YOU FIND OUT WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE
Tebow-Mania, you can’t escape it.
Not even Colt McCoy can’t even get Tebow free at his own wedding. His friends wrote him a song to honor McCoy on his big day, but even the song had to involved Tim Tebow.
You can check out the song by watching this video:
For more information, I found the story here.
LikeUNCLE SAM’S GOT HIS HANDS IN MY POCKETS
If you are like me, you worry about money as provider for my family and a small business owner. So I try to understand what the future will bring so I can plan ahead.
I have found a few things that worry me and that I thought I would pass on the information so you can plan ahead, too.
Big Tax Hikes For EVERYONE in 2011:
- You can read about these taxes from Yahoo by clicking here.
- Or you can read about the largest tax hikes in history in more detail by clicking here.
Sadly This is A Story We Are Going To See A Lot:
- White Castle Has Offered Health Insurance To Its Workers Since 1924, But That May End Because of New Heath Insurance Laws. Click Here To Learn More
Monkey Meditations
- Things more annoying than the Vuvuzela: The Actual Game of Soccer
- Colorado has given the world Qdoba and Chipotle
- Apparently, we the people of Colorado love big burritos
- Thus, another Colorado Company decided we were fat enough and built a even bigger burrito
- Things more annoying than the Vuvuzela: Political Ads
- The home of drive-throughs has decided it has too many drive-through
- It seems they are tried of the rep of having fatty foods drive-ins
- However, it seems to me they are only stopping drive-in, not fatty food chains
- Things more annoying than the Vuvuzela: Red Sox Fans
- Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest is strange enough
- However, it now is taking some ideas from WWE
- Nothing like seeing the former champ get arrested for rushing the stage
- Things more annoying than the Vuvuzela: The Wave At Sporting Events
- He can’t name even his favorite baseball player on his favorite baseball team
- He can’t throw a baseball anywhere near the home plate
- However, he deserves credit for not doing the wave at a Nationals game
- Things more annoying than the Vuvuzela: Airline Fees
- A mathematics genius turned down a million dollars for his work with shapes in four or more dimensions
- Which begs the question, Did he turn it down because he doesn’t work with 3D things
- Or because he is bad with numbers and money?
- Things more annoying than the Vuvuzela: Facebook Mob War Requests
DIED FOR GOD AND COUNTRY IN A PLACE SO FAR AWAY
I thought the blog, “Cupcakes, Sprinkles, and other Happy Things (Jenny’s Blog from Addison Road), had a very good entry for Memorial Day. So I will link to it as a way to say Thank You to all those who serve.
I CAN SEE YOU PAINT MY PICTURE
Major Website Update: MAY 2010
It is time for another major personal website update. So, as in the past I will list the new additions to the site here in the blog. They are marked as NEW in the menu at the top of the pages.
Jay completed high school and here are some photos and a video from the ceremony.
For Mother’s Day weekend, we headed to a local Harley-Davidson Dealership for a concert from a friend’s band.
It was a busy day with lots of things including, a snow storm, a concert and Lynzee’s spring banquet/prom.
My first 5K to help out The Third Story.
Some various pictures of the different spring weather in Colorado.
One of those wacky, March snow storms in Colorado.
We had a very impressive sunrise here in Colorado.
Well, the previous poll showed that there are two types of people, Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy!
There is a new brief slide show, a new quote, a new poll question on the main page as well as this blog entry (same poll). As always, I would love for your voice to be heard, so vote.
Also, for those of you who only read the blog entries when a major update of the site comes out, there were 21 new blog entries since the last major site update.
If you want to stay up with the blog entries on a more regular fashion, you can be notified by email when a new blog entry comes out by clicking here to sign up.
Or if you have a RSS reader, you can subscribe to the blog using this address:
http://www.admirable.cc/Personal/blog/?feed=rss2
Here is the poll questions so you could vote here or on the home page.
GREATER THINGS ARE STILL TO BE DONE HERE
Here is another opportunity I thought I would share for anyone want to help those in need.
Every day almost 6000 children become orphans. Every 6 seconds a child dies of starvation. Every minute we have a choice: we can choose to help care for those orphans, to feed those hungry bellies, and to help those in need; or we can choose to look away and do nothing. What is your choice??? Don’t look away. Please choose to join JD’s TD Club and bring HELP and HOPE to those in need. Your donations will go to support Heavenly Hope Ministries(HHM) and its projects both in Africa & in the Cleveland area.
