Life: Cook, Read, Sleep, Rinse and Repeat

Soda

2011-02-08T23:26:00.000-06:00

I am shocked by my lack of self control with things sweet as of late. I went a whole bloody year without processed and refined sugary grossness but for some reason I don't have the self control I used to or I have given up? Has this happen to anyone else? Where you know you can easily just ignore the need for shitty awful sugar crap for a long time but then freak the shit out over it?

As a biker I know I have to eat a lot in the summer when I am biking pretty hard every day and I am fine with that but I need to start developing a healthy way of doing said thing before I give myself cancer from eating over processed fake food.

In other news I am in love with the newest season of RuPaul's Drag Race!!! Miss Raja should win I think cause girl has it together better then anyone else! I mean just look at her! It's amazing I wish I could look that good in a dress and yet so manly.

Night y'all

SIck?

2011-02-08T18:16:00.000-06:00

Feeling a tad bit sick... Hopefully some sleep and exercise will make me feel better if not maybe RuPaul's drag race will help out too? Who the hell knows?

Long time gone

2011-02-07T23:15:00.000-06:00

It's been a while since I've updated this blog thing of mine and I would like to say that well... I really should update this thing more often and not try to make it something it's not.

Like a damn G6!

Anyway I'll update this daily... soon... I swear

End of the summer.

2010-08-29T23:25:00.000-05:00

Waldsee is always a very strange place after the summer. I can never get over the lack of villagers and it take me some time to adjust to how quiet and peaceful everything is when I am there during the school year. I am tired. I am not in school. I once over heard kids say "Udo doesn't exist outside of Waldsee he just melts into the walls of the Gasthof when we leave and come back when we show up" there are times when I wish that was a true statement, sadly it's not. I gets so used to having people around me 24/7 that after the summer I am scared of the silence and the peace. I am confused by the lack of god awful weckdienst in the morning and sharing a room with someone else. I am starting to see that all I need in life is a group of people who want to live simply in peace with what they have and are happy with that over again else in life. I will write more after I have had some to think about the past three months.

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Wetten dass

2010-03-10T13:51:00.002-06:00

Oh Germany!

Mumford and Sons

2010-03-10T00:07:00.000-06:00

Mumford & Sons / Little Lion Man video

Mumford and Sons | MySpace Music Videos

If you can spare the cash I suggest going out and buying the debut album from the British band Mumford and Sons. Check out their website if you have the time to spare http://www.mumfordandsons.com/. Their music is very focused on the loneliness of love and trying to find some sort of high power whilst jamming on a mandolin.

Mumford and Sons - Winter Winds

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"And my head told my heart
"Let love grow"
But my heart told my head
"This time no"
Yes, my heart told my head
"This time no
This time no"

I don't want to get all emo about song lyrics cause that's not me but how god damn profound is that chorus? How many times has any one ever felt that in their lives?

Alright, bed time.

Past

2010-03-09T00:12:00.001-06:00

Why are we, as a species stuck in the past?

?

2010-03-08T09:12:00.000-06:00

Ah! That is all, only problem I have with being on vacation is I just feel like I am not doing anything but, I am. In other news Hurt Locker beat Avatar so there has to be a higher power out there right? Though the Academy Awards seemed sort of odd and at time just out of place with the rest of the world to me. The tribute to John Hughes was just very out of place I think, he was a very good director but really, ten minutes or so devoted to him? Sort of a waste of time in a show that is notorious for going over time in the last few years, I think the show clocked in at three in a half hours? So it goes...

Vblog

2010-02-19T09:43:00.002-06:00

Starting out

2010-02-19T08:56:00.000-06:00

Kids by MGMT has been playing in my head over and over again since last night when I listened to it while biking. It's a good song but the real music video is just super messed up... If you have the time go watch it on youtube or at their website.

I am leaving for a vacation on the 28th of this month until March 14th to Tulsa to see my father. It should be fun if not relaxing I am really just looking forward to spending time with my dad before coming back to a crazy busy work and school environment, well it could be crazy, could be really easy, I really shouldn't second guess the future. I am going to drive down which will be cheap then flying but a bit slower time wise though I think it's worth in the long wrong plus if I get bored or start going crazy at my father's place I can just leave for a bit.

I would like to start a video blog now that I have a new webcam but the software that came with it isn't working all that great and tends to freeze up when I try to record anything. Very annoying but what can you do besides try to trouble shoot the shit out the problem.

No need

2010-02-11T20:25:00.000-06:00

I am taking a two week vacation start February 28th to March 14th! Usually I would go to Europe for a while or some where super amazing but I am headed off to wonderful Tulsa... That's where my father lives and I am unsure as to what I'll do for two weeks in Tulsa but I'll spend some time with the old man that I can reflect back on later in life or something like that. I am also going to drive down there now that my car radio is fixed it will make the trip a lot less painful and If I am get sick of my parents or bored I can drive myself some where else for a while. Score.

In other news I received my admission packet from BSU!!! How awesome is that? I am going to fill it all out tomorrow morning and try to get it all sent out before I forget to do it.

College

2010-02-04T09:25:00.000-06:00

Sorry I don't update all that often its just something I don't think about until I am about to go to bed. So instead of updating I go to sleep, makes sense right? Anyway, I got into Bemidji State University!! How awesome is that? I looking forward to signing up for classes and getting all that stuff worked out and then there is paying all sort of money for books!! I am so ready for school right now it's going to be a challenge that I am sure of but it's nothing I can't do as long as I have everyones support and I ask for help when it's needed.

Precinct caucuses were on Tuesday night and R.T. Rybak received the most votes which is great but at the same time it was only by 1% which isn't overwhelming at all. Sadly there were only six people at my ward caucus which isn't all that great of a number but we were all made delegates to the country caucus which is on the 28th of February at BSU. Hopefully from there I can go to the state convention and help support Rybak in getting the DFL nod for governor. Though Mark Dayton is going right to the primary in September which is a bit annoying to me but it's in the future and I can't predict the future now can I?

Avatar, what?

2010-01-27T11:34:00.000-06:00

Right, not done blogging...

