Suck My White Ass Ball !!!

So there it goes again. Another notch in my "well that freakin figures" belt. The comp that was supposed to be in Upland this weekend, the comp that finally was close for a change, the comp that was supposed to be at a kickass gym has been officially cancelled. Not because of any other reason than they are holding another comp in January. Soooooo let me get this straight.... You have a chance to make a gob of money in one day by bringing in a hundred or so climbers into your gym gaining some exposure in the process and you cancel because you decide to do another one in over a month. Somebody tell me if I am on the wrong side of the fence on this (which is always a common theme but hey you're readin this) but aren't companies excited when a chance comes up that they can bring in a good amount of cabbage and get some online exposure? Well that only prolongs my journey to their gym as I need to attend a regional comp to be elligible for the National competition. So as it is said Sa la ve or something to that effect (I'm not french throw me a freakin bone).

Oh and the countdown is at 18 days to Cancun and some possible nudy time. Time to do some more situps and pullups.

Peace out!

Just real quick

Ace Ventura Pet Detective (the first one) is still one funny ass movie!

Complete Unproductivity

I hope that others out there had a more productive weekend than I did. Besides finishing cleaning the backyard and dumping a truckload of crap from the garage this weekend was a total waste. I think I slept close to 44 hours since we slept in till 11 each day and took a nap also. Life feels pretty good. Well I cant exactly say that with a straight face since I am draggin my ass right about now. Thats the downside to sleepin so much during the weekend. So that starts what is going to be a freakin blur of a month. This weekend was Thanksgiving, next weekend is a climbing comp in Cali., the weekend after that is inventory that I will be flying down to Cali. to help out with, the following friday night we fly out to Cancun and get back the 24th which then of course is Christmas, the last weekend in December is the New Years celebration and that brings us to 2006. Holy crap I am gonna forget half the stuff I am going to do. Well off to work and some fresh brewed columbian coffee. I am going to need it.

Post Food Coma.

After all the turkey livers have been eaten and all the cranberry sauce is gone the second ritual of thanksgiving should now be done. That's right the inevitable food coma. Its saturday and thoughts of christmas gifts and holiday travel now ring strong in everyones mind. I have a Christmas Dinner to attend tonight. It is for my store and we are going to exchange gifts. Something I am not that familiar with. I am a bad gift giver unless you tell me EXACTLY what you want down to the damn serial number. But other than that I am excited about what the holidays are bringing. I am going to go to another comp in California. We are going to attempt to have our Cancun Vacation. I am going to go to orange California to help another one of our stores with their inventory (not that fun but it gives me a chance to work with my new boss). So damn the traveling will be hectic this month but I feel it will be worth every minute. Oh and damn I forgot to remind everyone that my birthday is on Dec. 12th. So heh bring me something......

Snot Rockets!

Well the unthinkable is happening to me and I cant see why. I am/gettting sick my voice is basically gone (great news for everyone else) and it burns something fierce everytime I swallow. The cool part is I can blow my nose and launch out what look to be pieces of burnt plastic. Its never comforting waking up and feeling as though your nostrals have collapsed and breathing is now a concious effort. I do know that within 4 hours of writing this Blog my favorite time of the year will be upon me. A beautiful array of food and snacks and football will be before me to gorge myself on and heck maybe even gain a pound or two.

In a completly unrelated story the countdown to Cancun Vacation 2 is down to 23 days. Just a perfect amount of time for either the trusty mexican people to get all their shit repaired or with our current luck for another storm to brew up and lay another smackdown onto the gulf. Lets hope all the stereotypes are true this time about the work a group of Mexican people are capable of.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

I love being an American. I am proud of where this country has gone. This holiday is celebrated because we weren't always this big. Some tend to get complacent and forget what we have and what we should truly be thankful for. Spend some time this weekend and reflect that the world is bigger than us and we have got it a hell of lot better than a lot of people. These are for all you nonbelievers and those that think this country sucks and wonder why people hate us.

This will be good!

I just am finding out that everyone and their neighbor is going to join us for the trip down to Cali. for the Upland comp. That is really cool we are going to be representin Mad NCC Style. Well at least Starbucks will earn a few extra bucks. The ABS finally posted the updated competitions since one of the crucial gyms went out of business. Looks like we really lucked out by having the regional comp at the Upland gym. I sure am glad I dont have to drive no 6 hours to get to the town so that I can compete at the biggest comp since I've been back. So if you are interested and you find yourself wanting a quick roadtrip click on this link to see where the gym is and come root us on.

Peace out

You Can get with This or you Can get with That!

AHHHH !!! Three day work weeks freakin rock. The best part is paid holidays. Of course since I am now salary paid holidays don't mean as much as they used to it's just nice to know the company still cares. Oh and even though I am not the biggest Harry Potter fan the movie is actually pretty cool. All I have to say is Dragons are freakin cool. My one complaint though is that I don't think I can fully buy into the whole fact that Harry and the crew are all supposed to be around 14 years old. Sorry dude but even the best acting in the world wont make you look that young.

