And no… I’m not talking about discovering North America, and finding corn, and killing indians.

I’m talking about: www.steven-sanders.com

Who’s with me?

1. Funny t-shirts

2. Anything related to Office Space

3. Unique and Weird little toys or items (things that make people stop and mess with it while showing an air of intrigue)

4. Cookbooks with amazing recipes (I love to cook food that no one has heard of before, and that really wows them when they try it)

5. Massages (I could really use one right now)

6. Money (If I didn’t list that, this list would be a lie - who the hell doesn’t like money)

7. Sex (But you probably shouldn’t do this one because it might cause my wife might get mad)

8. Vodka (or smirnoff twisted green apple malt liquor).

9. Hilarious bathroom reader books.

10. I can eat thousands of sour punch straws at a time (they sell these by the jar at Walmart).

Bonuse Info:  The wife says to list - GAP, Banana Republic, American Eagle, Hollister as my favorite stores, and the color blue as my favorite color.

Okay, I think that about covers what I can think of.  Should I think of more things, I hereby reserve the right to make additions to this list.

I know that would bring it over 10, but damn it… I should get to do what I want on occasion (but only if the wife says I can).

Everyone that sat down at their computer, found my giveaway (and the hundreds of others that were going on), and commented, linked back to me, or wrote posts about my giveaway, has a bad back. What?!?

Surely not every single person that commented on my blog has back problems.  But maybe they do… who am I to say that they are telling the truth or not.  Hell, I have a couple of back issues myself.

But it did get me to wondering, besides the ones who have had accidents that caused the injuries, whether this damn computer and internet surfing craze that seems to have taken the world by storm might have something to do with it.

Should we find a reason to sue microsoft, or dell, or apple, or the famous president who seems to think he created the internet?  Is there some bit of evidence to support us in blaming them?  Who knows.  Not me.

I’d love to hear your comments on the subject.  Tell me your opinions on the internet & computers vs. the numerous health risks it causes.

Oh, and one final word:

I’m sure you’re all anxiously awaiting to hear who the winner was of my Heated Seat Back Massager giveaway.

Congratulations: Miss Blondie (Comment # 102) from www.goodgollymissblondie.blogspot.com

You are the fabulous winner.  I will be sending you an email and I hope that you will blog about your winnings

 Here at DadSpeed.com we are giving away a Heated Seat Back Massager with Adjustable Lumbar Support.

This is a “make me feel wonderful” back massager. It has tons of features including:

FULLY PORTABLE…..  plugs into outlet and cigarette lighters in your car

AIR LUMBAR SUPPORT…… has a remote so you can pump air into it to conform to your body

3 MASSAGE ZONES…… upper, middle, lower back

Has SOOTHING HEAT

5 MASSAGE SETTINGS

FULL SIZE

Add your comment to this post and you will be automatically entered to win this amazing giveaway!

Add a link back to this blog on your blog and get double entries!

Write a blog post about my giveaway, and win triple entries!

That means you could have up to 6 entries to win this great giveaway!

For other exciting giveaways, visit: www.bloggygiveaways.com.

My wife over at http://www.bosssanders.com/ is giving away some things as well.  Check her out!

I was trying to laugh about something that hurts… only to try and make it less painful.  I’ve been doing it my whole life, and it works… temporarily… but it never really fixes anything.

It’s funny how you remember pain… and the exact moment it starts.  I’m not talking about physical pain… but emotional.

Sometime I wonder, if I wasn’t so laid back and easy-going, where all of the remarks and jokes would have taken me.  Maybe somewhere I could never come back from?  Luckily I don’t think about that sort of thing, although I understand how some could.

Like I said, I can easily remember the start of everything.  It happened the same year that I moved to a new school… a new high school… a new grade…. ninth.

As a freshmen in high school there are alot of tough things to go through… but to have to deal with those new things along with meeting everyone here for the first time in my life… it was most especially difficult.

I remember sitting in Algebra 1… second row from the chalkboard, second seat back.  It’s almost as if it were yesterday.  A girl sitting in front of me leans over to her friend and whispers (rather loudly), “He stinks.”  It was like a punch in the gut… all of the breath inside me had escaped, and I couldn’t get it back, no matter how hard I tried.

I took showers… I wore deodorant… I wore cologne… I brushed my teeth.  Apparently this didn’t help.  I became self conscious for the first time in my life.

