April 2002
4-26-03
12 hours of sleep will do anyone good. Of course, when I got up at 6:30 this morning it did seem a little strange. I had my coffee, paid bills, went to the post office, the bank and had breakfast, all by about 9:30 in the morning. However, it left the rest of the day to accomplish things.
Moe had to work 8 to 5 and Alicia was off somewhere - too bad it wasn't permanently. It was great to have a quiet house to myself for a change.
So I spent the day (it poured all day outside) catching up on things I haven't done in the last two weeks, like laundry, finding the floor in our bedroom, downloading a whole bunch of music, getting ready for our Foxwoods trip tomorrow and such. I even scrubbed out the shower and the toilet in the bathroom - that's what a cleaning kick I was on.
Tomorrow we're off to Foxwoods for the night - I've got the free room that they gave to me and we're going to meet my Mom there. It should be a good time. I took some money out beforehand this time - and I'll lock away my ATM card - so I should be good (yeah, right!). But I kind have to be - Vegas is only a month and a half away or so (middle of June) and I have to have money there.
Not sure what we are going to do tonight - Brendan is coming over - except that he slid off the road on the way here and took out someone's mailbox - but the funny part - is that the people weren't upset - they were going to take it out anyway - go figure. So he went home to change (he got all wet) and then I guess we'll be doing something. Now if I wanted to be uber nerd, I could bring the laptop with me to Vegas since they have a network connection in the bedroom - I guess that would be one way to save money - browse the web all night.
4-25-03
Don't ever go to a game, get home at 1:30 and then go to work again the next morning starting at 5:30 - it just doesn't work.
I've been a zombie today - going to bed - will wake up sometime this weekend...
4-23-03
Guess what? I get to go to the Celtics/Pacers playoff game tomorrow night at the Fleet Center. Sharon got some tickets from the McDonalds owner and she and her husband and I will be there cheering on the Boston team. Now I've got to decide whether or not to call in sick on Friday.
Today at work was kind of bland - turret's girl is sick so she's not yelling "turkey" out too much and Lorraine and I were busy, so there wasn't much time to be catty bitches about anything.
Somehow, I still left late too! This is becoming a bad precedent - almost all last week and this week I've been staying late. Yuck, but at least it's some overtime.
This weekend I'm off to Foxwoods with Moe and my Mom - so that should be quite fun.
4-22-03
Three days in a row and it's all here in the journal!
Nothing really exciting or even interesting happened today. I was up late last night (and it appears tonight too) and so I was tired on the ride in - fell asleep on the train and probably snored my way into Boston. Work wasn't exciting or boring - but busy - which is a welcome change from the humdrum it usually is.
Then coming out wasn't too bad - other than pouring rain.
And Moe worked late - so I went and visited him after I relaxed around the house for a while and now I've been working on Casino-Gaming-Guide and am thinking of going to bed.
Out of the 15 little baby fish that were born a week ago, we have one left - and the mother just died - I had to grab it out of the tank and flush it. This is exactly why I didn't want fish. Moe was all upset that all the babies were gone (I really don't know where they went - I assume they got eaten) and that the mother had died. I had to cheer him up. Plus it probably didn't help that he had a shitty day at work.
Get to finally be out in the field next week - so vacation day on Monday, then in the field all day on Tuesday and Wednesday! I can't wait!
4-21-03
Why the fuck am I so stupid sometimes? I've been so good with saving money and paying bills and being the good person when it comes to money and then I go and take myself to Lincoln Park and before I now it, poof, there goes a chunk of all that I've been saving (thank god for ATM withdrawal limits). I just can't understand it sometimes. I'm not an idiot, or really stupid, or at least I don't think so - and when I'm not at a casino - I'm Mr. Scrooge when it comes to money (unless it's something I just have to have). So if I didn't go and play, then I'd probably be rich at this point. The worst part is having to kick myself the entire way home for going and spending the money. Yeah, I felt pretty guilty.
On the more positive side, I spent most of the day doing good things. I got up early and cleaned the house from the weekend that I was gone because apparently no one else will clean it when I'm gone. I sure enjoy emptying and filling the dishwasher at 9:30 in the morning so that everyone in the house can hear me doing it :)
Then I did a bunch of work here on the site - checked some links (some are dead, I know, but I think they might come back - I'll keep an eye on them). I also put up some new pictures in the visitors' gallery and the real gay couples gallery (broke that one into two separate galleries).
Once Moe finally got up (and I chased Alicia out of the house with my housekeeping apparently) - we had lunch...
