MarvinisaLunatic

Good: WERE GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS Bad: WERE GONNA GET CREAMED but anyway, its good to make the playoffs..

And the next night they roll into Boston and beat them 7-3, and they are now 5-5 vs Boston this year. I think they can win tonight too, but of course..tomorrow.. bleh Oh, and Tampa Bay has lost 5 in a row...aww.

I would like in as the US Naval Academy, ie Navy.

Memories..oh, and I guess the $10,000 is misleading..you get the rediculously huge and expensive widescreen SONY CRT monitor which alone ($5,000) cost more than the Computer ($4,500) but still..

Hotel for 4 nights = $350 (And thats probably a mid range 2 to 3 star hotel at $75 a night plus taxes booked online) Food for 4 days = $100 ($25 a day which isn't much these days) Admission to Cedar Point for 2 days, parking = $85 Souvenirs and food at Cedar Point = $75 (I always buy a TShirt for a Coaster I've ridden and Im probably gonna eat/drinlk another $40 worth in 2 days easy ) Orioles game ticket/food/parking = $75 Gas for the trip = $150?? (probably at least 3 fillups @ $50 each by this time next year, but who knows) total = $835 (and this is just for me, no one else lol) Id rather set aside $25 a week into a savings account for 48 weeks (11 months) to pay for it then to try and budget it out of my money in my checking account next summer. It should give me about $1200 which should be enough.

We dont make anything in America anymore, didn't you hear?

The GF/Hershey Park issue was back in the end of September 2006, and I also went to the Os/Tigers game which I wouldnt have been able to do. Last year I went with my GF to 6 Flags in NJ and had a miserable time because she wouldnt ride any rides other than the water rides which I hate, and then she would complain that she was miserable watching me ride the rides. So I learned my lesson this year and I went by myself to Hershey Park and to see Glenn Becks show in Harrisburg. I didnt even offer her a chance to go because she hates Glenn Beck/Politics as well. I had a lot of fun by myself anyway. I started a savings thing for next year and Im going to Cedar Point for at least 2 days, hopefully maybe timed around an Os/Indians game. My GF wants to go to Alaska...

Old article on Ric Flair Finance in Charlotte Newspaper "The Nature Boy is ready to go to the mat for your car loan! WHOO!"

I went in there when I was gulaged.

at least I was half right.

On the playoffs (PLAYOFFS?!!) the way it looks, the 7 and 8 seeds are open to 4 teams. TSM should finish 8-8. San Jose and Louisiana both are 7-7 and they play each other. San Jose plays a scrub team in their next game and Louisianna plays a 7-7 team in the other conference that should make the playoffs. Montezuma is also 7-7 and plays the #4 seed in Alpha and a 12-2 team in the other conference their next game. Tiebreaks are based first on head to head, in which case we actually beat Louisiana and San Jose so..TSM's best case scenario to make the playoffs (again..PLAYOFFS?!!) would be that Louisiana loses to San Jose and Montezuma loses as well, which would lock up the 7th seed for San Jose and throw TSM into a 3 way tie with Louisiana and Montezuma for 8th at 7-8. Next round of games, TSM wins and they both lose, we would make 8th place and earn the opportunity to get slaughtered 100-3 in the first round, or even if they both win we'd still make it cause we have the tiebreakers with both of them. I haven't quite figured out what happens if Macchu Pichu loses both of their games and is 8-8 but I think they win their upcoming game and knock that out of the realm of possibility.

Derek Lowe has a perfect game vs the Braves through 6.

I wear an Os hat cause the Health Dept came in one time and stated even without hair it was still somehow a violation of code or something.

Burnett was looking good through 5 innings up 8-1.. Then the Os jumped all over him and scored 6 runs in the 6th, capped by MISTER JONES' 3 Run HR that was absolutely crushed.. funny he can still get the win giving up 7 runs in 5 1/3.

