Friday Night Waterhole

Ask anyone of my friends where I will be friday nights and all of them will tell you friday night trivia. I have become a patron of the Chateaux Pub because of two reason three beer thursday and friday night trivia. I enjoy going to a bar where I know the bartenders by name and they know me by name. I like how I never have to ask for another beer, and how they always remember what beer I like. Don't get me wrong I like visiting other places, but sometimes you just have to go to a place you feel most comfortable.

My boss introduced Trivia to me and since has become a cornerstone to my crazy scheduled filled world. I work my ass off all week devoting all my time to school, work, and preparing my future. It is nice to shut all things down at 8:30 on friday and sit back with my friends drink beer and try to beat our arch rival Semicola. It seems every week Semicola and Jeopardy(that's us) are fighting for the win. Sometimes we win and sometime we lose but it is always a fun night. I feel like the show "Cheers" when I walk in to the Pub with my team screams out my name and the bartenders telling me hi and have my beer already on the counter. The two bartenders, Mikey and Michele, have always been extremely nice to me. They always sit and talk to me even on their days off. Remember everyone is always welcomed friday nights we are always looking for help especially if you know alot in medical field( it's our weakest link).

After the next two days with a project due and two midterms, I will definitly need to shut down on friday. So if anyone wants to find me on friday night come to the Chateaux Pub around 8:30 and you will find me with my team trying to win a $40 bar tab. This weeks theme for trivia "Jackass the show."

I need to clear something up

I have underestimated the amount of friends I have that read my brother's blog. I have been frequently asked by friends if what my brother wrote was true about me wanting to see midget strippers. NO! I did not want to go see midget strippers. I did suggest midget wrestling but I didn't even see them. So please stop asking me if I like midget strippers because I don't.

Thanks a lot Ross!

Weekend movies

I love weekend movies! When I actual have time to relax, I always seem to catch the same movies on the weekend. You know what I am talking about, those 80's or 90's movies that you seen a hundred times but always get stuck watching them. You know what happens in the end, but you want to see it again becuase you love those movies. You know the movies: "Singles" , "When harry met Sally" , "Few Good Men" , "Risky Business" or any other Tom Cruise movie , "Nerds" , "Young Guns" , "Better off dead" or any other John Cusak movie , "Bad News Bears" , "Mighty Ducks" , "Matrix" or any Keanu Reaves Movie, "The Jerk" or any other Steve Martin film, any John Goodman film, or any other classics. Why do these movies captivate us so? We can catch it any point and watch it like the first time seeing it. I love the 80's movies the best. Same thing happens all the time in 80's movies: Lead charatcer has something wrong, he is in love, his friends help him to defeat his arch rival, and he lives happily ever after with the girl. Don't you wish that happen in real life! I think that is why we love these movies because for a second at least someone's life works out for them. I wish for one day my life could be a 80's movie. I have the girl, arch rival, and friends and all I need is the ending.

No worries if you missed any movies this weekend, because I am sure they will all be replayed next weekend or the weekend after.

The little people in the frig

When I was little, my father had the hardest time trying to keep us from leaving the refrigerator door open. Everyday I would go into the kitchen and open the frig's door about a dozen times. My dad would get so upset and always yell at us because we were running up the electricity. So my dad told me a story and since I believed anything my dad told me it worked. He told me there was these little people hundreds of them and too small to see, but everytime you leave the door open these people escape and die because they could not survive unless they stayed in the frig. So growing up I would constantly stay away from the frig so the people wouldn't die. I didn't understand why but I accepted it because my dad told me so. As I grew I realized there wasn't little people living in the frig but by this time I understood how it will run up electricity. I guess I should be mad at my dad for lying to me but I am impressed because he got what he wanted and never had to tell to close the frig door. I plan on elabrating so many stories to my children to get my point across. I guess this was my first lesson in parenting from my dad if your children don't listen to you make up a story so they will.

Summer classes are the worst

Let me start with, I hate summer classes. Today a teacher who swears we wouldn't have to learn how to write programs will be going into the three week of writing programs. Even though I still can't understand what went on in week one. I hate summer classes. The teacher has not slowed down to help anyone else and now is two weeks ahead of his schedule. I want to scream at him, " SLOW DOWN! LOOK AT YOU PLAN FOR THE WEEK!" Everyone else in the class is as frustarted as I am and when we confront the teacher about it his response is, "It's summer classes and we don't have that much time to waste." I hate summer classes.

