Sportsfans, sometimes events happen that can be a blessing in disguise.  Remember how I was taking this week off and heading out of town for a while?  Well, things changed.  Last Friday, a friend called me with an extra ticket to the Tennessee Titans' preseason game Saturday night.  These are pretty good seats too, so I decided to delay going out of town for one day and go to the game.  And you know what?  That game was one of the most boring experiences I have ever had.  The only fun came from making fun of people and stuff like that.  For example, one woman in our section looked like she was wearing a lesbian Halloween costume...sleeveless plaid shirt, flat top haircut, the whole bit.  Then this one poor guy who was carrying a tray with a HUGE tub of popcorn on it and some drinks stumbled on the stairs which caused the popcorn to go everywhere.  While I was trying not to laugh, Jason goes "just put that popcorn anywhere..." and then turned to me and said "man...I didn't mean that to be out loud" so of course I started laughing harder.  Earlier in the night while having a couple of beers near the stadium, we heard Vince Young was not going to be playing, which really ticked me off.  So on the walk to the stadium we saw TONS of Vince Young jerseys and of course made up stories about the people wearing them.  For example, there was an old man and a guy who looked to be in his 40's wearing a Vince Young jersey.  We started talking about how this old man was going blind and the doctors told him he only had a few days of sight left, so the one thing he wanted to do was see Vince Young play in person and would now never get that chance because the coach is an idiot.  Young was suspended for some stupid reason about not staying at the hotel but at his house.  We also saw a father and son...the son being about 6...wearing Young jerseys.  Of course we made up how this kid had some terminal disease and since the Make A Wish Foundation never got back to him...the dad worked a lot of overtime to buy good seats for the game so his son could see his hero in action one last time...but now never would.  Oh I know...it sounds horrible...but it was quite amusing at the time.  Hey, I've got a dark sense of humor, what can I say.  Anyway, after the game was over and I was driving home, a light on my dashboard came on that said "low coolant"...and of course was in red and started flashing to add to the panic.  I was only a few miles from the house when it came on so I continued.  I pulled into my driveway and smelled it...that odor that only can be described if you've smelled it...burning antifreeze.  I popped the hood to see if I could figure out where the leak was coming from, because if it was a hose it would be no big deal...I could replace that the next day.  But it wasn't...it was coming from somewhere else and I didn't know where.  Well...there goes my plans for leaving on Sunday.  Monday I filled the car with water and took it to a garage, and of course the light came on again and the smell hit.  They called me back later in the day and told me what the problem was...some seal broke and it would be easy to replace.  The problem was it would need a very SPECIFIC seal that they would have to get from a dealer of course.  So I had to leave it for a couple of days.  Hey, if I had taken it to the dealer I might have had it back the same day, but would have paid three times as much.  Anyway, it wiped out my trip.  If I hadn't of gone to the game Saturday and been bored completely, then I would have been who knows where when this problem would have hit...and I've seen too many horror movies to know what can happen to stranded motorists in the middle of nowhere even if they are a trained fighting machine such as myself...haha.  Well Sunday I had a feeling I wasn't going anywhere, so I added water to the car and hit the grocery store for supplies.  So basically for the last few days I have done absolutely nothing productive...I have eaten a lot of pizza, hoagies, ice cream, watched a lot of movies, played a lot of videogames, slept weird hours,  taken naps in the middle of the day, and have played a lot with the dogs.  And you know what?  I have savored every moment of it all.  It truly has been awesome.  I feel like Peter Gibbons in "Office Space"...I have done nothing and it has been everything I thought it could be.  Now when I say I have done nothing, I mean that in a way normal people would use that term.  To me, hours of videogames, pizza, and movies for several days is accomplishing a lot...hahaha.  After all, I'm now 8-0-1 in my All-Pro 2K8 football game.  Yeah I know...I can't believe I had a tie game either but my kicker sucks.  So that's been my time off thus far...and I should have my car in the morning.  Once I knew I wasn't going anywhere, I told the dude at the garage to not worry about rushing it.  Plus, in between the movies and videogames, NFL TV is showing replays of all the NFL preseason games from this past weekend...so I'm pretty content.  And considering Blockbuster online delivered 4 new movies to me this week...I'm all set.  What did I watch?  First on the list was "Vacancy" which was an ok mystery/suspense movie...but my goddess Kate Beckinsale was in it so I had to watch it.  I also watched "The Lookout" which is a very good movie...an original idea for a change.  It's one of those dramas you can lose yourself in...especially when you don't have to think about work for an entire week...hahaha.  Oh, and I got a copy of the Doctor Strange animated movie.  Yeah I know...superhero stuff.  If you're into that, you'll dig it.  They did a great job of showing his origins and how he came to be The Sorcerer Supreme.  Another tale of tragedy from Marvel.  Famed surgeon Doctor Stephen Strange who is an extremely arrogant character, yet haunted by his past over the death of his sister, is involved in an accident where he loses most of the control of his hands.  It's through the Ancient One that he learns how to overcome it, and also masters the art of sorcery.  This has been my week thus far...and it has ROCKED!

