So I’ve been sick for going on 5 days now. It all happened on Wednesday night of last week … went out to play some pool and got ill. Been sick ever since. I even took Monday off because I felt like hell. I usually shake things pretty quickly, you know? Two or three days max … this one looks like it’s gonna be a few more days before I’m 100%. I’d like to thank James for a wicked party on Saturday night. Goddamn. Although I was really, really sick, a DD, and not able to partake in all the festivities, I had a really great time. Especially because of *THAT* few minutes. hehehe. Thanks James! I would just like to say that I think Becky is super great. She’s always nice, and smells good, and has things to talk about. And she’s really great to snuggle with. *blush* So great having her around 😀

Went out last night to Old Chicago after a looong day at work and played some pool with Tony and these three random guys that we happened to meet. We played like 6 games and had a lot of fun. Then I went over to the Underground to play Becky at some pool, but as soon as I stepped in the door I started feeling like shit. It might have been the two shots of rum, or maybe the cigarette smoke, I don’t know; all I know is that I was dizzy and had a wicked headache. I couldn’t play pool at all and generally, the trip was not fun. And then after that I talked to Becky and caused irreparable damage to our relationship. And doing that was a very, very bad idea. So yesterday really sucked. And today, I wake up and I’m sick as a fucking dog, wild headache, vertigo, nasal congestion, you name it, I got it. At least I got to wear my leather today. [b]Update @ 11:46pm[/b]: Operation Salvage Relationship was a complete success. w0ot!

It’s 11:54pm, not even moidnight and ai I am dso blitzed I dont’e ve know wher I am It’s tpretty sad HAHHAHA> Tony justac kaem is and laffed. All I have to say is that 4x RUM AND COKME and 4 BEERS makes ofr a pretty rippe dradnal. BEcky i ssuper. Althoug, you nmow, when trashed, it’s stough to tell if things are going well. Peopel here are great. There’s lots of strashed people. Like 20. IT’s cool. ROse sayds “we love to get drunk”…. rock! Andr3a says “rock on!” that’s a pretty good quote. We support the toorpps in more tways than one. HAHA. ROCK! OKay, I’m done. NO, I’m not done. Wait. Rasperbby vodka is good with select Soda, llke saeway select. HOOOWAAAA. Luverly! [b]UPDATE[/b] – OI am sto strasjed I don’t neve know. LIke, 4 more shots of TEUQILA and a shot jareger and two more sokes, and I am totaly smiashe.d I’m gonna say ‘night to beacky and pass out and hoempe someboy get me HOME LOLROFLAMOU! [b]UPADATE #2[/b] TYHIS UPDatea IS ACOURATESY of randal. Ijust have to say that james’ partires are way fun. And that Becky is the greatest. Luverly! Okay hereis Tohy!” [b]UPDATE ##{3[/b] – Here’s the skinny. I am going riding for 3 hours on the bike at 10, so volunteered to be the DD for the party. Had a blast with Lyle, Andrea, Rose, Collean, these 4 hot gurls. Collean had turned to James and told him that she thought I was hot. Highlights of the party, How is a gynecologist like a pizza delivery guy. They can both smell but they can’t eat. What do you call an open tuna fish can on a dresser drawer? Lesbian potpourri. Played a lot of this game called 3-man. Randal was grillmaster. It was good.

So this is another useless update. Another time where I really don’t have anything new to say, but I’m saying something anyway. Ha, I’m such a joke. Anyway, yes, the store is coming along nicely, and will open sometime soon. I’m super stoked. Gotta revise the business plan once or twice more and we’ll be golden. That’s hot. My truck runs great, minus some valve tapping. That’s pretty hot too. Becky is great, and that is hot. Me taking overtaking Tore in use of the word “hot” … that’s also hot. Last but not least, I’m happy, and that is the best hotness. I am sad that Emily has me blocked on AIM though … for like the past 3 months. That is not hot. James is throwing a party at his place on Saturday. What’s funny is that I have no idea where that’s at, or when, or if I should bring anything, or anything else, because James is woefully bad at handing out details. *HINT HINT JAMES!* I put a new article up entitled [L=http://rand0m.org/articles.php?aid=ccs-05102003][b]Crazy Chicks Suck[/b][/L]. It’s a good read, if you’re tipsy like I am right now, although I’m sure it’s blindingly incoherent. Coming up soon will be an article entitled Keep Your Dick In Your Pants. That one will be good. Stay Tuned.