I should have just waited and taken them in my final semester but I got greddy and wanted to only take two classes in the fall instead of five. I have never taken summer classes and now I am glad I hadn't before.

I have a management class where the teacher wants us to build a business from the ground up with a full detailed business plan in one month. The teacher himself admited it would take 3 to 6 months to do a business plan but since there are four of us, we should finish it pretty quickly. I hate summer classes.

So now I prepare for a midweek crisis and dream about weekend drinking and swimming as I torture myself with summer classes.

I hate summer classes!

My Dad

The Mirror

Today is father’s Day and since my dad asked me not to buy him anything I thought I would write him a special thank you message…
When I was little, my dad would take us to Wendy’s to get a frosty after my mom yelled at him to not give us sweets before we got home. He would freeze chocolate milk till it was like a slushy. He would give us donuts on Friday if we made our beds for the week. He would get big sixty cookies the day before we ran out to make sure we always had cookies to eat at night. In high school during car pool, he would always stop at Taste Donuts and got everyone what they wanted to eat for the ride. Thanks Dad!

My father never missed a game I played unless one of my brothers was playing at the same time. In fact, he did not just go to the games but also volunteered to coach the teams most of the time, whether it was school or playground. He never pushed me very hard on any sports but told me I could never quit once I started playing on a team. He was always there to congratulate me after a win and hug me after a loss. He never lectured to me about what I did wrong or what I needed to work on, but if I asked he would give me some pointers. Thanks Dad!

My father taught me how to play golf when I was little and Always let me come along when he played. He taught me about honesty and integrity with the game as I walk aside him through the course. In high school, I played all the time and realized playing golf is not just a game but a get away from all the problems in your life. Golf is a humbling game and a game that takes patience and concentration. When you cheat, you cheat yourself, and the only person you can beat is yourself. I have translated a lot from golf to life and it has made me a better person because of it. Thanks Dad!

My dad always corrected my brothers and I with the same talk, " Why are you guys fighting? You are brothers, and you are suppose to love each other. You know I would have loved to have a brother. You guys are suppose to be best friends." He was right and though we always laughed about it, now my brother and I are closer than ever and we are best friends. Thanks Dad!
My dad use to tell me, "When you look in the mirror. You see a man staring back at you." Though it may sound clique, every morning I look in the mirror and strive to see the man I want to be staring back at me. See my dad never had to yell at me or punish me because the worst thing that could ever happen to me is to see disappointment from my dad. He never hit me or screamed at me, because his look of disappointment was worse than any punishment from any court in America. I idealize my dad and the greatest complement anyone could give me is "Wow you are just like your dad." He didn’t need to ask me to be good, or ask me to make good grades or ask me to do the right thing because I wanted to do those things so he would be proud of me. What I strive for the most is to have someone ask him, " You must be very proud of your son." I know the answer because there has not been a time when he has not told me he was proud of me, but sometimes I would like other people to say it for him. Thanks Dad!

During the summers in New Orleans, the heat can average in the upper 90’s with heat index into the 100’s but that never stopped my dad from going to work. After working with him during the summers, I appreciated him even more for what he goes through. He does it all to make sure I get a good education. He taught me about hard work, dedication, and the value of a dollar. He taught me not just about becoming a man but making a living. He taught me how to take care of a family. He taught me to do whatever it took to make sure my family is feed, protected, and educated. He taught me all this without saying one word and leading by example. I look into the mirror today and hope one day I can see what my father sees everyday when he looks into the mirror. Thanks Dad for being there when I need you, and teaching me on how to become the man I am today. Thanks Dad!

Happy Fathers Day!

What to see something really funny?

I have noticed lately that people don't know how to drive, but instead of getting mad I like to mess around with these people. Next time someone cuts you off, takes a long time to turn, call someone one the phone, or just plainly doesn't know how to drive homk you horn at them like a man. Which will be like normal, but when you pass them and they are ready to scream at wave at them wildly as though you know them. Yesterday I did that excat thing and the person was so confused they just started waving back with this very confused look on their face.

