You know what really annoys me?  People who are moody.  I'm a pretty light-hearted person, and I hate being around someone where you almost have to walk on eggshells so as to not tick them off.  This past Friday, I had to interview someone for a position at the company I work for, and this one woman...I'll call her Jane...was going to be in on the interview along with two other people.  Jane is leaving, and we're interviewing people to fill her spot.  About fifteen minutes before the interview, I walked over to where Jane sits and a couple of women I work with were having a discussion about the upcoming interview.  I walk over and one says "I know!  Just let Bo walk in and stare at her with those piercing eyes...and then he can grill her with that deep voice...that will scare her off".  After hearing that, I joked about walking in, taking the woman's resume and throwing it at her screaming "You call this a resume???", and then proceeded to make a few more jokes.  Well Jane didn't care for this and turned around to tell me "Fine, I'll just go home and you can go do this interview half-assed!"  Everyone got quiet and I said "Jane, I was making a joke, lighten up".  So I went to smoke before the interview, and after I finished I was getting ready to head up to the conference room where the interview was.  I grabbed the resume and some notes off my desk and one guy asked "Where are you headed?", to which I replied "I'm on my way to do a half-assed interview" knowing Jane was sitting right there and would hear it.  I grab a Diet Coke and go upstairs.  Everyone else is already in the conference room and my boss is standing in the doorway talking to the others.  I start to walk in and she says "Hey, come here a minute" and pulls me aside.  She tells me that poor little Jane was quite pissed off by my comments and how I need to take the interview seriously.  I informed her that all I was doing was joking around, I do take it seriously, and I didn't know who pissed on Jane's Corn Flakes that morning but she needed to lighten up.  My boss was like "I know...I know...".  I just love saying that, and I don't get to use it enough - pissing on someone's Corn Flakes...hahahaa.  Well the interview took place and yes, I did it seriously.  I swear, some people really need to lighten up.  I make jokes and screw around a lot...but I also know when I need to not do that and I don't need to be told.  I just can't stand dealing with people who take something wrong and get all pissed off.  The point of making jokes is to lighten the mood...yet some just seem to LOVE dwelling in negativity and letting their day be ruined over petty crap.  This woman Jane actually told another co-worker of mine once that the co-workers happiness annoyed her.  That's not an exact quote, but it was something like that.  One girl I work with is one of the, and I always hesitate using this term because it sounds so un-manly, sweetest people you could meet.  It's not some fake bubbly persona...that's just who she is...and Jane gets all pissed off by it.  I swear, I honestly think some people LOVE to let little things bother them...and the majority of stuff are little things.  It's like the saying goes...don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff...but some thrive on it.  It just reminds me of some of the drama queens I've gone out with where every single little thing is a friggin crisis.  Jane is really good at her job, but her moodiness is something I will definitely not miss.

You know why I was able to dismiss all that petty crap so easily?  Because Georgia was on TV Saturday night and football season is upon us!  Oh yeah...my Dawgs kicked ASS!!!  The first half was pretty close, but the second half was a different story as UGA trounced Oklahoma State 35-14.  I went out to see my parents so I could watch the game with my dad.  One thing really cracked me up because something happened that showed me where I get my dedication for my teams.  Back in the days of having to go to the sports bars before I got Direct TV, it would never fail when Atlanta was supposed to play a late afternoon game that another game would go on too long and delay the network from changing the signal.  This would INFURIATE me.  Yeah I know, I just wrote about a woman who can't let the little things go, but this is FOOTBALL!!!  UGA is set to kickoff at 5:48 central time on ESPN 2.  So my dad changes it to ESPN 2 and the Illinois/Missouri game is on.  A message at the bottom of the screen lets the viewers know that ESPN 2 will be leaving that game to go to the Georgia game...yet they never do.  I was livid!  Illinois was down by a TD and it was late in the game, so I guessed ESPN wasn't going to cut it off while the game was so close.  Anyway, Missouri is driving to try and wrap the game up, and their starting QB went down after being drilled.  My dad goes "oh come on...drag him off the field and throw the backup in so this game will end".  HAHAHAHA!   I was thinking the same thing.  Basically it doesn't matter that someone is hurt...when the Heyward men want to watch their team then nothing else matters including the physical welfare of others.  The UGA game FINALLY came on about midway through the first quarter, and they started off the season kicking ass.  Oh, and the announcers brought up Michael Vick for whatever reason.  My mom was like "Just ignore it" and I told her it didn't bother me anymore because he's a lying dog killer.  See how seriously the Heyward men take their football?  Even my mom knew that little remark might ruffle my feathers.  One thing I love about going to watch the UGA games with my dad is my mom feeds us well.  We watched the game feasting on chips and dip, sub sandwiches, cole slaw, and coconut cake.  I still can't believe my dad isn't smoking.  I was wondering if he could refrain while watching a game, and he did.

