Hooters, I go for the wings

Tonight the ROFLCOPTER flew with haste to enjoy endless wings at hOOters. Phil, Miklos, Josh, Joe, Becky, her sister and her sister's boy friend were there. The way it worked was it was $8.99 for the first 10 wings and $2 for every refill of ten wings after that. If you eat at least 20 wings you save money. Our waitress was Kelli and let me tell you, she was the most attractive, h-o-"double t" server we've had the pleasure of being with. She was amazing, that was the consensus among the group. The guys and Becky talked about football for awhile and I sat there and did the Cleveland, Midwestern thing and kept my mouth shut and ate baked beans (I had wings too, this was later after we were there for a while). Apparently people from the Midwest like baked beans, I never got that memo.

I'm all moved in and my room is organized and clean. Becky came by and didn't even have to straighten it because it was so neat. It's my goal to keep myself very organized and on task this semester and so far I'm doing that. Today was my first class. It was at 2:30pm and was my only class today. If you hate me because of that, wait, because I also have no classes on Fridays. Now you can hate me, but I do have classes from 10:30am-4:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That will suck, I'm not looking forward to it.

I'm enjoying the time hanging out in Wizzo 403. We're all sitting in Joe and Tyson's room just chill-laxin. We brought Alex O some blackberry pie earlier and we invited her up do work in some company. Instead, Tyson is reading, Joe is cutting out infinitesimal pieces of paper that are supposed to be folded and glued together into a transformer, Alex is reading blogs and I'm updating mine. It's a party. Speaking of parties and pie, I would like to thank everyone that came over Saturday and I was amazed at all the pie we had. I like that trend and I hope to see more lovely faces and lovely pies at our next party. ROFLCOPTER get me some Kool-Aid with my red hot riblets.

Waiting for Dawn

The ROFLCOPTER is pleased to announce that I have all of my things for school together and I leave bright and early in the morning. All I have to do when I get up is pack the car with all of my boxes and clothes. I hope everything fits, but to ensure that it does, I have spent a lot of time on space consolidation and packing things together in an organized fashion. I have to wake up tomorrow at 7:30am, load the car, and try and leave my house around 9:30am. My ETA for Pittsburgh is 12:00pm. I think it's doable.

In other news, my parents and I went to eat at Applebees. It was so good. I ordered the all you can eat riblets and went through about 15 slabs of those suckers. My parents were getting a little upset with me because I took so long. They sat across from me, dumbfounded, staring at me while I ate and every so often glancing at their watches. I didn't care though, I felt accomplished. I'm packed full of meat right now though, my stomach is like a rock. ROFLCOPTER, get me the ROLAIDS and then get some rest because we're going to need it.

Damn Those Yankees

The ROFLCOPTER is not happy about the Indian's loss. The final score was 5-4 and the game was tied at 4 for most of the game until the Yankees motivated themselves and managed to score another run. I hate the Yankees, almost as much as I hate the Steelers. It was a well fought game and I'm surprised we didn't lose by more. Speaking of losing, I was a part of history tonight, the Indians haven't lost this many games in a row (9) since 1975 or something ridiculous like that. And what really blew, was the fact that there were so many Yankee fans there. Go back to New York. I wanted to go buy a souvenir Indians baseball bat in the gift shop and go wait in the parking lot. And to top it all off, it was country music night! At least it didn't rain. ROFLCOPTER, back to the garage. Let's call it a night.

The Myth, the Pool, the Legend

And so ends another chapter in the Denison pool history book. Today was the last day it was open and now all of the guards who want more hours move to the City's other pool, Cum'land. That's what we call it anyway, it's the name on the street, or as others call it, Cumberland. Either way, I'm not looking forward to working there regardless of what you call it. They get a lot of patrons (which means work for Connor Thomas) and the Guards are uptight and not very friendly. At least that's the reputation they have. Incase you haven't picked up on my subtle hints, Denison and Cum'land have been rivals for quite sometime now. Denison may have pulled some pranks on the other pool in recent years but we've stayed to ourselves this year. I'm going to miss this summer. The people, the cold, the lack of patrons, the movies, the paychecks. All are nice, but I am also anxious to get back to Carnegie Mellon and move into Wizzo 403 with the coolest roommates ever, Joe McDermott and Tyson Schrader. I also can't wait to see Becky again, it's been "sooo long". The ROFLCOPTER suggests you fly down to the next post if you haven't read it already.

The VIAGRA Van

The ROFLCOPTER and I went bowling last night with friends. I said I would, and I did. It was a lot of fun. It's been a while since I last bowled. Not only was it bowling, but it was cosmic bowling to boot which made it all the more exciting. I had good games and my second game was a personal best. The first game I got 111 and the second game I got 103 or something close to that. Let me tell you about the last game, I don't know what happened, but I was on a fire. I finished with a score of 161. I had over 4 strikes and several spares. It was great, I had good luck and for most of that luck I have VIAGRA to thank.

