Opportunity knocks

People sometimes forget that adversity is often accompanied by opportunity. You know, every cloud has a silver lining and all that rot?

I was driving around OP last week when I saw this sign.









It made me wonder what "Plan B" is? I know Tony has his ideas.

tagged: economy, Kansas, Overland Park, layoff, opportunity, Plan B

In case you haven't heard

Just trying to squeeze the last little bit of enjoyment out of this before today's match up against Mizzou.



tagged: sports, Kansas, K-State, Bill Walker, Michael Beasly, Jayhawks, Wildcats

Friday Blogthing: Does this make me a hobbit?

Aside from the general premise, I know absolutely nothing about Lost.

Never seen and episode, don't know any of the characters, couldn't recite any of the catchphrases.

But a lot of people are doing this quiz, so here's my result. Can someone explain it to me?

Which Lost Character Are You?

Created by BuddyTV

tagged: Friday, test, Lost, meme, blog, character, Charlie

That just happened!

I have to confess my lack of confidence in the good guys tonight.

I knew K-State had a good team this year. Good? Hell, they have a damn good team.

But I just knew in the run-up to "the game" that even though K-State had its best team in years, so did KU. I joked around with the 'Hawks fans at work whether KU had any chance at all (even the VP of my group... gulp), all the while knowing that in all likelihood, they would walk out of Manhattan with "the streak" intact.

I watch the boys in purple play a solid first half and go into the locker room with a surprising 2-point lead knowing that with Bill Walker's three fouls, they were in rough shape for the second half.

Even with the 'Cats up by 10 with four minutes left, I saw us losing the lead because of fouls and too many 3-point attempts.

It wasn't until about 57 seconds to go that I was reasonably assured that the good guys would win.

So a sincere well-played to the 'Hawks, and a hearty congrats to the 'Cats.

I'm glad I was wrong.

tagged: sports, Kansas, K-State, Bill Walker, Michael Beasly, Jayhawks, Wildcats

YouTube Tuesday: HapP.I. Birthday

On this day in 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, the wold was granted the gift of Thomas William Selleck.

You may know him better as Thomas Magnum, the wise-crackin', Ferrari-drivin', Detroit Tigers baseball cap-wearin' private dick from Hawaii that made TV worth watching in the 1980s.

In honor of Tommy's birthday, here's one of my favorite scenes from the series. It featured Selleck in of his brawny mustachioed awesomeness.



Happy birthday man.

tagged: movie, YouTube, video, Magnum, Tom Selleck, Hawaii, Ferrari

Monday Monday

Holy CRAP I was busy today. I mean BIZ-ZAY!!!

I was busier than a one-legged man in a keester kickin' contest. Busier than a five-dollar whore on nickel night. I was busier than Tony's mom on basement cleaning day.

I had a lot on my plate, is what I'm saying.

I got tagged in than handwriting meme thing, so maybe I'll do that later. Right now, I'm just gonna get my kid to bed, pour myself a Scotch, and chillax for a while.

tagged: work, busy, life

Friday Feast: The last refuge of the unoriginal

Appetizer
How many times per day do you usually laugh?
I never laugh in the real world. I just find it undignified. However I do LOL online about 30 times a day (LOL!).

Soup
What do your sunglasses look like?
Like this:


Salad
You win a free trip to anywhere on your continent, but you have to travel by train. Where do you go?
From Fairbanks, Alaska to Panama City, Panama via Montreal, Canada (might as well make the most of a free vacation, right?).

Main Course
Name one thing you consider a great quality about living in your town/city.
It's where my wife and kid live.

Dessert
If the sky could be another color, what color do you think would look best?
Purple, of course.

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Here are some additional Friday Feast's. If you do one, let me know so I can list it.

• Chimpo
• Bea
• Logtar


tagged: meme, Friday Feast, Bootsy Collins, purple, sunglasses

Friday Blogthing: KA-CHING!!!!!!

You may have heard that our infinitely magnanimous government has graciously decided to give us back some of the money it took from us to fund wars, bridges to nowhere and corporate executive retirement packages in the hope that we will spend our way out of a recession.

It's just the latest example of how great and just truly terrific the people we elect are.

Yesterday, the KCStar posted a little widget to help you calculate how much of your own money the gubmint is going to give to you. Kind of like when your parents used to give you an allowance when you were a kid.




tagged: Friday, test, taxes, meme, blog, recession, tax rebate

Good idea, bad idea

Good Idea: Cutting up your old, expired credit cards into tiny pieces before throwing them away so as to avoid being the victim of identity fraud.

Bad Idea: Accidentally getting your thumb in the way of scissors as you slice said cards -- the very thumb you had nearly destroyed in the Christmas Eve Massacre of 2007.

tagged: credit cards, scissors, thumb, cut, accident

It's the little things

There are so many non-stories out there this week that it's making me feel anti-inspired. I mean, I care so little about these things that it makes me not want to post anything.

For instance, everybody's posing about the Francis Semler resignation. Getting Semler off (ewe!) of the all-powerful KCMO parks board is a huge victory for the racist west side Latino lobby. I'm glad they didn't waste all of their effort on unimportant issues like healthcare or education. But everyone has already said so much about it that I can barely summon the little interest I had a few months ago.

Then there's the untimely death of megastar actor Heath Ledger. My RSS reader lit up last night with bloggers bemoaning the loss of such a fine talent to what looks like a drug overdose. A tragic loss, we now will have to get by without seeing any of his future so-so movies (I was so looking forward to Brokeback Submarine).

My apathy to these stories is palpable. It's enough to suck the inspiration right out of you.

Then out of the blue, as I was getting my morning coffee in the break room today, something wonderful happened.

A coworker dropped a few coins in the Coca-Cola machine to buy her daily Diet Coke. The can dropped through the internal workings of the vending machine, and when it hit the dispensing bin it exploded like a syrupy, carbonated hand grenade.

The resulting mess of curse words and sticky cloths gave me just the schadenfreude I needed to get me out of my rut and back into the groove.

Thank science for the little things.

tagged: Kansas City, Francis Semler, apathy, Heath Ledger, diet coke, inspiration, schadenfreude