Tuesday, March 27, 2007

First post from outside the US




The last post about M5 got my blood boiling so I am inspired to blog some this week.. As I sit hear typing this the sun is rising over the city skyline in Dusseldorf Germany I am staring out the window and my anger toward M5 has subsided a little so this post is going to be a little more difficult to do. The flight over here was very relaxing.. Well maybe a little too relaxing.. But it does bring to mind one of the great  philosophical questions of this age.. If you fart with your head phones on and you can't hear it, can anyone else  hear it.. Sort of a if the tree falls in the woods.... blah blah ..  When I ride on the plane I constantly have headphones on to discourage anyone from feeling the need to strike up a conversation with me on 9 hour flight..  But with my usual pace of flatulence of 3-4 sharts an hour that leaves me with nearly 30 trips to the bathroom or 25 attempts try to sneak out a few during the commotion of serving drinks or dinner.. The guy next to me will usually ask the stewardess if his food has spoiled ( just kidding) But what usually happens is I drift of to sleep and blast away with nary a care in the world.. 

That thought brings back a funny story.. When my bro and I used to eat lunch everyday when we worked together a few years back.. Well lets just say the my bro has the family flatulence problem that I have..  We always ate at the company cafeteria that was cheap and generally had pretty good food. We opted to eat in the blue collar cafĂ© just because we could eat without having to do the fake hi's to everyone we knew.. Anyway that sets the stage.. It was a hot day and the guys from the warehouse where just coming into the air-conditioning  to relax before heading out again.

 Well there is this big old guy we will call him Fred because it suits him perfectly.. Well Fred is wearing his company uniform that has been sweat through about 3 times already this morning and he didn't get any sleep because Martha kept complaining that Fred hadn't had the air conditioner serviced before the summer and her dad always took care of those things so she didn't have to worry about these issues and she hated being nag but if she didn't say something about it would never get done.. Let's just say life and the heat had gotten the better part of Fred and he just needed to relax but Martha constant nagging about the food he should eat had finally gotten through and Fred skipped the meat loaf and mash potatoes that day and opted for the pre-made salad..

Well back to the flatulence twins.. Bro looks at me and gets that goofy looks on his face that he was going to make magic happen..  He looks to the left and to the right to make sure the coast is clear.. But he does not see Fred sloshing his way directly behind him and he lays down a sulfur laden WMD and looks at me for acknowledgement.. I see Fred and raise my eyebrows so bro turns all the way around sees that Fred is going to sit as close to bros chair as Iraq is to Iran..  We both freeze and wonder if Fred will notice the mushroom cloud that is rising about him.. Sorta like wondering if I will order another cold German beer after dinner..  Fred flops himself down and stares at the plastic container containing the green poison salad that Martha is forcing him to eat after his bypass last fall.. Well just as Fred opens the lid just and just as the sulfur has made its way into his nostrils and all is quiet from the flatulence twins.. He then reels back and says to his buddy I think this salad has gone bad.. Smell it Bill it smells like shit as he pushes the green poison in his buddies face never realizing it was Bro's cabbage laden wonder he dropped 30 seconds earlier..  Bro and I are dying it will go down as one of the funniest events that I was ever party to..


Ok.... Back to today.. Pretty cool night last night.. It is the white asparagus season here so I had a meal of White asparagus soup and shrimp.. Followed by White asparagus and grilled salmon.. Along with the famous alt beer that was so cold it made your teeth chatter.. We ate this seated outside where we where able to relax and watch the interesting German locals who where going out for a spring walk and dinner.. We ended the evening  by walking the flower laden trail along the Rhine river back 3 miles to our hotel.. It was pretty amazing night..  I know I am a broken record here but the only problem was calming the storm in my stomach after 4 beers so as not to embarrass myself (more than usual) on the walk home..

Weight.. Still doing great I think it will be a month or so before I can be in the 220's but I am still at it.. My knee is getting a ton better and I will start to run again when I get back next weekend.. On a pretty cool note I spilled on myself at work (no shock) before I  was going out with B.S. and M5 that evening right after work so I asked M5 if he had any fat pants for me.. He showed me some 38 that where too big.. So I ended up wearing a pair of his 36 pants.. It was pretty damn cool to fat guy trying on 42's pants last fall..



