Finagle A Bagel was a little short on help this morning, but it didn't stop this guy from being selfish. When I arrived there was only one cashier and this guy apparently ordered three dozen bagels and had to hand pick each friggin bagel, wtf.
Here is the dialogue:
Annoying Guy: First I will have a baker's dozen of chocolate chip.
FAB worker: You have 26 more to go.
Annoying Guy: Okay now six plain and six honey grain.
Annoying Guy ponders his next selection.
Annoying Guy: How about five plain?
FAB worker: Fourteen to go.
Annoying Guy: Hmmm, five sesame seed.
FAB worker: Nine more.
Annoying guy ponders some more, since he has apparently used up the only varieties he has ever seen before.
Annoying Guy: Make the rest cinnamon raisin.
The line was now out the door and I was completely annoyed, seriously it is okay to get what you want, but plan ahead and write it down or even call them and order before you go. Just when I thought the annoyances were over, this other guy is sweet talking the girl who puts the cream cheese on the bagels, and trying to get her to give him a side of cream cheese, despite the fact he ordered and paid for just a plain bagel. Ahh you cheap son of a bitch, pay the extra cash and get cream cheese like everybody else. While I deal with a bunch of stupid people on a daily basis it is no comparison to what I used to deal with when I worked in retail, oh the stories I could tell.
Now for my life, lets see, I went home last night and just did nothing, which was kind of nice. I did talk to Nissa on my way home, it was nice to catch up and hear about her trip to Cleveland. I went over to Britt's to see if she was around, but she was at Jacq's and while my aunt told me to go down there, I decided to go home since I nearly fell asleep at the counter. So overall pretty boring, but looking forward to the upcoming long weekend.
Down from the doorway
and into the street
I hear the morning bell
over and over the pattern repeat
I hear the morning bell
and all the faces cold as stone
in the January chill
you have led me into worlds unknown
and I'm walking there still
-David Gray
Complete lryics to Everytime
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Not much to say
I am quite proud of myself because I haven't forgotten my resolutions from yesterday. This morning I was quite productive and set up all my bill payments to hopefully finally grab hold of my financial situation. I need to know how much I can afford to spend on rent. I also called the dentist and scheduled an appointment for next week. It is kind of exciting because this dentist may not give me as much grief as my dentist in Amesbury. Yeah I care about my teeth and I brush everyday, but I don't need to feel guilty about not brushing ten times or day or flossing after every meal. I have this strange feeling I just started a debate about dental hygiene, I guess it is better than arguing about grammar.
On the apartment topic, I want to thank the people who sent apartment listings, answered my silly questions and posted suggestions for me. Also to clarify my reasons for wanting to move out go beyond it being lame, I just feel like it is time for me to be on my own. I understand that living at home is financially logical, but there are certain experiences and things I need to go through that I won't see while under the protection and close guidance of my parents. It is also very frustrating when my mom yells at me for being too loud and how I have to follow the house rules. It has its pros and cons, but the cons are beginning to exceed the pros.
BTW that is not my shower, just a random photo from the net
To stick with the today's subject, I will make this short. I was cleaning the bathroom last night, which is another reason for moving out, not the cleaning, because I know I will have to do that, but at least it will only be my filth and not four other people's filth. Anyway, while scrubbing the tub I wondered if people actually take baths anymore. WHY WOULD ANYBODY TAKE A BATH? It is completely disgusting, bathing in your own filth doesn't appeal to me, just sitting down in the same place where you stand barefoot perturbs me. I would love to hear people's thoughts on this subject.
I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn’t know it felt so right inside
I didn’t know at all
-David John Matthews
Complete lyrics to I Did It
On the apartment topic, I want to thank the people who sent apartment listings, answered my silly questions and posted suggestions for me. Also to clarify my reasons for wanting to move out go beyond it being lame, I just feel like it is time for me to be on my own. I understand that living at home is financially logical, but there are certain experiences and things I need to go through that I won't see while under the protection and close guidance of my parents. It is also very frustrating when my mom yells at me for being too loud and how I have to follow the house rules. It has its pros and cons, but the cons are beginning to exceed the pros.
