I am writing this on Halloween, and I guess that sign I put out front about certain laws and how illegal it would be for kids to come to the door is working (HAHAHAHA that's a Pedophile joke, laugh and enjoy). Haven't seen a brat come to the door tonight, and I can care less if any show up. I already did the Halloween thing last weekend, so tonight is just another night. One night around creepy, scary, ghouls is enough for me. the party last Saturday was fun, even though I had to dress up in a costume. I am one of those that isn't into dressing up for Halloween, I figure that I'm too old to. Anyway I pretty much half-assed a costume and it turned out ok.

Today was a day off for me. It was nice to sleep in and get a small rest. I am glad to get it since now my workload increased 20%. Yep, they added 3 more floors and they are in another building 7 blocks from the one I work in now. SO you see, the lesson is that if you work hard, all you get is more work. I don't think it's going to be a huge problem, since I only have to go there every couple hours, but if i am busy in my building, it could add to the stress. Yesterday was such a day, but if it's that bad on the worst day, I can handle it for the most part. The whole situation at the other building amazes me. It's two pantries to take care of, and the guy did NOTHING. My boss showed me pics of the place before he spent Monday cleaning the entire place, and I was disgusted. The stains all over the place, the dried up milk in the fridges, and the coffee pots were black on the inside (we have the industrial ones used in diners-the aluminum one that hold a gallon and a half), it was so bad in them that my boss said when he was scrubbing them with the solution the burnt coffee peeled off the sides. I handle 11 pantries that are on 9 floors, and at their worst under me, they were nowhere near as bad. Its still new, so there's still time for things to go to hell, but after that things should be fine.

Speaking of my building, my new co-worker and I are getting a long so far. Since she has been put in here, things have changed as far as my responsibilities a bit. She handles most of the cleaning and I am more the supplies end. Things have been changing and when this was first in place, I was nervous about it since it did show some things I have neglected since I was the only one in the building and now the morning guy. But after a bit I realize this was done more to help me, not punish me. Some things I haven't done well, and now she's here to pick up the slack. So far things are not so bad, hopefully things stay that way.

Something I noticed all day: Why the hell do any sports team that plays in an outdoor stadium play on anything other than natural grass? I notice more and more stadiums are going with that crap fake grass. In this age of technology and science, you mean to tell me that NO ONE has developed a breed of natural grass that can handle cold weather, and the abuse any sport can put on it? All these sports have been around for decades and you would have thought that grass technology would be at the point where it can handle almost anything. Fake grass looks like shit, and makes the game too sterile. I want to see divots in the field, I want to see a torn up field at the end of the football season. It may affect the outcome of the game, but at the same time it adds to the home field advantage of a team.

I go to Giants Stadium for soccer games, and seeing a soccer game oh this rubber field doesn't look like a real game. The ball rolls faster on the ground, and the players move too “perfect” on the field due to no real slipping or tearing up the grass. OK, the Giants and Jets both can tear up a field, but you mean to tell me that with the Billions the teams take in, they can't afford the upkeep on the field? I'm glad Penn State hasn't followed the trend of pussy schools like Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and a lot of the other Big Ten schools and go to artificial grass. I don't want to see a field stay looking the same at the end of the game as it did in the beginning. I want to see old-school looking football where a team has to overcome the other team and the conditions they are playing in. I used to love seeing the Pats on TV playing their payoff games on a torn up field. It showed what real football should look like. It may gave them an advantage, but that's what they should have at home-oh wait the NFL's ultimate goal is all teams go 8-8 and play the exact same offense/defense, which is why College football always is better than Pro to watch.

that's all I got to say about this, probably have more I could say but I don't have it on my mind right now...

So all is right in the world after today. Penn State won, Notre Dame lost, and as of 9:30 the Sox are winning. So I got nothing to complain about. PSU has another big game next week against Ohio State. the good news is that the fame is in Happy Valley, so the home crowd should help PSU in the game. Even if they lose it should be a close game.

