Attack Iraq No. So simple. It rhymes and everything at the beginning. The question was posed and then answered so I wouldn't have to think and let facts get in the way or anything. Thanks bumper sticker.

Well it worked. Burned a cd+g disk last night. Karaoke frightens me, but I'll contribute however I can to the cause. I don't know which scares me more, singing in front of people or swimming. There's something about singing that is just leaves you naked, in the figurative sense of course. And fish weird me out. At one time in my life I could sing a little, but I've always had the stage fright. Now I can't sing at all (use it or lose it, I guess) and I feel stupid when attempting it. It's one of those things that I have to be perfect at the first time or I am to frustrated to do it again. It's like playing sports. I expect to be so good at golf even though I play maybe 3 times a year. It's not like I can practice and get better or anything, right?

Ever work on something and it frustrate you to no end and then you get obsessed with figuring it out? That's kind of what is going on with this karaoke stuff. It started out as a simple thing. Just find a few karaoke songs and burn them to disk. Easy enough. Well maybe not. First I have to convert them to a bin file. Then I can't burn them with anything but CDRwin which I don't have. Well I got a demo version that burns at 1x speed but then my burner is compatible with the cd+g format. What is up with that? Who knew? So I gave up sorta. But something just didn't seem right so I did another search. Someone has figured out a way, apparently, to burn cd+g on non-compatible burners. It looks fairly complicated, but what the heck. I seem to be doing a lot of complicated things lately, unintentionally. I'm learning a lot, but man, why can't some easy stuff come along every once in a while.

King's Island is fun. A lot more rides than the last time I was there. Maybe I'll go back again soon. I'm so tired. Jamie and I didn't get home until around 2 am. I don't know how I'm going to make it again tonight as Todd and his younguns are coming over while the birth of Jenny is being celebrated at their house. I may fall asleep before the children do. One day I will sleep, and it may be tomorrow.

We have this problem at work. Can't figure it out. Hopefully we find out what the problem is. Part of me dreads it, though, because I don't want to find out it was something I did. You don't want to be the cause of what the boss calls "the biggest problem we've ever had..."

I need to change the look of my blog. I've become bored with it.

And so we journey on another part of my increasingly ascetic lifestyle. First money and now we attack health. I began my journey in full force today. Twenty-two pounds in twenty weeks. Give or take. I'm shooting for the birth as the deadline.

Well I got my web page problem fixed at work and stopped an overflowing urinal all in the same day. Very productive.

Almost finished with Armageddon. This one is better than the last few in the series. At least key people are starting to die. It was getting a bit unrealistic, not that a lot of it wasn't unrealistic. And with a few simple keystrokes, I've encrypted this post so that it would take someone a million years to crack it just to read it...

I'm becoming quite the library habitue. Read read read, that's what I say. The all-star game was fun. There is something enjoyable about watching Dusty Baker lose the game for the NL.

Today is Wednseday so it is movie night of course. Shanghai Knights came out yesterday, I'm sure that will be watchable.

We find out this Friday if we are having a boy or a girl. Exciting times in the household for sure.

I'm hungry. What's for lunch?

Not much to say. Things are going alright at work. Foxpro is so frustrating because of the lack of documentation available. It seems like there is information for everything but this. Started Armageddon today. I had just the slightest of interest in reading it so I figured I might as well go for it.

I will try once again to get Phone Booth this week. We shall see. Tonight is the all-star game, that's always fun. Watched the HR derby last night over at Big Game's house. Pujols and Giambi put on quite a show but Garrett Anderson of all people won. Whatever.

Didn't get to see Phone Booth. Saw The Transporter instead. Click on the link to see what I thought. Lots of activity on the BBR today. That's always nice to see. Must've been the picture change. The whole goals thing has had mixed results. I've gotten more accomplished, but I still feel stressed out. I think I'm pretty disorganized, so organizing would probably help.

I've been reading a lot more lately. It's been nice. I enjoy reading but I feel selfish. Of course it is no different than watching tv as far as selfishness goes, but I can convince myself that tv isn't as bad. TV can be really bad, if you are an addict like I am. Just changing channels instead of doing something productive. I still miss the cardinal games, but they've been losing a lot lately so I don't miss it that much. Not that I'm a fairweather fan or anything. Not watching has saved me from some pain and agony. Reading is good because it stimulates the mind, increases your vocabulary, and helps with conversations with others. I know a lot of people figure I only have a couple of interests, but I know a little about a lot. I just choose not to speak on dis.

The question of the day is what movie am I going to get tonight? Hopefully Phonebooth, but I'm sure it will be out.

I've noticed I start these things with "So" a lot. So, the Fourth was interesting. Some people that usually irritate, didn't so that that was nice. I almost lost an eye and my love of fireworks has diminished greatly. All in a days work, I suppose. The problem is am I getting old? The bodily risk taking has gone down a lot in my life. Not that it was super high to begin with, but I think I've crossed a big adult threshhold in that I actually am concerned about maiming myself. Is this a big step? It didn't feel any different when I turned 30, but it seems like ever since then I have been different. The priorities have changed in my life. It is a strange time indeed to be Jason.

What is risk?

In The Millionaire Next Door this question was posed by a professor to a group of MBA students. Being an entrepreneur! is what one student replied. The professor answered his own question with a quote form an entrepreneur:

What is risk? Having one source of income. Employees are at risk....They have a single source of income. What about the entrepreneur who sells janitorial services to your employers? He has hundreds of customers....hundreds and hundreds of sources of income.

That's the most I've ever typed entrepreneur in my life. Finished this book and I would recommend it, even if you don't think you'll ever be a millionaire.

At first I was disappointed in the lack of posting on bbr. I took it personal. Now I realize some people are producers and some people are consumers. Apparently most of my "friends" are hyperconsumers. So it goes. I'm mostly disappointed with Joe.

Actually brought my lunch today. What is up with that.