You know sometimes things just get wierd in life. Those unexpected things that just come out of left field and change the whole day, week or in some instances your  life! And whats even more strange is when several of those things happen in a short period of time. I think it has something to do with getting older and liking life to be a little less up and down a nice low key routine, after all you’ve have plenty of crazy up’s and downs by the time you get to my age, but like we all know life is what it is and it’s also what you make of it.We in the past few weeks I’ve had a relationship end, re-connected with some old friends, even went back and apologized for things I’d done in the past to a certain person, delt with some issues regarding work, been contacted by my X who still seems to enjoy aggravting me and make things difficult for me and my daughter, left a fast food place, and they didn’t give me the right order or my drink, went to the grocery store 3 times just for one thing and forgot that thing each time, Got a great check up from my doctor and then a week later start having hip and back problems. Hosted a bikini contest, but also got so soaked I had to ruin a good pair of shoes just to get to my truck, got to have a wonderful conversation with my Mom and Dad, my sister in England, Had our apartment complex close our pool for the whole month of August the hottest month of the year to replace the decrative tiles around the top edge of the pool while we all sit at home sweating our asses off. Realized after being charged $100 more on my cell phone bill that I had the wrong txt package and have been screwing myself for months, and get this…  I recieved a Box full of Christmas presents that had been mis-placed at the the office since December! Oh and also had this odd issue of everytime I watched the NFL network there was a buzzing sound in the back ground and the audio was several seconds behind the video, Had my alarm clock just quit on me, killed yet another spider in my apartment the size of my big toe,had somebody hack on to my facebook page. and man it’s only Thursday. I’m not really sure what my point is, other than, life really is a amazing string of strange, odd, tragic,funny,scary, happy,sad,pathetic,and beautiful things. And  It really does come down to how we deal with it. Me, well I’d still just like to get up, go to work, come home, watch TV, then get a full nights sleep and see what that felt like! Guess it does sound kind of boring.

Well just when we thought the Brett Favre saga seemd to be coming to a close, bam he’s back again. Everyone knows the story about the three team mates flying down to Mississippi to get a real answer from  there reclusive quarterback, and how after the meeting he decided to come back to the Vikings, but will we ever really know all the details of how all this drama really played out. So many people feel like Favre has been acting like a Diva these past few years with all the flip flopping and strange goings on that have become legendary throughout this strange tale. There are many who also say that it was about nothing more than money and wanting to avoid training camp for as long as he could. But for me I still see something more to all of this. I really do believe Favre has always wanted to play, but I think the ankle issue was for real. I think he just didn’t think he could be at his best at this point in time and was really going to hang the helmet up for good. I also believe that he is not as selfish a guy as people want to project him as. I think the guy really loves the game, love his team mates and truly enjoys the comaraderie of being part of a team. A close nit bunch of guys who go through all the up’s and downs and hard work to reach a common goal. I do think that the three guys who went to meet with him really did change his mind because of those reasons i just mentioned. Brett Favre strikes me as a guy who just loves being apart of a team and the whole routine of playing pro football and also really is a guy  who wants to do his part and not let his team mates down. I don’t think he is as selfish as people are saying I really think the guy feels like taking the risk and maybe reeping the rewards of  hard work and sacrifice. Look I don’t mean to say he doesn’t want to do well, be the best, and win  another super bowl, but how can he be anymore selfish than the rest of the people in the Vikings organization. From the Owner to the trainers  this whole team wants to win the Super Bowl and they would all do just about anything to do that! And I think Favre is actually proving himself to be the opposite of selfish. I mean he along with many other players are taking big risks everytime that step on the field to play and just like many of his team mates they all make the sacrifice of playing with injuries and pain just to help the TEAM reach it’s goal! So I don’t see how other than all the media hype and over analizing of this whole issue he is any different than any other player. I respected his decision to not play, and I respect his choice  to play too. It was up to him and I’m glad he’s back. Sure he could get hurt in the first game, and heck he could have a terrible year and the Vikings could lose several other players and not even make the playoffs, but all Favre is doing is what every other player has to do ever year, nothing ventured nothing gained and to keep going and fighting till your body and mind just can’t go anymore. Ands just what he’s about to do. So Good luck to him, but I hope if they do make the super bowl they play my San Diego Chargers and we send him off into the sunset with a loss!

