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A couple months back the most dominant female wakeboarder over the past few years, Dallas Friday, broke her femur on a whirlybird attempt. I was wondering how she wrecked so bad on a move she can do very easily. Turns out she was trying it while missing a fin, and when it went bad, it went really bad.

This is my first story I’ve read on somebody with a broken femur, sounds pretty bad. And to make matters worse, fluid started entering her lungs which put her in ICU for a couple weeks. Tough results for one bad move on the water.

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Pretty swell concept I found today. MetaCafe has a progam called Producer Rewards that allows you to make money off of your own videos. Some of the top earning videos are stupid little tricks that somebody filmed and uploaded.

I’m brainstorming to see what I can come up with since I could always use a little extra money, and when it’s based off of views of a video, it makes it fun…I suppose. I threw a quick video up. It’s under the 20 second suggestion, but it’s one I had lying around.

Check it out here.

Nate Robinson made one of the greatest defensive plays I’ve seen, and helped show how weak Yao Ming is. Nate is five feet nine inches tall. Yao is seven feet five inches tall. So Yao is twenty inches taller than Nate. Well, watch the video below.

Sure, Yao would probably claim he got fouled (a trait he picked up from the NBA I believe, I saw his fellow country men play over the summer and none of them complained about a thing while Yao almost got kicked out for whining so much), but I know deep down that he hunched over after the play because any pride he had left got completely obliterated.

Yao already has more poster shots featuring him as the victim than anybody has accumulated in their entire career I believe. The dude is a giant. He gets a few blocked shots a game, sure, but anybody could do that who is a foot taller than most the other players. The dude is a horrible defender. Now we know how strong he is in the post.

Today I finally saw something that I can cross off my list! I was at work, hanging some stuff on the wall, when a group of sales people walk by coming from a training meeting and WHOOP, one of the guys slipped and fell straight on his back on the wet concrete floor! It’s a slick finished floor that they buff once a week to make sure it’s nice and shiny, so when they mop it, that sucker is slick. I’ve actually done a few one-foot-slide-arms-flailing-in-air saves over the past year – gets the old ticker pumping pretty fast.

Anyway the guy, Mark, lucked out. I saw it out of the corner of my eye, so I didn’t see this part, but another sales guy (named Dave Thomas, neat) was right behind him and actually put his hands under Mark’s head so he didn’t thump it on the floor. Pretty wild stuff. Mark got up after a bit and told everybody he was okay. He’s one of the “funny men” in sales, so I reckon I will spend my last number of days making fun of him for that. Good times.

Oh, and yes, there were 2 Caution: Wet Floor signs right by where he fell.

That’s how close I was to passing this time. Yep, I passed. Retook the exam Friday afternoon and passed, hooray. They don’t tell you your score if you pass, so who knows how well I did. All that matters now is that soon I will hopefully have a much healthier bank account and work environment. Hoorah!

That’s how close I was to passing the test I took today. I am yet to blog about my latest endeavor. I’m going to be a loan officer, hopefully soon.

I didn’t know what a loan officer was before I bought my own place. It’s the guy you talk to so you can get a big ol’ mortgage on a house. The test I took (in Las Vegas, closest testing center to St. George) had 2 parts, a legal part and a mortgage practices part. I passed the legal section, which was 20 questions in length. The other part had 90 questions, on which I scored 68%. I needed a score of 70% to pass and get licensed to start making the big bucks. Yeah, that is a bit frustrating.

So tomorrow I can call and schedule my re-take. Hopefully it will be soon and hopefully I will pass that sucker this go around. I did get a much better idea of what to study for this time. I’m actually surprised I got that high of a score, since I felt like I was guessing (test was multiple choice) on about half of the 90 questions.

Well, tomorrow it’s back to my super low paying warehouse monkey job. Soon though, I may start making money, that’ll be weird.