From the IFOCE website: “There is an century-old prophesy within the competitive eating community, dismissed by most, that foretells the rise of the One Eater, a woman who will electrify America.s gurgitators and lead them to international victory once again. Like Joan of Arc before her, this eater will be slender of stature, but mighty in strength. In recent months, the prophesy has been mentioned more and more frequently as the eaters have watched Sonya Thomas excel in nearly every contest she enters.

I’ve been in Anaheim all week long at a convention. It’s been pretty cool, I came down with one other fella. Being a convention we had minor convention-like adventures, including, but not limited to: eating at the mall drinking at the mall wearing a name tag drinking at a bar named after something baseball competing to obtain the most useful/cool/bizarre free crap Yes, there were adventures a-plenty. On Tuesday we went to Disney’s California Adventure, where the food and rides were free, but the beer had a shorter line (and was free too…eat your heart out OLCC!

Recently I had the opportunity to attend a Skip Barber racing class. A friend’s friend had a birthday and basically sported a bunch of us for a day class. That had to be one of the most exciting things ever! D and I flew to Cali, into San Jose or something, and rented ourselves an ’04 convertible mustang. Yellow. As the class was starting early the next morning at Laguna Seca, some couple hours south of us, we deemed it appropriate to head north into San Francisco to hang with some friends.

The flippant flopping that I’ve been witnessing has been astonishing. After working so hard to save the institution of marriage from the gays who would destroy it, Republicans now seem to be working to destroy it themselves. Listening to Tony Snow this morning, he asserted that Terri was not Michael’s wife because he’d taken up with another woman, with whom he had lived, had kids, found comfort, and if that’s not marriage then what is.

ok. blog spam is a blight on my life. It’s been so bad that I haven’t even been able to look at my poor little bloggy. Well, I did the upgrade of the software and spam has not been much of a problem so far. Since I last spewed a few things’ve changed. I got a new job at a little shoe store a bit west of portland. It’s been a good time, I’ve been working a lot, but diggin it and getting things done.

sorry, I’ve been trying to keep out of the political arena since I’m not that good at it. But this seems a bit messed up: Iraqis are voting in the first free elections in half a century as mortar and suicide attacks rattle polling booths in Baghdad and beyond..(CNN news) I totally agree that free elections are a good thing, but doesn’t it seem just a bit messed up that there are mortar and suicide attacks?

Yesterday was one of the more unique days of my life. It was my last day at Qsent, the culmination of my two weeks and a day notice. I experienced quite a range of emotions throughout the day, and into the night as I saw people who have been friends and coworkers for quite sometime, not for the last time, but for the last time in that phase of my existence.

Last night I got home and went with N to give Augie a walk…well we just cruised over to the school to toss the ball. Anyway, on the way out I noticed this warm breeze, I assumed it was one of those grates venting some warm air, because it was really warm. But on the way back home the air was still venting but there were no vents around. So I figured it was swamp gas and hurried home and locked the door before some swamp beast came and grabbed us.

I have no doubt that this is 2005 now. None of the usual last year being written down for the first 30 days or so. 2005 up and whacked me with a ‘luminum bat. Maybe it’s my NYE resolution: 2005 is gonna rock. It has, but wow, it’s been serious about it. I’ve done some heavy damage control with the men’s soccer team I manage…a player made some odd decisions that I didn’t like much and affected the team and that’s required a lot of work and is still ongoing.