Unqualified Advice #3

If you’re the best there is at your job but you’re being forced to interview for the job you already do, do you shave your beard and cut your hair, or do you say “Screw it. I’m the best. They can take me or leave me regardless of my hippie hair and Grizzly Adams beard,”? –Dani

Have you looked at me? I should get “Screw it. I’m the best.” tattooed on my chest As I kind of look like a better version of Juice Newton.  I am a big fan of rewarding what works and what doesn’t. Let your actions speak for you.  My advice, let your freak flag fly, and save the new look for a new employer. Unless you love what you are doing, then CONFORM! everyone is doing it.

Two questions: Will the Vikings ever win a Super Bowl? What's worse. Being a Vikings fan or an ISU football fan? –Thad

Ever, like ever ever? Or my life time ever?  Doesn’t matter since they are my team the answer is “no”. But I will still go to games, and I will still buy the jerseys. Which feeds nicely into my next answer… The Vikings seem to just break my heart, where as the clones surprise me once in a while. You have to go to bars before Vikings Games, there is glorious tailgating and ours is a stone’s throw from the front gate at Jack Trice. Weighing everything carefully, being a fan of the Cubs is the worst. Now that I say that, maybe being a fan of the school that gets beat by the terrible in state rival is worse....but what do I know?  My advice is to cheer for a front runner like Alabama in football.

If a tiger eats a vegetarian then throws up, does it still have to count it a daily caloric intake for Wright Watchers?  -Eric

Yes, and then no.  Bu the really good news is that at no point will the tiger need to claim any carbs or gluten.  My Advice, the tiger should eat more and smaller meals, this will help to cut down on the regurgitation.

 Have you watched the Nightly Show? If yes, what do you think? –Dani

Yes.  If I say "not a fan" does that make me a racist?  Because I am not  a fan, the lines are poorly delivered. The jokes are already stale. And the premise is better on Maher’s show. My advice, Watch the daily show and then go to be 30 minutes earlier than normal, your body and mind will thank me.

Where has been your favorite place to travel/vacation to? – Matt

Let's Go. Right now!

Valentin Imperial Maya   

Our favorite place to visit, GREAT staff and some of the best resort food we have had

Secrets Maroma  

Very similar to the Valentin, only this one was just named to a top 10 list and has made it VERY expensive, Secrets Silversands is a more affordable option in the same family or resorts.

Paris

 What is not to love?!?! you could live there your whole life and not see everything.

Beaver Creek, CO

 Great ski community that we would love to visit in the summer to see what different seasons look like.

quick get aways:

Minneapolis

Football, Baseball, Basketball, food, malls, art....

Omaha

 Food, art, zoo, shopping

Kansas City

Football, Baseball, food, malls, art....

Chicago
Football, Baseball, Basketball, food, malls, art....

On the list to try still:

Machu Picchu

 it looks cool

Napa Valley and wine country

I like wine

How evil is PopMarket? And how glad am I that I didn't know it existed in college (because then I would be super-poor). – Mike

First, my advice get a second job. I need to now.  And how evil? This evil(help me):

Genesis - Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot and Selling England By the Pound

Joni Mitchell - Blue and Ladies of the Canyon

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction

Megadeth -Youthanasia

Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What!

Megadeth - Rust In Peace

Megadeth - Peace Sells...but Who's Buying?

Unqualified Advice: Q & A

Here is (maybe) my new Friday post: Unqualified Advice.  The name comes from where you would expect, I am not qualified to give answers or advice on any topic, but here we go:


What aspect of living in Texas as appealed to you the most? -Eric
Great Question Eric!  There are actual several aspects 1) eating 2) shelter 3) a place to live. Jamie Lou need a new job and after looking around Dallas is where she landed.  I like to joke that she had too many personal freedoms as a female in Iowa so Texas was the logical choice.  Since I am the eye candy in this relationship I follow where the money flows.  Now, if it is where we chose to live in Dallas... that is easier to answer, in keeping her commute to a a reasonable time and not wanting another fixer-upper the farther north you go the more house and land you get, hence we are almost in Plano in Far North Dallas just inside George Bush now.

Do Longhorns really have Long horns? -Jessica
These giant gentle creatures DO have long horns Jessica!  But the only long horn I prefer are horns down

Those Are LONG! now down

Is it wrong that when I go to a Thai place and they ask how spicy I want something 1-5, I always picture them using a Spice Weasel? -Mike
First of all, Always be confident in what you believe. Secondly, I am 87% sure the spice weasel is the official animal of Thailand. So it would only make sense that the wise and fierce animal would be used in this capacity.  But hear me when I say this:  NEVER TEASE A WEASEL!

If you could eat one food, and only one food, for the rest of your life what would it be? -Lee
Now this is a hard one.  The obvious answer is Pez, Cherry Flavor Pez.  But that has already been done.  So I would have to say I would choose lasagna.  Definitely lasagna.  Or enchiladas.  I would for sure choose enchiladas. Or cereal, I really like cereals, so I would for sure choose cereal.  I do like donuts. "Donuts" is my answer. No, steak. I would choose steak.  But then I do love sushi, so we end at Uni, uni would be what I choose.  So, there is my answer for the one food I would eat
Song of the day:
maybe the best metal song ever made "Sweating Bullets" Megadeth

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Well it looks like my free neo counter trial ran out. Not sure it is worth paying money for it. It really doesn't provide any great service that their free replacement can't cover... other than looking cool and green and spherical and being click-able and showing what city people were from and how many people were currently logged on to the blog.... yep Pretty sure I'll being paying money for a stupid counter.... I am an idiot

Going to Iron Man in a few days at Billy Joe's will put up my thoughts on it shortly after. Hoping for good things.

This one has been floating around, but I get a laugh every time. What did we all do before the internet and Photoshop?

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