Overtime for the unlucky soul who answers the phone first, which is why I never answer my phone. Though for the most part the cooks dont call out, its the other people I work with that have that bad annoying habit. In 4 years Ive only called in sick once. At any one time, theres only 3 people working in the kitchen including myself but not including my boss who barricades himself up in his air conditioned office all day. I cook b/l/d for the patients and L/D for the employees/nursing staff. Its 40 patients and 20-40 employees depending on what we have for lunch and maybe 5-10 for dinner since the later shift hasnt come in yet when we do dinner. Some employees take their 1/2 hour lunch to McDonalds, Wendy's or Subway, but we only charge $2.50 for lunch though so it sort of amazes me why they go elsewhere and spend twice as much or more...but anyway. Guests can buy lunch or dinner for $5 and we get between 0 and 4 guest meals at lunch and dinner.

Im required to take a 30 minute break off the clock for lunch (which is why Im there 14 1/2 hours and only paid for 14) and 4 15 minute breaks (not off the clock, supposedly for breakfast, dinner and 2 of my own decided upon times) so essentially I only work 13 hours but those 15 minute breaks often get shoved aside quickly when we have nurses or CNAs barging in all the time because patients want something. Im the only cook on when Im there and the company has refused to hire extra cooks to allow us to split the shifts in half (there are only 3 cooks) for as long as Ive worked there, so Im assuming they understand the issues with people working 14 hour shifts. I dont have the ability to leave after 12 hours since that would mean the patients wouldnt get dinner (we dont start serving dinner til 5 pm) and nothing would get cleaned up and put away for the night. I wouldnt trade the job for anything though, being able to only work 3 days a week and make an almost full paycheck. Not to mention I only live 7 miles away from work which saves on gas and the amount of time needed to get there (I can leave at 4:22 in the morning and still clock in on time because there's no traffic and only 1 or 2 lights which I never hit that early in the morning)

Gas here is still $3.89-$3.91 with the $3.89 station having signs up all over the place stating gas is 5 cents cheaper with cash. The lines there are too long for me to wait about 20 minutes (since people have to go in and pay first) to save 56 cents though.

Tony Atlas showing up = Atlas Ortiz getting his name changed to Ricky. Though I doubt Tony Atlas will stay around long. It is cool that they could be bringing back managers though.

I only work 3 days a week (2 14 hour shifts and one 8 hour shift = 36 hours a week)

You try working a 14 hour shift on 4-5 hours sleep. By noon, when I get my lunch break, im usually feeling pretty run down and I still have 7 hours more to work. Ive been drinking my energy drinks right before Lunch for the past year or so with no problems.

Its 4 tablespoons for 24 grams of sugar in a 16 oz can. Ive seen people, especially when I was in Charleston, fill up a glass of tea with so much sugar that the bottom of the glass had about a 1 to 2 inch layer of undisolved sugar at the bottom. so whatever.

Most other Energy drinks dont use juice. And Rockstar is sweetened with a combination of the juices (apple, pear and pomegranate) and sucrose which is plain sugar, not corn syrup which is the biggest issue I have with just about all drinks these days. It also had 80 less calories and 12 fewer grams of sugar per can than regular Rockstar drinks. So its not AS BAD as you think

I spent way too much time on that (about an hour).

Directv is pushing PPV movies "on demand" that doesnt require the broadband connection, but Im not paying $6 for a PPV movie (In HD, but still..no)

I got the Austin and Rock 3 DVD sets at Best Buy for $20 total, though they were $15 each but I had a $10 RZ gift card. Not to mention Rey and HBK's sets for $12 each and the horsemen set for 90 pepsi points. I was hoping someone would go lower than $19.99 even like $17.99 or a freebie with purchase but nothing..bah. If you can afford to pay extra money for overpriced cans of pop labeled "energy drinks", you can afford DVDs without finding a $2 discount. I paid 41 cents a can for my energy drinks, thank you very much (10 dollars a 24 pack) I'll probably get the Flair set later when I have a GC to use at BB again..