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BECAUSE LUISA ASKED SO NICELY

Since I now have my computer up and running for the first time since I was kicked out of the Profeta residence, I figured it be a good idea to go ahead and put an update up for the first time in... a couple of days.

Anyway, I'm still here at Chez Cockroach. Like I said, I took the opportunity with Luisa out of town to get the computer setup and do some of the essentials. Like put all of my transactions for the past two months into my computer so I can see how much I can afford to start socking away into the ole IRA. No, it doesn't help when your student loan payments are about to go up 200%, but there's absolutely nothing I can do about that. I guess I'm going to just have to deal with it by eating ramen 5 nights a week.

Chez Cockroach is still filled with useless USPS carriers, packs of wild children running around, and white trash neighbors who have some stupid alarm thing that kept going off this weekend. Needless to say, by the time it started going off for the 20,000th time last night, I was this close to yelling obscenities out my door. This close.

Meanwhile, I would like to thank the other dumbass in this apartment complex for their wireless internet connection. The fact that you leave yourself to just anyone pirating off your connection works for me. Since this is the internet and all, I'll tell you now that I appreciate your internet connection at broadband speeds. I also enjoy not having to spend the $40 for Time Warner to connect me, so that also works in my favor. Kudos to you, fools.

Other than that, the big story over the weekend was my record-breaking bowling at league. Well, it was just for my personal record, but I'll take it anyway. The big 218 last Sunday. Five strikes in a row. One open frame. If I hadn't choked on my last ball and gotten something better than a three, then I could've been in the 220s. Not that I'm going to look a gift score in the mouth, but this is a start at least. But I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be all over the leader board this week. Which makes my strategy of sucking ass the week before all that more cunning. I'm a frickin genius.

But other than that, most of my time involves the trifecta of work, college football, and NCAA Baseball 2006. I'm not doing horribly in my pickem pools, but I can be doing better. I'm just off my game so far, but I usually peak around week 7 or 8 so there's still some time for improvement. It doesn't help that the guy at work that picks the games is an Indiana fan so we get a solid slate of Indiana games that nobody in their right mind would be interested in. Oh well. At least I knew that Indiana would not be able to beat UConn at home, even if others didn't.

I also got a set of business cards at work today. Of course, they had my email address incorrect, but I'm not sure how many times I plan on using the business cards anyway. I'll have to scratch them out or something else entirely unprofessional. But it does have my office phone in all of it's glory. And my title. Analyst.

I guess the last thing that I could report on is that Luisa's thinking about taking a trip with me up to Winston-Salem to see Virginia Tech beat the snot out of Wake Forest. I could get tickets either from Virginia Tech or from Wake Forest, but we'll see how that turns out. Again, I'm going to have to look at the ole finances before I make a decision on how feasible $80+expenses is going to be in a month. Not that I mind the road trip in the least, but I should probably see where all my money is going before I start deciding to spend more of it.

That's it for now. I do have 10 more games of bowling to get in over the next couple of days, so we'll see how that goes. Perhaps I'll improve even more, or something like that.
posted by Mike at 8:55 PM