Wisconsin Cheddar and Broccoli

That's right kids, be jealous. While you were all out celebrating Jesus rising from the dead for the supposed 2000-ish time, I was out dominating Easter. How did I dominate Easter you ask? By winning the traditional family Easter egg fight. Not only did I have the prophetic foresight to write "Winner" on my egg prior to the battle royal, but I laid the unmerciful smack down on anyone that got in my way. Here is how the traditional family Easter egg fight works: Two people take a hard boiled egg, hold it in the hand, so the pointy end is sticking out. The line up their eggs to each other, and on the count of three hit the eggs together. For some odd reason, only one egg survives to collision unscathed. The unbroken egg goes on to the next round. Here is how the tourney broke down.

First Round:

Dad vs. Me- Winner: Me

Mom vs. Steve - Winner: Steve

Mark vs. Grandma - Winner: Mark

Denis vs. Grandpa - Winner: Grandpa

Second Round:

Me vs. Grandpa - Winner: Me ... that's right, I showed no mercy to even my own grandpa

Mark vs. Steve - Winner: Steve ... this was a disappointment, the all Bergemann final was lost since my brother didn't posses the power I did.

Finals:

Me vs. Steve - Winner: Me ... there was no contest, I came, I saw, I conquered

I'm currently trying to work out a promotion to show off my new egg sponsor. There will probably be a autograph signing at your local grocery store's egg isle in the next few months.

In other news, some douche bag stole my tolietries out of my locker at work. I hope they enjoy my loufa, or as I found out today, the inbreeds at Wal-mart call them shower puffs. I've vented about how ludacris this situation is so much in the last 24 hours that I'm not going to do it here, it is old news now. I'm just going to be so irked when they magically re-appear in like three days, leaving me with duplicates of everything...just plain annoying.

In other news: Ben made it...check out perezhilton.com....

Daily Lol cat:

Manhattan Clam Chowder

Good morning. I have spent the majority of the morning cursing the existence of the Omega Data Acquisition system. This thing sucks. Not only does it come with the most obscure manual, which i have reason to believe was put together by a team of dyslexic hippos, but when i'm trying to sense temperature, it only will read voltage. Seriously. In frustration I ate an entire sleeve of thin mints...that weighs in at around 6 bucks in calories...yay...

I haven't heard from best buy, I'm calling this afternoon to bust some heads in. I mean they have my email address, but no, that is impossible for them.

I am continuing my journey down memory lane by listening extensively to The Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam. The 90s were good.

if you anything about how to find patents for salt-triggerable polymers, please let me know.

yesterday was a good day. Marquette finally won a first round game in the tourney for the first time since 2003 when we went to the final four...maybe a repeat this year if we can beat Stanford...i could see us ending up facing Mich. St. because they will most likely hand Memphis a loss, and I could see us getting some confidence and beating Texas as well. A lot of things have to go right, but hey...it could happen. I mean if Pitt is the trendy pick for winning the entire tourney, and Marquette destroyed Pitt earlier...who says we can't do it again. Also, the one thing i hate about Wisconsin is the badgers. I watched their game last night, and i was so frickin bored...they are just not that good. I can see why all their games are so low scoring, they simply lull their opponents to sleep with their slow tedious play... I hate Wisconsin basketball, and especially Bo Ryan....if I have to hear one more ESPN commentator say that Bo Ryan is a genius and all that crap...makes me want to jump off a cliff. It makes you realize how all sports commentators on ESPN are just talking heads that say ridiculous things. Speaking of which, Dick Vitale needs to just stop talking....if anyone remembers Vitale tore Bruce Pearl up saying that he ruined his career by reporting bad recruitment actions awhile before he coached UWM, but now that Pearl has a good team in Tenn. Vitale can't stop preaching about how awesome Pearl is...he is so annoying....and now he is a spokesperson for Hooters. Way to go Vitale.

I'm definitely looking forward to a night of video games, and college basketball...although besides the davidson/gonzaga game, i have no real interest in any of the games. Maybe i'll just finish Rainbow Six: Vegas. I've been feeling the urge to get some achievement points. I played last night for awhile, and it was fun. Finally got to kill this terrorist leader I have been chasing so far...turns out that she isn't the main person...but she is dead, so the mission is a success so far.

Jealous?

self explanatory...[view from the love sac]

before the new pretty black xbox arrived....

Turkey and Wild Rice

Um...I don't know how you start a blog. But I'm currently bored at work, and have been for at least the last week. There seems to be no respite in sight, or at least until next week when I get to do some monotonous testing (it will be glorious)...it might involve electricity, heat, and possible fire...three things that would cause them, if they knew my past, to rethink being so eager to have me do this test. Although I seem to be the only person around here that actually enjoys monotonous work. Our building is being redone (mainly the directors office's are getting upgraded), and when I walk around I am actually envious of the workers that get to paint walls, install lighting fixtures and wire ethernet plugs. I would love to do that. Everyone else just seems to sit at their desks like lemmings doing whatever people with things to do actually do...I wouldn't know.


I have decided that this blog will consist of a couple things. First, random stories of what I experience through out the day that needs to be saved for historical reference. Second, what soup is being served that day, since that is possibly the most exciting thing I get to experience at work. Third, it will serve as a training log for me as I attempt a triathlon, or as my dad would say a "try"althon. Fourth, a daily lol cat picture, because I find them hilarious. Fifth, any exciting or interesting things I may run across while surfing the internet. Maybe I'll spice it up with a word of the day or something weird, I haven't decided. Lastly, it will serve the purpose of letting people know how awesome my life is in Appleton...this is going to be one boring ride.



Best Buy's latest and greatest

SO my 360 died about two weeks ago....see picture.

Thankfully, I had purchased a replacement plan with best buy when I originally bought it. This saved me the trouble of having to send it to Microsoft which would take 3-4 weeks. So I call the number provided with the replacement plan...dude takes all my info, tells me I'll receive an email in 24 hrs with a shipping label. "cool," i thought, "i'll be out an xbox for a week at best..."

48 hrs pass, I have no email in my possession. Finally, I go onto the best buy website and check my replacement profile...the dude spelled michael as "micheal" in my email address...i was irritated but not upset. called got everything straightened out...sent the thing in later that day. About a week goes by and i haven't heard anything from best buy....nothing. So being eager to get a new xbox, i call to query on the process. The lady says...we received your package about 4 days ago, but the gift card hasn't been sent out yet....4 days to send a gift card....seriously. EVENTUALLY i get the gift card on Monday after work...I am so pumped to get my xbox and play on my new hdtv freshly out of the box the day before. I go to best buy, grab an xbox, and a Ethernet hub, mildly and awkwardly jog to the check out...hand over my gift card with 419 dollars on it...it doesn't work.... .... .... what.... .... manager comes over (she was really nice, without her i would have murdered someone) and tells me, "this is blank..." "ah...what!? no way, i just got that like twenty minutes ago..." SO we go and call the people...after about thirty minutes of talking...they come to this conclusion...we will look into it and get back to you in the next 7 to 10 business days.....seriously... with the 4 days it will most likely take to actually ship the new gift card, I'm looking at 14 business days, that is almost 3 weeks....pure awesome. being the money bags that i am, i just threw down my own money for the stuff, and will return in the billion weeks it takes to get the new gift card and return the stuff, and just repurchase it with the gift card. i would just really like to be done with this process...it was pretty painless, but it is just annoying to have it unfinished....


in other news... playing video games in high definition is amazing....pretty much doing anything in high definition is amazing.

Training:
Swim: 1000 m (x2 250 free- 2 min rest) [A.M.]
Bike: 45 min [P.M]
Run: ---

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