I spent the day today resting and thinking. I was thinking about what I did last week that really bothered me. I said a lot of things that at the time I thought was the right thing to say, but looking back and reading probably one of the most angry emails I ever got. I can admit I was wrong. I know the two things I did wrong. First I didn't fully listen to someone, and that was the route of the anger. I never thought I could get someone I care for and who cares about me angry to a point where things that were said were said. I won't say any in the email I got were out of line, but I will say that after what I originally wrote, I kinda deserved all that was said. I also did something I didn't realize I did: I didn't really appreciate what this person has done for me. I honestly thought that I did show the proper appreciation, but I guess I didn't. Hopefully this incident is done and can be put in the past and things can move forward.

Man I must have been killing myself this week. I didn't realize how tired I was until I got home today. I get home, change, and sit in my recliner at about 3pm. I closed my eyes and it was 5:30. It was interesting considering I was getting a lot of sleep at night, and I didn't really feel tired. Guess it just was one of those things that sleep catches up on you. I had a ton of work this week, and the past couple days I've been getting used to the new person at my job. my boss is helping her get used to the place, and we are re-arraigning stuff to make things easier for the both of us. It's an interesting feeling, where I am glad to see that the potential of my job getting much easier, but at the same time I am nervous with the re-arraigning it is starting to show the things I have been neglecting. It's not really been brought up, since my boss understands the amount of work I have been putting in to keep the building running. I am not really putting too much thought/worry into it, just it's something natural for one to get a little nervous when your boss sees that somethings aren't up to snuff. But like I said, my boss has given me a lot of leeway considering the circumstances.

One of the things on my mind recently is that I am seriously considering getting out of the R/C hobby. Why you may ask? Mostly I haven't done anything with it in months, mostly due to I had to catch up on things I couldn't' do because of my old schedule. I also lost the “passion” to do it. It's something that doesn't get me “up” to do, and all my gear is collecting dust in the basement. So I am thinking of selling my gear and just getting out of the hobby. I sorta feel sad about it, but at the same time I haven't had a need to get back into the hobby.

I am so sick of hearing about the Yankees. Their season is over, but somehow the attention whores that work for the team wants to somehow seem relevant or even overshadow a playoffs that have some damn good stories in them. So what the Yankees are having meetings in Tampa? Guess what, ALL THE FUCKING TEAMS HAVE END-OF-YEAR MEETINGS!! All the other teams have the class to not make it seem like the routine meetings matter. Ironic that the Yankees almost never have or show what they claim they have: class.

It's pathetic how Yankee fans are. All of these fans are so wrapped up in the past, that is all they bring up in any conversation. Then again the team can;t move forward from their past. Hell look at their roster-it's mostly players past their glory days or just hangers-on from the last time they did something significant. Then again they have the walking cancer that is A-Rod. Now he apparently wants to test the market, or at least thats what the pussy said he agent wants. A-rod can't make a decision on his own, so he lets his agent run his professional life. If I read is right, he might be giving up a guaranteed $80 mil to see if he can get more on the open market. let's be real; he's an above average player, but wherever he has gone the team flounders and is in chaos. Why would you really think that given his track record anyone in their right mind would give him more than what he is making now?

Switching subject, since I got HDTV here, I did find one bad thing with in; apparently on the news at night all they have are gargoyles delivering the news in dresses. I usually watch Channel 7 here in NYC, and it's like the fucking Cryptkeeper is telling me what is going on in the world. On the bright side, I watched some of the Discovery channel in HD and damn do their shows look fantastic in HD. I saw the show “build it bigger” and the show was made for HD. It seems like most shows are taking advantage of the HD technology, with more sweeping shots of a building, more wider angle shots. I like how it looks and I hope it does continue.

I've also been throwing around the idea of getting an Iphone. The ting is I would need to pay almost $200 to get out of my current contract and if I can keep my current phone number, and I also would need to see how the signal is around here. Last time I saw an AT&T phone around here, the signal sucked. Also, have that small issue with my mom's phone as part of my contract. Like I said just throwing the idea around, and probably won't do it, but just thinking of it.

Also debating of not doing the Iphone, but pre-ordering the new Apple OS for my Mac. It's looking like it would be worth the $129 upgrade. It doesn't come out until the end of the month, so I got some time to see if I want to do that or just go to the Apple store and pick it up there.

