Out of the mouth of kids?

Yesterday my kids were wanting to go out to eat. I said "no!" My 9-year old boy, Noah and 6-year old girl,, Riley then questioned why? My answers, "because I've ran out of money before I ran out of week." Of course they had no clue what I meant and asked, "what do you mean?" I said "till pay day, I'm broke." After a long moment of silence, Riley says, "Dad, you need to SAVE MORE AND LIVE BETTER!" I could only laugh...and of course call everyone I know to tell them my 6-year old is giving financial advise.



My dad always told me, "people with money plan for the future those who don't plan for the weekend." So, what's going on this weekend?





PETA BILLBOARD CONTROVERSY!








This billboard was inspired by the Discovery channels annual "Shark Week" week marathon.

A PETA spokes women on Fox news said, and this is funny, and I paraphrase here. Sharks are not the most dangerous predator, the most dangerous predator is the guy standing at the all you can eat seafood buffet! Now that's funny!


PETA is there to protect animals, who's there to protect the plants and vegetables they want you to eat?

Plants are living breathing things! Plants are needed for photosynthesis?

SAVE THE PLANTS!

It's a "nothing going on Wednesday!"

What your man's favorite superhero reveals about him, Comopolitan magazine breaks it down for you.

What about Under Dog or Might Mouse, those are my superhereo's!

Browns Quaterback, Brady Quinn has a new girlfriend but is she hotter than the first? You decide!

This is girlfriend #1. She was the one with Brady Quinn when he sat thru the NFL draft and went with him to the 2007 ESPY Awards

Now, the girl on Brady's on at this years ESPY awards red carpet event.

I'm a leg guy and #2 has nice legs however, we can't see #1's legs so...I'de just like to have what Brady brushes off!

Ban Water?

I watched a lady today, read the front page of the newspaper while it was still inside the vending machine. I sat in my car and continued watching because I had to know if she would actually buy the paper... she didn't!

Probably the same person who stands in line at the grocery store reading magazine articles but never buys the magazine.

On ward---


Penn and Teller sent person out to a "save the environment" type festival to collect signatures to ban water. Check this out.




This one may get me in trouble with women but, oh well. Are women louder than men, especially in groups? Read this editorial from the Milwaukee journal sentinel and tell me what you think.

To me its all just blah, blah, blah...Kidding, just kidding, love ya ladies!

Absolutely outstanding?

Weekend observations

I'm not in my 20's anymore heck, I'm not in my 30's yet I went on a 14-mile run from Madison, Ohio to Geneva-On-The-Lake, Ohio with three guys in their 20's. I really think I'm trying to kill myself! Great run though, probably my fastest long run ever.

Did you know there is a show on "Animalplanet" which is based on the network show "Nanny 911" only this person comes in to help familes with out of control pets?

You may be asking, what's with the title, "Absolutely Outstanding!"

While watching sport center I heard the commentator say a player was "Absolutely Outstanding!" Is "Absolutely Outstanding" better than "Outstanding?" Is "absolutely Outstanding" better than being "great" or "terrific?"
To me it's like saying "Give me 110%!" I can "give you my all" or "100%" but that's everything. There is nothing greater than 100%. You never hear or read 110% real fruit juice! Or 110% beef! It's 100% or "all I have!"

I know, "way" to much time on my hands, "way" to much thinking! I guess "way to much thinking" is more than just thinking!

Can you think of other examples?

MAN-CANDLES?

Seriously, if you have Mandles burning in your house, I will question your "manhood!" The only time a candle gets let in my house is if the electric goes out and the batteries in my flashlight are dead!
Correct me if I'm wrong, if you went to a single mans house and he was burning candles of any type wouldn't you question his "manhood?" Drop me a comment and let me know.

7/25/08

Here is what I'm talking about tonight 7pm-mid on STAR 97.1 Ashtabula, Oh.

I can't beleive this....

