Great News.....and idiots

Big News!
Well, I got some great news this morning on the drive in. I may have mentioned along the way that I religiously record my favorite XM show, The Fuckin Metal Show, every wednesday night and listen to it thursday on the way to and from work. This week was no different. But I did learn today that the show is soon to end...only to be replaced by a full-time metal channel! XM 42 is moving up from online only to the big show. Liquid Metal, as the channel is called, is scheduled to start up on 4/17. Then I can get metal whenever I need it.

Idiots
Remember those painters from a few days ago. Well, they're still wandering around painting things here. Slowly but surely they've done pretty much everything. Today they were doing the door-frames of our little lab rooms. The best part...no "wet paint" signs. So now we've got people walking around with paint on them from these 2 idiots. The walls were one thing. They dry quick and most people weren't rubbing into them. But the door frames are a different story. I've got paint all over my hand, another guy has it all down his pants. Morons. Security reports they're all done, though. But if I see those morons in here tomorrow, they're going to get a little something from me.
I did hang up my own 'wet paint' sign, so at least people around my room are safe.

Weather
And could the weather BE any nicer? We had to take a little walk after lunch to enjoy it. And it was fantastic. I love spring. Not too hot, plenty of sun, everything growing and blooming. So nice.
And it means baseball is right around the corner. Which for me is this sunday. Can't f'n wait.
Only problem right now with the weather is that we're in that weird period where it's 30s in the morning when I leave the house, but near 60 by the time I leave. So I need to wear a coat, but only for the drive in. Mildly annoying, but just cause I'm retarded about some things.

Motorcycle

This is it. This is the year I do it. This year I'm determined to take a motorcycle class and learn to ride. Get my license and then maybe even get a bike. They are rather cheap and get solid gas milage, which will come in handy this year when gas prices break $3.50/gal. Especially when I'm supposed to be using premium. I really don't, but I'm supposed to.
Sure, my mom would kill me if she found out, but she'd be pissed at quite a few things I do. Like getting face-down drunk on the weekends. And premarital sex isn't real high on my parents' list of good behaviors. And I sure do plenty of that!! Okay, maybe not plenty, but enough.
My buddy Tom said he'd take the course as well, so that's 2 of us. I wonder if that guy in town is still selling his bike? It was in his yard with a 'for sale' sign on it pretty much all of last year. I thought about talking to him about it a couple times, but never did. I bet it's still up for grabs.

Basketball
So, George Mason really did it. Knocked off another high seed to advance to the final four. I just can't help but root for them. Not only are they an 11 seed, but it's an unknown school. It's not like they're a Michigan or North Carolina or a regular that's having a bad year and snuck in at 11. They are an unknown that's tearing up the show. I really do think the run is over now, but who knows. There was no way they could have beaten UConn, and they pulled that off. So who knows?!
On the women's side, Purdue lost to N.Carolina on a last second shot. They made a good run, though. Gotta tip my cap to the ladies again this year. Every year they're one of the top teams around. So at least they're bringing some pride to the school. Cause the men's team sure ain't. And football was sub-par this year.

Slootz (aka Beer)
Well, we may be uncorking the MoppleBach tonight. There is a tentative plan to do it tonight instead of wednesday, as someone's band practice got moved. This would should be quite interesting. Not only is it 7.5% (or higher), but it's maple flavored. So this could either be the next big thing in beer, or it could an experiment we'll never speak of again. Either way, we'll get drunk pretty quickly off of it.

Okay, back to work. It's already 3pm and I haven't done shit all afernoon.
PEACE!!

Gym and Painters

Guys at the Gime (gym)
Ahh, people never cease to amaze me. There's these 2 guys at the gym that I see kinda frequently now. Well, lots of people I see frequently, but these 2 are funny.
1 guy looks like something straits from a 70s work-out video. Probably about 50 years old, long hair pulled back in a pony tail, beard, black tank-top, old leather weight belt, baggy work-out pants, and the good ole converse Chuck Taylor's. It's like being in a time machine when he's there. And the only exercise I've ever seen him do is dead lifts. With like 315lbs. He's not a huge guy, either. So he just comes in, chats with a few people and does his dead lifts, slamming the bar down each rep. So you'll be working out and hear BAM. Sounds like someone really gave their all for 1 last rep and dropped it kinda hard. 5 seconds later...BAM. So now you're looking around for who the jerk is. BAM. Then you see him and laugh.
The other guy looks like an extra from a bad muscle-beach movie. Upperbody, jacked. Lowerbody, little chicken legs. Same bad pants as the other guy, though. They look like un-patterned Zubaz. And of course, that sleeveless, cut-off sweatshirt thing that was so popular with power lifters back in the 80s. Cause you gotta keep wearing that. Only seen him a couple times, but maybe he's just new.
Now I'm not saying my fasion and work-out habits are any better. But if mine are as bad as theirs, I really hope someone's getting a good laugh out of it.

Painters
Apparently our building needed to be re-painted for the 3rd time in the last year or so. Or maybe the VPs just like the smell of fresh paint while they're "working". I don't know, I don't care. The funny part is that we decided to hire the 2 oldest painters I've ever seen. Typically painters are college kids and other mid-age guys. Guys that handle all the bending, climbing, lifting, etc that goes with painting. Not these 2. It's almost funny to see them struggling to get up and down a ladder. Or having to bend down to paint the bottom of a wall, or fold up a drop cloth. Almost funny, but not quite.
But I just have to wonder about their choice of jobs. There has to be something else these guys could do to make a living right now. Stuff that doesn't require all this moving. You don't see 70 year old guys working on the expressways in the summer. Or working as garbage men. So why did they decide to be painters?

