:: The Every So Often When I Decide to Post Blog ::

:: Thursday, May 29, 2003 ::

Moving

I hate moving. I like being in a new place. I like the restart. I hate the getting my sh*t from one place to another. Putting sh*t in boxes carrying out to the van.... pulling it off the van carrying it into the new place. UN packing it.Oh it's miserable.

But I do like moving to a new place.

This isn't the big move I should add. This is the across town, lease is up move. So not only am I doing this move. I have the giant one in Sept.

Plus Vegas on Monday. So cram moving into to 2 days then leave for a vacation to Vegas. SO if suddenly the blog gets slow again, you'll know why. When I'm back next Friday I'll start right up again. I'll probably keep writing just as a break from backing up sh*t.

:: Matt 1:18 PM [+] ::
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Just a Little Geek in Everyone

I have some geek tendancies. The whole Star Wars/ STar Trek things. The answer to life the Universe and Everything is 42. I have a web site. I know some HTML. I have the geek in me.

But how much I wondered. Thank god for this test that only made me a second level Geek.

http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

Go and check it out for yourself.

:: Matt 12:58 PM [+] ::
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BEER!

If you've read my previous blog you'll know I'm a beer drinker. And I like lots of different beer. I have preferences. But for the most part if it's beer I'll probably drink it.

Well almost. Bud Light is about as low quality as I'll go. I'm not really into the Beast, or Natty Light. My friend Eli buys thirty packs of Keystone light. It's all right but the price is too hard to pass up. But really I'd rather chug a Bud Light. And Coors just has a funky taste.

Oh and yes I did steal this idea from Lileks. His link is left. He doesn't like Corona very much.

So here's the list:

5. Springfield Brew Company's Pale Ale. Their pale ale is alot different from say Boulevards. but it's great it's one of those that you throw a lemon in and it's awesome.


4. Amber Bock. It's a great dark beer. The biggest downside to it is that it fills you up right quick. Not quite as bad as Guiness which fills me up after a glass but Amber Bock does the trick. I'll share a sick story with you if you dare toread on. At a birthday party I drank too much while enjoying Amber Bock and puked. It came out orange. Really odd.

3. Sam Adams. Sam is smooth and good. On taste alone this a great lager and I enjoy it a lot. My friend Jeff, who brews his own beer has his IPA which I believe tastes alot like Sammy so it's prolly his best beer.

2. Bud Light. Mmmmmmmmm. Bud Light is tasty. It's quite the refreshing beer. easy to drink and good on the taste buds. I'll include heavy Bud in this one as well as they are so similiar but heavy bud had a little better taste to it. Bud light tastes like Diet Coke to a Coke drinker. Fine on it's own but when compared to the other there is other choice. Jeff hasn't figured out how to make this yet. The last sample I tried tasted like perfume.

1. All time Number one Favorite beer. Boulevard Unflitered Wheat Throw a lemon in this bad boy and you have a drink that is not only refreshing but quite tasty on the sour side of things. This is my after a hard day of work drink.

So next time I visit your humble abode, give me a beer. It's what I like.
:: Matt 12:23 PM [+] ::
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Lots of Bud at Busch

So we get up about 9 everyone's tired. Horribly so. Well all shower... listen to Howard Stern. Eli has it in his head to cook some eggs. But he wants me to do it. I think he's nuts. No sleep. My day off. I tink not.

So we pile back into Carter's jeep and off we go. We stop at pitchers grab some food. It's 11:15 now. I drink 2 pints while havng a pile of chicken fingers. That's 32 ounces for those keeping count.

We buy some bleacher seats from guys who charge us 20 bucks a pop. Into Busch, which is really a great stadium and why they would want to build a new one. It has so much history and damn it's just fun. And I'm a Cubs fan. But as we come from Wrigley.... history and nice parks are a main stay to us.

We've been discussing all weekend how this rivarly between the Cubs and Cards is really friendly for the most part. Your not gonna get jacked in the parking lot for wearing a Cubs hat. Theirs meaness I'm not getting passed that but it's a funny one. Guys wearing "www.cubssuck.com" shirts.
Other guys wearing shirts of a bear cub molesting a Cardinal. But as proof in every group of 4 or 5 guys there were three Cards hats and one Cubs. Everywhere. "there's one in every group" became the favored phrase of the day.

Inside the park we pick up our silver plated Cards money clip.

Into the bleachers grabbing our first beer a 24 ounce can of Bud Light.

