February 2012
26 posts
Today at work I dealt to a guy who won a car on...
One Year Ago Today
This was the day I had my interview for poker dealer school, which was the first time I mentioned those new plans in my blog. I heard about the class from my friend Corey who now deals at the Bellagio in Vegas, and I said it was ironic that my plans would change on the day I came back from Rochester where I told all of them what my now-old plans were. This decision delayed our...
I just figured out the Seinfeld joke behind “The...
One Year Ago Today
This was the first Knicks game where Carmelo Anthony played. We played the Bucks, which was ironic since the last game that Carmelo played (as a Nugget) was also against the Bucks. I was so giddy with anticipation for this game and to see how Carmelo did, and thankfully we won.
Thoughts
I keep saying that although I’ve seen every episode of Seinfeld a million times, there...
Poker almost didn’t happen tonight but I’m glad...
One Year Ago Today
This was a day or two after the Knicks traded for Carmelo, and I watched the Nuggets game in hopes of seeing how our players did for them. But it was too early for them to start playing, so the Nuggets were without a lot of their players. I believe the Nuggets still did very well against the Grizzlies that night.
I also talked about TV ratings, and how I don’t think that...
I just watched Drive, and I highly recommend it if...
One Year Ago Today
I should really mention the movies I watched in this section because it’s good to remember what I’ve seen. Usually I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since seeing a movie. Last year I watched One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams, and I really liked it.
My Day
My dad called me around 12:30 which woke me up, and I was pretty confused. That got me up, which was earlier...
Today was an example of how the events of the day...
Dreams
I had some weird and kind of scary dreams, but they are pretty foggy now and I can’t remember them. One had something to do with the latest Batman movie, but there was a lot more that escapes me right now.
Oh, another one just came back to me. I had a dream where I was in the halls of some building that was like an old college, but the professors were all evil. I was showing the friend...
Words With Friends has really changed my life. I...
Dreams
I had a cool dream where I was at my grandma’s house in her back yard. I could see far across the horizon, and I saw a rocket launch. It looked awesome, and then I got to see another one launch. Some debris fell on the ground, and I was really excited because they were free souvenirs. They were thumb gloves (do those even exist?), some documents, and something else that I can’t...
Is it just me or does Presidents’ Day exist solely...
One Year Ago Today
I visited Rochester for the weekend, and I meant it to be the last visit before moving to California but that wasn’t the case. I was really in a social mood which rarely happens, but I wanted to spend time with my college friends for as much as I could that weekend. I didn’t care if we were just sitting and talking or went someplace and did something, but I just wanted to hang...
I picked up 3 more shifts next week to go from...
One Year Ago Today
I mentioned another one of my “movie pairs” that I often forget, although it was the first one I recognized. In case you don’t know or remember, movie pairs are two movies that came out in the same year and have very similar plots. Observe and Report and Paul Blart: Mall Cop are two good examples of a movie pair because they both are about mall security. I don’t think I’ve...
I like that TV shows are starting to bleep...
Dreams
I had a dream where I was at work kind of, and a friend of mine gave me a DVD set of a TV show. It was like it was his show as in he had something do to with making it, and it looked like it was called Walking Dead but it wasn’t really. I never watched the show but I said I’d take it, and a customer came over and looked at the DVDs with a lot of interest. So I said he could have them...
I finally changed my iPhone wallpaper to a pic of...
One Year Ago Today
It was pretty warm on this day, and it allowed me to get rid of some ice at the church. There was a big thick sheet of ice covering the area next to the driveway, and it was hard work digging it all up but it was a little fun too.
My Day
I slept in until 3pm today, and I decided I should get a haircut now and not put it off anymore. I heard kids outside and that motivated me...
Last night I spent like 30 minutes looking up...
One Year Ago Today
I put up a separate post which contained my feelings from my first Valentine’s Day at college. Basically I ranted about how I didn’t like that we were “required” to make valentines for everyone on our floor, so I chose not to do them. But I got some from other people, which made me feel bad a little bit but I’m still glad I didn’t bother making one for everyone else just so...
I had 5 dreams last night & they all involved...
Dreams
Like I said in my title, I had several dreams last night and in every one of them I was near death (well, the gymnastics one is a stretch). In the first I was walking around like I was taking a trip across the country just to see where I’d end up and what would happen. I was walking across a field and saw a guy standing around, and I was just trying to pass by but he gave me a nasty...
I’ve been getting used to having a Shamrock Shake...
Dreams
I dreamt that I was at the store with my dad, and while looking at cereal I decided I really wanted some new ones to try. That was about it.