Sexy Back

2010-01-27T11:22:00.001-06:00

iTablet will cure cancer and people will like your more!

2010-01-27T11:18:00.000-06:00

While I wait for the newest episode of Shameless to download and for Apple to release the glory that will be their new iTablet, iPad, iBook or whatever you want to call it. Why not update the blog?

I had a meeting with the head of the nursing department to discuss what I would have to do to become a nursing student. It was a very informative meeting and she told me a something I totally didn't even pay attention to at the time I applied to BSU. I would have to take a CNA course at the Tech school in town before I can apply for the nursing major my sophomore year at BSU. At first this news scared the shit out of me since there is a class this spring that I could take and get it out of the way but man, school so soon... Boo.
But after buying some food at the Co-op and buying some new kick ass Haus Schuhe I had calmed down enough to just process what a CNA is and what doors it could open up.

With a CNA I could get a job at a nursing home that would allow me to work hopefully around forty hours a week and still be a full time student. This is something I feel I wouldn't be able to do at CLV and it would just cause me more stress trying to get enough hours to pay my cost of living but also have time to go to school. Mind you this is all in the future so I am not really going to worry about it but it might be a good plan if it all comes together, it comes together and if not it's still a great cert to have. If I hate just getting my CNA I will know that being a nurse is going to be way to hard for me and can figure out what to do in the fall and get my general eds out of the way. Either way I am pretty sure I am signed up for the class and I am looking forward to going back to school for something after years off. If I can juggle my CNA class and work I should be golden for the next four years... right?

I bought Mass Effect 2 on opening night and so far it a pretty solid game and feels more developed then the last Mass Effect plus you don't have to drive the fraking Mako around anymore which is more then enough to get me to do more while playing the game. You know longer have to run around looking for minerals on planets, now you scan for them and shoot off probes to stake your claim in minerals that you need to upgrade items. The combat system is now more like Halo then Mass Effect which has made it a bit harder for me since I am used to that sort of game play but I am getting used to it even if I have to replay the same events over and over again. Anyway enough blogging for now.

Quick Note

2010-01-27T01:16:00.000-06:00

Sorry, I will update soonish! I have been somewhat busy though it's mostly been Mass Effect and Mass Effect two so yeah it's nothing like work or school busy just lazy busy.

Busy!

2010-01-21T23:31:00.000-06:00

Applied to BSU, hopefully I will hear back soon then I can plan out how I am going to balance work, school, social life, and so forth or the summer. I chose to major in nursing for now but I am pretty sure I will enjoy it and the classes look pretty interesting just hope I can get it done in four years. Made a new batch of soup to hold me over and while and then cleaned up the mess that I made making the soup which is always rather epic but I usually just ignore it for days and then clean it up when it's all crusty...

In other news when you have 41 senators to 59 senators you're are able to over ride the 18 other of the other party and take control of the senate. It's a new rule that I heard about from fox news, oh Scott Brown cures cancer, just like Obama did... I'll start listening to the news again soon but for now I prefer to ignore the pundits and play Mass Effect in my underwear.

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Scott Brown for the win... Boo!

2010-01-19T22:31:00.000-06:00

Leave it to the Democratic party to lose a senate seat in fucking Massachusetts, it doesn't even makes sense until you realize that over the last six week Coakley only had 16 events compared to Browns 66. If you are going to run for office you have to campaign otherwise no one will vote for you it's that simple! Obama didn't win because he was black he won because he worked himself to the bone and made sure everyone around him worked just as hard! That's how you win an election you can't just assume the D next to your name is going to get you elected that's just beyond stupid and makes your a worthless candidate.

I understand why Brown was elected and it makes sense to me since the party that control all three branches of government can't even seem to get their act together and pass health care reform bill without a super majority in the senate... How crazy is that? Why oh why do we have to have sixty votes to get anything done in the senate? Just let people filibuster until they fall over and then vote. I would like Obama to grab the Dem leadership by the neck and shake them out a bit! It's really bad for moral when you lose Edward Kennedy seat to a former Cosmo pin up...

In other news I have appointment with the admission office at BSU on Thursday at ten o'clock so I can see what I need to do to enroll next fall and find out what I can majour in. Right now I am thinking either Hospice Nurse or Nutritionist something along those lines, maybe even early childhood development I just want something that will help people in need the most. I am over my anxiety about going back to school and I am looking forward to it so much so it has put be in a very good mood for the last few days.

Well I am off to bed, I have to work at seven in the morning and I already know we will be listening to MPR all day and the coverage is going to be non-stop about Brown winning. Man I know what the GOP felt like after the Dem wave in 2006.

Night

Special Election

2010-01-16T23:00:00.000-06:00

So as many of you know there is a special election in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy's seat next Tuesday now I of course support Martha Coakley against Scott Brown but since I don't live in Massachusetts I really haven't be paying any real attention to race cause I just assumed that Coakley was going to win over Brown.

As I am sure this wonderful chart has shown Coakley isn't polling very well right now and there is only a few more days until the vote and Obama is going to be in Mass tomorrow at an event for Coakley. Of course if Coakley loses the senate seat it will be all Obama's fault anyway cause it always is his fault not the fault of the Democrats on a national level who have failed to come together and support the will of the people they are supposed to work for but continue to just whine and bitch about everything. Look I am all for Health Care Reform and most things the Democratic party want to push through but I can't stand the lack of foresight of the party in general. Stop worrying about re-election and get something done for the people who are just trying to get by with what little they have.

If Scott Browns wins on Tuesday night will the Democrats come together and realize that if they don't get their collective acts together this November isn't going to be all that pretty for them. The super majority in the Senate hasn't really seemed to do anything for the Democratic Senators beside make each one king maker of any bill that is trying to get passed in the Senate. So maybe losing it will shake things up? I really think the focus should be getting things done and focusing the media's monkey mind attention on the fact that the GOP does nothing but say "No" to everything the President wants and then whines when he tries to work with them on anything just anything even the fraking wars started by the last President.

Good luck and good night

Sometimes...

