To the gods...

Listen hurricane gods...no Earl interruptions for the US Open this weekend...I was looking forward to watching tennis all week...go spew rain someplace else. Nada.

Also, Jesus, pls let there be a sidewalk on the Mopac service road. I want my raggedy ass to be safe walking down to the bus stop. If there isn't a sidewalk could you put one in, I'll give you a week...your help is appreciated, thanks.
Shannon

Intense

That Katrina...five years later...wow, just the chaos there...sad, crazy makes me want to stockpile food.

Are you ready for some...
Football??????? Hell yeah...

Give me some Favre w/ a side of no interceptions, please. Beat the 49ers

Sportsmen I am obsessed with...

I was watching Rafael Nadal being handed his ass on a platter last night by Mario Baghatis(?...learn to spell his name correctly) and he kept pulling his shorts out of the crack of said ass. I never thought this was a sexy move before and I seen him do it a million times. But last night it transfixed me...maybe b/c he was losing?...but it was so fun...there goes his hand, its going to that region...and pull! He's not my type but I do like watching him pull his shorts out of his ass.
My main squeeze is now Brett Favre. I have to share him w/ his wife...and his girlfriend... and that other girl...but no matter, I am just happy he is coming back! Forty is beautiful! The other night Handitran friend asked me "What kind of man do you like?" I was like "Obviously I like a man who can throw an interception in the last 3 minutes of a game, lose the game and be asked back next year for 20 million." That game I will remember for the rest of my life. I want his jersey! Usually it sickens me but I don't care if supposedly he is stepping out on his wife w/ a girl that has silicone breasts...and a silicone butt, he is still a hero on the football field.

my trip to barnes & noble

I was depressed on Saturday and i wanted to be even more depressed so I wanted to find a book at barnes & noble titled "Lost Children of Wilder...". I couldn't find the book.
This is so depressing...

I haven't been to B&N like in 5 months and before it seemed like they had a pretty kick ass history and social science section but when I went in there Sat. they had changed everything around and now there are like 4 rows of "Christian inspirational" and 4 rows of cookbooks. I ended up w 2 cookbooks and 1 book about emissaries in Chabad Lubavitch ...when in doubt go w/ what you know. Christian stuff must really sell.

Time is rather ruthless...

One of my favorite professors of all time, Professor Richard Ferrier, has recently died. How sad and what a loss...he was such a dynamo in the classroom...the way he integrated his Mac computer and handled the 200+ student classroom w/ ease, such a pro. Thank you for writing my recommendation letter and burying it in the second paragraph that you didn't know me that well (ok, I read it, I suck). I will always remember you fondly, thanks.
My mom's kidneys are not working that well and she has to go in for tests next week...geez what is going on here?
In happy news, I am going to Barnes and Noble tomorrow to get some books recommended on Amazon (irony) and I get 10% back on my card (feeling virtuous, however probably paying more)

how embarrassing...

...I went into Double Daves and forgot that I had my sunglasses on for like 20 minutes..I do that alot lately.

No new computer

The computer I sorta wanted...HP 15.6 screen laptop w/ Intel processor and 5(!) hour battery time...is the computer everyone else wants too so I might get it, or not, in 45 days. I have been waitlisted. I still have my sometime working eee pc and when it works...like now...its good. The HP costs alot of money, I think I need 45 days to think about it anyway. I am running on battery time here that is about to run out and I need to go and get some creme at Walmart to finish the chili.
I might be coming to Austin to get my hair done and hangout in Sept, hurray!

Those smells

I have to take a break...I am chopping red onions to make a North Indian style chili in the slow cooker tomorrow(like a curry type dish over rice, have to grate some ginger too). Those onions make my eyes water like crazy!
What is it w/ homeless men and that smell? I went to Target today to get my ingredients and there is a bench near the door and I wanted to sit there to wait for my ride. There was a homeless(?) man w/o legs sitting on the bench w/ his wheelchair next to him. I couldn't get within 10 feet of the bench b/c the smell was so terrible! I wanted to go back in and buy him some deodorant ...do they not have showers at homeless shelters...maybe not, maybe its a security risk? My town does not have public transportation so I was thinking, how does a guy with no legs get to Target? Back to cutting onions...

Smoke...

Why, at the computers at the library, do I always end up sitting next to the guy that smells like smok or pot? I need a new computer...next week can't come soon enough, please please let there be a new computer in my future. Now let's go eat some tacos.

Sanford House has a $89 groupon at www.groupon.com/fortworth, just down the street from my property. Today only.