He had to go to work in the afternoon and then that's when I was stupid. Maybe I need to hire myself someone that keeps me away from the casinos and comes up with other things for me to do on afternoons when no one else is around to do something...that would probably be cheaper than going.
However, I'm not going to completely call myself a schmuck at this point - it's been a month since I last went (not counting the time with Moe and Brendan because Moe metered out the money to me and I wasn't going crazy) - and so if I don't go again, then it's okay - I just have to figure out what drives me to. Before I went with Moe and Brendan, I didn't want to go - because I was saving everything - then when I went - I've just wanted to go back...so I just have to stay away for at least a week, then the feeling dies, and then I don't want to go anymore because I want to have the money.
Today I had off if you were wondering - Patriot's Day here in Massachusetts - one of those queer New England holidays that no one else in the country gets off. I'm not complaining - I didn't have to rush back yesterday to get home in time to go to bed for work and I had a day off so I have a short week this week. Now if I just hadn't gone...it would have been an even better day off.
4-20-03
Happy Easter
Driving back from NY to Boston always seems to suck beyond belief. When I went to NY on Friday night, I left here around 8:30 or so and for all intents and purposes, there wasn't any traffic the entire way to NY. However, tonight I leave NY at about 9, and I84 is bumper to bumper almost the entire way back to Boston. It was literally bumper to bumper from NY all the way to Hartford and then when it hit the Mass Pike and then the Mass Pike was literally bumper to bumper from I84 to the exit for I395. It sucked big time. Took me about 2 1/2 hours to get there on Friday, 3 hours and 20 minutes to get home.
The weekend was my typical weekend home with the parents. My Mom was upset because i got home late and I could have fallen asleep driving, then Saturday we were supposed to go hiking and do some trail maintenance on the Appalachian Trail and it turned into a fiasco (lets see, everyone was late, then we didn't eat lunch and start hiking until almost 2 - after the 3rd tree my father was using the chainsaw on, the tree pinched the saw, and started to pull it away from my father - he let it go at that point because he didn't want to lose any of his body parts - so the tree pulled the chainsaw, rolled over it and crushed it). Nevertheless, it was, shall we say, an interesting hike. I've got a few pictures from it up - you can check them out.
Then Saturday night we went out to dinner with the people who went hiking with us and that turned into a major argument about where we were going to eat. The place we finally picked, PC Paddocks or something like that near LaGrange was pretty good - and I had enough beers to make sure that I didn't car what my parents were saying or doing.
Today of course was Easter so in the morning I stressed my mother out by announcing I was going over to visit John (mind you, that she was only cooking for me, my brother, my father and herself) and would be gone for a bit. I got home around 2 - and dinner still wasn't ready, but she moved on to new things to stress about - namely how she is going to get to Foxwoods next weekend to stay over with us.
All through dinner I got to answer questions on the best way to get there and exactly where it was...
Then it was time to go and visit my Grandfather and his wife. Fun, fun, fun...at least I got money out of the deal.
After we got back home, I tried to fix my brother's computer that has a virus, but I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it, so then I came home and got to experience the wonderful traffic.
Tomorrow I'm planning on sleeping, relaxing in my shorts and not doing too much. The only thing I know I have to do is change some roof lights at McDonalds, but that's easy and not too much work.
4-18-03
I hate commuting.
Not only did I have to stay late, which didn't really bother me, but then I go and try to catch a train out and I sat there in the station for 20 minutes. I got there at 4:30 - a D train did not come until 4:50. Of course, 8 other trains went by but they weren't D's and didn't go where I had to go.
Just packing and then heading to dinner before going to NY for the weekend.
4-17-03
A whole day with nothing to do - sounds kind of great and I actually had one. Sharon and I went out last night - but I could have made it into work - however, I just decided to use one of my personal days and take the day off. It worked well because Moe was home for the first half of the day - then he was off to work - and Alicia worked late too - so I had the entire day off to myself for the most part. I could have spent the day walking around in my boxer shorts if I wanted to.
Our fish had children last night. We now have all these little teeny black fish swimming around and I'm not really sure what to do with them. I guess we'll just let them grow and see what happens. I'm guessing that this means we need a bigger tank already. They're almost as bad as puppies at this point when it comes down to money.
Tomorrow it's back to work for me, but then it's a long weekend. I'll be in NY for Saturday and Sunday, but back here Sunday night and Monday before it's a short week of work next week.
4-16-03
Holy cow - I'm 26 now. I don't feel all that much older, but 26...Just wait until I turn 30 and see how I react if I'm like this now.
