So…
I ran out of gas again last night… at the Franklin/Tuskegee exit. It was a mess! I walked half a mile to the exit to find out there was NOTHING! A repo-man driving a tow truck picked me up, took me to a gas station and then took me back to my car. On the way back to my car, we saw a tow truck picking up what I thought was MY CAR. So the entire way there, I’m panicking, thinking that my car has been impounded and Jennifer is calling every minute to make sure I haven’t been hacked into small pieces by this stranger. Thank God the car was still there. When I started to pour the gas into my car, it went all over my feet instead because there was a big crack in the nozzle. Luckily for me, my repo-man was thoroughly prepared and had a large funnel I could use. Poor fella! He even followed me to the next exit to make sure I made it and gave me his number in case it ever happened in his area again (LOL!). When I finally got gas in my car and got back on the road, I got lost trying to find Niffers to pick up Scott. They were closing and had already turned off the lights so I kept driving past it. Of course, he was a bit inebriated and was mad because the bartender wouldn’t serve him a drink at 10:27 when they don’t close until 10:30. Apparently they were very rude to him and he was pretty ticked off about it. So he was not the least bit sympathetic to what all I had been through.
So, I didn’t sleep at all last night and I have a pounding headache. I’m waiting for the morning mail to come in to see if there is important things in it for me to post on the website. When that’s done… I am out of here!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
How it got worse...
I barely slept Sunday night. So I woke feeling pretty crappy on Monday morning and made the drive home from Valley. I get home about the time I would normally be getting up for work. So I get in the shower... and am attacked by a weird looking lizard. Well, maybe not attacked but he did jump on me. Not a pleasant surprise in the shower. I finish showering managing to stay on the other side of the tub from the lizard. I go get my clothes out of the dryer (also known as how Amy irons her clothing). The pants are hot and a little snug from drying. I do the typical "stretch out your pants" bend and hear a ripping sound. Great. The whole seam of the butt of my pants split wide open. There is no time to "iron" another pair of pants so I just go with the wrinkles.
Work was typical. I told my co-workers about my morning and they all got a good laugh. I fought sleep all day. I found out late in the afternoon that I would also be working until close at American Eagle. Great. So I go straight home, eat a quick bite, change clothes and head out... the following is a re-enactment of how my day got worse.
Yes, I just whacked right into the car that was parked at the end of my driveway. Totally didn't see it there. Had to knock on the neighbors doors to find out who's car it was. Had to stand in the rain and wait for a cop to come do the accident report. Was late to work. It was an overall GREAT day. Today can only be better.
Sigh...
Work was typical. I told my co-workers about my morning and they all got a good laugh. I fought sleep all day. I found out late in the afternoon that I would also be working until close at American Eagle. Great. So I go straight home, eat a quick bite, change clothes and head out... the following is a re-enactment of how my day got worse.
Yes, I just whacked right into the car that was parked at the end of my driveway. Totally didn't see it there. Had to knock on the neighbors doors to find out who's car it was. Had to stand in the rain and wait for a cop to come do the accident report. Was late to work. It was an overall GREAT day. Today can only be better.
Sigh...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
What Auburn Students Are Really Up To!
The following video was made by a couple of Auburn students. They never imagined what a success it would be. Read the article below! I also included the lyrics cause I had trouble understanding some of it myself. ENJOY!
By Mike Tankersley
A few weeks ago, a couple of self-described average college kids were fooling around on the guitar, and now -- to their amazement -- they have a cult following.
And the best is yet to come.
Tyler Crawford and Andrew Hall, who have been roommates at Auburn University for about a month, sat down one night in early August and, off the top of their heads, wrote a tribute to Mark Teixeira, a player the Atlanta Braves acquired July 31, the major league trading deadline.
For a lark, they decided to write a song about the new player. It took about 30 minutes.
"Once we wrote the first line," Crawford said, "the rest of it kind of just came to us."
Crawford and Hall recorded the song onto the voice mail of Hall's cell phone so they wouldn't forget the tune.
"We couldn't stop laughing," Crawford said.
A few days later, they borrowed a camera with a video function, and in about four takes produced a video. They first posted it to Facebook.com, then a day later put it on YouTube.com.
"We only posted it so our friends could see it," said Crawford, who strums the guitar throughout the catchy song that so far is titled simply "Mark Teixeira Tribute."
"We were just goofing around," Hall added. "We thought our friends would get a kick out of it."
What followed amazed Crawford and Hall.
Michael Brouder, director of marketing and on-air promotions for SportSouth/FSN South in Atlanta, discovered the video.
"It made the rounds in the office, and we thought it was great," Brouder said.
He got an idea. The video, he thought, might be a creative way to pump excitement into the network's late-season Braves broadcasts.
Brouder tracked down the students through You-
Tube.com.
"I actually created my own YouTube account to send them an e-mail," he said.
In the e-mail, Brouder asked Hall and Crawford if they wanted their video seen "by 11 million viewers in the Southeast."
Hall and Crawford were blown away.
"Fifteen minutes later, we heard from them," Brouder said.