Sad

So yesterday i was at the public library downtown waiting for my ride and there was a younger black woman waiting on the benches. She had 5 kids between the ages of 9 and 2. The oldest boy was lying out on the bench looking through a book but the other 4 were running around, sometimes throwing rocks, opening the book return slot etc, just being kids. The woman was not interacting w/ them at all, she had her head down by her thighs and would lift it up to say stuff like "Stop it! Get over here!" And then her head would go down again and she would clench her fists, she just seemed depressed that she had so many kids. I want a child (so badly) but never want to feel those feelings that she exhibited.

enough about me, let's talk about me

For once in the last month I am feeling pretty optimistic. I might actually still have a job next month...maybe this month isn't over yet...damn there's that pessimism sweeping in again. The life working at a Big Bank (BB).

Hell, let's do some more mourning for my old computer

I could get my old computer to work if I pinched the upper part of the cord really hard, it would then take electricity thru the cord and not wear out the battery, but then my hand was starting to feel a little bit funny, like all electric and stuff...I was like maybe I should stop this and not take a shower tonight (yeah...I really am THAT stupid). So I have decided to stop trying to make the computer work and have decided to go cold turkey...I am having withdrawal symptoms already, thats why I am here at TCCD. I don't know if I can make it to next week but my Dad wants me to wait until November to get a new computer b/c "thats when the prices really go down." Thats four months from now! I might not even be gainfully employed four months from now! Oh well...

Just made it...

I did exercise last night, wasn't good this morning...got in the pool for half a hour this morning. Went to see a movie I Am Love w/ Tilda Swinton. Left after a hour and a half b/c I was scared I wouldn't be able to catch the 1:19 pm TRE train back. Came down the Mockingbird station JUST as the blue train was pulling up, that was at 1:02, started praying...hard. Pulled up to Union Station at 1:17 pm and ran. Just made it. Now I really have to pee.

It always rains...

I am excited, I was going to Dallas tonight and then it rains...sucks...see how it goes

Gross

Someone just told me something about LeBron James...how did I miss this interesting piece of gossip? I guess LeBron's mother is only like 16 or 19 years older than he...and she was messing around w/ one of his teammates last year during the playoffs...Ouch!
Poor LeBron...you know like in junior high when someone would insult you and you would say "Thats not want your mother said last night" you don't want to say that to Le Bron.

RIP computer

This computer has got to go...I have the eee pc which I love...but its 5 yrs old and the cord isn't working anymore (it plugs directly into the back of the computer).It goes from battery to plug in power and back again...w/o any rhyme or reason,its been plugged in the whole time! Otherwise its been a great computer.

I don't think anyone is reading this...so I just have to complain...I have the loosest bowels on the face of earth! Yesterday I went for a walk in an upscale residential area near my house(I have become even more of a chubnik since my foot problem started) and halfway through I like...Nu-uhh...I had to cut short my walk and kept stopping to compose myself. Its a 2.86 mile course and its annoying when I have to cut it short. Porta-potties should line the streets or something.

I have to get a new job...

O I have to get a new job,I have to get a new job...it really sucks too bad bc the people I sit around r cool.

my trip to Austin & New Braunfels

...we ended up not tubing b/c of flooding, we went to Gonzales (Come and Take it!...like...come and take it. No, more like a battle cry.) and ate barbeque at the Gonzales Meat Market...the best!
We also went to Trattoria Lisina at the Mandola Winery, the food, the duck ravioli, it was so delicious!

stuff

My leg is still killing me, think I might have to go the doctors soon. Didnt even want to walk to Starbucks today to get the paper.
we are going to Austin & New Braunfels in a few days, so excited!

Also, J Luba-vitch, I don't know what you look like, but you are a hottie! I love your sense of humor and you are one of those rare individuals w/o a stick up your ass. I know you inquired about me and was told I wasn't playing w/ a full deck (which is true) but after I talked to you I was like...that was funny...and then I remembered i talked to you last year. Anyways...it was fun...as long as your not a midget i don't care what you look like...I had a bad run in w/ a midget at work...stories for another time.

Pho 95

Just went to the new Pho 95 near my place, had my favorite dish Bun w/ grilled pork and egg roll. It was ok, its the only Vietnamese noodle place near my house...so I'm sure I will be back. Its more upscale than most noodle places, w/ a bar and more ambiance than most...mostly a white clientele...w/ one Vietnamese family in there slurping on pho. I have hit the jackpot, a Schlotzsky's and a Double Daves are opening right down the street from my house. We are getting Austin's restaurants here too...a Mandola's Italian grill already opened and Rudys (hurray, hurray) will be opening shortly.

Souter article

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/justice-souters-class/?hp

Really great article about Justice Souter. I so wish this guy was still on the Supreme Court. He is really there to serve his country, you never think 'What is this guy running for next?' The follow up opinions by the general populace was interesting too...is Justice Souter overblowing judicial originalism to suit his own interests (or whatever the hell its called)? Most people really liked him and his way of looking at the Constitution as an overlapping value system.

