September 6, 2005

• Ok, I'm still stuck here...

  I've been stuck at my Grandparents this past week and a little bit
  because the floors that this company was supposed to do did them and
  screwed up the sanding horribly to the point of ripples in the
  woodwork... So, now another company is coming in to fix the mistake...
  I left my computer all alone for almost 2 weeks...

  More importantly, I missed 3 raids, 1 JJ class all because of this
  sanding screw up. Damn... So, if anyone has been trying to get ahold of
  me on MSN or whatever, sorry, I haven't been able to respond to you, N.

  Sleep, Sleep and more Sleep...

  I don't know why, but I've been tired this past few days. I've been so
  tired that I missed a JJ class that I could of gone too, but I just
  couldn't keep my eyes open. I was working days last week 7am - 3pm and
  luckily I was at my Grandparents place because I couldn't deal with the
  5am wakeups from the small town that I live in and drive an hour into
  work, do work, and then drive all the way back... I would of probably
  killed myself or someone else...

  So in grand total I sleep over 50 hours in that span, plus the normal
  8+ hours for regular sleep. This was probably due to all of those late
  nights on the computer (Why did I join a West Coast Server for WoW...
  why!!!).

  Boredom has set in...

  Without my computer, and using Gram's computer (which luckily has the
  net, whew!), I still have access to the Net, and a few games here and
  there... Icewind Dale (which I picked up), Smugglers 3, Mahjogg Master
  6 (what its a fun game )... But, it the copious amounts of websites,
  BitTorrent programs that I truly miss... and WoW, but I'm actually glad
  I've taken a bit of a break from it, it's getting boring personally...
  well, boring until patch 1.7 comes out, that new instance comes out,
  etc etc...

  So, I've done the following this week:

  - Saw Transporter 2 (Good movie, see it once, won't see it again... hell, rent it on DVD if you have too)
  - Saw Brothers Grimm (Meh, it was an OK movie... nothing spectacular)
  - Played a round at the old course, just to get my swing in order (story to follow)
  - Sushi and drinks with CM, Erwin and Kristen (story to follow)
  - Almost done IWD I (Ok, I cheated, I didn't want to spend that many
  hours on it (which I have :S) and buffed up my characters... sue me),
  still have HoW and IWD II to play

  Golf and a little more golf.. hey, I've had time

  So, it was Saturday. I woke up, had breakfast and it was 10am. So I
  went out and was going to hit a bucket of balls but I sub-conciously
  made a wrong turn and ended up at a golf course that I normally play.
  Forgot my scorecard and just focused on my swing and hitting in
  general. Things were going great overall. Made some birdies, pars a few
  bogies, etc...

  Then came hole numbero 6. 

  This hole has always plauged me, because it has a huge ditch on the
  left that runs all the way to the road, a huge lake on the right, thing
  fairways till it opens up by a tree and two large bunkers that protect
  the front of the green... and this is only at a 260 yard par 4.

  But, what made it worse was the fact that there were four HUGE guys
  playing golf, in carts and weren't driving or hitting more than
  100yards. So after waiting for them for about 20 minutes (it was
  cooling down my shot) I teed up one and hit a nice fade left to right
  down the left side. They were on the green but pissed that I hit at
  them. So I teed up another shot. Nice easy swing and landed close to
  the right bunker and they looked at me again. Finally they finished
  putting and I took my time to the green, hit my two balls and as I was
  walking up the path to the next hole, they had just hit they're balls...

  That happened for 7, 8 and 9.  At 8 I got pissed and hit 5 balls
  in their general direction, which none hit them. But I did get a birdie

  Caught up with them at 9 and they still hadn't hit... One of the guys said:

  Guy with leg brace: Do you want to go ahead of us?
  Vx: Nah, that's ok, I need the break
  Fourth Guy in Cart: Haven't you had a break at each of these holes.
  Vx: Ya I was waiting for you guys, thanks for the break

  I finished my round and went to lunch at Kelsey's and chatted with a
  few waitress'. Went to see Brothers Grimm, chatted with CoderMike at
  his house. Played a bit of Far Cry. Then we went to Best Buy, where he
  had to pickup a wireless Router for his mom and brother and it's just
  too long of a boring story to tell....

  But, Erwin called CM up and CM asked if I wanted to go for Sushi. I
  said yes and we went at 8 after having a beer with Kristen at her
  house, which she showed us her iPod Mini (512MB) which is so cool that
  I think I'll get the regular iPod (I'll implement the 'chop off
  anyone's hands that touches said iPod too' and fill out the paperwork
  after... sign with your stump, here, here and inital here...)

  So we went to a new sushi bar, which I never noticed before, of course
  I haven't been in the city in a while, nevermind downtown for that
  matter...

  Had the 40 pieces and 3 rolls for $90. Erwin and I had the Plum Wine $7
  a glass.... we only had one glass. Salad with Carrot/Ginger dressing to
  start, Miso soup next, I ordered the green tea, we all had water. The
  Tempura came, we dug in, the rolls came and there was so much variety
  that I can't remember it all.  Then Kristen and I ordered a few
  more rolls, one with quail egg and caviar, which was great, raw egg
  though placed gingerly ontop of the caviar, and personally it had no
  taste to me... just like an egg.

  I wrote down the name of the plum wine and vowed to look it up online..
  because it reminded me of Tokashky (bad spelling, but its a Hungarian
  dessert wine, very expensive and really well aged)

  After dinner, we went to a cocktail bar and I had a Chocolate martini,
  didn't finish it all because I was driving, dropped off the respective
  parties to their houses and drove to my second home.

  I looked up that Plum Wine which was Gekkeikan, a brand that serves
  Sake as well... I found it... I then found it at the LCBO and it was
  for $13.50 a bottle (tax included in the price) so between Erwin and I
  we drank (by their standards) a bottle between us... The bottle holds
  750ml... I know you can get more than two glasses out of that .... So,
  I bought 2 bottles and opened one for Gram and Gramp... They wwere
  surprised because it tasted exactly like the Hungarian dessert wine for
  ALOT less....

  So that was my week roughly.

  Getting ready for the night shift now, I'll chat at you all later

  Vx Out

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