• I twittered and facebooked about going to Paris on Saturday. My friends figured out it was Paris, Tx.  (Golf Tournament)
• More random people are following me on Twitter. I’ll try to be more exciting.
• Last time I was in Paris, Tx, it was for a fan meet and greet with Young Country 105.3.  Come meet Johnny and Toni and Todd Todd The Traffic God.  Yee Haw.
• Speaking of Yee Haw, look for me to show up next week on Fox 4 wearing my Garth Brooks shirt.
• Father’s Day will consist of me getting ribs to go at Red Hot and Blue and eating them with my mom and my son. And then watching golf.  Sounds good to me.
• I am not entirely happy with the cost of gas going back up.  But on that note, there is a car about to go on sale in California that gets 300 miles to the gallon.  Yeah. That’s right. 300 miles. To. The. Gallon.
• Responded to an email about some personal business and the guy had his home phone number and his fax number and cell phone number at the bottom of the email.  No big thing, right? But instead of cell phone number it said iPhone number.  Really?  Will I get a special message from Steve Jobs if I call it?
• Don’t get me wrong. I want one. In fact, I plan on buying one later this summer. Wish Verizon Wireless had them.
• I am officially tired of Wii fitness. In fact, as soon as I beat Tiger Woods golf, I am probably going to sell my Wii.
• The former radio company I used to work for is quickly falling apart. Seven more people were let go recently. Yikes!
• That’s all I got this week. Check out the featured little tidbit with the video of the Milky Way…it’s pretty cool.

• Too much of  a good thing? I don’t mind when the thunderstorms come rolling in around 8pm.  Curl up on the couch with the 2 dogs and read my Wired magazine and I’m good to go. But when wave after wave of storms are just pounding and the wind is threatening to pull up my lonely one tree in the front yard that I paid $250 bucks for 2 years ago, well, that’s something else.  Mother Nature; Consider yourself warned.
• I’ve been feeling a bit stifled creatively lately.  Mostly in a musical sense.  I think I need to sit down at the piano and write some music.
• Along those same lines, I am still trying to learn Dave Matthew’s Crash on the guitar.  It’s not going well. My left hand is stupid.
• I may take the plunge on the iPhone in July or August.  We’ll see how my budget holds up.
• If I ever want to get my abs to show, I am going to have to stop baking brownies at night.
• Son 2 of 2 is going to Virginia with his friend’s family next week. By car.  That’s 21 hours of driving.  No thank you. I thought driving to Padre was beating when I graduated from high school.
• There’s a 20th anniversary party for 94.5 The Edge coming up soon. I can’t believe it’s been 20 years.  I loved that station so much that when I first applied for a job, I sent a picture to the program director of me lounging  in the college radio station with all of these alternative rock album covers surrounding me and a bottle of Edge aftershave on the turntable.  Yeah, I didn’t get hired that time but I eventually did get on the air and had some of the most fun I have ever had doing mornings with Ernie and Tommy Daniels and Brett and making fun of Stevens and Pruitt and working on Saturday nights before Jeff K and Edge Club. It was so much fun. We actually played CDs! and Carts! and you had to pull the commercials and you recorded phone calls with reel to reel tape!
  

  I don't have this CD.

• Here’s some behind the scenes shenanigans. And believe me, every DJ does this when they are bored.  When you are on the air, the request line is almost always ringing. At least one or two listeners are trying to call in and get their song on or talk to the DJ or something. So I would punch up a caller and not say anything and then punch up a second caller at the same time.  So now you have two people who have called the station but thru some crazy miracle they can now talk to each other and you can listen to their conversation as they try to figure out what happened.  “Hey are you calling the Edge?” “Yeah, are you calling the Edge?” “Yeah? Wow, I wonder what happened?”  Sometimes people would figure it out and when new people called, they would pretend to be the DJ.  Ahh, good times.
• (Now everything is on computer. The songs, the commercials, the promos,the sound effects, etc)
• I am now inspired to put up some mp3s of my airchecks. I’ll try to do that this weekend.
• I forget to check my direct twitter replys. I fail at tweeting.
• Son 1 of 2 has a job and so now he has a checking account and a check card. We went to the bank today to get some cash and I noticed that his account was much lower than last week.  I asked him what he was spending his money on and he said food. I said, “It goes fast doesn’t it?” and his eyes got real big and he said, “It sure does!”  Made me laugh on the inside.

