Ryan McFarland

It isn’t often that I write long blog posts but when I do I tend to get more comments. Too often I just post a picture or a link and I actually say nothing about myself. I shouldn’t be scared - you all have invites and are friends or strangers that were nice to me. And to me that’s the equivalent of a good friend. Some things I have been thinking about lately: I hate the misuse of the word “terrorist” by the current administration. Someone attacks US troops in a war zone and Bush calls them a terrorist. Hello. That’s called war. A terrorist should cause you and I to be afraid. You know, stuff like hijackers, random bombings, and inexplicable destruction. But are you or I actually terrorized by a roadside bomb in Iraq? No. I am typing this in Word so it is correcting my capitalization errors just in case you were wondering why it is I felt so self important today. The weather is cold and dry and that means every time I touch my office doorknob I get shocked. It is just like that scene in Office Space. My car computer drains my car battery when I don’t start the car for a week so when I leave town I have to disconnect the system at the battery. I still have not reconnected the setup so I’m listening to the same 146 song mp3 cd. There are about 15 songs on it that I want to constantly listen to. My beardlet is a little long and in 2009 the world mustache and beard championships will be in Anchorage. I think I might enter my flame beard in the freestyle goatee category. That contest is coinciding with the Iditarod race. I put moose meat in the crock pot before leaving the house today. This past Saturday I worked with a prospective Eagle Scout on his project - clearing a lot on Ira II for a new playground the City received a grant for. Later this week or early next week I’ll be leading the review of another Scout’s application to become and Eagle Scout. I just got a call from Herb asking if I could do a climbing class tonight. Cena and I started watching season one of Lost on dvd last night.