Category: Life

Unfun day

Yesterday:
I woke up an hour and a half late, missing my first class. When I got to my truck to try to make it to my other one, the [DieHard] battery was stone-dead. So I called AAA to get a jump start, and Ray’s towing made it out about 1:30. I drove to Sears to get the battery tested, and both the battery and the alternator tested OKAY. This is frustrating because I have little faith in the battery now.

A little while after I got home, my sister-in-law called me. My grandma had a fall and was rushed to the hospital. Last night she called again, and my grandma made it out of surgery for a subdural hematoma, but is still unresponsive. :'( It hurts so bad knowing she probably is suffering, and not being able to do anything except pray that she gets better soon.

Then, last night, something happened to my web host and my site was unavailable. Rather insignificant at this point, but nonetheless, all of this contributed to a very unfun day.

[EDIT/UPDATE (2005.11.13): Grandma is awake and breathing on her own a few hours a day at least, improving daily, things are surely looking up.]

Extra Nipples

Sonofabitch it’s been too long since updating this. Here goes.

I did some more waterski tournaments, and skied ok in some of them, traveled way too far for one of them. My camera got stollen at the UCDavis tournament, that sucked. But on the bright side, I now have a very legitimate reason to hate California(ns)!

The UO Waterski Club is all approved and such, with partial funding even. Got probably 25 sign ups so far, should be a lot of fun once things get rolling, er boating, er… you get the idea.

Spent the afternoon Tuesday getting parts for my ski, my bike (including spokes– which came with spoke-nipples– which explains the title here), and being indecisive about a guitar tuner. I may need to head to GuitarWorld to check out the prices there. FWIW, I bought an electric guitar from my flatmate’s ex-girlfriend, and am taking guitar lessons this term, yay for fun.

Went to the Go Betty Go!/Voodoo Glow Skulls/Flogging Molly show last night. Go Betty Go! was excellent. I hadn’t head anything from them before the show, but I really dug their set. The only way I can think of to describe them is “all female punk band”.. and damn good at it. Who do voodoo I don’t. *shrug* The Voodoo Glow Skulls did put on a good set as well, but I’m just not a ska fan at all. Sorry guys. Then Flogging Molly came on… I’d seen them once before (at Warped Tour ’04 in Minneapolis). They have got to be one of my favorite bands to see live! But come on, Guinness in red plastic cups, wtf?!

Home but busy.

w00t! Vacation was great, but working is important for survival. I arrived in Eugene Thursday afternoon after a FIFTY-FOUR HOUR bus ride. Friday I worked most of all day, with a couple hour break to get lunch and pay rent, etc., followed by an OMGWTFBBQ at David’s. BBQ was great, met so many people who were v.fun to be around, I just hope I didn’t make an ass out of myself so I get invited back sometime in the not-too-distant future. Lots of beer got drank and lots of people got drunk. Good times 😉

Saturday I woke up on their couch, slightly hungover, but in rather good shape I thought. Had an omlet handed to me while Sarah was showing me the Salad Fingers series (watch them in order, they are progressively more disturbing). Then I stopped at Albertsons to get another pack of beer to bring to Fall Creek for a work ppl outing. Mmm geeks in swimsuits :-/ Anyhow, some beers and some swimming later, it was back to Eugene for dinner. We went to Sushi Domo, and I had my first sushi evar. I was adventurous and ordered basically a miscellaneous plate. It was quite the experience, it was rather decent, but I won’t be eating it all that often. Perhaps it gets better each time you have it. *shrug* who knows?

Sunday I got up at 7am to go help remove weeds from the waterski pond at 8am. Working in the sun on the water all day, got a ski run in at the end (made 3 of 4 passes at 32mph). Left there around 5pm. Now I’m all burnt and stuff, but I’m ok. Get to do it all over again next weekend, yay!

Aaaand I worked 8 hours today. With only 1 15min break for f00dstuffs. Mmm bbqchicken sammich from SubShop!

All this, and I still haven’t gone grocery shopping since getting back to town. I can’t tell if this is good or bad, but I don’t think it’s good, because I haven’t been eating much. Anywho, until next time…