Top Three Tuesday is, drum roll please…

Top Three Favorite Junk Food Must Haves (Sweet or whatever)!!!

Mine are 1. Cheetos 2. Twinkies 3. Peanut Butter M&Ms (Well, there are at least ten but I would like to keep it simple but if I had to add more it would be Whoppers)

So, what are your favorite three go to junk food must haves… Hearing the strains of Junk Food Junkie…

Week one of the month of Hell is down. Three to go. Well, the first week wasn’t too bad but next week is going to be not so much fun. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job. But if there is one week of the year I despise is the week of The Feast Of The Assumption. It’s festival in Little Italy on the East Side of Cleveland. Pulling the pre-orders is one thing, hearing the the phone ringing off the hook on the night of the first day with add-ons is a class A pain in the ass. I am SOOOOO glad I don’t have to do deliveries. I’ve heard the customers can be such a pain in the ass. I was asked back when I first started if I was going to go to the festival. Yeah, nothing like eating Italian food on paper plates and paying way too much for it. When I can walk fifteen minutes from my house and eat better food off of real plates in A/C. My hometown has it’s own festival called, wait for it, The North Ridgeville Corn Festival. Yeah, and Corn is a plenty most years. With the drought like conditions, who knows… Anyway back to work. I get it that it for the Church but going there to spend cash on over priced Italian food is not my idea of fun. If there was deep fried food i.e. deep fried Twinkies (yeah really bad for you but it’s very tasty) or funnel cakes maybe I might go. And I can Gelato cheaper and more flavors at work.

Last week, the lawn mower started acting up and the back-up electric mower isn’t fairing any better. May have to invest in a new lawn mower next week. It’s a good thing with the lack of rain this summer and I managed to get the front yard cut before it started acting up.

Speaking of rain, it’s finally rained a decent amount last night. And it’s not as hot. This week was a normal hot as blazes in the warehouse. The rain of late seemed to be missing my neighborhood but there was a decent amount of rain last night. Am hoping for some rain. Anything to cool it off some. I am glad I’m not dealing with the 100 degree weather out West. But then again, I don’t mind the dry heat. It’s the humidity is what makes it miserable. I was in 100 degree heat when I was in Basic Training in El Paso Texas in September of 1985. But I am more of a fan of Spring and Autumn.

Some moron from my hometown goes into a local theater with a bag of guns and knives and assorted other gear a few days ago while watching The Dark Knight Rises. Sheesh. My question is, well two questions, when did theaters allow back packs and is this guy totally clue less??? I don’t get it. There is no one worth killing and going to jail for the rest of my life. It’s more fun to torment people who piss me off. The gift that keeps giving… And shooting in temple… I’m blaming the heat that brings out the morons. Because I have no clue why the idiots are doing things like this. Or the genetic modified food or sun spots.

Marvin Hamlish died this week and no word on Xanga about it. Go figure.

Curiosity safely lands on Mars and it’s working and I stayed up to witness it. The Space Nerd is happy and is wondering when a human landing is going to happen.

Only a few days left in The Olympics and way longer for political ads. “SIGH”…

Because I am so clue less, I had to reformat my MP3 player to delete a bunch of unwanted songs. I do want a new MP3 player but it’s not in the budget.

Well, that’s all for now. Going to get some dinner and finish washing clothes and enjoy my weekend.

Be safe and stay cool…

A new weekly topic for me. A radio sports show does this for sports so just for giggles, I thought (scary thought I know) I’d do it. Any ideas will be nice. I have more than a few. Note: I am NOT computer savvy.  So there will be no photos. And at 4:30 am this morning, I am really surprised I can function.

Top Three Action/Adventure Movies:
Here’s mine:

1. Lethal Weapon

2. Die Hard

3. Ronin

Next weeks’ Top Three Tuesday will be??? That would be telling but it will be about food.