Let's see, what else have I done...oh yeah!  I updated my match.com profile in a most amusing fashion.  I signed up on that site about a year and a half ago, and since that time have gone out with around 10 women I've been contacted by...and of course none of them worked out for various reasons.  This past February I was getting emails saying the account was going to auto-renew (don't you love how they do that?) and I kept meaning to cancel it...and of course kept forgetting and got stuck with it for another year.  Some of the emails I get on there crack me up...like when I specify "no kids" and someone will contact me saying "I've got three and they're ready to move out of the house so they won't be a problem".  Oh yeah...please sign me up for that.  Or one of my personal favorites where a woman had two kids and kept emailing me to assure me that her two ex-husbands (one kid with each) had custody so they're rarely around.  For a woman not to have custody after a divorce really says a lot...so I basically ignored her and received about 5 more emails until she gave up.  Also, it amazes me how sometimes the women I go out with seem taken aback by my passion for videogames, superheroes, and horror movies.  I'm not saying all...but some have...so I had to update my profile to let them know about these things.  Basically I said that I would rather play videogames than spend one minute in Pier One looking at stupid handmade candle holders and I will not curl up to watch "The Notebook" because I could use that time to watch the new Rambo trailer over and over....hahaha.  I'm sure the emails will be flooding in now.  My favorite part was where the site asks me to describe who I'm looking for.  I stated I want to meet a supermodel with a heart of gold who loves football and Black Sabbath.  Hey, why not be completely honest?  Although I will say I have gone out with a few very hot women over the past year or so that honestly did like football and Sabbath...very odd.  Eh...whatever...football season is about to start and I can't date during football season anyway because I don't want my attention diverted from the best form of entertainment ever created.  This past week off I have watched TONS of preseason football because NFL TV shows the replays of all the preseason games from the past week.  Let me put it this way...unless someone like a single Kate Beckinsale or Fairuza Balk comes knocking on my door within the next couple of weeks before the actual season kicks off then the blinders go on and I'm off the market until after the Super Bowl.  No, seriously I am.  Only if Jill Wagner was in Nashville and her car broke down and she came knocking on my door to use the phone this Fall...MAYBE I'd consider asking her out...maybe.  I get asked a lot at work about "settling down" and all that stuff...basically the married guys can't understand why I would be single.  To me it's quite simple - I can come home from work and play All Pro Football 2K8 for hours or I can sit there and listen to a woman drone on and on about "feelings" and how someone at work is getting under her skin and put on this facade like I'm really interested.  And I could forget coming home the day that something like "Doctor Strange" hits DVD and putting in on and being able to completely submerse myself in it...because I would have to talk about our day and what happened and how there's a problem with a project at work and blah blah friggin' blah when all I want to do is watch Doctor Strange!!!  How you married people do it boggles my mind...it really does.  Plus, I couldn't sit back here on my computer jamming to Pantera at midnight because she'd be all ticked off I wasn't coming to bed to basically just lay there while she slept...because for some reason couples have to have the same bedtime???

Oh I read where some Bishop over in Denmark or wherever is urging Christians to start calling God "Allah" to ease tensions between them and Muslims.  Yep, it's always a good idea to appease those who will cut your heads off.  But everything will be ok when Obama gets elected because he has such great ideas like...ummm....hmmm....I can't think of any.  Maybe I'll vote for Guliani because he'll....uhhh....wow....I can't think of anything with him either.  Here's something that happened to me at the grocery store when I was picking up supplies, and I swear it was all I could do to bite my tongue.  The woman in front of me was buying beer and the clerk asked for ID.  She stared at him for a second like she didn't understand...so he asked again.  She pulled out her debit card.  He said "no ma'am, I need to see a valid form of ID with your birthdate".  She pulled out a credit card...so again he stated the same thing.  Then she pulled out ANOTHER credit card.  The guy told her he needed a government issued ID showing her date of birth.  She rummaged around for a minute and pulled out her debit card again.  I looked over and it had her picture on it from Bank of America...the bank that wants to give illegals loans on houses.  She didn't have ANYTHING to present to the clerk.  Yes, he went ahead and rang it up.  I mean it was obvious this woman was over 21 and I could tell he was just sick of dealing with stuff like that.  So she didn't have a legal form of ID yet had credit cards and a debit card...wonderful...huh?  Oh yeah...and she was hispanic.  I know...HUGE surprise.  No, not all hispanics are illegals...but in this area it seems to be the common thread.  It just pisses me off.  I can hear it now..."You're a racist!!!"  Go right ahead and say that if it makes you feel better...I just happen to be someone who thinks laws should be enforced.  But because I'm white and am a Christian, I'm an intolerant hate-monger, yep.

Well I'm done for tonight.  I have to go clean my Foreman grill for breakfast.  What's on the menu?  Hamburgers and fries!  Awww....yeah.  I believe I will dine on that while viewing something cool...and hopefully I'll get my car back!