June 4, 2006

• Yesterday, I had another guy come out for a quote on the garage, as I
  waited for the local Romeoville guy to get back to me on his quote. The
  guy that showed up yesterday was from a place called Garage Pro and he
  was supposed to arrive at 11 in the AM. I got through exercising at
  about 10:50 and figured it to be pointless to each breakfast since the
  man would arrive in a few minutes. At 11:15, I decided to eat
  breakfast, as I was pissed off that he was not here yet. Finally at
  11:25, the bastard shows up and I couldn't be anymore pissed off. I'm
  always a person that is on time, as I find it rude and disrespectful to
  keep somebody waiting. So, when he knocked at the door, I didn't even
  let him in and coldly told him to go out back and do his quote. He did,
  however, give me a pretty fair price and now I sit and wait for the
  Romeoville dude, who I really want to use, to get back to me. I'm do
  damn sick of waiting for quotes, I can't wait until this whole thing is
  over and I have a normal looking garage. These fucking people, why are
  contractors always so damn unreliable? I mean, what the fuck?

  After the quote and after showering, I headed to the mall in search of
  a birthday gift for Dave. I didn't know what I wanted to get him, but
  once I stopped at Spencer's and saw a card table topper for half off, I
  knew I had found the gift. Of course, the box was pretty banged up, but
  looking inside, it looked like it was in good condition, so I purchased
  it, along with a poker book from Boarder's. Dave seemed pretty excited
  to get the table topper, as it fit perfectly right on his round kitchen
  table. Now we just have to have a card game.

  Last night was a burn at Keith and Heather's house. I picked up Dave
  and asked him if he wanted to stop at the liquor store for beer, but he
  instead suggested Meijer. I swear, I love going shopping with
  Dave............its not so much shopping as it is an adventure. In this
  instance, I thought we were
  going just for beer. But Dave, who always goes all out for everything,
  decided that we should get some cheddar brats and chips to roast over
  the fire, in addition to the smores we already had in the car. He even
  went as far as to purchase pokers, even though I told him that Keith
  and Heather have some and we still had Dave's pokers which were at my
  house. Now, as far as the whole Dave Shopping Experience, the
  craziness usually comes when he gets a cart. I'm convinced that Dave
  suffers from a condition called "Abandoned Shopping Syndrome" in which
  he feels the need to abandon his shopping cart every few minutes and
  walk to the next aisle to get something. This leaves me, of course, to
  continue pushing the cart. Another thing that I always find funny with
  the Dave Shopping Experience is that he will pass up the same thing
  several times in search of something better and in the end, will just
  go back and grab the thing he passed up. He also likes to pick
  different brands of the same product up, stare at them and compare
  them for a few minutes before putting it into the cart, which is about
  5 or 6 aisles away. Shopping with Dave in a large store like Meijer is
  always fun, as normally, Dave has no clue where anything is located.
  Back in the day, Jt, Dave and I used to sometimes go shopping at Meijer
  in the middle of the night, which usually made for some pretty goofy
  moments, like us racing rolls of tapes down the aisles or pushing each
  other on carts. Mind you, this wasn't like when we were teens, this was
  like 2 or 3 years ago.

  As for the burn itself, it was pretty cool, it was just us and Brian
  and Rene, although the kids were there for the early part of the
  evening. Rene's 20 year old son Tony and his hot friends were in her
  yard playing beanbags for most of the night. A part of me wanted to go
  over there and whip there asses at bags, but instead, we just hung out
  around the fire.

  This week figures to be a semi-important week for gay rights, as Bush
  will make a statement about the gay marriage ban amendment he is
  trying to get passed in Congress. I think the bill is supposed to go to
  the Senate on Tuesday, but in all honesty, it stands little chance of
  passing. I will write more about this later in the week, but just
  wanted to mention it today.

  • 6:15 pm
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