Beijing Olympics

Just as I did with the Running of the Bulls, I plan on having a daily post on the Olympics. I plan on reviewing highlights from the games, as well as odd facts that hear or read about.

Hope you will check it out.

Best/Worst Olympic Commerical

Best...


Worst...
The Pizza Hut commerical when a "Chef" announces that she really didn't bake the pizza but rather it was delivered by Pizza Hut...makes me want to never eat at Pizza Hut again. Not to mention it is on every commerical break.

Olympic 4x100m relay

Last night I witnessed one of the greatest sporting moments I have ever seen...the men's 4x100m swimming relay. If you missed it, click here to watch it.

Absolutely unbelievable and what made it even better was that the French were talking trash about the Americans and the guy who was doing the talking, was the one who got tracked down at the end. It was awesome.

U-S-A...U-S-A

Brillant...

What to do on a 106 degree day...

Well, watch Iron Eagle of course. This was one of my favorite movies growing up and as I sit here and watching it, I find myself laughing quite hard. Check out the clip below as Doug is in a flight simulator. He is trying to convince the Air Force to allow him to go after his dad who has been shot down overseas. Very realistic.

Be sure to enjoy these highlights from the clip:

1. The classic kid, Doug, with the cocky attitude.
2. The tape player attached to his leg.
3. The sweet music being played on that tape player.
4. The high tech flight simulator is incredible. If this is really what the Air Force trains with then we are in deep trouble.
5. Louis Gossett Jr...enough said.

Jerry Jones...

For those of you that follow football, you know that Jerry Jones is the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Training camp has begun and the other day Jerry Jones held the opening press conference to talk about the upcoming year. Jones may be a great owner but he a terrible, I mean terrible public speaker.

Click here to listen to a portion of his press conference. They have been playing this on the local sports station all week and have been making fun of him for it. You will here the local guys making comments. It is hilarious.

Funny ESPY skit...

Hurricane Dolly...

As you all know, Hurricane Dolly has hit the southern tip of Texas today, orginially as a category 2 hurricane, but has since dropped to a category 1. There has been some building damage, however the biggest concern is going to be the rainfall. This area has been in a drought, so the ground is like cement and the rain will have no where to go. Some ares could get up to 20 inches of rain in the next 24 hrs.

Obviously, working with the Salvation Army, that means that we will be responding to this disaster. Valerie left this afternoon with the other PR person and they made it to San Antonio, where they will spend the night. Due to where the storm is going, if they tried to make it down to McAllen, they would be going right in the middle of the storm. At this point, I am staying in Dallas and will be working on things from here.

As of right now, The Salvation Army has 12 mobile canteens ready to move into the hurricane area after it passes. We have already begun to feed evacuees and are preparing to feed disaster workers and those affected by the storm. It is such a cool thing to work with an organization, more importantly a ministry, that is able to assist so many people when they are in need.

Going to Wal-Mart = Hell...

Like many people during the week, Valerie and I make a trip to Wal-Mart every so often to get groceries...let's face it, the prices are to good to pass up. Even with the cheaper prices, we still hesitate to go to Wal-Mart, because it is the worst place on Earth. Here are some reasons:

1. It is always packed and there is usually only 10 of the 40 checkout lanes open. Thanks management and the purpose of the other 30 lanes is? Oh which reminds me, don't you love the people that have an overflowing cart of items and decide it would be best to use the self-checkout lane.

2. There is no common courtesy. Examples...I usually try to keep our cart to the side of the aisle to allow others to pass by. Not at Wal-Mart. The good majority of the people just park their cart right in the middle and let it sit, while they stand to the left or right, taking up more space. Another example is the people that stand at the end of the aisle (blocking anyone from going down) as they decide if there is anything they need. This happened 3 times today to us, including someone trying to figure out how to get a flatten cardboard box to stay in their cart. I almost lost it.

3. It's like a demolition derby with carts. My cart almost got broadsided a couple times and all I got was a staredown like it was my fault. That's when I grabbed some groceries out of the other person's cart and threw them on the ground and walked away.

4. For some reason, women always try to run Valerie over when we shop there. I have no idea, but it happens every time.

Thanks Wal-Mart, thanks a bunch.

Zombie...

I heard this song on the way home from work today and it reminded me of this great scene from The Office. Enjoy!