Paintball Pros Punished

And it's about time.

Don't get me wrong. I love the sport. Weather it's woodsball or speedball. But the speedball tournemant scene is seriously messed up. It has been for years. Ramping, cheaterboards, wiping. Certanly not smart things for pro players to do. The general response of the Speedball community is "Everyone does it so I will too."

I'm not saying woodsballdoesn't have it's share of cheaters, but woodsball also isn't "The Future of Paintball" the way speedball is.
Honor and integrity are going the way of us old school pump players. It's consideed "cute" but useless.

Seems to me the tollerance for the "bending" of the rules has finally bit speedball in the ass.

Several incidents at the 2006 PSP Texas Open have put a black spot on the sport of paintball. The conduct of teams and players may have reached an all-time low in and around this event.

Based on the number of incidents and the damage caused, both financially and to the reputation of paintball tournaments in general, I have decided to take unprecedented action in hopes of deterring players and teams from making the same mistakes in the future. These intolerable incidents affect the outcome of tournaments as well as the finances of the PSP and ultimately the finances of all teams, vendors, and sponsors involved in the tournament. They also affect the reputation of the sport of paintball and the ability of the PSP and other tournament organizers to find and secure desirable venues.

I feel it is time to hold people accountable for their immature, selfish, and irresponsible actions.


Over the past 5 months, PSP had been engaged in ongoing talks with the Marriott Corporation about future involvement with tournament paintball. The talk had progressed slowly, but steadily. Significant efforts on both sides were destroyed by the actions of teams staying in Marriott hotels in the Austin area during our Texas event.

Include strong call-to action links to various pages of your website to drive traffic and open up additional possibilities to convert browsers into buyers.The day after our staff returned from the event, we were contacted by Marriott and advised that they were not only uninterested in any additional talks, but that they were also letting their hotels in the area of our future events know not to book rooms for paintball teams or players.

This loss of a possible huge outside sponsor and hotel partner was brought about by the selfish acts of several teams who stayed at various Marriott hotels during the event. I have a list of names of people who booked the rooms that were damaged. I have cross referenced these names with the ID system. Until the teams provide the names of those specific individuals who caused the damage, every player on the roster of these teams will be suspended from PSP events.

Members of Team Demolition, Choppapb.com, Anarchy, Infinity, and Montage will be suspended for various lengths of time ranging from 1 tournament to a lifetime ban from PSP events. These suspensions stem from various degrees of damage done to the rooms and facilities of a Marriott hotel in which they were guests. Some of the people on these teams are responsible for the breaking off of talks between PSP and the Marriott Corporation regarding future rate deals, sponsorship, and additional involvement between the two companies.


Team Clutch won the Division 3 Xball tournament. They did so with an illegal roster. This was not simply an oversight, but was a deliberate act of manipulating the ID system, and submitting misleading information in order to have members of the team’s classification dropped. Part of this problem stems from the staff believing the stories told to them and consequently dropping players’ classifications. The other part of this problem was the deliberate and intentional misrepresentation of identity in order to have a team compete below its rightful level. At no point in the future will any player’s classification be changed regardless of circumstances. There is no need for any player to contact anyone in PSP with a request for classification change from this point on. It will not happen.

While I am certain that not all members of the team had prior knowledge of the scheme, I am left with no reasonable choice but to hold all accountable to some degree. The team has been stripped of all points from the Texas event. Several members of the team will be suspended from PSP events for 3 events. Others will be suspended for 1 year. Two individuals will be suspended for life. Adjustments will be made in terms of payout of prizes and distribution of tournament seed points toward year-end standings for the other teams in their division.

On Sunday, Todd Martinez decided to take a PSP-rented golf cart for a joy ride through the awards ceremony. He crashed the golf cart into the guide wires anchoring one of the tripod poles, which hold the net up on the NXL field. The tripod pole was bent and is no longer usable. The golf cart was damaged and PSP has been billed for the repairs. He will be suspended from play for 1 year. He must reimburse PSP for the damages to the golf cart before he will be allowed on the property of any future PSP event.

