Last night I got my scheduling all screwed up. Instead of going to see the Misfits at a local venue, I found myself playing Axis and Allies Europe with a customer and his son who I promised a game earlier in the week..pathetic confusion..oh well. It was fun to take in the father/son interaction on just how they were going to conduct the strategic war against the Germany in 1941. The son who was defending the Russian motherland wasn't taking advice to eagerly from his Anglo/American player Dad. Funny how a game made of cardboard, plastic pieces and dice can sometimes simulate the actual political situation. This is sounding too gamegeeky so I'm going to stop, it was a fun three hours of History Channel-like action.
I went to the local upscale gym tonight for an all around workout. I've gotten into the habit the past few weeks to showing up here on friday nights for a change of pace. One of our more aloof customers seemed to recognize me and kept looking at me as to say "what are you doing here". I was going to say something but I didn't fucking feel like it, especially to him. I've been using plate machines for bench press but tonight I felt like doing regular bench and I really yanked something in my inner right shoulder..damn!..I dropped some weight and completed my sets. This really makes me mad, but I think I need to lay off heavy bench, inclines and flys, and focus on other stuff for awhile. However on the lower half, I pushed leg presses to greater weight than ever before to make up for my collapsing chest program. I guess I need to just keep plugging away and be patient for results.

I left work mid-afternoon because low sales were driving me mad and I had to get to my gym to renew my membership today. Good workout made me forget my retail funk, helped spot some big dude through his 315lbs. bench press sets. If I keep eating my spinach and chicken maybe I'll be able to do the same thing someday..probably not anytime soon. EXCELLENT Fall weather, cold, wet, very very blustery, yellow and gold leaves flying everywhere. This is by far my favorite season.

Had another workout at the yup gym, I really liked their Hammer Strength iso-lateral hi row machine, it was a real back burner. The yup gym is a nice place to visit but I think I'm going to renew my membership at my current gym. Its not as flashy but it definately gets the job done and thats what counts.
In the world of boxing Mike Tyson(139lb.) soundly manhandled Brian "Danish Pastry"Neilson(260 lbs.) in a six round bout. Before the fight in Copenhagen the crowd of 25,000 sang the Neilson's theme song "Always Look On The Bright Side of Life" from the Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" and threw plastic ears into the ring as a reminder of Tyson's ear biting incident with Evander Holyfield. The "Danish Pastry"nicknamed for his ample midsection claimed he would beat Tyson black and blue, but it seems he was on the receiving end and on the canvas the whole fight till he gave up. Tyson who weighed in some twenty pounds heavier than his normal weight claimed that with two more fights he would be ready to assualt the Heavyweight title for a third time. The Tyson camp just seem to get more and more unusual, from ear biting to wanting to eat opponent's children and now, boxing/battering large Scandinavians. Despite all the weirdness, Tyson still is a complete engine of boxing destruction and it will be interesting to see where it all goes. That Mao tattoo on his right arm is just too much.

Last night I went to the super yuppie gym because I couldn't wake up to get to my normal semi-yup gym. Attendance seemed low as I would expect from a friday night, strong sleek physiques, professionals keeping tip top, exercise bike people, and the unshaven, unstreamlined but with new tennie shoes me. I rifled through my chest/tris/legs workout along with a little arms and back so I guess I got the most of my one hour visit. Some good work coming from our small group, not much talking just work. Many multicolored sports drinks downed by the guy who spent the hour punishing his shoulders. One girl wanted to do pull ups but couldn't reach the bars, she kept jumping and jumping. I saw here while I was doing straight bar curls and wanted to help but she got frustrated and walked away..oh well, I'm sure she'll get it next time. Perfect autumn weather, stopped at Starbucks on the walk back for a big coffee and a looksee at the Times.

The music of Beethovens 7th from last weeks movie Zardoz will not leave me alone. I think I would like to see Boorman's Excalibur sometime soon, if I remember Orff's Carmina Burana is used to great effect. That movie has incredible armour designs, especially the Grecian style gold suit worn by Modred. Staff clowning around with yesterdays Vampire gummi fangs..everybody thinks their a funny Nosferatu..."halloween novelties" aren't as popular the second day..candy corn all gone.

