3 days and counting.....
And actually it's not even 3 days!! Really, we have 3 more games left but the way I see it, is that we already have todays game out of the way. We are here in the city there is less than an hour before we go to the park and as soon as we start setting up we will be breaking everything down to get ready to go to Indianapolis. And in Indianapolis we shall meet the Great Turd! He is coming back for us, and we are very excited to see him. It must have been like the time I left and then I came back when I went to San Diego. I was gone for almost a week and didn't see the guys. This group is really tight and I enjoy their company very much. We've taught each other alot about life and how close people can get when put into a situation where you have to perform tasks on a daily basis. Also, being on this tour has given me a better sense of show business and sports. I understand alot of the inner workings of both with management and commiment. I would say I know alot about how things work and what doesn't work and how people hide alot of information from each other and you wonder why scandals pop up all the time on TV. Now much of the TV stuff is hyped but sometimes you get some real stuff that comes out that shouldn't have come out. But hey, that's life. Sometimes you have to deal with what is handed to you. And from playing poker alot and all the time, I will know how to play with the cards I am dealt with. that's one thing I an't wait to do when I get home. Start a poker game with close buddys. It will be about 4 of us just sitting around the table and playing nickels, dimes, and quarter poker, just bullshitting. NO GIRLS ALLOWED!! I don't want to hear don't spend that much money or have some girl look at my hand and give this face that tells everyone that I'm bluffing my ass of! But whatever, if the girls make us dinner, that's cool, then they can stay....in the other room! But anyway, just kidding. I don't want this site banned for being a woman hater, I love woman, my mom was one! Well, I'll tell you this. I thought it would take forever for Sunday to come and it's already Thursday. We do te game today and then it will be done, and ten it's already Friday. That means two more games and this whole thing is over. I am going to go crazy. As soon as I get back to San Diego though I have to drive to OC and pick up my car which is going to suck. Katie thinks I'm going to be tired, but I don't think I will. The reason why I was tired the last time is because I didn't sleep at all and I did a game the night before. My flight left at 7 am and I was very tired. But this time my flight is at 11 and I will get into SD at 2 and I will be up by then and will have plenty of time to sleep on the plane back. I also couldn't sleep the last time I flew in from El Paso because I had two flights that were an hour and 2 hour flights, by the time the flght attendants were done banging there carts through the aisle, the plane was landing. The last flight I have to take is from Atlanta to San Diego, which is a 4 hour flight. I will be just fine! Plenty of rest. Before both of us get on the plane me and Tony are going to hit up he bar and get wasted. He hates to fly so he has to be drugged. Alcohol will do. The last day...I can't explain how excited we will be. We just find ourselves jumping up and down and just wanting to get through the game. We will probably be counting the hours before we get on the plane. As for me, I will be counting the hours till I will land in San Diego. This whole trip I kept my watch on California time. Why? So I wouldn't get jet lagged. I didn't go to bed until it was about the time I went to bed in San Diego, just so I wouldn't be all weird when I got back home. And I think it works. I hope it does cuz I don't have that much time to get adjusted back when school is in 2 days after I get home. The horrible SDSU institution. I really need to get out of there. Anyway, about time to go. I'll see everyone in a couple of days! Holla!
6 more days and counting...
Well, it's coming down to the last stretch of it all and the crew is getting restless. it's about time we finish this trip because all of our supplies are getting low. And I really can't afford to get anything else. I don't have enough baggage to take everything home. That's going to be a problem. I think since I am going to take the Barney bag home I will just put a lot of stuff into that bag and then go on my way. I'll be right back. Just went to go eat lunch before we left. So anyway, last night we had the best time in the ball park. All the people there helped us out so much. Every time we even looked tired someone would offer is some water. Aquafina water too. It was great. They gave us cases of beer and then they gave us Grizzlies hats. They are nice too. So we were stoked, but we felt bad cuz we didn't really give them anything because we are short of merchandise. So we left feelings kind of bad but before we left we hung out with them and we played this game called Office Baseball. It was fun. They even took our names down and are going to put them up on a wall of fame. I gave them my nickname of Turbo. So now we are on our way to Fargo, ND and you know what's cool. Well, I have good news and bad news. The good news, I got the virus taken off my computer and it's works great. The bad news, my camera broke. The lens that comes out when I want to take pictures now is stuck out, and I can't do anything about it. it's a shame. Now for the last week I can't take any pictures of anything else. I got a lot of pictures on the site and I wish I could get more and finish the trip but sometimes things don't work out the way you want them too. But I am happy with the pictures I have taken so I can survive without the camera. We are so ready for this trip to be over. How many times have I aid that in the last couple of days? I know I've said it at least 40 times. But now the dream is coming true. All we have to do is push through a four game stint and then it's over. Katie is going to be upset, but I lost $120 dollars gambling last night. She is going to kill me when I post this. I hope she doesn't get too upset, because I am supposed to take her to a special place when I get back. I hope she is excited for me to get back.
