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I'm just a guy with a pension of occasional insanity and the occasion for misadventures in airplanes. I also seem to be an aspiring writer, if I can ever get myself to sit down and write, which, by the way, makes it interesting as to how I'm an aspiring writer considering that I'm also an aspiring engineer. The two aren't supposed to be together.

But please enjoy whatever it is that I ramble about whether it be sports, news, or just anything that I decide to blog about.
Saturday, Jul 4, 2009
It's the 4th of July and I nearly forgot to wake up in time for work. Don't worry I did. Started at noon.

It was thankfully a slow day, which ended up in me going home early, but there were still people ordering stuff. It's the ****ing 4th of July! Go help relatives in cooking or call up your sons/daughters or do something other than order clothes that aren't in stock anyway! This job does not make you appreciate old people at all. Even more perplexing is my luck with the girls at work. I'll talk about that in a later blog. Although you have to admit it is darkly humorous to hear people say they would never pay $3 for a 1000 page catalog, or pay an extra $5 for a clothing item. It's even worse when people think they're being self important when they mention they're never going to shop JC Penney again. Oh well, not my fault you didn't check your billing statement until it's too late.

In other news, I'll be gearing up to take the GRE, the test needed to get in grad school. Still no luck with jobs, so hopefully grad school will help me out in that market.

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Now my tummy is full of cookie dough and dinner has yet to be made. Ah well. It's a happy fulfillment.

There are apparently going to be fireworks right outside my house. That should be fun.

So again Happy 4th of July!
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Posted by Yagr_Zero, 6:19pm
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Sunday, Jun 28, 2009
The final just ended a few minutes ago, and I just have to congratulate both the United States and Brazil for a great tournament.

For those just tuning in, yes the United States made a final of a FIFA tournament. First time ever for them after getting rather lucky to survive their group by defeating Egypt 3-0 and having Brazil knock off Italy by the same score, giving the US the go ahead based on total goals scored, of which they edged Italy by 4-3. Somewhat ironic that Brazil, the team the US just played in the final, helped them get that far.

For the semis, the US took on reigning world number 1 Spain and outplayed the Spanish for a 2-0 win shocking the world. Really, did anyone give the US a reasonable chance against the Spanish, who hadn't lost a game in what, 35 games? US has now beaten two #1 ranked teams, the other being Brazil back in 2002 or 2001, and they also tied Argentina back in 2006 when they were ranked 1 as well.

The final today began with the US running full steam ahead and scoring two goals at the 10th and 27th minutes. The goal at the 27th minute was a thing of beauty. Up 2-0 at the half, the US needed to keep up the energy to shock the world again. But Brazil wasn't about to let that happen. With only a minute gone by in the second half, Brazil struck and cut the lead to 2-1 completely changing the complexion of the match. The tide was turned and Brazil dominated the second half and tacked on two more goals at the 74th and 84th minutes to go ahead 3-2. Brazil turned it on and never took their foot off the gas pedal. Granted the US looked fatigued near the end of the match, but what Brazil did was amazing.

I don't look at this as a bad loss for the US. We made it to the finals, and that in itself is an accomplishment, and we had a lead over Brazil winning the first half. Right now we need to look at what we did wrong in the second half and try to learn. Plus some more conditioning wouldn't hurt either.

And of course, congratulations to Brazil for winning their third Confederations Cup and second in a row.
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Friday, Jun 26, 2009
If you were reading this blog in case it had something to do with the fun N64 title Buck Bumble:



Then I'm sorry to say, you're out of luck.

Just the other day, while I was busy being innocent and surfing the interwebs, my dad looked out the window and exclaimed "WTF?" I looked over and saw my dad open the windows to show a swarm of bees flying around our house. Upon closer inspection, there were a couple hundreds bees, the largest concentration of them right up against the house. Yep, they decided to make our house their new home.


There be the bees flying in formation, if you can see them that is.

A number of bees were flying around in a formation of some kind all at a certain distance from the queen, who was busy making herself at home. I consider these bees, pictured above, to be the first line of defense, considering they kept crashing into the side of the house. Not the best fliers there.

As for there queen. Well she was here:


Along with a couple hundred more bees.

They found a small opening in the wall and took shelter, just in time since the heavens opened up a few minutes later.

If only Buck Bumble were a real insect. He could come in and destroy all the bees with his lasers and missiles. Ah well.

They're gone now. The exterminator came out and whacked the queen. He was also kind enough to let us know that this was the end of bee season, and we'd be entering wasp season next, followed by bumble bee season (yes there is a difference between bees and bumble bees).

All I know is that wasps don't send over hordes when deciding on a home, or at least paper wasps don't. Only a couple tried to make a hive right above our door back in Illinois. Raid took them down.
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Posted by Yagr_Zero, 6:16pm
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