Friday. Early in the evening I headed over to the tattoo shop and with IdFungus and Watcher we watched Mike Nelson from MST3K rip on the movie Roadhouse. You can download his audio track making fun of the movie here for only $1.99.
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Later that night, I was bored with my MMORPG worlds and wanted something more mindless. I installed Diablo II again and spent the rest of the night running around hacking and slashing at mindless things. The game is a complete time killer and I spent all Friday night drinking and playing.
Saturday. Got up and threw on shorts. I think that was about as much activity as I did this day. I played a lot of Diablo.
About 6 PM I don't know what came over me but all of a sudden I wanted Kool-Aid. Unfortunately my pitcher was dirty. I didn't want to make a sink of dishwater for just one pitcher so I did all my dirty dishes. For some reason I felt like a junkie doing some strange compulsive behavior like cleaning the house from top to bottom because I had a desire to lie down on the floor. It was weird while it was happening and weird when I look back on that feeling. And I was not even drinking.
That evening a friend called me and asked me to go floating with friends down a river up at State Bridge with them at 9:30 AM. I agreed as I knew I would not leave the house unless I found some activity to get out. I had everything I needed to go except an inner tube to float on. My friend told me that he had gotten some cheap ones at City Market. I told him I would wake up at 7 AM and try and find one.
Spent the rest of the night drinking and playing Diablo.
Sunday. Up at 7 AM. I'm going to be floating down a river so bypassed the morning shower. Got all my gear together. Swimsuit, extra socks, towel, football, my traveling first-aid supplies. I have seen enough people injured when I have not been in an urban area that when I plan outings I now always plan on having my first-aid available.
Next to go shopping; first City Market. They were out of the inner tubes that he had bought. I could see the empty space they once sat in.
Next I checked Wal-Mart. They did not have any inner tubes, just floating lounge chairs. I needed something I would be able to steer down a river so that was a no go. On a side note; there is NOBODY up in Avon at 7:30 AM on a Sunday. Wal-Mart was dead.
I did pickup a new camp knife, duct tape, rope, and some thinner rope. The thin rope was so I could lace a two-liter bottle of mixed drink to my tube. The thick was in case I needed to tie off to anything. The knife was to cut the rope. And the duct tape was because you can always use duct tape.
Next I headed to Sports Authority. They didn't open until 10 AM and my friends wanted to leave by 9:30. Well it was 8 AM so I decided to check the City Market in Vail.
City Market in Vail is built nothing like the one in Avon. All the aisles are placed at a 45 degree from the walls until you reach the back half of the building and realize that the walls themselves are not 90 degree corners. Makes for a very confusing store layout. Nothing like getting lost inside a grocery store. But in the end they had nothing. They did not even have the summer display the other City Market had so would not have even stocked them.
Thankfully the Sports Authority was open at 8 AM but they told me they sold out of river worthy inner-tubes in the first week of summer.
Next on the way back to Avon I swing by NAPA. I decide instead of some cheap made "produced" inner tube I would get the durable real thing. Unfortunately NAPA didn't open until 9 AM and it was only 8:45 AM.
At that point I headed home to call them at 9 AM and ask them if they even had inner tubes to sell. Then at 8:50 AM my friend Jeremy called to let me know they were going to cancel because they saw clouds down valley. They didn't want to go floating if it was cloudy out. He said instead he would just sit in and play computer games that day.
I told him that was too bad and that I would be trying to see a movie that afternoon and afterwards possibly we could get together for a grilling session. He said he would skip the movie but to call him if I decided to grill and we will explore that possibility that afternoon.
Side note: It was bright sunny and 90 degrees all day. Oh well, maybe next time.
So Sunday was again a bust. I took a shower and started play on the computer again. About 3 PM I just got tired of doing nothing. I decided there are better things to do with my time. I had two projects at work I wanted to work on. First I am building furniture for my Stikfas to use in the comic and second I am working on setting up a web server.
I brought back home passwords I needed for server access and my construction materials for my Stikfas. I did get a couch built while watching old episodes of the original 50's Superman. I definitely felt like I accomplished something worthwhile in the end and I hope I am more motivated to to continue my work on projects next weekend.
Later that evening it was the usual Sunday night routine. Go to IdFugus's and watch Entourage and the final episode of Tourgasm.
