Sodomy at Bally's...

Okay.

Now this is pretty disgusting. I just got back from Bally's Total Fitness and witnessed something taking place that I wish I could take out of my memory. After working out, I walked into the locker room and witnessed one male performing oral sex on another male. It went on for about 30 seconds, about 10 feet from me - and finally, after I stood there and stared, they stopped and the guy pulled his shorts back up. It was DISGUSTING. I couldn't believe what I was witness to. I informed the Assistant Manager on duty and he said he had heard rumors of stuff like this taking place but since a manager didn't see it happen, it would be my word against theirs. They couldn't do anything. I called the police on the advice of Big E and met with an officer in the parking lot who informed me that they couldn't do anything because they were not witness to it.

Oral sodomy is a FELONY in the Commonwealth of Virginia with a maximum imprisonment of up to 5 years. I could understand if one's lifestyle is their own business and these acts are commited in privacy, but to do this in broad daylight is RIDICULOUS. I sent an email to Bill O'Reilly on Fox News and we'll see if he picks up on this story. I'm calling for a national boycott of Bally's for their lack of enforcement of this indecent, criminal act. The officer said that I would not be a victim, but the Commonwealth would be a victim. I've read stories where police arrest people for the mere SOLICITATION of sodomy - and in this case, I witnessed the act taking place firsthand right in front of me. I can't believe this... You will not hear the last of this. I think I'll call the BBB, the corporate Bally's headquarters, maybe a lawyer, and will see if a local news station would like to pick up on the story. I know O'Reilly is into boycotts and after watching some of his shows, I've seen people appear on shows with stuff like this happens to them, so we'll see what happens.

Anyway, that's it for me. Gotta get some sleep and hope for heterosexual dreams or something.

Wassup doo?

Wassup doo? Ox is in da house. Keepin it real wit his mind on his money and his money on his mind. I wanna give a shout out to all my homies in da 'Burgh, in DC and in Annapolis. Also a shout out to ma folks north of tha border in Canada - a country that came out opposing the war that the US will wage against Iraq. Now that the Brits are on board, I'm sure we'll see an about face, but the jealousy and disconnect of the Canucks is still felt down here in the States. It's days like this that I'm proud to be an American. Terror alert levels were raised to "high" and I've been working from home this week - probably a good thing since DC traffic was a nightmare over the last two days since a guy drove a tractor into the reflection pool claiming to have explosives complaining about farmers in America or something. Who knows. I haven't been following it. Well, da Ox has a date at some point in the next two weeks. We'll see how this plays out. She's a mechanical engineer and works for the DOD in missle testing/technology. Sounds intriguing.

The move to Pentagon City is happening this weekend. Looking forward to living closer to everything. Last night was St. Patty's Day and spent the evening at Sine Irish Bar in Pentagon City. There was a line out the door the whole night. It was pretty cool. Met a few servers there and got hooked up with free drinks after I tipped one of the servers a few times and spent the $20 I had in my wallet.

Also, went to the gym two days ago. Now that I'm some what back to working out, I did chest and put up 80s for 10 reps on my 8th set. Last week I only attempted 70s. Next week, I'll do 85s. I need to get in shape for this date and for future dates for that matter.

Let the bombing begin in Iraq I suppose...

Dre-ism of the Day:

"Smokin veggies, big fella" - We're not talking about carrots and celery sticks here. Phrase used by certain people to describe their current activities who partake in a self-prescribed, brain-cell killing, plain ol' pathetic medicinal lung inhalation activity with a certain green leafy plant.

MacGuyver invention of the Day:
1 altoids tin, 1 hammer, 1 screw driver, 1 soda can, 1 safety pin.

In transition...

On another note, this past weekend was interesting. I went out to see "The Hunted" with my mother and brother Friday night -- more blood than I can remember in a movie, but I liked it a lot. After the movie, I went back to my office and was going to clean out my office, but then realized that the main doors were locked and I would have to carry my stuff a great distance, so I decided to wait until the morning when I my boss and associate would join me in clearing out the offices. Saturday morning, I was greeting with war protestors and my office was blocked off by police covering a 2-block span around my office. Luckily, one of the entrances was open and I made it in. I loaded up my car, and then got stopped by security on the way out who INSISTED that they record all of my serial numbers on everything we were removing from the building. I hope Big Brother doesn't come knocking in a few years... It was my personal equipment and it doesn't make sense to me that I give them my serial numbers -- we don't give serial numbers when we carry a laptop, which is virtually the same as a desktop and monitor... Stupid red tape. On Saturday night, I went to a birthday party with about 30 friends and stayed out until 3am. Had a lot of fun -- slept all day Sunday and woke up at 6:30pm and went to church. Then, I wasn't tired, so I lay in bed for an hour and then got up and went to the gym and worked out. Now I'm back at the pad working from home for the next two weeks. I move into my new apartment at the end of the week, so I've got a lot of loose ends to wrap up...

