If we don’t trade him, we may as well let him play. He’s made an ass of himself, and there’s nothing we can do about that. But what we can do is let him lead the Pack yet again. He’s earned the right.

I’ll take a lot of flack as a Packer fan for his return, but if the Packers can have another great year with him like they did last year.. well, they can talk all they want.

Save Brett

He now knows he can’t return to the Packers, who have been busting their asses for the past half a year to play without him. The only option is to play for another team. The Packers won’t allow him to simply be released unconditionally from his contract and sign with the highest bidder (likely the Vikings or Bears). If anything, he gets traded to a non-NFC North team, and the Packers gain some value in return.

He’ll end up on a team like the Ravens, Bucs, or Dolphins. He won’t win another Super Bowl with one of those teams. His best chance was to decide earlier to play one more year in Green Bay, and he gave up on that chance. Brett’s image is now tarnished as a Packer, because of his selfishness. Maybe I’ll feel differently in a year, but I’m truly heartbroken right now… as lame as that might sound.

He is the Shawn Michaels to our Marty Jannety.

In short, everyone got really drunk really fast, and I’ve since decided that the rules needed a bit of refinement.

Two horrible ideas in the first version were “drink when there are snakes on the screen” and “drink when Sam Jackson swears”.

A drinking game like this should start the night off… not start AND end the night for most of us.

So here’s attempt number two:

• Drink when a snake dies. (multiple snakes at once = one drink)
• Drink when a human dies. (multiple humans at once = one drink)
• Drink when the movie goes into “Snakevision”.
• Boobies = Drink!
• Drink when Sam Jackson gives a command (i.e. repeat after me, stay safe, listen to me)
• When Sam Jackson says THE line… finish your drink!
• If there’s anything left by the time the credits start rolling, finish your mother f’ing drink!

The Mexican military and Department of Tourism don’t seem to have open lines of communication. Case in point:



Just minutes before getting into Rocky Point, we came upon a stop in traffic. Cars were backed up as far as the eye could see. Why, exactly? The Mexican military set up a roadblock so they could search for drugs. Apparently drug running is on the rise in Sonora, MX, and I guess they got a tip that there may be some trafficking going on. It was pretty lame. What made it worse, though, was that my fellow tourists thought it would be a good idea to make more lanes, therefore creating a bottle neck and slowing traffic to an even slower crawl.



I like to think I made the best of things, though.

Here’s a link to the rest of the pictures:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshua_schlag/sets/72157605143792441/

No, it’s not IN the office. It’s outside, in the courtyard/arboretum. I don’t know where it came from, and I don’t know if it’s going to leave. It’s like 4 feet tall, and pretty cool looking. I wouldn’t go near it, though. That beak could take an eye out.

Anyway, I called Maricopa County Animal Control and left them a message. “Yeah, there’s a big bird here. It’s not teaching us anything about the alphabet. Instead, it’s eating our fish and chasing small mammals.”

Maybe they’ll come and take it to a lake or the zoo or something. If not, I’ll get a hunting license and we’ll pay a trip to the taxidermist and have a creepy piece of office decoration.

Pictures? Yeah, I got some:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshua_schlag/sets/72157605073965002/

from oai@azwings.com
date Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM
subject Rock Band

Dear Josh,
We are so sorry that you are so upset with the results of the RockBand Finals.
We thought the tournament was fun and competitive. We wanted you to know that your comments
were directed to corporate. Corporate did hear your message. Corporate’s protocol for comments
is to have the stores address their own issues and resolve them in the politest manner
possible, thus, your comments were directed back to our store.
We responded by apologizing for your feelings that the contest was unfair. We
never like our guests to feel that they were mistreated in any way. We would like to offer your
team another chance to re-compete for the top prize. Your team is invited back, next Thurs,
May 8th at 9:00 p.m. to compete against the winners score. We will award your team the $300
prize if you should out perform their numbers. The competition will be played in the Hard Mode, so
please prepare this week in the difficult level.
We like to play fair, so we look forward to your team’s competitive performance,
next Thursday, The 8th at 9:00 p.m. Good Luck to your team!

Management at Buffalo Wild WingBuffalo Wild Wings
Oasis at the Islands
1475 W. Elliot Rd.
Gilbert, AZ 85233
SE corner of Elliot & McQueen
480.813.WING

My reply:

I’m not going to bother with this, as the team that beat was most definitely the best team - and frankly, I don’t think we can beat them. However, it still doesn’t change the fact that things like this should be exclusive to customers. When people sign up to participate in things like this, we expect to be playing against other customers, and that the winners will be strictly customers - nobody employed by the company sponsoring or running the competition should be allowed to compete. Period.

Thanks, but no.

I’m over it.

To my fellow Wii owning friends… got friend codes to share in this antiquated online system of Nintendo’s?

My console code: 0395-9521-0906-7940.

I have three games:

• Wii Sports
• Super Smash Brothers Brawl (3480-2981-7351)
• Mario Kart Wii (3308-4994-5586)

Though I could’ve organized some crazy outing last night, or at least a birthday dinner with a bunch of friends today - I quite honestly didn’t feel like it. I tend to be the guy who organizes things. If somebody doesn’t do it, then the cool and fun stuff won’t happen - so it may as well be me, right? Plus, that means I get to call all the shots. Anyway, it was just nice to have a really chill day and relax a bit.

Today I watched the Suns DESTROY the Spurs with my family. A special thank you to Boris Diaw and crew for kicking so much ass today. After they went home, I ended up watching Juno. Awesome awesome awesome movie. It’s full of happy, and is pretty real. I dig it. A lot.

…the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what-have-you. The right person is still going to think the sun shines out of your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.

That’s some good shit, right there.

from oai@azwings.com
date Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:07 PM
subject Rock Band

Joshua,
I am sorry that your team was never informed of any of the rules regarding the
rock band tournament the week that you won. I ran the tournament every week
except for the week that your band participated. The rules were passed out in
all the prior weeks, and all the other bands were informed that the finals would
be played on hard difficulty. Some of them even played in our guitar hero
tournament which did the same. The employee(Trent)was not in charge of running
the tournaments he just helped out last night, and him being an employee did not
give him any unfair advantage to the tournament. I hope that you will still come to Buffalo Wild Wings. We will keep in mind your comments and suggestions for our next tournament.
Thank You,
Shanna Sabo
General Manager
Buffalo Wild Wings
Oasis at the Islands
1475 W. Elliot Rd.
Gilbert, AZ 85233
SE corner of Elliot & McQueen
480.813.WING

Here are some movies I’ve seen recently that I would recommend:

• Into the Wild - Pretty good story based on true events… I’d like to read the book now. Burning question from this movie - the girl at the trailer park community… would you if you were in his shoes?
• Across the Universe - I’m a Beatles fan, and admittedly I do like the occasional musical. This one is pretty cool. Would be better on weed, I imagine.
• Walk the Line - Johnny Cash = awesome. The end. Also, Reese Witherspoon is ridiculously hot in this movie.
• Event Horizon - Best sci-fi horror movie ever. Yes, better than Jason X. (Yes, that was a joke).

And some music:

• Into the Wild soundtrack - Eddie Vedder acoustic FTW.
• Flobots - Handlebars - I can ride my bike with no handlebars… can you?
• Ludo - Love Me Dead - The video is awesome.

And some games:

• Portal - The cake is a lie
• Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - It’s just fun.

Aaaaand I’m spent.