Like Batman, I got some wonderful toys

I acquired some fancy things the past week.  Thanks to a nice tax rebate check, I was able to get a few things I’ve been wanting for a while.

The First thing I got was a Sony PSP.  It’s like a mini PS2, but it also is a movie and MP3 player.  I got it since I am planning on selling my PS2 after seeing the PSP in action first hand, and since I can get the same games on the PSP, I figured Id sell the PS2 (may go the Ebay route, still haven’t decided yet).  I got a couple games for it, and it’s addictive as hell.  I got “Hot Shots Golf”, and I’ve been playing that the most.  I also got GTA: Liberty City Stories, and it’s a lot like the other GTA games, so that’s a good thing.  The other game I picked up was Konami’s soccer game.  It doesn’t have the big features like the PS2 version, but I still like the game.  The only thing I haven’t gotten used to is the fact that it’s all in one, in that I’m used to have a controller in my hand and looking at a TV.  Other than that I have no complains with the system.  Eventually I’m getting a bigger memory card so I can save some MP3s on the system, but that’s all down the road.  The best thing I got for it is the Logitech case to protect it….let’s just say it was tested the other night and it passed with flying colors.

The other big thing I got was a new cell phone.  I had gotten it since it was time to get a new phone after it got a huge crack on the screen.  Also my contract’s expiring gave me an opportunity to get a new phone.  It’s an amazing phone, and it has something I wanted for a while: Bluetooth capabilities.  I got myself a nice bluetooth headset for it so I can now have a real hands free experience in the car and when I need both hands.  

The last ting I got was season tickets to the Red Bulls soccer team.  I haven’t has tickets for a couple years, and I figured it was good time to get season tickets again.  This Sunday I’m gong to DC for the first game of the season, and it’s free (the team is footing the bill), so how could I resist?  

Other than that my life is going very well.  Work’s still there, and as long as my check clears each week I’m cool with the job (just would like more hours, but that’s to come).   There are other things I would like to talk about, but I don’t want to at this time.  I don’t want jinx anything pending, and when things are more concrete I’m sure I’ll babble on about the thing.  I will just say this (and I think only a few people will get it; which is how I want it), The sleepless night the past week and a half have been MORE than worth it, and I hope there are more of them.

Yes my resume is STILL out of date.  I plan on redoing it tomorrow or Wed. night, since people want to see it

Well that’s all I can write at this time, hope it made sense to you, but if not that’s your problem, I’m not here to make everyone happy

S-A-TUR-DAY....HEY!!! I"m bored!!!

Happy belated St. Patrick’s Day!!!  I spent mine in a bar (what a shock, half-Irish and drunk in a bar).  But I did have a good time.  I met up with some old friends of mine from high school who I haven’t seen in years (but recently kept in contact with on Myspace).  Honestly at first it was weird, since I haven’t hung out with him in a long time and I was supposed to meet up with him on his birthday but didn’t and I was wondering if that was still on his mind.  Well I got to the bar we were to meet up at, and things went well.  We were both cool with each other, and we were just talking.  I realized there he was a true friend of mine, just by what he was saying.  

You see, I never really hung out with my friends in High school, since I was on crutches for about half my time in High School.  I really had no way to get around to hang out with them (I wasn’t going to ask my parents, who just got home busting their asses all day to drive me around to see my friends, who may or may not be doing legal things).  But from how my friends were talking, they and all the people I knew in High school did hold me in some regard and thought I was cool, so that was a good thing to feel.  I’m sure that people are reading this now and saying “why the fuck did he doubt that?”   It was something that always bugged me since HS, when I would hear of all my friends are going to do something, and I really couldn’t since I was a gimp for the most part and I had other things to work on for my parents in PA.  It sounds strange, but it felt cool to me to know that I wasn’t just that “school” friend.

