Tony’s Journal

I feel like the villain on Scooby-Doo, but I might have had a better week if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.

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Well, another one bites the dust. Watch out for the vultures, Wesley.

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This week is nuts nuts nuts. I thought last week would be bad, but it wasn’t; now I think this week will be bad. I guess today went okay, all things considered, but man oh man, so busy. Damnable wireless network has issues. I feel bad for the kids who are having problems. (Listen to me. “Kids.” I’m not that old, but I do wish I was that young again. I’d do almost everything differently.) So maybe this week won’t be all that bad, who knows.

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Yeah, I’m listening to Styx, and you wish you were too!

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Less than a week to NCSU football now! Oh man is this great. We’ve been waiting for this for a long, long time. Jimberley will be coming home for this game. Bridget will be back in the Zeb so as not to forget how the hoi polloi live, and Melissa should still be here before she, too, escapes to the upper crust. It will be nice to have all of them around for a couple days. Come Monday, though, things will change. They will vanish as quickly as they arrived, leaving us with only the sweet memories. Just as Count Chocula does every November.

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Practiced driving yesterday. We went to the fairgrounds and I drove Mr. and Miss Daisy around. There was something going on in the grandstand over there. We saw spectators and heard accordion music, so I can only asume they were watching an “accordion pull.” Driving is easy and fun. Billy put in his Ozzy tape for our listening pleasure, and I quickly pointed out that listening to “See You On the Other Side” might be a little ominous with me behind the wheel.

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Redskins won!!! Finally! Take that, Ravens. I hate you and your Ray Lewis.

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Copying from here. . . man is this great. Once you’ve skimmed it to find out who is playing who (Justin is being played by a corpse, and I am an old but good-looking woman), read the actual story. Funny for many different reasons. I’m proud to be on PAX, which as far as I can tell is the network that bought the rights to re-run episodes of crappy sitcoms that no one wants to watch.

My LiveJournal Sitcom
Living With plutonyum (PAX, 2:30): plutonyum (Bo Derek) unknowingly gets high before a meeting with audz (Christopher Lee). In the next town over, melsinator (Brendan Fraser) makes lots of money playing guitar on the street and makes vonmuller (Timothy Dalton) jealous. At the same time, donnywolf (Joan Cusack) and walkingman (Farrah Fawcett) perform slapstick at a deserted mansion. On the other side of town, gwadj (Dudley Moore) tries to seduce parodi (Mimi Rogers) at the beach. Soon afterwards, wrbeaudo (Jason Behr) cheats on a test, and snugglpuff (Soleil Moon Frye) finds out. (Part 2 of 2.)
What’s Your LiveJournal Sitcom? (by rfreebern)

I am somewhat put off by the image of Farah Fawcett as JAY.

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This radio station is great. There’s no one here to get annoyed, except Aaron, so I sing along. Everyone now!

Every Rose Has Its Thorn
We both lie silently still
in the dead of the night
Although we both lie close together
We feel miles apart inside

Was it something I said or something I did
Did the words not come out right
Though I tried not to hurt you
Though I tried
But I guess that’s why they say

Chorus:
Every rose has its thorn
Just like every night has its dawn
Just like every cowboy sings his sad, sad song
Every rose has its thorn

Yeah it does

I listen to our favorite song
playing on the radio
Hear the DJ say loves a game of easy come and
easy go
But I wonder does he know
Has he ever felt like this
And I know that you’d be here somehow
If I could have let you know somehow
I guess

Chorus

Though it’s been a while now
I can still feel so much pain
Like a knife that cuts you the wound heals
but the scar, that scar remains

Solo (you go ahead Rikki Rocket)

I know I could have saved a love that night
If I’d known what to say
Instead of makin’ love
We both made our separate ways

But now I hear you found somebody new
and that I never meant that much to you
To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife
I guess

Chorus

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Okay, well, if I’m gonna be stuck at work, I might as well be listening to the Beverly Hills Cop theme.

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This weekend featured special guests Jimberly and Melissa. Not at the same time. It was a tri-Bo weekend, as you know that’s why they come home. We went to the flea market a couple times, got some old football and baseball cards. Billy got a book. We went yesterday to look for t-shirts for Mandy, and Billy and I laid a nice big guilt trip on her because she won’t let us get a puppy. A puppy would be great to have around.

Instead, I’m getting a DVD burner, which will at least amuse me for an hour or two.

I wouldn’t much mind a job where I just constantly traveled. I think it’d be fun. Wonder if I could get a job flying on airplanes. Not flying them or serving drinks and peanuts. Just riding. It’s not as though I have any particular responsibilites based on me being in a certain geographic location.

Just generally right now, I’m not happy. Stressed due to work. That’s the main culprit I guess. Eventually things will be okay. It’s really depressing seeing freshmen around. They’re so young and eager to learn. I gotta tell them to stay in school or risk ending up like me.

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I put a silica gel packet in my candy dish. Let’s see if my co-workers are smart enough to “DO NOT EAT” it.

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Van Halen is the best.

Man, I am slow with the journal entries as of late, am I not? I don’t know why I take so long between entries, but I guess it has something to do with my busy-ness at work. We are going nuts right now.

This instant, I hate work. I would rather be a Metro escalator repairman.

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Not an especially busy weekend, really. Friday for lunch Aaron and I completed Mitchapallooza, which was an entire week of eating at Mitch’s. Ah. Wonderful. I mean, not to rub it in or anything, , but Aaron and I find it to be the best lunch place on Hillsborough. Friday night Bo saw Ben accompanying us, and a cameo by Mr. and Mrs. Lindley Osborne, who sat at the opposite end of the restaurant from us. Good idea, actually. I did an impression of Lin saying things about fried chicken while using Ozzy’s voice, which I thought was actually kind of dumb but the others found funny. I just aim to please. Afterwards the boys watched High Fidelity. I watched a little but then wandered off.

Yesterday it rained a whole lot. I spent two hours at Nice Price Books and spent a little money on some records. Once I got back we went to Target, which was overrun by tax-free weekend shoppers. Bob Evans for dinner afterwards was good.

Today we watched the Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions for a while, then we all went to Jiffy Lube where Billy got his car inspected and his oil changed. We killed time in Big Lots and I stopped by Advance Auto to pick up an air filter. We came home and I put the air filter in – no big deal, I just hope I put it in right. The one end was kind of hard to jam in since the cover really just hinged. Also took a trip to Best Buy, which was really crowded. They were running the computer section like it was a club. There were only a few people allowed in at a time, there were walls of boxes keeping others out, and a line to get in that section that stretched all the way from the front of the store. Ridiculous.

I came home and made myself a good meal of perch with garlic butter, cornbread, and rice. Stuffed myself. I just watched a special on Queen Elizabeth, and now I’m going to go to bed.

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