No one is posting today. Guh. I’ve been in the office half the day. So I will post. This is a house that I did an elevation for at work. This is close to an $800 K house being built in Tara Hill. Thing is massive.
Archive for April, 2005
I was tagged by JHLB, so here it goes.
Here’s how it works. Immediately following there is a list of 22 different occupations. You must select at least 5 of them (feel free to select more). You may add more if you like to your list before you pass it on (after you select 5 of the items as it was passed to you). Each one begins with “If I could be…” Of the 5 you selected, you are to finish each phrase with what you would do as a member of that profession.
Once you’re done you point this meme at three people you think will be cool with putting in a good two cents on it. Don’t forget to add a profession to the end of the list with a link to your meme!
The List
If I could be a scientist…
If I could be a farmer…
If I could be a musician…
If I could be a doctor…
If I could be a painter…
If I could be a gardener…
If I could be a missionary…
If I could be a chef…
If I could be an architect…
If I could be a linguist…
If I could be a psychologist…
If I could be a librarian…
If I could be an athlete…
If I could be a lawyer…
If I could be an innkeeper…
If I could be a professor…
If I could be a writer…
If I could be a llama-rider…(by Ogre)
If I could be a bonnie pirate…(By Teach)
If I could be a servicemember…(By Jeremy)
If I could be a business owner…(By Blue944)
If I could be an actor… (By Blue944)
If I could be an agent…(By KelBel)
If I could be video game designer…(By KelBel)
If I could be a comic book artist…(By Stoli)
If I could be a go-go dancer… (By JLHB)
If I could be a villan…. (By Gotshoo.com)
If I could be a scientist, I would invent nasal spray to remove boogies. They would just melt right out. It would be come the hottest trend ever. Melting boogies.
If I could be a musician, I would be the baddest - shut yo’ mouf’ - hip hop-DIY-INDIE-rock guitar-folking singing-techno beating-one hit wonder. My number one hit would be “Lick Me Where the Sun Don’t Shine.” Grandma’s would be singing, “ohh baby, pull me down, flip me around, lick me where the sun don’t shine.” It would be about licking plants to give them nutrients. It would feature Jack Johnson and 50 Cent. I would tie the whole guitar singer - hip hop genre into one big knot.
If I could be a professor, I would be a professor of nothing. I would argue to my students what nothing was, what nothing is, and how to come to nothing. We would be hours working on math problems to figure out nothing equals null. I would setup a program at the university when you graduated you would get …. nothing. Ahh, yes, I have a degree in Nothing.
If I could be an inn keeper, I would walk around with a pimp walk around the inn. I would turn the inn into a sports bar / brothel. Hey, I am inn keeper, I can do whatever I want. Our slogan would be, “At the Inn you always got an in.” We would feast on shrimp scampi, beer, and peanuts. Why, I cause I am inn keeper! Ahh yes, the good ol’ inn.
If I could be an actor, I wouldn’t even act. Seriously, I would just marry, date, film ‘particular’ videos and release them to the media or tabloids. My income would result from dating other ‘hot’ actresses that make more money than me. I will be so far out of status quo that I will be the hottest thing around…. wait, this sounds like someone else??
I am officially by the royal powers of gotshoo.com tagging K (Kyle Still Kyle) because he loves these things. Next I tap Merf on the head because I am tired of all his Cub comments (he needs something else to do), and finally I am tagging SternO - cause’ dude hit me.
On my tombstone it will say, “Still working in the afterlife.”
What a notoriously long day yesterday. And it kind of spilled over to today. Yesterday, I went into work at 7:30am, measured a house, made phone calls, drove to Chatham and Sherman then had a meeting at 4:00 that didn’t get over till 5:20.
You’d think I would have had enough by then and called it a day. Nope, no such thing. One of the other bartenders called me earlier in the day telling me that they were sick. I, being a nice guy and appreciative of other people subbing for me when I couldn’t work said I would be there for them. Well, I got to the bar around 5:30 and didn’t leave till around 12:45.
Luckily today I was able to sneak out for a few Zzz’s. Tonight I will be hammering out some house plans at Barnes & Noble for a meeting with a client tomorrow afternoon. So if anyone would like to join me for a mojo call the phone.
