Weekend

Here's a recap of the past weekend, nothing happened and I didn't do a darn thing. There is no gas in the van, so I couldn't drive, and before you say why didn't you drive your wife's car, well -- I can't drive a stick. I guess I could if my life depended on it, but my life was safe this past weekend. I told the wife that next weekend that I am going to go somewhere, I don't know where, even if it's just to sit on my sister's couch. I don't see how people can survive without a car. OK, getting back to the stick shift, the only other time we had one was when we were first married. Wifey had a 5-speed Storm and I would drive it to work when I was on second shift. That way when I drove home at midnite there was no one around to see the car jerk back and forth when I took off. She really loved that car, she called it her toy and of course back then my Beretta was still one sharp car. Now the Beretta sits at the side of the house with mold on it. I had a guy come look at it the other day and I told him he could have it for a hundred dollars, but I couldn't find the keys to it. I know for a fact it's worth $100 in parts. It's got an Alpine CD player and 4 new tires with about 50 miles on them. The engine on the other hand, well that's a different matter. There is also the fact that the driver's side window doesn't roll down but half way and the passenger window will not stay up by itself. Me and that car have come a long ways together though.

Friday

I can't believe I made it another week. I know for a fact that I could not have made it this week without some help. So here I am on Friday afternoon telling everyone that I am very thankful to the Lord for getting me through another week.

The boss has been sort of laid back today and hasn't really jumped on me for anything today. It has been very busy this afternoon at work though, for some reason everyone is having trouble with their printers. Some of the problems are legitimate and some are just operator error.

The wife is getting her hair done after work, so it's just me and the boys for supper. I'm getting ready to call them and ask if Taco Bell would be alright for supper because I really don't feel like cooking ANYTHING on Friday night. Wherever you are, you will be able to hear their collective YES!!!! My little angels could eat Taco Bell all 3 meals and 4 times on Sunday.

I better go now and do some surfing while it's quiet.

North Korea?

I almost forgot, -- we don't want North Korea to have nuclear weapons either. We have been mad at them ever since they shot down Colonel Blake back during the Korean Conflict. And don't get me started on the way the North Koreans messed up Hawkeye's mind and liver for that matter.

IRAN

OK, what gives the U.S. and Russia the right to tell Iran that they cannot have nuclear weapons? Don't get me wrong, I love being an American and I love living here, but I just started wondering after I saw the headline that couldn't the country of Iran come out and say they didn't want the U.S. or Russia to have nuclear weapons? To be honest with ya, if we are telling everyone else they shouldn't have these weapons, then we need to be getting out of the nuclear weapons business too. What do you think about that Jack??????

Late

Good Lord, it's almost 8:30, what am I doing up? I've got to get in the bed and pop in the M*A*S*H DVD. I'm thinking about watching some season 5 tonite. I believe the best seasons of mash were 1-5. When Frank Burns left, I guess a little part of us all went with him.

The Deal

OK, here's the deal, I'm thinking about getting back on the stuff again to see if it will improve my disposition and my attitude towards life. I had to give up the hard stuff when the doctor told me I was a diabetic, but it is so hard to resist sometimes. I just keep seeing the commercials and hearing it over and over in my head -- Do the Dew, Do the Dew. I am here to tell you right now that diet Mountain Dew is just not the same thing as the original. At one time in my life, I had to have anywhere from 6 to 12 a day. I know for a fact that on a Saturday or Sunday filled with football that I would put away a 12-pack easy. Now I sit around with diet drinks all the time, they may help me live longer, but do I want a life without the sweet sweet taste of Mountain Dew. Maybe when someone reads this they will have an intervention for me.

