Random Shit

Evan has mentioned this before but I see it time and time again and it is mind boggling. I saw two car accidents on the way to work today. One live and the other’s aftermath. When you see someone get into a car accident the instinct is to look and see what happened. When you do this you completely fuck up traffic. I literally saw a bro with his head out the window, 180 degrees, looking at some swirling police lights and a car underneath someones bumper. I don’t get the fascination with accidents. It’s one thing if you see it happen to stop and make sure everyone is OK. It’s another to become wildly engrossed in the accident that you forget you are driving and create another retarded accident. To top it off, police do idiotic things in handling accidents. It will be a 2 lanes and rather than move the accident somewhere off road or something they will completely block traffic. Then you can’t flip them off or yell at them because they are the police.

If you go to the gym, seriously, put on deodorant. I went yesterday because it was raining out and there was only one treadmill open and as I walked behind the person to get on it, there was this stench of completely foul BO. I was tearing up using the machine. I’m glad it’s summer now because I hate going to the gym because of all the stupid characters there. There are meat heads, chatty kathy’s, and can’t forget there’s that one girl who I know, but hate, but she thinks we’re friends so I have to spend my whole time staying to the complete opposite side of the gym to avoid her at all costs because saying hello would make her think we’re friends.

I watched Jerry McGuire, Cape Fear, and Point Break recently. I’ll give mini reviews if you care. It was the first time I’d seen Jerry. I thought Laurel’s character was really good. Renee didn’t bother me at all and I thought Tom Cruise was decent. Overall I liked the movie and the end was a poignant scene that almost brought a tear.

Cape Fear was entertaining. I’m not sure why Robert DeNiero can take lead pipes all over and not feel it. Juliette Lewis was such an idiot that I was hoping she’d get it by the end. The mom wasn’t that hot but I thought Nick Nolte was pretty good. Nothing amazing but decent movie.

Point Break was entertaining but unrealistic. For being made in 1991 I think they did a really good job. Keanu is an emotionless tool but he didn’t bother me too much. I hate Lori Petty and Patrick Swayze I thought played the part well. Towards the end it just got stupid but I thought it was OK for most of it. I thought the same thing about Taken. It was good for an hour and then when it came time to wrap it up it just got way out of hand. Why are they tying Liam up around a pipe that he can easily break?

If you haven’t seen any of the movies I don’t really recommend any of them but they just seemed like movies that you should see to be part of society.

By |2010-01-25T23:18:02-05:00June 16th, 2009|Sports|0 Comments

Monday Morning

I’ll write a post to give people something to do for a few minutes on the worst day of the week.

I went Mad River on Friday with hopes of scoring the bartenders number. If you’ve read anything I wrote before I told her last Sunday I’d take her out on Wednesday. I put her number in my phone wrong and didn’t contact her. So I go in on Friday trying to get her to fix the number in my phone. So I see her, tell her I’m sorry I stood her up but I had her number in my phone wrong. She looks at the number says something like “so close” and then tells me to try back later. Obviously realizing she now holds all power of the digits and decides to play hard to get. She’s at the bar and I’m at a table so the best time to talk to her is after finishing my drink. So one time I go up and say I’d like a rum and coke and also a date tomorrow night. My friend told me the line and it seemed pretty good. She thought it was funny but wouldn’t give in. Then my other friend, trying to be smooth, goes up and asks her “is Tom creeping you out?” This genius is my wingman? After such a moronic question I have to call him out in this post. Even after the retarded question she replies no which was at a fine answer for a potential disastrous question. To make a long story short I didn’t get her number because she was being difficult. She ended up giving us some free shots so it’s not like things went badly, they just didn’t end with a great success like advertised. So I’ll be down the shore starting on Thursday so I won’t get another opportunity but I think that’s probably a good thing. This girl is literally a dime or at least and nickel and 4 pennies so a challenge is probably necessary.

