152 insights into my soul

Ah, just got into work a few minutes ago on this cold, dreary day. Luckily, although today was my birthday, the celebrating was done yesterday, where the weather wasn't so bad. So, yesterday, woke up, went to church, and got back a few hours before the festivities were set to begin. The roomie cooked a bunch of burgers and sausages. Actually, since I'm a big burger fan, he made modified homemade coronary bypasses. A burger with a big beef patty, two types of cheese, a fried egg, bacon, slice of pepperoni, and mayo. Sounds gross, but so good! There was supposed to be sausage on that as well, but everyone scarfed up the sausages. And who is everyone? You know, the usual suspects, as well as some peeps from the asian crew, and the poker crew. Alas, some could not make it. But yeah, lots of food was had, so between this and the Fires of Brazil trip, it was a good eating weekend.

Tried that Time's up game. Its pretty neat! phatjoe can prolly correct me if I have the rules wrong, but basically the game is this: you have a bunch of cards with names of famous peeps on it. And the purpose of each round (of which there are three) is for you and your partner to get as many cards as you can under the time limit. Beforehand, everyone gets five cards, and they choose to discard two. I'm not sure what the best strategy for which ones to get rid of. But everyone puts the remaining cards in the pile to make the deck for the game. In the first round, you csn't pass a card, but you can do anything, save saying the actual name on the card (or spelling it out) to get your partner to figure it out, and you see how many cards you can get within the time limit. Then after all of the cards are won, the number of cards each group gets is recorded and the cards are put back together into a deck. The second round, you are limited to a one word clue, but you can also hum tunes and gesture. The third, no words at all, only gesturing and humming. Of course, clues peeps used in the first round influence the kinda clues used in the previous rounds. Like say, Charles Lindburgh was one of the answers. And the first round people give clues about his flying accomplishments. The next two rounds, if you and your partner remember he was the only pilot in the deck, one can just say pilot, or plane for their one word, and on the third round making flying gestures of plane sounds. It was fun. I think my insane memory helps. Because once you know everyone in the deck, the clues become easier to figure out.

Anyways, like I said, yesterday was good- good food, good folks, lots of fun. Combined with the carnivorousness and stripper-ogling of Saturday, it was an awesome weekend. The only thing missing was a spot of violence. You know, a bar brawl, or getting to shoot up shit. Then it would've been the best weekend ever!

smealgolv('Because its my birthday!') Just killing time at work. Church at 530 should be cool, they're getting together a super music group for it, so that should be pretty rocking. Oh, just got my sidekick ii from amazon, and it is so fetch! Of course, my belt is pretty heavy now, with the hiptop on one side, and the pock-it with a maglite and leatherman supertool on the other. Anyways, its working out pretty good. Got the terminal, so now I can connect to my net stuff 24/7! Fooled around with camera a bit, mailed some of the pics to my livejournal gallery. Its nothing exciting, just a pic of rufus and my station at work. But with the camera phone, I can fool around with this lj gallery feature. How long has this been around?! I only noticed it like last week, but according to the community, its been around since at least the beginning of November or October. Was I just dense?!

Had a little birthday suaree over at Chris' for Tara and my b-days last night. It was a great time. Chris fired up the grill, and there was of course "refreshing libation"! Krug also baked goodies all day before the party. Anyways, the usual suspects came. Even Bob and Jegger and his fiancee showed up. Of course, didn't end up leaving Chris' until 3am this morning. And since he lives off way up 400, Krug and I wouldn't get back for a while. Especially since we had to drop Grant and Tara off. Got to bed by 445. But I knew in advance that this might happen, and since I had four extra hours from last week, I didn't have to come in until 11am. No problems waking, no hangover or anything, so that was fortuitous.

Humdrum day at work. Actually, just a few little problems that have been taken care of. Alas, there's nothing interesting on right now. Just saw Bachelor Party on FX. Funny movie, in a sophomoric kinda way. But that's me, sophomoric. Tara was saying on the way home last night that I can never be serious. I can be like mature and serious! Really! Okay, I guess I could stand to grow up a little.

So December fifth was my berf-day. spv('That would be a birthday') Got a call from my mom at 630am. It kinda freaked me out, I forgot for the moment it was my birthday and didn't expect it. But I kicked myself afterwards once I realized it was just my mom wishing me a happy birthday.

Oh well, had b-day dinner at the spag fac with Scott, Sato, Bob, Chris, and w00ter. Krug and Holli were invited, but Krug has a class run late and Holli had a final the next day. People still in school. cliffV('What's up with that?!') Anyways, it was a fun time. Got there 730, but unfortunately there was a 45 min wait! So we had some drinks at the bar while we waited. Finally got a table, slow service. I had the hearty meaty combo (Pascetti w/ 3 meatballs and an italian sausage) I expected to have some left over, but I finished it. Owel, we ended up being there until 10, a lot later than any of us expected.

Got to work, Godfather II was playing so I started asking qs that got me on a hour long conversation w/ Todd about the JFK assassination. Mob ties to the CIA sound pretty cool.

Just finished watching this TV-movie called "Naked City: Justice with a Bullet" Crazy! It was these two stories where this one cop has a contract on his life, and these two Ohio girls go to the big city and hilarity ensues. Hilarity in that they get caught up with a bunch of drug dealers and managed to shoot and kill like four of them. It was all in self defense, but its kinda silly, really. I can believe the first shooting, where robin tunney kills that guy who was trying to rape her friend from Law & Order: CI. But then when his enemy goes after them because they took some of his money, L&O:CI chick grabs the MP5 of one of the baddies, shoots randomly, killing one of them, who in turn blows the other two baddies away in his death throes with his MAC-10!

Owel, its not quality TV, but its passable for the middle of the night.