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Target:
- Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
- An Evening with Kevin Smith (DVD)
- Dashboard Confessional Unplugged (CD)
- Playstation 1 memory card
- 6 pack of Mt. Dew (bottles)

Best Buy:
- SOCOM: Navy SEALS (PS2)

Man, gift cards are the greatest thing ever.

Anyone for some online SOCOM next week?

(Oh, and thank you for the birthday/ChristMyAss card, timmyeatworld!

So Saturday's agenda did not go exactly as planned. Went rollerblading around Calhoun with Batgar (Dan), Ben, and Karl and his wife Carla; Ben's fianceé opted to go for a run instead of blading. Carla did two easy laps and we (the guys) did three very fast laps... I've determined I have been putting in too many hard rides and not enough recovery rides...as soon as we started, my heart rate shot up to near redline, and I just wasn't able to recover at all. That's bad. So I'm going to take a couple-o'-three days to sit back, relax, and just take short, slow rides, and recover from the pounding I've been putting on my cardiovascular system. Also -- I think the stem on my bike might be a hair too long...the lower back has been twinging a lot lately after rides, and I'm really getting a lot of work on the muscles down there...they're tired all the time.

So anyway, afterwards, I dropped off Ben and Heather at Ben's place and followed Batgar over to his place. He gave me this old USB color inkjet he got for nothing...clearing out the house he is. Turns out that he and the wife are "with child" -- I'm quite happy for them...they've been trying for awhile.

Anyway, after that, I hit McD's for a cheeseburger -- my first meal of the day. Yum!

Then I decided to meet a friend at Valleyfair for the day. Hell yeah! Right off the bat, we went straight over to Wild Thing and got a front seat for it. Dayam! What a ride! Total rush! The downside was, all the coasters were pretty anticlimactic after that. We did make a point to ride all of the coasters in the part at least once, esp. given that most of the lines were pretty short. The breakdown was this: Wild Thing x2, High Roller x1, Excalibur x1, the new Wild Mouse coaster x1, the Corkscrew x3 (front, middle, and back). We also hit the Power Tower (a "Whoa Belly" for those of you that have played Roller Coaster Tycoon) -- both sides...the launch and the drop. We also hit the go-karts and one water ride. And I won a stuffed Spiderman at one of the games... I was stoked. We tried to avoid the wussy rides. By the time we'd done all that, we were pretty well exhausted and split.

Last night I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. Slept like a log. Today, all my muscles are tiiiiired. I'm going to sit here and write some code today and get those fonts finished. :-)

Other stuff:

Don't ask me, I just work here.

The most important thought of the 20th century: When your only tool is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Public Service Announcement for those of you that have not seen it yet.

Chez Geek. One of the "most funnest" card games ever. Right now, my only competitors are never around. Once I get a place of my own again, I need to get some beer and a bottle of Cuervo and get a bunch of people to come over and play. Fucking hilarious game. :-)

WHY GOD? WHY? WHY THE EASTER BUNNY, YOU CRUEL FUCKER?

Tags: bike, dating, funny, geek, lists

This is going to be thrilling.

Friday: Going to hook the Win(D'OH!)s machine back up so I can access this database I'm working on for writergroups.com. Want to get that site working in some capacity tonight, with a full-blown launch in the next 4-5 days. Whee. Also doing some work on steamlocomotives.info. Do I sound excited? I shouldn't. It's Friday and I'm sitting at home playing web geek. Panic over lack of job and imminent cessation of unemployment benefits.

Saturday: Rollerblading with the guys @ Lake Calhoun...leaving from Burnsville at 10am. Charge! Going to be there a few hours. Come home...more web work. Start sending out résumés for jobs I'm not even remotely qualified for. Finish font work for Chank. Supposed to go to a movie Saturday afternoon, too. Panic over lack of job and imminent cessation of unemployment benefits.

Sunday: Put together at least one new free font for Fontosaurus.com. Been too long since my last font update. Have a good potential candidate for a "grunge" font. Think about a new design for my whiteymustpay.com site. Maybe I'll sell t-shirts through CafePress or something. Who knows? Any extra revenue stream would be helpful at this point. Panic over lack of job and imminent cessation of unemployment benefits.

New Job Ideas:

1. Sanitation Engineer. Pros: Union job, probably has decent wages; the movie Men at Work made me laugh my ass off. Cons: smell like garbage, have to get up an unholy hours of the morning, brain-dead all day like.

2. Cat Burglar. Pros: Might get to see chicks nekkid, could finally score than Playstation 2 I've been lusting after, feel all proud like I'm Robin Hood or something. Cons: illegal as hell, I'm scared of heights, I'm too clumsy to stay quiet.

3. Superhero. Pros: Feel good about self, save world, kill Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, X-ray vision significantly improves "the scenery" at Lake Calhoun. Cons: I don't have X-ray vision, my one superpower seems to be stretching my money, scrawny cyclist's upper-body would look goofy in Spandex, that Wolverine guy could kick my ass.

4. Pimp. Pros: surrounded by women all day long, make lots of money, get to say "bitch where's mah money?". Cons: feel guilty about taking womens' money, can't bring myself to do mean stuff to people, no health insurance plan.

5. Professional Skee-ball Player. Pros: life of total slack, entertaining, pro skee-ballers now allowed in Olympics. Cons: beer belly, no groupies, "skee-ball elbow", shitty income, endorsement deals hard to come by,

Resolutions:

• I WILL GET A FUCKING JOB. SOON.


• No reading of the 4th Harry Potter book until I have a job.


• No more computer games until I have a job.


• No more masturbat--dammit, who am I kidding with that one?


• No more looking at pornogra--dammit, that won't work either.


• I WILL GET A FUCKING JOB. SOON

1. VCR. I only had to turn mom's TV to channel 4 to get it to work.

2. Um. Hmmmm.

3. Fuck this. I'm tired and going back to sleep. Screw you guys.

I always figured you could tell a lot about a person by their reading list. I'm in a sharing mood, so here's what's stacked on my nightstand at the moment:

• The Best American Science Writing 2000 edited by James Gleick
  
• Tokyo Suckerpunch by Isaac Adamson
  
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (this has been on my list for awhile now...I'm actually re-reading it)
  
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare -- all I've ever read prior to this are his histories, and even those I Cliff-Noted the fuck out of...
  
• The Odyssey by Honda. Er, Homer. Sorry lame attempt at humor. :-)
  
• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
  
• Guitar for Dummies by Mark Phillips and Jon Chappell -- because I want to learn to play the blues, baby.
  
• Happy to be Here by Garrison Keillor -- my first foray into one of his books. Love his column on Salon.com.
  
• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright -- a book about the growth and direction of human societies...
  
• Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess by Bobby Fisher -- the man who was the youngest International Grand Master will help you develop mad skillz! Werd!
  
• Various cycling, science, writing, and computer magazines. (Like a good dozen of them.)