Tony’s Journal

I want to blog better (more thoughtfully). Not entirely because you care, but because I do.

I am not entirely pleased with myself in all ways, but I am in control.

I need to be more careful with my money, even though I’m in good shape. I believe the saying is “waste not, steal catalytic converters and sell them for scrap cash not.”

I ordered a new iPhone. (yeah there’s the half)

I am happier now than I used to be, and I have been happy for some time.

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• How about local boy Josh Hamilton going bananas at the Home Run Derby last night? Since he’s from Cary and went to ADHS, everyone around here seems to have some claim about “I Knew Him When [ we went to high school together / he went to our church / we believed in the same Christian God / he bought a Big Mac from me when I worked at McDonalds in high school / etc ]“. (Actually, Melissa does kind of know him, apparently she went to an O’s/Rangers game not long ago and he recognized her and asked about her dad, etc.) He is a really good story. Yeah, I know, it’d have been best had he not become addicted to alcohol and crack in the first place, but the point is, he is back and ridiculous. And this is after he took three years off of baseball. Good for him.
• The new Me First and the Gimme Gimmes album is okay. I already had most of the mp3s, I guess, and these songs are mainly not new (if any are) but they are good to put in your ears from time to time.
• I am an idiot for buying Nike shoes. Especially because before I bought them I thought “this is a dumb move.” And I was right. Idiot = me.
• Is it okay to put up wallpaper anymore? I really want to do that in my “office” at home. I am kind of eyeing this pattern because I would love for my walls to look like an old Wendy’s table.
• I’ve always wondered about people who appear in stock photos. Here’s an interesting profile of one who is pretty much ubiquitous as nameless smiling faces go.
• I am now a text messaging fiend, I guess, because I have already used over 300 texts this billing cycle with 6 days left. My plan only includes 200. OH NOES. I switched to a textier package on Friday and supposedly it took effect immediately; if two different AT&T lackeys were wrong about that, my bill will be redonkulous and I reckon I am gonna have to retain Dayo, Esq. as legal counsel since he gets things done.
• That defining attention-whore song “I Kissed a Girl” song sounds different when I sing it, as opposed to Katy Perry, who was waiting tables in Charlotte whaaaat? It’s such a damn catchy song, and I’ll listen to it in my office and lip-synch idly along. So far I have freaked out two wide-eyed incoming freshmen and almost laugh-asphyxiated Richard with this action.
• Since our voyage to Eastern Europe last October, the dollar is down 16.7% against the Hungarian forint but up 9.6% against the Serbian dinar. So perhaps next time, goodbye Laszlo, hello Miroslav, and more importantly, hel-LO disproportionately attractive female Serb window-washers and trash-collectors.

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You know the market is bad when I can say “yay, my retirement account is down 9% for the year” and feel good about it because the Dow and NASDAQ are down about 16%.

Also, it is a damn good thing that I can’t touch these accounts until 2040, when things will be better.

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I’m getting pretty bad at blogging. But I still do it.

I learned a new word today:

uxorious – adjective - doting upon, foolishly fond of, or affectionately submissive toward one’s wife.

Sounds like the sort of adjective that I’d find describing me. Hmm.

In other news, a nice bit of graffiti I saw this morning. I don’t see nothing wrong with it:

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