I was a little worried when she went out with her ex-boyfriend a couple days ago. It makes me sick to my stomach when I think about this guy. Maybe it's the things that have been done to her or maybe it's the things that have been done t me, but I can't stand it. The funny part is she tells me that she was having dinner with him, and I was like sure go ahead, it's not like I'm going to say that she can't. When I go home I see my ex-girlfriend too. We're still friends. It took a while, but we are great friends. She wants to see me when I get back too. I've called her when Katie can't talk to me and so we talk. She's cool, but for some reason, something irks me about him. I can't even say his name because it bugs me. But the funny part is I've talked to all of Katie's boyfriend in the past and there is nothing that bugs me about them. I am not psycho, but I feel really jealous whenever she goes to see him. What I can't understand is that she says when they go out she gets bad vibes from him and that he talks down to her and this and that, but I don't understand why she keeps seeing him. But hey, she wants to be friends with him, she must if she wants to keep seeing him or let him keep seeing her. I mean she never calls him, at least I don't think she does, but when he calls they go out, which is fine by me. Me and my ex call each other and hang but she is just a friend now and I am aware and so is she. I try to imagine it was the same with Katie and her ex, but it's hard to see that. That's why sometimes I have problems coping, but what else can I do. They went out, I asked her how it was, she said nothing happened and she really didn't think to much about it, and that's it. So if she isn't holding it in her mind as being of any importance then I shouldn't either. So that's that. it's out of my mind. But I'll tell you something, I had the worst night of sleep that night. I really wanted her to call me to tell me how it went that night but I had to call her the next morning, and for stuff like this, I hate waiting. I was a wreck, but seriously, it didn't bother me that much. It did but it didn't. Anyway, it doesn't matter now, it's over and I'm coming home on Sunday so it's all good. Now I'm sitting on the bus and we are watching The Golden Child. The second best Eddie Murphy movie ever. So there's nothing to do except finish the season and go home. Only to start practice and start school. How much is that going to suck? Anyway, I figure since I can't document the trip by picture I'm going to have to write about it. Well, it's really funny but the last time we went by the Arch was 2 months ago and now we stayed across the street from it. It was really funny. So now since the trip has gone full circle it is now time to go home. And we are all ready. So now that I have most of what's been bothering me on this tour out of my system, it's time to talk about Dave "Turd" Barac. Lets talk about his last night. So we got him totally trashed at the hotel bar and we gave him a last white Russian. He had some choice words though. He said that he'd better get to the room before the last one kicks in. Well we walked Ted to the elevator and then he started to walk to his room. I made it to his room and turned around and he was still at the elevator. So as he tried to walk to the room the alcohol started to take effect. His legs slowly started to get wobbly. He then figured out that he must have a key to open the door. He stopped and then pulled the key out of his pocket. And with a big Turd accomplishment smile, he looked at me and fell against the wall of the hallway. Then he made his way to the room and I put him in the room, and pushed him on the bed. I could tell he was drunk by the way he said whoa, when he fell on the bed. So I thought he was ready to go to bed and then he said he had to take his contacts out. So I had to carry him to the bathroom and then put him back to bed. Now I thought he was done, but I had to take off his shoes and socks. So that was when I knew he was done. I took a key to his room so I could check on him but he was fine. The next morning I went into his room and told him we were leaving. He woke up and said he would be right out, and got up and went to the bathroom. I went downstairs and got on the bus and waited, but he never came out. So we left. Then when it was time for him to get on his plane the airline wouldn't honor his ticket. Only the bad stuff happens to Turd. So Jane called the airline and then got it taken care of and Dave got home later that night. So the is the story of Turd. Now we are sitting in a truck stop fueling up for the long haul and then we are going to start our journey to Fargo. Well, I'm tried of writing now, but I guarantee later tonight I will be writing again. I'll see everyone real soon, and please keep those comments coming! Later all!
Stupid computer virus has fucked me for rest of the summer...
