Paintballing & #88

So in reviewing the list, I noticed that I actually have crosses off something other than buying a TV. I went paintballing a few weeks ago. It was a great time and fairly cheap. Like $30 for 500 Paintballs and all the rentals. #81 I think I might have to go back for seconds

So I haven't done the math but if I am not at 200 days something is wrong. I am going to add an Item to the list and that is "Complete the UFO clubs 200 Beers @ The Flying Saucer". I started this quest a few weeks ago when I got here. The basic idea is drink 200 different types of beers at the bar. Biggest catch, only 3 beers per day, which means 67 visits to complete. I am currently at 20, but they didn't register one of my tickets last time I went so I will have to have that fixed.

I don't own a camera so recently I have been forced to search the Internet for pics like I did above, I plan on rectifying that at some point but until then this blog will be more words than pictures which I don't think is a good thing.

The glass is half full....

AR- 6 Weeks in

So I shaved my beard off yesterday. What does this have to do with my list you might ask, a couple things. 1st I have gained at least 15 lbs since I moved to AR, prob a combination of less exercise and eating like crap (Fucking Sonic). Second when I 1st shaved I was quite distraught at the neck flab I had going on which I might not have noticed except that the last time I was cleanly shaven was right after I ran the marathon (list item) and I was in much better shape. I have only completed only 1 list item since the move and that was to buy a HDTV (prob also contributing to my weight gain)

The point of me telling you all of this is I am getting back on the list bandwagon. I have not done a good job of assimilating into AR. From what I have been told in the last couple weeks I have started just complaining and no one likes a complainer. I enjoy sarcasm but I apparently am now incapable of simply being sarcastic. When a friend from MA asked me if I had shaved my angry beard that is when I knew what had to be done.

There are a lot of list items that can help me both lose weight and get better acquainted with AR. I still have to run races of 5K, 10K and 1/2 Marathon, although I am willing to substitute 5 and 10 Mi's for the K's if that is how the races present themselves. I also need to take kickboxing & Yoga classes as well as join a racquetball league. That is just the physical aspect of my current problem. I also need to learn how to cook better so I don't end up eating shit all the time like I do now. Hopefully good cooking with help me impress the ladies, if I ever meet an attractive one that isn't married.

Overall this last 6 weeks have been a struggle for me. I am searching for my place down here and not finding many answers. Everyone else down here came in a class or with people they knew, friends and wives or are from here. I came as me, alone, and I don't fit into any of the defined categories at work (Since I only know people from work). I am not supposed to be friends with the reps because I am a manager but I don't have a common theme with the other managers. I am putting on my best face from here out but I won't be surprised if I am not excited about the results (sorry to any Arkansan who doesn't understand where I am commin from)

Here's to keeping my pursuit of living deliciously alive

#87- Buy a new HDTV

It has been purchased but it is to large to fit in my car so I will find a larger car tomorrow to go pick it up. They couldn't deliver it until Tuesday or Wednesday of next week and I could not handle not having a TV for my 1st weekend, which I plan to sleep though with a few rounds of golf in-between. The weather has been shit this week so I am hoping for some Sun since I haven't gotten a chance to take advantage of one of the main perks of the complex. And when you pick a place site unseen that can be quite the determining factor.

If you are the type who enjoy specs, it is a 55" Samsung /1080p / 120Hz / LCD w/ 100,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio

Next up in the purchase department is the PS3 to go with it, I mean I need to do something for me. Right? (In my head that sentence sounds like Arty Lang was saying it)

1st Impressions

Pro’s
- less than a ¼ mile from: Walmart Supercenter, gas station, liquor store* & a Sonic
- 9 Hole golf course I can play for free (looks to be in decent condition for a free golf course)
- Pool, Hot Tub, Fitness Center(haven’t seen it but I have low expectations), Pool & Pong tables

*both Walmart and Gas station sell beer

Con’s
- I’m in Arkansas
- I’m in Arkansas
- I’m in Arkansas
- Now that I have that out of my system, Charter Can Lick MY BALLS
o They do not offer DVR or HD service in this area but they hope to have it soon (Please read that again)
o Comcast services Little Rock and they have both of those options, but don’t provide service to North Little Rock (Although I have been told for cable purposes I am considered to be in Maumelle, either way I’m fucked)
o This means I am currently looking into television from ATT because for some reason they have both a DVR and HD capabilities right here in where Charter does not
§ My apartment complex doesn’t allow satellites so Direct TV is a no go
-Did I mention I am in Arkansas

