That'd be soooo Awesome!

I caught some of the DNC last night. The part where states and territories were telling that stuffy lady who they were placing their votes with. I want to let everyone know my opinions in that same way.

Picture me surrounded by a bunch of people that have just been preached to for three days even though I'm a memeber of the choir. As I precede to yell out:

I'm Ken Dreiling.
Originally from the great state of Indiana.
Home to lots of corn and soybeans.
The place that raised Michael Jackson to be the upstanding member of society that he is.
Now residing in Illinois.
A place that's largely democratic and no other party could ever win,
But still feels the need to have thousands of dead democrats vote every election.
Solidly and wholeheartedly put all of my faith and 87 votes behind
The next great condiment of the United States...Spicy Dijon Mayonaisse.


It's just so pageant like. It's almost like they are all attempting their own variations on the same pro wrestling promo. I think I'll just state all my opinions like this. Well I will once I get my life set up so whenever I enter a room, my theme music plays and pyrotechnics go off. That'd be awesome.

Oi!

Well Friday I left work early, went to Oggi's Cafe and got some Rotolo Primavera in me so that I could pick up Phil so that we could hang out at the Grocery STORE~! until we met up with Todd & Jesse to head up to Wawatosa, Wisconsin to partake in the goodness of Ring of Honor wrestling.
The traffic up was about what you'd expect for early Friday rush hour traffic heading out of the city, probably a little light even. which meant it was a steady flow of go 40 mph for a bit, then go 15 for a bit. As opposed to the terrible Friday Rush Hour traffic which sonsists of go 15 mph for a bit, then go 0 mph for a bit. The conversations were good, and the time went by quickly which would not have been the case if I was rocking the trip solo, so all good in that respect. Ate some Perkin's since we were there early (I know me getting somewhere early, quite a suprise, or not) and had a big fun trade fest while there. Much thanks to all for guys for the stuff, and also, "3, 2, 1, HUSTLE, HUSTLE!!" We get to the show and putz around until the doors open. I get the Happy Days theme stuck in my head, as visions of curling goes dancing in my head. We get in the doors, and who walks in, but Baron Von Raschke. I'm marking out and since he has a suit on, I do the "should I thank him for his work or let him be" thought process in my head, and decide to let him be, because I'm sure he'd get bugged a lot that night. Got a couple DVDs and a tape, and watch the show. I won't do a match by match report, but I'll say in bullet points this:
-Ace Steel Goosestepping = Awesome
-Punk to Jack Evans "All the flippy flops in the world won't save you from Ze CLAW~!"
-Matt Sydal sure is fun
-I hope Delirious is OK (apparently he was and wrestled the next night)
-Trent Acid is stupid and I hate him, I still can't tell if it's X-Pac heat or not.
-Doug Williams vs. Alex Shelly for Pure Title YAY My MOTN, Good mat based match without the usual bullshit 'Indy Respect' crap a mat based back and forth match usually has
-Being with the Rottweilers has gotten me to actually care about Low Ki, a touch. Enough to where I care enough to boo him, as opposed to just being disinterested in him.
-I still don't know what it meant when as I was flipping off Ki after the match he said as he pointed to me "You are the fool, for believing it all along" For believing he felt Honor? Believing he'd back Joe? Believing in the Easter Bunny?
-Intermission, I still feel bad that we didn't think to buy DEAN~! a Baron autographed picture, until right as the lights went out to end intermission, and Baron's signing time.
-Collyer vs. Daniels was a perfectly fine, if not better than good popcorn (post-intermission) match
-Steamboat was loving life tonight. After the match he was in the bathroom washing his hands next to me, and I said "Good Job" and he humbly stated "I didnt' do anything, those guys did" ARMDRAG~!
-The Tools were in effect for Joe/Homicide. Just absolutely brutal match. I was worn out after it.
-Saints vs. Briscoes was really good, but unfortunately I was bushed, so I'll need to see the tape to see if it's as good as it seemed.
The ride home was easy driving, and got everyone home safe, after a trip to Arby's. and Got into bed a touch after 3.

Saturday wake up as Sara is heading out to join her parents at the farmer's market. As I'm waiting for her to get home from that so we can go to Warped, I get a text message from my buddy Brian, presuming we're at Warped expressing his disbelief that it actually sold out this year. I proceed to freak out because I was missing Warped for the second year in a row, and something that I wanted to do that Sara did too, wasn't going to happen. So we head off to Gamestop so I can sell off a bunch of Playstation and Playstation 2 games that I never play. I get $41+ in store credit, (apparently they don't do cash anymore) So I now have most of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas paid for when that comes out. Then we head to Old Navy where I pick up some shorts and a couple shirts on Clearance, then off to Marshall's where I buy a new Black Belt (for my pants, not for my Ninja-riffic Karate skills.) Then we head back home and enjoy some dinner and eventually drinks as well as Camp and The Real Cancun on the Netflix.

