Today is my nephew’s birthday. I can’t believe this kid is now 10 years old. Double digits already? Damn. Time really flies after you hit 30. Anyway, here he is terrorizing some poor crab he caught in his net at Kailua beach in Hawaii. I know you can barely tell, but there is a crab in there.
Happy birthday, Matthew. Enjoy the Nintendo Wii! Even if it means you want to play it all hours of the night and drive your mom crazy. She will love that. 
-Dave Q.
I just found out that CBS is going to bring back Hawaii Five-0 in late 2009. Can you imagine that? A modern day version of the show would be awesome! There goes my imagination again. Beaches. Hula girls. Oh the potential…
One thing that can’t be argued is that Hawaii Five-0 had one of the coolest television intros in history. What made it so cool? The music. That theme song is simply the epitome of cool.
Hmmmmm. Makes me think about what my top ten TV intros of all-time would be? Perhaps I will address this intriguing issue on a later post.
-Dave Q.
So the 2008 Olympics got rolling this past weekend. And although most of the Olympic games aren’t worth scheduling time around, I admit to being psyched up about women’s beach volleyball. And anyone that knows me will tell you that watching Olympic women’s beach volleyball is a sure-fire way to get my Olympic juices flowing! That, or I have acid reflux. Not 100% sure. And since here in the states they will surely be televising each USA women’s match, I truly hope their opponents are hot. Because I really don’t think the American women, Misty May and Kerri Walsh, are all that attractive. In fact, let me go as far as to say that Misty May is kind of fugly. Maybe there is another USA women’s team? Anyone know? With cute girls, maybe? A team worth getting behind? Is it so hard to have a girls volleyball team that is competitive and hot?
Now here’s a volleyball player easy on the eyes. This is Tian Jia from the host country of China. The girl has nice form. Very nice form. 
Here’s something that shocks me. Cheerleaders? At a women’s beach volleyball game at the 2004 Athens Olympics? Makes me think of that ‘Beer Heaven‘ commercial. I mean, can it get any better than that? The athletes are already hot and dressed like cheerleaders, and then they bring our real cheerleaders?! Hell yes!
I, of course, will be hoping for U.S.A. gold medals all around. That is, except for one event. One American team full of millionaire thugs, a wife beater, a greedy jerk, and one rapist (that we know of). I’m talking about the USA men’s basketball team. Maybe in this regard I am anti-American, but I simply can’t pull for a team the has the likes of Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Jason Kidd, Carlos Boozer, etc.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m proud to see Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade, and a couple of other decent guys represent the USA, but the Dream Team gimmick has run it’s course. And I really don’t want to see a piece of crap like Kobe Bryant getting a gold medal. So… we’ll see what happens.
So Here’s hoping for a near USA sweep! And lots of beach volleyball. I hear Brazil might be a team worth watching…
-Dave Q.
God bless my parents. They have been going over to my house during the week while I am at work and going crazy with all the bathroom remodeling. If they weren’t involved in this, I would probably be paying a contractor thousands of dollars that I’d rather spend on something else. Needless to say, I am going to take them to a very nice dinner when we are done. A nice steak for my Dad, and since my Mom doesn’t eat meat, a nice, thick, juicy salad for her. Anyway, things are coming along pretty good. The master bathroom is 95% done now. The second bathroom is, I would say, about 65% done now. Hopefully they can both be done in about a week. That will be a huge accomplishment, since the bathrooms are definitely the most difficult part of this project. It would be nice to get that part out of the way.
So I’ve noticed Max and Murphy aren’t happy. Anyone that has been to my house knows that I have a decent size deck in my backyard. Usually the dogs hang out on the deck, lounging around during the day and barking at the moon at night. But since we started this home remodeling project, we set up the wet saw on the deck and have other various tools are scattered about there. Well, Max and Murph haven’t cared too much for that. They’ve abandoned hanging out on the deck and now hang out next to the tool shed. Whenever I look over there, I see them both giving me the glare. Believe it or not, I can feel the glare. Kind of creepy. Hang on, boys. We’re going through the home stretch! You can reclaim the deck soon.
