Super Bowl Seat

A Steeler fan had 2 50 yard line tickets for the Super Bowl.

As he sits down, a man comes down and asked the man if anyone is sitting in the seat next to him.

"No", he said, "the seat is empty".

"This is incredible" said the man. "Who in their right mind would have a seat like this for the Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world, and not use it?"

Somberly, the man says, "Well...the seat actually belongs to me. I was supposed to come here with my wife, but she passed away. This is the first Super Bowl we have not been together since we got married in 1967."

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. But couldn't you find someone else - a friend or relative or even neighbor to take the seat?"

The man shakes his head, "No. They're all at the funeral."

Steelers in Space

http://anon.nasa-global.edgesuite.net/anon.nasa-global/ccvideos/steelers.asx

How Beer Goggles Work

16 Things

1. I split MY chin open (and knocked myself out) by attempting to jump from the top of one counter top to another across a hallway at my parents house when nobody else was home.
2. I had scarlet fever in first grade.
3. In pre-school another kid jumped off a jungle gym onto the top of my head and I bit through the middle of my tongue and required many stitches to fix it.
4. Some day I will summer in Montana and winter in Bora Bora.
5. If my rude parents hadn't given me crappy eyesight I would have joined the Navy and become a pilot and might have been the one landing that plane in the Hudson River yesterday.
6. The first time I met SC, I was trying to check my score on an 8th grade Algebra test in her 9th grade homeroom and she slammed the door in my face while making rude comments about 8th graders coming into her room. You can understand the immediate attraction...
7. I played ice hockey for Norwin in high school. I haven't skated in at least 15 years, but I would love to find somewhere to play again.
8. Mint chocolate chip ice cream with melted peanut butter on top sounds like possibly one of the worst things you could possibly eat.
9. I frequently consider quitting my job and becoming a driver for UPS. I'd rather be a bush pilot in Alaska, but since I don't have a pilot's license and I do have a driver's license...
10. SC believes that I have another wife and 4 daughters on the left coast.
11. I have been to 39 states and 11 foreign countries and am always looking for a reason to go to somewhere new.
12. I have a Microsoft Map Point map on my laptop where I keep track of all the counties in the US that I have been in. Keeping track of only states isn't detailed enough for me.
13. I have about 520 titles on DVD and yes, I know when one is not in it's proper place on the shelf.
14. SC sincerely believes that whatever I am doing at any point in time is orders of magnitude less important than whatever it is she has suddenly decided I should be doing.
15. Relating to #14, I am being dragged over to karate against my will even though they are closed to go through some farce of doing something I could easily do at home so I can get class credit. The fact that I can know my form and everything else I need to know for testing and not pass pre-testing until I get 18 classes in, but other people can pass by getting 18 classes in without being able to do their form irritates me beyond words.
16. The final half season of Battlestar Galactica starts tonight at 10:00 on scifi. If you haven't watched before, you can view the catch the frak up video at the top of my blog to get up to speed.

Go Steelers

Greener Grass

Its important in life to reach out,
to strive for greater achievements,
to go for that greener grass that is on the other side of the fence.

But one must also be careful
Sometimes you can reach too far !


But when you find yourself over-extended and
you're stuck in a situation
that you can't get out of, there is one thing
you should always remember.......
Your government......


Is there to help you!!!!

Guitar Hero

Alex and Andy got Guitar Hero World Tour for the wii for Christmas with a second guitar. Given all the running around yesterday, they didn't get it out and start playing it until this evening. They were playing head-to-head and asked us to go downstairs and try it. SC went down while I was watching the Penguin game and came back up after awhile going on about how great it was. So when the Penguin game was over around 9:30 or so I headed down in the basement to check it out. After one or two songs to get used to the controls, I have to say I was pretty much mopping the floor with all of them. This of course got SC's competitive juices flowing so she sent Alex and Andy to bed so we didn't have keep letting them have a turn and we could just go head-to-head. There seemed to be a theory developing that player 2 seemed to almost always win. Of course, Player 2 was generally either Andy or myself. Andy is taking guitar lessons in real life, and I think I must be some sort of Guitar Hero prodigy, so I'm not convinced it has anything to do with wich player you are.

Anyway, we decided to move up the difficulty level once the kids went to bed. Although it was more difficult and required the use of a 4th finger on the left hand that was very disorienting, my domination of SC continued until she suddenly developed a sore wrist/fingers/back and had to go upstairs and go to bed. Wuss. I'm really not sure what time that might have been, but I'm guessing between 10 and 10:30. I then went back to the main menu and switched to career mode where you basically pick a person and start playing gigs and if you don't get yourself booed off the stage, you earn money and move on to harder/better songs, longer concerts, etc. This is somewhat addictive. It is now 2:20AM and I just decided maybe I should go to bed. There's no clock in the basement, so I had no idea what time it was. Every few concerts on the career mode, some real-life guitar player comes out and challenges you to a duel. If you manage to hang with them and don't get booed off stage, then they get added to the list of people you can be. I made it through the duel with the first guy (whose name escapes me at this hour) with no problem. Then I was happily finishing up a concert at the Kentucky state fair whe Ted Nugent rode out on a bison and challenged me. After 4 failures I decided to pack it in for the night. It's obviously due to the lateness of the hour that I couldn't hang with Ted. Luckily, I don't have to go back to work until Jan. 5th so I have plenty of time to do nothing but play between when I wake up later today and then. I think I may have a problem...