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Enjoying my last few responsibility free years left.

Harrah’s Chester

Evan and I decided to check out the Harrah’s in Chester now that they are running table games. We got there at about 3 and it was only a convenient 30 minutes away, I thought the facility was pretty clean and they even had a race track with live races going off. We started off playing blackjack and had one of the funniest dealers I’ve ever played with. They hired one of the dumbest people on the planet. However she was really nice so I didn’t have a problem with her. Her adding was atrocious and whenever Evan got blackjack she’d say congratulations like it was the crowing achievement of his life. I went up about 300 on her and then a cranky know-it-all came and rocked us for a bit. I left up 107 dollars. I than put 20 bucks on the 6 horse to win and he got 2nd. I blew a few bucks on video poker and bought a few drinks so I ended up walking out virtually even. The clientele is pretty scummy and I wouldn’t recommend it unless you are fiending for action. It’s worth checking out though if you are into those sort of things.

I took two notable pictures from the weekend.
6 horse losing to the goddamn 4

A few feet away from an ace on a par 3.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-01T23:56:23-04:00August 1st, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

Gaga and Katy Perry

These girls are extremely talented. Katy Perry’s new song “Teenage Dream” is really good. When “I kissed a girl” was her first hit, I remember saying that this song is really good and now I’m not surprised at how big she’s gotten. Personally I find “California Gurls” her worst song but I was a big fan of “Waking Up in Vegas.” I think Gaga is good too. I still think “Just Dance” is a top quality song.

For whatever reason, I perceive the majority of their fan base as teenage girls so it’s not the easiest thing to admit to liking their music, but I’ve grown past the point of people’s opinions about me. I just like to give credit where credit is due, so that’s the reason for this post.

By Tom Stortz|2013-03-15T17:22:28-04:00August 1st, 2010|Celeb, Music|0 Comments

No blackout?

So I pretty much had a weekend where I didn’t black out and I must pat myself on the back. Going about weekends like this is far superior than the alternative. Both nights I was golfing earlier so that delayed my drinking time til at least 9 which is what proved to be effective. Just to harp on this for a second, I was 97 both rounds and Chad beat me by 2 each day and I think he’s surprised that he beats me but all I can say is that it’s just a round of golf and when I play the game, that’s what I’m doing, there’s no real feeling of competition when I play golf. If I get a snowy on a hole, c’est la vie. I’m way too inconsistent to feel like a good golfer and one of these days it will come together. On a side note I did beat him in beer pong 4-2 and then he beat me 2-1. Our 1v1 games are usually pretty epic and winning means something. I will also add that I drank 13 beers during these 1v1 matches in a 2 hour period just to give everyone an idea of how to consume alcohol.

On Friday night we went to Mad River and Frost said he could drink more mind erasers than me and obviously I don’t back down from someone calling me out on my drink of choice. One of my favorite bartenders were working there so we were getting reasonable prices and ended up doing 7 mind erasers before close. I will give Frost some credit for hanging because that was a nice display of being an alcoholic. I was trying to make some moves but the girls weren’t having it. I went up to one and told her “you are the prettiest girl in the room” and even that didn’t work. We went to the Brew Pub the next night and I just find that talking to girls is like pulling teeth sometimes. I initiate the conversation, I ask relevant questions and these girls are just like “stop inconveniencing me.” I’m thinking, I have a job, I’m in shape, I’m even willing to talk to you, what are you looking for? So I ended up fine both nights and actually had a decent time so I’m happy that I successfully drank without blacking out both nights. This is a rare Sunday post so stay tuned for Monday and I’ll start the week right.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-11T15:38:22-04:00August 1st, 2010|My Life|1 Comment

Quick Update

So I went to the golf range yesterday and ended up breaking the head off my Adams Speedline Driver. I don’t have the receipt but I don’t really expect that to be much of a problem. Pretty much just solidifies the fact that I’m crushing the ball and regular drivers can’t stand up to the heat. I then went to Golfsmith to look for a set of irons and ended up narrowing it down between the Cleveland CG7’s and the Titleist AP1’s. If anyone has any experience with either I’d be curious to know because it’s a reasonably sized purchase that will last a while and is pretty important. Any other suggestions I’d like to hear.