Matt Morris pulls out a helluva game. This guy. He’s so good. The problem is that Might Mo can’t pitch 9 innings all season long. I mean in today’s game he pitches 105 pitches and knocks out the Cubs in 2 hours and 5 minutes. That’s some talent. I mean, the Cubs are idiots. They were first pitch swinging all over that game. It’s been there downfall of late.

Into the third inning. Zambrano the Cubs pitcher is doing a great job but the Cards score on a Big BIG E. So it’s not an earned run. But things look dismal as the Cubs 3 up and 3 down in the top of the fourth. I need a hot dog and a new beer. At the concession stand they are 32 ounce beers. So that’s 78 beers by time inning seven rolls around.

And the game’s flying by not just cause of all the beer but because of the pitching. Bottom of the seventh we bring in Farnsworth. Bottom of the seventh Last Call. One more beer the 24 oz. Bringing the damn total to 112 oz. That’s a bit too much beer for a four hour period.

The final humiliation is Pujols’ home run in the eighth. 2-0 win.

Well, there’s some “in your face” toward the Cubs fans from the cards fans but it’s all in good fun. After all the Cubs are 4-23 at Busch.

On the way out my Buddies are cheering at Cards fans causing a raucous. I’m tired and drunk and quickly pass out in the back of the jeep.

An hour and half later we arrive at Eli’s Granny’s and I awake feeling just tired more than anything. I cook up some stakes we eat all good. Then everyone who hadn’t slept start to. No I demand. Let’s go home I’ll drive if I have to.

Well, I have to.

So we jump in the trusty jeep and off we go. And hour later we hit Cuba. And my head is pounding. It’s as if I’m hungover. I guess I am. I grab some water and a hydrating energy drink at the gas station. I’m cruising at 80. I just want to go home. Finally everyone awakes. We talk about the game and how the Cubs “What!” lost. We’re still 1.5 games up.

Arriving home, Cuba our only stop, at 8:45. So tired. I drive my half a car home. So sad. But really quite a great weekend. Well, day… well, really 20 hours. But it seems like three days…. To you, too, don’t it.

And now….. your moment of Zen.

:: Matt 1:33 PM [+] ::
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The Mist

Have you ever read Stephen King's short story The Mist? Basically the lead gets stuck in a grocery store with his son when a crazy storm passes through the town and leaves a fog. When someone tries to leave they get caught in a spider web. Suddenly it's giant spiders, bugs, flying bats and something with giant testicles... er... tentacles.

So about an hour after leaving SGF the mist lowers. And everyone but Carter, who's driving, and myself stuck in the back of his Jeep, are asleep. Its' hard maintaining a convo from that distance. He's driving between 45 and 60 in this mess. And as so many of you know, this damn drive on 44 sucks anyway let alone only going half the speed. So in Rolla he pulls over and I'm about to grab shotgun, when Carter asks if I can drive cause he's sick of driving in the mess. So I maintain the 45-60 speeds. Ocassionally hittin Seventy when we're at the right altitude.

About 4 AM we finally get to Eli's Grandmother's house. His brother is up waiting for us. He tries to pass out beer but everyone passes. Gilbert and Carter pass out on the couch's. We hang and talk for a while but eventually I grab some quilts and a pillow and start to sack on the living room floor. And the granfather clock is ticking....

I'm not a light sleeper BUT I have a hard time falling asleep with noise in the room. A clicking clock is like a clamour of clacking clams. Just make it stop. But now it ticks... ticks... ticks... ticks. And then it bing bong bing bongsat the quarter ... then the half then the three quarter. it's now 5:30 AM.

I finally can't take it anymore and climb into his grandmothers bed.... I should prolly mention she's in Spain. Didn't want to freak anyone out.

So I'm finally sleep and its' prolly a good 1/2 hour of sleep when my clock alrm goes off. It was set for 8 to hit the casinos. But it's like 6:00 and it's going off. AParrently when the phone auto updates the time it sets off the alarm. It took three times of it going off before I realize what the hell is going on. So it's back to sleep for like 10 minutes when an alrm in the house starts going off.

Where's it coming from? I start to follow the sound but then it shuts off. Yeah, back to sleep.

10 mintues later .... wake up. Alarm again. It's loud. They'll turn it off again. They don't I get up and walk into the hall. It may be coming from Eli. As I'm about to open the door it stops. Well it stops. Back to bed.

10 minutes later ... wake up. Alarm. Again. Stop it. It does.

10 minutes later ... wake up. Who's alarm? make it stop! It doesn't I keep looking for it. It won't stop. In the hall. F@#k it. I'll close my door. I do. It doesn't soften. It's coming from inside my room! Wait, no it's not. It's coming from down stairs. It's Eli's brother. He has to be at work at 8 but as he was up with us he keeps snoozing. It's Still GOING! How can he not even wake up. Make it stop. I may have cried at this point. I just want to sleep.