2010-01-15T23:09:00.000-06:00

I should just keep my mouth shut or sit on my hands cause most people don't have my sense of humour or understand it. In other news today wasn't as amazingly random as yesterday but I guess I am ok with that for now at least.

Went back to work today officially i.e. I wasn't called in to cover someone else's shift and it was a a nice eight hours shift at the Skogfjorden which is always nice espeically when it's for a Norsk programmer and I get to eat Jarlsberg and Gjetost cheese both of which I haven't had in month. I really love family programme at work there is nothing like hearing the language of the village being spoken by young and old over good food and stories, it's really a great way to learn any language I think. Now if Tove was there that would just make my weekend but I get to see her enough in the summer.

I am on second two of Doogie Howser M.D. and I have around ten hours left of Mass Effect and then I'll be ready for Mass Effect 2... Ah yes I love my nerdyness at times, cause really the trailers for Mass Effect 2 just look ridiculous and I need something to escape to every now and again even though I really should but whatever that's just old hat by now in my life.

Oh I am trying to fund raise for R.T. Rybak
http://www.rtrybak.com/page/outreach/view/sample/Udo

It's kind of hard to fund raise when there are so many great people running that and 7% unemployment in the state make it hard for people who are hard core political addicts like myself to care at this point. I also think there is a bit of fatigue in most Americans in politics right now since nothing seems to be getting done on anything and no one is really coming together on any thing. It's able about the now and never about the future it seems and though that might work for living ones life I am not so sure about governing a people. That said I am still ever hopefully that some day everyone will realize that when there is a common goal for everyone to work for real change can happen. I voted for Obama and I am very proud of that vote! So far he's been a pretty great president compared to Bush and I wish him the best of luck on his next three years in office.

One last thought, if no one mocked Rush Limbaugh for saying obvious stupid and phoney bull shit would he go away? At times I wonder if he just saying things to get the press to listen to him for a while. It's like a child that wants the attention of it's parents and therefore does something it shouldn't just to get a seconds of attention.

Nighto

Random day

2010-01-14T23:30:00.000-06:00

So I never really plan my days, I have a rough plan but it's mostly like buy food today or deal with bills today but never anything super real unless I am travelling then almost everything is super planned out.

Today was supposed to be my last day off before going back to work tomorrow but Jason was sick this morning so I went in for him. Six hours and two cleaner kitchen later I am done and instead of going home I head to the DC to talk to my boss and the rest of the crew that I haven't seen in a month!! Salome wants me back at Mar e which is great news!! Now I am just waiting to hear back from Karl about second half of the summer, maybe I'll be back at the Mar... Salome also said she'd try and look for some money to spend me to Portugal this spring if possible which would be very cool considering I have never been there and just a week there would improve the food at Mar e Floresta by one hundred percent if not more. I'll send Karl an email this weekend and hopefully hear back from him otherwise I am going to start planning a trip to Portugal.

Anyway... I was chatting with Martin about the state of things at work and life in general when I mention something about R.T. Rybak who I am supporting for Governor and turns out R.T was going to be in town at a forum that started at 5:30 and it was 5:00 so I got in my car and head towards BSU. The event was great fun I loved watching the people at it! The DFL candidates pretty much speed dated nine groups of people changing spots after eight minutes though it took them longer to move around because it was hard for some of them to stop talking. Out of the nine candidates present Matt Entenza and R.T. Rybak really impressed me, I'd happily vote for either one of them and even Mark Dayton was pretty impressive to me though to be rather honest I could support anyone of the candidates I met tonight. The highlight of the night though was when R.T. Rybak sat next to me while I was eating my Indian taco he said I should get involved in local politics and try to get on the school board and work my way up from there! R.T. just seems crazy energetic and that is what I like about him I feel like he could just make things happen better and faster then anyone else running. Did you know he meets every single high school freshman in Minneapolis? Who does that?

Time to pass out.

2010-01-12T20:57:00.000-06:00

Went to work on Monday that was fun. No... really I enjoyed being back at work since I am not a fan of being unemployed or taking unemployment. Speak of which from what I have heard about other states unemployment systems I would like to thank Minnesota's for not being a total cluster. There is one thing that could be improved that being the amount of mail sent to me, even though I gave the unemployment people my email address and so far everything I have gotten would be fine via email. It costs the state 35 cents every time the send me a piece of mail and with 7% of Minnesotan unemployment the cost could really add up. It wouldn't be a huge savings but it would help the state budget which isn't the best right now nor has it been doing all that well over the last few years but that's another story.

I know this video is all over the web but man, what the fuck? Who the hell is this guy think he is? He built his bloody post-mayoral career on 9/11 and now he just forgets the past? What a joke.

Anyway...

Monsters: 081 Ronny Market from Volstok Telefunken on Vimeo.

Girlfriend!!!

2010-01-11T16:22:00.003-06:00

I've been dancing to this song in my head all day!

School?

2010-01-10T21:23:00.000-06:00

I've finally realized that I have to go back to school for what? I am not really sure but what is swirling around my head right now is something to do with being a financial advisor or something along those lines. Though I really have no idea how to go about it but I guess that is something I should be figuring out right about nowish? Eh I'll get it done before the summer and I have everything figured out by then and we'll see what happens when it happens.

I go back to work on Friday and I am looking forward to it. If this furlough has taught me anything is that I need an education and can no longer just sit around and hope that the fortunes of CLV will change to where they once were and I can go back being complacent in my life as I have been over the years. That said I do love working at CLV and have for the last nine years it has only been the last year or so that has soured my opinion of the organization as of late. In the next year I see good things happening to CLV or at least increase in our enrollment to a bit over last summer so that we can stabilize and grow instead of shrink and die which would be a very horrible thing indeed and a great loss to Minnesota and Bemidji.

Not to even on a sad note.

Can I tell you something...