In other news, our Oreland team won a game. We were up 21-7 at one point. They narrowed the lead to 4 or 5 and we ended up winning by 10 or so. I didn’t play too well but anytime your team wins and an individual doesn’t do well you just say “it’s a team game.” We play again tonight at 9 with hopes of another w.

A final thought. I’ve been wearing contacts for 10+ years now and I still can’t figure out which side is the right way to put them in. Most mornings I just randomly look at the contact and just put it in. Lately they have been scratching my eyes when I put them in and I have to keep taking them out and putting them in time after time. I’m considering Lasik but honestly having a laser beam in my eye doesn’t seem like something I’m willing to chance. Summer vacation is starting soon.

By |2010-01-27T19:29:38-05:00June 15th, 2009|My Life, Sports|0 Comments

Friday

Yesterday I ran a 59 quarter, followed by a slow lap, then a 5:20 mile, lap, then a 2:35 half, then 7:30 minutes on the stadium stairs, and then a 65 quarter to top it off. I think I can do the quarter a couple of seconds faster if I had someone running with me. I was pretty pleased with my mile time which I think I can nick 5 minutes fresh. And I missed my goal on the half by 5 seconds at the point of the workout. Today I ran 60 minutes straight at about 6:45 to 7 minute pace and I felt pretty good.

After yesterday’s post, 17 people are wondering why I’m posting today. I decided that I’m not going to try to post things that I think everyone will want to read. I’m going to write whatever I want to write about and if you don’t like it then you don’t have to read it. If you don’t like track writing, fan fucking tastic, I don’t care.

Today will be attempt two at asking this bartender out. I put her number in my phone wrong the first time after I told her I would take her out last wednesday which I obviously blew off. So now I have to say sorry and try again. I don’t really do dates but this girl I believe is out of my league so I’d be a fool not to try. I bet this girl gets hit on all the time so I’m not guaranteeing great success but if she tried giving me her number once, hopefully it’ll work again. However to quote the Piano man:

“I’ve gotta get it right the first time
That’s the main thing
I can’t afford to let it pass
You get it right the next time that’s not the same thing
Gonna have to make the first time last.”

By |2010-01-27T19:30:31-05:00June 12th, 2009|My Life, Sports|0 Comments

What for?

I’ve been keeping this blog for about 6+ months for what? I think I used to do it to entertain people and let people know what goes through my brain on certain topics. Lately though I think I’ve just stopped caring what other people think about what I’m doing. I’ll run through some general things that I could certainly write as blog entries that hold some entertainment value (to me) but most likely to no one else.

I ran a 2:15 in a half mile, then followed it with a 65 quarter and then a 5:47 mile. Today I plan on running a fresh 400 and see how fast I do it. This is what I’m doing with my life. Getting in good shape and trying to run fast times on a track. Do you think the average person even knows what those times are? Do they care? No. So why write about it.

Another topic. We lost in bball last night by 2 points on a questionable call. We were tied with 30 seconds left. 90% of the time you should win or go to overtime. We turn the ball over with 3 seconds, they throw it in and call a timeout. We foul them with 3 seconds left (horrible call by the ref at that point of the game) and we lose the game on a 1 and 1. I could go into details about what happened, how we should have won, what we did wrong to lose to a team I thought we were more talented then. But do the people who come to this blog really care? I think they could care less.

A final example. I could use this blog as a communication device to express my thoughts on my opponents vetos in scattergories. (Scattergories is played by rolling a dice that gives a key letter and then you have to come up with things that go with the categories on the card). So if I wanted I could write here, so everyone else who reads this would know, that I think that it is insane that they veto the answer Pluto for things found on a map. 3 out of 3 Vetos. There is this thing called a solar system. It holds the planet Pluto. If you think there is no such thing as a map of the solar system then I think it’s ok to veto. If I brought you a piece of paper with the sun and our planets, sized correctly with specific details what would you call this piece of paper? Oh and Clues can grow. Just because they aren’t physically growing doesn’t mean they can’t grow towards solving the answer. It’s like here’s a small clue to help you out. Now here’s a big clue to help you out further. Clue sizes range from little to big, they can grow.

