Ken Macha

Apparently the brewers are going to name this guy our next manager. Any thoughts? From what I hear he led the A's to a few playoff seasons but the players ended up turning against him and he was fired. We'll see what happense here I guess. In other news, the brewers are reportedly offering 4 years, 100 million to CC Sabathia. I don't think that's enough. I think that's one of those offers where the brewers can so, oh well we tried, there's nothing we could do. Someone out there is going to break the bank on this guy. If he was gonna take less to play in a city he likes he would of signed last year with Cleveland. I've also read Mike Maddux is probably going to Texas. Kind of indifferent on this one seeing how the Brewer pitching has been average to terrible over the past couple seasons. I bet we trade Prince before this year is up. We'll see, GO BREWERS! ..............laziest photo shop ever!

Old House, Business Dinners, oil, and Steve Martin?

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I'm starting to get really sick of the damn corporate credit cards. There has to be another way for businesses to save money besides shorting servers on tips. These people disgust me. Had to deal with a 10% tip on a $220 last night... Another one of these, oh it's cool guys, I'll just run it on my corporate card moments. Followed by, oh man, my boss is gonna be really angry we spent this much on dinner tonight... No way I can add a tip to this. These businesses have more money than god for christs sake. Wasn't I told that if we give these guys tax breaks the extra money will "trickle down" to the rest of us? That theory works if you don't take into consideration the fact that greed exists. In order for that wealth to be passed down to the other classes the people who possess said wealth have to be willing to dispense it. So I'm all for taxing these people. If they won't use it for the right purposes themselves it looks like someone has to force it upon them. You had your 8 years, you F'd it up.


In other news, I am so sick of this "drill baby drill" stuff. Apparently our only solution to getting off foreign oil is to drill for it here. I think people should be shouting "invent baby invent." To me the fact that we use oil in this day in age at all is the problem, not where it comes from. In the 90s, the economy soared as a result of the internet boom. You'd have to believe the next big thing is going to be green energy/resources. The first nation to discover a universal green energy will cash in big time. Holding onto domestic oil reserves only slows progress. We should be learning our lesson already. At a time where foreign car markets were cashing in on small energy efficient models, we're pumping out suburbans, explorers, expeditions, and trucks. Our car manufacturers are on the verge of bankruptcy while the Japanese are cashing in. Energy efficient products are what sells. We should be focused on creating those here. There's a bunch more I'd like to write about this but in order to do so I'd pretty much have to create a research paper like I used to do in college. I'm done with school, no need for that.


I just caught Steve Martin on the Daily Show yesterday. The guy hasn't aged in 30 years. I guess the only problem with that is 30 years ago he looked like a 60 year old man. It just kind of freaked me out a bit. That's all.

Sveum got Yosted

Brewers extended the contract of Doug Melvin yesterday. His first decision was to get Sveum out of town. Kind of feel bad for the guy. I don't really see any reason why we wouldn't retain him. They say Melvin wants a more experienced playoff ready manager I guess. I personally think experience is the most overrated stat in sports. I hate it. I was about to start listing reasons why but I thought of way too many examples and don't want to take the time to write them down. I can see the argument for a change just for change sake. I'd like to shake something up this off season, the end of the past two has been too similar. Hopefully we bring in a new manager who can fix all that.

I hate saturdays. Mainly because I have to work every Saturday and I can't stand college football. I also ate a can of chef boyardee right before bed last night. Literally like 5 minutes before falling asleep. Terrible idea. I didn't know food can give you a hangover. I'm gonna go kill some zombie bug type creatures in Gears of War! Wish me luck.

Zombie Sports... WORST TIP EVER!

I have completed my mourning over the end of the brewers season. ESPN has once again become a part of my life. I'm able to read my websites again without falling into fits of anger and depression. A couple things are keeping me going -- The Packers beat a pathetic Seahawks team, and my fantasy football roster is a Tight End short of absolute perfection. Who was smart enough to predict Aaron Rodger's incredible fantasy start to this season? I think I got the guy in the 4th or 5th round. Way to see that one you losers. Just added Chad Johnson to my team. I know the Bengals suck but come on, he's got to be worth one good game. He'll break 100 yards with a td against pittsburgh this weekend, you heard it here first.

