Great Homeless Sign

I saw a great homeless sign the other day. My brother and I saw it on the way to the Browns game. I wish I would have seen it before I dressed as a bum for Halloween. It would have been perfect. It read "I'm not going to lie. I need a beer."

Weekend of Alcohol

It was the weekend of alcohol which actually started during the week. Here are the highlights:

1) Thursday: Went to MLT's with Marvin and Dana since our softball game got rained out. Watched the World Series from the bar and had some beers. We drank a good share at the bar but were not too bad.

2) Friday: Stacy and I went to a Halloween party. She dressed in 80's and I dressed as a bum. I had torn up jeans, a crappy coat, was carrying a brown bagged wine bottle, and wore a sign that said "Will Work for $$$." We drank beer and played cornhole.

3) Saturday: I drove to Cleveland and went to Halloween Party in Kent (Kent State University) with my brother. I found that Kent was the place to go for Halloween. There were people everywhere. We went to a party at a house and then headed out to a bar. More drinking occurred here. My brother dressed up as a condom dispenser. I dressed as a bum again but this time my sign said "Will Work for Alchohol!"

4) Sunday: Went to Browns game with my brother. We had some pretty nice club seats. Browns beat the Jets. My brother insisted on buying more and more beer and I didn't complain. After the Browns won, we went inside to the bar and watched the last minutes of the Steelers losing to the Raiders.......OUCH! Everyone was cheering. We went outside of the Browns stadium after the game and you would have thought the Browns had just won the Super Bowl....people were going nuts. We kind of lost track of where we had parked and ended up walking around for an hour.....good times.


Since we got back so late on Sunday night, I just ended up staying in Cleveland and working from there on Monday.

Ocho Cinco

Jesse - not sure if you saw this during the cruise, but they showed alot on sportscenter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifeJ_3NA6IU

Ocho Cinco

Jesse - not sure if you saw this during the cruise, but they showed alot on sportscenter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifeJ_3NA6IU

Olympics - Here we come!

Curling.........the first sport that I felt I could be an Olympian at. It's actually the first sport that I feel you could see people drinking beer while playing at the Olympics. Wouldn't that be awesome? It would be good advertisement for Budweiser. Their slogan could be "Look the Olympians even drink. And while playing. Why drink gatorade when you can quench your thrist with beer.?"

Well boys and girls, there is a new sport that you can hang your hat on and will revolutionize the Olympic dreams of young children. It's a game you might have already played before. It's Handball. Oh yes......I'm not lying. Team Handball is your ticket to the Olympics. Check out the article.

Autistic Superheros Fall

Another name change is in the making for the Autistic Superheros. Tiki Barber fumbles and the Superheros lose 108.16 to 109.06.

eMule

TJ.....you have to check this out. It's called eMule. You can download it for free here. eMule is a peer-to-peer file sharing client. You can read the website to see what it is all about but it has been totally reliable for me. I'm usually not into the peer-to-peer file sharing thing but Houman told me about this program for downloading audio books, video files, software, music, etc. Houman is a reliable source so I thought I would try it out.

I have to say that I was pretty surprised on how well it worked. I have downloaded about 40 files over the past 5 days or so which has included audio books, music, movies. You have to check it out.

Time Travel

This is a totally random thought but just think about it. It would probably be better that you don't b/c it's obviously strange. Anyways. This is in regards to time travel. Ok........Say you have figured out the whole time travel thing. You are able to go back in time and go into the future.

You have your own frigg'in time machine. You've pimped it out with tinted windows and chrome plates. If you are traveling in time, do you have to sleep? I mean after 24 hours of time traveling straight.....wouldn't you start getting tried. This is where my whole no sleep theory makes sense. It seems really gay that you would have to take a little "nappy" when you are traveling in time. "Oh hold on a second, I need a take a little sleep break before I can time warp to 1969 and go to Woodstock." More fuel for my no sleep theory.

World Series - Game 2

Stacy and I drove up on Sunday to Detroit to go to the World Series Game #2. I had to work late for maintenance on Saturday night until about 4am so Stacy drove up to Detroit. We sat in Row 17 down the left field line. My brother said he thought he saw me on one of the foul balls.

We had a great time. It was a little cold but atleast we didn't get rained/snowed on. Tigers won 3-1 and have a game tonight. The game started at 8:30 and lasted about 3 hours. I drove on the way back to Cincy that night. We pulled back into Cincy Sunday night around 4am. It was definitely a late night.