Hopefully I will be able to fix this thing when I get back because I need this computer. I'm not going to do anything on this thing unless I get this virus off it. I can't write journals for long because I get booted off. I hate people who feel they need to mess up other peoples lives just because they are bored. Get a job! Anyway, this is going to be short because I have a feeling that Recall Protocol Control or whatever is going to come on and tell me I have a minute to turn off all my applications and turn off the computer. I really need to find a high speed internet stand and I could take care of this problem by myself. What I really need to do is go home. I also think I messed up my computer at Tony's house. I downloaded Roadrunner on my computer and now when I open up Internet Explorer it tells me that it's Roadrunner in the upper right hand box. it's cool looking but I wonder if all the setting are now looking for Roadrunner IP addresses. I really need to have my computer just put into a shop and totally given a full inspection and things I don't use need to be removed. So anyway, I'm been chatting for a while here and it hasn't turned off. Wow a miracle. Well lets continue. I think Katie is bored. She calls me and then gets mad when I don't talk to her. What is her problem? I'm coming home in 11 days from today and she is freaking out. She calls me and then gets pitful on the phone. it's like talking to a wet noodle. You think it has substance when it's laying there but then you try to pick it up and it just wiggles around and you really can't do anything with it. So anyway that's my only beef. I'm just sitting here waiting out my term and I am just getting antsy. I really want to go home and can't wait to get there. For Turd he's home now and will be completely home in 4 days. that's what I want to say. A week from today me and Tony will be stir crazy. Punch drunk is what he called it. We are watching the show Street Smarts and we are amazed hat people can be that stupid in this world. I can't understand why they put this show on tv. Anyway, I could go on and on. I bought more DVD's. Tony believes that the ones I bought are no good but I think I got some quality ones. I am going to have the best collection of DVD's ever. I have the best out of all my friends and I know I have more than Katie. Even though she is catching up fast. I have to do a lot on the internet because I have to figure out when I'm getting my money from school. I'm going to hook up the old fashioned way but dialup and see what happens. I'll be back later!
We are back on the road, and the tour is almost over!!.
We have started the adventure of a lifetime over two months ago and it is coming to an end soon. We count the days down in anticipation of many emotions. We are happy that we can finally go home without worrying about leaving anything in some horrible rotten hotel, but we are sad because once this ends we are left with the realization of of friendship being put on hold for a while. For me, I am happy to go home and get off the bus, and be able to sit with friends of mine which I haven't seen in months and relax. I am ready to start school. But I am very sad that I will not have the chance to introduce my friends to Tony and Dave. These guys have become my best friends this summer. Even though being in situations where you are only in contact with a certain person for an extended period of time, if I met both of these guys in any other situation, I would still call both of these guys best friends. I must tell you guys about Bowling Green.. That place is amazing. The people there are amazing. I'd like to give a couple of shout outs. Number one, Nick Schneider. Hope I spelled that right. You are the man, thanks for letting me crash and making me feel like a bro. Second, Ballzy and Crazy. Ballzy congrats kick ass in golf and represent for BG and crazy, next time you're in Cali, lets go surfin'! Adam, Nick's brother, cool as shit. Thanks for chillin', because both of us know that sleeping on Bridgette's couches aren't the most comfortable, especially when you only get 4 hours and then have to play a full golf game. So many people, I can't remember them all. Jason was in there, Matt. I can't forget Mike. Take care man, have fun in China and take care of yourself. The guy who invented the finger shake from Arizona. Dave's friend Dutt, cool guy. So many of you I can see but can't remember what the name is. What I'm trying to get at is I was only in BG for 2 days, and in that span of time, I was introduced to half the population and I was treated like I grew up in the city for years. I was totally blown away by it. California is nothing like that. In my city if you showed up at a party that you weren't invited to, and only knew one person in the party, you would probably be sent to the hospital. I'm not joking. I was in no danger in BG and I felt like I had lived there after the first day. To all the people I have mentioned or have not mentioned that I met from BG, let me tell you something. Katie, my