"Accept no one's definition of your life. Define yourself..." -@soniacoons- (via twitter)
"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough..." -@uresti_13- (via twitter)
"When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars..." -@omggvaleria- (via twitter)
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do..." -@itskaleb- (via twitter)
"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up..." -@stephhhworth- (via twitter)
Could you remind me that I was born way too soon? Good morning everyone. When I was talking to Gabby and Mo at the river on Saturday about the Cat Camp that was going on, they told me that they were staying in the dorms with the campers. This wasn't surprising, since they are getting rich working as counselors overseeing these incoming Bobcats (almost $1.00 an hour if you do the math)... ;) The "horrible" part is that Gallardia, which is the new dorm that they were staying in, has ONE BEDROOM dorm rooms! Since when does Texas State offer one bedroom rooms? I was born too early... :)
Could you draw a total blank? So yesterday I went back to the river to give my air conditioner a break from the heat of the day (which didn't turn out to be that bad actually). I was back at the ladder, and was getting a decent workout, as the current was pretty strong for some reason. A group of tubers approached me (and EVERY GROUP of tubers was being steered right into the ladder yesterday), and when they reached me, one of the girls asked, "do you remember me?" Almost every time that I don't instantly recognize the person who is asking this question, it's someone who knows me from the hallway going up to the Veranda. Before I responded, this girl added, "from the office..." I don't know why (so don't ask me), but my first..., my IMMEDIATE THOUGHT..., where my head went to..., was the T.V. SHOW, 'The Office' (because..., naturally..., THAT'S WHERE I'm going to know her from - YEAH... :) Of course Anice works in the office at my apartment complex (she isn't always there, some give me SOME slack)... Anyway, welcome to Bikini Hill Anice... :P
Could you stop giving Bobcats a bad name? As my alma mater keeps growing and gaining more notoriety, we're obviously going to attract more media attention. Texas State University enjoyed its first day as a member of the Sun Belt Conference yesterday, but there is one group of Bobcats who keeps tarnishing our fine name. Everytime that I hear ESPN or another sports network use the word 'Bobcats', it immediately gets my attention, but most of the time they are referring to the CHARLOTTE Bobcats, the group who went 21-61 during this past season in the NBA. I was having a discussion with one of my friends at Dad's going away party on Sunday, and he mentioned that his son lives in Charlotte. My immediate response was, "well at least they have good college basketball up there..." :)
Could you tell us more about the weather at the river yesterday Coach? So it was a pretty windy day at the river as it turns out, and just like I was helping out the tubers, I was also assisting the frisbee throwers. Frisbee Dan (knowing or not knowing who this is instantly tells us about your level of familiarity with San Marcos, America) threw his frisbee over the river and onto the cement yesterday when trying to get it to somebody in the river. I was walking back over to Bikini Hill and I picked the frisbee up. I was about to give it to the guys in the river to throw back to him, but they weren't sure if they could do it. Of course Frisbee Dan is waiting for his frisbee, and at this point I told him, "I don't know if I can get it over there - it's pretty windy..." One of the guys in the river was starting to say something to me (because as you know, I'm a hundred years old), so I wound up and RIPPED A THROW OFF, which despite battling the gusty winds, still sailed about FIFTEEN YARDS PAST Frisbee Dan... As I started to resume walking to Bikini Hill, one of the guys in the river mumbles in SHEER AMAZEMENT..., "that was pretty good..." ;)
Could you PLEASE let me go back to sleep? On Saturday night (the eve of my Dad's going away party) I fell asleep at about 11:00 p.m., hoping to get as much sleep as possible, because I knew that I was going to be in San Antonio all day. For no reason, I woke up at about 5:00 a.m., and I just COULD NOT go back to sleep. At this point, I turned on my computer, my t.v., and my phone. When my phone came back to life, I realized that a voicemail message was waiting for me. My friend Scott had called to say that a bunch of guys from work were going to play a little poker, and that I was welcome to come by. I knew that there was a high likelihood that my friends didn't get out of work before 4:00 a.m., so I was sure that everyone was still having fun. I had to wrestle with the decision of whether or not to go and join my friends for about half a second before I started getting dressed... When I arrived, I got a lot of "NOW you show up Coach..." My friend Sean (the one who is a better poker player than me) had just been knocked out of the small tournament that was going on when his hand was rundown by my friend Sam (the one who was a bad influence on me at the 5th Annual Lone Star Music Awards), who sucked out on Sean by hitting a flush with his MONSTER 9 5 suited... As I sat at the table to watch, Sean or my friend Adam proposed that we split Adam's big stack of chips (he was the chip leader at this point), giving me half of them, and then letting me split the profits if I cashed. I didn't propose this, or think that anyone would go for it, but no one had a problem with it, so it was done, and I was playing poker... Not even a full orbit into this six-handed game, the following hand occurred...
>>>>> I was the big blind (2 and 4 blinds) when I looked down at A 6 offsuit. No one raised, and I checked - I believe that 4 of us went to the flop. The flop came 6 6 4, with 2 hearts, and I had about 135 in chips. I wanted to keep people in the hand, so I checked and just called the twenty-something bet by another player. Three of us went to the turn, where the queen of spades hit the board, putting a second flush draw out there. At this point, I decided to shove my remaining 113 chips into the 80ish chip pot. Sam thought for a few seconds, and decided to go all-in over the top of me, for about 130. Sam (who you remember sucked out on Sean right before I arrived) immediately told me, "I'm looking for one card Coach..." Then my friend Justin (okay, they're all my friends) TANKED..., SO MUCH SO that Stew called clock on him... Justin FINALLY folded (I really wasn't sure that I wanted a call if it was by a second flush draw, ESPECIALLY if that would put me up against BOTH the heart draw AND the spade draw)... After Justin's fold, I flipped over my A 6, and then Sam showed his hand, which was naturally..., THREE TWO offsuit... YEAH..., Sam needed for Stew to turn and burn, and then to put a five out on the river to win the hand... If you've been following the ups and downs of my life over the past 21 months since I started writing this blog, you already KNOW that a 5 (1 of only 4 5's in the deck..., and 1 of only 4 cards that could beat me) DID SHOW UP on the river... :) I mean, ALL YOU CAN DO is smile... At least I got to say happy birthday to Dillon... :P
I hope that all of you have a great day, and I'll see you again on Thursday!
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
Lifesaver
"Just believe in all who shine, the light to help you see, cause if I believe in you, will you believe in me?" -Blue October- (Kangaroo Cry)
"Hey, don't give him beer. If dogs were supposed to drink beer, they'd make "dog beer..." -Liz- (a new friend that I met on Saturday, speaking to another one of her friends at the pool)
"And there's no simple way to let you go, you've been such a part of me, and though you choose to walk a separate road, I still believe in you..." -Giuffria- (Call To Your Heart)
"I have so much to offer... Ha ha, kidding. I've got nothing..." -@Nicholey23- (via twitter)
"I really feel..., that I'm losing, my best friend, I can't believe, this could be, the end..., it looks as though..., you're, letting go..., and if it's real well I don't want to know..." -No Doubt- (Don't Speak)
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to July. There's a lot going on here for a Monday, and I apologize for the late post. I was about to start this entry when I searched Google for an older post that I had made, and I discovered that someone has been STRAIGHT STEALING several of my blog entries. I have reported this to Google, but I'm guessing that if you visit http://telekgoreng.blogspot.com/, you will still find the guilty blog with several of MY posts... Unbelievable... Anyway, let's get to it, because I have A LOT going on, and I want to give you a post today. Let's get the fantasy baseball out of the way right off the bat, because it's the hardest to format (with the columns), and there's a very interesting anomaly that is taking place this week with one of my teams... Here are the most recent standings for my leagues:
League 1 (25 entry fee - 1st place/125, 2nd place/25)
1) DraftDodgers 72.50 (leads the 4 players with over 60 pts.)
2) Neshanic 69.00 (has been up here all season long)
3) Buschleaguers 62.50 (clinging to 3rd place)
8) The View From Bikini Hill 42.00 (now "only" six players on the DL - look out)
League 2 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50)
1) Breaking Bats 83.00 (should be Breaking 'Bad' and be w/Mad Men)
2) 4troublemakers 69.50 (solid hold on second)
3) Loons XXIV 59.00 (leading the logjam)
5) The Bikini Hill Bobcats 52.00 (solid, but not spectacular)
League 3 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50
1) Pittsburg Crawfords 71.50 (brace yourself, we're coming)
2) jonnylove7 66.00 (in the dogfight)
3) Nappy Heads 62.50 (slipping a little)
5) The Bikini Hill Nine 58.00 (this could be the team)
Okay, so the anomaly is with The Bikini Hill Nine. Both of my other teams have 4 pitchers who are making 2 starts this week (which is a lot by normal standards this season), but the 'Nine' has EIGHT pitchers who are making 2 starts this week (Arroyo, Kershaw, Corbin, Strasburg, Lynn, Medlan, Lincecum, and Weaver if you want to track them). We are looking for a few earned runs, few walks and hits allowed, wins, and strikeouts from this group who will combine for SIXTEEN starts in the next week...
