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October 31, 2000 This was the scariest Halloween ever! Meaty Cheesy Boys - The OFFICIAL SITE!!! I completely forgot to rot eggs and fruit for tonight! Blast! I'm not dressing up for Halloween, but, if I was, I would most likely be a jar of pickles. October 30, 2000 I have added a little to today's entry. I wish I could breathe. Damn it. How did the area around the computer get so dirty so fast? A (very) short entry, and updates to the search queries. I'm alive! I just haven't been on-line yet today. October 29, 2000 I think Ricki has one of the most intelligent, thought-provoking shows on TV at 2 AM. You go, girl! Wow... the VCR observes the end of Daylight Savings Time on its own. Thanks, VCR! Bye, Daylight Savings Time! (Oh, the boredom!) October 28, 2000 I would appreciate it if my wisdom teeth would grow in a less painful manner. I've added a short entry from Friday morning, and updated Ask a Pirate and the search queries. OK... How much crack were they on when they created the Cardinals' 2001 Schedule, and did Andy Benes live through his surgery or not? I'd like some answers. The guy in this spreed-reading infomercial looks like Lon Tay gone horribly wrong. October 27, 2000 I think that Cat and Chicken is insane now. No updates tonight. I'm very, very lazy. Also, I entertained myself for hours at Roadside America. It's fun. My chest should not still hurt this much. Feh. Feh! October 26, 2000 It's funny when Chris Pronger says "about". This is one of the most exciting things that has ever happened in hockey. And now, I have updated the search queries. Why does breathing get difficult this time of night? I had trouble yesterday at this time, too. I haven't had problems all day until now. I just don't get it. Based on the number of hits I get on searches for "scott lasky nude" and "rick ankiel nude", I might want to consider turning this site in to a Scott Lasky/Rick Ankiel porn gallery. Popular demand, and whatnot. (I should also sell Jim Edmonds T-shirts.) October 25, 2000 Is it just me, or does everyone think it feels like Thursday? A particularly boring Thursday, even. I added an entry from yesterday and (obviously) have temporarily switched to Halloween colors. (I'll make sure I change it early on November 1st. I won't be like those people who leave their Christmas lights up until March!) Outsports' Picture This for 09/12/00 is wrong. The picture isn't of Edmonds and Ankiel, it's of Edmonds and Veres. Sillies. It feels soooo much later than 3:30 right now... I'm getting sick of hearing about that roast of Rob Reiner, and I think it's very mean that his "friends" are going to kill him. October 24, 2000 Counter, if you don't stop this occasional not-working thing, I'm going to have to send you away. You don't want that, do you? It would suck to be an out-of-work counter. They redesigned at ProSportsPage.com. How exciting. "Contact, is the football, is the football...." I've updated Ask a Pirate (and redesigned the archives), search queries, and the pay sites (added a new program, updated info on others). October 23, 2000 Apparently, the Cardinals will be getting surgery as a team this off-season. I'm really not sure why one of my Hotmail accounts thinks that I have two inboxes. My favorite thing about 7th Heaven is the realistic dialogue. Whoa... where did that last half hour go? I'm not a big fan of the peach oatmeal. I'm far too jumpy tonight. I had an anxiety rush when I walked out of the bathroom and saw that the wall was half painted from green to white. I have no idea why I reacted to that (especially when you take in to account that it's been that way for days). No updates tonight. (I did redesign the Ask a Pirate archives page, but I'm not actually going to upload it until I update that section.) Les Misérables Survey 2000 - Think I could get them to add Neil Rackers to the Grantaire voting list? October 22, 2000 We've decided to watch our tape-o'-highlights from the Cardinals 2000 season. The fun thing is the other random crap that ended up on the tape. I'm just going to have to accept that I'll be an anxious mess for at least another day (until I can get to the doctor on Monday), unless this breathing problem goes away on its own. (That, or I end up having to go to the hospital, which opens up a whole new set of problems.) October 21, 2000 I have updated the spell-checked 3NT cast (just a little) and Ask a Pirate. I have cotton candy. It is from WalMart, and is blue. (We also have green, yellow green, and red. I'm sticking with the blue, for now.) I think it's time to start considering a visit to the doctor. I have updated the search queries and added an entry. (Ask a Pirate is begging for an update, but it won't get one until later.) I bet Chevy's Fresh Mex will be crowded tomorrow. (Mom keeps calling it Chevy's TEX Mex. That isn't right!) The greatest thing about the game is that it does not actually require watching a moment of the World Series to play. This is good, because if it required watching, I wouldn't be interested. Michael has developed a really fun game involving the World Series. It's hard, too. But I can't talk about it. It's kind of like being in Fight Club. October 20, 2000 Wow, my counter is working today. What I'd give to see that guestbook entry in which Michael asked that girl if she'd get nekkid with Michael Ball again. I'm telling you: You really don't want to get mouthwash up your nose. It hurts like a mothah. (Not to be confused with a Mothra.) Small-ish update to Ask a Pirate. October 19, 2000 I think that stress must be in the air