Quick One

Last night I went to the BoSox game with Britt and Vanessa. It was great we were relatively close and within range of several foul balls. The batters just can't hit a Tim Wakefield knuckleball into fair territory as well as they hit it into foul territory. I felt lucky that I was able to see another baseball rarity, the errorless in-the-park homerun, I get to add it to the list which also includes a no-hitter. Of course there were tons of amusing people at the game, but if I were to list them all most of you would get tired of reading. Highlights would have to be the girl with the thong ornament, the Sweet Caroline cheerleader and the girl with body piercings all over her face and a cape. I hope to have some pictures very soon, since we brought the good ol' spycam.

Today I saw some interesting people in the city. The first guy was at the State Street T stop, he was sitting on a bench with a boombox which was playing music. At first I thought okay so he is playing music and thinks people are going to give him money. Then he started singing along to the music, and it wasn't a karaoke machine, he was singing along. Here I go giving him money. The next thing was at Downtown Crossing, where the Boston Metro and Boston Globe workers were yelling across the square at each other. The Globe girl was saying how her paper was better and how she works harder than he does. The she proceeded to try and yell to sell the paper, but she wasn't yelling headlines, but instead trying to make up clever slogans. I would definitely read over the headlines and then repeat them out loud, just like they used to do.

Gotta work hard now, ttyl.
-Keeg

Free Ice Cream

I just wanted to let everybody know that today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's. So just stop by and get a free cone and one scoop of ice cream.

For more details go to the Ben & Jerry's Website

Boston Locations
Ben & Jerry's - NEWBURY
174 Newbury Street
Boston , MA 02116
617-536-5456

Ben & Jerry's - PARK PLAZA
20 Park Plaza
Boston, MA 02116
617-426-0890

Ben & Jerry's - PRUDENTIAL CENTER
600 Boylston St. Mall Building - Terrace Food Court
Boston, MA 02116
617-266-0767

Cambridge Locations
Ben & Jerry's - CAMBRIDGE
36 J.F.K. Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-864-2828

Ben & Jerry's - CAMBRIDGESIDE GALLERIA
100 Cambridgeside Place
Cambridge , MA 02141

I Love the Taste of Summer

I have to say yesterday was a delightful day. Work was work, though it was interesting carrying my Jay-Bo pizza all over the place while Scott and Suha decided on the what and where for lunch. We stopped in front of Viga where they were giving out free samples, I didn't get one since I had a box of pizza in my hands, but everybody was stopping to grab a small slice. Two guys in all there excitement completely made fools of themselves. The first guy started to eat his pizza and all of his motor skills focused on the slice instead of the open can of coke he was holding and he spilled soda all over his shirt and tie, it was a riot. The second guy was walking with his girlfriend and they both grabbed a piece, though she looked like she was having second thoughts about it, anyway he got a spot of sauce on his chin, but for some reason she didn't tell him and they walked away arguing about something, while I laughed my ass off. After the Viga incidents we went to PO Square and battled for a seat, they have about 15 tables out there with 20 chairs, which doesn't bode well for a party of three.

I made it home around 5:30 last night and went right to the beach to rollerblade. I hadn't been skating in a while, but it turns out it is just like riding a bicycle, in that you just remember. It was sooo nice, but they do need to sweep the sidewalks at times there was so much sand it felt like I was actually skating on the beach. I couldn't believe all of the pimped out cars and skanky looking girls who were down there yesterday, I wonder if they get sick of the Hampton Beach thing by mid-July. It was nice to see some bikini clad girls though, not like I would talk to them or anything.

Time to get to work. Going to see the BoSox tonight with Britt and Vanessa, which will mos def be a good time.

We were walking
Just the other day
It was so hot outside
You could fry an egg
-David John Matthews

Lyrics and Audio of Stay (Wastin' Time)

How far will they go?

I was driving to work this morning and saw the following sticker on a car.

I think it is an abbreviation for Salisbury, MA, but I can't be sure. I checked dictionary.com, but there isn't a salis to be found, however the acronymn finder had two results:
SALIS is School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (Dublin City University)
SALIS is Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists
So I am going to assume not many people are proud members of the Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists group and the sticker was for Salisbury. I think these stickers were cool once, but now they have become too mainstream. It is okay for them to have the three letter airport codes, ie. BOS, ACK, DEN, SLC, HUL. Five letters though now that is just crazy, what is next full city names such as the following sticker for The 'Bury

How far will they push the limits of the innocent black ellipse? Something needs to be done to curb this letter expansion before we end up with the following sticker.

Yes that is the actual name of a town. The town is found in South Wales for more info you can check out theCity with the longest name.

Final skiing weekend?