BTW that is not my shower, just a random photo from the net
To stick with the today's subject, I will make this short. I was cleaning the bathroom last night, which is another reason for moving out, not the cleaning, because I know I will have to do that, but at least it will only be my filth and not four other people's filth. Anyway, while scrubbing the tub I wondered if people actually take baths anymore. WHY WOULD ANYBODY TAKE A BATH? It is completely disgusting, bathing in your own filth doesn't appeal to me, just sitting down in the same place where you stand barefoot perturbs me. I would love to hear people's thoughts on this subject.
I never did a single thing that did a single thing to
Change the ugly ways of the world
I didn’t know it felt so right inside
I didn’t know at all
-David John Matthews
Complete lyrics to I Did It
Monday, January 13, 2003
Time for a change
Don't worry it is not a change to the journal, I think we finally have that situation resolved. The change is with my life, the other night I was complaining (believe it or not) about how I feel like I am not living up to my potentional and how it is lame that I live at home. The person I was complaining to said, "Only you can make yourself change." Which really struck me as being correct. I have no right to complain about certain aspects of my life since it is my own fault and while I guess technically I can complain to myself, but complaining to somebody else is just putting them in the middle between me and me. So I won't bore you with the details, but the bottom line is that I have decided it is time to move out ASAP (especially since my mom was giving me crap about how I commute to work T vs. Commuter Rail), learn some new computer skills (ie. J2EE and JSP stuff) to further my career at State Street (1 year 10 months til i am vested) and finally get a dental check up. So let the games begin, I am trying to figure out where I want to live, so if anybody has thoughts on where that should be post a comment. I am thinking Newburyport, a lot of you will say close to Boston, but aside from shortening my commute, I don't see any other reason for moving any close.
Changing gears, I was thinking today about how of all the people I know, I say my name the least. Think about it, the only time you say your own name is when introducing yourself or talking to yourself. Seems kind of weird, also on the same note, you probably look at yourself less than most people do (depending on your level of vanity), which is also strange. Think about it how often do you look in a mirror, getting ready in the morning, then every time you go to the bathroom and then when you clean up for the night. Now think about your coworker, they get to look at you for a good part of eight hours depending on how your seats are arranged. Just a thought I had.
If you thought your eyes were sore from staring at your monitor all day check out the links on the It Hurts Page. Check out my favorite screen.
To the LJsters out there, you guys have been busy, I came back from the weekend and had to read about 15 different entries. A couple more friends and I will be coming to work just to read LJs. It is fun reading them though, well except Ry's when he makes digs at Dave. So Ry now its my turn, I think Bjork's singing is similar to either scraping silverware on a plate or running fingernails down a chalkboard. Check out Celebrity Jeopardy with Bjork and Dave. We can both get a laugh out of it.
Mood System Explanation
I have stopped using the canned moods from the LJ and put in the new Keeg mIc/mac mood system. Basically how it works is the micro mood defines how you feel at the current moment on a scale of 1-10, for example if you are running late and are stuck in traffic, your micro mood would be low like a 2. The macro mood defines the basic average micro mood over the last few months and it is on a scale of 1-100. So while you may be having a bad day (low micro) the general state of your life could still by great (high macro). It is gaining support in many circles hopefully it will start a new LJ craze.
Isn't it strange
How we move our lives for another day
Like skipping a beat
-David John Matthews
Complete lyrics to Pig
Changing gears, I was thinking today about how of all the people I know, I say my name the least. Think about it, the only time you say your own name is when introducing yourself or talking to yourself. Seems kind of weird, also on the same note, you probably look at yourself less than most people do (depending on your level of vanity), which is also strange. Think about it how often do you look in a mirror, getting ready in the morning, then every time you go to the bathroom and then when you clean up for the night. Now think about your coworker, they get to look at you for a good part of eight hours depending on how your seats are arranged. Just a thought I had.
If you thought your eyes were sore from staring at your monitor all day check out the links on the It Hurts Page. Check out my favorite screen.
