theJEDMAN NATION-A New Wave Manifesto

I am probably the worst blogger ever. I have not written squat in a few months. I'm living in uninteresting times. I don't do a lot. I do go out and meet people from time to time, but these instances are usually the same. I'm surprised that I have not been kicked off this blog site for being the worst blogger ever.
I did do some time in the hospital in September. I was only there a day. It is not much fun going there. It wasn't anything cosmetic. I just had to go in and do some maintenance. I would never do any elective cosmetic surgery just because of having to be there at the hospital. Besides looking at me, no one would ever think that I would need that type of surgery. Anyway, I don't remember too much of the actual event. I did have to hang out for awhile down in the OR. I complained a lot. The doctors and nurses like me when I complain a lot. I think. I got them to play music for me while we waited for some anaesthesiologist to show up. They put me out. The next thing I new, I woke up in some room with a lot of other people. It must be the post op room. This is the worst part. They hook you up to the IV. They pump you full of fluid for hours. Then, you wake up and have to use the bathroom and you aren't allowed to move. You tell the nurses what you need to do and they just give you a plastic jar. So, I was laying on my back not being able to move and I have to use the jar in front of hundreds of people. It is the worst thing ever. I filled up the jar, but I had to look at it to see if anything was in there. It is tough. Also, this time I had both parents there. I had two people hanging out concerned and bored asking questions. The hospital is a good reason to stay healthy. I want to avoid the hospital at all costs.

Speaking of being healthy, I have been eating a lot of Cheerios lately. At work, I was close to a vending machine. I found myself eating a lot of chips. I decided that this was stupid. So, I bought a box of Cheerios and I started eating them instead. Cheerios are good. Cheerios make you feel good. I usually pound oatmeal in the morning and then during the day, I eat a couple of cups of Cheerios. Cheerios clean you out and makes things work better. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and my insides feel good. Plus, my stomach feels flat. It doesn't look flat, it just feels flat. I think Cheerios are pretty good for you. Also, last fall I had to switch medicine for my condition. The new medicine gives me a little reflux. The $30 copay stuff at the drug store seems to help more this time than when I had this trouble several years ago, but the Cheerios help more, so much so that I haven't taken the reflux meds in a few weeks. I hope this keeps up like this, but it would be bad to not take the drugs from the drug companies for my ailments. That would be almost un american not to be on prescription drugs. It might hurt the economy more. I hope I don't get in trouble for this.

Speaking of being healthy, I went to a New Year's Eve party. It was at these friends of my in midtown. They are arty types and they don't have a TV. The had some good vegetarian food there with heavy doses of beans. It was good. It was very good. I like vegetarian food. It makes you feel light and happy with the absense of ground beef. but I'm smart enough know that I live in the midwest where the cows live. Eating cow is the law here. I like hamburgers, but I'd eat more vegetarian food with beans if it was more readily available. The party of good. It reminded me of parties I went to in college with arty types that didn't have a TV. There was recorded music and live music. Jerry Garcia would have been proud all except for the non-cow stuff.

.: posted by Jed 5:50 PM

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

I'm writing this section on dinner parties on Labor Day so don't let the post date fool you. Recently on consecutive weekends I went to dinner parties. PARTY I The first one was at a midtown location of some work people. This was my second invite to this location. I took a 12 pack of beverages. The host made some nice colon friendly veggie lasagna with salad and good bread. It was very nice. The last time I was there the meal was very good as well. I love going to a party where people make fresh food that is good for you. I don't like parties where the food is from big containers purchased at Sam's Club. These people were arty types so they didn't have a TV. We couldn't watch the Chiefs game or the Olympics. So, we listened to music and talked. Imagine talking. I can talk. Sometimes I talk real well. It was a cool August evening so we sat outside in the back yard. There were other people there besides work people so the shop talk was kept at a minimum. These arty types smoked, but at least they have sense to smoke outside. They have figured out how to banish themselves to the great out doors. Just d0n't do anything that Smokey the Beer wouldn't be proud of. I enjoyed this party. PARTY II The next weekend I went to another dinner party at a suburan location. We ate colon enemy red meat. I grilled big T-bones steaks on the grill. In fact, you might as well call me T-bone. I love cooking on the grill. Invite me to your party and I will cook on the grill for the party for you. I can cook dead meat and vegetables. I can handle hundreds of people. This party was good. I can take or leave the steak. I like it, but it is not the end all with me. Unless it is really good high quality cut, I'd rather eat something else. These T-bones were just OK. The fire was not hot enough to really sear them. There was good salad and bread. Good salad is important. This place always has outstanding salad. ISSUE I There was another Chiefs game on, but we were not allowed to watch it during dinner. After dinner we had to watch it on Tivo. I hate watching the game on Tivo. I'd rather watch it live with commercials. The host had some problems fast forwarding through the commercials once. He went too far on fast foward and it was touchdown Miami. Then again it was touchdown Miami. It was like foreshadowing, but we saw it for real in fast motion. So, I kind of new what was going to happen. ISSUE II The host had a beer fridge in his basement. We ate upstairs. So, he had a cooler of beverages upstairs during dinner. There was no ice in the cooler. Later, the cooler made it downstairs, still with not ice. It sat around while we were watching the game. The host decided to load the cooler back into the fridge. He asked me if I wanted another beverage. I said yes and he popped the cap and he handed it to me. It was hot. He decided to forgo giving me a cold beverage from the fridge and instead he handed me a beverage that had been sitting in the cooler for hours with no ice. This was a major beverage hosting fopa.

