born again

it would be a diservice to both myself and my many readers if i didnt write about this weekend. ill break it down into two parts.
first of all, i flew this weekend. saturday i went up at 3:30. it was my last flight to get checked out in a 172. i just had to log more time in it, but i also wanted to get really comfortable with the plane since i was going to be checked out in it....and we all know what i mean by getting comfortable. we get over newport and sho nuff, im rolling the plane over on its sides, floating stuff around the cockpit, spinning the plane...it was mint. it was dusk so the sun was setting off on the horizon, just a day racing away, the air was as smooth as glass, it was just perfect. today was the big day though. i got my pilots license today. i am now a fully fledged, FAA licensed pilot. i remember being 10 years old and reading a brochure from Spy in Sky flight services and about how much it cost and about how old you have to be and i remember wanting that more than anything. i used to sit out in my backyard and look up at the sky, the clouds, the birds, the big jet airliners passing overhead, and small cessna's coming into the airport near me. i was always jealous of them, more than that i wanted to be one of them. after i got my license today, i went home, grinning ear to ear, laid down in my backyard, and looked up. for the first time it wasnt some foreign place, it wasnt a place where i could only dream about going. these werent brave men and woman dashing around the sky. no. instead, it was my sky, my clouds, my infinite promise, and these were my friends and colleagues, and i belong with them. i sat in the backyard and felt that my life was just starting. it was the happiest i have ever felt, but it can only get better as my days and weeks are bookmarked by high flung soaring, paying my friends a visit, and just living.
second part of the best weekend ever. ill be a little bit more vague about this one as to protect the innocent. to put it plain, yes plain and vague at the same time, i met this girl. i just about spent the weekend with. i am not going to say too much, but i have a very good feeling about her. sometimes people just fit.

random list of things that piss me off

in no particular order.

college kids, backpacks, umbrellas, the T, overheating cars, fat people eating donuts, ignorance, people that talk baby talk, suspense, hair gel, people getting famous that have no talent, president bush, dick cheney, condi rice, the fact the bill clinton couldnt serve a third, fourth, or fifth terms, the people that block the exit of the government center t stop trying to hand out free newspapers, work, people that argue about pennies in their account, repitition, my deficiency in the plane ownership category, low clouds, rain, snow, ice, jfk jr, more snow, madonna, tom cruise, katie holmes, scientology, religious extremists, fundamentalists, hangovers, cold showers, burnt toast, cigarette smoke, not having a girlfriend, the old-boys network in RI, buying the wrong length pants, may lack of being in shape, time, people that abuse their pets, junk mail, voicemails, bills, sweating, the pt cruiser, soccer moms, parents who dont discipline their kids or at least that their kid is the greatest gift to the world, oil companies, medicine companies, the fact that jeff buckley is dead, the fact that i cant sing, my co-worker, my salary, too many onions in a sub, my overly sensitive lips, my thumb, the 1986 mets, new york city, the inaccessibility of good shit, repititon, incompetency, thug people, club people, fashionable people, people that dont shower, marc summers, my current living situation, ambition, my dad moving to utah, , feeling infinitly capable but not knowing where to start, buttons missing from shirts, medium tipped pens, pc's, the government in general, 50 cent, kanye west's belief that he is jesus, ryan adam's drug habit, my friend dating my former friend, barry manilow, overly ripped jeans, the beauty of the midwest, double ententes, my old boss, the fact that i cant think of more things that piss me off.

this cant be it

life is starting to get monotonous. seriously. monday thru thursday, i can tell you almost to the minute what it is i am going to be doing:

7:00am wake up and shower
7:47am leave for work
8:30am arrive at work. check email and look at a couple things
9:00am doors open
12:00 lunch
1:00pm back from lunch
3:30pm bathroom break
5:00pm lock up and head home
5:50pm get home
11:48pm go to bed.

i think i need a little variety. the most astute readers will realize that there are some large chunks of time unaccounted for. the most notable one should be between when i get home and when i go to bed. the reason there is nothing there is because I DONT DO SHIT anymore and its really starting to piss me off. ill play my guitar, ill surf around online, but really, im not doing anything productive at all. my other hobbies cant possibly even make a bid for this time, because i dont have the money or the resources to pursue them on a daily basis. i have some ideas about how i can better spend my time. they are as follows:

1) get more friends: i love my friends. but they all have significant others at the moment and are usually preoccupied with some heavy petting of some kind.
2) get a girlfriend: thats right, ill just will her out of no where. if all my friends have one, i might as well right? thats right, relationship by peer pressure. truth be told, this is my favorite option. i might even know who i want too. hmmm.....
3) join a gym: only problem with this is that i hate the gym. hate it hate it hate it.
4) start going to bed at 6:00pm: destroys the opportunity to be bored, wont spend any money at night, always well rested, little social interaction.
5) move to RI: i know, what the hell would that accomplish. well, it will be like hitting a reset button on a computer, just starting over from scratch.
6) write a book: i know the plot, know the title, know the characters, just have to set it to paper. could make millions because its brilliant, but its a bitch.

thats all i got so far. favorite is option 2. ill obviously have to keep everyone posted on that one, or all of them for that matter. i aint takin any bets on which ones work out either, so keep your pants on.

third nipple?

tonight as i was prepping for slumber, some people walked past my window. my shades were drawn so dont bother asking for a physical description. as they passed, i heard this:
"so lets say..umm...would you rather have a third nipple or an extra testicle?
i didnt get to hear the response as it was muffled by the doppler effect. BUT, 5 minutes later i heard the same pair on the return voyage:
"NO, you cant cut it off! its a third nipple you have to keep it on for at least a month!"

i would have opted for the extra nut, but thats just me.

random notes

1) the more you drink, the better people look. this is what we call beer goggles. however, the more you drink, the better you look to yourself as well. move over zoolander, i should have been a model

2) is this really all there is? i get up, i go to work, i come home, i talk to some people, i go to bed, i repeat the process. what is the point of all this?

3) i realized that in order to fight a war, you must walk a very fine line. you will just about become your enemy, at least ideologically. for example, the US is fighting terrorism, spreading democracy and to some, the christian agenda. the terrorists are fighting to spread their beliefs and their agenda. just because we have the bigger guns, does that make us just?

4) i hate the conservatives. i really do. the more i read about the republicans the more i want to move to some remote african nation. seriously folks, wake up. i do not understand how a group of men, comfortable with their bankrolls and status quos can determine the course of human history when the majority of the population does not agree with it. they have been able to manipulate the media and even their devotees into believing that our course is one of a pure nature, void of any zionistic or self promoting agenda. there is no such thing as a war for freedom as freedom develops equality. we are waging a war of religious colonialism that will render an entire region of the world poor and subject to "policy". there is no truth in our war, there is no justice in what we are doing or the way this country is operating.