I’m NOT watching The Olympics. Not that interested in outside sports. Or the justification of someone who could be working just to spend most their time training at a sport. And not get paid for it. Maybe it’s me but I don’t get it. And in the next Summer Olympics, they’re adding GOLF to “competition… Yeah, Golf. Go figure. I actually watched an Olympics one time when the first Dream Team of Basketball participated. Since then, not so much.

I am tired of listening to people bashing Penn State. And Political ads. About the freak who shot up the theater in Colorado. I wish to win the state lottery and somehow escape this madness. Even youtube has the political ads. May end up watching Netflix until November 7th.

My Play Station Portable (as known as a PSP) was acting up after I spilled some water on it. It’s now working again. but for a few days, I thought I was going to have to shell out another $150.00 for a new one. I had a container that has a button to open the top and it was jarred open and I put my PSP in said bag. I normally put it in my back-pack. This happened Thursday night and by today it’s working again.

Friday night re-watched Buckaroo Banzai again on Netflix. I do love my B Movies.

This month The Hunger Games is out on Blue Ray and I will be buying it and watching it again.

Starting in three days, the month of Hell happens. Over the period of thirty days, everyone, it seems, is taking time off. To cap it off, I get to spend two weeks in the freezer. I talked to my boss about how and what’s going to happen. Because said guy works the freezer (restocks it, puts things away etc.) and got no answer. Yet. Because I’m going to be a pain in the ass until I get some answers. And I can be a real pain in the ass when I want to be.

It finally rained some. It needs to rain more. My home town has a festival called The Corn Festival the second weekend in August. With what little rain there has been, the sweet corn isn’t going to be that great. It’s supposed to rain some more this week but will it be enough? Who knows.

Well, it’s time to call it a night. The work week awaits…

A few Notes:

I went to bed to absorb the awesomeness that was the movie only to wake up to find out some person shot up a theater in Colorado during the premiere of the movie. I’m hoping a fellow Xanga friend Boulderchristina isn’t one of the ones shot or dead. I’m sure more information about why he did it will surface. Until then, be aware of where you’re at and still go out and enjoy yourself. Don’t let a person like this mess up your plans.

I took the day off to enjoy myself (the next month and half the vacations start and a local festival in Little Italy and a two week stint in the freezer to top things off and decided to take the day off.) The last two midnight showings of movies I went to were at a local theater that’s a 10 minute drive. I decided to buy my ticket a few hours early and maybe hit a local coffee shoppe and read a new book. I get to the theater around 10pm. Sold freaking out. All their theaters. The next showing was at 3:30am. Start to freak out a bit. So I head west and get caught in a massive traffic jam, miss the exit and back track and find a theater that wasn’t sold out. I didn’t do to coffee shoppe but thankfully I brought my handy dandy PSP and got caught up my shows I down loaded.

Now on to my review. Spoilers maybe…

No, seriously, spoilers…

Bruce Wane has been a recluse after the action from The Dark Knight. A few laws have made the streets safe of organized crime and Batman hasn’t been seen after he’s been accused of Harvey Dents death. Bruce is a little more banged up and a “servant” comes up and delivers his meal only to crack his safe and steal a necklace. From there the ride begins and never lets up. Selina Kyle also delivers Bruces’ finger prints to a bad guy who then bankrupts Bruce Wane, but a shadowy figure is really pulling the strings after his minions rescue him in mid-flight. Bane is name and has ties to The League of Shadows. Bruce has a fusion device that doesn’t work but someone can make it work. Bane knows this but first has to take out Batman/Bruce. And does so with ease. But doesn’t kill him. No, Bane has take the fusion device and reconfigures it to a nuclear bomb. He then cuts the city off from everything else, opens the prisons, anyone who’s rich get punished. And then….

What, and tell you the ending???

