If I go crazy then will you still call me "Superman"?

What do I mean by that?

  hmmm...

  Nothing in particular, I guess. I've just had the Three Doors Down song rattling around in my brain all weekend for some reason (I'm listening to it right now). I love the idea of Superman having a dark side. I've been a fan of the DC character since I was a kid. I religiously read the whole Doomsday storyline when it came out in the nineties. In fact, I'm buying the graphic novel (again, I sold it years ago) from Amazon.

  I also dig Tarantino's astute musings about him in Kill Bill Volume II...

  I saw Superman Returns not too long ago, too. My mom bought the DVD for me for my birthday. I liked it. I thought it was pretty good. Kevin Spacey really lived up to Gene Hackman's portrayal of Lex Luthor.


mikey's growin' the full beard back...

  I've been pretty busy lately...

  Mainly with work...

  I did manage to get out this weekend though. As a change of pace, I gave Whiskey Business a skip and went to Ol' Time Charlie's for their Saturday Karaoke thing. No, I didn't sing, but I ran into a guy I work with and spent the night bullshittin' with him an' slammin' down some Molson Canadian.

  It's different not having my best friend to hang out with in bars anymore. After the aneurism, he can't drink - and nor does he want to, which is great. I have a wedding to attend in a couple of weeks, and I'm giving serious thought to quitting again myself after the wedding. Boozing is basically all just a stupid waste of money when you come right down to it. I'd always felt that drinking was a sign of weakness on my part, and anyone who knows me knows - I despise weakness. Vices are just expressions of flaws in a person's character.

  I have few vices...


caught myself in the middle of blinking...

  The Oakland Raiders actually won today - first game this season. Yeah, I've been hangin' out with my buddy on Sundays since he got back from his hospital stay in Philly, and he watches football religiously on Sunday. So I watch it with him, and I'm actually finding myself getting into it a bit.

  Somewhere in there I managed to upgrade the memory on his computer to one gig...


mikey at three years-old

  The people I work with will probably enjoy the picture above. It's like, "He's been wearing that hat for HOW LONG"?

  I dunno...

  I got to talking about sports and it occurred to me that I had this picture on one of my hard drives...

  Anyway...

  I finally got a data cable for my Nokia cell phone. It was like three bucks on Amazon.Com! Well - with shipping, it came out closer to ten, but I was expecting to pay more for the thing. NO ONE around here had the damned thing - not even T-Mobile, and they're the ones who sold me the damned phone! Unreal...

  Just in time, too...

  I have the Nokia 6133 - which, by the way, is an EXCELLENT little phone. If you're thinking of buying it - do it! It kicks a Razr's ass!

  Anyway, I was saying...

  Without the data cable, I had to come up with an interesting way of getting music on to the phone, and getting pictures out of it. It has a microSD card, which is KICKASS. I mean, the thing holds a gig of stuff - dude, I can remember when HARD DRIVES held that much. Anyway - the microSD card came with an adapter for a regular SD device. I have one - my camera. My camera was pretty problematic at best. It would crash my XP installation anytime I'd hook it up, so I needed to use the computer in the kitchen to transfer files. Long story short - I accidentally dropped the camera while performing this little operation. It's dead.

  So now I have to get myself a new camera...

  I'd love to get a Cannon Rebel, but they're expensive as hell. I'll have an extra paycheck in November, and if I quit drinking in October...

  hmmm...

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