To the LJsters out there, you guys have been busy, I came back from the weekend and had to read about 15 different entries. A couple more friends and I will be coming to work just to read LJs. It is fun reading them though, well except Ry's when he makes digs at Dave. So Ry now its my turn, I think Bjork's singing is similar to either scraping silverware on a plate or running fingernails down a chalkboard. Check out Celebrity Jeopardy with Bjork and Dave. We can both get a laugh out of it.
Mood System Explanation
I have stopped using the canned moods from the LJ and put in the new Keeg mIc/mac mood system. Basically how it works is the micro mood defines how you feel at the current moment on a scale of 1-10, for example if you are running late and are stuck in traffic, your micro mood would be low like a 2. The macro mood defines the basic average micro mood over the last few months and it is on a scale of 1-100. So while you may be having a bad day (low micro) the general state of your life could still by great (high macro). It is gaining support in many circles hopefully it will start a new LJ craze.
Isn't it strange
How we move our lives for another day
Like skipping a beat
-David John Matthews
Complete lyrics to Pig
Friday, January 10, 2003
The Longest Week
The calendar says its Friday, I just can't believe it is finally here. Work has been busy all week, I have worked enough this week to make up for the wasted December I had. The big project I have been working on came to an end yesterday, well I hope so, I ended up scraping data off the mainframe for a total of 100 hours using various computers around the office. There has to be a better way. Total number of records grabbed was over 1.3 million, the first time I tried to import the data, my c drive filled up and I had to delete mp3's, which was very frustrating and then import again. The final output I created turned out to be only 3,500 records. Bottom line is that I worked a ton of hours and gathered a ton of information and only used a fraction of the info in the end. It doesn't matter now though the weekend is almost here, WooHoo!!
It appears that the patrons of the Malden Center station must have read the journal and comments yesterday because everybody except one guy was actually walking up the escalator. Apparently the LJ has a few more readers than I thought, or I just got lucky, probably the latter. I don't think I have any other observations from the T today, it was actually a great commute. We did have another couple of inches of snow at home, it just doesn't stop.
A couple of weeks ago I added a link(Guiltless Grill) to Maddox's article about vegetarians and his always kind thoughts. Well PETA actually replied to his article and he has posted the response on the link below.
PETA Response to Maddox. I don't necessarily agree with his opinions, but find it to be rather amusing to read his commentary.
Have a great weekend everybody, and try to stay warm, it's gonna be wikkid cold.
One sweet world
Around a star is spinning
One sweet world
And in her breath I'm swimming
And here we will rest in peace
-David John Matthews One Sweet World
Complete Lyrics
It appears that the patrons of the Malden Center station must have read the journal and comments yesterday because everybody except one guy was actually walking up the escalator. Apparently the LJ has a few more readers than I thought, or I just got lucky, probably the latter. I don't think I have any other observations from the T today, it was actually a great commute. We did have another couple of inches of snow at home, it just doesn't stop.
A couple of weeks ago I added a link(Guiltless Grill) to Maddox's article about vegetarians and his always kind thoughts. Well PETA actually replied to his article and he has posted the response on the link below.
PETA Response to Maddox. I don't necessarily agree with his opinions, but find it to be rather amusing to read his commentary.
Have a great weekend everybody, and try to stay warm, it's gonna be wikkid cold.
One sweet world
Around a star is spinning
One sweet world
And in her breath I'm swimming
And here we will rest in peace
-David John Matthews One Sweet World
Complete Lyrics
Thursday, January 9, 2003
Happy Birthday Dave!!
I don't have much time for an entry, but I do have a couple of things. First of all today is Dave Matthews birthday, he is now 36 years old. Second, BoCaNO was good last night, relatively typical turnout, good times. they changed the pizza at Boston Beer Works and I think it was better, but I really can't tell. It was nice to get a brief visit from Oscar, despite the fact that he is about as fed up with work as I am. E it was great to finally get to see you this year and tell you some of my boring stories, you have been missing out on in the mornings on the train.
Now for a question to you all. What is the purpose of the escalator? Is it to help us climb stairs faster or is it for us to avoid having to climb stairs? I noticed today at Malden Center that most people just stand there, but my understanding is that you should actually climb the escalator. It was especially frustrating because people were standing on both sides so there wasn't a clear path up for the non lazy people. So am I way off base on this thing, or are these people just doing it wrong?
