was number 200 on the g-book 100 and 200 OCD rules


Well I'm out for now I actually have to go do something which goes against my slacker code so don't tell anyone

The yet further still adventures of invisible don King of the Bastards

OK I'm feeling much better today -- thanks for asking.


The doctor gave me meds and now I am a medicated invisible don


No you can't see the pills go down either.


So why is it that every one wants to cover me in things like chocolate. I just don't understand


So being at home all day when you feel bad is not as much fun as I remembered


Being that I don't take ill that often -- despite my bad habits


So I remember that being home sick when I was in school was a whole lot of fun -- except for the being sick part -- but I usually stayed at my grandparents and they would be extra nice to me -- ginger ale and chicken soup -- that was so cool


I miss them a lot but such is life and they have gone on -- not that --well I won't go there right now it all goes back to capitalizing or not capitalizing a certain entity's name or not and I don't want to get that deep today.


So I am on my third lawyer trying to resolve my unwanted inheritance, hopefully I will be able to resolve this neatly and quickly and in a cost effective manner --


I have had my faith in our legal system tested severely over the last few months -- no offence yankeebell -- I know not all lawyers are heartless, soulless, uncaring, your time is less valuable then mine, dirty snakes in the grass but the ones I have encountered lately have been not what you would call helpful.


So I wonder if I give up the inheritance do I lose the title King of the Bastard or not --


We rather think we should keep the title not that we have many responsibilities but we do like having subjects. It is so nice to see our loyal subjects giving praise. (it's the collective we and our referring exclusively to me invisible don King of the Bastards)


The peacemaker hasn't spoken to me and the other one is speaking to me and has placed himself in a bit of a spot involving all of this -- because the peacemaker called the other ones wife about all of this and she said good for him (him being me invisibledon) its about time that someone finally stood up to them (the parental).


See the parentals don't particularly like the other ones wife which I don't really understand because she is really nice and the other one is really happy so I don't see the problem -- but I didn't think they would actually say and do the things they have done over the last few weeks and months and years


OK i did know they would do it I was just kidding myself into thinking that because they had this biological link to me that they wouldn't --


I was watching the croc. hunter last night -- and saw it very clearly


our relationship (the parentals and me) is more or less reptile in nature-- here you go you are alive now, you are on your own -- if you come around at feeding time and we haven't eaten you might be the main course --


now that's love if you can't be huggable you might as well be digestible.


Well I have to get some work done before I leave today -- so see you all later and if you haven't figured it out yet I have a computer at home now so I hope to update more if I can not be so damn busy -- I'll sleep when I'm dead