Finally sleep manages to envelop me. MMMMMMMM sleep. And it's 9 AM. The day of the game. But that's tommorow. This is long enough.
:: Matt 2:35 PM [+] ::
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Works sucks

I hate work. I used to not mind the annoying cooks I worked with. They do their job, not always right, but do it under tough situations and lots of pressure and for that I could be forgiving. However when you start fucking with my life I then must kill you.

Maybve kill is too much. We're leaving as soon as I'm off work to go to St. Louis for some Casino fun and Cubs/ Cards. Can't wait.

So I show up to work bags packed awaiting the seven hours till the doors lock and I'm off. 'Cept our Fry guy calls in. And the guy working back-up... it's his last night.... he does not want to stay until 10. I ask him to do what he can and we'll make sure he gets out early. THEN....

Our Broil cook calls in no realizing he was even supposed to work tonight. He Eventually shows up at 7:30. THEN....

Our Dishwasher quit. It's covered but by some yokel who has never done it before.

Now I'm pissed. Down a real dishwasher down a fry guy..... why haven't I walked out yet?

So our fry guy pretty much finishes his close and jets at 9:30. 20 minutes of work left come cleaning and covering. Our dishwasher is backed up.

I finish my close.... fninish fry..... 10:30. Start cleaning the floors normally a 25 minute job for three people..... BUT with two people a 40 minute job. I help DISH finish. It's 11:45 .... so here's how the trip BEGINS...........

More tommorow..... my head hurts and everything that smells bad makes me wanna puke.



:: Matt 10:28 PM [+] ::
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Bunch of Savages in This Town

So I've had a good Week and a Bad week.

Good week. Good films. Check the "Movies are Better with Naked People" link to the right. You can read my reviews of The New Matrix and A Mighty Wind. Great stuff.

My week has sucked BECAUSE works sucks, as always, and today, if you look here someone blew out my back windshield.

And if you look real close you can where the beebee hit it. Apprently happens this time every year. I don't have comprehensiove coverage cause it's a 94 wagon. Cost of the window? $594

Fuckin people.

People suck. Next week lots of stuff I promise. Including a visit to Busch Stadium for a Cubs Cards Game.

:: Matt 2:41 PM [+] ::
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Baby Quiz

I took a baby quiz. If you haven't visted Jeff's Ebaby site.... I would recommend it because it's a bit sweet and insane rather like Jeff. Any click on the link and go. So today he took a baby quiz and got 9 out of 15. I got 10 out of 15. I took cause I figured I'll be "Uncle Matt" I better know this stuff too. Anyway here's how it looked. And I'd click the link and follow along.


Got 1 wrong. I was thinking of later when you have to start teaching it to be self reliant. But I guess a new born would rather feel secure first. I mean, if that's the sort of thing you want to teach it. Fraknly in Jeff's case he better teach it to love daddy. If he teaches self reliance now... what's he gonna do when she's 16 with one of his tie tacks in her nose.

Got 2 wrong. A baby eats more than me. Huh.... guess all it's been eating is Amy's left overs anyway.

Got 3 right. It's a sex question, I mean, come on.

GOt 4 right. I mean it is just a poop machine.

Got 5 Wrong I can't buy clothes for myself let alone a baby.

Got 6 Right. Learned lots about women since 95. You know I understand what they want. I just can't meet a good one.

Got 7 Right. Only because it was the only one make sense.

Got 8 Right. Umbilical cords. Just freaks me out.

Got 9 Right. COmputer term. AGain only one that made sense.

Got 10 Wrong. But I was going with the security thing on this one. You know... first time in a car keep it with mommy. But D does make more sense. Anything can happen in one car ride. Look at our trip home from CHicago.

Got 11 Right. But I thought it was cause she would start feeling thirsty as all the liquid is sucked from her body.

GOt 12 right amazingly. Mostly a guess but I think there was sub-conscious knowledge there.

Got 13 right. I watch the discovery channel and from time to time TLC. Besides the other answers were dumb.

Got 14 right. YOu know you gotta bond with Tiny GIrl too. Besides knowing you wou'll still be up.

Got 15 wrong. You always see baby's in commercials on their tummy. All knowledge I have on babies is from TV.

Well I'm impressed. Now all I have to do is find miss perfect get married and I too will be almost ready to take on the 18 year old commitment of child rearing. But put like that, I gots plenty of time.

Matt

And now your moment of ZEN
:: Matt 3:17 PM [+] ::
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