RAVE: Saturday could have been the perfect day ever. I took my girlfriend and her dad to a range and met up with a well-respected target shooter (competes nationally) and spent a couple hours punching X's, then had about six hours in bed with the girlfriend, then napped and went to Arthur Bryant's for dinner and ended the night with my girlfriend, some of her friends, and a six pack of some random oatmeal stout that turned out to be pretty awesome. The best part? Everything was her idea. Yep, she's a keeper. RAVE: She wants to go hunting now, and her dad said he'll likely be inviting me to go pheasant hunting this fall with their family in Kansas. RAVE: The guy we went shooting with, upon seeing my rifle and watching me, had a number of compliments on my craftsmanship and shooting skills. Made me feel good. RANT: Fucking paper due tomorrow and accounting final on Tuesday. I'll be studying tonight.
RANT: Why is it some people feel the need to keep hitting the fucking snooze button four or five times in a row? If it goes off, get your ass up. That extra +- 4 minutes will not do anything for you. Just leaving it to go off just pisses off everyone else around you. Stop doing it and turn your alarm off. RAVE: Coffee. It's good. RAVE: Nice, cool morning so far.
Rant: I feel like fucking shit. Not physically or anything, just mentally. It seems like I have these "downs" every couple of months. Maybe I should get checked for bi-polar disorder. Shit.
Rave: And there will be a game 6. The Canucks finally played their own game instead of falling into the Hawks trap and did it well. It's not like they kicked the crap out of Chicago on the scoreboard like they did in Game 1 but they played a solid 60 minutes. They controlled their fair share of the play and Luongo made all the saves he needed to to keep the team in it. If they keep this up, there is a definite chance for them to take the series in 7. Sucks about Sami Salo. Possible ruptured testicle? Yikes. And I like to think that I had some part in the win. The wanna-be playoff beard wasn't doing so well, so I trimmed it up into a Rally-Stache.
Rant: So, I recently got a job as a rickshaw driver in San Francisco, my first day of work I get this nasty little sunburn: http://i.imgur.com/29bl7.jpg | http://i.imgur.com/NZbGH.jpg Needless to say, I've got one hell of a farmer's tan now. Rave: GF's sister got a French Bulldog: http://i.imgur.com/DpkEW.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9oRaz.jpg Rant: It's name is Bagel.
Rave: Boonville Beer Festival!!!!! Turned 22!!!!! Lots of images in spoiler. Spoiler I'm the retard in the middle. With some random drunk biatches First nap: Second: My neighbor dancing outside the tent of some randoms who were fucking in broad daylight for all to see:
Rant: So I'm laying in bed, trying to get some sleep, when my girlfriend walks into the bedroom. GF: Sweetie, I have an important question to ask you. Me: Sure, what is it? GF: Are we exclusive? Me: Of course. Why in the hell are you asking me this? GF: Well, I'm watching Sex and the City right now and there's this episode about blah blah blah..... I just want to make sure. We've been dating for over 3 years, and I've done nothing to provoke this sort of inquiry. She's even asked me point blank if I would ever cheat on her, if I've cheated on her, etc on a few occasions. These questions come out at random times, pretty much freezing me in my tracks and leaves me thinking "huh?"
Rant: Heading to Michigan for the week. Rave: Heading to Grand Rapids and Grand Haven for most of it. It beats Detroit. Rave: Catching the Sox-Tigers series next weekend with a couple of my friends who moved out to MI a few years ago. Sitting right next to the Sox dugout. Rave?: Should be pretty easy to get my Wakefield jersey signed since the park won't be packed with Sox fans.
Rave: if any of you have not yet seen Robert Rodriguez's Cinco de Mayo trailer for Machete you should go do it now - <a class="postlink" href="http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44943" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44943</a> The movie is going to be hilarious and awesome. It also has a fan-fucking-tastic caste including a couple surprises I'll let the trailer reveal.