Because honestly, there isn’t really anything else to do. So I thought I’d post some highlights and lowlights of life recently. [b]Highlight[/b]: HPI isn’t sucking as much. I flipped out on some coworkers and brought some things up that needed to be changed / addressed and it looks like it sort of worked. At least I’m happy again. [b]Lowlight[/b]: I haven’t seen or heard from Tore in a while 🙁 [b]Highlight[/b]: The CyberCafe is coming along nicely. We’re thinking of calling it Llama Gaming or EverLAN. The second already belongs to somebody, so we’re thinking of some sort of partnership and whatnot — meeting with the owner on Tuesday for lunch. We switched our first choice location, and are in negotiations right now. Hot hot hot. [b]Lowlight[/b]: Jared’s site sucks. [b]Highlight[/b]: Girls! Things are going well on the girl front, but I’m sorta hesitant … because it’s relationship like … and that’s something I’m afraid of. But she’s great 😀 [b]Lowlight[/b]: Truck needs a valve job, but runs great. There went 4 hours. [b]Highlight[/b]: I saw [L=http://pinklaura.blogspot.com]Laura[/L] for the first time in a long while. It was nice. Although the party we went to sucked. Good to see her again. [b]Lowlight[/b]: Paulie is in Iraq. *sniffle* [b]Highlight[/b]: I’ve still got my Lucky Sac. I talked to Janelle today, and she brought it up, and you know, I’ve still got it, and it’s still lucky, and I don’t go anywhere without it. That’s all, carry on. 🙂

That yesterday was Friday. And you know, I had a pretty good Friday, until it came to Friday Night. And Friday Night was only mediocre because I’m not 21. Everybody I know is 21+ … makes it sorta hard to go out and get stupid. And mind you, going out and getting stupide for sub-21 year olds is extremely expensive. It’s a bad place. I put up a new sexy picture of me in the webcam section. You get to see me at 9:47am, while I’m recovering from abusing my liver with sick amounts of alcohol. I’ll try to update that thing more often; it’s possible now, because Win2k now has a built-in driver for the crappy webcam I use. Was talking to Larry and Corey about getting an animal here at the house. Like say a dog or a cat. Or a fish. And Larry, who is old and wise, brought up a good point: Most guys want a dog so that they can have control over something in a take charge sort of way. Think about it — a dog is usually totally obedient and will do darn near whatever it’s master, presumably male, says. A guy with a cat though, is a sure sign of a person who does not “take charge” and assert themselves onto others, because as we all know, you cannot persuade a cat to do anything except to shred all of your nice clothes and furniture while simultaneously leaving copious amounts of cat hair in your expensive stereo equipment. So, that is a pretty good rationale for a dog — canines make a man feel powerful (god knows we can’t have control over our women), while a dude with cat is a sissy and has/wants no control over anything (not very masculine). Huzzah for reading into things!

Alright, so the gist is this: I am not buying the Jeep, despite it’s attractiveness, for two (2) reasons: 1) too many miles. 160k is quite a bit. and 2) I’m being financially responsible and paying off all my debt. I took all my grandios DoD contracting paychecks and applied them to my more than equally grandios debts. So my credit score has shot through the roof, but I have no cash. BUT, see below. Our plan to open up a CyberCafe is on the road, 100%. I’ve been busting my ass putting together the business plan — it’s 20% writing and 80% phone calls / projections / letters / other legwork. Quite the learning experience, and definitely for the better — a lot invigorating, a lot scary. It’s going to happen, though, and I’m fucking stoked. Oh, and the plan is to use the income from the CyberCafe to buy a new vehicle 😀 Heard a pretty profound statement from Jack (of all people) the other day: [i]Experience begets wisdom; Rules beget obedience.[/i] It’s pretty true, imo. I know a couple seriously repressed people and all they do is follow the rules. No adventure, no getting out and doing what they want — only doing what *others* want. I know all about this, and it rings true. It makes me feel sorry for people who are sheltered. ahh well. Went out with Keen, Livia and a guy named Thane today. That was a good time. It’s nice to hang out with intellectual people who are not coworkers ;-). We had a good time just shooting the shit over at Shuga’s … we even discussed [L=http://www.intellectualwhores.com/masterladder.html]Ladder Theory[/L]. It was a good time. So yea, I’m hot to trot for Becky. She’s really nice and all, but I think this other guy named John is going for her, and she spends a lot more time with that crowd than with our crowd, which bodes not well for me striking up the romance. She’s off in Kansas this weekend though, so I’ll see if I can arrange something for next week; I’ll make sure you keep ya’ll up to date on my love interests 😉

