It's a beautiful day today...

I have the door on my balcony open because it's so nice outside today. I hope we do well at the store today, the rest of this week and next week ends our Fiscal Year. We are trying hard to hit some serious goals for the store. I close tonight, and I hope I'm busy as heck tonight. My people are doing a great job and I'm very proud of them. I ate at Arby's for lunch today. One word: Potato Cakes...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~hanging in there!

I like COPS!

I like to watch COPS. Criminals are stupid. Stupid people are funny to watch. My favorite part is when the Canine Police say 'Come out or I will send in the dog'. The Criminals never come out. Stupid people hollar a lot when they are getting bit by a dog. Funny stuff...


BAD BOY BAD BOY, WHATCHA GONNA DO? WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN THE DOG STARTS TO CHEW...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Laughing at Stupid Criminals!

In review...

AOL is incompetent...

I will never spend any money at DOBBS Tires ever again, their guarantees are worthless...

No one should ever buy a car from BOMMARITO, they run the
Spot Delivery Scam and I hope they go out of business...


DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~still fed up with lousy sevice and liars!

My conquest of the world continues...

I got two new readers, one from New Zealand and one from South Africa. Looks like the World Tour will continue into 2009...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~cutting the GORDIAN KNOT!

We have a NEW President!

When I push the "Publish Post" button at the bottom of this 'Create Posting' box on my journal we will have a NEW President of the United States of America. I am very proud of America and my fondest wish is for the success and well-being of all Americans. I hope that my NEW President Barack H. Obama will govern from the middle and ignore the extremists from both parties and make America Great Again. I am tired of the hatred and pettiness of politics and I want to see big things from my NEW President. There will be detractors. People that cannot except what the Voters in America decided. And that is OK. America is for Americans, people do not have to agree with each other to live together and work together for the common good. Good Luck Mr. President, you will need it...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Proud to be an American!

Here is a recipe emailed to me from a fellow chatter in BA...

i usually use picnic pork cut into strips u can use medallions if u wish and i quadruple the recipe so it will coat more and adding pressed garlic is fabbbbbulous


oil in elect skillet
pork strips
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp dried thyme leaves ( or italian seasoning or oregano )
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp cloves

pressed garlic cloves

this amount is best for just two ppl and very small amt of pork but for a whole roast u need to quadruple

this does not cook for long on elec skillet at 350 it only takes less than ten mins u want to keep it tender it d be golden on outside but tender inside but if strips are thick cook longer

hope u enjoy this as much as my family and friends have


(Thank You BlovdDreamer)

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~HUNGRY!

KHAN IS DEAD...

Ricardo Maltaban has died. I used to watch The Love Boat every week. We'd quit playing in the yard to plop down in front of the TV to see the show. The Wrath Of Khan was the BEST Star Trek Movie, mainly due to Ricardo Maltaban's portrayal of KHAN. He made that movie. Very sad day...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~part-time Trekkie!

I almost forgot...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I got a new International hit on my Journal...

I just noticed that someone in the UK visited my journal. I seem to be very popular on the International stage. Man I hope they all don't try to elect me to be the Head of NATO or anything, I don't need the extra pressure...


DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~if elected I will NOT serve!

I'm BAAAAAACK!

Hello Faithful Readers,

I returned from my Vacation in Ft. Myers Beach late last night to cold and ice in Missouri. I just sat down after warming up the GF's car for her (she has to brave the closed entrance ramps and the icy stretches of Highway here in St. Louis this morning). I have to pop into my store to sit in on a Conference Call with my Boss and then I'm off to pick up my D O G from Tif's Sister (she was kind enough to watch SNOOKY while I was off galavanting around in Florida). Tif and I had a great time on Vacation. We visited with my Family (especially my new Nephew Conner!). We got to walk on the Beach, pick up Sand Dollars and other pretty treasures. We visited the Edison/Ford Winter Estates. We shopped. We visited Cayo Costa and Cabbage Key. Ate out quite a bit (how is that different from our normal schedule?), and had LOADS of fun in Florida. I have taken lots of pictures and they will be on the Webshots Album shortly. Until then this one will have to do...

DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(did you miss me?)

Just so you know I'm not a TOTAL Football ignoramus...

