women are crazy

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about time

the anchor is back by popular demand. the masses (all 5 of them) have spoken and said they needed to have more of the anchor in their life so here i am to give it to them (this is with the assumption that the 5 readers are still reading this blog). just to bring everyone up to speed on what the anchor has been going through these past few months here are some quick updates:

halloween - took the anchors out trick or treating, and we still have candy from it (some of that is thanks to my umbro who donated his kids candy to the cause).

t-day - what a great week thanksgiving was. it started out with getting up extra early the friday before t-day and driving almost 14 hours to my umbro's in texas. we got chill with his family and ate like kings (which was a theme that carried though out that whole week) for a few days. while there on the old stomping grounds we where able to go and visit friends cassanda and cecil. now being back there and spending time with them made me miss the great friends we had in tejas. since being in az it just hasn't been the same (but we'll chat about that in another post). cassandra was gracious enuff to take the time to take our family pics (some of the pics maybe used in a future post). after the few days we traveled to see the outlaws, and the rest of my wife's family. this included staying with the outlaws and watching quite a bit of football (thanks again to the outlaws). we ate like kings there as well. the wife abandoned me, my father in law & umbro in law and left us with the kiddos. we worked it like champs with those kids. so to make mends with the males, the ladies took the kiddos out so the guys could do what guys do best.... talk and argue (mainly argue). i had a great time, and sure learned quite a bit. i know i wasn't expecting to learn so much, but this anchor goes by the old adage that everyday i should learn something new (that week should have me filled up for several months). t-day brought more eating (like royalty again) and spending time with the outlaws and my wife's extended family. i had the displeasure of seeing the cowgirls win (luckily i was able to have that rectified by watching the beloved cardinals beat them in o.t., but that's for another post as well). fast forward to sun post t-day and 14 hours again traveling back home. got a rock (i still think it was a baseball) to the windshield.

post t-day - since then ive been busy with work. got to spend this past sun with my grandma eating enchiladas and spanish rice. we got to spend a few days watching my neice and nephews the past week. other than ive been watching football and my tv shows.

i apologize that this post is so boring, but with so much happening to this anchor (mostly boring stuff) i figured i would do a catch up post. have a merry x-mas (or whatever the 5 readers celebrate & a happy new year.

an evening to remember

as u may or may not have known this anchor is another year older (with still nothing to really show for it), and this year he got a treat that was over a decade in the making. back in my earlier years (around 7th grade) there was a musical troupe you may or may not have heard of that went by the name of primus. they are lead by les claypool who can only be described as the best bass player to walk the earth. over the years i have always wanted to see them live, but for one reason or another it never came to fruition, that was till this past week. i was approached by a dear friend last month who informed me (knowing of my great love for primus) that primus was touring and would be in the az area for an evening with just them playing only. "just primus for the nite" was my response. i couldn't believe it, a whole evening with just them. no openers or other things to get in the way of a great show. unfortunately for me i was short on the green (and i'm not talking green naugahyde their latest album). so it looked grim for my hopes of seeing them play live, but then that dear friend let me know a few days later that he was looking at purchasing a ticket for me. i couldn't believe it. there was no amount of thanks u i could give him and his significant other for making this dream come true (although i'm thinking i'm working in the thousands now and still going strong). so then came the waiting game. waiting for almost a month for the show to come. the day of show seemed to go crawl at a snail's pace, but then it FINALLY happened. my dear friend, his significant other & me got to the mesa amphitheatre around 7pm, and shortly after that nothing short of amazing happened. we stood right in front around the sound board area just outside the pit area. there was a dancing troupe of 4 ladies and a hesher wanna be guy dancing most of the show right in front of us, which ended up being almost as entertaining as the band. les played that evening with 3 different bass guitars during the course of the 3 hour show. words cannot describe how he plays those bass guitars. for several songs he brought out what appeared to be a homemade instrument that looked like a stand up bass with just 3 strings and he would pluck but also use a bow just like a cello. larry the guitarist was switching guitars after almost every song (most song would last 7-10 mins). the first set they played classics from their catalogue. then after an intermission they played green naugahyde in its entirety. after finishing up with that album. they left. knowing in advance that they play a 2 song encore we waited for them to take the stage again to complete the evening. they played a 2 song encore and, well i'm not sure cause we left towards the end of the 2nd song. that's part of the fun about getting older is knowing that traffic for a show like this going to be heavy so getting a head start is important. so that was my b-day this year in a nutshell. the only thing about the show that i would change was have them play a couple of my favorite songs they didn't get to. another year down and another thing i can mark off my bucket list. enjoy a video someone shot that evening with whats appears to have been taken with a camera phone.