Okay, so you know that I've been losing weight and flipping my sleep schedule. I did almost 3,500 situps in the month of June from when I began on the 11th. I have also been using the river to help me lose weight this week due to a discovery that I made. Having moved into my apartment complex in September of last year, I obviously wasn't in it during the summer. I have learned that when the temperature hits about 100 degrees, my air conditioning doesn't do very well fighting the heat from 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. My answer to this last week was walking to Bikini Hill and hanging out in the river a lot. In addition to the quote and the story that Victoria and Trinity gave us on Friday, I have seen and heard a lot of other interesting things at the river. I have been hanging out in the river on the ladder where the current takes the swimmers (and tubers) because it's in the shade (due to trees), it's obviously cool (being in the water), and hanging onto the ladder in the current actually burns more calories than doing nothing... :) Okay, let's start with Lola, for example, who was in a group of three girls heading toward me. She stated, "I should be a professional doggy-paddler..." If there was a market for that, I think that I could make a lot of money doing it too Lola... ;) A girl in another group swallowed a little bit of water and stated that she hoped that she didn't get "swine flu..." This had me laughing when her group reached the ladder, noticeably enough that she said, "he's laughing at us..." I reiterated her comment, and added, "sure, because of all of the pigs swimming in the river..." ;) And yes, they liked that...
Now we're going to segue into the river meeting with the Chi-O's, so that I can update you on all of their lives (really, the only reason that you read the blog)... :) So it's mid-afternoon on Saturday, when seemingly ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE show up, out of NOWHERE... Okay, that number was closer to 200 people, and they arrived via the sidewalk, but that's not important... What IS IMPORTANT is that I was pretty sure that these people were future Bobcats ("Cat Campers - incoming students in the Fall of 2013), and I also thought, "anytime that you see a ton of people, Gabby must be around, because she's so popular..." Knowing that Gabby was going to be a 'Cat Camp' counselor had nothing to do with me reaching this conclusion... ;) Like I said, there were so many people that it would have been next to impossible (and would have required me getting OUT OF the river) to find her, but sure enough, after about twenty minutes, I heard a "Hey Coach!" as Gabby floated toward me... Gabby let me know that Mo was also a counselor, and that she was around "somewhere..." This is the same Mo who gave me the Haribo Gummy Bears as a going-away present when I left Harper's, so I don't need any excuse to mention her in the blog, but I got another great reason to on Saturday. As Mo was floating BY ME, I heard a "Hey Coach!" At this point, I motioned for Mo to swim over to me (she was about ten yards from me). As she began to approach me, I saw her eyes WIDEN as she looked about five yards to my left. I saw this same look from my friend and former student Kari about 100 years ago when I had my back to the swimming pool that I was managing, talking to her while she was up on the lifeguard stand. Sure enough, as I turned my head to my right, and Mo asked a distressed girl, "are you okay?," the girl who was waving her arms (in the "classic" drowning style) shook her head "no..." Mo, swimming with the current toward her already, got to her almost instantly, and I left the ladder to assist. As the three of us were being carried by the current toward another ladder about twenty-five yards away, Mo already had the girl by her left arm, and I didn't want to scare her more by suddenly grabbing her, so I just said, "relax, we've got you" when I reached her, at which point Mo turned toward me and nodded, now realizing that I was there also. By the way, Mo is a lifeguard, so this was pretty fortunate for the girl, to be seen before she went under, and by a lifeguard at that... :) I'd like to think that she wouldn't have drown since I was there, but Mo did see her first... :) :) :) Of course this story has a happy ending, and as soon as we reached the ladder, that's when I GRABBED the girl's right bicep and made sure that she made it up the ladder okay. Good eye Maureen! :) #lifesaver
This segues to some of my other Chi-O friends because I saw Mo's good friend Amy a few nights earlier. This is the same Amy that brought me the pretzel pieces as a going-away present when I left Harper's. SEE?! You try to lose weight, and these girls just bring you food??? :) KIDDING!!! I don't want to tell you what Amy and I were discussing, but I just want to say that she made me smile when she said, "It SUUUUUUCKS..." Just the way that this innocent looking little girl :) said that word for about TEN SECONDS made me smile... Speaking of other punks, I saw Verissimo and Chelsea later that same evening. This would be the Verissimo of the group of people that is being ABANDONED here at Texas State, while Chelsea would be part of group of Chelsea and Castelluccio that is..., wait for it..., ALSO MOVING TO AUSTIN!!! :) I will probably run into Chelsea and Castelluccio more in San Marcos than in Austin, but we're here to congratulate Chelsea on getting her first "real world" job. There seems to be a lot of that going on in the blog lately, and let's hope that continues to be the case... :) #jobforcastelluccio #jobforcoach At this point I also need to say hello to the "golf girls" that I ran into at Harper's, although I was stupid enough not to ask for their names (if you have twitter, PLEASE send me a tweet ladies (@coachatx) - I've known you for too long not to know your names anyway)... #myfault
Going up to the quotes and the lyrics at the top of the page, you already know how I like to make predictions. Although I'm sure that I've already told you that Blue October is my favorite band, I don't know if I told you that when I taught and coached here in San Marcos, I predicted (to my students) that they would make it big. Back at that time, I could watch them perform for $8.00 presale ($10.00 at the door) at a spot on the Square that was called Gordo's (which is now the Texas Music Theater). I am by NO MEANS an expert on happenings in the music industry, but they were my favorite band, and I just knew that they were really good... ;) During the first week of school when you get the kids to tell you something about themselves (I had them fill out 'information sheets' for me, and then I answered the same questions for them), I was like, "and they'll hit it big in about a year and a half (this was in 2002, and I wasn't far off)... ;) As for the first quote up top, EVEN AS I SPOKE TO LIZ about putting it in the blog, I KNEW that a "dog beer" had to exist, and our friend and fellow blogger --S (with the Las Vegas Poker Dealer AND Maui blog links to the right - don't get me started) informed me moments after I tweeted that quote about... "Bowser Beer..." This is the guy whose fault it is that I have a blog in the first place..., so place all of the blame on him, and follow his new Maui blog, and his twitter account @LahainaHaole ...
In closing today, I wanted to let you know that sometime in the near future there will be a blog post about my Dad, who this week is working his last shifts at a bar that he has worked at since 1979, and managed since 1985. He will actually be leaving the state after working there for 34 years, which is going to affect a lot of people since he is one of the best people that you're ever going to meet. The bar was packed last night for his going away party, but there was SO MUCH FOOD there that I brought home leftovers that, with my current dieting, will probably feed me FOR A WEEK (no exaggeration at all)...
I hope that all of you have an outstanding first day of July, I want to say thank you for your patience in waiting for today's post, and I'll see you again tomorrow... ;)
"Hey, don't give him beer. If dogs were supposed to drink beer, they'd make "dog beer..." -Liz- (a new friend that I met on Saturday, speaking to another one of her friends at the pool)
"And there's no simple way to let you go, you've been such a part of me, and though you choose to walk a separate road, I still believe in you..." -Giuffria- (Call To Your Heart)
"I have so much to offer... Ha ha, kidding. I've got nothing..." -@Nicholey23- (via twitter)
"I really feel..., that I'm losing, my best friend, I can't believe, this could be, the end..., it looks as though..., you're, letting go..., and if it's real well I don't want to know..." -No Doubt- (Don't Speak)
Good afternoon everyone and welcome to July. There's a lot going on here for a Monday, and I apologize for the late post. I was about to start this entry when I searched Google for an older post that I had made, and I discovered that someone has been STRAIGHT STEALING several of my blog entries. I have reported this to Google, but I'm guessing that if you visit http://telekgoreng.blogspot.com/, you will still find the guilty blog with several of MY posts... Unbelievable... Anyway, let's get to it, because I have A LOT going on, and I want to give you a post today. Let's get the fantasy baseball out of the way right off the bat, because it's the hardest to format (with the columns), and there's a very interesting anomaly that is taking place this week with one of my teams... Here are the most recent standings for my leagues:
League 1 (25 entry fee - 1st place/125, 2nd place/25)
1) DraftDodgers 72.50 (leads the 4 players with over 60 pts.)
2) Neshanic 69.00 (has been up here all season long)
3) Buschleaguers 62.50 (clinging to 3rd place)
8) The View From Bikini Hill 42.00 (now "only" six players on the DL - look out)
League 2 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50)
1) Breaking Bats 83.00 (should be Breaking 'Bad' and be w/Mad Men)
2) 4troublemakers 69.50 (solid hold on second)
3) Loons XXIV 59.00 (leading the logjam)
5) The Bikini Hill Bobcats 52.00 (solid, but not spectacular)
League 3 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50
1) Pittsburg Crawfords 71.50 (brace yourself, we're coming)
2) jonnylove7 66.00 (in the dogfight)
3) Nappy Heads 62.50 (slipping a little)
5) The Bikini Hill Nine 58.00 (this could be the team)
Okay, so the anomaly is with The Bikini Hill Nine. Both of my other teams have 4 pitchers who are making 2 starts this week (which is a lot by normal standards this season), but the 'Nine' has EIGHT pitchers who are making 2 starts this week (Arroyo, Kershaw, Corbin, Strasburg, Lynn, Medlan, Lincecum, and Weaver if you want to track them). We are looking for a few earned runs, few walks and hits allowed, wins, and strikeouts from this group who will combine for SIXTEEN starts in the next week...
