I received " Dancing Barefoot", the first book by Wil Wheaton in the mailbox today, apparently I got in on the first printing. Now, I rarely am able to read more than one book at a time, probably a remnant of some undiagnosed case of ADD, but after reading the first few pages of this book I set aside my current reading (Sklansky and Malmuth’s “Hold ’em Poker for Advanced Players”) and dove in. Here I am, a few hours later, very happy with my decision.

I was never a huge Star Trek fan. I’ve never been to a convention, I only own one of the films on DVD, and don’t even have a Trek season pass on my Tivo. But I watched TNG as a kid, and always thought Wesley was pretty cool. After reading this book, however, I realized that while I thought Wesley was cool, Wil is someone I would actually like to hang out with. His short “Houses in Motion” reminded me of the passing of my Grandmother (I think it was the artificial Christmas Tree that pushed me over the edge). Perhaps it was because I hadn’t ever had a good cry over the death of my grandma, but reading this story got me misty.

This is a great book, and a quick read too. I am looking forward to Wil’s “first” book, “Just a Geek”. While I wouldn’t advise Wil to give up acting, I would definitely encourage him to keep up with the writing, he seems to have genuine talent.

Apple had a sit down with the heads of several Indie record labels to discuss the iTunes Music Store. Apple seems to have said all the right things. CD Baby had notes from the meeting up on their site, not realizing that the meeting was confidential, so they took them down. Thankfully someone copied the notes before they were taken down and posted them to slashdot. The whole thing sounds remarkably fair: No preferential treatment for major labels, no preferental payment, totally non-exclusive… Go Apple!

As far as I can tell, the term “barber shop” was invented to describe Eddie Priest’s Barber Shop. The man is a God among men, and I can’t believe I have lived in the Central Square area for more than a year without experiencing the glory that is Eddie Priest’s Barber Shop. Let me iterate the reasons why Mr. Priest rocks the house:

1. Cuts hair like a champ.
2. Said haircut cost \$12, a rarity for a good haircut in Boston
3. Looks like a Norman Rockwell painting inside and out
4. Strictly Men’s Hair
5. Eddie looks and sounds like Harvey Keitel’s brother
6. There were two TVs, both tuned to Comedy Central, so I got to watch SNL
7. There was a copy of Playboy on his workbench

Need I say more?

1. How many times have you truly been in love? Two.
2. What was/is so great about the person you love(d) the most? “Love(d) me the most” is a bullshit concept imho.
3. What qualities should a significant other have? Tolerance of your quirks; sense of humor; some similar, many diverse interests; hot body *l*
4. Have you ever broken someone’s heart? No.
5. If there was one thing you could teach people about love, what would it be? You can’t teach someone about love.

Corinna had a server outage at her work, so she stopped by this afternoon for lunch. When she got an email saying that things were down for the rest of the day, I gave her a ride to the garden store over on Western, then Home Depot, and finally to her apartment. After that I came home and did some laundry…. Tonight, I played some \$2 No Limit Hold ‘Em with Adam and Rory and won the game. I invested alot of time and some money on a strategy against Adam that really paid off in the end… I might be getting my footing in that game.

Rory and I revived our “trip to 7-Eleven, snack, watch Cops” thing which we haven’t done much of lately… I realized tonight that I have a serious conflict of things going on next weekend, but I think I figured out a strategy to resolve the conflict….

Sorry I haven’t updated in awhile, I have been pretty busy. Saw Sweet Sixteen on sunday with the Film Club. Corinna bailed this week as she was under the weather. I don’t even remember what I did on Monday. I gave Corinna a lift to Jordan’s furniture on Tuesday so she could buy a couch. That night I was up really late. First, we played poker and I ended the night up \$11, then we (Matt, Rory, and I) had a Soul Calibur 2 showdown which just happened to run until 4am. I’m a dork, but at least I am comfortable with this.

After that I went to bed, and layed there for 20 minutes before I ran to the bathroom ready to eject stuff from both ends, if you know what I mean. It was a bad scene, but I fortunately didn’t actually puke, instead dealing with dry heaves for a long while. Matt ended up staying the night on the couch, so today we hung out, it was cool…

That’s the short version, I’ll try to be less unreliable.

Corinna came over after work yesterday and we grabbed some dinner and also rented Road to Perdition, which I thought was good but she didn’t like too much. Today I am just chilling as I didn’t sleep too well last night and am kinda run down….

My sister hooked me up with this scan from the CCM alumni newsletter… If they were going make shit up and say he didn’t live in Hopatcong anymore, they should have at least chosen Budd Lake instead of Mount Olive. :)

1. What do you most want to be remembered for? Being a good guy who had the uncanny knack for being a complete dick at the funniest time.
2. What quotation best fits your outlook on life? “Life Sucks, Get a Helmet” - Denis Leary
3. What single achievement are you most proud of in the past year? Here’s a hint: Salon.com
4. What about the past ten years? Graduating from RIT
5. If you were asked to give a child a single piece of advice to guide them through life, what would you say? I’ll just tell ’em what my daddy told me: “You Ain’t Never Gonna Amount to Nothin’” :)

This is one of the funniest things I have seen in a long while.