Wrestling Holiday

Happy Wrestling Holiday to everyone! or should I say WRESTLE!!

We have a 2 day vacation at our school lined up with the state wrestling tournement. Most schools have off presidents day and the day after. Actually the kids get 2 days, and the teachers have a day of inservice (meetings). We had a snow day last week so the kids are here today and the teachers have to be here tomorrow for inservice.

I thought I would list some of the Wrestling Holiday traditions that you can celebrate with your family.

* Shake everyone's hand - you must also stoop forward in a athletic pose, and stare them down

* If you want to dress in holiday wear, slip into a singlet and pull on your headgear, and wrestling shoes. (for a proper fit, wear a jock)

* Put on your head-phones (usually, the music of Wrestling Holiday is metal or soemthing like Eye of the Tiger) and dance around, back and forth - you can also pace back and forth

* Smack your face (like George the animal steel), alternate cheeks many times - grunt if you want

* Slap your coworkers on the ass in apprectiation of a job well done

* Shadow wrestle

* Finally, find someone you care about and roll around on the floor with them - grab them (accidentally) in the crotch, bend their arms until they hurt, and pin them to the mat as they struggle and moan.

Have a merry Wrestling Holiday!!

Blog-ology and dead hookers

Blogs are like a support group for those who don't "need" support groups. If you write a story or a problem or an idea, it always seems that you get support from your readers. Unless your idea or problem is a dead hooker.


Speaking of dead hookers. I won a Dewalt combo kit from my local farm supply store. it is sweet. It has a 18volt hammer drill, a circular saw, a saws-all and a flashlight. Complete with 2 batteries and a charger. It all comes in this neat suitcase. I call it the dead hooker kit. It's what someone (I don't know who...Turf?) would use to get rid of dead hookers with. By the way, he has one too...coincidence?!

Dreamt - I know it's not a word...

I dreamt a dream of mass proportions last night. I hope it comes true. I also hope a dream is not like a wish, so I can tell you about it.

I dreamt about my buddy Nate in Bakersfield. He told me he was moving home - TWICE. I think that means it's true, if they tell you twice in a dream. I was so stoked in my dream. Only to wake up and find out I was dreaming. I can't remember what we were doing. (clean your minds gentleman - I know we definately were NOT on Brokeback Mt.)

So Nate, I believe this was a sign from the cosmos. It is time you moved back to the midwest somewhere. Preferably Iowa. Charles City is nice. We have clear channel station here. You can stay in my basement for as long as you need. ACtually we could pay you $125 a week and you could baby-sit for Addison. Wow, what an idea.

Fo tings....

To appease the Blogging God Meme, I am going to answer and pass along the four things list. My good buddy Stimpy over at Llama Herding 101 tagged me, so I thought I would oblige. I hope you all learn something about Robby.

Four jobs I’ve had:
1. High School Biology teacher
2. Nursery Manager at a garden center
3. Assistant Manager at a outdoor clothing & equipment store
4. DJ

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Big Trouble in Little China
2. Clerks
3. The Blues Brothers
4. Oceans Eleven

Four places I’ve lived:
1. Charles City, Iowa
2. Ames, Iowa
3. Loveland, Colorado
4. Nederland, Colorado (Golden Gate Canyon State Park)

Four TV shows I love:
1. Prison Break
2. Seinfeld
3. MXC
4. Sopranos

Four highly regarded and recommended TV shows I haven’t seen (much of):
1. Lost
2. 24
3. The Shield
4. Deadwood

Four places I’ve vacationed:
1. California
2. Walt Disney World
3. Boundary Waters
4. Colorado

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Bachelor Surprise
2. Tacos
3. Nachos
4. Beer

Four sites I visit daily:
1. Google News
2. The Scientist
3. Weather Underground
4. New Scientist

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Coaching at a track meet
2. RAGBRAI
3. With my wife and daughter
4. A Cyclone football game

Although I did tag some fellow readers. I have decided to remove their pressure of reciprecating and re-tagging. After much after thought, and in seeing Tommy's smooth dodge of the re-tag, I decided to follow suit.

Soooooo, anyone who reads this may copy and paste it onto their site, so we can all learn about you too.

Wint-Her Ah-limpics

So I have my kids at school doing a project on the olympics. One task is to find the mascot for this year. The mascots happen to be dumb as usual. If you ask me, Sam the Eagle from the Summer games in LA has been the only one that seems kinda cool.

Anyway, they were "borrowing" some images of them for their papers. I use the "educational use" clause quite often, as long as they are cited. So here is the image I saw on their paper as they were working on it:


Cute huh? It was supposed to be like this:


This is another I found:


I dismantled the situation, much to their pleasure - cause they didn't notice it until I asked them to find another picture. It doesn't help that they are named Neve and Gliz. That's right, Gliz...more like Jizz if you ask me. I didn't clue them into that fact.

Blogs are like farts.....

You can't force it, or you end up with shit.