Rave: So the Phillies are coming to town to play the Marlins next week and my wife and sister-in-law get a hair across their asses and want to go. I tell my wife to go ahead and book the tickets and we'll make a mini vacation out of it. I also tell her to try and get close to the field because our six year old has some sight problems and I'd like her to be able to see as much as she can. Cue my wife calling the box office to find the best seats available. Well it just so happens that a friend of a friend works for the Marlins and happens to be the one who answers the phone when she calls. They get to talking and he asks how much we'd want to spend on tickets. My wife tells him we're looking in the $60-$80 dollar range and he puts her on hold to look and see what he's got. A couple minutes later he comes back on the phone and says he can give us five tickets, on the isle, two rows behind the Phillies dugout for fifty bucks a piece(employee price). WIFE. GOES. APESHIT!! Needless to say, she books the tickets and we're good to go. Rave Part Deux: About ten minutes after this all transpires my wife gets a phone call from the guy who works at the box office. (Get your mind out of the gutter you fucking jackals.) As it turns out, after he got off the phone with my wife he went and talked to his boss and now the tickets are comped and if we're there at or before 4:45 we'll be escorted on to the field for batting practice and autographs and pictures with the players. This is going to be a fun trip.
Rave: T-minus 9 days until the big day. I'll be on a plane in exactly 1 week heading out to Oregon. Lots of people will be there that I haven't seen in ages. 3 days on my favorite beach in the country with my closest friends and family. Anecdotally, it's the same beach where much of the movie "the Goonies" was filmed, which was my favorite movie as a kid. No, it wasn't planned that way. Rant: 9 more days of bachelorhood before I hand over the keys. Rave: 2 weeks in Fiji and New Zealand. I'm getting chub just thinking about it.
Rant I didn't puke on my birthday night. Rave I may be allergic to alcohol, however. Rant We'll find out tonight. And the whole rugby team is out tonight. This is gonna get real messy.
Fucking Car Rant: Apparently, after starting my car beautifully this morning, my battery decided the die. Not, "Oh hey, I could use a jump" but, "Whoa, I'm fucking dead." AAA guy said a cell probably collapsed because it wasn't pushing anywhere near the current that it should and there wasn't even enough juice to get the starter to click. $148 later and my car starts fine with its new battery. It's probably about $30 more than if I bought it somewhere else, but I'm stuck at work and whatever, it's $30. Rave: At least they can take debit cards. Gotta love technology.
Rave: I'm off work for the next 10 days! I'm going to use this opportunity to apply for a less shitty job. I've been bitching about my job while doing nothing about it for too long. I don't really have any plans this week, other than enjoying being off work and maybe going to tour a local winery. Rant/Rave: My sister and her boyfriend are done for good. She's pretty upset but she realizes it's for the best for all involved. Rave: Tonight I'll be enjoying a leisurely evening with a bottle of my favorite wine watching Jersey Shore, if that's not class I don't know what is.
Rant: My Dad's surgery seems to have been for nothing as he is still having to use a catheter three times per day. He put me in charge of hiring someone part time. Rave: I got a huge laugh when one of the applicants I turned down is now threatening us with a lawsuit. We got the letter from some fake attorney's office complete with misspellings and a phone number that is obviously his cell phone. Rant: Boyfriend's severance package rounds out to about $1500 after ten years of employment. I hate this economy.
Rant: I have a black eye. Bending down at the park to check on my dog, another ball of joy torpedoed into my eye, right on the occipital bone and smashed/nipped me. Now it looks like I get beat at home. Rave: Re-doing the kitchen for CHEAP.
Rant Just because your kid can read Harry Potter and the Order Of The Pheonix faster than anyone else's kid doesn't mean they're gifted you stupid fucking TWAT. You know which kid is gifted? The one who banged that hot teacher Deborah Something. And the only thing he's ever read is a home pregnancy test. Rant Why does everything always suck at once? Is it like Voltron, and can only really accomplish something when it's together as one?
Rave: Big game tonight. Dockers with a chance to head to the preliminary final and knock Geelong out of the finals race. Go Dockers!
RAVE: One of the captains of one of The Deadliest Catch shipts just bought me a beer! What a badass! Hot Chirpy!
Rave: Just found out a girl I fooled around with a couple times in high school has her own porn site. The majority of the pictures were taken either in her computer room or her living room, both of which I recognized. The pictures aren't anything too raunchy (naked, rubbing pudding on her nipples, soft stuff like that) but she doesn't have the most attractive face in the world, and it blows my mind that people actually paid money to see the pictures. Hilarious.
Rave: Up a fair amount this week in gambling. Chopped a poker tourney four ways for a good amount. Rant: All profits are being rolled over to college ball on Saturday.
Rant: Fucking apartment complex internet STILL isn't fixed. It's a total crapshoot on whether it'll be up or down for 10 hour stretches. Sucks even more because I actually have work and shit I need to do, using the internet, that I'm paying for, that should be motherfucking working. More Rant: I'm going to be just about broke for the next week. Which means I'm going to be fucking hungry until my next paycheck comes because my goddamn financial aid shit still hasn't gone through yet. MotherFUCK
Rave: the wife just secured winter classic tickets for new years. For those of you that don't know, that's the event in which the Washington capitals are going to humiliate the penguins at hines field. Awesome. Rave: My Lil sisters wedding is tomorrow, and she asked me to write a reading for the ceremony. I think its good. If her stuck up friends like it, ill share it with you jackles..
Rave: Just talked to my best friend and he is the new father a 9lbs 9oz baby boy (that's a big baby) Rave: She wasn't birthraped.
Rant: Best friend is moving to Chicago for law school and I don't know when I'll get the chance to just hang out with him again.
SUPER FUCKING RAVE: I emailed the owner of my company asking if he'd be willing to part ways with a monitor we had lying around in our server room and how much he'd want for it. His response: "A good bottle of wine." So, $150 in wine later, I am the new owner of this bad boy.