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twicketface) wrote2001-10-15 11:36 am
twicketface) wrote2001-10-15 11:36 am
So very, very tired.
Sleep deprivation be damned, Henry Rollins. I need shuteye! I had a good weekend, but it was lacking delicious slumber. Here goes:
Friday
A date with my wife, excellent. Marie and I met after I was done with work at China King for supper. General Tso, my hats off to you as always. Afterwards, we went back home to watch American Beauty, which Marie had rented. Such a good flick, if only all movies could contain Kevin Spacey (and Jason Lee, for that matter). Well, that probably wouldn’t be good, but a man can dream, can’t he?
Saturday
You gotta know when to hold them. Woke up Saturday and saw Marie off to Eagle River for the remainder of the weekend. My dad rolled into town around 8:45 or so and we headed over to Milwaukee PC to get him set-up with a new computer. He’s getting a P4 1.5 Ghz, which will be roughly twice as fast as the computer I have now. I’m hoping to convince him into donating his old one, as it would be a fine word processing computer for someone, so maybe a library or school could reap the rewards. Myself, I picked up a scanner (stop snickering!) and an optical mouse. I’ll be setting both up this week, but I think I’ll be pleased with each. After that, pops dropped me off and I spent the rest of the morning on-line or watching the Golden Girls.
Around 12:15, I left, with 3 stops in mind. First, I dropped off American Beauty. Next, I headed to Cub Foods to get ingredients for Taco Jazz and to cash a money order. Finally, I made it to the guys’ place around 1. We played video games for a while, watched the Badgers win, played cards, hit KFC for supper, played more cards and video games, swore at each other and listened to music and I finally turned in at 5am. I think that’s the latest I’ve ever stayed up in my life, and boy, was I feeling like the walking dead the next day (and as I write this as well). It was a lot of fun and I only lost 2 or 3 dollars. I usually win double that, but was just having an off night.
I lost my first round playoff game to the Raiders, but it was a good season, all in all. Hoping to take my team further next year, but with the league re-alignment it will be interesting to see how things change. I’m happy to announce that Noah (aka Truant) will be joining our league as the Houston Texans (worst sports team name ever) and we’ll have to see how the supplemental draft and such works. Thursday will be the supplemental draft, and Sunday pre-Packer game will be the real draft, free agency period, etc. Good times, people.
Sunday
I heart football. I really do, but it does frighten me a little bit on how much I get into it. Suffice it to say, the Packers looked incredible against the #1 defense in football and despite the late game defensive breakdown, I see the Packers going deep into the playoffs. If they can get homefield advantage (and with Faulk out, it will be interesting to see how the Rams react), we could be back in the Superbowl. Suffice it to say, it is still early in the season, but they just have that ‘kicking ass and taking names’ aura around them. Watching the game was fun because basically everyone was there and we all had a good time. Andrea’s boyfriend Tim gave me 4 Bill Hicks CDs because ‘he heard I like them’. True, they are burned CDs, the gesture is really, really nice. I’ll be making some Rollins discs for him the next time dad brings home the disc burner. I did remember to bring over my camera, but forgot to take pictures during the game, so I will have to wait for the Halloween party that the guys are having in early November.
I got home around 4:30 on Sunday and was happy to see that Marie was home too. We played some cards, watched some TV and went to bed around 9. Not enough sleep, but I actually stayed unconscious for the whole time, which was a good thing.
Which brings us to today. Work is going well so far in that the day is flying by. Today is our United Way lunch, which kicks off United Way Week, where we do a variety of fundraisers for the United Way, which I think is cool. While the Boy Scouts of America decision was, in a word, retarded, the United Way does fund and put on a variety of extremely useful social programs. I think we’re having a bake sale, silent auction, popcorn sale, and various other ways to raise money. So anyway, it should be fun. Plus, they have a program that if you give up one hour of pay per month for a year, you get an extra vacation day. And I’m all about time off.
Random thoughts of the day:
I need a job where I get paid to read. Then, I would be rich and smart(er).
Life is great. Simply great.
I laughed so hard I cried on Saturday as Noah read something I wrote up for the Madden league. 1) I never laughed that hard writing it, but Noah reading it was simply hilarious. 2) Why don’t people cry so hard, they laugh?
Mo' after lunch.
Friday
A date with my wife, excellent. Marie and I met after I was done with work at China King for supper. General Tso, my hats off to you as always. Afterwards, we went back home to watch American Beauty, which Marie had rented. Such a good flick, if only all movies could contain Kevin Spacey (and Jason Lee, for that matter). Well, that probably wouldn’t be good, but a man can dream, can’t he?