The jury has awarded a Hall County woman $150,000 after she sued her former fiance for calling their wedding off.

Are you kidding me? Now a man gets screwed without walking down the isle, " WITH UP WHAT'S UP WITH THAT??

A motorist pulled a gun on some teenage kids who asked if he had some "GREY POUPON"

I heard across town someone robbed a bank with a jar of Grey Poupon!


I'm sorry, but this is just funny! Listen to her scream as she hits the van!

Thursday 7/24/08

Greener eating at college campuses...and I'm not talking green veggies.

With rising food and fuel prices, colleges and universities, including Case Western Reserve University, Hiram College, John Carroll University, and Oberlin College are following a national trend to reduce food waste and energy by removing cafeteria trays or discouraging their use.

The theory is, students are more likely to get the foods they will finish because they will think twice about carrying three or four plates thus reducing food waste. Plus less trays to wash means you're also conserving water.

You buying this yet...

No trays means more spills which leads to more paper towels being used. Now what?

OK, so let me ask you...What are you doing to be "GREEN?" Are you useing the canvas grocery bags or do you at least have them but always forget them in the car when you go shopping? Do you recycle? Post a comment and let me know how you are "going green."

Then there is this story.

The head of a prominent cancer research center in Pittsburgh has issued a warning to his staff to limit cell phone use because of possible risk of cancer.

See, this is why I text message, I'm being healthy!

Now, if I eat high fibered cereal while talking on my cell phone...

Post and comment and let me know if this will stop you or at least limit your use of the cell phone?



And you've got to check out this parody of the new WII FIT!

Are you a cash or credit/debit card person? Personally, I'm a debit card guy, I don't like to carry a wallet or change. Broke Grad Student has put together a list of why cash is so last millennium.

I also don't like cash because if I have some it burns a whole in my pocket.

I prefer credit cards because people...well kids mainly, can't just "burrow" my credit card!

So I ask you, fellow blog readers and listeners to STAR 97.1 Ashtabula, Ohio. Do you Carry cash or are you a credit card/debit card user?



This lady is, well NUTS!

Ohio - Robyn Lee, 23, of Corryville, is charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly tried to cram a peanut in the mouth of her very allergic neighbor Saturday evening.
Lee appeared in court today on the peanut charge and a related criminal damaging charge. According to police and court records, Lee was riding in a car with a neighbor, Shenna Ferguson, just after 6 p.m., when she allegedly tried to put the peanut in Ferguson’s mouth.“I told her to stop because I was very (allergic) to peanuts,” Ferguson wrote in an affidavit. “She laughed…”


And finally, a Lake county, Ohio women charged with child endangerment after leaving her kids in a running car for 4-hours while she went into an Eastlake bar and got drunk.

I want to know how she got the kids to stay in the car. A 9 & 6-year old listen to their mom and just stayed in a car for 4-hours... never got out...that's discipline. She's "mother of the year." OK, I went to far...

One of those days!

• Today is one of those days where you want to eat a sandwich and go swimming before the mandatory 30-min wait...I know, it's a tough way to go but it's not as bad as drinking nite time cold meds and driving heavy equipment, now that's drastic!



• The other day my kids asked my to take them some place expensive...I took them to the gas station!
  
  Now that's funny stuff...ok, maybe not.



• After being "alone amongst many" on Saturday night, I though maybe I should polish up on my pick up lines. Check out these pick up lines from bacardi' web site.
  
  My all time favorite, though it has never worked, is "do you know the diffrence between sex and breakfast?" "Me neither! How about you spend the night and we find out in the morning."



• Also, check out these two vids and let me know which you think is better...

Listen to Star 97.1 from 7pm-midnight tonight. I will be talking about these two topics plus "THE BEST MIX OF LITE ROCK FAVORITES."

As always, post and comment and I will read it on the radio!

Random weekend observations

I really like "sea salt and pepper" kettle cooked potato chips! I ate a whole bag in one day this weekend!

