FOR SALE:

I'm selling my Benq 6100 digital DLP home theater projector and the 100 inch movie screen that comes with it. The lamp has 487 hours on it, it will last for 3000 hours. I've had it for three years, and I just don't get as much out of it as I used to. I'm wanting to change to a wider screen, not necessarily bigger.

For anyone who has seen it in action, it is INCREDIBLY SWEET! HD football and basketball games are amazing.

Ever play HALO on a 100 inch screen? Xbox 360 looks incredible! Tiger Woods is 3 feet tall when I play the golf game!

I'm asking $1000 for the pair....but I will negotiate!

Why pay $1000 for a 50 inch LCD or Plasma screen that will burn out in three years when you can have a 100 inch screen (85 inches in HDTV mode) for the same price?

You have to set aside some wall space, but it actually takes up a LOT less room, especially if you mount it over head!

This is a heck of a good deal. Call me at 417 438 7541, or email me at capamerica26@hotmail.com or cfletcher@usd493.com!

Well, here is a picture of my daughter that was taken about an hour ago. This was after we'd spent the whole day whipping her with chains and starving her to death!

AT LEAST THAT WOULD BE WHAT YOU THOUGHT IF YOU WALKED BY OUR HOUSE THIS AFTERNOON!

Audrey didn't take any sort of nap all day....and the longer the day went, the crankier she got. Nothing pleased her. Natalie and I were trying to decorate the house, Audrey wanted no part of it, we tried putting her to sleep with a bottle in the rocker....no dice.

So we put her into her crib.

After one of the great screaming tantrums of all time, she finally passed out, and ended up like this, hugging her Zebra Slobbers.

I was becoming frustrated with our Christmas tree (having had to take it back to Wal-Mart- I bought a Pre-lit tree that didn't LIT).

Natalie got me and took me back to Audrey's room. When I saw her, my tension disappeared, my anger was gone, and my heart melted.

Lord I love her.

What I'm thankful for:

1. My wife and my daughter. Spent 30 years without them in my life. Now I can't imagine life without them. Amazing. (also included in this is the rest of my family.)

2. Friends. I have some friends who ARE family. I don't know why some people can't see that.

3. A great job. Everyone complains about their jobs, even me. Heck, expecially me. But every single day is different, and I have 80 different kids I see every couple of days. In a way, they get to be my extended family. I rejoice in their successes and grieve in their losses and failures. I'm blessed to be in a good district at a good job with a great faculty and staff. I will never make the $$ that some folks do.....but at least I won't ever do anything as soulless as staring at financial records all day or work on the line.

4. My home. Perfect location. Perfect for my growing family. Our cat Sydney gets to poop on school property. Heh heh.

5. My Xbox 360 and my home theater projection screen. Seriously. I love them.

6. The Kansas City Chiefs. Because even though it costs a lot of money, season tickets allow Natalie and I to do OUR THING together.....and trust me, unmarried guys, you need to find that thing with your wife.

7. The Pittsburg State Gorillas. I am a fan of many different sports, but I truly ADORE, with great PASSION, the Pittsburg State Gorilla football team.

8. Living in the USA where I can worship how I choose, say what I want, and live freely. I'm thankful for the people fighting overseas to ensure that possibility, following orders even when they don't agree with them. They deserve our thanks.

9. Comic books. I will always love them, and I will NEVER apologize for it. NEVER. People make fun of them....but how many different high-grossing moves are the result of comics? TONS.

10. The creators of South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the Family Guy, LOST, and Smallville. Visual cocaine, man. I can't get enough of them. Most of them are rude and crude.....but in the end, I end up agreeing with about 90% of what they are saying. Plus, Master Shake and Eric Cartman are my heroes. They are morally and ethically bankrupt, but they are able to say what they truly think, and that is something I wish I could do sometimes. And even though they are the most selfish characters in television history, they are both victims of HORRIBLE upbringing, and I can't help but wonder what they'd be like in different surroundings.

Finally, let me say this about the movie BORAT:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Oh man, I laughed until I about threw up.

What most people (kids) who watched this movie and thought it was stupid did not realize was the fact that the people he was talking to were all caught completely unawares and the 99 percent of the flick was unscripted. Yes it was disgusting, vile, sexist, and racist, but that was the point Sash Cohen was trying to make. He is Jewish, and anti-semitism still runs rampant in the world today. People are sexist, racist, and horribly caught up in their images and pre-conceived, ethnocentric notions of what is right and what is wrong. The old guy at the rodeo, the crowd of rodeo who applauded at Borat's hideously offensive and bloodthirsty statement of what should happen in Iraq.....the group of frat guys saying that slavery is good while they were completely drunk......wow. They are now suing him because "that's not really how they are."

BULLCRAP.

Michael Richards and his N-word rant at an LA Comedy Club last week. Mel Gibson's "The Jews are the Cause of all the Wars in the World" drunken performance for an audience of his arresting officers back in August. The frat guys here. All of them claiming that what they said "wasn't really them." I tend to think the opposite. How a person behaves in calm, when all is going well can be a front. When people are scared, frightened, placed in great stress, angered, or intoxicated, that reveals the true THEM.

You go, BORAT. Asking the question why is female nudity okay but male nudity not? (not that I'm condoning nudity in films- it's not needed 99% of the time.) Why do we believe the way we do? The film didn't answer those questions, but it sure did make me think. I would not recommend this movie to anyone who is easily offended or is younger than 17/18. Seriously.

But then again, maybe they are the ones who need to see it the most.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! And Happy Holidays!

I'll make up my Christmas list for you all to plan my gifts soon!

Yes, I'm alive. What follows is a shell of it's original form. I'm SO TICKED. I wrote a 1400 word post in about 40 minutes. Somehow the computer lost it and what remains below is all that is left. So enjoy. I'm too ticked to re-do it.

I have just been so extremely busy...torn between school, Scholar's Bowl, my wife and daughter, and finally, my college class. Wow, do I have a lot of homework. And this is just a six hour class! We meet every Wednesday night from 5 until 9....and we stay for every single minute of it. We have a massive group presentation due on December 6.....and I am pretty worried about it. Not because it will be hard to present- I got over my nerves of being in front of people YEARS ago- but because we don't know what we're going to talk about at this point. Even though I gripe about being in this class, I really enjoy it while I'm there, and oddly enough, I'm in a better mood afterward than I am before. I guess it is the comraderie of people sharing a tough experience. Groups of people in extreme situations tend to bond together, like the survivors of 9/11, or military platoons from wars and battles and what-not. It's ridiculous to compare Dr. Lipka and Dr. LeTendre's class to anything so dreadful or noble, but after you've handed in a structured abstract paper on a 40 page empirical research journal article for the fifth time and it STILL ISN'T RIGHT, you still appreciate the struggle. We all have to go through it, and we all breathe a collective sigh when papers get handed back with the beloved "Meets Expectations" stamped on the cover. Once this class is over, you can bet your bottom dollar that we'll be throwing a party....a BIG party. Everyone is invited.

Except members of the Denver Broncos.

I hate those guys.

Which brings me to my next point- Thursday night is the first ever Thanksgiving game to be hosted by the Kansas City Chiefs. I am very excited to be going- I always thought a Thanksgiving game with a national audience would be an amazing atmosphere- though cold and loud, amazing......and I'm sure it will be. But I have to question why some people think that because they have tickets to a game they have the right to be drunk, foulmouthed buttholes? There is a darkheaded guy two rows above u