Last week’s Monday post was titled “miserable”, this week is more of the same. The Phillies and Eagles seasons are over. I briefly wrote about the Phillies and I’m not completely shattered by it. The Eagles are the sloppiest team in the NFL right now. Penalties, fumbles, terrible coaching, you name it they have it. Our football team in the Manayunk Sport and Social got worked on Saturday. We were down 28-24 or something close at halftime and ended up losing 58-30. Our defense didn’t stop them from scoring a touchdown one time the entire game. It was ugly. I did have a little bit of winning betting on sports this week winning 4 college football games in a row and one MLB game. I took that into Sunday where I put 140 bucks on Cam Newton and the Panthers which covered. I then proceeded to lose that money by betting on the Bronco’s and the Falcon’s. It’s still sort of free money so I’m not complaining. My fantasy teams also took it on the chin as I’ll go 1-3 with one game looming. I need Calvin to go for about 13 points to salvage a terrible week and beat Evan.

I’ll probably won’t be posting after tomorrow because I’m going to Atlanta for a roofing show and then spending some time in Ft Lauderdale with the Rock. I could use a break as this monotony of work and play is getting boring. The same way this blog is. I know I haven’t been putting much effort into it but it sort of comes and goes. Sometimes I feel like I have interesting things to write about any other times zip.

I feel like I owe my readers some life update because the majority of my posts lately have been about random topics that strike me throughout the day. I’ve come to the conclusion that these are generally more interesting than my life. After the Distance Run last Sunday I stopped running. Aside from a Bball and Football game I’ve been loafing around watching TV, reading or something else. My Beatles book, fantasy football and random TV has been occupying my time. It’s funny because I’m actually bored writing about it so I can only imagine how you must feel reading about it. It’s just the same routine day in and day out. Work, few hours of freedom, sleep, work… I don’t dislike working but these weeks are really running together. I do get to go to Atlanta in a few weeks for a sheet metal show and then visit the Rock in Ft. Lauderdale for a couple of days. That’s at least something to look forward to. I’ve also been in the market for some wireless speakers and a new computer. With all these songs I have access to, I am sort of limited to listening to them in my room. Hooking up nice speakers that can used for the TV and to play music from my computer or phone would bring me into 2011. Also, the computers out there are really cheap. I like the touch screens where all the hardware is built in the monitor. I’ve always found laptops to be annoying and just prefer a keyboard and mouse that isn’t set up for a tiny person. This computer is almost 6 years old and it still works but it’s time I upgraded to something more modern.

I have been living a life of boredom for the past few weeks. This is done by choice but if you read my post a few weeks ago, I wrote that I was going to try to take this half marathon seriously and not get wasted on the weekends and try to train for it. This plan was mostly brought to fruition aside from the training part. My weekends have been plain and boring and I’ve been feeling relatively healthy. Tomorrow at 8am after, hopefully, an hour and 20 minutes of running, I will end this little project. It’s nice to feel the same way each morning but I just miss some “excitement”. Perhaps this is the alcoholic in my talking but I will refer to a Family Guy episode where they show two potential life paths of Peter. One in which he never drank and had geeky friends and a straight edge life and another where he was a drunk and all the bad things that happen. The moral is moderation and I believe that this is what I will strive for in the future.

On Friday night I played some poker and got into an interesting pot. I had 33 and the flop game 346. I bet 10 into the pot and was called by one person. The turn brought a 3 giving me quads and the fat woman, who the player to the left of me referred to as Jabba the Hutt, checked and I bet 15 hoping not to lose her, she called. The river brought a 3 card flush and money signs were going off in my head. She bet 35 bucks and I Hollywooded for a moment and said raise and put out 35 chips. She heard the raise and said something to the effect, I call whatever. Obviously this is music to my ears and I then ask does she have to call my bet, I’m all in then. They bring the floor over and the idiot lady is given the option of what she wants to do when I bet 250 into a pot of 80. She ends up calling anyway and turns over a straight and I doubled up in the first 30 minutes. I only left with a 50 buck profit due to some bad play and bad luck.