girlfriend, was asking me this whole trip if there was a city that I have gone to that I would consider moving to. Hands down, Bowling Green, OH, you guys have sold me. I would want my kids to grow up in a city that doesn't see color, doesn't see anything except a way to help someone feel welcome. You guys were the best and I want to thank you for having me and I would love to come back and visit all of you so stay happy and healthy!! All except for Chip at Myles Pizza. Check this shit out. For everybody in BG reading this, from now on BOYCOTT Myles Pizza. Why? Tony, Dave, and I ordered a pizza but Dave wanted Taco Bell. We went in while Dave brought in Taco Bell in the restaurant. He bought me a gordita and I was starving so I took a bite out of it. The guy, Chip, asshole manager, said I couldn't eat that in his place to business, and he told Dave that he would rather not even have Taco Bell in there at all. Dave says I'll wait outside and this is when Tony exploded. He had been telling us how Myles pizza had the best people and the best people in BG and couldn't wait to show us the place and when we get there we are treated like we are Russian spies or traitors. Chip said we were making him lose business at 3am by bringing Taco Bell into an empty pizza place. He gave us a horrible analogy, if we bought a GM car would Ford fix it. I said yes, they would, because a car is a car and they would want the service of the price of the auto repair. So in that case what he was doing was wrong. He denied that, so I gave him this analogy. If I walked in the store chewing bubble gum that I bought at another store, would you kick me out because I didn't buy it here. He said it wasn't the same thing. I said it is exactly the same thing. I am talking about something that you eat not a car. I don't eat cars, but I eat gum. With that he asked Tony if he was a business major and basically said he has no idea what he is talking about. We were going to leave but I really wanted to eat pizza, so we ended up still buying the pizza and leaving. Tony before we left yelled in the store you want a little business etiquette Chip? The customer is always right, remember that! And Tony vowed never to go back again. Tony even knows the guy as I'm sure most of you know him too. I even heard he did this to his kids friends and wouldn't let them in his house with foreign food. This goes beyond business, this is almost a controlling factor of stupidity. What he doesn't realize is by not letting our friend in to wait for us even though he had another food source and we had already ordered our pizza, he just lost 3 costumers. And those 3 will tell 3 others each and on and on and in a small city, negative responses from things travel fast. I would love to see this business take a nose dive. I encourage everyone reading this to pass the message around the city to boycott Myles Pizza. If you stand for freedom of choice, you will not go to this place of business. I also heard he owns a Dairy Queen. Boycott anything he owns. If you are his friend, give him shit, till he realizes was it really worth making 3 college kids who would have loved to sit in his restaurant for 5 minutes while dreaming about biting into a Myles pizza and one of those kids for the first time, but now after this incident will never again go back to that place. Kind of stupid of you ask me. You might think we are over reacting, but if you were there, you would have felt the exact same way. All of his employees that were in the restaurant were really quiet when he was lecturing us. I asked one guy what he thought, he looked at me and said what do you think. I put him in an awkward situation because his boss was right there, but he basically agreed with us, and no one else stuck up for us in fear they would get fired. I totally understand them, but if they were on the other side of the table and we weren't the only ones in there that night, we would have been arguing and had the whole restaurant back us up. Thanks a lot Chip, my bad memory of BG will be Myles Pizza. Why? Because I was so furious when I ate the one slice of pizza, it made me sick to my stomach. Thanks a lot!!! So that's that. Thanks to Deborah and Joe Szymczak for letting me join the family for a while, I felt very much at home. I love the house and plan on staying there when I come back to visit, one reason for the continental breakfast and also because, I'm cheap and don't want to pay for food or a hotel. Anyway, we did the game now we are over knighting it to Norwich, CT. Good luck Joe get us there safely. I miss you all but in two days it will be 2 weeks before I am home and that is nothing. So see everyone soon. Oh, sorry about no pictures. I left the battery pack in a hotel and the boneheads sent it to Tony's parents house, or so I thought. They might have sent it, but they didn't overnight it, so now it could be sitting at there house today or sent back to Tulsa. I really do hate the Adams Mark. They have done nothing good for me.
We are now leaving this place for the promise land!!..