Smokers who just toss their cigarette butts out their car windows or flick them onto the ground really irritate me.
I understand, your out in public and there is no ashtray and you really don't want to toss the butt of your cigarette into a garbage can so you throw it on the ground. It still annoyes me! Maybe I should invent a pocket type ashtray so when someone is done smoking they can pull it from their pocket or purse to throw their cigarette away.

Grown adults will knock you over for a free t-shirt!
At the after party of Saturday's Winking Lizard run they began throwing T-shirts from to top of the downtown restaurant. People were jumping over each other to get one of these free T-shirts.
We adults have our limits though. When they ran out of T-Shirts and started tossing key chains, not as much pushing.

It's late July and my grass is still green!

One more...Crayons will melt in the heat and it's almost impossible to get it out of your car seat once they do melt!

If you observed something you liked or disliked this weekend, be sure to share! I will even read them during my radio show 7pm-midnight on STAR 97.1 Ashtabula!

Thanks for reading and thanks for listening!

All Alone Amongst Many People!

On Saturday night I was downtown Cleveland for the Winking Lizard “Shot In The Dark” 4-mile run and after party. The race began at 5:30pm. As usual, I arrived early at around 4:20pm. As a warm up I ran from my car to the start line, maybe a ½-mile. Though it was an hour before the race started, their was already lot of people already there.
I continued my warm up with my stretching routine and that’s when it started to bother me. AS I was observing the crowd during my stretches and began to realize “I’m all alone amongst many people.” Discouraged by that fact I went for another run.

Once everyone lined up for the official start of the race I was no longer alone, I was gathered with a thousand or so of my fellow runners. At the start of the race no one is a stranger. Everyone has something in common with the person next to him or her, running!
Once the race starts and you’re out running on the course again, you have something in common with the person you’re running next to. You both want to finish the race in the best possible time. During a race it’s like your part of a team, where everyone is encouraging each other, pushing each other to do their best. At this point I’m in my glory. I’m doing what I love, I’m in my comfort zone and I’m no longer alone.

Near the end, I race a couple people to the finish line. I pass one fellow runner but another edges me out. After we cross the finish line and on the way to the water table we talk briefly about the run and exchanged handshakes and congratulations. It was after that I was again alone, “Alone amongst many people!”

I continued running to my car, quick change of shirts and I was off to PARTY!
I got to the refreshment area, grabbed a sandwich and sat by myself to eat. Now the loneliness was really setting in.
My friend Jacquie and her husband also ran the race but, didn’t run into them at the start of the run and with the thousand gathered in a small area I figured my hopes of finding them were slim.
After walking alone from one end of the party area to the other I was about to head home when I spotted Jacquie and her husband. I stayed with them for a while but could tell her husband wanted to leave. I walked back to my car and headed home to go to bed at 8:30 on a Saturday night!

Most of my friends are married with children and it takes an act of congress to get them to come out for an evening so I normally do everything ALONE. However, being alone “Amongst Many People” really blows.

This is is different than being home alone or lonely. This is watching a group of people have a good time with friends and family while you sit on the ground and eat alone.

Some might ask, why I didn’t introduce myself to someone, start a conversation. I ask them, have you ever been alone, key word alone and walked up to a group of people whom you don’t know, interrupt their conversation and just said HI! Not that easy, at least not for me.

It's like the first day at a new school. You hope someone comes and talks to you, lets you join in on their fun. But, adults are diffrent than children. We're so preoccupied with our own lives, our own circle of friends that we let no one else in.
I challenge people out there, if you see someone sitting alone at a restaurant or bar talk with them you make make a new friend!

I share this story not so you feel sorry for me, because I really don’t need sympathy.

I share this story for someone/anyone who has found themselves “Alone amongst many people!” You’re not alone, I’ve been there myself, and I know it blows!

TGIF!

