Monthly Archives: November 2005

Well, my post just got eaten. Yeesh. The post was something about how I probably shouldn’t bother checking out the singles sites or even trying anything online because I never get replies, or if I do it’s mostly from fake women or women who are being paid to pretend to be who they’re not. But how is that different than what I usually do? At the gym today I talked to the woman with the broken phone (turns out Earthlink sent her the wrong hardware) and she was telling us that one of her friends at the gym wouldn’t talk to her any longer. Turns out they went on a … Continue reading →

I like using beta software sometimes and it shows, doesn’t it? And who turned on the traffic switch lately? I used to get home in 35-40 minutes, and one a car wreck only slowed me down for another five minutes. Lately there’s no accidents and it takes me an HOUR to get home. That’s an extra hour I could be using for TV or something. Oh, well.

OK, so I’m spending way too much time at the gym. I’ll get there around 6 and leave around 8:30. Part of the problem is that Dave the Trainer says that I should pause several minutes between sets. So I can overdo a set, and then stand around for a while to “recharge.” While I was busy sitting around resting between reps on the weight bench, a woman came over to ask me how I would fix her phone. I went into geek mode and asked questions and ended up telling her to call the internet phone company she’s using. Then, I though, did she want me to fix her … Continue reading →

So I think that recumbent cycling thing does nothing for my muscles, but at least it gets my heart rate up. And makes me sweat a lot too. Anyway, I was on the recumbent cycling thing after my session with Dave the Trainer and he started talking about getting pork chops at Joe’s Cellar. Well, three of us (and I can’t remember the other guy’s name but he’s Dave’s student as well) made an outing of it and all got pork chops. Probably negated all the healthy aspects of the workout, but it was good. We also sat in the bar area and got nice and smoky. Phooey on that. … Continue reading →

OK, so the poop is not all my fault. He does it all the time when my mom is around, too. I just cleaned his teeth-cleaning contraption that was all covered in red algae or some other nasty slime. And that’s it for my disgusting bodily goo talk for the day. One of the women in the next row over at megacorp told me she had a profile on Match.com, so I was nosy and looked for it. Fortunately, she didn’t tell me it was creepy and even told me her profile name (the profile is “hidden” and I couldn’t see it anyway.) In any case, I have 5200 points … Continue reading →

You really didn’t want to hear about, “I ran test case x against library y and then entered the data into tabular format,” so I didn’t post. Really. But there is worse stuff I could have posted. Like how you can do whatever the hell you want if you’re 89 years old but it’s only common courtesy to tell the guy doing the laundry if you’ve pooped on stuff. (The guy doing the laundry is also doing a poor job of cleaning up and needs his sister’s help for most of it.) Or I could tell you that I went on the dating sites again and got absolutely nowhere. Or … Continue reading →

Well, I’ve worked on Saturday lots of times, so it’s not that unique an event. I didn’t quite finish my day’s tasks and I think an extra day will just about do it. The gym appears to be back to normal. A couple of times tonight there were only two of us in the place. The whole “busy on Friday” thing was kind of freaking me out. It is a bit boring just moving the weights around without having the women shoot me dirty looks but, eh, what can you do? 

Hey, my post of the fake myspace.com email is getting lots of traffic. Guess I must have gotten indexed by google or something. So people at the gym were telling me that the balancing exercises I do at the gym weren’t just to make me look foolish. In fact EVERYONE looks foolish doing them and I wasn’t special. Hey, they have their view of the world, and I have mine. In my world-view, EVERYTHING is meant to make me look foolish.

Well, it’s my own fault. Earl the plumber (brother of Keeley, wife of my best friend Greg) came by to look at some rusted drain pipes we had. As long as he was here, he looked at the drain pipes that are clogging up from the bathtub. I think he figured it would be about $500 to fix the rusted pipes as well as the ones that are clogging every three years or so. Being as tribal as I am, I trust him and told him whenever he had the time, fix the pipes. Well, I know he does good work, too. Anyway, I couldn’t hustle him out, it’s Earl, … Continue reading →

Well, it wasn’t so bad, actually. I was planning on watching the football game tonight and she wanted me to take my dad out to dinner. He didn’t want to go (though he hasn’t been out of the house for a week) so my sister and I just headed up to Skyline Hamburgers. I spent the rest of the night taking care of banking for the radio club and for myself. The good news today is that I got a call back from the contractor looking at the front of the house. He said repairing the facade would be AT LEAST $30,000US. I figured I needed to enjoy some real … Continue reading →

Yesterday, after I went out to my weekly breakfast with my buddy Greg, I got a doozy of a stomach ache. Fortunately, it was after I started the laundry, so I did get SOMETHING done, but every time I stood up I’d start getting shooting pains in my stomach. I really was expecting my knee to hurt, not my stomach. I basically spent the day sleeping. Today wasn’t much better. Sunday during football season – you get the idea. I went to Joe’s Cellar for the Sunday special but they no longer have chicken and dumplings! It was Yankee pot roast that I enjoyed but my dad did not. It … Continue reading →

So today at megacorp, we had our forced frivolity today including ice skating and broomball. Against my better judgement, I participated in all the activities. I say it was against my better judgement because I DON’T LIKE ICE. It’s hard and slippery. The ice skating went very well, but the broomball showed me that I really have no sense. At first I was playing a zone but when the other team scored on us twice, I started running around like a madman. I even took the ball away from the VP of our division. I was so tired that I couldn’t eat the dessert they provided afterwards and sweated through … Continue reading →