I was enjoying a nice night in on Saturday.  I had my Mac going and was surfing the web as well as the Red Sox / Yankee’s on and was watching a ton of TV shows that I had either missed over the past few months or had never seen.  I had some Pizza from my favorite spot (C&S Pizza in Pepperell) and some cold diet coke.  It was the making of a super night in.

And then my cable went out.

And it did not go back on.

I did not realize how much I was depending on my cable tv and internet to keep me occupied unitl I did not have it.  I went to the phone line and made the call to the cable company.  I was hoping that they would say they could press 1 button and my life would go back to normal, but that did not happen.  I was informed that I was the only person who had made a call and they would have to send someone out on Monday.  UGH…that means I was going to be so bored all weekend!

I called my mother who lives close by, and she was enjoying her tv just fine.  She even called me back later to let me know she was going to bed and her boxing match on tv came out just fine.  Nothing like your mother rubbing it in that she had tv and I did not.  This is the same lady who did not even have a digital box until like 6 months ago and her main tv is one that I gave her!  Her idea of a night in is the Lifetime movie marathon.  Now, she is enjoying boxing!  And I have nothing!!

The problem really was that I had nothing to do.  I had no TV, no internet, nothing!  Well, I guess I could have read a book or had a conversation with my family, but that was not the same as having 300 channels to watch and the world wide web to explore.  I really felt like this had the makings of a horrible night.  And, no, I do not mean because I was around my family…do not get it wrong!  I just wanted to watch some funny tv!

Thankfully enough about 1 hour later, there it was.  TV!  It was back!  My internet was back!  I had my Saturday night back!

I will admit it is sad that we are in a time where tv and internet play such a huge role in our lives.  My kids go nuts if they can’t watch Hannah Montana or MTV.  If my 13 year old can’t go on Myspace or search for new skate boards, he is in a bad mood.  If my 7 year old can’t play webkins, it is all my fault and I am a bad guy!

When I was their age, I don’t remember what I did when the “rabbit ears” broke.  I can’t even imagine how bored I must have been and didn’t realize it.  What did we do with our time?? 

Oh well, I am just glad my cable went back on and life went back to normal.  I hope it never happens again!

This is interesting.  I recieved and email from a fine reader of the blog who is asking me to give them some advice on an issue they are having with their boyfriend.  I find this interesting because if you read my blogs, in no way am I helpful or give any hint of being a shrink.  I am just a guy who works at a radio station who has a TON of time on his hands and fills his void of being on the radio by writing a silly little blog.

I emailed her back and asked if I could post it here for the readers to offer some help and she gave her permission.  I will share my thoughts after you read the email:

Hi Big Daddy. My name is Danielle and I have a boyfriend that I’m starting to wonder if he’s a control freak or not. I don’t have a car (because someone stole mine about 4 months ago) and so he takes me to work and picks me up and goes to all my gatherings with people outside of work because “he’s my ride”. I’ve noticed that every time I find a vehicle I like….he wants to check it out and there’s always something wrong with it. He’s much older than me and I figure he’s much wiser, so I listen to him. But my gut is now telling me that as long as I am dependent upon him for transportation that this is his way of seeming like he’s a nice guy and being so generous to chauffer me around as I need and ask but really just keeping close tabs on  me.

We email all day at work (shhhh don’t tell my boss hee hee) and this is something else that makes me think he’s just a control freak….I will ask him a question and if he doesn’t want to answer it….he ignores the question all together but when he asks me a question and I’m not specific with my freaking answer he’s upset about it and giving me the third degree. So, I’m wanting your opinion on this guy…..he’s a very smart, not so outgoing, successful, older man and I’m 13 years younger than him and I’m very outgoing and people have told me that I’m an attractive woman  .

Is he being protective, controlling or just being a loving and caring significant other?

BTW- we’ve been dating for about 6 months and we live together after 2 months…if that makes a difference. He was pretty insistent on me staying with him.

