Late June recap
So it's been about a month since I've left RIT for the summer. Things just don't seem settled, and I don't know why. I can't get used to being home. I still have some things packed because there isn't anywhere for them to go. It's like this is just a temporary place I stay between school years. But ah well, either I'll settle in eventually, or I'll be back in school about 2 months from today. But enough of that, here's what I've been doing.
So I've been working construction full-time. It's good pay (cash, and >$10 an hour), a good workout (carrying 100lb+ packages of shingles up a 25ft ladder on to a roof), and good experience (who else here knows how to shingle a roof or build a shed?). The other day, we were building an extension on to a house, and we had to do the roof. So my boss told me to put the shingles up on the roof, okay, grunt work I figured, I know he has better things to do than lug a dozen of those packages up there. After I get them up there, he tells me, now shingle the roof. And I think to myself, shouldn't like a roofer do that, or at least somebody who's done it before. Nope. Just put them flush to each other, and nail them in. Oh, and don't fuck up. So Matt and I did the whole roof, learning as we went. And got yelled at for taking a whole day for what would have taken a professional roofer 3 hours. My bad, I'm sorry we took too long. Next time pay us the couple grand a roofer gets, and we'll work a litle faster.
I won poker last night, first time I've won this summer (only played 2 other times, 1 of them sober). I felt on my game all night. I hit a few bad breaks in the beginning, but once I went on a roll, I was chip leader and knocked 4 out of the 5 other people out with some perfect plays. One of my buddy's said, "Why the hell would you check with top 2 pair from the flop?!". I guess I Eeyored it a little, heh.
Bowling has kinda sucked lately, I'm barely breaking 150 consistently, but I am trying to bowl correctly because my finger still hurts. I'm convinced it's a stress fracture, but I'm too lazy to get it looked at.
I'm going whitewater rafting this weekend in PA with a bunch of friends from around here and Shannon is coming up from Ocean City. It's going to be a lot of fun, and it'll be good to see her.
DEFCON is coming up, and a bunch of concerts (Amsterjam, Allman Brothers, some more smaller bands).
Hopefully I'll make some more frequent updates, but if not, just read this one again. Now it's time for sleep. 7:30am comes way too fast.
So I've been working construction full-time. It's good pay (cash, and >$10 an hour), a good workout (carrying 100lb+ packages of shingles up a 25ft ladder on to a roof), and good experience (who else here knows how to shingle a roof or build a shed?). The other day, we were building an extension on to a house, and we had to do the roof. So my boss told me to put the shingles up on the roof, okay, grunt work I figured, I know he has better things to do than lug a dozen of those packages up there. After I get them up there, he tells me, now shingle the roof. And I think to myself, shouldn't like a roofer do that, or at least somebody who's done it before. Nope. Just put them flush to each other, and nail them in. Oh, and don't fuck up. So Matt and I did the whole roof, learning as we went. And got yelled at for taking a whole day for what would have taken a professional roofer 3 hours. My bad, I'm sorry we took too long. Next time pay us the couple grand a roofer gets, and we'll work a litle faster.
I won poker last night, first time I've won this summer (only played 2 other times, 1 of them sober). I felt on my game all night. I hit a few bad breaks in the beginning, but once I went on a roll, I was chip leader and knocked 4 out of the 5 other people out with some perfect plays. One of my buddy's said, "Why the hell would you check with top 2 pair from the flop?!". I guess I Eeyored it a little, heh.
Bowling has kinda sucked lately, I'm barely breaking 150 consistently, but I am trying to bowl correctly because my finger still hurts. I'm convinced it's a stress fracture, but I'm too lazy to get it looked at.
I'm going whitewater rafting this weekend in PA with a bunch of friends from around here and Shannon is coming up from Ocean City. It's going to be a lot of fun, and it'll be good to see her.
DEFCON is coming up, and a bunch of concerts (Amsterjam, Allman Brothers, some more smaller bands).
Hopefully I'll make some more frequent updates, but if not, just read this one again. Now it's time for sleep. 7:30am comes way too fast.