Absinthe, Beer & Milk

Monday, July 11th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Apparently I don’t know my own strength. I had a container of apple sauce that was mostly empty today so I decided to pour it into a glass to finish it off. Well the pouring was going a bit slow so I grabbed the apple sauce jar with both hands, one to hold it and the other to smack on the bottom of it to try to force the sauce out quicker. Well apparently I hit it really hard while smacking it and it hit against the very thick beer glass that I was pouring it into.

I hit it so hard that it actually split and shattered the top half of the glass into little pieces that flew all over everything, including a piece that got stuck into one of my fingers and started squirting blood everywhere.

I am kind of sad because this was one of my favorite beer glasses. It was a rolling rock glass, and I am not sure where I stole it from as I have never ordered a rolling rock in my life, but the glass was green so it was something different than the other glasses I had. Hopefully I will find another one someday. Please leave comments if you know a Madison bar that has them.

I decided to take a picture of the glass massacre (after I bandaged myself up of course) so you could see the devastation.

Now, I am going to throw this out there as another “don’t try this at home kids” warning.

Later tonight I went over to a friends house and had a glass of Absinthe (yes I stopped being cryptic about it, it’s just a blog, I could be lying off my ass anyways so no real way to prove it and hold me accountable for what I say here), and 2 beers.

I didn’t have anything to drink for the last hour or two that I was hanging out, and when I left I was just fine to drive, I am 100% sure I could of passed a breathalizer test. Well I decided to stop at the grocery store on the way home and pick up a few essentials. You know, deodorant, shampoo, Pint of Ice Cream, Single serving size cookies and cream milk chug… just the essentials.

Well I drank that milk containter on the way home and when I got home after a few minutes it started to hit me. I felt hot and nauseous. I had been totally fine until I got home and I could feel the milk not setting right.

I wasn’t at all sick, but I wanted to go to bed and I didn’t feel good so I decided that to make myself feel better I would need to get rid of the sick feeling. I won’t go into details of how you do that when you are not actually sick, but lets just say… I will never combine alcohol and milk again, well with the exception of White Russians if that is the ONLY thing that I am drinking.

Running With Beer

Sunday, July 10th, 2005 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Today I went to Wisconsin Dells with my friend Chris and his Wife. Dells is a resort town, and therefore has lots of half naked girls walking around the streets to keep everybody entertained. Of course they all follow the 17WGY20 rule, I just made up that abbreviation but if you can’t figure it out I am not going to explain.

After some time worth of going through the local stores and not finding a “Breast Ball” (not sure what they are actually called, think stress toy) in any of the gift shops. We decided to go Mini-Golfing. Now I am the one who originally suggested this, however I am not the competitive type, as it always stresses everybody out to have to be keeping track of how much better they are than everybody else.

The deal went “the looser buy’s everybody else a beer” however It was kind of 2 on 1 as well, since they have a joint checking account… To prove my point about the competition = stress thing I will say it only took me 2 minutes before I was arguing rules with Mindy who had nocked her ball into the water on the first hole.

Apparently somewhere along the 18 hole game I cheated, as Mindy who was keeping score said she was sure I had more strokes than 5 on an evil hole. I recounted the strokes based on where the ball had rolled each stroke and it was 5 so she wrote that down.

Now mind you I am not beyond cheating, I have never been… It makes life quicker / easier, and I would normally choose to do this when presented with an option. However this time I really was trying to play an honest game. Though go figure…. The stroke count comes up at the end of the game again when I win by 1 stroke ;)

We went out to eat dinner at a crowded dells bar with fairly bad service, but after awhile and some beers it didn’t really matter though I was annoyed because our waitress told us that she was moving to a foreign country soon (something I would like to do).

Chris / Mindy dropped me off at home and I realized that I had not done any sort of exercise today, or yesterday. I have been exercising at least 6 times a week for over a month now (despite not having any noticeable results), and did not want to break my streak so I decided to go running.

