Just Dance 2 I now have High Score

Native American

 Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

Physical Time Today

Receptionist: You are late

Me: I did not want to come

Receptionist: Have a seat

Me: I thought you said I was late

Receptionist: The Dr. will be ready soon

Me: Then I’m not late

Receptionist: Have a seat

Nurse: Mr. Pressley

Me: Where?

Nurse: Ha-Ha come on back

Me: No thanks

Nurse: Please

Me: Ok since you said please but I really don’t want to

Nurse: Step on the scales

Me: no problem, what about my boots?

Nurse: there ok

Me: yeah I like them

Nurse: no I mean its ok to wear them

Me: I am wearing them

Nurse: Let’s go back to the examining room

Me: No thanks

Nurse: Please

Me: Ok since you said please but I really don’t want to

Nurse: I know, please put this gown on with the opening in the back

Me: no thanks

Nurse: Please

Me: Ok since you said please but I really don’t want to

Nurse: I know, The Dr will be right in

Me: Tell him no hurry

Dr: Hi Mark

Me: how about we skip this and go get a beer?

Dr: no thanks

Me: so you want to see my rear huh

Dr: how are you feeling?

Me: fine till you came in

Dr: ok cough

Me: let go of my balls

Dr: cough

Me: ahuh

Dr: again

Me: let go of my balls

Dr: no I mean cough again

Me: ahuh

Dr: ok roll over towards the wall

Me: no way last time you said that you stuck your finger in my butt

Dr: do you really want me laughing back here

Me: no I don’t want you back there at all “OH Sweet Mother”

Dr: all done

Me: Don’t I get a kiss

Dr: that one stopped being funny five years ago

Me: your hand in my butt stopped being funny five years ago

Dr: have you been fasting

Me: didn’t you listen to my belly? It sounds like that big Purdue Drum

Nurse comes in and says “which arm?”

Me: yours

Nurse: nope

Nurse: ok I need you to pee in this cup

Me: ok

Nurse: NOT IN HERE!

Me: oh

Receptionist: that will be $15. Co-pay

Me: can I go after that "yes" NO Problem then

The above conversation is almost verbatum it makes a bad day better when your Dr is a friend!

Never discuss Religion or Politics well what about Sports?

Fanaticism is a belief or behavior involving uncritical zeal, particularly for an extreme religious or political cause or in some cases sports, or with an obsessive enthusiasm for a pastime or hobby. Philosopher George Santayana defines fanaticism as "redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim" according to Winston Churchill, "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject". By either description the fanatic displays very strict standards and little tolerance for contrary ideas or opinions.


Rhetoric is the art of using language to communicate effectively and persuasively.

I trash talk with the best of them wait I may be the best of them. We have floor seats at the Pacer games and sit directly behind the visitors seats. I have had some epic battles with players and coaches over the years. I will tell a short version of one of my favorites:

Several years ago when the Pacers were actually a good team we were in a heated series with the Knicks, the Knicks had a bench player that was not very good by NBA standards and he started mouthing so here I go and it went for a couple of nights until I pulled this: In my seats we had are own wait staff so at a slow point in the game I grabbed our girl gave her a tip and asked her to bring down a beer and a hot dog. A few minuets later she returned with these items and I asked her to take a big step backwards so she would be directly behind the player at this point I yelled at him to turn around and when he did the beer and dog were right there he looked at me funny and I said “hey your not playing so I bought you some food” his entire team started laughing.

On another occasion and different team an opposing player saw me and said “oh I know you it’s on.” The usher looked at him and said “please don’t start with him you can not win”

Any way the point is I have fun be it politics, religion or sports but I think there is a fine line and we all have many differences in personalities. I am very passionate about politics I believe in Minarchism -small government- and love to debate it and my feelings have nothing to do with the subject it is simply my belief. Religion on the other hand is hardly ever discussed by me outside of my inner circle of friends at times I tell people I am a Pagan just to watch them tighten up and run this will always happen with the over the top crowd. The truth is Pagan is a name given to those that don’t follow Judaism, Islam or Christianity I honestly do not need a label nor do I believe Pagan fits me. I know how I believe and to describe it would be to say it is very similar to how the American Indians believed –all things connected and all are part of a Great Spirit- I believe in many Christian paths but also believe men have distorted religion to a point that I choose to pray alone. Sports are a whole different matter I love my teams; Colts, Raiders, Reds and a few others but I am the very first to tell you what these teams are doing wrong and the very first to understand it is only a game. A few weeks back in a bar in Florida a Patriots fan and I started jawing back and forth any one there would have thought we were enemies nothing could have been farther from the truth we both had a great time and he gave me a high five as he left. Shoot forward a few weeks and I started in on a Jets fan at the Colts game and this time security gave me a warning and the other guy was thrown out it was such an over reaction to the moment he was given me the business and I grabbed my crotch. Honestly I liked the guy and had all intention of giving him a high five or a beer at the end.

