Unfaithful

1. It seems like it's been about 3 years since I entered a blog. I have to admit there were several instances where I seriously considered writing something, but alas, I had nothing to say. Not that I really have anything meaningful to say, but I write because I feel like a taker. You know, one of those people who takes and takes and takes but never gives anything or contributes? For instance, the guys who brings nothing to the potluck, but eats more than anybody else.... every. single. time. The guy who always goes around asking for everybody if they have any old tests or quizzes, but whenever you ask him, he's got nothing. You know who you are people! Let's see.... The roommate who always finishes the milk, but never buys any. The guy who's always yelling that he's wide open in basketball, but never looks up to pass once he gets it. Once again. Dude, you know if you are THAT guy! Finally, the guy who always bums a ride whenever you go anywhere with friends and never pays for gas. Whenever there's a question about who's driving, he's the first one to say "dude I got no gas." or "oh my car's only a 2 seater." or "man, I'm too tired to drive." Did you know that some people take joy in buying 2-seaters for this exact reason?! They buy a 2-seater so they can NOT drive! Dude, if you are this guy, you know are and you suck! You're the one with 5 year old car with only 15,000 miles on it! Anyway, my point is I don't want to be a blog hog, always reading and and passing my dead time reading everybody's blogs and not contributing to dead time entertainment. So, in order to not be THAT guy, I write. For those of you in the blog community who are givers, thank you. I don't know what I would do at work in between patients without your kindness.

2. You can tell a lot about what stage of life you're in by what you count as currency. You know, the thing you measure money by. For example "X amount of dollars would buy X amount of THIS" When I was younger, I measured everything by packs of skittles. "Man, $3.00?! I could get 6 packs of skittles with that!" As I got older, my currency became Taco Bell. You remember when MC Hammer was spittin "59, 79, 99! Run for the border, cuz the border's an order." Ah... the good old days. Now that commercial wouldn't work cuz it would have to be "1.99, 2.99, 3.99." I still don't know what "run for the border cuz the border's an order" means exactly, but I measured things in increments of how many tacos it could buy. Well, these days, I measure my net worth in golf balls, more specifically, Titleist Pro v1's. A pack of 12 pro v1's costs about $55.00. If you find a good deal, you might be able to buy 12 of them for $48. That's 4 dollars a ball. So, when you hit a bad drive and lose a ball, you're like "ouch, $4." But even when you put in gas and the damage is $80, I'm like, "Deng! 20 golf balls!" Anyway, the reason I write about this is because as I write this entry, I am sitting next a mountain of pro v1's! I found this sweet deal on Craigslist from this guy who lives next to a golf course and picks up balls when he walks his dog. I got 50 pro v1's for $50! Anyway, I kinda feel like scrooge mcduck when he used to swim through his pool of golf coins. =) I love Craigslist.

3. Sorry Lakers fans, but Kobe Bryant is so annoying. He was makin all of his shots today, so he started acting like a cowboy shooting his fingers like they were guns and putting in his holster and blowing the smoke off of them. It showed him talking trash with one of the guys from the nuggets and you could read the guys lips saying "Dude, just shut the F#*^ up." hehe Exactly.

4. Benefits are awesome. One thing that I will never have as a dentist is paid vacation. What a concept. Somebody would actually pay me to take a vacation?! Who thought of this ridiculous idea? Why would anybody pay somebody else to take a vacation? Well, Esther is looking into different jobs, and Kaiser starts all of their employees off at 4 1/2 weeks of paid vacation and 12 weeks of paid maternity leave! AMAZING. I have a friend who got several weeks of paid paternity leave! He works at a bank. Maybe I need to work for a bank.