Let's see...what else did I do on the long weekend.  Oh, I finally watched "Elektra".  Yes, the comic book movie with Jennifer Garner.  I stayed away from it because I heard from several people it just sucked...but I had the time so I figured "why not?"  The movie was actually ok, and of course Jennifer Garner WOULD be a goddess if she wasn't married to Ben Affleck.  I'm watching this thing thinking to myself "how???"  How did some dude like Ben Affleck land Jennifer Garner?  And then it hit me, which lowered her beauty factor considerably...she must not be that bright.  I'm looking at her pulling off some amazing action and fighting scenes without a stuntperson while she's decked out in this hot red leather outfit, and the best guy she could hook up with is Ben Affleck?  This is the guy some woman's magazine names as the epitome of the modern-day man...he's able to combine a strong physical presence with sensitivity and blah blah blah whatever.  In other words...a wimp.  In fact, I'll never forget during John Kerry's failed campaign seeing Ben on the stage behind Kerry while Herman Munster was boring everyone to death, and Ben was wearing some stupid hat that said something idiotic like "Kerry in 2004".  So when this train of thought started to run it's course, I started looking at her differently and noticed she seems to intentionally pout all the time...and it really started to annoy the crap out of me.  It was as if she shoots a scene thinking "how many times can I make my lips look full and pouty".  Yet another reason why I don't care to know what these people's opinions are on anything...hahaha.  And how in the heck does Ben Affleck exude some kind of strong physical presence?  He's about as intimidating as a sunflower.

Oh...Friday night was an INCREDIBLE episode of "The Human Weapon".  If you don't know or haven't read my stuff before, this is a show on The History Channel where two guys, Jason Chambers and Bill Duff, go to various countries to train in and show different forms of martial arts...and at the end of each episode one of them competes against someone well-trained in that discipline.  This past week's show was on Krav Maga which is what the Israeli Commandos train in.  This discipline is life or death...no competitive fighting at all.  It showed EXACTLY what I've been looking for in martial arts - real life.  And one of the instructors was telling them near the beginning of the show that their past martial arts training didn't mean crap except for a few punch or kick techniques they may know.  This thing was for real...ripping a gun out of an attacker's hand...taking a dude out striking at you with a knife...breaking the grip of a guy with a lethal choke hold on you...it was an incredible episode.  After training for 1 week, Jason Chambers was going to go through the final test.  He was in the middle of a room surrounded by 14 guys who all charged him at random.  Some had fake guns and some had fake knives.  He took out 11 of them before he was "stabbed" with a fake knife.  Man it was awesome.  To show how hardcore those commandos are, they actually train in the elite classes with real knives.  Yeah...as in you have to defend yourself and train against someone who is holding a real knife.  Not like they're going to try and stab you...but the fact they use real knives in training was hardcore.  Another very interesting thing this episode showed was that you can crush someone's throat with less force than it takes to crush an empty beer can...and exactly how to break that hold.  Again, I'm really happy with the martial arts stiff I've been learning and am training in because when I see things like this show has, I have a better grasp on what they are doing because of the training of body position, protection, balance and using someone else's body movement against them...all that.  But the only reason I am training in it is to take someone out.  Seriously, that's the only reason I want to study martial arts.  Now I'm not saying I walk the downtown streets and have guns and knives pulled on me all the time at all...I just want the confidence in knowing that if a situation did arise that I could do something about it.  To me, that's the entire point of training in any fighting discipline...to learn how to take the other person out so you don't get hurt.  Anyway, I started with the classes I'm at because all their ads and the testimonies and everything I read said it was geared towards the real world.  Sorry, but I can't remember the last time I saw a fight in a bar where you needed to practice a counter to the side guard position for 20 minutes.  I'm signed up through the end of this year...and after that I'm going somewhere else to train.  Like I said, some of the basics I've learned are awesome because I can see how to incorporate it into real world stuff...but sadly the classes as a whole are geared towards competitive MMA fighting and I have no desire to do that.  I know this sounds pretty bad, but I want to know that if I'm at a club or a bar, or even walking downtown somewhere that I could completely cripple someone who tries to threaten my life.  The training I've had for the past several months has given me some great tools to use if something happened, but I want to learn more "real world" stuff.  This last episode of "The Human Weapon" showed me exactly what I've been looking for, because I've always known Israeli Commandos are badass and don't play around.  They can't afford to waste time with jabs or a series of kicks...otherwise they die.

