http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico recent pleonast.com entries by user el_magnifico en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=602468 at work the other day. It was a whole mess. I had to fill out an accident report and everything. Several days of bandages and I've at least stopped bleeding. The real story is not nearly as exciting. Got Christmas photos taken today. I sure have a cute daughter and a gorgeous wife :-D Heading to LA on Wednesday evening. Looking forward to seeing the family! 2008-11-24 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=596332 I'll start by saying I don't like talking politics. I don't like people who vote based on what they see from the media. I don't like people who vote based on a candidates external features i.e. race, voice, looks. I absolutely can't stand the phrase "I guess I'll vote for the lesser of two evils". I think people give the president more credit/power than he actually has. Bottom line: It doesn't make a difference who the President is. I'm still going to pay my taxes, respect the Presidential office, and serve God. Who cares if the President is a Republican or a Democrat; these days there's little difference between them. Bottomest line: God is still in control and always will be. I read the back of the Book. Don't panic. we win. ...and that's what grinds my gears. 2008-11-06 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=595634 Lee Mercer Jr. - 2008 Candidate for the Democratic Nomination Why is America the greatest country in the world? Because a Lee Mercer Jr. can legally run for president. After reading through his website, the thing that surprised us the most was that someone actually got Lee Mercer Jr. to take a long enough break from being absolutely out-of-his-gourd insane to stop and pose for that picture at the top. Not wanting to dilute Mercer's message, we shall now present him in his own words (misspelling his, emphasis ours). From his biography: "Since my high school graduation in 1969, I developed myself to my own academic interest to be a Collegiate Professional." "On August 22, 1992, The State of Texas installed an intelligence hotwire IN me at the United States Army Military Intelligence Academy Camp Bullis San Antonio, Texas." "As a part of my continuing eduaction, I am making my presidential campaign part of my ROTC Intelligence Academics to record the l... 2008-11-05 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=593894 I'm starting to feel the physical toll that 2 jobs takes on a person. I worked 75 hours this week... In the future I should be working no more than 20-25 hours at Moes, which would bring my work total down to about 60 hours a week. It's worth it, I know it is. And it's not a permanent situation. I'm just weary today. It doesn't make it any easier that I wasn't able to take Emily trick-or-treating. Such is life I suppose. Sunday can't come soon enough. 2008-11-01 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=590570 I have nothing much to say, I'm really just posting so that Rachel has a place to post her lolcats. I am LOVING this weather we have now: high 50s at night, 80s during the day. This is camping weather. I'm finding my niche at work. I think I'm becoming the unit's photographer. I'm cool with that. I have officially lost 35 lbs. since the beginning of this year. In February I weighed 267, I now weigh 231.8. Awesome. I lost 3 lbs. this week. The strange thing is that all I've eaten this week is Moe's. One Homewrecker (monster burrito) for late lunch, and leftover chips and salsa for dinner. I can dig it. 2008-10-23 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=588610 Matt rules. Thanks to him I got to see The Office Season 5 premier.....awesome. I found the plumbing for the addition! Using a hammer and chisel I hacked through 4 inches of concrete, puled out enough dirt to get my arm down there and dug around hoping to find it. I found the pipes a foot off from where they should have been, but at least I found them. This means we can get crackin on the addition! Emily may very well have a bedroom by her first birthday! My first week at Moe's went really well. Every day they had me learning a new position, so it's actually a pretty steep learning curve. Getting some awesome recipes that I can't wait to try out. I'm also gonna be getting some muscles from dicing 2-6 cases of tomatoes every day using an industrial wall-mounted dicer. I also learned the secrets to rolling the perfect burrito. Emily is SUCH a big girl now! When did that happen?! Right now she's just getting over a stomach bug that's been going around. Poor thing. The first night sh... 2008-10-17 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=586096 mmmmmm, my kind of pie chart :-D As of tomorrow I'll be working at Moe's in alachua. I'll be bringing home a homewrecker probably every week. Dangerous place to work, but I figure if I survived working at Papa John's I can survive working at Moe's. "I've got two jobs. I've discovered that you have to work twice as hard when it's honest." OK, like the title says. The game is Desert Island Movies. You're stuck on a desert island and you have a magical tv and dvd player that don't need electricity. What 5 movies do you have with you? I've forsaken some people..... Dear Jim, Pam, Michael, Kevin, Kelly, Ryan, Oscar, Angela, Dwight and new HR chick, If I got NBC I would totally watch you guys. But I don't, so I can't. I hope you'll get by without me. Have a fantastic season you guys. I'll see you all real soon when season 5 comes out on dvd. *sniff* Love, Seth 2008-10-11 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=582962 link to article MONROE, Wash. (AP) -- An online advertisement offered $28.50 an hour to anyone who wore a blue, long-sleeved shirt, yellow safety vest, eye protection and ventilator mask and waited near a bank. Apparently, it should have been labeled "decoys wanted." Police said a number of people wearing the specified outfit were waiting near a Bank of America branch Tuesday when a similarly dressed man accosted a Brinks armored truck guard with pepper spray during a cash delivery in Monroe, a town about 25 miles northeast of Seattle. Police said the man grabbed a bag of money and eluded pursuers after entering a nearby creek. FBI agents were trying to determine the source of the ad posted on craiglist.org, which ostensibly was seeking landscaping help on a city project, Monroe police spokeswoman Debbie Willis said. "We believe the ad was not a credible ad and that it may have been an attempt to get people dressed like the suspect into the area," she said. As... 2008-10-03 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=582533 Matt tagged me. 1. I see dead people.....5 days a week 2. I named my wristwatch Harry. He's not too smart, but a great pal. 3. I own 2 pigs, Spiderpig and Harry Plopper. I'm sure they will be delicious one day. 4. I'm an eagle scout. 5. I sing Sinatra songs in the shower and Weezer in the car. 6. It bugs me when people talk on the radio without using proper codes or etiquette. 7. I am addicted to Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. seriously. I'm a level 30 battlemage. Let's hear it for the geeks. 8. It is nearly physically impossible for me to burp. I've done it maybe 9 or 10 times in my life. 9. I do, however, make a pretty funky involuntary frog noise. 10. I have this thing with numbers. 2 and 3 digit numbers I like to add together and add together until I get a single digit number. Or I rearrange license plates so they appear more interesting. Stupid numbers... tag you're it. 2008-10-02 http://www.pleonast.com/user/el_magnifico?l=5&entryID=579873 My gold account expired. This makes me incredibly sad :-( So I guess no more private blogs for a while. I sold my electric guitar recently. It was collecting dust and money is always nice. Besides I still have my acoustic. The pigs got out 3 times in in the past 2 days. All of a sudden, bacon sounds VERY enticing. Once we got the pigs put up, we discovered that several of the cows had gotten out... Yeehaw. Meagan and Emily lght up my life every single day. I don't know what I would do without their wonderful smiles. Here's a photo that makes me smile every time. Emily likes green beans :-) The weather is mind-blowingly fantastic!! Camping weather is upon us... Currently listening to the CDs of Brent Hunter's meeting he did at Trenton coC last January. Meagan and I were in the hospital then, having a baby. And I amjust now getting around to listening to it. Great inspiration on becoming a great, Godly husband and father. Everyone in a relationship should hear what he has to... 2008-09-25