Sunday, Sara takes off for Yoga, while I start installing the Closet Doors in my bedroom. After a couple hours and lots of swearing I have new closet doors in my bedroom. As soon as I get the place de-cluttered it should be looking pretty good for showings. Then we head out to pick up Phil to go head to see his girlfriend Libby in Midsummer Night's Dream. The performance was fun and oddly it was directed by, and had a lead role played by two people Sara went to high school with. Much enjoyment was had partaking in the show, as well as the pre-show half-block tour of Milwaukee avenue, I took Sara and Phil on (Got there early and went on an unsuccessful search of a preshow coffee house stay, of which we didn't get there all that early at all, and wouldn't have partaken in.) Afterwards, we headed out to Corosh (That's what it's called Phil :) ), which is next door to Anchor's old office on Milwaukee. We had some dinner with Phil and Libby, and chatted and partook in much hilarity. Sara digs them so yay! "They're fun" is the simplest quote to remember. Come home and enjoy some Chappelle's Show, and It's Good To Be Justin Timberlake on VH1 and then some much needed sleep for me.

Monday I didn't feel so well most of the work day, then after work Sara and I went to look at another house on Inverrary in Deerfield. It wasn't anywhere near as good as the other one, so that place looks like a no go. I'm excited for Friday where we see more houses.

Tuesday I don't feel good today either, but better than yesterday. Tonight should just be a simple clean my kitchen and watch some Queer Eye night.

The weekend.

The weekend was long.
The weekend was fun.
The weekend had things done that I waited long to do.
The weekend had things not done that I waited long to do.
The weekend had highspots.
The weekend had lowspots.
The weekend was everywhere.
The weekend will be talked about tomorrow.

Weekend, weekend, weekend.

Friday, Sara picks me up, and we grab a pizza to go housesit/petsit/Do laundry at her brother's house. He had ran away for the week, so we're staying there to help keep care of the dog. We watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) from Netflix. Sara want's to see the new one, but wanted to see the first one first, I don't think she liked it too much.

Saturday we are looking at some condo's along Belmont at Milwaukee and another Kolmar. The one at Belmont & Milwaukee was really cool with agreat kitchen, high cielings, lots of closet space. The negatives are no parking, and the living room was really small, but it's seamless from the huge kitchen, so if there were people over, we could spill over into the kitchen area easily. The other ones were nice but a touch small for me. Then we split up so Sara could go (in my car) out to her roommate's birthday party, while I went (in the Jeep) to take my Mom out to her birthday dinner, and to pick up the closet doors my dad bought for me. Dinner was rather eh, and I kind of rushed back home so I could take care of the pets since she was out for the whole evening. I got back and started watching my PWG 88 MPH DVD, but fell asleep shortly there after.

Sunday ran some errands in the morning, then went out to Arlington Heights to look at some open houses. They were all nice, but a touch more than we want to spend. Then went to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner, YUMMM. Then settled in to watch Bubba Ho-Tep. The movie while watching it, you couldn't tell if it was either the greatest movie ever made, or the worst movie ever made. After it was over and you could digest it all, it ended up being a really good movie. Oddly enough the best part of the movie for me was when Bruce (Elvis) said "Hey man, you're on the floor" I have no clue why it was soo funny, but that line was running through my head the entire night.

Monday Worked, Played some Literati on Yahoo! Then half ass Rawchatted while boxing up my living room and bedroom. Then after I realized it was after 10:00, I needed to go to Bar Louie to partake in some more of Sara's roommate's birthday festivities.

Should be a busy week. Tomorrow I have the Barenaked Ladies concert, then Friday it's Ring of Honor in WaWa WOUWakashawa, Wisconsin, then Saturday it's Warped!, then Sunday it's off to see Phil's Girlfriend Libby in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Some people make me not want to trade tapes anymore.

So back on 10/01/03 I decide to start a trade with this guy. Chris Sokol if you've ever read the Trader Feedback forum on Crazy Max you've heard how incredibly slow this guy is. He hadn't had this reputation yet when I started with him. But let's just say I finally got some tapes from today. But that means nothing until you hear the whole story. In super fun timeline form. (Hey JayGo started it:))

10/01/03 Myself and Chris Sokol aka. WrestlingTapes aka CJS137 talk about doing a trade.

