What's with Yoplait Yogurt?

I'm sick of these things "spitting" on me every time I open one of these things up.

Today, I took good care to crack open the hermetically sealed lid real slow... and lo and behold it didn't matter. It still spit on me, just not as violently as a baby, but just enough to get on my pants.

I internally screamed out in rage, and one of the fellow *cubers responded by telling me that maybe it is the active yogurt cultures that creates an exorbitant amount of volcanic gas within the yogurt and it just doesn't matter what you try to do... you just can't stop mother nature from occurring.

So I looked at the back panel (right after cleaning up my pants) to see if there might be some sort of warning on it. Hey... don't laugh, there are warning labels now just about on everything. Look around... you would be shocked. Getting back to the story... I looked at the back and in bold and red it stated"HIGH IN CALCIUM". I told the female engineer this and said maybe that's why the yogurt vomited at me.... she looked at me in that "what are you... some sort of an idiot".

She just didn't know that I was just pulling her leg. heck, I'm giving her 247 points for even knowing that the darn yogurt had active cultures in it. I didn't... so, I may be an idiot.

*Cubers - one who works in a cube farm. See Cube Farm

Our “Savior” is coming!

No… not HIM.

Him......

David Beckham along with his Spice wife Posh are moving to Beverly Hills of southern California.

Beckham is suited perfectly for LA as he is arguably the second most recognized athlete in the world behind Tiger Woods.

In England, he and his wife are always on the front pages of the tabloids so it shouldn’t be that drastic a change for them.

The last time a soccer (football for you folk on the other side of the pond) player got this much attention in the headlines in the United States occurred last when several major stars (Carlos Alberto, Franz Beckenbauer, Giorgio Chinalia, and Pele) joined the NY Cosmos in the 1970’s.

The Cosmos went on to win several NASL championships and where treated like rock stars everywhere they went. In the late 70’s the New York Cosmos drew on average of 45 to 50,000 spectators to see them play.

This is what the LA Galaxy is banking on with the acquisition of Beckham, and bank on him they did. The Galaxy didn't say exactly what they'll pay him, but speculation is in the neighborhood of $250 million in salary and commercial endorsements over five years. This equates to $1 million a week. That’s not a bad gig just to play soccer, and you thought A-Rod was making a ton.

Here's a little ditty that I wrote about this. Song to the Beverly Hillbillies TV theme.

Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Dave

A poor soccer player, barely kept his family fed,

Then one day he was shootin at a goal,

And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.

Fat contract that is, endorsement deals, shoe contract, dollar signs,

Well the first thing you know ol Dave’s a multi millionaire,

Kinfolk said "David move away from here"

Said "California is the place you ought to be"

So they loaded up the Lear jet and moved to Beverly.

Hills, that is. Swimmin pools, movie stars.

Well now its time to say good by to Dave, Posh and all his kin.

And they would like to thank you folks fer kindly droppin in.

You're all invited back a gain to this locality

To have a heapin helpin of their hospitality

Beckham style that is. Set a spell, Take your spikes off.

Y'all come back now, y'hear?.

Weekend Warrior

This weekend was spent doing things around the house and with the family. On Friday I went for a run and when I got back, Magic Marge and I had a night together as my kids went to their friends house and my wife went to work. We had a nice evening watching Law and Order and chatting.

Saturday was a day spent with just family. I got a chance to go to the club in morning and did a double workout. Three hours of weights and cardio work. My body still hurts. In the afternoon, we went bike shopping for the youngest and as the color choices were limited, we didn't pick one up. Later we went to Red Robbin for dinner. While we were waiting for our food to arrive, an elderly gentlemen sat down at our table and said that he was hired by Red Robbin to entertain the guests. He did some basic card tricks and told some jokes. We had fun and the time passed quickly as kept telling us his knock knock jokes.

After dinner we decided to go to the movies, I wanted to see Spiderman 3 but the eldest said it wasn't that good and the youngest didn't want to go see Shreck Third, so we ended up seeing Blades of Glory. It was rated PG 13, but it was way more R ish then PG13. There were several seance that I looked over at my wife thinking ... Oh boy, can't wait to try to explain this scene to them.

Sunday was spend outdoors doing yard work. I put in over four hours cutting up the trees branches that fell during last weeks storm and clearing up some of the flower beds of weeds. The weekend ended with my wife cooking ribs on the grill.

All in all, a great weekend.