Snow

It's snowing for the second time this year.

Jesse's B-day

Happy 26th Birthday.......Was that really appropriate? Guys and their sticks. LOL!

We went up to Animations for Jesse's birthday on Wednesday.

Inmate uses laxatives to flee jail

Inmate uses laxatives to flee jail

Check out the article: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/australia.prison.ap/index.html

To Use the Handicrapper or not...that is the question?

This is the scenario. You walk into the bathroom. Your eyes slowly scan each of the stalls. You bend down low to analyze your options. You'd like to get into stall number one but you see a set of shoes and as you check each stall in order they are full. You notice to your suprise and wonder that stall #4 is empty. "Yes...I found it"...you think to yourself. I found heaven's golden gates....aka your throne.

But you can't believe it. Are your eyes deceiving you? The one and only empty stall is a handicrapper. Here is the age old question. Should I do it? Use the one and only toilet that has been handed down to the handicap over the generations. Questions and thoughts roll through your mind......."Will I go to hell if I use it?", "The extra space would be nice." So.....What do you do?

I Lost my Love for the Homeless

Back in the day, it would be hard for me to walk past a homeless person and not give them money. I would think in my head, "They don't have any money and giving them $1 won't hurt me at all."

After my incident in Chicago, I thought I would never forgive the homeless and downtrodden. They don't call me Ryan "The $20 Shoeshine" Chambers for nothing. Well, I figured this. I paid that damn guy $20 in Chicago for a shoe shine and he basically ruined it for every other homeless person out there. I mean I should be straight with the homeless for atleast another 15-20 years.

I have to admit. The Chicago Incident had been about a year and a half ago. It had started to slip into the outer banks of my memory. Over the last month, I had started to slowly feel sorry for the homeless......in my mind I would think as I walked past a mumbling dirty man "Man.....this guy looks like shit" (That would be the first thought). The second thought would be "I think I should give this guy some money so he can get food or something."

Well, Homeless Peoples of the World (HPW). You have another man to thank for me bringing this relationship to a close. We drove to Game 3 in Detroit and were looking for a parking space. We had been driving for a while when we see what seems to be an open lot. A man is standing there and asked for $15 which was the price on the sign for parking in the lot. We pay the man and drive through the lot but can't find a space. This lady walks up to us as we are driving around and says "I'm the parking attendant for this lot and we are full. " We had to pull out of the lot and man who took our money was no where to be found.

Homeless peoples......you might get me once and you might get me twice but hell with you all b/c I'm keeping my money!

The Weekend Story

I had an incredible weekend. Well, it all starts here. The Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees in 4 games. So Detroit is playing the Oaklands A's in the ALCS. Luck has it, that we are able to go the Friday (Game 3) and Saturday (Game 4) games of the ALCS in Detroit. Thoughts of sweep were rolling through our mind as the Tigers came back to Detoit with 2 wins.

There is a funny story on the way to Game 3 but I'll save it for another blog. This can help to explain a little "I'm done giving money to the homeless." Anways, I digress. So they win Game 3 pretty easy 3 - 0. So the series is 3-0 in favor of the Tigers. By the way, the tickets for the game are sweet......they are 23 rows up and are between the catcher and third base. This is like one of my dreams as a kid since I always loved baseball.

So you guys probably already know the story of what happened in Game 4. They go down by 3 early and then come back and win it in the 9th with a 3 run homer. What happened next for me was the incredible part of the weekend. I'll just summarize in order:

1) After Magglio Ordonez hits the 3 run homer, we were able to go on the field. I guess family was allowed to go on to the field if they won the game. I just had to be Mandi's brother which would make me Stacy's brother.......that sounds pretty disgusting. Everyone was celebrating so you could go any where on the field......you could walk on home plate, pitcher's mound, etc.

2) After the players have the big celebration in the clubhouse where they all spray champagne, they allow family into the clubhouse. So we were able to go into the clubhouse and walk around. Got a little champagne sprayed in my face and my clothes smelled like crap the next day.

3) After Sean got dressed, we went over to this bar/club that was owned by a Detroit Red Wings player. We walk in the door and these Security Guards lead us up these stairs. I almost got left behind because I was in the back and there was some tight security to get up into this VIP room. It was like the movie where you are following these people into this nice club and they leave you behind outside of the club. In the movie, the person tries to convince the bouncer that he/she is with the other people that are going into the club. Well, it almost happened but luckily I wasn't left behind.

