Looking for holiday gift ideas for your favorite Josh? Here are a few items on my list:

Pretty bold title, right? I’d like to think I am a man of integrity, but I have come to realize that if you call me while I am sleeping and ask “did I wake you?” I will lie to your face. I don’t know why I do it. Not only do I say “no, you didn’t wake me,” I try to sound like I was awake all along. I try to rationalize this lie in my mind by thinking “technically no, you didn’t wake me, my ringing phone did.” I don’t have a good explanation for this behavior, but I just wanted to come clean about it.

Fact, I spend anywhere from 5 to 10 hours online, daily. It seems every aspect of my life is affected somehow by the Internet. From electronic gizmos to cars, I shop for everything I need online. Well today I conducted an experiment of sorts. I usually like Pizza Hut pizza best when it comes to delivered food, and the convenience of online ordering just means one less person to talk to and less of a chance of my order being wrong. Well, today I thought I would try something different. After being swayed by Papa John’s 3 Meat Italian Pizza ads, I thought I would order that instead. Now I don’t like Papa John’s at all, but I thought I would give them another try since they spent all that money on their advertisement… but Keely is still hooked on the P’Zone from Pizza Hut. So a competition was born. Which pizza place would bring us our dinners the fastest?

6:59pm I submitted my order on the Papa John’s website: One Large Italian 3-Meat Pizza. The Papa John’s store is 3.4 miles from my house. 6:59pm still, I place the order on the Pizza Hut website: One Pepperoni P’Zone and a single order of Cinna-sticks. Pizza Hut is 3.0 miles from my house. It was probably 20 to 30 seconds between submitting each order. The race was on.

7:35pm the doorbell rings. And the winner is… Papa John’s… but wait, what’s that pulling up in front of my house less than 20 seconds later? None other than the Pizza Hut guy. Considering the 20 or 30 second lapse in time from submitting the orders, it was a dead tie! But now comes the social awkwardness of the two pizza guys meeting face to face. I have a feeling this is what it feels like to get caught cheating. What were they going to say to each other? Would there be a fight? What was going to happen? Here’s what happened, the Pizza Hut guy went up to the Papa John’s guy… and shook his hand. Now I don’t know if he was conceding defeat, or if there is some secret society of pizza delivery guys, but this mysterious act of kindness reminds me that no matter what differences we may have with other people, no matter what we look like on the outside or what side of the tracks we come from, deep down inside… Papa John’s pizza will always suck! I now remember why I stopped ordering from them in the first place. The pizza was so bland. Long live Pizza Hut!

Hit the 30 year mark today. Woohoo!

Keely and I decided to try something new for lunch a couple Sundays ago. Neither of us wanted anything heavy so we thought we would get a sandwich. Initially, we were going to go to Jimmy John’s, but Keely suggested we try Firehouse Subs since we had both never been there. We pulled into the parking lot and I immediately didn’t want to go in because the doors and windows in front were filthy. It looked like somebody used the mayonnaise towel to clean the glass. I had put the car in reverse and got ready to leave, but fortunately Keely calmed me down and we went it. Long story short, I ordered the Turkey Sub and have been there about 6 times in the last two weeks. The food is great, and the front doors and glass have been thoroughly cleaned since that first trip. Firehouse Subs receives the highly coveted Josh’s World Seal of Approval.

This is Jax. He’s our new dog. He enjoys walks, eating treats, and he is very involved in our HOA. Ok, that’s not entirely true, I don’t think he likes walks that much. I think that is because he thinks we might be going for a drive, which seems to be terrifying for him.

In other news, I’ve updated the Photo Gallery- added about 40 new pictures (mostly under the People section). Enjoy.

Hi friends, it’s me, Josh. I am just writing to give you an update on what’s going on. Currently, the time is 7:00pm exactly. I am listening to Ben Folds “Jesusland” and relaxing online style. I learned a great trick yesterday that makes me less tired during the day. It’s called going to bed early. Last night I went to bed around 10:30. And today, I didn’t feel the need to take a nap. I did manage to take one anyway- but it was only 15 minutes or so. Now I am listening to Anberlin “Fin”. Ken turned me on to this song. It’s like 9 minutes long. I love good, long songs. Weezer “Only In Dreams” is another good long song that I don’t get tired of too easily. I can’t think of any others right now.

In other news, we got a new dog. We are calling him Jax. He is a mix of collie and German shepard. I will post pictures of him soon. We got him from a collie rescue place. We also recycle plastic bottles. Truly, we are saving the planet. Apparently 9 minutes have gone by since I told you about the Anberlin song because a new song is on, Fishboy “Louis The Bear”. Here’s a great story about Fishboy… I discovered Fishboy from a website that features bands from Dallas (or the Dallas area) and I listened to this song called “Cheer Up Great Pumpkin”. I liked it and then I checked out the band’s website and they had some other good songs. A few months go by and I am at the band’s website again and they have this video about Fishboy so I start watching it. Keely is in the room when they start interviewing Fishboy’s parents and she goes “That’s my aunt & uncle.” So it turns out that Fishboy is Keely’s cousin. So that was weird/funny/coincidental. In case you’re wondering what’s playing from the playlist now, it’s Alphaville “Big In Japan”. I’d visit Japan if I didn’t have to pay for it. I think I would also like to go to England or Australia. Other than those places, I think there is plenty to see in the good ol’ USA. Well I am going to wrap things up. Jax just walked into the room and then left. Ben Folds “The Luckiest” is on. I guess he doesn’t like this track. Oh well. The time is now 7:22pm. Kryzak out.

I feel a special kinship with people who order their steaks medium-rare. After watching some reruns of Friends, I’ve realized no sitcom can live up to the standard that was set by that show. My favorite type of pasta in penne. I will never buy a McAfee product, nor should you. 98% of reality TV annoys me. I consider broadcast news reality TV. I highly recommend Danny’s Imports for service of your Acura or Honda. I love being married. “Penne” is not in my spellchecker dictionary, and I probably won’t add it. I wish they made those kids shoes with the wheels in the heels in an adult size 12. I stole this random-statement-style blog post from somebody on MySpace. He probably stole it from somebody else.

Wow, I had no idea how popular my website was getting. Did you know over the last 45 days, over 1500 comments were posted to this site? Can you believe that!? And did you know that 100% of those comments were spam? That’s ridiculous! It amazes me how far these idiots will go to get email into my inbox. I wonder if spammers get mad when they receive spam.