Next on our adventure we are journeying to the land of Turd. Sweet home Ohio. Now Joe says we will get in between 10 and midnight. that's fine with me but I hope we do because I want these guys to have a good time at home. I sure the hell did. I am so stoked, we are alost done with this thing. Then life for me starts over again. And trust me. I know my potential. I am going to go back to school, kick ass in all my classes because I am tired as hell. I am sick of it all, I am sick of the classes I am sick of the school, and I am sick of the people. I just want to start teaching so bad I can taste it. But anyway, that's in the next half year. In January I should be able to say I am a college graduate. One thing I really need to know is when I am getting my financial aid. I need that money bad. I need to start paying the guys I am supposed to live with. I think I am going to live with Beagle because it is easier for me with rent and all. But if I get there and they say, nope you are living in your own room, that will also be fine. It would be 100 dollars cheaper than where I was living before and I would still be sharing all the utilities. So I think that would work out better. If I live with a roommate, I get to save that much more money. Which is something I've never been able to do, so I think that's what I want to do. I hope everyone is having a good time reading my journals because I have had a great time writing them. I am kind of saying goodbye now, because who knows with the next couple of weeks coming up when I'm going to get a chance to write in this thing. I barely have had enough time to write this month. I don't know why. it's not because I don't want to. I really do, but I just can't. I like writing in the journals because I have heard so much positive feed back from them. Well, I know you aren't reading these things for my commentary so let me continue with the story. Since we are going to Ohio the guys Tony and Dave are hopefully going to visit family and friends. I tld them to take all the days we have off because I did it when they went to San Diego. I didn't hang with them once. I feel bad about that, but I had a good time without them! Just kidding. I just wanted to get away for a while. I hope that they do that, it makes them realize exactly what is going on. It brought me back to reality when I got back on the bus. I realized this is an exciting trip but it has it's consequences. You are leaving a lot of people behind for a long time. it's not a bad thing, it's more of a good thing than anything else. It makes you figure out who you are inside. I already knew I was a trooper. But not many people really know who they are on the inside. A trip like this would definitely let you find out what kind of person you are. It would be worse if it were a backpacking trip. With all those props we carry it would really suck. So I've talked to a lot of people on the phone while on this trip. They really miss me and am glad I am coming home. I like to know that I am missed. A lot of people are saying that things just aren't the same without me being around. I don't like to toot my own horn but I think that is pretty cool. I think that I am a pretty cool guy for having so many people have me in their mind. Sorry I am getting off track. I want these guys to go away so I can take care of Ted's every whim. They have earned it. I wish I could have these guys in any business deal. If we did the real world with us 3 I think the show would be boring because we never fight and if we do it takes us 3 minutes to forget and forgive. So when we get into Ohio, I want these guys to relax, but I have a feeling they aren't going to. They will be worried about everything on the bus, but you know what. When you've spent enough time anywhere you are going to worry about it when you are away from it. I hope they have fun. We've had good times. One thing I promised these guys is next time they go to Vegas, I will go with them and I will make sure they have a good time. They want to play poker so I have to go. These bitches are crazy. Later..
Phrase of the day: The system is down!
I still want to go home!!!!
Yesterday I left a journal online that a lot of people read and took for being a very angry one. I'm not angry people, Katie, I'm just ready to go home. I am counting the days to go home just so I can get home. Trust me, I am loving the fact that I am in Tulsa right now. I have spent no money today, actually I lie, I spent 9 dollars for lunch, but then I spent no money for dinner. We ate at the park. I love when the clubbies let us eat the leftovers. I'm sorry if it was a little harsh but it was 2 in the morning and I had really wanted to go to sleep but I really wanted to talk about how I want to go home. I am seriously ready to go home, but trust me I'm not dying to go home. If I was trying to go home, I would just leave. But I'm not trying to go home. I am having the time of my life and tonight I had the best feeling. You know when you have a moment of Zen and you just realize what is going on around you. I was walking across the park and the lights went out, and it was totally quiet. Now if you have been in a packed stadium all night you hear people screaming all night. But it was totally quiet and you could hear the chirping of the grasshoppers. There wasn't a lot of light on the field because they had just turned them off and it was kind of like dusk on the field. It was very serene. I really see things on this trip that are amazing. I like everything I see on this trip and a lot of things on this trip I will never forget. I know that 2 weeks after this trip is over I would want to hang out with Tony and Dave but I can't. I know that these moments are some to cherish and trust me, I will. I just really want the next three weeks to fly by. So anyway, can you believe that the governator is going to win?? I have no idea how this is going to make California. But I see it working out like Demolition Man. He gets elected governor and then they make an amendment to the Constitution and they make it okay for immigrants to get elected president and there you go. The one thing I don't like about this whole thing is the fact that he is an actor and that's fine that he's in politics but I don't want a Ronald Reagan on our hands. it's okay but I don't know, I think it's kind of weird. Anyway, I do back Arnold, one thing I am seeing that I hate and it happens for all campaigns is the way they are saying that it's bad to have a German running because his father was in the Nazi party. it's like oh come on now. Arnold has been in people's lives forever with the Terminators and I know everyone has seen Kindergarten