MIZZOU beat Northwestern 30-23 in the Alamo Bowl in overtime last night...

(this is Tif sitting in the stands when she bought me tickets to see MIZZOU play K-State, we were a bit eager and arrived early, she's a good girlfriend!)


DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PARTIAL Football ignoramus!

Echidna approved...

My journal got a hit from Australia. How fun is that? I like to think it was instigated by a 'outdoorsy' type that took their wireless laptop out into the bush and was banging around on-line. Then they smelled smoke and noticed a nearby wildfire and had to run back to their vehicle to escape the flames leaving their laptop open and running on a rock. Along comes an echidna fleeing the approaching fire. It runs across the keypad of the laptop in just the right combination to call up my Journal and log a hit from Australia. The echidna pauses for a bit to marvel at the colorful layout on the computer screen before it continues it's flight from the approaching brush fire. Wow that's impressive, my journal is being read by an illiterate nocturnal toothless egg-laying spiny anteater. That's got to be a first...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~HUGE following from the order Monotremata!

I'm watching SuperBad, I'm supposed to be packing for my Vacation tomorrow. This is a picture of a faerie that I drew on my first laptop using PAINT. I went to Arby's and got some dinner. Lots of potato cakes. 3 packages. I'm a potato cakes kind of a guy. Potato cakes are good, I'm pretty sure if that if Hamas had potato cakes, Israel would not bomb them. That is because potato cakes rule the world. They are the secret rulers of the world. There are handshakes you have to learn in order to eat potato cakes. Secret handshakes. I have to take Snooky over to Tif's sister's house. She is going to watch the D O G while I'm in Florida. I'm going to miss my dog. But I can buy potato cakes while I'm on vacation in Florida. They do have Arby's in Florida don't they? I hope so. Otherwise Israel might bomb Florida. Potato cakes for world peace. Tonight MIZZOU is playing in a Bowl Game. I have NO CLUE who they are playing or the name of the Bowl Game. I bet they sell potato cakes at the concession stands. That is because potato cakes rule the world...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~McLovin Potato Cakes!

We fly tomorrow...

I have a lot to do before the GF and I fly to Florida tomorrow. Cleaning, laundry, packing, dog sitting preperation, Christmas Tree removal...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BUSY BOY!

David cracks a funny...

THE SCENE: The backroom of a Bookstore somewhere in St. Louis

(from the background of various comments being made around a breakroom table this is heard)


BOOKSELLER, "My mother said I was the prettiest girl in school"

SARCASTIC STORE MANAGER, "Were you home schooled?"


(the sound of laughing, snorting and high five's from the around the breakroom table, and they retell the joke over and over again as Booksellers wander by)



[and for the record the Bookseller is a nice pretty girl who thought the joke was hilarious]






DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sarcastic Store Manager!

One of my favorite Christmas songs...

FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK
by The Pogues

It was christmas eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me,
wont see another one
And then he sang a song
To rare old mountain dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
Ive got a feeling
This years for me and you
So Happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When I first took your hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway's waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas Day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead
on a drip in that bed
You scumbag,
you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing Galaway Bay
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas Day

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with me own
Cant we get on alone
I've built my dreams around you


(it sounds a bit rough, but to hear the Pogues sing it, will bring a tear to your eye, and I changed some of the lyrics to the way I hear them sing it, the official lyrics seem to contradict me...)

DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Rambling Boy of Pleasure! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43KhJZhWbKI&feature=related

(Fiesta is tacked on at the end...BONUS!)

OK, how cool is this?

I added a 'Gadget' that keeps track of where the visitors to my Journal are from! I just got visited by someone from The Netherlands and from China! How cool is that?


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PRIME TIME BABY!

I went by the last KB Toys store in St. Louis last night

Tif was watching her neice last night and after work we took her to the Mills Mall to look at the last KB Toy Store in the STL area. As District Manager I opened this store and it is the last store of my old District to remain open. It is in full Closeout mode and all the toys are currently 40% off. I was worried that I would be upset to see another of my old stores going under but it was ok. Sad but this is part of life. Makes me want to work harder to make sure MY current store is doing well and the people that work there continue to have a job. I work with a good group of people, educated, nice, friendly folks. I work hard to make sure it stays that way. At my store we take care of our Customers and achieve the Company Goals. That is the only employment insurance I can give to my co-workers, and it will have to do.