economics 101

it's no secret to my 5 loyal readers that this anchor is always broke, and will more than likely be that way in this life. it would seem like i slept during my economic classes, but i had an interesting conversation with my son today about economics that would make any professor proud. the conversation started out innocently enough with my son telling me that he wanted to be me. my first response to him was "WHY"???? his response was "so i can be "the anchor" and do whatever i want". so then i responded with "does this anchor do whatever he wants"? to my surprise his response was a resounding "YES". i had to start down the litmus list of reasons not to be this anchor. i told him "well to be me then you have to work and get paid for it". after u get paid u now have to pay the bills and give the money u just slaved over working your hands and feet to the bone over to everyone else. he didn't like this answer so he gave me his alternate version of himself as me, that being that he would not have to work cause he would already have all the money he needed. liking this version of myself, a version i have never experienced i asked him where the money came from. his response was "i just have it already cause someone else gave it to me". this response inspired me, but seeing an opportunity to lecture him on how the real world currently works i said "well to be at this point no one has given that amount of money, and since you want to be me you just going to have to work to earn money". this boy is always thinking a step ahead of me so he tells me "well the i'm going to work in a zoo". letting him know how excited i was for him to work in a zoo i told him "that's a great idea". he then made the mistake of telling me that "the zoo was going to be free for everyone". i had to sadly burst his bubble and remind him that the zoo has expenses that they have to pay for such as feeding the animals and to paying him for his work. i told him i know u like dancing for people (which was what he stated would be his occupation at the zoo), but "how then are they going to afford the music you are going to dance to"? my son shot back "we'll they have $10,000.00 already". after explaining to him that the "dollar amount was not enough to run a zoo as well as pay him for dancing" he gave me a number to which i can't remember the exact amount but it was around $500,760.75 or near it. i told him that i thought that was a great amount of money to start off with but the zoo would still need more to run and sustain itself. being fed up like most kids (and people in general) at the options given to me he decided it was better to just be a kid and not deal with all that now. i have to say that agree with him.

it's job not job

yesterday was a very stressful day (like most of my days since becoming the anchor) to say the least. it was during this time there was a question posed to me by my better half which i didn't have an answer (not one that satisfied her anyway). i'm going to try to give my answer through this post (since she's one of the five readers of this glorious blog). the question came after a very very very hard day of her working with our two kids who both are (extreme) special needs. the question posed to me by her was "why us?" the reference was regarding why do we have to have all the challenges while everyone it seems has the charmed life she wants so desperately. i gave her my basic answer which happens to also be the truth, and that is cause she married me. a little background on me, if it weren't for bad luck i would have no luck at all. that did just the opposite of what i was hoping for in comforting her. so after going to be bed with a migraine size headache this thought has stuck in the back of my mind. it was still bothering me when i woke up so i gave it greater thought throughout my day today. i think i have an answer for her that hopefully will help her (what little help it may be). today a close friend at work informed me about some issues that arose in his family and the pain he was feeling cause of it. then a little later another good friend was telling me about rumors that where being spread about them and the pain they had been feeling after an incident where someone they cared about really her them & broke the trust they had in them. when listening to these good friends tell me the details about these situations in their life made me think even harder about the question "why us?". it assured me that.... no matter what i think we are not the only ones who have issues in our life. there are definitely people who have more problems in their life than others. i know from my trials (the few trillions i've had thus far) that afterwards i either learn something from it or tried to use it as a learning moment. that doesn't always happen, but i do try. its very hard to do that especially when it seems like the trials are caked on one after another another (which they usually are for me) to find the positive lining. i would just tell my wife if she was reading this post that no one (at least that i know) has the perfect life (although i do have a brother who is as close to perfection as anyone to walk this earth). even he has trials (not as bad as ours but he does have them). when i think there are people who have the perfect life with every advantage and not a grey hair on their head (tidbit of info: my brother doesn't have a grey hair either) that they also don't have what i have (besides bad luck) two of the best and smartest kids on earth. i love them more than anything i ever known in my short life. no matter how frustrating they can be (and they are off the charts in this department) i wouldn't trade them or the experiences we've had with them for anything (cheezy i know). i also have the best wife (even though she might think so). i am very grateful she lowered her standards (really lowered them) to allow herself to share these years together with me. now i'm starting to sound like a bad hallmark card so i will end it now before the last of the five readers stops reading this blog. so dear if you read this know that we are not alone in having problems and as for us it is cause u married me.

