Since I just posted an annoying loser person on my blog, I decided it would be a good time to follow up. There are two specific types of people that drive me utterly insane with their loserness and idiocy.

Girls with sunglasses so big they take up their whole face

Mostly seen at CSULB my last semester and also on myspace, these girls annoy me beyond words. Much like the girl in the post below, all those sunglasses tell me is that you are much more likely to be whorish than most girls. You’re also more likely to get drunk at random parties, hook up with loser guys, and you probably want to go into liberal studies or nursing (let’s see how many people I can offend in one post!).

In case you do wear these kind of sunglasses, let me clarify that there are other qualifications beyond the sunglasses. They are in no specific order: bleached blonde hair, wife beaters, smoking, working at hooters, thinking you’re on The O.C., bragging about the numerous children you’ve fathered to guys with trucker hats, and you probably will never actually finish college and get a real job because you’re too busy thinking you’re a porn star.

I wish I had this intuition back in High School.

Gangsters with shaved heads that all wear white shirts to their knees and roam like a pack of wolves

There is a reason you don’t see successful people in life doing the above: it makes you an idiot gangster by default. Stop bumping your crappy music in your obviously leased Escalade and do something with your life. Instead of walking around like you’re about to rob a liquor store, get a job and learn how to dress! At least get clothes that fit, and buy a comb and get a hairstyle. Even worse than this is the gangster that doesn’t know how to use a condom and becomes tied down by a kid. Faced with this obvious life change and responsibility, do you lose the gangster look and attitude? Of course not, you just go along being an idiot gangster setting a horrible example for your children to follow in your footsteps.

You’ve been epitomized in gangster movies and rap music for so long now, aren’t you tired of it? I am.

**If you belong to either of the two groups, please respond and tell me why you make the decisions that you do.**

I know I’m late on this update. Both of you that noticed will have to just deal with it.

Our next stop found us moving Southeast towards Cape Cod. After the busyness of Boston it was nice to do some relaxing. In Cape Cod we stayed at the Clapp’s Guest House. It’s a cute little place in the town of Harwich Port on the Cape. I was originally under the impression that we were staying in "Cape Cod," but that’s like saying you’re staying in the Gulf of Mexico. This photo is from the backyard and facing the main house. The guest house is behind me, but this shot really shows the greeness and beauty of the area.

Here’s a picture of our room. I show this picture for several reasons. It shows how quaint and interesting the rooms are, and it sort of felt like staying at Grandma’s house. The bathroom was tiny and there were a lot of bugs to begin with (but I killed them all.) The other reason I show you this picture is because of what’s on the television. That would be the show Myth Busters on Discovery. I am fairly confident I have now seen every episode of the show…ever. It totally rocks, and is a perfect example why we should never get cable tv…hmm, but it is educational right?

This is a very good picture of my hot wife. It’s 6:45ish on Tuesday, anyone like to take bets on how long it takes her to read that last sentence? Like I said, this part of the trip was mostly relaxing, so if you were expecting grand church buildings where wars concerning the fate of a nation were fought, you will be disappointed. This is taken out back in the beautiful backyard. She was nice enough to let me work on my photography skills (ie humoring me).

Because I like to keep you guessing, there actually were a few sites to see on the cape. There are TONS of lighthouses, and I’m guessing that’s because a cape was really easy for boats to run into or something. We visted a couple and saw some from a distance. This is the Highland Lighthouse which is about 100 yards from a really steep cliff on the sea. There was another guy there with some fancy Nikon taking pictures. There is a strange bond you feel towards someone else that has a similar camera, much like when I’d see other people driving a Ghia. I know nothing about them, but I feel like we have a connection is some odd way. Last I heard though his wife was yelling at him. As he went over the barrier separating the viewing area from the cliff all I heard was "Don’t worry honey, I won’t fall!"

One night in Cape Cod, frick, I mean Harwich Port, we went and saw a local baseball game! There were signs all over Harwich Port advertising the game, but it took us awhile to figure out what it was all about. The game was part of the Cape Cod Baseball League where college players come to play during the Summer. There were players from all over the country at various points in their college careers. We even saw several players from CSULB. The game was between the Harwich Port Mariners and their crosstown rivals, the Chatam A’s. It was a packed house, but Chatam was thoroughly thrashing Harwich Port. I kept the roster list so I can check back in 5 years and see if I’ve heard of any of them.

That is Cape Cod in a nutshell. Before the baseball game we went to a very tasty BBQ place with a funny old man called Dave’s Barbeque. We went to a Mexican place called Aye Caramba advertising "authentic Mexican food." Paul asked if the burritos come wet, to which the waitress replied, "I don’t know what that means." Yes, eating was one of the best parts of the trip.

Last update is yet to come…the big apple, New York City!