Another fun this to do is to turn down your radio and roll down your window. At the next stop if you can hear the song in the car next to you start singing the song as though you are listening to it. Then when the person next to you looks at you, you say, "This song rocks!"

Something else that is really fun is to pull up next to someone at a stop and when the persoon looks over as everyone does start screaming like a mad man and point at the person next to you and keep screaming and if the person looks over again pick up your phone like the person on the other line is crazy.

Have you ever sat at a light and the minute the light turns someone is honking at you. An idea I stole which is very funny to do is if that person is honking at you follows behind you onto an entrance ramp to stop midway up the ramp put you hazards on and wait about a few minutes then proceed on.

Anyways this are some fun things to light up you day of driving after a crazy day at work or on your way to a crazy day at work.

Oh happy day! Tulane Won!!!

This had to be one of the strngestdays of my life. I caught myself jumping for joy when my arch rival won today to advance onward to CWS. Tulane beat Rice today 9-6 but don't let the score fool you it was a lot closer. Tulane took a 2-0 lead early on but Rice's starters caught rythm and Tulane was shut down until the 8th. Meanwhile, Rice added three runs to take the lead. The 8th started with an two outs and a hit batter. Then the baseball gods smilled down on Tulane. " A gust from the Gods" as Tin Cup put it best. A ground ball a easy downplay hit the pitchers glove a fell into space. Two men on with one out, and a wild pitch later the winning run was in scoring postion. With an 0-2 count the first round draft pick of the Astros came up to plate and hit a ground ball to the pitcher, but the pitcher wasn't there and it went in between the second base and shortstop to bring in two runs. Tulane added two more before the last out. Bottom of the 8th with a three run lead and the closer was in for Tulane over right! Rice battled back with three runs in the 8th. Now here would be where LSU lost all year, but this wasn't LSU because Tulane scored three runs in the ninth and closed out the game with three straight outs in the 9th to advance to Omaha!!!!


Oregon St., Tulane, Florida, Tennessee, Baylor, Texas, Nebraska, and Arizona St. are the teams in the CWS and what makes this so sweet is once again NO CALIFORNIA TEAMS. The south dominates baseball and I would like to think Louisiana is the top state for collegiate baseball.


To all my california relatives: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

Thank you Tulane and GO GREEN WAVE!

CWS

Here it is today, the final day of Super Regionals and nearly half of the teams have advanced onward to College World Series. Though LSU is offically knocked out, I am still excited about the CWS because Tulane plays today against Rice at noon and winner advances on to CWS. What is even better than that is two(possibly three) SEC teams made it to the CWS and no California teams made it. Not Cal State Fullerton, not USC, not Long Beach State, and the only thing that would make today even sweeter is if Tulane wins. So, here I go a die heart LSU fan rooting on my arch rival Tulane. All I care about is bragging rights over my family in the west that the south truely is the best baseball state in the entire United States of America!!!

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I need a DRINK

Good Lord!!!! School has offically started and so has the excitment of friday nights. No longer do I enjoy sleeping in to 11:30 or going out all night. Now its back to hitting the books and studing all night, also waking up before anyone and getting home latter than anyone in my house. Though it is only for two months, I still have the urgency to throw my head into my desk and scream at the the teacher, "JESUS, LET US GO! STOP TALKING!!!"

At least now friday night trivia at the Pub will no longer be about stop in before I go out, but now about drowing my thoughts of Management and Theatre learned earlier in the day in my beer.
Anyways once again anyone who wants to find me doesn't have to look hard, I will be at the Pub every Friday night with with my head in my beer sitting at the bar trying to answer the trivia questions.

Summer School in college

Ok today is the first day of classes this summer. These are my first and last summer classes. The day started out great with the first class starting at 8 am but I woke up at 8am. So I dropped that class. The next class starts in 15 minutes and I have to go to this one because it is a class for my major. All I can think about is July 21st!!! Summer classes will end, I will go to florida for some sun, and I will only have 2 classes left to graduate! But first summer classes and I am going to go to class early to see if any hot girls are in my class that I can talk to..... or cheat off of.