Insomniac's Diary (Vol. VII)
Why is it whenever I have a long trip ahead of me, I always get to struggle with a bout on insomnia? Yuck.
No quote at the top to start it up.. nothing really comes to mind and I'm typing in the dark with the television off. Anyway, let's go down the 7-point rundown for today (yesterday?) before attempting to go to bed again:
1) Wisconsin-Milwaukee won the Horizon League, which helps me greatly in the $35 NCAA pool I entered. I now have them, Gonzaga and Winthrop in, Boston College and Alabama should be at-large locks, and Manhattan is done. So I really need one of my other two to get in for a very respectable 6-of-8: either Northern Iowa gets in for me or Stanford wins the Pac-10 (or at least gets a miracle at-large with a run to the final). More on this later.
2) Keeping it sporty, the homeland got trounced by Italy in the World Baseball Classic, but I'm still wearing my super-awesome jersey with pride.
3) More sports (guess that's where my head's at tonight): I just watched a replay of Marseille at Paris St. Germain. It was really impressive, because Marseille send their entire reserve team because they weren't satisfied with the security measures PSG had taken. So out go the reserves (filled with numbers in the 20s-40s, because 1-18 are mostly taken up by the first-stringers), and they got a 0-0 away draw.
4) I'm about to spend 3 nights in Manhattan, another either there or in Atlantic City, all in paid accomodations, buy tickets to one or possibly more Pitt basketball games, and I will do it for under $500 (not counting gaming $$ in AC). That, my friends, is frugality, considering if I were here for a full 5 days, counting weekend, I'd spend at least $100 on gas, food, drinking, lap dances (If this is mom reading, "lap dances" is slang for donating to the homeless shelter.), etc.
5) So according to the Allegheny County Sheriff's website, Pennsylvania requires some form of state identification to get a license to carry a firearm. If that's true, that's crap, and I guess I need a new form of ID, because my Virginia driver's license, two valid passports, and enough non-photo proof of Pennsylvania residency doesn't cut it. Grrr...
6) REMINDER: Anyone who's going to be in the New York City/New Jersey area from now until Saturday should get in touch with me.. I'm trying to catch up with people... are you being left out? (I sound like a damn commercial)
7) Tom DeLay won his primary and the Patriot Act is getting renewed. I like to think of it as being the "...step back" part of the old "two steps forward..." saying. Saying or Paula Adbul song. Either one is appropriate.
That'll do it... I'm off to New York (by way of my bed)... rest in peace Kirby Puckett, Gordon Parks and Barry Bonds. I know, Bonds isn't dead, but with all those steroids, can the coronary be that far away?
No quote at the top to start it up.. nothing really comes to mind and I'm typing in the dark with the television off. Anyway, let's go down the 7-point rundown for today (yesterday?) before attempting to go to bed again:
1) Wisconsin-Milwaukee won the Horizon League, which helps me greatly in the $35 NCAA pool I entered. I now have them, Gonzaga and Winthrop in, Boston College and Alabama should be at-large locks, and Manhattan is done. So I really need one of my other two to get in for a very respectable 6-of-8: either Northern Iowa gets in for me or Stanford wins the Pac-10 (or at least gets a miracle at-large with a run to the final). More on this later.
2) Keeping it sporty, the homeland got trounced by Italy in the World Baseball Classic, but I'm still wearing my super-awesome jersey with pride.
3) More sports (guess that's where my head's at tonight): I just watched a replay of Marseille at Paris St. Germain. It was really impressive, because Marseille send their entire reserve team because they weren't satisfied with the security measures PSG had taken. So out go the reserves (filled with numbers in the 20s-40s, because 1-18 are mostly taken up by the first-stringers), and they got a 0-0 away draw.
4) I'm about to spend 3 nights in Manhattan, another either there or in Atlantic City, all in paid accomodations, buy tickets to one or possibly more Pitt basketball games, and I will do it for under $500 (not counting gaming $$ in AC). That, my friends, is frugality, considering if I were here for a full 5 days, counting weekend, I'd spend at least $100 on gas, food, drinking, lap dances (If this is mom reading, "lap dances" is slang for donating to the homeless shelter.), etc.
5) So according to the Allegheny County Sheriff's website, Pennsylvania requires some form of state identification to get a license to carry a firearm. If that's true, that's crap, and I guess I need a new form of ID, because my Virginia driver's license, two valid passports, and enough non-photo proof of Pennsylvania residency doesn't cut it. Grrr...
6) REMINDER: Anyone who's going to be in the New York City/New Jersey area from now until Saturday should get in touch with me.. I'm trying to catch up with people... are you being left out? (I sound like a damn commercial)
7) Tom DeLay won his primary and the Patriot Act is getting renewed. I like to think of it as being the "...step back" part of the old "two steps forward..." saying. Saying or Paula Adbul song. Either one is appropriate.
That'll do it... I'm off to New York (by way of my bed)... rest in peace Kirby Puckett, Gordon Parks and Barry Bonds. I know, Bonds isn't dead, but with all those steroids, can the coronary be that far away?
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