Saturday, June 30, 2007
Living on the cheap |11:42 PM| I spent a little over $5 today and still had a great time. I ate, I partied, I ate some more, went to a play, and got breakfast.
First, I got a call from Christina needing a ride to the party last night:
Even though I was about 1/10th of a mile from the party at that point, I still agreed to come pick her up, as long as she covered the gas (otherwise we were going to be limited to places that were downhill). Along with the couple of bucks from Christina (not enough for a full gallon of gas)I spent an additional $2 in quarters to keep fumes in the car. I managed to drive her home, and still limp back home.
I really should have taken the everclear from the fountain at that party and used it to fuel my car, as I certainly wasn't going to drink my share.
From there I went to help Josh and Katie move:
Note: Neither of the people in this picture are Josh and or Katie.
They paid me in Pizza.
The first set of pizzas was ordered from Mangia's, and we only ordered three. The connection was bad, so when he said the total it was a bit garbled.
Me: "Man for a second there it sounded like he said the total was $70. He obviously said $17. Hmmm wait a sec. I'll call him back."
Pizza dude: "Yeah that total was 73.60"
Me: "SEVENTY DOLLARS"
Josh, Eric and I at same time, in perfect harmony: WHOOOOOOA
Thanks to our Church Choir-esque harmonizing, the dude was already cancelling by the time I started asking for the death of that pizza order.
The papa john pizza Josh ended up getting kept me fed for a bit.
I drove over to Sheel and Mike's place without the A/C on, and I helped them move as well.
Mike rides illegally and in style
I was once again fed, and I acquired a sampler!
Now all I have to do is acquire the slightest idea on how to use it!
Sheel examines Christina's tiny cat toy thing while I'm trying to eat.
After that I hit a free showing of The Intergalactic Nemesis featuring/starring an old friend of mine Lee Eddy.
As I parked I promptly fucked up my car when a tuft of dirt was revealed to be a concrete pillar.
Luckily I was able to quickly enlist a couple guys to help me push my car. I did want to ask Lee after the show to help, if only to say "Hey Lee! It's great to see you after so long, want to help unfuck my car?"
After that, I scraped together another couple of quarters for gas, and hit Tetco. I then remembered that it had been a long time since I used any of the reward points I'd been acquiring, and from that I was able to purchase "Breakfast"
Fritos and cheap milk! Awesome!
All in all, a productive and entertaining Saturday for less than the cost of 2 gallons of gas.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Debt |7:13 PM| Hello debt! It's been a little while!
I just got off the phone with the pharmacy.
Me: "What's the cost of the full script?"
Them: "Hmmm for the 30 pills it's $179"
I feel like a john.
Me: "What can I get for $50?"
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Communion Nightmares |9:15 PM| I was talking to Chris and Jimmy about old nightmares. This was in relation to where you slept, like what side of the bed, location of the bed, orientation on the bed etc..
Their main fear was of alien attack, so they had always slept as far away from the windows and as close to the door as possible. Obviously, the aliens would be arriving from outside.
Alien nightmares brought up, of course, the cover of "Communion". I was happy (Relieved?) to know that I wasn't the only guy who had nightmares based on seeing the cover of that damn book. Our parents would thoughtlessly leave it lying around, not knowing the pure, high octane terror it caused. The communion cover#. I used to go into the parent's study and pull that off the shelf just to feel that terror, trying to get over it. The title had an odd draw to me, thanks to the Catholic implications.
I'd say that book cover was up there with the illustrations from "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". Said illustrations gave rise to more nightmares per capita than all dark basements, thunderclaps, and loon-calls combined.
Jimmy and Chris were far more afraid of aliens than monster or zombie attack. I had always kept my bed closer to the window, so that should the undead hordes break down my door I could escape via tree branches. We all have our priorities.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Ultimate |5:51 PM| I would say the (Personal) highlight of my first game of ultimate frisbee in a decade was when I had to step forward into a catch, but my front foot just kept sliding out ahead of me. I did a full goddamn split and it wasn't even for a goal, though it looked impressive. Ryan had to pull one of my shoulders up so I could stand and start running again.
After I pay off the ridiculous amounts of debt I incurred recently, first item on the shopping list is "cleats".
Also, something recently reminded me of this:
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm
It's a town that was destroyed by underground mine fires. I wonder if there's some kind of "extreme tourism" or other marketing blurb that will get you there.
I had some of my dates wrong on this, but it still stands.
Which is kind of like the Loop Flood, a cluster of little screw ups that spiral into a massive, incredible disaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Flood
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Living on the cheap |11:42 PM| I spent a little over $5 today and still had a great time. I ate, I partied, I ate some more, went to a play, and got breakfast.