Enough Sports. Last night -- Tuesday, October 14th -- I received the WORST TIP EVER. It was so bad it didn't even result in anger. Just confusion. I'm under the impression that it was a business dinner. One of those take out the new client deals. I usually hate these things because from what I gather, I think businesses require their employees to leave no more than a 15% tip on their corporate accounts. So, they already started with a round of drinks from the bar. I usually hate that because that takes around 30-40 bucks off my tab. This table was different though. They sit down and order one of our $80 bottles of wine. Then they start with the app. special that was running for $18 bucks that night. They follow that up with 4 salads, 4 major entrees, 4 desserts, a coffee, oh, and another bottle of wine. Except the next bottle of wine ran for $90. I'm excitied at this point. I just grabbed a table of four and put their total over $365. To gain some perspective here, anything about $200 on a table of four is considered fantastic.... So, I drop off the check and then I see the dreaded American Express Gold BUSINESS card. I reassured myself by thinking, it's cool, 15% of $365 is $54.75. That's still plenty for just one table. Well, I run the card, drop it off... They continue to hang out and talk for the next 20 minutes or so and then I see they're finally gone. I run grab the book to see what I made and then it happened... The worst tip ever -- $6.00. I kid you not, they left me SIX dollars. First reaction = This can't be right, someone must of left some cash on the table... Nope. Second reaction = Maybe he just added wrong... Nope. This guy wrote 6 bucks in the tip line and adjusted the total to correspond. Nothing went wrong at this table. A glass of water was never empty, a wine glass was never half gone. All dishes and silverware were polished. They raved about the food. This guy is just the biggest asshole of all time. Oh by the way, I got this guy's name off the card... I also have his phone number from the reservation. I'm hoping by some miracle the loser calls and attempts to correct this. Otherwise we'll see what kind of sick maniacal scheme I can come up with. Remember what happened to that guy who had my car towed in Iowa city? Well if you don't, there's a reason I didn't tell you. I don't take this kind of thing lightly. When I closed the check I didn't even take the six bucks he left on there because I considered it an insult. Well, I've got to head to work in an hour. Lets hope this problem fixed itself overnight.

Sports... R.I.P.

Well the best brewers season that I've ever witnessed has come to a close over the past week. The Packers defense is unwatchable... so I don't watch them. The Cubs did their usual three and out playoff appearance which is awesome... but now I don't even have anyone to chear against. What do I do with all this newfound free time?

1) I could start caring about politics more? With the absense of sports television I have resorted to comic punditry. One thing that pisses me off is the daily show and colbert report aren't recorded live. I want to watch their reactions to the debates right after the debates but they got nothing. Speaking of the debates... what is the purpose of the third debate. I've heard all their speaches. They repeated them in their first debate. Then they repeated their first debate in the second debate. Why will the third debate be any different? Oh, and how stupid are these town hall debates. They try to create the illusion that it's every Americans asking everyday questions... that they submit in writing to Tom Brokaw. He then in turn picks the same 30 questions that I've heard answers to already. Oh and another thing, what is with undecided voters. You are retarded. If you can't choose by now, don't vote. You're an idiot.
2) We could continue this house hunting thing. Oh wait, everything in America sucks right now, deaming this to be too difficult.
3) I could venture back into academia. Maybe pick up another degree that I'll do nothing with. I would like to attempt a culinary program. I'll look into that... Actually that's something I may be able to use.
4) I could go to bars and whine about work! Actually I've always done that. But I used to be able to whine about sports and work. Now I can only whine about work.

Well that's pretty much all I can think of. Oh, also, to add insult to my boredom. My Xbox drive went mental and started scratching up my games. So I had to ship that to Texas for repairs. Since I'm a month out of warranty, I owe a hundred bucks for repairs. If I ever want to play tiger woods again I'm gonna have to rebuy the game. I just can't justify rebuying a game. But I loved that game. I just don't know what to do. I got Greg and Joe saying I have to buy this hockey game now. I never cared about hockey. Their argument is that this video game will make me care about hockey. That logic does make sense seeing how I could careless about golf but I love playing the video game.

Well, I got to go pick my car up from the shop soon. Good bye 500 more dollars. Wisconsin sucks, oh, and here comes winter. god.