Click here to sign up
THEY THREW US OUT INTO THE WORLD
There was a lot of tears, pain, doubt, patience’s, hard work, up and downs, but Jay did it. On Sunday, May 16, 2010, he graduated from Denver Street School. Here is a video of him getting his diploma. Way to go Jay!!
OH MY MY THIS HERE ANAKIN GUY
This video just cracks me up. The part is when he does his happy voice is very funny.
Who would not want a GPS with this voice. You can learn more about it at this website.
So sit back and enjoy this video.
I’VE BEEN CHEATED
Tuesday night I was driving home from the rained out Rockies game. I was feeling a little cheated at of not getting to see local boy Roy Halladay pitching in Colorado, not getting into the ball park, and having to pay for parking for nothing. However, this is not the first game I have even lost out on seeing of because of weather. Still it is not fun to feel mistreated.
I have the radio on to one of the local sports channels while heading home, and they start talking how they feel they got ripped off buy printer ink.
So that got me thinking, what is the biggest rip off. So below is a poll question. Let me know what you think it is.
Monkey Meditations
- Random Status Lines From Friend’s Facebook: “My brain hurts” – DF
- So you think baseball players are not tough?
- Let me introduce you to Rockies Catcher, Miguel Olivo
- During the 8th inning of April 26, 2010, game he passed a kidney stone and kept on playing
- Random Status Lines From Friend’s Facebook: “i love baked potato pizza!! mmm:) i will bring you some ” – KG
- Have you brought a Tim Tebow Bronco jersey, yet?
- I would like love one, but I am too cheap to buy one
- It took me 17 years to buy a Rockies jersey and I got it cheap on eBay
- Random Status Lines From Friend’s Facebook: “Ahhh… A PCF shower and now off to the doc’s. What a life. ” – CS
- On April 23, 2010, here in the Denver area it rained and snowed and the sun shined
- It was Lynzee, Spring Banquet/Prom and Mindy and I also went to the “The United Tour”
- Click Here to see photos from that day
- Random Status Lines From Friend’s Facebook: “8 miles at race pace done…Rainier will be conquered! ” – JC
- Congrats to Monkey Pen Member, Rick, on the birth of his grandson, Cameron
- Congratulations Matt and Denise on their firstborn son, Caleb
- Congrats to James and Angela on their newest son, Caleb
- Random Status Lines From Friend’s Facebook: “I am free…..no more econotricks!!!!” – SA
- My condolences to Keli McGregor’s, family and friends
- I did not know him, but those who I know who knew him spoke so highly of him
- My heart goes out to those who are hurting with this loss of good human being
- Random Status Lines From Friend’s Facebook: “Shot soda bottle rockets off in the back yard. Successful science project!!!!!!!” – SH
I’M JUST A BREATH AWAY
At first I only had a few simple goals for running the 5K race. One, to finish it under 40 minutes. Two, don’t have to use the paramedics. Three, run most of the race (I figured I would have to walk some). Four, I want to survive.
However, when I got two the race, I had to add few goals. Five, since the race involved running the course two times to get to the 5K, I did not want to get lapped. Last, I did not want to get passed by anyone pushing a baby carriage. If they started out a head of me, that was fine, but if I got a lead over them I did not want to get passed by them.
So on April 17, 2010, I ran my first 5K race. I have been training for it for about four months. I still needed another four months to get ready, but that was too bad as my time was up. My first 5K race was the West Side Stride which was a fund-raiser for The Third Story. It is a charity I learned about back in 1996 when I became a tutor/mentor in their tutoring program for inner-city kids at risk. I was a tutor there for many years and now I help out in various ways.
This was their first ever 5K race that I have ran in. I am excited because I was the first to sign-up. I figured that would be the only part of the event where I was first. Turns out that was not true. I was the first ever to check-in, too!
My wife decided to walk the course. Money Pen member, Todd, came out to run it. Also, Anne came out to run it and encourage me.
As for the race, I was able run most of the race. I only had to stop and walk for a few steps a few times. So I was pleased about that. I am still slow, but I did finish the race around 37 minutes (under 40). I did not get passed by anyone just walking the race. I did not need any help from the paramedics. I did not come in last. The Third Story was able to raise money. So all in all, it was successful and fun day.
