Aaaaahhhhhhh......

So the party is over. The kids have gone home. The house is quiet. All that's here is me. If your reading this...and you know who you are,

Thank you all for coming, I appreciate you letting me change everyones plans so that my boys would be a bit more comfortable.

Mom, you learned about the shocker tonight, now please just trust us on this and lets be careful about how/when you talk about tossing salads.

Jin Hahn,
T

So Sad, You'll Cry a Little...

Apparently, to me a blog is very similar to a list, or I just happen to think in list form.

Anyway, here is a playlist I made a while back, i always play it when I'm feeling down, and for some strange reason it makes me feel better.

In case you are wondering, no, I'm not feeling down, I was clicking through my itunes and saw the playlist title and smiled, so I thought I'd pass it along in case you are having a Blue Christmas.

BTW- This is like "The Wall" you can't play it in shuffle mode.

You're Missing--Bruce Springsteen
Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning--Willie Nelson
Hopeless--Dionne Farris
Nothing Compares 2 U--Prince
End of the Road--Boyz 2 Men
When I Need You--Leo Sayer
Solitude -- Billie Holiday with Eddie Heywood & His Orchestra
Aint No Sunshine When She's Gone--Sting
Forever Blue--Chris Isaak
Anna Begins--Counting Crows
If I Should Fall Behind--Bruce Springsteen
Gone Til November--Wyclef Jean
The Nearness Of You--Norah Jones
At This Moment--Billy Vera & The Beaters
Real Love--John Lennon


Okay, so the first two songs are the saddest ever. If I were a sad song, I would strive for their perfection. But now as I actually look at the list, I guess it's the redemption that comes towards the end that makes e feel good. Bruce and Willie take you down so low you don't think you'll ever get back, and later chris makes you forever blue, but then slowly you begin to pull yourself out of it, and If I should ever fall behind is a beautiful love song, really about friendship I think, as now Bruce sings it to close out his shows with the E Street Band and they each take turns sharing a verse. If you're going to buy one version, I'd get a live version. And finally, real Love by John Lennon, is just a simple, beautiful love song.

Anyway, maybe I'll figure out how to make links to the iTunes store for these, or if you come over and ask, or pour me one, I'll burn you a copy.

Jin Hahn,
T

PS- I know that Sting didn't write Aint no sunshine, and I know that Nothing compares 2 U was a hit for Sinead, but I like these versions better- and the live Prince version of it kicks Ass. So take that Jerremy Stevens.

10 Things That Have to Make Me Laugh

10. My youngest son is one of the funniest people I know.

9 1/2. I ordered a pitcher of beer at trivia one night, and the bartender asked me if I needed glasses. I replied "Why, am I squinting?" ...Only, I wasn't trying to be funny.

9. I used to be a Narcoleptic, but now I'm a divorced. There is a correlation.

8. When I was a Narcoleptic, and I would tell people about my condition, I often said I was a Necrophiliac instead... Not on purpose.

7. Three Words. George Bush, President.

6. I hate pets, but every now and then, I wish I had one.

5. My boobs are bigger than yours.

4. My mom now reads my blog, so this one is for you... I once drank 20 gin and tonics, that I could count, and that doesn't include the doubles... Sometimes, the extra weight helps... of course the next day, I lost eight pounds. I probably shouldn't advertise that, I wouldn't want t to become a new diet fad. (ed. note - the 20 drinks were over a very, very long day - in the real world, they worked out to about 1 1/2 an hour, which for a guy my size, just keeps you feeling nice.)

3. That you are still trying to figure out which part of #4 has to make me laugh.

2. Ben Stiller Movies- Because otherwise they just make me cranky.

1. My ex-wife said that my kids could spend thanksgiving with me last year if I gave her $30,000.


See what I did there? Bitter and yet sweet.

Jin Hahn,
T

Why I Love Working from home...

1. The commute kicks ass!
2. I don't have to dress or shave for your meeting
3. I can finish my christmas shopping early in the morning and be back in my office working before 9 am.
4. On my Starbucks run (to the kitchen) I can do a load of laundry and dishes.
5. While my files are copying, I can wrap presents.
6. Because I leave the TV on while I work and I hear some seriously random shit. (I swear I didn't mis-hear these... thats another post all together)

Recently heard today.
1. "Because a trip to England without a trip to Scotland is just a trip to England" (Mikey- American Choppers)
2. "Do they eat sheep here? We've been eating lamb for three days, aren't sheep just baby lamb? No, Lamb are baby sheep, so I guess they must eat sheep here. (An exchange between Paul Jr and Paul Sr on American Choppers)
3. "I'm not taking anything off, not here or at home" (Meredith to David on the Today show- he was talking about her tipping christmas tree, but she obviously had too much egg nog.)

It's a long work day, I'm sure there will be more.

Gin Hahn!

He makes Me Laugh

I was reading Tucker Max's book "I hope they serve cold beer in hell" (or something like that.) On the plane back from Chicago a few months back and I laughed so hard, my shaking woke up the fat guy next to me. Which only made me laugh harder. It was all I could do not to wet my pants.

