The Rock VS Diva Battle Royal

03.02.2011

This has been my week of not feeling good (which may put a damper on anything festive I was planning on doing for my birthday this week). Monday I was especially not feeling good, as I felt as if I had been running a slight fever off and on, and I came home after lunch to self medicate and lay down as much as I wanted. It worked out to be a pretty good plan, not so much in that I was feeling better but that I took lots of little naps, which would have been frowned upon at work.

As the evening progressed I thought that I might not be able to stay awake for the evening's wrestling program. Normally I would just catch up on everything the next day via the interweb, but there was talk that THE ROCK would be on making some type of promo against John Cena. I like THE ROCK promos. I would prefer not to miss THE ROCK promos, especially while he's still making his return and is fresh. So I whipped out the old cell phone and sent a text to WWE Jason: Sick and drugged up, not sure if I'll be able to stay awake, let me know if anything important happens..

I soon got a response: Seg 8 - Rock & Cena taped promo. (For those of you not intimate with the TV industry as I, the show is broken into Segments between commercial breaks. Seg 1 - Commercials - Seg 2 - Commercials - Etc.) It's nice having an inside man. Seg 8 should be around 9:00 or so. Maybe I could stay awake another hour and a half. For fun, I sent Jason a reply: If Seg 8 is a Diva Battle Royal, I will hunt you down and do something really bad. I was too out of it to define what really bad would be, so I would leave it to his imagination. I couldn't think of a worse match than a Diva Battle Royal, so his imagination should come up with something appropriate.

The wrestling of the evening progressed and it was mostly a bunch of promos. Triple H talked. Michale Cole and Lawler talked. Cena talked. Randy Orton talked. The Road to Wrestlemania is paved with talking. I looked at the clock and it was 9:00, and current champ The Miz was talking. He's branded himself as the most Must See champion ever, due in part to his making the rounds of talk shows. He finishes talking and we go to a commercial break. I've been trying to keep up and can't remember for sure if this is should be Segment 7 or 8 coming up, but I'm thinking it's 7 (and hoping it's 8). During the break my phone buzzes. I look at it and have a message from Jason - Coming up is Must See TV!. Hey, maybe it's Segment 8! The commercial break ends and...

Raw comes back with a Diva Battle Royal, with the winner becoming the #1 contender for the Women's Championship. WTF?

I text Jason back that he's got to be kidding me, and he sends back It's Seg 7, I'm safe!. Somehow I managed to unknowingly know that the worse possible match was going to be put on before the big promo. Or, I'm unwittingly writing the script via Jason and need to start sending in my good ideas instead of the bad ones.

The Battle Royal ended (no idea who won, I was too busy deriding Jason the whole 3 minutes it was on), and after another commercial break THE ROCK made his pretaped comments to the people of Buffalo. After he was done, I don't know if I stayed awake through the following commercial break.

I can't believe there was a Diva Battle Royal...

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Vroooooom

02.22.2011

I managed to take the riding portion of the Motorcycle Class again without incident, and even managed to ride my motorcycle to the Harley dealership and back so as to get some practice riding that beast. Ironic that I drove it 13 miles to where I could practice turning (which I really needed to do, and still need to practice some more).

Suffice it to say that I've survived the class, plus my first ride.

I really need to take some pictures of the bike and post them while it's still nice and pretty.

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Busy Week - The Update

02.17.2011

My busy week has been progressing as planned.

Much to my surprise, the motorcycle was delivered on Tuesday. Thanks to some help from Ponytail Jason, the bike arrived at the house and is ready and raring to go in the garage. Oddly difficult was getting the tags/title in a nice, legal manner, just because if you technically follow the rules of what you can or can't do without an in-state title or a license tag, you can't get anything finished (at least not without taking the bike to the courthouse without a tag). But, it's now titled and tagged and legalized. Which brings me to...

The return of motorcycle class starting on Friday night. Technically it starts tonight, but I'm skipping the paperwork portion since I really just want to get comfortable riding again. I'm hoping that by the end of Saturday's class I'll be ready to (safely) ride my bike to Sunday's class. We'll see how that works out.

Gina's belated Valentine's dinner seems to have gone off without incident. Nothing was burned, everything stayed down, and it was actually pretty good. Go me!

Now you can anxiously await an entry for Monday to see if motorcycle class went ok. You just sit there and stare at the internet until then.

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Busy Week

02.13.2011

On tap for this week:

• Valentine's Day - I'm not sure what day we'll actually do it, but I promised Gina I would cook her dinner.
• Motorcycle delivery - My motorcycle is supposed to arrive from New Hampshire by Friday. The tracking site did show it was hovering around DC for 4 days, but now it just says "In Route". I'm hoping that doesn't mean "Lost".
• Return of the Motorcycle Class - I'm taking a refresher class at the Harley dealership to make sure I don't kill myself just by sitting on the motorcycle when it gets here. I don't think 4 days of class a year ago qualifies me to get out in rush hour traffic.
• Money stuff - I've got to send off some forms to consolidate my 401K account(s) and check on some stocks.

This just feels like a very busy week.

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Snow Day Ripping

02.10.2011

Today was a snow day (well, it was icy when I woke up even though most of it probably cleared up by noon - but I'm not going to let that ruin my snow day!).  I spent the day doing various chores around the house.  Some cleaning, some straightening, some organizing, laundry.  You know, manly things.  While doing all of this I had the PCs ripping away on DVDs.  Besides various movies, I managed to get the complete series of Friends and Joey saved off.

For those of you who may be curious:

• 10 seasons of Friends takes up 58GB with a running time of 3.9 days.
• 2 seasons of Joey take up 9.5GB with a running time of 16.2 hours.

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