Okay, so you know that I've been losing weight and flipping my sleep schedule. I did almost 3,500 situps in the month of June from when I began on the 11th. I have also been using the river to help me lose weight this week due to a discovery that I made. Having moved into my apartment complex in September of last year, I obviously wasn't in it during the summer. I have learned that when the temperature hits about 100 degrees, my air conditioning doesn't do very well fighting the heat from 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. My answer to this last week was walking to Bikini Hill and hanging out in the river a lot. In addition to the quote and the story that Victoria and Trinity gave us on Friday, I have seen and heard a lot of other interesting things at the river. I have been hanging out in the river on the ladder where the current takes the swimmers (and tubers) because it's in the shade (due to trees), it's obviously cool (being in the water), and hanging onto the ladder in the current actually burns more calories than doing nothing... :) Okay, let's start with Lola, for example, who was in a group of three girls heading toward me. She stated, "I should be a professional doggy-paddler..." If there was a market for that, I think that I could make a lot of money doing it too Lola... ;) A girl in another group swallowed a little bit of water and stated that she hoped that she didn't get "swine flu..." This had me laughing when her group reached the ladder, noticeably enough that she said, "he's laughing at us..." I reiterated her comment, and added, "sure, because of all of the pigs swimming in the river..." ;) And yes, they liked that...
Now we're going to segue into the river meeting with the Chi-O's, so that I can update you on all of their lives (really, the only reason that you read the blog)... :) So it's mid-afternoon on Saturday, when seemingly ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE show up, out of NOWHERE... Okay, that number was closer to 200 people, and they arrived via the sidewalk, but that's not important... What IS IMPORTANT is that I was pretty sure that these people were future Bobcats ("Cat Campers - incoming students in the Fall of 2013), and I also thought, "anytime that you see a ton of people, Gabby must be around, because she's so popular..." Knowing that Gabby was going to be a 'Cat Camp' counselor had nothing to do with me reaching this conclusion... ;) Like I said, there were so many people that it would have been next to impossible (and would have required me getting OUT OF the river) to find her, but sure enough, after about twenty minutes, I heard a "Hey Coach!" as Gabby floated toward me... Gabby let me know that Mo was also a counselor, and that she was around "somewhere..." This is the same Mo who gave me the Haribo Gummy Bears as a going-away present when I left Harper's, so I don't need any excuse to mention her in the blog, but I got another great reason to on Saturday. As Mo was floating BY ME, I heard a "Hey Coach!" At this point, I motioned for Mo to swim over to me (she was about ten yards from me). As she began to approach me, I saw her eyes WIDEN as she looked about five yards to my left. I saw this same look from my friend and former student Kari about 100 years ago when I had my back to the swimming pool that I was managing, talking to her while she was up on the lifeguard stand. Sure enough, as I turned my head to my right, and Mo asked a distressed girl, "are you okay?," the girl who was waving her arms (in the "classic" drowning style) shook her head "no..." Mo, swimming with the current toward her already, got to her almost instantly, and I left the ladder to assist. As the three of us were being carried by the current toward another ladder about twenty-five yards away, Mo already had the girl by her left arm, and I didn't want to scare her more by suddenly grabbing her, so I just said, "relax, we've got you" when I reached her, at which point Mo turned toward me and nodded, now realizing that I was there also. By the way, Mo is a lifeguard, so this was pretty fortunate for the girl, to be seen before she went under, and by a lifeguard at that... :) I'd like to think that she wouldn't have drown since I was there, but Mo did see her first... :) :) :) Of course this story has a happy ending, and as soon as we reached the ladder, that's when I GRABBED the girl's right bicep and made sure that she made it up the ladder okay. Good eye Maureen! :) #lifesaver
This segues to some of my other Chi-O friends because I saw Mo's good friend Amy a few nights earlier. This is the same Amy that brought me the pretzel pieces as a going-away present when I left Harper's. SEE?! You try to lose weight, and these girls just bring you food??? :) KIDDING!!! I don't want to tell you what Amy and I were discussing, but I just want to say that she made me smile when she said, "It SUUUUUUCKS..." Just the way that this innocent looking little girl :) said that word for about TEN SECONDS made me smile... Speaking of other punks, I saw Verissimo and Chelsea later that same evening. This would be the Verissimo of the group of people that is being ABANDONED here at Texas State, while Chelsea would be part of group of Chelsea and Castelluccio that is..., wait for it..., ALSO MOVING TO AUSTIN!!! :) I will probably run into Chelsea and Castelluccio more in San Marcos than in Austin, but we're here to congratulate Chelsea on getting her first "real world" job. There seems to be a lot of that going on in the blog lately, and let's hope that continues to be the case... :) #jobforcastelluccio #jobforcoach At this point I also need to say hello to the "golf girls" that I ran into at Harper's, although I was stupid enough not to ask for their names (if you have twitter, PLEASE send me a tweet ladies (@coachatx) - I've known you for too long not to know your names anyway)... #myfault
Going up to the quotes and the lyrics at the top of the page, you already know how I like to make predictions. Although I'm sure that I've already told you that Blue October is my favorite band, I don't know if I told you that when I taught and coached here in San Marcos, I predicted (to my students) that they would make it big. Back at that time, I could watch them perform for $8.00 presale ($10.00 at the door) at a spot on the Square that was called Gordo's (which is now the Texas Music Theater). I am by NO MEANS an expert on happenings in the music industry, but they were my favorite band, and I just knew that they were really good... ;) During the first week of school when you get the kids to tell you something about themselves (I had them fill out 'information sheets' for me, and then I answered the same questions for them), I was like, "and they'll hit it big in about a year and a half (this was in 2002, and I wasn't far off)... ;) As for the first quote up top, EVEN AS I SPOKE TO LIZ about putting it in the blog, I KNEW that a "dog beer" had to exist, and our friend and fellow blogger --S (with the Las Vegas Poker Dealer AND Maui blog links to the right - don't get me started) informed me moments after I tweeted that quote about... "Bowser Beer..." This is the guy whose fault it is that I have a blog in the first place..., so place all of the blame on him, and follow his new Maui blog, and his twitter account @LahainaHaole ...
In closing today, I wanted to let you know that sometime in the near future there will be a blog post about my Dad, who this week is working his last shifts at a bar that he has worked at since 1979, and managed since 1985. He will actually be leaving the state after working there for 34 years, which is going to affect a lot of people since he is one of the best people that you're ever going to meet. The bar was packed last night for his going away party, but there was SO MUCH FOOD there that I brought home leftovers that, with my current dieting, will probably feed me FOR A WEEK (no exaggeration at all)...
I hope that all of you have an outstanding first day of July, I want to say thank you for your patience in waiting for today's post, and I'll see you again tomorrow... ;)
Friday, June 28, 2013
Sisters
"I'll march this road, I'll climb this hill, upon my knees, if I have to..., I'll take my place, upon this stage, I'll wait til the end of time, for you like everybody else..." -Tim Capello- (I Still Believe)
"Did you think I could hate you?..., or raise my hands to you?..., now come on, you know me too well..., how could I hurt you, when darling I love you, and you know..., I'd never hurt you..."
-Billy Vera and the Beaters- (At This Moment)
"Oh please, we all know I'm the friend you call when you have no other options. If we were the Justice League, I'd be Aquaman..." -Raj- (The Big Bang Theory)
"Where did I go wrong?..., I lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness, and I would have stayed up, with you all night, had I known, how to save a life..." -The Fray- (How To Save A Life)
"No, I don't believe, you went to bed at 10:15..., Victoria..., you're tearing me up, you said you'd call I waited up..." -Eve6- (Victoria)
Good morning everyone. First I've got something sad to report to you, and then we'll get to what I did yesterday afternoon, and to the sisters who are the stars of today's blog... As I was surfing the net yesterday, I learned that the poker room at the Riviera closed earlier this week. For those of you who may not know this, I dealt poker at the Riviera from July 2005 through April of 2007. Working at the Riv was my second job after arriving in Las Vegas, which followed being employed as a chip runner at the 2005 World Series of Poker. My plan for today was to write about some of my memories from working at the Riv, but I know that I've done this before (probably several times), so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to direct you to the "in blog search." Over on the right, you can use the search window to look for any person or topic that I've written about in this blog. I'm hoping that more people will see this, since this post will be the landing page for visitors over the whole weekend. Who knows..., maybe I'll just start pointing it out in my entries every Friday... ;)
Now for today's feature... After walking around San Marcos for two hours in the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday as a part of my ongoing effort to lose weight (the second day in a row that I did this), I decided that I would go in a different direction yesterday. In related news, the high temperature here today is forecast to be 102 degrees, followed by 104 DEGREES tomorrow... :O While I've been doing laps around Bikini Hill in my efforts to lose weight, I've been getting pretty jealous of the people that I've seen who have actually been IN THE RIVER, so yesterday I decided to join them...
