We live in a world where the Cavs have a (slightly) better record than the Celtics. What a time to be alive!
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 changing. I was up against a set of 6s, and first I thought my pocket Aces were beaten but then an Ace appeared on the board, and then my cards changed to pocket 9s and there were two other 9s on the board. So I still won the hand, and the dream ended before the devil figure killed me.
One Year Ago Today
The Nuggets beat the Heat on this day, which is coincidental because those teams faced off tonight and the Nuggets won again. I started filling out job applications for Santa Clarita in California, but I ended up getting rejected by all of them (if they even bothered to get back to me).
Thoughts
Here’s a thought that I had at 4:50am on December 19th of last year, and I’m just now feeling up to telling you about it. The thought I wrote down was: It means nothing to me to be a girl’s friend. That statement probably needs some explanation, but I don’t know exactly where my head was at the time. I think my main point is that although it’s nice to have some friends that are girls, it really sucks to not have any girl who really likes you enough to have a relationship with you. You start talking with some girls and you hang out or chat sometimes, but at the end of the day you’re alone again. And you don’t want to be stuck in that friend zone.
Here’s a message to every girl I’ve ever known: I don’t want to hear about your boyfriend. It’s bad enough knowing you have one and that takes away even the smallest of chances I had to be with you, but I don’t need to be reminded that he exists. I don’t want to hear about him, or what he does, or what he likes, or even what his name is. He’s probably a loser and doesn’t appreciate you, and the only thing I want to hear is that you finally dropped his sorry ass. (I never like to use the word ass, but lately I’ve found ‘butt’ to sound really stupid and childish.)
My Day
I enjoyed a nice sleep until a little after 3pm when my mom called me. She called just to say she was coming home soon, which is a really unnecessary phone call. I planned to just relax and catch up on some shows, and then Dan asked if I wanted to play Monopoly. So he and Brian came over and we played. I was lucky to get one of every monopoly on the board (including utilities and railroads), so I had a block on the whole game and could prevent any meaningful trades. After a little while Dan offered a trade for the fourth railroad in exchange for the other purple, so now I had a monopoly (but the lowest one) and he had the four railroads. I also had both utilities so that was a little extra.
So I was content on letting the game take as long as it needed because mathematically I couldn’t lose. Dan had about 6 properties, Brian had like 4, and I had the rest. I eventually put hotels on my monopoly and had the most incoming cash, but Brian and Dan each had tons of cash. So I was just going to wait them out until I finally nickel and dimed one of them out of the game, and then I could build on whatever new monopolies that’d give me and go from there. Brian got bored with that very soon and made a somewhat unfair trade with Dan but I deemed it competitive enough to stand. He eventually went out to Dan, which really hurt me because although it didn’t give him any monopolies, it would ultimately take even longer for me to whittle him down.
In order to speed the game up Dan proposed a couple trades that I ultimately agreed to. The first was to give me the pinks and he’d get the light blues, which seemed to favor me mathematically so I accepted it. We each put hotels on them and that progressed things a bit. Then he proposed a trade for the oranges and the reds, and I went with the oranges and him the reds if he gave me $500. I thought that would be best for me because the oranges are $50 cheaper to build on per house and the pay increase between the two monopolies is only about $100. Plus it’d give me a whole side of the board which is right after jail so it should ensure me the win.
So to summarize the board, I had a monopoly on the purples, pinks, oranges, and utilities, and Dan had the light blues, reds, and railroads. He had about three times as much cash as me, but mathematically I had to be the favorite. So I played the odds and it looked like I would finally win a game of Monopoly which I haven’t done in about 4 or 5 years. Dan got some lucky dodges and I had some bad rolls and I got short on cash and had to sell the hotels on my purples. I rallied back and had him close to the ropes, but then it swung back. I had to slowly sell the houses from my other monopolies, and then I was out. I really hate losing at Monopoly, and this time hurt the most because I got the dream scenario of having a block on the whole game. I just cannot win in that game which used to be my favorite.
After the game I watched some basketball and the new NBC shows, and I love that 30 Rock is back. After those shows I watched Colombiana, which stars the gorgeous Zoe Saldana. If you’re going to make an action movie, you either need a super badass guy who tools on dudes, or you need a smoking hot woman tooling on dudes. It was a pretty good movie, but I’m still waiting for some time to see Apocalypse Now which I’ve had for about a month. Then I watched some Curb Your Enthusiasm and now bed. Thanks for reading, and “Tomorrow you’re going to women’s hell. Also, FYI: Women’s hell is the same as aroused dog’s heaven.”
—Eric Del Medico