Seeing how I had an extra day off, I stayed up very late Sunday night watching "Schindler's List".  I have never seen this movie before because watching anything dealing with the Holocaust is VERY tough for me to handle.  I stayed away from that movie for years thinking it would be gut-wrenching to watch and that I'd basically have nightmares.  Thankfully it was nowhere near what I thought it was going to be.  Now I'm not saying it wasn't rough at times, but I was afraid the movie would show too much of what happened in the concentration camps.  I guess there really was no point to show that because we all pretty much know what happened, and to portray it would have just been for shock value.  But the mood that was created was incredibly ominous.  I was honestly wondering how much I would cry during it because of things I've heard, and I never did...until the very end.  That scene where the real-life survivors were accompanied by the actors that portrayed them while laying a rock on the grave of Oskar Schindler did it.  And then I started thinking about people who deny that the Holocaust even took place...or that it was exaggerated.  First off, they're idiots...I think normal people could agree.  Second, the ones that are always talking about how the Holocaust didn't happen are....drum roll....Muslims!  You have that madman leader of Iran who CONSTANTLY denies it happened and wants to wipe out Israel, you have Muslims in the middle east taught from day one that Jewish people are pigs and need to die, and to top it all off you have schools in England that now will NOT teach about the Holocaust because it might bother the fragile little suicide bombers.  Why?  Because their mosques teach them differently, and therefore if the schools teach what happened, it would contradict the teachings from the mosques and therefore would offend them.  You'll have to pardon my language here, but fuck them.  Seriously, fuck them.  If their bs "religion" teaches them that the slaughter of 6 million people didn't happen, should that not be a bit of a warning sign that this "religion" isn't exactly being truthful?  This "religion of peace" teaches it's followers that Jewish people are scum and should die, and want to deny the Holocaust happened.  Does western civilization not see a problem with this?  We're not talking about something that happened thousands of years ago, this is something that was recent enough to have survivors still living.  Heck, people can go tour Auschwitz and see it for themselves!  Sadly it makes sense that they deny it happened...if they recognized that the murder of 6 million people by the Nazi's took place, then they might have to actually speak about it with some sense of humility and actually recognize Jews as people.  And of course they can't do that since it would be recognizing a group of people that don't worship the false god allah.  The way Muslims talk about Jewish people is WAY too similar to how Nazis spoke about them...and that should be a HUGE eye-opener for any of our supposed "leaders" who try to tell us that the Muslim faith is peaceful, but sadly it isn't.  We have a bunch of Neville Chamberlains in charge instead of Winston Churchills.

Ok, I don't need to get all worked up on a late Monday night.  I do have football to look forward too this coming weekend...oh yeah!  The NFL kicks off Thursday night, and Sunday I'll have three TV's going with spicy Italian sausages on the grill.  Take those, put them on hot dog buns with spicy brown mustard and chase them down with BBQ potato chips.  Yep, instant heartburn but man it is worth it.  Simple pleasures sportsfans, simple pleasures.