10/03/03 We end up deciding on a 6 for 6 deal, he got six tapes (of which I kindly put a couple different events on some of, because I'm a nice guy) The six I'm supposed to be getting are all ROH events: 10/05/02, 03/15/03, 03/22/03, 04/26/03, 05/17/03, 05/31/03

10/09/03 I sent my side of the trade, a little bit slow on my part, but I apologize and move on.

11/13/03 He still hasn't sent but gives me a (the first of many) guarantee it will go out within the week. He said I'd get an Edge & Christian comp for my troubles

12/18/03 Upon seeing that he was clearancing some things on the Crazy Max boards I asked him if I could nab the Bull Pain shoot he was offering as a consolation for my having waited a long long time. He says yes.

03/05/04 After regular tri-weekly status checks, he says he'll throw in a few more free things for my trouble. The odd thing I'm noticing is unlike most bad traders (Including another one I also started a trade with on the same 10/01/03, and have heard nothing since. FUCK YOU POOTANGREX!!!) this guy is actually responding to the emails and is being cordial, and realizing his mistakes. People are calling him out on the Crazy Max boards for taking too long, and he recognizes he took on to many trades at once and will hook everyone he owes up with their tapes and extras.

04/26/04 I found out he never had the tapes he was trading me for, and that he was trading based on the fact he was supposed to get those tapes and they never came. So he's got some trades lined up to get these tapes (great more multigenerational copies, nothing like eighth-gen )

06/17/04 Seeing he's having another Clearance Sale, while I still haven't gotten my stuff yet, I ask that he throw in either one of these two tapes from that sale ECW Night of the Unusual Matches 02/IWA-MS Simply the Best 4 or RCW 06/07/03 Solitude. He says yes.

07/09/04 Said he threw some extra stuff in the box for me.

So as of today, before the mail came this is what I was owed:
ROH 10/05/02
ROH 03/15/03
ROH 03/22/03
ROH 04/26/03
ROH 05/17/03
ROH 05/31/03
Edge & Christian Comp
Bull Pain Shoot
Some unnamed extra stuff for Free.
ECWA Night of Unusual Matches 02/IWA-MS Simply the best 4 OR RCW 06/07/03 Solitude.
Some More unnamed extra stuff for Free.


I got the big box today, there was 5 tapes in it, these tapes are:
ROH 11/16/02
ROH 03/22/03
ROH 04/12/03
ROH 05/31/03
ROH 06/28/03

So what of did I get that I was supposed to get originally 2, two, TWO,
TWO FUCKING TAPES.
Thanks for making me wait 9 months for this, jackass.

Today has BLOWN

Well, today has been possibly the worst day ever in the history of days ever. So I needed a pick me up. (ooohh notices the new Composer Screen, easy to add pictures, YAY. Easy to change colors, YAY) What better way to get a fun pick me up than to look at my referrals. Once again I'll list them for your enjoyment. (and idea thefting) I once again will leave of torrent searches as well as A Decade Under the Influence.mp3 searches that I seem to get daily. Here we go.

ceramic wine glasses
strongbow cider evanston
Spyder nate webb reviews
daizee and breasts
Pitbulls for sale in Chicago, IL
Matt Sydal
"iwa midsouth" "matt sydal"
erotic "baby in her belly <--this one is fun since it came from talking about the demonseed
free downloads Spike and Mike twisted animation
"canadian destroyer" finisher video download
sara kitchen
roh camel clutch photo
chikara theme songs wrestling
Q101 "Top 300 party Songs"
please list web sit for outkast pitbulls
Joey Eastman chicago wrestling
wwf "bushwhackers t-shirt"
order rapmania on VHS
glengarry glen ross bg sub.

Ah yes, that was fun wasn't it. Oh not really, well too bad, I've had a shit day, so go die.

Have a good one now.

So Yeah the House hunt is still on.

Looking at what we can afford and what we want; pretty much Sara and I have two options when it comes to buying a house.

Option A is that we'll be forgoing location and getting much more house by getting a townhouse in Vernon Hills, Wheeling, or Mount Prospect.

Option B is that we'd get much less house and most probably a condo in the Northwest area of the city. Most likely in the 3500-6500 blocks in the north and west directions.

I've learned to accept this and really I'm quite OK with it. It jumpstarts the hey we're old lets move out to the burbs thing. But seriously, I'd much rather have a two leveled townhouse than a condo anyway. I'd be about the same distance from Mom as I am now, and further than Dad. But what scares me is the close distance to both her sister's and her parent's house.

