What's with the no glasses thing?

So I’m not quite sure I understand this phenomenon that people with glasses have against taking their picture with them on. I first want to state I have nothing wrong with people wearing glasses, heck I use to wear glasses when I was a kid. Not to mention (which I am mentioning so I don’t understand that saying) my entire family at one point in their life wore glasses. I just want to make that clear before I have someone claim I hate people with glasses. See here is the thing if you or someone you know wears glasses and I mean all the time for everything, why when it’s time for a picture do you take them off? Now I understand maybe you don’t like how you look in glasses but to wear them all the time day in and day out to then take them off for two quick seconds for a picture interests me. I mean you wear glasses, people see you in them all day every day, and so what’s the purpose of taking them off for a picture? If anything people are less likely to remember or recognize you with them off.

Hey I’ve got no real point here, nor am I criticizing anyone that decides to remove their glasses for a picture. I’m just simply interested to know why people do this. I mean if my dad took his glasses off for a picture I don’t know that I’d recognize him. No offense dad.

An idea for grocery stores

It is so frustrating to walk into a grocery store and not have a clue where to find something. You end up looking around and around and usually just waste nothing but time. It would be nice if there was someone to just ask but good luck with that. I think all employees work at the cash register so unless you’re prepared to wait in line just ask where something like fortune cookies (seriously try find those things in a grocery store) are, you might be screwed. Oh but wait here is an idea, ask one of the guys/gals that’s stocking items they might know right? Nope you’ll just get, “I don’t know I just stock, may want to try asking someone else”. Isn’t that funny if you stock items wouldn’t you think that these people would at least know where things are located? Or they may do you one better. They will tell you to go ask some other person in like the meat section. Unless you’re looking for a meat product, once again good luck, they have no clue either.

So in keeping with tradition I’d like to present a simple solution to this problem. I propose that grocery stores design a touch screen type machine that has the entire store inventory listed by name, location, cost, quantity in stock etc. To give you a better visual I’m talking about something similar to the touch screen machine at the self check-out counter. Or maybe some of you have been to a gas station called Sheetz . The touch screens they use there are exactly what I’m talking about.

The one stipulation is that these machines must be located at the front of let’s say every other isle. And there must be nice big signs hanging from the ceiling and so forth to bring attention to these machines so customers know where exactly to find them. I don’t want one of the set-ups like Wal-mart or Target where they claim to have bar code scanner around the store for price checks, but good luck finding those things. I think they hide those somewhere in the baby clothes section or over in home and gardening.

Should I try patenting this idea?

Simple solution to steroids in sports

For starters this is the one topic in sports I absolutely cannot for one second tolerate. When I hear one mention of steroids and sports I go just about nuts. This is another reason for my annoyance of Dan Patrick and my appreciation that he finally left ESPN. However I’m not here to write about that or am I here to contradict myself and talk about steroids. I am writing to give a simple solution so here goes.

Try this as an idea. Mandate that every professional sports team be assigned a professional “pharmacist” or “doctor” if you will to live, travel and be a part of every team. Sort of like the team doctor or strength and conditioning coach. This person’s sole responsibility for the team he/she is assigned to is being the subject matter and formally trained purchaser, distributer and educator of all legal drugs and supplements to those players that need or want them. So to dumb this down, some player we will call Mark McGwire wants to take some supplement that he just saw in a magazine. Well instead of him purchasing or ordering this drug he goes to the team “pharmacist/doctor” and tells them what he wants and how much of it he wants. Then it’s up to this designated individual to go out with the players own money and buy this supplement for him. Now keep in mind this designated person would be earning a salary from that team/league so he would be a full time employee and would also be available during the offseason.

So using this solution not only ensures the players are getting legal supplements but also holds the respective league liable in the event that a player comes up hot on a random drug test. Unless of course some idiot player comes up hot for something he decides to buy on his own without going through the middle man.

Did I leave something out here? Does anyone think this might be a simple solution to an ongoing long term problem? I mean we are talking about hiring one person per professional team, paying him a salary and in return he/she educates the team, keeps players out of trouble and holds the respective leagues responsible for any illegal drug use.

Yep, it is that time once again (unfortunatly)

There is nothing I enjoy not doing more than not watching American Idol. I have to say this is one of my all time most hated shows that I don’t even watch. I’ve resided to the fact that it probably will not and is not going away for quite some time. So my only hope is that eventually it will become so overplayed that somehow it will get moved to some off the wall timeslot or another channel that gets buried amongst the unwatched. Sort of like the Sci-Fi channel for me.

