Scattered Thoughts

Cubs Win Countdown: 8

CUBS WIN! BEARS WIN!

What a great day for Chicago sports.

The Chicago Cubs have not won a playoff series since 1908 – that's 95 years for those of you who are keeping track – until now. In an awesome game, the Cubs beat the Atlanta Braves 5 – 1 at Turner Field in Atlanta. This was one of the contributing factors to me having an awesome weekend.

Another main factor was that the Bears also won. I had given up on the Bears' game after Cordell Stewart was intercepted and the Raiders had a run that ended on the Bears' 20 yard line. At this point, I decided that I would go to bed for the afternoon to be at work. I wake up around 4:30 to go to dinner, and Mike tells me that the Bears won. I didn't believe him at first because it seemed so impossible to me, but after confirming what he had said on espn.com, I was a believer. A lot of Bears fans have been very disappointed with their performances lately. Now they are 1 – 3 on the regular season and 1 -1 at the new Soldier Field (which I think is totally out of place on the Chicago Lakefront).

The last contributing factor was the trip to Hoosier Heights Saturday night. Beth, Neil, Steph and I all went out there for an evening of climbing. It was a well earned break from school and work stresses, for me. Everyone had a good time from what I can tell. I know that Beth and Steph had fun because they have asked me to take them again sometime. Of course, I don't have a problem with that .

After climbing, we went to Burger King and then headed back to the house. Dinner – if you could call it that – was soso. It was Burger King, what else do you expect… It's not like it was a gourmet meal cooked by a master chef. When we finished eating, we chilled at the house for a while, then headed out to Beth's place to hang out some more. We bought Bowling for Columbine to watch (bought meaning we bought it from OnDemand TV for a day). Most everyone ended up passing out at some point during the movie. I only missed about 5 minutes of it. The documentary was great. I throughly enjoyed watching this flick.

Anyway, that's about all that's happened to me recently. And now for the end of the blog rundown…

Picture of the day

The picture says it all…

Song of the day – Hey, Hey – Dispatch

Quote of the day
"We just got done climbing dude, that shit's hard!" – Beth after climbing on Saturday night

CHING BOW!

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A week and no post, what's wrong with me?

Well, I guess nothing is wrong with me, I've just been too busy to sit down and write a post the last few days.

My week has been quite hectic. I've been studying my butt off while at the same time working. I have an exam next tuesday in my S302 class. It should be pretty easy though, I'm not too worried about it. I will definitely be studying for it this evening though.

Last night was labled "Sober Fun Friday". We went to see Underworld. It's the movie about vampires vs. warewolves. It was pretty good. On a A – F grade scale, it would have earned a B from me. It had some good fight scenes, and a decent plot. I was a little disappointed that the plot was all revealed at the very end of the movie. Granted, it was based on a comic book (props to the recent comic book movies, minus Spiderman), so it was only natural to have the plot given away at the end.

Anyway, after the movie, we had some Arby's, and then headed out to Classic Lanes. This turned out to be one of the highlights of my night. I ended up placing second in our group for the first game with a score of 129! If any of you know how I bowl, that's extremely good for me. I usually never break 100. Then the second game, I ended up bowling a 100-something, I don't quite remember what it was. That was good times.

After bowling, we went to Jeremy Mitchel's place for a "party". There were almost 10 people there, most of whom were already smashed. It was ok, but we didn't stay but an hour before we went back to First and Henderson for some more chillin. Everyone else went out to Taco Bello and then over to Griffey Lake while I stayed home and relaxed in my room before heading to bed. It was a good night overall, although the "Sober Fun" went out the window when we got done bowling. Not to worry though, I was DD for the night, so it was still "Sober Fun Friday" for Tom.

That's about everything interesting that has happened to me since last Thursday. Beth and I (and maybe li'l Steph) are going to go climbing later today, when I get off work. I'm looking forward to that. I definitely need to develop more finger strength though because my forearm muscels like to start failing after about two hours of climbing. Whatever though, I'll get there.

Anyway, time to get back to work… Oh what an interesting Saturday it is. I'm currently in a lab with two customers, myself and the consultant… woo… Anyway, I'm out.

Ching! Si Whom Lao!

Picture of the day
Two of them for no extra cost…

Yea… just… yea…

And Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Song of the day – Girl – The Beatles

Quote of the day
1:44p [Consultant 1] – anyone know how to export address book from Pine into Webmail?
1:45p [Consultant 2] – {Support Staff} should be able to answer your question.
1:45p [Consultant 2] – He figured it out a while ago.
1:46p [Support Staff] – Check the knowledge base, all sorts of random pine directions in there.
1:48p [Consultant 2] – {Support Staf}: You did figure it out though, right?
1:49p [Support Staff] – nope

Quote of the week
Tony: Ryan, you should get a job in Indy so we could share an apartment.
Ryan: Then we could be hetero-life-mates
Mike: You guys need to get laid…

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