Happy Chinese New Year everyone! It's the year of the P-I-G pig!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I know not everyone has a valentine (myself included) but I won't join the ranks of those "I hate Valentines Day" people who go out of their way to wear black on Feb 14 and sit at home, stuffing their faces with chocolate ice cream and pork rinds while bitter, evil, and unclean thoughts fill their minds. Yeah, I'm sure THAT will make it all better.

I'm also not one of those "I love ME and I don't need a valentine" kinds of single people who go around with forced smiles and wear red just to show everyone how annoyingly and (unrealistically) positive they are. These people are so obviously in denial that that you KNOW they're one step away from throwing themselves in front of the nearest city bus. If they don't, they end up sitting at home, stuffing their faces with chocolate ice cream and pork rinds while bitter, evil, and unclean thoughts fill their minds.

So if you don't have a valentine and feel bad about it, admit to yourself that you feel like sh*t. Emotional sincerity is healthy. Understand that you can''t choose your feelings. However, you DO have control over doing or not doing things that will make you feel worse.

So don't do anything stupid, which includes (but is not limited to) threatening, stalking, prank calling, flashing, and driving your car into a wall at high speed (even if you are curious as to what the air bag smells like). Valentine's Day is just one day out of the year, for God's sake. And if you're like me, you'll be spending most of that day at work anyway.

The US Navy uses sea lions and dolphins to patrol US interests here and abroad. You can read about it here...

There's a concern that California sea lions might not be able to handle colder environments such as Alaska. What I don't understand is why the Navy hasn't thought about using harbor seals. Harbor seals are just as smart as sea lions, and just as trainable. They can dive to deeper depths and can withstand much colder temperatures.
Sure, harbor seals may look like fat lazy buggers who sleep all day (and some of them can pull that off without any help at all), but they're every bit as much fun as sea lions. Harbor seals are awesome. They can drink any human under the table and they throw the coolest parties. One time this harbor seal invited me over to his house and we were trying to take his new Mercedes off these crazy jumps. I accidentally crashed it into a wall and the harbor seal totally didn't get mad at me. Instead, we went to taco bell and spent the rest of the day watching Benny Hill reruns on his widescreen TV.