My new ADAM ANT CD arrived today, the good news just goes on and on and on...

OK, here is what it is like being me...I'm listening to my New ADAM ANT CD, I have the muted Fenton Board of Aldermen Meeting playing on the TV, I'm eating delivered Chinese food and I'm reading news articles on the Internet about the Mother of the Octuplets...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~Renaissance Man!

Time for BATTLE!

Dons my armour, sits astride my horse, flips down the visor on my helmet, lowers my lance...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Metaphoric Knight!

On The Eleventh Day Of Valentine's...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ornery!

(I snuck into the GF's place and wrote a sappy message in 'spirit paint' on the huge mirror in her bathroom that she sits in front of to do her make-up in the morning, heheheeheheheheheheeh)

The folks I work with gave me a gift today

Today the people that I work with gave me a gift. It made me feel really good, and was an affrimation of the kind of job I try to do as their Store Manager. Maybe I'll elaborate what I was given at some point. ::singing:: "Some days are diamonds..."


David<~~~~~~~~~~THE Store Manager!

the invisible post...

Nosey little bugger aren't you?

Today is the Anniversary of the GF and I...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TIF! Tonight we are going to recreate our first date two years ago: eat spaghetti, fall asleep on the couch watching TV, and then drool in her hair. Those were the good ol' days...

David<~~~~~~Lucky Guy!

DO YOU WANNA HOLD ME?

Bow Wow Wow

Children, I wanna warn ya,

'cos I've been to California

Where Mickey Mouse is such a demon,

where Mickey Mouse is as big as a house

Life is wasted on illusion,

Tom and Jerry's no solution

Evil games for cartoon demons,

Pinocchio's the real boy, look around

And I cry all night,

do you wanna hold me, hold me tight

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah,

do you wanna hold me, hold me there

Children, you got to hear me,

you've just got to understand me

Love and death ain't no physical thing

'Cos Mickey Mouse he don't wanna know

And I cry all night,

do you wanna hold me, hold me tight

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah,

do you wanna hold me, hold me there

Do you wanna

And I cry all night,

do you wanna hold me, hold me tight

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah,

do you wanna hold me, hold me there

And I cry all night,

there ain't no more confusion in the night

There's someone there to tell me what is right

Do you wanna hold me, hold me tight

And I cry all night,

there's only one solution to this life

Is someone there to tell me what it's like

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah,

do you wanna hold me, oh yeah

Do you wanna hold me, hold me there

Do you wanna hold me, oh yeah... (repeats out)

SIST is a CULT and a DISASTER waiting to happen...

Avraham Cohen


SIST (The Samanta Roy Institute of Science and Technology, formally known as "The Disciples of the Lord Jesus") is a CULT run by Avraham Cohen (who has changed his name twice, the first time from Rama Behera to Sananta Roy and now to the current name he is using). The CULT was started 30 years ago in the Shawano Wisconsin area and began it's life as a Fundamentalist Christian group that was strongly critical of mainstream Christianity (mainly Catholics & Lutherans). SIST has been in the News over it's business dealings in Shawano Wisconsin and the FBI is investigating allegations that the CULT tried to hire a hit man to murder the majority of the Elected Officials of Shawano Wisconsin. I became aware of SIST when one of it's members started posting paranoid ramblings on YouTube...

(this is the link: http://www.youtube.com/user/ShawanoNews2008 )

I have also found a website that I can only guess was originally set up to promote the businesses of the CULT which is now completely turned over to more paranoid ramblings. The funniest being that their defense to being labeled a CULT is to respond, "No You Are A Cult"...

(this is that link: http://www.shawano-wisconsin.com/index.html )

Another website I found while looking into SIST which is mentioned in several of the lawsuits and news reports...

(that link: http://www.whatyoushouldknowaboutshawano.com/ )

There are lots of news reports to be found on the Internet about SIST and the ongoing battles between the people of Shawano and the members of this CULT, so I won't link to those, but this is a good site that chronicles the History of SIST...

