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6:12 AM
Got up made the coffee and ate some cereal.
Did some pushups. Faked some one-armed pushups to impress #1GF!.
Sent #1GF! to work.
Read my e-mail, harassed Tankboy and let the folks over at Democracy that I quit my job and could help out more.
10:30 AM
Went to the bank and asked for a better interest rate.
Showed up for a haircut a half hour early because I had nothing better to do. Talked to a guy about cars while I waited. Got a 12:00 haircut at 11:30 and the 11:30 showed up and gave me dirty looks like it was a hair salon instead of a barber shop. At a barber shop, a man’s haricut takes 10 minutes, so the guy got his haircut at 11:40. The barber’s grandson was there and kept saying that everything was BoingBoing. Even after hearing it said 400 times about various objects in the shop, I still don’t know what it means. By the end the kid wanted a bagel, so I offered to run next store and grab one for him. On the way out, I asked my barber if he wanted anything. The barber has been cutting my hair the same way for 17 years so there was no way I’d be taking anything for it. The barber thanked me and said no, so I tried to be nice and extend the same offer to the 11:30. But, the 11:30 just shook his head and didn’t even look at me.
Dropped off clothes at Goodwill.
Bought a windshield wiper that has been torn for two weeks.
Went to the library to find a book on Python. Couldn’t find one.
Went to Borders Library and read 30 pages of a $40 book about Python. I hear this is an acceptable practice for the unemployed. Left once the staff started putting away books near me at very regular intervals.
Went food shopping again for stuff I forgot yesterday.
3:30 PM
Went to the gym out of sheer boredom. Rode the bike and watched Family Feud.
Took a second shower.
Looked up deals on Father’s day gifts.
Washed the dishes and made dinner.
8:30 PM
Watched and episode of “The Shield”.
Logged into my library found out that I could continue reading the $40 Python book online for free.
Wrote this crap and wondered where the hell day 2 went.
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June 6th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Well it sounds like you enjoyed yourself today – even if you have no idea where your day went.
Out of curiosity, and sheer lazyness, what does “Life of Riley” mean? Considering your name is Jon – unless I’ve stumbled upon someone elses blog.
Also, about the kid calling everything BoingBoing, it really reminds me of an episode of The Backyardigans that I saw titled “Mission to Mars” (my one year old loves the show, and it really isn’t that bad.)
Anyway, the lyrics to the song in that episode can be found here:
http://thebackyardigans.blogspot.com/2006/10/lyrics-almost-everything-is-boinga.html
Perhaps he was just saying “boinga” wrong.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:57 am
i’m wondering if by week 2 or perhaps 3, you will stop getting up at 6am or at least start being falsely productive until #1GF leaves for work and then crawl back into bed. i have to say that i’m slightly concerned that your life of riley is oddly similar to dad’s life of leisure.
keep an eye on him, #1GF. if you’re out somewhere and jon says, “i don’t mean one….i don’t mean two…i mean the whole crew….saddle up!”, please alert me immediately. he is not channeling our deceased grandfather — the gene pool has caught up with him and that’s dangerous!
June 7th, 2007 at 5:21 am
i’m wondering when the beard-growing will re-commence.
June 7th, 2007 at 6:09 am
Beards are for winter…unless they’re attached to a Mr. T mohawk.
June 7th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Oooh, a Mr. T mohawk! Now you’re talking! No need to be corporate anymore mister…
And by Python, do you mean Monty? I assume so, since you capitalized…
June 7th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Python? I thought he was channeling Hulk Hogan…
June 7th, 2007 at 10:57 am
A couple of Definitions:
Life of Riley (n): the good life, an easy and pleasant life or carefree existence. An old expression originating from an 1880′s song called “Is That Mr. Reilly”.
Python (n): an open-source, cross-platform, object-oriented scripting language.
From Wikipedia: “An important goal of the Python developers is making Python fun to use. This is reflected in the origin of the name (after the television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus), in the common practice of using Monty Python references in example code, and in an occasionally playful approach to tutorials and reference materials.[41] For example, the metasyntactic variables often used in Python literature are spam and eggs, instead of the traditional foo and bar.”