What a day!

Started day off with a nice breakfast, 3 eggs, 4 pieces of bacon, glass of OJ, & cup of coffee. Mid morning, Mark (one of my employees) calls me and he had some potatoes rejected and blah blah blah. Broker says give me 30 minutes and I'll let you know where we are taking it. Walmart wouldn't take product but produce markets will usually if the quality isn't perfect. Anyways, he calls back about 2 hours later and gives location and then faxes paperwork over. He doesn't adjust the rate though so I call him and ask him if he expects us to do another 50 miles, an extra drop, and waste an additional 4 hours of work for free. This fucker says well you didn't ask for more money to which I replied do you have to ask your boss for your paycheck or do you assume your going to be paid for working? So then we get into how much and he says that's way to high but let me ask the customer if they can do anything (it wasn't our fault the shit was fucked up, we just transported their shitty product) and he calls back literally 4 minutes later and says we work together a lot you don't have to get so mad. That pissed me off ever more so I said "Do I LOOK LIKE A BITCH? NO? THEN WHY YOU TRYING TO FUCK ME LIKE A BITCH!" Ok, that's from Pulp Fiction but I told him just do the right thing, my guy is gonna lose 8 hours he could have been off work, that deserves money. He says I got you the damn money and I said thanks and hung up. Obviously the customer KNEW he should have to pay extra money for the time lost and extra miles and drop off that's why he had an answer so quick. This is VERY STANDARD practice in trucking so I didn't figure I needed to say "Hey you're not going to try and fuck me here are you?" At the end of it all he didn't even send new paperwork over showing new rate so I just wrote on old one and made a note so when I bill it if I don't get paid I will call him up again and fuck his day up.

 I have pool again tonight, subbing for a guy in the NAPA league which is a new league I started this summer. Here are my stats for the first session:

All games:

Matches Played: 13
Overall Match Record: 10 wins 3 losses
Overall Win Percentage: 77%
Average Points Per Match: 12.38
Match Record Against Men: 10 wins 1 loss
Success Rate Against Men: 91%
Match Record Against Women: 0 wins 2 losses
Success Rate Against Women: 0%
Break & Runs: 5
Break & Run Frequency: Every 2.6 matches

8-BALL STATS
Matches won: 4 Matches lost:  2
Games won: 32 Games lost: 14
Break & runs: 3
8-Ball on the break: 1
Rackless matches: 0
Matches played: 6

 9-BALL STATS
Matches won: 2
Matches lost: 0
Games won: 11
Games lost: 3
Break & outs: 1
9-Ball on the break: 0
Rackless matches: 0
Matches played: 2

10-BALL STATS
Matches won: 4
 Matches lost: 1
Games won: 27
Games lost: 8
Break & outs: 1
10-Ball on the break: 0
Rackless matches: 0
Matches played: 5

You'll notice total games won is 70-25, but it's a handicapped league so I have to beat people by 2-6 games. It got pretty tough trying to be people 8-4 or 9-3. We did win it all though and got some $crilly at the end of the year and qualified for National Tournament as well. Also I got a jacket for most breat and runs. Here was final standings:

 Current Standings PLACE TEAM TOTAL POINTS AVG POINTS PER MATCH PLAYING LOCATION
1 EZ 10                 517                       36.93               Corner Pocket West
2 BBC                   468                       33.43               Corner Pocket West
3 Hart Breakers     437                      31.21                 Time Out
4 Chalk is Cheap   381                      27.21                Woody's Bar & Grill
5 Who Invited That Guy? 377          26.93                   Time Out
6 The Bombs          295                      21.07                   The Arsenal
7 Get Some            283                       20.21                  CJ's Sport Bar
8 Bobby Cheats      274                      19.57               Corner Pocket West

I'm out like a fat kid in dodgeball.

Nice start

We started the year by playing the team that finished 1st last year, we got 2nd. Our team lost 13-11 tonight, we got off to a poor start down 7-3 with them running 6 of those racks. We fought back to 10-10 but couldn't finish. I had an upsetting 4-1 night but my only loss was last game and we lat match. I had a break & run as well as a table run but I dogged a couple shots so overall on night was a "B". Won several bets on Cowboys tonight tho, I love having action on games. It enhances the games 100x over, makes me actually care about who wins Cowboys/Giants game. Got a bunch of bets for this weekend also. Playing in a pool tournament Saturday and then gonna watch every game Sunday. *cue The Pointer Sisters song* I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it!!

Summers over

It's been a great summer, lots of lake time, some pool, and lots of lake time. But fall has arrived and I'm starting my BCA league again tonight. My goal is to win 70% of my games played but this could be hard to obtain due to the format of 1 game at a time, whereas my strength is playing a race. The leagues I played in during summer my winning percentages were quite good but don't feel I played great. But one of the steps to getting better is beating everyone you should. Since the summer leagues I played in were mostly weaker players I felt that I was the best and should win all my matches. I'll post my statistics later but they were solid.