Ok so probably a mile into the run I decide that might not have been such a hot idea (no pun intended) as it was really hot outside, and I had had a few beers no more than an hour earlier. I keep running but don’t go as far as I planned to. When I got back to my house I lied down in my driveway and just felt like absolute shit.

So the lesson for the day is, “don’t drink and run”. Next time I will find a designated runner to do it for me.

Will Marry For Citizenship

Saturday, July 9th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

I went to Fort Atkinson today. I had to meet with my father to get some strange investment my grandfather had made at one point in foreign currency. It wasn’t what I thought it would be, It’s like an individual bill from a bunch of different countries.

I am only being given this because my dad’s half of the family doesn’t want to do the research on getting some of the money back from the investment. After looking at it I am not 100% sure I can just take it to a bank like I thought I could. Might need to sell it to a collector… grr… Oh well…

While I was in Fort today I was supposed to hang out with my friend Josh who has been busy ever since he got married. So I waited around until 4 when he gets off of work. Then I kept waiting around until 5, then I finally called him and he was laying down for a nap.

apparently he never heard me say that I would be in town all day, so he was just waiting for me to call..

All we did all day then once I went over there was play some Madden for the rest of the day and order some super expensive pizza that he had to much pride to ask me to pay for some of it. He ordered it from a restaurant, but paid $32 + tip for 2 small/medium pizza’s and a tiny chunk of garlic bread.

I couldn’t flippin believe it. I mean I could rationalize maybe paying 20 with tip for 2 very good large or deep dish pizza’s, but these were just normal old thin pizza. I guess it’s fine, the last time he overpaid for some pizza’s when me and a bunch of other guys were around I took up a collection and forced him to take the money for it, I mean that was the last night before he got married and he wanted to pay for pizza…. ;)

Anyways I no longer have single friends. Everybody has moved away, or is just busy with their non-single life. I seriously need to find a way to move to another country and just start new. All the things I have been attached to in my life I am not anymore, and it would be nice to just start fresh.

So if there are any nice single girls in an English speaking country out there who feels like marrying me so I can move to your country, it would be much appreciated ;) I mean without that if I just wanted to move there I have to go through a ton of immigration crap.

Viva La Bam

Friday, July 8th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

It doesn’t really seem like the type of program that I would like, but after channel surfing one day I stopped on MTV’s Viva La Bam show. If you think about it though I mean here’s a guy no older than me who is a millionaire. He was a professional skateboarder who got famous on Jackass for giving his father hell, but now they give him a TV show that they pay him to do whatever the hell he wants to.

I think I am a little jealous actually, I mean what a cool life.

If you get bored and want to download every single episode like I did you can get torrents from thepiratebay:

season 1
season 2
season 3
season 4
season 5: ep 1, ep 2, ep 3
viva la bands (soundtrack)

Above: Bam, Jen, Ville (lead singer of H.I.M.)

Third Times the Charm

Thursday, July 7th, 2005 | Uncategorized | No Comments

So today the third and final power supply showed up for a customer who’s computer has been really noisy since their power supply fan is on the fritz.

I went over there and diagnosed the problem a few weeks ago, then I ordered a new power supply for it. Not paying much attention and just kind of ordered the cheepest “quiet power supply” there was. It was a microATX power supply, which was to small to nicely fit in their computer. No matter, I can make it work right? Wrong, it wouldn’t even turn on.. hmm…

Ordered the correct size standard power supply the second time. Turns out the Dell she has needs a “special” dell only connector, so this new power supply that I got won’t be able to work either.

Well third times the charm, this time I had to special order a dell only quiet power supply from pc power and cooling. I didn’t really like having to do that as not going through my distributors or even newegg litterly quadroupled the price of the power supply!

Instead of charging to the labor and hassel of ordering all these parts I took an old 17″ CRT monitor that they had sitting in a closet off of them. Honestly 17″ CRT’s only cost $80 bucks these days brand new, but it will make a nice test monitor for when I am fixing other people’s computers at home.

