I'm going to have a nephew...

Here's a joke I heard today...

                      Question:  What did george bush get on his  SAT's?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                Answer:  BBQ sauce

 

 

Tif and I went over to her Sister's house and watched the game last night

  MIZZOU RAH!

  MIZZOU RAH!

TIGERS!

 

I am watching a documentary on PeTA

I am watching a documentary called "I am an Animal: Ingrid Newkirk".  It's an insider's view of PeTA as they plan illegal activities.  Ingrid Newkirk is a mentally unbalanced woman.  She is violent and dangerous.  PeTA conducts 'investigations' (which they have NO right to do).  They trespass on private property.  They vandalize private property.  They steal private property.  PeTA is an evil organization.  They demean the suffering of the people that died in the Holocaust.  They demean the suffering of the slaves.  They lie about what they do.  They provide support to domestic terrorist groups (ALF, etc).  No one should support PeTA, do not donate money to this shadow organization.  The major players of PeTA are glory hounds, who love to get their picture in the News first and foremost.  "PeTA by day, ALF by night" (I had never heard that before, and it rings of the truth to me).  PeTA lies about animal treatment in the Circus. PeTA is a horrible organization, and I will oppose what they do till the day that I die.  PeTA is against the ownership of pets, if they had their way no one could have a pet dog or a cat.  Indgrid Newkirk is a nutjob and should be stopped.  I cannot even keep a coherent stream of conscious I am so upset by what they do.  If PeTA told me that the sky was blue, I would assume they were lying...

 

 

                            DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~animal lover!

 

 

 

I look for beauty wherever I go

Right now I have THE CONCERT IN CENTRAL PARK playing on my TV.  Simon and Garfunkel's Reunion Concert from the 80's makes my heart glad.  I'm sitting here on my sofa looking over the top of my laptop at the Autumn sun shining thru the red leaves of the tree outside my apartment.  The wind is blowing and earlier I was sitting out on the balcony barefoot and it was really nice.  The other night my girlfriend was sitting next to me on the sofa and we were watching the TV and she 'quick as a bunny' leaned over and licked the cookie I was eating.  She laughed and laughed.  I look for beauty in everything I do.  Whether its the mischievous twinkle in my girlfriend's eyes.  The swaying cascade of colors in a tree decked out in it's fall colors.  Or the simple truth in the lyrics of a song that I love.  Beauty is everywhere, you only have to look...

 

                      I have a good life...

 

 

 

 

THE SHEEP MUST BE SHORN!

 

BENNY HINN, SILVIA BROWNE, KEVIN TRUDEAU, DAVID KORESH...

 

The list goes on and on.  Which is worse?  The person claiming secret knowledge preying on the gullible or the person that is so gullible that they look for someone to lie to them?  If David Koresh had never lived, the Branch Davidians would have found someone else to claim to be the Messiah.  If Kevin Trudeau hadn't written his books, people would have found someone else to give their money too.  If Silivia Browne never made claim one about talking to the dead, they would watch someone else on Montel Williams.  Benny Hinn knows people best...THE SHEEP MUST BE SHORN!  Think people, nothing is worse than willingly giving away your free will.  Nothing is sadder than someone who embraces ignorance.  Is the unknown that scary?  Is it better to believe a lie than to be uncertain?  Is it better to give your wives and children to David Koresh to have sex with and latter to burn to death than to live with not knowing?  It sickens me...

 

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PROUD ATHEIST!

 

 

Just got back from the STL Herp Show

DAVID<~~~~~~~First in line!

 

     The Herp Show was fun.  I picked up a feeder colony of Lateralis Roaches (Blatta Lateralis) and two Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches (to keep as pets).  I also snagged two stems of Sumrong tropical fruit pods to decorate my Asian Vivarium.  They are cool looking!  OK, my girlfriend is standing here waiting for me to finish so we can to eat some chili at her parent's house, time to chew!

 

                                            David<~~nerd

 

 

 

I'm looking for my buddy Paul

 

PABLO, WHERE ARE YOU?  TIM HAS MY PHONE NUMBER,

CALL ME!

