2004-06-16 - 2:13 a.m.
GMAIL
OMG I have a GMAIL address now thanks to my main man Boogity! THEJAKE@GMAIL.COM, try it for yourselves, won't you.
Boy, I'm tired. And I got a sunburn. Ouch! It's so very pink and delicate.
Every summer there's this stupid festival thing around here, right. I don't even know what the point is except that a bunch of crappy local artists, crappy local craftmakers, and crappy local bands can all converge on the area to display their wares. And you can't even just go there, for the alleged privilege of attending you gotta pay like $5 to buy a button and wear the button as your entrance pass.
It's so lame. But since I was about 13 or so, the exact same scenario has played itself out almost every year. Charity insists that we go waste a day there, it's sweaty and hot and muggy and awful, then she gets tired halfway through and I end up carrying her piggy back the rest of the time.
Worse yet is that I always seem to run into about 30 people that I haven't seen in forever. But never people I'd want to see, it's people like friends of my parents or old teachers, the kind of people who want an update on your life. And then I have to stand around while Charity has similar conversations with the 30 some-odd people that she sees. I think I'm really beginning to dislike people.
The food there is pretty good, though. We always get this funnel cake that's fried and sweet and delicious. I had a root beer float that hit the spot. But you gotta pay for the food too, of course, so by my count I spent $10 on the two buttons, at least $25 on food, and all I got for it was a tummy ache and a sunburn.
Anyway. We're starting to get our new house halfway liveable, I think. Lately we've been focusing on the cool stuff like the entertainment center, which is really my forte. I may not have a degree in design like she does, but I can sure pick out high priced electronics and accessories with the best of 'em.
To wit! Just the other day I purchased this exciting little thing that contains many audio/video ports so you can hook up a plethora of things all at once. Right now, in this one box, I have my Playstation 2, my Nintendo 64, and the TV Out from my computer all plugged in. And all I have to do to switch between them is hit a little button on the front of the box. How delightful! I can only begin to imagine all the time this would have saved me over the past few years when I kept having to go behind the TV to hook stuff up.
Speaking of my PS2, I also recently bought a new case for the outside of it, one with a flip-top lid that is basically for the purpose of stealing. Without having to use the eject tray, I can now download games and burn them to DVD, then use the flip-top lid to substitute them in place of regular games. You don't actually need a new case to accomplish this, there are computer chips that you can put on the motherboard that accomplish the same purpose of ripping off honest game manufacturers. But that seemed like a lot of work.
So basically I spent $30 or so on this new case and various things that you need to go with it, I need blank DVDs to put games on so I bought 50 for about $40 in a pretty good deal because they're high quality ones, and I needed cases for the DVDs and that's another $20-$30. All of this to avoid paying for games. I sure am cheap.
But that money comes out of my own personal funds, whereas I seem to have no problem throwing away the money my sweetums and I have come to accumulate together as lovebirds. Later this week I'm gonna go to this Billiards & Games store and see about getting a pool table and perhaps some arcade style games for this room in our basement.
My grandparents in New Jersey used to have a setup like that at their place, in the house that they don't live in anymore. They had this huge basement that was the coolest place in the world to me. As you came down the stairs, there was an old bar and a bunch of my gramps' local political type stuff (he was the mayor and whatnot for a while). This is the least exciting part, it gets better.
Then the next corner was filled with his huge beer can collection, with hundreds and hundreds of cans all lined up on these little shelves. There was a dartboard right next to them. Then the next corner had all the stuff for their pool table that sat in the middle of the room, and across from that was this old pinball machine. I would spend hours down there. I really hate them for moving out of that house.
I've always wanted something like that in my own place, so hopefully I'll be able to figure something out. I'm thinking an air hockey table, maybe a Pop-A-Shot, WWF Wrestlefest, and we really gotta find some place to put the sex swing.
TOODLES
