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So I didn't go to Pittsburgh this weekend. I decided to stay home. It would have been kind of a waste to go there. My friend had to work all weekend and I really wouldn't have done anything by myself. Maybe went to the mall or something. I can do that at home. Plus I don't have money to blow on gas and food etc. I won't bore you with the details.

Anyway, I was just reading about Willie Nelson. he's 73. Thats SO old. And he's still touring etc. I'm 34 and I can't imagine touring. lol. I'm really lazy. If you hadn't noticed. Here's the link to the Willie Nelson story.  I can't believe he made 250 albums and wrote 2,500 songs. And smoked 250 pounds of grass last month. Haha.

(Check me out. I figured out how to insert a clickable hyperlink kinda doo-hickey. Now does this thing have a spell-checker?)

So I watched Mean Girls today or the umteenth millionth time. That movie makes me laugh. I can't wait to read the comments and emails about this. I almost watched a movie I have never seen before, but god forbid I do that. I downloaded.. er I mean "bought" The Omen (the original). I don't think I have ever seen it. I might watch it tomorrow. It's already 1:45 am here. Though it's not like I have to get out of bed tomorrow for any reason.

24 was pretty decent. I didn't see the end coming. Totally flipped me out. Poor Jack! I can't wait for January! I won't say any more in case you didn't see it. I'm waiting to download the last Alias. I think that was tonight. It's not available on any of the non-ratio sites yet.

I'm about tired of downloading stuff. I never watch any of it. It seems like a huge waste of time and discs and space. (Kinda like me!) I mean I watch the TV shows, but the hundreds of movies. I don't have time to sit and watch movie after movie after movie. I mean I have time, but I am always doing 50 things. So I miss a lot of the movie. And my internet is always at a crawl. Always. Blah blah blah like you care about any of this.

My hardtop is STILL on my jeep. WTF? I thought I told you to come take it off. And when you come over to do that, bring me a BIG bag of money. And some donuts.

Mmmmm donuts...

Stuff

It's been a few days since I posted last. Nothing exciting going on. Well I have been sending my resume to places and no one calls me. This blows. I'm going to talk to unemployment about paying for me to take some classes or get some certifications. Something.

I might be going to Pittsburgh to hang out for the weekend. I will know for sure later tonight.

I might have an opportunity to live in Sydney Australia for 4 months. A friend of mine's job might be sending him there for 4 months. So I might figure out a way to go too.  I can find a job there pretty easily. I mean, I won't be so picky. I will just go to a temp agency or some consultant firm and get a 4 month gig doing computer crap. There are lots of openings in the city. I won't really care too much about advancement and commute etc because it's only a temporary gig.  I mean I don't have any responsibilities or mortgage or anything. So why not live there? When will I have an opportunity like this again? Someday, when I grow up, I might have a mortgage and responsibilities (and a real job) and I won't be able to drop everything and move halfway around the world. When I was there in November I didn't want to leave. I really like it there. I'm still weighing the pros and cons, and it might not even be a definite thing yet. But I have nothing else to look forward to.

Anyway I'm going out to dinner with a bunch of my friends. We are going to Bertucci's.

Here's a picture of Sydney at night. First time posting a picture so bear with me. Or is it bare? I guess I could look it up. Okay it is bear with me. Anyway the picture isnt that clear but deal with it.

Anniversary

So yesterday was my 6 month anniversary of not smoking. I have this plug in for Thunderbird email that keeps track of when you quit and how much money and how many cigs i would have smoked. its pretty neat. okay so its stupid. whatever. Here's what it says:

I haven't smoked for 6 months, 23 hours and 1 minute, saving 3,638.34 cigarettes and $727.66.

Thats if I smoked a pack a day at $4.00 a pack. But of course no one really cares.

So Martin sent me this link.   Its annoying. I don't know what HBO is thinking. Don't they know that when you have a hit show you milk it for as long as you possibly can? Who is running that place? They are developing a show about surfers? Ugh! Who the F cares about surfers? How are they going to write violence and murder and rape and corpse-eating pigs into a show about surfers? palease. I should threaten to cancel my subscription like I did when Showtime cancelled Dead Like Me and Queer As Folk. I'm sure they were afraid to lose me. I would have cancelled it but its all bundled together and its cheaper to get it then to cancel it. They are always screwing you somehow.

It's all bullshit. Everything is bullshit.

Give me some money. You. Yeah you. Send me money.

Birthday

Oh yeah I almost forgot!  Happy Belated Birthday to Jill Colello!  I would get you something but I don't have a job.

