Monday, May 18, 2009

The Chaos Weekend

We ran on no sleep this weekend, or so it seemed.

Saturday morning we were up at 5:30am to head to Manhattan KS for Madison’s graduation. We were home around 4:30. Sophie was in her kennel the whole time. I thought she was about to burst when we let her out. Stayed up to watch SNL. Celebrity Jeopardy was fracking funny, check it out on Hulu.com.

Sunday we left the house around 10:30 to drive to Rocheport MO to meet my parents for lunch at Les Bourgeois Winery. Food at their Café was very yummy. Meg and I ate off each other plates and had a good visit with my parents. Then back in the car with a quick stop in Lee’s Summit to shop and we were home around 6:30pm. Left Sophie out this time and was happy to see that she did not destroy anything, never had to worry about Max, he doesn’t chew.

Woke up today and it felt like work was a week ago. I am not too productive today at work, hence I blog.

Posted by Todd at 5/18/2009 02:34:00 PM 0 comments
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

"Any by the way Tom, that is a pen, not a microphone."

So Will was back on SNL last night and was kind enough to do my favorite skit. Enjoy!
Posted by Todd at 5/17/2009 09:28:00 PM 2 comments

Friday, May 15, 2009

The Summer of Todd

I have declared this the summer of the return of my boyhood. Why? Many summer movies have either or will take me back to my boyhood and early teen years. I have already seen X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Trek, but soon other movies will be on their way. Soon it will be Terminator: Salvation, Land of the Lost, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and finally G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Seems like it is going to be a good summer for me as many of these movies take me back to a simpler time. I will say that Star Trek had some very good themes that I think people can identify with, so go see it.

Posted by Todd at 5/15/2009 09:27:00 AM 0 comments

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Love this video...cracks me up

Posted by Todd at 5/06/2009 09:47:00 AM 0 comments

Something I wish I had never seen....


Creepy, that is best word to describe what I saw in locker room at the gym this morning. I saw a guy clipping his toe nails. It totally grossed me out. Is the locker room at the gym really the best place to do this? I know when I clip my nails they sometimes fly all over the place, I don’t catch all of them. I don’t even want to think about stepping on someone’s toe nails. Ick.
Posted by Todd at 5/06/2009 08:04:00 AM 0 comments

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

No TV for you tonight

He is at it again, Obama; 100 days and now three prime time press conferences. Really? Obama says he wants to fix the economy, but how does hurting the networks do that? Let’s me show you the math I did.

I read an article that FOX is not airing the press conference tonight because of costs. They stated they would lose between 2 and 3 million dollars by airing it and FOX is not the number 1 network, I think they are currently number 3. So ABC and CBS will probably lose even more! But I am going to use FOX’s numbers for this post.

Let’s say each network loses$ 2,000,000 for each Obama prime time press conference. At his current rate of 1 per month each network is losing $24,000,000 per year or $96,000,000 per presidential term. Imagine if they lost $3,000,000 per press conference instead of $2,000,000; they would each lose $36,000,000 per year or $144,000,000 per year for all 4 networks. And if all 4 networks carried every press conference for 4 years, they would lose $2,304,000,000combined. Yeah we are talking over 2 BILLION dollars. How are the 4 networks losing out on that money a good thing? Is he going to offer them a bail out to and then own the media? Now I know that he cannot keep up this pace of press conferences every month, but what if he did? That is just crazy! That money isn’t going to hurt the actors or executives, but the janitors and assistants.



Posted by Todd at 4/29/2009 01:25:00 PM 0 comments

I've got worms!


It has been raining a lot lately leaving Meg and I with a problem, worms! It seems like after every heavy rain we awake in the morning to discover 9 to 10 worms in the family room, which is ground level. Until this year nothing like this has ever happened; it is a little crazy.

Typically Meg finds the worms in the morning since she is first up and politely screams for me to get down there. I have been anointed to have the job of picking up the worms; lucky me. So I scooped them up, most of which were dead and dried up, and threw them out into the yard, hoping that the robins would come and have a feast.

My solution to the problem has been to caulk any holes I can find around the door and to put salt on the threshold. I guess I am just hoping that worms dislike salt as much as slugs. I hope it works, otherwise I will need to buy some attack robins.

Posted by Todd at 4/29/2009 12:54:00 PM 0 comments

Monday, March 30, 2009

In Contempt of Court



Last week I got to go to court. Now I can’t really talk about the case specifically because of confidentiality laws and such and because it is never wise to blog about a court case you are involved in (just ask Flea). Also a few months ago I got to sit in on a civil commitment case as well and again I won’t go into details. But in these two instances I learned something very valuable, TV has lied to me! Court is not filled with drama like on Law and Order, LA Law, or any other legal drama. There are no surprise witnesses or heated objections. The gallery (where the onlookers sit) isn’t filled with all sorts of people there watching the drama unfold.

