Ask me 3 questions...
So I've noticed a trend in blogging recently. So, since I have a small following of regular readers, I figure it might be interesting and fun to jump on this bandwagon.

Ask me 3 questions. Any 3 questions. Anything you don't know about me from my blogging that you may have wondered about. Leave them as a comment and I will answer them, no matter what they are.

Disclaimer: I will not answer questions that require me to reveal confidential information (i.e. phone number, address, bank account, credit card, SSN, etc...).

Ready...set...GO!

CHEERS!
- posted by The Outlaw @ 2:09:00 PM |

 
Safety First
My former boss at my previous company used to be a police officer in Euless, Texas. Several years ago, when Glock handguns were just becoming popular with law enforcement, he was living in an apartment complex where he was a community officer (cops were given free apartments in return for security services within the complex, basically). This meant that he had a master key to access any apartment if he needed to.

He told me this story about a year ago.

One day, he was bored and had just received his newest duty weapon. There is a unique safety feature on Glock handguns that seemed rather trivial to him. So he decided to play with it a bit. He tried to pull on the edge of the trigger and see if it really would fire or not. Somehow, the edge of his thumb caught the trigger safety and the gun (which was pointed at the ceiling) went off, firing one round into his ceiling, which was also the floor for the elderly woman living above him.

Luckily she wasn't at home.

So he unlocked her apartment and attempted to fix the problem the same way I tried to...

Cut forward 3 or 4 days and here I am with my new Sig Sauer P229 .40 caliber handgun standing in my second-floor bedroom in my father's house. This gun does not have the same safety feature as the Glock. But that wouldn't have mattered anyway.

So anywho, I had just come off a 21 hour shift at work, I had been awake for about 30 hours straight and I was completely sleeptarded. So of course, this would be the perfect time to play with my new "toy"!

There is a scene in the movie "Training Day" where Ethan Hawke's character ejects a round from the receiver of his Beretta 9 millimeter and catches it in his hand. I should mention here that rounds/cartridges eject very erratically from the receiver of most handguns. So of course, I was certain that I would NEVER be cool until I learned that nifty trick!

So I started to practice...with a live round. And it actually worked. I learned the trick so quickly, that I didn't feel as though I had really accomplished anything. So I figured, I should try to learn to do it FAST! Then I'd be SUPERcool!

So of course, the gun goes off and I blow a hole through the floor (which is the first-floor ceiling), and through 3 walls downstairs. After the initial shock (which lasted a good 15 minutes, during which time I actually convinced myself at one point that I was dreaming the whole thing!) I headed downstairs to check the damages. I will just say this...if there had been anyone else in my house at the time, they likely would have been sitting on the couch watching TV when a bullet would've flown through the wall about a foot above their head out of nowhere and they probably would have effectively filled their pants with poop!

So I grabbed a tube of toothpaste and started to spackle up the holes! But it wasn't working too good. And I knew I might've shot through something important (water line, gas line, etc...) so I figured I was had. So I called my old man and fessed up.

Oh and I found the bullet in the garage!

CHEERS!
- posted by The Outlaw @ 9:51:00 AM |

 
Heavily Medicated
As if the weekend wasn't horrid enough already, today has left me really hating my job (temporarily of course!). I have so much on my plate, it's unreal! Recruiting, staffing, advertising, proposals, upcoming first-quarter reviews, meetings, foreign people...it's like my own personal hell! There just aren't enough hours in the day!

If I'm not careful, I may be forced to adopt my father's doctrine for life ("Sleep when you're dead") this week!

Happily, I've just learned that they make pills for people in my situation!



CHEERS!
- posted by The Outlaw @ 2:05:00 PM |

 
Working overtime at Dorky Inc.
Didn't I say it was gonna be a sh*tty weekend this weekend? God I hate being right!

Got called in to work yesterday. Sucks for me, but it sparked a good idea! I'm paid on salary so whenever I work on the weekend or work an hourly job, I don't get paid for it. Technically that is a good thing cuz any revenue generated by my work in this capacity is all profit (since we don't have to pay wages out from it). Well I think I'm going to start saving this extra profit away to pay for incentives for my employees, like movie passes or other "generic" rewards for going above and beyond. I think it's a good idea!

Ok I hate to beat a dead horse but just in case there's anyone out there that HASN'T seen the Numa Numa video yet, here it is!

Numa Numa

The guy that did this video is now more famous than the Star-Wars kid.

He even warranted a report on CNN!

How dorky am I you ask?

I actually downloaded the song from the Numa Numa video!

