I am KING (of gadgets)!

Hear me tinker!

So last week I bought something that I could probably live without... but I really wanted... and since it was gadgety... I had to get... (WITH the approval of my wife I might add.)

I love the fact that Sydney gets me and that she realizes that I have something deep down inside of me that makes me want NEED gadgets. She doesn't understand why I am so driven by them; however, thankfully she does understand that my very breath of life depends on having gadgets... and that if I don't have them, I will die as I am gasping for air. And because she loves AND respects me... she wants to keep me around. So when I start to quiver and wheeze from gadget withdrawal, she races me to the nearest electronic store so that I can purchase something. (Trust me, it's cheaper than the Emergency Room... by a few dollars anyway.)

Anyway, back to my point... The gadget that I purchased was a:

I love this thing. I mean who WOULDN'T want a GPS that straps to your arm. It is great, because now I don't have to mark out a route with my car before I run 10 miles... I can just start running and keep track of my miles as I go and when I get to 10 miles... or 15 (like I have to run on Saturday), I can stop running. This GPS has a display for current speed, average speed, distance traveled, time traveled which are why I really needed this item... but it also has so many more features like: a two way radio, a cellular phone, a shortwave radio so I can receive broadcasts from the other side of the globe... a thermometer, a mp3 player and a candy dispenser. (In case I get hungry.)

Okay... maybe it doesn't have all of the aforementioned, but it is pretty cool. And I can wear it on my wrist when I am running and I know what pace I am running so I can train for my marathon properly. That, and if I ever get lost in the woods, I have a compass to help me find my way out... AND it is waterproof so if I fall into a lake or river while I am finding my way out of the woods... in the middle of the night... (Because the LCD screen glows a brilliant shade of yellow because it is BACKLIT) ...it won't get wrecked. Although I don't believe it floats. (That would be a nice feature.)

Anyway... gotta run! (With my GPS strapped to my wrist.)

*QUIVER*... *WHEEZE*

Hugging and Smooching

Well... it was that time of year again... time for our Annual Marriage Retreat. Sydney and I, as always, had a great time hanging out with each other and enjoying friends as well. This was our tenth year of going to this Marriage Retreat and we can honestly say that it was just as fun as the first year... although, the talent show has gone by the wayside... which we need to revive... but other than that, it was fun. Sydney and I both agree that we don’t believe that our Marriage would be as strong had we not gone to this Marriage Retreat every year. We didn’t do a whole lot... just hung out with each other and went to the sessions that were planned. One of the Sessions was centered on keeping the Presence of God in our House and in our Marriage and one was focused on the women this year and the importance of respecting their husbands. (Last year we focused on the men and the importance of loving our wives.) One comment that Joan, one of the presenters made, was that she didn’t want to let the husbands off the hook... but that it was important that women were still willing to respect their husbands even when they didn't agree with them. After the session I approached her and said... “You know, I don’t think we are wanting our wives to ‘let us off the hook’ ... I just think we just want them to give us a break from time to time. Show us that they do respect us. I think that doing what is right by our wives is something that is ingrained in us... it’s just that when, as a man, you don’t feel like your wife respects you... you figure ‘what’s the point.’ So if our wives affirm us by telling that they respect us... then, we will surpass any expectations that they may have ever had.”

Anyway, it was a good time... and our marriage is tuned up again. Ready for another 10,000 miles.

It has gotta be Monday...

I went in to work out this morning and it didn't go so well... I got there and was unpacking my Gym bag and I forgot my dress shirt for work. How exactly I did that is beyond me... I even went through my mental checklist last night and thought "Dress Shirt... check." On my way in this morning... I had this feeling that I was forgetting something... so I went through my checklist again ... this time outloud... and I said:

"Underwear... check."
"Socks... check."
"T-shirt... check."
"Razor... check."
"Pants... check."
"Dress Shirt... check."
"Shoes... check."
"Belt... check."
"Deoderant... check."
"Wallet... check."
"Cell Phone... check."
"Glasses... check."