Some of you may be happy, this entry is more in the “angry Pete” mood (where I stand up and go “grrrr” and make mean faces and act mean), and not the “happy Pete” mood (where I am skipping around going “tra-la-la-la”). Hope you get some enjoyment out of it. If you don't it's not my problem, either your lack of an idea of what's funny or enjoyable is not there, or you just don't get my sophisticated sense of humor.

This week has been odd already, and it's not even halfway done. I got a call from my boss about something that happened the week earlier. Apparently one of the meeting coordinators at my job thought I gave them a real bad attitude in a message I sent back regarding catering equipment. Apparently the equipment that this catering company was looking for was either taken or just thrown out. I wrote back to this coordinator saying that the meeting was scheduled to end after 2, and the guy that comes in to check on the pantries and clean up finished meetings may have thrown out the food platters or gave them to the other catering company that my job deals with. Or possibly the building housekeepers may have tossed them overnight. All I did in my page to this chick was state fact, I didn't mean it in a malicious way, but apparently she took it that way. Well after a talk with my boss, he said he saw what I wrote and thought I said nothing wrong, and told me sometimes this chick and some of the other coordinators get overwhelmed and get snippy. He said that he has that problem every so often with them, but it's not really a big deal, just make sure he knows if they slip up with anything so he and my other boss can take care of it.

I've noticed that it seems to only be a couple of the coordinators at my job tend to get like this every so often. My theory: some or all are on the rag, and at this job I can't do what I usually do when I have to deal with chicks in their “mood”: walk away and wait until they get back to their relative state of sanity....or maybe they loose too much blood and die, but that has never happened yet. So I got to deal with them and their mood for a bit, no big deal I got bigger things focus on than some chick and her lack of interpreting context of things written down.

Other than that, my gig is busy but it ain't that bad. It's busy, but I expected it to be. I only got two hands, but I just do what I can do and so far it works, so I got nothing to worry about. I just sometimes get irritated with the things like I just wrote. See, I leave at 2pm and I shouldn't think about the job, but I have to a little when it comes to the catering equipment until my bosses find someone that can do the afternoon shift. The catering companies show up in the morning to pick up their gear. Now when this one company showed up for their baskets they put their food in, I couldn't' find them. I thought they were picked up last night, but they weren't. usually if the cleaning people find the stuff on the conference room, they clean out the food and leave the baskets either in the pantry on the floor or in the room. they weren't there either. So I am left there having to deal with this when I have at least 5 other things to deal with in the morning. that's when I told this coordinator about all this, and explained to them in short that it's not my problem whatever happens after 2pm. I guess that irritated her that I told her the simple fact, but fuck her...that's her problem.

I can't wait until I get a new person in my building. More so for the fact that I can take some of the responsibilities off of me and let the other person do them. I had another discussion with my bosses about this, as far as what I wanted to give the new person to do when he/she gets here, and he not only said ok but he hoped I did give this person a lot of my minor jobs around the building just so he and I don't have to hear this person bitch about “this building is so slow in the afternoon, there's nothing to do”. SO I felt good about that. Now it's just up to my bosses to find the right person that wants the job beyond t just being something to tide them over for a couple months.

Enough about my job. let's talk about something else. the Rockies look unstoppable, but i predict the Sox will make it to the World Series and beat them. the Sox have more experience, and that the Rockies are going to be coming off of break that's almost a week, maybe more. What really makes me want to see the Rockies lose, no matter who plays them is my turncoat cousin out in Denver. He's been a Mets fan since he was a kid (the story goes he's been a Mets fan since my Grandfather gave him a Mets hat while my grandfather was out there when my cousin was young). Then I get an email from him saying at the end and I quote “Mets are a huge disappointment.  Broncos blow! Jets blow! Go Rockies!!” Now I can understand him wanting to support the local team since it's the only game in town and he enjoys baseball. But to all of a sudden jump into the street and land on the bandwagon? That's just wrong to me. I hope that bandwagon gets hit by a bus in a few weeks and the Rockies fall apart, and I HATE American league baseball!!!!

