Holy crap, I hope you saw me on the news waving in 7NE the citation Tom Osborne was flying around the country interviewing prospective coaches on. There were news trucks everywhere with dumbass reporters trying to get “the scoop” on everyone else. Of course we knew where they were parking and what time they were going to get there but it was fun to make the reporters run around telling them we had no idea. I wanted to mess with them more by having guys all over the place with wands acting like they are parking there so they had to set up their cameras and wait and end up not seeing anything, but by the time it was all over it was just pissing me off. I wasn’t really as pissed off by the media since that’s how they make a living as I was by all the slack jawed workers we have here who were creeping around trying to be where they have no business being. It’s just unprofessional and really makes me mad. I don’t know what all these people are trying to see anyway. They were all looking for Bo Pelini to step off the plane and wave to everyone and get announced as the new coach after being the only one interviewed. I don’t fucking understand why people STILL come up with these elaborate theories and insider information stories on what is going on. How many times is Tom going to say what he is going to do and then do it before people believe it? He said he’s going to talk to four or five people before he makes a decision and that most likely takes more than a day in Baton Rouge and Atlanta doesn’t it? I’m so sick of the whole topic already. Hire Paul Johnson already and get it over with.

I did a little geocaching in the last couple days. I found four of them yesterday and one today. I even hid one of my own a few weeks back. Took the dog along yesterday and he got plenty dirty going through the woods with me. I had to climb like fifteen feet into a tree on one of them and kind of fell and scraped myself up a little. Today I found one and got this sweet 1986 Nebraska Cornhusker belt buckle as my “swag”.

Sweet. It’s got the original Herbie Husker instead of the dumb muscle bound one or lil’ red. It also says Cornhuskers instead of the modern Huskers that we use now since we don’t want to be seen as “hicks”.

Because I am seriously going crazy with this wintertime dry air. I’m itching like I went through poison ivy or something. I suppose it would help if I didn’t shower 2-3 times a day but if I did that then I feel all nasty and that’s worse. I picked up a $12 vaporizer to add a little humidity to the air in here and that has helped a little bit I guess but not enough to make it completely go away.

I might have solved my “canker problem”. If you don’t know (and I don’t know why you would), ever since I quit smoking last January it seems like I have been getting continuous painful canker sores. They just come and go in various places in my mouth but never seem to be completely gone, they just move from place to place. Most of the time they appear in a place that makes it very painful to eat or drink anything and take forever to heal. I assumed that it was from the stress of quitting smoking that I was getting them but after doing some research I found that I might be sensitive to the sodium laurel sulfate that they put in almost all toothpastes. Basically sodium laurel sulfate is a cheap soaplike substance that doesn’t do anything to clean your teeth but gives you that foamlike consistency that makes the unwashed masses think that it’s doing something. Now that I think back I think I switched to a new gel type toothpaste around the time I quit smoking so that might have been my problem. Anyway it turns out that there are only six or so brands on the market that don’t contain this ingredient and they aren’t widely available. I ended up having to buy specifically “Maximum Strength Sensodyne Original Flavor” which I consider an “old person toothpaste”. It’s the same formula as it was in the sixties which basically means it tastes like ass. It’s like brushing your teeth with pulverized Pizza Hut mints which is great if you like mints (I don’t). Anyway so far the results are as soon as I started using it the big canker I had started to heal and another that was just starting and normally would get huge also healed right up. Excellent.

I checked out the gym area that they have in the clubhouse here in my complex and it’s not bad. It’s certainly not really nice and fancy and whatnot, it’s older just like everything in this complex but they have all the stuff you really need to get a work out in like a ski machine, treadmill, bike, freeweights and a weight machine along with TVs mounted to the wall to stare at while you’re doing it. Too bad the only time you can get in there is during office hours since I like to work out in the middle of the night when I’m not working. I guess I can start a schedule of going in when I wake up since it’s not a big ordeal to get in there. All I have to do is throw some clothes on and walk over to the next building instead of having to get all ready and drive somewhere.

I’m sure you’ve all been just mesmerized by my tales of skin and mouth problems as well as the musings about how I “might” go work out but most likely won’t. Hell, that’s what you get when you read the ramblings of a shut in with no girlfriend or social life to talk about. Maybe the problem isn’t me… Maybe the problem is that you’re taking the time to read the ramblings of a shut in with no girlfriend or social life. You should really get a life… loser.

Christmas time! I don’t know about you but I can’t stand it! Already the incessant music played on a loop over and over and over again. I literally wanted to ram sharp objects into my ears and stir around my brains a little to make it stop. It’s impossible to go out and get anything like food or toilet paper now that all the mouth breathing inbreeders are out filling all the parking lots and lines and getting in my way. They have to buy their nine year old daughter the newest Stupid Spoiled Whore Playset with the money they make selling methamphetamines while they pick up this weeks groceries with their food stamps. It pisses me off so much I sometimes seriously think I’m gonna stroke out. For the record I am not celebrating Christmas at all this year, theres just no joy in it at all for me.

Watched the Nebraska game today and wouldn’t you know it? We lost. Hell, going to a bowl 2 out of 4 years ain’t bad, and winning half of those is pretty good! So what if you’ve got a losing record in the conference! It’s all about the recruiting and the “system” baby! Seriously though, who do you think the next coach will be? I am hoping for Paul Johnson from Navy. That guy can flat out coach nobody’s into winners and that’s what we need here since we are in the middle of nowhere. I’m praying it’s not Turner Gill but would be happy if it was Pelini even though he’s unproven. I like his fire, he would just need the right assistant coaches. Johnson would be my guy because he seems like he would “get” the way it is in Nebraska and can get guys who aren’t the greatest athletes in the world and need to be able to adhere to extremely high academic standards to win.

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