Tired?

When my kids are tired, they don’t need to find somewhere comfortable to sleep. They just lose consciousness where they stand. My wife was washing dishes last week and discovered our little monkey had fallen asleep in our dining room.

I had a coworker at Honda who used to sleep on the job. He’s since retired. But he was a trip. He came from a distinguished career in the military. He was pretty old when he came to work and I think he trained himself to sleep with his eyes open. He used to sit right across from me and from time to time, I would ask him something and he would have this lifeless look in his eyes and then a few seconds later, he would be snoring. Dude. Snoring with your eyes wide open. That is impressive. Kind of like pouring milk in your nose and shooting it out of your eyes.

Well, happy early Turkey day. Good luck to any people who are planning to fight the mobs on Black Friday.

Must be camping out for The Hannah Montana Blu-Ray…

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Like Father, Like Son

B is smart, funny and he’s a heartbreaker.

Last week when the wifey went out with the ladies to watch New Moon on opening night, I took the kiddies out to dinner. When we were driving in the car my son said he had a joke.

B: Hey dad, what’s an egg’s favorite song?
A: I don’t know son, what?
B: Beat it

The apple does not fall far from the apple tree. Looks like some of my funny bone genetics has been passed to the next generation. These small conversations with my kids are one of the things I miss most when I’m in Ohio. Speaking of Ohio, only 9 more working days in the Honda office there. Does time fly or what?!?

Back when MJ was still black…

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Seriously?

Now what do you think this is?

I know quite a few ladies who cannot do their business in a public restroom.  I’m not sure if it’s a cleanliness thing or what, but it’s pretty amazing to me.  I mean for a dude…when you gotta go, you gotta go.  I don’t really care what the bathroom looks like.  Honestly, many bathrooms I’ve desecrated have been much nicer than my bathroom at home. It’s not uncommon to see granite, marble and crown molding in some of the nicer establishments.

While briefly surfing the net, I saw an odd photo of the item pictured above.  The caption said it was a great stocking stuffer.   At first glance it looked like some kind of candy dispenser to me.  I mean you look at the pink tip and it looks like something that a girl would press her mouth against.  Maybe some sort of breath enhancer?

I couldn’t be more wrong.  This is actually a handheld porto potty.  Ewwwwwww.  I wonder if Cindy Park would use one if she got one.  I know she’s one of those “can’t do my thang in a public restroom” ladies.  Dan Kam.  You know what to get her for Xmas.  Do it bro.

Ahhhhh…it’s good to be home…and short work week next week. 

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New Moon (Dude’s perspective)

How Twilight should have ended
credit: ARS_

Friends…New Moon is upon us.  I know some of you are excited…Judith, Jochebed, Debbie, Justine, Janet, Ann, Esther, Teresa, Emily, Isabel to name a few.  I read Twilight and New Moon and I wanted to share some thoughts from a dude’s perspective.

Twilight

Tour of Troy, China

Chinese food is not my favorite food.  Don’t get me wrong.  I like it a lot, but it’s not my favorite.  Maybe because all my favorite dishes are so greasy and oily.  Green onion pancakes, Potstickers, Beef Chow Fun, Fried Rice…the list goes on.  Doesn’t really go with the healthy lifestyle I’m trying rock these days.  That being said, I thought it was time to embrace the few Chinese merchants in the area and give them my patronage.

Remember kids…scissors beats paper.

Asian of the Week (tángì)

Ouch?

I know I said that number 10 was going to be the final Asian of the Week, but how do you not honor Pac-Man, the Fighting Pride of the Philippines?!?  Homeboy put a whoopin’ on Cotto Saturday and now hopefully we will get what will put boxing back on the map and temporarily out of the shadow of the UFC…

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

-VS-

Manny Pacquiao

Let me leave you with some Asian of the Week breakdown data because math flows in my veins:

Chinese – 4.5
Filipino – 2
Japanese – 1
Korean – 4.5
Vietnamese – 3

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WP – Weekend Plan

I’ve had more than a few ‘WU – Weekend Update’ but I don’t think I’ve ever had a ‘WP – Weekend Plan’.  Side thought…when I see the initials ‘WP’, I think of ‘War Party’.  Thanks Duwayne.  Anyway, not too many weekends left in the OH.  I think that’s what I’m going to call Ohio from now on…in California, I live in the OC.  When I’m here, I’m in the OH.  Yeah.  That sounds money.  My coolness just went up by 1.3%  Your coolness just went up by 0.36% by reading that.  Don’t question the Asian about his math.

Ask Alex (Ohio edition)

It’s a Friday night.  People are out there getting an early start on the weekend.  Not me.  Nope.  I’m a loser.  Camped out in the Residence Inn on a Friday night posting on his blog.  There’s a lot of little kids running around the halls outside having a good time.  I heard they are in town for some peewee football game or something.  They are pretty loud and obnoxious.  But it doesn’t bother the old youth pastor redminister.  Makes me miss working with kids and the other youth workers.  Anyway, today it’s Ask Alex day.  These questions come from Ohio natives.  You’d be surprised.  People from Ohio are pretty bright and they don’t all drive to work on their tractors as you might imagine…well, at least the ones I work with.

1. If you could choose to be any other race / ethnicity, what would you be?

got milk?

redminister experiencing stomach pains

Since coming out here in July, I have drank 2 things.  Water and Iced Tea (unsweetened) and an occasional coffee with Splenda.  When I went grocery shopping, I would always buy water.  If I was eating out, I would get an iced tea.  Zero calories for both.  I have never been a big fan of soda (or as the weird Ohioans call it…”pop” ) so that hasn’t even been a consideration.  But this past grocery run, I bought a new beverage…

Swing and a Miss

redminister hard at work

So today’s workout on the treadmill did not go exactly as planned.  The 5 minute warm up went smooth.  The transition to the jogging pace was good as well.  But the transition from 5 to 10 was a little over ambitious.  It wasn’t so much that it was too fast for me.  It was just a mess trying to push the buttons accurately while going that fast.  I was honestly worried I would lose my footing and injure myself.  So instead of 10, I did 7.5.  Not really a sprint, but faster than jogging.  5 minutes of switching between 5 and 7.5 followed by a 5 minute cooldown.  Worked up a teeny bit of sweat and got the heart rate up.  Then jammed back to the room to do my 300 ab exercises.

Tomorrow, 300 arm exercises.

One day I will have biceps like her

This is SPARTA!

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