All About Bentley

Here are a few of my favorite things, and they are subject to change: Movies: Uncle Buck, The Shawshank Redemption, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Street Hooligans, Rudy Musicians: Jimi Hendrix, Metallica, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Beastie Boys, Green Day, Black Eyed Peas, Gnarls Barkley, John Mayer, Rascal Flatts, Puddle of Mudd Food: Pizza, hamburgers, pizza, mexican food, pizza, boneless buffalo wings, chicken cordon bleu. Places: My couch (sad but true), San Francisco, San Antonio, Washington D.C., my parents house with all my family, my in-laws house with all my in-laws, anywhere with my work buddies Drinks: Coke, Coke Zero, Dr.Pepper, Peach Tea, Hot Vanilla ...and pretty much the entire Starbucks menu Places to eat: Hideaway Pizza, Buffalo Wild Wings, Earls Rib Palace, Rainforest Cafe Things to do: Play Wii, hang out with my wife and kids, watch OU football, go to a Redhawks baseball game,

1. I grew up in Bartlesville, Oklahoma 2. I have 3 older sisters 3. I have no brothers 4. I played the trumpet from the 5-12 grade 5. I played football in the 9th grade, and I was very bad 6. I played baseball from 3-6 grade, and I was so-so 7. I played soccer from 6-8 grade, and I was very good 8. When I started college in 1987 I weighed 135 pounds 9. When I started the south beach diet in 2004 I weight 226 pounds 10. I lost 35 pounds 11. 4 years later I'm still maintaining, but I need to lose about 15 - 20 more 12. I love junk food (see number 9) 13. I love Mexican food 14. I have never been out of the country 15. I need to get out more 16. I am not very organized except for my dress shirts 17. I keep my dress shirts organized by sleeve length and pattern; solid long sleeve together, solid long sleeve plaid together, short sleeve stripe together, etc 18. I love OU Sooners football 19. On February 19, 2007 I bought my first HDTV 20. On February 18, 2008 I officially hooked up HD

That title might be a bit of an exaggeration. Saturday I was in my garage and I kept smelling this odd strong smell of plastic. Later that afteroon Deborah came in the house from some shopping and said the garage door wouldn't go down. We both went out and looked, I played with the sensors a little, and told her to try it again. She says "hey look there's smoke coming out of the garage door opener". Sure enough there was. I took the cover off the opener so I could look up at it and think "wow, look at all the shiny parts. I wonder what they do" and then had Deborah hit the button again. This time we saw some pretty sparks. Lots of them. And I noticed that the big circuit board had a hole burned right through it. With my vast knowledge of garage door openers I came to the following conclusion: "I think its broke". Growing up we never had a garage door opener (well we did, and its name was Scott) so I figured a few days of opening the door by hand wo

Ok men, here's an idea for Valentines day. I'm not talking about the expensive gifts, the elegant dinner, the dozen roses, anyone can do that, if you have the money. I'm talking about the little extras. Last year I just went out and bought a box of valentines like the kids give out at school. The kind you punch out and fold over and close with a sticker. I wrote sweet messages to my wife in each one, and then hid them everywhere I thought she would look. I put one in her purse, one in her coat pocket, one on the steering wheel of her car. I taped one to the orange juice bottle, one to the bathroom mirror. There were about 30 in all. She loved it. And I'm sharing this with you, because this year I cant think of anything to rival it and I need some help. Last year I basically set myself up for failure this year. I'm not that creative. I had one good idea and its been used. So, any ideas?

We went back to Pops this afternoon. This experience wasn't quite as great as last time. For starters we had to wait for about an hour. What we thought would be an off time for dining, it wasn't. Last time we got there about 4:00 and got seated within about 5 minutes. Today we thought if we got there even earlier there might be no wait at all. We were wrong. That's fine, we knew we just got lucky last time, and its fun to look around at all the different pop they have. While waiting to be seated Tanner and I both noticed a table of ladies who were all eating the chicken fried steak. It looked so good. And thats where the rest of the problems started. We both ordered it. It was the worst chicken fried steak I have ever had. It was tough, it was chewy, and it had no flavor at all. Poor tanner had a big bite in his mouth that he couldn't bring himself to swallow. He chewed on it for about 5 minutes before it ended up in his napkin. At $10 a plate I couldn't bring mysel

We had an interesting night last night. About 6:45 I got a call from a parent of a student my son goes to middle school with. Apparently another student, one that rides my sons bus never made it home yesterday afternoon. They were calling us to see if my son remembered seeing this boy on the bus, and he did. They called back about 5 minutes later to ask some more questions. Then at 8:15 two police officers came to our door and talked to my son for a few minutes just seeing what he remembered on the bus, who the kid might have been sitting with, that type of thing. My son doesn't really even know this kid, just rides the bus with him. They told us that the kid answered his cell phone when the parents were looking for him, but wouldn't say where he was and hung up, then wouldn't answer any more. That put us at ease a little bit because it sounded like the kid just took off, rather than being abducted. But after they left, then a police helicopter flew over our neighborhood