I woke up early on Saturday and went to get a haircut. I had some really awkward conversation with the barber and we talked about golf a little and he told me the same story he told me the last time I had him. I just didn’t have the banter to make the talk any less tough to get through. After that I went to Barnes and Noble and bought the 4th book in the Game of Thrones Series, Chuck Klosterman’s “Killing Yourself to Live” and a book about the Beatles. I also went to Modell’s and I will predict this franchise will be out of business shortly. They have no customers and a lousy selection. I also went to BestBuy and bought a Squeeze greatest hits CD and a James Taylor album out of the $4.99 bargain bin. Next I went to the mall and will comment on the overpriced Auntie Anne’s stand which charged me $4.82 for a monster lemonade and a pretzel. That was my morning and it felt pretty good feeling sober and spending some money on material goods.

It’s 8pm now and I’m pretty much sitting here listening to music and reading a book by myself. In a sense I find it fairly sad that I don’t enjoy socializing without alcohol but for some reason I just feel better staying in alone and just reading. I’m well aware of my mishaps and abuse of alcohol but spending weeks like this proves that I can be sober, I just have to change my typical behavior. Whether it’s good or bad I’m not really sure but it is a change of pace and I certainly feel healthier. I don’t expect a bang up time tomorrow but it should be a good start to a Sunday filled with football.

Since I’ve graduated from college, I’ve been employed for all but 2 weeks. These past two days are what it feels like to be unemployed, a feeling that is completely new to me. Our building didn’t have power for the past two days due to a fire underneath the street and it did some damage to the electric supply. When you don’t have power, you can’t really work. Yesterday the traffic was maddening and with no power to boot, I stayed home. Today I drove in thinking there was going to be power and there wasn’t. Now it’s 10:15 and I’m sitting at this computer typing a blog post. This is like not having a job and being able to do whatever you want. The sense of freedom is pretty nice but I don’t really have anything to do. I’ll probably go for a run but for the most part, this would get old fast. I finished the Soprano’s series yesterday (a complete separate post to come) and I will probably start Mad Men but sitting her for hours watching shows can only keep you entertained for so long. It’s just a weird feeling. I’ll probably sit here and create a bunch of posts for this website. Keeps me busy.

No this is not a morbid post like the title might suggest. I’m just going to recap a few of the more interesting things that happened to me over the long weekend.

• I watched Sam’s XC race on Saturday and I have a video of the race that I just need to figure out how to get from my phone to youtube.
• I bought a new 12′ Acura TL. I was able to turn my car in (even with a cracked windshield), put 500 bucks down and lower my payments by 50 bucks.
• I played poker for 8 hours on Saturday at Harrah’s Chester and lost a bit over 200 bucks. I played pretty average. I lost a big pot with AK on a KT4 board against the opponents KT. I won a big won with 58 on a 557 board against 68. I lost a big one with KK on a QJ8 board where some maniac who played every hand flopped a straight. Basically it was just a huge waste of time.
• I shot a 90 at Bella Vista from the Blue Tees which was pretty good. I also had a drive that went 365 yards.
• I took an elbow to the face playing ball on Sunday that sent me to the ER and required 3 stitches. I probably could have done without them but the cut was pretty deep as my tooth punctured my mouth. I also got a tetanus shot which completely made me feel ill on Monday. My arm was killing me and my body felt so weak. I had flu like symptoms and just felt awful. I still feel pretty bad today.
• My 3rd fantasy football draft took place last night and I’m pretty sure I drafted a good squad. Peyton Manning dropped to pick 60+ after I already got Romo and now I have great trade value which should give me a huge edge in the league. My last draft is tonight and then the season commences on Thursday.

I completely understand, when you get older, you just don’t care about fashion. This picture is quite a find though. This was taken at Sam’s XC race and it stars my dad and another man with the same fashion sense. For whatever reason, JC thinks this is a cool look but to find 2 guys who equally appreciate this look, standing at this close of a vicinity, is something else. This is an ok color for a smoking hot girl in a bikini or for someone who wants to be seen in the dark but this color is just pushing it a little too far. Back when I was in grade school I used to rock a neon pink shirt that I thought was totally rad but that was back in the day when I could get away wearing anything. I thought this was a dandy picture though and wanted to share it. Any other people’s parents wear great clothes like these?