My point in all this is not everyone can argue a point with out getting all upset on these topics. My Religion upsets most, My Politics will always upset the big government crowd and some just never realize sports is nothing more than entertainment on February 7th no one in the world other than the winning team and fans will give two hoots about the Super bowl winner. I do not need you to worry about my soul I have a very solid and personal relationship with my God and talk to him every day and last this Country was founded on political differences a bunch of really smart guys thumbed their noses at Brittan and said piss off – it worked out pretty well –

In the future you are allowed to argue with me I can handle it and encourage it I have a lady in my life who is a Bible thumping Christian and Liberal I love her and her family very much we discuss all these topics and disagree on every one of them the difference is the respect of the other persons opinion.

Lio always gets it right

Little hands grow fast

Time fly’s from little hands to big ones one day you are playing catch in the back yard with your four year old and the next you are listening to college coaches tell your son what they will and will not do for him. One day you are picking out his first batting glove and the next you realize you have no clue at how much bigger his hands are than yours.

Wabash College chased Hank the hardest he had other schools looking but Wabash followed him and called and sent letters to him and in the end they wanted him and it is nice to be wanted.

Hank will leave this August to play at yet another level College and I could not be prouder of him I remember hoping he made his first all star team and then hoping he played and then hoping he starts, and then High School and then Varsity now College is here and he will work for a starting position all over again and I will dream right along with him again.

After raising my daughter I know how quick these next four years will go and then we will see if he has yet another level in him. Never stop and always reach for your goals.

My House, My Life

My children laughing, my wife’s cheeks, fresh ground coffee, standing on top of a mountain, a cold beer, a big game, a smile from my wife, the smell of a new bar of soap, at peace with myself, a hard work out, playing cards, fire works, big guns, helping a stranger and not telling anyone, sitting at a ball park with a friend, old jeans, my truck, a job well done, a pay check earned, placing a large bet on the table, my wife’s butt, a quite moment, a good book, a hug, a big yawn, a good belly laugh till you cry, puppy kisses, baby feet, cuddling, making my wife laugh, bare foot in prayer under my tree, the sun, a body of water, a good song, fist pumping rock n roll, fast cars, alone with anyone of my kids, a cool breeze by the pool, accomplishing a goal, fast bike, memories of past friends, the cool side of the pillow, a good steak, holding hands, Sedona, feeling loved…

You may want to read something other than a magazine now and then

I am bragging but I just got a 100% on the below test. The NY Times said it was a waste of time for Congress to read the Constitution of which it had just taken an oath to uphold. Our elected officials that took the below test scored a 49% average vs. the American public that scored a 54% average both results are appalling.


Are you smarter than an elected official?
If you can correctly answer five or more of these basic Constitution-related questions, congratulations! You're smarter than the average elected official! (Answers are below -- but no peeking!)

1) What are the three branches of government?

A. executive, legislative, judicial
B. executive, legislative, military
C. bureaucratic, military, industry
D. federal, state, local

2) What part of the government has the power to declare war?

A. Congress
B. the president
C. the Supreme Court
D. the Joint Chiefs of Staff

3) In the area of United States foreign policy, Congress shares power with the:

A. president
B. Supreme Court
C. state governments
D. United Nations

4) The United States Electoral College:

A. trains those aspiring for higher political office
B. was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates
C. is otherwise known as the U.S. Congress
D. is a constitutionally mandated assembly that elects the president
E. was ruled undemocratic by the Supreme Court

5) What impact did the Anti-Federalists have on the United States Constitution?

A. their arguments helped lead to the adoption of the Bill of Rights
B. their arguments helped lead to the abolition of the slave trade
C. their influence ensured that the federal government would maintain a standing army
D. their influence ensured that the federal government would have the power to tax

6) The phrase that in America there should be a "wall of separation" between church and state appears in:

A. George Washington's Farewell Address
B. the Mayflower Compact
C. the Constitution
D. the Declaration of Independence
E. Thomas Jefferson's letters

7) The Bill of Rights explicitly prohibits:

A. prayer in public school
B. discrimination based on race, sex, or religion
C. the ownership of guns by private individuals
D. establishing an official religion for the United States
E. the president from vetoing a line item in a spending bill


8) Identify one right or freedom below guaranteed by the first amendment.

A. Right to bear arms
B. Due process
C. Religion
D. Right to counsel


9) Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government listed below?