I think that people are bringing stuff they would not normally eat at their own home to other people's homes. This is called excessive dessert syndrome. People get invited to a party. They bring some big cake or pie or excessive amounts of soda pop. When all of this stuff comes together from many people, the party is overload with sugar. A normal party guest would have to eat a huge piece of cake, half a pie, a dozen cookies and about a liter of soda to finish all the sweets. That is enough sugar to kill a large farm animal. What happens is that the host of the part are usually left with all of these desserts once the party guests leave. Amongst the older generation there is the idea of not wasting food. Wasting food is bad because we don't have enough of it, so let's risk obesity, diabetes and heart disease to avoid wasting refined white sugar.

I've been living in the most uninteresting of times. I have not done much lately. There has not been much to do and I'm sort of at fault for not trying to do anything. I found myself watching Jon and Kate Plus Eight. It is the show with the people and the twins and sextuplets. It is funny. I'm glad I'm not there.
I've been biking lately. I got my new super prostrate friendly seat. They basically cut the nose off. I like it, I just wish I was about an inch wider. It is good. You have to balance more, but that makes you gut work more. I have been having problems. I busted a spoke the other day on a long ride to Olathe. I had to ride back an hour to get home. The wheel was wobbly so I had to take off the back brake. I got it fixed and I was riding home from the bike shop and I busted the another spoke on my back wheel. I only weight 222, so it can't be because of the girth. I rode it back to the bike shop. I bet the wheel rim is shot. I want to get it fixed because I'm into riding on my new seat. There are many trail in the JOCO that need my bike riding power.
I've gone to some ballgames with some old men. Old men can't hear or maybe don't listen well. Information is repeated a lot and frustration is high. I shouldn't complain. I get to go for free. I was in the middle of Red Sox Nation the other night. It is so hard to get a ticket in Boston that fans travel with the team or Kansas City has a lot of Red Sox fans. I'm guessing more of the later. There are Red Sox fans everywhere that have never been to Boston.

.: posted by Jed 10:38 AM

Sunday, July 20, 2008

I was at Tanner's the other night and I ran into the Commish. The Commish is this friend of theQUICK. I basically know him because he is the commissioner of one of my fantasy football leagues. He also helped me with my Sprint bill when the evil empire was trying to charge me too much. The Commish is awesome. He reads the blog. I don't really know him very well, but he reads the blog. He does not have to be told to read the blog. He just reads. the blog. That is support. He is on the JEDMAN bandwagon. Get on the bandwagon the rest of you. It is the right thing to do.

I fought some foo the other night. I saw the Foo Fighters in the big rock and roll show. There were about maybe 10,000 Foo Heads in the Kemper Arena. I was surprised by the turn out. The Foo Fighters are pretty good. That guy Dave from that Nirvana band is pretty good. He can sing and he can scream. Plus, he has long flowing hair. All the guys in the band had hair. No bald guy rock stars allowed. Guys or anyone with long flowing hair are my heroes. I dream of having hair like that. They played all the songs that I know. The stage was at one end of the arena. There was a long cat walk to the other end. At one point in the show a circular stage dropped to the arena floor at the end of the cat walk. They band moved down there. More pickers came out and they played some more songs. Dave talked a lot. He kind of has a potty mouth, but he was funny. He made fun of a guy in the crowd that had two beers. He made fun of some guy in the band that played triangle.It was a good show. The Foo played for around 2 hours and 20 minutes. That is pretty good value for the $55 ticket. This woman in front of me was blazing up the whole show. That is not legal. She had trouble standing up by the end of the show.
After the show, we ended up at some bar at 9th and State Line. I did not know that such a place existed. Through dark warehouses and train tracks was this club in the middle of the bottoms of Kansas City. The smokers were all upset because they couldn't smoke there. It literally 20 feet from free smoking KCK. I had to laugh. I can't wait for the full smoking ban everywhere even in Raytown. There was some lame band playing in there. Thankfully we only stayed for a little while. It was past my bedtime.
I read this book about this guy who went around the country with the goal of being a dishwasher in all 50 states. It was great. The guy was a slacker but he did take some pride in dish washing and he held the belief that jobs were made to quit. Quiting was the best part. Being able to quit and leave at anytime was what kept him going. The guy was my age. He put out a zine at the same time I did years ago about his dish washing escapades. He actually got popular, but wanting to remain a slacker. He had some funny stories. He didn't quite make all fifty states. I wish that I had the guts back then to do something stupid like that then write a book about it.