I sat and waited hoping for something exciting to happen, nothing did. When they weren’t “in session” the judge, DA and defense were all very friendly with each other and with the witnesses. The judge was never addressed as “Your Honor” but rather just as “Judge.” No one raised their voices to passionately state their case. The court room was not some magnificent room with marble pillars, chandlers, and fine woods. Rather the court I was in was dark, and run down. They had flickering florescent lighting, heat that never turned off, and cheap wood paneling. Sadly, I was wearing a suit and I felt over dressed to be there. No, court is actually rather boring and in fact is actually a little more like Night Court than Law and Order.
Posted by Todd at 3/30/2009 01:23:00 PM 0 comments

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Toddshank Redemption


Well I went back to prison on Monday. No I am still not a felon. My company “let go” one of the therapists there and my boss sent me back to work part time until the new therapist starts in April. The best part is I still do all the same work I was already doing since leaving prison and working with parolees. Isn’t that great? Who doesn’t like to double their work load and not double their salary? Wait my boss is trying to use a Jedi mind trick me…..I will work more without more money. I will work more without more money.
Posted by Todd at 2/12/2009 05:06:00 PM 0 comments

"Hmm, never seen a car do that before...."

Here is something you never want to hear and see at the service department at the dealership you take your car to.

“Hmm, never seen a car do that before.” And then see every tech and service person standing around watching your car do something, that cars aren’t supposed to be able to do these days, continue to run for a long time after you take the key out. Yep that is what our amazing car did yesterday. It was a neat trick that no one at the dealership had ever seen before. Apparently it was just moisture shorting things out, but it was nice to have a car that stumped the service department.

Sadly this was on second trip in two weeks for warranty work, meaning our second trip to the rental place to rent a car. Even sadder was the counter person who remembered us from two weeks ago. However he did something neat, he turned a Chevy Malibu into a Toyota 4-Runner. For warranty work you are supposed to drive the same as what you are getting repaired; a Toyota for a Toyota, a GM for a GM, and so forth. Well, since he felt sorry for us and knew we did not want a tiny Chevy he turned our Malibu into a Toyota. It was a much appreciated trick.
Posted by Todd at 2/12/2009 04:42:00 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Yep, She is Blonde

Megan had a blonde moment the other day. I was driving home from work when I got a call from her. She told me that the car wouldn’t go into gear and she was stuck at the gym. I talked her through a few things and she told me it was in fact turning over, just not going into gear.

I told her I would get there as soon as I could and I was afraid something could be seriously wrong. I pulled up and walked over to the car. She opened the door and I told her to start it up. It wasn’t turning over actually. Then I said, “Give it some gas.” She did and it started right up.

It wasn’t broken after all.

Posted by Todd at 1/28/2009 01:07:00 PM 0 comments

Friday, January 23, 2009

People Who Drank the Kool-Aid

Found this video on Youtube.com and I thought I would share it here and then mock it to death. So enjoy.



Can we say creepy? A bunch of celebrities pledging their lives to the President. Why not pledge to do something better than planting trees and driving hybred cars (which there is nothing wrong with) and instead pledge to quit telling us how to live our lives. Pledge to give 90% of your 10 million per year earnings to inner city schools and to the orphans around the world; afterall every 60 seconds a child dies of hunger. In the time it took me to watch this video 4 children died. Pledge to do something about that. Pledge to not be so stuck on yourselves. Pledge to keep your opinions to yourself and pledge to quit trying to stay in the lime light. That is what I wished they would pledge to do.

Now to top it all off what was with the whole ending. It makes Obama look like the freaking Anti-Christ. Yes, let's all stand around and chant a pledge, a pledge to a man. Don't pledge your life and service to a man, pledge it to your neighbors, to the sick and the hurting, and to the orphaned child. Pledge to care more about those around you than you do yourself. But pledging to serve a man? To Hollywood I say get over yourself.
Posted by Todd at 1/23/2009 09:16:00 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Coming back...

I’m back!

It is time to start blogging yet again. I haven’t been about to blog because of my previous job location. My previous location did not allow me to have internet access so I didn’t post too often, but now I get to carry around a laptop which means I am back to blogging.

So as soon as something amusing happens I will write about it. Right now nothing amusing is going on. The world is boring. Right now I am sitting in my office, which is the size of a closet, which I share with two other co-workers. Now I am not saying that is it small, just that it is like being in a clown car at the circus. Every time I step into the office I feel like I should have a red nose, carry a bottle of seltzer water, and have big floppy shoes on!

So when something funny happens I will blog about it.

Posted by Todd at 1/13/2009 11:51:00 AM 0 comments

Sunday, November 16, 2008

A Great Author He is Not

So there I am at Barnes and Noble when I find this book. I thought to myself, "Hmm I bet stealing, gambling, the lottery and insurance fraud are probably out of the question."

Seriously I cannot believe this is a real book.
Posted by Todd at 11/16/2008 09:50:00 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Trick of Treat


I tired and failed to eat all of our leftover Halloween candy. Ugg my stomache....
Posted by Todd at 11/05/2008 04:51:00 PM 0 comments
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