Those were the two ways I missed two of the three planned concerts this weekend. I saw the Built To Spill show as planned on Friday night, although I have to admit to leaving at 12:35am because I was tired and didn’t expect the show to be a late one. Saturday I was in no mood to go out, especially to a club to I have never been. And Sunday a bike ride and too much beer did me in. When I got home I decided to take a short nap to recuperate for the Ben Kweller show, unfortunately “short” turned into “two hours” and when I woke up it was too late to rally to go to the show.
No Wii For Me (aka Wee)
What a bummer! I heard that a pre-sale of Nintendo’s next generation console known as the Wii (pronounced “we”, or “oui”) was happening at GameStop/EB stores on Friday. I also heard that the pre-sale would end at each store once the allotted units had been purchased. So at 10:30am I strolled over to Perimeter Mall (have you heard that there is an Apple Store there now?) with the intention of making a pre-sale purchase. Somewhat to my surprise the pre-sale was already over by the time I arrived at the store.
Oh well. I now predict that I will probably never own a Wii because that’s the type of person I am. When I get all wound up about buying something I either complete the transaction immediately, or never at all. Only time will tell.
Wild Kingdom
I was completely in awe on Saturday morning. While driving up Moreland Avenue like I have so many times before I saw something that I have never seen happen in real life and I wish I was able to photograph the sequence.
There is a Church’s Chicken at the corner of Moreland and Wylie. While driving through that intersection I saw a large bird of prey (hawk or falcon) with its wings fully extended swooping down under the Church’s street-level sign. Seconds later I saw the bird fly from the ground with a rodent in its talons. While I certainly felt badly for the rodent I am well aware that this is all part of the circle of life.
ITP Flickr Pic
This was a fantastic dinner (Citrus Curry Beef) that I made Saturday (to cushion the blow of the losses ahead of me).
Bad Weekend For My Orange And Blue
Well, I had that deep feeling in my gut that I was not going to be happy come Sunday morning, and I was unfortunately right. Not only did my Mets underwhelm this weekend, my beloved Gators also dropped a game that they could have won. I give much credit to Auburn who I knew would be a good enough team to make sure that they wouldn’t lose two consecutive games at home.
What does this all mean to my life? Truth be told not a whole lot more than bragging rights which get me a whole lot of nothing in the real world.
And now for some ideas stolen from LiveJournal…
Current Mood – bummed, tired, and a bit saddle sore
Current Music – Sirius Satellite Radio, Channel 26 playing Cold War Kids — “Hang Me Out To Dry”
Website Of The Day – Taking Your Camera On The Road is a pretty decent website about travelling and photography.
Exercise (b)Log – biking, ~15 miles yesterday
Monday Morning Weigh-In – 203 lbs (boo! hiss!)
Cheers,
Paulie [eatl/ga]
Gators. 🙁
Yes, Gators. 🙁
Someone kidnapped the Gators and replaced them with a high school team the second 1/2.
On the other hand, at least we didn’t lose to Vandy. At home 🙂
I am hoping that this loss will fire the Gators up for the World’s Biggest Cocktail Party in two weeks.
It could have been worse, you could have lost to Vandy. 😉
State of Tennessee 2, UGA 0.
Just read your earlier post. I jumped ships from the T-mo sidekick to sprint for the Treo. Cingular is supposed the announce the “antenna-nubless” 750 any day now.
I switched to the Treo purely for the outlook integration that Sprint offers. I run a small app on my PC that keeps the Treo constantly synched with Outlook (I can respond to email, accept/deny/create meetings, etc).
Not to muddy the waters anymore, but I’m totally diggin’ the Treo so far.
So, no comment on The Race last night? How ’bout those new rules? Next week will be interesting.
I am in a holding pattern in regards to phones right now. I am waiting to see what happens in the next few months to see what transpires. That is always subject to change, however…
I was rushed to finish the blog this morning so I couldn’t add anything about Amazing Race. I will bring up tomorrow, thanks for reminding me. 🙂
At least Dennis Fraudchione isn’t your coach.
some silly sports game screwed my Tivo out of recording the most of the Amazing Race–what change in rules? who was last? Were they eliminated–ARGH!! Guess I could read the Amaz. Race web site… Instead I’ll complain when you don’t keep me posted….
and–you SHOULD defiantly get a Wii. Then you can sell it to me for cheap–I don’t wanna pay full price for a USED wii. Get one get one–hey wouldn’t it “go” nicely with yer hashin’ name???? You really should get one!