2010-01-10T00:08:00.000-06:00

I am finally home!!! It's nice being in Rochester with the family but man there is nothing better coming home to my small and cleanish house. I mean sure the house was sort of in a wreck but no one had been here since the 22nd of December and I really couldn't ask Leiny or Barb to clean after the cats who cause all the mess in the first place like cats do. I think my mail is being held at the post office cause the sidewalk wasn't shoveled at all either so I guess we'll see what happens on Monday? I have a few things of house keeping to do in the morning but after that the house will be clean!

Who watched Doogie Howser as a kid? Oh me! Right here! I loved the show and I think NPH was one of my first crushes as a kid...Ah youth! Anyway, Doogie Howser is on Hulu.com! Yes! When I am not listening to MPR or doing other awesome things it's now Doogie Howser and Mass Effect! How nerdy and awesome is that?

In closing... Dig a little deeper friends!

N

2010-01-05T23:40:00.000-06:00

Wasted day

2009-11-08T23:21:00.000-06:00

What a waste of a day! Woot, my eyes do feel rather rotty... My next day off is Tuesday and that will be full of cooking more soup, clean of the house and I would like to say reading but ha I know myself far to well to think that will really happen.

So Wanda Sykes has a talk show on Fox Saturday night where MadTv used to but and it was well just seemed really awkward to watch for some reason Miss Sykes didn't really feel comfortable in front of the audience. She did defend President Obama against his distractors which I did enjoyed but in all I was wanting more out of the show then what it was hopefully the show will mature in time and be axed within the next few weeks. You can watch it for yourself and let me know what you think.

I did like the fact that she has a drag queen on her show and the whole "scaring white people" bit was super funny.

Anyway night y'all!

Day Off

2009-11-08T09:16:00.002-06:00

Today I will play video games on my laptop and listen to MPR until my eyes rot out of my skull.

Healthcare

2009-11-07T22:36:00.000-06:00

Woot! The House past healthcare! Sadly it's the Senates turn at the bill and that's is going to take a while to but worked out.

Day

2009-11-07T21:42:00.000-06:00

Today was as pretty good day besides burning myself on a pan that was tons of fun! I am now nerding out and watching the healthcare debate on c-span. I love how Medicare which the GOP tried to block back when it was established they are now trying to save for Obama government health care take over... Yeah that's right socialize health care is going to kill you and your grandparents while stealing all your money!!!

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-21-2009/the-stockholm-syndrome-pt--1
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-22-2009/the-stockholm-syndrome-pt--2

Check out the dailyshows report on socialism in Sweden. God it looks likes an awful place to me. Who would want to surrounded by super model blonds and have free higher education?

Sunny!

2009-11-07T08:44:00.003-06:00

It's so sunny! Today is going to awesome, really I promise all of you that it's going to rock!

Hugs and Kisses

-Udo

Songs in my head!

2009-11-06T22:24:00.000-06:00

I've had two songs in my head all fraking day! Enjoy!

Warmth

2009-11-06T11:47:00.003-06:00

It's fifty degrees outside. Winter, the only time I like global warming!

Morning!

2009-11-06T08:49:00.000-06:00

I love waking up in the morning and realizing I get to live for another day! So 10.2% unemployment eh? I would like to blame... no one cause I don't know enough about such things to go out and blame people plus I am sort of going to join those numbers for seven weeks so I guess it's good to know I'll have some company.

I am sure the GOP will blame Obama and the Dems will blame Bush who isn't even President any more but make a great boogie man. I am sure there is nothing more annoying to President Obama then people blaming all sorts of people but not doing anything to get people working again.

In positive news R. T. Rybak is running for Governor of Minnesota! I wish him all the luck in the world cause he's going to need it since I am not sure how well he'll do outside of the cities since he's rather wonderfully liberal. For now I am supporting both R. T. and Matt Entenza hopefully one of them will get the nod and we will finally be rid of Tim Pawlenty who is already ready running for President by going around sounding like a crazy person or a parrot of Sarah Palin. When he was elected he seemed to me to be a clear center politician and was one for a while but then last year he started to campaign for John McCain and started running to the base of the party which I am not really sure is all that popular in Minnesota.

Anyway I am off to watch "30 Rock" and then "the Office".

Pork P'wned

2009-11-05T17:21:00.000-06:00

So I cooked the hell out of that frozen pork loin! I cooked in the oven for an hour in veggie broth with carrots and onions, then I took it out of oven after an hour and sliced it up to braise in butter and olive oil with marjoram. I took the drippings from the skillet and made a little gravy tossed it over the pork slices and let it rest for twenty minutes, all in all a good day doing staff lunch! Awesome!

Woot!

Pork loin

2009-11-05T10:13:00.000-06:00

Your mission is to cook a Pork loin from frozen in two hours... Good luck!

Cosby

2009-11-04T19:38:00.001-06:00

This is one of the only clips of the Cosby show that I can remember from my childhood when I lived in Barstow, California.

I totally forgot about this until year past when I was watching the movie "Ray" and man nothing but memories came flooding back and man it was awesome. I'll always watch the Cosby Show if it's on television there is really nothing better and nothing that I don't connect to my childhood like Cosby. God love him...

Cat Laser

2009-10-31T22:12:00.000-05:00

I bought a stupid little laser thing to force the cats to get their move on cause I am sick of them being over weight and you can't really take a cat for a walk or at least not without look like a complete tool. It has already paid for its self as far as I am concerned I mean Mel goes crazy over it and Monk even moves a bit in hopes of capturing the red dot.

I realized today that I am doing really well right now in life and I am not really sure where to go from this point besides just keeping everything even until I can raise enough money to quit working for the rest of my life. First I have to pay off the house then I can just bank money like it was going out of style but sadly I am not going to be close to paying off my house anytime soon but there is always hope for random pennies from heaven.

I forget

2009-10-30T21:43:00.000-05:00

Sometimes I forget to just love life and enjoy what I am doing and instead I get to worried about the past and the future both things I have no control over. Starting tonight I am going to try and remember the middle way and the present cause really that all we have that we can see at least or really know about in life.