HeavyD Out..




Thursday, March 22, 2007

Please Skip This Post



The happiness the joy of living it is really tiring. Life is pretty good for me right now and I could not be more content with my situation. It is really hard to get use to but I am adjusting.. So let me give you a quick rundown on life.. My family spent a couple of days at the Kalahari indoor water park last week during there spring break. It was going to be nice to go somewhere where I have to take my shirt of and not look summer sausage… Not so lucky I took my shirt off in the room and I still have a long way to go. I looked old and sloppy I really need to lift weights and lose an additional 25 lbs and to be honest I probably looked better at 280 then at least I looked like I was beefy.. Now I just look heavy and old.. (Not to get off on a tangent but why is it that even though I am bald and approaching 40 fast that I still get zits like a 15 year old.. ) Back on the point as I had the best few days of my life with my kids.. My wife and I had are own room and the kids all had there own huge bed and TV fireplace etc.. It is great to go places with the kids they get so excited it just amplifies everything and makes everything seem larger than life.. It used to be that my wife would do this kind of trip it was someone staying with the younger kid(s) and the other hanging out with the older kids so we would barely have time to do things together.. Now we can all pretty much do the same things it was just so relaxing other than the 70% people there that feel the need to pierce or tattoo every inch of there body.. It is just hilarious to see these moms try and act like they are Mrs. cleever with their young kids and they have this nasty tattoo on there lower back shaped like a crucifix pointing toward there crotch.. Wow mom that looks nice oh I am sure that you a good girl. That will make for some nice conversations when those kids are teenagers..



Torn MCL
Well the vacation was great but something always has to go a little wrong.. So I am riding this flowrider(http://www.flowrider.com/) To cut this short this thing is creates a constant wave that you can kneeboard on or surf on with a "snowboard like ski" .. You have to wait quite awhile to do it but it is extremely fun I will put a picture of the big heavy on the blog.. Maybe not.. So as usual I think I have to prove that I am not an overweight middle aged man I try to do all the tricks the 20 year olds are doing and actually I am able to do most of the simple rolls and what not but the young kid since my insecurity and try's to get me to do something a little harder well apparently I am too old too large and too uncoordinated to pull the 360 spin on the top of the board.. My left leg get's caught up in the current and hurt my knee.. It hurts really bad but I cannot show any weakness in front of this crowd of people so I suck it up and am glad that my shorts are wet so that no one can see that I have nearly pissed my self with the pain that I have just endured and I walk off.. This must be the year of injury for me.. I was pretty lucky after going to the doctor and having an x-ray it looks like I did not tear it to bad in fact I was walking 3 miles on it within 3 days.. But there is still a ton of pain but I will take that over a knee surgery..


Weight
232 seems is killing me I can't seem to break this barrier I am going to extend my miles to 4 and try eat less on my evening meal.. But hey I feel great.. I should be able to start running next week if the knee continues to progress..


Movies..
I have seen way to many crappy movies to mention this year already.. But I saw 300 with the guys weekend guys awhile back and I really enjoyed it.. We are not talking academy awards or anything but it just had a cool edge and different look to the movie.. I really could careless that it was 80% CGI it did not feel like a video it was more like a high tech arty violent dark film..


I would recommend this for any guy but not many women.. The legs and heads flying off at constant pace does get a little gruesome.. 3 baldies out of 4..



M5
I should have a separate post on this one.. But I just don't have the time.. M5 is selling his 2000 540i this week.. When he sent me an email it brought me back to a time when I "thought" I was going to actually have money and that I wouldn't be working in a cubicle for the man the rest of my life.. I helped M5 pick up the car at the dealership.. He was going from 12 year old Honda accord to this 60G car man I hoped someday I would have enough money to buy something half as cool as this car.. I thought I was living a fantasy and oh yes I was.. I lost the opportunity to get of the cube rat race just one short year later.. As I type this in my cube where I am a nameless rat I am ok with now.. I am content but my opportunity to do anything different is gone.. Ok.. I almost forget that M5 was the guy that laid me off and he now owns an even nicer car and lives in a mansion.. Yep I am angry again and I will continue to post…


Twins are about to start.. It is going to be a great year..


