Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Par-tay

Bachelorette Scavenger Hunts are a good deal of fun. There's nothing quite like asking a bunch of drunk strangers to get down on one knee and serenade the bride-to-be (allowing them to sing whatever song they want), or getting one of the Dave and Buster's managers to give three sex or marriage tips, or having all the bartenders write "good luck" messages on the back of the card. The good luck messages turned out to be more like sexual advice, but whatever. It was highly entertaining.

Also, cake and brownies are good, but eating too much of them leads to feeling quite crappy the next day.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Waffles II

Today I purchased waffles. All is right with the world. Maybe not all. Much is right with the world.

On another note, the Preakness was yesterday. I suppose this probably means little to most people, but it's usually exciting for me. This year's version was pretty darn scary, though. Last year's was scary, too. Last year Afleet Alex put on a little circus show. This year Barbaro, who I am quite convinced would have finally won the Triple Crown after 28 years of no Triple Crown winners, busted the hell out of his leg. It looked gross. TV kept showing it. Apparently he had three broken bones in the bottom half of this one leg (one of the bones was pretty much shattered) and had dislocated his ankle. He had 7 hours of surgery today, has 23 screws in his leg, and a whole lot of not moving to look forward to for the next couple of months, but he survived. They didn't have to put him down. Granted, he's certainly not out of the woods yet. Now they're worried about infection and something awful called laminitis, that leads to foundering, which is really quite nasty, but he's got a lot of people giving him lots of medicine so hopefully that doesn't happen. Apparently horses with that severe of a fracture are generally euthanized on the track right then and there, but since Barbaro is worth millions of dollars they actually bothered to attempt to save his life. The doctor that did the surgery said he'd never worked on so many injuries on one horse at the same time. It seems he did a good job, though.

In the '70's there was a horse named Ruffian who was all kinds of awesome and she beat up on all the other fillies she raced. Her owners put her in a match race with Foolish Pleasure, winner of the Kentucky Derby and other things I'm sure, and she shattered her front leg then kept trying to run on it. They tried to operate on her leg to save her, and actually managed to get the surgery done, but when she woke up she freaked out, kicked everything, destroyed everything the doctors had done in surgery and caused even more damage. She had to be put down. ESPN is making a TV movie about her. She was something awesome, but that's not going to be a fun movie to watch.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Waffles

I desire waffles. That is all.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Hax0red

Oh hackers, how we love ye. I want to blame the whole situation on OU, but I'm not sure I can. I think this might be the work of pathetically obsessed jerkwads with way too much time on their hands. I'm not sure that OU was actually the screw up this time. Or these times, rather, as it has happened three times in the last few weeks now. It's rather disconcerting. They have firewalls and all that jazz and I'd assume they have pretty fancy protection stuffs going on. It's certainly not for lack of finances if they don't. I wasn't concerned about this latest hacking because it was in Hudson's data and I hadn't ever been sick enough to go to Hudson. Then I remembered that I did go there for a TB test. And even if there hadn't been that, it's the student health center. Who knows what kind of info they have there?

The FBI's all over this and there were news vans all over campus today. Channel 4 was here, but there was no Chopper 4. Too bad. Their news van does not fly, but it does have a giant satellite on top. The news vans were how I found out about this latest one. I had to watch the news to figure out what all the news stations were doing on campus. It's not often the Columbus media is interested enough in a story down here to actually send crews to Athens. I'm quite convinced they only do it to make fun of us, though. They like to compare us to OSU in a not so flattering way. Someone said that they did a story on the girl that got kidnapped and driven around the state or whatever a few years ago and made it sound like that kind of thing happens here all the time (which it doesn't). They proceeded to follow that story with one about the superb safety of OSU's campus. Which do you think is safer, Athens or Columbus?

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Silly Time Warner

I had an envelope in my mail today from Time Warner Cable with "Please Accept Our Apology" written on the front in big, blue letters. I said, "Only if your apology comes in the form of cash," as I was assuming it was going to be a "we're raising your rates" apology. Anyway, I opened the letter and it was blabbing on about how their recent billing conversion was causing problems for people and the volume of calls about that had hindered their previously impeccable customer service and concluded with "Over the past few weeks, we haven't met your expectations for great service, and we're sorry. Please accept these free CAPA and Columbus Zoo tickets as our thanks for your patience during this time." So, I hadn't dealt with their customer service at all. I hadn't noticed anything, but because a bunch of other people were pissed, I now possess two tickets to the CAPA Summer Movie Series and two tickets to the Columbus Zoo. Way cool. I don't know anything about the CAPA Summer Movie Series. I don't even know what CAPA stands for. So I'm going to go investigate.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Accidental Baseball

I accidentally stumbled upon my cousin's baseball game today. I went for a walk after class because I had nothing better to do with my day, walked by a ballpark and was flagged down by my aunt. That was pretty neat. Casey's in 6th grade, but he gets to play for the 7th grade team because he's awesome like that. He plays for the 6th grade team, too. My uncle is one of the coaches for his team because he's awesome, too. That and he coaches and referees all sports in Nelsonville. He's even the announcer for the high school football games. Anyway, here are some not-so-fabulous pictures. It's hard to take good pictures through a fence.

Uncle Steve the 3rd base coach

Casey hard at work

Casey again

Sam wants to play, too, but the sign says "No Dogs Allowed"

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Results!

Since I gave everybody horses for the Derby, I figured I ought to tell you how they did. So, here's that.

Chris - Barbaro - 1st
Steph - Bluegrass Cat - 2nd
Mike - Steppenwolfer - 3rd
Christina - Brother Derek - 4th
Jeremy - Showing Up - 6th
Andrea - Sweetnorthernsaint - 7th
Dan - Deputy Glitters - 8th
Eric - Point Determined - 9th
Jess - Seaside Retreat - 10th
Jacci - Lawyer Ron - 12th
Megan - Cause to Believe - 13th
Ben - Private Vow - 15th
Jon - Sinister Minister - 16th
Scott - Bob and John - 17th
Matt - A.P. Warrior - 18th
Becky - Sharp Humor - 19th
Ashley - Keyed Entry - 20th

"I Hate Horses" Berlo wins. Doesn't that just figure?

Friday, May 05, 2006

Wasting my Time

More quizzly action. These things make it so easy to not do any actual thinking for myself.

Your Famous Last Words Will Be:
"I dunno, press the button and find out."

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Kentucky Derby in 3 Days!

In honor of the Kentucky Derby and my obsession with horse racing, I have taken the liberty of assigning y'all horses for the Derby. You don't get anything if your horse wins (unless you decide you want to have a Derby Pool or something, but that's up to you guys), but I thought it would be fun to force everyone to share a bit of the interest with me. If I don't have you on the list but you want to play too, lemme know. I'll find ya a horse. So, without further ado, THE LIST!

Andrea - Sweetnorthernsaint
Ashley - Keyed Entry
Becky - Sharp Humor
Ben - Private Vow
Chris - Barbaro
Christina - Brother Derek
Dan - Deputy Glitters
Eric - Point Determined
Jacci - Lawyer Ron
Jeremy - Showing Up
Jess - Seaside Retreat
Jon - Sinister Minister
Matt - A.P. Warrior
Megan - Cause to Believe
Mike - Steppenwolfer
Scott - Bob and John
Steph - Bluegrass Cat

Yay for that!