I am some what addicted to my laptop and it's just ridiculously stupid thing to be addicted. Two weeks ago I was going to go a whole day (yes 24hrs) without using my laptop and my ego was not going to let me do that and I gave in mostly out of fear of what I would miss... Does that make any sense at all? Ha! I am sure it does to most of the people reading this blog! I can go a whole week without talking but I can't go a day without my laptop tisk... tisk... this is something I'll have to work on during the six weeks or so I am jobless.

Tres French!

2009-10-17T17:32:00.001-05:00

I love good ads.

Grab the damn mop!

2009-10-16T20:48:00.000-05:00

This is why I love the President so much because still ten months into being President he is still trying to get the American people to understand that if they want change they are going to have to get off their corn feed asses and do something about instead of blaming everyone else for their own problems. Stop being the victim America, no one likes it, and no want to take a whiny victim out on a date. Man the shit up and grab a mop and help solve the problem we collectivity created over the last few or shut up about it.

Love and kiss
Udo

Dear Weather

2009-10-11T21:39:00.000-05:00

Dearest Fall Weather,

My name is Joseph E Phelps of Bemidji, Minnesota and I wish to make a complaint against the current weather that has befallen the state of Minnesota and surrounding states. I understand that is supposed to be colder this time of year and I accept this but the addition of snow is just going to far to soon. The trees have yet to lose their leaves but this simple fact seems to have eluded you dear Weather system of the North. I ask that you remove the snow at your earliest convenience and allow the weather to resume a more normal pattern for this time period of the year.

Yours,
Joseph E Phelps

Really?

2009-10-07T20:03:00.002-05:00

I thought this was a joke a first but no it's really on a 24 hour "news" station...

He Wolf

2009-09-26T21:27:00.000-05:00

Go and watch the original here LOL city!

Fargo

2009-09-26T21:06:00.000-05:00

Benefit of being called in on your day off to cover for someone your breakfast is baguette and goat cheese! I love my job! Anyway came home, did some yoga to try and reduce the stiffness of my body and then biked a good seventeen miles.

I watched Fargo for the first time tonight and it's a great film I would recommend it to anyone who has yet to watch it. Oh and the accents and Minnesota nice that they do in the movie is what most people do in this state like it or not.

LOL

Back at you

2009-09-25T23:37:00.000-05:00

The muscles in my back are so tense that my jaw is killing me most of the time, mostly due to the fact that I haven't done any Yoga not even Wii Fit Yoga in two months and it's killing me! So tomorrow I get back on the band wagon just so I don't feel like this any more it makes working that much harder.

Areas circled in red are the worse for pain...

my

2009-09-25T19:00:00.000-05:00

Best song to shower to!

love

2009-09-23T12:41:00.000-05:00

2009-09-21T22:30:00.000-05:00

83 people looked at my blog yestarday!@ I would like to thanks them and Sondre Lerche for luring them here! I just hope they come back for seconds!

Work has been like "Whoa" all over the place! It's nice being busy and all but I know it's just going to slow done so I figure I kill myself now for the man and then I'll take his money and save it away so when the snow falls I can runaway to some place warm.

So I am going to my step-brothers wedding in a week and I need to get a rental car for it cause as much as I love the Green Hornet she just isn't going to get there and back without exploding I feel... So yeah I am going to spend something around 300 dollars or so on this four day trip to the south and I am going to damn well enjoy the shit out of myself! I am going to where my favourite pink shirt and make some people uncomfortable with my Udoness! It's going to awesome!

I am currently reading this guys Blog it's amazing! You should all go and read it just for fun and laughs... Mostly laughs!

He was so right it's been raining on and off all day seems this Indian summer we have been having is being destroyed by the fall monster. Suck!

This is why Obama always wins! He just owns everyone. Awesome!

Earworm

2009-09-20T01:18:00.002-05:00

So

2009-09-19T23:58:00.001-05:00

Right now I am pretty sure that there are parts of my body that are headed into shut down mood due to the amount of abuse that I put my body through and I think it's awesome! I really need to clean the living room and my bathroom though the kitchen and bathroom have stayed pretty clean since I've been home but I am sure that will change as soon as it get colder outside.

I biked to home despot cause the lock on my screen door broke which in it's self is just an odd ass thing to happen but anyway I bought the new lock and as I was leaving one of the cashier types asked me about the toe shoes she said she even remember the last time I was there with them on! Man, I've got to figure out a way to make some cash from all the recommendation I give Vibram and their crazy shoes!

Vienna 2007 a soundtrack

2009-09-17T22:03:00.000-05:00

For some reason my trip to Vienna in 2007 popped into my head while biking today so yeah enjoy the sounds!

Dude there is my heart... All poppy in what not

Not the real music video but man, check out the vintage dancing girls... Shiny!

I love me some Swedish rap!

That is all...

CATS!!

2009-09-17T21:51:00.000-05:00

Ah! Look at him! Being so cute and what not!

What a cuddly bastards he is!

Mel with her "Bitch I will cut you!" face!

Love!

Jedi One?

2009-09-17T05:57:00.001-05:00

How can you not like this guy? Seriously?

Hat tip theswamp

Awesome

2009-09-16T22:30:00.000-05:00

hat tip drew

2009-09-16T21:45:00.000-05:00

I don't know what to write mostly cause I think anything I have to say is boring and would just people to sleep or making them want to delete this Blog if possible. I could talk about my day or work but I really just feel like none of it is interesting at all. Eh...

Anyway today I got a lot of stuff done, oil change, tires balance or whatever, biked around the lake, went to work. Speaking of working I have been cooking for these old women who are they doing a craft fair thing and it's like crafternoon all over the place and these women are such a hoot! Man, I can't wait to be old!

I just love cooking for these women not only are the coffee fiends drinking around 250 cups of coffee per person! I am not joking they really do drink an insane amount of coffee I think some of them just have IV bags of coffee hidden underneath their cat sweaters. I guess I just love being in front of a group of people who laugh when I tell them what they are going to eat and the history behind it since some groups just sort of stare at me wait for their food to come out of the kitchen so they can eat and get on with their day.

Tomorrow I work at Finnish... should be a good time!

Diva Dienstag!

