Why Footballers are wussies!

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/gamecast?id=264040&cc=5901&ver=us

You have to click on the red card on the time line below the video screen to play the video. The Greece player really needs to work on his fake pain reaction time! If you watch the slow-mo replay, he doesn’t even really catch his leg, and the Greece player is like, oh yeah I have to fall down now…Ha.

I have been watching some of these games and came to the conclusion that apart from Wayne Rooney, and that crazy Zidane guy, all footballers are wussies! They flop down on ANY contact and immediately turn to the official like "He Hit me Daddy!"

Soccer players (ehem…Footballers) would never last on a Rugby Pitch, lol. I can say this because I played Rugby at UT and these footballers flop down at the slightest touch…they are like a whole field full of the best acting American Football Punters I’ve ever seen.

That being said….I have rather enjoyed watching the World Cup thus far….I just hope the US at least advances to the next round.

2 Years and COUNTING!

Today was our (my wife and I) 2 year anniversary (legally). We got married by the JP in Austin Texas on May 23rd 2008.


So we spent the day like any normal couple would....shopping at Ross Dress For Less! Ha, Jamie got a dress to wear to our real anniversary next week, which is May 30th (the day of our actual ceremony).

We had lunch/dinner at Trudy's, complete with a genuine Texas Mexican Martini and Margarita! Woo-hoo! Desert was a trip down Burnet road for Hey Cupcake!'s newest addition, the Sweetberry! Which is a strawberry cake topped with strawberry cream-cheese icing, yum! I mean anytime you can buy a cupcake out of an Airstream Silver Bullet Trailer...do it. Unless your in Gholson, the "cakes" may not really be "cakes"



I'll end this post by saying you know you are in a good marriage, when you can spend the whole day doing nothing at all, but it still means everything and is the best day of your life!

Controversy (NOT curiosity) Killed the Cat!!

It is in the best interest of, well everyone....to keep the controversial dinner conversations for the politicians. Convo's such as abortion, religion, and immigration laws, are best left alone when mixing beer, burgers, and buddies at the pool! There is no RIGHT answer and the night ends with a BANG!

A little blurb on Engineering....the Right Way

Okay, so before I got accepted to the school of engineering at UT, I didn't really have an idea of what engineering was. In fact my idea of engineering was taking things that weren't supposed to go together, and rigging them to fit serving a purpose. Which I guess technically IS engineering, but my view of "RED-neck engineering" was a little different then what I expected. I mean my former athletic coach used to "engineer" our hurdles from PVC Pipe....thats REAL engineering there!




Anyways, I though that I would say that engineering school, was much more computationally extensive than hands on. My last semester I had some design classes where we "designed" an unmanned aerial vehicle system, and then I had a design class where we got to actually fabricate some parts, made of wood, and break them!

There ARE some really cool clubs you can join. like the Design, Build Fly Team - which is a club where you Design, Build and Fly (imagine that- the name is SOOO misleading!) a remote controlled airplane. There was also the Longhorn Rocket Association, which build and launched rockets (about 6 feet tall ones).

So there ARE hands on groups, but you have gotta have alot of free time on your hands.

Changed the Name....to a More (or less) Appropriate Title

We were at the pool, and I was explaining to my wife what I wrote on my Bio for facebook and SHE had the brilliant idea for my blog's name. You see we realized that EVERYTHING happens for a reason; and my move to the BIG City of Austin was just treatment for my illness of being a home-grown, pure-bred redneck.

About ME: I was born and raised in the watermelon patches of Gholson, Texas. A small town of about 1,000 people (now). No post-office, only one store (which my brother now owns), a river (full of numerous catfish, beer cans, and the ONE AND ONLY Corbet Turner).

I went to High School in West, Texas. No not El Paso, W-E-S-T comma Texas. Gholson did not have a high school so they shipped our sorry a$$'s off to West which is home to the one and only Czech Stop (Yeah I know - NOW you remember).

So my move to Austin has been weening me off of my redneck ways.....no more "noodling" for me.



That being said, I have officially changed the name of this blog to "Redneck Rehab"

The Few. The Proud.

So......since the engineering world seems to not want me, I have decided to pursue a career in the military. I am currently on trial to serve in the US Marine Corps. I have applied and am awaiting judgment on whether or not I get accepted to, what I believe to be the greatest leadership training the US has to offer. If accepted I will be going for a Naval Flight Officer slot.

For those of you NOT familiar with what that is: I would be "Goose" from Top Gun. (Yeah I know, I totally look more like Tom Cruise, but what can you do?)


The Navy and Marine Corps have, in recent years, went crazy on giving away pilot slots to applicants, and now have gotten Naval Flight School so backed up the Marines are offering no pilot contracts for a while! Therefore, I am going for NFO instead. It will still get me in the cockpit of a Jet though. Either an F/A-18 Hornet or a EA-6B Prowler, either would be AWESOME!


If I don’t get accepted as an air candidate, I will be applying for a ground position as well. If accepted for ground I am planning on trying for Infantry Officer, or Intelligence Officer, although I'm pretty sure for an Intel Officer, you have to have some intelligence to begin with, lol.

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
George S. Patton

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem."
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived." -- George Patton

Ed-YOU-My-Kay-SHuN!

After graduating from MCC in Waco with an associate’s degree, I attended school in Austin, TEXAS. My college experiences were limited to the cramped LRC of WRW building on UT campus, as well as the prehistoric wind tunnel and a thousand pounds of textbooks. While always busy in school, I still enjoyed it, we did get to fly a flight simulator.

I played on the UT Rugby team for a year, and found out that a bunch of sweaty guys tackling each other over a jacked-up looking football can be quite enjoyable! I also participated in the Air Force ROTC program for a semester.

I graduated from University of Texas-Austin in August of 2009. I got my Bachelors Degree in Aerospace engineering. Yeah I did it because I DID wanna be called a "ROCKET-SCIENTIST"


For those of you who don't know what aerospace engineering means. Let’s put it this way: with my newly obtained knowledge of material sciences, aerodynamic principles, and structural dynamics - I can build my own spaceship! Ha, I wish. I think you have to get at least a 3.8 GPA to qualify for that. I was close to that, before I started taking engineering classes at UT.

Basically, I COULD get a job for NASA, Boeing, or any other aerospace syndicate who would hire me. So far that has been a big goose-egg, but, hey everything happens for a reason right?

So on to the next chapter of my life! It’s a real page turner!