A. Make treaties
B. Make zoning laws
C. Maintain prisons
D. Establish standards for doctors and lawyers


10) Who is the commander in chief of the U.S. military?

A. Secretary of the army
B. Secretary of state
C. President
D. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs


Answer key:
1) A; 2) A; 3) A; 4) D; 5) A; 6) E; 7) D; 8) C; 9) A; 10) C

A Conversation

I just read several poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and most are really very good. I like this one particular because it is as close as I have ever read that fits my understanding of God.

God and I in space alone
and nobody else in view.
"And where are the people, O Lord," I said,
"the earth below and the sky o'er head
and the dead whom once I knew?"

"That was a dream," God smiled and said,
"A dream that seemed to be true.
There were no people, living or dead,
there was no earth, and no sky o'er head;
there was only Myself -- in you."

"Why do I feel no fear," I asked,
"meeting You here this way?
For I have sinned I know full well--
and is there heaven, and is there hell,
and is this the Judgment Day?"

"Nay, those were but dreams,"
the Great God said,
"Dreams that have ceased to be.
There are no such things as fear or sin;
there is no you -- you never have been--
there is nothing at allbut Me."

I do not loose things; I simply forget where I put them

In High School I was partying with a friend and I said you know this kills brain cells. His reply “Only the weak ones.” Later in life I have discovered what “the weak ones” responsibly is, Short term memory. I can tell you how to read a balance sheet but I have know clue where my sun glasses are. In looking for a pair of sunglasses most time’s they can be found on my head.

Oh sure I know what the score was in a meaningless game played in 1984 but just ask me where my wallet is right now, I have no clue! Last time IU won a game of importance 1987, current position of my $150. pen no idea. Hit champ Pete Rose my tax receipts maybe my truck but I would not bet on it.

Nancy screams at me daily like this will fix the problem. I don’t even know where my shoes are to start looking for what ever it is I am suppose to be looking for, oh look a dog!

What’s in a logo?

I drink caffeine like I am paid to Coffee, Tea, Monster, Sparks, etc. In the morning I drink Starbucks not because it is trendy but because they have a couple of types that are fully loaded for bear we buy it by the bag not the cup we have been doing this for years and until today I never really noticed the logo. She is a Siren for those of you that don’t know of Sirens they are found in Greek mythology and were a type of bird lady that would sing and due to their beauty and voice would guide sailors into crashing upon the rocks and then left. Nice real F’n nice.


I wonder what Starbucks is trying to tell me they do sell music there and being the addict I am I would drive in to a cliff for a cup.

Today Starbucks got rid of the word Starbucks on their logo now it is just the Siren I guess they said to hell with subtle lets just go with: “Follow this girl to your grave.” UMM OK

I am going to miss you 2010 but 2011 is underway

I was not going to do the New Years post; I was not sure where it fit with my ramblings and my weirdness leaking out. So I was going to avoid it but I feel drawn to say a few things.

2010 was a great year my daughter graduated from college and got married so in turn I received a new son. My middle son is growing up fast and has committed to playing Baseball at Wabash College a good school and the opportunity to continue his passion. My youngest started his freshman year in HS and has taken his music to a new level which is absolutely amazing. My wife and I have found a newer level of commitment to each other that is exciting and I am happy to know I will grow old with the woman I fell in love with. Nancy is doing so well at being a business owner last year she was listed as the largest female owned business in Indiana by IBJ and I would bet she is in the top hand full in the country. My business has more than doubled in size and continues to grow and on most days is more like having fun then working. So I am hoping 2011 just continues the way 2010 went.

I am a big believer in announcing my goals so here we go:
Summit Mt Kilimanjaro the first of this August.
Re start my Martial Arts
Read more this year than last
Golden Gloves Nationals comes to a finish this April after completing a three year project


If the above goals fall short I plan to go with these:
Quit shrinking I think I am an inch shorter WTF?
Jake bought me flannel pj’s for Christmas I plan to wear them twenty four / seven!
Kait bought me UG slippers they are staying on with the pj’s
Quit aging I’m not that into it
Buy an island move my family and friends that want to come and just live off the land
Eat more pie I like pie
Take five pounds off my gut and continue to eat more pie
Have a large party cook a pig and ask Hinder or Kings of Leon to perform

I am not sure how either set of goals will work out but I am going to give them hell, hope 2011 brings us all happiness!

The Verp

The Verp usually happens after over eating it starts out feeling like a burp but it ends up happening like a small vomit in the back of your throat. It consists of fifty percent burp, fifty percent vomit and one hundred percent nasty.

I felt like sharing this since I just revisited my hamburger.