Early entry today...

"i'm not addicted to blackjack, i'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle." -Mitch Hedberg

doing my entry a little early today. i'm heading out of town this evening, and won't be back until tomorrow.

my friend chris is getting married next weekend, so this is "bachelor party 2: the police record". part 1 was the race at martinsville. only 5 of us tonight. it is actually a combo-party for chris and another friend, darren. he is getting married in about 3 weeks. i swear..by the end of this summer, i'm going to be the only single person in west liberty! definitely the summer of love, it seems.

yesterday was nice. even though i got almost NO work done, i got to spend some time with my friend eric. helped him out with his pc a little and stayed over for dinner. we sat out on the porch and had a few beers and some good food. ...and then the storms started rolling in. i have NEVER seen lightning like that. it was so incredible. it just kept tracing out these intricate patterns across the sky. the amazing thing is that the center of the storm was around mt. sterling at the time, but the lightning was reaching all the way over here. just incredible.

i came on home and shut down and unplugged everything. i was going to sit on the porch and watch it all roll in, but chris called and said his dad thought i should come over and wait it out in their basement with them. at first, i didn't want to, but he lured me with the promise of beer. and since i was out, i decided to take my storm watching elsewhere. =)

chris' dad is pretty freaked out about storms, though, so it made him nervous that we were outside watching the lightning, and he told us to come inside. it was funny...i felt like we were 10 years old. then there was no beer. bummer. we just sorta watched tv and listened to it blow over. it didn't really get that bad here. there was a tree down in the road when i came back home, but not much else.

so i missed a good opportunity to sit out on my porch and try my new pipe last night. i picked it up in lexington wednesday. it is kind of like the one Aragorn smoked in the LOTR movies. the guy at the tobacco place told me it was called a churchwarden. said they were getting popular again. i'm guessing because of the movies. so many geeks like myself out there...makes me happy! =)

the guy showed me this pipe and said, "that's a good one, if you are looking for a short smoke." ...i heard, "that is a good pipe, if you are wanting one for smoking weed." i'm fairly sure that is what he meant. he looked like he had smoked a few bowls in his day. i got some tobacco that smelled pretty good, and was supposed to be "not too mild, not too harsh". i tried a little of it yesterday, and it was pretty nice. now all i need is a sword, and a horse, and a...

yeah, that should pretty much ensure i never get a date EVER again...it would certainly thin out the prospective candidates. lol... if i just went ahead and started playing dungeons and dragons, i'd say that should narrow 'er on down even more. i don't think those people ever emerge in daylight though, so we'll probably never cross paths. =)

i'm sure that i will have much more to write in here tomorrow. hopefully someone will win a lot of money at the riverboat and decide to give me some, too! =) i really suck at gambling. i like to play blackjack, though. i usually only allow myself like 20 bucks for gambling, and i run through that pretty quick. then i just sit and drink the cheap drinks while i "people watch". there are definitely some people with some stories to be told inside those places.

i think that when people go to gamble on the riverboat, they should have to put on costumes from the 1800's. BUT...all of the men should have to dress up like mark twain. that would be really cool, just walking around a riverboat filled with mark twains.

well, i think it would be cool.