Lunch

I am sitting in one of my local lunch hangouts, a place my co-workers and I refer to as the "$2 pizza place", but it is actually called "Adrian's Pizza". They have a lunch special for $1.99 where you get a small (personal sized) cheese pizza and a drink. The pizza is actually pretty big, yummy, and it is paired up with a free refill drink. All together it makes a great lunch. The $2 pizza isn't the only lunch special, and it's not the only good, inexpensive food either. I usually get the Italian Hoagie lunch special: a good sized Italian sandwich with a large order of fresh fries, and a free refill drink, all together for under $5. Who says you have to carrt in a lunch to eat inexpensively? However, eating healthy is a whole different issue!

Last night (Thursday) our bowling team lost big time... I mean really big time. We didn't win a single game, and lost all 7 points. No oppurtunity for optimism there, except that next week we bowl a pretty weak team, unlike the team we bowled last night... To be honest, the team we bowled against wasn't really the problem, rather we just really didn't bowl well last night. I once again bowled under my average, and I believe most (if not all) of my team mates bowled under their averages as well... I think we need to start practicing, get professional training, or maybe we should wish upon a star?

Wednesday night I finally gave in on one of my new year's resolutions: No carbonated drinks. I had run out of bottled water at home, and I didn't feel like making iced tea. Sitting in the fridge was a few remaining cans of root beer that "Two" had asked me to get for him. I was at home alone, and still feeling a little down about "Sweetie" telling me she was "moving on", so I fell off the wagon and had the beer... the root beer. But I didn't stop with just one... I had two, and after last night's loss, I had another... I think I am becoming a root beer aholoic! :-)

It's time to go back to work, yeah... I went back to work yesterday, after my two day mental health break. I have talked briefly to "Sweetie", but there isn't anything positive to report on that front... (sigh)...

Later Lou

Package in car?

Well, I am guilty... Full of guilt for not posting anything here since April. Well actually I am not feeling really guilty. If someone was actually reading this, and expecting there to be something here THEN I would feel guilty! I am sitting in CiCi's Pizza in Cranberry Twp., PA writing this entry to the ramblings. I am wishing I had something exciting and witty to write, but alas, I am wit-less... So why are you still reading? I just watched the most boring news cast of my life. There was a bomb scare in Washington, DC and they were showing live video of the car where the bomb was supposed to be... Waiting... Waiting for something to happen... Watching the waiting with nothing happening was just about as exciting as brushing my teeth in the morning, without the plaque... Well it was successfully "disrupted", thankfully... It was so boring that I looked away at the wrong time and missed the "disruption" which was a small explosion that popped the door off the car... When I looked back the car looked the same except that a blanket was over the car now... I didn't realize I had missed anything... I suppose the whole thing would have been more interesting with sound... Anyway, why the TV thought it would be exciting to show an unmoving car sitting there doing nothing for almost my entire lunch hour, is beyond me. Why not just tell us it was a probably a bomb, show us something else until something "interesting" happens with the bomb... BTW: "Interesting" when talking about a bomb is defined as "bomb explodes" or "bomb is successfully disarmed, but the technician grew a few new gray hairs". Then show us the highlights over and over again... Until we have the images burned into the retina's of our eyes... Well it's over... Glad it came out ok, meaning no one hurt. I haven't heard yet whether the suspicious package was actually a bomb yet... For all I know it might have just been someone's dirty laundry left in the car too long and starting to develop its own self-awareness. Now that would have been news! While the package in the car was being taken care of the scroll on the bottom of the screen described a story about a parking ticket placed on a car with a dead guy inside... (Yeah that was more exciting than watching the car just sit there...) Apparently the guy wasn't discovered to be dead until 2 days after the ticket was placed on the car, and the guy had been missing for 9 days. You think there would have been some distinctive clues that the guy was dead... You know like not breathing, and fogging up the windows! :-) Or that he hadn't moved in almost a week. Maybe they just thought he was a pile of dirty laundry. Well it's time to go back to work. I better put a reminder in my PDA to clean out my car when I get home from work tonight. Later Lou