Ah, life...

Life offers us lots of decisions and no way to know if we're making the right one until the day to make said decision is long past and we're either celebrating our successes or, more often, lamenting our failures. Case in point:

Someone, somewhere somehow, convinced John Leguizamo (I probably butchered the spelling, sorry) to play Luigi in the movie version of Super Mario Bros, a classic that I consider the single biggest name in video game history but an absolutely awful movie. John obviously had some other option to pursue when this movie presented itself to him, but he decided no, he'd rather play the part of an apprentice plumber who falls in love with a girl who hatched from an egg and was a descendent of reptiles.

And, of course, the very same movie features Dennis Hopper as the dreadful King Koopa, who really shows no signs of being a reptile, except of course for his blonde hair, which he keeps neatly bound in cornrows. This world has really done a poor job of exploring the possibility of turning its enemies into a fungus.

Moral of the story: Even successful people make really bad decisions. I'd say that's about it. I'm going to bed now.

Randomness concludes. This has been KL Snow.

Well, I don't have a lot of time right now, but here's what's up:

First day of classes today...it's really kinda sad that I went to my first one and then had the urge strike to skip the rest of them...I'm holding it off...for now.

Things on the home front are pretty good. Peace reigns in most of my relationships, so I've got that going for me, which is nice. (Caddyshack reference)

Tonight J.D. Fox and myself are calling the Drake women's basketball game against Illinois State, which probably doesn't interest anyone who regularly reads my blog, but it is a possibility to hear my voice for those of you who have not. You can check it out at drakebroadcasting.com . Gametime is at 7 for those of you within the Central Time Zone.

I was planning on trying to write something funny to put in here today cause my blog hasn't been very funny in a long time, but before I could do it Ryan came through in the clutch for me without even knowing I needed him to. He found something I wrote years ago, which he had for some reason saved all this time. Ryan, you're the man. Here they are, the rambling thoughts of the young mind of he who had not yet become KL Snow.

Oh before I start, this was Ryan's introduction to it:

This is from January 14th, 2000. It was in my saved
e-mail folder or something like that... the ramblings
of a yound klsnow... hahahaha
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and now, here it is:

I don't think I've ever had as many strange thoughts
go through my mind in one day as I've had today. So I
thought I'd send them out to all of you, maybe you'll
be amused, maybe you'll just become convinced I'm
mentally ill, or maybe you deleted them in your inbox.
In any way, however you choose to use them, have fun,
and don't abuse warped thoughts, because for every
twisted thing you think, there's a twisted person
somewhere who happened to like that idea. :)

If I ever become immortal, I'm going to go lay down in
the middle of the interstate, and wait for someone to
hit me at about 100 MPH. Then, when they stop to see
what they hit, I'm going to jump up and ask them "Is
that all you've got?"

When the first caveman saw snow, I wonder what he
thought it was. Maybe he thought "Damn, I knew that
Head and Shoulders wouldn't work."

I hope primitive hunter-gatherer type people never
move into my front yard, because if they do, my weiner
dog doesn't stand much of a chance.

I wonder who was the first kid ever to get his eye
shot out by a BB gun he was too young to have.

If it's really cold outside, and you have a runny
nose, does your nose freeze solid?

I wonder what the first caveman ever to get his tongue
stuck to a flagpole thought.

I miss the days of the old west, when towns were few
and far between, and the buffalo could fly over the
rivers with their little wings, which we later
brutally tore off in the search for a good meal.

America creates 25% of the world's trash. What do all
the other countries do with their junk?

I wish Japanese-speaking people were subtitled in real
life, like they are in movies, so there would be one
less language in the world to learn.

If evolution is a natural process, with creatures
adapting to their surroundings to make life easier,
can we expect animals to be born with tank barrels
sticking out of their heads?

I wish I had man-eating sheep. No reason, I just wish
I did.

If radiation eventually causes all the fish to grow 3
eyes, will someone someday flip out because they
caught a fish with 4 eyes?

Cordless phones may be the greatest invention ever.
Now, not only can we avoid traveling by talking to
someone on the phone, we can take that phone with us,
and avoid traveling without ever getting out of bed.

Last year, I turned 16. I counted the days until I
turned 16, because I could get my license. Then I had
to wait until almost 2 months later to get it anyway.
I wonder if, when I turn 21, they'll make me wait
until July 1 to buy alcohol too.

Humor concludes. This has been KL Snow.

Hey, update on last night's post:

Things are better. I was a little drunk and more than a little paranoid when I wrote last night's post and it caused me to overreact to a few things. It's easy to be fearless when you've never been hit and you've never known pain...after you experience it a few times you move a little quicker to defend yourself. With that said, I'm sorry if I scared anyone or brought anyone down with that post. Things are better now.

I don't have a whole lot else to give today. So I guess I'll wrap it up.

This has been KL Snow.

I don't think I've posted since the New Year so now would probably be a good chance to say I don't know it's 2004 yet cause I didn't watch the Rose Bowl. So happy extended 2003.

With that said, for the most part the previous year's extension has been good to me. New Year's in Milwaukee was nice for the most part, the New Year's party I attended with Laura was a little weak but everything else we did was fun so it all evens out.

As it turns out Laura and I parted ways on Thursday afternoon and I turned around and drove back to Appleton to pick Laura up on Friday and took her to Minocqua. Our weekend at home was awesome, spent 2 days in town and really did nothing other than play with the puppy and hang out together...very relaxing and I'm very glad it worked out that way...sadly, I won't see Laura again til we're back in Des Moines, but at least we got to spend some time together before we had to part for a week.

And, as it turns out, it's also a really good thing I brought a friend home with me. Cause I found out I don't have nearly as many friends at home as I had previously counted on. Case in point:

I hadn't heard from anyone at home since before New Year's when Laura and I arrived in town on Friday night. But I wanted Laura to meet as many people as possible so I showed up Saturday night someplace where I assumed it'd be a safe bet people would be hanging out. What I found instead was a party. Talk about embarassing. I've been telling Laura for weeks about my friends at home and when I get home, and go to introduce her to them, I'm forced to admit that the people I've been talking about for weeks planned a going away party and DIDN'T EVEN FUCKING CALL ME. I'm not asking for anyone to drag me to this party or save me a seat or a slice of pizza but generally when you have friends, and they plan something, they make some effort to contact you. It was my last night in Minocqua and all of a sudden I was really happen to have someone else to spend it with. If any of you guys read this, which I'm almost sure you won't, thanks for the fair warning. I know now who I don't have to bother to call the next time I'm in town.

I'll be back in Des Moines on Wednesday night.

Rant concludes. This has been KL Snow.