Problem now comes with getting me to make money off the other power supplies I ordered. I had gotten a return number for the orders, but go figure I procrastinated so long that the numbers are no longer valid. So now I have 2 extra power supplies (plus a cpu cooler that I ordered for myself but cannot use because of a missing piece of plastic from my motherboard), that I just have to keep for a rainy day. Yippie…

After that I went to the local health club to setup a deep tissue massage. I mean fixing computers is hard work! I had been hoping to get in that same day, but there were only a couple people that did deep tissue and I will have to wait till next Thursday to get in with the lady who is apparantly really good at it. So it’s something to look forward to I guess.

Lucid Dreams and Canoeing

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

So as that bottle of alcohol promised last night, it delivered. I had read a lot about people having really vivid dreams after drinking this stuff. I did not tell my friend this at all (we will call this the psychological control). During last night I went to sleep and had extremely realistic dreams. Of course It was not a very good dream.

I dreamed that my car was being stolen. I am sure it was the same car I have now, however in this dream it was a convertable with the top down….. Hey it’s a dream! Well the alarm kept going off, so I got up to turn off the alarm, but it kept going off still, so I went out to the car (in the dream) and hit disarm, but there were 2 guys sitting in the car, who said “thanks, you just made it much easier on us, now give us all your money”. At this point it ended because I woke myself up.

The dream had been so realistic as soon as I woke up I grabbed my car keys and hit the lock button on them to rearm the car.

Well later in the day I find my friend is home from work. So I twisted his arm into going canoeing with me. Well he tells me about how he had a SUPER realistic dream that had him buying an STI (car he really wants).

Now maybe it was just the fact that we couldn’t sleep very well because of the booze, that caused us to remember the dreams, but still kind of a cool coincidence. I mean 2 very vivid dreams about cars.

Anywho, the canoeing was fun, despite the fact that before we even push the canoe offshore we managed to fall in the water. Of course if we hadn’t I wouldn’t have realized that I was missing my phone (which i had left at home), and would of probably thought about it on the way home from devil’s lake and freaked out because i could of dropped it somewhere there.

That will be my first official time tipping a canoe. Technically we weren’t canoeing when it happened though so I think I can get over it. Trip took less time than I thought it would, so we went back to his house for awhile and I took note of his hot (milf) neighbor.

Where’s the damn faerie?

Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 | Life | 4 Comments

So my mystical imported bottle of alcohol showed up today. Being the good sport that I am I decided to call a friend and drive over there with my newly acquired item as well as a package of brats that I had yet to open.

So first I was keen to brush up on reading online the “proper” way to drink this particular drink. It involved soaking sugar cubes and then igniting them and melting them into the drink, then diluting drink with water.

Effect:
The drink had a very strong licorice taste to it, though not quite as easy to take down as say yager. In reading up on it more now I discover that I did not use nearly enough sugar as it is supposed to be 2 cubes for every 1 shot. No matter, I took down more than my fair share seeing how my friend quit drinking after 2 glasses, I made it through 3.

This particular drink is supposedly known to cause hallucinations though I have yet to experience any :( What I did however experience was a profound sense of relaxation. Outside of hypnosis / massage, I have never gotten this relaxed!

The next time I am going to try some of the recipes I found online for mixed drinks with this stuff. One of them calls for half Brandy, half (other drink I have been referring to), with a splash of bitters…. That sounds right up my aisle.

I miss my powerball…

Monday, July 4th, 2005 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I don’t know what happened to it. I figured that I had left it in my friends or my sisters car when I had gone with one of them somewhere, but alas… They do not have it.