Eh was just thinking about houses since I got another batch of listings from Marcia.

Got any Bacon?

Friday: Sara's college friends E & Josh are in town from Seattle this weekend, so fun activities are sure to ensue. Meet them at Nevin's for some burgers and beers, and then aroud ten decide we're going to head over to Sara's (they're staying there Fri & Sat nights) So Sara takes them and their luggage to her house, while Dina and I meet at my house, for me to grab some clothes and drop off my car, then buy some Tequila and Margarita mix and some beer. We play some Skip Bo and stay up drinking and chatting until the wee hours of the morn. Really good time. Poor Josh really wanted to get to IHOP, but we were all too drunk to take him, and noone else wanted to walk there (it's a ways).

Saturday wake up kinda early and get my shower in, and lounge on the couch until everyone gets situated and we head to Le Peep for breakfast. Josh finally gets the bacon he's been wanting sinve the night before. Then we head out to Arlington Racetrack to enjoy the ponies. More fun, and much sunburning was had here. I pulled a big old goose egg on the betting until I hit the late daily double (get the winners of the last two races right on one bet) and that paid a whopping 4-1 Yippie! so I ended up down on the day. The worst was in one race, Josh and I both had the same horse to win. Once the gate opened the horse never left, and just stood there. Much fun was had even though I think only Josh's friend Steve's gal came out ahead. Went out to eat at RAM??? some microbrewery dinner place. Standard overpriced dinner place. Then we went bowling. Well everyone except Sara, she didn't want to. We were meeting a bunch of E's friends there so there was much bowling partaken in. I did terribly. I don't think I got a strike all night, and I only had like 3 spares total in all three games, I seriously was getting 8s and 9s left and right, but it just wasn't gonna let me get all ten down. Then once we'd bowled enough, and E's friends had just gotten there, Sara, Josh, and I headed into the bar where it was apparently karaoke night. It was an odd batch in there, there was lots of early 30s aged men, dressed to look like Good Charlotte, and the random old man barback, that sang an old country song. Lots of Godsmack and Blink 182 I'm sure was sang that night. The clincher of the wierdest karaoake night ever award was won, when everyone requested this one guy to do, in full Eric Cartman of SouthPark style, all of Sailing. They guy sounded exactly like him, but the entire song it got old. Unfortunately they didn't have Kyper by Tic Tac Toe, so I didn't do any (that Rapper's Delight and The Bad Touch are the only songs I've ever done Karaoke to.) Get dropped off at my house, since Nifer didn't want me sleeping in her room, and crashed.

Sunday slept in pretty good until Sara came over. Went to Carmen's for Lunch (mmm yum Dill Salad Dressing), then watched Calender Girls. It was actually pretty good. Sara took off to have dinner with Dina and her parents for D's birthday. and I partook in PPVchat with the ITVR guys. Really fun weekend. Tuesday is D's real birthday so we'll be doing something for that, and hopefully check out a few more houses this week.

Let's do it again

It's time to do the searches that lead to my blog post that I stole from N8 and got stolen from me by everyone else.

Here's my top ten favorite non-torrent searches since last time. In no particular order.

ur mama swears
"stuck on you" fix dvdr
Daizee Haze Pictures
Simpsons trivia names
RYAN BOZ CHICAGOWRESTLING INTERVIEW
meaning of appitizer (sic)
sara's kitchen southern bbq
how many carbs are in beef eggrolls
"The Thomasellis" photo
"wrestling" observer torrent

well OK the last one is a torrent, but I loved how wrestling was in quotes, but not "wrestling observer"

In closing, steal your own gimmicks yo. :)

Well now that it's Wednesday I suppose I can do the weekend post now can't I.

Friday. After work go look at two townhouses. First one is in Deerfield and it is awesome. Newly applianced kitchen, living room, and half bath on first floor direct access to one car garage with lots of guest parking just beyond that. Two bedrooms and full bath upstairs and semi-finished basement with bar and HUGE utility room. Lots of closets awesome awesome awesome. ONly problem is that with association fees being high (access to 3 pools on complex one indoors) plus the mortgage we'd probably be killing ourselves to pay for it. We could, but it'd be hard. Next we go see something that is 3 blocks from where I live now, and it's a totally different world over there. Definitely good block, bad block. My block isn't bad at all. Turn the corner from this place it's gorgeous. But this place was SKETCHY. Get inside and it's HUGE AND HUGE, and quite HUGE. But it's already been written off by location. Don't need to live somewhere where we don't want to park the car. Afterwards we go to Nevin's to meet up with Katie who is in town from San Francisco. Had some drinks there, travelled to the Mark, had some drinks there, and then call it a night. Good times as always was had with Katie. Ran into Eduardo at The Mark. He was DRUNK beyond belief. He hit on all four ladies at the table excessively, and quite inappropriately most of the time. So that kinda brought the night down a bit, but at least the girls were somewhat good natured about it.