.: posted by Jed 8:49 PM

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

I don't really think anyone is reading this. It seems that people have to be reminded to read my blog. I guess I don't write with the frequency that most would like. Also, I've been dropped by Iberian Notes on their list of top blogs. I'm guessing this is personal attack by Bon Chap thejedman or he just deleted it somehow. I think my real fans should check my blog everyday. You never know when I'm going to write something truly fascinating. You don't want to miss it. I should have to remind people. The Jedman Nation is always there for all to see. Real fans will make a point to see it everyday wether I write once a day or once a year.
THE END OF THE WORLD I
Anyway, I'm at the end of the world. I'm one block from the World Famous Squid Roe. C is at work so I'm by myself. I've been walking around the town. I ate some fish tacos. My stomach has been a little upset, so I can't drink beer with the normal gusto that an American visitor is expected to so here. However, a couple of days of having some beers in the hot sun is fun, but even that gets old. When it is hot like that, the beer really tastes good, but moderation is the key in this beer drinking paradise among other things. Last Sunday, we went on this sail boat ride. It was awesome. The boat was called the Spin Doctor. We basically rode around the bay of San Lucas and there were beers on the boat. It was fun. It was more fun than the Pirate Boat and the big cruiser vessel that I went on 2 years ago. It was very damaging to the water taxi service. We went around the cape into the open sea. The waves crashed over the boat soaking this woman with the cold Pacific agua. C's hat bit the dust as it flew off her head. It was fun. I might make that a regular trip on my adventures from the end of the world.

The END OF THE WORLD II
I'm back. It is two days later. C is at work again. My routine is pretty simple. I get up. I take advantage of the fruit toast and coffee on the hotel patio by the pool. Then, I drink coffee and read by the pool in the morning. I take a shower. I watch some TV. Then, I head off into town. I usually buy a big water to carry around because I walk a lot and I sweat even more. I find a place to eat. I usually hit one of the cheap tourist places. I don't eat on the marina. That is high priced gringo styled food. I like to avoid those places. I do hit Taco Loco. It is a tourist place, but it is cheap. I get four fish tacos and a beer for $7. It is pretty good there. They make the food up fresh. you can see them making it in the kitchen. From there, I may go to the Internet cafe like I am now just across the street from Squid Roe. Yesterday, I went to the beach and ate lunch and put away a couple of margaritas de fresa. After a couple of hours, I usually hit Rip's for a couple of Pacificos on the way home. If you get one drink here they give you two. In the USA the drinks are so big that they are often two drinks anyway. Then, I hike the 15 minutes up the peninsula back to the hotel. There, I swim off my hotness to cool off. I take a nap and watch TV and wait for C to finish working. I know. The excitement is intense. Remember the life of theJEDMAN is always intense.
The other day my routine was thwarted. I have a cooperate rich guy connection here and I was able to get a massage. I had never had one before. This woman came to the hotel with her table and set up. I plopped on and she rubbed me down for about an hour. It was nice. It was the kind of ethical massage that I've always heard of. Usually I'm a little uptight about people touching me that I don't know. I don't even like it when naked men walk around in the Baily's locker room to the locker next to me and start talking. I don't like going to new doctors and having them poke and prod me, especially that time I got my colon checked like guys my age are supposed to do. I met the people that day. They knocked me out and who knows what they did. Usually I want several dinners, some drinks, two ball games, a concert, some movies, some walks in the park, a drive to the country, a few trips to the supermarket and picking me up from jail to occur before all the poking and prodding occurs. Well, I have not ever been in jail, but there is always a chance. This massage was really relaxing. I felt really good after. I even dosed off for a few minutes. She was nice and it was a free cooperate tourist thing. I tipped her $30 for her effort. For a few minutes, I felt like a rich guy. It was intense, but less intense than normal. Remember the life of theJEDMAN is always intense.