Of the three latest Batman movies… Lord, it was hard to top the last movie but this one does. I had reservations with all the characters being there and I didn’t think two hours and forty-eight minutes would do it justice. And there’s a big reveal at almost the end of the movie that I didn’t see coming but should have, as I am a comic book nerd. But each character has a vital part in the over all story arc that makes the movie that much better. The fight scenes were awesome as was the car chase. But the story and the ending was just this side of greatness. It ties up a lot of loose ends and creates possible story-lines. Endings and beginnings. If you’re a Sci-Fi nerd like myself, there are a number of actors who are in the movie. Some a brief part but if you’re observant, you’ll catch them.  There are few story ideas about how the ultra rich are beyond us, how laws to protects the citizens may go to far (after the shooting in Colorado, the “talking heads” are at it again), and few other ideas but it never gets preachy. The actors are great and the new “Bat-Plane” for lack of a better term is awesome.

Will it top Marvels Avengers??? That movie was also released in 3D but The Dark Knight Rises was not. But, I think this was a different movie. The Avengers was a popcorn movie. Meaning that it’s movie that has a lot of action, eye candy, and not a whole lot of substance. Not that it’s a bad thing. A little bit of escapism is good. HOW that movie did a Billion, that’s right a Billion Dollars escapes me. But who knows. After the shooting in Colorado… This shouldn’t make anyone not see it. Hell, see any movie. But if you liked the past two Batman movies run, don’t walk and see it. And start counting the days until the Blue-Ray release…

Be Safe and catch ya later…

I managed to survive the past two weeks with my sanity intact. Just barely. Drama at work…  Working five days was interesting. Working until 5am, not so much. And being stupid not so much.

As I mentioned in the last post, my place has a twice yearly physical inventory. I have an area that I get to count, attach a tag and when my boss checks me for accuracy, I get to pull said tags in order. So I had a bag with me that had assorted things in it and I put said tags in said bag (okay enough of saying said like that). I had in the back of my mind to make sure to give tags to my boss. As I was getting a few coupons of my bag after filling up at Speedway, guess what’s in the bag (not the box, that joke got old in a hurry)??? So I hurry back to work to drop them off. Boss dude (I picked that phrase from reading, of all books, a Richard Marcinko book) called me to let me know the bone headed thing I did. He then said not to bring the tags back until I clock in later that day. As I was three quarters of the way to work. I also mentioned to him that around 8am in the morning my cell phone would be ringing off the hook and hear all sorts of comments as to why I left with the tags. No thank you, I don’t need that. And I managed to get a crack in the windshield while this was happening. So much for the free pay check in August… So I managed to get home by 5:30 am and in bed by 6am. One good thing about that night, we had a customer bring in some really good food for our lunch. And everyone agreed this place should be a go to place. So when I arrived at work, another customer made pizzas and there was plenty left-over. Some one asked me if I wanted any. So sorry but I have leftovers from last night and damned if it’s better than the stuff you’re offering me.

The first two days of this past week was typical holiday work week for night crew. And 4th of July was spent indoors. I did walk an 1/8th of a mile to Walgreens for some exercise. Big mistake. I expect this kind of heat and humidity in August, not July. Thursday had more than it’s share of drama at work. Boss dude is on vacation so another guy is in charge. He had to leave for a few hours and said he’d call me if he got delayed. I saw no problem. But everyone and their idiot self did. Long story short, second in command came back. But a guy left work because he said he was sick. That person didn’t clock out. I did that for him after he left. So, Monday should be an interesting day. That guy who left work has had a history about doing this and this may end his time at work. Then again it may not. The things that people have done where I work would gotten people fired at other places but here not so much. Ah the joys of working for a family owned/subsidiary of a bigger company…

On to other things…

Eric McCormack from Will And Grace has a new series on TNT Monday night called Perception. I’m going to record it and pass judgement on it after a few episodes.

Longmire is still awesome.

Less than two weeks until The Dark Knight Rises and Lord help me if it sucks…

Going to be spending some cash at Amazon. There are some books I have to have.

The nearest Starbucks is ten miles away. Speedway is just up the street and on the way to work. Much cheaper and better coffee. Just saying.

Went shopping for stuff I needed and it’s too danged hot.

Renewed my subscription to Entertainment Weekly.