I had a pretty busy long weekend, lets start with Friday. Woke up ran to Wal-mart to buy a blank tshirt for computer tshirt creation. After that I headed up to UNH to pick Emily up for a nice lunch at TGI Friday's. I got the sizzling cheese chicken dish, you know from the commercial. It was pretty decent. Afterwards I stopped by home and then drove in to Boston to drop off the tshirt and transfer sheet for John. Yeah I know it sounds crazy but I finally got a chance to drive in the Liberty Tunnel and over the Zakim Bridge. The bridge was much cooler when I walked on it last May. Upon returning home my parents were going to dinner so I joined them.

Saturday, I did absolutely nothing until around noon when I went to the gym, 3 times in five days, getting back into it. Went back home and practiced the guitar before heading up to Sunday River for some skiing. Suds was dead, it is such a different town this time of year. It was cool to hang out there one last time, it is weird how much has changed since my first trip to Suds last September. I am sure things will change a bunch before the next ski season starts.

Today was the last weekend day of skiing at Sunday River. I got up there around eleven. The skiing was spring skiing to put it bluntly. It was tough on the legs, but a ton of fun, because the weather was so nice. We skiied every open trail, there were only 18 open trails, which really means six runs from top to bottom. I hit the big jump in the very sad terrain park, I can't wait for next season, the year of Tele and Phat Air. After a couple of hours it was time to call it a season and I headed home with all of my gear. I didn't know I had that much stuff. So now I am unpacking and rearranging my room. Good times.

I know I just don't quit

I just got back from lunch with the "Lovely Ladies", Britt and Vanessa. I don't know why they keep coming all the way across the common just to go to lunch with little old me. I usually just talk the entire time to the point of exhaustion. It took me forever to finish my sandwich today because I was talking so damn much. Anyway I definitely had a good time and it stinks that they will both be going home in the next couple of weeks.

After lunch we found a cool website, with some pretty funny home movies by a random kid. The site is Matthouchin.com. First check out the movies and also be sure to check out his "Cell Phone Collection".

Okay now I am going to test a new LJ html tag, it should allow me to shrink up the space my large entries take up on everybody's friends' pages.
The part you are reading right now should only be viewable from the second page. I can now extend my stories as long as I want without fear of it looking too long. I hope I just get used to using it.


Later,
Keeg

Oh what a night!!

Okay I'll give you all a freebie, "Oh What a Night" was the theme for my first prom, when I was 17. Haha! So now on to BoCaNO. We went to Flat Top Johnnies a pretty cool pool bar in Cambridge. We started things off by going over John's agenda, which while sometimes confusing and hard to understand is rather humorous.

Question 2: What is the last CD you bought?
KeegSands - The White Stripes
Mark - Nelly Furtado
Amy - The Dixie Chicks
E - Kid Rock
Natasha - Eva Cassidy
Kate - couldn't remember
Jen - Alison Kraus in Union Station
James - Bob Marley

While we were going over the agenda this self proclaimed obnoxious woman comes over and was trying to raise some money for Lukemia, not for the disease, but for the battle against it. We put in some money and got to punch in this little board which had numbers in it, if the number you punched matched a number on the prize list you won the prize. We didn't win the first time, though we were all hoping for the 2 month membership at Curves. One of the other prizes was a tour for a person and 80 friends at the Harpoon Brewery. Who has that many friends? The lady left and then the Boc's began to hatch a plan to negotiate for more hole punches. The going rate was 5 punches for $3, but in their never ending quest to save money they asked if they could get 30 punches for $10. I was against this because I don't think you should negotiate when it comes to giving money to charity, it just seems wrong to me. After much deliberation by the charity group they agreed and the thrifty ones got there punches and much to my joy did not win. Sorry guys!!

Another highlight, for me at least, was the automatic paper towl dispenser in the bathroom. It was amazing to see how far technology has come. Unfortunately the rest of the Boc's rained on my parade by saying it was great, BUT the faucets aren't automatic and you still have to touch them and also because the trash had a cover you had to touch to throw away the paper towel. Come on people there are germs everywhere even if you open doors using your shirt cuffs you are constantly breathing in contaminated air all of the time. Perhaps y'all should invest in air tight suits to walk around in if you are really so afraid of germs. Okay a lot more went on, but I couldn't write it all down. Oh one more thing, I did tell my story about the girl who asked me over to her house to remove porn from her computer one late night after a Dave Matthews concert. I won't go into to detail, but I did go over, removed the porn and then left. The general consensus on this is that I am a complete dumbass and should have stayed. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Quote of the night: Dude, there's a fuckin' thousand holes. - Obnoxious Marie

JERRY: Hi, I'm Jerry.
WOMAN: Hi.
JERRY: You might not know it to look at me, but I can run really, really fast.
From Seinfeld The Strike first aired December 18, 1997