Poker last night, with the guys from work, was fun. My 3rd hand I more than doubled up my 5 bucks with a 4 of a kind… I wish I could say it was magical play or something, but you simply don’t get a hand like that very often, and when you do it’s hard not to make money. I ended the night up 6 bucks (which is pretty good given my $5 buy-in). On the way home from Garrett’s I finally had the chance to go over the Zakim bridge, which is so, so nice. When I got back to the apartment and hung out with … Or, more accurately, chit-chat with her when American Idol wasn’t commanding her attention. :P

Finishing stuff up at work today in preparation for the big trip tomorrow. Corinna and I are going to stop by a BPL branch tonight to see if we can find a good audiobook for the trip tomorrow… Otherwise I will probably just score one off of Audible.com which is super-duper. The drive is going to suck, but whatever, the time in MI should be fun.

I remember having a conversation with someone recently where they were mocking my fear of clowns. You can laugh all you want, but when I read articles like this I feel justified.

I pulled an unusual move this morning and hit the snooze button… Now, I don’t quite understand this but I got to work pretty much the same time as usual, even though I slept an extra 15 minutes. And on top of that, I felt like I was dragging a bit this morning, less Speedy Gonzales and more Sleep Dwarf. But whatever… I took out for dinner at Legal last night, which was nice. I got their Wild Salmon which was fantastic, but the Cheddar & Jalapeno polenta I got on the side was pretty crappy… The jalapenos were overwhelming and the whole thing kinda tasted like crappy nacho cheese from the movie theater.

I installed mfs_ftp onto the Tivo last night so I could pull some Good Eats episodes that had been building up on there. Since I used to do all of my Good Eats -> Divx processing on my PC, things have been building up on my Tivo. Now that I have tons of disk space available in the Mac I figured I would use it to free up some space on the Tivo.

Hehehehe… This song rules.

I fixed my stereo last night… I soldered and heat-shrinked all of the connections in the harness, so they should be solid now. The bonus was that I was able to get the head unit out of it’s DIN cabinet without disassembling the whole dash. :) The un-bonus is that I managed to “decorate” ‘s kitchen table with 3 small burn marks from the iron. I put down protection but apparently it wasn’t good enough… It probably doesn’t help that I am a soldering tard and it takes me forever for each connection.

I think this trip to Detroit coming up will be my last car trip for awhile… Or, at least my last weekend long dealie. I am just getting really burned out on travel and whatnot. Call me a homebody, but as much as I love seeing friends, etc, I also really enjoy being lazy in the apartment all weekend. :)

Got back from the Rochester trip around 1am last night, and managed to piss off by not calling to tell her I would be home so late. I thought I had mentioned to her that I was going to be late when I called on Saturday, but I was somewhat stunted and I guess I wasn’t very clear. I had a great time this weekend, but the trip to Rochester is such a killer… Corinna didn’t want to go to Rochester because of the trip to 8 Mile next weekend, thinking it was too much travel for such a short time period. She was right, I was wrong.

Adam and I unleashed a horrible menace upon this planet over the weekend. At the party on Saturday, it was determined that poker needed to be played, but we didn’t have any chips. Instead we played with alcohol. Let it be said that this abomination is pure evil and I personally apologize for its creation.

My left front speaker dropped out on the ride to work this morning, probably another bad connection in the wiring harness.. I guess I will have to take the dash apart again to fix it, I think this time I am just pulling the whole harness out and soldering the two sides together (of the harness, it came in two halves; one for the car’s connector and the other to fit the radio) instead of using butt connectors.