So yesterday I get into the river, and this is for the very first time all year. Now the water is low right now, but you can still get in the river and let the current take you for about a 3 to 5 minute ride, which brings you to ladders about 100 yards from where you started. Okay, so I'm floating on my back, just beginning this short trip, having JUST GOTTEN INTO THE WATER, when from above me to my left, I see this girl FLY INTO THE AIR, landing in the water about ten yards in front of me. Now my first thought was that this girl could have KILLED ME - we're not talking about a girl who is 5 foot nothing and 80 pounds here, but about a relatively tall and athletic girl (and I'm just kidding Victoria - I am very elusive for a man who is a hundred years old, and I was never in fear of being killed)... ;)
>>>>> Now before we continue, we have to take a short break here so that I can give you some background - after everything that I am about to describe to you occurred, I introduced myself to these young ladies (Victoria and Trinity), and asked them if I could use this story in the blog today. They gave me their permission, and even gave me their last name (which I wouldn't use here since I had just met them, but which came in handy..., well, sort of, when I was trying to figure out which one is which)... :) You see, after I spoke to the girls and returned to Bikini Hill and my memo pad, I remembered their names, but just not which girl was which... OOPS... :( However, it was very easy to find them on facebook, due to knowing their last name and the fact that we have a couple of friends in common. So I find them on facebook, and I STILL CAN'T definitively tell the two apart. At this point I messaged one of our mutual friends, Taylor, who was just recently in the blog with a quote that she passed along. Taylor helped me A LOT in telling the girls apart when she responded, "they're twins!" OKAY..., thanks Taylor... :P Actually, Taylor did confirm that they are athletes, when she told me, "I love them. Playing soccer with them was a blast!" My point is this: For the purpose of this story, we are going to assume that Victoria was the first soccer star that jumped into the river, and that Trinity was the second. If I had to bet on it, this is the way that I'd bet, although I could be completely wrong... If you don't trust me, or if it makes you happier, then you can imagine that Trinity was the name of the first jumper, and that Victoria followed her... :) <<<<<
Okay, so I was almost killed (just kidding Victoria), and I started thinking about how the river is low, which makes it even harder to see if someone is floating beneath you before you jump in. However, these sisters strike me as being pretty sharp, and knowing that our mutual friends are Taylor and Konnor, I'm thinking that they probably did look down into the river before they jumped. So I'm lost in thought, thinking that I have to be aware of people possibly landing on top of me, when you guessed it..., Trinity comes FLYING OVER THE EDGE, landing in the same vicinity as her sister Victoria, about ten yards ahead of me. So now a few seconds go by, and I'm floating along, paying attention to the cement walkway on the upper left, and to what is happening ahead of me in the river, when Trinity emerges from the water, and I hear Victoria ask..., "REALLY?!..., I don't want to jump in..., so I'm going to jump in..., RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU?!!!" :) I could not stop myself from letting out an audible "PFFFFTTTT!!," but they either didn't hear me or didn't acknowledge it... I actually assumed that the girls were sisters not long after this, because that comment was the END OF IT - they didn't argue or fight afterward, they floated the river, they hung out together, etc... The thing that I didn't realize at the time, maybe because they had different swimsuits..., or maybe because their hair looked different (I don't know Taylor???), was how much they LOOK ALIKE... :) TWINS..., GOTCHA... :P
I hope that you have a great weekend, and thank you for stopping by to read the entry that is going to put this blog over 40,000 total pageviews! I'll see ya on Monday... :)
"Did you think I could hate you?..., or raise my hands to you?..., now come on, you know me too well..., how could I hurt you, when darling I love you, and you know..., I'd never hurt you..."
-Billy Vera and the Beaters- (At This Moment)
"Oh please, we all know I'm the friend you call when you have no other options. If we were the Justice League, I'd be Aquaman..." -Raj- (The Big Bang Theory)
"Where did I go wrong?..., I lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness, and I would have stayed up, with you all night, had I known, how to save a life..." -The Fray- (How To Save A Life)
"No, I don't believe, you went to bed at 10:15..., Victoria..., you're tearing me up, you said you'd call I waited up..." -Eve6- (Victoria)
Good morning everyone. First I've got something sad to report to you, and then we'll get to what I did yesterday afternoon, and to the sisters who are the stars of today's blog... As I was surfing the net yesterday, I learned that the poker room at the Riviera closed earlier this week. For those of you who may not know this, I dealt poker at the Riviera from July 2005 through April of 2007. Working at the Riv was my second job after arriving in Las Vegas, which followed being employed as a chip runner at the 2005 World Series of Poker. My plan for today was to write about some of my memories from working at the Riv, but I know that I've done this before (probably several times), so I thought that this would be a good opportunity to direct you to the "in blog search." Over on the right, you can use the search window to look for any person or topic that I've written about in this blog. I'm hoping that more people will see this, since this post will be the landing page for visitors over the whole weekend. Who knows..., maybe I'll just start pointing it out in my entries every Friday... ;)
Now for today's feature... After walking around San Marcos for two hours in the middle of the afternoon on Wednesday as a part of my ongoing effort to lose weight (the second day in a row that I did this), I decided that I would go in a different direction yesterday. In related news, the high temperature here today is forecast to be 102 degrees, followed by 104 DEGREES tomorrow... :O While I've been doing laps around Bikini Hill in my efforts to lose weight, I've been getting pretty jealous of the people that I've seen who have actually been IN THE RIVER, so yesterday I decided to join them...
So yesterday I get into the river, and this is for the very first time all year. Now the water is low right now, but you can still get in the river and let the current take you for about a 3 to 5 minute ride, which brings you to ladders about 100 yards from where you started. Okay, so I'm floating on my back, just beginning this short trip, having JUST GOTTEN INTO THE WATER, when from above me to my left, I see this girl FLY INTO THE AIR, landing in the water about ten yards in front of me. Now my first thought was that this girl could have KILLED ME - we're not talking about a girl who is 5 foot nothing and 80 pounds here, but about a relatively tall and athletic girl (and I'm just kidding Victoria - I am very elusive for a man who is a hundred years old, and I was never in fear of being killed)... ;)
>>>>> Now before we continue, we have to take a short break here so that I can give you some background - after everything that I am about to describe to you occurred, I introduced myself to these young ladies (Victoria and Trinity), and asked them if I could use this story in the blog today. They gave me their permission, and even gave me their last name (which I wouldn't use here since I had just met them, but which came in handy..., well, sort of, when I was trying to figure out which one is which)... :) You see, after I spoke to the girls and returned to Bikini Hill and my memo pad, I remembered their names, but just not which girl was which... OOPS... :( However, it was very easy to find them on facebook, due to knowing their last name and the fact that we have a couple of friends in common. So I find them on facebook, and I STILL CAN'T definitively tell the two apart. At this point I messaged one of our mutual friends, Taylor, who was just recently in the blog with a quote that she passed along. Taylor helped me A LOT in telling the girls apart when she responded, "they're twins!" OKAY..., thanks Taylor... :P Actually, Taylor did confirm that they are athletes, when she told me, "I love them. Playing soccer with them was a blast!" My point is this: For the purpose of this story, we are going to assume that Victoria was the first soccer star that jumped into the river, and that Trinity was the second. If I had to bet on it, this is the way that I'd bet, although I could be completely wrong... If you don't trust me, or if it makes you happier, then you can imagine that Trinity was the name of the first jumper, and that Victoria followed her... :) <<<<<
Okay, so I was almost killed (just kidding Victoria), and I started thinking about how the river is low, which makes it even harder to see if someone is floating beneath you before you jump in. However, these sisters strike me as being pretty sharp, and knowing that our mutual friends are Taylor and Konnor, I'm thinking that they probably did look down into the river before they jumped. So I'm lost in thought, thinking that I have to be aware of people possibly landing on top of me, when you guessed it..., Trinity comes FLYING OVER THE EDGE, landing in the same vicinity as her sister Victoria, about ten yards ahead of me. So now a few seconds go by, and I'm floating along, paying attention to the cement walkway on the upper left, and to what is happening ahead of me in the river, when Trinity emerges from the water, and I hear Victoria ask..., "REALLY?!..., I don't want to jump in..., so I'm going to jump in..., RIGHT ON TOP OF YOU?!!!" :) I could not stop myself from letting out an audible "PFFFFTTTT!!," but they either didn't hear me or didn't acknowledge it... I actually assumed that the girls were sisters not long after this, because that comment was the END OF IT - they didn't argue or fight afterward, they floated the river, they hung out together, etc... The thing that I didn't realize at the time, maybe because they had different swimsuits..., or maybe because their hair looked different (I don't know Taylor???), was how much they LOOK ALIKE... :) TWINS..., GOTCHA... :P
I hope that you have a great weekend, and thank you for stopping by to read the entry that is going to put this blog over 40,000 total pageviews! I'll see ya on Monday... :)
Thursday, June 27, 2013
I Remember The First Time (23)
"It's not like you, to say sorry, I'm always waiting on a different story, this time I'm, mistaken, for handing you a heart worth breaking..." -Nickelback- (How You Remind Me)
"There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don't know how..., because maybe..., you're gonna be the one that saves me..." -Oasis- (Wonderwall)
"I'm gonna make a change, for once in my life..., it's gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference, gonna make it right..." -Michael Jackson- (Man In The Mirror)
"I can't really help it if my tongue's all tied in knots, jumping off a bridge it's just the farthest that I've ever been and..., anywhere you go..., I'll follow you down..." -Gin Blossoms- (Follow You Down)
"What is this attraction?, I only feel the pain, there's nothing left to reason, and only you to blame, will it ever..., change...?" -Duncan Sheik- (Barely Breathing)
I remember the first time that I experienced a case of mistaken identity..., OVER AND OVER AND OVER again... Good morning everyone. I guess that this is just a by-product of being a hundred years old, but EVERY TIME that I heard the name Duncan Keith of the Blackhawks announced during the NHL playoffs, I kept thinking back to Duncan SHEIK, who sang the lyrics that I typed immediately above. The thing was, I couldn't remember Duncan Sheik's last name, so I'd be sitting there trying to remember..., "what WAS the name of the guy who sang..., that song...???"
