June 25, 2006

• Whoaaa, busy weekend, had no time to update, so here is a brief
  synopsis. Thursday at the bar, we were playing pool and this fuckhead
  at the bar was talking about the whole Ozzie Guillen/Jay Mariotti
  thing. He was drunk and saying that Mariotti deserved what Ozzie said
  saying that he was just a dumbass Italian and he hates all Italians and
  he doesn’t care if anybody in the bar is Italian. So, I loudly said
  “I’m Italian!” Which he replied “Oh yeah, well I’m Irish and German.”
  As we all know, Irish and Italians hate each other, but I don’t hate
  Irish people………..in fact, some of them are hot. Anywho, I told
  him that I was full Italian and I could sense that he was feeling like
  a complete asshole at this point and he said that it was ok I seemed
  like a good guy. Then he redirected his attention to the tv, where it
  then sounded like he made a not so nice comment about gays. I thought
  about saying that I was gay, but thought the better of it, the last
  thing I wanted was to make the situation worse and have some sort of
  confrontation. But, for a few minutes there, I was pretty pissed.

  Friday night, we went to Mark’s house for dinner. After dinner, we hung
  around outside for a burn, it was a cool night, probably low-mid 60s
  and therefore, a perfect night for a burn. We didn’t stay too late,
  only until about 11:30ish.

  Saturday during the afternoon was perhaps
  what of the more boring and tedious things I have ever done. John
  decided he wanted to paint the frames around some of the windows on the
  house, so he asked me to help him scrape the damn fucking paint from
  the frame. This resulted in about 2 hours of BORING and utterly
  annoying scraping. My neighbor suggested that it would be easier if we
  just got aluminum and put it around there instead, and you know what, I
  agree, so for the rest of the windows, aluminum it is.

  Last night was an 18 person card game at my cousin’s house. Dave
  actually picked me up!! Yes, that’s right, DAVE PICKED ME UP, which,
  just doesn’t happen, but what could I say, for him, my house was on the
  way to Tony’s house. Anywho, as it turns out, this new age math is way
  different than the old school math. With this new age math, 18 people
  for cards is actually 8 people for cards. We wound up getting started
  about 8:45ish and it seemed to take for-fucking-ever. We were playing
  with a bunch of people that don’t normally play, so this really slowed
  things down. The pace of this game was extremely slow. In fact, the
  first person didn’t go out until we had been playing for well over 2
  hours. Even after that, it was a long time for the 2nd person to go
  out, but after that, things finally picked up. I thought I wasn’t
  playing one of my better games, but everybody else wasn’t playing all
  that well either. Top 3 payout, so when it got down to just me, Tony,
  and my cousin Ann’s  boyfriend (Desi), I knew I had at least my
  money back. Still, I faced an uphill battle, as Tony and Desi both had
  a lot more chips than me. Tony made a bold move and went all in and
  drunk ass Desi called him and somehow managed to win. So now, I was
  guaranteed 2nd place, but that wound up being the best I could do.
  Although I was glad to get 2nd, I felt the payouts were uneven. First
  paid $80, 2nd $60 and 3rd $20. I just thought that there wasn’t enough
  of a difference between first and second, I would have paid $100, $40
  and $20.

  Today, I wound up golfing with Mark and his in laws. When we first got
  there, it was thundering and lightening out, but that quickly went away
  and we enjoyed a nice day. For the first time, I did not play best ball
  (as part of a team) but instead had to rely on myself to get the ball
  in the hole, which I was concerned would make for a very high score. I
  wound up shooting an 82, which is very good for a beginner on an 18
  hole course! But, herein lays the problem. This was only a 9 hole
  course, which means I really really really really suck. People, that’s
  9 shots on each hole! And, to be honest, a few holes, I had so many
  shots, I lost track. Plus, I stopped after getting to 10 shots, so that
  means that if I had not stopped shooting, my score could have very
  easily gone up over 100. But, as I told Mark, I actually got more bang
  for my buck, after all, it cost me less money per shot, which, if you
  think about it, makes it a better value. Fucking golf, yet, another
  sport I suck at.

  Derek Lee is back with the Cubs! WOOOOOHOOOO!! Except, the Cubs are still the Cubs and they still fucking suck.

  • 11:42 pm
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