When we first got to the bowling alley, we were waiting for another car full of people to arrive so were looking for something to kill time. The bowling alley had a few machines where you try and win a prize by maneuvering a claw over it and letting it drop. In this one machine were soft stuffed Vans with advertisements on them like you would see on a racecar. To my surprise there was a Van in there that had Viagra written all over it. I knew I had to at least try and win. Opportunities like this don't just come along every day. It didn't take long though, since I won on the first try. What can I say, I have a knack for games like that, as does my good friend J-McDizzle. So for good luck, I carried around the VIAGRA van and it worked. I'll probably never bowl that well ever again. ROFLCOPTER, clear those pins and give me an "x".

Workaholic

The ROFLCOPTER has decided that I'm about as exciting as a blog, yes I'm boring. For some reason lately, I've become extremely boring and uninterested in anything other than work, back to school, or the INTERNET. I'm not sure what my problem is. I have many friends that want to do things with me, all I have to do is call them up. But what do I do? I stay home, watch the Olympic game's opening ceremony and then clean my room. How pathetic is that? On the plus side, I've been getting important things checked off of my list before I head back to Carnegie Mellon. For some reason, I'm apathetic about hanging out with friends. I was invited to go bowling tomorrow night, so I think I'll do that. Ghetto bowling, we call it that because we go to this cheap place in a not so nice neighborhood.

I've also been spending a lot of time at work. Many will argue that I don't actually do any work and I won't argue back, however, I'm still there. That takes a toll on you after a while. I got 101 hours for the last pay period (biweekly) which is a long time to spend at the pool. My last day I'm deciding to work will be Friday, August 20. The last time I had a day off is when I went to Geauga Lake so that will make 13 days that I will go with out a day off come the 20th. All we've been doing is watching movies because it's been so cold so I can't really complain but it sucks spending 10 hours of your day sitting at your job. These last 7 days that I'm working I plan to work 67 hours. I want to get as much money as I can right before I head back and that's what I plan to do. ROFLCOPTER, get back to work.

Spider Man

Joe thinks these things are hilarious. The ROFLCOPTER can't agree quite as strongly but decided to bring some back. If you want to see a new comic, hit refresh and the ROFLCOPTER will go find you another one.

Maybe he's GAY. Gay for YOU!

That's a big Twinkie

Let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of emokinetic energy in the INTERNET area. According to this morning's sample, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds.

Now, that's a big Twinkie.

Dude, I'm getting a Dell!

The ROFLCOPTER has just returned from Dell.com with the news that my order from Dell has been confirmed. I purchased this evening a Inspiron 600m Notebook. I must say I am pleased with my decision to get this particular model. I've spent the last two weeks or so researching different types of laptops. I started with Dell then looked many other places and then returned right back where I started. Not only does Dell have well made machines, but the service/insurance options they have are unbeatable. This notebook is tricked out, for those of you in the know, these are it's specs:

Intel® Pentium®M Processor 725(1.6GHz) 14.1-in SXGA+ w/64MB Video

512MB DDR SDRAM 2 Dimms

60GB Hard Drive

24X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive with Sonic RecordNow

FREE Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal Wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps)

Dimensions:

• Height: 1.29 inches
  
• Width: 12.4 inches
  
• Depth: 10.1 inches

Weight: 5.3lb

I decided against getting the spinners for the cd player. I have to draw the line somewhere. In any event, I'm really excited and I can't wait for it to get here. In other news, the summer is coming to a close and I only have a couple more weeks of work left. I'm going to put in a lot of hours and try and get as much money from the City of Cleveland Heights as I can. I may go insane. Who needs days off anyway? I'm also going to try and get a really dark tan before I come back to school. I'll see what I can come up with, I am after all, 1/4 Irish. ROFLCOPTER, take us up!

My Sub-Conscious is Racist

The ROFLCOPTER says my Sub-Conscious is racist, but I hope it's not. I say or do things with out thinking about it and when I listen to myself, I say, "Hey, that was racist." I feel like I'm accusing myself like I would accuse someone else, it's weird. I'll give you an example. Today at work, I'm on chair, lifeguarding. In front of me is the pool (for obvious reasons) and then after that is the fence that goes around the perimeter of the pool and beyond that is a picnic pavilion. There was a group of African-Americans having a picnic there and the kids are acting crazy. I'm watching them run all over the place. There's these two kids who start climbing on the fence (it's about 10 feet tall with barbed wire on top) and the get half way up. I'm looking at them, thinking what the hell do you think you're doing? I pick up my megaphone and tell them to get down (in an Arnold Schwarzenegger voice, but that's not important). Then I say, not too loudly, pretending to yell, "Don't make me get the hose!"

That's when I think, holy shit, that was racist. What I was picturing in my mind was the garden hose that we keep next to the pool (or use to) to prime the water slide to get it started. I figure, turn that on and spray them so the get wet and climb off of the fence. However, after the whole Civil Rights movement, one might take what I said a different way. They didn't hear me, but it's things like that, that convince the ROFLCOPTER that my sub-conscious is racist. Maybe it's similar to Mr. Hat being racist (Although there, it's Mr. Garrison being racist through Mr. Hat...but it's different for me). "Aw! You're such a racist bastard, Mr. Hat!"