I remember the first time that I made a blog post early in the morning again... I'll probably be publishing this entry at right around 9:00 a.m. CST, which is quite a bit earlier than anything that I've posted for a while... This is a result of sleeping last night from... (get ready for it), 9:30 p.m.-5:30 a.m... I KNOW..., RIGHT?! My sleeping has successfully been flipped!!! #nolongeravampire
I remember the first time that I meant to remind you about something... This is a segue back to the song lyrics at the very top up above (I'm getting REALLY GOOD at making segues, by the way)... :) Anyway, over on the right, the search window is part of an IN BLOG search feature. If you've ever been in the blog before, and you want to find the entry (or entries) that you were in, or if there's a certain topic that's been in the blog that you want to read about, just type it into the search...
I remember the first time that I had a great idea... Okay, walking for two hours again yesterday probably WAS NOT a great idea... For some reason it seemed even hotter yesterday, but I survived the walk (which was probably at least six miles). For those of you familiar with San Marcos, this involved going down North LBJ, down Sessom, several laps around Sewell Park, down University Drive, then over to the Square, down to Zelick's, and then backtracking the same path until I arrived back at the top of North LBJ... PHEW!!! When I returned home, I saw that some people were out at the swimming pool. If you've been following my blog for more than a minute, you know that I moved into this complex back in September, on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend to be specific... Anyway, I had never been in the pool before..., well..., not until yesterday anyway... :) AHHHHHH!!!
I remember the first time that I told somebody that their cat was in my blog... After I changed clothes yesterday to jump into the swimming pool, I ran into my neighbors from across the way. These are the neighbors who are Freia's owners... The conversation went something like..., "Hi..., I didn't think that this was something that was urgent enough to bother you about..., but a while back I put Freia in my blog (when I looked back after swimming yesterday, I realized that the first time that Freia made the blog was in an entry that I titled after her back on FEBRUARY 20TH!...), ...it's 'Bikini Hill, 6th, & The Strip,' and there's a search window... blah, blah, blah..." :) These neighbors (who I don't know by name) were receptive to this (THANKFULLY) and responded, "cool, Freia's got her own blog!..." :) For those of you who have been sitting on the edge of your seats waiting for another Freia update, well, we're basically as thick as thieves now, and whenever she sees me, she'll approach me..., well, that's unless she's been sleeping, and she's just laying there..., still half out of it..., in which case she could care less about who I am...
I remember the first time that I meant to tell you something... Yesterday when I was telling you how arduous (it's a word..., look it up) it is to hike up North LBJ, I was about to compare that to walking in Austin. The apartment complex that I'm about to move back into in the ATX IS NOT at the top of a humongous hill, and I can easily navigate West Campus, the Drag, the University of Texas, and even make it to 6th Street in not much more than half an hour if I'm really motivated. I won't lie to you - I'm completely ready to be back in Austin near the campus of UT, approaching a college football season where the Longhorns are ranked in the top 5 in the nation, where the Longhorns and Bobcats don't share a single home football date this year, where I'll be regaling (I think that's a word...) you with tales of football and 6th Street and whatever other trouble I manage to get into, since I WON'T be glued to Pokerstars this time around...
I remember the first time that I moved to Austin... I'm curious - is pizza your "moving food?" The vast majority of the time when I move, I always seem to end up ordering delivery pizza (not Digiorno), and it was from Domino's this last time around, as they're located not too far away from the apartment complex that I'll be moving back into... I also need to give a shoutout to WhichWich here I guess, as my meals for one of the first days that I lived in my new place came from the three sandwiches that I bought during an early afternoon trip to the Drag (hey, WHY would I walk to the Drag more than once on a hot day in early August if I didn't have to?)... :)
Okay, I'm done remembering for today... Have a good one and I'll see you again tomorrow!
"There are many things that I would like to say to you, but I don't know how..., because maybe..., you're gonna be the one that saves me..." -Oasis- (Wonderwall)
"I'm gonna make a change, for once in my life..., it's gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference, gonna make it right..." -Michael Jackson- (Man In The Mirror)
"I can't really help it if my tongue's all tied in knots, jumping off a bridge it's just the farthest that I've ever been and..., anywhere you go..., I'll follow you down..." -Gin Blossoms- (Follow You Down)
"What is this attraction?, I only feel the pain, there's nothing left to reason, and only you to blame, will it ever..., change...?" -Duncan Sheik- (Barely Breathing)
I remember the first time that I experienced a case of mistaken identity..., OVER AND OVER AND OVER again... Good morning everyone. I guess that this is just a by-product of being a hundred years old, but EVERY TIME that I heard the name Duncan Keith of the Blackhawks announced during the NHL playoffs, I kept thinking back to Duncan SHEIK, who sang the lyrics that I typed immediately above. The thing was, I couldn't remember Duncan Sheik's last name, so I'd be sitting there trying to remember..., "what WAS the name of the guy who sang..., that song...???"
I remember the first time that I made a blog post early in the morning again... I'll probably be publishing this entry at right around 9:00 a.m. CST, which is quite a bit earlier than anything that I've posted for a while... This is a result of sleeping last night from... (get ready for it), 9:30 p.m.-5:30 a.m... I KNOW..., RIGHT?! My sleeping has successfully been flipped!!! #nolongeravampire
I remember the first time that I meant to remind you about something... This is a segue back to the song lyrics at the very top up above (I'm getting REALLY GOOD at making segues, by the way)... :) Anyway, over on the right, the search window is part of an IN BLOG search feature. If you've ever been in the blog before, and you want to find the entry (or entries) that you were in, or if there's a certain topic that's been in the blog that you want to read about, just type it into the search...
I remember the first time that I had a great idea... Okay, walking for two hours again yesterday probably WAS NOT a great idea... For some reason it seemed even hotter yesterday, but I survived the walk (which was probably at least six miles). For those of you familiar with San Marcos, this involved going down North LBJ, down Sessom, several laps around Sewell Park, down University Drive, then over to the Square, down to Zelick's, and then backtracking the same path until I arrived back at the top of North LBJ... PHEW!!! When I returned home, I saw that some people were out at the swimming pool. If you've been following my blog for more than a minute, you know that I moved into this complex back in September, on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend to be specific... Anyway, I had never been in the pool before..., well..., not until yesterday anyway... :) AHHHHHH!!!
I remember the first time that I told somebody that their cat was in my blog... After I changed clothes yesterday to jump into the swimming pool, I ran into my neighbors from across the way. These are the neighbors who are Freia's owners... The conversation went something like..., "Hi..., I didn't think that this was something that was urgent enough to bother you about..., but a while back I put Freia in my blog (when I looked back after swimming yesterday, I realized that the first time that Freia made the blog was in an entry that I titled after her back on FEBRUARY 20TH!...), ...it's 'Bikini Hill, 6th, & The Strip,' and there's a search window... blah, blah, blah..." :) These neighbors (who I don't know by name) were receptive to this (THANKFULLY) and responded, "cool, Freia's got her own blog!..." :) For those of you who have been sitting on the edge of your seats waiting for another Freia update, well, we're basically as thick as thieves now, and whenever she sees me, she'll approach me..., well, that's unless she's been sleeping, and she's just laying there..., still half out of it..., in which case she could care less about who I am...
I remember the first time that I meant to tell you something... Yesterday when I was telling you how arduous (it's a word..., look it up) it is to hike up North LBJ, I was about to compare that to walking in Austin. The apartment complex that I'm about to move back into in the ATX IS NOT at the top of a humongous hill, and I can easily navigate West Campus, the Drag, the University of Texas, and even make it to 6th Street in not much more than half an hour if I'm really motivated. I won't lie to you - I'm completely ready to be back in Austin near the campus of UT, approaching a college football season where the Longhorns are ranked in the top 5 in the nation, where the Longhorns and Bobcats don't share a single home football date this year, where I'll be regaling (I think that's a word...) you with tales of football and 6th Street and whatever other trouble I manage to get into, since I WON'T be glued to Pokerstars this time around...
I remember the first time that I moved to Austin... I'm curious - is pizza your "moving food?" The vast majority of the time when I move, I always seem to end up ordering delivery pizza (not Digiorno), and it was from Domino's this last time around, as they're located not too far away from the apartment complex that I'll be moving back into... I also need to give a shoutout to WhichWich here I guess, as my meals for one of the first days that I lived in my new place came from the three sandwiches that I bought during an early afternoon trip to the Drag (hey, WHY would I walk to the Drag more than once on a hot day in early August if I didn't have to?)... :)
Okay, I'm done remembering for today... Have a good one and I'll see you again tomorrow!
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Victory
"And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds, these words are all I have so I'll write them, so you need them just to get by..." -Fall Out Boy- (Dance, Dance)
"I named my dog '5 miles' so I can tell people I walk 5 miles every day..."
