April 13, 2006 15:17

Goddamn, what a beautiful day. Work is light today. I've been grocery shopping - I intended to pick up essentials and ended up spending $100. I walked up to Green's to pick up some beer, some vodka, and some tonic. I sat out in the sun for about 45 minutes. According to The Weather Channel, it's about 80F (27C) out there right now, which is right where I like it. The predictions are to get into the upper 80s (~30C) over the weekend. I love it.

I had a pretty good weekend last weekend, and a pretty good week before that. A bunch of work stuff has been going on, but this week is slowing down rapidly, due to NZ being off for Easter already. I do have some meetings tomorrow, but not a lot else. Last weekend I stayed in most of the time, and watched a lot of TV. I saw the movie The Aristocrats, which was highly enjoyable, and a bunch of Comedy Central and soccer. On Sunday I went over to Manny's place for a cook-out and backyard sports afternoon to celebrate Manny's and Craig's birthdays. This was loads of fun. And on Monday night a big group of us went to the home opening game for the Braves, which we won. Great stuff.

I've stayed in the last couple of nights and got sort-of early nights. I've done a bunch more reading of The Federalist. But I've also been very tired. The last couple of nights, although I went to bed relatively early, I didnt' get a lot of sleep, because I was having so many dreams; on Tuesday night it was ridiculous how much I went through the cycle of dream, wake up, turn over, fall asleep, dream, wake up, etc. Hopefully tonight will be better, although I may be going to the ice hockey; not sure yet.

Liverpool is continuing to do well, but don't have enough points to be able to upset Chelsea in the Premiership. It is still mathematically possible for us to get second over Man U, but, like us, they don't have many tough games left. Two more wins will guarantee for us the third place spot; Spurs has to win every game they have left to threaten us, but I think our goal difference will set us above them. The FA Cup semifinal is the weekend after this coming one. That's going to be a toughie, seeing as it's against Chelski.

I'm really ready for a vodka and tonic right now...

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