Yeah, I lead the wild and crazy life during the summer. Three more months of the heat and knowing my luck it will be a bitterly cold winter. It’s my luck.

Well, those of you who have A/C, stay there. Or have access to a pool or something like that.

Had ribs from a place was good in past and stunk this time. Nothing like burned ribs on the bottom and not getting everything you ordered. Note to self: Not to go back when they have rib cook-off…

Going to watch NCIS marathon on USA Network or screw around on internet. Or do both. Ah, the age of multi-tasking. Or the age of procrastinating. Or the age of being distracted. As opposed of The Age Of Aquarius… Please, no one post the song here…

“No Matter Where You Go, You’re All Ready There…” Buckaroo Banzai

Be carefull out there…

Seeing how my weekend is shot because of the long work week this week, this is going to be a very short post.

My boss is going on vacation instead of guy in freezer. Guy in freezer is going on vacation at the end of August. Guy we hired is going to day shift because someone quit to go to South Carolina. That guy has quit and came back quite a few times. His wife is a nurse and got a decent job down there. And my Friday got a bit more hectic. One guy is going to be late due to a golf outing (Mid to upper 80′s for the coming week, go figure) and another guy is going to to see Rascall Flats. So could have been an easy night now going to an interesting night. Just have to get through Thursday night. 3:00 pm to maybe 4:00am Friday morning. The only thing I’m doing Saturday is sleeping until maybe 3pm. Because 10 hours of sleep in the next two days is NOT going to cut it. Good thing I managed to wash one load of clothes before going to work. No real plans for the 4th of July. Never been a fan of firework shows. May end up just relaxing in the A/C. Because My Monday and Thursday will be complicated. Nothing I haven’t dealt with before. I hate summers because of everyone takes their vacations over the next three months. And me being me, I take my days off when it’s cool and enjoyable. Yeah, I’m weird that way.

Well, time for a shower and a brief five hour nap.

Hope everyone has a relaxing weekend and a safe 4th of July…

I start the next two weeks of work that happens every six months. A holiday (4th of July), a five day work week, a physical inventory, and a three day stint in the freezer. The price I have to pay for working four days a week. Thursday is going to be a rough one. After loading trucks, I have to count a area, tag it and hope to God the count is right. So sometime around four or five in the morning, I get to leave and turn right around head back to work and load trucks Friday. I’d rather do this than either working Saturday or Sundays. Those days are never fun. I am dreading the three days in the freezer. In the heat of July doesn’t bother me. Because of the wacky delievery schedual, I have a Columbus truck with a Youngstown truck to deal with. And with the holiday, Lord knows what the freezer loads are going to look like.

I have watched the first two episodes of Bunheads and I am hooked. The lead actor looks kinda a like Lauren Graham but different. And who doesn’t like Kelly Bishop. So, along with what I am watching, it’s a good thing I have a DVR. And a computer. Hulu is where I’ve been watching Bunheads. Here are my summer shows is no real order: Tron Uprising, Longmire, Burn Notice, Young Justice Invasion, The Glades, Ultimate Spider man, Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes (yeah, yeah, Zoz, why all the cartoons??? Because they’re good shows and I used to read comic books.), and later in July White Collar.

My left foot is better than it was a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago, it was acting up and I was fearing another trip to the emergency room another bout being flat on my back but I got back on my medication and the swelling has gone down. If only the wound would heal and seal up. But for that to happen, I need to be off my feet for a few months and unless I hit the Mega Millions or Power Ball, it ain’t happening. A brief aside: A few years ago, I had a open sore on the bottom of my left foot and it got bad enough that I went into the emergency room and found out if I had waited a few more days, I would lost my foot. And spent the summer attached to a I.V. bottle for a month and a half. A good thing about it was I was able to quit smoking. My right ankle was fractured and it never set right. So it’s a miracle that I have a job (that and knowing where the bodies are buried). So unless I keep my wits about me, I could be in the hospital. Add being on my feet ten hours a day… Lets just say some days are better than others. And I am not complaining.