SportSouth played a clip from their video during Sunday night's game. Teixeira followed the act in style, slamming a pair of two-run homers. TBS, which also carries Braves games on TV, also played some of the song.
The fuse had been lit.
"At first, there were maybe two comments and 100 hits," said Crawford, who hails from Chelsea. "We were watching it on YouTube and we thought it was so cool so many people had watched it."
By the end of the weekend, more than 47,000 people had viewed the video. That number had ballooned to 56,000 by Monday night.
"It's really blown up," said Hall, an Athens native.
Hall and Crawford are realistic. They know the song won't bring them a fortune. But the effort has produced plenty of excitement.
Today they'll record the song at the SportSouth/FSN South studio in Atlanta. The plan was for the two to record the song again for use in the Atlanta pregame show, "Braves Live," before tonight's game at Cincinnati.
But Jeff Genthner, Senior Vice President and General Manager for FSN South, has other ideas.
"If they nail it in rehearsal," Genthner said Monday, "we're going to have them play it live. Hey, the Braves play baseball live, not live on tape."
To say Genthner loves the song is an understatement.
"When I saw it, I immediately thought, this is what SportSouth is," Genthner said. "It's two guys sitting on a couch singing a homemade song about the Braves.
"It has catchy lyrics. These guys are really talented."
SportSouth already has turned the video into two on-air promotions that began airing during Monday night's Braves telecast. (FSN South and SportSouth are both owned by Fox).
On Aug. 31, as guests of the team, Hall and Crawford will perform the song live in the plaza at Turner Field before the Mets-Braves game. And they'll get to meet Teixeira.
"We're the filler act for when they switch sets for the bands," Hall said. "I mean, we've got just the one song."
Hall and Crawford aren't taking themselves too seriously. But they're enjoying the moment.
"This really is a dream," said Hall, who is engaged to Crawford's sister, Emily. "This is one of those things where you just have to take advantage of where it takes you.
"And if all we get out of it is playing the song at Turner Field and playing it once at SportSouth, well, I figure it's a story we can tell for the rest of our lives."
LYRICS:
VERSE 1
Four and a half games back and I don't Te-care-a
You know why we got Mark Teixeira
Got a new Braves jersey that I'm gonna wear-a
And written on the back is Mark Teixeira
The Mets are scared cause their lead's gonna narr-a
They're lookin' over their shoulder at Mark Teixeira
Chorus:
We got Fred McGriff back in '93
Hampton's out cause of injury
Schuerholz smiles cause he is happy and Bobby says,
"Let's go Mark T."
The National League it just ain't fair-a
The Atlanta Braves got Mark Teixeira
Chipper and Andruw make a mighty nice pair-a
Let's make it a trio add Mark Teixeira
A side effect is mild hysteria
The medical reason is Mark Teixeira
Chorus
Bridge:
Scott Thorman stinks and Julio is old
What did Shuerholz do? Must've sold his Sooouuulll
Pitchers beware cause he's gonna scare ya
Throw him a strike now if you dare-a
He could probably steal on Yogi Berra(NOT Yogi Bear-a)
Biggest thing in Georgia since Scarlet O'Hara
If I were a woman I'd probably Marry ya.
And that's not Gay cause its Mark Teixeira
Teixeira tribute hits the airwaves
By Mike Tankersley
A few weeks ago, a couple of self-described average college kids were fooling around on the guitar, and now -- to their amazement -- they have a cult following.
And the best is yet to come.
Tyler Crawford and Andrew Hall, who have been roommates at Auburn University for about a month, sat down one night in early August and, off the top of their heads, wrote a tribute to Mark Teixeira, a player the Atlanta Braves acquired July 31, the major league trading deadline.
For a lark, they decided to write a song about the new player. It took about 30 minutes.
"Once we wrote the first line," Crawford said, "the rest of it kind of just came to us."
Crawford and Hall recorded the song onto the voice mail of Hall's cell phone so they wouldn't forget the tune.
"We couldn't stop laughing," Crawford said.
A few days later, they borrowed a camera with a video function, and in about four takes produced a video. They first posted it to Facebook.com, then a day later put it on YouTube.com.
"We only posted it so our friends could see it," said Crawford, who strums the guitar throughout the catchy song that so far is titled simply "Mark Teixeira Tribute."
"We were just goofing around," Hall added. "We thought our friends would get a kick out of it."
What followed amazed Crawford and Hall.
Michael Brouder, director of marketing and on-air promotions for SportSouth/FSN South in Atlanta, discovered the video.
"It made the rounds in the office, and we thought it was great," Brouder said.
He got an idea. The video, he thought, might be a creative way to pump excitement into the network's late-season Braves broadcasts.
Brouder tracked down the students through You-
Tube.com.
"I actually created my own YouTube account to send them an e-mail," he said.
In the e-mail, Brouder asked Hall and Crawford if they wanted their video seen "by 11 million viewers in the Southeast."
Hall and Crawford were blown away.
"Fifteen minutes later, we heard from them," Brouder said.