2009-09-15T21:19:00.000-05:00

It's hard to do Diva Dienstag when I can't share any of the songs I want to because the embedden has been disabled... I understand the reasoning behind it but wouldn't it be helpful for people to share the awesome or at least interesting music that have found on youtube?

Diva Dienstag! Madonna - Hung Up

2009-09-15T08:16:00.000-05:00

Did you know she's 51? Who knew?

Cats

2009-09-14T21:55:00.000-05:00

I would like to introduce everyone to the furry-four-legged-poop-machines that live in my house with me... The orange one is Mel who I have taken to call "Orange" now a days and the fat one that she is sitting on is Monk who I now call "Fatty". I never thought that having cats would be such a wonderful pain in the ass at times though I love them to death I sometimes wish I could turn them into handbags! Fancy handbags for rich old women from the Bronx with to much time and money on their hands.

Monk just wants you to love him... all the time! In the morning when I wake up I tend to sit on the couch I am still asleep really the bone move cause the nerves tell them to but really I could still be half awake for at least another ten minutes if not more. Anyway, Monk always I mean always try to get in my lap or on my side or in face just purring away like he was drunk on just seeing me move again... I hate this! I am trying to wake up and the last thing I need is cat butt and god-know-when o'clock every morning.

Mel is a ninja warrior princess and will attack anything smaller or slightly larger then herself and if she can she will eat it. Mel often attacks Monk who is twice her size but guess who almost always wins... Mel the smaller cat who I am sure Monk could just punt across the room if he wanted to but he just take it like a man... or an abused boyfriend. She also chirps like a bird which is cute at first but it will drive you crazy after a while especially at five in the morning when you're just trying to get some sleep.

Cat...

Beethoven Hero?

2009-09-13T22:48:00.000-05:00

Quick trip to see the President

2009-09-13T17:23:00.000-05:00

Five hours in a car, less five hours of sleep, three hours in line, two hours of seating trying to fall asleep waiting President to speak. That was my Saturday and let me tell you it was well worth it. There is something to be said about having the President of the country you live in come to your state and speak to about how you can change the debate on health-care how you can make the change happen. That is why I went, that is why I spent way to much time in a car and even less time sleeping so I could see for myself if the President was telling the truth about health-care reform if he really believed everything he said and all I can say is a resounding "YES". I enjoyed the speech it was personable but yet had enough detail to clam the minds of those who still wonder where to detail was in Obama health-care plan.

I am happy I went! Getting to see the President is something I think everyone should do in their life if the chance presents itself, it allows you to realize that the President is human and not some evil demon who wants to eat your children and kill your grandmother. Let's just hope health-care reform get's passed and one day everyone in this great country will having something most other countries take for granted... Healthcare!

Here is the speech via youtube, enjoy!

So sleepy!

2009-09-12T20:53:00.000-05:00

Just got back from the cities an hour ago and I am far to tried to make sense of the last 24hrs... So I'll update in the morning after I've been able to rest.

No subject needed

2009-09-10T22:04:00.001-05:00

I am going to Minneapolis on Saturday to see the President!!! I'll be leaving Bemidji right after work head straight down to the cities hopefully getting there around seven or eight at night. I'll be staying with Robo which is super exciting since I haven't seen him in a few months and he lives close enough to the Target Center that we can just walk there instead of taking the bus or biking but sadly we'll have to wake up around 5 or even earlier if we want to get good seat but it's well worth! Plus, both Al Franken and R.T Rybak are going to be there I really can't turn down this opportunity how often does the President come to Minnesota outside of an election year anyway?

As for the health care speech? It's been analyzed to death by people more educated then I ,who like to hear themselves talk more then I do, which is saying a lot. It was a good speech and I think it got the point across of what Obama wants to do for the American Healthcare system. I was also struck about how rude the GOP was during the speech including the "You lie" outburst by Joe Wilson, which has been a bit of a boon to not only for Obama but also Rob Miller who is running against Joe Wilson. Joe Miller has raised 644,000 in the last 24 hour mostly via dailykos.com and the actblue PAC which claims to be "the online clearhouse of Democratic action" if you would like to donate to Joe please do it here

Jason and I have gone biking the last few days and it's nice to have someone to go biking with and it allows me to keep pace with someone else and just keep myself from killing myself everyday. More ant sex yesterday, more ants smacking into you at 17mph and if your Jason the go into your ears and mouth. Hopefully that was the last time we will have to deal with ant sex this year.

Last thing, I played some pinball today at the arcade in the mall I paid for ten games and I got nine or eight for free from the machine. Sadly it wasn't the Lord of the Rings pinball game but Pirates of the Caribbean which isn't nearly as fun LOTR pinball but it had it's moments.

Obama!

2009-09-09T19:12:00.000-05:00

The President is coming to Minneapolis on Saturday and I am thinking about going to the event though I am surprisingly still on fence about going just because I know it's just going to be a zoo but it's the President... I'll think about it tomorrow on my day off though still nothing to thinking about really I just don't want to spend the money on gas since I didn't budget for it but that is a lame reason I think.

Anyway, I am going to go and watch the President's Speech

Stupid Human Tricks: Al Franken Edition

2009-09-09T07:05:00.002-05:00

Personally I feel that every American Senator should have to draw a map of America before they take their seats in Congress. What stupid human trick can your Senator do?

Diva Dienstag! Nena and good night

2009-09-08T23:04:00.002-05:00

Now for my favourite German Diva

Obama's school speech full video

2009-09-08T18:43:00.002-05:00

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Diva Dienstag! Tiny dancer

2009-09-08T17:43:00.000-05:00

Hold me closer Tony Danza!!!

Yes, I know Elton John is a man

but look at that wig! Need I say more?

Diva Dienstag " I will survive"

2009-09-08T12:46:00.000-05:00

Classic Diva Gloria Gaynor

Now with drag queens and didgeridoo

Diva Dienstag!

2009-09-08T08:01:00.000-05:00

Diva: n., pl. -vas or -ve (-vā).

An operatic prima donna.
A very successful singer of nonoperatic music: a jazz diva.

Dienstag: German for Tuesday

It's Diva Dienstag everybody, please sit back, bulk up and enjoy!