Speaking of interventions, I had 2 good friends take me to lunch today. Along the course of the conversation they told me that it was an intervention. They wanted me to start taking classes at UT. Since I work there, I can take classes for free and I would have a degree fairly quickly. I went to college right after high school, but started making minimum wage, living at home, so I had it made. I didn't need a degree, I had cash. Well, almost 20 years later I did go back to school and got an associates degree. I thought I had it made then. Now I'm thinking that I need more, I need the bachelors. It would probably get me out of the situation I am in at work. I mean, I don't have a career, I have a JOB that I hate to go to every day. Looking over this, -- maybe I'm the one who is never satisfied with anything. Is it all that wrong to want more?

Had to go put some laundry in the dryer. Trevor had come to me a few minutes ago and said he needed the jeans he was wearing washed for tomorrow. I said, why and he told me he had just spilled glue on them. He said he was using the glue for his homework. I told him to find some other pair to wear tomorrow. He said he really wanted to wear those tomorrow, so I jumped up and washed his sticky jeans. I only hope that the glue comes out, I told him there may be a spot or something where the glue was. He didn't care, that's one thing about Trevor, he doesn't care what he wears or what it looks like. He just turned 13, so his attitude about his appearance will probably change when a 13 year old girl smiles at him just the right way. You guys remember what that was like don't ya?

Pleading

Great!! Since my last post about PLEASE sending me emails or leaving comments, I have received a few. That's great, that's what I'm wanting. So first of all, no I am not 10 years old, though I sometimes act like it. The post was sort of a joke, because I knew of only 1 or 2 people who actually read this stuff. But keep the emails and comments coming. I need something to get me through my day here at good ole UT.

By the way, I had an epidural steroid injection in my back yesterday and will go back in 2 weeks to have another. You would think that the people you work with especially your boss would actually ask you how you were or how was it. Not at my job, but I'm used to it now. I know the only people I can even trust at work are very, very few.

Ashby, Etta May, and Jack, keep the emails and comments coming. I may even write something that people would like to talk about....

PLEASE !!!!!! TALK TO ME !!!!!!

Please, if you are reading this, send me an email. You don't have to leave a comment on this site, just send a quick email. There is a link on this page or it is tennesseedad@gmail.com. I am just a very lonely insecure person and I want some friends!

Emails

If you have been online for a while you may have noticed a little trend about your emails, -- the same ones keep coming around. I have noticed so many emails that I get, that I have already gotten many times before. Usually the date or a name is just replaced with something more recent. The latest one that I have received at least 10 times, is the one that says our congress pays no social security. I've gotten it so many times and it usually changes the Senators name. The senator in this email was Senator Byrd from West"By GOD"Virginia. It said that the good senator would receive $760,000 a year for the rest of his life and if he died before his wife that she would continue to receive the same amount. It also says that they have their own private little fund of taxpayer money that this comes from. I have some advice for people, -- investigate some of these emails that your friends want you to pass on. The best way is to go to snopes.com and read up on some of these emails. Snopes.com is an urban legend website that I can easily spend an afternoon on.
Go on, try it!!!!

Salaries

OK, I've already bashed Phil Fulmer for getting a $250,000 raise when I will get a 1% raise, now I think it's time to go after the basketball coach. UT has never been a big basketball program school. There were times when we could compete with anyone in the country, but those times are long gone. At the time of this post our B-Ball team is 10-12, this was the year we were going to the Big Dance. We lost in the first round of the NIT last year, to a very good George Mason team.

So I'm driving home from work and listening to sports radio and I hear them start to talk about our basketball coach, Buzz Peterson, then they mention that he makes $900,000 a year and that doesn't include monies he makes from basketball camps and shoe contracts. And the state still wants to give ME a 1% raise????

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day world. Benny here and thought I would jot down a few lines of things in my head right now. I took the wife out to lunch today, to Chili's, it was very good. We both had the big mouth burgers, Good God there goes the diet. After eating every last bite of the burger and all the fries, I can honestly say that I cannot eat for the rest of the week. I have to go and weigh-in for my diet group on Friday morning, so that gives me 4 days to quit eating like a pig. I was doing so well on the diet for the first 2 weeks and then I started backsliding, but that is going to change right now, right here.

