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Friday Night Crazyness

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Friday night I ended up going out with Jayson, Gretchen, Jennifer, Cari, Nelson and others. We had a good time even though Nelson cannot shut up. We ordered pizza from a bar on 3rd and 23rd. We drank, ate, some people played darts. I did not. I have no aim without drinking, so I decided not to throw pointy things after a few drinks.

I have confirmed my previous suspicion that nelson can control what he does and says just as much as I can control fire. He just says what is on his mind. In principle I respect that, but he has some vulgar and not really funny things on his mind allot. he tries to be funny. Sometimes it is funny, but it is also just mean or insensitive.

All of us ended up at Dan’s to play scrabble and poker for a while. I showed Danny, Jayson, Anthony and Nelson how to play Texas Hold-um. We didn’t play for money. Jayson surprisingly did well. I did good, but not the best.

After Dan, and others finished their game of scrabble Dan wanted to play Hold-um for “real”. Not many of us were in for it, but Cari, Dan, Jennifer, and I ended up playing. I ended up being the big winner, but pissed everyone off by leaving at 11:30 before everyone was done playing. They couldn’t win back any losses. Jenn was like, “i will make everyone remember that you left early”. My response was, “ok. I will remind everyone that you lost big time”.

It was in general a fun night. Nelson is still an ass, but I get along with him anyway. he is in he means well, and doesn’t mean to be a dick, he just is sometimes.

I Do Not Like Politics

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I really do not like politics. For that matter I cannot stand the news. I haven’t watched a news show for years. That is funny to me since my mom always said I used to watch the news when I was little. Now it is so easy to see whatever angle the news is trying to take. I cannot stand it. I read news from Reuters or AP, and that is about it. Even that is sometimes one-sided.

Everyone seems so passionate about this election. I have friends who are volunteers for the Kerry campaign. Other friends and coworkers have their own opinions. From observing people I know I have got 2 questions. One, why then is there such a large percentage of people who are still undecided? Come on, how many months do you need to decide who to vote for? Second what is going on with our political system? I am neither a democrat nor a republican. At times I have agreed with both sides, and disagreed with both. Why then is both sides moving more to the right or left (in my opinion)?

I wont vote for Bush, but not for any of the reasons most people sight. But I am not really compelled to vote for Kerry either. He will get my vote because he has one thing going for him, he is not Bush. Normally I don’t write about politics, and I think that is a good idea. Politics, religion and operating systems are way to polarizing topics to discuss. As a tech guy I will talk about OS’s, but that is the russian roulette I will play! What scares me more than anything is not that Bush is president, or will be re-elected, but that if he does win 50+% of the public actually voted for him. That will get me wondering.

If you want to understand my opinion of world politics today, you should watch the Daily Show with John Stewart. Yes a comedy show actually portrays the situation in our country better than any news show. I get more realistic news from John than from anyone else. His time on crossfire last week was priceless. All I can say is thanks to the internet, I was able to download and watch it. To watch real political pundits or whatever they are called attaching him for being soft in interviews was crazy. Stewart is correct in saying shows like that suck. I may be paraphrasing there, but you get my drift.

Ok, like I said I don’t like to talk about politics’ but this post was written out of frustration with the universe today. I will now resume my normal ranting about some cool gadget, or the Simpsons. Hey the Simpsons new season starts in 2 weeks!!! Was that a good segway?

Lazy Saturday

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I am lazy. I admit that all the time. I blame genetics, dam that lazy dad of mine! Of course my mom is always busy and active, so wouldn’t that cancel the genetics of my lazy dad out? Ok, I am getting off topic. I am lazy, get over it. I am especially lazy on the weekends. I like to sleep in. Do nothing, catch up on my TV watching (thank you Tivo). Today is no different. I got a hair cut. The guy I am using chopped off way too much hair. I love it. I need to find the goop he uses to keep it down when he combs it for me. I am messing around now with the blog. Some people have hobbies I have blog writing. It beats doing nothing! Actually I like writing so I do enjoy this blog thing.