With the extra cash I’ll be getting next paycheck, I do want to get myself something. It’s one of three things: A new mp3 player, a Android phone, or a 32in LED TV. I haven’t made up my mind yet but one the three I would like to get. Later this year, I will be getting a PS3. Or maybe a new laptop. They’re both about in my price range. Or I could just get a Amazon Gift card and buy a box load of books I’ve had my eye on. Decisions Decisions

This video is for the long suffering Cleveland Cavaliers and The Oklahoma Thunder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-OO9LloDSJo#t=5s

Mowed the yard, in the process of cleaning out the garage (nothing like hauling out ten bags of aluminium cans and a who knows whats in the basement) and clean clothes. Hopefully by end of summer, I hope to clean out the basement and the garage. A lot can accumulate over thirty years… A load of VHS tapes, two or three computer, a few printers, etc…

At least it cooled off some. Just for summer to rear it’s ugly head, back into the upper 80′s by weeks end. Still waiting for some rain. The only thing growing in the yard is weeds.

Hoping every ones week is a good one.

I work in a Italian food warehouse. A trained monkey could do my job. If a trained monkey/flying monkey would stay long enough to care. I love my job. No job skills required. Just being able to read and know what the product is. And I work four days a week. Only when I have to work in the freezer or when the holidays fall weird is when it becomes a pain in the ass. I love working nights. I’m a night owl. There’s a Foreigner song that describes my love for night life.

As I said I love my jobs but there are times like this when I scratch my head…

As I mentioned before in a pulse, Cleveland now has a casino. My boss loves casinos. From Las Vegas to parts east, there isn’t a casino I don’t think he hasn’t been to.

Thursdays are our easy night. So easy my boss, with some friends of his decides to go to the casino. So only two of us are stuck at work. My boss lets everyone leave early and he stays to let everyone get to 40 hours as close as possible. He stays to do his paper work.  Two hours after he “visits” the casino, he ask me to do a few mundane things. Oh, and after that clock everyone out at 12:30am. And he’ll be back soon. I, being one of the low men on the totem pole, do not have keys to lock up or the alarm code to set the alarm and the authority to the things that need doing. So, around 2:30, my boss decides to come back to work and finish up what he needs to do. Have I mentioned that I was stuck at work, off the clock, for two hours??? Boss says he owes me. No kidding? I know where the “bodies” are burried and he knows it. And I did some praying that the president didn’t call. He’s been known to do things like that and I am not cover for him. Things like this doesn’t happen too often but I had wanted to get some sleep for once.

So, it’s after 5am in the morning and I am still awake. My boss offered me a cigar. Uh, boss I haven’t smoked in three plus years. I have another blog about other things I’ll try and get to sometime this weekend. Right now, my pillow is calling me and my eyes are starting to hurt. See you later in the day…

I had tride to write about something that happened over two weeks ago. Instead of going through Firefox, I went through Internet Explorer. So I’m going to go through memory. I know I’m going to get the same blog, because the emotion that was there in the beginning ain’t going to be there.

This blog will not be my usual blog. It may get a bit depressing. So, if you want to leave, leave now. I will understand. But I think I have to get this down somewhere instead of my head. There are enough loose marbles rolling around there. I don’t need anything else messing with natural disorder that is my mind/soul.

My mom died two weeks ago last Friday and I felt nothing. Why I felt nothing I will explain here.