Here is the list of suspensions handed out to players/teams from the Texas event.

· Billy York – probation
· Trent Wilson – probation
· Grover Srader – probation
· Michael Fitzpatrick – probation
· Jesse Babb – 1 year suspension
· Tanner Russell – Lifetime ban from PSP events
· Daniel Orren – 1 year suspension
· Adam/Donald/DJ Thomsen – Lifetime ban from PSP events
· Todd Martinez – 1 year suspension and reimbursement of costs for damage

The following is the list of players whose teams caused considerable damage and disruption to one of the hotels. PSP has no way of determining specifically which of the individuals on these teams who rented the rooms is ultimately responsible for the unacceptable actions. We are aware of the particular rooms that had damage, as well as the acts of outright stupidity that occurred. Thus, we are holding all members of the teams on which the players who rented the rooms are rostered accountable for the actions of their teammates.

At this point in time, the following players are suspended indefinitely. As more specific information becomes available, there may be changes made in regard to the duration of suspensions for individual players.

Team Demolition
· CJ Botsalas
· Travis Arango
· Chad Bustere
· Ryan Currie
· Ramzi El-Yousef
· Graydon Gesner
· Dana Klibanoff
· John Ossian
· Daniel Riney
· Arroldo Silva
· Alex Spence
· Erik Taylor

Choppapb.com
· Josh Harper
· James Harwood
· Corey Jones
· Andrew Macaluso
· Aaron McCorkle
· Robert Mcleod
· Corey Neal
· Zack Piper
· Myles Vann
· Richie Wade
· Travis Walsh
· Daniel Watson
· Duane Watson

Anarchy
· Adam Hagar
· Mason Kane
· Devin Peithmann
· Cody Rich
· Dan Riha

Infinity
· Christopher Bobell
· Robert Hamski
· Pete Montero
· Nick Sandalena
· Robert Signor
· Domencia Steele

I hope this message gets to the teams and players in the vein that it was intended. I would be remiss in my duties as the head of the world’s largest tournament league if I let these types of actions continue unpunished. The result of the misdeeds of players at this past event goes far beyond the scope of most players’ knowledge. We are losing sponsorship. We are losing respect. We are now losing the ability for teams to stay at hotels of their choice simply because they are related to the sport of paintball. If we decide to have another event in Texas, the PSP will not be able to rent equipment from the most reasonable vendor, making production of the event much more difficult. Other Texas paintball events may have to face these same issues. It is a very real possibility that no paintball players will be able to stay at Marriott Hotels in the future.

This is a simple message – players and teams competing in PSP events will be held accountable for their actions and the actions of their teammates and others involved with their team. Heed the warning!

Lane Wright CEO/President Paintball Sports Promotions

Yeah. I know. "So what? A hotle room or two got trashed. Big deal." Well, guess what? It's not a big deal. It's HUGE deal.

So now these "pro" teams are short players, not that it matters as some were sandbaging, or the team was suspended entirely. What's that mean? Look at it from a sponsors perspective.

The team you've been giving money to to wear YOUR logo and promote YOUR products is no longer able to attened ANY toury on the PSP circut untill the team is back to a full roster or the suspensions are over. You are now losing advertising revenue. You are now also associated with a group of unruly individuales/teams. What will you do? Pass it off as many in the speedball world are willing to do as "boys will be boys"? Or are you going to punish them as well? Pull your sponsorship and find a team that's more professional or at the very least cut your level of sponsor ship? I know what I'd do. I'd pull thier funding.

If speedball wants to be the future of the game then the leagues (psp, MXL, NPPL, and so on) along with the sponsors need to pull thier heads out of their asses and LEARN from this.

I pray to the paintball gods (if there is one) and hope things change.

Hell week!