The END OF THE WORLD III
My last weekend at the end of the world, we drove up the desert to La Paz. La Paz is the capital of Baja California Sur. It is on the Mar of Cortez or the Gulf of California. We drove across the mountainous desert peninsula of BCS. It was fun. It was hot and dusty. There is not much out there but some cows, goats, and cacti. We did see a tourist relieving himself on the side of the highway on the way back down highway 19. He could have at least got of the road a little bit. The Highway 19 from San Lucas to Todos Santos is winding, narrow and a little peligrosos. We stayed at the Casa Jalisco. I know a guy in Kansas City whose brother-in-law owns the place. The room was very nice and big. It was a good place. The problem was the location of the hotel, not in the pretty area and far from the Malecon. The Malecon is the sea wall of the bay of La Paz. It stretches for several kilometers along the bay of La Paz. It is very nice stroll along the bay. On the other side of the street, there are shops and restaurants. It is a very nice area. We ate at a restaurant El Patron out on point at the beginning of the Malecon. We sat right by water as the sun set by the sailboats. It was pretty. I ate some sea bass. It was one of the best pieces of fish I have ever had. We drank some good Margaritas. It was very nice. As the sun went down more and more people came out to the Malecon. It was quite the seen. There were not too many gringos around. We walked along the Malecon. As we returned, there were a lot of people standing around. As we got closer, there was a pick up truck in the wa

ter. All I could see was the antenna. They had some tow trucks there to pull it out. I could never figure out how the guy drove that truck in there. It was crazy. I talked to some guys drinking some Tecate Light on the Malecon. They had no idea what Kansas was. They thought everyone in the USA was from New York. Statue of Liberty was all they knew.We need Superman to get that truck out.

On Day 2 in La Paz, we cruised up the coast of the bay to a beach called Balanda. It was pretty. There were a lot of people there. The beach was not that big, but the water went out forever in this little inlet. The water was clean and clear. It had white fine sand. You could walk out forever and not go under. I was way out and the water was only up to my chest at the deepest. It was a perfect 72 degrees. I could have stayed out there forever. I put on sun screen. This was smart. I have not done this before and have been burned to death. Sun screen works. Balanda was kind of the low rent beach. There were no facilities. There were a lot of families there. There were dogs there. There was a wiener dog there that outran thees two little girls that could not grasp the leash as the dog ran up and down the beach. It was cute. There were people with makeshift canopies to protect from the sun eating chips and hammering down big Pacificos. The one great thing about the ocean, it is like one big bathroom. After the Balanda Beach experience, we hit the next beach over. The name of it eludes me, but it was a bigger beach with restaurants. We ate some more sea bass in this nice moderately priced place with waiters and napkins. The eyes came with this piece of fish. Actually, it was the whole fish except for the guts. This beach was nice. You could seen the exit to the bay of La Paz into the open Cortez Sea. The water was clear and clean

with white sand. It was a little cooler here. It was

beautiful. After the beach we headed back into town. We went to the mall. I walked around reading sign. It was OK. It was a nice mall. Mexico is a poor country, but people have money to buy stuff. Baja California Sur is probably doing better than most states in Mexico. As the sun went down the Malecon filled up. I guess people without air bake in their houses all day and as soon as the sun goes down they hit the Malecon to cool off and hang. This is the ultimate loitering place. It is a teenagers dream. Families pop out and walk around. I saw this little kid about 4 years old on a electric motorcycle bike. He had a full helmet that wrapped around his jaw and googlies. The bike when about 4 MPH and he was cruising around on it. It was funny. He almost went down this embankment. It was a great place. It is fun. Loitering is OK USA. We should allow more of it and design places to do it.

I went to the big supermarket CCC in La Paz. In the beer aisle, Modelo the big beer company in Mexico has a cute beer girl there. I guess she is there to help you make a selection and if you don't pick a Modelo beer, well I don't want to tell you what that means, but don't ask her out to lunch. It is kind of funny. They don't do that here in the US because you would upset some conservatives. It is just fun. Mexico might be behind the times in the way women are viewed, but the superfiscial man in me likes things like this even though I'll probably get into trouble for it.

In San Jose, they sell fresh bottles of OJ on the street. I drank one everyday. It was great. I love fresh squeezed OJ. It is good there. BCS has a lot of vitimen C options. With all of those limes they put in beers and squeeze on the fish tacos. I love it.

I got a fish burger at Zipper's. It was a real piece of fish. It was good. Zipper's was an american like bar right on the beach with american like food and american versions of Mexican food. It is right on the beah, so the view is pretty. I could sit there all day. It was great to go their after sweating in the cave all day.

.: posted by Jed 3:06 PM

Monday, June 02, 2008

You might want to read this one again, because I have done some editing.
Those are my feet.

I'm not working right now so I have some time to blog. I know my fans want more blog material, but I'm a little lazy and don't write as much as I could. I think this makes the material a lot better if I don't write as much. The people that read this will anticipate more and then when they read this garbage, they will think it is better than it is.