Man can you believe how hot it’s been? I mean July was pretty rough but August seems to be even hotter. I eman well August is the hottest month of the year in this country. Coast to coast everyone is feeling the heat. August the month where we see temp’s creeping towards records, things melting out side people walking around drenched in sweat, all of us searching for someplace to cool down. I nice cold soda, or sweet tea, and of course we all head for the lakes rivers or the pool. Ah yes the pool, some of you probably have on in your yard or your neighborhood, or have a friend who lets you use there’s. Or maybe your like me and live in an apartment complex where you have a nice pool to cool off in in the afternoon after a long day in the August sun. Yup just like me you probably love hanging around that pool on a hot August weekend, jumping in to cool down every few minutes and having fun with your friends. Well There is one big difference between you and your complex pool and mine. See the people at my apartment complex  decided they wanted to replace the old tiles the run around the top edge of the pool, they want to pool to look better and of course we all do too, however THEY DECIDED TO DO THIS WORK IN AUGUST! YES THEY CLOSED OUR POOL FOR THE THE ENTIRE MONTH. THE HOTTEST DAMN MONTH OF THE YEAR. The didn’t even tell the residents they were doing it til after they started it. They are offer no rent break for the month and to top it all off have no real reason to have to do the work now. It’s not safety related, it’s just cosmetic work for god sakes! Oh sure they said they will keep the pool open later into September, thats so nice of them. Closing a residents pool in the Hottest month of the year has got to be one of the most stupid, brainless, rudeand flat out Dumbest things I’ve ever heard of.  The only thing more idiotic would be to open the pool during Christmas, wait i better not give them any ideas here!Note to Apartment manager: it’s not very smart to give a residnet a good reason to move out, not these days.

Is it real this time? the Question has still not been answered %100 at this moment. Is Brett Favre really hanging up his helmet? Well he’s txtd all his team mates, but hasn’t told his coach yet. Is that a %100 Answer? We hear that the ankle that was injured and balck and blue after the Saints game that was then sugerically repaired is not responding the way Brett had hoped it would, well if thats the case then why come back? I mean he’s done it all, he owns almost all the passing records, he’s won a super bowl, he proved last year he can still bring the magic to the football field, he’s got nothing more to prove to himself , the fans, or anyone. I say stay home old man, you earned it. I’ve never seen a player just literally make you like him, not matter what. I used to be so down on him for all the Diva like things he’d do but now I see he earned the right to be that way. He was the most entertaining player I’ve ever got to watch and I thank Brett for all those great games and for never losing his boyish enthusiasm for the game. S o hats off  to you Brett take it easy and enjoy the rest of your life. Thanks to NFL Network we’ll enjoy just watching your greatest moments on the TV for ever and ever.  The game will miss you!

     You know some of us get lucky enough in life to be able to have a job that also is our passion. The kind of job you can enjoy and make a good living at all at the same time. I am one of those people, I get to do something I always wanted to do and would do it for free but am damn glad I’m making a living do it !