First, I got a call from Christina needing a ride to the party last night:
Even though I was about 1/10th of a mile from the party at that point, I still agreed to come pick her up, as long as she covered the gas (otherwise we were going to be limited to places that were downhill). Along with the couple of bucks from Christina (not enough for a full gallon of gas)I spent an additional $2 in quarters to keep fumes in the car. I managed to drive her home, and still limp back home.
I really should have taken the everclear from the fountain at that party and used it to fuel my car, as I certainly wasn't going to drink my share.
From there I went to help Josh and Katie move:
Note: Neither of the people in this picture are Josh and or Katie. They paid me in Pizza.
The first set of pizzas was ordered from Mangia's, and we only ordered three. The connection was bad, so when he said the total it was a bit garbled.
Me: "Man for a second there it sounded like he said the total was $70. He obviously said $17. Hmmm wait a sec. I'll call him back."
Pizza dude: "Yeah that total was 73.60"
Me: "SEVENTY DOLLARS"
Josh, Eric and I at same time, in perfect harmony: WHOOOOOOA
Thanks to our Church Choir-esque harmonizing, the dude was already cancelling by the time I started asking for the death of that pizza order.
The papa john pizza Josh ended up getting kept me fed for a bit.
I drove over to Sheel and Mike's place without the A/C on, and I helped them move as well.
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| From Timeline |
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| From Timeline |
Mike rides illegally and in style
I was once again fed, and I acquired a sampler!
Now all I have to do is acquire the slightest idea on how to use it!
 |
| From Timeline |
Sheel examines Christina's tiny cat toy thing while I'm trying to eat.
After that I hit a free showing of The Intergalactic Nemesis featuring/starring an old friend of mine Lee Eddy.
As I parked I promptly fucked up my car when a tuft of dirt was revealed to be a concrete pillar.
Luckily I was able to quickly enlist a couple guys to help me push my car. I did want to ask Lee after the show to help, if only to say "Hey Lee! It's great to see you after so long, want to help unfuck my car?"
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| From Timeline |
After that, I scraped together another couple of quarters for gas, and hit Tetco. I then remembered that it had been a long time since I used any of the reward points I'd been acquiring, and from that I was able to purchase "Breakfast"
Fritos and cheap milk! Awesome!
All in all, a productive and entertaining Saturday for less than the cost of 2 gallons of gas.
Labels: Captain Fantastic, Christina, Pictures, Sheel
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Debt |7:13 PM| Hello debt! It's been a little while!
I just got off the phone with the pharmacy.
Me: "What's the cost of the full script?"
Them: "Hmmm for the 30 pills it's $179"
I feel like a john.
Me: "What can I get for $50?"
(0) comments
Monday, June 25, 2007
Communion Nightmares |9:15 PM| I was talking to Chris and Jimmy about old nightmares. This was in relation to where you slept, like what side of the bed, location of the bed, orientation on the bed etc..
Their main fear was of alien attack, so they had always slept as far away from the windows and as close to the door as possible. Obviously, the aliens would be arriving from outside.
Alien nightmares brought up, of course, the cover of "Communion". I was happy (Relieved?) to know that I wasn't the only guy who had nightmares based on seeing the cover of that damn book. Our parents would thoughtlessly leave it lying around, not knowing the pure, high octane terror it caused. The communion cover#. I used to go into the parent's study and pull that off the shelf just to feel that terror, trying to get over it. The title had an odd draw to me, thanks to the Catholic implications.
I'd say that book cover was up there with the illustrations from "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". Said illustrations gave rise to more nightmares per capita than all dark basements, thunderclaps, and loon-calls combined.
Jimmy and Chris were far more afraid of aliens than monster or zombie attack. I had always kept my bed closer to the window, so that should the undead hordes break down my door I could escape via tree branches. We all have our priorities.
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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Ultimate |5:51 PM| I would say the (Personal) highlight of my first game of ultimate frisbee in a decade was when I had to step forward into a catch, but my front foot just kept sliding out ahead of me. I did a full goddamn split and it wasn't even for a goal, though it looked impressive. Ryan had to pull one of my shoulders up so I could stand and start running again.
After I pay off the ridiculous amounts of debt I incurred recently, first item on the shopping list is "cleats".
Also, something recently reminded me of this:
http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/centralia.htm
It's a town that was destroyed by underground mine fires. I wonder if there's some kind of "extreme tourism" or other marketing blurb that will get you there.
I had some of my dates wrong on this, but it still stands.
Which is kind of like the Loop Flood, a cluster of little screw ups that spiral into a massive, incredible disaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Flood
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