Again, I have no idea why you may think that I have any skills at all in dealing with human emotion or relationships, but I will give it my best shot.  I want to find the most delicate way to say this…..well, there is no delicate way.  I think this guy is keeping you on a short leash. 

Let’s just start with the car thing…ummmm you are an adult and have a j0b and should be able to get yourself there (pending you do not have any DUI’s and loss of license).  You shouldn’t need to ask father time permission to buy one!  This guy sounds like the begining of a “Law & Order” epsisode and you don’t need to be a part of the show if you know what I mean.

I would go ahead and get your car and do what you have to do for yourself and if he gives you a hard time, than you will know.  It is never a good idea to become dependant on someone else for everything, especially if it is by thier design!  This guy may just care about you a lot as well and wants to make sure you are always ok, but that may be a reach.

I will leave the advice up to the readers.  I would hate for you to rely just on me…that would not be a good idea.  Again, I work at a radio station and write blogs….silly blogs at that.  My goal is to help people waste time at work, not break them up becuase of my thoughts!

Good luck and I hope you work it all out!

For some reason I have been sleeping like crap lately.  I keep waking up in the middle of the night and just cannot go back to sleep.  Last night I was watching the Sox game and fell asleep with NESN on.  When I woke up, it was around 2-3 AM and this infomercial was on.  Usually I would just change the channel, but this time was different.  Something captivated me to keep watching and it had nothing to do with the millions I could make.

Yup, it was these 2 super smart business women telling me about the products that kept me tuned in.  They were talking about some web business and how you can own 10 free websites and make all sorts of cash.  Now, don’t get me wrong…there is no way in hell I was ever going to buy the product.  What got me thinking was there are probably a ton of guys out there buying this product soley based on the fact that these 2 “well endowed” woman who are pretty attractive are telling them so.  I mean, they must be making money if they can continue to run these productions on TV.  Someone has to fall for it, right?

So I researched the company today and sure enough, there are a TON of complaints!  I hate to say it, but the people have nobody to blame but themselves.  If it was that good of a deal and had that much potential to make millions, wouldn’t it be advertised someone outside of 3am on NESN ??  Wouldn’t everyone do it??  If it were true and legit, don’t you think that Ed McMahon who is drowning in debt be the 1st one on the phone with his AMEX card in hand (if they haven’t cancelled it yet) to pay the $49.99 or whatever it is so he can make his millions?  Even money hungry “rags to riches to rags” stars like K-Fed, Tori Spelling, M.C. Hammer and Booby Brown could borrow a few bucks to buy the program and get back to their lavish lifestyle ways.

But again, the sad truth is that people continue to buy into these scams to the tune of $4 Billion per year!  I will even admit that about 2 years ago I purchased a Real Estate package from an infomercial to see how it worked.  It was only like $99 and I do have my Real Estate license so I thought maybe it would give me some cool advantage into making money.  I will say, it did have some information in it that could be helpful.  It was packaged nice and I still have it to this day.  I felt it was not a bad purchase as I could justify some of the tools it came with to help me in my side business.  But then, I started getting charged $29.99 per month on my credit card.  When I called to find out what it was, it was for “Coaching”.  I was like, for what?  I was told that when I signed up, I agreed to pay that fee to recieve calls from a coach who would help me make more money with the program.  I let the lady know that I never agreed to it and that I have never recieved a call and wanted my money back.  After checking to see that I had never been called, she did give me a credit and that was the end of it.  But again, how many people do not notice it or even just agree to it figuring it is a small price to pay to make money??  People really think it is that easy!

I can tell you, it is not.  If you think that these types of programs are the way to get yourself out of debt and into the lifestyles of the rich and famous, then you better be ready to become homeless because there is no hope!  If 2 hot girls falling out of their tops is enough to make you invest into a scam, then you need give your credit cards to a friend as you are not making a logical decision.  The only way to make money is to have a job!  And hopefully a good one that will allow you to continue to sit at a desk and waste your day reading my blog!

There is no such thing as a get rich quick scam actually working…or am I wrong?

