Monday, April 02, 2007
Catching Up
Work is really starting to interfere with this whole blog-writing thing. I guess it’s a good thing that I’m too busy at work to find time to write anything. Right? The past week has been exceptionally crazy. What’s amazing (to me anyway) is in one week, I worked about as much as my lawyer friends have averaged over the past 5 years or so. Well, when they’re not busy, anyway. Yeah, there’s a reason lawyers get paid a lot.
Since I don’t have time to write a full coherent blog (relatively speaking, anyway), here are some quick-hit thoughts.
Since I don’t have time to write a full coherent blog (relatively speaking, anyway), here are some quick-hit thoughts.
- If you don’t already own the Eagles of Death Metal’s Death by Sexxxy, stop reading this blog right now. Go to iTunes and download it. If you managed to get past Cherry Cola and aren’t hooked on the album, I will refund you whatever you paid me to read this blog. The album’s already over 2 years old, but it’s just great. If you like Queens of the Stone Age, you’ll love Death by Sexxxy (mostly because it contains a couple of the same performers).
- Do you know how to use a revolving door? Apparently, I don’t. I was leaving my building for lunch one day last week, heading to the “out” part of the revolving door. A man already in the revolving door, heading inside my building. I guess he wasn’t expecting me to push on the door. When I did, he shot me a look like I just questioned his revolving-door-pushing skills. Note to self: no more pushing on revolving doors. This is going to add some time to my commute.
- Bubba Ho-Tep is a great movie. It’s a semi-farcical zombie movie. The plot revolves around Elvis Presley and J.F.K. being alive, but living in a nursing home. Only the nursing home is being attacked by a mummy. Oh, and J.F.K. is black. If you like silly, low-budget horror movies, watch this one. It’s great.
- 24 hasn’t been doing it for me this year. American Idol, though, really has. I’m as shocked by this as you are. I hate American Idol. I think it’s a joke and a blight on the music industry. Yet, I’m strangely compelled to watch it every week to see who gets voted out. I suppose this show would be completely unwatchable without Tivo. But since I can watch an episode in about 15 minutes (by skipping most of the songs), it’s a very short investment on my part for a rather satisfying reward.
- I’m officially old. I had 6 beers the other night and could hardly even stand up. Since I’ve been training for the triathlon, I really cut back on my drinking. Apparently, this really affects your tolerance. I’m heading to a wedding this weekend and I’m a little worried about how my body’s going to respond to the copious amounts of alcohol I’m going to be throwing into it. I’ve half-convinced myself that the problem is that I was drinking beer the other night. If I stick to Jack and Coke, I should be fine.
- The triathlon training’s going great. My back is a little sore, and so are my feet. But those are chronic problems. And the best part about training for a triathlon is that I get to do a lot of swimming, which is good for my back and feet. My weight has plateaued a bit at 187. I don’t think I’m going to make 185 by this weekend, which was my goal. Oh well. Close enough.
- I’ve been locked up in a “war room” at work for the past week. We’re trying to get a lot of work done for a client, so they’re locking us all in one room to do it. I think their rationale is that people are less likely to surf the internet if the person next to them can see them do it. Thus, therefore, (three dots), we’d all be more productive. Well, it actually works. So, they’re getting more productivity out of me, but at the cost of less pre-opening-day baseball knowledge. Thus, it hardly seems like the Cubs started the season today.
- Speaking of the Cubs, they lost their first game this season. I wish I could say I were shocked. As a life-long fan, I know that I should be more interested in the goings-on of my beloved Cubbies. But after 2003 (to say nothing of 1984), my heart just isn’t in it. Then again, they did just announce that the Cubs are for sale. Within a year, we’ll have a new owner. Perhaps it’ll be somebody concerned about actually winning the World Series. Perhaps the Cubs will be respectable. Perhaps I can be proud of being a Cubs fan. And perhaps monkeys will fly out of my butt.