-via Randy Haverda- (facebook)
"So I speak to you in riddles, 'cause my words get in my way..." -Staind- (Epiphany)
"Welfare was never intended to be a career opportunity..." -via Barbara Angel- (facebook)
"Now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me, breathe... into me and make me real, bring... me... to life..." -Evanescence- (Bring Me To Life)
Good afternoon everyone. You are going to be SO PROUD of me... :) While I was working at my bar job (at Harper's/Slackers/The Veranda), my "normal" sleep schedule would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 6:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., and then 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. There is a great quote from Tom Cruise's character (Brian Flanagan) in the 1988 movie 'Cocktail' that pretty much sums up working in a bar: "Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer..., before you know it, your life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours..." Incidentally, I tagged a lot of my facebook bar friends to this post just so they could see that quote (in case you were wondering guys)... :) Well, thanks in large part to a "nice little walk" that I took yesterday, last night I slept from 11:00 p.m.-5:00 a.m., and then again from 8:00 a.m-10:30 a.m. I'm almost sleeping like a normal person - Victory!!! :) And it's only taken me two and a half weeks to accomplish this feat..., this total flipping of my sleep schedule...
So Coach, tell us about your nice little walk, and how it helped you to sleep through the night... Although I have been successful in losing weight, due to the situps I've posted about, my vastly improved diet (which includes no cokes or energy drinks during the past couple of weeks), and the walking that I've been doing at night, I decided that my progress wasn't coming fast enough. Well, we've had a recent spike in our temperature here in San Marcos, America, so I thought that I might try walking during the day. Yesterday the forecast high was 99 degrees, and carrying a gallon Igloo jug of ice water with me, I went out from 3:20 p.m.-5:20 p.m. It was sunny, it was HOT, and it was beneficial... :) For those of you familiar with San Marcos, I walked down from the top of North LBJ to Sessom Drive, went to Bikini Hill and walked about 4 laps around Sewell Park, stopped for about 5 minutes to say hi to my friend Lauren at Superfly Music (Lauren of 'The 5th Annual Lone Star Music Awards' Lauren, my most read post EVER), walked over to and around the Square once, and then returned to Sewell Park via University Drive. Once I was back at Sewell, I walked about another 7 laps around the park and Bikini Hill, walked back up Sessom to Bobcat Nation, where I chatted with my friends George and Andrea for about 5 minutes, before hiking back up North LBJ to my apartment, where I promptly collapsed and died... Okay, I might not be dead just yet... ;) I'll tell you though, if you don't have the money to join a gym, just try doing what I laid out for you above - GUARANTEED to make you sweat! I intend to do the same today, but I'm going to try to extend the length of time that I'm out because I simply had too much ice water left in my jug when I got back home... ;)
WOW..., in breaking news, it seems that Aaron Hernandez, formerly of the New England Patriots (he was released today) has been charged with murder... That's all that I know at this point...
Back to yesterday, that walk officially put me on the low side of 230 pounds. I can't remember if I put this in the blog or not, but the day of reckoning for me came on May 18th, when I got on the scale and weighed-in at 240 pounds. When I saw that number, I basically said, "this stops NOW!.." So that's 10 pounds in 5 weeks, and I'm not even close to being done. Like I said earlier in the week, I'll let you know when it gets down to 225...
Speaking of North LBJ Drive, another reason that I'm looking forward to getting back up to Austin is that when I go walking in my neighborhood, this is NO FREAKIN MONUMENTAL HILL to navigate... :) Anytime that I'm on the Square and I tell someone where I've walked, I'm SURE that it seems longer than it actually is because they're picturing that MOUNTAIN OF A STREET that is North LBJ (for those of you who aren't familiar with San Marcos, America)...
I'm going to stop it here for today so that I can get prepared for my walk, but don't fret - it's almost the end of June and I'll be up in Austin soon, so you'll be reading stories of football and Sixth Street in the very near future. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for stopping by - 40,000 views for my little blog is in sight now, and that is pretty humbling... Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow!
"I named my dog '5 miles' so I can tell people I walk 5 miles every day..."
-via Randy Haverda- (facebook)
"So I speak to you in riddles, 'cause my words get in my way..." -Staind- (Epiphany)
"Welfare was never intended to be a career opportunity..." -via Barbara Angel- (facebook)
"Now that I know what I'm without, you can't just leave me, breathe... into me and make me real, bring... me... to life..." -Evanescence- (Bring Me To Life)
Good afternoon everyone. You are going to be SO PROUD of me... :) While I was working at my bar job (at Harper's/Slackers/The Veranda), my "normal" sleep schedule would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 6:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., and then 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. There is a great quote from Tom Cruise's character (Brian Flanagan) in the 1988 movie 'Cocktail' that pretty much sums up working in a bar: "Days get shorter and shorter, nights longer and longer..., before you know it, your life is just one long night with a few comatose daylight hours..." Incidentally, I tagged a lot of my facebook bar friends to this post just so they could see that quote (in case you were wondering guys)... :) Well, thanks in large part to a "nice little walk" that I took yesterday, last night I slept from 11:00 p.m.-5:00 a.m., and then again from 8:00 a.m-10:30 a.m. I'm almost sleeping like a normal person - Victory!!! :) And it's only taken me two and a half weeks to accomplish this feat..., this total flipping of my sleep schedule...
So Coach, tell us about your nice little walk, and how it helped you to sleep through the night... Although I have been successful in losing weight, due to the situps I've posted about, my vastly improved diet (which includes no cokes or energy drinks during the past couple of weeks), and the walking that I've been doing at night, I decided that my progress wasn't coming fast enough. Well, we've had a recent spike in our temperature here in San Marcos, America, so I thought that I might try walking during the day. Yesterday the forecast high was 99 degrees, and carrying a gallon Igloo jug of ice water with me, I went out from 3:20 p.m.-5:20 p.m. It was sunny, it was HOT, and it was beneficial... :) For those of you familiar with San Marcos, I walked down from the top of North LBJ to Sessom Drive, went to Bikini Hill and walked about 4 laps around Sewell Park, stopped for about 5 minutes to say hi to my friend Lauren at Superfly Music (Lauren of 'The 5th Annual Lone Star Music Awards' Lauren, my most read post EVER), walked over to and around the Square once, and then returned to Sewell Park via University Drive. Once I was back at Sewell, I walked about another 7 laps around the park and Bikini Hill, walked back up Sessom to Bobcat Nation, where I chatted with my friends George and Andrea for about 5 minutes, before hiking back up North LBJ to my apartment, where I promptly collapsed and died... Okay, I might not be dead just yet... ;) I'll tell you though, if you don't have the money to join a gym, just try doing what I laid out for you above - GUARANTEED to make you sweat! I intend to do the same today, but I'm going to try to extend the length of time that I'm out because I simply had too much ice water left in my jug when I got back home... ;)
WOW..., in breaking news, it seems that Aaron Hernandez, formerly of the New England Patriots (he was released today) has been charged with murder... That's all that I know at this point...
Back to yesterday, that walk officially put me on the low side of 230 pounds. I can't remember if I put this in the blog or not, but the day of reckoning for me came on May 18th, when I got on the scale and weighed-in at 240 pounds. When I saw that number, I basically said, "this stops NOW!.." So that's 10 pounds in 5 weeks, and I'm not even close to being done. Like I said earlier in the week, I'll let you know when it gets down to 225...
Speaking of North LBJ Drive, another reason that I'm looking forward to getting back up to Austin is that when I go walking in my neighborhood, this is NO FREAKIN MONUMENTAL HILL to navigate... :) Anytime that I'm on the Square and I tell someone where I've walked, I'm SURE that it seems longer than it actually is because they're picturing that MOUNTAIN OF A STREET that is North LBJ (for those of you who aren't familiar with San Marcos, America)...
I'm going to stop it here for today so that I can get prepared for my walk, but don't fret - it's almost the end of June and I'll be up in Austin soon, so you'll be reading stories of football and Sixth Street in the very near future. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for stopping by - 40,000 views for my little blog is in sight now, and that is pretty humbling... Have a great day and I'll see you tomorrow!
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Could You? (23)
"And it's been a, long December, and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than, the last..., I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself, to hold on to, these moments as they pass..." -Counting Crows- (A Long December)
"Only a fool trips on what is behind him..." -via Benchmark Insurance Group-
"Comin' down, the years turn over, and angels fall without you there, and I'll go on down to lead you home, and, all because I'm, all because I'm, I'll become what, you became to me..."
-Goo Goo Dolls- (Black Balloon)
"Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it..." -via Taylor Ralph- (facebook)
"I don't ever wanna feel..., like I did that day..." -Red Hot Chili Peppers- (Under The Bridge)
Could you focus Coach? So even as I'm writing this, I just realized that Don Draper (Jon Hamm's character in Mad Men, which is arguably my favorite show) was in 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' (the 2008 version with Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly). As I was getting those quotes and lyrics typed in up above, I heard this character state, "as scientists, we can't allow that..." I was like, "WOW, that sounds a lot like..." :) Pay attention Coach...