First up is Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings

Way to much soup...

2009-09-07T23:32:00.000-05:00

Soup is my favourite thing to make not only is it ridiculous easy thing to make but you can make a ton of it at once and then freeze it for days, weeks, and even months to come never having to worry about dinner since there is always soup ready to be thawed in the freezer.

I have been meaning to make a ton of soup for the last few days but other things came up like trying to save Buttertop or something shiny caught my eye like the nice weather and I just didn't get to it till tonight.

That's five pounds of mushrooms, carrots, and

potatoes, two heads of celery and two onions.

If you are thinking my that's a lot of vegetable for one soup you are right but when I put in the order at work I thought it wouldn't be enough. It's hard going from cooking for 160 people to yourself, I swear, really! It is!

I always use the food processor my mother gave me

to do the slicing and grating for my soups. Thanks Mom!

1. Add olive oil and onion to the stock pot, cook until clear.

2. Add sliced celery and grated carrots... try to cook.

3. Add Mushrooms... Realize there isn't all that much room left.

Add water, potatoes, and ignore the lack space left in the pot.

4. Realize you still have to put in lentils and quinoa into the pot

remove a bbq jugs worth of soup and then add the lentils and quinoa.

5. Cook for a long time until everything is done except the potatoes

that are almost done but you aren't going to wait until they are done.

6. Put soup in cute little tupperware containers your mother bought you.

7. Put forty meals worth of soup into the freezer hoping that

the still hot soup doesn't thaw your freezer completely...

8. Smile for the camera!

I normally puree the crap out of the soup before I freeze it but I decided not to as it would hopefully allow me to feel more full after eating and give my stomach something to do to keep me from overeating. I almost cooled the soup in the bath tub first before putting it in the freezer but that would have meant putting in the freezer before I go to bed and that my friends is to much work and I am le tired.

Prius, reply

2009-09-07T18:06:00.001-05:00

So I got a reply from the guy who is "selling" the prius and I am unsure how to respond to it.

"Hi,

I am selling this car because my platoon has been sent back to Afghanistan and don't want it get old in my backyard. The price is low because I need to sell it before September 25. It has no damage, no scratches or dents, no hidden defects. It is in immaculate condition, meticulously maintained and hasn't been involved in any accident..I do have the title , clear, under my name.

It is still available for sale if interested, price as stated in the ad $4800. The car is in Cedar Falls,IA in case it gets sold I will take care of shipping. Let me know if you are interested, email back.

Regards!!!"

Thoughts? Anyone?

Update 22:06

Thanks to Peder who used a silly thing called Google to find out that the Prius is a scam (fancy that) and I will not be spending any more time thinking about it. Moral of the story always listen to your gut and ignore the deal it's usually shady and not like a tree.

Lunch

2009-09-07T14:15:00.002-05:00

Obama's Back to School speech

2009-09-07T12:31:00.001-05:00

Well I read the prepared remark of President Obama back to school speech that he will give tomorrow to school children across the country and it seems rather umm... boring, uplifting, and well a typical Obama. He lays out how his life has wasn't the easiest thing in the world and how he's mother worked hard to make sure he received a world class education. If anything this speech is harmless it's nothing more then the President of the Untied States of America encouraging the youth of America to be more then themselves to work harder not only for themselves but for the country as a whole.

I am sure there will be more noise about how Obama is trying to brainwash our children, make our children into little socialist, and what not but personally I think it's more sub-conscious racial reaction more then anything else. God forbid that there is a positive African American male role model for all the children in America.

The President isn't a Nazi, Socialist, or White Racist, he's just a human being trying to fix a broken country. It's easy to demonize Obama but much harder to humanize him with all the racial baggage that most Americans carry around our collective necks. Please read the speech for yourself here and I would love to hear your reaction to it.

2006 Prius only 4,800 dollars...

2009-09-07T10:54:00.000-05:00

I was looking around the Bemidji craigslist when I find the most insanely cheap price for a Prius that I think I have every seen! Check it out for yourself here, crazy isn't it? I mean a 2006 Prius should be going for a lot more then that considering how insanely popular they but then again maybe there is something wrong with it? I sent the person selling this email

"Only 4800 dollars for a 2006 Prius? really? Is there anything wrong with it? Sorry to ask such question I just don't understand why it's so cheap! I wouldn't mind looking at it but really only 4800 dollars?"

Yes, I know I sounded like a jerk but the idea of a Prius for only 4,800 dollars in Bemidji Mn just seems like Sci-fi to me. Right now in my saving account I have 5,000 dollars and I could buy this car. Just the thought of getting rid of my car and replace it was a Prius at such a great deal causes my heart rate to go up which tells me that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" Hamlet Act 1, scene 4, 87–91

Check this out, it's pretty much the same car but at 19,995 dollars which seems to be the price I would think you'd sell a three year old Prius for not 4,800 dollars that seem way to cheap. Man, I am writing myself out of even wanting to buy this car aren't I?

I mean come on, Toyota just past the two million mark on Priuses sold for the love of mike and someone in Northern Minnesota is selling off theirs for only 4,800 dollars? It almost sounds like e-mail spam "Dear Sir, My name is Prince and I am willing to sell you my 2006 Prius for the price of 4,8000 American dollars. Just please click this link (which would take you to some crazy pirate site that would ask for all your banking info and then take over your computer) and fill out these forms and we will get back to you with the location of the Prius. Sincerely Prince

This post is much longer then I thought it was going to be... Sorry about that, really I am... I'll write more when if hear back from the seller.

Philipp Poisel

2009-09-06T22:59:00.000-05:00

There are very few German singer song writers I know about and out of all of them Philipp Poisel is the best. He's ability to put so much emotion and energy into his music never cease to amaze me! My friend Maren sent me his CD from Germany last year and if it was possible to wear out .Mp3 files I would have done just that having listen to it a few hundred times now. Even if you don't speak a word of German his music is still very accessible to an English speaker and anyway with some singers and some songs word do not seem to matter. So please sit back and relax and let the music take you some place else.