Do women need to spend $40.00 on a bra to be sexy? After reading this blog I began to wonder. So I ask you, readers of my blog and listeners to STAR 97.1 Ashtabula, ohio, is it the underwear that makes a women sexy or the women who makes the undergarments sexy?

CAN YOU GO A WHOLE WEEKEND WITHOUT SPENDING MONEY?

Any one up for a "money free" weekend? I think this is a great idea but, since this weekends plans, "The Winkin Lizard shot in the dark" run has already cost me money and the fact I will have to pay for parking and the gas to get there plus eating and drinking my "money free" weekend will have to wait till next weekend...maybe I can start with a simple "money free" day!

You know what they say, "people with money plan for the future people without plan for the weekend!" So, what's your plans this weekend?

What's your walkscore?

This is a cool website. Plug in your address and watch as http://www.walkscore.com/
tallies up the drug stores, schools, restaurants and coffee spots in your 1-mile radius.
My home was a 17, what's yours??

Does she have a sister!

The New S&M Barbie is one hot...topic.

The Black Canary Barbie due out in September, is based on a DC comic superhero of the same name.

But the religious group Christian Voice said: “Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far.

The Christian Voice says A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth.”

beer on a stick!

beer on a stick!!

After a year long fight to over turn an old Virginia law which says "beer must by served in its original container or immediatley after serving," Rustico restaurant in Alexandria, VA can again serve its "Beer Pops" These frozen beer-popsicles come in flavors such as "Raspbeer-y" and "fudgesicle" and sell at $5.00 each.

My thoughts,

I can see it now. You order a beer and they ask if you want a draft or a stick!

Hopefully these beer-sicles will become so popular someone will refurbish an old mail truck, drive it around town with Nickelback or something screeching from an external speaker selling these frozen treats to adults working in there yards!

Selling his fandom!

This dude is selling his allegiance to the Cleveland Indians for the remainder of the season

I say "SEE YA."

Are you a perent who get's "Kid-sick" if you child is away for a week? read this story and feed me your comments. Again, I will be talking about this tonight on STAR 97.1 Ashtabula, Ohio.



I love my kids and miss them when they are gone but, kid-sick? Come on, I say "love you and See Ya!" I know, I'm Dad of the year!

Obama not to happy about this pic.

This picture s the center of a lot of controversy, I've also included a link to the complete story.

I FEEL USED!!

Yesterday a female friend, to get even with an ex-boyfriend used me. I’m not sure if she just wanted to make him jealous or show she can move on without him, either way I was used.

Now the question is should I be upset at this person for what I feel was done?

Here’s the story. I got a text message from a long time friend Wednesday of last week asking if I wanted to hang out with her on Sunday. I said “sure, when and where.” She said, “it’s a surprise” and would tell me Sunday morning.
This girl happens to be my first and most serious high school romance. We dated on and off thru out our high school days so, we know each other well.

This girl loves to play soccer and I knew somehow soccer would be involved and that was fine, because I enjoy watching her play. She’s very competitive, which is appealing to me. So on Sunday morning when she said to meet her and the North Olmstead soccer fields, I wasn’t surprised.
It was when I got to the soccer fields and realized her ex-boyfriend was also on her soccer team I was surprised and began to wonder why I was there.
In between halves is when I realized why I was there. At half time my female friend told me, one of the girls on the team was her ex-boyfriends new fling, girl-toy or whatever you what to call her.

See, I was used!!

Now here’s the thing, should I be upset that I was used? Part of me says yes, I should be upset because I’m not sure if I would have been invited otherwise. Our friendship would have continued, as it was, thru text messages and email. Now I wonder what she really wants from me.

On the other hand, if she would have told me she needed to use me to make someone jealous or whatever, I would have went and watched her play and served her purpose.

I ask you blogers and listeners or STAR 97.1 in Ashtabula Ohio should I be upset? Did my friend do anything wrong?