-Dave Q.
There are times in life when you can do the right thing for your country. When the cries of those regular people getting screwed by the government on a daily basis can’t be tuned out anymore, you must act. And considering the two candidates we have to choose from, somebody has to step up to the plate. Because, quite frankly, they both suck.
I have been waiting for a third option. Hoping for another choice. And so far, zip. Well, my fellow Americans, someone has to step up to the plate. And I am that someone. Today, I am announcing my candidacy for President of the World United States. I mean, I don’t think I can do any worse than McCain and Obama.
Ever since the Primaries were settled, I have been telling people that I probably wouldn’t vote, since I have no confidence in either candidate. But I myself have always been pretty self-confident. So there you go. A candidate I can be confident about!
Since I am so confident I will win, I went ahead and offered my VP slot to Brian. He said no. Then I bought him a Dr. Pepper. VP position filled.
-Dave Q.
I have to thank my buddy Norm for this one…
So I have been kicking this around in my head. Check it out…
Roughly about a week ago I checked an email account that I haven’t used in a while. In it there were several “friend requests” from some friends of mine for one of those social networks. They had accumulated in there since I really don’t log into any of those sites much. So I logged in to approve those friends, who know doubt by now thought I was dissing them (one had been in there close to 2 months).
After I went in there and got that done, I started clicking around. And clicked around some more. And then a couple more clicks on various things. At that point I came across the profile of someone from my past. We’re talking, like, a decade ago. Six degrees of seperation. Seriously. Anyway, I briefly looked and saw what she had been up to, and gathered that she is married now with children and seems to be doing very well for herself. Great to see. And then I clicked on some other stuff, got distracted by something and that was it. Kind of forgot about it.
So today I started thinking about emailing her a harmless hello. And was about to do just that when I started having second thoughts. I mean, we didn’t hate each other when things ended, did we? Or at least I didn’t hate her. Hmmm… I honestly couldn’t tell you if things ended badly or not. I think we were cool, and just went our separate ways. But I’ve been wrong before. God knows I’ve been wrong before.
So in that regard, I definitely wouldn’t want to stir up any bad memories. And although there may have been some good memories, there were definitely some bad ones. But a harmless hello? Would it really be that bad? I really have nothing to gain by saying hello. I’d like to just to catch up. And she is a married woman and I would not want to disrespect anyone. But she is also an adult and I’m sure her husband wouldn’t care about a piddly email. I don’t know.
I’m definitely leaning towards not emailing her now. I haven’t really thought twice about it until another dork friend of mine wanted to get into my friend list today on that same website. Don’t worry, Albert. I’ll put you in there. So I’m thinking I will just leave it alone. Life has been just fine without communication with her. What do you think?
-Dave Q.
I have been an Atlanta Braves fan since they sucked beyond belief back in the ’80s. They were always on TBS and became my favorite team. And through all those losing seasons I watched as I learned the game, there was that familiar, witty, sarcastic commentary from Skip Caray that made it all easier to accept. Well, Mr. Caray passed away on Sunday in his sleep. I’m shocked and saddened by this. Not having Skip Caray around makes baseball that much less enjoyable. No doubt his Pop greeted him at the pearly gates.
The man was good at what he did. He knew his stuff and had many memorable great calls. But I will never forget this one. Quite possibly his greatest…
“The 2-1. Swung, line drive, left field! One run is in! Here comes Bream! Throw to the plate! He is … safe! Braves win! Braves win! Braves win! Braves win! Braves win!”
Rest in peace, Skip. You will be missed.
-Dave Q.
This Snickers ad featuring Mr. T. was recently pulled because some morons consider it ‘homophobic’. Please. Are you telling me that only gay people do speed walking? Give me a break.
Homophobic? Nope. Funny? Hell yes!
The ad was being aired in the U.K., but apparently someone in the USA got Snickers to stop airing it. Way to make real Americans proud, ass-clown.
-Dave Q.