Then I was at my grandma’s house with my brother, but it was like our house. I heard someone come up to the back door, and my brother said it was a girl named Kate looking for me. She left but was coming back in a few minutes. I couldn’t think of...
I’m glad Jeremy Lin & the Knicks kept their...
Dreams
I had a weird dream where basically I stole a rock from my family, and I came up with the idea to tell them I accidentally forgot to put it back so this way I could steal a better one. It was stupid, and I told my brother to wait a minute while I did that. But I had problems doing this, and it ended up taking a couple hours to get done. When I came back to my brother he was really angry...
I finally got my new watch adjusted to my wrist...
One Year Ago Today
I talked about how my feelings toward moving away change like night and day, literally. In the day when I think about moving to California, it’s day and sunny and the prospect seems awesome. But in the night when it’s dark and quiet I get more nervous about moving. I was at my aunt’s house sleeping on an air mattress and it made me think of what the first nights will be like...
The new NBC show “Awake” actually seems good. Most...
One Year Ago Today
I shoveled, got a haircut, cleaned the church, then stayed overnight at my aunt’s house because she was recovering from cataract surgery. In contrast I did nothing all day today so a year ago was much busier.
My Day
I woke up early because I got a text from Jon that piqued my interest, so a bit after noon I was up. But the guys were still a few hours away from being done...
It’s really encouraging to see how happy the...
One Year Ago Today
The power went out that morning, which meant that I had to shovel at the church by hand because I needed power to start the snow blower. The snow was heavy and there was freezing rain coming down the whole time, so it was the most strenuous shoveling I’ve ever done.
Thoughts
Jeremy Lin is a new Knicks point guard this season. He went to college at Harvard, and he’s one of...
I’m trying to take full advantage of McDonald’s...
Dreams
Just before I went to bed last night I finally remembered my dreams from yesterday. I was in a park which had TVs hung up on trees all over. I put in a DVD to watch, and then when I tried to eject the disc it wouldn’t come out. The remote didn’t seem to have an eject button, and there wasn’t anything on the DVD player to eject it either.
Then I was at my step-dad’s church with my dad...
I finally went out tonight...to Replay Games &...
One Year Ago Today
I watched a couple basketball games and then stayed downstairs to watch the Super Bowl on the big screen in HD. I was by myself but at least I got to relax and watch the whole game and the commercials uninterrupted.
My Day
I was really tired last night when I went to bed, which hasn’t been the case for a long time. So I didn’t set an alarm so I could sleep as long as I...
Working during the Super Bowl sucks. I was...
Dreams
I dreamt that I was in school, and a few Knicks players stopped by. It was cool seeing them, and I was thinking about how crazy it is that we have some NBA players from Mohawk. I started thinking that it’s actually probably not that uncommon for famous players to come from little towns like ours. But in reality it is very uncommon, and we’ve never had an NBA player from this area as far...
I enjoyed watching the Knicks on TV the last 3...
Dreams
I had a dream where we had a new fridge, and it was the same as an old dream. It had a small freezer on the very bottom which had small bottles of alcohol, but is really for like ice cube trays. Then it had a big inside part, and inside that there was the freezer on top. Inside that was another door with a separate freezer, and I really liked how there were separate sections like that. ...
I love watching the Seinfeld ep The Pez Dispenser....
One Year Ago Today
I got up to shovel at the church, then hung out and relaxed for the rest of the day. I watched the NBC shows, and then the movie The Education of Charlie Banks afterward. It was a pretty good night.
My Day
Today I was able to sleep in like I wanted to, and once the guys were done working on the bathroom I took a shower and watched some shows. I decided to save last night’s...
One thing I hate while I’m driving is when I have...
One Year Ago Today
I said that this was an all-around good day for the most part: I got to hang out with a couple friends, poker went well, I played some games, watched some movies, saw some Seinfeld, watched the Knicks’ game (although they lost), and had some food.
My Day
I didn’t exactly have trouble sleeping, but around 1pm (at hour 6 of what I expected to be about 10 hours of sleeping) my...
I had a rare busy day, but now I can do nothing...
One Year Ago Today
I learned that it’s “piquing someone’s interest” and not “peaking.” That’s one more in a long list of my revelations. While shoveling at the church a man walking by said good morning to me, and then said, “We’re just kidding ourselves. Is it really good?” I thought that was kind of funny because although he did start with the customary pleasantries, he then negated it. I...
I like how the new Mission Impossible movie uses...
