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[Music|”Kryptonite” by Three Doors Down]
[Mood|Exhausted]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

… I really need to find a couple of suckers to buy some of my cookie dough for NHS before the money is due tomorrow…

I’m markedly tired today and am gradually beginning to feel like crap… The onset of sickness seems to be setting in, and trying to dig into the trenches to battle for the long haul, since we know when I get sick, it’s not some little dinky cold, oh no; I go all out sick…

Absolutely nothing to do today. Too tired/sick to bother going anywhere, I’ve reached the end of the internet, and TV is only crammed with match play golf, a lefty-filled PBA tournament, some college blowouts, and the IRL’s season opener… Some had promise, but it’s been far from an exciting day…

Clarkson sent me a bunch of stuff for their honors program… They only accept thirty applicants each year, but if I could get accepted to that program, I get that much closer to making Clarkson my 2004-2005 home of higher learning…

Another thing I need; a job. Yes, I’m more broke than Enron times ten, and I have this nasty habit of blowing money randomly… Yesterday alone I spent:

$1.75 for a bowling practice game at Sky Top
$20 for gas to get to East Hartford
$4.59 on new bowling tape
$4.96 for lunch at Wendy’s
$3 for brackets at the JBT
$4.30 for a pack of Combos and a Gatorade
$2.07 for a couple packs of mints

So yeah, I blew almost $40 yesterday on absolutely nothing… and that’s NOT spending a lot in my little world..

So this week I’ll probably have to complete my favorite task in the whole, wide, world… Persuading higher-ups that I’m more worthy of a job that an illegal alien slaving for $3/hour… Wish me luck…

[Music|”Someday” by Nickelback]
[Mood|Frustrated]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

Intriguing… starting to get the hang of editing this fangled template using the PHP tags… I’ve come up with a crude one on my own, but that pales in comparison to this masterpiece by Ian Main. So, yes, with a little tweaking we have the newly improved (yet again) blog-a-ma-thing-a-ma-jig…

Fixed the comments, archives, categories, etc. which hadn’t been working since yesterday… Stupid something dealing with a mod_rewrite and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah… Heh heh, I deleted that line and it fixed the problem… Kids, deleting stuff is always the way to solve problems… Always.

Wasted today, go figure… Bowling, pointless, but you can read that down yonder since I can subdivide my categories now…

In search of something to ramble about…

By the way, I have been watching the latest commericals for NBC’s Average Joe… and those guys don’t look average. It was much funnier to watch the fat, annoying guys who lead non exciting, “work out every day,” kind of lives.

Moving on, let’s check the news…

There’s so much to bitch about when talking about Haiti, so I won’t even bother… You’d think after 5000 years of civilization on this planet people would learn how to not kill, maim, rape, whip, paralyze, or castrate using a chainsaw each other…

OK, news is not so good… Onto sports…

Spring training is underway… I still don’t have anything worthwhile to rant about until April 5th (when the official losing starts for the Red Sox) so I’ll just sit back and keep reliving Game 7 of the ALCS up UNTIL the bottom of the seventh inning…

Movies anyone?

So, apparently some woman died while watching “The Passion of Christ.” C’mon people, is the movie really that bad? It’s a movie. So maybe it isn’t the same story told in children’s Bibles, but it’s just a movie. Self-expression, entertainment, FICTIONAL. The truth of the matter is quite simple. If you don’t want to watch it, don’t go see it. People have badmouthed it more than Bill O’Reilly badmouths Rosie O’Donnell, yet they go to see it to “watch for the disturbing details so a movie like this is never made again.” Wait, please enlighten me. How exactly are you solving problems?

And on a related, closing note, apparently I missed the History Channel’s landmark presentation of the great epic documentary, “Who Killed Jesus.” Guess I’ll never know then…

Everyone’s permission to whine about “getting tapped” or “not carrying” has officially been revoked.

JBT in East Hartford. 27 pocket ten-pins in a five game set. Enough said. Yes there were quite a few ten pins… I tried going light, I tried going flush, I tried going high, I even tried going Brooklyn.