The resurrection of Buttertop

2009-09-06T18:14:00.000-05:00

Back in July, I sadly poured four pounds of melted butter on myself and my laptop and I was rather stunned as to what just happened. I mean really who the hell does this? Butter, four pounds of liquid butter all over the laptop, half of my t-shirt and the floor and oh the floor... Sorry about the Levi! I rushed to remove the butter from the laptop preforming surgery on it first behind the kitchen and then in the break room. Alas it was all for not, all I had was a buttery covered laptop, and a t-shirt that smelled like movie theater popcorn. The lappy was dead,and I removed the parts to make sure they could one day be harvested for another laptop. Thankfully, Bodo, a former German Assistant Cook and now tech Guru turned the hard drive it into a external drive.All my music, movies, photos and even my Firefox bookmarks were saved and then I reformatted the drive and turned it into a extra back up drive.

Fast forward to this morning around 8:30, I am cleaning the trunk of my car looking for my heart rate monitor and I see Buttertop covered in junk and I hit the power button and guess what... It started again!

I was so happy, I put the hard drive back in and installed the newest version of Ubuntu 9.04 and everything went well as one can see. Woot 5%!

Look I am using the Internet, downloading updates, playing music and what not... Sadly the butter has gotten into the monitor too.

Looks like my monitor has spent some time eating fastfood while it was in the trunk.

I can't stand having butter in the monitor so I took it apart not taking a break to eat or drink and I even put my father on speaker phone so I could continue working on this crazy project of mine. When I want to do something I get tunnel vision and can only focus on that project until it's finished or not...

Notice the parts of the monitor all over the coffee table. To be honest I should have just stopped,I should have just lived with it and enjoyed having my old lappy back but no I had to ruin it a second time.

Buttertop sans monitor.

It's 11:51 the screens are clean, I used windex to clean off the butter and it worked pretty well for windex. At this time I thought I was in the home stretch the thought of two laptops just running wild in my head. Sadly that was not the case.

Around 1:30ish or so I realized that I am sure there are companies that sell LCD Monitors to people who break theirs and the whole "clean-the-butter-out-of-the-monitor" was moot. I found a good site but it can't give me a price and the prices I do find for a new monitor are anywhere between 89-150 dollars which I am not really going to spend on the buttertop as much as I would like to it's just an exercise in stupidity, like oh taking a cat on a walk.

After eight hours of work on something that I shouldn't have even started in the first place I boxed the laptop and maybe someday I'll get back to good old Butterytop but I am not really sure when or really why I would. The hard drive still works and so does that sound card and everything else it just needs a working monitor.

Caturday

2009-09-05T23:34:00.001-05:00

Nothing of importance here just Caturday pictures.

This concludes your Caturday.

Lentil Harvest

2009-09-05T13:19:00.000-05:00

In May I planted some lentils just for kicks to see if anything would grow and guess what... Out of the 36 or so seeds that I planted about half of them grew to maturity and if I had pay more attention to the lentils and watered them more often, maybe they wouldn't have died with the pods still growing and trying to mature. Sadly, some of the pods were dead or had crazy small lentils inside which is something I should have known but being away for six weeks does not help much when you're trying to grow some lentils in your backyard.

The lentil plants ready to be picked though they're

sadly half dead.

Orange wondering what I am doing.

De-podding lentils pods.

Orange helping me sort the lentils

and trying to eat them...

The finished product!

So I now have not even a fourth of a cup of lentils to do something with like make a soup though it's not enough to make a soup so I am probably going to just plant them in the spring and try to pay more attetion to them next summer. One day i'll grow enough lentils that I won't have buy them any more at the CO-OP.

Fascination!

2009-09-04T23:38:00.000-05:00

I give you the Alphabeats the best thing to come out of Denmark since... Wind Turbines?

Take flight you mating ants

2009-09-03T22:58:00.003-05:00

Today was the start of ant mating season here in the North woods of Minnesota and if any of you are wondering what exactly ant mating is check out this excerpt from Wikipedia's article on Ants

"During the short breeding period, the reproductives, excluding the colony queen, are carried outside where other colonies of similar species are doing the same. Then, all the winged breeding ants take flight. Mating occurs in flight and the males die shortly afterwards."

I would just like to point out that in the insect world the male only seems to have one purpose in his short life that being to mate with the usually larger female and then promptly die, leaving the female to do all the work while the male just turns back into the carbon he came from single parenting at it's best I guess.

Anyway, so I am riding my bike around Lake Bemidji today at an average speed of 19 MPH/30 KPH minding my own business and enjoying the last of the warm summer days and I have mating ants crashing into me like asteroids hitting the moon before I know it I have just rode right into the middle of ant sex. Now I can only guess what walking in on other people having sex is like and my guess would be awkward and disgusting (depend on who is it and what not) but at least they aren't flying around slamming into you getting into your mouth, helmet, sunglasses and at one point left ear, I think. When I got home an hour later I wasn't covered in ants but I had a few dead male drones in my leg hair and female queen on my right shoe. Hopefully tomorrow I won't have to relive the experience of slamming into flying ant sex at 19 MPH then again it's a lot better then slamming into fly human sex at 19 MPH which would involve a plane of some sorts and I would assume is illegal in most states of the union minus Texas and maybe Missouri.

Random need to start a blog

2009-09-02T20:20:00.005-05:00

There really is no need for this blog... All ego and maybe a little soul but I have found that at times in my life, I feel the need to write even if my grammar is rather crap and words oddly placed. I have spent the better part of two hours trying to figure out what to write. Two hours of wandering around my head looking for something to write about and really not finding anything of substance then again who wants substance, just give me the fat and I will chew on it.

I am now home for the first time in three months and the house does not seem to be all the worse for wear beside the crazy amount of cat fur all over the place thanks to my quadruped roommates Fatty and Orange both of which are more then happy that I am home and slept on me for two hours on Sunday night. It's funny how I have finally seem to feel at home inside these four walls though I have own this house for two in a half years and it now feel like home. Hopefully, I'll be able to remodel it to look like it does in my head and less... well crap.