just got back from a week in OC/san diego. it was awesome. i could write all about how awesome it really was, but that seems like a lot of work. if you were there with me, then you know it was awesome in every way. if you weren't there, then why would you want to read about the awesome-ness of the trip? you would either be jealous and resentful, or bored (most likely the latter).
i don't have much energy to get into anything of real importance or substance, so instead i will make a few announcements and then send you on your way.
1) i considered titling this blog post "bulletin bored" instead of "bulletin board." i felt like i was being too clever for my own good though. i went conventional rather than trying to illicit some reaction from a title. let's face it - titles are completely unimportant. when i'm reading, i skip over any title or subheading. waste of my time.
2) i have expanded my "e-fluence" dramatically in the past week.
a) i'm on facebook now. let's just move quickly past this announcement and ignore the fact that i have swore i never would join and ridiculed the very existence of the site. i still don't get it, but i look forward to even more hours wasted on the internet.
related to this announcement, i would like to take the opportunity to announce that i am using extreme discretion in adding friends. i've already "denied" some people that would probably be upset if they realized that i said "no" to their "e-vances" (that is if people paid any attention to what they actually do on the internet, something that i seriously doubt). somehow i got up to more than 200 friends on myspace and i hated it. so i am going to be a snob and only use my facebook to commune with people i actually talk to. if i met you four years ago in some alley behind the albertsons next to my old house in san diego, and i haven't talked to you since - you don't stand a chance.
b) i'm on twitter.
c) my friends ethan, brian and taylor are also now on twitter. we all did it together. like a "blood brothers" kind of thing.
3) you'd think that spending a week in southern california would not include the highlights of joining two social networking "e-mmunities," but it is what it is. real highlights of the trip out west include:
a) good times with duane and amy. duane took me to some bar that featured at least four-dozen hand-crafted beers from across the nation and country. it was pretty much heaven. duane and amy have a backyard and their adorable little daughter plays in it for hours. i think they have a pretty good life.
b) game 6 of the stanley cup playoffs viewed from a suite. fights are the best part of hockey. the me lee that broke out at the end of the game was absolutely fantastic. the NHL has something here. all my dork friends out there play in some amateur hockey league and i have to admit that if i could ever learn to stand up straight on a pair of skates for longer than 3.5 seconds, i would love to play.
c) the taco guy is awesome.
d) heidi and i ate mexican food 6/7 days in california. i know, it should have been a perfect 7/7, but there were a thousand other places i wanted to eat at as well.
e) i am now officially on a diet/increased work-out routine as consequence for what i did to my body last week. i feel like i need to apologize:
dear body,
i'm sorry for the way i treated you last week. i know that you were excited about going to perfectly moderate weather and the possibility of swimming in pools and oceans. i know that you were tricked into thinking that california is a mecca for healthy eating options and that you would be treated well out there. i'm sorry that i crushed your ribs when i fell off the treadmill. i'm sorry for eating del taco at two in the morning. i'm sorry for eating four-five meals a day instead of the usual three. i'm sorry for the shots of tequila that i took at brian's party. you know i don't normally do that to you, and i'm truly thankful that you didn't punish me for my poor decisions. i apologize for going with the double-double rather than just the single at in-and-out... that was unnecessary. i'm sorry for putting you through "p90x," that was silly. i'm sorry about the booze. you deserve better.
sincerely,
justin
f) southern california is the promised land. there is no doubt about it and anybody who disagrees is an idiot.
4) i remembered today why i always run early in the morning. not only is it hot-as-hell in the afternoon, but you have to put up with stupid boys yelling things like "break a sweat," "work it," "run forest run" and "your dog is running faster than you" (i actually liked the last one). in my old age, i am getting less and less patient, especially with pubescent boys who are trying to convince misguided girls to make out with them. i'm getting to that point in my life where i just won't put up with it anymore. these kids are going to get a piece of my mind and i hope to make every one of them cry.
5) the hardest part of coming home from vacation is trying to catch up on all that i missed in the past week. i'm listening to 5-day old bill simmons podcasts and reading week-old articles about stuff that is already way-old news. i can't waste anymore time writing this blog because i have to update my twitter/facebook and check out what peter king wrote about five days ago.
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3 comments:
At the first newspaper I worked for out of college, I signed up for a 9-week beginner Ice Hockey course that promised even people who could not ice skate would do just fine. I was going to take the 9-week course and write a first-person success story of how I became Wayne Gretzky's long-lost brother in a semester.
The problem: I couldn't ice skate, and the advertisement lied. Nobody who is a beginning ice skater should ever attempt ice hockey - and the only person signed up for the class who couldn't skate was me.
I stuck it out for three weeks, quit, and wrote a story about all the other guys who scratched their hockey itch in a town where nobody plays hockey.
This fills your "bored theme."
Facebook and Twitter in the same vacation? Sounds like a wild time. I'm glad your California friends are better than Heidi and me at pressuring you into things you have cursed. Regardless, Twitter may not carry the same usefulness to you because I can sit at work all day and get sports updates. It's the best.
By the way, Simmons is obviously biased on the Lakers and Kobe, and it painfully (to a fault) skews his views and podcasts. I'm listening to the Game 7 Dameshek one right now, and all he's doing is shitting on Kobe. Saying he'll crack the top ten best players ever only if he wins a title? Not buying it.
Don't listen to that quitter known as the Commish. The world would be a better place if more people watched and played hockey.
You held out for so long on Facebook, I would have never thought me yelling at you from the couch to join facebook would have gotten it done. I'm a bit disappointed to be honest. I expected more of a fight...
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