War is upon us...

Well, we are going to war. With the UNSC breaking off talks, diplomacy has ended. Bush will address the nation tonight at 8pm EST to give Saddam a final chance to leave the country or face certain war. Either way, there will be US troops and armor in Iraq within the next 48 hours. Since I work for an intelligence company, here's my point of view of what is to come...

We will launch the war beginning on Wednesday of this week between 3pm - 5pm EST. It will be a war that we have never seen before. We will witness the new 23,000lb bomb dubbed "AHAB" along with satellite and guided bombs with precision accuracy - something we didn't see in 1991. We will directly engage troops in southern Iraq and they will set fire to their oil fields near Basra in the south, creating a smoke and heat shield. I believe the two Republican guard divisions in the south will sustain heavy casualities but will surrender within 48 hours, along with about 100,000 general army troops. We will sustain minimal losses > 100 troops... Then sweep up to Baghdad by Saturday/Sunday and engage the city directly and secure the airport in Baghdad so we can airlift support troops into the action... More to come...

An introduction and explanation...

First, let me start by addressing the question that I know is on your mind: "Why is Jeremy using such a vulgar statement as his website URL? Jeremy's a Christian and he's being a bad witness. The site URL is completely offensive... I never knew Jeremy even USED vocabulary like this -- this isn't the Jeremy I know... Yada yada yada." Well, I wasn't going to use this URL. I wanted to just use plain old "ox" or "theox" but those were taken. And then I realized that this is all about "blogging" and since I am new to this site (my father sent me a link to his newly created blogger site: HENCE, I have followed in my father's footsteps, much like I did when I picked up the guitar in college and came home singing and playing the latest tunes by Third Day, Caedmon's Call, and the like. Okay, now I have half of you saying "who??" and the other half saying "get thee behind me, Satan... this guy's off his rocker!" But actually, those who really know me will say "yup, keep talkin' brotha" and so I will...

There's so much I want to blog about that I don't know where to begin... I guess I could go back to addressing my URL selection, which I'm actually now feeling quite proud of at the moment. Of course, it's late and almost 1am -- prime time for my creativity -- which peaks at about 4am and suddenly rolls into another "VO on the pillow" episode... I can tell I'm really going to like this website and hope it becomes my journal of sorts that I have never kept in the past. Before I address the URL, let's go one step back to one of my nicknames: The Ox. I have to give credit to the low-life "scumbag-of-a-sales-rep", Jason, a.k.a. "tool", who worked with me at AT&T Wireless a few years ago with coming up with this nickname. I think the name originated with the fact that I was built like an Ox, and my last name ended with "o x"... At first, I didn't like it, but I think the name stuck after Jason was fired about four weeks later, and when new friends Big E and Lewis jumped on the name with authority, it began to grow. In fact, within a year I had a customized Pennsylvania license plate sporting "THE OX" (which I might add, helped me get a speeding ticket reduced a few years ago when the officer pulled me over doing 77 in a 55 and approached my car with a smile saying "are you the owner of this vehicle?" and after affirming, simply stated "then I guess that makes you The Ox" ) The ticket was reduced to 65 -- still cost me 2 points, instead of 3-4 and a heftier fine, so already The Ox was beginning to work for me. I think my friend Eric coined the phrase "Don't fuck with the Ox" one night... I can't recall the actual moment, but there would be situations in which this statement would be used to capture a moment or action.

I am going to have to watch what I post on here since I like to sound off. Maybe I should make this site "private" so that only those people who truly know The Ox will read what I have to say. There was a recent situation with "The Bob's" in my life in which this term was used to legitimize an action that was taken and followed through with. I recall speaking to my parents on the phone and stating simply at one point: "They should've known not to fuck with the Ox." And another one with my friends: "Don't fuck with the Ox or you're gonna take an L."