Craig Remeika

P.S. Is it just me or does anyone else want to see a movie about what goes on at that all girl school? Cus DAMN!

I do love Fridays!

With all this training and extra business at work my weeks have been a little more daunting. I love that I feel tired after working out like I am on my way to accomplish something. Oh by the way if you check out rockcomps.com and look my name up I am 125 out of 494 in overall national rankings thats kinda neat. Well dont go there yet and look since they mispelled my name in one comp they havent updated my ranking points. But I did the math and thats where it puts me when they finally fix it.

peace out have a great friday.

About 3 fiddy

The question of the day is can you put a price on friendship? After having an interesting and insightful dinner with a friend it came into my mind that having "friends" is a high value. But at what cost? Do you have a friend or are you the type of friend that would drop everything to help/support someone in need? Do you have a friend that is willing just to listen and not concerned about their own agenda but there to be an Ear and not a Mouth? I guess there is some comfort in knowing that I look at myself as someone that always will be there for people if they ask and I do consider myself a good listener. But am I a good friend? Am I the one that people have to call right away to let them know something is up or something went wrong? Am I that friend that people just want to call up so that I can come over and have fun with and hang out with? Do people consider me the life of the party or at least someone that should always be at the party? My values tell me that being the life of the party and having a need to always being somewhere that other people are at is not right. No single person should be required to be called at every single gathering no individual would look at themselves and say damn I had fun at that party but since I wasn't the "life" of the party it wasn't really that much fun. So what do I define as friends and friendships that hold value? I think it comes down to acceptance. I feel that if people that you can call your friends accept you for who you are and not necessarily what you believe in than those people will hold your friendship with a higher value. I can think of many times that being somewhere that wasn't that accepting felt as though life really couldn't suck any more. But when you are in an environment that people welcome your company because the truly just enjoy you being there than those are the times that life is the way it is supposed to be. You don't have to have a mission everyday or every weekend to be somewhere like that. But when you can escape from some of societies more grueling days and hang out with friends and just unwind and vent well than life in general becomes easier. Friends that listen and accept you for who you are will enhance your life just by being there. I am glad to have the people in my life that I feel give me a feeling of acceptance and I truly enjoy just hanging out with because if I had all the money in the world and nobody that I could call a friend nothing in my mind could be poorer.

Craig Remeika

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I love this game!

OOPS! I swear there was actual text here when I originaly posted this. Well anyways short and sweet version. College Basketball freakin rocks I love watchin Duke and the Cameron Crazies. Thank God the NBA has now ruled that you cant go straight from high school to the NBA. Sweet more talent to watch mature the natural way.

Ponder Me this

Well I wanted to wait a day before I put up a post of my poker experience. For those of you who don't know John Hawkins holds a monthly poker get together. Which normally turns out to be a Hawkins give me your money thanks for visiting get together. Last night was no real difference except for the fact that the Hawkins clan did not take any of the money spots (a first I think since I've been going). The reason I wanted to wait is because for one of the first times after a Poker game I felt dejected. I knew that when I looked back at my hands that I played, that there really wasnt much I could have done differently. I played pocket pairs strong I called when I had good draws and I folded at least 3 times at exactly the right time. So what do I think my reason for going out in 11th place? I really couldnt tell you but I think my utter lack of any luck whatsoever might have something to do with it. I played a side game and I played better in that game but even then I really couldnt catch any freakin cards. I would say (or I would hope I could say) that I went out gracefully. I dont remember cussing and I dont remember getting all that mad. I do remember throwing the glasses that I was wearing down onto the table but they were Johns glasses so it didnt bother me. So whats next for me and my poker I dont know but damn I hate it when I fork out money and play good and nothing comes of it.

One good thing did come out of this weekend though. I won an Ebay auction without having to fight anybody for it. You might be asking what the hell is that for and when the hell I took up Scuba diving. And I would say its for climbing and I didn't take up Scuba (not that I might never). You see as I keep training for my Climbing competitions it becomes abundantly clear that I need to strengthen up a bit (ok maybe a hell of a lot). I can put that weight belt around my skinny ass waist and actually give my arms a workout. The cool thing is that Phil (the owner of the gym) has a set similar to this that I can use the weights from and increase my training just that little bit more.

So airports are nice.

Yesterday was spent traveling many hundreds of miles saddled up on the ol' 737. I needed to attend the 3 hour "federal required" harrassment seminar. Not too bad. The instructor was cool and the people there had plenty of experience in what not to do. But I did realize one thing though. Airports have spent a buttload of money on their facilities and the only ones that can peruse through the majority of the shops and diners is the frustrated tired travelers. Now I know that this was just a recent change (ok may be not recent since 9-11 happened 4 years ago) but if I were an Airport vendor I would be pissed. These are some nice places that they have to now pay some ungrateful high schooler minimum wage to keep open and can expect bare minimum results from patrons. Well that is the risk that is taken when you venture off into the world of Business ownership but all in all I am glad I had something to do while having to wait for my flights.