In this VIP room, it was ridiculous. They had appetizers sitting out......potato skins, chicken fingers, wings, etc. They had beer in this big thing of ice. I tried to throw my own beer away and this girl dressed in regular clothes grabbed the beer and threw it away for me and asked "Do you want another beer?" I found out later there waitresses in there. You could also get any mixed drinks you wanted. In the back of the room, there was a huge 50+ inch TV where I got to see the final minutes of the Auburn game. It was a Man's Heaven!

I guess Kid Rock is from Detroit so he was in the VIP room. He actually showed his DJ skills when the music came on and mixed on some songs.



All and all.....it was definitely a night I'll never forget. I'll post the pics as soon as I get them downloaded.

Now you see him...Now you don't

Now you see him......Now you don't. The owner of the once Mulletsville Rednecks has gone through an evolution of changes throughout the beginning of this season. Here is the evolution of his team name:

1) Mulletsville Rednecks
2) The Angry Pirates
3) Hairy Taints (I'm still trying to figure this one out)
4) Autistic Superheros

This man of mystery has once again changed his fantasy name this season. What will it be next? Only time will tell.

Fantasy Update

Still in 7th. I won this week, but so did everyone ahead of me, so I didn't move up. We've got one dude at 5-1, five at 4-2, and then me at 3-2. I have the fourth highest points, so if I can get up with the same record as some of these guys, I can move up pretty quick I think.

Mobile Homeless

The black homeless dude who lives outside of the CVS Pharmacy who is always mumbling something but you can never make it out because he's probably drunk and slurring his words and he doesn't have any teeth but he still smiles has a bicycle. It's a pretty decent one too. And it has a bike lock. I saw him riding it and then later I saw him sitting down with his bike parked a good half a block down. Obviously he didn't want anyone to see him with it while he was working. That could be bad for business. If he has a bike, he's not nearly as bad off as some of the other money grubbing folks. This is the same guy who Greg saw riding with a woman in a car. It was a nice car and he had on nice clothes. The woman appeared to him to be a lady friend. This specific instance almost prompted Greg to confront the man and declare shananigans on his little scheme. I'm not going to say he's a fake quite yet, but I've got my eye on him.

Touching the Passer

The Cincinnati Bengals were defeated Sunday by the lowly Tampa Bay Buccanears, now bringing their record to 3-2. The Bengals struggled on both sides of the ball, with the offense putting up a meager 13 points. Up 13-7 late in the fourth quarter, the Bengals sacked the quarterback and recovered the fumble, what could have very well been the nail in the coffin. To their dismay, a yellow flag flew through the air and landed on the turf. It was a little known new rule initiated by the NFL just this year. Yes, the Bengals were flagged for touching the passer. What the Bengals thought was a brilliant tackle was indeed a huge penalty. Beginning this year, defenses can no longer touch the QB. Defenders must jump up and down waving their arms in a monkey in the middle type fashion. If the QB takes off with the ball, the D must attempt to coax him out of bounds (with whatever means available, such as beer, poontang, etc.) or disturb the ground in front of him in hopes that he trips and downs himself. In certain circumstances a pinky finger can be used to down a fallen QB. The Bengals learned a big lesson Sunday, one they will not soon forget. Maybe next time they will read the rule book in the offseason instead of committing crimes.

Disgustingly Awesome

This town I live in - it has such a defeated vibe to it. It's very blue collar pretty much like Circleville and what I imagine Mulletsville, or any other small town. Anyway, I saw it most last night while at KFC. I've been craving fried chicken. I go in there and it's an all you can eat buffett and I see table after table of single older dudes just staring off to space munching chicken.

I, on the other hand, and chowing down, licking the grease and fried crumbs off my fingers and having a hell of a time - I love KFC! It's so disgusting - the grease dripping down, but so awesomely tasty at the same time.

In other news, there's about 1 1/2" of snow on the ground. Yeah, it's the 13th of Oct an already snow. Welcome to Michigan TJ.

