Rave: Woke up s till drunk from the night before Rave: Steak and perogies for dinner. Yeah i have no idea why I'm having them together, but who cares its epic. Rave: Sister bought an ice cream cake Rant: Yeah about that weight loss thing
Rave: First Knicks playoff game since I was in middle school!!! Cannot wait. Been a long time. Rave: GREAT night of fights last night. Watched em all with my girl. Won a ton on Victor Ortiz winning a decision, odds on that prop were +1250, bet a hundo. That'll catch me up on some things. Also, Orlando Salido pulled the major upset knocking out JuanMa Lopez on Showtime. I knew Salido was going to give Lopez fits, once he started landing that right hand Lopez couldn't do anything to avoid it. Lopez has a ton of heart though, gotta give him credit. The stoppage was kind of weak but Lopez was definitely hurt despite throwing back. Love the guy's passion. He said it was a bad stoppage because "I was still conscious". DAMN!
RAVE: Fresh oysters. Came in at 4pm on Friday before dinner service, just in time to be introduced to my brand-new, incredibly sharp, shucking knife. RANT: Slipped on the second one I was shucking and tore a 4 inch canyon into my left hand. Motherfucker. Worst part? I dropped the knife when I injured myself and busted the tip off.
RANT: March was a bad month for me. I was incredibly homesick, having issues at work with micromanaging and had some issues in my personal life. When talking to my friend about moving home to NJ, all he said was "moving home is okay if you're not running away from something." Damn it, I have to stop having such smart friends. My therapist wasn't happy that I cut off pretty much all communication with the outside world, effectively frightening my friends and family. I can't help it, it's how I cope. I go into hiding, reassess, and then come out of it a month later, all apologetic for disappearing. I have to learn new coping skills. RAVE: The shitty month of March gave way to April, which has been a wonderful month so far. And I'm going shooting tomorrow on the state's dime. RAVE: Going home to NJ for the long Easter weekend. Three days of my friends, good pizza, Cluck U, Grease Trucks and not having to use my indoor voice. Yessss!
Rave: Freo into the top 4! Looking good this year and a few top players still to come back from injury. Also, 5 day weekend coming up!
Rave: Finished my two stupid sociology papers. Rave: Ray Allen. Gotta love Ray Allen for 3 when you're down 1. Rave: My kids are on spring vacation, and I'm taking them to college with me tomorrow to do my classes. Should be fun to watch them in Philosophy. Figure they will pass out in under 5 minutes. Rave: Gonna go have sex with my wife now.
Rave: Dad decided that me being on leave would be a great time for him to get back in shape. So he asked me if I could take time out of my busy (not) schedule to go running with him. I ran him into the ground. He has some catching up to do. What's funny is that two years ago, we were neck-and-neck for running. Poor Dad. He took defeat gracefully, however.
Rave: Received notification that my iPad2 has shipped and will be delivered on Thursday. Rave: As Aetius said, Game of Thrones. I know what the first book I'll be downloading will be. Rant: Crunch time of the semester. 4 papers, 2 power point presentations and 1 final in the next 4 weeks. Tho, I'm managing my time pretty well this semester and not in a panic about it. Compressed my work week to Tues.-Thurs. so I have 4-day weekends to get it all done and I'm in good shape. Rave: Daughter #2 is being inducted into the Junior National Honor Society tonight. She's in 7th grade, scored in the 73rd percentile on the SATs this past fall (without ever having an algebra or geometry class) and was offered a spot at Duke this summer in a program for the academically talented, but she doesn't want to go.
Rave: My little brother got accepted into the college of his choice! Yay! Rave: My other brother finally got a job! His Econ degree was useless in the shitty economy, but now people are hiring again. And he gets to move near his girlfriend (she's going to be my future sister-in-law, I just know it) so he's thrilled to death. Yay! Rave: I'm currently crammed into the nursery with all of my things because my parents weren't prepared to have two of their adult children move home. Once those two leave, however...I can get the fuck out of this cramped space and move into one of their rooms! Yay! Rant: I'm going to be an only child. Living at home. I can already see where this is going.
Rave: Completed the MS150 yesterday! It was such an incredible feeling. I will be posting some pictures in the kodak moment thread.
Rave: Met an incrediably beautiful and intelligent girl who seems to actually be in to me Rant: The last girl I got close to totally fucked me up, nearly to the point where I keep second guessing everything I say and do with this one.
Rave: I have filled out exactly one job application. I assumed it would be for a lowly sales associate position and was prepared for the paycut. I just want out of the insanity that is all too prevalent in my workplace. I wanted to clear my head, then proceed. The app was for a beauty supply that I frequent. I did not expect the manager to be so delighted when I handed it in. I did not expect a call within 24 hours expressing such enthusiasm over my diverse resume. I did not expect an interview to be scheduled for Thursday with the District Manager. Sweet. This guy left me a 4 minute message going on about how I leave such a "fabulous, fresh impression." Yes, he lisps. Rave: Smiling insanely all weekend at the hell job, loco manager doesn't know what to make of me. Hehe. Rave: The man and I went over our finances, there is no reason we could not buy a home next year. We need it, these kids keep getting bigger and need somewhere to run. Super-Rave: I am happy. Damn Skippy.
Rant: Awful headache. It feel like someone has speared me through the back of the head. Then it stops. Then I get re-speared. I'm out of ibuprofen and hoping that caffeine will help.
Rave: Just saw a DVD for The Brave Little Toaster, a movie I had completely forgotten about. Rant: Was it not one of the most fucking disturbing movies as kid? Now I remember why I wanted to forget about it:
Rave: So after spending around 6 hours yesterday attempting multiples ways to use the Auto Power Spectrum VI in labview to do exactly what I wanted with the signal I was inputting, 20 minutes before I was to present my VI to the TA, I made up some bullshit and confined myself to a shitty grade. I didn't test it at all. When it comes my turn, I realize that with 5 minutes of extra time, what I just put together will actually work...I ask for the time and make the VI work 100%. I felt like a champion. Rave: Now to watch Game of Thrones. I've heard nothing but how awesome this is from one of my friends for the last day or so, so we'll have to see.
Rant: I'm at a bar last Saturday with a couple friends. We're splitting a pitcher and each have a full glass. My friend pulls out three pennies and, according to our bastardized version of "God Save the Queen," drops the coins in our drinks. We all chug, as drunk college guys do, but I drink mine too fast. Lo and behold, there's no penny at the bottom of the glass when I'm done chugging. I know I shouldn't be too worried, but there's no fun in monitoring your shit and hoping to see Abe smiling back at me. Here's hoping I get this shit out of me.
Happy Passover to all the Jewish TIBers. I'm going to my first seder tonight. Apparently, you're required to drink at least four glasses of wine in the course of the ritual. I was raised in the wrong religion.