Here’s a picture of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington from our seats on the first row of the 3rd deck. Chris Kellerman had planned on coming to a get together at Katie and I’s on Saturday and had completely forgotten. His way of making it up to me was treating me to a Rangers game in the cheap seats (which I think are great, you can see everything). This picture was taken right after Hunter gave up a home run on the second pitch of the night. After that he proceeded to redeem himself and give up that one run in 7 innings pitched as the Rangers went on to thump the Tigers 5-2 and break their losing streak against Detroit this season.

Here is a picture of the new Cowboys Stadium that can been seen from the West facing roof of the Ballpark. I can’t wait until I can go to a game, concert, ANYTHING at this place, it’s so awesome.

This is Rob. He’s the son of a former co-worker of mine. This grad session was his gift from Mom for having to do the standard “in studio” senior pictures that I know felt awkward to me when I was in high school. He played football for Centennial High and will be reporting for Div. II ball in Oklahoma starting this summer.

He wanted to get a few shots outside of Pizza Hut Park because that’s where Centennial played some of their games. Whether it was as the home or away team I don’t remember.

Oh, and much credit goes to Joseph and Melanie Behnke for letting me borrow their camera.

But apparently along with all this greatness came tons of depravity.

Either this stuff just didn’t get reported, my parents kept me intelligently sheltered from it, or I just didn’t know. I am naive. There are so many things I didn’t know about these, MY, Dallas Cowboys from the early 90′s. I, unfortunately, am not sickened by any of it. I guess it’s just that nothing really shocks me all that much. However, it’s truly fascinating to me. I tend to enjoy biographical literature more so than fiction. I am a big fan of seeing what is behind the scenes. That’s why I love the Special Features on a DVD/Blu-ray, or watching How It’s Made on the Discovery Channel or any number of it’s children stations. Oh yeah, I own and have read Hulk Hogan‘s and both of Mick Foley‘s “auto-biographies” because being behind the scenes and seeing how things got to where they are now is fun for me.

How ’bout Dem Cowboys!

Photo Credit: Jeff Pearlman

My Dad got Katie and I tickets to a Stars game and I wanted to thank him again for that. Regardless if the Stars win or lose when I go to a game it’s always a great time. I got three birthday cards from Katie’s side of the family on Friday when I got home from work and immediately called them all to say thank you. I wanted to start off on the right foot and not give them the impression that their little Katie married a schlub although I’m sure plenty of you think she did!

Katie waited up ’til midnight with me so I could open my presents. She got me an Iron Gym and the book Boys Will Be Boys. I had been wanting that book for a while but hadn’t been able to find it. If you can see that picture of the book close enough and look at the hat that Troy Aikman is wearing in the celebratory Super Bowl shot then you will see one of my cherished pieces of clothing when I was a kid. I thought it was SO COOL to have a hat that my Cowboys wore after winning one of their three Super Bowls in the 90′s.

I’m looking forward to my birthday dinner and movie date with Katie later today and then a joint birthday family dinner for my mom and I later in the week. I also wanted to say thank you to every one else who sent cards and well wishes through Facebook, I really appreciate it.

I will let this video speak for itself. I guess it’s true when Aggies say you just can’t understand from the outside looking in. They are right. I can’t and I never will understand.

UPDATE 1: Rob V. has claimed one of the tickets, one is still left!

UPDATE 2: My Dad snatched up the last remaining ticket, we are all booked up now!

My Mom surprised me earlier in the week with tickets to the Dallas Desperados game tonight knowing that we’d be in town job hunting for work. I had one interview and Katie had two yesterday and then three school district job fairs all over the metroplex today. Well, getting to go to the game tonight was definitely something that was fun to take our minds off of everything and just have a good time. We did. We watched the Desperados beat the Cleveland (formerly Las Vegas) Gladiators 58-48.

Apparently they do a promotion at every game that if Dallas wins and scores at least 40 points then everyone gets a free Medium cheese pizza from Papa Johns to be redeemed on a Monday or Tuesday. Unfortunately it’s only for Dallas area residents of which Katie and I hopefully soon will be. Anyways, it was a great time in Dallas this weekend as always and we hope to be finding gainful employment hear soon for after the wedding.