Today was day 2 of working out. I hit it a little harder tonight and I can tell. I am so pooped. I saw some ‘larger guy’, not necessarily big walking the whole time while I was sweating balls on the bike. He kept walking from room to room as if he was portraying himself as a bad ass or just checking what was on the tv’s. He just had that cocky appeal. I think it was the gold chains that gave it away. I went upstairs to do a last minute run on the treadmill and the sucker plops down on the treadmill right next to me. He scowered the TV guide till finally deciding on the Home & Garden channel.
Side note:
I went into work at 7:20 AM today (yes, write it down in the history books) and I think I will go back in the same time tomorrow. My boss and I are meeting with a potential new client. I’d be the shit if I land this deal.
Thursday’s are the new Friday’s again. Anyone want to go out?
If anyone in the Springfield area listens to Molson and Lee on WMAY, you’ll know who Bill is. Bill is one of those people who call in all the time to make comments that really don’t pertain to the subject matter. Over time, he has inadvertently developed a following. Molson and Lee are auctioning off one of Bill’s paintings of the Lincoln Home to benefit the Red Cross. I think it’s a classic. Maybe the Westchester could use a painting such as this??
Talked to Emily again tonight. She says to tell everyone “hi.” Says the town is nice and quiet. Four streets run North to South and 23 run East to West. She has her own bike. Loves biking around town. Hoping to get internet before the end of the week.
Before she left she was having problems with her fairly new Nikon N75. Nice real film camera. When we were in Chicago a few weeks ago she tried to load a new roll. Well it kept erroring out and rewinding the film back into the canister. She went through 5 different rolls before finally giving up. Just before she left we went to Best Buy to exchange it for another camera because it was under warranty. She got about one roll off before trying to load another one and then she had the same problem.
While talking to her tonight, I searched the web and found this discussion forum. Luckily this helped
Not sure if this will apply to you, but you might want to try the following. First, make sure there is no film in the cameara. Next, perform a midroll rewind. There’s a button on the camera that you have to push to do this (see the manual). It should reset the camera’s loading mechanism. It worked for me once. Please let us know if it works for you.
Finally got it to load the film correctly. She’ll upload pictures and soon as possible.
I was able to do a little revamping with the site today. A little Spring cleaning as you will.
So, what is the verdict?
SternO, you know how you thank me for giving you a ride last night? And you owed me? Well, I forgot about this picture. And I think you owe me now.
Emily is in Alaska. Talked to her yesterday. Having a great time, says its beautiful and it was in the 60’s on Saturday while it was in the 50’s here.
I on the other hand don’t know what to do with myself. Emily and I were together for 79 days, of that only 5 consecutive did we not see each other. Now I am solo. What to do?
Yesterday I tried hanging out with the boys. Kyle and I looked at washers and rather expensive electronics. I guess in retrospect from the female perspective it would be like buying new underwear. We were in Best Buy for almost an hour. Luckily we were able to walk out without making a purchase. However, Kyle did come very close to thinking about buying a big screen tv. I told him no because he still had to pay half of the rent.
Afterwards we went back to Kyle’s dungeon basement and started packing his DVD’s. I think he has something like a 100. It took 3 copy paper boxes to pack them all away. Boredom finally kicked in with packing so we got some PS2 action on. I haven’t played video games in months.
Later on Steve joined us and we shared in on some really greasy Lucas’ Pizza. I hung around with guys till about 12. I was really going to go home but Brown’s was just calling my name. Most of everyone was in Beardstown watching Posamist, but I figured I’d at least know a few people. I stayed for a drink and became rather bored and uncomfortable with the place.
Once again I was not ready to head home… Walking mindlessly downtown I finally decided on going to the Brew Haus. Its a bar that I don’t frequent often but enjoy it when I do. Just happened to be that Mark was hanging out there. We had talked earlier in the night and come to the conclusion that we were staying in. Not the case. We discussed a little world politics and classical music and then decided to go to the top of the Hilton. Correction: I believed we talked about money and ladies… and oh some guy that Mark almost beat up.
