Stuff and New Year's
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3 days off from work. Nice! Sunday wasn’t much of a day off. I came home at 7am, played a little CoD 4, read part of one of my books and went to sleep. I got up 4 hours later, showered, went to the parents house for a couple of hours, came home, watched some TV and went to bed.
Shoveling this morning left me pretty wiped out. I haven’t done anything else other than a load of laundry.
I’m suppose to go to a friends party tonight but I’m not really looking forward to it. They usually get drunk and they can’t really understand that I get real bored around drunk people. I don’t drink. Last time I went to their New Year’s Eve party one of the drunk friends wanted to go driving after an old friend invited him out to drink. There was nearly a fist fight and more than forty minutes of trying to convince this guy not to go. What finally stopped him was me leaving. And the fact that I told him if I see him get in his car I’m calling the cops because he might get ME killed by his drunk driving. Even then he still wanted to go out but had calmed enough not to. So, yeah, drunk people do not equal fun for me.
I paid off my big screen. Well, paid back the money to my checking account. Not bad refilling $1400 in one month.
I was nearly peeing in my pants because my last paycheck had no money taken out for health care. The previous week was when the ‘new year’ of coverage had started or was the last week we could sign up. I was extremely fearful that my coverage had somehow run out. After a hurried check with HR the next morning I had reached the limit of deductions for my coverage for the year. So I was paid up and still covered. Phew!
Later that morning I traveled to my insurance agent. After a check on-line of my escrow account I saw a listing for the payment of my house insurance. I had written two separate checks to my local insurance to cover it the previous month. A check found that there was a credit on my account for the amount I paid personally. So they cut me a check on the spot. So now I have another $432 going on to the principal of my mortgage. Last year I put upwards of $2000 extra on my principal. Not bad if I do say so myself. I could use the $400 to rebuild my savings account after the cost of my roof but why bother? My house rate is something like 5.8% while my savings rate is like 2%. It’s better to put it on my loan.
I got three more books from my sister after she heard I was getting the Harry Potter books. So now I have 6 books from Christmas, plus these 3 Potter books and I still have a novel waiting for me at the comic store. I’m about 110 pages into the first of 4 new Anita Blake novels that I got.
Still stuck with mandatory 6 days a week with Sundays optional. I’ll still do a Sunday here and there but working so much is getting sickening. The 4 days off for Christmas and the three days off for New Year’s were a huge help to keep the burn out away.
After stat corrections my friend beat my by .23 in fantasy football for the championship. Just more insult to injury. A total disasterous week for fantasy football. Like I said, my worst week for the whole year points wise. I still would’ve won had I switched out an injured guy that got ZERO points but completely forgot because I was sick on Saturday and booked solid all day Sunday so that I never turned on my computer. I also missed making all my picks in the pick ‘em league and missed making substitutions in the second fantasy league. That’s gonna gnaw at my for a long time because I had the victory except for that I blew the only thing I could control in fantasy football.
I think I have a decent new layout for my living room. There are two tv’s in my living room. One is my 40 inch HD tv and the other is the 25 inch tube. The way the couches are set up my brother’s couch is nothing more than a shelf for crap. It’s actually fairly clean as I write but still has a hat, game controllers and about a full cushion of toys stocked on it. I really can’t remember the last time it was used for its intended purpose. I think the cat is the only one that sits on it. So that means my HD tv is the only tv used for viewing. My couch is set up perpendicular to it and at best holds three people. And because the couch is close to the tv the guy on the couch closest to the tv gets a real crappy angular view. So I want to take my brother’s couch which is originally my sister’s couch and place it like an L facing the HD tv. His couch as a corner connector so it’s designed to fit into a corner. I would then move the coffee table out and put my old couch in the spot of his couch. I would also have to get rid of the two large speaker cabinets in the living room. They should be out anyways since they aren’t even hooked up and just have crap placed on them like tall end tables.
The speakers are part of an annoyance problem for me. My brother still owns more furniture and stuff than I do. There’s no reason for me to buy anything new of my own because there’s no place to put it. So it rather sucks that the unused speakers sit in my living room. There’s an exercise machine by the washer and dryer. His and his nephews clothes take up half of my bedroom closet. And a giant tub of his VCR tapes takes up 90% of the space under my bed in my bedroom. Then there’s all the stuff in the garage like kitchen chairs and other portions of the couch mentioned above. And there’s all his stuff in his room which is the loft. I’m not in a hurry to get rid of my brother but it does suck that more of his stuff fills my house than my own. At least when the dumpster was here for the roof I was able to throw a bunch of crap out of the garage that belonged to my other brother. He didn’t/doesn’t even know or care about the stuff. It was all packrat garbage stuff anyways. I’m vaguely looking at maybe trying to set up an N-scale train set in the garage this summer. I think I now have enough space to do it. Thankfully N-Scale is pretty much the smallest scale for model trains.
I saw I Am Legend. It was okay. The new movie made him more of a caring person than the book or The Omega Man movie did. But the ending kind of left me shaking my head going ‘all that was pretty much for nothing’. I prefer the ending of The Omega Man which was pretty much the same but with one minor, but huge difference for impact. I grew up with The Omega Man so I Am Legend couldn’t really compete with it.
The New England Patriots finished the regular season 16-0. It’ll all be for nothing if they don’t win the Super Bowl. Still, it’s the first time since 1972 that a football team went undefeated in the regular season.
It’s a great time to be a football or baseball home fan in New England. The Boston Red Sox have won the World Series twice in the past few years after 86 years of no championships. The Patriots have won 3 Super Bowls in roughly the same span. New England is dominating the two biggest sports in America. Even the Boston Celtics are getting into the act slightly. After years of disaster they have a good team and I think are leading the NBA with the best record.
Okay, sick of writing now.