Rave: Holy crap, I'm finally in Beijing. Rant: I'm finally in Beijing after being on a plane or in an airport for twenty-four hours straight. My ankles have swelled to the point of being indistinguishable from my calves. It's nearly 1 AM local time. Nothing is open. Rave: Still. I'm in China. And we're going to the Forbidden City in eight hours. This is going to be awesome.
Rave Had a great Saturday. Saw Craig Robinson (Darryl from The Office) perform stand-up Saturday night. He is hilarious, not a traditional stand-up show, but a great one anyway. Even the guy he had opening for him was hilarious from start to finish, which is a rare treat. After the show, we went out for a few beers and hung out, and for once I wasn't the driver so I could actually drink. Rave Sunday was pretty awesome too. The wife and I had dinner at one of the best restaurants in Boulder, a place that focuses on natural/sustainable food, but also makes a great meal. If you're around there, Salt is an excellent restaurant. I had a grilled pork chop with grilled pear and red wine reduction, with crispy polenta, just delicious. Rave, but with some Rant After dinner on Sunday, the wife and I saw Conan's The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television tour stop in Boulder. The show had its moments, but I left a little bit disappointed. There were plenty of funny moments, but nothing that was truly hilarious. The worst part of the show was the opener, Reggie Watts sucks ass. There was nothing funny about him, and frankly it took a while to warm up to Conan's part of the show because he was so terrible. Rant Gotta go back to classes today.
Rave: Two finals tomorrow and this semester is put to rest. Exempt from the final on Thursday. Three weeks off until summer session starts up. Rant: Someone needs to put a match to the "honey-do" list assembled for those three weeks. Powerwash the back patio and patio furniture, drain and scrub out the hottub, trim all the shrubs, wash the windows (36--that's a lot of Windex!), weed all the flowerbeds. Oh well, one project per day. Rave: My advisor has encouraged me to apply for a research assistant position for the upcoming school year. Since all my classes will be in the evenings going forward, this will give me something to do three days a week and provide a new revenue stream that will allow me to turn over my Tahoe to my daughter and get myself a new truck. Downside--I hate the car-buying process.
Rant: I bought a brand new pair of boat shoes I have been wanting for years, and I had taken them out of the box and left them on my coffee table. My dog, who has never chewed a shoe in his life, decided to make an exception for these ones and chewed them mercilessly before I even had a chance to wear them. RAVE: I am never buying a shoe from any store other than Nordstrom. I explained what had happened, and they laughed and exchanged the pair on the spot. As in, I gave them a completely chewed up pair of shoes and they replaced them as if I had bought some sort of shoe insurance. What a beautiful thing.
Rant: Tornadoes! There are some pretty serious storms/funnel clouds sitting right over my neighborhood, with some "serious rotation" according to Gary England. I am so tempted to do some storm chasing. EDIT: Hot Damn! They are showing a monster of a tornado live on the TV right now, about to hit Norman, OK. Damn that sucker is big.
RANT: FUCK VIDEO ADVERTIESMENTS! Everytime I try to watch any sort of video online lately, 5 seconds in a 30 second ad comes up covering the video. Those clever bastards have made it so you can't even X out of it. So you have to sit there with a 1,000 yard stare on your face until it finishes.
Rave: Interview for a promotion this week. I know I'm the most qualified person but... Rant: There are two rumors currently circulating: that they might give it to someone else out of pity for their recent injury, or that they're planning to dump the laziest employee into the position to get them out of the department. I will personally lead a coup if the latter occurs.
Rant: I actually developed a legitimate feeling or two for a boy for once and got screwed over. This is probably why I don't like anything resembling a relationship. Meh, nothing a bath beer or 8 can't fix.
Rave: Done with classes for the semester. Rant: That means finals start on Thursday. Rave: I'll be leaving for Disney World in a month.
Same rant as everyone else right now: school. BUT, Rave: I've been ranked in the top 10 in my state for bjj!