A funny thing happened last night when we went to the Mad River. The bouncer came up to me and asked how I was doing after he had to kick me out last Saturday. So that filled in a missing piece of the puzzle which means that he booted me at about 12 for being too wasted because I was elbowing girls. He did however say that I left in a subdued manner which is a bit comforting that I wasn’t completely out of control but my motor skills were probably not functioning 100%. What’s not comforting is being there for an hour and not remember anything. I get the feeling that I get the boot some of those nights so I’m certainly not surprised with the information he gave me. I did however try a new technique last night that worked surprisingly well. I went to the bar with 18 dollars and didn’t let myself take out any money. Meaning I drank 7 beers and stopped drinking and made it home feeling fine and woke up this morning feeling good. It was the first time that I can remember in a long time that when I finished my beer, I didn’t immediately go to the bar and get another. Believe it or not this may be a step in the right direction and I will give it another shot tonight and see how I end up. I’m going to coin this technique the “no money, no beer” technique.

Not blacking out and drinking >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sober >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>blacking out.
It’s actually kind of funny because I started with a few greater than signs after ‘not blacking out’ and then I kept adding them until I got to there.

By Tom Stortz|2010-07-30T09:45:35-04:00July 30th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Cleanliness

I liked Sam’s comment about how often he will use a towel before it’s time for a wash so i figured I would give my thoughts on what’s clean and when it’s time to clean. I sweat a lot, so after any physical activity the clothes I wear go directly to the hamper not to be worn again until they get washed. For non-physical activity it gets a little trickier. First off it depends on how long I wore it and what I was doing. If I spend less than 4 or so hours in the shirt and did some moderate walking around but nothing that would break a sweat, I would consider wearing the shirt again but most likely it hits the bin. For example, after ditching my work t-shirt today, I showered and put on a new T. We went to the bar and now I’ve been wearing it for 5 hours. This shirt although perfectly clean, will not be worn again by me. It goes in laundry because I don’t like wearing my clothes so closely together. I guess it’s like a Paris Hilton thing that you never wear the same outfit twice, but even though no one ever pays attention to what I wear anyway, I feel like I have 20 t-shirts that all deserve equal chance at a wear. Tom Stortz doesn’t play favorites when it comes to t-shirts. Also anytime physical activity is done and I break a sweat, I have to shower within 15 minutes after finishing. I just get this feeling of complete dirtiness and grossness if I’m not so fresh and so clean. As I write this I see that I’m really neurotic and feel like Bill Murray from What About Bob. It’s funny too because I don’t get grossed out about eating food off the ground (5 second rule) or drinking from other peoples drinks so I sort of pick and choose which battles I want to fight. I feel like my immune system is impenetrable so germs don’t really bother me much. I will wear my jeans and shorts though for a long time because they don’t touch my junk due to the boxers. I also want to point out that you need lots of everything to make this style work effectively. Lots of boxers, socks, and t-shirts. All stains on items must be washed as soon as possible because stains show a weak amount of self respect. Stay clean is my message.

Just to follow up on something I mentioned a few posts before about finding an activity to do, I think I thought of one. I was scanning around some different sites and one had to do with other peoples blogs so I checked a few out and realized how good some peoples writing styles are. When I read theirs I felt like mine was “uggh, me caveman, me write bad.” These people were just really descriptive, had good topics, and wrote impressive work. Now I know there are millions upon millions of blogs out there and I might have stumbled on a few good ones, but it got me thinking that I might have to improve my writing style. I only got a 500 or so on my verbal so I’m no genius when it comes to vocab / writing and I sort of hope my good ideas make up for my average writing. Point being, I think I might sign up for some creative writing course and learn how to do a better job of writing while also being forced to create quality work. This was probably my best idea of the year, which shows what kind of a year its been for good ideas. I’ll give it some more thought and probably not do it but who knows, maybe I’ll take the inititive.

Quick life update even though I’ve been jumping around. My 7 iron head fell off at the range so I’m getting my swing doctor (Bill Schmidt) to go to the range with me, work with my swing and pick up a new set of irons to replace my 10 year old Tommy Armour 845’s. This was also my 3rd day in a row with a good workout and I’ve proved that I’m still not where I want to be with 3 miles at 18:00 and then some 400’s that I could barely muster up at 82’s. I’ve been feeling good though and want engrave in my brain that I’m not going to get too fucked up this weekend because it is hindering my training and physical self. I actually have about 3 more topics in the works for this site so I’ll be posting some more material in the coming days. Thanks for reading.