Mind yo business

Again, I find myself talking about a subject I don't have any first hand experience but here's the story. On a Friday afternoon I walk into the poolhall and theres a ring game going on. For those of you who don't spend your free time in poolhalls a ring game is any rotation(ie. 9 ball or 10 ball or even 15 ball) played by 3 or more guys. Each person gets to shoot until they miss and then it's the next persons turn and so on. Well in this particular game there were 3 champs, 1 guy who had very little business, and 1 guy who wasn't good enough to even be in the same room with the champs. FYI, I fall into the had very little business category but I wasn't playing just watching. Back to the point at hand, one of the champs, whom I'll call Australia, had his 6-8 year old daughter there and she was just goofing off while this game is going down. There is a certain kind of language that I expect to hear and engage in while at pool halls even if it is only 4pm. One of the champs, whom I'll call Captain Arrogant, was cussing while they're all playing and having a good time when the last champ, whom I'll call Faggot Ass Meacham, says "HEY WATCH YOUR MOUTH THERES A YOUNG LADY HERE!!!! I hope the capitalization and exclamation points get the point that Faggot Ass Meacham said it load and matter of factly. My general opinion on things is most people don't have opinions, they have COLD.HARD.FACTS and they believe they are without-a-doubt-correct-and-everyone-else-is-wrong. Faggot Ass Meacham let it be known that language was unacceptable. Captain Arrogant ignores comment and in about 5 minutes is load and carrying on and cussing again, and again, Faggot Ass Meacham boasts "STOP CUSSING THERE'S A LITTLE GIRL RIGHT THERE!!!! Shortly afterward Faggot Ass Meacham unscrews and leaves, not even paying his time like a fucking prick. He leaves partly due to his objection to the language around the young girl and partly because Australia is a fucking world beater making him look like a douche. Point being if you bring your child to a poolhall you're going to hear a certain kind of language just like if you're watching a soap opera during the middle of the day you're going to see one tampon commercial followed by another followed by a Vagisil commercial, there's an intended audience for things. For the record I have the utmost respect for Faggot Ass Meachams game, he's 60-something years old and could give me the 7out & breaks, but don't be a jerk...Just mind yo business.

No speaka good engrish

I'm cool with the fact that people in the US speak bad or no english, mostly because I can't change it and I'm not going to piss and moan about something that basically doesn't effect me and I could really give a fuck less about. However, I do believe there are a handful of jobs that, at the VERY MINIMUM, should be reserved for people who can at least be understood. Customer Service falls into this category. I was calling a shipper in Chicago today trying to schedule a pickup appointment and I get this lady who has a thick accent and, just to totally fuck me up, speaks way to god damn fast. I tell her that "I need to schedule a pickup appointment" and she says something that I didn't understand one word of. After a moment of silence, as apparently she has asked me some sort of question that is going to require me to respond I say "Ummmm, I need to schedule a pickup appointment." I'm hoping she thinks I'm an idiot and will talk much slower. This time I'm ready for her fucking mumbo jumbo, I've got my radio turned off & my bluetooth volume set to deafening. Well it took three more times of repeating herself for me to understand that she needs more information for me to schedule my pickup appointment and I don't have this information so I have to get it and call her back. Well fuck me.

I'm back!

Maybe not as big a deal as when Michael Jordan said those words but pretty damn close. This article and video made me think about discipline. The video was difficult to watch and my initial reaction was "what a fucking piece of shit!" Never mind the police charges, or non-charges as it turns out, but the reaction by people. I read some of the comments people wrote and I believe the generation in which you were raised directly correlates to your stance on this video. Some people said it was just discipline while others thought it was full on child abuse and throw both they asses in jail. I was spanked as a child and have no fundamental problems with spanking, that's my guess as I have no children but I don't feel like spanking is child abuse. My problems with this are the fact that both parents had to get their "licks" in. It wasn't enough the child be punished, each felt they NEEDED to line up and give her a good whack. My next problem is the father was beating her because she wouldn't turn over to get her spanking. To be clear I said I don't believe spanking is child abuse but I mean spanking someone on their ass in a purposeful manner, I do believe repeatedly hitting a child on their legs is child abuse. She was not listening to what he was telling her so I have no problem making her bend over. The fact that he was so antagonistic towards her asking her to keep it up and he will just keep hitting her was very disturbing as well. To me this is child abuse and the fact that the Police can't or won't prosecute this guy is ridiculous. One of the comments someone left was "well I bet she won't do that again." This is a fantastically stupid statement. By that same rationale if he had shot her dead that would have been a suitable punishment as well cause guess what, "I bet she won't do that again." People are always going to disagree whether spanking is child abuse and I fall into the not child abuse category but this was way over the top, in my opinion.

BREAKING NEWS!!!!

This just in...A groundhog MIGHT not actually tell us when winter ends. If you don't feel like reading the column I'll explain. The National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC looked into the data and found "there is no predictive skill for the groundhog during the most recent years of the analysis,". Well, um, I don't really know what to say now...In an unrelated story the TSA has announced that Santa Claus doesn't actually fly around the world on a sleigh. It's none of my concern what people decide to waste their money on, but to then announce that something that is obviously fictional, is in fact, fictional. I don't exactly understand the premise of Groundhog Day, if Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow then 6 more weeks of winter but if he doesn't see his shadow then winter will end soon. The actual end of winter isn't until March 21st, which is right around 6 weeks away. I know that I'm looking into something that is an old tradition and isn't meant to be taken seriously, but when The National Climatic Data Center decides to publish this news they must be made fun of.