To help you make an informed answer, here are answers to questions you may have.


Until recently, when I got divorced her and I had not had contact for 15-years.

Since we started communicating in January we’ve only been able to meet up in person twice. Once was for a couple drinks then I went and watched her play soccer the other was during one of her children soccer games.

WhY only twice in 6-moths? Because of distance, she lives in Parma and I live in Perry and our family lives and the fact we both have active kids and our own active lives…and oh yeah, until recently she was dating someone.

Am I attracted to her? Sure. We have both expressed our attraction toward each other.


If you have other question please ask, I look forward to your comments.

Nothing like a Christmas post in July!

Nothing like Christmas in July!
I guess the “Amalgamated Santa’s” one of the nation's largest, real-bearded Santa groups is having some problems and the rift has left burly bearded men accusing one another of bylaw violations, profiteering and behaving in un-Santa-like ways!

I’ve attached a link to the entire story for you to read, it great!!
Basically the once-fraternal Santa impersonators began to split last year when a power struggle unseated their top Santa, Tim Connaghan and most of his board of directors.
Mr. Connaghan then set up his own group called “The Red Suite Society” and other splinter groups have also been formed.
In summary, The Amalgamated Santas convention started today in Kansas City and they are on high alert since at least one of the splinter Santas group has let it be known they plan to drop by!

You know, it’s the Elves that will suffer most!

Listen to STAR 97.1 in Ashtabula, Ohio I will be talking about this story tonight!

Check this out, one of the hottest vids on You Tube

This dude dances in 42 diffrent countries and people from all over the world join in, it's pretty cool, it's tittled, "Where The Hell is Matt," check it out.

Gotta have these shoes!

The big buzz in fashion is Nike’s new Hyperdunk shoes, or the “Marty Mcfly 2015” modeled after the futuristic shoes worn be Michael J Fox in Back To The Future II, you know the ones -awesome air-pressurized auto-lacing mechanism.

A few enterprising (or desperate) fans purchased a limited edition version of the Hyperdunks at a Nike-sponsored event in Santa Monica last week and immediately placed them on the auction site EBay. You’ll need deep pockets if you want to buy a pair. The new Nike 'McFly' 2015 Hyperdunks are currently going for as much as $1,200.. Though Nike is not using “Back to the Future” or the word “McFly” in its release of these shoes, the Hyperdunk logo is reminiscent of the Back to the Future films and at last weeks Santa Monica event NBA star Kobe Bryant who was the headline headlined the event, Kobe arrived in a classic Delorean.

Nike has reportedly only made 1,000 pairs of the Marty McFly 2015’s with half those will be released in the U.S.

ALL I CAN SAY IS “JIGAWATTS!”

It’s Cell phone etiquette month, here is a great link to things we should not be doing with our cell phones.

www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=1441

What things do people do with their cell phones that you think is rude?

Forget Global warming this is a real crisis!

Report: The End of the Internet Is Near
Sunday , July 06, 2008

The end of the Internet is near — and in less than three years, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The reason? More than 85% of the available addresses have already been allocated and the OECD predicts we will have run out completely by early 2011.
These aren’t the normal web addresses you type into your browser’s window, and which were recently freed up by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body responsible for allocating domain names, to allow thousands of new internet domains ending in, for instance, .newyork, .london or .xxx.
Beneath those names lie numerical Internet protocol addresses that denote individual devices connected to the internet. These form the foundation for all online communications, from e-mail and web pages to voice chat and streaming video.
When the current IP address scheme was introduced in 1981, there were fewer than 500 computers connected to the Internet. Its founders could be forgiven for thinking that allowing for a potential 4 billion would last for ever. However, less than 30 years later, the Internet is rapidly running out. Every day thousands of new devices ranging from massive web servers down to individual mobile phones go online and gobble up more combinations and permutations.
“Shortages are already acute in some regions,” says the OECD. “The situation is critical for the future of the internet economy.”
As addresses run dry we will all feel the pinch: Internet speeds will drop and new connections and services will either be expensive or simply impossible to obtain. The solution to the IP address shortage is an upgrade to new addresses that can accommodate our hunger for online connectivity. Such a system, called IPv6, was agreed more than a decade ago, providing enough addresses for billions upon billions of devices as well as improving Internet phone and video calls, and possibly even helping to end e-mail spam.
Click here to read more at the Times of London.


