A quick Happy Birthday to my Dad is in order.  Why?  Well yeah, it’s his birthday.  So, Feliz Cumpleanos, Pop.  I hope you have a good one.  God bless you and I love you.

-Dave Q.

This was a crazy weekend for me.  It started off with a project at work that should have started at 9pm and lasted 15 minutes.  Well, the 15 minutes part was accurate, but due to another scheduled upgrade, I didn’t get done until midnight.  That sucked.  But that was just the beginning.

On Saturday I went to assist with the arrival of evacuees from Hurrican Gustav to San Antonio.  I work every now and then with a company out of Ausitn that does RFID tracking.  To explain that, the people being evacuated are tagged with a wristband that contains a very small radio antenna.  This allows the government to track the departure and arrivals of the evacuees.  Think of it like tracking a UPS package, except that in this case UPS is the State of Texas, and the package is the evacuee.  Got it?  The info on the tag is useful since it contains important info like the person’s name and various medical info.  Here are a couple of pics of some the people arriving at the hangar of the Air Force base we staged the operation from.

I worked 29 hours straight monitoring our system and scanning tags of evacuees. My buddy Horbi helped us out.  I worked from 7am Saturday morning until 11am Sunday morning when Horbi came to relieve me after he returned from getting some sleep.  I was glad he was around.  Leave it to Horbi to keep things light.

Well, after he relieved me and I went home, that is when things really started sucking.  When I got home, I started vomiting.  And didn’t stop.  From noon to 9 pm, I vomited about 7 times.  I wish I were exaggerating.

So Labor Day I spent recovering.  And my friend Cynthia (the owner of the Austin company) spent the day hangin’ with President Bush at the Texas OEM office.  Nice.  I wonder if he asked her to say hi to me for him.  Anyway, I feel much better now.  But I have to say, I feel like I gave back to the community with the work we did this weekend.  Makes you feel good.  Anyway, with all the other hurricanes developing in the Atlantic, they told me to be ready for more.

-Dave Q.

• Flight to Hawaii… $0 (long story)

• Jeep rental…  $150

• Digital camera… $300

• Making the most of your time with your niece and nephew while waiting for your sister as she runs an errand at the store… PRICELESS. 

-Dave Q.

Well, I guess I got a little too hooked on Olympic coverage.  But I am glad it’s over.  Too much of a good thing, I guess.  Anyway, let’s see what we learned from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

• Michael Phelps is a stud.  A dorky looking stud.
• Chinese gymnasts were under age.  Commie cheaters.
• Beach volleyball is a good thing, and NBC’s segment covering the hand signals demonstrates why.
• Costa Rica didn’t win any medals.
• Becky Hammon + Chris Kaman = Traitors
• Usain Bolt is an Ass-Clown.
• Synchronized swimming is retarded.  So is BMX racing (that’s what the X-Games is for).
• Female weightlifting gave me bad dreams.
• Team USA men’s basketball team was impossible to root for.  Too may rapists and wife beaters.
• I forgave Alicia Sacramone the second she did whatever she did to lose the gold medal.  Too cute to be mad at.
• USA dominance in softball ends.  I will miss Jennie Finch.  Will NOT miss Crystl Bustos.  Yikes!
• The Aussie women’s basketball team should have won the gold medal based on looks and uniforms alone.
• The opening and closing ceremonies were over the top.  Including the lip-synching kid.
• Nastia Liukin has a freakishly large forehead.
• The French talk smack to the Americans and were surprised by the bitch slap?  Come on, Frenchy.  You should know better.
• Scandals, scandals, scandals.  Way to go China.

Anyway, with the Braves sucking so bad, I need the NFL to get the season going ASAP.  That should bridge the gap until basketball season.  And with basketball and football in full swing, all will be right with the world.  ’sigh’

-Dave Q.

Keeping on with the Olympics stuff and Amanda Beard, check out this report below of Amanda Beard dissing Michael Phelps.

I like Michael Phelps.  Seems to be a humble guy.  A specimen of an athlete.  But I have told more than one person during these Olympics that, quite frankly, the dude looks like a dork.   And some say he dresses like a douchebag. He’s a winner, no doubting that.  And I admire him for his accomplishments and representing the USA.  But those Gold Medals around his neck are the proverbial porkchops that people would joke about hanging on an ugly kid to get the dog to play with him.  If Michael Phelps weren’t a Gold Medal winning Olympian, he would have trouble getting laid.

And let’s take this a step further, Amanda Beard is attractive.  Out of the water, she is attractive.  Serving me an entree at Olive Garden, she is attractive.  Ringing me up at Home Depot, she is attractive.  And let’s face it, folks, she could do a lot better than Michael Phelps.  I mean, have you really taken a good look at this guy?  Is this a face chicks are attracted to? Why would Amanda Beard go for that?

These CNN commentators are full of shit if they think for one minute that Michael Phelps is a good looking guy and throwing Amanda Beard under the bus for her Playboy and Maxim spreads.  These people lips are so vacuumed sealed on to Michael Phelps’ ass it’s ridiculous.  Perhaps they want an interview?  But, hey…  he is an Olympic legend now.  And a bright shining star of a celebrity.  Big time accomplishments.  Big deal if hot chicks don’t want to sleep with him.

-Dave Q.

Continuing our Olympic coverage, or in this case, uncoverage, here is the latest ad from everybody’s favorite group of hypocrites, PETA.  But as much as I hate PETA, they do have some good ads.

Now I have no issues with seeing Amanda Beard in the nude.  But, wow.  This girl must hate clothing.  She will take any opportunity to be in the buff.  Not that there is anything wrong with that.  I insist I have no issues with that.  By all means, Amanda, take it off to your hearts content!  But I will say this:  Where is the mystery with this girl?  She leaves nothing to the imagination, and that sucks to some degree.  She must have been absent the day they taught ‘Tease 101′ in whatever school girls go to to learn all their tricks.  Damn dirty tricks.

-Dave Q.

Today is my nephew’s birthday.  I can’t believe this kid is now 10 years old.  Double digits already?  Damn.  Time really flies after you hit 30.   Anyway, here he is terrorizing some poor crab he caught in his net at Kailua beach in Hawaii.  I know you can barely tell, but there is a crab in there.

Happy birthday, Matthew.  Enjoy the Nintendo Wii!  Even if it means you want to play it all hours of the night and drive your mom crazy.  She will love that.

-Dave Q.

I just found out that CBS is going to bring back Hawaii Five-0 in late 2009.  Can you imagine that?  A modern day version of the show would be awesome!  There goes my imagination again.  Beaches.  Hula girls.  Oh the potential…

One thing that can’t be argued is that Hawaii Five-0 had one of the coolest television intros in history.  What made it so cool?  The music.  That theme song is simply the epitome of cool.

Hmmmmm.  Makes me think about what my top ten TV intros of all-time would be?  Perhaps I will address this intriguing issue on a later post.

-Dave Q.