I did get a chuckle when some guy came up to me and said that he would pray for my bowling at church tomorrow…

So clearly I sucked out. Well, everyone there had prepared for a wall shot, not a shot with 59 feet of oil like there was… Ahhh yes, let’s just put a light coating over the PBA shot… Nuts to actually stripping the lanes…

Sky Top was meh this morning… a 550-something there with a 233 mixed in… (Which only means my 140-something middle game sucked big time)

But seriously, my equipment sucked today, and when it actually hit the pocket, I just turned away and got the spare ball ready because God knows it’s not carrying…

[Music|”Higher” by Creed]
[Mood|Amazed]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

The first day in about three years I actually did something right after school… Well, it was kind of sitting next to me while I was on the computer, but it still ranks high enough to merit a “red” on the overachieving front… I’ll stop doing work now…

And I told myself it couldn’t be done… A little graphite on the axel/pivot points to reduce friction, a rewrapping of the wire, and some extra wire stripping and…

That’s right, it’s a physics motor, run by an opposing electric current, which forms a perpendicular, opposing magnetic field, which repels that copper colored wire bundle so that it goes in a circular whoop-whoop fashion.

The picture is just an animated GIF that I worked up in Jasc Animation Shop (same thing I use for buddy icons) but the whole shaking was a result of my unsteady hand an a crappy digital camera…

Q: If you see a Yankees fan on a bicycle, why should you never swerve to hit him?
A: There’s a good chance it’s your bicycle.

Q: What’s the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead Yankees fan in the road?
A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.

Oh, but I couldn’t resist…

[Music|”It’s Been Awhile” by Staind]
[Mood|Apprehensive]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

I’ll give you a Golden Nugget…

Think that was random? It was. Click here if you have no clue what the hell I’m talking about… Ahhh, now it makes more sense you say…

And in other intriguingly ironic events that fall under the category of damnation, the Clarkson and RPI (they invited me yet they haven’t accepted me as of yet… hmmmmm…) open houses for accepted students all fall on Saturday, March 27, 2004. It’s bad enough there’s two of them on the same day, but this is coming on the heels of everyone’s favorite charity activity… The Lock-in… *mildly enthusiastic wooooooo*

And Tres deserves a round of applause for some emotionally charged haiku…

“This four year bullshit,
starts once again as freshmen,
Damn I hate school.”

[Music|30 songs, see below]
[Mood|Bored]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

Stole this from Shawn. I have nothing to post anymore. But must… keep… streak… intact…

Step 1: Open your MP3 player, Winamp, whatever.
Step 2: Put all of your music on random.
Step 3: Write down the first 30 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.

1.) “Red Hot Chili Peppers” - Can’t Stop
2.) “Bring Me to Life” - Evanescence
3.) “Born in the USA” - Bruce Springsteen
4.) “Breathe” - Michelle Branch
5.) “Are you Gonna be my Girl?” - Jet
6.) “Get Busy” - Sean Paul
7.) “Hey Ya!” - Outkast
8.) “Good Riddance (Time of your Life)” - Green Day
9.) “Hit That” - The Offspring
10.) “Basket Case” - Green Day
11.) “Who are you?” - The Who
12.) “I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)” - The Clash
13.) “Yours and Mine” - Fountains of Wayne
14.) “The Anthem” - Good Charlotte
15.) “Are You Ready for This?” - Jock Jams
16.) “Going to Pasalacqua” - Green Day
17.) “The Hardest Button to Button” - White Stripes
18.) “Blinded by the Light” - Manfred Mann
19.) “The Beer Song” - Weird Al
20.) “Remedy” - Jason Mraz
21.) “Harder to Breathe” - Maroon 5
22.) “She’s so High” - Tal Bachman
23.) “Headstrong” - Trappd
24.) “Unwell” - Matchbox Twenty
25.) “Sk8terboi” - Avril
26.) “Bent” - Matchbox Twenty
27.) “Fell in Love with a Girl” - White Stripes
28.) “Taking Care of Business” - BTO
29.) “Eye of the Tiger” - Survivor
30.) “God Must Hate Me” - Simple Plan

Meh, I’m not the world’s largest music packrat… All my stuff has long since been burned on CDs as I only have 145 songs on my hard drive which pales in comparisons to the thousands upon thousands other people have on theirs. Not bad either… Got some Green Day and White Stripes… Hmmm, there’s a couple songs on that list that probably should be cleaned out… You can find out which two.