He has a blog entry about a night in a piano bar, and one about a midget convention that had me in stitches. Google 'em if you get bored. And its NSFW.

BTW- Please tell Katie to quit calling me. Do you ever wonder if they all laughed when priest said do you kate take... instead of calling her by her real name? Calling her Kate doesn't make us think that she's a woman and your age Tom. I'm all for dating younger girls, but for Hubbard's sakes Tom- she's too young for you. She'll be coming back to me soon enough and she and I will live nicely off the millions you'll be paying her for being your beard. Bitch.

Gihn Hahn-
T

I'm a selfish ASS!

Well if you know me, you know it can be true. I care about myself, and I'm not always worried about others. Take the case of my oldest, who I am extremely proud of. The problem is, I don't always take his feelings into account. Most of the time I do, and I let him do what he wants to, which like most young men his age is play video games and ignore adults.

More recently however, I am forcing him to have some mild interaction to people he doesn't like to be around. For the most part, he doesn't like to be around them because he is fiercely loyal to his mother (we are divorced and she didn't like my family), which is a good trait (the loyalty part). The problem for him, is that I've let him be sheltered for too long, and now when I don't let him have it the way he wants, he resents me and it ruins my weekend. (Unfortunately, he can be quite a bit like his mother)

Anyway I guess the thing is I want it all to be okay- I want everyone to be happy, but most of all I want to be happy. I deserve it. Parents don't always have to put their kids feelings first. Sometimes we are right. Sometimes I have to have a shitty weekend just to be right.

PS- So tonight, he knew the plans for the evening, and had decided he didn't want to come along. He wasn't interested in leaving his mom's house. And she wasn't exactly helping the situation as far as I could tell. If he didn't get in the car when he did (after about 10-15 minutes of "discussion")

I was left with two choices.
1- I let him stay home, he wins- and he gets to think that he has a say in who he spends time with, and maybe more dangerous-when he spends time with me.
2- I call the sheriff to enforce the parenting plan. Now I am an Ass, but both he and his mother know that I mean business- and my time is my time and not negotiable.

Feel free to leave a suggestion for option 3. I imagine this will come up again.

All in all- I'm an Ass, but I don't think I'm a bad dad. - BTW- I'll delete your post if you say I'm a good dad, or not an ass, thats not what this is about.


Gin Hahn,
Tim

Asked. And Answered.

To all those who wonder...

Yes, just on a different timetable than you might want, and yes- she's okay with it. We talk about things all the time, thats why we work.

Artie Lange is a comic genius.

And I cannot confirm or deny the vicious rumor that I drank all the gin in vegas last friday night, mostly because I cannot verify if they ran out, but I did give it my best effort.

If you ever get the choice- take the Kobe, its worth it.

The best wine I've had lately is 14 Hands. Its not too expensive and its really good, but I've only had it in a few restaurants and never seen it in a store. And, its from washington, I believe in drinking locally even when you aren't at home, its even more fun to drink non-locally local. makes you feel at home.

I'm now a VP. which scares me, cause all the VP's I know are Dicks....

No, I didn't see Britney or Paris in vegas, even though we went to Tao one of their hangouts, but like everyone else, there really isn't much more of Britney or Paris to see. Instead, my celebrity sightings consisted of Carrot Head (2x), Ron White (You can't fix stupid), Pete Rose, and the guy who plays Bobba Fett. I know, you're impressed. Now I have a friend, who will go unnamed, even though she would probably dig the publicity, who got her pic taken with Ron White. Why would you do that? I don't understand it. Do you send the pic to all your friends? Speaking for them, we don't care. Do you put it on your wall? It was digital, do people even print those out anymore? I'll never understand it, I'm not sure I understand our fascination with celebrity... Wait, I gotta go, Katie's calling me again, seems she's tired of squatting for photos.

Gin Hahn,
T

Jerramy Stevens is a Bitch!

And not in a good way. Okay- lets forget for a moment that while in Vegas last weekend, I bet in the sports book for the first time ever, and that my sure thing Seattle Seahawks let me down. Ignore the fact that I barely saw the game. And that I lost $50.

Jerramy (I don't know how to spell either of my two first names correctly) Stevens consistently disappoints me. Which is hard to do, because I expect nothing from him. But as I sit here and watch Thursday night football (I'll save Bryant Gumbel for another day) and he drops yet another catchable pass and makes another ass out of himself, all I can do is shout at the screen (which is a wonderful 42inch plasma) BITCH! You Useless BITCH! Jerramy- you're a friggin' BITCH!

Gin Hahn!

Welcome

Hey all friends and foes.

Just thought I'd let you know what to expect here. Actually, probably not a lot.

Occasionally you will see a flurry of the keyboard, mostly when I'm bored.

I won't put much up here often because I don't often think what I have to say will be very interesting to others. And there are a few out there, and they know who they are who will stalk me and haunt me for things I may say.

On the other hand I've always wanted to have a place to talk unedited about some of the things I like or have enjoyed.

I just got back from an amazing trip- maybe next post will have a few of the high points.

Peace for now-
T