Could you fact-check your jokes Coach? Not too long ago, when I told the story about the home game with Texas Tech here last fall in San Marcos, America, I had some fun with my friend Tim. I was unable to make it to any football games last season due to my work schedule, having to stay up until at least 4:00 a.m. when I worked. For my story, I looked up Tim's (Hawkins) position online, and came up with quarterback and receiver, so I made some crack about him playing the "glamour positions." Well, I was browsing through my newly purchased Phil Steele's College Football 2013 Preview magazine last night (SHOCKER), and it talks about Tim being a RUNNING BACK last season. Okay, so now we have quarterback, wide receiver, AND running back... WHAT position did you NOT PLAY during your career in San Marcos Mr. Hawkins?! :)
Could you sneak in a little plug for your alma mater Coach, even though the season is so far away, since we're already talking about football? Okay, so as I continued to browse the Texas State pages of the preview magazine, it seems that the Bobcat special teams ranked 4th..., IN THE NATION last season, and that we have ALL of our special teams players back from last year! We have switched conferences (we will now be playing in the Sun Belt), but Mr. Steele still has us as the 7th-ranked special teams unit entering the season..., IN... THE... NATION... - NICE... :)
Could you send your sympathy to the Bruins fans today? WOW, that Stanley Cup clincher last night was unreal... Boston took a 2-1 lead over Chicago with 7:49 to go in the game, and a Bruins win would have forced a seventh game in this series tomorrow. The Blackhawks pulled their goalie for an extra skater with about 1:30 left to play, and managed to tie the game with 1:16 remaining... Pretty unbelievable, and I was all ready to make my customary tweet and facebook status update about ANOTHER GAME in this Stanley Cup going to overtime (this would have been the 4th in 6 games), when all of a sudden, the Blackhawks score AGAIN with 0:59 left on the clock, and Chicago is carrying the 120 year-old trophy around the rink not too much later... Congrats to both teams on a very entertaining series, and to the Blackhawks on winning the Cup. Below is my prediction for the 'Final' (just because I always do this)... :)
My Prediction/Actual Result
Bruins over the Blackhawks in 6 games/Blackhawks in 6 games
Let me say here that Lightning (his blog link is over to the right) picked Chicago to win the Cup in six games, AND that he is a Blackhawks fan... Lightning had a blog post up in VERY SHORT ORDER after the game was decided... :) Let me also note here that I jinxed the Bruins by picking them to win the Cup (an accusation that before last night's game I told my brother would make the blog if it did indeed play out that way)...
Could you put me to work? As you know, I've been giving a very concerted effort to losing weight, which has included a lot of dieting, situps, and walking around San Marcos. Well, I took a very rare daytime walk a few days ago, and I stopped by my old workplace to get a cup of water. I had been there for about TWO MINUTES when my friend Sam hands me a UPS slip and says, "Hey Coach, can you go pick this up?" My first thought was, "you KNOW that I don't have a car with me..., I'm WALKING...," but then I realized that a package had been left down the street at Jimmy John's. The things that you have to do for a free cup of water...
Could you include more song lyrics in your blog Coach? Yes, I think that I will... I have a pretty sizeable CD collection that started growing when I got my first vehicle that had a CD player in it, and all of those discs have at least one song on them that connected with me for some reason. Okay, yes..., I do realize that I just made a pretty obvious statement, because why would anyone buy a CD if they didn't like at least one song that's on it - SHUT UP... :) Anyway, I thought that I would share some of the lyrics from these songs that struck a chord with me (pun intended - ba dump, CHING!), so be expecting more of these and fewer quotes to lead off my upcoming posts...
Could you remind us about what's happening with the blog? Okay, first we're going to stay with the Spurs color scheme through the rest of this week. When Bikini Hill returns to its new "neon look," I will also resume posting entries four days each week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday), and this should be the norm for quite some time. Due to moving, or in the event that something unexpected arises, I might miss a post or two, or change a posting day for that week, but M/Tu/Th/F seems to work the best for me. Mondays will address various topics, Tuesdays will be under the 'Could You?' format (can you BELIEVE that this is the 23rd week of this ALREADY?! That's almost half a year for you lay people)... ;) Thursdays will continue to follow the 'I Remember The First Time' format, and Fridays will be sports-related, with football predictions dominating that day of the week in a few short months - YES!!! I still plan on predicting a final score for every Bobcat and Longhorn football game in the fall (a new idea, whose implementation should be very interesting...), while giving you my ten 'best bets' for games taking place that weekend.
Could you talk about the in and outs of the blog just a little more Coach, because we're not completely bored yet, and we need something to put us to sleep??? SURE... :) This does look like it will be the 6th straight month that the blog will have at least 3,000 views, and the 40,000 total view milestone should be reached by the end of June. This does make things interesting for my prediction for the blog reaching the 75,000 mark in total views by the end of the year, since there will still be 35,000 views to go (an average of almost 6,000 views per month needed, when the blog has yet to reach 4,000 total views in one month). The wildcard here is that the blog has always received more views during football season, when I make my weekly predictions. You know, the 'Coach picked X, so I'll bet Y' strategy surely being utilized... ;)
Okay, well the bell just rang, and you're free to leave for the day. Have a good one, and I'll see you again tomorrow!
Monday, June 24, 2013
I Have A Problem
"Come back - Veranda is not the same without you guarding the entrance..."
-@GiselieMo- (via twitter)
"You know, when you think about it, all bands are local, somewhere..."
-102.1 The Edge/Dallas-
"Trying to phone a person who lives in San Marcos before noon is a complete waste of time. Wake up friends..." -Stefanie Adams Pyle- (via facebook)
"So, as excited as I am about hearing of Dez Bryant's dominance this offseason in OTA's and 1-on-1's, it creates a cause of concern to me about Claiborne's inability to play him. Is this a legitimate cause for concern or can I chalk it up to Bryant just being that good?" -James Needham- (via facebook - my friend's question is currently on the front page of dallascowboys.com)
Good morning everyone. Let's start off with my fantasy baseball standings this morning, and then we'll get to the funny stuff (yeah, I know, NOTHING is more humorous than my fantasy baseball performance...)
League 1 (25 entry fee - 1st place/125, 2nd place/25)
1) DraftDodgers 75.00 (clinging to 1st place)
2) Neshanic 72.00 (solid hold on 2nd)
3) Pappys Boyz 59.00 (jumps back into 3rd)
8) The View From Bikini Hill 46.50 (was actually in 7th place yesterday)
League 2 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50)
1) Breaking Bats 82.00 (commanding lead at the moment)
2) 4troublemakers 67.50 (has some distance from the logjam)
3) Loons XXIV 60.50 (starting to make a move)
6) The Bikini Hill Bobcats 50.50 (there's some potential here)
League 3 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50)
1) Nappy Heads 69.00 (leading a hotly contested league)
2) Mad Men 65.00 (could win an Emmy and this contest)
2) jonnylove7 65.00 (right in the dogfight)
3) Pittsburg Crawfords 63.50 (same as above)
5) The Bikini Hill Nine 58.00 (things are getting interesting)
We're still a few weeks from the MLB All-Star Break and the Bikini Hill brand is starting to look a little bit better. Despite having EIGHT players on the DL, the blog's old namesake is hanging around in the cheap league. In that second league, the Bobcats are starting to hit, which might keep me moving up in the standings. In League 3, you really get a good idea of how competitive that race is going to be, looking at the top 5 teams today. As the season draws closer to finishing, I will let you know who some of the key players are for each of our teams, so that you can keep up with the race for the money...
Okay, now for a slow lead-in which gets us to the title of today's entry, and then we'll give you a funny story to start your week off with. My weight-loss efforts are going well, with about ten pounds being shed so far. I'll give you my next specific update when I get it down to 225 pounds, which will hopefully be sometime in the first week of July (yes, sometime next week). I reached my new high in situps last night (350), and I've decided that I'm going to try to bump each set up from 50 to 60 now, so that I can get them done in less time. I think at the end of the month I'll give you a total that I completed for June. Anyway, I wanted to get into some sort of shape (in addition to getting my sleep straight - which is almost there now) before getting too far into the job hunt. As I've told a few of my friends, I don't want to go into job interviews looking like Humpty Dumpty, or a Weeble (Weeble's wobble, but they don't fall down - anyone old enough to remember that?)...
