Trip Nasty

My stomach is feeling a bit grumbly. Like it got used to not eating all the shit I used to eat and now that in the past week or two I've been fucking up and eating that shit it just doesn't want to deal with it. Of course that also means I'm back up a few pounds, not that a few pounds makes a lot of difference when you're my size anyway, but it means I'm going to have to start trying harder.

Saw I Love You, Man last night. It was pretty damn funny. Small group went to see it. Just me, Michelle, Adge, Ring, and Kevin. Seems like every week our outing groups get a little bit smaller. But in the vein of learning not to lament things that are yet to be lost I'm not worrying about it.


Spent a lot of time with the kids this weekend. Little Sister is getting entirely too old. She picked out her dress for the 8th Grade dance and is talking about getting her hair done. Jeez. They grow up so fast don't they? The Rookie is as batshit crazy as always and he had a few surprises up his sleeve for us over the course of the nine hours we spent just bombing around on Saturday. Not enough days like that left I reckon, but I'll make the most out of what I have.


Thinking about taking a real vacation at some point. A number of people I know are doing Vegas trips and it has rekindled my curiosity in going out there at some point. They're all a different sort than me though, but I'm still curious to see what they think. Nate and I briefly discussed going to Brazil this summer. I'd actually really like to check that out, but ignoring the fact that I don't have a passport, don't speak Portuguese, and won't have any money by the summer there are still a half dozen reasons why that trip will never get off the ground. (Main reason? There was a substantial amount of alcohol and a ridiculously hot Brazilian woman in the same room as us when we first conceived the idea...any further discussion of the trip that didn't involve barrels of alcohol and a ridiculously hot Brazilian woman probably wouldn't play out the same way.) There's also the possibility that I'll head out to San Diego in July for Comic Con. It was an idea I was big into a couple of months ago. My interested has sort of wained though. I'm curtailing the collection because I'm out of room, it's too early for them to be doing panels on the big Marvel movies for 2010 and 2011, and the damn thing already sold out which means it will be ridiculously packed. But who knows, going to talk to my cousin for a bit later and see if maybe we can come up with a gameplan.


I think more realistically the idea is going to be to come up with a number of daytrips. Spend more time in the museums in New York with absolutley anyone that's down (and trust me that's a wide and varied group for certain), maybe actually catch a baseball game for the first time in years, maybe even (gasp!) go to the beach? I don't know. I don't know.

Recapping the things I didn't talk about last week. Finally saw Tales of the Black Freighter and as cool as it was I'm glad they didn't stick it in the Watchmen movie. It would have just made it longer and since the story was so different it wouldn't have made any sense. I also got around to seeing Quantum of Solace. I really do like Daniel Craig as James Bond. And I'm madly in love with Olga Kurylenko. But the movie just didn't fly for me. It was good. I liked it. But it didn't hold a candle to Casino Royale. It was still better than the last two Pierce Brosnan Bond films though. And better than quite a few of the Roger Moore Bond films as well.

It looks like we may finally have our network issues straightened out, which of course means something else is due to go wrong. I'll be taking a run out to sort some things on the road in about an hour and then I might stop in at a photo shop to see if I can pick up some stuff for my new camera. Tonight I've got payroll to do, some other things to sort out, the outside chance of paying a visit, and a fair shot at falling asleep while watching another boring episode of Heroes.

This week may turn out to be pretty bland (or will it? dun dun dun...) I don't have enough liquid cash to get in any substantial trouble. No one will likely be around and things will be busy enough at work to keep me fairly tied up. So who knows. Maybe I'll just be working and writing this week...or maybe not.

We will see. We will see.