September 23, 2007

• Had a busy weekend, Friday night I played cards at a friend of a friend’s house. Getting there was……….well, let’s just say managed to find the place. At first, I got directions from Scott (another guy I play cards with) leaving from work and going straight to the guy’s house in Plainfield. But, I had extra time, so I stopped off at home first but didn’t get directions from home. I wound up getting lost and turned down a road to turn around. I got a call from Sean who told me that the road I was on could also get me to the house as well. Eventually, I made it to the street the house was on, but here was the tricky part: finding the house. Sean gave me the wrong house number, so there I was, driving up and down this street looking for a house that didn’t exist. I guess it could be worse, I mean, I could have gone to the wrong house altogether which really would have been funny. Since Scott had also given me a house number, I assumed that his was right and my assumptions were correct as I saw Eddie (the guy who owns the house) standing in front of his house. As for the game itself, I got my ass kicked. There was a cute younger guy that was there who seemed like he might be gay. The whole night, we kept looking at each other as if we both knew that each other was gay and wanted to say something to each other. But, at the end of the night, we just went our separate ways.

  Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon painting the garage. Ok, I’m getting ahead of myself. We didn’t paint it, but instead just put on one coat of primer. We put another coat on today and hopefully will be able to actually paint it next weekend. Originally, we were planning on going to Cincinnati next Saturday for the Cubs game to hopefully see them clinch, but right now its looking like they will have it wrapped up by then.

  I didn’t have plans last night and because I was kinda tired from painting all afternoon, I just rented a few movies. One of them was a documentary called Peace One Day. The filmmaker was a British actor who back in 1999 decided that he wanted to have a day every year in which there was a cease fire worldwide for the entire day. It took him several years to get the UN and supporting countries to get on board with this idea and even though every September 21 is the official day that is celebrated every year, we still have not had a worldwide cease fire day. Its a great idea and concept though, hopefully it will happen one day. In the history of mankind, there as never been a day in which there was not a war or some sort of violence going on. Should he succeed, when you think about, it might be the single greatest accomplishment in the history of mankind. Perhaps I’m overstating it just a bit, but nevertheless, it would be a great achievement. One thing that was weird in the film was that he was at the UN building in New York when 9/11 happened. There was a ceremony marking the signing of the resolution to make September 21 World Cease Fire Day. In what was a very surreal moment, they were still trying to carry on with the ceremony complete with violins being played after both buildings had been attacked. And, of course, they knew they had both been attacked. I just always thought that the whole city stopped and in most cases, evacuated shortly after the 2nd plane hit. It was odd to see them trying to go on with things while mass chaos raged a short distance away.

  I totally forgot to mention this last week, but in my football pool last week, I had such a bad week that it was almost legendary. With 16 games, I have a chance at 136 total points. I finished with 17! That’s right, SEVEN-FUCKING-TEEN!!! I have been in pools before, but this is the first year I’m in one where you go against the point spread. Yeah………….I hate it. Next year, no point spread for me.

  That’s all for now. GO CUBS!!

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