So the best thing that comes out of today is the fact that I’m one day down on the next four months or whatever it is from American Idol ending another season.

Someone call me when it's over!

Rain drives me nuts

Many of you that know me have probably heard me rant about how much I hate rain. Well as I sit here tonight and for about the third time in a week once again it’s raining. This is probably the one thing about the east coast I will always hate. I can handle the cold, not that I like it, I love fall weather, the summers could probably get a little warmer or at least warmer for a longer period of time but it comes down to this whole rain thing.

I absolutely without a doubt hate rain. I’ve lived here on the east coast my whole life and really you have no choice but to deal with it. Throughout my life I’ve had opportunities to live or travel for short stints to the west coast. Nothing beats warm weather every day and virtually no possibility of rain every single day. You wake up, the sun is up, there are no clouds in the sky and the chance of rain is about 0%. It’s absolutely incredible. And to beat it all this is the norm for about 365 days a year, give or take.

Why do I hate the rain? It comes down to sports. I can’t describe the frustration I get if football games are canceled, outdoor basketball courts are rendered useless, baseball games are canceled or lightning flashes so anything your doing outside has to stop. Oh there is a long list of a lot more activities too. How about going to a three and a half hour football game getting soaked, feeling miserable and sometimes even getting sick to death for a week just for being out there? Oh and you know what’s even better? Maybe you have a game or something scheduled for like a week from now, you’re all excited and can’t wait until that day gets here so you can go out and play some football or bball or whatever and guess what? It rains. You know what the answer is? Well guess we’ll just have to wait until next week. That’s always such welcoming news!

So a lot of people may say “Well just move out west”. Not that easy. Well jobs and family are obviously two really good reasons. For me however Virginia Tech probably has a whole heck of a lot to do with it. I have too much passion for my school and to take that away would probably kill me. Missing a home football game in Blacksburg would probably age me faster than I should. Just being able to stop in the 24060 whenever I want is a convenience I almost can't live without. I have too much pride and too much interest in Virginia Tech to just toss it away. I honestly think if it wasn’t for VT I’d probably have worked my way to a much more rain free area by now.

Stop with the “We need the rain” obsession. Something else I’ve vented about for years. All I’ve ever heard from every old head I know is this frustrating quote. Look we could get rain for a week straight, have two days of nice weather then someone would complain that we need more rain. Look people we don’t always need rain. Take a look a Las Vegas; they have 18 whole golf courses about every 500 feet. They’ve got sprinkler systems like you would not believe. They find a way to get water there and use it wastefully I might add. And remember this is a place that never gets rain. So before people start complaining about two or three days of no rain (which they always do) just think for a second about how they deal with it out west. Oh and don’t give me this BS about well if we have no rain everything will dry up yada, yada, yada. Have you ever heard of evolving? We are human beings, we find ways to evolve and develop methods to get what we need. Desalination is so expensive; we’ll never be able to do that. Yeah well guess what if we really were low on water we’d find some way of making it work. We have a whole Atlantic Ocean out there, I'm sure we could find some way of using it. People evolve!

Lastly I’m determined that the only people who complain about not having enough rain are those without a care in the word for sports and exercise. Yes, I’m being sarcastic but that’s how I feel. My compromise is this, because I’m about fairness and I’m not stupid we do need water to live. If it has to rain all the time (like it does) then why can’t it just rain in the extreme late hours of the night or early hours of the morning. Just get it out of the way while I’m not awake! So before anyone says “We could use some rain” or “We really need some rain” please make sure I don’t have a hard sharp object in my hand, lol.

Cheap window tint

Ok so there are some things in life you just don’t have a reason to cut corners. I am continually baffled by these idiots that for some reason decide to either tint their own car windows or have someone with no real experience do the work for them. Yeah it probably looks good for the first few weeks or months after the job is done. Then reality sets in and everything starts bubbling up and peeling off and really creating some discussing mess which I’m not really sure is fixable.

I’m not a window tinting kind of person but I do buy my cars with factor tint. It does wonders to save the interior and cuts down the heat a whole heck of a lot. So I’m not knocking window tint, nor am I knocking people who tint. I am however criticizing those people who cut corners, use the cheap materials and or have someone that knows nothing about tinting to do the job. Or worse, not knowing how to tint and then doing it yourself. Seriously though, why not just pay a little extra and have the job done right? To each their own I guess.