I went to the Big Rush Concert. I didn't have anything to do, so I went. This was my 3rd Rush concert, but the first in over 20 years. The show was at Starlight. I had not been there in over 20 years. I think the last time I was there was for the Kinks show in 1985. They really made that place nice since the last time. They have a nice big stage with this huge towers. There is a covered concourse that goes all the way around the seating area. There are plenty of places to get drinks and it was super easy to go to the bathroom. It was very nice. They are starting to have more shows there. There were about 5,000 people in the 7,500 seat amphitheater. I think that is pretty good for the rockers in their late 50s. No other power trio can do that. When was the last time you saw Triumph play to more than 50 people in Bismark or Emerson Boozer, Lake and Jim Palmer fill a high school gym. The concert arena or amphitheater scene is full of bands from the 70s and the 80s. If you were decent then you can still get about 5,000 to 10,000 at a show in any big city. I don't think hip hop ever became or will become a big concert draw. Plus, many people that grew up going to concerts are in their 40s and 50s now and have money to go to shows at $50 a pop. Once all of these bands get too old, I'm just wondering if their will be arena rock anymore. I'm guessing there will only be small shows in the future with 1,000 people being a good draw.
Back to Rush, The band looked pretty fit. Alex and Neal are losing some hair. That is a plus for me. Neal had some hat on thinking he is the Edge. The fans all about 40 to 60 were computer geeks in high school that listened to Rush and the world's greatest drummer Neal Peart. Now, those geeks control the world and have babes that they didn't have in high school. There were some younger people there, but I didn't get why.
Rush was petty good live band. They play well together. They played some hits. They played the Red Barchetta. That is probably my favorite song. Plus, the obligatory Tom Sawyer, Spirit of the Radio, Subdivisions and 2112. I didn't realize this but they've been putting out albums all along. They've had like 8 albums since I bought one 20 years ago. So, there were a lot of songs I didn't know. Geddy was pretty good about telling the crowd when the old stuff or the new stuff was coming up. People tended to race to the bathroom during the new stuff. They played for about three hours in total. There was a 20 minute break in the middle. Plus, toward the end there was the epic drum solo by the world's greatest drummer. Neal has a lot of stuff to bang on. The crowd was really into the drum solo. I'm just glad it didn't last any longer than the 10 minutes it did. When it was over, Neal was tired and Alex gave the acoustic performance. It was ok. I'd much rather they just played songs. It was worth the $49 I paid to get in and I'm definitely not ruling the world as you would have seen me babeless at the show.

I went to the Police concert at the big Sprint Center last may. It was pretty good. Sting looked fit. Stu and Andy looked good also. Stu still has hair. I hate guys with hair. When I was a teenager and skinny, I kind of looked like Stu, but not anymore. They played all the hits. They rocked out a little. They jammed a little. I'm not much into jams, but these jams were not excessive although they could have cut a couple of them short. At one point the stage lights turned all red. The people in the arena knew that they were going to play Roxanne. It is good to tip off the crowed when you play your biggest hit. I sure they would forget it otherwise. Sting was good. He played the rock songs from the past. He could have jazzed up everything, but he gave the fans what they wanted. Elvis Costello opened up the show. He was good. I'm not a huge fan. I only know a few songs. I think I'm better looking than Elvis Costello, but he's way cooler than I. The arena is so big, it is not that intimate to get up close, but arena rock rules!
Afterward, I walked across the street to the power and light complex. It is basically a big plaza with restaurants and bars all around. It is a little contrived and some of the places are kind of dumb. There are chain restaurants and not too many local places got picked to be there. However, it is cool to hang outside with a lot of people walking around. People like to hang where a lot of people are. Kansas City has missed the boat on this for years.
I had the idea for this over 10 years ago after my tour of Spain. A lot of places in the metro could have built places like this, especially Overland Park. They should have built places with a plaza open area with shops and restaurants all around. I'm sorry Mr. Nichols The Plaza is not a plaza. If strips malls were built in rectangles, the restaurants could be open to the inside so that in nice weather people could sit outside. The parking could be around the perimeter. Everywhere there are restaurants in free standing buildings that have patios and outside seating, but you are sitting next to a parking lot. It would be way cooler to have a big walking area where people could hang out and loiter. The idea that loitering is bad needs to be expelled from the minds of all Midwesterners. Now, with gas so high, having to drive everywhere is tough even from one end of the strip mall to the other. It would be cooler if you could go somewhere where a lot of people are and just hang. That is what is making the Power and Light District successful. Kansas City is kind of a misguided place that will hurt as long as fuel goes up and up. It is too bad. Foot traffic is good. Loitering brings business.
When I did leave the Power and Light District to go home, I drove right out to parking garage and was home in like 20 minutes. I didn't spend 30 minutes in my car waiting in line. I did my part to save on energy even though I drove myself downtown to the show.

The Marriott Hotel at 435 and Metcalf has a big plastic baggy covering the whole building. It is like a full building plastic protection device. I don't know what they are doing, but it gives the guests added protection from the elements even though they are inside. I got a lot of jokes for this one but I don't know which one to use.

