Some Old Photos of Dawgs

I don't know if everyone is filled in with the whole dog fiasco that is going on with Jeff's facebook profile, but I'll give you the scoop. Dan and a couple other of Jeff's friends posted like 3 dog youtube videos on his profile. Jeff made a comment that people were going to think he was some sort of crazy dog guy, so ever since then literally everyone has been bombarding his profile with dog videos (they spell it dag). One of my personal favorites was from B.J. (http://deadspin.com/#!5760394/heres-a-video-of-dogs-saying-i-love-you) of dogs saying "I love you." 
I was looking through some old photos on my camera and found a few gems of the old band and a deaf/blind dalmatian (named Chico I believe) we watched for a few weeks for one of Dan's college buddies.

Chico had a little trouble knowing when he was going to need to go to the bathroom. He would get up, walk and drop excrement as he meandered through the house. Another problem was that he couldn't tell where he went poop so he would walk through it and just spread the mess. One day I was the first one to get back from to the house from school and Chico had one of these accidents (a particularly bad one). I remember thinking "I have two options, number one clean it up, or number two I could try to play it off like I didn't notice it." Lets just say that it would have been pretty difficult to pull off option number two convincingly...  

The Perks of the Job

Here's another Speedway post for everybody. I may not get much free stuff, but when I do it is amazing... Check out this awesome speedway swag everybody in the store got.

It is supposed to act as a hair net when you make food. I decided I was going to wear mine for an entire 8 hour shift, but I knew if I saw how goofy it looked on me I would take it off immediately. I was doing pretty good with my plan until it got dark and I saw my reflection in the window. I decided to keep wearing it anyway.
These hats are pretty hot, you can't even get them off lids.com. However if someone was really dying to have this top notch fashion accessory I might be able to pull a few strings.

The Old Yearbook

So today I went to my placement at Herbison Woods Elementary in DeWitt (5th grade). First I had to get my car out of the driveway which was an ordeal... It was picture day today and all the kids had those little order things just like we had back in elementary school. However they didn't hand out combs, score one for Holland Christian. It was funny all the guys were complaining about how their moms made them dress up. This one kid put on a vest right before he got his picture taken, and then quick yanked it off right after. They also had a class photo and the photographer was lining them up according to height. Then Mrs. Lucian and all the kids insisted that I got in the picture, so I will forever be in the 2010-2011 Herbison Woods yearbook. I felt really good that she insisted I was in the picture. I can guarantee that I'm the only one in my class that was awarded that opportunity.
Yearbooks are such a fun keepsake to have, they really take you back. The best part is seeing all of your friends old pictures. I also like looking at the yearbooks that were "edited" by us when we were younger. Man kids can be cruel... Anyways it was a great day.

Speedway Stories:Series 1

As most of you know I work at Speedway gas station, and have been for about 6 months. As you would suspect this enables me to meet a wide variety of people from all walks of life. There is one regular in particular that I believe to be post-worthy. He is a 30-something year old man with big glasses. I think there's something a little off with him. The first time I met him he came in and bought two 5-hour energy drinks and talked to me about gun regulations in Michigan. Then he spent some time in the parking lot (presumably to drink his unhealthy amount of caffeine. When he came back into the store he had drawn whiskers and a cat nose on his face (it wasn't halloween). I see him every couple of weeks and he always reads a Guns n Ammo magazine in the store and in line, then he sets it down on the counter and asks if I would mind putting it back for him...

Something I've just noticed in the last week is that people have been swindling me with their 64oz drink refills. First of all lets just get one thing out of the way, why do people think it is necessary or healthy to consume 64oz of pop or slushy at one time. That is 2 liters of liquid... I digress, I have been charging people for a cold refill on their 64 oz mugs (pop/slushy) for roughly $1.37. Then I find out that this one yahoo has been filling his up with coffee which costs like $2.50. I finally caught him because he asked if it was alright if he made some 100% Columbian coffee (as he opened the bag-we don't make it after 7) When he came up to pay I charged him for a hot beverage refill and it threw him for a loop, and he had to dig for extra change in his pocket.

Wow did I really just write an entire paragraph explaining that...

Anyway, that old coot ain't gonna be fooling me again!

Balloon Animals

I've always been curious as to how hard it would be to pick up on making balloon animals. I found out when Alex and Shane came back from the dollar store and they had a balloon making kit. I started messing around with it and made like 15 animals and swords. At one point Alex said, "You like the weirdest stuff." he could see the joy in my face when I made my signature animal... the poodle.

I must admit I looked online for how to make this one.

 However these two were all me, the giraffe and the turtle in case you couldn't tell.

Socks

My mom can attest to the fact that I'm not one that is known for throwing away socks. I will wear them until they disintegrate. When I lived at home she would just throw out the ones that needed to go into retirement. However since I've been doing my own laundry for over 4 years this hasn't happened in a while. One day I just got frustrated that I had so many mismatched holey socks and it was time to do something about it. I took out all of the salvageable pairs I could find and put the rest into a pile. This is that pile...

My roommate Eric was a witness to all of this and decided to try and put on as many as possible...

 They look like wooden shoes made out of socks.

 He said they were really warm

Then I discovered that one of my roommate's (Shane's) socks mixed up in the bunch. As you can see there is a vast size difference...

Stupid Things to Pass the Time

Living with 5 immature 22 year olds and me being one myself we find a lot of stupid activities to help occupy our time. One of our new favorites is what we call "Tallman Challenges" where we come up with strange activities for our roomate Alex Tallman (who was my room-mate in the dorms last year) to do. Many of them are food related. McDonald's has this promotion where you get 50 chicken mcnuggets, 2 large fries, and 2 large pops for $15. Alex, Eric, and I split one and we asked Tallman if he could finish it all by himself in an hour. The rules of the bet were that we would pay for the meal if he could complete the challenge, he would if he couldn't or if he regurgitated it.

 His strategy was to power through the fries because they would be really gross and hard to put down once they got cold

 He was doing good with about 15 minutes left, but he still had about 1 and 1/2 pops to go.

 Struggling on the last drink

 More struggling

 With a couple minutes to go he went for broke and with sheer power of mind over body finished the last pop.

He puked right after, but out of pity we didn't make him pay for his "meal."

New Blog

Since Dan decided to revamp of his blog I figured I would start a new one (not for school). We all know I do whatever Dan does, monkey-see-monkey-do (at least according to him). Over the years it has been a lot of things like visiting the same websites, magic cards, going to MSU. I'm sure he will be able to think of a few more.
Well it looks like all of us boys are all growing up, Chad and Jeff are members of the workforce, Dan's in Chicago, and I'm winding down my time here at MSU. It seems like only yesterday we were having crabapple fights and crashing go-karts in the backyard. Hopefully this blog will stir up some old memories from those days, and fill everyone in on the current ones.