5. There are two things I don't know why we put up with as a society. Ridiculous gas prices and weathermen. Near my house, there's two gas stations across the street from each other. For premium gas, one charges $3.75/ gallon. The gas station accross the street charges $3.96/gallon. Whenever I drive past the gas stations (since I only fill up at Costco), there's always about the same amount of people at each gas station. Ridiculous! Why put up with the higher prices?! They only charge this much because we put up with it! Moving on to the weathermen. These guys are worthless. They just copy each other's weather reports. If these guys actually did their own research, wouldn't you see channel 12 and channel 5 disagree with each other occasionally? For instance, this last week, I wanted to golf so badly on Sunday. I had just gotten a new putter and wanted to test it out. Unfortunately, the weathermen unanimously agreed, frosty mix of rain and snow on Saturday and Sunday. When Saturday rolled around, it was clear. Sure, it was cold and rained for maybe 20 minutes, but totally golfable weather. So I thought, Sunday should be fine for a round of golf. Well, my golf buddies believe everything that they're told, so they all said, "dude, it's going to snow and be cold tomorrow. We can't golf." So I slept in and woke up late morning. My wife and I decided to go to downtown Portland and do some shopping. So I'm driving to Portland, and what do you know?! 52 degrees and sunny and clear! Out of all the weathermen in the world (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, yahoo.com, weather.com) did any weatherman predict 52 and sunny?! NO! What are the chances that all of them gave the same forecast and all of them were wrong?! It's like when everybody in the class copies the answers from one guy and everybody gets it wrong. Obviously, these guys just copy each others forecasts. For once, I want to see a ballsy weatherman who's willing to give his own predictions and actually use his training and decide for himself. They should have a grading system. If you're wrong more than 5 times in one month, you're fired. Why do we put up with it? If you're going to be wrong, you might as well be wrong with your own prediction!

6. I was running on the treadmill today at 24 hour fitness, the lady running next to me was there with her daughter who was running next to her. The lady's husband works for Mercedes and she is a stay at home mom. Her son works at Olive Garden and he's been there for 6 years, but he still likes to play basketball and he works out at a different location of 24 hour fitness. She has a housekeeper who comes by 2 times a week and cleans her house. The housekeeper only charges either $15 or $50/ hour (Sorry, it's hard to catch every detail without being too obvious. Plus 15 and 50 sound really similar. Try saying out loud. Plus I was running and I have very jarring, high-impact strides that jolt my hearing a little bit). Anyway, the housekeeper cleans all her bathrooms, kitchen, cleans out the fridge, vacuums, dusts, takes out the trash. But she doesn't clean the bedrooms, cuz the kids are responsible for keeping their own bedrooms clean. She trusts her housekeeper a lot. She even gave her housekeeper a house key so she can come and clean whenever she wants. Oh. She also loves El Pollo Loco and can't wait until the new El Pollo opens by her house. She's from California originally and just wishes that they'd bring a IN & OUT up here, but she heard that the franchise fees are too ridiculously high. (At this point I thought, "AMEN" and "hey, I'm kinda from Cali and I like El Pollo too.") She used to live next door to this guy who was there with his daughter and her neighbor's wife used to clean houses to supplement her income before they got married. Now the neighbor's wife is a nurse. Not only is she a nurse, she's in charge of the entire 7th and 8th floor now. He said that she's like the 5th highest ranked person in the entire hospital administration now (at this point, I thought "yeah right."). Anyway, she was working the other day and ran into a patient whose house she used to clean. Only, this lady was really rude to her when she used to clean her house. But now the tables were turned, and this rude lady was now the neighbor's wife's patient. Of course, the rude lady didn't recognize the nurse, but the nurse recognized the rude old lady. At this point both the lady and the ex-neighbors agree that you need to treat people how you want to be treated because what goes around comes around. hehe So how do I know all this? Because when you don't own an ipod, what do you do when you run on the treadmill, but eavesdrop on the people next to you!? I must admit that I kinda enjoy eavesdropping on strangers. I find people to be fascinating. I won't go into details on the conversation that the person to my left had. His conversation I found quite boring.

7. That was a long blog. Wow. How draining. This is why I don't blog frequently. That's why I need pictures. A picture is worht a thousand words. That means, instead of typing this whole long blog, I could have just posted 3 pictures.... or 5.