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Friday: April 03, 2009 - Rare Friday Update
It's rare there's a Friday update but this is an important one. Yesterday I signed up to take an art class on Monday nights. I've wanted to take one for a while since I'm clearly a gifted artist and I thought I'd meet more "normal" (as normal as you get in a class where you learn to draw triangles with faces) on a Monday night than a Saturday morning with soccer moms.
The reason for this entry is the problem this poses: The Cubs open their season at 7pm, the same time my class starts. This means I will not get to see the game as a live broadcast. What does this mean for you? TELL ME NOTHING. I don't care if Zambrano has a no-hitter going into the 9th or if he blows out his shoulder on the first pitch. Don't call, text, IM, ESP, nothing me until I give the word. The first Cubs game of the year is my second-favorite day of the year (after FSU's opening game) and ain't nobody going to spoil it for me.
In other news, I got my second marriage proposal of the year. Also in other news Marc, Annie, and I went to the "friendliest bar in town" (Mr. Smith's) last night and it wasn't really all that friendly. It did answer a major music theory question: Would the world implode if every note possible were sung at the same time? No, the world will not implode but thanks to the key change in Living on a Prayer we were able to at least find out. We also tried out Old Glory which was pretty lame. I'm too old for cover charges.
It's rare there's a Friday update but this is an important one. Yesterday I signed up to take an art class on Monday nights. I've wanted to take one for a while since I'm clearly a gifted artist and I thought I'd meet more "normal" (as normal as you get in a class where you learn to draw triangles with faces) on a Monday night than a Saturday morning with soccer moms.
The reason for this entry is the problem this poses: The Cubs open their season at 7pm, the same time my class starts. This means I will not get to see the game as a live broadcast. What does this mean for you? TELL ME NOTHING. I don't care if Zambrano has a no-hitter going into the 9th or if he blows out his shoulder on the first pitch. Don't call, text, IM, ESP, nothing me until I give the word. The first Cubs game of the year is my second-favorite day of the year (after FSU's opening game) and ain't nobody going to spoil it for me.
In other news, I got my second marriage proposal of the year. Also in other news Marc, Annie, and I went to the "friendliest bar in town" (Mr. Smith's) last night and it wasn't really all that friendly. It did answer a major music theory question: Would the world implode if every note possible were sung at the same time? No, the world will not implode but thanks to the key change in Living on a Prayer we were able to at least find out. We also tried out Old Glory which was pretty lame. I'm too old for cover charges.
Comments:
- Tree
It's a shame we couldn't save those original Stick-O comics you drew... those were instant classics. If Stick-O, the high school dropout-turned-teacher were drawn today, he'd probably working at some Stick-Company with a Stick-PointyHairedBoss. - Evil Mike
Remember that part where you RickChompyRolled everyone and they hated it and you laughed about it the next day?
Mike, all I can say is stay away from the internet and turn off your cell phone, or else revenge will be had. - T-Chris
Ah, the "Livin' on a Prayer" key change...the greatest key change in pop music. And I totally agree with you about the cover charge thing. At what point did you recognize that fact? For me, I think it was after Vegas, where it cost me $15 just to GET IN each place. Ugh.
I'll try not to ruin the game for you. But I'm not making any promises... - SC
Hmm, difficult, but I will do my best. I'll be in class during the game though, so maybe I won't be the one ruining it for you.
Good Things Take Time...
-2 days until FSU Football (2010)
Random Picture...
Here's take two with the timer feature. Apparently that feature adds bags under your eyes.
Here's take two with the timer feature. Apparently that feature adds bags under your eyes.
Time Machine:
09-07-2009
· 09-07-2008
· 09-07-2007
· 09-07-2006
09-07-2009: I'll start with the good news: my death from the swine flu is no longer imminent. Now, onto the bad news.
WHERE THE HELL WAS FSU'S DEFENSE?! *I* could have been playing cornerback last night. I can easily ignore receivers as the blow past me or trip on my own two feet as a RUNNING BACK shoots past me for a catch in the end zone. Uggggggggh. On the bright side, the offense looked pretty good--at least Christian Ponder and the vaunted offensive line. The running game looked anemic when Jermaine was in there but his backup looked like a punisher. The fact our receivers c(w)ouldn't catch the ball made life rough. Fortson looked like the only guy who actually was willing to take one for the team and try to catch it, although Richard Goodman's catch on the two-point conversion ended with him getting blasted.
Anyway, where was the bloodthirsty FSU defense? Who were these cowards playing constant zone coverage? It doesn't take a PS2 NCAA Football expert very long to realize there's a time and a place for zone but if you want to win you need to MAN UP. Granted, the man coverage, when "utilized", made the secondary look absolutely stupid, with their coverage at least five yards behind the Miami receivers.