Hey if you did not read the comment from IJ from yesterday please read it.. It puts this filthy blog to shame (not hard to do)


In Germany next week.. Out




schwerD

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Old Post Lost

I found this old post that I typed while at the airportin Chitown.. It was wierd day and wierd post.. But it is what is..


So Here I sit in Chicago on my way to germany...
I have nothing but great memories of this city.. Sitting with IJ in what appeared to me as 120 Degree heat to watch the cubs play the Houston Astros.. We sweat like two fat chicks on Jenny Craig in a chocolate factory. We watched all 9 innings in that heat that day and I could not wipe the smile off my face.. Wow baseball on a hot day in chicago.. Cold beers and pizza followed.. We where big dumb fat and burnt but we loved it.. I could go on and on but I just love baseball in the summer.. IJ and traveled the upper part of the U.S. watching baseball a few years ago and I could not have had a better time.. I think of that as the baseball season begins.. Baseball is just so pure please stay away from the game Barry bonds there is nothing like it in the world.. 160 +games of pure americana.. The Twins came off the best year that I could possibly imagine.. I don't care what they did in the post season they where magical.. It was just the best days I could imagine.. Santana was onstoppable Mauer was a cagey veteran at 23 years old.. Mornea was just a solid MVP candidate down the stretch… I have said this before but I feel it again as the season begins.. Baseball is back.. Baseball is great…. FU Barry Bonds leave this game alone.. America is not a blood thirsty kille...r we love to hit baseballs and pitch in the sun and laugh.. America is alive.. America is baseball..
Sure I have had 6 glasses of red wine and 2 bloody maries waiting for my plane to depart in MSP for Chicago.. I am a little tispy but I am ready to post.. I have so many worthless things too add to googles search engine.. I ripped on wrestling on Thursday/Friday.. Dang it I was right.. My Son C was not ready for wrestling this weekedend he is apart of terrible program but all all that being said I have never been more proud of him.. So we drove to the armpit of the world and decided to enter a wrestling tournament in Wisconsin.. These people where hideaous and insane.. I think I heard one man in coveralls say to the other "LETS MAKE HIM SQUEEL LIKE A PIG" but hey I figured this was C's chance to embarce his wrestling roots.. After 4 hours of watching C entered the octagon of death to begin his journey into the sports backwash of the world.. C walked onto to the Mat thinking there was no phyiscal equal to him.. He had defeated every kid from every weight from every grade he was ready to take his crown as best wrestler without a mullet this side of the Missippi River.. (Props to simley) C got caught in an inside craddle and pinned before he knew what was happenning.. He had never seen that move before but he walked off the mat and never shed a tear or dipped his head for one minute.. He just looked at me and said what was that Dad.. I told him what I could and he shook his head and decided that he was not the best wrestler that had ever taken that mat.. C never faltered in his ability or his will to win he gave what he had every time he walkded onto to the mat but our school did not give him the tools he needed to be successful.. But that is not the story.. Let me give you my version.. I took C aside after his second loss and prepared him to face the Lions for a third time that day.. We where back in a lockeroom all by ourselves and C flat out told me that I really want to go home.. I did what worked for me.. I told him to run around the lockeroom and get warm and he ran by I hollered wrestling encouragement at him. C you need to find away to bring about the beast in you.. Wait a minute I stopped.. I am not very smart but it came to me at that moment.. The only way I could win in wrestling was to bring out the beast.. No one will believe this unless you where there but before I would wrestle I made my Dad slap me across the face as hard as he could.. I had to create artificical rage to get my blood boiling.. My Dad would slap me hard enough where the flight or fright reaction would kick in.. I had the rage I needed to "kill" wrestle the other oppenent.. Wow this is hard to admit to you all but I needed a drug to slap my body to get myself ready to kill.. Without that I couldn't muster the fight I needed to wrestle at the highest level.. ..I am an idiot I thought about play slapping C around to get him ready to wrestle at this little backwater wrestling tournament.. I am dumb but I stopped C is better than I was not.. C lost his match with class and honor he held his head high.. He has since fallen on harder times..