 

 

AOL SUCKS IT BIG TIME!

for the record, I have my journal on AOL, that is the only reason that I stay with AOL, AOL is the most incompetent internet service that you can chose, AOL sucks, no one else should pay for AOL, if you can, cancel your subscription, I don't wish AOL to fail, because then I'd lose my journal, but I do hope that the upper management of AOL gets a rash, a really bad rash, that spreads to their face and that itches all the time so they cannot sleep and is contageous so that no one will want to be near them, then I hope worse things happen to them, they suck, their company sucks, I don't know how they live with themselves...

 

 

I'm back from Florida...

First I attended my National Store Manager's Meeting in Orlando, then my gf arrived and we spent a day and a half in Orlando, and finally we spent 4 nights at my Grandmother's house on Estero Island...

 

Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dave, and Tweedle Dum

 

David and Tif at SeaWorld (it was a blast)

 

Thought about taking up fishing...

 

I really had fun on my Vacation, the best part was showing my gf around SW Florida.  Thank you Tif for making my Vacation memorable!

It's that time of the year again!

OK, it's that time of the year again.  I leave for my National Meeting this Sunday.  Tom Brokaw is our main speaker.  I'll return with new ideas for my store and lots of free books and cd's.  I'm staying in Ft. Myers for a bit of a vacation afterwards with me girl.  I miss her she has been on vacation with her folks.  I get to spend another one of my Birthday's at a Meeting.  It happens more often than not because Sept is Hurricane season and those are the cheap Hotel rates in Florida.  ::shrugs::  My lot in life.  I'm watching "Kinky Boots", it's a great movie, everyone should watch it.  I'm sick.  I'm complaining.  I should go to bed.

 

 

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~squirting sore throat medicine into my mouth!

 

 

 

Good News, Bad News...

GOOD NEWS!

 

David<~~future Uncle!

(I'd like to introduce my Nephew...SPECK!)

 

 

BAD NEWS!

 

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~missing my sweetie

 

 

 

 

I lied

(the sound of cicadas makes me happy, it reminds me of Summers at Pap-pa's house)

OK, last one for tonight...

my hair is too long time for a flat top...

I guess I'm not done making new friends...

OK

Generally speaking, I don't like smokers.  I don't trush people that are dependent on something dangerous to feel normal.  I question their judgement.  I also don't like litterbugs, and as I have previousily stated...

All smokers are litterbugs!

I'm not trying to debate, I'm just stating a fact.  Any smoker that says they have never tossed a cigarette butt onto the ground is a liar.  ::shrugs::  Dirty habit.  Can you tell I pick up cigarette butts off of the sidewalk in front of my store?  Smokers also sit their lit cancer sticks on ledges and burn little reminders of their addiction into stone.  Smoking is gross. 

OK

I am done making general statements about other people.  And know what?  I don't need permission to tell the truth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                 (it's tiring being morally superior, I need an Asst to help me carry

                                                      the burden.  Anyone want to work while I'm on vacation?)

 

 

 

A day in the life...

My girlfriend leaves this Friday to go on vacation with her family.  David<~~sad.  My work is going very well.  I am leading my District in Comp Sales (current sales vs last year's sales).  I am in second place in Plan Sales (the amount of sales the Company wants you to make).  I believe I am now tied for second place in Secret Shops year to date.  My store looks great.  On the way home from work tonight I stopped at a gas station and bought a microwave burger.  Driving home I accidently squirted some onion relish out of the burger onto my shirt.  I pulled the spill up to my mouth and licked it right off.  My shirt now smells like onions.  I like the way it smells.  When my Grandfather was dying, his eardrum got perferated during an operation.  So he couldn't hear so good out of one ear.  When my relationship with Mary was falling apart, I called Pap-pa and tried to tell him about it.  I was very upset and had a hard time telling him.  He couldn't hear me over the phone and eventually I gave up because it was too hard to tell him.  A couple of months later when he heard it from relatives he turned to me and started crying and said to me.  "You tried to tell me."  He felt so bad, like it was his fault.  It makes me cry even now thinking about how much I miss Pap-pa.  I have popcorn kernels stuck in my teeth.  I bought Kettle Corn at the Air Show on Labor Day.  I was hoping to run into my buddy Pablo there.  I do not have his new phone number so I cannot call him.  I need to call his brother here in town and get his new number.  I don't have many friends, I keep people at arm's length.  No one can hurt you if you don't let them get close.  I am a rock.  I am an Island.  Polite applause.  Fade to black...