Cop. I don't care how bad you think it is. I have just been told that they are making a Terminator 4. That just pisses me off. They made the 3rd one and god. Can I say, why the hell did they do that. It was perfect when they made the second one. It ended and everything was great. I saw it with Katie, and even she was disappointed. So now I'm kind of just like whatever. Now I know it's going to be a circus. But please, I do believe that they do need to get Gray Davis out of office. He's a piece of crap. I knew he was going to do something wrong to California. I lost so much money from living alone cuz of that guy. Screw him. Anyway, it's pretty late but I believe, oh shit! Tony has just scored!! We just ordered pizza and got some coke, and we are now about to watch the best movie in the world! GOONIES!! We really need to get this on DVD babe. I've added it to my list of movies I must get. it's a good list I think. I know I am missing a lot of stuff, but I will get most of them. One thing I wish we didn't buy was the Animal House DVD. They are coming out with a Special Edition DVD this month. Now I'm tempted to buy it. But anyway, I'm having a great time here. Nobody worry about me, I'm not going to start chopping peoples heads off. I just can't wait to get home and tell everyone about the things I've done. Tony just gave me the bullshit, oh, I'm just resting my eyes. I hope the pizza gets here soon or I'm going to have 2 pizzas to myself. He's going to fall asleep with the Goonies on and pizza coming. Anyway, I'm starting to stray from what I'm trying to say. So I will just keep talking about things really fast. Katie got drunk and puked the night before last. Then she called me tonight and told me she acted like the drunk person she always is and scared Kristen's roommate half to death so now she locks her door when she falls asleep. Pretty good. Other than that I called the guys at camp and there is drama as always. I miss those guys. I wish I was there. I hope when I get back things will not have changed that much. I'm really glad that I'm getting Adrienne as my partner. She is my little sis and that's going to be fun to hang around with her. I'll get to practice with her a lot. I'll need it too. She's going to make me such a good stunter. She is really motivated. I'm stoked. Hey the pizza dude is here, so I'm going to eat. Talk to everyone later!
I want to go home.......
I really am tired of doing these games. I am just plain old tired. I have had a great time but I really am coming down to my last nerve. I want to be able to go to my room and get on the internet and sit and drink a beer and have a set schedule. For a person who likes to have things in order, running around a hotel and getting out of bed at 6 am is not what I had in mind. So what's new? Nothing much, still counting the days till I get on a plane drunk of my ass and fly home. I also found out that my school starts two days after I get back. So I really like it. Anyway, I'm kind of tired. I'm watching The Cosby Show. Dave was telling me that he has never watched the Cosby Show. I feel like kicking his ass. I wonder how he never watched it. So what's new? I have no idea what's going on. I just want to go home. All I am doing every night is counting the days till I come home. I don't care that I have 3 weeks till I come home. Three weeks starting from today, I will be going to sleep to get up and do the last game of the summer. I will be going crazy. But as of right now, we have 14 more games to do. We still have Tulsa and Iowa. Then after that it is nothing but 4 day games. We get up and do 4 games and then 2 days break. Then 4 games and then 2 days break. Then we do 4 more games and then I GO HOME!! I hope that It goes fast. I really do. Most of us are drowning. We are all very ready to go home. Dave has 9 more games before he goes home. He is leaving on the 24th to start school, but he said he was coming back on the second to last game in Indianapolis to help us vend. So the cool part is he actually has 10 games including that last one he's going to do. Ted even asked me to go to a couple of Piston games on January 2 and 3. I really don't think want to. I want to spend New Years with Katie and I don't feel like flying out to Detroit. Even though I haven't been there and it sounds like fun to do two NBA games, I'm going to be working not having fun. I'm going to have to work. And I really don't want to work anymore. I've done this so many times I feel like I can never do another job. Maybe I'm just saying it now. But most of all, well, all of us just want to go home and if we ever see another baseball game we think we are going to scream. I really just want to go home and relax. Go to school graduate and start teaching. I really really can't wait to go back to school. I am so close to getting out with a degree that I really want to hurry up and get out. So yeah. I am just done. I really like Ted and I love what he does to the sport of baseball, but I need a break, for at least.....5-10 years. It sounds real bad, but I just a done. Maybe I'm just saying that now, but I am just saying that now. I want to go home! I want to go home now!! Right now!! I'm so glad we get a break. I am just becoming a big lump. When we have days off, I sit around and say, I don't want to do anything. All I want to do is sit around on the bus. Play some games, sleep and that's about it. I do nothing, why? Because I run around from 3 to midnight almost 6 out of 7 days a week. That can be tiring. And even I don't work that much when I'm at home and when I had two jobs and went to school. I was never this tired. Never. I'm just run down all the time. So anyway, tonight I forgot the red bucket of clothes at the ball park. Guess who had to run back to the park and get it. Don't worry, it was maybe a mile away. It was good for me. I ran the whole way there. Tony came with me, I don't know why but he did. He said he didn't want me going by myself in Texas. I understand that. I saw a kid wearing a dropkick murphys shirt, which isn't the nicest band in the world. So anyway, Texas, Kiss My ASS!!! I'm never coming back here! EVER!! I am so happy we are out of this whole. I enjoyed nothing here. The nicest thing here is the hotel room, but is there anything else here? NO, sucks! Anyway, I'm tired and we have to get back up again at 7 so once again, I have 4 hours to sleep and then maybe 4 hours on the bus to sleep, and then do another game. I just want to go home, please someone just make time go faster so we can all go home. Please. Don't worry about me, I'm just whining cuz I can. I'm going to do some push ups and then go to bed. Take care everyone!!