I am now procrastinating the work I have to do. I need to do some power points and update some documents for work. I also need to do some shopping for clothing, but since I find that one of the most boring things in the universe I am not going to do it right now. Part of me is nagging me to put up on eBay some of the old gear that I want to sell (get out of my closet). The rumor is the new Treo is being announced tomorrow so I should build up my bank account to pay for the upgrade that I know I will go and get. I also need to do some house cleaning again, but I don’t like that either so I will procrastinate about that also.

Class Is A Bust, Well Sort Of

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After some thought I have finally came to my senses. I woke up and realized I am not 18 years old again and in college. I said to myself why in the world am I spending all this time on a volunteer class? I loved being an EMT. And I like the “idea” of being an EMT again. In practice I am killing myself to get to class 3 (sometimes 4) nights a week.

I want to volunteer. But I already have a stressful and time consuming job. Half of me thinks I am copping out. That half of me says if I don’t do this again now, I will never get to do it. The other half of me says I am crazy for wasting that much time outside of work on school. I should have a life, instead of going for something that I did 10 years ago. I may be over analyzing everything, but taking or not taking the course is a big decision. I don’t care about the money for the class. If I didn’t spend it on the class I would have blown it on something. I am more concerned about the time I wasted, or time I will waste taking the rest of the course.

My dad thought I was crazy. he said he didn’t even know why I was taking it in the first place. He thought (as I do somewhat) I have a busy enough job, and I should just relax when I don’t have to work. Now my dad is lazy so maybe I shouldn’t listen to his opinion, but he echo’s what I am thinking. Jayson and Cari also seemed to think I was making the right decision. Not sure if they were just agreeing with me to make me feel better, but the decision is final. I already missed class tonight. That would make 2 I missed. I could only miss 4 before I got booted. The class is not worth that much emotional strain till January. I am used to going to college and taking a class for 2 nights a week. This is allot more. To me work is allot more important to me right now. They keep giving me paychecks. And it is not like I am bored at work. I have more than enough to do to keep me busy.

Just to note I was doing excellent in the class. I had one of the 2 highest grades in the class. That may have been part of the problem. I didn’t crack the book at all, and I was so bored from the class. Maybe when I am not so crazy I can try this again? But deep down I know that

Some People Need To Learn To Drive

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Getting ready to cross the street across from my building tonight I was standing 2 feet from the curb in the cross walk. I was minding my own business when some asshole backed his car into me. Thankfully (for him and me) the dumb-ass wasn’t going very fast. This &*%$^&* in his wanna be punked out ride didn’t even see me. He got out of his car when I kicked his bumper. He is luck I didn’t put a whole in his window. Granted I got lightly shoved, but this idiot could have been moving faster. You have to look.

This is the second time I have almost gotten run over on (or near) the curb in NYC. The last time was New Years back in 95, 96. I would recount that in more detail but I was very drunk and all I remember is the guy in the car was also. The difference was he was driving and I was walking.

That was my moron story for the day. I am taking the day off tomorrow. Hopefully I will get some extra sleep, a hair cut, some shopping and general laziness done. I may even study for my class. The day off won’t be complete since I will have class later at night. This is the first real skills session. Yes I had CPR but that is different. This is the first patient assessment skills. I haven’t taken an EMT class in years and I am amazed at how much some of it comes back to me right away, and how other things have changed…

Now I Am Dangerous

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My EMT class took it’s American Heart CPR tests on Wednesday. After being nervous for no reason (hey, I have done this class like 4 or 5 times before) I passed both the practical and written test. I got a 92 if anyone is keeping score. I for one am not keeping score, but I have a 94 average in the class so far. Ok, so I am keeping score. Now I am dangerous and am “certified” to provide CPR. Actually I am not sure if they call it certified. I am trained in it may be safer. Either way a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Next week I have 4 days of EMT class instead of the regular 3. The late nights are not great, but I want to be an EMT again.