Broad Street Run

I went to the Broad Street Run on Sunday. It was pretty neat.  I was up at 5 am, on a sunday.  We got to the city and rode the train from the stadiums to I forget what stop. There were so many people on the train. Jammed. I felt like I was in India or Japan or some country where they routinely jam an unsafe number of people onto the trains. I kept thinking about how f*cked I would be if someone had a bomb. It was terrible. I was in a seat cuz we were one of the first people on the train. At every stop more and more people pushed themselves in. There was a pole next to me and people were holding on to it.  I saw a black lady's hand on the pole, but couldn't see her through the mass of bodies. Just her hand and her rather big diamond on her engagement ring. Crazy packed. And it was hot. And people were all talking about the race and the guy next to me never shut up. Ever.  He was all cheery and excited and he said to me, "So have you run this before?" and I said totally deadpan "No I don't do that. I don't run. I drive." I thought it was kinda funny but he seemed offended or something. He didn't talk to me anymore.

So we get off the train and there are just hordes of people everywhere. We had to go pick up his race number etc and it was like trying to walk through a crowded bar, but like 15,000 people were in the bar. crazy.  People were pissing everywhere you looked. They had port-a-potties but the lines were so long.  Runners are kinda dirty and gross. Lol. There were jackets and sweatshirts and sweatpants and gym bags and stuff on the side of the road at the starting line. I don't know if they expected their clothes to be there when they got back or not. At the back of the long mob of runners were a line of street sweepers.

Anyway the race started and I got back on the train back to the stadiums. The race ended in the Navy Yard. I was meeting a friend at the stadiums. She was coming from work and we met up and watched the people we knew run by.  There were some sights. Of course I didn't take any pictures. I went to take pictures of the people I knew, but when they were running by I tried to take some pictures and the camera had turned itself off to save the battery. So I turned it back on and the lense cap was on and by that time they were past me. Yeah I'm an idiot.  Sometimes I feel like Charlie Brown.

So there were these people handing out water as the people ran by and the one girl had a sign that said "One mile to go". I was standing there for about 30 minutes before I realized that I had to walk a mile to the finish line. I was not happy! All in all it was kinda neat. It was cool to look up and down Broad street and see nothing but people. Over 13,000 people crossed the finish line.  Maybe I'll run it next year.

Then we all went to lunch at The Cheesecake Factory.  I got french toast. I love french toast.

May

It's May already.  Still no job. Watched Lost. It was pretty good tonight. I liked Anna-Lucia or however you spell her name. And Hurley's girlfriend. Of course they gotta stir everything up and create some huge drama for the season finale which is coming up soon.

I watched the Bridge on the River Kwai.  Never saw it before. It was pretty good. kinda long. Lots of older movies are kinda long. Like I watch them and say "I would cut this scene, trim this scene down etc". Of course no one is around to listen to me. No one cares. Kinda like this blog. Lol.

I started this Wednesday night and saved it and forgot to go back to publish it. So here it is. Oh I changed the color in the header. I figured out how to do that. Still haven't figured out anything else as far as layout, theme, etc. 

I got a haircut today (Friday). Some school is having their prom so there's all these school kids in there getting their hair cut and curled etc. The hairdresser asked me how my day was going. I said "how bad can it be? I got up at noon and this haircut is the only thing on my schedule for today."  She asked me what kind of job I was looking for like three times. I was like Hello pay attention.

I bought some Melatonin.  It's supposed to help you reset your body clock back to regular people hours. You know, up in the MORNING, asleep around midnight or so.  Right now I wake up around 11:30 - 12 o'clock.  I need to get back to a regular human being sleep schedule. I'm sure it won't work, and I will still sleep until noon.

I was going to go to the shore this weekend, but Sunday morning I'm going to the Broad Street Run in Philly. No I'm not running. God no, I don't do that.  My friend Michael is running a 26.1 mile marathon in San Diego, and the 10 mile Broad Street Run is on the schedule as a practice. If anyone wants to donate money to him, email me and I will let you know how to do it. The 26.1 mile marathon is for Lymphoma or some kind of cancer. His friend's mother has the cancer. So anyway, I'm going to watch or support him or whatever you call it. (I'm going to stand around waiting for him to get done. lol.) I have to be in Philly at like 7 am or some ungodly hour. I'm gonna be REAL happy Sunday morning. At least I get to people watch and take pictures of the freaks. It's Philly so you know there will be some freakazoids there. Of course I will post them if I get any good ones.

Someone should come take the hardtop off of my Jeep. And wash and wax it for me.