Have you ever bought into one?  Did it work?  Let me know your thoughts…maybe I am the idiot!

So here it is another Friday, and I have some good stuble growing on the face and head.  It isn’t that I think it makes me look sexy..I just hate shaving.  Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy being “hair challenged”, but the work that goes into keeping it fresh is a pain in the butt.  There are times where I will go 5 days without shaving do my own laziness/hatred of it, and then when I finally have had enough, it stinks even more because it is not stuble anymore.

I am buying like Mach 654 (or whatever it is up to now) blades and they are like $3000 a piece!  There are so many blades I am afraid to shave sometimes.  There have been times that I have cut my melon so bad I bled for the whole day!  And then the whole “trimming the goat tee and mustache” is just as much of a pain.  I may have Vertigo or something because I can NEVER get it nice and perfect like Jason Varitek does.  I always cut it slanted or take a chunk of the bottom and then have to trim up.  I wish Jason would come over and do it for me…his is really perfect.  And I mean that in a “just friends way”.  I do not want to get the message twisted here.

And to top it off, your big, bald friend over here has sensitive skin.  So, if I use the wrong shaving cream or lotion, I break out with a rash!  There is nothing fun about looking like Mikhail Gorbachev (sorry if you are reading this buddy)!

I wish I could just go get some special lotion to rub on my face and head to make the hair never grow again.  All I want is my goat tee (perfectly cut, of course).  I never want to shave again!   Oh well, sorry to complain.  I just was sitting here and can feal the mess that is on my face and want it gone!

Do you ever get hungry sometimes and crave something?  When that happens, you go and get it and enjoy it….right?

Well, all I wanted this morning on my ride to work (from the hotel) was a Bacon & Egg Croissan’wich (with no cheese) and an order of those super awesome hash browns.  I was so excited to start my day off healthy and get to BK for my breakfast!

Well, I headed to the BK on Amherst St. in Nashua, and it was gone….like knocked over gone.  I was confused as I had never seen that before.  Oh well, I will just shoot down the DW Highway and get one there.  Guess what?  That is gone as well!  The sign says they will re-open and blah blah blah.  How in the heck is that good business to knock down both of them at the same time?  Do they not realize they are ruining my morning now??  Do they want me to go hungry??

Well, as any “investigative reporter” would do, I checked with Mr. John Kennedy who is the Chief Engineer (one of the people who keep us on the air) here at MIKE-FM and is also a Nashua resident.  When asked for a comment he said “I have no idea what is going on.  I think they are re-building them.  I haven’t read anything in the paper about it”.

So there you have it.  It must not be a big deal to anyone other than the guy who wanted a Bacon & Egg Croissan’wich (with no cheese) this morning!

***BREAKING NEWS*** I just recieved a phone call from Denise who works at Burger King Headquarters.  I have been informed that both stores are being re-built and will feature the new look of BK!  She also encouraged me to try the new breakfast burito.  When I told her I don’t like cheese, she said I can get it without cheese.   So there we have it…the stores will be going back up and I can get the burito without cheese.  But, I am still hungry from this morning!! hahaha!  Thanks Denise!

I have had the “luxury” of moving to a new house this week and it has been nothing but a pain in the you know what!

Between the packing, getting rid of old stuff, hiring the movers and selling things I didn’t want anymore, I am just wiped out!  Needless to say, that I was relieved on Tuesday night that I was in the new place and just had to worry about where I was going to place the flat screen!

Well, yesterday I find out my electricity was turned off at the new place.  So I call the fine folks at the electric company, and they tell me it was turned off because I did not fax back a copy of my drivers license by yesterdays “deadline”.  Now to fill you in on this, they send me an email on Friday telling me to fax over my ID so they can verify I am really me (because I am sure people run around town saying they are me to get electricity!?!) to a toll free fax # by 7/16 or my service would be shut.  Once they received it, someone would call me.  Thats it…as easy as that.  WRONG!

