Freetriplescore.com

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

While taking a break from studying organic during my week long study isolation from the world (I know, obviously not that isolated if I’m blogging right now, but hey, my phone did die my first night away, and I forgot my charger) I flipped on the ol’ tube to see what was going on in the world…corrupt politicians, riots, “call in gay day,” cold (but warming)… Anyway, during the first commercial break one of those “Head On” style ones came on. You all know it, and if you’re like me, you’ve made fun of the tongue twisted people making fools of themselves on national television. Well, in the safety of my isolation, I decided I’d have a go at saying “free triple score dot com” three times fast. IMPOSSIBLE!

Okay, not impossible, but definitely not easy. Only on the 5th attempt with incredibly focused, squinted eyes could I accomplish the feat. 

Moral: don’t hate, ‘presheate.

Answer: the fruit fly stork

Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Question: Where do fruit flies come from?

I pose this question because I go through fruit fly spells every now and then, ok, every time I fall behind a week (or two) in cleaning my kitchen. The mystery is that shortly after my kitchen is thoroughly cleaned, I’m talkin’ Mr. Cleaning the counters and eventually the floors, the little red-eyed beasts disappear! I understand that part, so please don’t tell me what I know. In my search for a serious answer, not something about the mythical fruit fly stork (which would probably just eat the flies anyway), I come to The Auburn Plainsman Blogs. Please help. 

My theory is that they are born from the fruits we eat. Sorry to gross you out, but I can only see that we buy them and they naturally hatch when the fruits begin to go bad.

Someone please solve this mystery!

every vote doesn’t matter.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I live in Alabama. Not saying that I would necessarily vote Obama, but if I did, then it wouldn’t even make a difference with our voting system. 

But hey, GO VOTE!

fall break

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Let’s talk about flying and how trying to make things easier could backfire pretty quickly. I’m taking a much needed fall break tomorrow through Sunday to visit a friend in NYC–Holla, David!–and to meet my 12-week-old baby nephew in Philly for the first time–goo goo ga ga, Jackson! 

So first of all, be jealous. I’ll take my week vacation for Turkey Day over the alternative half week and a fall break any day, but I will not lie; I’m PUMPED to get out of this place for a little bit. War Eagle.

Back to plane travel. So, I’m getting into Philly late tomorrow night and am trying to be the best guest/little bro possible for my new dad-brother to pick me up at a reasonable hour. Therefore, I’ve decided to take only my big red day pack as a carry-on (along with my camera of course) in hopes of avoiding any extra airport time and potential baggage claim delays. 

I know what you’re thinking, “Jon David, that’s SUCH an amazing idea! What an astute traveler!” 

Nay. Sadly, nay. The predicament of flying with only a carry-on these days is that you’re faced with whole liquid/gel/moist solid bomb threat that was started by a couple of evil geniuses who ruined smooth travel for the rest of us. I hate those guys. I, a twice daily Listerine rinser, immediately realized last night as I placed my travel size bottle of Freshburst™ snugly into my toiletries bag that I actually had to worry about a hassle in security for packing the minty, green, obviously mouthwash liquid. Don’t even get me started on my brand new, and only, stick of deodorant. Or the bottle of Polo Double Black (gotta smell good for NYC) that I could potentially lose. I even once lost a brand new Crystal Stick for the same liquid security mandates–for those of you few Crystal Stick users out there, you know how ridiculous that one is.

Anyway, I’m packing all of the above and hoping for the best. I can’t find anything on the Internet about TSA travel restrictions but I guess it’s all good. The cologne’s almost gone so it won’t be too huge of a loss. I hope you all have a great rest of the week…IN CLASS! 

Oh and good luck Thursday night at WVU to the team and any fans going. Happy birthday, Tim. Maybe you’ll have a pas thrown to you in stride this game!

For granted, or maybe not

Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Let’s take a moment to reflect on how our lives might be if we took NOTHING for granted. Ok, it’s basically impossible. I understand that we’d just sit around thinking all day every day about how great things are relative to something worse. “Duh,” right? And moreover, everything is completely relative with one’s misfortune being another’s ‘not-so-bad.’ 

“What the hell is this guy talking about?” - you (most likely)

I had shoulder surgery about two months ago and it’s been slow to me but realtively fast compared to other operation recoveries. Every day it seems like I can do something that I haven’t been able to do since summer before last. It’s wonderful, I’m not gonna lie. My reflection on my recently achieved full range of motion is what inspired this post. I can already tell, and I know it’s just how life is, that I’m forgetting how far I’ve come since the first week post-op when I sat on the couch in my immobilizer, in and out of drug induced sleep, exchanging ice packs every so often. All I want is to go play some tennis like I could even six months ago. Don’t even get me started on throwing a football at the tailgate every home game. 

I thought I’d become a super human developing better coordination with my left handed, but recovery has been juusstt rapid enough to make me push toward full use of my “good” arm. 

Call me a Positive Peter, but Gee Golly! I’m just happy everything has gone smoothly and soccer season is starting up (no arms necessary)! 

It’s important to catch yourself whining trivial complaints. Just some thoughts. And a story.

No time for our age investors to panic

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Yeah, I’ve lost close to 30% of my investment dollars in the past three months too. But for people our age, that is if you are also about 20, now is the time to rejoice, not panic. “Buy low, sell high.” That’s the basic advice given any beginning investor. So consider now the perfect “buying low” point whether you’re just now starting to invest or are considering holding off your periodic investments. 

It’s difficult not to get caught up in the frenzied masses and to avoid being run over by that panicked bandwagon of economic pessimists and doubters, but TRY. I was on edge this afternoon, first, in Spanish class when I saw the Yahoo! news feed that the Dow dropped to its lowest point in ten years and, second, when I checked my investments online to find what I figured up to be about 30% losses since I started investing one year ago this week. I sent my financial advisor an e-mail telling him I was about to stick out my thumb for that aforementioned bandwagon to let me on board, but he called me after class on my way to the transit and calmed my nerves.

Basically, it’s a great idea for young people to go ahead and start investing, and even though it seems scary and is impossible not to see and hear the ever freaked out media, continue whatever kind of regular investments you may (or should) be doing.

“Just continue what you’re doing. You’ll be a rich man when you want to get out.”

-Hamilton Pounds 

Morgan Keegan Financial Advisor