January Recap
This was a strange month. I’ll start with the big thing that happened, which was that I got mugged. I didn’t give much detail about it at first because I was with other people when it happened, and I wanted to keep things private. But since then it seems that everyone we know found out the whole story anyway, so I don’t think there’s harm in saying it here. The part I left out...
January 2012
32 posts
Am I lazy for not wanting to work either of the...
One Year Ago Today
I did some shoveling at the church at night so I wouldn’t have to do it in the morning. I watched the movie 25th hour which starred Edward Norton and was directed by Spike Lee, and it was pretty good.
My Day
I heard the guys working on our bathroom this morning, and I thought about waking up at noon which would be 8 hours of sleep. But I decided to wait until my alarm went off...
I always think something awesome might happen on...
Dreams
I had a dream where I was back in school, and I haven’t been to my classes in weeks so I thought it wasn’t even worth going back. That was about it.
One Year Ago Today
I woke up at noon (which was sleeping in for me last year) and hung out, then got Chinese buffet with my dad for my birthday. It was mostly relaxing, unlike the birthday I had the year before. I’ll mention it again only...
I think the best thing about turning 23 is getting...
Although this isn’t my birthday post, it was typed up on my birthday. Therefore I’m going to be really short. No need for the other sections because they were largely uneventful. I slept in a little late, and after hanging out for a couple hours my dad came by and took me to Applebee’s for my birthday. It was pretty busy since it was Saturday night, although it was only 5:30 and it was...
Not much activity on Words with Friends today....
Dreams
I couldn’t get out of bed today, and it wasn’t because I was having good dreams. My last one was the worst and only one I can remember. I was at some kind of camp, and while taking some test I learned that the woman who was running the whole thing was evil. I decided to take a stand against her, and my argument was that she hates us although she’s trying to deny it. So we had a back and...
I finally trimmed my nose hairs, but now all the...
One Year Ago Today
I played some poker, watched a couple movies, and nothing that big happened.
My Day
I woke up a little after 1pm and since I heard them working on the bathroom I decided to stay in bed and watch some shows before getting up. I texted Brian to see if he wanted to get sushi and or play pool, and I was a little surprised he was because I haven’t been able to get something like...
I’m just starting to think about my recent mugging...
One Year Ago Today
While looking up at the ceilings in the church I clean every week, I thought about how I need to stop and look up more:
I need to look up physically at the sky, and enjoy the life I have because it’s short. I also need to look up figuratively by staying positive about my current situation and accepting what comes of it. And I need to look up symbolically by praying and reading...
We finally got our shower back. This has been a...
Dreams
I had a dream where I was in a locker room, which is oddly a common dream setting despite my infrequency of being in them in real life. I was going to a gym a couple times a week, and I realized that I could be using the showers there since I can’t shower at home. So I walked around looking for a spot with few or no people but I couldn’t find any. I walked all around until I realized I...
My new phone came in today! All my contacts are...
One Year Ago Today
I’ll share a funny line that happened on this day:
One good joke from the service today was when someone said that it was Dick Bly’s birthday. The pastor asked if he was 62, and Dick said, “61. I’ve done a lot of walking and bike riding so I lost one.” I thought that was a really clever line, because you can’t take a year off of your life. It’s like on Seinfeld when Jerry...
“Cut my losses” is a term that means the opposite...
Dreams
In one dream I was in my room trying to pick out a shirt to wear. I think there was backstory about how there was a good chance of me hooking up with a chick at school, so I wanted to wear a nice shirt but not a dress shirt. I remembered I had gym class, so I needed to remember to bring a regular shirt too. So this must have been during high school. My friend Ryan was there, and he was...
I beasted thru season 8 of Curb Your Enthusiasm...
One Year Ago Today
The Celtics played the Wizards which is coincidental because they played each other today too. The Wizards won last time though but lost today.
My Day
I started snoozing the alarm on my clock which I’ve been using since I don’t have a cell phone alarm. The first day I shut it off and got right up, then the next day I snoozed it once, and then today I snoozed it a couple...
As much as I love eating chocolate chip pancakes,...
One Year Ago Today
I had a funny idea to go to a bar on my 22nd birthday and act like I thought I was turning 21 and could finally drink legally. Then when the bartender inevitably says something about how I could have been drinking for a year, I would act really upset and confused. I never tried it out, and now it’s probably too late to try it.
My Day
I woke up at one point in the morning and...
I just realized today that I still need to get a...
Dreams
There was one where I was sort of back in college and living in a big dorm complex, but I was also at work. I was just running around from one room to another for some reason, and I had to walk a long way to get back to work. That was about it.
One Year Ago Today
I had another deep run in an online tournament, but it was during a pretty unlucky stretch of online poker. Not much happened...
