April 7th 2003

-There is truth in wine.  And in 4 pitchers of beer there is an obliterated Thai guy with blue cheese and wing sauce dripping down his cheek yelling at a big screen with such great phrases as “YEA!” or “Yeah BABY!” or “OH YEAH BABY”

We, as a nation, and especially me, love this.  We eat it up acting like morons screaming.  I’m not a screamer in general, a la TRL or yelling at girls at the beach, but at the bar I’m a fricken Siren or Banshee. Your pick.  Preferably not the one of me singing naked along the shore though.  In a few hours I’ll be losing my voice, once again.

Celebrated the obscene dismantling of Marquette .  I just remember the first half really (see first paragraph).

-So a Thai, Mexican, a Jew and a farm boy enter a bar…

This is not a joke, this was the last apt I lived at, and they were my roommates.  I’m not making this up.

I saw my ex roommate ( Kansas ) randomly for the first time in almost two years. Such a great guy till he said…

“Steve, um you look a little..um bigger”

“I’m fat”

“well, I’m just saying that you have maybe gained…”

“I’m fat”

‘yes Steve your fat now”

And yes, the thing is, I’m not really fat at all, I’m 26(ugh) now and I’m a lot thinner than all my peers and still under the 14% body fat average for my age and height (I’m about 12-13%) But like him and everyone else that’s known me. He remembers the Skinny Steve, the 28 inch waist Steve, not the huge balloon of the 32 Steve.  Time takes its toll, so does buffalo wings and no gym membership and no job.  It’ll all change soon though people.

-Ok.  It’s weird.  How weeks can go by,  You see the ups and downs of the world.  Trying to put in perspective that your life isn’t so bad when you see all the fighting and devastation going on now, but you’re still secretly pissed inside that they kicked Frenchie off.

-We can all have bad days, or weeks.  Then things can change.  In a course of a day I now have maybe, a job, a job that pays well, a chance to maybe get my book published, an apartment, and more sooner than later, a Playstation2.  Life is good.

Not sure sometimes if my page is a diary or writing practice or useless space.  Actually I know for a fact that simply put and madden are, but don’t worry, a new Playstation will come alive again and soon, and with that, Madden 2004,  with Michael Vick establishing an amazing 945 rating!  There is no reason that Michael Vick 2004 should not be mentioned in the same sentence as Techno Bowl Lawrence Taylor, Bo Jackson and Jerry Rice.  Along with nominees  '95 madden Steve Young and Deon sanders and Madden 64 Terrell Davis as the greatest game breaking players of the last 15 years.

-there is a network on the basic cable here that focuses on racing called, SPEED…why?  They put speed ahead of the Food Network!?!?!? I have to pay extra for the Food network and the Iron Chef! Blasphemous. And to encourage my little sense of humor, I quickly change the channel every time I get there.

-there’s a generic Red Bull out there called 180, after drinking it, I realized how it got it's name.  It made me want to turn around and slap the guy who sold it to me telling me it’s just as good.