Random Crap
Well, the last mustached guy is out of the NCAA tourney. Gonzaga lost to LSU. I don't really care so much any more, as all the BigTen teams are out already. But that filthy mustache was enough to keep me semi-interested. Oh well. Easy grow, easy go.
I thought of a great idea to smite free-loaders at work. Get a Box of Joe from DD (dunkin donuts). Have them dump in a bunch of espresso, so it's now a Turbo Box of Joe. Then just set it out and label it 'free coffee'. Then all those jerks that just take free stuff cause it's there would pounce. Guys that don't typically drink coffee would be having 2 or 3 cups. Then they'd all start freaking out! Bouncing off the walls, seeing funny colors, shaking. It'd be a trip just to watch. And a good lesson for them, nothing is free.
I'm thinking about forming a Whiskey Club here in Boston. My deceased ex-roommate apparently had 1 in college, so it's not a completely new idea. But I can think of at least 2 more people off the top of my head that would probably be interested. So we could meet like once a month or so and try new shit. Each meeting 1 person would be tasked with bringing a new brand/style/variety/etc to try. Then we sample and learn. And do stupid stuff like watch bad movies. Just a way to try more whiskeys and hang out. It'd be the (name withheld to protect the dead) Memorial Whiskey Society. One of my better ideas, if I do say so myself.

Well, time to sign off and get some work done. And take a crap. Which would be #2 of the day, and it's only 9am! So I shall leave you with this:
IIIIIIIITTTTTTT'SSSS FFFFFFFRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDDAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!

Been a slow week

Well, it's been a slow week around here, hence the lack of posts. Let's see if I can pull my shit together today and make this interesting.
First off, our hockey team got SMOKED last night in game 1 of a best-of-3 playoffs. It's against the Ducks, a team that has manhandled everyone else this year. So it's not a surprise we lost, it's more a surprise at how poorly we played. We lost 9-2 and it was pretty close to that bad. The only positive I can take out of it is that my line was a +2 for the night. So we scored both goals and didn't give up any. But it's not a line game, it's a team game. So it doesn't matter.
We've got another game next Thursday, and hopefully 1 more after that to decide who goes to Toronto and who packs it up until the summer season starts in July.
But after this game, I think I now know how my ex-girlfriend from college felt during our relationship. After awhile, it had to be pretty obvious that my heart wasn't really into it. And no matter how hard she tried I still didn't really care about anything, yet still managed to keep getting laid. That was what last night was like. We were really working hard and busting our ass, yet they just kept getting all the chances and scoring on every one of them. Even when we decided we were going to buckle down and not let them score any more, something always happened and they did. Interesting...
SnowBoarding
Well, tomorrow I'm off to do some mid-week riding. Work is pretty slow, the season is rapidly ending, and I still have 2 passes to Loon that I bought earlier this year. So it's time to use them. I may end up going again this weekend, just to use the 2nd pass. We'll have to play that one by ear. Why is this important? It isn't. And no, you can't get the last 20 seconds of your life back.
Ebay
Turns out Ebay is a fantastic place. I've been able to sell a bunch of my old crap there, and make a pretty good pile of coin. My old Subaru stereo and key fob, an extra set of hair clippers I had from a 'mistake', a cell phone that my sister gave me cause she no longer liked it, etc. Not a bad rub all around. If I had more junk, I'd keep selling. But I appear to be pretty much all out of worthy junk to sell. Everything left is pretty much useless to anyone.
Man, this entry does suck. I just re-read everything. If I thought I could come up with something better tomorrow, I'd abort this like a 1-st trimester fetus. But I doubt tomorrow will be any different, so here we are...

Lunar Landing

Great stuff today at lunch. My buddy Keith has taken it upon himself to do what no other wacko has been able to do before. Disprove the lunar landing. He is currently calculating the thrust required to lift the lunar module off of the surface of the moon and get it into orbit. Weight of the lander, moon rocks, astronaunts vs the lunar gravity. I'm expecing he won't get anywhere with this, as he's not doing anything that previous wackos didn't already do. Oh well! He's gotta do something with all his free time here at work.
Well, our hockey team is officially in the play-offs! We beat the Stars last night 3-2, thus taking over 2nd place in the division. So it's a best-of-3 series with the #1 team, The Ducks. The team that pretty much destroyed everyone during the regular season. So it may end up being a rough couple games for us. But you never know. We thought we'd get killed in Toronto in 2003, and we took 2nd place. So funny things can happen in a play-off series. If we win, we're off to Toronto!
Baseball's spring training is well under way, and I have to say that I'm more than positive the Cubs are going to win it all this year. I mean, how can they not?! Sure, that's what we said about team USA in the WBC, but that's completely different. Pitching, hitting, defense, base-running, they have it all! We just need to stay healthy. Which involves replacing Kerry Wood's right arm with some type of robotic set-up, and giving Mark Prior a lucky charm of some kind. Rabbit's foot, horseshoe, clover, I don't care.
And speaking of baseball, our Framingham pick-up league should be getting underway pretty soon. Another month or so and we should be ready to rock. I can't wait. Nothing beats playing baseball in the spring/summer. And now that I have a pretty solid curveball and a decent fastball, I should be formitable when I'm on the mound instead of CF.
Okay, enough for today. I do actually have work to get done, so I'd better get going on that.
PEACE!