Its going to be a long day!

Tomorrow I venture off into the world of mangement responsibilty. I will be attending a seminar on Harrasment Training. Although the name would imply that I will be going to a seminar that will only fine tune my ability to harass the shit out of people yet it is going to be about how to prevent harassment. Does anyone know when the trend began that employers must abide by some moral law that requires them to treat their employees with such an extreme amount of coddling? I remember working when I was younger and being treated like a piece of shit and I took it since i wanted a job and ergo money. Not only does this meeting seem to to reek of shaping those in charge into a robotic state of compliance and eggshell walking it requires me to leave Vegas at 9:40 in the A.M. and returning at the ripe time of 10:20 in the P to the M. I believe I could really use a Rusty Trombone right about now.

NOTHING pisses me off more!!!

If there is one thing that I look forward too more than most things during the year it's definitely the football season. What pisses me off to no end is the fact the for some reason or another time begins an uncontrollable shift fast forward so that the 17 weeks that comprise the season zip past like a fart on a speed boat. The drag to it all is that you can't change the number of games played since injuries are so rampant the later games would be fifth and sixth string players (bore fest). Although there have been many attempts to recreate the NFL experience nothing has come close to properly emulating the real deal. So where does that leave us? Spectators of the greatest sport clinching onto any second that is given to us dreading the day that inevitably comes where the Super Bowl champs are crowned and Sundays are left with nothing to look forward too. I get a kick outta church like the next guy but nothing compares to throwin off the Church clothes to flop down to watch the good ol pigskin.

What category does this put me in????

I was at a comp this weekend and interesting ritual is beginning to emerge. It seems as though that a trip to starbucks is a necessity before we venture off to the competition. Thats not the odd part. It seems as though I feel compelled to snap a pic with the treo 650 at the starbucks to remmeber the view. Since this was only my second comp I only have two pics. I will post them here soon as I get them to my Flickr account. So you might ask yourself how I did at the comp (hey just humor me) well I cant tell you. They need to post the results online so I can see how I did. Which means I didnt get 1st 2nd or 3rd. But all in all I am happy with the points that I did get and I had a good time. The company I drove there was fun too so that makes for and easy drive, even if it just 3 hours.

But Im only 27

It came upon me last week a sense of age that has never been before. After beginning to compete at the Rock Climbing competition a sad reality began to unfold before me. Im older than the people kickin my ass at these comps. I was ranked 15th overall in my gender at my first comp back. Granted that means I was better than 35 people but that is not a large enough salve. Although I must not be too harsh on myself considering it was my first comp back it is still a reminder that no matter how much I let weeks go by unnoticed my ass is still gettin old.

2006 World Series

Is it just me or is the fact that the 2005 World Series of poker was just a bit too big. I love the exposure that poker is getting because I believe it will trickle down to people like me to were all kinds of tourneys and events will be more available because of the popularity. But there has got to be a limit (no pun intended) to how big or how it is organized. Why you might ask because contrary to popular belief I don't like watching 5000+ dead money players hash it out and gun after the pros just because they are there. I want to watch big battles between the pros. I like seeing the little guy win don't get me wrong because hell that's the American way. Strength in numbers baby. Maybe they should set it up to where the pros and the amateurs are in separate categories and they take the top 50 or 100 in each group after they are whittled down then combine the Tourney that way there's still a fighting chance for both sides.

Say What?

So hockey is back and what do people say? Well who cares what they say it
only matters if they are watching the stuff on TV (TV viewers equals
advertising $). Well if this shows you anything then there may be some worry to be had. Hell I dont know for sure but I think reruns of seinfeld get higher ratings. Then again its
not part of hockey to have a Soup Nazi. My idea Naked Ice wrestling between
periods. They could superimpose the shit for all I care but hell I'd sure as
hell be more inclined to watch.

One can only hope.

Even thought the many times you change yourself you can only hope that the ones around see what its like to have changed for the better. It is within this hope that those around will remove their head from deep inside their Rectum and view the world from the accepted reality the rest of the world is a part of. If not a good kick in the nuts generally gets the point across.

Hey if all else fails always remember...... Screw it if they are Idiots nothing you remember is going to change them from tainting your day.

A Nude day is upon Us !

Oh that's right kiddies, the new blogsite is smelling fresh. Say what you want to say (thats why everyone has a blog) but bloggin aint for breakfast anymore. Time to ditch the social experiment that is Myspace and move to something that will create productivity cure the worlds diseases, end hunger from the Earth. Well maybe not so much as make someone laugh everyone once in a while but Fuck it I get bored talkin to myself and too many people I know screen their calls (jackasses).

Enjoy it folks and by all means send me a freakin comment every once in a while to know your alive.