        Well I found another guy who seems to have found the same bablance in life, and then some, some would say. He’s a critic for a local newspaper in Colorado. And here’s where it gets even better, he get to critic one of his favorite pastimes and get paid to do it as often as he wantsor I guess I really should say as much as he NEEDS. See this young man samples and writes reviews on medical marijuana for the locla newspaper. He is the first of his kind in the country and you can bet he’s enjoying his work every single day. Now I do need to clarify things here and mention that this guy does suffer from chronic stomach pain and is legally allowed to used medical grade marijuana for treatment of this problem. So lets make it clear here that he is legal to use the stuff. But with so many MM shops open in the Denver area and throughout the state of Colorado and with all the different types of weed out on the market, it just seems to make sense that there was someone out there who could help these paitent/clients decide what type of weed is for them. It’s at this point in the blog where I can understand the 2 different reactions coming from you all out there, the opened minded/liberal, self styled enlightened thinkers out there saying “well this all sounds like a very good thing” while the more conservative oldschool/traditional thought would be “YA RIGHT! Who’s this guy fooling?” I think this whole issue is symbolic of just how far we’ve come as a country and yet how backwards we still seem to be at the gut level. I admit to be very skeptical when I first read this story, I mean I spent a great deal of my youth and adulthoodb  in the marijuana culture, I know what a stoner is and what they are all about lifestyle wise,and believe methey’d all be lining up for the kind of job this guy has. But thats what I mean about looking at marijuana through a outdated prizum. To me it’s clear that there are enough people in the medical community who believe in the benefiits of medical grade marijuana, so why can’t the whole country come to grips with the idea of making available for those people anywhere in the country who might get real medical help for there aliments? Why just Colorado and California? Can only those people feel better using it and if you use it in Indiana you dont’t feel it? What is it? Ithink it’s the fact that there still is so much misinformation or lingering “Reefer Madness” that permiates American society that we have been unable to move past the idea that there just might be something actually benefical from using marijuana at the medical level. I’m not going to sit here today and scream for the total legalization of pot, but I do think it’s time that the federal government and the National medical community come together and finally decide whether the citizens of the country as a whole could be benefiting from medical marijuana. I know we have to deal with the pharmacudical companies to, but if the decision is that it’s good, then of course they’ll get there big piec of the action. It’s just a question this story broguth to my head and please watch the attached story and tell me what you think.http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/07/28/n_pot_weed_marijuana_critic.cnnmoney/?hpt=C2

So as I woke up and went out side the other morning, there was a familiar smell in the air, something in that morning breeze that made me want to lay out a bunch of food in the living room, pour myself a giant Diet Coke and get ready to gel in my favorite chair. That smell was FOOTBALL! Who’d ever thought we football fans would get so excited in JULY!!! But these days it seems football comes earlier and earlier every year. Especially the NFL. I think one major reason is television. Between NFL live on ESPN every weekday all winter and spring and of course the NFL network 24 hour football 365, well the season never really seems that far away. These outlet feed your craving through the off season so well that you just feel like it never really ends they just take a short break! And thats really another factor, the camps seem to come a day or two earlier each few years and when we get coverage of mini camps etc it seems the players are there all year round now just tuning up for the next season.  Predictions? I think it’s still a tad early for that but I guess I have one I can throw out. Terrell Oewns will not be in any teams training camp and will not get signed til some team finds themselves in a desperate situation either going into or at the beginning of the regular season. It’s to bad he never saw what he was doing all those years earlier but here he is with a chance to cement his place in pro football history and no team wants to bring him and his reputaion to poison there teams chemisrty. I guess even though the league keeps becoming more and more a stars game, it’s still not to far off the team comcept to realize that a player  with a attitude like Owens isn’t worth the trouble. Anyway lets get it going Blue ….18…set….

Sometimes I do something really stupid and say after  ”what the hell was I doing?” I guess we all have those feelings now and then, and no matter what, life will bring things your way that you either handle correctly or mess up. Sometimes those things are good, sometimes they are bad, you never know which is coming each day but you can bet it’s either one or the other. Some people will say life is what you make it, and I guess I can agree with that. It just sucks when you  make your life so much harder than it needs to be and you make mistakes that can cost so much. But again the answer seems to be, “learn from your mistakes” and even though I can understand that idea and try to do that in my life,  it still doesn’t change the fact that that mistake you made can never be fixed. All you can do is take the responsibility and deal with the consiquences of that mistake. Yes there are always reasons for that mistake and often one reaches for excuses, but eventually you must face the fact you have done what you done and thats that!. For good or for bad it cuts the same way. You do it, and it’s your fault. And you are then forced to move forward with your mistakes stuffed in to a ever growing bag of stupids that seems to get heavier as time moves on. It’s funny how those things seem to weigh on you so much and burdon your life so negativly, and all the positives in your good bag, never seem to effect your life with the same power but for the positive. You are then faced with the one true fact of life you have to be the one to turn things around in your life. You must dedicate yourself to doing things the right way, but know that you will make more mistakes and instead letting that thought haunt your life or keep you in a negative place, learn to fight through the bad and have faith things will get better. In other words one must stop being a screw up and start being good to ones slef and the others in his or hers life, that way the good will begin to out weigh the bad, hopefully before you die!

