staff vs staff volleyball

somehow i always sucker myself into doing these things. someone says, "hey, your kids would love to see you play! Won't you help raise money for Organization X?" "ok, ok", I say and sign my name down. and now, only 40 minutes from now i will be playing volleyball in front of a packed gym of 6th,7th, and 8th graders.

A list for the moment

top 5 dictators of the 20th century.

1. Adolf Hitler
2. Benito Mussolini
3. Fidel Castro
4. Mao Tse-Tung
5. Saddam Hussein


I rated them based on several things.

1st, overall blood lust. A dictator doesn't mess around if he wants to be a dictator for long, so killing those that oppose you or those that might oppose you is a great measuring point.

2nd, coolness of the look. Being a dictator requires that you have a different look from other dictators. Quddafi might have made the list except for the fact that his military look is basically a rip off from all the others.

3rd, overall impact on history. Saddam Hussein fell to 5th because his impact on world history is relatively small in comparison to Hitler's effect.

BTW, Hussein makes the list based of that awesome footage of him shooting that shotgun into the sky. Classic dictator moment.

from the coffee shop

i really feel good when i am out of school. i mean, i love my job as much as the next guy, but when you get away from work it's nice to relax and forget the stress for a moment. nothing like that pressure getting off your chest for a moment and allowing you to breath. life is good, for the moment...

tad bit lonely

ever since i got married i have become more and more of a loner. i realize that this was destined to happen as "2 became 1" and all that stuff. i just don't feel as a part of my old cliques as i used to feel. last night i showed up at the house around 630. adri wasn't home yet so i went to the coffee shop to see if my friends were there. they weren't but i could see a bunch of them were in this spot behind the coffee house where people hang out and smoke out. i have never felt like i was a part of that culture and the older i get, the more i am alienated from it. so i went to jack in the crack alone, read a book, and then drove home.

goodnight sweet thing.

from a comment by myself on another's blog

this is a list of my top 30 favorite albums in no particular order...

1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Weezer - Blue
3. Radiohead - The Bends
4. The Rentals - Return of the Rentals
5. Ramones - Ramones
6. Beatles - Rubber Soul
7. Outkast - Stankonia
8. Jay-Z - Black Album
9. Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory?
10. Nofx - Punk in Drublic
11. Nirvana - Nevermind
12. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
13. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
14. Built to Spill - Nothing Wrong with Love
15. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
16. Sunny Day Real Estate - Self-titled
17. Wilco - Being There
18. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Airplane Over the Sea
19. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
20. Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed
21. The Decemberists - Her Majesty the Decemberists
22. The Strokes - Is this It
23. Jets to Brazil - Orange Rhyming Dictionary
24. Beck - Odelay
25. Kanye West - College Dropout
26. Moby - Play
27. Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
28. Nofx - So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
29. Less than Jake - Hello Rockview
30. Outkast - Speaker Boxx/The Love Below

A new profile snap

put up a new pic. actually one of myself. never been too thrilled with my looks, but i think it is more honest to show oneself than to hide behind a painting by someone else.