BYU has some beasts! In their second matchup of the regionals BYU handed it to CSULB 11-6. No matter who the Dirtbags put on the mound, BYU had their number. The game started off promising with Long Beach taking a 3-0 lead, but it pretty much went downhill from there.

Nebraska went on to win the College World Series, so De Schazer should be happy. CSULB finished ranked #41 nationally heading into the off-season. I’m excited to see who the Dirtbags pick-up during the off-season and I expect to see an even better team take the field next year.

Today I began my playoff run in the Stanford Regional that will hopefully end in a College World Series Championship!

Game 1 had the Dirtbags (ranked #37) vs BYU (#33). Long Beach appeared to have BYU’s number heading into the top of the 9th with a 4-3 lead. The Dirtbags brought in Vogl, their closer who had been lights out all year with a 0.40 ERA. Then the unthinkable happened. Vogl gave up 3 runs, leaving the Dirtbags down 6-4 on their final 3 outs. Still in shock from BYU’s comeback, CSULB was unable to score, losing game 1 of the double elimination tournament.

In Game 2 the Dirtbags were facing WSU (#11) who had just lost to Stanford. Both teams were facing elimination and needed to win. The Dirtbags turned to their ace, Compton, who had been lights out all season long. For 8 1/3 innings Compton gave up only a single run, while the Dirtbag hitting came alive, scoring early and often. The Dirtbags finished off WSU 6-1 to stay alive.

The Dirtbags will now face BYU again after their loss to Stanford.

The last week has been jampacked with graduation fun! Last Wednesday we went out to eat with Kevin to celebrate his graduation from CSULB and starting his new job. Not only did his parents treat us to delicious Lonestar, but we saw some friends we hadn’t seen in a while. Once you get married and start spending 90% of your time with your spouse, you really start to value the small amount of time you spend with your friends.

Then on Friday night we went to CSULB to watch Andrew graduate. He’s got a picture on his website, but here is one I took.

It was really cool to see my little brother achieve such an awesome accomplishment. He’s starting his first real job next week, and I’m sure he’ll do awesome. After graduation we went out to Ruby’s in Long Beach, and then headed over to Marina Pacifica to see X-Men 3. Saturday evening we went over to my parents for Andrew’s graduation party with friends and family.

On Sunday I woke up at 6 am to go to Stacie’s graduation at CSUF. She graduated with her MS in Education with a concentration in reading. Long Beach and Fullerton have very different graduation setups. Long Beach had 9 separate ceremonies for each school in the college, while Fullerton only had two big ceremonies, followed by a second ceremony for each school. Basically what this means is Fullerton’s was a lot longer and much more crowded. All my complaining aside, it was great to see the love of my life honored for her accomplishments. She is one of the hardest working and most dedicated people I know. After the ceremony we had a party at the in-law’s house with some friends and family.

Unforutunately about halfway through the Fullerton marathon ceremony I got sick. Sunday night I hardly slept at all, which resulted in me lying on the couch all day Monday. I never even changed out of my pajamas from Sunday night to Monday night, gross huh? Luckily Monday was Memorial Day and I didn’t have to go to work. This morning I was still only about 75%, but I went to a workshop instead of teaching, so that worked out. Spending all day Monday on the couch gave me time to finish off the final episodes of CSI:NY and One Tree Hill. I started to finish Smallville, but I still have a few episodes left from the end of the season.

So that was my long weekend full of graduation mayhem. Congrats to all the other recent graduates (Mike and Amy) I didn’t mention.

Most posts focus on a single topic, which aids the reader in focusing on that which the writer wants them to focus on. This post however will have zero focus.

Right now I’m sitting in the CSUF library wearing my CSULB Dirtbags hat. Crazy CSUFers have been mad-dogging me the whole time, it’s awesome. I saw a stupid girl wearing a t-shirt that read "Stop judging me based on your IGNORANCE." I wanted to tell her "Stop assuming I give a rip about  YOU." I think it would be awesome and she wouldn’t know what to say. How idiotic do you have to be to wear a t-shirt like that? I’m sure she feels so unique, because after all she bought a t-shirt and was able to put it on correctly.

Yesterday we went to Alcatraz Brewing Co. at the Block with Fanny and Mark. It was good. Then we went back to their house to watch part of the Dodger game and kill some time until cheap bowling started at Del Rio. Unfortunately when we went to Del Rio, not only was there a huge wait, but there were 1,000 dirty little kids running around at 9:30 pm! Now I realize it is spring break, but take your dirty little kids home and put them to bed so us adults can have some fun. Due to the dirty little kids and the idiots that work at Del Rio, we left without giving them a cent of our hard-earned money. We instead went to our house and watched the movie Derailed. Very good thriller and I highly recommend you view this movie.

