Much To Go About

'Gimme Sympathy'

-Metric

Until I post some of the most random stories from my vacation last week enjoy the photo's I took backcourt (backstage) and on court for the Fabulous Sin City Roller Girls final game of the season!

ARG IMAG Photography

(you have to click the link above)

'New Divide'

-Linkin Park

-Gawdun

Put a Target on My Head and Call Me Sally

Well it's official. Despite many appeals Utah performed an execution just a few minutes ago by firing squad. In a report by Washington Post reporter Jennifer Dobner, "Ronnie Lee Gardner died was pronounced dead at 12:20am Friday." Yeah that was literally 40 minutes ago from the time I am writing this post. This was Utah's first execution by firing squad in 14 years.

Let the record show that I am here to say that I don't want to die with a target upon my chest.

To read the whole report by Jennifer Dobner click... HERE

Goodnight, sleep tight, don't let the target's get you!

-Gawdun

Cheap Pays Off...Sometimes

Just found this video on one of my photography contacts website. Amazing concept and sweet video. Enjoy!

Pacific Star II from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

-Gawdun

It Doesn't Suck While It Cuts

The hazards of working at a restaurant are few and far between, but let me tell you they do exist. Thus brings me to my experience of Saturday.

About 30 minutes before my shift end and with only myself and the bartender on the floor we got busy at Ruby Tuesday. It was fine and dandy, I was able to keep up with my tables and make sure they were happy. Then about 15 minutes I got hit with a table that wouldn't make up their minds along with a party of 6 and two funny old guys who wanted a refill on their Cosmopolitan Martini.

So there I was busily moving around trying to keep up when I noticed that the bartender was just as busy and couldn't get to making my drinks. Being a bartender myself, (a whole other blog about that will follow soon) I jumped behind the bar and got to work on 2 Cosmos. I got them all shaken (not stirred) leaving just the lime wheel to do. We always have a problem keeping sharp knifes to cut fruit in the bar. I don't know where they end up, but they disappear all the time. I blame the bar gnomes on that issue, as before that is best left for another entry. I grab the knife and got to town on the limes. (as a side bar I hate cutting knifes as they are always tough skinned) No sooner did I cut the first one when the lime slipped on the second one causing it to roll and fall creating the knife to slice down on the next best thing...my fingers.

All I could do was start laughing and wince. The bartender just happened to be there after it happened and I told her that she needed to come finish the limes as something came up. I go booking it to the back knowing that I don't have time for this due to a new table and 4 others that are in various stages. Slugger, my boss was in the back and I asked him to get the band aids. There I am rinsing my fingers off, oh yeah it was a two finger injury, and holding them high up with pressure applied.

I wish I would have thought about it as I would have snapped a few shots of the action with the only free hand.

My good friend Emily was the 4 o'clock server and thankfully showed up and took the party of 6. Then the bleeding wouldn't stop and I got some of it on the sink side so Slugger went and cashed out all the tables that were ready to leave. In the end I was able to bandage the fingers and cover the hand up with a glove, yeah I was totally rocking the rubber gloved version of Michael Jackson. I can say I was very concerned that I wouldn't be able to fully give myself to the Rock Band event later that night with two damaged fingers, but we never got to the Rock Band so I was safe. I did manage to go home with a nice, clean, super sanitized left hand and a right hand that smelled of bleach and sanitizer from cleaning the sink up. That was discovered at the Saturday evening adult session of Stake Conference.

Here are a couple pictures I took the following morning as I was changing the bandages. I must have gone deeper than I thought as the light bleeding continued till this morning when I finally ceased band-aid wearing.

After looking at the photo's you might call me a baby and say they are nothing but a mere slice. Let me remind you that this was taken the day after, and I heal rather quickly. Also the pictures don't do justice. The middle finger was way bad as the knife went down and under (like it went under and forward at the same time) the skin pretty deep. Index finger got off with just a graze.

Monday when it came time to work the bar again I was rather reluctant to use the super sharp knife on limes.

Well I must run I have plans for a future injury and have to work out the details.

Cheers!

-Gawdun

Theme Song for my Nepal Trip

Yup two posts in one day your all lucky. Don't worry this one is a fun one unlike the A-Team bash I posted earlier. :-)

Macy Gray is one of my favorite music artists out there. There is a whole lot of singers out there but very few music artists these days. Macy is one of the few. I mean this lady's got style of her own and that is rockin awesome! She don't care what is said she just does it, sings it and wears it. Also she has some of the funnest videos, it's almost like she is a a kid in a grown persons body. (I think she took the advice of Mamma Cass from her one song, "Make Your Own Kind of Music." I try all the time to do such).

Her new album drops in stores and iTunes on June 22nd but two singles are out as of now. The first one called "Beauty in the World" came out in March. This song is amazing! Seriously great message in it. Then I saw the last part of the video the other day and found video eye candy. So far this is the best song of the year so far considering all the earthly issues we have seen and dealt with. Enjoy it!

This song seriously is my Nepal Trip theme song for sure.

*I am still in need of donations for my Nepal Humanitarian Trip. Just $10 would help if that is all you can give. Please click HERE to donate and learn a bit more about this adventure I am embarking on to make the world better

-Gawdun

I Smell A Flop

"Hospital Beds"

-Cold War Kids

The summer movie season is officially in full swing. May normally begins this event and there are already great movies out there, Iron Man 2 and Robin Hood are among those gems. However I reflect back to a few summers ago, 2005 to be exact. The offender of horrible films... Dukes of Hazzard. I did not hear many good things about it and from all the trailers and reviews I read, I managed to skip it safely and enjoy the rest of that summer. Now jump to this year (2010)...

A Team.

I wasn't very sure about it when I heard the idea to make a movie out of a classic TV show. Then I saw a trailer for it and thought ok maybe this movie has potential. Boy I jumped the gun in thoughts. Thanks be to the commercial kings, they revealed to me the best commercial to prove that I will more than likely skip it. Just wait till the end of the trailer as you will see what turned me off from this.

I know there are many movies with horrible special effects but tanks shooting in the air! C'mon! My first response when I saw this was laughter. There must have been a meeting around the writers desk about ways to create more action. Why they created that scene is beyond me. Besides all that the only talented actor in this film happens to be Liam Neeson. All the rest are either eye candy for ladies and objects for guys to say "Man I need to hit the gym to look like that."

If I end up seeing this it will be with my little brother who does want to. Then it will be once it has arrived at the $2.00 theater. I know it will still be supporting a more retarded sequel but that will be the only way I see it, also if friends tell me it's actually worth it will I consider paying $7.50

Enjoy to all them that do see it. Hope tanks flying in the air entertains you.

"Valnetino"

-Diane Birch

-Gawdun