Mid afternoon indigestion makes me sneak out to get Pepto-Bismol at the local drug store, so I ask the staff, does anyone want anything? We would like some gum and candy please(usually its Whoppers from Burger King, but suddenly they become 1st graders and want gum and candy)..gum and candy eh?..well what type of gum and candy?(knowing what picky bastards they are)..oh we don't know..just get whatever..no, tell me what you want..we want Wrigleys doublemint or spearmint..and the candy..mmm..whatever...how about some candy corn I suggest...mmm...ok.. they say. Off I go to the RX, along the way the blind rocking guy with boom box is belting the most powerful Star Spangled Banner I have ever heard, Its sounds better than most renditions you hear but occasionally there is weird tonality. Grabed two big bottles of the Pepto knockoff (it was $2.00 cheaper) and the gum for the team. This drug store is as big as an airplane hanger, three weeks before Halloween and not one big bag of candy corn in the whole place..amazing. Next stop speciality candy shop on way back, hardly any corn left, decide to balance out bag with "Halloween Novelties" and gummi vampire fangs. On arrival staff is pleased with their confectionary gifts and convince me to go home early..I agree being I don't feel much better..home I go to guzzle much pink liquid and rest. I think I feel a cold coming on..darn.

Last week the award winning Blast!The Show performance group set up shop for almost a week in our fair city. I thought about going but I'd been there and done that all before and I didn't feel it was worth the $50.00 ticket. The pampered pets from Star of Indiana can't cut it with the big boys at DCISummer Music Gamesso they run off with Canadian Brass for a few years doing some type of midget drum corp crap, then take it to NYC and expect the world to love them, which I guess they did. I snickerd when the review in the Times wondered what the big deal was about, but it didn't matter, everyone acted like they invented the whole genre all by themselves. Whatever.. on any given cool summer evening at a DCI regional any one of the heavies would make Blast look like the South Park VFW drum and baton drill team. I can't believe I'm even writing about this since I've been out of that loop for a real long time.. I think I'm just bitter that Star of Indiana thinks that their crap is better than everyone elses..grrr..more stupid venting on things I don't care about anymore later.

The weekend in a nutshell...Friday I was invited to a group movie night. The selection was Zardoz John Boorman's 1973 scifi vision I swear any movie Sean Connery is in just plan kicks ass, I'm never disappointed. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew that this movie existed but never saw it..wow.. just amazing..one of the best intros I've seen in any movie period..very strange, worth watching again, very surreal..recommended. Saturday night I walked over to the campus area to check out Civil War reinactors who were camped out at a local museum. I ran into two customers from work whom I know quite well who were with the 26th Virginia Infantry company F. Who would of thought, rebels bivouacked this far north. It was pretty cold and I asked them if they needed something from the 21st century, but they said that they were ok. Somehow I believed them, they looked warmer than me in their grey heavy wool overcoats with campfires blazing not far away. The Union boys and girls were set up some thirty feet away from them in similar comfort. I said goodbye to search out a hot cup of coffee from somewhere other than Unimart. As I walked away I passed a group of skateboard kidzs that seem bemused that their play area was occupied by 19th century pretend warriors, they didn't seem really angry just confused, I was somewhat amused by them then horrified as I see Nardo the giant towering over the bus stop. Nardo has been a denizen of these parts for quite sometime and I'm still in awe. He must be over 7 feet tall and over 400 pounds..really scary, I can't really give more discription than that, maybe someother time. All of the coffee haunts seem to have closed eariler than I think they should, so I shuffle back home to get some sleep. Sunday night our game huddle decides on Samurai: the game of politics and warfare in feudal Japan 12-17th century. This blast from the past, Avalon Hill 1980, is a multiplayer simulation of the period as players vie for conrol of the japanese court and the ancient capital of Kyoto. My best laid plans were constantly thwarted by the multiple "Cherry Blossom Festival" random events that seemed to crop up over and over again. How can you lay a successful siege only to be called by the Emperor to attend a glorified flower show? Nonetheless Shogun Chris crushed us all with his gameplay and samurai movie dialogue. Not a bad weekend I guess, on to sleep and tomorrow.

Gee, this can't be this easy, there must be more to this than this. I feel like a complete idiot(again) that I didn't start this earlier. And I really like the insta sexy template designed by some other bright person. Oh well, I'll start the real first entry tomorrow. I'm now going off to investigate a large group of civil war reinactors that have camped out at a local museum. Thank you Blogger, I think this will be fun.

This is a test..this is only a test..in case of a real emergency take two aspirins and call us in the morning..boy, I hope I'm doing this right.