By Tom Stortz|2010-07-28T23:09:05-04:00July 28th, 2010|My Brain, Sports|0 Comments

The angry email

I just want to give some background of my thoughts on emails and proper etiquette before I go into what happened. I get my emails sent to my phone so I’m always in tune with everything coming to me and I probably check my phone every half hour or so for any new material (unlike CK4 whose check time is probably about once every other minute). I would think this is probably near the norm for anyone who gets email to their phone. If you don’t get it to your phone and have to check your computer for it, then there is obviously a delay in response time regarding emails. Then there are the people who probably don’t check it at all, or every day or so, or worse every week. Averaging all of these possibilities together, I give a person a 24-48 hour window to respond to my email without me taking action. After this period of time, a call is in order. I rarely use email for personal use even though this is one of my preferred methods, I find it’s not for others. I do get some inquiries for work but this isn’t a high tech industry and most communication is done through the telephone (*gasp*) with people who don’t even have an email address. So considering I’m not CK4 and sending out thousands of emails, I don’t get too many situations like the one I received today.

I shipped out a damaged soldering iron to a company for repair. The iron runs off of a gas cartridge which along with a starter lights the flame to solder. So a few days later I send the company an email asking if they received it and get a response back verbatim:
“Oh,,You mean the FUCKING BOMB you sent by UPS? NEVER NEVER send a device attached to a gas canister as it is extremely dangerous, ie ;AIR FLORIDA jet goes down in the EVERGLADES and GATORS eat your granny ……..BAD SHIT BAWANNA SEE Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations , Section 172.101, 10 CFR 40, 10 CFR 42, etc.” It goes on but it’s not as funny.

Personally I think he may have been over reacting a bit because unless it spontaneously combusts, there’s no real chance of it going off, but nonetheless his point was well taken and I felt like a complete jackass. So my point is that usually when someone is yelling at you in person, you can do your best to calm the person down and have a say in the matter, but when I got this I just had to sit there and read it while this guy was ripping into my guts. I especially like how he capitalized the keywords to really make a point. Everyone knows that caps means your yelling and the “everglades” and “granny” were especially useful for emphasis.

All in a days work…

By Tom Stortz|2010-07-28T15:39:30-04:00July 28th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Posts are killing me

You’ll notice I changed the title and I figured it because search engines are usually drawn to titles and considering my URL is rnningfool, I could probably generate some other traffic with different words. I played off the Always Sunny in Philadelphia title, a show I have seen but never really watch (although I hear it’s good), and went with something that correlates closer to the surrounding theme of myself. I’m actually not usually drunk during the weekdays but I think I make up for that every weekend. I pay reasonably close attention to my visitor count and even though I’ve been having more traffic as of late, it’s nothing to brag about. I’ll see if this change does anything.

Props to Jkash for creating the Manayunk Moisturizer. Everyone dreams of the day when they can join the prestigious class of urban dictionary. I can’t really think of any sites I’ve ever contributed to so I can’t really write about too many other things on this topic.

I’m really out of shape compared to where I was just 3 months ago. I haven’t been going on longer runs and the one I did today I had to cut short because it was going to eat me alive. My time for the 8 miles or so was average but I had no strength in the legs. I have a 10 miler in Sea Isle the 2nd week of August so this is the time to get my body in better shape.

I’ve also been going to sleep pretty late so I’m hitting the sack early tonight (11:30). I’ve been feeling pretty good but still lack any substance. I’m thinking about joining some activity or group just to change things. I’m usually anti-anythingorganizational but I’ve been boring myself lately and need to swap things up. Maybe I should take a course on website design and see if I can actually turn this into something that makes it worthwhile to do.

The only pertinent thing I want to write about is the use of towels on a daily basis. It’s the towel conundrum. I have about 9 towels that I’ll use throughout the week. I have this issue where I prefer to use a fresh towel over one that’s been used before. Something just feels off if I don’t have a fresh towel. They take up a fair amount of space in my room and it’s annoying to wash them all the time so I’m looking for an alternative. I have a feeling most people probably have 2-3 towels and just re-use them until they decide it’s time for a wash. Am I wrong with this or does everyone have 9 towels that get used once and then washed?

By Tom Stortz|2010-07-28T00:12:46-04:00July 27th, 2010|My Brain|2 Comments

Little Known Facts

I don’t own a comb and won’t use gel

I fill up my gas tank with 87 when the manual says I should use 89

I feel uncomfortable wearing shirts of floral colors

In the song Rocket Man, “how can anything be cold as hell?”