(last link: http://www.rickross.com/groups/rama_behera.html )

Why do I care that goofy people in Wisconsin join SIST? Heaven's Gate. Why do I follow news reports about CULTS? People's Temple. Why do I want Law Enforcement to investigate SIST? Branch Davidians. San Diego California, Jonestown Guyana , Waco Texas, and now Shawano Wisconsin? I for one have had enough mass CULT suicides. It's time for the Authorities to quit dancing around and stop the CULT before they line up their tennis shoes at the end of their cots and then pour the Kool-Aid...

This week I get to comp some of the extra time I put in during Christmas...

SOOOOOOOOO, I get three days off. I'm rich! After working for a month straight in January without a day off, I'm not quite sure what to do with myself. Maybe I'll clean my apartment...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~trying to keep a straight face

Still getting lots of International Hits

That's cool, but I will count myself a failure until my Journal has a hit from Madagascar or Pitcairn Island...

David<~~~~~~~~~setting the bar kinda high

It's Sunday morning...

GOOD MORNING! It's Sunday and the Amazing Race debuts a week from TODAY! When I think I'm cultured and educated and above the plebeian existence of Wal-Mart America I pause and remember that I absolutly love THE AMAZING RACE, and it keeps me grounded...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~HUGE FAN!

The GF just informed me that we are going to the Circus tonight as a combination Anniversary/Valentine's Day gift for me...

Tif bought us tickets to see Saltimbanco, the oldest touring show of Cirque Du Soleil. I am going to see them TONIGHT! I am fired up, I love the Circus. This will be the second Cirque show I have seen. I also saw La Nouba in Orlando. Aren't girlfriends grand? I cannot wait to see the show tonight, I just spent a hour on the Cirque website!

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Cirque Du Soleil FAN!

UPDATE: The Circus was FANTASTIC! I liked La Nouba better, but they had a permenant venue for their show and that helps. Still...Cirque Du Soleil is by far the best show I have ever had the pleasure of attending (and that includes Two Adam Ant Concerts)...TY Tif!

Nadya Suleman is a NUTJOB...

OK, I'm watching this woman talk and all I hear her say is 'Blah blah blah I'm crazy blah blah blah pay attention to me blah blah blah how can I exploit my children blah blah blah..." There is NO WAY this is going to have a happy ending. I expect to see birth defects, neglect, DFS intervention, scandal and poverty. I would also like to see an investigation of the clinic that enabled this travesty. Jon & Kate Plus Eight just got their first obsessive fan...


David<~~~~worried for her kids, they are helpless victims in their Mother's obsession!

UPDATE: Everyone gets to decide on their own whether to have kids or not, and how many to have and how to raise them. But that doesn't relieve you from the responsibility that goes along with the decisions and that doesn't hide you from the harsh glare of the light of notoriety when you make bad decisions.

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: Here is Nadya Suleman's website where she requests donations for her family...

http://www.thenadyasulemanfamily.com/

Needless to say, I will not be donating any money to support her bad decisions...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~thinks the State will end up with these children

It's the 4th Day of Valentine's...

I am doing something new this year. For the first 14 days of February I'm giving the gf a present and singing a cheesy rip off of "The Twelve Days of Christmas". She loves suprises, and I love her...

David<~Natural Born Romantic

(and I love stuff like this!)

Hello Faithful Readers!

Yesterday Tif and I went to the STL Travel Show, it was much smaller than last year, but still fun none the less. I spent some mula at the Blue Owl Restaurant & Bakery's booth. You can visit them on the Internet here: http://www.theblueowl.com/ Later I went over to the gf's parent's house to watch the Super Bowl and eat some shrimp. I fell asleep through most of the last part of the game, only awake during the parts where the Cardinals looked like they might win. I'm watching "Cast A Giant Shadow", it is chuck full of famous Hollywood actors. I need to read some history books on the Israel War I don't think this movie is historically accurate. Today is my first day at work in the new Fiscal Year. We'll see how it goes...


David<~~~enjoyed my first day off in a Month yesterday!