I want to thanks Bob, Nancy, and Karmen who answered all my running questions and gave me a lot of good advice for running. My next race will be in late May/early June. The race I was going to do, got canceled, but I think I found a replacement.
Also, thanks to my wife, Todd, Anne, A.B., Adam, Gene, and all the volunteers who were all encouraging and putting the race together. It was a fun day, even though it involved running.
WE JUST LIKE TO SEE THE BOYS HIT IT DEEP
We made it to our first Rockies game of the year on April 10, 2010. Mindy, Lynzee, and I went to the game a part of a group of around fifty people. The group went to the game to celebrate Steve’s birthday. His wife Kelli pulled the party together.
We did not really know anyone in the group besides, Steve, Kelli, and their daughter Sarah, but we still enjoyed it. Sarah and her two kids came out from KC for the game and party. It was the kids first baseball game, and they did great. It was nice that their first MLB game was a Rockies game not a Royals game.
As for the game, it was a good one. It took fourteen innings to play, but in the end the Rockies lost to the Padres, 5-4. The Rockies gave up too many walks and were not able get many base runners. You don’t win many baseball games when that happens.
Steve with his grandson, Silas
PUT ME IN COACH – VI
Happy Easter and Happy Opening Day (my two favorite holidays)! Since it is opening day, it is time for the most anticipated entry this blog offers. It is the 6th annual Code Monkey’s MLB Team Predictions and Slogans.
As normal, the predictions will probably be wrong, but they are here just in case I get one right so I can brag about it. The slogans are more in-line with what I think the team’s slogans should be.
AL EAST
1. Evil Empire – We are so good, our manager has enough time to teach the Jets QB how to slide, field a bunt, block the plate, and eat a hot dog.
2. Evil Nation – Really, we did not want to have a powerful and younger outfield to help our old batting lineup. We just wanted great pitching
3. Tampa Bay – Young, Talented, and maybe moving to Orlando where maybe we could be called the SeaWorld Rays
4. Baltimore – Improving but our nest is still located the AL East
5. Toronto – We miss the days of the Expos being the worst Canadian baseball team
AL CENTRAL
1. Minnesota – We lost the roof over our heads, but we have heated consession areas
2. Detroit – We keep telling ourselves, “We Are Still Better Than The Lions”
3. Chicago – We have decided to stop using the social media, learn more about our decides on Ozzie’s Twitter Account
4. Cleveland – Looking forward to developing another CY Young Pitcher that we can trade when he wins the award
5. KC – Hoping to draft the Phenom named Bryce Harper and not sign him cause we can’t afford him
AL WEST
1. LA of Anaheim – Still the guardians of the AL West
2. Texas – We are now owned by an attorney who will appeal every lost
3. Seattle – As a dog returns to its vomit, so a foolish team thinks Milton Bradley will not hurt their team and clubhouse
4. Oakland – All we want is to move out of Oakland, for the love of God let us go to San Jose
NL EAST
1. Philadelphia – Who needs two CY Younger Winners on their team at the same time
2. Atlanta – Bobby Cox in his final season will try for 2500 career wins and 200 career ejections
3. Florida – Cheapest team of the last decade, but we won one World Series
4. NY Mets – Minaya’s Messy and Mismanaged Mets
5. Washington – Someday Strasburg will come and be our stimulus plan
NL CENTRAL
1. St. Louis – Our new hitting coach will provide all our batters with all his ‘roids knowledge
2. Milwaukee – Honoring our former owner, a used-car salesman, with a statue to be called Cash For A Clunker.
3. Chicago – Fighting for nicer facility for spring training since we don’t play anywhere during October
4. Houston – We sign every ex-Phillie we can. It is too bad, Howard, Utley, and Halladay aren’t ex-Phillies.
5. Cincinnati – Capitalism is where where a player who escaped from a Communist Cuba signs with a U.S. team called “The Reds”
6. Pittsburgh – Stopping even Super Mario from buying and saving this franchise
NL WEST
1. Colorado – We have the most guys who used to be backups for the Manning brothers in college and in the Oreo Double Stuff Racing League
2. LA – Hoping that Manny will not need maternity leave this year
3. Arizona – We don’t need no Stinking Good Schlereth
4. San Francisco – Doing all we can to keep the A’s suffering in Oakland
5. San Diego – New Ownership, but same so-so team
SLOGANS FOR MLB:
I could not decided between the two following ones. So I put both of them there because it is my blog and I can do what I want.
