I had a pretty busy night last friday. My sister was going to San Diego for her senior trip with a friend, so i went with her and my mom to the airport to see her off. My mom got a gate pass, but i couldn't because i'm wanted in three states. Alright, i'm kidding. I'm only wanted in one state:P. So i can't go through the gate to the terminal, the plane doesn't start boarding for another three hours, i can't leave because i carpooled with my mom, and i forgot to bring money. Greeeaaat:roll:.

What do you do in an airport with three hours to kill and no money? All i could do was walk around. Then i thought of something. Those luggage carts. In airports, you can use their luggage carts for $3.00, but if you return one, you get 25 cents. That was the case here, and so the search began. After three hours, nothin'. I couldn't find any. I then realised how cheap people are. They pay the $3.00 for the cart, use it, and when they are done, return it themselves, so they get that quarter. So they're are only paying $2.75 for a $3.00 cart, and they probably feel like they are real smooth. IT'S A F***ING QUARTER!!! Cheap bastards.

If it were me using the luggage cart, i would just leave it somewhere when i was done. I'm not cheap. I am, however, frugal. There's a difference. Not only that, the cart's there someone to find. Think of how thrilled they would be!

Well, that's the end. You can go now.

I haven't done this for a long time. I just can't think of anything to say:?. I'm just going to talk about more things that annoy me for now. Like commercials. Aren't they annoying? Now matter what show i'm watching, what channel i'm watching, what time of day it is, i can't put the remote down, because there is always some bad commercial that comes up, and i have to change the channel. It could be a terrible song, or somebody doing something stupid, or something else altogether. And what's worse, the GOOD commercials aren't on enough. I see one i like maybe a couple of times, then it would disappear forever.

Something else that irks me is people here on Gamespot who set their profiles to private. Can i hear an amen on that one? If you're going to come here, you need to let people see your profile. Why would you create one and not let people see it in the first place? What's the point? What are you afraid of? A virus? A hacker? Or is it something else? Don't you want to show off your game collection? Your emblems? Your blog header? Your friends list? For God's sake, just open the damn thing up, and let people know how dull you really are. Is that to much to ask? It can't be that hard, can it?

That's all for now. Next time, i won't rant about little things, i swear. Now get out of here:P

I hear people use different metaphors to talk about different situations. If you think about it, some of these are stupid as hell. Here are some examples:

Came outta nowhere: Whenever someone is driving and runs into something, they say it "came outta nowhere". No it didn't! It obviously came from somewhere. It wasn't put there just now for you to run into. If someone says"it came outta nowhere", i say,"Did a magician put it there?"

Takes the cake: Whenever someone talks about someone else in a good way, they say,"He takes the cake". What cake? Where is this cake? And why does this person get to take it? Also, why is it cake? Why not pie? Or muffin? Or donut? Well, cakes ARE big.

The last straw: When somebody has had enough of someone else, when they've pissed them the f*** off, they say,"This is the last straw!" What happened to all the straws before that? There's no first straw, just a last one. Why is that?

Why didn't i think of that?: Whenever someone sees a new product on tv, they say,"Why didn't i think of that?" You know what i would tell someone says this? "You didn't think of it because you have s*** for brains." Not everybody can be an inventor, anyway.

And finally, probably four of the most puke inducing words on the planet, Don't mess with Texas. What the hell is this? Why does Texas need to do this s***? If someone said this to me, you know what i would do? I would get in their face and say,"Are threatening me?" I would bet you anything, ANYTHING, they will back down. Texas isn't any tougher than any other state. Except Rhode Island, maybe.

Think about what you say before you say it. It might make things easier for everyone else. Especially me.

     A lot of things get under my skin. Here are some examples.

     T.v. shows like Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Extra, and just about anything on the E! Network, dedicated to telling us what celebrities are doing, whether it be work or not. What bothers me is that no matter where these celebrities go, there always seems to be a group of douches taking their pictures. These shows also tell us what these celebrities are doing, no matter where they are. I don't care what these people do in their private life. That's none of my business. But other people just want more and more. Their appetites are ravenous. They can never have enough. And i don't blame the paparazzi for Diana's death. I blame the people for wanting to much of her. Do you have respect for celebrities? If you do, LEAVE THESE PEOPLE ALONE!