The Red Sox game was great - and to top it off they won - so it made it even better. I had never been to Fenway before and it's a great park and a great place to watch baseball. No wonder people didn't want to have it torn down. I'd gladly go back and watch another game, even though I'm not the biggest baseball fan in the world.
Today I just had a meeting to go to and I decided this evening that I'm taking tomorrow off too - it's my Birthday week - I worked on my Birthday - thus I think I can take tomorrow off. So whatever!
It was fun to have Moe in Boston - last time he was in the city with me was right when I first started working down here and when I was still "country boy in the city" and he was the city guy. This time, I was the one running across streets and giving directions and stuff. I kind of liked it. I've gone from country bumpkin to urbane gay man I suppose. I also liked his expression when we were packed like sardines into the T - I pointed out that's what I go through everyday.
I haven't really been doing anything here on the site for the last few days - been too busy with other stuff - and I haven't had all that much to do. I will have to go and work on the links section sometime - some are dead and I have a few new ones to add. Haven't gotten any pictures for the visitors' gallery lately - so if you're reading this and want your picture up, just email it to me with any text that you want included and I'll get it up there.
This weekend I'm off to NY for Easter. I guess my father and I are going hiking on Saturday and then on Sunday we're doing Easter Dinner with either ourselves or possibly my Grandfather - I have no idea at this point. At least I have Monday off for Patriot's Day, so I don't have to worry about rushing back on Sunday night. I'll probably still come home on Sunday, but I can come back late and miss the traffic now so that makes it a lot better. Hopefully with the hike, I can get to use my new camera a bit and I can get some new pictures up here.
4-14-03
Less than a day left of being 25. Makes me kind of sad to know that I'm now closer to 30 than I am to 20. I guess I was the day after my last birthday, but this kind of makes it closer to home. By the time I pay my car off, I'll be 30!
Tonight I'm off the gym with Moe and then probably out to grab something to eat along with a stop at the bank and to visit Sharon. Nothing too exciting.
Tomorrow's the big B-day. Moe's meeting me at my office and we're going to the Red Sox game tomorrow night, so that should be a lot of fun. I've never been to a Sox game before (was at some Mets games when I was a New Yorker). So this should be quite the experience since everyone tells me there's nothing quite like a Boston Red Sox fan.
The train ride home tonight sucked - once again the MBTA feels the need to put only a single car train outbound during rush hour so not only are we like sardines as soon as we get on, people pile in at every stop and by the time people start getting off the train, we are all smashed into one another, toe to toe and face to face and it just sucks. I hate crowded trains. I just stuck my headphones on, stared out the window and made the best of it. It is soon to be my birthday anyway.
4-13-03
Damn weekend is over already!
This daylight savings time still has me screwed up. I spent the day puttering around the house, then going outside to clean my car and go for a drive and when it feels like maybe 4 or so, I look down and it's 7 at night! I forgot how much is sucked to get dark late when you have to get up early in the morning. 5:30am comes around awfully fast.
Moe, Brendan and I went to Lincoln Park last night and had a good time. It appeared for a change that I was the only one winning - left after 4 hours with only $20 less than I went in with. Any night you come home with any money is a good one in my book. Plus when I had a bill jam on one of the machines, Moe and I got to flirt with the incredibly hot security guard that came to watch the guy fix the machine. Major fucking hottie...and in a place you wouldn't expect - usually ugly people are there when I'm there - so it was a pleasant surprise...so if there's a fellow that works for Lincoln Park reading this who's a security guard and was talking to two guys waiting to get the machine fixed...
Afterwards we hit Bickfords for some late night breakfast and it just happened to be prom night in some of the towns and apparently they all had the same idea for a late night breakfast at Bickfords. The place was insanely busy for 1:30 in the morning.
Another week of work...
At least Tuesday night Moe is taking me to a Sox game for my Birthday and then on Wednesday I have a meeting, so I won't have to go into the office at all. I get to sleep in a bit for that one. Which will be good since I imagine I'll be out late for the Sox game.
4-12-03
A weekend finally! This past week has seemed to last just about fucking forever. I don't know if it was the shitty weather, or it was just that instead of having a cold, now I'm fighting off allergies and all week I was in a claritin induced haze.
Last night I closed with Moe and it was an exercise in trying to stay awake. Until about 9 or so I was okay, but then just crashed after that. Good thing that Brendan had stopped in to talk and help out, otherwise when I was counting the money after close, I probably would have fallen asleep. But this way, I made it and managed to get home around 1 or so. Moe and Brendan went to Dunkin Donuts. I would have fallen asleep in my coffee, so I just went to bed.