The Quick called me on Sunday to go to the Royals game. I was at the gym, but I dropped everything to hang with the Quick. The Quick is awesome. You drop everything to hang with the Quick. The Royals finally won I game that I attended. The score runs and got hits. I'm used to them scoring none or one with 3 weak singles. The Quick brought his daughter. She is about three. She is pretty good. The Quick looks like a good daddy. I just remember 10 and 11 years ago the Quick would call me up on a Saturday night and say, "Wake up. Get over here.". I'd go over and watch him play video games for a couple of hours. Then, he would take a shower about 11pm and then we would go out. I guess responsibility ends those days forever.

My friend Danny called me up out of the blue last week. He was in town from Antarctica. Yeah, he went to Antarctica to be a janitor for a few months. A janitor, not a custodian was he. He invited me to go to Roller Derby to see the Woman's Professional Flat Track Roller Derby League. It was at Hale Arena down by Kemper and it was quite the scene man. It was white trash heaven. They had PBR on tap. The track was in the middle of a concrete slab. I guess they don't use the banked track because the concrete is easier to install because it is already there. They just have to put down some red duct tape in an oval. There were four teams that alternated playing each other. The girls just skated around the oval and one fast girl tried to skate around and through the other girls while they tried to kill each other. They all had names like hurt devil, mini mean and oucho marx. There were a lot of people there. I was surprised. No too many people of color. You could stand next to the track and watch the girls smash each other. I think that was the main draw to see the girls collide and run over each other. That is what the people cheered for. I liked the athleticism of the fast girl who could skate through the others without wiping out. It was fun, but I think I'm a one timer.

.: posted by Jed 1:05 PM

Monday, April 28, 2008

It is tough having a child and an ex-wife. Jennifer, my ex-wife is very difficult to deal with. Trapezoid, our son, lives with his mother and her new boyfriend in a big south Olathe mansion. By law, I'm required to send money to help pay for stuff for Trap. I don't mind doing this. I want to participate in Trap's life. However, I'm concerned about what my money is used to pay for. Jennifer has a French guy come over to speak French with Trap so that he is fluent for the Sorbonne when he gets older. That is fine, but I speak Spanish with Trap whoever I can and I think Jennifer is just doing that to spite me. Also, Jennifer pays over $100 an hour to have this guy named Cheese Puff come over to teach Trap the lost art of country line dancing as an effort to teach Trap about the culture of country music. This is great because when Trap comes to see me, he comes with no clothes or anything. Jennifer expects me to buy him necessities even though the money I send over is for necessities of daily life. Plus, the pick up and drop off times are always changing. I lose time and have to put in time always unexpected without notice. Also, I get tired of Jennifer calling me a no good loser who doesn't make any money in front of Trap. That woman will be the end of me.
*By the way, I've never been married. I have no children. I just get tired of people talking about their kids and spouses all the time at work, so I invented a fake ex-wife and son. Some people are actually buying it. theJEDMAN

.: posted by Jed 7:44 PM

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Hey, I went to the baseball game with some buddies last night, all men, all boys, being with the guys. I met them at the stadium. It was cold. They were giving away these replica jerseys that were semi-nice with medium quality. I had to wait for the guys outside the gate. They had to enter other side of the stadium. I couldn't get to because there is a lot of construction. Anyway, I waited and they were giving these jerseys away as you entered. I watched a woman with a trash bag outside the stadium. There were three guys going in on new tickets each time and exiting with a jersey to put in the trash bag. By the time they were done, they had about 30 jerseys in the bag. To their credit, they had a ticket for each one, but with the $9 tickets they probably bought, they are going to try to sell the jerseys for $20 a pop I would imagine. Then, they took off. They didn't even stay for the game. A lot of people walked out with jerseys and left appearing not to stay for the game. That defeats the spirit of the give away.
People were being jerks taking the jerseys. Some people got more the one. By the time I got in I didn't get one. They brought up some more boxes of jersey up to the gate as I was walking inside and people just converged on the guys carrying the boxes. I said the hell with it I don't need one that bad. I found my buddies and they had an extra one and I went to the table to get a small one for the guy's daughter. So, he traded me for it. I got one, but I was kind of disgusted at people because a lot of people got more than one. In my little group of four guys, one guy walked with two, but he got one for his daughter not to sell to someone on the outside.
I was disgusted by the display of greed. It defeated the spirit of the giveaway and I bet a lot of little kids that would die for one didn't get one because of the greed. It was cold. People can be jerks. When I got that small jersey from the table inside the and away from the gate. I got jostled and bumped. People were grabbing more than one of them. They were taking extras. That is bad.
I was outside for 5 hours. It was below 40 degrees. Baseball is not supposed to be cold. It is supposed to be just hot enough that you sweat and then the beer tastes really good. Football is supposed to be cold. It was a great football night, but they were playing baseball.