I explained to the helpful lady that I had in fact faxed over my license on Tuesday morning.  I went through the day doing all of the things I do here and went home not realizing that they never called.  So when I came in yesterday, I faxed it again.  About 2 hours later I find out the power is off at my place!  Now, keep in mind that I have now sent this paper twice and they did not give me a # to call them…they were supposed to call me if needed.

She told me there was nothing they could do and that my power would be connected the next day.  THE NEXT DAY??  She obviously thought I was going to be ok going to my new place and NOT being able to go on the web, watch tv, shower with hot water and how about being able to have some light to see??  So my mind came up with a quick idea…LIE to her and guilt her into taking care of this NOW.  We all know they have a gazillion trucks and they can send someone over if I really have a need.  So, this is what I came up with.

I told her that I had a 3 month old baby and my wife cannot feed her naturally and needs to have a pump do the work and that needs to be plugged in.  I also told her we had only 2 bottles left and the baby was having one of them now.  Without power, we can’t pump and the baby will be hungry.  Pretty good, huh?  Well, she said there was nothing she could do!!  So, I kicked it up a notch, knowing they could do something.

I told her we just moved to town from 500 miles away and we didn’t know anybody.  We had nowhere to go to plug the pump in to feed the baby.  I also said that the pump takes 3 hours to make 3 bottles and time was against us.  If we wern’t pumping soon, we would have to go to the ER for nutrition.  I still was not getting anywhere!  I asked if I could speak to a supervisor, hoping that they could realize the bind I was in and work some magic.

So the supervisor calls back and I tell him the whole story again.  He apologizes, and says that he can’t anyone out until tomorrow am.  I pleaded with him to get someone there so my baby could eat.  I even asked him to tell me how to do it and I would climb the pole and take care of it for my child.  He told me that would be against the law and I would probably shock myself to death and that would not be a good idea.  I couldn’t believe it….they were really going to leave me and my “baby” hanging!  How could this great story not be working??

The worst part about this (well, besides the fact that my pretend baby would starve) is that they messed up!  I have the fax recipt that tells me it went through fine both times that I sent it.  Also, they do not give you a phone # to call and check to make sure they got it ok.  They tell you that they will call you!  Well, I have to be honest with you, I did not sit by my phone waiting for the call.  I had lunch to eat and had to catch up on my TMZ.  I just figured they recieved the fax, they had my phone # and I was all set.

Well, needless to day I did not get it turned on yesterday.  I spent the night at a hotel that had electricity (for the pump of course) and ordered up some pizza.  It was okay, except my remote did not work.  It is so annoying to lay in a bed and to have to keep getting up to change the channel.  I finally gave up and just watch the Baby Borrower show and the god awful Celebrity Circus.  That show stinks!

Anyway, I have no idea if I have power of not now and if I don’t I am calling them back and telling them I am stuck in my power bed and and folded up like a taco.  Why do I think they will not care?

I was reading in the Boston Herald about the girl from Reading who had “relations” with A-Rod while he was in Boston and found something odd about it.  I’m a guy and most would think I would automatically side with the guy.  But, in this case I feel bad for this girl and feel she is being treated unfairly by the readers with their comments about her.  I love the girls from the Inside Track and this is not in anyway directed at them.  They get paid to write the stories and they do a great job at that.  It is the people posting the comments I have an issue with.  People are entitled to their own opinions…but, I think people are going a bit far here.

When you read all of the comments that have been left by readers (click here to read them), about 98% of them call her every bad name there is and pretty much make her look like the worst person in the world.  What you don’t see, is anyone ripping into A-Rod for the most part. 

Isn’t it a bit ironic that the guy who WAS married at the time (still is I guess), approached her, invited her out, invited her up to his hotel room and then did the deed with her and then is not getting really any slack for this?  I mean, he is getting torn apart in the media about the divorce and the Madonna stuff, but even with that…everyone is calling Madonna the home wrecker and not really saying anything about him.