So far today besides the escalator things are going well, we received another three inches of snow at the home, which btw doesn't haven't parents in it, I actually was able to play the guitar last night at 11PM. Woohoo!! The snow this morning was great for snowballs. I can't wait to have a rematch of the fight from a few weeks ago, I am not going to lose this time, because this time I will be prepared ;o)
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear David
Happy birthday to you
Wednesday, January 8, 2003
More Snow
After reading people's comments on Monday I have come to the conclusion that I am going to continue the journal in the method I find most satisfying to me. It seems to be the general consensus to do what I want to do and I thank you all for your support. I guess if I keep it how I want, it will actually be much more entertaining, that is how it all started, right.
Well the snow just keeps falling, the weather people are saying it has snowed something like 11 of the last 14 days. It doesn't bother me, I think it looks nice, despite the fact it causes people to drive too cautiously. Which reminds me of how I have changed my commute and didn't say anything about it. I know many of you don't take the commuter rail, but they doubled the cost of parking and in protest I have gone back to the Malden Center Orange Line commute. While the commute now generally takes less time it can be a bit more stressful, a perfect example would be my commute home on Monday. The early bird at the garage is $6, to qualify, you have to be in by 9AM and out by 7PM. I was giving Nissa a ride home from Boston and we were cutting it close and the train just stopped at Wellington, we finally got to Malden Center at 6:57, so I gave her my bag and ran for the station only to realize I left my keys in the bag. I got the keys and took off again and drove down the garage as fast as I could and luckily made it, because if I didn't the price would have tripled to $18. I don't know how they can get away with this, the pricing costs are just sick. Moral of the story is you can't win when it comes to parking.
Something else I just don't understand is work. Over the past couple of weeks, we have had to do these quick projects for the big bosses, involving large amounts of data and very tight deadlines. Now I actually enjoy doing these projects, because ironically I am not a big fan of planning at work, but we finished the projects as requested and we have since done the project over again three times using different methods each time. A major reason for this is because the results of the first version weren't 100% correct, now it was mostly due to the poor source of information we used and not because of our programming. The last couple of times they have requested we use different sources and it has just gotten absurd. I just laugh now when they make me run the same process again, when I know nothing has changed. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!
Well that is is for now. I hope y'all have a great day and enjoy the lovely snow.
He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week begins
-David John Matthews
Ants Marching Lyrics
Well the snow just keeps falling, the weather people are saying it has snowed something like 11 of the last 14 days. It doesn't bother me, I think it looks nice, despite the fact it causes people to drive too cautiously. Which reminds me of how I have changed my commute and didn't say anything about it. I know many of you don't take the commuter rail, but they doubled the cost of parking and in protest I have gone back to the Malden Center Orange Line commute. While the commute now generally takes less time it can be a bit more stressful, a perfect example would be my commute home on Monday. The early bird at the garage is $6, to qualify, you have to be in by 9AM and out by 7PM. I was giving Nissa a ride home from Boston and we were cutting it close and the train just stopped at Wellington, we finally got to Malden Center at 6:57, so I gave her my bag and ran for the station only to realize I left my keys in the bag. I got the keys and took off again and drove down the garage as fast as I could and luckily made it, because if I didn't the price would have tripled to $18. I don't know how they can get away with this, the pricing costs are just sick. Moral of the story is you can't win when it comes to parking.
Something else I just don't understand is work. Over the past couple of weeks, we have had to do these quick projects for the big bosses, involving large amounts of data and very tight deadlines. Now I actually enjoy doing these projects, because ironically I am not a big fan of planning at work, but we finished the projects as requested and we have since done the project over again three times using different methods each time. A major reason for this is because the results of the first version weren't 100% correct, now it was mostly due to the poor source of information we used and not because of our programming. The last couple of times they have requested we use different sources and it has just gotten absurd. I just laugh now when they make me run the same process again, when I know nothing has changed. Ahhhhhhh!!!!!