RiffTrax.com
Later that night, I was bored with my MMORPG worlds and wanted something more mindless. I installed Diablo II again and spent the rest of the night running around hacking and slashing at mindless things. The game is a complete time killer and I spent all Friday night drinking and playing.
Saturday. Got up and threw on shorts. I think that was about as much activity as I did this day. I played a lot of Diablo.
About 6 PM I don't know what came over me but all of a sudden I wanted Kool-Aid. Unfortunately my pitcher was dirty. I didn't want to make a sink of dishwater for just one pitcher so I did all my dirty dishes. For some reason I felt like a junkie doing some strange compulsive behavior like cleaning the house from top to bottom because I had a desire to lie down on the floor. It was weird while it was happening and weird when I look back on that feeling. And I was not even drinking.
That evening a friend called me and asked me to go floating with friends down a river up at State Bridge with them at 9:30 AM. I agreed as I knew I would not leave the house unless I found some activity to get out. I had everything I needed to go except an inner tube to float on. My friend told me that he had gotten some cheap ones at City Market. I told him I would wake up at 7 AM and try and find one.
Spent the rest of the night drinking and playing Diablo.
Sunday. Up at 7 AM. I'm going to be floating down a river so bypassed the morning shower. Got all my gear together. Swimsuit, extra socks, towel, football, my traveling first-aid supplies. I have seen enough people injured when I have not been in an urban area that when I plan outings I now always plan on having my first-aid available.
Next to go shopping; first City Market. They were out of the inner tubes that he had bought. I could see the empty space they once sat in.
Next I checked Wal-Mart. They did not have any inner tubes, just floating lounge chairs. I needed something I would be able to steer down a river so that was a no go. On a side note; there is NOBODY up in Avon at 7:30 AM on a Sunday. Wal-Mart was dead.
I did pickup a new camp knife, duct tape, rope, and some thinner rope. The thin rope was so I could lace a two-liter bottle of mixed drink to my tube. The thick was in case I needed to tie off to anything. The knife was to cut the rope. And the duct tape was because you can always use duct tape.
Next I headed to Sports Authority. They didn't open until 10 AM and my friends wanted to leave by 9:30. Well it was 8 AM so I decided to check the City Market in Vail.
City Market in Vail is built nothing like the one in Avon. All the aisles are placed at a 45 degree from the walls until you reach the back half of the building and realize that the walls themselves are not 90 degree corners. Makes for a very confusing store layout. Nothing like getting lost inside a grocery store. But in the end they had nothing. They did not even have the summer display the other City Market had so would not have even stocked them.
Thankfully the Sports Authority was open at 8 AM but they told me they sold out of river worthy inner-tubes in the first week of summer.
Next on the way back to Avon I swing by NAPA. I decide instead of some cheap made "produced" inner tube I would get the durable real thing. Unfortunately NAPA didn't open until 9 AM and it was only 8:45 AM.
At that point I headed home to call them at 9 AM and ask them if they even had inner tubes to sell. Then at 8:50 AM my friend Jeremy called to let me know they were going to cancel because they saw clouds down valley. They didn't want to go floating if it was cloudy out. He said instead he would just sit in and play computer games that day.
I told him that was too bad and that I would be trying to see a movie that afternoon and afterwards possibly we could get together for a grilling session. He said he would skip the movie but to call him if I decided to grill and we will explore that possibility that afternoon.
Side note: It was bright sunny and 90 degrees all day. Oh well, maybe next time.
So Sunday was again a bust. I took a shower and started play on the computer again. About 3 PM I just got tired of doing nothing. I decided there are better things to do with my time. I had two projects at work I wanted to work on. First I am building furniture for my Stikfas to use in the comic and second I am working on setting up a web server.
I brought back home passwords I needed for server access and my construction materials for my Stikfas. I did get a couch built while watching old episodes of the original 50's Superman. I definitely felt like I accomplished something worthwhile in the end and I hope I am more motivated to to continue my work on projects next weekend.
Later that evening it was the usual Sunday night routine. Go to IdFugus's and watch Entourage and the final episode of Tourgasm.
next time call me I have an old school kayak you can borrow.
Posted by shamanprincess | 9:27 PM