Sitting here on my second beer I’m surrounded by characters of the round table. It’s Ck4’s birthday and he’s whining that he “ain’t feeling so pretty this morning.” We went to Jack’s Place last night saw Kristen and the Noise. It was a pretty fun night that started with us playing drug dealer and then playing a dice game called 3 man. It was entertaining when Laura added the rule that the drinker had to compliment the roller. Without this rule the game would have been pretty average but this made it much more interesting. Anyway, everyone got pretty drunk before we went out and beers were only 2.50 at Jack’s Place which was awesome. Late night, Ck4, Jeff and I were down by the bay and the sky was really neat. I know that sounds really gay but we were star gazing for constellations which were illuminating nicely by the bay. Ck4’s the man today and we are about to head down to the beach.

Ck4 and I played Avalon Golf Course on Wednesday morning as a twosome. Little did we know who we were about to be paired with, Joe Bastardi and his son. Going into the round I had no idea who Joe Bastardi was but Ck4 was absolutely giddy. He was the weatherman for AccuWeather for 30 years and apparently left and started out on his own. He was an absolutely fascinating guy who has quite a personality. He was talking to me in the beginning and saying things like “what do you think happens when the carbon dioxide levels in the northern hemisphere merge with the ridge and the trough and injection into cold fronts.” I just stared at him and said you aren’t speaking my language. He was very intelligent and a super nice guy. His 15 year old son shot in the 70’s to boot. Plus he’s a body builder so his muscles were as big as my head. The round was pretty entertaining and even though neither of us played particularly well, it was pretty fun.

Appropriately titled by one Mark Weller, we are on vacation in Avalon for the week. We went to the WhiteBrier happy hours at 6 or so and it was absolutely packed. None of use were drunk and it made for an awkward time. I’ve never seen a more entertaining happy hour though. After that we had a monster game of Scattergories that included about 12 people. Basically we had two people to a team and I’d say the game was successful considering the amount of people. I had Ck4 on my team so I was the only team of 1. Also to mention, Jess Baker brought over some friends to so it wasn’t a complete sausage fest. After that we went to the Princeton which I thought was entertaining but not too many things of interest. Bake had one to many Hoegardens and was talking up a storm to this young broad. I woke up at 9:30 today feeling fine and went for a run which brings me to right now. It’s 12:26 and I’m watching Ck4 and Jeff cut up some fish and try fishing off the dock. Apparently this is the year we catch a fish. I’ll check in now and then with this blog but don’t expect my full effort. We’ll see.

I’ve been writing mostly posts about my thoughts on things and not my life. With a change of pace in mind, I’m going to give you a detail by detail description of my Tuesday, June 14th and you’ll see why I don’t write about my life that often.

I woke up at 6:45 and slept in till 7:08. I drove to work listening to music, mostly classic rock, and decided to get something to eat. I went to Johnny’s for a sausage, egg, and cheese and I have this one OCD trait about me that I hate when this PGW truck parks on the side. It’s this big truck and something trailing it that makes it take up the entire side parking and their parking lot is a nightmare because if you pull in forward you have to back out directly onto Delaware Ave. Anyway, I’m at the light about to make the turn and take a guess who pulls in directly in front of me, PGW truck. That tilted me and also the place was packed so I drove down the street to the gas station and bought a microwaveable breakfast sandwich and a Half and Half Nantucket Nectar for 6.50! After calming down I went to work. Work was bearable and I’m going to skip ahead to 4:30 when I’m leaving.

I drive back and decide to go for a run. I left at 5:45 into a slight drizzle. At 6 it started to rain harder and then by 6:15 it was a torrential downpour. I put up about 9 miles at 6:30-6:45 pace. Immediately after running I cut a blood blister from my foot because my socks were soaked and made it bad on my feet. I took a shower and decided I needed a new shower curtain and bathmat because they were getting gross (probably already gross). I go to target and buy a 5.99 curtain liner and a 9.99 bathmat. I also stopped at Boston Market and bought a half chicken with loaded mashed and stuffing as the sides. I came back home, put up the shower liner, placed the bathmat down and then cleaned the entire bathroom spotless. Shower, sink, toilet, it’s never been so clean. I watched some of the Phillies, then a thing on Tom Brady and the 6 qb’s beneath him and here we are. I’m going to read a book called “The Day the Dollar Crashes” for 15 minutes and then I’m going to call it a night. My biggest concern today is that I hope I didn’t give myself a stress fracture running. There you go ladies and gents, 6/14 wrapped up into one blog entry. Was your day any better?

I feel like I’ve been jam packing a lot into these 90 degree days. After work today I played Ck4 in tennis for about an hour and a half. I’m going to leave out the score to save him some face but losing to me in tennis is pretty blah. It was the 3rd time I’ve played this year and I really do see dramatic improvement with each outing. Starting from a complete noob each time I play gets to be embarrassing so it’s nice to feel like there is some progress being made with 3 playing attempts in under a week. It starts with just hitting the ball over the net to trying to hit it to a side of the court. I find the game to be average and the workout is not nearly as good as people say. Everyone, from soccer players to tennis players, always think that whatever they do is absolutely the best workout. After tennis today I went and ran 3 more miles because it wasn’t enough. Sure it’s a lot of stop and go but you get tons of resting and how much running are you really doing? Plus I’m in much better shape then Ck4 which gives me a huge edge as the games progress because I’m not really any better.

I also don’t ever get any opinions on whether people like my referencing to Blake Lively nude pics. I just think people are scared to voice that they actually look at them. Pornography is the primary purpose of the internet. Everything else is secondary. Now I know that people can’t view those pics at work but I’m trying to bring traffic to this site and I’m attempting they #1 way I know, smut. It didn’t work by the way as my traffic is still as normal as usual. I know some of you looked though. Pervert.

I’m glad the poll worked out the way it did. It’s so obvious to me that the phrase is “if it’s too good to be true, it probably is.” Meaning, YES, it is to good to be true. By putting the isn’t on the end all you do is confuse the hell out of the sentence to the point that no one understands it. So it isn’t too good to be true? Then it’s true? It isn’t not true? You get the point and I’m glad my readers have some intelligence as Ck4 was the only voter for the isn’t.

I also went to the mall and bought a book on the failing dollar, a new pair of Nikes, and some Polo’s, shorts, and a bathing suit. I don’t really love shopping but I don’t mind spending money on goods that are I gain possession of unlike alcohol or gambling. After that I watched the movie The Kingdom with Jamie Foxx. It was made in 2007 and I found it to be a solid 2 star movie. Problem with watching it now is that I can guarantee I will never hear a reference to this movie for the rest of my life. Not a special movie or anything, just a decent 2 hour flick. If I didn’t watch it, nothing would be any different. I’d probably have two extra hours of time to blog. It was a pretty jam packed day though and I’m tired sitting here at 11:50. Going to sleep.