Side not to those asshats who say they are “New York” fans and root for both baseball teams, like they follow the Mets all season but if they don't make the playoffs, they will root for the Yankees. Here's what that is like to me. That's like a chick dating a guy who has blue collar job. She says she's devoted to him and will be with him through thick and thin. Then the guy loses his job and is just going through a tough spell of bad luck, and the chick goes and bangs her boyfriend's brother because he's the successful doctor and has some momentum going on in his life. In short you are nothing but a whore, and I hope you get a debilitating disease. Want to defend yourself? tell your story walking skank and hit the bricks until you sack up and choose a team.

Karma's a bitch! I did something where I was over the line with someone and now I think some higher power is paying me back with this horrible cold I have had to suffer all weekend so far. Friday night I was in much worse shape, being a lot more congested. Today I still feel bad, but functioning. Lesson to all of you: if you dosomething that is wrong to someone, it will come back to bite you in the ass. I doo look oh, so sexy: pull over witht eh hood oer my head, snot streaming out of my nose, coughing up probably part of my lung...ladies I do paint a pretty picture don't I. On the bright side, I did get all I needed to get done for my new TV.

Yep, got my new RV today. A Vizio 37 inch LCD. I couldn't pick a more perfect size for the room it's in. My cousin and I got it out and up on the TV stand and I was like “Wow, that is really perfect”. I've been enjoying the world of Hi-def so far, especially my video games. My Xbox 360 and Wii look fantastic on the set. My Mii looks even more creepy in widescreen!! I haven't played much today, just enjoying the football and Nascar on it, especially the thumping Penn State put on Wisconsin!!! Pretty soon I will be throwing in Madden 08 to see/drool over that. “Gears of War” does looks sweet on it. I still need to get the wireless internet adaptor for the 360 since it's too far from the router that's in another part of the house.

I must say this is a big thing to me. this is the first big thing I bought for something other than me. It's not something for my room, but for the house for the other members of the household can use. it's an awesome feeling.

Today would be my dad's birthday. he would have been 68. Yeah he died when he wasn't a spring chicken, but at the same time, still sucked he died out of the blue, especially after all the things he did to make sure he was healthy. So happy Birthday dad

I think I am getting sick. My throat is bothering me and I just feel like crap. Par for the course as far as I care, considering the weather changes and all. I also think it's my body telling me to stop trying to party like it's still college! Man last weekend was fun, but expensive. My body ain't built to party all weekend anymore. I'm 29 and feel old. Eh, oh well. It is what it is. stop trying to party like the Horseman, and it wasn't even close to that last weekend. Instead of it being limousine riding, jet flying, wheeling dealing and kiss stealing; it was more like taxi riding, indigestion having, horse ass slapping, and double cock-block witnessing.

I am really getting frustrated with a lot in my life, which isn't helping my overall feeling. Work is ok at best, but there's a lot of little things that are adding up to put me in the red. It can get irritating, but at the same time, they could have me working both shifts until they get another person to work in the building. SO I guess it's cool for now. It does suck that I have to clean up the messes and mistakes of the people my bosses have come in the afternoon to check up and close down, but whatever, I keep getting told it shouldn't be that much longer. I do know they are working on the situation, since they begged me to come in yesterday on my scheduled day off due to being so understaffed. Still have to find out what happens to my day off now since I worked on it. But at least it shows I am a team player, and hopefully that leads to something good down the road. I have some other things I have in my life that are frustrating the hell out of me, but I am not going to get into them. Mostly because they are all out of my control and I know all i have done so far is the best I can, and now I have to see if my efforts are good enough to get the desired results.