out with the old, n with the knew

if you r 1 of the elite 5 readers of this blog, then u can c things have changed recently. yes after at least a year (i think a year and halfish to be more exact) the anchor is ready to blog has changed its look. a new background made courtesy of the latest up and coming blog designer "the adventures of jamc" (aka my wife). there is an icon on the blog that says my wife's pov & if u give it a click u can read her blog (be ready to go to sleep though while reading cause it's about the most boriniest family on earth). i gave her one command for updating this blog & that was to continue to make my blog look cooler than hers, and i think she's definitely succeed at that. i even updated the music play list to reflect the modern hits ive been listening to alot lately. i would have these songs on my ipod if i had one, but since i only have them on cd's i play them on my disc man. for those of you who don't know what a disc man is, i put a picture at the top as a reference for a visual. so with that, please continue to read and follow the ramblings of this mad anchor, and if that's too much too ask you can at least enjoy the tunes (please ignore the 30 sec ad for fantasy football that comes up every so often on the playlist).

"You-Know-Who", "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" or "the Dark Lord" Continued

after hearing of a broken truce i rushed to see if it was true, and too my amazement it was. i thought the truce i had with my wife was unlike any of those ones truces the american government makes with foreign countries while they have there fingers crossed behind their back. today that truce was broken (which was probably inevitable since my wife had her hands behind her back when we made the truce). she wrote a lame post. not her usual one, but dear i say even lamer, and about me of all things. the lamest anchor anywhere.... or am i. since she is just going to blow smoke up your caboose when talking about "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named", then i will give you my side which is the real side of me. below is a list of my actions over a 7 year period. you can decide which side is telling the truth about this anchor..... the anchor himself who most be named.... or his prejudicial wife. you be the judge!

1. after a person with the first name of harry(i obviously can't give out his full name due to self incrimination)was born, i made his parents disappear permanently. james and lily had it coming.

2. i tried to kill harry by putting a curse on him. the curse failed, and the only thing this kid got from it is lightning bolt on his face. due to the course rebounding back on me i had to go into hiding.

3. i don't like half blooded wizards (even though i am myself, its the self loather in me)

4. after a gardner named frank (you know why i can't give out the full name) found out about my plan to restore my body using harry's blood, i had to help him push up daisies.

5. i engineered a plot to free bellatrix lestrange and some other death eaters from azkaban so we could retrieve the full record of a prophecy stored in the department of mysteries regarding harry and myself. i sent the group of death eaters to retrieve the prophecy.

6. i also had to let amelia bones with the department of magical law enforcement retire early with no pension.

7. after that i targeted members of the order of the phoenix, including emmeline vance. they definitely deserved it.

8. i split my soul to achieve immortality.

9. i was able to dispose of the minister for magic and replaces him with pius thicknesse, who at the time was under the imperius curse and used him to establish a totalitarian police state.

10. i was able to relieve the old wand maker at gregorovitch's wand shop & gellert grindelwald who was at nurmengard at the time, of their duties... permanently!

11. i stole the elder wand from dumbledore's tomb.

12. i used my good friend draco to help try to carry out an assault on the people and things at this lame school school called hogwarts. hogwarts is so lame you may mistake it for bryan adams high school in texas (maybe).

13. my body currently is laid in a different chamber with all the others who died from battling me. i currently exist in a stunted infant-like form that my nemesis harry sees in the King's Cross-like Limbo in the Forbidden Forest.

so i hope these little details that my wife left out in her post will allow you to make a much more educated guess on who the real "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" is. one last thing to help sway your thinking about me, someone once said when describing me "the most evil wizard for hundreds and hundreds of years" that was really said about me. don't believe me go to wiki where you can read all about me.