Another Diversion

There are two times in a man's life when he should [gamble]: when he can't afford it and when he can." - Mark Twain

My friends keep raining in with the good news. Another really close friend of mine from college informed me this weekend that he and his fiance just purchased their first home. They waited until after the deal was done to tell their friends, so it came as a surprise to me. It is so great to watch people grow up before my eyes. I can't wait to visit. I know a lot of people with homes, but for some reason this news really made me happy. My other college friend who is having a kid called me this weekend and we caught up. It had been at least a year since we had talked, so it was great catching up.

I wasn't in the best of moods this weekend (probably weather related) and when I'm feeling that way I like to find a project to distract myself. I found an extra computer hard drive that I had put away and decided to install it in Abram's computer. I needed a power SATA cable, so I went to Radio Shack to buy one on Sunday. They didn't have any, so I stopped by Target. There I purchased a desk for my laptop and then I found a Best Buy where I was able to get that cable. When I got home, I installed the power cord and got the 2nd internal hard drive working which made me feel good. Then I got to work on my desk project. For some reason I own a lot of desks since I can never find the right fit. The problem I have is that I hate that all my furniture doesn't match. My bed room set matches, but my two desks do not, nor does my TV center. When I get a home, I'm going to move my current stuff to a guest room and actually get a matching set of furniture for my bedroom. I will say, I'm a lot better off than I was after college when every thing I owned didn't match or was not being used for it intended purpose, but man was it functional. It was rewarding putting together my new desk and I hope it gives me the space to work more.

I've mentioned before that there are so many things I would like to be doing and I hate that I can't do them all. So many career paths not taken. So yes, I've focused on being a great attorney, but all those other paths still have a place as hobbies I guess. Now something I always thought would be fun is stand up comedy. I know, I was shocked when the thought came in my mind too. I don't think this because I consider myself a funny person, quite the opposite, but because I have a bunch of stories I think I would enjoy telling to a crowd. I don't exactly know what my delivery would be like and since I have no practice, I think it would be pretty awful, but what a fun thing to try. So I've started writing a stand up routine to try out at some amateur night in the future. I figured the first test would be writing the material and the second test will be the presentation. This may end up being a half finished project that I can pile behind my salsa dancing, mountain biking, marathon running and screen play attempts, but there is no reason not to dream big. The funny part is that the first experience will make a huge impact on how I feel about it, so I'd better try my best. I also have a feeling that I might just run my best stuff the first time and then run out of funny things to say after that. Well the first step is writing the routine, so I'd better keep working on that. I really wish I had a writing partner, I just think so much better when I'm talking to other people about it.

This weekend I watched as Texas made my heart stop right before barely making the winning field goal to be propelled into the BCS Championship. Here is the Bowl Games Schedule: 2009-2010 BCS Matchups And Television Listings

The 3 bowl games I'm looking forward to watching are:

Citi National Championship: Jan. 7, 8 p.m., Pasadena, Calif.
Texas vs. Alabama, ABC broadcast - My pick: Texas!

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl: Jan. 4, Glendale, Ariz.
TCU vs. Boise State, FOX broadcast - My pick: TCU

Allstate Sugar Bowl: Jan. 1, 8:30 p.m., New Orleans, La.

Florida vs. Cincinnati, FOX broadcast. - My pick: Cincinnati (but I think FL will win).

I'm still going to complain that there is no playoff system. How hard is it to pick the top 4 teams (usually all undefeated) and have them play two games instead of one? One extra game for two teams, it is not that bad. It would be a great way to start off the bowls and then end the bowls. If Texas had lost things would be crazy and everyone would be complaining. I do think Congress should stay out of it though.

I have noticed that I don't use Twitter anymore. I used to check it all the time on my phone, but as of late I've been checking it less and less. Sometimes it feels like too much information to keep up with and other times like not enough. There are some people that are nice to follow and I really enjoy the ability to look up topics, like the other day I searched for people that had seen snow in Austin.

Here is something that I was thinking about the other day. I feel like I'm trapped by all the things I'm not doing. That is always on my mind. I mean, it isn't important stuff either, just stuff I'd like to do. After work, I have nothing pressing to do when I get home, but man the list of things I won't be doing really affects me. The shelf of books I have yet to get to it, the files I haven't organized on my computer, the cleaning that should do, the guitar practice I won't be doing, the learning to play piano I won't be staring, the friends I won't call to catch up with, the movies I have, but haven't seen I won't be seeing, the running I won't be doing (and much much more). Man it really takes a toll and its all really in my head. I could just as easily go home and feel free as a bird. The truth is that all those things I probably won't even make a dent on because I'll be wasting too much time thinking about it. It isn't a big deal and doesn't affect my daily life as much as it did in college when things I had to do had deadlines. In college I used to get behind on my reading and I would go home and do nothing because I needed to study. I would pass up nights out on the town to stay home and work, but instead of studying I would do nothing. I could have just as easily gone out and had a blast and it wouldn't have affected my productivity. And honestly, in retrospect, I got it done eventually. So whole point being, I should just do what I want to do and not worry so much about all the things I could be doing.

Study: people who buy counterfeit bags likely to buy real ones later

Usually I wouldn't care much about this article, but having visited NY and seen where they sell those purses, I can say that I think that this study might actually make sense. I would have thought they would buy a real one of the same brand though.

I"ll leave you with this: Undead Disney Characters picture which I think is pretty cool even though Halloween is long past.

and the sun is coming out