Pimp My Bus Ride

Towards the tail end of my shift I got an e-mail from co-worker and former blogger Toole who had already left work (sooo fancy with his Blackberry):

There is a bus outside of work that says "metalocalypse". I think it is here to pick you up.

That's a commute that I could learn to love with the quickness.

Rock Out With Your Wang Out

Yesterday CBSSports.com had this going on on the front page (click on image for larger): "Wang out until September" ... well, if you insist. I just hope I don't get sunburn. Wangs out everybody!

Oh, juvenile humor, where would I be without you?

Some Stuff

So I should be in bed or at least getting ready for bed, but I'm not. I have a chronic issue with appropriate sleep patterns unless I am around someone who entices me to get in bed. And even then it's difficult to get there without at least some odd contempt and sense that I'm missing something ... even though I know that's not the case.

Anyway, I'm up and listening to some rather high strung music so I figured I should type something.

My trip to Columbus was a success. I made it there and back alive (despite my driver rockin' some triple digit MPHs on the speedometer) and while in the C-Bus I managed to win two medals in the regatta I was in. One gold in the 8 I was in and a silver in the 4. It was a fairly sloppy performance overall (especially in the 8) but certainly a good starting point for my Midwest rowing career. I also had some pretty good bonding moments with some of my rowing posse so that's also promising. Friends are always good.

Since then I have been doing the usual. Work, sleep, eats and a little driving in the new car. My shifting has gotten better and hence I'm liking it a bit better. I even got myself an official Ohio license. So, no more New York State. I'm officially Ohio. Jesus.

And just to keep you in the loop, I'm off on a little vacation this Thursday to St. Kitts. I'll be gone for a week. If I actually blogged on occasion this would make a difference but honestly if I didn't make this announcement would you have even known I was missing? Hells no. But take note ... I'll be missing. And getting tan (probably burnt), drinking too much and probably making or breaking my present relationship. Yes, I'm going to with a lady friend who earned this trip through work and invited me as her guest. I'm sure it will be fun, but we're definitely on two different wave lengths as far as what vacation is all about and how to approach it. But it's her thing so I'm going along with whatever. I just hope I don't go too bonkers with the other co-workers and the resort-y stylings. I like basic accommodations, experiencing the locals, exploring and not dealing with anybody on the beach, etc. This is not going to be like that. But vacation is vacation. Especially free vacation with someone who is excited and fun and deserving some time away and most importantly (and shockingly) wanting to be with me. I think it will be fun, but I'm still a little nervous about the whole thing.

And now I'm off to bed. Morning is technically here already, and I need some sleep or I'm going to be in a heap of doo doo. I'll post again before I leave. Maybe.

C-Town to C-Bus

Tonight after work I am heading to Columbus, OH. My first trip to anywhere more than 30 minutes outside of Cleveland. Exciting! Stay tuned for some sort of follow-up. Maybe.

It's Fun To Punch Guys Named Coco

This really should get some sort of "photo of the year" award or something like that.
Tampa Bay Rays pitcher James Shields, right, takes a swing at Boston Red Sox's Coco Crisp after Crisp was hit by a pitch and charged the mound in the second inning of a baseball game, Thursday, June 5, 2008, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
From: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080605/483/0b6192aaf2f641ea8be0cd20ee0879ca/

WRX-n-Effect*

So after work today I am picking up a car. My car. The significance of that italicized "My"? Well I haven't had a car to call my own since I got rid of my 1992 Geo Prism back in 1996. The only cars I have driven sine then have been random rentals (I'd say two or three a year) and my parents' when visiting. But now I'm an owner of a new car. New to me anyway. It's a 2003 Subaru Impreza WRX. It's an obnoxious yellow so it will be like driving a school bus. But smaller. And with turbo.

I'll post some photos at some point (if I don't wrap myself around a telephone pole first).

*Yes, that is a reference to Rump Shaker. What of it?