OTHER PREDICTIONS:
First manager to get fired: Jerry Manuel (Mets)
WILD-CARD PICKS:
AL: Texas Rangers
NL: Atlanta Braves
PLAYOFF WINNERS:
OK, Monkey Pen Member Rick pointed out last year that I don’t do Playoff and World Series predictions. Since I try and improve on things for the Monkey Pen Members, I have made playoffs guesses as well and I will from now on for Rick.
Divisional Series:
Evil Empire over Rangers
Angels over Twins
Rockies over Braves
Phillies over St. Louis
Championship Series:
Evil Empire over Angels
Rockies over Phillies
World Series:
Evil Empire over Rockies (man that hurts just to type)
STATS:
In case you are worried I might made correct predication and your team has no hope, don’t be afraid. Here our my stats the previous five years to ease your fears:
| Correct AL Division Winners | 8/15 | 53% |
| Correct AL Wild Card Winners | 2/5 | 40% |
| Correct NL Division Winners | 6/15 | 33% |
| Correct NL Wild Card Winners | 0/5 | 0% |
| Correct First Manager To Fired | 0/5 | 0% |
| Correct Playoffs Guesses | -/- | –% |
Thanks to Rick as this will be the last year the playoff is a good percentage.
OTHER THINGS:
Also, after hearing from their fans, I changed the what I call the team from Boston. I use to call them Mini Evil Empire as I think they are always trying to be like the Evil Empire but not as big or with as much wins. So from now on I will just call them the Evil Nation so they don’t feel so Mini. I hope they are finally happy, that is if fans of the Evil Nation can be happy.
I know some of you must be surprised I have so positive hope for the Rockies. Yes, I do love them, but usually I am the pessimist about their chances of being good. However, this year I am excited and optimistic about their chances. I think they are a good baseball team.
There you have it, my view of the 2010. Enjoy the day and season, baseball fans. Go Rockies!
ROLL THE STONE AWAY, IT’S INDEPENDENCE DAY
“Salvation is here
Salvation is here and He lives in me
Salvation is here
Salvation that died just to set me free
Salvation is here
Salvation is here and He lives in me
Salvation is here
Cause You are alive and You live in me”
Salvation is Here – Lincoln Brewster
I KNOW IT IS TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
Wednesday, March 31, 2010, is the end of March, the end of era, and the end of a career.
I never had the chance to attend a spring training game at Hi-Cobertt Field in Tuscon, AZ and I never will. The last spring training baseball game that the stadium will host will feature the Diamondbacks and the Rockies facing off. It opened back in 1937. It became the Indian’s spring training facility in 1947. If you have ever seen the movie, Major League, parts of the movie were filmed there. The Rockies took over the spring training site in their first spring training in 1993. Now that the Rockies and Diamondbacks are moving north making all the Cactus League Teams based in the Phoenix area and spring training will be no more in Tuscon or at Hi-Cobertt Field.
Also, one of my favorite authors called it quits on March 31, 2010. Well, he is not ending his writing career, he is retiring from his other job as a professional kicker in the NFL. Here are a few things I will remember about Jason Elam’s playing days:
- He was part of both of the Denver Bronco’s Super Bowl wins
- He is the co-owner of the longest NFL field goal record of 63 yards
- He married a Bronco cheerleader. That is right the kicker got the cheerleader. Proving once again “Chicks Dig the Long Ball”
- We think we were behind him at a David Crowder Band Concert in Oct 2007 in Denver
- He was let ago by the Broncos after 15 seasons (and then played for the Atlanta Falcons for a year and half). It was right after his first book came out. I always wondered if Shanny did not like the way the coach in the book was portrayed, so he let Jason go
- He is the Bronco’s all time leading scorer
His first three fiction books (Monday Night Jihad, Blown Coverage, and Blackout) are very good. His fourth one is due out around December 2010. They are very good and exciting books. I would highly recommend the books especially if you like thrilling fiction.
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