I remembered my check stub this time so finally, I didn’t have to pay a cover charge. The same band that was playing the night before was up there again. Kind of a classic solid rock hip-hop combination. They were pretty good. Had people up and dancing. No, I didn’t bust out the dance skills last night. I was feeling a little reserved, so no skills to pay the bills.
A hell of day, but it still sucked. After being with Em so much I feel like I am missing my yang. From a medical standpoint its obviously a case of “Love Sickness.” I’ve tried treatments of Love Potion Number 7, but no luck. I am moving on to physical exercise tonight.
For those who I converse with often, I apologize now if I seem to be stuck on one subject. But its for obvious reasons.
Thanks to all that came out Wednesday night. 56 Hope Road was excellent once again on a 4-20 evening. Em got tanked. (I can say this now without fearing getting hit because of something we call a 65 hour drive). Each time I ordered a Long Island for her, I told Reier, “I need an Emily Long Island.” Thinking back now, I should have ordered just generic ones. We ended up leaving around midnight. We were in the apartment for no more than 5 mins and someone was worshiping the porcelain goddess.
Having myself once, ok many times, on my knees thinking the world was too end; I had lots of sympathy for her. It was a hell of a way to go out on her last night in Springfield. I ended up sleeping in the up right position for most of the night with Em passed out on my shoulder. It was cute, but made for a hella long day at work the next day.
The next day Joy, Em’s sister, was at the apartment to pick up some last minute things. Em recalling the night turns at me and yells, “You DIDN’T hold my hair.” With a shocked look on my face Joy turns to Emily, “Actually…. he did.” Kudos to me.
Having no net at work sucks, but I have been so busy that it wouldn’t even matter. I’ve got about 3 houses and an office building to finish drawing up. Not to mention, that I was promoted to sales manager. That means I go hunt down contractors and lumber yards and get them to buy trusses and wall panels from us. Busy, I say, busy.
Getting excited about moving out. Kyle A. (my future roomate) and I had one of our legendary drives where we head out to Lake Sangchrist, chill, have a drink, and shoot the shit. Kyle is really stoked about moving out. I think we have gone over the plan on how the place is going to be wired for internet, game systems, computers, and sound systems like 15 times.
I have actually been thinking more about the decor. Last weekend when I was with Emily in Chicago at Navy Pier, I was this close to buying a poster photo of Wrigley Field. Em, the good soul she is, stopped me from doing a sac-religious activity. How dare I buy a photo of Wrigley without first buying one of Busch Stadium. I think it was just the thought though. I wouldn’t necessarily buy it.
But there is going to be plenty of baseball memorabilia in the Westchester. I will have a whole tribute arranged for the Cardinals 2004 season. So exciting!
Looking on Mark’s blog, he is making women scream. Always a good thing!
Reminder: Wednesday is Em’s last night in Spring-patch 
No, frowns. 
So come out and party!
Don’t know why a lot of comments are ending up in ‘moderation.’ When writing, key words that it will pick up and put comments in moderation are: “poker” “texas” “viagra”.. ect. Spam words esq.
I just undid an option where a commentor had to have had a previous comment approved before they could approve. So that’s fixed.
Ta-ta
I power up my laptop this evening which I haven’t looked at since Friday. First thing it pops up from my calendar for events for the week: “Em goes to Alaska.” Its just hard to believe its here. Talk about being blind sided by something that you know is coming. I wish her the best. Em, I hope Alaska is everything you expect and hope it to be. Congratulations again!
Emily would love everyone to come out this Wednesday and wish her well on her trip. This will be her last night in town! You guys might want to take Thursday off for it will be a great time!
Ok, its Friday already and I barely blinked. Time is just going way too fast. Emily is busier than heck, I got a ton of things I need to get done….
I haven’t even been able to recap last weekend from the birthday. Ok so here is the abbreviated recap: A. Really kick ass fun, B. Shoo’s dance moves made an appearance, C. KICK ASS!
I went to a Cardinals game on Wednesday. My boss calls me at 9:30 in the morning wanting to know if I want to go to a 12pm game. You don’t know how difficult it is to find people to go to a baseball game during the middle the week during the day.
Man, I just butt tired. Maybe I will get sleep this weekend?!? HA!
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