Don't ya wish ur boyfriend was fat like me

My mom visited over the weekend. She wants me to look nice for the formal nights on the cruise, so she took me suit shopping at K&G warehouse. I didn't want to go and fought her tooth and nail the whole way. I was sick and I hate trying on clothes. Anyway, I reluctantly agreed to go, if not just to make her happy. I was forced to try on one of the suits the sales guy pitched to us. He directed us to the tailor. Little did I know, I was in for a bout of public humiliation. This smug, unhappy little man apparently gets his jollies out of making other people feel like dirt. He's a pale, pasty, weasel of a man who speaks with a foreign tongue that I still cant figure out (Greek, Arabic, French?). I tell the guy that the pants that came with the jacket I had on were too big (size 48, I wear a 40). He proceeds to order me to put them on, even when I tell him they will be down around my ankles. He says snottily, "How am I supposed to know what they will look like if you refuse to put them on." I said, "Because I'm telling you right now they will be around my ankles in front of all of these people." At this point I'm fed up and tell my mom I'm ready to leave. She pleads with me to do what the man says. I go in and try them on, and they were a little tight. I find out they were a 38, not a 48. So I come out and stand in front of the mirror while Tim the Tool-man tailor looks me up and down. He grabs the front of my pants from behind me and jacks them up to my belly button. Then, he tells me to go get one size smaller of the same exact suit. We find the size smaller suit and I go in to try it on. I can't even zip up the pants because I'm so fat. They were a 36. We tell the lady at the front desk that the jacket fits perfectly but the pants are way too small. Perhaps there was a mistake in pairing the two. She leads us back to jackass man and starts telling him about the situation. He rudely interrupts her, "Can I just talk to my customer?," all while shooting her a menacing look. I tell the guy about my little problem and he continues to belittle me in front of everyone. "Why did you pick athletic fit? You are clearly not athletic. Look at you. You are not athletic. Look at your belly." All the while he is tearing me down, he is looking at me as if repulsed to the point of puking. At this point I am fuming. I'm ready to beat the living shit out of this guy right in front of my mom. But I hold back. I interrupt him and say, "I know I'm not athletic. You don't have to tell me that. I look in the mirror every day. I'm not blind. The sales guy told me to pick athletic because my shoulders are wide and the regular jackets are too snug." Then he starts lecturing me on how you can't mix and match jackets with pants and if I think he's going to do that then I'm wrong. So I tell him that I can read and I've already read the damn signs. He tells me I'm SOL and that I have to buy whatever fits the best. He's wrong because I don't have to buy shit. We stormed out of the store right then and there. That bastard. My mom said she would have been crying if it was her.

Lesson learned: Apparently, I'm fat. As if I didn't know that already.

MNF - Broncos Win & Angry Pirates Lose

On MNF, the Broncos rose to a gritty win over the undefeated Ravens while the Angry Pirates feel to another loss. The Angry Pirates needed a stellar game from Matt Stover.......10 points and he could grab the win. All for not has Matt Stover could not come through. Right before the half, Stover had already put one field goal through and the Ravens were at the 10 yard line when it looked like their drive was going to stall and they would have to settle for a field goal. Instead, McNair throws an interception and that seemed to ceil the fate for the Angry Pirates.

Yankees Fall

Yankees.....I don't hate many teams but I do hate the Yankees. They are second on my haters list to the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's something about Bill Cower's big chin that makes me want to vomit when I see him on TV. I'm just glad Detroit took down the Yankees. Now they have a series with the Oakland A's. I'm actually going to the Friday and Saturday game in Detroit. It should be a blast. I'll let ya'll know how the games are on the blog when I get back.

By the way, did you all watch the Steelers game on Sunday night? Big Ben made some terrible threws. The two INTs he threw were ridiculous. They were balls he should have never thrown. This might be a long year for the returning NFL champs.

Oh Sweet Vegas

So I haven't forgot about Vegas. Stacy believes that if we all go to Vegas together there will be a possibility that we may get arrested. At first, I was like no way and then I thought of the many things that could happen in four day span in Vegas. Strippers, beer, liquor and gambling.........this might be a glorious mixture of trouble that I'm willing to risk. I'm still up for doing it in the winter but I'm also up for doing it some time in May since I've heard that the prices are cheaper. Would everyone be able to do it in May if we went then? That would give us all some extra time to save money too. Let me know what you all think.