First off, I was NOT Beaver Cleaver. I wasn’t the “perfect” son. Hell, I wasn’t even close to “normal”. That took a few years. But I’m getting a head of myself. I did and said things I am, to this day, not proud of. It’s weird that I remember more things I did/said wrong/hate full than I do about the good times. Because there was a few. There had to be. Nor was I abused as a child. There are people out there who had a rougher childhood than I. So, I am not looking for sympathy. I was a bit of a brat. And there were times where I let my mouth overload my ass and either got into fights and lost/got spanked by my dad. Believe me, I got and deserved every spanking/ass whooping I got. So a few months after my tenth birthday, my dad anounces that he and mom were going to be getting a divorce (the year was 1976) and my sister and I were going to be shipped off to our respective families for the summer while the divorce was being taken care of. Not a good summer for me and I got my ass paddled a bit for that. So, at the end of summer, dad takes me to see my mom and she says to me she didn’t want to see me again. She would take custody of my sister. I didn’t take the news well as you can imagine. So nine months later I was told that I had to see my mom when my sister (there is a story behind that doesn’t need to get into) after my dad got custody of her. I was in a type of therapy at the time. Still a messed up kid through high school. During this, my dad got remarried and now I have to deal with a step-mother, step-sister and a step-brother. Both of whom had more friends than I would ever have. That’s what happens when instead of dealing with the problems instead of blaming someone else. Or ignoring the fact that the problem is me and it follow me until I deal with it. That took more than a few years and a whole lot of miss steps. A week after my 18th birthday, dad announces another divorce in less than ten years. I thought it was a birthday gift that was late. I liked my step-mothers step-father. He just died a year or so back and another regret is not staying in touch with him and his wife. Senior year of high school was not fun. Another year of counting my time until I left the place. I pre-enlisted in The Army. Dad was not amused but he was dealing with me and my sister alone, working full-time, going to a community college part-time and trying to have a life of his own. Choir was my only escape and I knew that wasn’t going anywhere. Thought about suicide then. Mom and I are still fighting with each other off and on. September of 1985, I was off to boot camp in the Army and spent my leave after that with a female pen-pal family for Christmas. That was how messed up in the head I was. So, I managed to squeak my way through boot camp/school and made it Germany. Dad wrote me about things were going good for him and I didn’t speak to him until I got myself into a jam (no I was not in jail. Just did some stupid things and needed him to help me out). I got out of the Army earlier than expected and what little savings I had I had in my moms name. There was an uneasy truce but after finally getting through my head ( a little bit, I was still not acting like an adult) I am the reason I am in the mess that I was, I cut off ties with my mom on Thanksgiving Day 1988. The reason was she and my sister were arguing about something stupid and I had made a vow not to be around people who made me unhappy. So while at a red light, I got out of my moms car and said unless she changed her ways, I was having nothing to do with her. She tried to get in touch with me a few times the first year, not one time admitting that she had issues she needed to deal with. I know she never did because I would hear about the flair-ups between my sister and her. But those were far and few between from what I can gather. My sister was in charge of my mom fiances the last few years and the last six months she was in hospice with liver cancer/lung cancer, my sister tried to get me to see her. Saying mom was sorry about how she treated me a child. It was never about forgiveness. It’s been about remembering what was done. About her never owning up to her faults. I have NEVER blamed anyone else for my problems but myself. She, like a few co-workers I know, blame everyone else for their problems.

She died in her sleep May 15th and when I was told I felt nothing. No sadness or elation. Just nothing. I mentioned to someone that very few people showed up at her memorial (my sister had her cremated). I then thought about that and I don’t care who shows up to my memorial. Why would I? I’ll be dead and won’t care. But I guess I when mentioned that was how few friends she had. I don’t know. I guess all what I had done to make myself a half way decent person ment that I have a ways to go. Maybe because of how I turned out, I didn’t want to inflict on that any children I would have. I chose not to be married with children. I still have issues. I guess I all ways will. But some day I wouldn’t mind sharing my life with someone (seeing how the big 5-0 is around the corner) but I don’t know. I think I’m a good person, just flawed and as confused as I was at age 19. Older and I hope, wiser. But still working on being who I am.

I know this what I didn’t wrote the first time. This was editied and I more than likely left out a few things. And the raw emotion isn’t there. But it is what it is. I should be back to “normal” soon and the blogs will not be as reflective/boring/depressing.

Well, I had best be going. A room to clean up. Clothes to be folded and put away. And another week of work awaits. Oh, the new season of The Glades is on and a new show called Longmire is on A&E tonight. Am crossing fingers that this post will take or I may throw my lap top through a window…