Go Twins

See ya KG

I tore my MCL.. Will post later..

Don't hate the players hate the GM

Heavy D.... Out..

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Whole lotta nothin

Where are the Vikings going.. How are they going to get people to come to the games.. What chance do they have of winning games next year when they have not added anything to a team that was lucky to be 6-10. Why do we sign players to long term contracts that could have been picked up off of waivers.. Wilf is becoming just like Red.. I am not sure if he is getting this payroll clear so he can sell it or move it.. But not talking to the media after your team is in a tailspin is a recipe for disaster. I am thinking of growing a mustache like Childress. If we trade Oakland a 3rd round choice we can get moss and I will guarantee sellouts for the next two seasons.. No free agents short of a few who should be on practice squads will even visit with Minnesota.. Somehow are team has gotten arrogant and full of themselves when they have done nothing but deteriorate a franchise..

TimberSpaniels
Ugly pathetic bloated lazy no I am not describing myself (It would be if you added gassy). Wittman is trying to win games to save his job.. It makes no difference who coaches this team they are pathetic heartless overpaid children.. Hoiberg can try and arrange the deck chairs on this titanic but it is still going to sink.. If I was taylor I would get out of the NBA business.. It is bleeding itself out and is completely directionless.. They switched from a synthetic ball to a real ball in January is there any chance they can get rid of the synthetic hearts these guys play with an insert some real heart.. They don't want to play they could care less how the team is doing or if they are winning or losing.. They hug and kiss each other before the game then they throw punk punches at scrubs I am sorry the less athletic guys (white guys) while shooting jumpers. Sports media is afraid to say it but Kobe has been called twice for this and both happen to be less afltetic guys.. And it takes effort since not a whole lotta them ever see the floor.. Bring back the ugly pistons or something at least they punched you in the face .. This respect love crap these players give each other is sick.. Everyone is always taking about representin and keeping it real and all the other B.S. Why don't you show some respec for yourself and quit putting Tat's on yourself like your peddling crack buddies and wearing "bling" that no can afford unless it is stolen or they are selling rock on the street.. I could say trade this guy or trade that guy. I say screw them all don't give anyone a guaranteed contract.. The T.V. ratings are plummeting attendance is going down the toilet blow this league up and make this guys earn back people by playing hard playing to win and please make the games and the playoffs count.. On a side not Mike James congratulations on winning the lottery.. Troy Hudson should thank you.. You have made the worst guard in the league appear to have value since you are so horrible.. You should pay to play in the NBA..

Weight/Running
I can't hit my target of 22X but I just keep trying.. I feel great and I believe I can sustain what I am doing.. I ran a 5k on the treadmill in under 30 minutes which is a miracle for me.. I am still struggling with being happy most of the time but we all have our cross to bare..


Movies
I am ashamed by the last two I saw.. Ghost Rider and Wild Hogs.. I would not was one minute watching either of these movies.. Of course I enjoyed watching Ghost Rider with D since he thought "it rocked" in his words.. But it was really a lame movie.. Wild Hogs was insulting the production value was like the dukes of hazards in the 80's with the fake grass and scenery it was embarrassing and insulting.. I will give both of these movies a .5 baldies out of 4.. Don't see them.

Quick Story
Big heavy women got on the bus(you could tell she was heavy I could hear the VHHH SHSHS noise of here poly's pants rubbing even with my ipod on.) She has two kids in front of hear that look to be two cigarette burns short of crying and they decide to jump on my seat and wipe the snow off their boots on my arm.. She yelled to the 2 year old "Damn it chartruce get your ass off that man's seat" I smiled and and she yelled what you looking at.. I pulled the chord for the next stop and got off the bus.. I don't think the life ahead is going to be real fun for chartruce..

Help Needed
For a lot of good reasons.. (I don't want to hear bashing..) We are going to be getting a dog this year.. Does anyone have any good suggestions.. Breed to buy or people you know who sell those breeds..

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