Now, I am not saying that this girl is innocent either…but, let’s just think about this for a minute.  A top MLB player who ladies  find attractive and rich comes up to you (you being a young 20 something year old) and wants to hang out with you, most likely you are going to say yes.  She didn’t approach him.  He was the married one with the kid on the way and was chasing her.  Her mistake was accepting and moving forward with it.  But please, 90% of the girls I know would do the same thing.  It would be like Pam Anderson …no wait…she has Hepatitis….ummm….that would be like Brittney Spears…no, that doesn’t work either..she has a few issues….ok…that would be like Eva Longoria (who is married) going up to a 20 year old guy and asking him to hang out and do the deed.  Do you think that guy cares if she is married?  HELL NO!  He is seeing a super hot girl who is buying the drinks and staying at a 5 star hotel and wants to hook up with HIM!

I have a friend who will remain nameless due to the fact that he is a popular figure in the city, who years ago was asked to “hook up” by a Playboy Playmate of the year.  This girl was all over him and was not taking no for an answer.  He was dating his girlfriend for a few years and felt like he shouldn’t go, BUT, was young and this was a Playmate of the Year we are talking about here.  So he left off the part about being in a relationship and went to her room and things happened.  Now, if that story came out, (well, I guess I did just put it out there) why do I have a feeling that the Playmate would be the “bad girl” because she came onto him and is in Playboy and that is just “how the girls are”.  After all, it should be her fault to check his references to make sure he was single.   Anyway, his girl found out and needless to say, is not his girl anymore.  The Playmate found out as well, and needless to say, she has not “hooked up” with him sense.  Thank god for memories, right?

Anyway…this girl from Reading made a mistake, but it is one that I feel most people would make in a second if the opportunity presented itself.  I put the blame on A-Rod here.  He started it.  He has money, fame, good looks and is a celebrity.  That does something to people.  And let’s not forget he has a track record of this!  There are other strippers out there who are coming forward with similar stories.  But, not once do we see people really getting on him about this….only on the girls.

She has moved on with her life and really didn’t pitch this to anyone.  The facts always seem to come out.  Now, her reputation is down the drain, she is getting ripped in the media, she is probably losing clients at work and will be dragged into court for what will be a fun time on the stand I’m sure. 

She will never live it down and he will continue to be a celebrity and have a ton of fans, make a ton of money and continue in his ways with the ladies.  We all make mistakes…but in this case, only Candace is paying for it.  Sure A-Rod is getting a divorce and will have to pay out some loot to his wife, but that was going to happen long before his wife found out about this girl. 

Looking back, I am sure she regrets it.  Looking back, I’m sure he doesn’t.  That is the difference.

Hey, who wants to hear some idiocy?  I know I do.  Check it out . . . 

Yesterday, the National Children’s Bureau in London released a 366-page guide for parents . . . to help them recognize racist behavior in their kids.  That’s right, racist behavior in their kids.  See, according to the guide, even TODDLERS can be racist.   

So what sort of stuff should you look out for to make sure your toddler isn’t a bigot?    

#1.)  Name-calling (–Yeah, because only a racist kid would call someone a name.) 

#2.)  Casual thoughtless comments  

#3.)  Racist friends 

#4.)  Negative reactions to foreign food, such as saying things like “yuck”. 

Is this the most stupidist thing you have ever heard??  I thought I wasted time at work!  If I ever presented a project like this to my boss, I would be laughed at and shown the door in 2 seconds!  What do you think about it?  Am I wrong for thinking this is just dumb?

Check this out…SUSAN OLSEN . . . better known as Cindy Brady from “The Brady Bunch” . . . was doing a radio interview in Colorado Springs Colorado on Thursday morning.

Susan was hyping a comedy club appearance that was going down that night.  But then she admitted she’d had a little too much to drink at a bar the previous night . . . and proceeded to almost THROW UP in the studio.

She had to cut the interview short in order to dash out of the studio and find a place to yak.

What’s even worse . . . Susan’s 12-year-old son was in the studio with her . . . and he didn’t seem to be fazed by any of this.  He even told the audience to, quote, “watch her drink like a pig” at the bar that night.  (???)