New Blog

I'm still working on the new blog, albeit slowly. I will start making posts tomorrow but the format of the blog will change once I figure out what it is that I want and how to make it happen. I am also going to port all of content from this blog over to the new one. Thanks for your patience...It will all be over soon.

Me Smash!


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Posting

I probably won't be posting for a few days...probably until sometime next week. This is so I can work on getting the new blog site set up. Here's the new url Me Smash!.


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Kids See the Craziest Things

Yesterday the 4 year old and I were driving past a cemetery and funeral home. We had a small conversation that went like this;

Gabe: Dad, is that a funeral home?
Me shocked as hell: Uh, yeah it is how'd you know?
Gabe: Well there's flowers on the grass and the grass is really green and their sign says, 'There are dead people here.'

That still makes me belly laugh.

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Got Domain?

I am a proud owner of a domain! Wanna guess what it is?


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Sound Track to Your Life Song 2

I've figured out what the second song on the Sound Track of My Life will be. It's a fantastic little number by The Killers called 'All These Things That I've Done'.

Here's what I have so far:
1. We Will Become Silhouettes - The Postal Service
2. All These Things That I've Done - The Killers

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Turn Out The Lights

We here at Me Smash! Industries would like to thank the good folks at Blog Spot.com for all of their gracious hospitality. Free blog space is nothing to take for granted. I greatly appreciate everything they have done for us. They stuck by when we were just a fledgling upstart blog. When our readership consisted of Me Smash! employees only. They were there during the few blog droughts of September '05. They guided us through the Blog Post Debacle of September 14, 2005. But all good things must come to an end. This is to make room for even better things. In the coming days or weeks, depending on how quickly my wife picks a domain, Me Smash! will be moving.

My wife and I have decided we kinda like this blog thing so we have decided to partner up with my good friends, Pat and Josh, at SliverNet Web Hosting and Design. I will let you know more as information comes available. When the time comes for the move I'll post a link here to the new Website.

YamFu

Yesterday

Warning Monologue:

Yesterday my employer paid me and others in my department to go to the Oregon Food Bank and volunteer our time. Most people sorted and counted beans and cans of food. I along with about 19 others volunteered to work in the community garden pulling weeds and turning soil. I have to tell ya that was one of the best paid work days I've had in a very, very long time. It wasn't the pulling weeds that made the day so good but the volunteering to help people in need that felt good. Being outside most of the day was a bonus.

It’s almost poetic. When I was growing up we were very pour. We always had a roof over our head, thanks to the diligence of my mother, but food was not always a luxury. Please don't miss interpret me. We never went hungry. My mother always saw to it we had something to eat. And sometimes that food came from the Oregon Food Bank. Sometime the local churches or neighbors would send us an anonymous food box. I do not consider my life including my child hood as being particularly rough. We had to deal with a reality the more financially stable families didn't. And we were not alone. There are more families than I can imagine that deal with equal or worse financial hardships than my family and I did. But we had people, like the Oregon Food Bank, there to help. I feel like my time spent volunteering yesterday was a very small thank you to them for helping me and my family claw our way out of poverty and find a better life. Today I feel damn good about it.

And I got paid a regular work day for it! w00t!

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Toilet Seat

A good friend of mine has got me into watching the Show Dead Like Me. The main character is killed by a falling toilet seat and thus is given the nick name Toilet Seat for her afterlife. This to me is damn funny. "Oh, hey Toilet Seat. How's it going?" Here's an imaginary conversation between Bob Loblaw and Toilet Seat.

Loblaw: The name's Bob, Bob Loblaw. I'm a lawyer.
Seat: Really...I wouldn't have guessed.
Loblaw: Say, what's your name?
Seat: George but people call me Toilet Seat.
Loblaw: People call you Toilet Seat?
Seat: It's better than Bob Blahblah.
Loblaw: Huh, wait...HEY!

Other crazy nick names I've encountered:
'Rabi' (This is for an Agnostic Person.)
'Porno George'
'Cheese'
'Mince Meat'
'Fatty'
'Turtle'
'Sloth'
'Knuckles Dakota' (One of my favorite.)
'Screaming Itch'
'Kimberly The Pink Power Ranger' (This was for a guy.)

Top two favorite thanks to Mr. Reid:
'Meat Box'
'Beef Brick'

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