This week’s link of choice is: Cute Overload When you need to clean your brain out and refresh with puppies or other sickeningly adorable small animals, then go here.

Wonder if his name is Wilson?

• Found myself in a funk on Thursday. That’s a great word by the way. Funk. Could be good, could be bad. You can get funky on the dance floor. But I wasn’t in the mood to dance. Not in the mood to do anything.  But I snapped out of it today.  Nothing like the weekend to wake you up, right?
• I did a bit of landscaping last week.  Pulled out a couple of bushes that were in the front and just not filling in right. When I took out the second one, I noticed  a puddle appeared where the bush was.  A week later, the puddle is still there and it’s not from the rain. I think I might have a leak somewhere.  That’s not good.
• My boys are out of school. And one of them is bored. I gotta find that boy a job.
• I have had more than one person tell me they are glad that the TV season is in repeats so they have more time.  Hey, it allows me to catch up on old Las Vegas shows on TNT that I tape during the day.
• I put the LOST theme on my phone as a ringtone. Makes me laugh when I hear it.
• Did you know that when you get a speeding ticket and elect to go defensive driving, you have to send 10 bucks off to Austin and get  a copy of your driving record? Why do I think they could probably just get that online somewhere?
• Heard a story the other day about a dj who got pulled over and told the cop that he was going to tell his morning show buddies how lousy the Dallas police were for pulling him over.  Yeah, he’s not a dj anymore at that station.
• I need to get into something competitive.  Like a tennis league or softball.
• Friend of mine is on a kickball team.  I used to rule at kickball.
• If I do go to a Ranger game this year, I am thinking I want a ticket in one of those all you can eat sections. How cool is that?
• I know a secret way to the Cowboy stadium.  I wonder how many other people know about it?  I guess I will find out this weekend.

So I should be back on a regular schedule next week which means back to regular updates on this site. Still not sure if I am happy with how everything looks but it works for now.  So let’s get going with the random thoughts on a Friday!

• I miss being on Good Day although I know eventually, I would miss sleep even more.  I have had a blast this week with everybody.
• Tweeting the traffic this morning. We’ll see how that goes.
• My twitter account is www.twitter.com/toddcarruth.
• I think I may have turned the corner on golf. From a bad average player to a good average player.  My son is quickly becoming a very very good player.
• I played on Monday with my son and this fellow from Houston joined us on the back nine.  After one hole, he asked how we knew each other. I said that Trevor was my son.  He said he thought we were brothers.  Hey, either he looks a lot older or I look a lot younger. Let’s go with me being younger.
• I had all these plans to do things between shifts, yet somehow only a nap was marked off my daily list.
• I’m sorry but I really don’t want to be friends with you on facebook unless we have met in real life.  Am I being too stubborn on that?
• Dear Cashier, When I am purchasing something at the register, is it too much to ask for your undivided attention?  Please refrain from continuing your conversation with your co-workers as if I were invisible.   I know you don’t care if I come back to the store ever again but I bet your boss does.
• Dear Theater Owner,  Don’t charge me a $7 internet fee to buy a ticket to your event.  I’m not stupid.  I know it doesn’t cost 7 bucks to process my ticket.  In fact, I know it’s cheaper for me to do all the work than to have someone answer the phone in your box office and process the charge by hand.
• Wow, my thoughts have turned into gripes.
• I called Wells Fargo about refinancing my house. Still haven’t heard back.  I’m not holding my breath.
• I got a speeding ticket a while back.  I pled no contest and I am going to take defensive driving.  And now, by some strange coincidence, I am getting all these defensive driving offers in my mailbox.  So my question is, where is that public information on who got a ticket? Is it on the internet?  Does any money exchange hands to get that info?
• Speaking of getting offers, I got a couple of doozies in the mail regarding: a) free golf clubs if I tour their timeshare and b) free Vegas vacation if I tour their timeshare, etc.  - I think it might make good blog material.
• Watched Stepbrothers this week. Wow, I really did not like it.  And I thought I would love it.
• Link of the week: Addicting game called Super Stacker2.