Haiku Faiku

I found a dead frog in my pool filter today. Then I went swimming for just a bit. Then I had to run back to the realtors office. The chimney people came to clean the chimney the day before and they found &750 dollars worth of repair needed. Ughhh this was supposed to be fixed earlier. We'll see if the seller owns up or not.

Otherwise today was just really annoying on so many levels. I ate 5 hot dogs throughout the day, and it was still annoying. Guhhhh!!

I saw a man driving an old red pick up. He was smoking and had a huge mustache. Then it hit me, he looks just like Wilford Brimley. Wilford Wilford Wilford!

An 80 yr old woman was flirting with me today. She even tried to give me her friends change purse for some reason. I wasn't sure what was going on, but it was kinda cute.

I'm am off to Orlando tomorrow, and then later to West Palm Beach. Been years since I've been that far south. There's gunna be some bad eating. Fo'sure!

Bad Estimations

You ever have a task for the day and think "oh I can get this done in a couple of hours". Last week Liz and I went crazy trimming branches in my parents front yard. Two days worth of trimming all piled up on the corner of the lot. Well, Waste Management left me a note saying, we'd love to help but you can't just leave a big clump for us to pick up. I thought someone said they has this claw thing that just comes and scoops the shit up. This is hurricane land after all, seemed plausible.

Well some part of me actually thought it would take me around 2 hours to bundle and bag all this stuff up. Nope. Try about 6.5 hours. Holy yard work batman! I almost didn't finish it, but I was determined. Afterwards, I said screw it, so what if I only got 5 hours of sleep last night, I'm running! Ooof, my quads are like dude, you did like 100 squats today, wtf!

Anyway, I got no guilt for all the Thai Food I ate today.

New House

I texted my friend today, "I got keys!" And so closing went without issue. So Liz and I went to the house and took a dip in our pool. I've never owned a pool. Will be interesting to see how that plays out. Will I think it's a complete PIA a year from now? Anyway, I'm glad I can finally spend more time in the water and ensure my little girl gets comfortable with the water earlier than I ever did.

At the same time, I still have no furniture and what right now seems like a never ending mountain of renovation/cleaning projects to do. Sometimes my 'need to have things just so' can overwhelm me mentally. I miss the house in Vegas in so many ways right now. Ughhh, but in a few months, it will be much better. It will be awesome! Insert cheesy grin.

US Open and more

Well I have continued my tradition of poor tennis championship predictions. Not good for Nadal and Serena. However, I'm very happy to see Sam Stosur finally put it all together. I hope she can unleash herself now. She also needs to put out a training video on how to get those hot triceps of hers.

Mens tennis has really changed this year. I think many fans were still expecting another year of Nadal vs Federer. I know I did after the year Nadal had in 2010. Djokovic has really altered the landscape and in a good way I believe.

I ate a 7 inch hot baked philly cheese steak from a place called Roccos today. Had some Jala Penoes on it that were very nice. Later, we decided to have our "yay we finally bought a house meal!" It was off to Coach N Four for some mega always delicious steaks. The family went and got thoroughly stuffed. I even drank 2 Heinekens. I don't drink Heinekens, wth! I like to think my 4.5 mile run helped with all that food! You think ?

So tomorrow we finally close on a house. Then the renovations begin!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

But first, we have to go down south to Orlando and then West Palm for a few days. Such is the timing of things.

Sink Lub

I spent 3.5 hours in Home Depot today. While a new kitchen is always exciting, I think the element that sticks out most to me is the sink. Here's a pic of it.



It looks a little bland without the counter top around it. After going back and forth in my head over whether I wanted a split sink, the single sink won out! I gots the sink luv!

I finished reading a book by Mitch Albom called "the five people you meet in heaven". It doesn't take much to make me cry ( so my wife says), and I'm not one to figure out stuff ahead of time. This book gets a lot of praise it seems, but it just didn't move me or surprise me. In all fairness, perhaps the book didn't meet whatever religious expectations I had, but overall the ending just seemed too sweet for me.

As much as I want to read an Arthur C. Clarke or Asimov book, I think I will have to go back into the war machine and read Lone Survivor. I got it for my father and he read it in like 3 days. So my curiosity is pretty peaked.

US Open is almost over. I'm horrible at predicting outcomes on tennis slams, but here goes. I think Serena will win the women's and Nadal the men's. With that said, I'd love to see Wozniacki and Murray win. Yoiks scoob!

I hate you Hillshire Faaaarrrrrrmmmmmssssszzzz

This commercial is evil.

Wasps and Lizards

The weather has been cool! The mornings and evenings have shed their humid sweat inducing blankets of stickiness. Feels soooo gooood. So my wife and I spent the last two days doing a lot of front yard work on my parents house. Luckily while taming the palm tree out front, we weren't attacked by wasps.

Liz was on a ladder with a cutting pole when I noticed 3 wasps flying right near her back. I got my serious voice on...Honey, get down now, be quick, be caaaalllmmmm. Maybe I said ,"don't panic?" ooof, I hope not.

I went to the store and got some black flag wasp killer. Their nest was built in a tough spot though protected within a palm frond. I had to lay on the ground to even spot the darn thing. So I went out with goggles, hat, a big thick jacket and sprayed UP. The instructions say don't spray up even, because it doesn't work very well at all. It just kinda sprays all over instead of the nice stream. Somehow I managed to kill them and not get stung. The were two nests and a bunch of lizards too. There was no Jake Sully to save this little world of wasps and lizards.

The yard looks much nicer now. I can actually see the house from the road.

In other news, my time living at my folks house may soon come to a close. Supposedly we'll be closing on our house next Tuesday. With all the crazy that's gone on though, I won't believe it until I have a key in my hand.

Go away UPS man!

Tropical Storm Lee is bearing down on us. Maybe it's time to go to the beach!! Or maybe it's time to whip out my Brooks LSD windbreaker/rain jacket. Maybe it's time to take a fat nap!

While running today I was watching a woman walk 7 large dogs into her house. That's when a car whipped by me and the passenger yelled, "Hey YOU dropped something!" I guess I was supposed to look down, but I just pointed my finger at him like yahh funny. Later a young black girl on roller blades ( who uses roller blades anymore) rolled past me and said .."burnin the calories huh?!!" I laughed and said, "Yahhhh!" Such a funny thing to say really. The insecure committee member in my head was like..how did she know we ate a Whataburger and banana shake last night? Damn psychics!

Happy Birthday to one of my readers. You sir,join the ranks of us 40 year olds now. :) I'm going to show up to your party tomorrow drunk wearing a Guy Fawkes mask talking in latin!

GATTACA

I still dig this movie. The set design is timeless. Uma Thurman looks fantastic. Love this scene too.