Saturday
You gotta know when to hold them. Woke up Saturday and saw Marie off to Eagle River for the remainder of the weekend. My dad rolled into town around 8:45 or so and we headed over to Milwaukee PC to get him set-up with a new computer. He’s getting a P4 1.5 Ghz, which will be roughly twice as fast as the computer I have now. I’m hoping to convince him into donating his old one, as it would be a fine word processing computer for someone, so maybe a library or school could reap the rewards. Myself, I picked up a scanner (stop snickering!) and an optical mouse. I’ll be setting both up this week, but I think I’ll be pleased with each. After that, pops dropped me off and I spent the rest of the morning on-line or watching the Golden Girls.
Around 12:15, I left, with 3 stops in mind. First, I dropped off American Beauty. Next, I headed to Cub Foods to get ingredients for Taco Jazz and to cash a money order. Finally, I made it to the guys’ place around 1. We played video games for a while, watched the Badgers win, played cards, hit KFC for supper, played more cards and video games, swore at each other and listened to music and I finally turned in at 5am. I think that’s the latest I’ve ever stayed up in my life, and boy, was I feeling like the walking dead the next day (and as I write this as well). It was a lot of fun and I only lost 2 or 3 dollars. I usually win double that, but was just having an off night.
I lost my first round playoff game to the Raiders, but it was a good season, all in all. Hoping to take my team further next year, but with the league re-alignment it will be interesting to see how things change. I’m happy to announce that Noah (aka Truant) will be joining our league as the Houston Texans (worst sports team name ever) and we’ll have to see how the supplemental draft and such works. Thursday will be the supplemental draft, and Sunday pre-Packer game will be the real draft, free agency period, etc. Good times, people.
Sunday
I heart football. I really do, but it does frighten me a little bit on how much I get into it. Suffice it to say, the Packers looked incredible against the #1 defense in football and despite the late game defensive breakdown, I see the Packers going deep into the playoffs. If they can get homefield advantage (and with Faulk out, it will be interesting to see how the Rams react), we could be back in the Superbowl. Suffice it to say, it is still early in the season, but they just have that ‘kicking ass and taking names’ aura around them. Watching the game was fun because basically everyone was there and we all had a good time. Andrea’s boyfriend Tim gave me 4 Bill Hicks CDs because ‘he heard I like them’. True, they are burned CDs, the gesture is really, really nice. I’ll be making some Rollins discs for him the next time dad brings home the disc burner. I did remember to bring over my camera, but forgot to take pictures during the game, so I will have to wait for the Halloween party that the guys are having in early November.
I got home around 4:30 on Sunday and was happy to see that Marie was home too. We played some cards, watched some TV and went to bed around 9. Not enough sleep, but I actually stayed unconscious for the whole time, which was a good thing.
Which brings us to today. Work is going well so far in that the day is flying by. Today is our United Way lunch, which kicks off United Way Week, where we do a variety of fundraisers for the United Way, which I think is cool. While the Boy Scouts of America decision was, in a word, retarded, the United Way does fund and put on a variety of extremely useful social programs. I think we’re having a bake sale, silent auction, popcorn sale, and various other ways to raise money. So anyway, it should be fun. Plus, they have a program that if you give up one hour of pay per month for a year, you get an extra vacation day. And I’m all about time off.
Random thoughts of the day:
I need a job where I get paid to read. Then, I would be rich and smart(er).
Life is great. Simply great.
I laughed so hard I cried on Saturday as Noah read something I wrote up for the Madden league. 1) I never laughed that hard writing it, but Noah reading it was simply hilarious. 2) Why don’t people cry so hard, they laugh?
Mo' after lunch.
a Rose by any other name would still lose in the playoffs.
it is my opinion that if you name a sports team, you will only get attached to it and then be brokenhearted when it fails miserably.
just look at the Astros.
ps; Bill Hicks was a visionary. and i happen to use 'the Method Acting Trick' on at least a weekly basis.
Re: a Rose by any other name would still lose in the playoffs.
I listened to Arizona (Red?) by Hicks last night and have Rant in E Minor and Dangerous to get me through today. Excellent.
His line "Anyone in advertising or marketing, kill yourself" is in a Lagwagon song and until I heard it on the Hicks disc last night, I had no idea of the connection.
Re: a Rose by any other name would still lose in the playoffs.
Tool thanked him in the liner notes of Undertow, and included a portrait of him as a doctor in a lab coat in the liner notes of Aenema. i first heard him do most of the material from Relentless on an HBO special. at the time, i didn't make the connection between the two, but i looked incessantly for his albums - which were out of print until Maynard helped reprint them.
Re: a Rose by any other name would still lose in the playoffs.
He and Lewis Black could run our new civilization, as far as I'm concerned.
Re: a Rose by any other name would still lose in the playoffs.
Re: a Rose by any other name would still lose in the playoffs.
or the New York New Yorkers.