Tomorrow I will be weeding and watering at my property and grocery store shopping.

I didn't go to exercise class...

I signed up for Camp Gladiator in Dallas, stayed the night at the Sheraton (got a great rate thru Priceline.com) and then didn't go to class. My foot was too painful, it hardly fit in the sneaker and I couldn't imagine running around, the other people laughing at me. The Sheraton has an awesome gym, so I worked out there for a hour and a half. The Sheraton is quite nice except they want to charge for Internet and bottled water (4.75!).
I am hanging out at the West Village w/ my tribe...not exactly my tribe, all these people are fit...two gay guys(gay? probably thats why I love this part of town) talking to each other in line in back of me at Starbucks..."I got my cardio in at my apartment gym"not Arlington words. They aren't backsliders here, ...like they don't work out at the hotel gym and then go get a frapucchino. Oh well got to go check out of the hotel.

Cool site: http://imjustwalkin.com/

my right foot is fat...

my right foot, the one I had surgery on, isn't fitting into some shoes that were ordered from Penneys...therefore I can't walk around the outside of the building like I usually do on my breaks. Sucks...my shoes are off...I will have to put them on for lunch to make it down to the breakroom. The shoes fit this morning but now it looks like I am going to have a big blister on my right heel...oh well.

I want to participate in the "Keeping It Weird" run in Austin on June 26. I have a shirt of a unicorn deficating Lucky Charms that turn into marshmallows and I wanna wear it. I have a video of the shirt but my computer doesn't have enough bandwidth to upload it...I think thats the problem. A new computer might be in order but I love my current computer an EEEPC...its very handy.
The new Bachelorette is on...http://abovethelaw.com/2010/05/meet-this-seasons-lawyers-from-the-bachelorette/#comments sounds like the lawyers aren't doing so hot. Haven't watched it yet, sounds like Ali might have gained some weight. Lane Bryant, girl...thats all I can say...oh wait, flaunt it girl, don't go for men that want someone skinny, they are usually insecure.

Will I get to exercise today...

just went to my property and was pulling weeds, its humid and 92 degrees. Pretty exhausted. Feel like I am stewing in my own gravy. Have things I want to get done, have to fight the urge not to get on the Internet every 10 minutes. Obviously not doing very well there.

Happy Birthday, Trev.

Ribs

Someone has ribs up in here. It smells goooood. Love that smoky smell. I need to get me some ribs...w/ bbq sauce. Maybe at Dickies or something.

OMG, I feel so old

I read Dan Savage's book The Kid like ten years ago...he and his husband adopt a son...the book is about how they decided to adopt and the process they went through, told w/ compassion and wry sense of humor...their son is now twelve! The update...
http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/66008/

I am trying to upload...

a picture to warbyparker.com. How long is this sh*t going to take...not the most patient person. I guess I could use a webcam picture.
I have started Operation "Fit my ass in a Swimsuit ". We are going tubing for my birthday in New Braunfels, I wanna lose weight.

The game/ A complaint

Its tied! 4-4 w/ 8.42 in the first quarter...come on Spurs prove to me that the Mavs aren't emotionally ready to win. 10-4 San Antonio

I recently bought a new place...hopefully w/ any luck it will be my "forever" place. Anyways, there should be a law against getting official looking papers that are really bogus in the mail. I just wanted to record this one for its idiocy.

The designation of homestead under the TEXAS PROPERTY CODE is distinct from the homestead tax exemption under the TEXAS TAX CODE. If a homeowner files for and receive a TAX EXEMPTION, they will receive a Designation of Homestead eventually for free. For information regarding the homestead tax exemption contact your tax appraisal district. For information regarding homestead designation under the TEXAS PROPERTY CODE, contact your attorney.
Homestead property is protected under Texas law. Recording a "Designation of Homestead" in the public records is optional. To file a designation of homestead, you are not required to use this form or service. Prices subject to change without notice.

YOU MUST REMIT THE $35.00 FEE OR WE WILL NOT PREPARE YOUR DOCUMENT.

This is an advertisement. (No shit.)

Dear San Antonio Spurs,

Look...maybe you were blinded by the shiny white hotness of Dirk the other night, if so I understand.(sort of...I mean you are pro basketball players...isn't your job to win basketball games?)

I made a bet w/ the person that drives me home that ya'll would pull it out in 7 games, the least ya'll can do is make it close. Things are getting a little testy on the ride,,he was talking smack ALL the way home.