Sick Saturday

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I stayed in most of the day today. I still have a lingering cold. I am coughing and my sinus’s still hurt. This cold has been bad for a week. Usually I get colds that are mild for a few days bad for a 2 or 3 days and then mild again until I am cleared up.

My mom keeps reminding me that tend to get sick when the weather changes. The past 2 weeks it has gotten a bit colder. I always remembered that I would get more migraines during weather changes, and not sick as in the flu or colds. Either way I still feel like crap.

I tried to clean up my apartment a bit today. It was getting really cluttered and messy. I got most of the cleanup done, but I still have some more to do. I will finish tomorrow.

I also ordered a bunch of DVD’s today. That is what I get for staying in and surfing on the web a bit. Amazon had a sale on some seasons of tv shows. I got season 1 of 24 for $14.99. That was the only season of that show that I actually watched and liked. I got another DVD that I cannot remember right now, and I pre ordered a few others that I saw that I wanted.

I finally got around to scheduling another Fresh Direct delivery. I am almost out of food so it was time.

Another “it was about time” I cleaned out a few box’s I had left over from my move. Yes I moved in July, and it is October 16. The box’s where in a closet. I still have 2 left. 1 is all books so I can keep it in a box for a while longer. The other box left will get cleaned out tomorrow, I hope.

Still Can’t Sleep

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I just took some Tylenol PM. Hopefully that will help me sleep a bit. Hopefully it will also help with the painful sinus pressure and itchy throat too. Sleep will be good enough for me. It is 2AM. I have been up reading some blogs that I like. I also wrote a few other entries. But to not be too freakish (i know too late) I will stagger some of the posts over the next few days. That way I can look like I am posting, when I in fact haven’t written in a while! Well I probably will write more this weekend because I am staying in, but I always like having something to post. I don’t like the site to get too stale for the 3 people that check it out. Actually according to Typepad I had 65 people visit today. A bunch from google. That is cool since as of 2 weeks ago I hadn’t had google spider my site yet. That is due to the change in the IP and domain name I use for it. 65 is not allot in any way, but unless Sean is refreshing the browser allot, people I don’t know are actually reading this stuff. That to me is way cool!

Spending

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Sometimes don’t you sit down and go “where did I spend all my money”? I am actually very good at keeping track of what I spend, but sometimes I still think wow I spent how much! Friday was one of those days, where things just were expensive. I had dry cleaning, cab’s, meals. That crap adds up. I learned really quick that when you live in manhattan cabs are your best friend, but are evil. They are great but expensive. that means you always want to use them, but know you shouldn’t. They are like a drug. So I use/have cabs like I do alcohol, very infrequently so I enjoy them but not so much that I am poor due to them.

Friday nights spending I blame Jayson, well maybe Gretchen. I am still sick and they invited me to Outback. Now they both know I cannot turn down an Outback meal. So I go. I really didn’t have any choice. With cabs and food I am out $40. But it was so tasty!!! So bad for you, yet so good. I had the crab cakes and cheese fries. Don’t tell my doctor that when he does my cholesterol.

The other spending was necessity. It was necessary to get my laundry done. Well I didn’t have to pay to have it done, but I don’t like to do the laundry. it reminds me of childhood horrors of having to fold laundry in the loud hot laundry room in my parents building. Well it was a horror to me, maybe not to most people. I could not do the laundry and smell like most people on the 7 train? But I don’t think people at work would like that, so I pay for laundry. I look on the bright side, my wallet is allot lighter now! Well maybe that isn’t a good thing.

See when I cannot sleep readers get my crazy ramblings about spending habits.

Puffs Plus Are My Friend

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Puffs Plus (with lotion) is my best friend this week. I would not know what I would do without those gloriously comfortable paper products this week. I have had a head cold all week. The last few days it has been in my sinus’s. I was dying at work with the crap tissues they buy, so I brought some Puffs Plus from work. I still can’t breath right, but at least my nose isn’t killing me. Who would have thought (the makers of Puffs I guess) lotion on tissues?

Yes I am crazy. When I am sick the little things matter that much more!