Whatever, we'll be good next year.09-07-2008: It looks like my vice-like grip over NCAA Pick 'Em is officially over. After tweaking "the algorithm" I still finished near the bottom of the picks because I clearly overweighed the section dedicated to "do they like to get upset?". The numbers correctly picked the ECU upset of WV but unfortunately they also picked three more upsets and, knowing that no more than three teams ever get upset in a week, I released WV out of a personal affinity towards the school. I also, until the game started, thought USM was in fact Mississippi State which they are clearly not. Oops.
I went out to Virginia to watch the FSU game with Kathy & Co. The bar had a lot of FSU fans but none that were particularly into the game. It didn't help that there was over two hours in combined rain delays. FSU looked good but I think anyone would look good against Western Carolina. They're not East Carolina, that's for sure. Catamounts, for the record, are mountain lions. They are not horses despite containing the word "mount". We'll know for sure how good FSU is when vaunted Chattanooga rolls into town next week. I took the day off blogging but only because I was thinking of you.09-07-2006: Although not as gratifying as some wins in the past, I was able to fend off tchris and jamie in a little three-way poker last night. At different points in the night we all had huge chip leads and somehow blew them. We're all big bettors so it was a lot of fun despite the low number of people.
I really need a new computer. Mine shuts off after about five minutes of use due to overheating and I still have not been able to find the right replacement fan. I'm hoping by the week after my birthday to have enough money to buy the new one from Dell, even though they won't let me get it without the video card. I talked to their retarded sales/tech guy and asked them simply if they could not charge/install a video card. They do not have dual-monitor options and I wasn't ordering any monitors so I didn't need the card. He replied that they could not and I was out of luck. I replied by asking him if the computers were really built by hand like they say in the commercials. He said yes. I then asked if they guy installing it could just "leave out" the video card (I'd be throwing it out the day I got it) and have the person hand-writing my bill leave off the cost of it. He said no. Oh well.
WHERE THE HELL WAS FSU'S DEFENSE?! *I* could have been playing cornerback last night. I can easily ignore receivers as the blow past me or trip on my own two feet as a RUNNING BACK shoots past me for a catch in the end zone. Uggggggggh. On the bright side, the offense looked pretty good--at least Christian Ponder and the vaunted offensive line. The running game looked anemic when Jermaine was in there but his backup looked like a punisher. The fact our receivers c(w)ouldn't catch the ball made life rough. Fortson looked like the only guy who actually was willing to take one for the team and try to catch it, although Richard Goodman's catch on the two-point conversion ended with him getting blasted.
Anyway, where was the bloodthirsty FSU defense? Who were these cowards playing constant zone coverage? It doesn't take a PS2 NCAA Football expert very long to realize there's a time and a place for zone but if you want to win you need to MAN UP. Granted, the man coverage, when "utilized", made the secondary look absolutely stupid, with their coverage at least five yards behind the Miami receivers.
Whatever, we'll be good next year.09-07-2008: It looks like my vice-like grip over NCAA Pick 'Em is officially over. After tweaking "the algorithm" I still finished near the bottom of the picks because I clearly overweighed the section dedicated to "do they like to get upset?". The numbers correctly picked the ECU upset of WV but unfortunately they also picked three more upsets and, knowing that no more than three teams ever get upset in a week, I released WV out of a personal affinity towards the school. I also, until the game started, thought USM was in fact Mississippi State which they are clearly not. Oops.
I went out to Virginia to watch the FSU game with Kathy & Co. The bar had a lot of FSU fans but none that were particularly into the game. It didn't help that there was over two hours in combined rain delays. FSU looked good but I think anyone would look good against Western Carolina. They're not East Carolina, that's for sure. Catamounts, for the record, are mountain lions. They are not horses despite containing the word "mount". We'll know for sure how good FSU is when vaunted Chattanooga rolls into town next week. I took the day off blogging but only because I was thinking of you.09-07-2006: Although not as gratifying as some wins in the past, I was able to fend off tchris and jamie in a little three-way poker last night. At different points in the night we all had huge chip leads and somehow blew them. We're all big bettors so it was a lot of fun despite the low number of people.
I really need a new computer. Mine shuts off after about five minutes of use due to overheating and I still have not been able to find the right replacement fan. I'm hoping by the week after my birthday to have enough money to buy the new one from Dell, even though they won't let me get it without the video card. I talked to their retarded sales/tech guy and asked them simply if they could not charge/install a video card. They do not have dual-monitor options and I wasn't ordering any monitors so I didn't need the card. He replied that they could not and I was out of luck. I replied by asking him if the computers were really built by hand like they say in the commercials. He said yes. I then asked if they guy installing it could just "leave out" the video card (I'd be throwing it out the day I got it) and have the person hand-writing my bill leave off the cost of it. He said no. Oh well.