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i'll start off with saying this is going to loooooooooooong. chris stevens long. so i'll understand if you ignore everythang.
me and kris went to bowling green to visit cody a few weeks ago. that was pretty slick. i got to help cody, who is an environmental science major, clean up about a mile of I-75. that was interesting. how many bottles full of piss did i find? roughly five. i heard somewhere that ohio has more bottles of piss than any other state. evidently someone did a study on that. it's those damn truckers. they cant stop, so they piss in a bottle and toss it out the window. what else did i find? a reciept from canada, which i like to think blew in from there. i also found more beer bottles and cans than any other beverage by a ratio of probably 10:1. thats what i like to see. i also found two garter snakes. and a dollar bill.
a few days later, i call kris to see if he had left for north carolina yet. kris, along with lance and his brother, were going to a town called cary, nc, to see the us national team play jamaica in a soccer match. anyway, he says 'we were just leaving, want to go?' so i did. i'm all spur of the moment, that's just how i roll. so we drove to cary for a few days. a few things: first, i had never heard of cary (it's a suburb of raleigh with about 95,000 yuppies). second, cary was one of the worst cities i've ever seen. it was impeccably clean, buildings were all new, roads were well developed and layed out. but it fucking sucked. we saw basically the whole town, and with the exception of the "shiny gypsy diner", i didnt see a single non-chain store. and they were all brick. are you a yuppie? okay then you would probably get off just driving around this town. there were plenty of moms driving around, by themselves, in huge suv's. another thing i gathered was that the people of cary love their wine. first, there was a huge store called "total wine" which carried only wine products. second, we went in a grocery store and it had an unreasonably large wine section. anyway, i bougth the employee recommended syrah at total wine. and since i wasnt going to the soccer game, i drank the bitch while they were gone. then i took a nap. that was pretty much the highlight of my trip. also, on the way down, we all had that petey pablo song "raise up" in our heads. you may remember it from 2002. it sucked then, and it's even worse now. sample lyric: "north carolina/ come on and raise up/ take your shirt off and twist it around your head/ spin it like a helicopter." so before we left, i took my shirt off and spun it around my head like a helicopter. now it's my picture on myspace. and facebook. whatev.
the weather, aside from the occasional rainy day, has been fucking amazing. i was just outside and it was still nice. i love it. it's the type of weather where you can wear pants and not be fucking hot, but wear shorts and not be chilled at all. perfect.
i think i'm going to take up golfing again. i went with my uncle last week and it was really fun. i'm so terrible at golf, and it's so expensive, but i really enjoy it. i wore this old guy hat and a horribly ugly blue and white striped suit jacket when i went. everyone thought i was an important businessman.
we just switched to dsl and part of the package was two free airline tickets. so i guess i'm flying somewhere. i was pushing nyc and washington pretty hard. new york because it was awesome and i'd like to go when i dont have to wear five coats to stay warm, and washington because i've been watching a lot of west wing lately, and listening to a lot of dismemberment plan, q and not u, and jc chasez, all of whom are from dc. but kris brought up the point, take the most expensive flight you can. he said seattle, but i dont know about that. i dont know much in seattle i want to see. i always thought san francisco sounded cool. la seems too car-centric for me, and too spread out to get around without one. san diego, i cant think of anything i want to see there. maybe i could watch the navy seals train or illegal immigrants climb the fence, but that's about it. though i've been watching sideways a lot recently, and i love the idea of being a wine snob, but that is retarded. but would be awesome, cause i could just quote the movie the whole time "you know, i've learned not to expect anything from cabernet franc, and this is no different". awesome.
and the best news to happen to me in two years, i bought a data cable for my phone on ebay for six bucks. what's that mean? that means i can plug my phone into my computer. big deal because now i can make my own ringtones. before i bought my phone, one thing that pushed me there was that it supported mp3 ringtones. well verizon has this tendency to fuck everything up. actually, they just limit the shit out of the capabilities of the phone. so you couldn't do it. they just recently allowed it to work, so i bought the data cable. before i bought the phone, i decided that i would make "cut your hair" by pavement as my ringtone. well i waited a year and a half, and i can finally do it. the day i got it i put something like ten ringtones on there. it's awesome. i went with back to the lake, cause i like that song, cut your hair obviously, rattled by the rush by pavement, roadrunner - modern lovers, the city - dismemberment plan, among others. so thats cool.