It started out ok. Nothing bad happening.
Tuesday the Colleges went on strike, so I have no clue what that's going to do with me being accepted. They say it won;t affect anything but what's the poing in beinf accpted if I can't learn?

Wed. was Logan's birthday. He had 5 kids show up for his party. WE ended up running 30 minutes longer than expected, but that was ok. Logan had a lot of fun and got some good stuff.

My birthday was on Thurs. Not much happened. Spent most of our money on Logan so I didn't get anyting from Carrie, except fun in the bedroom, and that was good enough for me! A friend of our got me the Hulk on DVD and today my mom, grandma and sister are coming for a visit, more for Logan's birthday than mine. Mom said she did get me a gift. Hope it's good. She said she thinks I'll like it, but we'llhave to see.

Friday we had another flood in the bedroom. This time id wrecked our bed.

Last week the washing machine was replaced. The lady on the 3rd floor did laundry Friday morning and didn't care that the drainage hose from the washer to the sink was "missing" she "assumed that they hooked it up differently". the rinse cycle kicked in and we got rained on.

I used a piece of coat hanger to McGyver a hose clamp. Hopefully it holds.

We contacted the landlords of course. When they stopped by to see what happened we asked about our bed. they told us that we had to pay for it but we would be reimbursed. Thankfully mom was able to get a KICK ASS DEAL on a new set so we had something to sleep on last night. Now all we need are pillows.

You want an embarassment to the sport?

Look at Canada's Men's Hockey team....

Actually don't. It's enough to make you want to cry.

The Olympics is supposed to be about the best your country has to offer. If these "professional;" players are the best Canada has to offer, then we have to look at getting some amatures on the next team.

I would have expected better form pro team players. Note the words: PRO TEAM PLAYERS.
"They didn't even have a true checking line". So what? They are supposed to be professionals. They should be good enough and able to adapt. The coaching staff SHOULD have assigned a players as checkers.

"They were stock-piled with NHL scorers". Fat lot of good that did.

"Another disappointment was Canada's undisciplined play. Too often, players took penalties that proved costly." Yup. But again, these are PROFESSIONAL players. They should have disciplined played NO MATTER WHAT. They should be able to be put on a team with a bunch of guys that never put skates on and still play a good game.

I've heard people complain that the Canadain Men's team didn't have time to practice together. WHAT THE HELL? Some practice would have been good, but again, they're supposed to be PRO HOCKEY PLAYERS. They've played with/against each other often enough that they should know thier styles of play, the coaching staff even more so. They should have been able to set up better lines. All of the players should have been able to follow a coaches instructions and follow a game plan.

Well Buke Lacktavose, there's your "embarrassment to Canada and a blemish on the sport".

Shut the fuck up.

What the hell is wrong with people? The Canadian Women's Hockey team has been kicking some serious ass in Torino. 16-0 against Italy, 12-0 against Russia. That's damned awesome. So why are some people complaining they are an embarassment to Canada?

This is the Olympics people. The team members are SUPPOSED to be the best the country has to offer. I'll admit that maybe, maybe, the thrashing of Italy was a bit harsh but that's only beacuse they are new to this. But you don't improve if someone takes it easy on you.

I was discussing the first win with a US friend of mine over AIM. He was quite proud that the US Women's Hockey team won 2 games, both shut out. Thier game against Russia was 3-0. His reasoning is taht Russia is a much tougher team than Italy could ever hope to be. Based on previous performances by any Russian hockey team they should have been a challenge. If they were that good why did we get a 12-0 win?

I came across this article on the (CBC website)
talking about weather or not our women's team was right in thier wins. Don Cherry, never a big fan but I did (yes did) respect him, said that as a coach if his ream had a big lead he'd get the guys to ease up. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT? You don't want embarrass an obviously inferior team? I'd be more embarrassed if I found out you "took it easy" on me.

This is in the article:

"What a terrible display of poor sportsmanship," fan Buke Lacktavose wrote in CBC's Hometown Heroes message board. "The way the women's hockey team ran up the score against Italy – what an embarrassment to Canada and a blemish on the sport."