Well that is is for now. I hope y'all have a great day and enjoy the lovely snow.
He wakes up in the morning
Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling
Never changes a thing
The week ends the week begins
-David John Matthews
Ants Marching Lyrics
Monday, January 6, 2003
So Much To Say
Prepare yourself for one of the longest journal entries I have ever written. If you do read any of this make sure to read about my dilemma at the bottom. Sounds like a pretty scary thing especially since it is a Monday and nobody really has much extra time on those terrible Monday mornings. So here it goes...
New Year's eve started off great, I got out of work and met Sarah in Quincy and we headed up to Amesbury. Unfortunately the traffic was horrible, partly because of some guy in a Cadillac, whose car broke down in the middle lane of the South Station tunnel, how much does that suck? We finally made it to the "Bury" and then made it to Bethel, to add to the mass of seven people who ended up staying at the studio apartment. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, not so happy New Year. I have to agree with SomaKitty because the New Year is the biggest piece of shit holiday. What the hell is the point, some people come up with resolutions which they follow for about two seconds, plus with these resolutions come other expectations you set for yourself. My favorite quote would have to be, "This year will definitely be better than last year," come on now, if your life is that bad do you think the fact you have to buy a new calendar, means things will get better. So my New Year's wasn't exactly great, but they tend to be less than spectacular anyway. The skiing on the 1st was terrible and icy, plus we had a huge group of eight people skiing, which always tends to slow the day down to a crawl. The group thing did actually go well, but sometimes it can just be exhausting trying to get on the lift and counting heads to make sure everybody is there. Now, if you were in this group, don't get the wrong impression and think I hated skiing in the group, because I know damn well that if I wanted to I could have skiied on my own, I am just making an observation. After skiing, I was in a terrible mood, but once I got in the car to give Sarah a ride back to Amesbury, things got a lot better and by the time I returned to Bethel five and a half hours later, I was back to my normal chipper self.
The skiing improved and the number of people staying with us decreased until for about six hours on Friday, we didn't have any guests. Now once again for those of you who stayed up there, I don't care how many people stay with us as long as I have my bed to sleep in and I can go skiing it doesn't make a damn difference to me. It certainly is a bit more difficult with six guests, but generally the guests were considerate and didn't get in my way. Friday was when part two of my vacation began, we had a dinner party for some local folk, Kate was excited to bake using her new cookbook, so we headed to Norway (Maine) for some shopping. We had fish, which I can't stand, but did actually try some (new me), and it wasn't bad, I still don't like the texture though. Okay I am getting tired of writing now, so I will really summarize from here out.
Saturday - We had a giant snow storm which dumped a foot of snow, the skiing was amazing, the first couple hours were the best because it took a while for people to get up there, there is nothing like making first tracks. After a long and exhausting day of skiing, I ended up going to a great dinner at Legends Restaurant, for all you meat lovers I got a giant prime rib which was about a foot and a half across. It was yummy, but I still think I should have had the Curry Chicken. For once I actually had decent timing and as we got out of dinner, they began a fireworks show right on the mountain, it was cool.
Sunday - They groomed the mountain on Sunday and flattened out all of the powder from Saturday, but it didn't take long for it to get pushed around into a nice mess. My legs were exhausted as was my brain from a long week of spending time with a lot of different people. We decided to call it a day relatively early and actually began the trek home at about 2:30. I did end up visiting a friend at the mall on the way home, which was nice since I hadn't seen her in a while. Once I did make it home I was by myself and that was nice, people slowly began to get home and it was nice not to have everybody home all at once. I was psyched to see my mom and chat with her about my crazy weekend. The night ended with a bunch of phone calls, I was on the phone last night for a total of about two and a half hours, I talked so much my cell phone battery went dead, first time that ever happened. I finally went to bed at ten and put the long vacation to rest!!!
Just when you thought it was save to continue surfing the net, I keep going. Now for my complaint, I am considering writing an editorial and sending it to a real newspaper. They doubled the price of parking at the commuter rail station in Newburyport and it has thrown my commute back to Malden. I am not extremely happy about it, but it will save me a bunch of time. It is just annoying that for once I was doing something which was theoretically good for the environment and now I have to get back into my car by myself and pollute. It is kind of annoying plus I won't get to see my train friend E as much. Sorry E :o(
Take this interesting personality test from good old Maddox.