BUT... when I got to the Y... no dress shirt. And then after lifting weights... I got on the treadmill this morning... and I was only supposed to run 4 miles... but, mentally, I couldn't do it. The last 2 days it has been nice enough to run outside and it has been enjoyable... so going back to the treadmill was terrible.

Anyway... I ran a mile and a half and kept thinking about the shirt that I forgot and what I was going to do... I thought about going to work shirtless today... I am looking really buff lately. But then my better judgment kicked in and I thought that my 60 some year old secretary would be too distracted by my wonderful physique... and she wouldn't get anything done... and far be it from me to be the cause of such lustful thoughts... so I stopped the treadmill and I decided that, at that very moment, that I needed to go home and get a shirt. Besides that... 4 miles felt like it was going to take forever today.

Oh well... tomorrow is another day.

And I guarantee that, tomorrow, I will remember my shirt.

I know I posted something about cell phones before...

HOWEVER... for some reason my archives are missing the whole month of March 2005 and I believe that is when I purchased my last cell phone...

I remember ranting about "the fact that we live in a steel sided house that is lined with lead which will not allow for a cell phone signal to breach the walls of this impenetrable fortress and that while we are very thankful that we are protected from the radiation / fallout from a nuclear blast... that it was frustrating that we could not use a cell phone in our house..." I said something like that anyway...

WELL... times have changed. And thanks to the GLORIOUS technology that has been incorporated into the Motorola RAZR V3. We are now able to have not one, not two... but sometimes 3 (count them) 3 bars in our house at times. So, Sydney and I, for the past month have been able to call each other at any moment. I have a hotline straight to the most beautiful woman in the world and she is at my beck and call anytime I want (Okay, that might be a stretch.) ...for FREE even. My own personal "Hottie line." :) How cool is that?

...Now if it would only be possible for God to carry a Motorola RAZR V3... I would be set.

Anyway internet, the key is that we have now reached the 21 st Century out on the edge. We no longer live in the bermuda triangle of cell phone signals...

Wow... that was going to be a quick introduction into the fact that I downloaded Tiger Woods PGA TOUR '06 for my cell phone yesterday... and that, after about 4 hours of playing it last night... that I am now an expert. I can't believe that my cell phone can play cool video games... so someone download the game and I will challenge you to a match. I will even let you practice... cause you would need it...

Did I mention that I am AWESOME at Tiger Woods PGA Tour '06?

EA SPORTS. It's in the game.

What the heck?

Why'd you have to go and "enter 77?!"

Way to go John... ya big loser.

Errant Nose Hairs...

Someone get me a nose hair clipper. I must be getting older because my nose hairs are beginning to grow. I have no idea why this occurs... why you can go 33 years of your life and no nose hair growth and then suddenly: BAM! Nose hairs that need to be trimmed. This is so completely beyond my scope of comprehension. And what do you do when you get nose hairs that start growing? Well, I just pull them out with my thumb and pointy finger... and while it looks like I am picking my nose... I am actually just yanking the errant nose hairs out of my flared nostrils.

And, just so we are clear, ...if my eyes are watering... it wasn’t a booger... it was a nose hair.

WOW. I just googled nose hair trimmers and there are numerous models and styles of nose/ear hair groomers. 3 immediate thoughts come to mind:

1. My EAR hair is going to start growing?

And

2. If I am going to buy a Nose hair groomer... I am going to only use it for my nose and not my ears too... there is something entirely wrong about clipping your ear hairs and then sticking that same trimmer up your nose.

AND

3. If and when I do get around to purchasing said product... I am going to purchase the “Turbo-Groomer 5.0” because it just sounds cool. It looks pretty cool too... complete with the "rotary trimmer for nose hair" and the "clipper style trimmer" for ear hair I presume?

The one about my hot wife.

I have a hot wife. Sydney just got her haircut and highlights and lowlights and mediumlights and she is just plain gorgeous. Seriously... Beautiful inside and out. And some days I can’t believe that I am married to her... glad I am though. Nothing like a hot wife who loves you to help thee old self esteem. :)

So three cheers for Sydney because she is Hot and she is MY wife.

Yep... just bragging a little bit.