I can’t tell you how great it feels to set a...
Dreams
I remember one that came from hearing my step-dad introduce himself to one of the guys that has been working on our bathroom. I was staying at like a hotel with my step-dad and some of his friends for whatever reason, and I was playing poker. I just got $200 in chips but then no one else was going to play, so I just put the chips in my bag and went back to the room. Then we were all...
My 6-week/11-session poker winning streak is over,...
Dreams
I didn’t have any nightmares about what happened yesterday, but I didn’t sleep that easily. I kept “hearing” footsteps coming up the stairs, and I couldn’t stop envisioning men wearing masks and holding guns.
One Year Ago Today
My dad said maybe his most hilarious quote, so I’ll copy what I said about it:
He said, “I go to bed and figure maybe I won’t wake up. Then after 2-3 days someone...
I don’t have a phone for a while, so if anyone...
One Year Ago Today
I finally got new glasses because the ones I had before were so bad I couldn’t even drive with them. I learned later that they were most definitely ladies frames, but more on that later.
My Day
I was awakened by a phone call, but it was a number I didn’t recognize so I didn’t answer it. I thought it was early but it was about noon, and my dad usually calls then on Tuesdays. ...
“If I could find a way to see this straight I’d...
One Year Ago Today
This was the day I stopped having all tweets sent to my phone. It just started to really annoy me because I’d get like 100 a day, and the sound of my phone going off all the time just for that was terrible. At first it gave me the illusion of popularity, but it got old pretty quick. I still get a few people’s tweets sent to my phone, but it was cut down drastically.
My Day
I...
The band Young the Giant is a new favorite of...
Dreams
There were a few I had, and I woke up from one where I was at work but we were all playing poker. Corey was there, and when moving from a table he knocked over someone’s chips or something. They asked if I was going to play too, but it was $4-$8 limit and I didn’t feel like it.
One Year Ago Today
I learned what the expression “I wouldn’t be caught dead…” meant. It means that the thought...
The more I spend time playing poker at other...
Dreams
I had a dream where there was some big trade in the NBA, and I guess a lot or all of my favorite players from the Knicks were traded away. So I became a Sixers fan because Stoudemire and the rest of them were traded there, and I was wearing their jersey and talking about it with other people. It was kind of cool because my team was now leading the division and second in the Eastern...
We live in a world where the Cavs have a...
Dreams
I had a pretty scary dream, but not like a nightmare but one that just scared me. There was some kind of devil or monster that was trying to kill me, and it seemed like I was moments away from death. I was waiting with some other guys who were trying to help me, and while we were waiting we had a poker game (wow I must love poker). I was in a big pot, and like usual the cards were...
Whenever I come from the bathroom & wipe the water...
One Year Ago
A year ago from this Tuesday I had a good day where I woke up at 10am and got in a lot of poker, watched TV and a movie, read some of a poker book, played some Zelda, and relaxed. Then the next day I talked about my moving plans to California, and I was upset that someone at church a few days before called it “the den of iniquity.” It upset me because I don’t understand why everyone...
Foxwoods Trip #2: Day 2
My bed was very comfortable and I really wanted to get some good rest, so I just kept sleeping until I finally got up at 2pm. I showered in our cool walk-in shower that has a bench which is just a great idea. Brian got up after me (so I didn’t have to worry about waking him up) and we left our room after 3pm. We grabbed some food at a deli, and we were the only ones there under the age of...
Foxwoods Trip #2: Day 1
I’ll be brief because I’m typing this on my iPhone. I woke up at 10am and didn’t shower because I showered the night before and the guys were working on our bathroom. I got ready quickly, then Brian and I got Taco Bell. Then we met Jon and Darry, and we were off to Foxwoods around 11:30am.
The trip was pretty good and we made good time. We got to Foxwoods around 3:30, then we...
Our second trip to Foxwoods begins tomorrow. I...
One Year Ago Today
In my post from a year ago I read the summary of the post from a year before that, and I mentioned how SNL was pushed back to midnight because of the NFL Playoffs. Charles Barkley was the host, and coincidentally he was the host this year and it was again pushed back a half hour. At first I wondered if it was pushed back at his request because it happened with him twice, but...
Is a song good because they play it on the radio,...
Dreams
I had a dream where I was walking around some store with my dad, and I had an iPad. The weird thing was that it came in a case which was like a smaller kayak, so if you can imagine a big piece of colorful plastic. But I was just thinking that I didn’t know why I even had one because I have an iPhone already.
One Year Ago Today
I cashed in a poker tournament online and made a little in...