YEAH! It's August and we've already started the countdown!!!!
I am so excited that this trip is almost over. don't get me wrong I'm sad too. I'll be extra happy I won't be writing these stupid journals anymore and not being able to wake up at 4am and not being able to go back to bed. But don't get me wrong, this is one of the best summers I could possibly have. I must admit, I have the best girlfriend a guy could have. She got off work early to come and hangout with us. She wanted to take us to PB but we decided to go to Mission Beach and go to Canes. So we went to the bar and we went drinking and just had fun. I'm glad I got to show these two guys from Ohio how much fun Cali can be. They were sitting on top of the bar, and drinking Category 5 Hurricanes and watching the sun go down. It was a great San Diego day and we really had a good time. I'm glad I got to spend at least one day in San Diego with these guys. I'll tell you what, these guys better come back and visit me, or I'll kidnap them! I felt sorry for them because they didn't have a girlfriend to hold hands with. I love her so much, she was great today. I can't even begin to explain how cool she was today. I think I broke her into being okay with PDA, public display of affection. She has a big problem with that. But so do I, I won't do it because she doesn't like it, but I do like to be kissed, and I don't mean kissed like a little boy. I mean kissed like a boyfriend you've had for almost 4 years. And so after we went to Canes, we went back to the bus cuz we thought we were leaving at 8 turns out we weren't leaving until 10 so we went back to drinking. We went to Seau's. Which for people who don't live in San Diego, is named after Junior Seau and it's a sports restaurant. it's very lively. So anyway, we have a couple more drinks and she gives me a kiss and it was a nice one. Then Tony and Dave start being all weird, and she starts feeling awkward. I told her, I don't want to feel like you are watching other people when you kiss me. Just kiss me and forget about the other people. When you see people kiss it gives you a good feeling inside, I think. Why do you think they have those kissing cams in all the major sporting events? it's just nice. So when she kissed me it was nice and it felt right and I think I finally got through to her. I hope I did. Hopefully she remembers how to kiss me when I get home. But I do have to say Seau's bathrooms are the best places to be. They are so comfortable. I will never forget that. One thing about Katie that was awesome today is that she actually hungout with me. Sometimes she comes out with me but decides she wants to walk with other people. it's hard to explain. When you are with your boy/girlfriend, you're supposed to walk beside them and hold their hands most of the time. Well, not Katie all the time. There were times where she would walk around in front of me, and talk to other people and I'm right behind her. Now I think I'm being a little crazy, but damn, I would like her to hold my hand and talk to me. But today she was never not by my side. She was always waiting for me to get into the car out of the car, and I really like when she says she wants shotgun no matter how tall a person is. She made Dave sit in the back and I was happy about that. That means she wanted to sit by me and that's cool. I always want her to sit by me, front seat or backseat. But she was the coolest today. She was very adventurous and had a great energy about her. I have no idea what brought it out of her, but she was on fire. I think I know what it was now that I thought about it. She was the one saying she wanted to go out, and she didn't complain about one thing. She said cool things, like hey can I borrow your jacket because she might get cold, and when I forgot to get it for her, she didn't say a thing. She said oh well, and let it go. Usually she would whine about how cold she was the whole time. But she was as quiet as a mouse. that's my girlfriend, that's what every girlfriend should be like. She was like one of the guys, but yet still very very very feminine. Every time I would look at her she gave me this great big smile and I even caught her looking at me and smiling even when I wasn't looking at her. that's a cool girlfriend. When I think about it now, usually I don't like to spend time with my friends and my girlfriend at the same time because I don't have time for both because she is usually all nosey and wanting to get into my friends business, but this time I felt that she came to actually see me, not just get to know the people I hangout with better, but to actually come talk to me. She made me feel very special today. And that's why I'm happy to be her boyfriend, and I will defend her till my last breath. It was like she was young again. She didn't care about anything and she did things without having to whine about it. She was a great girl. She didn't care about who was watching and she just did what came to her mind. She acted like how I remember her when we first started dating. More sponteneous than me and just off the wall. The things she did made me look at her in a totally different way. I don't know, the words are hard to explain, I could write a book about today, and how it was, but I'm getting writers block. I know I've said enough already but there is a lot more I could say about her. Like I told her today, I have very weird quirks and images about what I think the perfect girl says and does and I think today she just knocked them all out. She achieved Platinum status of girlfriends today. She was the coolest of coolest, just stunning. It makes me really miss her now!! I don't know what else to say. Well, yeah I do know what to say...26 days and counting!!
