Hi there. Tracey and I (and a few good, helpful friends) just finished moving into our new condo. It's super emo right now. I'm kinda shocked that this has actually happened. Tracey is putting the place together right now and it's coming along great. I'm actually back at our old place cause our cable and internet won't switch over to the new place till thursday. We went to Wahoo's for lunch, good as always. I'm also about to finish the Good Thief, which has been really slow so far, but I'm gonna give it a chance. And then tonight, I'm officially going to finally see Lassie Foundation. I'll let you know how that goes. We're in good spirits, although sad about missing Mary and Casey at Christmas time. Mare, give me the persons phone number that scheduled that volleyball thing and I'll take care of it. Heidi and Ken are coming in this Thursday for the weekend. El Brundage left yesterday. I had a great time with him and miss him already. He allegedly says he's going to move out here next May, after his one buddy graduates from BGSU, who also wants to move out to SD, we shall see, many have said they want to be here, but the desire to be here is easy, actually doing it is another thing. But you've gotta love Cali, the state full of fruits, freaks and recalls. I think for the first time last year more people moved out of Cali than moved in. Good. Less traffic. We own a place in SD, there's no reason to ever move again. Amen. And let's all keep cheering for the Tigers to lose 121 games, very cool and funny. And last thing, has anyone noticed that Andrew WK's new album title is "The Wolf"? That's very funny. Reminds of a funny UCB line that I won't repeat. Late

El Brundage is in the house. I'm very tired today from hanging out last night. Tracey and I did some painting in our new condo, that was fun. I had to go to Irvine, to Scantron's corporate office for a meeting yesterday. And since I was already up in the LA area, I drove up north about 20 more miles to go to Sonic in Anaheim, it was good. I'm super busy, still need to get a blog out going over our vaca. Tracey actually wrote in a jounal about the trip, so more detailed info on the trip may have to come from her. Ryan, yer a bad blogger. Ok, back to work. But in the mean time, here is a funny story reported by Jim Rome, enjoy:


Carnie Killed Because of Mullet!!


This is somewhat graphic and you might want to turn away for click on a different page.

SNAAAAAP!

A carnie was killed at a fair when his mullet got trapped in a roller coaster.

SNAAAAP!

Carnie Doug McKay was killed at a carnival in Langley, WA when his mullet got stuck in a roller coaster. The carnie was spraying lubricant on the track when his hair got stuck in the wheels of a passing car.

Yep, he was working on the track while cars were zipping by. Hard to imagine why an accident would take place. It’s not like it’s any safer if they maybe…say, stopped the ride altogether?

Doug, hair stuck in roller coaster car was pulled up to a height of 40 feet, before he broke loose, falling back-first onto a fence.

Somehow, someway…he died. Incredibly enough, he didn’t make it.

Oh, and by the way, the car that snagged him was full of passengers. That probably was nice to see. Nothing says ‘good family fun like watching a carnie get snagged by your roller coaster, only to watch him plunge 40 feet and impale himself on a fence.

“It basically scalped him, and he fell and landed on the fence.”

Sheriff’s spokesman


I’m guessing that sounds about right. If a roller coaster grabs you by your hair doing 70 mph, you can kiss your scalp goodbye.

I never would have thought it was possible, until I saw that it happened. I mean, who would have ever thought that those carnival rides that carnies and ex-cons set up in grocery store parking lots could ever be dangerous?

Certainly not me.

But wait, it gets worse…

The carnival continued. Other than bringing in ‘grief counselors’ to help people who witnessed the incident, it was pretty much business as usual.

I’m guessing that was only a bit disturbing. I wasn’t even there and it disturbs me.

So much for that moment of silence or pausing to reflect on the death of the carnie. Nice of the carnival to stay open for business despite killing one of its carnies.

Memo to carnies, you might want to mix in a barber before you start working on roller coasters…while they’re still moving. It’s one or the other. Cut the mullet or stop the roller coaster, but you can’t have it both ways.

YO HO HO!!!! Back in the saddle. I'm going crazy people, so much going on. Moving, El Brundage tomorrow and LF this weekend. Last Sunday was the one year anniversary of moving to SD. I'm planning on writing up a year in review of our first year in SD, but it will take some time since I'm super busy. But it's safe to say it's been a great year, got a good job, learning to surf and bought a condo, things I thought I'd never do, but did all within the same year. God is good. I'll give a longer report of our vacation whenever I get the chance. Things are just crazy right now, but wanted to drop this quick message. Mary, did you get my phone message?

"I don't want the world, I just want your half" TMBG