So I’m probably going to buy this Jeep I’ve been eyeing. It’s a red 1988 Cherokee Limited: 4.0L I6 EFI engine (runs very well) AW4 Tranny (very reliable — works great) Power everything (seats, windows, locks etc) A/C Decent stereo Perfect Black Leather Interior Bronze-styling wheels (bling bling) Back window washer works! 160k trouble free miles I test drove it today, runs great. He put a new water pump in it 3 weeks ago and new o-rings 7 months ago. Has a checkup and maintenance record dating back to 1995. Has an immaculate interior and does 75 with no problem. Guy is asking $3000, said I’d do $2800, told him to hold onto it for me till monday — I’ll check the finances and run it by a couple insurance companies and see what they say. I’m stoked, because it’s very nice. Opinions?

Yesterday morning Matt and I woke up … well, I woke up and then hassled him until he got up … and went over to Paulie’s place to load up his stuff so he could get to Ft. Carson so he could get deployed to Iraq. First off, I’d like to say that his ruck sack weighed entirely too much 😉 Went out and got some breakfast first, chit chatted and tried to keep things light. Got to Ft. Carson, dropped off his gear and then went to the Arms Building (where everyone gets their weapons) … Paulie got his M16 … we took some pictures, hugged and shook his hand and left. I didn’t have much emotion right then, saying goodbye to a good friend for 6-12 months, but while I’m writing this, I’m holding back the tears. I’m not sad at all that Paulie in particular has to go — that’s his job, and both all of us are proud of him for doing it — it’s the fact that such a situation (war) exists at all. Granted, I believe that in this case it is justified (as does Paulie), but you know, it just sucks to see someone have to go. When he gets back, though, we’re going to Vegas, so I guess it all balances out. We love you Paulie! Went out with Alicia, Amanda, Becky and Matt the other night. I took everyone out to Old Chicago and then went over to Play By Play to get in some pool. Well, Keen and I smoked the girls 3-0. Why? Because we fucked with their heads all night by distracting them mercilessly? No! It was because of our badass pool-playing skills. Although the distracting part was fun, what with rubbing them up and down with pool cues, blowing in their ears, etc., we’re really just better at pool than they are. Suckahs. Heh. Speaking of that, Becky called last night at 1:30am … you know what? 1:30am is late. Like *Late*. I was dozing nicely and she called me up to talk about her day. I sure sign, IMO 😀

I got to thinking about it, and I realized that I am not very interesting. Like, I was reading [L=http://pinklaura.blogspot.com]Laura’s Page[/L] and [L=http://www.michaelhusson.com/mark]Mark’s Page[/L] and I all I could must was “wow, I really am not interesting.” So there you have it folks — I think I’ve stumbled upon why I’m not the most attractive guy, why I’m only good for buffoonary (sp?) and an occasional laugh: I am not interesting. Okay, so Friday was a good day. I was here at work, doing some stuff for Sandy, one of our customers on the floor, and she asks me to haul her computer down to her car. No problem. Then she hands me the keys and says “why don’t you take it for lunch?” Ahh, the unforgettable lunch began. Why? Because this particular car is a [L=http://www.new-cars.com/2002/bmw/bmw-540i-sedan.html]2002 BMW 540i[/L]. Yep, 4.4 Liters of [L=http://www.rand0m.org/images/bimmer/]hot BMW luvin (not work safe)[/L]. Goddamn that car was fast. And powerful. And amazingly fun to drive. Picked up Keen and went up to the Chapel Hills Chipotle to give a spin. It was the lap of luxury. And as Matt said “Luxury sure has a nice lap.” Also, I retrofied the website. Most things are broken, except for comments and news. I know everything else is worthless anyway 😉