Word of the day: Blinda (blind-duh) - adjective for a good-looking girl. Used in a sentence. "Did you see that hot girl, Tony?" "Yeah, Blinda!"
One more day till payday, and we're sitting in a room drinking 40's!!!
So once again we are bored and there's nothing else to do except drink alcohol. I wish there was something productive to do but there isn't. So what to do now. Nothing except sit here and watch Eraser and Assassins. The attack of the one-line movies. So it's 11pm and I got of the phone with Katie about 30 minutes ago. She wasn't too happy. it's hard to talk with your girlfriend when there are 2 guys in your room waiting for you to get off the phone. And it wasn't like I talked to her for a little bit. But I do have to say I was watching Eraser at the time. I really wanted to hear from her. I tried to call her earlier, but she was out. It sounded like she had a god day. What I'm trying to say is that, I'm sorry I didn't talk to you for that long. There was no excuse to get off the phone earlier than you wanted too. The one thing is I realize that when you get off the phone early and I get upset, I forget about it 10 minutes later. I hope she isn't that upset. She started talking about me on this trip again. I don't know, I know she really likes that I'm on this trip because she says it's good for me, and I really think it is. But I miss her, and I don't want to hear her think this trip is good for me. I want to hear her tell me how much she misses me and how good it's going to be when I come home. This last conversation wasn't bad, but I don't know. She asked if I would want to move anywhere else and I said no. She asked me if there were some places that I would want to live at. I said I would have to think about it because I don't remember most of the places I've been to. But she started naming off places so I started to think about it. I really wouldn't move anywhere just to live there, unless it was for work, because California has it all. Amusement parks, money, mountains, snow, desert, lakes, oceans, people, it's just the place to be. But she just wouldn't leave it alone. She said do you like traveling. I told her not really. This is just an occupational dilemma. No big deal. But she wants me to be a guy who loves traveling. Well, I'm sorry. Then she gives me the line, you'd better get to like traveling if you want to marry me. What kind of shit is that? I know she was joking, but what's up with that. I took it totally wrong and I told her well, maybe I won't marry her. After I said that she got real quiet. I took it to far. I apologize for that. I just didn't grow up traveling so please; don't push me into situations where I have to go travel with you. Let me get accustomed to traveling and then I will go places with you. But don't try to force the idea of traveling all the time. Let me get used to the fact of it and then I guarantee I will like it, but I hate being forced into something I am not aware of. Even if it is something I'd like later on. Let me get used to it. But I understand I wasn't talking to her for as long as she wanted to. But I dealt with that the last couple of nights. So it's about time she feels what it's like to not be satisfied. But I'm done ranting. I'm sure she was fine about it, and I'm sure she has forgotten about it by now. Anyway, she's going to see me on Friday so it's all good. I can tell her what I thought and she can read this journal since this is the newest one since I logged the rest online. Anyway, I'm done. I hope that everything is okay with everyone. I had a long talk with my mom today and it was a lot fun. We talked about how Tony is being a spaz and how he was worrying about if Katie got a ticket for the game. He even bought all the tickets. I told him already he just had to tell me how many people were coming and I would have got the tickets for him. But if he wanted to buy them, go for it. Anyway, I really miss everyone but it's cool because we looked at the schedule and found out there are only 20 more games to do in 30 days and it's 30 days from tomorrow. Tony is making fun of me, and he plays command and conquer too. These guys make me laugh. But hey what else are they going to make me do. Anyway, I hope Katie is okay and I hope she isn't that upset on what I said to her. I didn't mean to be mean, even though it came out mean. I'm sorry and I'm going to tell her that when she comes to visit. Anyway, see you all soon. Remember, I'm coming home soon, so if anyone wants to throw a welcome home party, I'll be home on the 31st of August!! Just kidding, like anyone reads this!