I’ve been eyeing a computer upgrade for the last week and talked the wifey into letting me buy. I’m replacing a 4 year old videocard, a 4.5 year old sound card, and upgrading memory (which in turn will let me overclock). I’ll post more when I actually get the parts tomorrow and have a chance to see them work. It was only $15 more for overnight shipping, otherwise it might have been delayed until Monday, and that would be as annoying as the girl with the stupid t-shirt.

Spending time on a college campus like this reminds me of my years working on my bachelor’s degree. Can anyone explain why it’s "bachelor’s" and not "bachelors"? Who and what exactly is a bachelor, and why does the degree belong to them? Why not "bachelor degree"?

In case anyone was wondering, I still think we should build a wall on our southern border. In fact, the Minutemen are thinking of taking matters into their own hands. They already have landowners there on the border that would let them build. I love the entire Minuteman project. Ordinary citizens willing to do something when the government is not. If you’re a whiny liberal who thinks the Minutemen shouldn’t be doing what they are, then grab a big box of tissues. They’re only helping to enforce the already existing laws that our country has adopted. Citizens Arrest in da house!

I made what I thought was an awesome post over at Amy’s blog, but the only one who deemed it worthy of a reply was Kevin. I spent a good 20 minutes and a great deal of creative thought developing that post!

Who messed up the church bulletin? It went from a clearly defined layout broken up by ministry to just a garbled mess of text. I liked seeing everyone’s mug next to their little column.

The last two paragraphs were only a couple sentences long. I bet you think I’m running out of stuff to say, right? Wrong!

So now that I’ll have a computer that can actually run games created in the 21st century, any suggestions what I should check out? I’ve got Half-Life 2 with CS: Source, so I’ll definitely fire those up. I tried Oblivion on Andrew’s machine and it looked intriguing. Otherwise there are a ton of games that I haven’t even played like BF 2, F.E.A.R., Farcry, Call of Duty 2, Doom 3, Quake 4, and anything else that came out in the last couple years. I’m not really interested in a MMORPG. Star Wars Galaxies held my interest for quite a while, but that was because I had a profit motive. WoW got old…killing and questing for hours on end…and for what? So what should I check out?

I’m almost done with Feast for Crows. I don’t know what to read next though. There are a lot of other fantasy series I could check out like the Dark Tower series, or Goodkind, or Brooks. I’ve read several apologetic books regarding Catholicism, but I’m interested in reading some about Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Muslims. I know I disagree with them, but I’d like to know a little more concretely "why" I do.

I’ve now spent 30 minutes typing random thoughts, and while it’s been fun, I need to go work on homework that is due on Monday. Off to Disneyland after this and probably going to meet up with a buddy from work. Adios bloggers.

My wife is gone at Girl Scout Camp. I chose to stay home and keep the puppy company (she’s almost 3 years old, but she will forever be a puppy, weird). As this monumental weekend of aloneness approached, I began to brainstorm different activities I could partake in without the wife. While she loves to do things with me, there are certain things that would be lower on her list, yet high on mine. These are the types of activities I have focused on for today.

Last night I went over to Chris Luna’s new pad and hung out. We watched Ferris Bueller, random SNL dvds, and played Karaoke Revolution (cool game!). I ate Little Ceasar’s pizza and KFC chicken, mmmm.

Today I have decided to embark on a Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Marathon. The running time of all three extended editions is 11 hours and 22 minutes (not including disc changes). My original idea was to watch all 3 films including extras, but that might be a little long. It is now 11 am, and if I start soon, that has me finishing about 11:00 pm tonight, not including bathroom breaks and eating. There are easily 2 hours of extras per film, so those might have to wait. Here is a rough schedule of my day:

11:30 am – 3:00 pm : Fellowship of the Ring
3:00 pm – 7:00 pm : Two Towers
7:00 pm – 11:00 pm : Return of the King

UCLA plays Memphis at 4:05 pm, so I may switch to that for the duration of that game. I watched the game on Thursday against Gonzaga, and it was amazing. While I didn’t attend UCLA, I did look into going there in High School…so it’s behind CSULA and CSULB for schools I actually care about.

If you want to watch a LOTR film or watch UCLA in HD, you know where I’ll be.

It is day 3 of winter session, and I just ate hot dog #3. I’m starting to feel like that supersize guy. Maybe I could make a movie about eating hot dogs during winter session at csulb. It could be me eating hot dogs and posting on the blarg. Dang that would be exciting.

When I got home last night the Rose Bowl had just finished, but luckily Stacie left the DVR on. I skipped back to about 6 mins left in the 4th and watched the end. Holy Cow Vince Young is good. I heard something about Texas scoring a touchdown that shouldn’t have been one, but sounds like a good game.

Right now we’re doing dumb stuff in Excel. The people on both sides of me are posting on MySpace. WOW this is dumb.