Life, Kids, Technology & that move to another continent
I took a half day off from work today. I had time I needed to burn off, and I wanted to go sign up for a Scuba class. I am now all signed up for a one day (8 1/2 hour) class next Saturday. I have my reading material sitting beside me. I know I have to read it, but like all school work I am procrastinating.
I also got a mask, snorkel, fins and other accessories I will need for the class. I will write more about it later.
Went upstate on a road trip with Dan today. I had a bunch of things to take care of. Dan wanted to leave to head back to NYC by 3:30PM to make our first softball game. Being the realist I am I said we would never leave on time, and we would never make a 5:45PM game. I was right on both accounts. We didn’t leave until around 4PM. We missed all but 2 innings of the game.
We ended up getting lost getting to Roosevelt Island. Yahoo maps gave us the wrong exit name, and the stupid exit was not numbered. once we drove past it we knew we missed it, but it took tons of time to turn around. The rest of the directions were good though. Thanks to David for emailing them to me, and thanks to the Treo 650 and T-Mobile wireless data for bringing up the directions on my phone and actually working! Tech that works is priceless!
We lost by 1 run. It was tied until the last inning. At least it was not a blow out! Went out for a drink after the game and then headed to J & G’s for dinner.
All in all it was a good but busy and travel filled day.
My first night out on the town in the city was a nice and low key. I met people from work to watch the company softball game. It was a slaughter. We got killed. I didn’t see the end of the game though. AJ hurt his foot in outfield so I helped him off the field with many other peoples help. I can’t lift people like some of the other big guys at work can. I stayed with him until we determined the injury was bad enough to warrant an ER visit. By then Gus showed up and he road with him to the ER. I wasn’t big enough to go alone with AJ to the ER. I couldn’t help him in and out of the cab as well as Gus could.
After the game we meet up at a bar and drank for a while. Then we went to see Anchorman. It was a funny movie.
Took the subway home and it took me less than 15 minutes to get home. it was awesome…
I am a hockey fan. I try to be a big fan but it doesn’t always look that way. I have neglected watching hockey over the past two seasons. This season is the first year in a while where I didn’t goto any games. I am going to try and watch over the next week or so. My favorite team the Toronto Maple Leafs (yes I am from New York, don’t ask why I like them because I have no answer) made it into the second round of the playoff’s. I should watch, and hope they go further.
Toronto have done well in post season in recent years, but never gone all the way:(
Just for the record my second favorite team is the New York Islanders.
Friday was my companies first softball game. We got cool new jersey’s this season. I am again my lucky #3. It was an interesting game. I of course didn’t play, but I went to watch. If last year is any indication, in the beginning everyone wants to play softball. After a few games you get less and less people showing up. I think the sign up sheet had almost 40 people wanting to play. With that kind of turn out I don’t want to play. Not that into it, and I figure I would let others play that wanted to. I got a jersey in case they need players later when everyone doesn’t want to go to games. Either way it is fun to watch. We won 16 to 15. It was an interesting game.
Before the game Cari, Dari, & I went to dan’s to give him a gift basket. He has been out due to back surgery so he welcomed the company, even if it was for 5 minutes. We surprised him at his apartment. It wasn’t a good idea. He couldn’t get up to buzz us in, and his dad (who is staying with him after surgery) was out walking the dog. We had to wait till his dad got back before we could get into the apartment.
After the game we went to a bar near the field. We had a few drinks and pizza on Glenn our CEO. He played first base. It was cool of him to treat us.
I went to play golf again today. It was fun, but it is a long day. I headed out at 9:30AM to meet Dan and his friend Ed at Dan’s place at 10:45. The LIRR only has hourly trains on the weekend so it sucks. We then meet Gus, Alyssa, & Miguel in the other rental car. If you live in Manhattan and you are not rich you don’t keep cars. Dan and alyssa both just realized this and sold there cars, so we rented to for this outing. We then drove to Jersey to meet Ravi at the course.
I have to say it was probably the nicest day I can remember this summer. It wasn’t too hot or humid. it was a perfect day to spend on a golf course.