::sitting in BA watching the room scroll by::

Watching people debate in a chatroom is like watching fist sized stones tumble around in a Clothes Dryer thru the round glass door on the front. Not quite sure of the purpose, but it makes a heck of a racket...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~a large grey rock

My brother has received his new orders.

My little brother has received his new orders. He will be sent to Afghanistan for a year in about a month. He will miss a lot of Conner's life including his first birthday. I want to spend a weekend in Feb with him and my family before he goes.

David<~~~~~~~~~~~sad for my Brother and his Family

(UPDATE: Mark is leaving in TWO weeks and I will NOT be able to visit him before he goes)

still running...

We saved 98 Payroll hours last week, I am very proud of my co-workers. I still don't think we are going to make the SPH Goal, but we will be close and hopefully that will be enough. We were closed for a day and a half this week due to the snow/ice/sleet, so no love for David this week from Mother Nature. We will see how we finished out for the year next week about Tuesday...


David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~always a Company Man!

I just ordered the NEW Adam Ant live CD!

They made a CD from the last live performance Adam Ant gave in the UK. He read from his Autobiography and sang some acoustic songs accompianed by his buddy Dave Pash. I can't wait for it to arrive! I should see it in about 2 weeks, it's coming in form the UK...

I'm afraid to go to sleep...

There is a HUGE pulsating alien seed pod sitting out on my balcony. I am afraid to go to sleep. I don't want to be replaced...

DAVID<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOT a Pod Person!

MAD props ya know ::flashes gang signs::

Here is the listing of the countries my Journal has been visited from: United States, Netherlands, India, UK, Norway, Finland (I thought Finland was an urban legend), China, Philippines, Australia, Argentina, South Africa, New Zealand, and Greece! And my total visits (since I installed the hit counter) is about to top 100. You like me, you really like me...::cries like Sally Fields::

David<~~~~~~~I told you I was goofy, this shouldn't be a suprise...

I've lost some NERD points...

I kept saying to the gf, if you need some help with your Word Problems, I'll walk you through them. Then I sat down next to her and discovered that I have lost most of my College Math skills. I seem to have set them down and cannot remember where they are. Sorry Tif...

It's early Tuesday morning and I need to get ready for work and head in UBER early so see what the roads are like and to decide if we are going to open for business today. I must have fallen asleep early last night I missed a phone call from my Asst. asking my opinion about closing early last night. Slept right through the cell phone ringing. We are supposed to get more snow around Noon. This is going to kill my business today and we cannot affort to spend payroll with no mula coming into the registers.

My D O G SNOOKY does not like the cold. I'll be lucky if she goes outside today. Love the Boston Terriers, but the Boston Terriers do not love the cold...

I feel like I need to re-read some Comic Books and reaquire some NERD points...

(maybe I'll read The Watchmen for the millionth time)

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

WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN?

me!

I'll give you three guesses where I'll be on March 6th at 12:01am (and the first two don't count). I cannot wait to see the Watchmen movie. My fear is that they will butcher the BEST Graphic Novel of all time. I will go and see the movie with a positive mindset. I just read an interview from Alan Moore about his beliefs on the Movie Industry. He's nuts. I appreciate his genius as a comic book creator, but he's one free toy short of a Happy Meal. I hope I can talk the gf into going with me, I hope to gather Ray and maybe Geoff too and go as a group. I still have the original Watchmen Watch and a Watchmen Tshirt (that I can no longer fit into). I'm a nerd...

David<~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ALL FIRED UP!

Last week of my Store's Fiscal Year

Well it's been a good year for my Store. By most of the measurements we are graded on we have had a successful year, and I am very proud of my co-workers. We are still fighting to achieve our SPH Sales Goal (that's Sales Per Hour), which is a measurement of how many Payroll Hours we use to achieve the Plan Sales set by my Company. We are not going to make it by my estimates. True to form, I am still sprinting towards the finish line. I will never give up, and I will never quit. If you ever see me on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, I will not quit answering questions till I lose or I win a Million Bucks. That is how I'm put together. I have to go now, to try and keep the folks I work with motivated to run with me some more...

David<~~flees failure so fast that I win the race most of the time!