Bottomline is that all these topics are bs. I don’t think the majority of people care and I don’t really care if they care. When I started this I thought it would be cool if you could get hundreds or thousands of people to follow your thoughts. But after doing it for a while I’m not really driven by anything to maintain this. It’s fun when it starts out but my reasons for keeping this have dwindled. I spent 150 for 2 years to hold this domain name so I’m not saying I’m giving up but I might take a break for a little while. People could think I’m in a bad mood or some other crazy reason why I wrote this but there is absolutely nothing wrong with me. I’m completely content and happy and will start to concentrate on other things. I think this last point I just stumbled upon accidentally is really why. You have to find things to do to entertain yourself. Whether it’s movies, sports, books, games or anything in between, you have to do something. I used this blog for a while to entertain myself but I think I’m shifting gears to something else. Sometimes you have to move on.

By |2010-01-26T22:29:20-05:00June 11th, 2009|My Brain, Sports|3 Comments

Kelly Drive Bound, Down and Out

Clever title.  If you’ve seen Eastbound Down and Out you’ll appreciate it.  It’s not 100% accurate because the run I’m referring to was an out and back, not a down and out but it’s close enough.  The out part is clever because that’s what happened to me.  What you don’t do on an out and back is die on the way out.  Dying is a runners term for hitting the wall.  Hitting the wall is a runners term for being too tired to function properly.  Anyway, I was doing this 12 mile run, 6 each way and I did the first 6 perfectly fine.  Probably at a 6:30 pace or so.  Problem was the going back didn’t go to plan.  I did about 1 mile of the last 6 and it was all over.  I think my fastest time doing this particular run was 1:23 and change.  I ran the first 6 in 39:30.  Finished in 1:25 and that isn’t even including the 2 water breaks I took on the way back.  I was like the Jackson Browne song Running on Empty which I’ve actually grown to really like.  Nevertheless, I finished it without injury and will do better next time.

I was bored yesterday and went to Hulu.com to watch an old family guy or something but I’d seen them all and came across a show called Glee.  I had no idea what I was about to watch but I thought I read something saying it was decent.  It was set in a high school and there’s a teacher who becomes the head of the Glee Club.  By the way, his wife is really hot but she’s a complete bitch but does some good acting.  I can tell its not going to be a really funny series but it has some potential because the characters seem pretty well developed.  For being about something stupid like the Glee club I thought the show was above average.  I watched only the Pilot and the series is coming out fall of 09 but it’s worth a watch if you have 45 minutes to kill.  New good TV is coming out too with Weeds, True Blood, and hopefully Californication but I haven’t seen any ads for it yet.

I’ll leave 3 songs that aren’t necessarily new but good.

Black Heart Inertia – Incubus

Zero – Yeah Yeah Yeah’s

This Town – OAR (how old is this?)

By |2011-05-18T22:56:32-04:00May 28th, 2009|Music, Sports|0 Comments

Why No Update?

Most people like to use being too busy as a reason to not do things.  However, most people really have no idea what busy is.  A busy day for some people is going to the store, going to the gym, picking up some dry cleaning, and then cooking a meal.   The past example is busy work, not being busy.  I have actually been the opposite of busy, lazy.  I have had plenty of time to write about whatever I wanted but just didn’t.  I could have wrote that I was 89, 88, 90 at Turtle Creek, Limekiln, and Pincrest respectively.  Actually I had first hole issues on Turtle Creek and Pinecrest so that score could be off by a couple.  Or I bowled 200, 188, 184 in 3 consecutive games, making me think I know what I’m doing.  Or over the weekend I asked 2 girls what the chances of us having a 3some would be.  Turned out not very good, she either said 85% chance not happening or .5% chance of it happening.  I kind of zoned out while she was talking to catch her answer.  Kind of telling for what type of chances I had.  This was just the typical last couple days with nothing too exciting happening.  I didn’t make one sports bet and didn’t really play any cards either.  I’m just trying to make it through another work week which is becoming more and more challenging.  I have no understanding of how people can work day after day, year after year for 30+ years.  I’m spent after 4.  I 0pened up a google adwords account for our business website and maybe I’ll do it for this as my viewers have actually decreased recently.  Our bball team plays next week which will be a nice change of pace to the normal work week.  I’m purposely not using and paragraphs and continuing to change topics to make it annoying to read.  FI oYu Nca IurfeG UOt tHsi nTnCSEeE, eFeL PSiCAEl yuO UsJt dawTse ouRY MiTE.