     I also have a problem with Wal-mart. No, not because it's a monopoly, or any of that s***. It's for little reasons. Like the fact that it's always so crowded. It doesn't matter which Wal-mart i go to, what time it is, what day it is, it's always crowded. It's a chore trying to get a cart through the place without running into, what i call, a roadblock. Translate that any way you like. I also despise Wal-mart's checkout. It's brutal! There's always a long line somewhere. So you have to wait. And finally, Heaven forbid, Wal-mart can't seem to hire any cashiers that know how to bag properly. Put a loaf of bread in a bag, followed by my new toolbox, and SMASH! There goes the bread.

     If i think of more things that get under my skin, i'll let you know. Until then, get off my lawn.:P

     In my last two blogs, i talked about how schools should cut certain extracurricular activities to save money. Some of you agreed with me, some didn't. Someone named Shifty_Pete left an interesting comment(which i greatly appreciated:)). He feels that the schools should cut the athletics program. Sorry Pete, I have to disagree with you. It might sound useless, but if you think about it enough, it isn't. The athletics program seems to be the only reason kids even go to school now. And you have athletic scholarships. Eliminate those, and you cut the college population by a fourth, maybe more(I'm ballparking that statistic:?). Take my brother for example. He's graduating high school this May. He played football this past fall, and me and my family thought he would have all of these college football coaches begging him to come to their school and play on their team. He's 6'6", 230 lbs. and was an offensive lineman. There were times where the other team would get two guys on him to overpower him, and that didn't work to well. They would even go for his knees to cause injury and have him taken out of the game. Now here's the bad part. You'd think someone that big and strong would get offers to big schools, right? That wasn't the case. The team he played for sucked. They had a losing record, missed the playoffs, and had a chickens*** coach. Now it's April, he's applied to some universities in the area, and he still hasn't gotten an acceptance letter. This tears me up inside. And to think if they won one more game, just one, they would have made the playoffs, and my brother would have gotten scholarship offers. Now, he may not get to go to college at all. This is why ahtletics are important. It gives people like my brother a chance to be somebody.

     In my last blog entry, i talked about how the schools should cut certain extracurricular activities because they are kind of stupid to begin with. If you haven't read it yet, you can with a couple of turns with that mouse wheel of yours and read that first. Now, here are some more activities schools can do without.

Mock Trial: What is this all about, anyway? Don't these kids know that lawyers are some of the most irritating people on the planet? And what is the subject about in these Mock Trials anyway? Brian stole Kelly's pen? Jim broke into Mike's locker? Tj pulled the fire alarm?! This activity is guilty of being useless.

Student Council: This is just a popularity contest. And to think schools have debates between kids running for student council president. Just tell a couple bathroom jokes and you win the debate.

School Plays: Jesus Christ, these are awful. There's nothing worse than to be treated to the first act of Bye Bye Birdie because the school piled everyone in the auditorium (that happened to me my junior year). Even by theatre standards these school plays are garbage.

Math and Science Club: I can't believe there's a Math and Science Club. Don't these kids get enough from Math and Science CLASSES? And do you think these kids get their asses kicked alot? They have probably experienced every lockering, wedgie, swirly, wet willy, indian rope burn, noogie and melvin that jocks can possilbly give them.

D.A.R.E.: The D.A.R.E. program claims it keeps kids away from drugs. No it doesn't! If anything, D.A.R.E. gets kids on them. You know what they do. Some local overweight cop comes in, tells you what kinds of illegal drugs there are, then leaves. Now you know what drugs are out there, and sooner or later, you're going to want to try them. If the schools want to keep kids off drugs, there is only one thing that works. Example. Go out, find some homeless guy who ruined his life with drugs, bring him to the school, and say,"Kids, if you do drugs, you'll turn into this guy!" Think those kids will want to do drugs after that?

     If you think about, you'll come to the conclusion that schools don't need these programs all that much. Thanks for reading. 

     In my last blog, i talked about the educational system and why it will never be fixed. Since then, i thought about it a little more and came to a conclusion. Education actually CAN be fixed, and here's how. Since the government doesn't really care about children, the schools themselves will have to fix education. It's a longshot, but it's not impossible. You see, the schools rely on money, right? Federal funding, donations, etc. How about paying the teachers more money? Does that sound reasonable? If they get payed more, maybe, just maybe, the teachers might be more motivated to do their jobs than letting kids horse around all the time. But to pay the teachers more money, you'll have to cut some of those stupid extracurricular activities few people care about. Here are some expendable activities:

Journalism Club: If we cut this, these brats will complain that their freedom of speech is being infringed upon. Have you read a high school newspaper? It's gossip and stupid crap. Let me tell you something about freedom of speech. There's no such thing anymore. Not in this country. Journalism Club, gone.