today. Jurassic Park 3? Why? I don't want to speak too soon, but I think my breathing is starting to improve now... I was planning to write an entry tonight, but ended up watching Michael make a new mix CD - "I Like Pie - The Best of I like Pie" - instead. Try not to be too disappointed. My chest hurts a lot tonight. October 18, 2000 ALF was a well-thought-out show. Alien dog creature that lives with a typical 80's family? It's gold! There's a stabbing pain in my stomach right now. I dislike it. I've updated Ask a Pirate and the search queries, plus I've added a particularly poorly written entry. Deep down, I know that I should have registered to vote, but I just can't seem to care. (And, realistically, no one ever gets anything done here. I doubt anyone would have taken me to register if I had tried.) Hmmm... yep, I think he's back up. Blogger, d00d, are you working? October 17, 2000 I'm not at all convinced that this is working. I can't breathe today. The important thing, though, is that those graphics Michael made are really good. Stuff I need to do before I sleep: And, if I get around to it, I really need to make my bitchin' cartoons about "the future of baseball without a salary cap". I should write far more really bad poetry. October 16, 2000 I finally put up the rest of the production photos from BHBA. That only took me close to forever to do. "I-L-L!" "I-N-I!" I think that they should show Blue's Clues instead of Rugrats at 4:30 AM. Maybe I'll call Nickelodeon. (This is, however, worlds better than Taxi.) I have added an entry. They just don't do that "Touch Down, Boys!" cheer enough during pro football games. I wish that there was a Beavis and Butthead marathon on right now. October 15, 2000 The Rams are fun. I [heart] the Rams. Instead of watching the Cardinals lose, I'm going to watch Half Baked! Wow! Yahoo! Mail is finally working again! Cat and Chicken has just now stopped watching whatever was happening outside. I have updated the search queries, and have added "Supermen" to the ventures section. Cat and Chicken is still watching something. Maybe one of the giant spiders is building a web. Cat and Chicken has been watching something outside, with great interest, for hours. I see nothing. October 14, 2000 updates - "site maintenance": On the plus side, the Cards can't be swept now. (You go, Andy Benes!) I wonder what this town has against stocking 32C bras? Before I go to bed, a poem: I have uploaded an entry. a. There are several ladybugs rattling around under a lampshade in here. It's creepy sounding. Mmm... It's raining, which is sounds really pleasant right now. Today was really very annoying and odd. October 13, 2000 Eric and Shannon should be in town soon (they're coming up for the Illini game tomorrow). They probably won't want to go to Chevy's Fresh Mex. Maybe next week. In my email today: I am now caught up on my "programs". October 12, 2000 I've relocated the image gallery extensions to http://freespeech.org/skippy/ilikepie/ to escape the evil pop-ups. That was annoying. Lovely! A day after I expand my crosswinds.net image galleries, they add pop-ups. I guess I'll move them to freespeech.org - it's a slight improvement, and a .org. Maybe you would like crack if you got to know it. Hmm... yeah, I'll probably mess with this more tomorrow. I've already altered one of the stylesheets again. That was fast. There is an entry (plus some redesigning of the archives) and updates to the search queries. It was very bad of Cat and Chicken to ruin my lip balm. I wish we'd never gone to Chevy's Fresh Mex. I can't stop craving their veggie fajitas. I've updated all over the place, most notably the "about me" shite (though the info there is the same - it's just rearranged) and Ask a Pirate. I have a feeling I'm going to be awfully bored tonight. October 11, 2000 If I ever get around to "uploading stuff", there will be many a pointless update. I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT POT BROWNIES! NOTHING! I actually got a few random things done today! Yay. This baked apple oatmeal smells like potpourri and tastes like oatmeal mixed with apples and cinnamon. Shocking! I'm so not looking forward to watching the Cardinals lose tomorrow. Maybe I'll watch something different instead. Like the Blues! But they're on late. Blah. I need to not care. It's hard to resist Shop At Home deals as awesome as the one on right now. If I don't order, it will be the stupidest thing I've ever done. October 10, 2000 The Cardinals should use "Blame It On the Macarena" as their battle cry. It's both menacing and confusing, which might make all the difference. (And it's way more original than "Who Let the Dogs Out?") It's times like these when I wish I could reach back into the 80's and grab a "Muck the Fets" button. This wisdom tooth that's growing in really needs to stop hurting me. It's not very nice. The giant cow hot air balloon is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I have updated the search queries. I got nothing else done tonight. I feel so lazy. I feel odd taking my Singulair at the normal time now, because I forgot to take it until 3 PM-ish yesterday. It's only been 12 hours. I doubt it will hurt me any to go ahead as planned, but I don't like it. I wish I was better about remembering these things. It's hard to believe that it's been somewhere in the area of ten years since it was cool to say, "I've fallen, and I can't get up!" "Check this..." October 9, 2000 I don't think that anyone is ever going to remember to take these medical bills to Townsend. Why are the doctors so against sending them directly to