By |2011-05-18T22:55:22-04:00May 27th, 2009|Sports|0 Comments

Last Few Days

The title might make you think I was going somewhere or doing something exciting but I’m not.  I’ll just run through random bs from the last couple days.  My friend Evan said that it really doesn’t even matter what you put in a blog as long as it’s something to keep people unbored.   I had 32 people visit my site on Friday.  32!  So that’s a start.  Once the domain name gets established hopefully I’ll hit triple digits one day.

Here’s a recap of my weekend highlighting the major points.

– Bowled a 213 last night ending my streak of hundreds of non 200 games.

– Shot a 89 on a par 66 course which wasn’t very good.  I feel like I play down to the level of the course which is one of the reasons I never want to play there again.  Walnut Lane and Twining Valley are currently the only 2 courses on my list.  Slow greens, indistinguishable fairways, awkward lies…   If they sold beer on the course I would reconsider.

– Lost 125 dollars Saturday night at 3am playing someone heads up for 115 dollars each game.  Won the first and lost the next 2.  I was under the influence at the time.

– I’ve only went to the gym once in the last week and stopped running for a while so I feel like a piece of shit.  I don’t know how people can go through life never exercising.  I intend to pick up my routine this week.

– I went car shopping for a new TL.  It’s constant haggling with these clowns.  I have time on my side so I’m not rushed into anything but I have the feeling I’ll cave sooner rather than later.  I was offered 1500 down and $530 a month which would include the money I still owe on this car.  I think this price is too high and if anyone who reads this has experience with recent car sales, I’d be happy to listen.

– I got a new Storm for 200 plus a 50 dollar mail in rebate from Verizon.  I told them that I want to speak to their cancellation department if they weren’t going to let me upgrade 4 months early.  They gave in pretty easily and I got a storm with new found insurance.  I really don’t even want the storm but I’m tired of my current phone and am looking for an upgrade.  I’m sure I’ll be writing about the good an bad about it once I get it.

Finally I want to send off with a funny video.  Only the last 15 seconds are funny but you have to watch the full minute to take it all in.

By |2010-01-25T23:02:23-05:00May 11th, 2009|Sports|0 Comments

Broad Street Run

I finished in 60:15 which was 15 seconds off my goal and finished in 170th out of 23,000 people.  I’m pretty pleased with the result.  If I had a couple of more weeks to train I think I could have dropped a minute or two off my time.  I felt pretty good the entire race.  My legs started to fatigue at mile 7 and I dropped to probably 6:15 mile pace for mile 7,8,9 but the last mile I finished at 6  pace.  Next race I”ll do will be the Sea Isle 10 miler in August I think.  Then the Distance run in September and I’ll contemplate the Marathon in November but most likely I won’t be motivated enough to train for it.  If I’m not going to take the race seriously and train I don’t see any point to doing it.

I actually enjoyed my sober weekend.  I woke up each day feeling good and got things done.  I have one more book to read before I exhausted everything I bought from Amazon.  I started Schindler’s List and Get Shorty so I’ll finish them this week.  I’m also going to start a poker tab up top to give an overview of the games I play and money I try to make.  Other than that everything is business as usual.  People have been told me that my posts haven’t been as good lately and for that I’m sorry but my life isn’t non stop entertainment, my bad.

By |2013-03-15T16:42:08-04:00May 4th, 2009|Running|0 Comments
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