SportSouth played a clip from their video during Sunday night's game. Teixeira followed the act in style, slamming a pair of two-run homers. TBS, which also carries Braves games on TV, also played some of the song.
The fuse had been lit.
"At first, there were maybe two comments and 100 hits," said Crawford, who hails from Chelsea. "We were watching it on YouTube and we thought it was so cool so many people had watched it."
By the end of the weekend, more than 47,000 people had viewed the video. That number had ballooned to 56,000 by Monday night.
"It's really blown up," said Hall, an Athens native.
Hall and Crawford are realistic. They know the song won't bring them a fortune. But the effort has produced plenty of excitement.
Today they'll record the song at the SportSouth/FSN South studio in Atlanta. The plan was for the two to record the song again for use in the Atlanta pregame show, "Braves Live," before tonight's game at Cincinnati.
But Jeff Genthner, Senior Vice President and General Manager for FSN South, has other ideas.
"If they nail it in rehearsal," Genthner said Monday, "we're going to have them play it live. Hey, the Braves play baseball live, not live on tape."
To say Genthner loves the song is an understatement.
"When I saw it, I immediately thought, this is what SportSouth is," Genthner said. "It's two guys sitting on a couch singing a homemade song about the Braves.
"It has catchy lyrics. These guys are really talented."
SportSouth already has turned the video into two on-air promotions that began airing during Monday night's Braves telecast. (FSN South and SportSouth are both owned by Fox).
On Aug. 31, as guests of the team, Hall and Crawford will perform the song live in the plaza at Turner Field before the Mets-Braves game. And they'll get to meet Teixeira.
"We're the filler act for when they switch sets for the bands," Hall said. "I mean, we've got just the one song."
Hall and Crawford aren't taking themselves too seriously. But they're enjoying the moment.
"This really is a dream," said Hall, who is engaged to Crawford's sister, Emily. "This is one of those things where you just have to take advantage of where it takes you.
"And if all we get out of it is playing the song at Turner Field and playing it once at SportSouth, well, I figure it's a story we can tell for the rest of our lives."
LYRICS:
VERSE 1
Four and a half games back and I don't Te-care-a
You know why we got Mark Teixeira
Got a new Braves jersey that I'm gonna wear-a
And written on the back is Mark Teixeira
The Mets are scared cause their lead's gonna narr-a
They're lookin' over their shoulder at Mark Teixeira
Chorus:
We got Fred McGriff back in '93
Hampton's out cause of injury
Schuerholz smiles cause he is happy and Bobby says,
"Let's go Mark T."
The National League it just ain't fair-a
The Atlanta Braves got Mark Teixeira
Chipper and Andruw make a mighty nice pair-a
Let's make it a trio add Mark Teixeira
A side effect is mild hysteria
The medical reason is Mark Teixeira
Chorus
Bridge:
Scott Thorman stinks and Julio is old
What did Shuerholz do? Must've sold his Sooouuulll
Pitchers beware cause he's gonna scare ya
Throw him a strike now if you dare-a
He could probably steal on Yogi Berra(NOT Yogi Bear-a)
Biggest thing in Georgia since Scarlet O'Hara
If I were a woman I'd probably Marry ya.
And that's not Gay cause its Mark Teixeira
Monday, August 13, 2007
Boy, I Feel Stupid
Yeah, it’s Monday. I went to Biloxi this weekend with Scott, Jennifer and Justin. Scott and I were so tired that when we got home at 6:30 pm, we went straight to sleep. And we slept pretty solid until he had to get up early this morning to go to work.
Yet, somehow I’m still tired. Tired enough that my brain is apparently not functioning properly. I was going to stop by the little shop at the end of my road and pick up a croissant for breakfast, but discovered that it was closed. So, I detoured over to the McDonald’s across the street. I ordered, pulled up to the first window and paid. Then… drove away. I didn’t realize until I got to work, that I failed to stop at the second window and actually receive the food that I just paid for. I’m really not sure how I did that. I could try to blame it on all the kids around me that were walking to school or the fact that I was laughing at Rick and Bubba going on and on about the trooper’s “Take Back Our Highways” crap. But not today… today I think its just me and that my brain is still in Biloxi mode. It didn’t want to be back in work mode. So I aalready warned my co-workers that my stomach will be growling in our Monday morning meeting.
Sigh… breakfast anyone?
Yet, somehow I’m still tired. Tired enough that my brain is apparently not functioning properly. I was going to stop by the little shop at the end of my road and pick up a croissant for breakfast, but discovered that it was closed. So, I detoured over to the McDonald’s across the street. I ordered, pulled up to the first window and paid. Then… drove away. I didn’t realize until I got to work, that I failed to stop at the second window and actually receive the food that I just paid for. I’m really not sure how I did that. I could try to blame it on all the kids around me that were walking to school or the fact that I was laughing at Rick and Bubba going on and on about the trooper’s “Take Back Our Highways” crap. But not today… today I think its just me and that my brain is still in Biloxi mode. It didn’t want to be back in work mode. So I aalready warned my co-workers that my stomach will be growling in our Monday morning meeting.
Sigh… breakfast anyone?
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