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I had a pretty shitty work week. made a lot of mistakes that I shouldn't have made. It was very frustrating.
Helped Jeremy move the rest of his stuff on Wednesday. We ended up watching the Raptors get killed by Dallas afterwards.
Everyone in Brockville is working for me. Lance from concert band is trying to set me up with a teacher at the high school he teaches at. she's mid 20s I think? Lance is Meg's dad. Her mom is also trying to hassle Meg to set me up with someone who I think works at a bank in town or something? I don't really know. It's pretty funny though.
Had basketball on Thursday night. It was kind of crappy for the first few games. We only had 4 guys show up again, so we didn't have any subs. I kept making some mistakes, and a guy on my team kept pointing them out and making me more frustrated. There really was no court chemistry going on, and I was getting really angry. Later in a game I stepped in to take a charge on this guy I was guarding, and neither one of us thought there was a foul, because there wasn't enough contact for a charge, and it wasn't bad or anything. So an older guy on his team said "was there no foul?" I said no, and he said "oh, so I guess he just alters his shot like that purposely all the time." I almost came back with a "hey, fuck you" because I was so frustrated and was playing so poorly. Didn't though, and it's probably a good thing.
that's the problem with playing. The old guys feel that the young guys have too much of an advantage in age, so they play twice as hard and aggressive but expect you not to play aggressive back. Then they bitch and complain about fouls and stuff. It's really annoying. Half the time the games are just fun and everyone's having a good time, the other half of the time people get too crazy and turn into assholes.
I'm going to start going out on Wednesday nights too, to a different high school with different people. It's apparently a lot more younger guys. They end up having three teams every time, and play full court games with one team sitting out. The games to to 11 or something, and the winner stays on for a max of two games in a row. I think it'll be a lot more fun, because I won't have to worry about people on my team not showing up and having no subs. The two guys that told me about it are really cool too. They're brothers that grew up around here that are in their early 40s. I know I seem to make friends wtih more old people than people my own age, but you've got to start somewhere. They're really good too. Short, fast guys that like to run.
Jamming tonight at Scott's place. I still don't like some songs we play, but whatever. I want to play some shows.
I think I'm going to work on designing an air stripper at work. Basically what it does is use a blower to push ambient air through a pipe that is submerged in contaminated water, and there are a bunch of little holes in the pipe. The air goes out of the pipe and bubbles the hell out of the water, causeing the contaminants to go airborn. We've got one that we buy from a company right now that is really good, but really expensive. It's also a lot mroe crazy than the one I'm describing. A competitor that does most of their work in Alabama has a cheap one that they manufacture, and it doesn't seem to matter in that state. We always get blown out of the water by them because we're trying to supply a superior product at a much higher cost...and with environmental shit, cost is a huge deal unless you're a huge coorporation. ANYway, I think I'm going to figure out some math and physics of it and try to make a modeling program, and move this thing into research and development. Who knows when it'll actually happen.
I started playing around a bit more with computer recording stuff, and worked out how to make loops of riffs and stuff from any old song. I can take two songs and stick them on top of each other and make the timing work out ok, but it's hard to make things mesh properly. I've got some ideas, but it's turning out to be more complicated than I initially thought, which is nothing new.
Went out last night with Ben, Steve and his girlfriend. It was fun. Played pool for a bit, then went to the bar and sat. Made fun of some guy that was getting tossed out of the bar by the scruff of his neck for being drunk, and a lot of other stuff too.
I finished Catch-22 this morning. It was good.
I should make some breakfast and do some dishes. Could use some groceries too. Probably do that tomorrow.
This is long.
Helped Jeremy move the rest of his stuff on Wednesday. We ended up watching the Raptors get killed by Dallas afterwards.
Everyone in Brockville is working for me. Lance from concert band is trying to set me up with a teacher at the high school he teaches at. she's mid 20s I think? Lance is Meg's dad. Her mom is also trying to hassle Meg to set me up with someone who I think works at a bank in town or something? I don't really know. It's pretty funny though.
Had basketball on Thursday night. It was kind of crappy for the first few games. We only had 4 guys show up again, so we didn't have any subs. I kept making some mistakes, and a guy on my team kept pointing them out and making me more frustrated. There really was no court chemistry going on, and I was getting really angry. Later in a game I stepped in to take a charge on this guy I was guarding, and neither one of us thought there was a foul, because there wasn't enough contact for a charge, and it wasn't bad or anything. So an older guy on his team said "was there no foul?" I said no, and he said "oh, so I guess he just alters his shot like that purposely all the time." I almost came back with a "hey, fuck you" because I was so frustrated and was playing so poorly. Didn't though, and it's probably a good thing.
that's the problem with playing. The old guys feel that the young guys have too much of an advantage in age, so they play twice as hard and aggressive but expect you not to play aggressive back. Then they bitch and complain about fouls and stuff. It's really annoying. Half the time the games are just fun and everyone's having a good time, the other half of the time people get too crazy and turn into assholes.
I'm going to start going out on Wednesday nights too, to a different high school with different people. It's apparently a lot more younger guys. They end up having three teams every time, and play full court games with one team sitting out. The games to to 11 or something, and the winner stays on for a max of two games in a row. I think it'll be a lot more fun, because I won't have to worry about people on my team not showing up and having no subs. The two guys that told me about it are really cool too. They're brothers that grew up around here that are in their early 40s. I know I seem to make friends wtih more old people than people my own age, but you've got to start somewhere. They're really good too. Short, fast guys that like to run.
Jamming tonight at Scott's place. I still don't like some songs we play, but whatever. I want to play some shows.
I think I'm going to work on designing an air stripper at work. Basically what it does is use a blower to push ambient air through a pipe that is submerged in contaminated water, and there are a bunch of little holes in the pipe. The air goes out of the pipe and bubbles the hell out of the water, causeing the contaminants to go airborn. We've got one that we buy from a company right now that is really good, but really expensive. It's also a lot mroe crazy than the one I'm describing. A competitor that does most of their work in Alabama has a cheap one that they manufacture, and it doesn't seem to matter in that state. We always get blown out of the water by them because we're trying to supply a superior product at a much higher cost...and with environmental shit, cost is a huge deal unless you're a huge coorporation. ANYway, I think I'm going to figure out some math and physics of it and try to make a modeling program, and move this thing into research and development. Who knows when it'll actually happen.
I started playing around a bit more with computer recording stuff, and worked out how to make loops of riffs and stuff from any old song. I can take two songs and stick them on top of each other and make the timing work out ok, but it's hard to make things mesh properly. I've got some ideas, but it's turning out to be more complicated than I initially thought, which is nothing new.
Went out last night with Ben, Steve and his girlfriend. It was fun. Played pool for a bit, then went to the bar and sat. Made fun of some guy that was getting tossed out of the bar by the scruff of his neck for being drunk, and a lot of other stuff too.
I finished Catch-22 this morning. It was good.
I should make some breakfast and do some dishes. Could use some groceries too. Probably do that tomorrow.
This is long.