You sir, are an absolute and utter dipshit. I'd like to use stronger more descriptive words but there isn't a word in any language to describe you. An embarrassment to Canada? A blemish on the sport? How so? Becasue they played thier best and won? OR because they play better then 90% of the men in the NHL?

All I can say now is that I hope they DESTROY the rest of the competition as they have with the first 2 teams. I look forward to seeing Canda vs USA for gold and seeing the USA lose 12-7. If the US can actually play that strong of a game....

It sucks being 5.

It been a rough month for Logan.

Around the middle of January Logan came home from school with lice. So we bought the goop for all of our hair and shaved Logan's head. He was quite upset that he lost hid rat tail to.

Yesterday he went to school. I picked him up and he was fine. He was fine all afternoon. At bedtime I was reading him his story and noticed a couple of spots on his face and forhead. I figured Nova and Logan had been playing and he had a scratch. Boy was I wrong.

Spots started popping up on his arms and legs. All over his back and chest. He was doing fine at bedtime. Not scratching or even complaining of being itchy. He even went to sleep fine. I still needed to get some stuff for him so I ran off to the drugstore.

I checked in on him at 2200hrs and he was still snoring away. I went to bed at 0000hrs and slept untill 0200. WhenI went to the bathroom I could hear Logan grumbling.

I go into this room to see if he's ok and he says, "Daddy, having chicken pox is no fun." I spent the next 10 minutes dabbing Calamine Lotion on as many spots as I could. I gave him a couple of kids Advil and he went back to sleep....I wish I did.

At 0800 he comes into my bedroom saying he's itchy again. More Calamine put on him. As of right now he's in the bath tub with some colloidal oatmeal treatment. He asked me if he could have a spoon to eat the oatmeal. He seemed rather disapointed that I said no.

Now if that isn't bad enough. Carrie, appearently, hasn't had chicken pox. Personally I've never met anyone that's had chicken pox as an adult, all I've heard are rumors that it's by far alot worse than for a kid. So I'm the only one that's healthy, but I've been told I can still be a carry for it for a few days. Better safe than sorry I guess.

Onver the last few days on the Spec Ops forum (link in the side bar) We, the forum satff, have been talking about upgrading the software. I believe the version that was being used was version 3. the new software is version 6 or something. It was thought the upgrade would only take an hour or so. That was at around 1600hrs yesterday, it is now nearly 1200, 20 hours later. And it's still being worked on. "Computers will make thing easier for everyone!" HAHAHA! <- My sarcastic laugh. The 1950's were sooooo full of shit!

Tattoos!

Well, I finally got quotes on my tattoos that I want.....

Price- 4.5" x 3" -$170.00 or 5.5" x 4" - $200.00 and will be placed on the left side of my chest.I'll be getting the smaller one. Cutting out the large one it looks TOO big.


This would next on my list. Price- 4" x 3.5" - $170.00 or 4.5 x 5.5 - $200.00 and would be put on my forearm. I'm thinking the large size on the right one, just below the elbow

And finally

3.5 x 3.5- $150.00 or 4.5 x 4.5 - $170.00 Again I think the larger one is what I'll get. This would be placed on the back of my neck/head.

After tlaking ot my mother she said she might be able to do a birthday fund for the first one. SWEET!

Now for the other two: Does anyone need someone killed?


OH! And Protocoach....The main reason I didn't skate is I had horribly weak ankles and flat feet. I put skates on and my feet would splay so wide my ankles were touching the ice. Mind you I think I made up for not ice skating by playing street hockey with Steve Yzerman during his rookie year. Maybe you've heard of him? good times playing goalie with no pads.....

Time to vote.

Canada is having it's Federal Election. Tomorrow. Monday January 23, 2006. It doesn't seem to matter what party I vote for I'm still going to get screwed.

