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.