All About Breanne

There are exactly 80 days in the year in which I can officially say that my wife and I are the same age. Today marks the beginning of that period of time. For 80 days, she can keep her "old man" comments to herself. OK, so maybe she won't keep them to herself, but at least I can retort that she is the same age as this old man.

In honor of this momentous occasion, I would have been doing some brief Wikepedia research to see what else has happened of any significance on this day. I have taken the liberty of singling out a few of them for you.

• In 1960 the United States Congress passed the "Meat Inspection Act". I think we can all rest easy knowing that this was passed. In other news, this could be one of the worst jobs ever.


• In 1953 the first Chevy Corvette rolled of the assembly line in Flint MI.


• In 1972 the first "leap second" was added to the UTC time system. Seriously? Has anyone ever heard of a leap second? Is it really necessary? Who's the nerd that realized that we needed to add an additional second to our time system?


• In 1987 the Royal Canadian Mint introduced a $1 coin known as the "Loonie". Thus solidifying the fact that Canada is far less superior in every way.

She shares this momentous day of birth with several others as well. A few of note...

• 1891 Man Mountain Dean- American Professional Wrestler. I wonder if they did flying elbow drops back in 1891?


• 1966 Mike Tyson- Professional boxer and known cannibal


• 1984 Fantasia Barrino- American Idol Alum. Apparently she is still popular. Who knew?


• 1985 Michael Phelps- pot smoker and swimmer.

Of these momentous events not a single one of them lives up to the awesomeness of this day in the year 1982. Breanne came into this world and 25 years later, my life is way better because of it. She's beautiful, talented, and way smarter than I am. Every day is better with her in it. So I would like to wish Breanne a very happy 29th birthday. Thanks for being born! I hope you enjoy the very last year of your 20's.

Love you!

Liar Liar Pants on Fire

I can't stand it when people lie to me. It's not so much the fact that it shows that someone has such little respect for me, it's that they think I'm so stupid that I won't be able to find out the truth.

Unfortunatly, I work in an industry in which I am lied to on a daily basis. Some examples of the lies that I am regularly told are as follows.

- Of course I have no tickets or accidents.

- Of course no one else will be driving my vehicles.

- My 26 year old baby daddy that lives with me doesn't have a license because he never wanted to get one. (Not becuase it is currently revoked for having a DUI).

- The check is in the mail.

- I'm a non-smoker. Lets write some life insurance on me!

- Of course this guy that is sitting next to me with whom I am asking if this coverage is acceptable, is not a member of my household and does not drive my car.

The list continues. Today's lie in question is in regards to someone's home policy. We make it a practice to not insure homes that are vacant. We do this, because a vacant home is a claim waiting to happen. The mortgage company of one of our insureds notified us that his home is vacant. In response, we are cancelling his home. So he called me today wanting to know how to get the policy reinstated. Upon saying that someone would have to be living in the home, he says, "Ok... I will move in tomorrow". Really sir... you are just going to pick up and move back into this house that you are trying to sell? Do I look like a complete idiot?

The biggest problem with all these lies that people tell me is that people actually think that I believe them? Who is the bigger idiot now?

Oh well... Moving on.

In honor of the biggest liar of them all I will leave you with this.

Ron Blagojevich has been found guilty on 17 counts of various political wrong doing and then LYING about it. It all comes back to bite you in the end. Gotta love life lessons from Blago.

New Blogs and "Drug" Deals

I like to blog. You would never know it because I am horrendously bad at doing it. I say I'm going to and then 3 months goes by without a single post. So I'm starting over. Apparently a fresh start fully necessitates starting a new blog.

I have no specific topic or theme in mind. Just simply whatever I want to talk or complain about. Perhaps I can entertain the 2 or 3 people who might actually be reading this.

So for my first post, I will tell a very interesting story that happened to me yesterday. For those who don't know... I work in a part of town that is less than desirable. I would call it "seedy" at best.

So... I went to the McDonald's right next to my office to pick up a hot fudge sundae. I put in my order and was standing back and waiting. Whilst standing there, a young shifty African-American man approached me. He looked around the room and spoke in subdued tones.

"He man, you use this?". He then gestured to a 6 pack of Dove bar soap in his hand.

"What?" I say perplexed.

"This soap man... you use this?".

By now, I'm sure I have a very confused look on my face. "No" I simply reply.

"Oh, you use body wash?".

Hesitantly I reply, "yes".

"Man cause I was hoping to sell this for like $6... you interested?"

"No" I quickly say.

He then proceeds to walk to the counter and flirt with the girl with a pink weave. And this scenario perfectly describes my work location. I'm pretty sure he just stole it from the Walgreen's next door and was trying to sell it for drug money. However, this leaves me wondering. Who in there right mind is buying soap from the shady guy at McDonald's as oppose to just buying it from the store? Do I look like the kind of guy that is trying to score a sweet deal on bar soap? Maybe he thought I hadn't showered in a few days and was just needing a fix. I'm not sure, but it was just very weird.

Stay tuned to see if I feel so inclined to write a second post.