My big toe nail has fallen off at least 10 times

I will shave my chest from time to time

I find Jamie Foxx to be completely played out and find Martin Starr to be extremely underrated

Buster Posey has become my new favorite fantasy baseball stud

I’ve never punched anyone in the face in my life (besides drunken boxing)

I’ve never had a broken bone (scrapes and bruises are more my style)

I disagree with the line “Steely Dan gargles my balls” from Knocked Up and find songs like “Old School” “Deacon Blues” and “Hey Nineteen” to be very good

I’ve moved Anberlin ahead of Gaslight and I’ve pretty much been solely youtubing them and listening to all their songs

I won’t eat most desserts but an Oreo blizzard

I use a razor blade length, right in between my eyes, for standard non uni-brow

At some point in my life I’ve been above avg at foosball, ping pong, pool, chess, and other pointless games, but now probably suck at them all

I find WaWa food to be a tad overrated as I think their hoagies and melts are mediocre at best. I really don’t know why people think they are so good.

I get some fulfillment from making retarded lists and having people question why I am the way I am (thank you Eminem for that one).

By Tom Stortz|2010-07-27T09:21:13-04:00July 27th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Nothing doing

So my aspirations of being a long drive champion are non existent as it seems that you have to be about 420+ to really be considered good. Wagon and I have been hitting the range about 3 times a week and these new drivers we bought really crush the ball. It’s safe to say he’s been 315+ and I’ve been 335+. It’s really amazing how technology can alter the way you get off the tee. I also will say that it’s pretty amazing feeling to be able to hit the ball that long. In 7 days I’ve logged 8,000 hands of 6max nl for a mere 70 dollars but I have a feeling that will begin to change.

When I was driving to work today at 7:30 I saw this moderately attractive girl starting her day with a cigarette and I just can’t believe that the craving for nicotine is that overwhelming. Plus traffic coming in is pretty empty but I spent about an hour driving Kelly to Ridge home and it was just a nightmare because the traffic lights were down. Works been fine and I’m sort of just living life and not really feeling any sense of accomplishment or even a feeling of potential accomplishment. It’s just another day after day. It’s also weird how quick July flew by and how school starts again for people come August. When you work this isn’t really a crucial time but it obviously effects some peoples lives. I also know that when school starts, the traffic really starts to blow. I intend to head down the shore at least 2 or 3 more times before the summer’s over to take advantage of it while it’s still nice out. Nothing else of interest.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-11T15:40:04-04:00July 27th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Blah Blah Blah

People are whining that I haven’t wrote a post in a few days which is fine but I try not to flood the site with pointless material, even though everything’s pretty much pointless on here, but at least I feel like the material has some entertainment value when I want it to. I really can’t write much about the weekend because I don’t remember all that much. I’m actually a little disappointed with myself because I’m still playing with fire and it’s only a matter of time before I get burned again. I woke up on Sunday with a bath towel covering me instead of a blanket which as a Baker said “was odd.” We played golf on Saturday and I was pretty hungover and then started drinking on the course which had me spraying balls all over the place. I thought I hit the ball pretty well but when you give away 8 strokes from penalties off the tee you can’t score well. Apparently I picked up two girls numbers over this weekend but the one Jkash reminds me of, I don’t really recall. The second was some Asian girl who wasn’t bad but the communication barrier was a bit tricky. My real problem is that I make a good impression on people after 6 beers but tend to move into creep mode after about 15. CK4 tells me my moves at Mad River on Saturday were ineffective and creepy more so than anything suave. This is actually causing me to give some thought to developing a device to limit the amount of alcohol. Or I could just attain celebrity status with the idea told to me by multiple people to just wear a camera on my head when I go out. Jkash’s comments of not only would the footage be dynamite (taio shout out) but the interaction with people with a camera on my head would be priceless. I also want to put Hafer’s name in this paragraph just so he doesn’t feel left out.

Standard Sunday Tv night as well with True Blood, Entourage, and the Ocho show. I found True Blood to be a bit slow and the gay scenes are really not what I want to be watching. Entourage was sub par and I really hate writing that I dislike the Turtle plot lines but I’m going to keep at it just to hammer the point home. Ocho was entertaining as usual as you get a glimpse of how catty some girls can be. I really like Tara as well because I feel like there is nothing going through her brain, and she talks like nothing is going through her brain, but she has some pretty witty zingers.

Some other news that no one cares about. I finished 16th out of 1906 people in a 20 dollar tourny when my tens lost to another person’s tens. I ran pretty well but I think it’s pretty evident that my poker game is starting to find some success. Just navigating fields that big and coming up with a spot to potentially take it down should be a bright spot of things to come. Here’s some music too that I find pretty good at the moment.

Pop music that will hit the airwaves in full force I would assume.

New Anberlin

Old Anberlin

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-11T15:42:21-04:00July 26th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments