Archive for March, 2003

Wrestlemania was pretty entertaining I have to say. The highlights of the evening:

Hulk Hogan vs. Vince McMahaon - who would have thought I’d ever say a Hogan match was the best of the night but it was. Both men bladed and vince was gushing blood all over the place. Roddy Piper made a way too short surprise appearance and interfered in the match as well.

Booker T vs. HHH - while HHH retained his damn title yet again, leaving me disappointed, they put on a good match and it made Booker T look good. Here’s hoping that they give him another match where he actually can take the title

Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle - A pretty good match which ended shortly after brock nearly snapped his neck at a failed attempt at a shooting star press. How he survived that sick landing on his face/neck is a mystery to me, and how he actually was able enough to finish that match is another.

Best sign - “teabag sadaam”.

No one won the time bet again, there is 52 bucks in there now! We were all yelling at the TV to end the show on our times, I yelled the most and will probably lose my voice because of it, but it was fun. There was a good crowd over for it, and we splurged this time and got Famous Dave’s ribs, which was damn good. Now the weekend is over, and I’m exhausted. It went too fast and I stayed up way too late both nites and didn’t get enough sleep, but I had stuff to do all weekend and had a good time overall, which is just what I need more of these days.

Tonite I have pinball league. The lineup of games we are playing:
Star Trek: TNG
Sharkey’s Shootout
Star Wars Episode 1
Revenge From Mars
World Cup Soccer

Hopefully my lack of sleep last nite won’t be a factor in my playing today and that the great game of RFM I just played in my basement is an indication of how I’ll play, as I just put up a 1.1 Billion (1B of which was on ball 1). Had I not tanked the last two balls I’d still be playing now instead of typing this.

Still no word out of Thor, anyone taking bets on if he’ll show up for Wrestlemania? The invitation is there, if he doesn’t show, I will know where our friendship truly stands.

OK everyone wish me luck tonite, I could use it, playing well might lift my spirits.

I’ve been telling everyone that I come in contact with that Potbellys is the best place on earth, well now there is SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that what I have been proclaming is true! I told you so, yes sir I did!

Today I mailed off the materials to have the record mastered, from there it goes to the plant to be pressed. I have the sleeve laid out and ready for printing and have to hook up with the printer to hand it off. I am pretty rusty with laying out stuff for print, especially color, so I need to make sure I get a proof before they print to make sure I didn’t mess something up. It appears to be right.

Now if Brian of JFA will just get me the insert art, I can hand those off to be copied!

I’m not exactly sure how it happened, but I am hooked on the real world. I find myself watching it every time it’s on, even if I’ve seen it before. Oh man, what has become of me?! This is not my first exposure to it either. Back when the very first show happened (we are going back many years now), I scoffed at it, yet one day while my then girlfriend (aka: the ex-wife) was at class while I was visiting her in the poison town, they had one of those all day marathons on, and since I had already exhausted the 3 things in that town to do (one record store, garcia’s pizza and playing video games in the union and at space port), I started watching it. And watching it. And watching it. I spent the entire day watching it from start to end. The whole season in a day. In fact, I think when she got back, I told her we had to stay in so I could see what happens. Luckily, I was able to escape its hold after that first season, and only watch it here and there when there was absoultely nothing else on TV. But then I started watching the one that was in Chicago, mainly because it was from my city, and I wanted to see if they went to potbellys and reckless records, of which they did neither. But now, they have this vegas one, chock full of everyone sleeping with each other and all getting drunk all the time, and I just can’t stop watching! Someone save me!

It appears, the person that I considered to be my best friend has decided that he is not my friend anymore after he flaked on me for a party we were going to, and I called him on his shit. And to top it off, he puts a spin on it on his blog like I’m the selfish fair weather friend. Excuse me for getting pissed when you back out on me at the last minute and don’t bother to tell me until I ASK. Excuse me for not wanting to drive a half hour out of my way to pick you up to go to a show, only to tack on another half hour at 2am after said show when you can get there in 15 mins and have ample means to get there. Excuse me for not coming to yr place where you have two cats that reek havoc on my allergies. At least when I make plans with you, I keep them. That’s all I’m gonna say about it. I’d still be this dude’s friend but apparently he already dismissed me. Whatever. And way to put yr spin on it and get yr geek friends to bash me in yr comments. Nice. Wrestlemania is this sunday, yr still invited. If you don’t show up, then I guess I know where our friendship stands.

On a lighter note. I got my taxes done on saturday at a different place and this is the first year I can remember that I didn’t have to pay! In fact I got a little bit of money back, not much, especially after the bill for the tax work but I don’t have to pay!!!!! I went to that party, by myself since I didn’t have ample time to find someone to go with. It was pretty fun. I saw some regulars at the party that I haven’t seen in awhile and it was nice to talk to them. Yesterday I updated the spontaneous site again with some new images of Happy Toons from thier first show in 1984, thanks to Brooks giving me the images.

Today it is such a nice day, that I might have to give in to the temptation to put off eating what I brought for lunch until tomorrow, and spend the $ and go to potbellys for lunch.