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Enjoying my last few responsibility free years left.

The Shit Show

Ck4 says I should charge people money for video access to “the shit show.” He believes that this is an innovative idea and most people aren’t doing video blogs hammered. I am not so sure. I’ve been getting wasted too often lately and although they may be entertaining, it is at my personal health. I just have a problem charging people for what I consider no content. Maybe if I were doing something that was more constructive it would be ok but I just can’t sell out for the money. I probably would if it were enough money though. Everyone has their price. I will say this, I won’t ever have ads because I hate web sites that do and that alone should mean something.

In other news, I’m typing this on the laptop I got and its different when I’m sitting in the tv room, watching football, and typring entries. I’m not sure if I like it or not. I have instant access to anything but I get distracted very easily and can’t watch the games. It is convenient though and at what I would consider a pretty cheap price tag, it has it’s value over time.

I’ve been getting rocked in the sports betting world. I ran my initial 50 up to 650 and now the account sits at 30 with some money current on the Rams which is looking good. I know that you’ll never make real money sports betting and I’m ok with bets here or there just looking for some fun but if I’m not losing any of my initial principal I can’t be too upset with losing profits. I haven’t been playing poker much either. I sort of need to get back onto normal life again because I just went on a 4 day drinking binge and I’m not feeling fantastic today. I should probably go to the gym but I’m just really happy sitting here and being lazy. I know this post was pretty shitty but something is better than nothing. I don’t have any good weekend stories but I survived with no injuries so that was good.

By |2010-11-02T08:38:53-04:00October 24th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Recap

I know some people can’t watch videos at work so I’ll give some text. I know my face has been overtaking my blog which I’m sure isn’t the most attractive thing but I’m getting rave reviews from my drunk videos. I can’t figure out why it lags because it doesn’t lag on the laptop but once I upload it to youtube, it starts to lag. The file size is only 3mb’s which seems unbelievably small which is most likely the reason for the lag.

So last night Bake, Evan, Jkash, CK4 and myself went to the Bayou for our Football banquet. It’s almost a joke to call it banquet but the beers were free. I made a great joke to call the Bayou “Shoulders” because you are constantly up against everyone there because it’s so cramped. We watched the Phils up until the 8th and then went to Mad River before 11 to take advantage of the their dollar drinks. I put 50 on the game and won so that made up for a little of the 200 lost the other night. At Mad River the fun began. I was probably 9 or so beers deep when we got there and then bought 4 which I drank. The band Burnt Sienna was playing and they weren’t half bad. Once they hit their 2nd set people started getting drunker. There was this one girl in sweat pants and a sweat shirt and I must say, I thought the look was incredibly sexy. To be badass like that and go to the bar in sweats was a bold move that deserves the credit from my blog. Evan left earlier and then Jkash and Bake left after the first set so it was just CK4 and I. It’s hilarious too because I know most songs that cover bands sing so I can sing along most of the time and not look out of place but CK4 only knows “summer of 69” and “boy of summer” so watching him is great. I know he’ll read this and that last sentence isn’t entirely true but funny nonetheless. So he’s gung ho on this one girl in the red who was dancing with a bro the entire night. Then this Snooki girl and her extremely tall friend start grinding on us, well me specifically. She had huge tits but a busted face but she was a girl who would probably let you do anything to her. CK4 gave her head a palming which I think turned her friend off. The palming is an interesting move, I’m not really sure if he’s trying to pick her up off the ground or what but it was hysterical. Then the bar closed and we went outside with them. Ck4 jetted off in a taxi as the girl was ripping on his MJ sweatshirt. I ended up walking the two of them back and there was this other bro who the one girl met right outside. I don’t know what the hell was taking so long but we were probably just sitting in her car for a good hour. The girls were from Kutztown so they were driving back and they dropped me off on the way back. I did prove that if I have no hard alcohol I won’t blackout which is good to know. There’s an open bar tonight at 8 that I’ll attend and tonight should be just as interesting.