Anyway I am Fast Tracking #87 Buy an HDTV because I am currently void of a TV at all and that can not stand. I also need to count some days I could be close to having to pick a new thing at 200 days. Technically I went out in Nashville last night but I can’t count it toward #73 cuz I went to bed at 10. The last time I checked I have yet to get anyone pregnant so #33 is lookin good(Ladies you will inform me if there was an issue, right?) I am up to 2001 in “Now I can Die in Peace” but with the move I have a feeling it will be awhile before I get the chance to finish it.(#52). Enough updating for now

Live from Nashville

It would be great if I could blog while driving, I mean I have been driving for 3 days now and I when you spend that much time in the car (22.5 Hr’s) over a 3 day period you come up with some pretty ridiculous stuff. I talk to myself anyway so me having a conversation with just me isn’t that weird but the levels I have taken it too after this much time in the car is ridiculous. I need this trip to end.

I also just got Sirius, I am annoyed b/c the package I got included the best of XM but Baseball is no where on the dial. That was the whole point. I wanted to hear Joe C. no matter where I was. Anyway I have already figured out satellite radio they have the same format of playing the same songs on the same channels over and over again. But they have the bonus of the comedy, Howard, and other crap that you just can’t get on regular radio so overall still happy with the decision. Now I need to buy a TV. I hope I make a good decision there as well.

I know this post has nothing to do with any of my things but I gotta tell ya, leaving Boston was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do. This isn’t the 1st time I had to leave somewhere I loved because it was the right thing to do but it doesn’t get any easier. It rips you up inside and there are so many things I felt were left unsaid between myself and various people. Some of which I am sure would have fell on deaf ears but I have always felt it is better to put it out there and let ppl make their own decision then hold back and wonder. I have no regrets about my time there and hope to return to the North East at some point but right now I think it is time for me to ride the wave and see where life takes me. I don’t know who said it first or best but I never want to regret not doing something, so let the chips fall…..

So I am a slacker, but enjoy another post

So here with my first of what will be many posts from Little Rock, Arkansas I have to admit I have been slacking. So a quick recap of what I have been doing,

1st I went out in NYC a couple of weeks ago for Phinney's b-day and although fun not exactly the most exciting thing to cross off the list. I assume this has to do with the fact that I have been to NYC many times over my life I just never went out in the city so simply getting drunk in a city didn't get me excited enough to write this until a couple weeks after the fact.

I also was recently approved for a mortgage which brings me one step closer to owning property (#28). I also just spent today looking at houses in and around Little Rock. If you don't know me let me fill you in as to why i would ever make a decision to move to Little Rock AR from Boston because believe me if you had told me 2 years ago I would do this I would have told you that you were crazy. There is a long story and a short one, I don't feel it is prudent for me to go into the Gorey detail of how i got here but basically I was giving a choice move to AR or get WFR'd. I wasn't going to move to do the same job that I had been doing so i let my management team i was willing to move for the right opportunity and after many months I got promotion so I am moving down to LR (apparently that is how the cool kids down here write it)

Finally I started reading "Now I can Die in Peace" by Bill Simmons. I didn't realize that this book was just a collection of articles that he had wrote that he then went back and commented on but so far I am enjoyin it

Holbrook if you are gonna read this you can at least comment on it (Jerk)

2 Phish Shows and Michael Domsky

So I wanted to go to more concerts and when the opportunity to go to see Phish at Fenway arose I felt I had to oblige. Granted it took pat and becca going to sit outside Fenway at 2:30 the night before tickets went on sale, then the next weekend one Michael "the man, the myth, the legend" Domsky showed up for another Phish show down in Mansfield. And that is 2 birds with one stone my friend.

Although I will add an editors note that when creating the list one of the most difficult things is to choose numbers for items your not really sure whats a lot of something until you start doing it.h Expect some changes to list items with numbers such as the score for a round of golf, and this one although i haven't come up with a new number yet

I think for this one I am going to let the pictures do the talking but it was good to see Domsky, I hope he goes to Alumni weekend and stays in touch over the years because he can be very elusive

Mansfield Show

^Michael Domsky ^