Last Wed. was the ESC meeting and Q&A with the GM and coach of the Red Bull NY (but they will always be Metro to me).  It was a cool night at a great new bar in Midtown (stout, look up their web address, it’s a cool place by Penn Station).  I helped out with running the membership table and the night went off well.  Only thing was that out event was in the “public” area, and although it was good so others see what’s going on and maybe join in, it was a distraction.  I can’t wait for the season, and I have to pay for my season tickets and bus trip to DC.  It’s going to be fun this year, since I won’t have any major things on my mind to distract me from my passion.  

That’s all I have tonight, I was bored so I wanted to write something…if it sucked then that’s your problem for wasting your time and reading this!

look, I updated this thing!!!

How’s everyone doing?  I’m doing great since I now stepped into the 2000s and got a DVR form my cable company.  I got to use it the first time last night when I was watching “The Sopranos”, I recorded at the same time “Family Guy”.  It’s cool being able to record shows I want to see, and see it whenever I feel like it.  It also makes things easier on me now that I don’t have to schedule around the shows anymore.  I also like that I can use the live pause when I have to take a piss and I don’t’ have to miss a show I am not recording.  The main reason I got the box was for the World Cup this summer.  I am working during the hours of the matches this time around, and now I can record the matches I want to see and watch them when I get home.  I wish I had this thing sooner!!!

Speaking of work, things are looking up.  I was told that in a week or two, they might finally put me on a full 40-hour schedule (I do about 27-30 hours a week).  They also said that I may get a slight raise when I go full time, but I still haven’t’ heard the complete details on anything yet.  It seems that no one knows anything, like in every major corporate organization.  SO the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, but the right hand can only find out what the left hand is doing after it talks to the left knee and right elbow first, assuming they are returning the right hand’s calls!  My company just opened another floor, and the last one should be done in a month or so (well, that’s a plan, but then again, all the floors should be open now).  When it’s all said and done, there will be 6 floors, and the morning guy and myself will split the floors during the day and maintain them, but I will have to close all of the floors at night.  This isn’t that big of a deal considering it takes me about at most 10 minutes to clean/close one pantry.

I found a couple new Xm channels I am starting to like.  The first one is called “XM Chill” (CH. 84).  This is a good channel to have on when you are working on the computer, reading, or whatever you are doing to “chill” and unwind.  I like to have it on at night when I’m just sitting and reflecting on different things or when I’m doing my exercises.  If I didn’t have my Xm set up to record music at night for the train ride to and from work, I would leave this channel on at night to sleep to.  The other channel I like now is “Big Tracks” (CH. 49).  It’s “classic rock for my generation”, which means mostly 80s and early 90s rock.  It’s got a nice selection of music on the channel, and I really like that they don’t’ focus on “hair bands” like they do on the other channel “Boneyard”, they play a wide variety of rock.

I’m a boring person tonight.  This is all I got tonight.  Another time I guess.

Metrostars 1996-2005

It’s the end of Metro as we know it and I have no clue how to feel.  Part of me is sad to see the team I supported for 11 years go away, including the history since the new owners (Red Bull) will be treating the team like it’s brand new yet keep the players for now.  I don’t like what I hear as far as the new owners getting ex-Cosmos involved, since that’s digging up a past that shouldn’t be dug up.  I am taking a wait and see approach to the situation, and then after part of this season where I have an idea about the agenda of the new owners I will decided if I am going to support the team.  If they treat the ESC bad, then I will go with the ESC and not support the team.  It should be an interesting year.  The team name is really stupid.  It’s either Red Bull NY or the NY Red Bulls.  

The problem is who do I support if that happens?  There’s not another pro team in the area, and the USL is really semi-pro teams that aren’t stable.  The key thing to me is how the new ownership treats the ESC, a group whose main mission is to support soccer in NY.  The ESC is the largest group ticket sale for the team now, but the new ownership may want us out like they did with their other soccer team (a team in Austria where they gutted the history and supporters from to make it an entirely new team identity).

That’s all I got right now, I really can’t focus on this with everything still not official, but enough has come out to be official.