misc

I feel like I have been working like a crazy person lately. Well, maybe not working that much but my schedule has been wacky.

I can't wait to go to St Louis on Friday despite the weather forecast being dismal for the game on Friday night. I haven't visited my brother since he got married last year. I hear he has a lot of yard work lined up for me to help him with. It should be a blast, we can have fun doing pretty much anything together.

While I am usually very excited about my birthday and celebrate it for most of the spring and summer, I am not all the hyped up about it this year. I am not really sure why not, as I have lots of exciting things going on for it. Maybe I'm just getting to be that old.

I am excited to be going to Mexico in a week for an extension of my birthday. It will be just a small group of friends have a fun extended weekend together. I sure hope I get a killer tan.

Mel's life has come to an end. RIP the COUGAR

As I reported on the first of April, a cougar had been spotted prowling around the North Chicago area. Last night the cops gunned down the cougar.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/894573,CST-NWS-cougar15.article

another horoscope

I wonder what this one means. What should I be taking a brief hiatus or sabbatical from?

Financial columnist Bill Fleckstein says that by its very nature, capitalism continually cycles through periods of boom and bust. You can't have one without the other. The American economy is in trouble because for many years the federal government suppressed the down times in an effort to create a state of perpetual boom. The backlogged busts are now kicking in all at once. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, in the hope that you won't make a comparable mistake in your own sphere. Some tightly wound part of your life needs to unravel for a while. I advise you to consider going on a brief hiatus or sabbatical.

Cougar may have prowling North Chicago neighborhood

Mel was in town and didn't even tell me? That COUGAR!

http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/i0509-BC-IL-LakeCountyCougar--1stLd-Writethru-03-30-0165

POOR LISA--update 2

So, upon checking Lisa's weekly horoscope, we realized she may have made a bad decision by choosing to go along with YOBTTW(but it's too late now, she is in it):

This is one of those rare times when your empathy could undo you unless you adhere to the following guidelines. 1. Squelch any attraction you might have to fascinating ruins, sexy decay, or appalling beauty. 2. If you have been sucked into the sphere of a good-looking monster or seductive tyrant, yank yourself free. 3. Break your gaze the instant you sense you're falling under the sway of a flaming narcissist. 4. Suppress the temptation to think this thought: "I'm bored with my hell; I want to hang out in your hell for a change."

She decided to join my hell...ha ha ha.

First update

No, there won't be updates like there were for the YOY, but I would like to report that Lisa and I actually started our Year of BALLS TO THE WALLS last night at midnight. Let's just say, we're both one for one.

I am predicting that we will be starters on the 2009 ALL STAR TEAM! Ha ha.

It's a new year...and it will be called...

So, it is officially the 2 year anniversary of the begining of the Year of Yes. Someone suggested that I repeat it, but I say no, as do all of my friends. During the YOY they were drug along with it and were often quite miserable. So, I won't put myself nor them through that again, because I am pretty sure none of them would go anywhere in public with me if they knew I was doing it again.

So, the decision is The Year of BALLS TO THE WALLS!(sorry, mom). No, I am NOT going to be c-r-a-z-y all year and am in fact dragging Lisa into it, too. We are going to be more forward with the theory that the more we get rejected the easier it gets. Ha ha. No, really. Neither of us have any game. No Game Giglio and No Game Lens, well, not anymore, kiddos. We're putting on our jerseys and bringing our "A" game.

**Lisa, in an attempt not to participate tried to recommend that we do the Year of "Hold ME" and be more cuddly, because we both like our space bubbles to be kept in tact. She went as far as to recommend we become Plushies...if you know what they are, you will wet your pants laughing right now. It was all a joke, no worries. Lisa isn't a freak.

Live without rules...not a good idea

Mel sent me my horoscope again...


In an effort to create safer streets, some European towns are getting rid of traffic signs and stoplights. The theory is that if drivers have no visible aides to guide them, they will slow down and be more considerate. "What we want is for people to be confused," says an official of the German town of Bohmte. "When they're confused, they'll be more alert and drive more carefully." In this spirit, and in accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest that you spend a week exploring the virtues of living without any rules. Instead, rely on your intuition about what's most righteous and authentic to do in every situation. Proceed on a case-by-case basis, without invoking general principles or overarching theories.