a few weeks ago colbert had a song that fucking john ashcroft was singing. it was hilarious. "let the eagle soar" was the name. well after a hell of a lot of searching, i found it as an mp3. i wanted it as my song on myspace. i know i've said i hate it when people have music on their myspace cause it's always loud and annoying and shit, but i couldn't help myself. how often do you have the chance to have john ashcroft welcome you to someone's myspace page (not that anyone's ever going there). so i had to create an artist page to host it. i eschewed using john ashcroft, as i dont want some important person to happen to search for him, find him, report it, then they kick the song off, and now i have no song. so i went for the clever title of "usag". that's united states attorney general. i guess it should have bee fusag since he has evidently taken up patriotic singing since leaving tthe whitehouse. my favorite line from the song is "only god, no other kings". very freedom of religion-ish.
also, i was bored and was perusing the livejournal shit, and found that they are now offering the ad-supported site option. now i can do things that paying members can. i can call in and make posts (as if anyone, including me, wants to hear my nasal drone) and put a bunch of pictures and shit here. whatev. i'll do anything to be cool.
and in final news, for some reason our 'extended basic' cable, which took us up to ch. 75 or so, became a burden. so now we have up to channel 27. i dont even get cnn now. i get cnn headline, but that fucking blows. i still watch it, even though i never did before. they spend like ten minutes an hour on celebrity gossip. anyway, i watch, literally, one show a week on each of the networks, except fox, who get no love from me. i watch the history channel. but comedy central? gone. no more colbert, no more daily show. i used to watch amc all the time. no more classic movies for me. i used to watch bravo all the time, no more west wing re-runs. baseball just started up, and i always watched baseball for the first month or so of the season. that's on espn, so that ain't happening. the nba playoffs are coming up. they're on espn. nope. the world cup is in june, i literally planned on watching every game. not anymore. and perhaps most painful, my cycling coverage is gone. for years, i had to live off of the incredibly meager english speaking websites devoted to cycling. then armstrong won the TdF in 99, and the next year oln carried the tour. then they started picking up all kinds of cycling shit. so the giro d'italia is in may, tour de france is in july, vuelta a espana in september, world championships in october, not to mention the tour de georgia right fucking now, the uspro championships in eary-july, and weekly updates on all the smaller one day races. no fucking more. something i waited for for years to happen - television coverage of cycling - is gone just like it appeared. so that's pretty cool. it's depressing. right now i'm watching some pbs show about cat show competitors. it's terrible, but what else do i have? nothing. hilarious.
not that i think anyone is still reading here, as i almost always skip over people's really long posts, but i'll apologize nonetheless. sorry.
-bates.
me and kris went to bowling green to visit cody a few weeks ago. that was pretty slick. i got to help cody, who is an environmental science major, clean up about a mile of I-75. that was interesting. how many bottles full of piss did i find? roughly five. i heard somewhere that ohio has more bottles of piss than any other state. evidently someone did a study on that. it's those damn truckers. they cant stop, so they piss in a bottle and toss it out the window. what else did i find? a reciept from canada, which i like to think blew in from there. i also found more beer bottles and cans than any other beverage by a ratio of probably 10:1. thats what i like to see. i also found two garter snakes. and a dollar bill.
a few days later, i call kris to see if he had left for north carolina yet. kris, along with lance and his brother, were going to a town called cary, nc, to see the us national team play jamaica in a soccer match. anyway, he says 'we were just leaving, want to go?' so i did. i'm all spur of the moment, that's just how i roll. so we drove to cary for a few days. a few things: first, i had never heard of cary (it's a suburb of raleigh with about 95,000 yuppies). second, cary was one of the worst cities i've ever seen. it was impeccably clean, buildings were all new, roads were well developed and layed out. but it fucking sucked. we saw basically the whole town, and with the exception of the "shiny gypsy diner", i didnt see a single non-chain store. and they were all brick. are you a yuppie? okay then you would probably get off just driving around this town. there were plenty of moms driving around, by themselves, in huge suv's. another thing i gathered was that the people of cary love their wine. first, there was a huge store called "total wine" which carried only wine products. second, we went in a grocery store and it had an unreasonably large wine section. anyway, i bougth the employee recommended syrah at total wine. and since i wasnt going to the soccer game, i drank the bitch while they were gone. then i took a nap. that was pretty much the highlight of my trip. also, on the way down, we all had that petey pablo song "raise up" in our heads. you may remember it from 2002. it sucked then, and it's even worse now. sample lyric: "north carolina/ come on and raise up/ take your shirt off and twist it around your head/ spin it like a helicopter." so before we left, i took my shirt off and spun it around my head like a helicopter. now it's my picture on myspace. and facebook. whatev.
the weather, aside from the occasional rainy day, has been fucking amazing. i was just outside and it was still nice. i love it. it's the type of weather where you can wear pants and not be fucking hot, but wear shorts and not be chilled at all. perfect.