Yes it is a tragedy of epic proportions and they are not super cheap. It was my favorite toy to futz with, it was a powerball…

If you feel like being generous and buying me a new one (I know, fat @#%#@% chance) or perhaps just want to be cooler than me and own your own. Then you can buy them from powerballs.com

Terabyte Under Fire

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Ya know what sucks? When you overfill your terabyte hard drive and then there isn’t enough room for the file indexes to properly manage themselves.

If you ignore the above tech jargon, what I mean is in doing a bunch of scan disks etc… my computer lost 9 gigs of mp3’s… Well I have finally sorted out the albums that were missing tracks and deleted them. However I am kind of pissed off, as it’s a lot of lost shit.

Here is the stuff that I KNOW that i am missing now. Not all the albums by each artist listed is gone, but realize I had virtually every album by all the people listed at one point.

soul coughing
everclear
morcheeba
enya
soul asylum
eminem
soundgarden
stereophonics
spunge
stevie nicks
mighty mighty bosstones
moloko
staind
stabbing westward
sneaker pimps
Smashing Pumpkins
Smash Mouth
slow dive
slobberbone
skid row
nada surf
Motley Crew
Muse
Morphine
Moby
millencolin
Michelle Branch
Everlast
Eve6
Evanescence
Erykah Badu
Enigma
Elliot Smith

Robert Kiyosaki
brian tracey
carlton sheets
tony robbins

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That’s a big pile of shit that I don’t want to have to try to rerip from cd’s etc (since all my cd’s sat on spools forever and are scratched to hell).

I have an idea how to quickly reaquire them, but still…. If this can happen to my giant hard drive once it can happen again. Ok it did happen one other time, but all it lost was assorted porn pictures ; ) which I really don’t care if they are nicely sorted or not.

Not looking forward to when this oversided hard drive starts loosing files from my websites or business card templates etc..

grr

Update: Today my friend Chris sent me a picture of the single girls that were sitting next to him at Rythm and Booms that I DIDN’T GET TO MEET because I was being an Antisocial Bastard.

Remember Kids, Don’t Be an Antisocial Bastard

Antisocial Bastard.

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Tonight was the night of madison’s huge fireworks festival, Rhythm and Booms. Well I had been invited to 2 different parties tonight both of which were right around the park. Besides those, I knew lots of other people going to this event. Lets see, also a girl sent me a text message saying she was working at “Visions” tonight. I believe my family was having an outing in Rockton.

Well you get the idea, but guess what I choose to do out of all that…. NOTHING. I was still in Fort Atkinson, and sat around listening to music all day. Well I did take a little time to go running, but for the most part I didn’t do shit. Got a call later that night from an old friend Morgan who said she was in town and wanted to do something, said she would call me back in a couple hours. Since she was in Fort I would of actually went over and been social, but she didn’t call back so I guess that was out.

I’m not really sure why I didn’t go to any of the things going on in Madison tonight. I think one is that I didn’t want to drink tonight and going to either of those parties I would of ended up doing so. If I had not gone to either of the parties there was no way in hell I could find parking within 6 miles of Warner Park.

Funny thing is I am lonely so going to social events seems like what I should do, but strange as it seems I am only really reminded of this when I hang out with my friends. By now most of my friends have gotten married, or moved out of the State. My sister and a couple married friends are the only ones left that I hang out with around here.

So I am becoming less and less attached to Wisconsin. I think if one of these days I manage to make a successful website that can generate some residual income that I am going to move out of the Country. Start a new life in New Zealand or Australia.

Unlike most of the people I know I am not sentimental. I don’t really have any items that i just have to keep, and I can see myself selling everything I own and moving. Right now I can only think of one item that I would keep, and that is my external terrabyte harddrive. It would simply take me way to long to recollectet the music / video / files from my websites / that I have on it.

Otherwise If I had enough money to just move I would do it. I am kind of a jack-of-all-trades so I am sure I could find work in another Country, since I know it to be a requirement to get sponsorship to live there. Well I will figure something out, but at this point I really don’t have anything holding me here except a big pile of stuff that I don’t need.