Why can't Helen Keller Drive?

Because she's a woman.

I'm sure you've heard them all. I was looking at some change on my desk and I discovered the Alabama state quarter. Who did I find on it? The one and only Helen Keller, that's who! I don't think I knew she was on the quarter so it was quite the surprise. I just felt that I had to share this. BTW, the ROFLCOPTER crew asks, How did Helen Keller burn her ear? She answered the iron. How did she burn her other ear? They called back.

Frisbee, Burger, and a Bee Sting

The ROFLCOPTER had an active evening with ultimate and dinner. Tonight I played my last game of the season for the Cleveland Summer League. We won, 17-6 and our final record is 7-3. I scored once and had an assist with another point. I'm not sure how injuries keep happening to me, but they do. On the point that I scored, I slid to catch the disc and the person who was covering me took a swat at the disc and then ran by me, but managed to kick me in the face on the way by. It didn't hurt that much, but it's the principle of the thing. I'm going to start looking like a victim of domestic abuse pretty soon with the eye injury and the kick to the head. I thought ultimate was supposed to be non-contact. That's a load of donkey shit is what that is. I had fun though and that's what counts right? And winning of course.

My parents came to watch me play tonight and it was a good game to watch. Afterwards, we went to eat at "Your's Truly" and I had a BBQ cheese burger, bun and all. I figure, I played frisbee tonight and the tournament is Saturday, I can afford the carbs. It was really good. On our way out though, my mom opened the door to go outside and on the door handle of all places was a bee. It stung my mom. I couldn't believe it, of all the silly things that could happen. She got some baking soda from inside and put it on her finger. Then the ROFLCOPTER life flighted us home for further medical attention. She's fine now, due to the quick thinking of the ROFLCOPTER and crew. And for that, the ROFLCOPTER get's the rest of the night off.

Tax Dollars at Work

The ROFLCOPTER had a slow day working at Denison Pool. The Copter witnessed me do a grand total of 15 minutes of work today. I was at work for seven and a half hours and yes I was paid for every second. It was a rainy day so the only patrons we had was this family of six people. I'm not sure what prompted them to come swimming on a cold and rainy day, but they did. They made me work for a whole 15 minutes, but I didn't mind so much, I kept myself and most of the staff entertained for most of the day. I thought it to be a grand idea to bring in my laptop and a couple of movies. I started to watch one and soon I had a crowd huddled around my laptop, trying to hear. We decided we could do better than that. I went home and got my external speakers and when I got back we cleared out the first aid and equipment room and filled it with dry deck chairs and blankets. Then 16-18 of us some how managed to fit in this small room. We closed the door to block out the light and watched the movie which was propped up in front of us on a pile of kick boards.

The first movie we watched was Pirates of the Caribbean and the second movie we watched was PCU. I thought the kids going into college and those going into college in a few years should watch that movie at least once. We all enjoyed ourselves and kept each other warm. We were like a pack of seals with a T.V. Tomorrow we're going to watch some more movies if the weather cooperates. For all of you out there that have to do actual work to get paid, I feel sorry for you. For Connor Thomas, the lifeguard, work is directly proportional to the condition of the weather and I say the rain can stay another day. ROFLCOPTER, turn up the volume and turn down the lights, it's time for work.

Geauga Lake Amusement Park - Thrills, Chills, and a Head Ache

The ROFLCOPTER escorted a few ladies around Geauga Lake today with my friend Adam and myself. Three of our friends, visited from Pittsburgh and we went to the Amusement park first. We went on all of the roller coasters. My head hurts. Those things really throw you around. The wooden roller coasters have new cars and they're small! Adam and I could hardly fit in them. The leg bar comes down right on top of you and there's no freedom to move. Those rides were designed to let you move around in your seat a bit, but now that you can't, you take every little (or big because there were quite few) bumps or shakes on the track. After lunch we went to the water park and played around there for several hours. Two of the girls had an embarrassing moment when their tops (or part of their tops) came off after splashing into the bottom of a super fast water slide. They were laughed at, we felt bad...for not being there when it happened! JKing. We spent a while in the wave pool. That was so much fun. I still feel like I'm floating in it. That thing is not safe though. They had a pull out, literally every five minutes. I'm glad that's not my job.

After we were done in the water, we left the park and had dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. The food was really good. I must say I'm impressed with their food, but the waitress we had was just starting out and she was so slow. My God, she was slow. After we ate we tried to find a miniature golf course with directions from the Ruby Tuesday's Girls. They forgot one turn so we got lost but eventually found it but by that time they were closed. It was behind a movie theater so we decided to go check out the times. We ended up seeing The Village. I think that movie is clever and well done. That was my second time seeing it. Even if you don't like scary movies, see it anyway. It's a little different from your average horror flick. We got out of there at 11:30pm and we separated ways at that point. It was a fun day and I'm glad I went. ROFLCOPTER works tomorrow, and so we're off.