billy joel day!

today is a billy joel day. so far this week has been two days johnny cash, one day billy joel. today was almost neil diamond day, but i will need to save him for another day. the website i use to download all my music lets you listen to entire albums without buying, so this is usually what i do at work. its pretty sweet. plus if there are tracks on the disk that i don't like, i can delete them from the playlist..

earlier this week we had some serious winds and the top part of a tree in the parking lot fell onto a car. luckily it wasn't mine. it wasn't anyones at my company actually. makes me want to make sure my insurance would cover something like that. with what i pay them, if they didn't cover it i would have to go into their offices with a bag of guns.



i finished the 4th season of 6 feet under last night. wow. pretty great!! i saw that arthur comes back for an episode or two in the next season. that comes out in march. woo who! now on to lost and the 5th season of sopranos... then i need to fins someone with HBO that will be watching the new season of sopranos in march.

today is the first meeting of "art club". it going to be fun i think. :) i think i'm gonna get a 12 pack at lunch for us...

catch up

wow. 4 days without writing. i'd say that is almost a record.

i have been hella busy here at work, so busy that i have had to cancel 2 after work activities 2 days in a row. :( i hate to have to do that. but my plans for tonight cancelled on me, so i can't wait to watch the next 4 episodes of 6 feet under from the comfort and safety of my bed.

last night i found the colin farrell sex tape online. ask me about it in the real world if you are curious. i think its pretty "convenient" timing that his "new world" release is tomorrow. anyone want to go see it with me this weekend? i want to see it for myself before all the critics pan it and skew my opinion of it.

last night i went to one of the places on my list of place to go before i leave boston. the publick house. its a beer bar in brookline. i tasted a couple of pretty great beers, and their garden burger was pretty good too. LM and TP told me they are having their wedding this summer at a castle in NH. how cool.

i leave for MD in one week. how fun! i haven't been to MD in over a year.

it got so cooooooold!

damn is cold, it was like 60 degrees yesterday, and now it feels below 0.

i couldn't wait for my next two dvds to arrive later this week, so i went out the video store and rented the next 2 discs.. but as i sit here in my room, my fingers and toes turn to ice. i've put on my snowpants, and my wool jacket on top of my black fleece.

brendas new boyfriend in season 4 is justin theroux. totally hot.. but i have a feeling that they will break up soon. brenda can't keep relationships going, esp when she is still sleeping with nate.

i even resigned myself to turning on the heat in my room, and while i was trying to see what i had to move in order to turn it on, i burnt my hair on the candle. :(

i love weekends

last night KT and i went out on an improptu bar crawl with a friend from work. after the 1st bar and an unsuccessful attempt at a 2nd bar, we ended up back at the first bar. we did find 2 places in boston that have dollar drafts.. how can i have lived here this long, and never have found these places? we snapped all kinds of pictures, we looked like papparazzi. :)

i slept till 2pm today. :) so nice. its 530 now, and i'm still not really out of bed. i watched the 2nd episode of six feet under, season 4 and was so excited to see the next three episodes, but... they sent me season 2, disk 4 instead of the opposite. grrrrrr. sooooo mad!!

so i went back to bed. i'm going to get up now, and take a shower. LK is coming home, and we're gonna go watch the game. goooo pats!

if you giveth, they will taketh..

i gave "D" another chance.. and wouldn't you know, she blew me off again. this time, she blamed it on her period. she gets no more chances. i'm done with her.

i woke up early, got dressed, called her, left a VM, and then finished making my pulled pork and went to back to bed. :) i'm surprised i wasn't later then i was. i slept till 8:15. he hee

i watched the season 3 finale of six feet under. such a good one. i cried almost the whole episode.. luckily i have the next 2 disks of the next season waiting to be watched... maybe friday night.

tonight i am bringing my pulled pork over to TGs, then he, his sister and i are going to eat it. yummmmmmm.. i should have grabbed some wine too. oh well. maybe TG will have some beer.

my good friend "the fish eyed faggot" will be joining us in vegas. its gonna be such a good time. i am getting really excited. what i am most excited about is the direct flight. :)

i feel like i am spending outside my means more then usual lately.. i think its because i can't get the advice EH (of all people) gave me the other day out of my head.... "well, you can't take it with you when you die"..

who wants to catch a beer tonight?

i think i really need to get a beer tonight, anyone game?

this morning was the first day i was supposed to start my walking with "D" from craigslist. she seemed normal. so i wake up at 6:12, throw on my walking clothes and walk out the door to meet her at 630.

at 6:30 is DARK here. real dark. this morning was trash day, so i'm maneuvering my way down the sidewalk avoiding trashcans, jumping over recyclables. people are stirring in their apartments, lights are turning on, and just as i start to realize that there is a window WIDE open at the next house a stream coming from inside the window splashes on the sidewalk not 5 feet i front of me... good thing i am so agile and i was able to jump out of the PISS STREAM! good f'ing god... someone was pissing out the front window of their house at 630 in the morning. who the hell does that???? at least piss in the backyard in a corner, not right onto pedestrians walking by. jesus christ.

then when i got there, D wasn't there. so i called her at 635 and got her VM. she called me this AM to say that since she didn't hear back from me yesterday she didn't set her alarm.

i'm going to give her one more chance, cause i'm a nice person. :)

my latest adventures on craigslist..

i have been pursuing a morning walking partner via craigslist... i have had a handful of responses so far. my post states that i am looking for a male or female that is preferably in the 'ville. really that is it.

this is the kind of thing i have been getting back.

"i walk 10 to 15 miles a day.. would you like to join... i live in boston. i could call if you would like"
- holy crap, does this guy work?

"Normally I work 7:30 -3:30 but sometimes that changes to an hour later."
- i can't understand why she has a hard time finding the time to walk....

this next one takes the cake...

[him] "somerville is not that far would you care to chat? Normal guy here"

the "normal guy here" should have been my first clue. "normal" people don't have to advertise that.. all his correspondence was one line, and didn't copy what i wrote back to me, leading me to believe he was on a cell phone. we set up a time to meet tonight. i sent him directions to the place to meet that i found online. apparently the directions weren't directly from his house so he needed them from newton. jesus christ.. then he just wanted the address so he could put it in his GPS in his car. that was my first clue that he was older.. then he asked me my age, then he told me his. 52. when i don't respond instantly i get emails like this...

[him] "is that aproblem??", and "so you still interested in meeting??"

does that really matter when we are walking for 2.5-3 miles? then he wants to trade pictures. so i send him a link to my website. then he asks how tall i am ... none of which should matter. then he send his pic. he looks like maury povich.. i don't respond. about 2.7 minutes later i start getting emails like this...

[him] "I guess you changed your mind"

so i respond with,

[me] "i didn't change my mind, i am working, but this is becoming too much trouble then its worth, what do i care how old you are, or what you look like, we were going walking for 1 hour tops... i didn't think i needed to go through this gamut of questions. forget it."

to which he replies...

[him] "never mind sorry to have bothered you"

in total he wrote to me 26 times between 12:30 and 3:30. why are people so f'd up???