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11/27/2007 22:19 #42312

Monday, Monday....
Hope you all had nice holiday weekends. I spent this fun filled Monday helping manage damage control at work, which peaked with two hours sitting in the Channel 7 live truck making sure their reporter wouldn't give the p.r. person excessive grief.

Actually had a date Saturday, thought it went well, but apparently there won't be a second one. She wants to concentrate on another relationship. Um, yeah, then why did you call me? Can he be all that if you're looking elsewhere? Worse yet, did I not measure up to him? Sort of sucks anyway you slice it. Not sure where I blew it, but another blow to my battered but still determined self-esteem. Got to hop back on the horse......ah, perhaps that ain't the metaphor, but you get the idea.

So, got dumped on out of work, got rained on at work, nearly got trampled on by a Buffalo press collective. It was indeed a Monday. Thought the reporters and the zookeepers were going to recreate the Jets and Sharks, but that was part of the fun.

It all was a reminder of that the weekend was over and it was back to work. I had a nice weekend. Spent the holiday at the former in-laws. My contribution to the feast was to make up a batch of Kier -- 2 parts Chardonnay and 1 part Creme de Cassis. It's tasty, but if you don't watch it your chin can be on the floor in a hurry, as my brother in law found out. My daughter, ex-wife and I decorated his drunken self with christmas lights.

I spent Friday half doing work, half cyber shopping. Nearly broke, but I got a lot of gifting done. Went out saturday and came home thinking thoughts of possibility only to have them dashed via facebook. Facebook? what the hell?

I know I'm no matinee idol, but sheeeet

Off to assemble the tree...
tinypliny - 11/28/07 23:32
mrmike, I think (and I do think a lot, you know) you are too nice to deserve any association with indecisive mean-spirited scum.

I think you should go out and celebrate not going too far down the joyless path.

Cheers!
TP

libertad - 11/28/07 22:46
I was wondering about you during the zoo drama. IT sounds like you are making it through ok. Hang in there.

11/23/2007 16:07 #42262

How not to get leftovers
I believe our globetrotter (e:Ladycroft) initially fired this around last year. It was sent to me a little bit ago and made me chuckle.

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theecarey - 11/23/07 16:25
nice! that really cracks me up :)

11/20/2007 07:18 #42208

Some scenes from Sunday Night
Category: sports
Pre-game scenes that is. It is a little interesting being in a football stadium as it starts to come to life, kinda like being a roadie before the concert starts.

When the prime-time circus starts, the minions double and we were all bundled against a shitty evening both weather and football wise. I didn't get to many game shots as when the people come in I had to shift into industrial baby sitting mode, but here's a brief look at the ghost town awakening.
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They had just turned the lights on as NBC's minions finished working away
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John Madden's second truck
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My vantage point during the game itself. Right after this was taken, came the announcement that the gates are now open. The hounds were released
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Unspoiled by sloppy bodies and their many empty beers cups
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WNY sports remote trucks in the distance trying to look important
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I'm still tired from it. Personally ejected 4 folks who were chemically serene....or not.

So done at the end of the year.
joshua - 11/21/07 08:58
I'm still waiting for the picture of you posing with someone you have grabbed by the scuff of the neck and are throwing out - sort of like posing with a deer after you've shot it. Memories kept for posterity!
mrdeadlier - 11/20/07 10:54
Cool, thanks for the shots!
fellyconnelly - 11/20/07 07:50
cool pix. maybe i'll make it into the stadium for a game one day. when they don't suck all over the place of course!

11/19/2007 09:24 #42194

Wow, that was hard to watch
Category: sports
I was dreading the whole idea of the Buffalo Bills reappearing on national tv from the moment I got the letter saying from the team saying I had to work (ain't doing it next year). For the unitiated, the Patriots are frighteningly good, and the Bills, not so much. I knew the weather was going to suck (it did)(fucking cold out) and people would have that much more time to get loaded on bad beer. Bad enough that the Bills will charge you $6.50 for a bud light, scarier still how many people keep going back and coming back double-fisted.

But, pro that I am, I pressed on. I'll have some pictures of the behind the scenes prep stuff later, because that part fascinates me. The prep for all the cameras and the triple layer of remote trucks from what is usually there was impressive. I don't know why all the yahoo were congregating around John Madden's touring bus. It's not like he was going to invite you on.

Side note: I'm trying for Springsteen tickets as I write this and HSBC Arena wants $27.00 in "Convenience fees." They obviously have a different mind set about convenience than I.

Anyway, back to the game. It was over by the end of the first quarter. After settling a few disputes, threatening a blow hole over his insults about the Tim Horton promotion moving over to the next section, I was so ready to go home. If you watching at home, you're so watching Brothers & Sisters by this point. Me? I'm busy fuming because the alleged increased security sending Bill and Ted who were watching the game and straightening up only when their boss or mine came by.

Got a 200 level ticket from Bruce, a little less convenient, but what the hey.

Anyway, you know about the score. The stands turn into "Lord of the Flies" and I'm left wondering why the hell I signed up for it. The extra cash comes in handy, but holy shit. I'm trying to look like I'm working at the moment, but failing miserably.

When everybody leaves, we have to survey the carnage and it's a wonder the crowd didn't look taller given the amount of shit they threw under their chairs.

One of the women I work with just came in with a fresh dutch apple pie. Gotta go.....
mrdeadlier - 11/19/07 09:45
I would love to see the pics you snapped last night. The behind-the-scenes end of things has got to be pretty interesting to say the least.

I've had season tickets in the Family Section the past three years so I'm pretty insulated from the drunken tomfoolery that goes on in the other 95% of the stadium but I've sat all around the stadium in the past though. The upper decks, especially though -- man, there is no law in those sections. It's every man for himself. I do not envy you ushers AT ALL. The things I've seen...

I for one would love to hear some cool horror stories you've lived through while being an usher.

11/16/2007 18:07 #42166

First Snow
No Shit!!! just blowing off a minor gripe briefly. Just got back from Wegmans and three different sets of people in the parking lot were all agog over it's snowing.

I could see the wonder if it didn't fucking do it every year by now, but maybe it's me, but the amazement escapes me. Maybe it's the fact it will take a few fender benders to get people to remember where the hell they are and the snow is um, a regular fucking occurance!!! These same buttwinks in a month will be driving with their cars only cleared from where the windshield could scrap away.

Morons

Thanks, I feel better now --- Thought it would be more in character to rant then list my pathetic nookie count.
jim - 11/16/07 20:24
Oh wow it's snowing it? That's so cool!!! I love the first snow of the year. I'm glad you said something so now I can go out and enjoy it!!!