Then didn't bother getting up until noon today. I wish I could do that everyday - it's so great to just stay in a comfy bed and sleep and be a bum. But of course, we all have things to do and we can never just be lazy.
After getting up - of course I was greeted to the site of thing wandering the house in her pajamas. One thing I don't want to see is an ugly bitch in her pajamas walking around. When she had her big tits cut off, she lost her one redeeming quality as a woman and now she's just ugly, fat, lazy and stupid. Now isn't that a flattering description from a gay guy.
Tonight we're going out with Brendan - I think we're going to Lincoln Park, but I'm not sure. I'm sure dinner will be in there somewhere.
Then tomorrow Moe has to work and I am planning on a photography expedition to the Cape to try out my new camera. I'm hoping to get some good shots and to just get out and enjoy this nice weather that we are finally having.
After that, it's back to another full week of shit at work. I wonder if annoying coworker will be any better. She let out this huge fart yesterday morning while I was there. I know we all do it, but if you are going to let one rip, at least go to the bathroom or something, especially in an office.
4-11-03
A quick in and out - once again doing the Friday night close thing with Moe tonight at the store. Bah humbug. It kind of really sucks to work all day and then come home, have enough time to change and then go back to work.
Finally at least this week will be over and I have a weekend with absolutely no plans which is cool and great by me. I plan on sleeping as late as possible tomorrow and then just figuring out where to go from there.
4-8-03
Today wasn't so tiring. Maybe it was all that sleep that I got yesterday.
However, I am bitching about the weather - it was fucking snowing this morning. We got about 3 inches of snow and it never got above 34 for the day and it's supposed to snow again tomorrow. Did anyone tell mother nature that spring's supposed to be here?
I've just about finished the resume thing, now comes the cover letter. Applying for jobs is just so damn fun. I spend all day in front of a computer and I come home and write more stuff now. But it's a prospect, so am not bitching.
I'll work up a final copy tomorrow along with the cover letter and get them out of here and into the place.
Now it's the challenge of waking Moe up from his nap and getting him to get something to eat with me. I think we're also going to go and say hi to Sharon.
4-7-03
I'm pooped today for some reason. Must be Monday fever I suppose. At work my stomach was is knots for most of the day. I'm trying to decide whether or not to apply for this job that I found. I spent the day measuring all the pros and cons of applying. I came to the conclusion that it was worth it to apply, even if I don't get it, at least it gets me into the "I can move on if I want to" mental state - which I need to change something at my current job, so something has got to help.
Thus, I've started working on a new resume. I haven't decided what kind of format I want or how I want it to look.
Right now - I'm gonna relax for a bit.
4-5-03
Don't forget to put your clocks ahead tonight (if you go to daylight savings time). So that means I get an hour less of sleep I guess.
Our original plan for today was a trip to Boston - but when we woke up around 10 (since we didn't get home until almost 2 last night after closing) it was 32 degrees and pouring rain. Not exactly the kind of weather you want to be wandering around a city in.
Brendan showed up a bit later and we figured we'd just go to the Science Museum - well it closed at 5 - so at that point, by the time we got into Boston - we'd have to run through it in order to see everything. Not much point in that.
So instead we went to the mall (woo hoo - can you tell how exciting that was) and I got some new clothes (like I need any) and a new jacket (like I really need that). Then it was off to Walmart and Moe's been asking for a fish tank - so we bit the bullet and got the whole kit and caboodle -- fish tank, filter, etc... Now we're just waiting to get some fish - apparently the water has to do stuff first before you dump fish in. My last experience with fish was they live for a week, then die. Then you get more of them.
After the three of us put the tank together and got it all set up - then we went to dinner and then for ice cream where we had the most incompetent waiter at Friendly's. Afterwards it was to the store to say hi to Justine and watch the little high school boys run around the lot and try to steal things. Amazing how fast they scatter when a police patrol runs through.
I'm feeling news withdrawal - haven't watched or read anything in almost 2 days. However, I imagine if something horrible had happened in Iraq, I'd probably hear about it anyway. So it's sort of nice not to be glued to the latest reports.
Tomorrow I'm gonna sleep and sleep and then get some chores done (like going to the storage unit and stuff) and then I think Moe, Sharon and I will catch a movie and then the two of us will probably go to the gym for a while before heading to bed.
I found a possible job opening - and I'm contemplating applying for it. I have to balance the security I have where I am - with the possibility of having a job closer to where I live, with a bit more money and without a commute to Boston. I'll decide by this evening so I can update my resume and get a cover letter and stuff. I just found it browsing the web - so maybe it's fated to happen (like I found the job I have now). We'll just have to wait and see. God, no Boston commute, I would almost contemplate having sex with a girl for that one.