3 days off from work. Nice! Sunday wasn’t much of a day off. I came home at 7am, played a little CoD 4, read part of one of my books and went to sleep. I got up 4 hours later, showered, went to the parents house for a couple of hours, came home, watched some TV and went to bed.
Shoveling this morning left me pretty wiped out. I haven’t done anything else other than a load of laundry.
I’m suppose to go to a friends party tonight but I’m not really looking forward to it. They usually get drunk and they can’t really understand that I get real bored around drunk people. I don’t drink. Last time I went to their New Year’s Eve party one of the drunk friends wanted to go driving after an old friend invited him out to drink. There was nearly a fist fight and more than forty minutes of trying to convince this guy not to go. What finally stopped him was me leaving. And the fact that I told him if I see him get in his car I’m calling the cops because he might get ME killed by his drunk driving. Even then he still wanted to go out but had calmed enough not to. So, yeah, drunk people do not equal fun for me.
I paid off my big screen. Well, paid back the money to my checking account. Not bad refilling $1400 in one month.
I was nearly peeing in my pants because my last paycheck had no money taken out for health care. The previous week was when the ‘new year’ of coverage had started or was the last week we could sign up. I was extremely fearful that my coverage had somehow run out. After a hurried check with HR the next morning I had reached the limit of deductions for my coverage for the year. So I was paid up and still covered. Phew!
Later that morning I traveled to my insurance agent. After a check on-line of my escrow account I saw a listing for the payment of my house insurance. I had written two separate checks to my local insurance to cover it the previous month. A check found that there was a credit on my account for the amount I paid personally. So they cut me a check on the spot. So now I have another $432 going on to the principal of my mortgage. Last year I put upwards of $2000 extra on my principal. Not bad if I do say so myself. I could use the $400 to rebuild my savings account after the cost of my roof but why bother? My house rate is something like 5.8% while my savings rate is like 2%. It’s better to put it on my loan.
I got three more books from my sister after she heard I was getting the Harry Potter books. So now I have 6 books from Christmas, plus these 3 Potter books and I still have a novel waiting for me at the comic store. I’m about 110 pages into the first of 4 new Anita Blake novels that I got.
Still stuck with mandatory 6 days a week with Sundays optional. I’ll still do a Sunday here and there but working so much is getting sickening. The 4 days off for Christmas and the three days off for New Year’s were a huge help to keep the burn out away.
After stat corrections my friend beat my by .23 in fantasy football for the championship. Just more insult to injury. A total disasterous week for fantasy football. Like I said, my worst week for the whole year points wise. I still would’ve won had I switched out an injured guy that got ZERO points but completely forgot because I was sick on Saturday and booked solid all day Sunday so that I never turned on my computer. I also missed making all my picks in the pick ‘em league and missed making substitutions in the second fantasy league. That’s gonna gnaw at my for a long time because I had the victory except for that I blew the only thing I could control in fantasy football.
I think I have a decent new layout for my living room. There are two tv’s in my living room. One is my 40 inch HD tv and the other is the 25 inch tube. The way the couches are set up my brother’s couch is nothing more than a shelf for crap. It’s actually fairly clean as I write but still has a hat, game controllers and about a full cushion of toys stocked on it. I really can’t remember the last time it was used for its intended purpose. I think the cat is the only one that sits on it. So that means my HD tv is the only tv used for viewing. My couch is set up perpendicular to it and at best holds three people. And because the couch is close to the tv the guy on the couch closest to the tv gets a real crappy angular view. So I want to take my brother’s couch which is originally my sister’s couch and place it like an L facing the HD tv. His couch as a corner connector so it’s designed to fit into a corner. I would then move the coffee table out and put my old couch in the spot of his couch. I would also have to get rid of the two large speaker cabinets in the living room. They should be out anyways since they aren’t even hooked up and just have crap placed on them like tall end tables.
The speakers are part of an annoyance problem for me. My brother still owns more furniture and stuff than I do. There’s no reason for me to buy anything new of my own because there’s no place to put it. So it rather sucks that the unused speakers sit in my living room. There’s an exercise machine by the washer and dryer. His and his nephews clothes take up half of my bedroom closet. And a giant tub of his VCR tapes takes up 90% of the space under my bed in my bedroom. Then there’s all the stuff in the garage like kitchen chairs and other portions of the couch mentioned above. And there’s all his stuff in his room which is the loft. I’m not in a hurry to get rid of my brother but it does suck that more of his stuff fills my house than my own. At least when the dumpster was here for the roof I was able to throw a bunch of crap out of the garage that belonged to my other brother. He didn’t/doesn’t even know or care about the stuff. It was all packrat garbage stuff anyways. I’m vaguely looking at maybe trying to set up an N-scale train set in the garage this summer. I think I now have enough space to do it. Thankfully N-Scale is pretty much the smallest scale for model trains.
I saw I Am Legend. It was okay. The new movie made him more of a caring person than the book or The Omega Man movie did. But the ending kind of left me shaking my head going ‘all that was pretty much for nothing’. I prefer the ending of The Omega Man which was pretty much the same but with one minor, but huge difference for impact. I grew up with The Omega Man so I Am Legend couldn’t really compete with it.
The New England Patriots finished the regular season 16-0. It’ll all be for nothing if they don’t win the Super Bowl. Still, it’s the first time since 1972 that a football team went undefeated in the regular season.
It’s a great time to be a football or baseball home fan in New England. The Boston Red Sox have won the World Series twice in the past few years after 86 years of no championships. The Patriots have won 3 Super Bowls in roughly the same span. New England is dominating the two biggest sports in America. Even the Boston Celtics are getting into the act slightly. After years of disaster they have a good team and I think are leading the NBA with the best record.
Okay, sick of writing now.
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