 

 

i'm hungry

AOL just ate a poem I was working on

AOL SUCKS!

I had a good weekend!

 

HOWDY FAITHFUL READERS, 

This weekend was a lot of fun.  On Saturday I took my girlfriend to MIZZOU to show her my old stomping grounds.  I don't think I could have picked a hotter day of the year to goose march her around Downtown Columbia Missouri.  On Sunday I attended a local Reptile Show and picked up a baby Solomon Island Eyelash Frog.  I named him "Santa".  His relative is pictured here. 

 

Santa is a pale translucent white, you can see some of his internal organs thru his skin.  I have him in a temporary plastic Vivarium untill I can fatten him up some, then he is going in with Mr. and Mrs. Walenda.  I decided to do an "Asian" Vivarium (Malaysia and the Solomon Islands).  The other Vivarium (to be purchased at a latter date), will be my "Madagascar" Vivarium.  My frog family continues to grow...

 

 

                                                       DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Herper

 

 

 

 

Mustard is a greedy little piggie...

My little Tomato Frog 'Mustard' is eating pinkie mice already.  The other day I dropped one in front of his little coconut hut and he struck at it so fast it scared me and I yelped.  Today I put two in front of him and he ate them both.  He used his front legs to stuff the last pinkie down his throat.  Two pinkies are almost too big for his stomach.  The good thing about frogs is that they will eat ANYTHING they can fit into their mouths.  He is growing so fast.  I saw two other Tomato Frogs from the same spawning as Mustard, and he is three times their size!  This Sunday I am attending a Herp Show and plan to pick up two Solomon Island Leaf Frogs.  My family is growing...

 

 

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Proud Frog Pappa

 

 

 

 

 

I found a website that sells cypress knees and another one that that makes custom vivariums that double as coffee tables.

 

 

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

 

 

 

I found an alternative

I ordered an Asian Leaf Frog from California that arrived dead.  It bothered me.  I really enjoy the quirkiness and challenge of owning Herps but I take the responsibility seriousily.  I do not know what killed my Leaf Frog.  The only thing I can control is whether or not I have them shipped to me.  Soooo...  I'm not ordering the Malaysian Leaf Frog from Houston that I found on the internet the other night...

 

               BUT!

 

I found a local breeder that has tadpoles of the Solomon Island Leaf Frog, very interesting YELLOW animals.  So I'm going to rethink my 'Malyasian' Vivarium to an 'Asian' Vivarium, and I'll probably switch my 'Madagascar' Vivarium to an 'African' Vivarium to boot...  At this very moment I'm watching "Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory", Gene Wilder is about to sing as they enter 'The Chocolate Room".  It's my favorite part, I like it, it reminds me of how I live my life...

 

 

                          "What is this Wonka, some kind of Funhouse?"  "Why, are you having fun?"

 

 

                                                    David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~a big kid at heart!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My second day off in a row!

I'm sitting here in an undershirt and my Koi boxer shorts on my leather sofa watching "Message in a Bottle".  On my right is my Tomato Frog "Mustard" and my Albino Chocoan Horned Frog "Mr. Grinch".  On my left are "Mr. and Mrs. Walenda" my two Flying Geckos in my Eco Terra Vivarium.  I have been putting my things where they go and my Apartment is looking much better.  Last night I found a website that sells Asian Horned Frogs and Tomato Frogs.  I have been working on my Imperial Guard Army List (the one based on the Royal Regiment of Wales) on my laptop all morning long, and I have a glass of McAlister's Sweet Tea to sip, it's a good day...

 

 

                                                                        David<~~~happy!

 

 

 

David<~~just found an importer of Asian Leaf Frogs!

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                                      David<~~~~~little bit excited (can you tell?)

 

 

(if you pull on the right margin of the box this journal entry sits in the red letter will line up vertically, David<~~nerd)