I’m going to Rochester this weekend, but the plans are terribly vague. All the detail I have is that we are leaving when gets home from work. I’m not even sure if we have secured a place to stay. One thing I do know, however, is that there will be Nick’s this weekend. :)

I apologize in advance for the impending hand-waving, but…. you know

I’ve been working on two different projects here at work, about 50% of my time on each. There has been a roadblock (out of my control) that was finally lifted today and now I can really rev up the engines. I guess, actually, roadblock is improper, because I was able to move ahead before, just terribly slowly. And it only took 2.5 months!

and I are currently trying an experiement: We will only eat fast food once a month. Well, not quite: Salads and deli-sandwiches aren’t lumped in there, but that kind of food isn’t really apropos to the experiment anyway. We are really focusing on trying to eliminate the scourge of french fries, burgers, etc from our diet… It’s not so much the fries or the burgers that are the problem, but more of what goes into them at a fast-food restaurant. I am starting to make a consious shift to avoiding High-Fructose Corn Syrup and Trans-Fats, but it’s a pretty monumental challenge. I haven’t really made a determination as to whether or not these two products are actually bad for me, but humans got along without them fine for eons before their invention, so I don’t really see why they should be part of my diet.

Last night after work I headed over to a Barbeque at the co-op-clan’s house, drank too much, and ended up sleeping on the couch. I had a dentist appointment this morning to fix a broken filling, which sucked ass. I am kind of coasting a bit today, but I’m being sufficiently productive.

Congrats to all the gay/lesbian couples that were married today! Hopefully they can continue to do so from this date on.

I saw Spellbound (1945) last night with the movie club, and it was fantastic. I could have sworn I had seen it before, but didn’t remember the plot at all, so I’m not so sure.

Friday ruled… After work I went to the Mendon Drive-In with , Audra (from SNFC), and . Audra, Corinna, and I have been trying to go to the drive-in for about a year now, but either something always got in the way or they were just showing awful crap. We finally decided to go this weekend, and I invited members of my posse, but only Matt was interested. The drive-in has two screens, and does double-features. We saw Van Helsing and Hellboy. We really expected Van Helsing to suck, and boy were we right… I can’t even believe that movie was made.. But we went into it planning on ripping it apart, and we did, with “snarky” comments (Audra’s term). Hellboy, on the other hand, we expected to be good… I’d say that it was good, but it didn’t really feel like a whole movie… It had this “laying out the mythos” feel, but when it ended it didn’t really feel like it paid off. I think a sequel could be much better. I guess what I am saying is that I don’t think it was as “awesome” as some of my friends made it out to be. Anyway, the whole drive-in experience was rad.

There were all kinds of crazy plans for yesterday, including the Boston Full-House, Mario Kart Double Dash, and alcohol. I was starving by 1pm and decided to give Matt (who was planning on doing some slack lining with in the morning) a call. I was informed that not only had they already ate, but that our plans for the night changed entirely. They were now going to Foxwoods for some Poker action. I was kinda pissed that all our carefully laid plans for the weekend were shot to shit, but to be honest I have been jonesin for some real poker, so I didn’t complain too loudly. We got to Foxwoods around 5:30pm and left at 3:30am. It was that good. I love their poker room, the tables are always full and there are plenty of them. I was playing $2/4 Limit Hold ’em, and actually was able to sit down at a table with Matt. Todd was also on $2/4, Adam was playing $4/8, and was on $5/10, but they were all scattered around the room.

I played really well, honestly I believe that after the first 45 minutes I was there I was playing the best poker of my life. Convieniently, the best play of my poker “career” came at the same time as an AMAZING string of cards. I know “everybody plays good with good cards”, but in this case I think I really did, extracting maximal value from my tablemates. I sat down with $120 and left the day with $205. I was up closer to $300 at one point, but just was blinded down over 4 hours or so. One of the things that newbies don’t realize when then start playing poker is that if you are playing right it should be excruciatingly boring about 95% of the time. You just have to fold hand after hand, waiting for a good hand, and then make your move and take down a pot. This is especially true at low limits like 2/4, where you have no real chance of bluffing because mostly people don’t know how to play, and some idiot will call you down. Anyway, so my near-$300 was brought down to $205 through blinds and a few “unlucky” hands (good hands that just didn’t pay out for whatever reason, like another player sucking out, etc.)… But regardless, it was still a very profitable and fun night.

I know this is really geeky, unnecessarily nostalgic request, but I would really like a 5¼” write protect cutting tool (to turn a floppy into a flippy) on my desk. I can’t justify this request, it is completely irrational. Anyone know where I can find one of these doohickeys anymore? I haven’t had a use for one in approximately 15 years.