Up until this day I wore what I wanted… I fixed my hair how I had always done… since Kindergarten.  But after the comment she made… my eyes opened up to the real world… the harsh world, and I began to think what I was wasn’t good enough.

I got a new hairstyle, new clothes, and began to act differently… all just to fit in.  My parents told me if I wanted to continue to get these new clothes… I would have to buy them myself.  So I did.

As time went on… I became more and more picky about my hair and my clothes… I was turning into those kids that I never really hung out with before.

My parents started to tease me all the time… my family too.  They would tell me I was gay because of my OCD with my hair… my need for my clothes to be perfect.  Years passed… all the while… never going more than a week without hearing jokes from my own family that I was gay… that I acted girly.  Hearing my sister call me zit face all the time.  It hurt… it really did.  To know that someone who loved me so much would treat me this way… would make fun of me.

The kids in school no longer made fun of me… but now my parents were.  Would it never end?  No!

Since high school… I guess I’m still picky about my hair and my clothes… I still have bad acne problems.  I’ve tried everything  under the sun to get rid of it… but no luck.  I’ll be 25 years old this year and I still feel like I’ve got the skin of a 16 year old.  I’ve given up on hope that it will ever change.

Since getting married… it seems I’ve gained some weight… about 40 lbs.  So on top of still being picked on about my hair… or my clothes from my parents… they now constantly point out how fat I am.  You’ve all seen pictures of me I’m sure… and if you haven’t… there are some somewhere on the internet.  I’m not a big guy… but that still doesn’t stop them from the jokes.  It still doesn’t stop me from hurting everytime I hear someone tell me that it looks like I’ve gained some weight… or poking fun about it.

I wish they would just stop!  I know they love me… I know they would never want anything bad to happen to me.  But they hurt me everytime that I hear them making fun.  Will it ever end… I don’t know.  Should I just get over it… maybe.

But it’s hard to just ignore it and keep going.  It hard to get over something that hurts so much.

I guess it would have been easier to just post a funny picture to make you all laugh… to make me laugh… but I didn’t.  You all now know me.  Not the person on the outside… but the one on the inside.

So you can imagine my WANT to have an at home Server.  Not only to back-up important files, but to also be able to work remotely from anywhere we are when hooked to our router, and to have the ability of versioning (simply put - we could roll a changed file back to a previous version).

I’ve been looking at different options, and this is the one that I’ve decided on.

500GB Media Vault MV2120 Home Server

Not only does it have a 500GB capacity for storage, but it also has two USB 2.0 ports on it, which allows me to add additional external hard-drives for even more storage. I already have a 320GB external drive and a 150GB portable drive that I would add to it, giving me a hell of a lot of storage space.  Rock on!

The best part of this particular server is that it’s cheap.  Servers can get expensive, so you can imagine my surprise when I found this one for only $293.99 on eCost.com.  An amazing product at an amazing price!

Click here to find out more about this HP Server!

Ashley and I had a great time.  Best we’ve had in a while.  It was great to spend some time together off the computer.  We spend a vast amount of time on the computer and putting it down was kind of scary (joking).  Almost like we would die if we got disconnected even for the slightest amount of time. (Danger… Danger!  Will Robinson)

 But we survived, so Thanks for the great idea!  And thanks for the awesome award!

For those of you who don’t know what in the hell I’m talking about… don’t worry, we need confused people in the world.

If you aren’t interested in being one of those confused, then Learn How to Rock the Power-Down.

You ask me a medical question and I’ll give you an answer you probably don’t want to hear… In fact it’ll probably make you 10% dumber for having listened to me.

So what are you waiting on?  Click Ask Dr Dad to your right and wait in suspence for the dumbest answers you’ve every heard… unless you’ve ever been to a doctor before… then those are probably the dumbest answers you’ve ever heard.

We are about to launch our product… and I can proudly say, as the senior web developer and graphic designer, that I had a big hand in everything you see and even some of how the application functions.

It feels so awesome knowing that when a farmer picks up this Rugged Handheld system they will see my Graphical User Interface.  It’s kind of like the feeling of being famous, but without all the publicity.  Very cool!

 Here is one of our videos explaining a little bit about the FarmLogic System.  You can also find it on our website (designed by yours truly).  Visit:  www.farmlogic.com

 *Side Note: This is not a picture of me*