Cheer and Dance Squad: You guys out there are going to get on my case for this one. "Why get rid of cheer and dance? Those chicks are HOT!" Maybe, but cheerleaders are very, VERY annoying. And is there really a need for the dance squad? Think about it.

Model UN: This is really stupid. The real UN doesn't work right in the first place. Why have a fake one? And what exactly do you do during these meetings anyway? Would i have to wear some dumbass hat? Get rid of this!

     I'm sorry to say this, but this is all i can think of right now. I'll have to make this a two-parter. Until next time.

 

     There's this new gameshow on Fox called Are you smarter than a 5th grader. When i first heard about this, the first thing that came to my mind was,"a trivia contest against kids? How hard can that be?" What i'm saying is that it would be easy to win on this show, because kids today are f***in' dumb. Dumber than a second coat of paint. And i, yet again, blame the schools for this. All the schools care about is funding, they don't give flying f*** about the kids.

     I can't understand the kids that drop out of high school. Do you know how easy it is to graduate high school? All you need is a pen. It's because the schools are lowering the passing grade so more kids can pass, then your school looks great!:D Don't always trust the graduation rate of these schools. Most of the kids got through high school playing Uno and talking to their friends about stupid s***.

     And i'm so tired of seeing politicians talking about how they want to improve education. Either they are lying or are too chickens*** to do anything about it. They are not concerned about education. For once i'd like to see a politician be honest and just say,"F*** education. I'm tired of that s***." If that happened, i would think,"Well, at least he's honest."

     Education will never be fixed, so just be thankful for you have. Thanks for reading. Both of you:?

     I remember when i was a kid, my younger brother and i would go to Blockbuster Video every week to rent a game. Then we would take it home and play it for hours on end. One time, we decided to rent NBA Jam: Tournament Edition. We were in a basketball mood then, so we rented it and took it home.

     The game was two-on-two, so we played on the same team against the computer. We were terrible, and were always getting our asses handed to us. After getting destroyed a few times, it became our ambition to win, no matter how long it took. So we used the practice mode to get used to the controls, but we STILL couldn't win! We even went to the options screen to turn the goal tending penalty off, so we could block any shot they made. That didn't help either. We kept losing.

     Then one day, we got up early on a Saturday morning. I told my brother,"This is the day." So we fired up the Super NES and started playing. We always played as Chicago, and we were put against San Antonio. This was the game of our lives, and we knew it. It was practically even the entire game. So many lead changes and ties throughout the game. The fourth quarter started, and it was tied. I told my brother,"We can win this." The game was tied with ten seconds left, and it was our ball. My brother hit a long 2-pointer with two seconds left. In this game, if there was less than three seconds left on the clock, and the computer has the ball, they will shoot from right where they are standing. In this game, it was under the basket, so the computer had to go for the full court shot. My brother and i immediately started to celebrate, because the game was practically over at that point. We were screaming, jumping up and down, high fiving(sp?). I looked back to the screen to see the full court shot by the computer was made. We lost by one.

     You could hear a pin drop, it was so silent. And the looks we had probably looked like this:shock:.We could not believe it. We were so close! And to think we lost in that fashion. We haven't spoken of it since. Well, this is the story of how things went from celebration and victory to anguish and defeat. Stupid cheap NBA Jam: Tournament Edition:evil:

     Have you noticed how fat kids are today? Good God, it's hard look at. I'm always seeing scientists on news programs talking about how fat these kids are now, and what's to blame. These scientists blame alot of things on childhood obesity, except the parents. Why don't they blame the parents? I blame the parents! Getting them fast food, junk food, candy, soda, ice cream, chips, chocolate, etc. etc. They don't make their kids go outside either. These kids need to take my childhood example. I'll admit there were times i sat on my ass playing video games, but i also went outside a lot. And i did so much outside, it's a wonder that i'm not dead right now. I rode my bike alot, and i did crazy stunts with it. I wore roller blades and would go as fast as i could. I climbed trees, seeing how high i could possibly climb. I was a maniac! But God Dammit, it was fun.

     I also blame the schools for childhood obesity. I know what you're thinking. "He's not going to attack the schools, is he?" YES, HE IS! If you've been in a school, in the past few years, you would notice there were numerous vending machines selling candy and soda. So these kid just buy those and eat and drink all the crap they want. They even go to these machines for lunch! When i was in high school, i saw several kids having candy and soda for lunch. The schools need to get rid of those machines, despite the public outcry that would ensue.

     Well, those are my two cents on this subject. I just think that the parents of these kids need to step up and be parents. Thank you.