I lost my hat

Which I found in the trunk of Chuck’s car.

I have this nasty habit of always forgetting at least ONE thing at my friend’s house or in their car. This week it was my hat.

Over Christmas, it was some clothes that I changed into.

But the ultimate “I lost…”  was when I thought I lost my keys.

Here’s how it went down.  I was over at Chuck and Heather’s, and at the end of the night, I grabbed the bag i brought with me that had snacks, work shoes, soda, etc. and I walked home.

When I get home, I go for my keys, and they were gone.  No where to be found.  And to top it all, it’s raining.  Ok at this point, I don’t have access to my phone (this was before I had a pre-paid cell).  So I walk over to Domino’s (where I worked at the time), and ask if I can get a lift over to Chuck and Heather’s to get my keys.  Luckily, there was a delivery going to the same building, so I hopped in the driver’s car and away we went.

So I get to Chuck’s place, and knock on the door, and ask them If I left my keys there.  Chuck says he didn’t think so, but I hear Heather go “Oh No.”

Oh No?  That’s not good.

“What do you mean ‘Oh No’"?”

“I put your keys in your shoes!”

In my shoes?  I open my bag, and inside my left shoe was my wallet, and in my right shoe…. were my keys.

She had taken my keys and wallet and put them in my shoes so I wouldn’t forget them.  And then forgot to tell me that she’d done it.

So basically, I walked all the way home with my keys on me – thinking I left them at my friend’s place.

So now whenever I misplace something at Chuck/Heather’s place, they always say..

“It’s in your shoe.”

CTMod and keybindings

I use an awesome mod for World of Warcraft called CT Mod.

This mod allows me to have up to 9 extra Bars of my screen…  You know, I’ll be easier just to show you…

On the bottom left, are 6 rows of button that replaced 3 different mods.  I have all the buttons I use for game play, but the best thing about the mod is the ability to assign keybindings to specific icons. 

I for one have a few bindings that I use regardless which computer I’m on.  Every character’s Hearthstone is bound to my HOME button.  Easy to remember and very apropos.

My feign death for my hunter is bound to the “`” key.  Easy to reach with WASD keys.  My pet’s attack is bound to the Z key – which is normally used to Sheathe/Unsheathe your weapon (used mostly in the RP realms, I assume). Again, it’s easy to reach with the WASD keys, and is easy to remember.

Another great thing is that when you get daily quests that involve items (think Quel’Danas), you can have specific items bound to specific keys. Which is awesome.

pigging out

I’m re-re-re-watching “10 Best Places to Pig Out” on Travel Channel.

Now I’m all for eating comfort food.  Tacos are my comfort food, and whenever I really feel down, I try to get to Taco Bell to have 3 or 4 tacos. 

But the food served at the top ten places are insane.

A 72-ounce steak dinner in Texas, where if you finish the steak (and it’s fixing) and it’s free.

Think about it.  72 Ounces.  That’s a freakin’ HUGE steak.  I mean, the largest steak I’ll eat now-a-days is maybe a 6 ounce, and to me that’s a lot of food.

But forget the huge-ass steak.  If you are a sadist or masochist, try the 911 Wingers at Cluck-U, a chicken wing franchise near a lot of major colleges and universities.  6 chicken wings are soaked in a sauce made from 16 different peppers (including the habanero). Eat 6 in 5 minutes, and you get a t-shirt and your picture on the “Wall of Flame”. The kicker? You have to sign a liability waiver before taking the challenge.

Well if you don’t like wings, how about a pizza?  Pointer’s Pizza in St. Louis, Missouri, and it’s called the Pointersaurus. It’s a 28-inch pie. 4.5 pounds of dough, 2 pounds of cheese, and 3 pounds of meat.  But again there is a challenge.  Finish the pie with a friend in under 60 minutes, and walkaway with 500 dollars.  It’s a 50 dollar investment, too.

I could go on, but my point is this. Why is it that places will concoct these insane food items?  I mean I understand that some people are into these food competitions.  But to try to consume that much food?  It really makes me kinda sick to my stomach.  I think it’s because I’m not the kind of guy that likes to waste food. Don’t get me wrong, the food they show on the program LOOKS like really fantastic comfort food.  But can you imagine the carbs/calories/sodium in some of these?  Since being diagnosed, I really have to look at food differently.  5 years ago, when I watched this the first time, I really wanted to go to Eagle’s Deli in Boston to have one of their burgers. Or to Pittsburgh, to the Primanti Bros. for one of their insane sandwiches.

Now?  I would still go to these places, but not for their signature sandwiches.   Maybe for a smaller version of the food, at least to say “I was at Eagle’s Deli”, or “I was at Lambert’s Cafe”. 

in which I patiently wait at the doctor’s office

There are days that I can’t stand waiting.

I especially cant stand waiting at the doctors office.  It only builds up insane anticipation on news, either good or bad.

For example, I’m waiting for the lab results from my latest A1C, and I really really want to know how I’ve been doing keeping my blood sugar in-line.

Sitting in the office waiting DOESN’T HELP.

But the plus side to this is that I can watch a bit of a movie and type this blog entry out as well.  I figure if I’m going to be stationary and just waiting, I might as well be pseudo-productive as well.

Update: My A1C is 6.2!  Below 7 is the target, and I shot a bullseye!

in which I list my movies

Time for my quasi-pseudo-annual list of movies I want to see (but will probably have to wait until they come out on DVD)

February – Taken.

March – Watchmen, Race to Witch Mountain, Monsters vs. Aliens.

April – Nothing…

May – X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Star Trek, Angels & Demons, Terminator Salvation, Up.

June – Land of the Lost

July – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Taking of Pelham 123,

August – G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Inglorious Basterds,

September – Nothing yet

October – Nothing yet.

November – The Wolf Man, 2012

December – The Lovely Bones

So if this year is anything like last year – I’m going to be going to the movies at least 6 times in 7 weeks.

in which something good and something bad happens….

Well a couple things happened this week.

First the bad.  What started out as a possible girlfriend ended in disaster.  Why anyone would go and post a profile on a dating website, and then say to me “I don’t think I have enough time to pursue a relationship” is beyond me.  It makes no sense to me.  So basically, I spent 2 weeks communicating with a woman, to basically get the “I-just-want-to-be-friends” speech.  Oh well.

Next the good.

I got my income tax return and got myself a brand new 32” HDTV.  I gave my old TV set to Chuck (after his TV broke during the move), and I needed a replacement.  And what a replacement it is. Gorgeous picture, incredible colors.

I also bought a new DVD player that has HDMI capabilities – It’s an awesome DVD player.

But even thought the TV and DVD player is incredible, the coolest gadget is the new Logitech Harmony 610 Remote.  This remote is a great piece technology.  You take the remote, load the software, and plug the remote into your computer via a USB cable.  Run the program, and the software asks you what make/model of TV, DVD, etc. you use.

The software then loads the remote with all the correct functionality for all the remotes that you have into one cohesive unit.  And it’s awesome.

in which I may have a girlfriend

And her name is Belinda.

We met through plentyoffish.com, and we really hit it off.  To be honest, I posted a profile thinking “Nothing will happen because of this… I’m just wasting my time.

But lo and behold, not 45 minutes after I posted my profile, I got my first e-mail.

And we started chatting.  And chatting.  And chatting.

From Monday the 26th to the 30th, I was up until midnight chatting away with her.  And on Wednesday we chatted on the phone.

I haven’t met her face to face yet, but I cant wait.  We have quite a lot in common, and I think we’ve connected on a really good level over the past week.

I’m definitely keeping my fingers crossed on this one…