Looonnnnggg weekend

Ahhh, you gotta love these long weekends and short work-weeks. When you only have to work 3/7 days, that's not bad.
And I really had 2 weekends this time around. I was down in NYC for friday night-sunday, then sunday night-tuesday night of just laying around being lazy. No one around to bother me or nothing. So I was finally able to do some of the crap I've been putting off. Cleaned all my hockey gear, which was getting pretty nasty. Everything besides the should pads, shin guards, and pants went into the washer. Gloves and elbow pads included. Early indications are that most of the awful glove-stink is out of my gloves. But I'll find out for sure on sunday night when the summer season kicks off.
I also cleaned out most of the dust around/under my bed. There was a pretty heavy layer under there. Surprisingly thick layer as it turned out. But after changing the filter on the vacuum, it made quick work of it all. Got all of that and all of the dust that had built up on the shelving unit at the head of my bed. Not sure if all of this will make any differencein anything, but it can't hurt to be breathing cleaner air at night.
I know what you're thinking. I had the greatest 4th of July weekend in the history of this fine country. I can't help that my life is so glamorous. It's just part of being Chauncey.
New Addiction
I've developed another problem. The game "007, Agent Under Fire" for GameCube. I started playing it monday morning for something to do to kill some time and got quickly hooked. You start playing and suddenly hours are just gone. Plus, with the way the game is setup, your frame of reference gets all messed up. You can look up and down, spin, etc, so you get used to that. Always walking around looking for things. Made it a bit fun when I'd jump up out of the chair to go get a snack or something. And then for the rest of monday and tuesday I'd either be playing the game, or thinking about things I could have done better. "Hmmm....in that level if I would have jumped out of the ventilation duct and used the Golden Gun...." Shit like that. It's kinda sad, but whatever.
But this is exactly the reason I don't really want to get Warcraft for my PC. I loved that game in college. A little too much if you look at my grades in a couple semesters. And now that I have a kick-ass PC to play it on I have the urge again. But I know that it'll start sucking up my life just like in college. And now that I have a job, I have less free time for it to suck up. Soon I'd be staying up all night to play, then going to work exhausted from not sleeping enough. It's a slippery slope that I don't even want to start. But yet the urge remains....

Ooooh, I also cleaned the K&N air filter I bought for my car last summer. It really wasn't all that dirty, but it was one of the things I wanted to do. Turns out the entire process is really not that hard. Spray on the cleaner, let it sit for 10 minutes, rince it out real good with water, let it dry, then re-apply the oil and you're done. The drying was what took all the time. The rest is easy. I think after 2 more years I'm money ahead. And that's without any milage gains that I'm getting with it, so who knows. But even if it's just even-money at this point, still worth it.

Cubs: Now the Fun Begins
Well, it's about to be interesting for the Cubs. The GM, Jim Hendry, said that he'll be taking the long weekend to evaluate where the Cubs are at and what needs to be done. Dusty's job, the players we have, everything. I'm expecting Dusty gets canned first. He's just not doing a good job here these last 2 years. Yes, there has been a lot of injuries. But the players that remained just didn't play well. So it's not like he did the best he could with what he had. He had plenty to work with and just didn't get it done.
There should also be alot of great trades. Something like 1/2 of MLB is still in the race for play-off spots. So there should be plenty of teams looking to add a few pieces to get them over the hump. And we've got plenty of guys we'd like to dump. Plenty.
And the kids should start popping up any day now. Time to call them all up from AA and AAA and see who can play and who can't. Who needs more time, who just doesn't have the tools to make it. We have alot of guys that may be ready right now, and the rest are about to get some great experience. Nothing teaches you your weaknesses like a trip up to the big club. Then you really find out what you need to work on and what you do well.

Okay, I'm spent. I'm uber lazy today from the time off and being up til midnight waiting for people to stop lighting off large fireworks. But at least the weekend is only 2 day, 2 hours away. So I got that going for me. Which is nice.
PEACE!!