"I would like to change my prediction...I am nothing if not a fair weather fan"
"No, you must stick w/ your original prediction. What are you going to give me if you lose?
"What am I going to give you??? What do you want?"
"I don't know."
"If you can't figure it out then you aren't getting anything."

So Spurs help a sister out and let's play w/ confidence on Wednesday instead of looking so deflated I had to turn it off in embarrassment. OK, thanks.

Blogging about the Mavs

Dirk looks especially hot tonight. Love the new haircut. I guaranteed someone that Dirk was going to get slapped around so much that he was going to think he was somebody's daddy. I didn't know the Mavs were the higher ranked team. San Antonio is ahead though, I might win my bet yet.

NY Times

The NY Times had a story on co-ed college dorm restrooms, how that is becoming more prevalent across the country. Gross. Is nothing sacred? Would I really want the opposite sex to know how gassy I am? Can we leave the surprise inside a surprise? When I was in college, one of my friends in a public dorm was issued keys for her restroom b/c guys kept getting in there and hiding out. I guess they don't have to worry about keys anymore.
They also had a story about how at the University of Pennsylvania admission officials forward the names of any admitted students who indicate in their essay that they are gay to the university's G/L/TG support organization. Thats crazy! What if you don't want people to know? It doesn't sound like there is a presumption of privacy. If you have mental issues or other type of issue that has negative connotations and you express that in a college essay, are they going to forward your name to some campus group that deals w/ it? I think that goes too far.
Both issues involve privacy vs. demystification

my day

I woke up in a bad mood for no apparent reason but then I read this---

http://gawker.com/comment/21826531/

and I started laughing. Nothing can get me laughing like sarcastic bs.

And it gets better...Goldman Sachs is being accused by the SEC of fraud. I bought some GS stock (a very small amount) but (drumroll please)...

I sold it last year...dodged that bullet.

To the butt twerp who interrupts my lunch

Dude,

I go outside to the courtyard to enjoy a blissfully quiet lunch and hear the birds chirp. Its the only quiet part of my day. However...

when you play that damn heavy metal music (Pantera, anyone?) on your iphone and I am sitting 20 feet away and can hear it... it is way loud, too loud. Please

make it stop, I do not want to listen to your shit. I want to listen to quiet.
May someone make you listen to classical music for an extended period of time.

Regards (but not really)
S.

Tax Day Breakups

OMG...

Mel Gibson broke up w/ his baby's mama.

Larry King broke up w/ his wife, who accuses him of screwing her sister. (?)

Even the lesbians are breaking up...Melissa Ethridge just broke up w/ Tammy whats her name (for a lesbian, shes hot Tammy, not Melissa).

Stress, stress, stress...

Random Musings

I hate mah jongg, i never win. You know capitalism is working when a UPS driver makes 74k a year and a PI lawyer makes 32k a year. Pinkberry just opened by my house.

Another Complaint

What is it w/ rappers that suck? I had a volunteer opportunity in Dallas and so I went over there and rented a hotel room. I got on the DART train at the convention center stop to go to dinner and sitting right behind me was a guy rapping in my ear full tilt. I enjoyed for a few seconds till I realized...he sucked! And it became noise. I wanted to turn around and say " Dude, 'ark' does not rhyme w/ 'ark'...it's the same damn word! Dark or stark maybe...* Are you going to rap the whole time I am on here?"
But then, luckily, he and his friends got off on the West End station so I avoided being plummeted.

*Its not like I am a rhyming genius, I was sitting at dinner thinking 'What rhymes w/ ark?' It took me a few minutes. Sad.

WTF?

A few years ago I bought like a clothes hamper from a high end children's furniture catalog...I thought it would go w/ my stuff. My information must have been sold b/c now I get children's clothing catalogs in the mail all the time. Tonight I got called "Chasing Fireflies"...Awww. The clothing costs more than my clothes! There is a denim dress...a denim dress that costs $94! Crazy...In other related news, I also get athletic apparel catalogs sent to me, I am not athletic.

NCAA Finals!

Go Butler!!! Go hometeam!! Go underdog!! Beat Duke!!

Added blogroll

The first blogroll, blondejustice, writes about law in a funny, personal and clear way. In my current position I need to laugh alot and her blog helps in that regard. The second blog, laidoff lawyer, I just wonder if he will pay off his debt in a year.

Masonic Temple in Manhattan

Because the Masonic Temple Building in New York City is a private place I had an internal debate as to whether I should publish pictures of it. I decided to publish a picture of this, the public reception area and some architectural details, along w/ pictures of the ceilings.

The reception area is where we waited for the tour to begin.

Through open house new york, ohny.org, which is an architectural organization that negotiates w/ landmarks and museums all over the city to throw their doors for one weekend in October...I got to see the inside of the Masonic Temple in Manhattan. Spectacular!