So welcome friends, family members, and "the astonished and offended." Prepare to be enlighted by The Ox in the coming days, weeks, and months. This "crazy Ox" has an adventure each day, and we never know when he'll encounter another "Don't fuck with The Ox" situation, but I'm sure it will come up from time to time. I could write about the "four-point stance" incident (I think only one person reading this will don a smile) but we'll leave it at that for now.

Before I sign off, let me write about language. Invariably, as we grew up as kids, we might remember the first time we came across someone speaking another language. I can't remember my first situation because I was surrounded with people from all walks of life from an early age... Usually, the white kids were the minority. There was no "majority" as you have it - unless you call less than 50% a majority... let's just call it the biggest piece of a fairly sliced up pie. So growing up with friends from every continent in the world became a natural reality and skin color, race, religion and language faded into a non-issue. My friends in high school consisted of athiests, Christians, sheiks, hindus, muslims, agnostics... you get the picture... My friends were my friends because we had similar interests, we "clicked" and there was never a second thought about discrimination or racism, etc until I was exposed to the American culture when I moved to the States seven years ago. Each group of friends typically has a common "language" and "vocabulary" that is used in everyday communication. With my friends from church it might include: "God Bless" and the types of statements that brothers and sisters of faith only understand... We see a vocabulary expressed in popular rap and R&B albumns, as this new "language" continues to change and evolve over time (specifically among the black artists who, with the exception of the Dr. Dre managed white rap phenomenon, Eminem, dominate the innovations taking place in music, and thus, mainstream culture -- which has been going on for MANY MANY years now...)

My friends and I have coined a lot of phrases and terms over recent years... I began to learn a new language, when in the 'Burgh, I was referred to as "tits" - a term that soon became synonymous with a group of friends that I had been introduced to. Now here we go again with the "vulgarity" some of you are saying... You are using a slang term for a woman's breasts. But believe me, it was all in fun. "Tits" was usually used in the introduction of a phone call or meeting of friends... and then of course, there were nicknames for those in the group... a few of them were "tough-tits" "hoff-tits" "buff-tits" -- you get the picture -- you could pretty much throw tits on the end of your name or nickname. I think one of the funniest moments with this terminology was when Big E thought Meatball was calling him, and answered with "What's up tough-tits??" and it turned out to a be a female client calling! She apparently was stratled by the statement, but soon chuckled after the strange introduction was explained to her. No harm done.

So on to current terminology used... Let's call this "The Ox's Dictionary of Slang" for the soon to be educated. I'm not claiming ownership of these creative catch phrases, just compiling them, and will leave the meanings up to you to think about and mull over... There is a sub-set of terms that I have coined "Dre-isms" after picking up on vocabulary used by a former co-worker. Note that the spellings will emphasize the pronunciation, pitch and tone of the voice when saying the phrase or word... Maybe we can refer to them as "Ox-bonics."

Dre-isms:

"Sssup doo?" - Usually used to introduce yourself on a phone call. The term is said repeatedly a few times, regardless of what the other person says in response. English translation: "What's up, dude?"

"Uma make i' haaaapen" - Spoken with a scruffy voice with no particular meaning, but used to say that you are going to get something done. English translation: "I'm going to make it happen."

"O? K" - A way to recognize or agree with a friend's statement. Can be used pretty much at any point in a conversation. English translation: "Okay."

"He's ball-assted!" - When you see and acknowledge to your friends that someone who has had too many "beverages" in a social setting, restaurant or pub. English translation: "He is intoxicated."

"Naaaaah doo" - Used to express a disagreement or responding to a comment or question as "no." English translation: "No, dude."

"Yeah doo" - Used to express agreement or responding to a comment or question as "yes." English translation: "Yes, dude."


And some non-Dreisms...

"He's VO on the Pillow" - Used to state that someone has slept in and is not in the office, but rather, is in bed. English translation: "He slept in." VO: Virtual Office -- ie. you are "working from home"

And then of course, a lot of statements from a very famous movie filmed in Austin, TX by Mike Judge...

"Ah... Just a second there professor." - Used to express your disagreement - a way to clarify or offer your differing opinion.


I'll stop for now... time to pack up my office and head home...

- Jeremy