4-4-03
Not much of a restful Friday night - I have to run out and help Moe close the store tonight - so I get to work my normal day job and then come home, rest for about a half an hour - and then run to the store so that I can close. The only plus is that I get a check out of it next Wednesday which is always cool.
Today at the office was fairly easy going - though RCGWTTH did have to keep asking questions and at one point I had her convinced that there was such a thing as championship clam fighting. You put the clams together and they fight it out. She was quite entranced. She also thought that my new raincoat was wonderful and couldn't stop talking about that for at least an hour. "Where'd you get it, how much did it cost?" and so on...
Then of course, now she just uses her cell phone to make personal phone calls and so instead of being on the company phone for several hours at a time, she's on her cell phone which makes it even more obvious. I just can't figure out stupidity some times.
Oh well - off to help Moe.
4-3-03
I came home from work early yesterday, crawled into bed and slept until this morning. You could say that I was a bit run down and a bit under the weather. My nose clogged up again and I just felt blah. But when I woke up this morning - I did feel better.
I made it through the day too without feeling too awful.
Of course RCGWTTH (see below for an explanation) was on her cell phone now making personal phone calls all day. It appears that she didn't understand what Lorraine was telling her - keep off the damn phone - you're here to fucking work - not talk on the phone all day. We're all waiting for the boss to start yelling and screaming about it at the staff meeting on Monday.
Annoying coworker is on vacation so it's quiet on that side of my cube.
After I got home - Moe and I went over and got Sharon and then went out to dinner. Following dinner we stopped at a craft store while I looked for some photo supplies (I didn't find any), then an expensive furniture store and finally home depot where I found some things I had been looking for (like a chain to fix the toilet and some hair clog remover to get rid of Alicia's hairballs that block all the drains).
Moe went back down to the store when we got home to finish up some work and now I'm heading off to bed. If you're interested, I put up a few new reviews at epinions (magazine reviews) and you can check them out.
4-1-03
So I've made it to April and by the middle of the month, I'm going to be 26 years old. There's something to be said about suddenly realizing that you are going to be closer to 30 years old instead of 20. I'm not going to dwell on it - I've got another 4 years to plan my pity party.
Woke up this morning and jumped out of bed for some reason - was out the door and at work at 7:25 this morning (I have to be there by 7:45) so I am not sure exactly what happened there. All of the traffic gods must have looked down on me. However, that damn dump truck was still in front of me on the way to the train station. I don't know where it comes from or where it goes, but I always seem to get stuck behind a dump truck. It must be some sort of cosmic irony.
Registration Clerk Girl Who Talks To Herself (RCGWTTH for short) got her ass handed to her by Lorraine today. We have been noticing that she has been spending more and more time on the phone with personal phone calls. Yesterday was the breaking point for Lorraine because RCGWTTH was on the phone, when you added it up, for almost 4 hours with personal phone calls. That's just fucking ridiculous! So today she pulls her aside and she's like "you know, you really have to watch your personal phone calls - we do get the phone bills and the boss does look at them. If you need to make them, use your cell phone." Well apparently that set her off because she didn't talk for the rest of the day - had lunch in the resource room and slammed the door and proceeded to use her cell phone to talk on the phone all afternoon while staring at Lorraine.
I told her that she was a psycho, but no one listened to me.
Annoying coworker had to get her licks in too - I had to listen to her ask me about environmental questions all day. Apparently she wants to try to learn so that she can review and take care of stuff that's part of my job. So whenever she questioned me about something - I'd take away the report she was reading - looking it over, and then tell her not to worry about it. What she doesn't realize is that once she's done with her stupid drivel and gives it to our boss, he'll give it back to me to go over all the environmental sections. hahahahaha!
I tried chinese for lunch and it was disgusting - I am writing off the chinese restaurant as a place to eat lunch from now on. I suffered from a stomach ache all afternoon.
I got home fairly easily and Moe was already home with dinner on the table - it made me so happy. It was good too!
Then we went to the gym and signed up and paid for our memberships. We are now official card carrying gym people.
Then it was off to change some promotional stuff at the store (since I've been put in charge of it - so I get like an hour a week at McDonalds changing promotional materials). I think it's kind of funny to get a check for like 12 dollars. But I get to see Sharon and Moe if he's working the night I have to do it, so that's cool.
Now it's time for bed - sleepy, sleepy...
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