We have something like 13 different parties to vote for this year. Unfortunately not all parties have reps in every riding. For example here in Kingston we have 5 choices: Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP are the three big ones. The Green Party is next in line and we have one independent.

Now I've followed politics about as closely as most people follow the history of bread making. I haven't got freaking clue who to vote for. I've joked and said I'd vote Communist or Bloc Quebecois but neither has a rep here.

Although the indie seems to be nice he'd be useless in parliament he's got no party backing. I refuse to vote PC or Liberal. I don't trust either one of them. That leaves me with NDP or Green....And I know neither has a snowballs chance of coming to power. Even so it's tough decision.

After much online reading, flipping of coins, throwing of darts, consutling of the spirts and talking to the dog I've decided to vote Green. They seem to follow my own beliefs the closest. So "GO GREEN"!

In other news.....

Still haven't heard back if I'm accepted for school. Not suprised though considering I haven't mailed my application in. I called the school to see if I needed to include anything with the $85.00 application processing fee and the application forum. I thought is was simple enough question to answer over the phone, but they want me to come in for a meeting on Wed, so I've held off the mailing. I think I'll call them tomorrow and see if they can answer my questions over the phone.

Friday after dinner we took Logan ice skating for the first time. He had a blast. Fell down a bit but kept wanting to skate some more. So Saturday we went back. I had my skates this time. First time I strapped skates on in about 20 years. I guess it wouldn't have been too bad if the skates fit. Mine are about a half size too small. Logan and I did about 4 laps before my feet hurt so bad I had to stop. Carrie had fun. It was almost as hard to get her off the ice as it was Logan. But we all had fun. Except for the walk. It takes about 40 minutes to walk from our house to the free rink at City Hall and 40 minutes back. But it's still better than the Kingston Memorial Center.

To get to the Memorial Center it only takes 5 minutes. It's an indoor areana and therefore you have to pay. Because they have hockey games they limit the amopunt of ice time the public gets. Now for the math: Public skating is ONLY on Tuesdays from 7:00pm to 7:50pm, the cost per adult is $3.00 and for a kid it's $1.75. So how is paying $8.00 for 50 minutes of skating a good value? Even though Logan complains a little on the walk the free sakte is much better. It opens at 9:00 am and goes untill 10:30pm (weather permitting) and they even maintain the ice surface! AND it's right downtown.

I pead on the floor!

You read it right. I pead on the floor.
I was making dinner last night and needs some peas. I reach into the freezer and grab a bag of the frozen ones. They are rock hard and stuck together. In my infinate wisdom I decide to crush the the peas apart.

The bottom of the bag broke.... All I hear from Logan is, "Daddy! What did you do?"
I told him I pead on the floor. I haven't heard him laugh so hard ever.
He laughed tyhe entire time I was cleaning up the peas....With Nova's help of course.

We took our Christmas decorations down yesterday as well. Thank god. I hate having that stuff up. Makes everythng feel crowded together.

Carrie's been plugging away at her school work, slowly chiping away at her english.
Both she and Logan are out of school untill Jan 9. I can't wait for them to start back. I could use some alone time. LOL


GST cheques should be out tomorrow. That's good. That means I can pay for my school application. Man, I can't wait to start.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! (like you haven't heard that a million times already...)

So a whole year has come and gone. What have I done with it? Not a hell of a lot. That's not to say I wasted it, but I didn't do anything spectacular. I didn't save any lives, or take any. I didn't win shitloads of cash on the lotto. I didn't buy or sell any property, discover new medications, use any illegal drugs, take over a small country.....

"Well what the fuck DID you do?"

I kept getting up in the morning. I kept going. I kept hoping. Somes days that was almost too much to do.

I decided what I really want to do finally and had that dream beaten, crushed and put on the shelf.

So the week before Christmas I applied for a student loan. I was approved. Next week I apply at the school. I'd rather head to the states and become an airsmith, but for now I have to settle for taking Computer Networking & Technical Support. The school has a good grad rate and employment rate. Mind you I might have to relocate but it would most likely a bigger city. And that won't be for 2 years, well a little more sice classes start in Spetember.