      I just needed to share these thoughts out loud with you all. It was something I needed to write, read and learn from

Just some random thoughts for you as I try to stay cool in the unbelievable heat. When it’s this hot in early July it makes me wonder how nasty August could be!

     How about all this free agent stuff in the NBA. I haven’t been a fan of the NBA the past10-12 years as the game began to drift back into a individual game and lost it’s team style luster. Watching Labron James, Dywane Wade, and Chris Bosch literly hold the league hostage till they decide where to go play and the amount of money that is being talked about for each player I wonder how the league can survive with so many “havenot” teams that can’t compete with revenues less than the big teams it just looks like there is going to be big problems ahead for the league.

       Here’s something I wanted to run by you guys too. Do you think it’s appropriate for the following to happen: A woman who was divorced then re-marries and has joint custody of her daughter with her X husband, who is the daughters FATHER/DAD, tells her daughter without talking to the daguthers REAL father to call her new stepfather “DAD”? I find myself in this postion right now and my personal feelings are one of  anger, sadness and totally insulted am I over reacting here? Please share your opinion with me, it would help alot!

      World cup Sunday Netherlands vs Spain, will you be watching, who are you picking? I’;; take whoever the German Octypus chooses! That damn thing has picked every winner in the cup….EVERYONE! He should be in Vegas ,not in a tank in Munich!

Well just finished taking the most days off in a row that I’ve ever taken in my career and yes it was nice to have that much time to rest and re-charge, but boy it was hard being away from the station. I started to get a little jumpy after 4-5 days feeling like I was in exile! I love my job and the people I work with, enjoy interacting with you the listeners and friends all afternoon everyday! So I damn glad to be back behind the mic and so happy and fortunate I have a job I love and miss when not there, I’m one lucky dude for that.

      Enjoyed the World Cup soccer action this year. I’ve been an up and down soccer fan most of my life, but these days with all the international flavor in my family, there was plenty to cheer about. I have a Brother in law and a sister who live in Liverpool England,I have another Brother in Law who’s from Brazil, and My Great Great Grand father and the recently discovered, long time connection for our Family to South Korea through his work there for over 40 years gave me 3 other teams to cheer for besides the USA, the drag is on Brazil was left at the time I wrote this Blog and I think they were losing today last I checked. Anyway I was suprised how I was so excited to get up in the morning to watch various matches, It kind of had that Olympic feel to it.

      Just celebrated my Daughters 7th Birthday a few days a go. She still is the apple of my eye and I’m so very proud to be a Dad and to see her growing up to be a very special young lady. I just hate watching it all from 1000 miles away!

Hey everyone have a safe and relaxing 4th of July weekend, and Hope to catch you all out around the pool, or the grill or the fireworks over the weekend.

Another fathers day a long way from my little one. Boy it just doesn’t get any easier. I thought time would help me learn to deal with these feelings of seperation and missing so much of my daughters day to day life. And I hear her voice yesterday and she sounded older, more grown up and it just hit me like a ton of bricks, man I miss her so much. I wouldn’t trade having my daughter for anything in the world, she means everything to me. But it’s so tough to have her grow up so far away from me. The sense of being ripped off still lingers for me. I only want whats best for my daughter and I just don’t agree with the idea that me being a thousand miles from her is a “good thing”.

Anyway I hope you fathers out there got to spend time with your kids yesterday and took a moment to reflect on how proud you are to be a dad and have those special moments one on one with them. And for my fellow fathers out there who didn’t get to see there kid’s yesterday. Lets us just remember we don’t have it nearly as tough as those men serving around the world in our armed forces doing there duty for this country under circumstances we can’t even imagine!