February 5, 2006

• Hot fucking damn, I’m SOOOOOOO very tired. I have not slept well all
  week, and it seems like each night I get less and less sleep. Thursday
  night I was out ’til late and up early. Friday night, we played cards
  in honor of my mother’s birthday. It was me, Mark, Dave, Rusty, his
  father in law, Mason and Lance surprised us by showing up. I wanted to
  do dealer’s choice just like my mom used to play. I love dealer’s
  choice, its so much fun. Sure, I love Texas Hold ‘Em as well, but
  playing dealer’s choice and games like Between the Sheets, Black
  Mariah, Baseball, and Pass the Shit are just so much fun, we always
  laugh a lot while playing them. Its not often when we play dealer’s
  choice, because Hold ‘Em is the fad right now thats what everybody
  wants to play. Having 8 people, I was over-ruled and we wound up
  playing Hold Em. I started off poorly and Mark started off very well.
  When it was all said and done, it was just myself and Rusty left going
  head to head. We battled for about 20 minutes, but we all really wanted
  to start playing dealer’s choice, so we just chopped the pot and
  started playing dealer’s choice. Mason kept saying that he was going to
  leave at midnight, but we kept talking him into playing another hand,
  and next thing we know, it was 1 in the AM. He left then and we played
  for about 15 or 20 more minutes before stopping. It was ok, because I
  had to be up very early for the tv to be delivered.

  Grant’s was supposed to call between 6-7AM to schedule delivery for
  today. I just couldn’t understand why they couldn’t just give me a time
  when I bought the damn thing, you know, like a real fucking company? As
  it was, for some reason, I woke up at about 6:15 and couldn’t fall back
  to sleep. Finally, they called at about 6:40 to say they would be here
  between 10-2, which could be cutting it close, since the cable guy was
  going to come to install the hi-def between 1-5. After a little bit, I
  finally fell back to sleep. I woke back up shortly after 9 in the am. I
  had some shit to do before 10, so I got up. I ran to the bank and got
  some money. Next, I was off to the post office to ship Liam some Smores
  Pop Tarts he was craving. I can’t blame him, Smores Pop Tarts rule. I
  did, however, have a hellva time trying to find a box to ship them in.
  I managed to get one from Meijer, but for a few minutes thought it
  would be really funny to ship a lone box of pop tarts in the box that
  my 56 inch tv came in. Fortunetly, common sense prevailed, as it would
  have been VERY expensive to ship that damn box. As it stands, it was
  more money than I originally expected, but still a reasonable price. I
  can now cross off mailing food internationally off of my list of things
  I need to do.  I
  headed back home and the wait was on for said tv.

  John and I had to move the old 36 inch console tv into a spare bedroom.
  This was a big of a challenge, but eventually we got it moved. This
  part of the story had no point.

  Finally, at about 12:15, the tv arrived. They told me I would have to
  wait a couple of hours before turning it on. I quickly removed the box
  and started to tear it apart. There was also a stand that I had no
  business putting together, so I made John do it after he got back from
  the store. By 3:30, we had the tv all set up and I was enjoying 56
  inches of non hi-def tv bliss. I waited for the cable guy. And waited.
  I called about 4:45 and they said he was on his way. He arrived about
  5:20, which is very typical of any cable company anywhere in the world.
  It took him some time, but finally he had it set. Thing were looking
  great. I was watching the Bulls game (not in hi-def) and they were
  getting their asses kicked, so I started to surf around a bit. It was
  then that I noticed that although we had MTV2, MTV Hits, VH1 Classic
  and VH1 Soul, we had no original MTV or VH1. Also, no Comedy Central.
  And no TNT or CNN. We didn’t even have any Comcast Sports Net, which
  was really weird since this was Comcast Cable. In fact, we did not have
  any basic cable channels. I was baffled by this and thought that if I
  wasn’t going to have any of these, I woudl cancel the whole damn thing
  and switch to (SHUTTERS) satellite. I called Comcast and found out that
  they messed up and they quickly had things corrected and I have all the
  channels I’m supposed to have.

  I was trying to come up with the perfect dvd to watch on my new tv. I’m
  not really into action movies and since neither the dvd or the dvd
  player would be hi-def, I would have trouble finding something that
  would look as good as I wanted on the tv. I found what I thought would
  be a great movie to watch on there, and it was one of my all time favs:
  Fargo. I love this movie, and it looked great on my tv. It showed once
  again why this is one of the top 5 movies I have ever seen. Great
  camera work and filming, some of the wide scenes with the snow looked
  great.

  Thats all for now people I have shit to do.

  • 2:11 am
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