We spent Christmas at my moms. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't fantastic either. Probably because I was at the tail end of a cold. It doesn't help that Logan was being a whiner all morning. "I wanna open more presents! I wanna help open that one! I wanna I wanna I wanna!"

Carmen, my "evil" sister, was proposed to earlier this month. No date has been set. Her fiance, Stephen, is a pretty nice guy. Why he chooses to abuse himself by marrying Carmen I don't know.

New Years eve was kind of bland. No money for a babysiter meant we had to stay home. So we had a couple of friends come over. Carrie fell asleep on the couch before 10pm.

So as of now It's 8:48 am, Jan 1 2006. logan and I are up, Carrie is still asleep, and our friends are snoring away on the air matress in the kitchen.

So far the new year is just fantastic.

Merry Christmas from the Pearson-Lavallee Family! 

All wet..Again

So I go to bed at 11 pm. 4 am rolls around and I'm sleeping sound until I realize that someone is running a bath.
I wake up enough to realize that it's not a bath, but someone doing laundry.
I wake up a little more and can hear that the water is actually pouring through my bedroom ceiling. Right at the foot of the bed.

The laundry room is right above our apartment.
After running around the apartment naked for a minute I managed to be coherent enough to send the wife upstairs to turn the laundry off thinking the drainage sink was over flowing.

She comes back down and says she can't do anything. One of the pipes broke. Luckily the shut off valve for the building is in our apartment. Now no one has water. At least until the plumber comes in to fix things.

So now we've got laundry to do, and we may need to replace our mattress.
And since we don;t have content insurance, we're probably shit out of luck.

Water water everywhere.....

So. New neighbors moved in up stairs on Monday. It looks like a single mom and her 3 kids, the oldest is 17 and the youngest is 12. The mother came down Tuesday evening to ask if we'd be interested in sharing cable with her and the family on the top floor.
We got screwed over on a "deal" like that before so we said no.

Yesterday afternoon we noticed some "rain" noise but it wasn't;t raining out side. It was, however, pouring in our bedroom. Carrie called the landlord and I went upstairs to see what the problem was. The sink next to the washing machine, used for drainage, overflowed. A sock had gotten into it and blocked the drain when someone did a load of laundry.

We ended up having to do a small load of wash since our comforter got soaked. The middle daughter came down to help us clean up and Nova got over excited....Right the middle of our bed so the sheets needed to get washed too.

Later in the evening she came back down with our clean laundry and stayed for a Pepsi. She's a typical 16 year old girl, starts talking and doesn't stop. LOL
Shortly after, her older sister(17) came down as well. She barely spoke. They left after about an hour.

20 minutes later the phone rings. The 16 year old wanted to know if she could borrow some movies. She came back down with her brother. Now I don't remember the girl's names, but his is Christopher. He and I talked a bit about paintball and I loaned him one of my magazines. I think he's hooked and he hasn't played yet.

Any way, it looks like the ceiling in our room needs to be repaired due to water damage. I'm just glad things weren't any worse.

DONE!

So the last 2 weeks have been nuts. We've been packing to get ready to move, making calls to have things transferred over to the new place, getting Logan to school, worrying about my grandma.....

And as of this past Saturday we are moved in to the new place. Me, my step-dad Jim and my mothers minivan.... It only took us about 7 hours. Not bad. I just wish I had more painkillers. My back is killing me.

We spent Sunday and most of Monday unpacking. And we did more this morning. It doesn't want to end! The place is starting to look good now. We have pictures on the wall, furniture is set up. We do have an extra sofa that the last tenants left behind. Seems they couldn't get it out.

Logan loves his new room, it's twice the size of his last one. The room is a square with a short wall splitting one side. His bed is in a cubby, next to his closed and he has TONS of floor space to play on.

The master bedroom is a bit small and we need cupboard space to hang some of our clothes. Maybe we'll get an armoire for Christmas?