My Dilemma
It appears that there is a party system forming between the readers of this journal. One party which has been coined as the CKY kids, mainly the other LJ people and many of the people I have met through SomaKitty, ie. the college crowd. The other party is the BoCaNosters, who are all the members of BoCaNo and also part of the Bethel Weekend Warrior crew. The problem is that the CKY kids have made requests for shorter and briefer entries, with less lyrics. Now the BoCaNosters enjoy the lyrics and prefer entries where I use complete sentences and tell stories. I have come to understand why
there are two ideas, the CKYsters read several journals and really don't have the time to spend a half hour reading mine, plus they are of the internet age where acronyms, abbreviations and fragmented sentences are a necessity. Now it has caused a slight dilemma for me, do I cater to a particular audience or just keep doing what I want to do. Now what I would like to do is make the journal as honest as possible, though this method would increase my number of readers it may decrease the number of friends I have to write about in the journal. So what I am going to do is ask all of you readers to fight it out in the comments section and after some discussion I will create some sort of hybrid journal. You all stress me out, but not much I can do. So let the games begin, which of you is going to comment first huh, CKYsters or BoCaNosters.
Dave Matthews Band Lyrics of the Day
Song title: Drive In, Drive Out
I hear more than I like to...
so I boil my head in a sense of humor...
I laugh at what I cannot change...
I throw it all on the pyre again...go then and do this
I'd do it for you...
when all that I want is so badly to be...
by myself again...
it's going to drive me right out of my brain
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I'll come back again
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I don't care if we all turn to waste...
so when I beg...you avoid me...because I smell of dirt... hungry,
hungry boy...you won't leave me all alone...the boy won't go
Sooner or later we're done
Sooner or later I'm gone
because, because
Sooner or later we're gone
Sooner away
Ooh, my head is pounding now...god has all but left me behind...
not a sense of worry...I'm going to drive in and drive out again
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
I'm over this arrangement...
around here...emptiness
sounded so good...I want to
drive you right into my world
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
New Year's eve started off great, I got out of work and met Sarah in Quincy and we headed up to Amesbury. Unfortunately the traffic was horrible, partly because of some guy in a Cadillac, whose car broke down in the middle lane of the South Station tunnel, how much does that suck? We finally made it to the "Bury" and then made it to Bethel, to add to the mass of seven people who ended up staying at the studio apartment. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, not so happy New Year. I have to agree with SomaKitty because the New Year is the biggest piece of shit holiday. What the hell is the point, some people come up with resolutions which they follow for about two seconds, plus with these resolutions come other expectations you set for yourself. My favorite quote would have to be, "This year will definitely be better than last year," come on now, if your life is that bad do you think the fact you have to buy a new calendar, means things will get better. So my New Year's wasn't exactly great, but they tend to be less than spectacular anyway. The skiing on the 1st was terrible and icy, plus we had a huge group of eight people skiing, which always tends to slow the day down to a crawl. The group thing did actually go well, but sometimes it can just be exhausting trying to get on the lift and counting heads to make sure everybody is there. Now, if you were in this group, don't get the wrong impression and think I hated skiing in the group, because I know damn well that if I wanted to I could have skiied on my own, I am just making an observation. After skiing, I was in a terrible mood, but once I got in the car to give Sarah a ride back to Amesbury, things got a lot better and by the time I returned to Bethel five and a half hours later, I was back to my normal chipper self.
The skiing improved and the number of people staying with us decreased until for about six hours on Friday, we didn't have any guests. Now once again for those of you who stayed up there, I don't care how many people stay with us as long as I have my bed to sleep in and I can go skiing it doesn't make a damn difference to me. It certainly is a bit more difficult with six guests, but generally the guests were considerate and didn't get in my way. Friday was when part two of my vacation began, we had a dinner party for some local folk, Kate was excited to bake using her new cookbook, so we headed to Norway (Maine) for some shopping. We had fish, which I can't stand, but did actually try some (new me), and it wasn't bad, I still don't like the texture though. Okay I am getting tired of writing now, so I will really summarize from here out.