DAVID<~~~~~~~~~PROUD TO HAVE WORKED AT KB TOYS!

(and prouder still of what we accomplish at my current store ::wink::)

'BURP!' ::scratches butt::

It's 12:51am and I'm watchig Mad Max

I just finished eating my Microwave Hamburger (::shrugs:: I'm a health nut), and I found MAD MAX on Cable. So now I'm going to watch this movie and fall asleep on the couch. I have already set my alarm for 5am for work in the morning. All in all I have a good life. Nite~


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~HAPPY!

A typical conversation between myself and my dog SNOOKY...

::Whistles::

(Snooky runs towards me and sits as close as she can)

"Snooky!"

(Snooky jumps up onto the sofa on my left side and sits next to me facing away, looking at me over her shoulder desperatly waiting for me to say the word 'treat')

"Are you a good girl?"

(Snooky looks at me with her ears down)

"Good girl?"

(Snooky leans close to smell my breath to find out what I've been eating)

"Are you a good Witch or are you a bad Witch?"

(Snooky spins in a circle and gets excited)

"Are you a good Witch or a bad Witch?"

(Snooky leaps off the sofa and runs towards her rope chewie toy)

"Get it get it get it"

(Snooky vigorously shakes her rope chewie toy)

"Bring it here!"

(Snooky runs over to me without her rope chewie toy and jumps on the sofa)

'Where is it? Where's the toy?"

(Snooky never slows and leaps down off the sofa, runs back to her rope chewie toy and shakes it some more)

"Do you want a treat?"

(Snooky leaps up onto the sofa and thumps me on the chest with her front paws enough to hurt)

"Treat?"

(Snooky tries to run up my chest)

"I don't understand you Snooky, what are you trying to say?"

(Snooky drapes herself across my chest and tries to lick my face)

"I don't understand DOG, I wish you could speak English"

(Snooky runs across my lap stomping on all the wrong places and sprints to the kitchen to look at her Doggie Treat jar)

"I don't know what you are trying to tell me!"

(Snooky runs back into the room and thumps the ground in front of me with both of her front paws)

"What do you want?"

(Snooky thumps the ground with both of her front paws)

"Do you want a treat?"

(Snooky runs in a circle around the coffee table, jumps up on the sofa, back down again and makes a 'harumph' sound and thumps the ground with both of her front paws)

"Treat?"

(thumps)

"Treat?"

(thumps)

"OK, lets get you a treat..."

(Snooky beats me into the Kitchen and spins in circles underneath the Doggie Treat jar)

"Is this it? Is this your treat?"

(thumps)

"Here!"

(Snooky chases the treat I have tossed into the hall, scoops it up on a run and takes it to the living room in front of the TV, lays down, holds the treat down with her front paws and chews off a piece)

"Who's a good girl?"

(Snooky ignores me and eats her treat)

"Who's a good girl?"

(Snooky looks sideways at me as she scarfs down her treat)

"Good girl!"

(Snooky finishs her treat and runs towards me and sits as close to me as she can)

"Are you a good girl?"



and so it goes...




David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~needs to buy more Doggie Treats!

I ALWAYS LIE...

How I spent my day off...

This is me working on my Christmas Cards while visiting the Missouri Botanical Gardens on Sunday 12/14/08. Thoughtful pose...

Tif and I spent the afternoon at The Missouri Botanical Gardens. They had their Christmas Train Display set up, and any excuse to take pictures of toy trians is good for me (editor's note: As I type this my Gecko is walking across the front of her glass Vivarium, she's taking her evening stroll). I've uploaded a few pics I took to my Journal. The remaining pics (and that is substantial) I have loaded to my Webshots site. The link is at the bottom of this entry. I just finished watching "Liza with a 'Z', it's her TV Special from 1972, that lady can sing! I'm now watching 'CHICAGO', the musical with Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and suprisingly Richard Gere. My dog SNOOKY is sitting next to me on the sofa. She is also watching TV. She is always 1 second away from wanting to play tug with her rope toy. Life is a Cabaret old chum, come to the Cabaret! I love musicals... http://community.webshots.com/user/davidasinstl

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~can't sing but CAN DANCE!

I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me who this is...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NERD!