Happy Halloween!

Here's hoping you have a safe and magical Halloween! Since I always find a funny photo for the occasion, here's a cat and a dog carving pumpkins... the dog is doing it the "old Fashioned way" while the cat has a "new technique". If you have a great caption for this shot, email it to me and I'll post it here on the blog!

How to be nice...

This picture is so true... every morning a nasty excuse for a human being walks through the door and is replaced by a very nice person as the first cup of coffee goes down. I'm still apologizing to people for the way I treated them the day the coffee machine was broken!

Survivor Re-Cap

10/26/11 - Now we're talking! One of the boldest moves of all time in Survivor happened tonight... Ozzy had his Savaii tribemates vote him to Redemption Island!

Okay, here's what happened. First, Christine knocked Mikayla off in the Redemption Island challenge... surprised the heck out of me! Christine is on a roll and has really earned my nickname for her "the Bulldog"! And her victory is what got Ozzy thinking... and pretty soon ol' Ozzy has a plan for his tribe. If Savaii loses the immunity challenge, his tribe should vote Ozzy to Redemption Island so he can beat Christine. Thus, if the tribes merge after the Redemption Island challenge Ozzy can come back into the game and Upolu and Savaii will be even again at six members each. Bold plan! But Ozzy is taking some huge risks, maybe the boldest risks in the history of the game.

At the immunity challenge, good old Cochran messes things up so badly for Savaii that they blow a lead and lose a challenge they should have won pretty easily. Afterwards it looks like Ozzy has forgotten his bold plan and the tribe will send Cochran to Redemption Island after all. But in the end, he gives Cochran the immunity Idol and sacrifices himself for the plan. Ozzy even explains the strategy to Probst at tribal council (see photo). The episode ends with Ozzy telling a big fib to Christine on Redemption Island about how Cochran blindsided everyone by secretly having and playing the immunity idol.

Incidentally, over at Upolu Coach is leading prayer meetings and group hugs so often that I was wondering if I was watching Survivor or a revival meeting. I think Coach needs to go...

But Wow, the game has suddenly gotten very interesting!

Halloween costume?

So what are you wearing to that wild Halloween party this year? Here's an idea... and it's the hottest selling costume item so far this year. Charlie Sheen!! Hilarious!

What's your halloween costume?

Here's your challenge for the next few days... email me your costumes for Halloween. I know there are some great ones out there... lemme see 'em!
And here's a great idea if you're going out as Tarzan... take along your own "pet lion".

What if Uncle Sam was in charge of my budget?

This is from an email I got this week. Frankly, it's very non-political as in I don't think it matters if you're a Republican or Democrat... but it's pretty darned scary!

Okay... here's the numbers:
U.S. Tax Revenue $2,170,000,000,000
The Federal Budget $3,820,000,000,000
New Debt $1,650,000,000,000
National Debt $14,271,000,000,000
Recent Budget Cut $38,500,000,000

Now, let's remove eight zeros and pretend the same numbers are a household budget:
Annual Family income $21,700
Money the family spent $38,200
New Debt on the credit card $16,500
Outstanding Balance on credit card $142,710
Total budget cuts $385

So now we're all good and scared, just in time for Halloween!

Survivor - 10/19/11

Lots of excitement this week. The bulldog Christine barely wins the Redemption Island challenge against Elyse, but she does while slipping her ex-tribemates a sly middle finger. Later, Ozzy dumps a temper tantrum on everyone, announcing he has the hidden immunity idol and declaring himself a free agent. Geez Ozzy, use your head! Of course all this just makes Cochrane happy, knowing it's pulling attention away from him.

Coach is starting to annoy me more than usual... he really thinks he's running the game. We need something to happen there. Especially when he exerts his will and gets his tribe to vote Mikayla off (photo). The lingerie football player should be a formidable opponent for Christine next week on the Redemption Island challenge... the bulldog may be done finally.

And oh yeah, I think Brandon Hantz is a full bubble off sane,,, what a WEIRD KID!!!

October 19, 1965

This day in rock history...

Get a horse...

This is the original SUV folks. I'm posting this because five years ago we were complaining about gas reaching a record high of $2.04 a gallon. Of course I hear oats and hay are going up too...

What you see on a pole...

Hmmmm, shall we call this animal a cat-o-possum? How about a cassum? Or a poat? Or maybe just a... possum (I know, that's so obvious) ? Hilarious, but probably photo-shop.

Survivor Gets Better...

See, everytime I ignore my updates for a while the show gets better.

Okay, here's what's happened lately. First, Christine beat Semhar in the challenge on Redemption Island. We knew that would happen, Christine is a bulldog. As the episode continues, the gay ex-cop from New York makes a feeble attempt to convince everyone that he's found the immunity idol, but nobody falls for it and because of his lousy showing in the immunity challenge... well, bye bye papa bear.

Another unique event occurs when Brandon Hantz, who has been adamant about not showing his tribe that he's the nasty Russell Hantz's nephew, whips off his shirt and shows everyone his "Hantz" tattoos and blurts out that his uncle is Russell. However, he exhorts his tribe to believe that he's actually a wonderful guy with deep faith, honor, and integrity. I'm surprised that they didn't cut away to show the whole tribe laughing at that. Little Brandon has issues. What kills me is every time he's one-on-one with the camera, his own story makes him cry. Weinie.

Okay, moving on to next week, papa bear gets wiped at Redemption Island by Christine the bulldog, and after a lot of apologizing and more tears from Brandon, the usual nerdy desparation from Cochrane, the Upolo tribe loses the immunity challenge and votes Stacey off.

So finally to tonight's episode... yes it's getting better... the producers finally let everyone have their bathing suits!! Finally no more underwear scenes (LOL).

First, Christine (Bulldog) defeats Stacey on Redemption. Second, Ozzy makes a critical strategy error when he spends a lot of time in his hammock and in bed. And most of the time it's with Elyse. Survivor usually doesn't like couples and Ozzy should know this. So when Savaii loses the grossest immunity challenge ever (everyone biting chunks of a roast pig and spitting the pieces in a pan) Jim, Dawn and Cochrane cook up a little 4 on 3 move and vote Ozzy's little love-match Elyse (see picture) off to Redemption Island. Poor Ozzy, blindsided like that.

Soooo, next week will Christine defeat Elyse on Redemption Island? Bet on it. And will Ozzy separate himself from his tribe and mope a lot to show he misses his lost love? Bet on it! And will things continue to go wonderfully for Coach? Um, don't bet on it.