I will join my friend Ashby on his extremely strange diet. It does sound very glamorous to me, so I'll give it a try. It will help when I appear on the Grammy awards show next year. I so look forward to hearing Star Jones tell me how marvelous I look after the weight loss. And I know of course that Melissa Rivers will try and put the moves on me like always. I don't really mind her, I actually find her very attractive, but like I always tell her, -- just don't speak!

The Academy Awards are coming up and maybe I should reconsider and go to them. I have the Valentino tux just waiting for me to look fabulous in. Don't get me wrong I love going to all the award shows and walking the red carpet, or last nights green carpet, but I hate all the after hours parties. I get invited to them all and I am just not that big of a drinker. I try to hold myself to only 2 of the parties so as to keep my image out there.

Better go for now, I have a future to plan for.

Star Wars

I just saw the new trailer for the new Star Wars movie and I am excited. It opens in only 3 months. Now don't get me wrong I'm not one of those people who dress like the characters or collect the action figures, but I am looking forward to the movie. Maybe I can get Ashby to camp out with me and we can be first in line?

Weight Update

Ok, I had to weigh-in this morning for the weight loss support group. I had lost only a half a pound. I guess that's what happens when you and your buddy go to the Indian buffet restaurant at least twice a week. That link is not all that great but it's the best I could find for Kashmir (my new favorite place to eat in K-town). I had never tried Indian food until about 6 months ago, and now, it's right up there with Chinese for me. I love Chinese food and all the family really enjoys it so we have it pretty regularly, but I have yet to talk the wife or the boys into giving Indian cuisine a try. I think if they would try a little chicken curry and some good nan, that they find it's something that they would enjoy. I know I do!

Raise??

Sure does seem strange to read the Knoxville newspaper on Tuesday and read about the govenor giving the state employees a 1% raise. Yes you read that right 1%. Then the very next day, we get to read about Phil Fulmer (who is also a state employee), getting a raise from 1.8 million dollars to 2.05 million dollars. GOOD GOD that is a $250,000 raise.

Wal-Mart

I have read so many articles and blogs about people complaining about Wal-Mart stores taking over all the business of the little so called,"mom and pop" stores. I can sympathize with these people and all the business owners who have been put out of business by the Big Boy, but I am poor. Poor people will continue to shop at Wal-Mart because of nothing more than lower prices. I don't care if a 6-year old in China made the shirt I am wearing, as long as the shirt is cheap enough for me to buy it. If I was a rich man, maybe my feelings would be different. Did you know that you can even buy Levis at Wal-Mart? Now I see where Wal-Mart is getting into the internet service providing. Remember how great that turned out for K-Mart and its 'blue light' service. You have all the NetZero commercials advertising the $9.95 internet service price, so what does Wal-Mart do? Well of course they charge $9.94, they always have to have the smiley face guy come in and cut the lowest price of the competitor.

You've probably noticed that I have a lot of links in this post,(well a lot for me). I just wanted to let everyone know that I can do that too, but I also have a mind so most of the time I just use it and forget about linking any funny or amusing article that we will all hear about eventually.

Hugs

I just got an email stating that I had just been hugged. It was some kind of hug-a-gram email that you send to all your friends, then they will have been hugged by you. I get soooo many of these kinds of emails, telling me to forward it to at least 10 people and I will have good fortune or my wish will come true. I gave up after falling for this the first 100 times. My damn wish never did come true, I have yet to win that damn powerball.

Britney

Ok, I just saw Britney Spears' mom walking down the hall. I guess it's not really her mom, but there is a woman in the building I work in that wears plaid skirts almost EVERY day. She has to be close to 40, but chooses to dress in the school girl outfit. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't bother me, but you would think that someone she works with would say something to her. The usual attire is a white polo shirt with a different plaid skirt day after day. One day I get in the same elevator as her and I look down and this woman has no shoes on. She is an office worker, she may even be a professor, like I said it doesn't really bother me, I guess it's something I just wanted everyone to know. Hit me baby one more time.