I watched the Jayhawks national championship game at Danny's Bar on College Boulevard. It was awesome. They Jayhawks came back and won playing awesome. I rarely get excited, but I jumped up and down when Chalmers hit that shot. After that, I knew we would take them in overtime. It reminded me of 20 years ago when I watched the game in my apartment on Tennessee Street in Lawrence with J-Bird, the K-man, imported beer and fireworks. My roommate, J-Bird, had a lot of fireworks. We shot them across the street to the frat house.

No one can listen. I have endured this for a long time. I get accused of not talking a lot sometimes. This is true. I don't talk a lot at times. I try to be polite and wait for an opening to say things when other people are talking. Often the opening never comes. The times when it does come, I find myself being interrupted a lot. No one listens. I can get very few people to listen to me. I understand that I may not say things clearly sometimes, but I wish people would just be quiet and let me talk and save questions until the end. Often, I can answer your question if you would just wait. No one listens in our post MTV world and I don't like it. I think I listen more than the average person.

I'm not good at much, but I'm good at cooking a lot of dead animal flesh on the grill for a lot of people. Other people are good as well, but they miss out on one technique that is very essential to good grilling. You have to take the food off the grill straight to the table. Many grillers make the mistake of cooking up a bunch of food for a big group. The food gets cooked all at once. Then there is a waiting period where they try to keep the food warm which essentially just drys it out, before the people eat it. The key is to cook a batch of whatever and put it on the buffet immediately and force people to go through the line. By the time, people go through the line and the first batch is almost gone the next batch is ready. When I cook, I operate this way. I just keep bringing in more as people serve themselves. This is effective cooking. Putting grilled stuff off to the side or in an oven to keep warm is no only ineffective, it is just plain unfortunate.

People should just eat their tomatoes and pickles when they order a sandwich and not offer them up to other people. Frankly they need the nutritional content. Not eating tomatoes is unfortunate.

.: posted by Jed 9:40 AM

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Jayhawks are in the final game. I've been watching the games at some clubs. I watched the Villanova game at some place that had the game on regular TV and satellite TV. The satellite was on real time not on a like 2 second delay like regular TV. I was on the side with the satellite. I would cheer like a crazed monkey when KU scored. The other side of the bar hadn't seen the basket yet. It was foreshadowing. The Jayhawks crushed Carolina last night on April 5th. I watched the game at Danny's off College. There was some people there. All the smokers have to go outside. It is great. They are nasty and filthy.
Coach Roy got hammered on radio, TV, and the newspaper all week. Some Jayhawk fans are big babies. They cry. They whine. They complain. Coach Roy coached at KU for a long time. His won a lot of games. His teams played up tempo basketball that is pretty to watch with pressure defense, back cuts and passing. He had players that were legitimate students. Coach Roy should be able to leave when he wants and take whatever job he wants. Most people would be celebrated for making decisions like that. There are a lot of unknowledgable Jayhawk fans. They only show up when the team wins. Some never even went to the Kansas University. Some latch onto a team just because it is winning. They boo obvious calls against the Jayhawks. They don't stay for both games of a two game session tournament time because winning is great, but drinkin beer outside the arena is better. Boo hoo Jayhawk fans. You hammered Coach Roy. Coach Roy is a good guy. Besides, I'm a KU football fan. To heck with the Final Four, bring on he spring game.
I went to Hooper's last Friday. It is no smoking before 9pm in KCMO. I was wondering how that worked. Does someone get on the bullhorn and say light up? Do people just want for someone to light up and then jump on the bandwagon? Does a neon light sign pop on at 9pm? What happens is they just bring out the ash trays. This isn't Europe. You can't ash on the floor. The ash trays appear and everyone lights up. Although some doofus was smoking at 8:45. I like this rule because it give me a signal that I should go home. At 9pm on Friday, I went home. The Barcelona Bad Boy isn't going to like that one. I tell you want. I go out and I feel so much bettet the next day in a non-smoking world. It is great. Smoking is so awful and it affects so many other people. Stop doing it now.
I've been doing some professional DJing at soccer games. I play music. I don't know much about soccer, but I think they ought to liberalize the offsides rule. Then, there would be fast break goals and one on one goalie action. That would make it fun, but I'm sure the Barcelona Bad Boy has reasons against it.
I spent some time in the East Bay again. I like going to the East Bay. It is like my vacation home. Plus, it is always good to see the Brentwoods. The Brentwoods are awesome. This was my second time to the new apartment off Piedmont Avenue. I like the new apartment. It is a nice palace in the sky even with the dust buffaloes. The real treat this time was the new Honda Fit. It is a nice new car. No more shall I ride in the 91 Honda rust bucket. I was always worried that car would just fall apart driving down the highway. It is funny because it wasn't too long ago that the Brentwoods were talking about getting rid of the car and going careless. Now, they are both gas gusling non greeners who drive down to Piedmont to get a latte at Peat's. Speaking of coffee houses. I went down to Peat's in the morning to get the Chronicle and some coffee. It seems like no one has a job. Peat's is full of people all the time. There is always a line. That is quite the coffee house racket. Not every one's job is reading books in public places. Not every one's job involve hooking your laptop up to WiFi in a public place. In the East Bay it just seem like that is what people are doing for a job. Someone has to do some grunt work somewhere.
C came up to the East Bay from the end of the world. It was good to see C. C is good to see. We did some good things in the East Bay and across from the East Bay. There were some highs and there were some lows. We missed the boat back to the East Bay one night. The boat pulled out at 8:25. We arrived at 8:26. It was a little disconcerning at the moment, but I'm laughing about it now. C was good. C fell into The Gap. C had to go back to the end of the world. We rode BART to the SFO. It was a fun trip at 6am. BART goes all the way to the SFO. I remember taking the bus from Daly City before. C left and I went into the city.
In the city, there were some anti-war protests. I watched them for a little bit. I'm sure there are legitimate protesters out there with great concern and want to exercise their rights. That is OK. I always wonder how many are attention seekers. I always think there are a few that are in it for the attention. The war is a bad deal. It has gone on too long. Most of the soldiers killed are young people with children. That is really bad. The military is a good job. I'm sure that is why a lot of young people take the job to get the benefits and advantages of military life. The only downside is being in war. TheJEDMAN has never been too political, but I just wonder about the sincerity of some protesters. I hate to think it is a self attention task and not one of genuine concern. Anyway, it was interesting to watch.