Stress!!! God, I need to get drunk.

Grandma broke her right arm in 2 places.

A few days later Carrie is diagnosed with a kidney infection. She gets her prescription for Ciprofloxacin, a penicillian of some sort. Four days later Carrie is off to the hosptial by ambulance at 3:00am because she's having an allergic to the meds.

The next day the dog gets into Logan's pretzels and spends 2 days barfing up all the salt and everything else he's eaten.

Add to that our new land lady wants to know when we'll be able to pay rent. That, of course hinges on Disability and thier approval of our moving allowence. We finally hear form Disabilty. We were approved but not for the $900.00 we were eligable for. They approved us for $400.00. Not enough for the rent, let alone a truck rental and other shit we need to do. Thank god for family that is willing to help us out.

We were hoping to move in on the 26th but that may not happen since the land lady found some mould in the apartment. She is hiring a crew to clean it. I just hope they get it done.

On the paintball forum I have a kid complaining he was unfairly banned for post "weird poop stories". Now the forum is supposed to be at about a PG-13 level, so ther is some minor sex talk, but not much. We do our best to filter content for profanities and we do not allow porn. This is an example of his post:

Taught him a very valueable lesson that day, don't leave your stuff anywhere becuase someone is going to POOPY SHIZZLE on the coats.

Now this isn't the first time he's posted questionable topics and many of his posts are less than helpful to people so I banned him. His next show of brilliance was to contact me over AIM to defend his actions. The actual conversation is longer but this is his ultimate defense (yes his name has been changed):

17:09] True Puzuma: What you did was beyond stupid and imature.
[17:09] I am a Doofus: wasnt saying it wasnt
[17:10] I am a Doofus: i was saying that it was funny
[17:10] True Puzuma: it shows me that you have no sense of decency
[17:10] I am a Doofus: and i wanted to tell everyone
[17:10] True Puzuma: or intelligence
[17:10] I am a Doofus: ...intelligence
[17:10] True Puzuma: of right or wrong, or an inkling of common sense
[17:10] I am a Doofus: no, me doing this doesnt show my intelligence or in your point of view lack there of
[17:10] I am a Doofus: it shows that i am a teenager who likes to have fun

I haven't even had time to deal with my own ailments. for the last week and a hlf my right shoulder has been in pain. Actually it's muscles surrounding the shoudler making it difficult to support myself. I've also been having foot and knee problems for the last few days and I've been in a REALLY bad mood too.

It's no wonder people buy high powered rifles and site in bell towers and book depositories.....

Courage. Honor. Valor.

It's Remeberance Day/ Vetrens Day.

I tried to explain to Logan what it was. It's hard to get a 5 year old to understand why we observe the 2 minutes of silence at 11:00 am on the 11th day of the 11th month. All I could come up with is, "It's to say thank you to the good guys for beatng the badguys a long time ago." He accepted it, but thought you had to be quiet all day long.


Thank you Grandpa Frank. 1921-1999

Thank you too, Grandpa Herman "Doc" Lavallee. I would post his pic if I had one and I am unable to post his birth and death years. We are packing to move and that info is in a box already.

More news

Mom called this morning.

Here's the deal. Grandma had surgery at 5:30 pm Saturday. It lasted 5 hours and she doing well. They put the plate in her right wrist and it was decided to do the same for her upper arm. So she should be good to leave the hospital on Tuesday!

From what mom said I was one of the first people she asked to see wharn garndma came to. Damn I hate not having a car. I'd have been there during the surgery.

I can't wait to see her and know she's doing well.

Update.

Mom called back last night. Grandma is worse off than we thought. The upper arm break is clean and can be reset easily.

BUT

She needs a metal plate and 4 screws in her wrist, so she needs surgery.
Mom wasn't sure when they'd do the surgery, but figures it would be some time today. She also said tehy won't be putting a cast on grandma, just a sling. So grandma will need X-rays once a week for the next 6 weeks.