him? It's on his insurance, he's always the one who pays, and he occasionally is the one who takes us there. It's silly. Dude! I'm not using week-old dairy products anymore! The porn that was on before this movie was really much better. It was less confusing, and had more people who vaguely resembled Andy Benes. Encino man, stop killing people! (This movie took an odd turn somewhere.) I will be rooting insanely hard for the Mariners. October 8, 2000 The Cardinals have to play the Mets now - that's a bit frightening. At least they have home field advantage. And I guess they occasionally sweep them. Cat and Chicken is watching hockey with great interest. Since the cardinals got their sweep on, I should get to sleep extra late tomorrow. October 7, 2000 I've done a lot and accomplished nothing in the past few days. I guess I'm getting there... wherever that might be. As a general rule, if you get an email titled something like "YOU'VE GOT TO SEE THIS!!!" it's not something you want to see. The Cardinals completed a clean sweep of the Braves today. Townsend wouldn't take us to St. Louis to meet the plane, but he did take us to Denny's in Springfield. Hmm. I'm thinking that I have to get up at noon to watch the Cardinals again. If they win, though, I can sleep in on Sunday. That's a good bonus. I plan to rebuild the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Vegas, and turn that into a hotel and casino. That would be the bomb. October 6, 2000 It sucks when they can't interview Marty Reasoner because he has to get stitches. I woke up at 5:20 PM. Then, I went to Chevy's Fresh Mex, which made me think of Chris Pronger. I think I would make a really good fake sports writer. I come up with good headlines. Or maybe that's just the exhaustion talking. There are things I need to do, and darned if I can remember what those things are. I've had selections from Sunset Boulevard stuck in my head all night. That's different. The Blues didn't win. Ah, well. They started out their last season losing to this same team, and that worked out. The important thing is that they're showing the ad with Chris Pronger eating his Chevy's salsa again. October 5, 2000 (Blogger ate this entry last time I tried to post. Let's try again.) I'm going to go to bed and have nightmares about wild pitches. I should probably figure out why the monitor keeps taking on a yellow glow, and not just punch it to make the yellow go away. There's probably a loose wire or something back there. I'm fixing little problems on this site all over the place. I feel somewhat productive tonight. I am, again, extremely nervous about tomorrow's game. At least it's on at a decent time (3 PM). My mouse is having some issues with making short strokes to the left or right. I'm not sure if the problem lies in the mouse itself or the mouse pad. We shall see. October 4, 2000 Krista's neighbors are down 2-0 in the play-offs. They've got trouble. Curse this lightning! I'm watching programming that has nothing to do with sports! To make up for not raining last night, it's been raining all day. It's getting cold in here. When I woke up, I couldn't remember if I had actually read this or just dreamed it. It's so odd, and stupid. I have updated the search queries. There would have been more, but some files were eaten. It's just not pretty, folks. Songs we've downloaded for the Christmas CD: Michael and I really need to get to work on our Christmas mix CD. All of the rain in the area is going to just miss us. That's pretty disappointing. October 3, 2000 GOATS! The Cardinals won. I'm sore from being so tense, but it's all good. (I'm not in shape for the post season play.) Rick Ankiel set a record for most wild pitches in an inning! It's funny now that the Cardinals have won, but at the time, it was quite painful. There are three large-ish holes in my pants. That sucks. I love these pants. It's far too difficult to get to bed before the paper comes. Wow! I found Rick Ankiel on ICQ! I wonder if he's the same Rick Ankiel I found on AOL? I really, really wish the Cardinals weren't playing at noon. It's not fun to get up at the crack of noon to watch them lose, after all. October 2, 2000 It's going to be sad when the Cardinals lose three straight in the play-offs. "Frank, did you tape over our alien autopsy footage with Friends?" OK... This seems to be working now... (Someone just visited this site from an email. I'm going to stop being obsessive and go to bed, now.) Here is an example of how stupid I am. I created the ~compulsive directory to see if I could figure out where the failure report was coming from. Now, I can't erase it, and have solved nothing. I'm sure it's not a huge problem, but I worry about everything. What if this is the beginning of some strange tragedy? I got two failure reports today for the URL "tasty-pirate.org/~compulsive". Why? I should probably go to bed soon. Since it's Monday, I might actually be able to sleep. The increased activity in the house on weekends tends to keep me up. The play-offs might be just a little too scary. Maybe I won't be getting up at noon on Tuesday. I'll miss the Olympics. October 1, 2000 If I was writing for All My Children, I would have Ryan and Jake stop fighting over Gillian because they are in love with each other. Then, they would buy leather pants together. That would be good TV. Yay! The Cardinals should send the Rockies a thank you note. entry + queries = updates You know what? We were in Champaign today and didn't go to Hooters. I really needed to apply for a job there, too. Darn. The Penguin Pirates from Legend of Mana are extremely cool. |
