360 on its way back

Well, I should be getting the box of doom back in a day or so finally.  Not sure if that's a good thing.  I've been staying way ahead of the household chores and getting a ton of reading done.  Its a great stress reliever, but I find myself getting sucked in too often and neglecting other things.  Not to mention, I have a tendency to suck more booze when I'm gaming.

Fog

Someday maybe people will realize that you have to drive slow enough to see cars in front of you and that it helps OTHER people see you if you have on YOUR FUCKING LIGHTS even though it doesn't help you, you FUCKING FUCKTARDS!  Seriously, people, just fucking die already.

Chess

I was teaching my kids the other day how to play chess, but I didn't realize that there were new rules.  The queen kept complaining that she had to do everything and that no one appreciated her.  She was upset that the king just sat around after getting back from work and spending more time hanging with the rook than her.  She ended up leaving him and taking half.  Later, he found out that she actually had been cheating on him with the other king and that a couple of the pawns weren't actually his.  Go figure.  Chess sucks.

Need to Vent

After trying to take out tank bolts from my toilet for over 3 hours and being unsuccessful due to excessive rust and the screw top chipping off, basically stripping it, the final solution was the almighty hacksaw.  This also took almost two hours though, because there wasn't room to manuever the handle, so it was a work glove and just the blade.  In the mean time, I had the urge to deuce and without another toilet I was afraid to go in the toilet for fear of further issues... thanks to Walmart shopping bags, garbage cans, and cold weather to throw it out into.

Well, after going multiple times to Menards to get the correct pieces and finding that the flush valve seal was the issue and not the tank bolts, I finally got it working without a leak after about 8 hours of labor.  The best part was, though, that my roommate decided to pound cocktails and be jonny expert the whole time, while not lending a hand, and not knowing what the hell he was talking about.  It wouldn't be so bad, but he pretends to know everything when he doesn't and do nothing to help.  If I didn't need his rent money to keep my house I swear I would have kicked the living shit out of him.  Especially when he decided to tell me that he knows how to do all this stuff, but just wanted to watch me, so I could learn on my own and then call his brother to make fun of how long it took.  Really?  It took over 4 hours of f'n around because the bolts were rusted and a few more hours of just screwing and unscrewing the tank because I was initially wrong about where the leak was coming from.  Like I wanted to saw bolts by hand for 2 hours.  Maybe lend a hand instead of playing the Wii and critiquing me you piece of shit.

There... better.

Tiger

Its funny how his rating has plummetted through the roof in recent weeks.  I never really liked him to begin with.  I got sick of hearing how he was a trailblazer in golf.   Calvin Peete was a trailblazer in golf and still couldn't play at the Masters when I was a kid.  However, people still suck on the teat of corporate made heroes and then expect these athletes to carry some high moral standard that they've probably never had.  I mean, for one, he gets in front of the mic and says, "Hello, world!" and then has Nike commercials out within a couple weeks saying it.  You just can't know who is for real and who isn't.  Most really good athletes are pampered at a very young age and can get away with treating people like crap because they can get away with it.  Tiger probably treated these women like garbage that he was banging, because he could and thought because he was Tiger he could get away with it.  To be honest, I don't care about that.  If he wants to cheat on his wife a billion times and do that to her, that's their business.  I care that his kids will never be able to hide from those facts and will have to grow up knowing it... of course, they'll be able to cry into 1000 dollar bills, but still.  What will they become?  How will they treat others?  Is it Tiger's fault?  Media?  People buying into all this?

I'm just sick of how the athlete is idolized so much by society.  Don't get me wrong, I love sports as much or more than the average person, but come on.  Think of the majority of good athletes you knew growing up.  Think about how many of them got away with shit around school, how much they were pampered, their attitudes towards others, girlfriends, etc.  And most of them were probably only locally good.  Now, I'm not saying all great athletes are dinks, but to think that they have a pristine soul is ridiculous.  The smart ones know how to put on the mask in front of the cameras for the almighty dollar, but do you honestly think they give two shits about what people think?  Only if it takes money out their pocket.  Will I still watch sports? Buy the occasional memorabilia item?  Sure.  However, I am not one to think because they are a great athlete, that they are a great person.  I'll just admire their athletic talent (and still admire Tiger for his great golf), just like I admire great thinkers.  I'm sure Galileo behind closed doors was like, "I'm Galileo, bitch, now TAKE IT!"

On a side note, I'm wondering how the sports world will ever be able to clean itself up?  It just sucks that people are either linked to PEDs, or doing things that are borderline, or aren't illlegal yet.  Part of me just wants to say, hey, get all juiced up and go... you're here for my entertainment, making tons of cash, and probably could care less about the average person anyway, but there are still those that are doing it the right way and are genuinely good people.  I just wonder how much room is left in sports for them?