Saturday we headed out to Sara's parents house to spend the last hour we could with Mikkle. He was put down soon thereafter. Kinda sad as we all just kinda sat there, played with him, when he came by us, not really talking. After that Sara had to work for 30 minutes while Heather took the dog in, until the afternoon guy came to the pool. Then we drove back to my house, picked up my stuff and drove me to my car at the office. (I left it there, when riding out with Marcia, the realtor, from the office to the showings) Q101 was playing the Top 300 Party Songs (voted by the listeners, thus many a non-party type song being on there) all weekend. So after starting listening around 90ish on the ride from the pool, I enjoyed most of the day, including the drive down to my Dad's. Also once there, while mutedly watching the Cubs/Sox game inbetween them showing the Mets/Yankee's games during the rain delays. Then Dad needed to go shopping for items for the BBQ the next day. So I listened all the way there, and heard all the way up to #6. I was loving the hell out of the countdown and was kinda sad I didn't get to hear the top. They replayed the countdown 3 times over the weekend and never caught the top five. I wonder if they put it on the website. I was predicting:
#3 Fight for Your Right to Party
#2 Jump Around
#1 Blister in The Sun
Let's find out...

Here it is[edit] The direct link is being stupid, the main page of www.q101.com has a link to it currently, it probably won't soon. Go there if you want to see it [/edit]

I was close.

In case the link doesn't work [edit]it didn't[/edit] it ended up
#5 Offspring - Self Esteem
#4 Jump Around - House of Pain
#3 What I Got - Sublime
#2 Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
#1 Fight for Your Right to Party - Beastie Boys

Back to the happenings... After dropping $140 at the grocery store, Dad and I came back home, ran out for some Mexican. Then settled in to enjoy the UFC greatest hits DVD from Netflix. Then off to bed while watching IWA-MS's Charity 6 hour show from last years Fourth of July.

Sunday was the party at my Dad's house. Lots and lots of food was cooked. Pork Chops, Ribs, Hot Dogs, Burgers, Chicken, Brats, Italian Sausage, Kieblasa, Apple Sausage, Corn. And that's just what was off the grill. Not to mention sides, and desserts and chips and such. Mom couldn't come until later since she had to work. Decent times, outside of family nobody that interesting. Then off to watch the fireworks. Once again since this is Roselawn it was Hillbilly Heaven. Mullets, bad tattoos, 11 year old skanks galore. Decent fireworks show, I don't know how such a small little American Legion affords putting on a 45 minute fireworks display but they do it every year. Afterwards my Brother in Law's Drunk ass cousins come over and they and the kids blow off more fireworks. Yippee (That's dripping with sarcasm) After a giant professional fireworks display let's blow off a bunch of inferior crap done by pre-teens with people that can't stand supervising. Eh, noone got hurt, and Deanna made Smores, so I was happy.

Monday, get up and go have breakfast with Mom Dad and Aunt Ava and Uncle Gary. Then Pack up and head back to Chicago. Hung out with Sara for a bit, then she left to stay with her sister, so I watched the episode I missed of Celebrity Poker Showdown. Then RawChat.

Tuesday, usual Tuesday, watched IWA's Tag Tournament DVD "A Shot of Southern Comfort" until Sara came over, and we had dinner. Then I watched the World Series of Poker, while she watched Blowout, then Queer Eye. Now I'm at work not working. Huzzah!

4:20 LOLZ ROOFLES D00D SMOKE WEEDZ

My god, nothing worse than the 4pm-5pm hour of the Friday before a long weekend, especially when most other people aren't working anymore, so there's no phone ringing. Just sitting and rotting. I think time is moving backwards.


MY GOD MAKE IT 5:00.


Going to see houses tonight, that's not helping my anxiousness. Then off to Indiana for the weekend.



WHY IS TIME STANDING STILL



ARRRGHGH

Hit 1000

Hit number 1000 came at 12:42 CST last night. They came from linking from Demp's blog. So I don't know if it was Demp or not. But hurrah for 1000!