Saturday - We had a giant snow storm which dumped a foot of snow, the skiing was amazing, the first couple hours were the best because it took a while for people to get up there, there is nothing like making first tracks. After a long and exhausting day of skiing, I ended up going to a great dinner at Legends Restaurant, for all you meat lovers I got a giant prime rib which was about a foot and a half across. It was yummy, but I still think I should have had the Curry Chicken. For once I actually had decent timing and as we got out of dinner, they began a fireworks show right on the mountain, it was cool.
Sunday - They groomed the mountain on Sunday and flattened out all of the powder from Saturday, but it didn't take long for it to get pushed around into a nice mess. My legs were exhausted as was my brain from a long week of spending time with a lot of different people. We decided to call it a day relatively early and actually began the trek home at about 2:30. I did end up visiting a friend at the mall on the way home, which was nice since I hadn't seen her in a while. Once I did make it home I was by myself and that was nice, people slowly began to get home and it was nice not to have everybody home all at once. I was psyched to see my mom and chat with her about my crazy weekend. The night ended with a bunch of phone calls, I was on the phone last night for a total of about two and a half hours, I talked so much my cell phone battery went dead, first time that ever happened. I finally went to bed at ten and put the long vacation to rest!!!
Just when you thought it was save to continue surfing the net, I keep going. Now for my complaint, I am considering writing an editorial and sending it to a real newspaper. They doubled the price of parking at the commuter rail station in Newburyport and it has thrown my commute back to Malden. I am not extremely happy about it, but it will save me a bunch of time. It is just annoying that for once I was doing something which was theoretically good for the environment and now I have to get back into my car by myself and pollute. It is kind of annoying plus I won't get to see my train friend E as much. Sorry E :o(
Take this interesting personality test from good old Maddox.
My Dilemma
It appears that there is a party system forming between the readers of this journal. One party which has been coined as the CKY kids, mainly the other LJ people and many of the people I have met through SomaKitty, ie. the college crowd. The other party is the BoCaNosters, who are all the members of BoCaNo and also part of the Bethel Weekend Warrior crew. The problem is that the CKY kids have made requests for shorter and briefer entries, with less lyrics. Now the BoCaNosters enjoy the lyrics and prefer entries where I use complete sentences and tell stories. I have come to understand why
there are two ideas, the CKYsters read several journals and really don't have the time to spend a half hour reading mine, plus they are of the internet age where acronyms, abbreviations and fragmented sentences are a necessity. Now it has caused a slight dilemma for me, do I cater to a particular audience or just keep doing what I want to do. Now what I would like to do is make the journal as honest as possible, though this method would increase my number of readers it may decrease the number of friends I have to write about in the journal. So what I am going to do is ask all of you readers to fight it out in the comments section and after some discussion I will create some sort of hybrid journal. You all stress me out, but not much I can do. So let the games begin, which of you is going to comment first huh, CKYsters or BoCaNosters.
Dave Matthews Band Lyrics of the Day
Song title: Drive In, Drive Out
I hear more than I like to...
so I boil my head in a sense of humor...
I laugh at what I cannot change...
I throw it all on the pyre again...go then and do this
I'd do it for you...
when all that I want is so badly to be...
by myself again...
it's going to drive me right out of my brain
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I'll come back again
Drive in drive out I'm leaving
Drive in drive out
I don't care if we all turn to waste...
so when I beg...you avoid me...because I smell of dirt... hungry,
hungry boy...you won't leave me all alone...the boy won't go
Sooner or later we're done
Sooner or later I'm gone
because, because
Sooner or later we're gone
Sooner away
Ooh, my head is pounding now...god has all but left me behind...
not a sense of worry...I'm going to drive in and drive out again
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
I'm over this arrangement...
around here...emptiness
sounded so good...I want to
drive you right into my world
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out I'll come
Drive in drive out I'm leavin
Drive in drive out
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