By |2010-10-22T14:35:57-04:00October 22nd, 2010|My Life|1 Comment

Actually

So I’ve gotten stuck in another word rut. It’s when you keep using the same word over and over again and it’s almost subconsciously being done. My word is actually and it’s amazing how many places you can use the word actually. I describe using the word as a smarter way of saying Uhhs or Uhm’s because there is rarely a need for the word actually to be used. I just like pointing out to people the specifics of my life and the things that I tend to think about during my work day.

On another note, when I was walking in the parking lot on my way to the gym, there was this girl who looked directly at me and gave me this smile. I’ve seen her before when I used to live at Summit and I know she worked at the gym but I’ve never really talked to her. It’s really weird too because I know we’ve seen each other but have never said anything other than hello so I don’t really know what to do. It’s like, “yeah I’ve seen you for years now but I’ve never felt like introducing myself so let’s just continue recognizing each others existence without saying anything.” My plan is that next time I see her I’m going to tell her that I’m aware that she secretly wants to bang and I’m down. She’s a relatively attractive blonde which is all the better. I’ll be sure to fill in on the details because I think I’ve even seen her at Mad River so I’ll be on the look out.

The other thing I’ve been doing lately is driving into people who abuse the green arrow. When there is a left hand turn, sometimes there will be a green arrow to give people the chance to make the turn without worrying about oncoming traffic. However, in Philly, people love to make the left up to 5 seconds after it turns off and opposing traffic has the green light. So whenever my light turns green and I see one of these assholes not abiding by traffic, I just floor it off the line and pretend I’m going to T-bone them. Obviously I never would do this because it would mess up my car as well but I’m just tired of people abusing the system. I’m allowed to abuse the system, other people aren’t.

By |2010-10-21T16:12:11-04:00October 21st, 2010|My Brain, My Life|0 Comments

Drunk Phils

Last night I placed a 200 dollar wager on the Phillies and decided to get wasted during the game. My plan was to drink 1 beer every inning and to do a shot for every Phillies run. I did accomplish both tasks, I think… I had 3 Sam Adams in the first 3 innings and when I woke up today I had 6 Coors Light on the table so I think I had the 9 beers. I also remember doing straight vodka shots for every Phillies run so I’m fairly certain I accomplished the task. I also want to point out that I was doing straight Vodka which is a real shot. I saw some program of some kid who kept ordering Soco and lime and I just laughed because he was just a wannabe alcoholic. I woke up in my bed at 7 and my alarm probably rang 100 times before I turned it off. I was about an hour behind schedule which wasn’t too bad and I feel fine now. In hindsight I probably regret drinking but during the process it was pretty fun. Tonight we have an open bar at the Bayou which I’ll attend and then Mad River has an open bar on Friday so these next two days should be good. With my birthday coming up I understand that I’m at the end of my youth and some life changes are going to have to take place. Mostly I have to start getting wasted more often on the weekdays to take advantage of my younger years to the fullest. I’ve been hitting the gym every day and yesterday I busted out 3 miles at 17:35. Show me any 26 year olds who can still do that and drink as much as I can. It’s not the norm and I consider myself unique because of it. My lifestyle choices are my alone and even though they are mostly destructive, I’ve done an OK job of keeping myself together.

By |2010-10-21T16:12:33-04:00October 21st, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

BBall

Quick basketball update. We were 3-0 moving into game four. The team we played is all black with one white guy. Like Chad would say, if one white guy is playing with a team of all black guys, he’s pretty good (he was just a good shooter). We went down early by as much as 13 in the first half but cut it to 7 at halftime. They made quite a few 3’s in the first half and we moved from a 2-3 to a 3-2 somewhere in that span. We opened the 2nd half with a few buckets and a few stops and basically evened up the score with 15 minutes to play. Without their 3’s, their offense was pretty bad and considering this was our first time ever playing a 3-2, I’m not saying we were playing shut down D. There was a period of time when Jkash picked up a couple fouls in a few seconds combined with some back talk to the refs. The Kashub’s used up 8 of the allotted 10 fouls which is typical of Jkash but unusual from the soft playing CK4. However, other aside from knocking his D, CK4 hit a big 3 with 2 minutes left that put us up 5 or so and even made a big block down the stretch. Our end game wasn’t great and they kept getting to the line for 1 and 1’s but fortunately they didn’t make so many. Bake played good again and we managed a 6 point win over a competitive team. Jess Baker and Mr. Baker, Sharon too, were all in attendance giving us our highest total attendance this season of 3. I expect a 33% attendance boost next week to keep us on the right track. We moved to 4-0 and this league is a better fit for us than the last league we played where we were 0-8.