Anyway, with all that I just said above, I can also tell that I'm closer to getting my freshly inspired life back together by what I did last night. Forever, and I mean FOREVER, I was using planners (those little calendar books) and making lists to keep my life in order. When I was in college, and when I was teaching and coaching, this was ESSENTIAL because I was so busy. I had not bought a planner yet for this year, and I decided that it was time to last night. I was pleasantly surprised when I walked into Walmart and discovered that they were selling planners which spanned from July 2013 through the end of 2014 - WORKS... FOR... ME... They were selling one type of Mead planner for just under $10.00 which looks to be the same size as an 8 1/2" x 11" notebook (plenty of room to write). They were also selling big desk calendars (also a Mead product) that spanned from July 2013 through the end of 2014 (these are what I have basically been using to keep my life in order without a planner, but they aren't very "mobile")... Something came up recently that made me wish that I had a 2014 calendar already, so there you go... My free advertising for Mead gets us to this: that last quote at the top of today's entry, about my friend who sent his question to the official website of the Dallas Cowboys..., well..., in the process of chatting with him yesterday, I told him that it was kind of early to be talking about football, because it would get me all amped up, with so long to wait. I told James that I had seen Phil Steele's College Football Preview magazine in the store yesterday morning, but had not bought it (I had not even thought about it again until I read James' facebook status with the Cowboys question). WELL, when I returned to Walmart last night, I NOT ONLY picked up a copy of Phil Steele'e magazine, but I ALSO bought the Athlon Sports Pro Football 2013 Preview issue... Yes my friends, I do realize that today is only June 23rd, and I admit that I have a problem (that's the first step, right?)... :) I would highly recommend the Phil Steele magazine, the Athlon Sports magazine, and the Mead products (maybe I'll be a paid endorser someday)... ;) While we're talking football, let me hit you with a few interesting notes before we move on to my crazy friend Megan. I had previously told you that the Texas Longhorns and the Texas State Bobcats do not share a common home date this season (they don't). Looking at the UT schedule more closely last night, I realized that after a September 21st home game, the Longhorns will not play another game in Austin until November 2nd. In that timespan, the Bobcats will host 4 games in 5 weeks in San Marcos. Also, Texas A&M will play 8 of their 12 games at home this season. What could hurt the Aggies playing Alabama this year is that the Crimson Tide will be coming off of a bye, while last season they were coming off of a close game with LSU (thanks Phil Steele!). ;) I hope that it's not too early to post about football, because you'll be seeing more and more of it from now through February (just for you Miletus)... ;)
Megan, Megan, Megan... My crazy, beautiful, interesting friend Megan... :) Exactly a week ago today, I was looking at my facebook page, when I saw that Megan had posted a photo. The picture shows Megan laying on the beach in a bikini, with about 25 seagull spectators in the background, and at least 8 other seagulls hovering right over her, the lowest of which is about an arm's length above her. There had been a couple of comments made regarding the photo when Megan responded to the first commenter: "Look really close at my left boob... There may or may not be a Dorito there for the seagulls to swoop down and grab. :D" First, let me stop here to say to my fellow bloggers that you KNOW that Rob's head just EXPLODED! Second, you're welcome for the free advertising also Doritos... :) Of course when you examine the picture more closely, you can see that there IS, indeed, a Dorito resting on Megan's chest, and that the lowest seagull that I referred to before is already ZEROED IN ON IT. The best part is that Megan has an expression on her face that totally resembles those shots that you see of people riding rollercoasters, just loving every minute of it... :) It wasn't until about a half-hour later when someone else commented on the photo that I realized that Megan had made this her COVER PHOTO... At this point I told her how much I missed her (Megan has moved away from San Marcos), and she responded: "And I'm being 100% serious about the chip. It was crazy how they swoop down to get food." Yes Megan, the SEAGULLS are crazy... I love ya to death Megan... :)
I hope that all of you have a great day and I'll see ya again tomorrow! And Pete..., Lightning..., Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final is tonight, in case you were not aware... ;)
-@GiselieMo- (via twitter)
"You know, when you think about it, all bands are local, somewhere..."
-102.1 The Edge/Dallas-
"Trying to phone a person who lives in San Marcos before noon is a complete waste of time. Wake up friends..." -Stefanie Adams Pyle- (via facebook)
"So, as excited as I am about hearing of Dez Bryant's dominance this offseason in OTA's and 1-on-1's, it creates a cause of concern to me about Claiborne's inability to play him. Is this a legitimate cause for concern or can I chalk it up to Bryant just being that good?" -James Needham- (via facebook - my friend's question is currently on the front page of dallascowboys.com)
Good morning everyone. Let's start off with my fantasy baseball standings this morning, and then we'll get to the funny stuff (yeah, I know, NOTHING is more humorous than my fantasy baseball performance...)
League 1 (25 entry fee - 1st place/125, 2nd place/25)
1) DraftDodgers 75.00 (clinging to 1st place)
2) Neshanic 72.00 (solid hold on 2nd)
3) Pappys Boyz 59.00 (jumps back into 3rd)
8) The View From Bikini Hill 46.50 (was actually in 7th place yesterday)
League 2 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50)
1) Breaking Bats 82.00 (commanding lead at the moment)
2) 4troublemakers 67.50 (has some distance from the logjam)
3) Loons XXIV 60.50 (starting to make a move)
6) The Bikini Hill Bobcats 50.50 (there's some potential here)
League 3 (40 entry fee - 1st place/300, 2nd place/50)
1) Nappy Heads 69.00 (leading a hotly contested league)
2) Mad Men 65.00 (could win an Emmy and this contest)
2) jonnylove7 65.00 (right in the dogfight)
3) Pittsburg Crawfords 63.50 (same as above)
5) The Bikini Hill Nine 58.00 (things are getting interesting)
We're still a few weeks from the MLB All-Star Break and the Bikini Hill brand is starting to look a little bit better. Despite having EIGHT players on the DL, the blog's old namesake is hanging around in the cheap league. In that second league, the Bobcats are starting to hit, which might keep me moving up in the standings. In League 3, you really get a good idea of how competitive that race is going to be, looking at the top 5 teams today. As the season draws closer to finishing, I will let you know who some of the key players are for each of our teams, so that you can keep up with the race for the money...
Okay, now for a slow lead-in which gets us to the title of today's entry, and then we'll give you a funny story to start your week off with. My weight-loss efforts are going well, with about ten pounds being shed so far. I'll give you my next specific update when I get it down to 225 pounds, which will hopefully be sometime in the first week of July (yes, sometime next week). I reached my new high in situps last night (350), and I've decided that I'm going to try to bump each set up from 50 to 60 now, so that I can get them done in less time. I think at the end of the month I'll give you a total that I completed for June. Anyway, I wanted to get into some sort of shape (in addition to getting my sleep straight - which is almost there now) before getting too far into the job hunt. As I've told a few of my friends, I don't want to go into job interviews looking like Humpty Dumpty, or a Weeble (Weeble's wobble, but they don't fall down - anyone old enough to remember that?)...
Anyway, with all that I just said above, I can also tell that I'm closer to getting my freshly inspired life back together by what I did last night. Forever, and I mean FOREVER, I was using planners (those little calendar books) and making lists to keep my life in order. When I was in college, and when I was teaching and coaching, this was ESSENTIAL because I was so busy. I had not bought a planner yet for this year, and I decided that it was time to last night. I was pleasantly surprised when I walked into Walmart and discovered that they were selling planners which spanned from July 2013 through the end of 2014 - WORKS... FOR... ME... They were selling one type of Mead planner for just under $10.00 which looks to be the same size as an 8 1/2" x 11" notebook (plenty of room to write). They were also selling big desk calendars (also a Mead product) that spanned from July 2013 through the end of 2014 (these are what I have basically been using to keep my life in order without a planner, but they aren't very "mobile")... Something came up recently that made me wish that I had a 2014 calendar already, so there you go... My free advertising for Mead gets us to this: that last quote at the top of today's entry, about my friend who sent his question to the official website of the Dallas Cowboys..., well..., in the process of chatting with him yesterday, I told him that it was kind of early to be talking about football, because it would get me all amped up, with so long to wait. I told James that I had seen Phil Steele's College Football Preview magazine in the store yesterday morning, but had not bought it (I had not even thought about it again until I read James' facebook status with the Cowboys question). WELL, when I returned to Walmart last night, I NOT ONLY picked up a copy of Phil Steele'e magazine, but I ALSO bought the Athlon Sports Pro Football 2013 Preview issue... Yes my friends, I do realize that today is only June 23rd, and I admit that I have a problem (that's the first step, right?)... :) I would highly recommend the Phil Steele magazine, the Athlon Sports magazine, and the Mead products (maybe I'll be a paid endorser someday)... ;) While we're talking football, let me hit you with a few interesting notes before we move on to my crazy friend Megan. I had previously told you that the Texas Longhorns and the Texas State Bobcats do not share a common home date this season (they don't). Looking at the UT schedule more closely last night, I realized that after a September 21st home game, the Longhorns will not play another game in Austin until November 2nd. In that timespan, the Bobcats will host 4 games in 5 weeks in San Marcos. Also, Texas A&M will play 8 of their 12 games at home this season. What could hurt the Aggies playing Alabama this year is that the Crimson Tide will be coming off of a bye, while last season they were coming off of a close game with LSU (thanks Phil Steele!). ;) I hope that it's not too early to post about football, because you'll be seeing more and more of it from now through February (just for you Miletus)... ;)
Megan, Megan, Megan... My crazy, beautiful, interesting friend Megan... :) Exactly a week ago today, I was looking at my facebook page, when I saw that Megan had posted a photo. The picture shows Megan laying on the beach in a bikini, with about 25 seagull spectators in the background, and at least 8 other seagulls hovering right over her, the lowest of which is about an arm's length above her. There had been a couple of comments made regarding the photo when Megan responded to the first commenter: "Look really close at my left boob... There may or may not be a Dorito there for the seagulls to swoop down and grab. :D" First, let me stop here to say to my fellow bloggers that you KNOW that Rob's head just EXPLODED! Second, you're welcome for the free advertising also Doritos... :) Of course when you examine the picture more closely, you can see that there IS, indeed, a Dorito resting on Megan's chest, and that the lowest seagull that I referred to before is already ZEROED IN ON IT. The best part is that Megan has an expression on her face that totally resembles those shots that you see of people riding rollercoasters, just loving every minute of it... :) It wasn't until about a half-hour later when someone else commented on the photo that I realized that Megan had made this her COVER PHOTO... At this point I told her how much I missed her (Megan has moved away from San Marcos), and she responded: "And I'm being 100% serious about the chip. It was crazy how they swoop down to get food." Yes Megan, the SEAGULLS are crazy... I love ya to death Megan... :)
I hope that all of you have a great day and I'll see ya again tomorrow! And Pete..., Lightning..., Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final is tonight, in case you were not aware... ;)
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