i think i'm going to take up golfing again. i went with my uncle last week and it was really fun. i'm so terrible at golf, and it's so expensive, but i really enjoy it. i wore this old guy hat and a horribly ugly blue and white striped suit jacket when i went. everyone thought i was an important businessman.
we just switched to dsl and part of the package was two free airline tickets. so i guess i'm flying somewhere. i was pushing nyc and washington pretty hard. new york because it was awesome and i'd like to go when i dont have to wear five coats to stay warm, and washington because i've been watching a lot of west wing lately, and listening to a lot of dismemberment plan, q and not u, and jc chasez, all of whom are from dc. but kris brought up the point, take the most expensive flight you can. he said seattle, but i dont know about that. i dont know much in seattle i want to see. i always thought san francisco sounded cool. la seems too car-centric for me, and too spread out to get around without one. san diego, i cant think of anything i want to see there. maybe i could watch the navy seals train or illegal immigrants climb the fence, but that's about it. though i've been watching sideways a lot recently, and i love the idea of being a wine snob, but that is retarded. but would be awesome, cause i could just quote the movie the whole time "you know, i've learned not to expect anything from cabernet franc, and this is no different". awesome.
and the best news to happen to me in two years, i bought a data cable for my phone on ebay for six bucks. what's that mean? that means i can plug my phone into my computer. big deal because now i can make my own ringtones. before i bought my phone, one thing that pushed me there was that it supported mp3 ringtones. well verizon has this tendency to fuck everything up. actually, they just limit the shit out of the capabilities of the phone. so you couldn't do it. they just recently allowed it to work, so i bought the data cable. before i bought the phone, i decided that i would make "cut your hair" by pavement as my ringtone. well i waited a year and a half, and i can finally do it. the day i got it i put something like ten ringtones on there. it's awesome. i went with back to the lake, cause i like that song, cut your hair obviously, rattled by the rush by pavement, roadrunner - modern lovers, the city - dismemberment plan, among others. so thats cool.
a few weeks ago colbert had a song that fucking john ashcroft was singing. it was hilarious. "let the eagle soar" was the name. well after a hell of a lot of searching, i found it as an mp3. i wanted it as my song on myspace. i know i've said i hate it when people have music on their myspace cause it's always loud and annoying and shit, but i couldn't help myself. how often do you have the chance to have john ashcroft welcome you to someone's myspace page (not that anyone's ever going there). so i had to create an artist page to host it. i eschewed using john ashcroft, as i dont want some important person to happen to search for him, find him, report it, then they kick the song off, and now i have no song. so i went for the clever title of "usag". that's united states attorney general. i guess it should have bee fusag since he has evidently taken up patriotic singing since leaving tthe whitehouse. my favorite line from the song is "only god, no other kings". very freedom of religion-ish.
also, i was bored and was perusing the livejournal shit, and found that they are now offering the ad-supported site option. now i can do things that paying members can. i can call in and make posts (as if anyone, including me, wants to hear my nasal drone) and put a bunch of pictures and shit here. whatev. i'll do anything to be cool.
and in final news, for some reason our 'extended basic' cable, which took us up to ch. 75 or so, became a burden. so now we have up to channel 27. i dont even get cnn now. i get cnn headline, but that fucking blows. i still watch it, even though i never did before. they spend like ten minutes an hour on celebrity gossip. anyway, i watch, literally, one show a week on each of the networks, except fox, who get no love from me. i watch the history channel. but comedy central? gone. no more colbert, no more daily show. i used to watch amc all the time. no more classic movies for me. i used to watch bravo all the time, no more west wing re-runs. baseball just started up, and i always watched baseball for the first month or so of the season. that's on espn, so that ain't happening. the nba playoffs are coming up. they're on espn. nope. the world cup is in june, i literally planned on watching every game. not anymore. and perhaps most painful, my cycling coverage is gone. for years, i had to live off of the incredibly meager english speaking websites devoted to cycling. then armstrong won the TdF in 99, and the next year oln carried the tour. then they started picking up all kinds of cycling shit. so the giro d'italia is in may, tour de france is in july, vuelta a espana in september, world championships in october, not to mention the tour de georgia right fucking now, the uspro championships in eary-july, and weekly updates on all the smaller one day races. no fucking more. something i waited for for years to happen - television coverage of cycling - is gone just like it appeared. so that's pretty cool. it's depressing. right now i'm watching some pbs show about cat show competitors. it's terrible, but what else do i have? nothing. hilarious.
not that i think anyone is still reading here, as i almost always skip over people's really long posts, but i'll apologize nonetheless. sorry.
-bates.