Welcome Back

My dad has been in Taiwan for over a year now and said that he will be coming back to the United States around X-mas. I would have to say that my dad is somewhat spontaneous to say the least. He met this women from Taiwan on the internet. I'm not sure how long they were talking on the internet before he traveled to Taiwan and got married. Crazy stuff! Anyways, I haven't seen him in a while. I talk to him over email and talk on the phone a little but he'll be coming back soon.

Three Years and Counting...

Wow. Two years ago I never would have believed I would still be working at the ACN. But here I am. I think the company should give you something for your anniversaries. Like a gift certificate to Outback or something. We don't get jack. Not even a pat on the back. Not even a thank you for working at this friggin place for another friggin year. Doh well.

BC's New Stomping Ground

I finally got a new pad. Its an old house divided up into two apartments. I have the second and third floor and this hot Asian chick is moving in the first floor. She's renting the apartment out to me. The pics aren't much to look at. The first one shows the living room and the door to the right leads out to a big balcony. Then, there's a kitchen, dining room (aka pool room if its big enough), and bathroom on the second floor, and two bedrooms on the third floor. I don't know what I'm going to do with the second bedroom. Any ideas, please let me know.

Big Country Apartment

Will eat for money

I'm back to my old ways again. Eating food for money. I said I would never do it again after the salt incident. But here I am, caught on tape. This time it was a cup of sour cream and hot sauce for five bucks. Mmm...mmm...delicious.

MNF

The Denver Broncos are playing the Ravens this week for MNF. You guys watching? Obviously I'll be rooting for the Broncos, but I don't have a good feeling about them playing the Raven's D. Javon needs to come up huge for me!

Laid

Well boys, sorry for the slow posts lately. I've been busy as hell this past week getting ready to lay and then laying some tile at Julia's. I spent Wednesday and Thursday nights from after worrk till about 1130 or so tearing out old tile and carpet. Then my folks came up for the weekend and my dad and I tore out some more tile and some flooring so we could put down some cement board and lay tiles on it. We're about 1/4 of the way laid. I'm on my own for the rest. Anyhow I've been pretty busy, but will try to keep up on here. Can't let the TJR die.

Hockey!

I know neither of you guys could give two shits, but hockey's back baby!

RIP - Jesse Johnson

[10/06/2006 15:54] RchambersDupont: Jesse Johnson......may he rest in peace
[10/06/2006 15:54] RchambersDupont: official death........3:54pm
[10/06/2006 15:55] RchambersDupont: His carpal tunnel got the best of him. He just couldn't blog anymore. He was a good man.
[10/06/2006 15:55] ACN - BigCountryJEJ: haha
[10/06/2006 15:56] RchambersDupont: His carpal tunnel could have been due to something else but we won't speak of it at this eulogy.

TJ - How's the Fantasy Team Looking?

Hey TJ......how's the fantasy team looking? I'm looking pretty good after my lucky ass win against Jesse last week. I'm 3-1 so far. I have back to back weeks with scores in the 70's. I definitely need to pick it up.

Angry Pirate's Coach Outraged After Defeat

I think Jesse officially hates fantasy football now. Jesse and I faced off in the ultimate rivalry. It was the game of who could score the lowest. Also known as........who can break 70 and 70 in our league is very low since other teams are putting up 110-120 some weeks.

It all came down to Monday night for Jesse. The Angry Pirates coach (Jesse "Big Country" Johnson) was down 62 to 70. I was holding on to a slim lead and Jesse had Ahman Green and Donald Driver going. I didn't expect Green Bay to do good against the Eagles but I expected Green and Driver to combine for more than 8 points easily.

Needless to say Jesse calls me around game time and reports the news. "Green is on the f'ing sidelines with his jacket on." I couldn't believe it. Ahman appeared to have a hang nail (hamstring) injury and couldn't play. To make a long story short, Driver only put up about 5 points and Jesse lost by 3 points.

There was a report from Fox 19 News in Cincinnati that Angry Pirate's Coach Jesse Johnson was arrested for charges of assault against a hooker. The hooker was interviewed after the incident and spoke about what happened on Monday night following the Green Bay Packers vs Philadelphia Eagles game, "Mr. Johnson said he was angry following the game and wanted to relieve his stress. What he did next was just outrageous? He told me he was going to show me a trick. We didn't even have sex but he poked me in the eye with his you know what and stomped on my foot. He then started acting crazy. Running around in his underwear yelling ARGHHHH! " Mr. Johnson is currently out of jail on bail.

It's coming ...

Wednesday - tune in!