I now own 13 Cal Berkeley T-shirts and a hoodie. I'm awesome. I keep going to Joy's on Telegraph Avenue and buying some shirts. They are nice cheap shirts. They are fruit of the loom. I love fruit. T-shirts are good. I wear one everyday.

I had the flu over president's weekend. I woke up Saturday in pain. It sucked. I hated it. I got better the next day, but I spent about 3 weeks feeling tired. There was bad weather that week so I only had to work 2 days that week. It still took a long time. I'm lucky because some people die from the flu. My body is working a lot better now than it did, so when I get sick I seem to fight it off better. You got to try to be healthy. It is the only way.

.: posted by Jed 6:56 PM

Saturday, February 09, 2008

The number 4 button on my remote control came off and got lost. Now, I can't use that button. So, I can't watch any channels that have a 4 in it. I have channels 2 to 75. can't watch 4, 14, 24, 34, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 54, 64, and 74. That is 17 channels. 54 is home and gardsen TV. I really miss it. I don't know what I'm going to do. theJEDMAN

I've been inverting. Inversion is the wave of the future. I bought this contraption where you strap your feet into this teeter totter effect and you flip over and hang upside down. It is a really good stretch. I love it. I"ve been sleeping good and the headaches I used to get a lot seem to not be as bad so far. Waste elimination seems to be better. Plus, it opens up my vertebra and my back feels better and stronger. The cushions in my back have popped up after being smashed for so long. I just feel better. I do it everyday for about 10 minutes. Usually I invert to about 60 degrees, but I sometimes I go into full inversion. Full inversion is cool. You should invert. If you don't invert, you are a non-inverter.

.: posted by Jed 5:08 PM

Monday, January 21, 2008

I got to hang with theQUICK last week. It was awesome at smoke free Tanner's with theQUICK. theQUICK is awesome. You should give up cottage cheese to hang with theQUICK. You should stop smoking and eating nuts to hang with theQUICK. You should stop cleaning the bathroom and forgo getting groceries to hang with theQUICK. I can't wait unit the next time I get to hang with theQUICK. By the way, smoke free Overland Park is going well. I love it. I love not smelling like smoke when I get home and having to do all my laundry. Let those smokers freeze to death on the patio. I love smoke free living. It is the way it should be. theJEDMAN
Well, Sprint PCS did it to me again. They sent me a new phone and said that I only had to pay shipping and then they charged me for it. Last year they sent me a new phone with a different number. I got the number changed to my number but then they billed me for two numbers. I had to called multiple times to get it corrected. This year they didn't take the charge of the phone bill. I called many times. Now, they blocked my phone so I couldn't use it. I tried to make a call and it when straight to Sprint Customer service. I couldn't make a call. If I had been in an emergency I would not have been able to use my phone. Their plan was brilliant. I've paid my bill every time. They had no right to mess me over like that. Sprint is perpetrators of evil. Sprint over charges people on purpose just to see if they will pay. This is bad business. If I wasn't so lazy, I'd get new phone service.