On the plus side, grandma now has a new nick name: Old Iron Fist.

Broken Arm.

I just got a call from my mother. We have call display so I knew it was her. My stomach did a flop before I answered knowing I'd hear bad news. I was right.

This morning my grandmother was in the garage. She was on the stairs to enter the house and fell. She broke her humerus. I don't remember if it was the left or right arm. I was too concerned that the 85 year old lady was alright. Yes I know how stupid that sounds knowing she has a broken arm. I'm concerned that there may be more damage.

Mom called just after the ambulance left. She'll call me back tonight to give me more details.

I need sleep...

Man, having a puppy is tiring.
Piddle on the floor, poopies here and there, needing to go out every 30 minutes, me being the best chew toy on the planet...

Now let's add a twist. The other day we were out walking Nova. We went through the front yard and found one of the other tennants out there with her shitzu/dacshund, Gizmo (who for some unknown reason I keep calling Corky). He and Nova spent the next hour running around and chewing on each other.
Yesterday she came down to ask if we could do her a favor. She was asked to go out by some of her co-workers. She didn't want to leave Gizmo alone and wanted to kow if we could dog sit. It was only supposed to be for a few hours but turned into all night.

Now, Nova is only 11 weeks old now, and Gizmo is about 1 year. So from 4 o'clock when he was dropped off untill 1 am when I went to bed, the two of them were running around and beating on each other. Both dogs kept trying to get into the bedroom all night long. Scrathing and whining at the door...

Logan got up at 7 am. Yelling because one of them pooped on the floor.

Now it's almost 8:30am, both dogs are asleep on the couch. Wish I were still sleeping.

Progressing...

I now hate Best Buy. Well, at least the manager of the soon to be new local Best Buy.

I went to the 3rd interview and was told that I was everything they could want or need in an employee, but since I've been unemployed for almost 2 years I'm a "risk". WHAT THE FUCK is that supposed to mean? I sent several emails to their head office and haven't had a single response. Managers can be such assholes.

We told our landlord that we will not be renewing our lease. It's not that I hate this place, but it's small and so poorly heated. It's also got mice. I've killed 3 with my shoe (not with the stink). We told the superintendent about them and he gave us some traps and poison. We also get TONS of spiders and centipedes in here.

We have found a new place. Much nicer too. It's about 900 square feet and all inclusive. Free laundry to boot! It's a much nicer neighborhood. There is a nice park with a wading pool less than 100 feet down the street, there are 2 schools within walking distance (1 public, 1 catholic) and there are lots of kids around too. The only real downside is it's a bit further from downtown and the grocery stores.

We had to take Logan to the hospital last night. He got up yesterday morning with a bit of a fever and he was having some trouble breathing. He's asthmatic and we've had a smog advisory over the last week so we didn't pay too much attention to his cough, especially since it wasn't sounding like anything more than a bit of irritation.

So we gave him his puffers and some advil. His temp went down but his breathing didn't improve. At noon we gave him his puffers again and still no improvement. At 6:30 we gave him yet another dose and still no change to his breathing. It was labored and shallow. So off we went to the hospital. They gave him some Prednozone and more ventolin. He could breath again!

It terrifies me when he has a sever attack like that. I've been through them myself and I know how hard it can be. Trying to imagine my son going through it. No matter how calm I seem to be to everyone around me all I could think is that my son is suffocating.

Today he woke up with a bit of a cough and that's it. He's breathing normally and has no fever. Thank god.

Nova is doing fine. He's afraid of the rain so takng him out to do his business today hasn't happened. He just wimpers are tries to get back indoors. Funny stuff... Untill I have to clean up after him.

As far as other jobs go. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'm thinking about going to school, assuming I qualify for O.S.A.P, and taking some business courses. Other than that I'm thinking about asking the local tattoo shop if they need an apprentice.
I'd be working there for free, but maybe I could get some ink done too. If they do piercing maybe I can get those done too.....