I played like crap again. I had no good Tee offs, but I did have a few decent shots on the fairways. Ed and Ravi walked the course, but dan and I weren’t crazy so we rented a golf cart.
We left before dinner because Ed had to get back to the city and I had to pack for my Kingston trip tomorrow. The ride home was “interesting”. Dan and I didn’t know where we were going and dan was driving. Ed was in the back on the cell phone and Dan asked if he remembered where to go to get back to the interstate. The guy ignored him for a few minutes so dan kept asking for help. Ed freaked out and was like hey I am on the phone. I kept my mouth shut, because the guy isn’t my friend. But I have to say, DUDE get over it. We are trying to take your sorry ass home early and we are getting lost. Hang up the dam phone or tell whoever it is you are going to call them back. Don’t be an asshole about it. Man I use a cell phone allot, but if I ever acted like that shoot me. Even if I had an emergency at work I would reply that I heard someone asking me for help. The remaining hour of the car ride, Ed was totally quiet. Dan said Ed didn’t say a word even after they dropped me at Penn Station. Weird.
The Train’s were on my side, I got to Penn station with enough time to grab dinner and catch my train. I also caught a cab with no problem and was home a little past 8PM.
All in all, a good day. I had to take 2 doses of bextra. That was not good, but at least they worked and I didn’t get a full fledge migraine. I don’t like the fact that every time I golf I end up taking migraine medication. I think it is the heat.
So I went golfing yesterday. it was fun. I am not good at all, but from what people say they think I would be decent if I took some lessons and practiced. So Dan, Alyssa, Gus, Ravi, Nelson, John, Miguel, and I ended up going. It was fun. My foursome was Dan and me, and alyssa and Gus. Dan is the only good golfer among us. I learned a bunch, but still need to get allot of help. We had fun, so that is all that matters. I only lost 1 ball the entire day. I guess that is what happens when you cannot hit the ball very far!
Nelson was took some pictures of everyone. They are located on my photo site.
Dan had his best game ever, and I was his witness. I told him he needed to be nice or I would say that he lied about the score:)
Dan, John, Nelson & I ended up back by dan’s place in manhattan and ate dinner at some Russian diner. It was nice. The view (aka women walking by our window) was nice.
I didn’t get home till after 10pm due to limited LIRR train’s during the weekend.
Unfortunately I ended up taking 2 bextra’s due to the heat. I was getting a head ache that could have turned into a Migraine so I took the pill’s twice. The alternative was not to be thought about.
So my scuba diving class for this weekend is out. Instead I am going golfing with 7 other people from work tomorrow. I will try to reschedule the scuba class for later in july. I still really want to do this.
On the I got screwed side of the day, I rushed in the morning and caught the early train. The train proceeded to break down and require everyone to switch trains. The end result is I got into work at the same time I would normally have. Some days you cannot win. I shouldn’t complain. I did get allot done today. I am just tired and cranky. It is thursday night and I still have not done anything to schedule my SCUBA class. I will try again tomorrow, if not try to find the next class.
Thanks to Gus for talking me out of buying the G4 Powermac I saw that was really discounted (yet still expensive). I think I will keep my powerbook for a while more. I did say that I am not getting a new laptop for at least a year. I have almost half a year left on that promise. I will see if I keep it. with my track record I probably won’t.
I believe this weekend is another crash cource in SCUBA training. I am hoping to call today to get in it, but I don’t know how that will pan out. I also need to sit down for an hour and order food from fresh direct. I have been putting both tasks off for about a week. I just have tons to do.
I also need to unlock my T68i or get another unlocked GSM phone. I have another SIM card I want to put in my AT&T phone and I cannot. It pisses me off that I buy something and it is disabled even after I use it for the 1 year it was discounted for. Dam AT&T. I am about ready to sell my AT&T Wireless stock and dump the dam phone. Good cell number be dammed.
On the plus side I sold my old Palm Tungsten T, and shipped it yesterday to the person who won the auction on ebay. Looking around the house to see what can be next. I like cleaning out the house of old stuff and getting extra money to buy new stuff at the same time!!! Way to go ebay.