Got a lil update on the bachelor party the other night. It seems the bachelor wasn't as good as we all thought. Seems after the 20 shots, god knows how many Coronas, Grolsch, and Jack Daniel, it finally was too much for him and now his brother either has to get some heavy duty cleaner for the inside and outside of his car. Last night I went to a dinner to celebrate a birthday, and the bachelor and his chick was there as well. They arrive, and he looked like he either came out of rehab or the nut hut. He was in gym shorts, sweater, and carrying a water bottle. As soon as he sees me and the crew that took him out, all he did was point at each of us screaming “FUCK YOU”. Now, on top of the story of him puking in and out of the car, apparently his brothers, who can be best described as the Hansen Brothers from “slap shot” without the hockey gear, have pics of the bachelor during all this, and also apparently him sprawled out on his deck passed out. Sick part is that me and the guys were pleased that all the money and alcohol shoved down his throat didn't go in vain. Another thing I noticed was his chick wasn't pissed we did that much damage to the guy. Not sure what that really means, but that was interesting to me

Note to whoever is going to the wedding, if said alleged pics surface, please get me a copy of them or email them to me.

Other than all this, the dinner was fine, a tad hot in the apartment, but it was nice. Food kicked ass and I went to work hungover from this weekend. On the bright side, Columbus day meant light day at work, so it wasn't that bad. This weekend made me feel like my college days, drinking and hijinx. Almost broke me financially, but it was a good weekend, just realized I can't do that much partying in such a short time anymore. Got that all out in college.

Random thing on my mind. If you watch “Ultimate Fighter” and don't think Matt Hughes isn't a douchebag on the show, you must be as pretentious and arrogant as he is. Matt Serra is going to tear him apart when they fight at the end of the season. Also on a TV note: You are missing a great show if you aren't watching “It's always sunny in Philadelphia” or “Shark.” Both are the few shows these days I want to watch, since most TV now is one step above public access quality.

That's it, I got in from work a few minutes ago (about 3pm), and now I gotta go take my nap.

OK where to begin about what has been going on. This weekend has been expensive but fun. Friday night I went out to celebrate a friends birthday, and beyond the crowd at the bar for the playoff game at the start, it wasn't that bad. There was a Tequila company pimping out their wares, and I had a Gaucho hat at some point but I left it at the bar. It was nice to see my friends and just hang out. One highlight was this one chick that was hitting on every guy there, single or not, and after a bunch of drinks she threw up all over the place, including on the guy who organized the party. There was also a near brawl outside of the bar, but then again thats all par for the course whenever there's a party.

Last night I went t a bachelor party with the same guys I hung out with the night before and the three brothers of the bachelor. I was asked to go play paint-ball with them during the day, but with my ankle and the fact my job requires me to walk and move stuff, I wouldn't make it into work Monday. So last night I got to the restaurant and had to wait for over an hour for everyone to show up. When they finally arrived, we ate. And Boy did we eat!!! We went to a restaurant that offers it's food in the Italian family style, and the food this place made was fantastic.

After the dinner we went out to try to get the groom drunk. Tried is the operative word, since at the end of the night he seemed the most sober of al of us. Everyone was buying him drinks and shots,but he seemed to not be affected by it. I did learn last night that his brothers are fun, but also a bunch of psychopaths. They are all chain smoking hard drinking animals who if there weren't any bouncers or cops around they probably would have kicked the shit out each other, but one's apparently got game since he was keeping his pimp hand strong with three chicks, and the other two were just hanging aback watching with a sense of pride, and in a state of awe like most of us were. In the end it was a long, expensive, but fun night.

The past few days were a tad expensive, since I plan on getting a LCD TV soon and this weekend may have pushed those plans back, but it was something I needed. I've had a lot of things lately that has need frustrating me, and this was a good time to just not think about all of that stuff. I'm trying to not worry about what is frustrating me, since most of it is out of my control, but it is still annoying to me when no one tells me what I feel I need to know. I probably said this a few times, but I am not good with vagueness or ambiguity, I need to know things and where I stand a lot of the time. When I don't know what I feel I need to know, I am annoying and obnoxious when I try to find all this out. Does sometimes hurt me when I act like this? sure, but at the same time when others expect me to let them know what is up with me and answer anything they want, why the hell can't I ask for the same and expect it from them? So this weekend has been good for me.

As I said before, I am looking at getting a LCD TV. I've been looking around, and so far I am looking mostly at the Vizio line, since they are getting some good grades and reviews. As far as size, I have to see prices but anything between 32-47 inches. I still have to check out a few details, but I'm hoping to get it within the next month or so.