[Music|”Get Free” by The Vines]
[Mood|Pained]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

Pop Music assignment is to find 10 facts about the 50’s… I don’t think it gets more random than this…

-Max Theiler won the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1951 for his discoveries concerning yellow fever and how to combat it.

-Watson and Crick published their findings on DNA on the 2nd of April, 1953, which ushered in a new age in biology.

-The Velcro fastener is patented in 1955.

-NASA is founded in 1958.

-United States ended Japanese occupation in 1952.

-Guiness Book of World Records was first published in 1955.

-First Direct-Dial Transcontinental Telephone Call was placed in 1951.

-Gen. MacArthur was relieved of his command by President Truman in 1951.

-Ben-Hur was released in 1959.

-Marilyn Monroe’s Some Like It Hot was also released in 1959.

[Music|”Why Don’t You and I” by Santana]
[Mood|Abnormal]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

And Ralph Nader throws his hat in the presidential ring!

The play’s final show was last night. Went off great, and I would like to actually take the time to thank everyone (I know some of you read this) for everything you guys did for me, considering the fact I was the new white boy who couldn’t dance.

And further proving how far the whole Janet Jackson Super Bowl thing spiraled out of control, we have The Amateur Gourmet’s Janet Jackson Breast Cupcakes. Wow, I’m going to say the cupcake is by far the tastiest breast. Janet Jackson loses once again; this time to a cupcake.

PENGUINS SUFFER 18TH LOSS IN A ROW

Martin Havlat scored three goals, two late in the game during a four-point day, and the Ottawa Senators ran Pittsburgh’s winless streak to a club record-tying 18 straight by winning 6-3 Sunday.

Poor Pittsburgh. This is an embarressment to hockey. Bring the team to Hartford. You’ll get more fans, and won’t lose nearly as much.

[Music|”We are the Champions” by Queen]
[Mood|Wahoooo!]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

… ACCEPTED TO CLARKSON UNIVERSITY!

First college I hear back from… First acceptance… I’m batting 1.000…

(Take that magic 8 ball…)

[Music|”Jump” by Van Halen]
[Mood|Nostalgic]
[Overachiever Alert Level|]

Tonight, my illustrious (albeit brief) high school acting career draws to a close, with the final performance of “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” Really tis a shame I didn’t do more of this… because for once, I finally had fun with a school sponsored activity/sport/club…

You know what commercial really bothers me. No, not every stinkin’ Levitra commercial with Mike Ditka saying, “Stay in the game.” Close. Not the Cilias where you have to see a doctor if “erection lasts longer than four hours.” Closer. It’s that damn Viagra commercial with all the men running down the road to Queen’s “We are the Champions.” First off, you ruin a good song by throwing it in a friggin’ erectile dysfunction commercial. Two, what makes you a champion for asking your doctor about Viagra?

Supposedly, 36% of all primary voters in New York state, are supposedly only voting for the candidate that can “beat Bush in the 2004 elections.” So wait, he could be a drunken, foul-mouthed, Nazi, who kills all his dissenters so he wins the presidency of the United States, and as long as he would beat Bush you’d side with him? This is exactly why I have such utter distaste for the two-party monopoly in the United States.

Perhaps my solution for that this fall (whoopee, my first presidential election!) will be revealed on Sunday’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert when Ralph Nader will be on… On national TV, during which there are now rumors that he will announce a surprise campaign for president of the United States. Go Winsted! (You know who should make a comeback… Where the hell is Ross Perot?)

While we are on the subject of John Kerry, remember that photo of him and Jane Fonda at an anti-war protest that CNN, Fox news, CNBC, MSNBC, and all other news networks talked non-stop about a few weeks back. Turns out some kid merged two images of Fonda and Kerry, slapped an AP stamp on it, and WHAMMO! Instant talk show fodder.

My political ramblings will conclude for the day because I’ve exhausted my ability to speak by not getting enough REM over the last three nights.