On a final note...a friend of mine on a motorcycle web forum that I frequent is organizing a fund raiser. We're gonna raise money for subscriptions to "Motorcyclist" magazine and send them over to the soldiers in Iraq. So if any of you have any friends/family overseas that would enjoy this magazine, leave a comment or email me to submit an APO or donation (if you trust me that much!).

CHEERS!
- posted by The Outlaw @ 12:23:00 PM |

 
Technical difficulties
Yeah that's the last time I EVER click on any links in someone's AIM profile!

On Valentine's Day I managed to pick up some kind of virus using this method. I usually get around viruses pretty well. Come to find out that my anti-virus software essentially sucks and not only did it not block the virus, it couldn't even find it after a system scan.

WEAK!!!

Anywho, I'm back up and running now! And once upon a time I mentioned (in my 100 useless facts list I believe) that I am too dependent on the internet. This fact was definitely confirmed over the past 48 hours during which time I was without my computer altogether!!! It was a nightmare!

Today's song recommendation: Spongebob Squarepants' "Jellyfish Jam"

Good times!

I managed to pick up a guest spot on The Dr Dyno Show last night. For those out of the loop, my friend Jeff puts on a 4 hour live internet radio show every friday night at 7:00 EST. So last night I was invited to be on the show! It was rather interesting. I'm not so much cut out for radio though. I'm funny enough and everything, but I lack the personality necessary for a successful show. Hopefully I'll be invited back again soon though. The studio was pretty cool and I spent most of my time playing with Photoshop (I had zero skills with this program beforehand). I'm definitely a fan! I'm sure I'll be posting up some of my odd creations soon!

Work-wise, this weekend is shaping up to be a drag! But at least now that I have my computer back, I'm relatively more safeguarded against insanity!

CHEERS!
- posted by The Outlaw @ 10:29:00 AM |

 
Happy Valentine's Day!











What? They're funny!

CHEERS!
- posted by The Outlaw @ 11:25:00 AM |

 
Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.
- posted by The Outlaw @ 9:17:00 PM |

 
Stoopid is as stoopid does
I have this saying that I use rather often. When someone is destined to screw up something, but you want to give them the benefit of the doubt, I call it "giving them enough rope to hang themselves". I use it so frequently, it has more or less become second nature now and I say it without thinking.

In fact, I wasn't thinking this morning when I said it about a black woman that works for me. I'm considering having surgery to remove my foot from my mouth!

Anyway, speaking of feeling stupid...I woke up this morning to my radio going off as usual. Right about this time, there was a woman on the air who was asking the morning show DJs to let her propose to her boyfriend live on the air. Of course, they agreed, called him up and she popped the question.

Not only did she get rejected, but he decided to let her know right then that, not only was he seeing someone else, but he wasn't actually at work. He was at the other girl's house. Apparently he was going to wait until after Valentine's Day to break everything off.

So I pose the question: Which is worse? Being single on Valentine's Day? Or being dumped out of a 3-year relationship, on a publicly broadcasted radio morning show, 3 days before Valentine's Day?

I feel sorry for that woman, but, happily, my life seems much brighter today!

CHEERS!
- posted by The Outlaw @ 3:27:00 PM |

 
What is the world coming to?
My blog gets visited from Estonia?



Do they even have electricity there?!?!

Anywho, so the Eagles lost and I'm kinda sore about it so if anyone mentions football at this point, then it's totally cool with me if you just drop dead on the spot! At least the commercials were decent. Too bad they didn't air the best one!

UnAired Super Bowl Commercial

And I caught a preview for the new Disney movie "The Pacifier". (This is only monumental because I rarely watch broadcast television so I never know about movies until they've already cleared the theaters.) Ok so, how desperate do you have to be if you're Vin Diesel and you take a role in a "Kindergarten Cop meets Triple X" movie? Nuff said!

I really need to take a second to say thank you to all the people who read my blog! I have a rather small but loyal band of "regulars" here and it's nice to know that some of the weirdness that is me can actually be appealing! As a matter of fact, be it that my following IS rather small, I will take this opportunity to thank each person individually:

Charlie - Thanks for visiting!
Jen - Thanks for visiting!
Deanndra - Thanks for visiting!
Jennifer - Thanks for visiting!
Emily - Thanks for visiting!
Annie - Thanks for visiting!
Jimmy - Thanks for visiting!
Kyle - Thanks for visiting!

If your name isn't a hyperlink, then you need to start a blog or something!

And, if your name isn't on the list, then you need to start leaving comments or something cuz I'm not psychic people!

CHEERS!





- posted by The Outlaw @ 3:37:00 PM |