Hope you saved those encyclopedias!
This will take us back to prehistoric years, you know B.C. (before computers! That's what it actually stands for.)

Running of the bulls!

Today marked the first day of the Running of the Bulls in Spain and according to officials, 9-people were injured, none gored. It was the first of eight scheduled runs. The most crowded ones will be next weekend.
There you go, in Spain they set a bunch of Bulls free into the streets and daredevils try and avoid being gored by them. In American we grab our lawn chairs and coolers on wheels and head to the local festivals for a “frog jumping” contest.

Spain may have the Running of the Bulls but we have "Nathan’s annual hot dog eating contest!" On the 4th of July, American Joey Chestnut ate 59 hot dogs in ten minuets, then 5 more in overtime to retain his “hot dog eating” title. Everyone knows to get out of the way of a charging bull but can they eat 59 hot dogs... and keep them down?

In Michigan they held the annual “Cheery Pit spitting” contests. Everyone gathered around a stage to see Brian "Young Gun" Krause out-spit his father by 6-1/2 inches to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship.

Like father like son! A family that spits together stays together.

LONG WEKEND IS OVER!

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July holiday weekend. My weekend started with the Ashtabula YMCA 4th of July 5K. Larry Mozocco and the staff at the Ashtabula YMCA do a great job of putting on the race and the weather was great! (Kudo’s to whomever designed the T-Shirts, very nice.)
I finished 1st in my age group, 40-44 it was the second straight year I took home the first place trophy in my demographics.
After the race my kids and I worked in the yard, mowing and trimming trees. That night we had a cookout and camp fire and enjoyed SMORES!
Saturday my parents came over and we got more done around the house including painting the porch rails and staining the porch decks.
Wrapped up the weekend Sunday with a 17-mile run around Perry, Ohio then napped for recovery.
Guess it’s back to reality today, weekends are never long enough!

The Pregnant Man Gives Birth - Babies : People.com

A dude has given birth to a baby girl, "WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?" At the end of the story this dude says the only diffrence with him is he can't breast feed his baby. "There's a whole lot more diffrent that my friend!"


The Pregnant Man Gives Birth - Babies : People.com

HUH?

"these faceless people have been popping up all over England the past few days. They have been spotted at Elton John’s white ball, the Harrod’s sale and Wimbledon. I have no idea if they are real or not, but it is more likely they’re part of some viral marketing campaign."

"Did Peter Gabriel put them up to this...wait, that was eye's without a face, never mind."

Talking about this tonight on WREO, STAR 97.1 Ashtabula!

Devo hates Mcdonalds!

Though this was funny!



Devo to McD's -- We'll Whip You, Whip You Good!
Posted Jul 1st 2008 8:36AM by TMZ Staff
Devo -- yep, as in '80s Bar Mitzvah stalwart Devo -- is red hot over a McDonald's Happy Meal toy that they say co-opts their most famous get-up.The New-Wave band is whippin' mad over "New Wave Nigel," (left) a lil' singer guy who clearly wears one of their concentric "Energy Dome" hats. On their website, the Devo boys call the toy an "unbelievable rip-off."The fast food behemoth had no comment as yet. UPDATE: Devo's lawyer tells TMZ that there isn't any lawsuit being filed -- and there won't be. The matter has been "amicably resolved on mutually agreeable terms." The lawyer did not indicate whether she too wore an Energy Dome during billable hours.


You watch these dolls will be selling on EBAY for $25.oo or more!