Jkash and I also were considering seeing Jwoww but did the responsible thing and stayed in, so no good updates.

By |2010-10-20T08:26:53-04:00October 20th, 2010|Sports|0 Comments

Communication Issues

2 issues I’m going to address and my reasoning behind both. The first deals with what I call the “double call-back.” If you have any idea what I mean by the “double call-back,” you’ll know how annoying this can be. Say it’s 9am and my friend calls me on the phone. Unless I’m at the gym or on a run, there’s a high probability that I’m near my phone. When I don’t pick up the phone, there’s also a good chance that I’m doing something at work and I don’t have time to talk to you because I have more urgent matters that require my attention. So in my mind, I saw this person call, I know I will call them back when I get a chance. Now 10am rolls around and the phone is calling again from the same person. Now this person has put me in the spot that if I answer the phone, it was obvious I was avoiding them. Since they are double calling me, it says to me that this better be pretty important. The other person obviously thinks you aren’t calling them back timely and will be persistent. I understand the logic but I view the phone as a game of tag, if I call you, I just expect you to call back. If it’s important and I really need to talk to you, I’ll leave a message and send a text. If you don’t get back to me after those attempts, then maybe I’ll double call but it’s going to be a serious matter, one where a discussion is needed, before I resort to that. After writing this and re-reading it, it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal but when it happened I just noted the uneasiness of it.

Text messages can also be hard to handle for me sometimes. Does every text message deserve a response? Is texting like a game of tag that should never end on you? I’ll get some texts sometimes, read them, not know how to respond and then I just don’t and I’m not sure if that’s insulting or not. I like getting the text because there is some mystery behind the little text symbol which is unlike that of a BBM. Same thing with when people write on my wall. Is the wall a means of communication that I should feel obligated to respond to? Can’t the same thing be accomplished by a facebook message as a wall post. I will note however that I have sent some personal facebook messages in the past and I think maybe 1% has ever been responded to. I just don’t get the wall because when I want to tell someone something, I usually want to tell only them and not their whole facebook community. If you ever try to communicate with me and seem to be having some issues, just remember, these are the types of issues that roll through my thought process and most likely it is me malfunctioning and not you. Be aware.

By |2010-10-21T16:12:54-04:00October 19th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Expectations

I try to keep up with one post a day each one of the weekdays and then whatever I can write on the weekends is bonus. Usually I like to have it up by 9am of the next day, so I know I missed that today. This is the main problem with getting into a routine of doing things when it concerns other people. For instance, people are let down when they check it first thing in the morning and I have the same post as I did yesterday. When you let people down they start to grow discontent and lose interest in you. This is exactly what happened to me with the homeless guy. For months and months I never gave him a dime and he never said a word. Then one day I gave him a buck and now it’s like I did something wrong when I don’t give him a dollar. If you never do anything at all, no one ever expects anything out of you. But once you give people something they want, they’ll always want it.

I thought the one quote from Dexter was really good. “Never lie to people you trust, and never trust people who lie.” I know this phrase is used all the time but trust can take a lifetime to build and a single moment to destroy. It’s hard to really find people you can trust because most people have themselves as their #1 priority and everything else is secondary. Trusting people has a few components. They don’t lie and they are reliable. Basically they say what they mean, and then they actually do what they say. If more people adhered to this logic, more people would get along.

I also came across a number of one liners which pretty much inspired this post:

  • Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

    • People can take work so seriously that it takes over their life and the realization that you can have all the money in the world but if you have no one to share it with, you aren’t rich at all. I think I do a poor job of staying in touch and I just always assume I’m capable by myself. It’s not until you need the help of others that you regret not doing this.

  • Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

    • The people who tend to do this are the people who are insecure with themselves.

  • Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

    • It always feels like I’m saving for something but I have no idea what it is. It makes me want to live a bit more spontaneously and start doing things that maybe feel out of my comfort zone and not worrying that it costs this much and yadda yadda. Why am I so sold on the fact that I want to save my money for when I’m old and have to use it on stupid shit that I won’t enjoy nearly as much as I would now? Next stop, Delilahs.

  • Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

    • I personally will never wear purple and this bout against what people think should really play no role in decision making. I however just don’t like the color purple and will choose to never wear it.

  • What other people think of you is none of your business…

    • Goes with the above, let people talk, they shouldn’t influence your decisions.

  • If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.

    • I can honestly say I don’t have a single problem in my life right now. I’m healthy, have good friends, good family and no lingering issues. I’ve purposely set my life up like this and it’s probably about time I’ve developed some. Since I don’t have any problems it probably means I’m not doing anything worth doing.

    The final line was “friends are the family we choose for ourselves.”

    By |2010-10-19T17:00:39-04:00October 19th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

    Finished the weekend

    I scheduled a dentist cleaning at 9:45 today so I have a few minutes to write. If it was 5 years ago I’d probably be waking up at 9:15 and flying out the door to try to get there on time but today I’m up early, showered, brushed, and even flossed. I can’t decide if I should eat and then repeat the cycle but that’s what is most likely going to happen. I hate cleanings because she always flosses really hard and uses that pick with some aggression. I end up spitting out blood and then she tells me that I have to start flossing on the reg yada yada. I still give myself credit though for going every 6 months even though they have tell me I have to do a better job 2 times a year for the last 10+ years. I’m going to introduce a concept that was new to me til Friday but after I gave it some thought, and after what I just wrote, it almost makes sense.

    On Friday night at the bar a guy was telling us about “game-layer” which essentially turns life into a “game.” The description is that you receive points that you can in turn correlate into discounts and maybe only a status symbol. Stores supposedly give out challenges that if you complete them, then you get points. I’ll give an example of how I foresee this happening on a more practical scale. The dentist is tired of you having shitty gums so they offer you points every time you floss. When you get to a certain # of points, you get a quickie from the assistant. Something along those lines is how I see the point system working. As CK4 would put it “the million dollar question” is what are these points backed by. Once asked that I think most conversations stop. However I wouldn’t mind tallying point’s for every beer I drink and having a number displayed above my head of how big an alcoholic I am. I think it’s pretty interesting honestly. A link for the interested.

    Some football talk real fast. I went 3-1 in my fantasy leagues but the one loss was by the Turkeys who relinquished overall first place in the league. It was a short reign at the top of one week. All my other teams will win though and that puts me at 4-2 in three leagues and 4-1-1 in the other and amongst the top in every league. I’m usually not so good at fantasy football so I’m happy to buck this trend for at least the year, as long as all my teams don’t self-destruct.

    A quick betting paragraph. I went into the weekend up 150 bucks from the week before which, and I have been keeping close track, is an accurate total for “this football season”, notice in no way do I say I’m a lifetime winner, in fact quite the opposite but my records aren’t so sharp. Anyway, my two blog picks both covered (KC and Pittsburgh) and I also run lined the Phillies which won too. I did however lose the Colts, the Raiders, and the Cowboys. Fortunately I had 50 on the colts, 75 on the raiders, and 35 on the boys for a loss of 160. The games I won yesterday I had 131 on KC, 50 on Pittsburgh, and 75 to win 103 on the Phillies for a net total of about 100 dollar win yesterday combined with a big day yesterday to put me up roughly 350 for the weekend. So that puts me up 500 for the season finishing week 6. Considering I’m playing with profit and hate losing my own money, hopefully this money should carry me for another couple of months depending on good bankroll mgmt. I know it’s a lot to ask.

    I didn’t get to watch any TV because I feel asleep early but I have a lot of catching up to do today. Some bad news, our bball game is on Tuesday night and I will probably have to skip JWoww. I think I’ll get over it. Not much else to exciting.

    By |2010-10-18T08:17:04-04:00October 18th, 2010|My Brain, Sports|0 Comments
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