Damn...I'm a lazy ass. It's been half a year and I haven't posted a single thing...this in a time when I've been to Macchu Picchu and back. Oh well, I guess whining about it won't get anything written. I should just start up again and pretend that this little lapse(little in the grand scheme of things...think dinosaurs)won't happen again. Seems fair to me...how about you? You know, the imaginary readership I have.

So, this week my place has turned into a circus...it's being fumigated and it has a giant tent over it. This means, of course, that I had to find another place to stay. Normally I'd just stay at someone's place, but I didn't really feel like imposing on anybody this time so I just decided to rent a room at Motel 6. It's probably a waste of money, but hey, there are worse things I could be wasting my money on...like watching Van Helsing again. Of course, that would be wasting money and my brain...and might actually push me over sanity's edge. I've always wondered what a killing spree would be like. Anyways, since I'm hanging out in a crappy trucker's motel, I get to see all the weirdoes that check into places like this. I swear, I feel like I'm in an episode of Cops when I step outside. Luckily, nobody has tried to sell me crack just yet.

I spent most of yesterday after work watching t.v. and reading...which is generally what I do when I have to stay in a motel. It's almost like I'm on a business trip or vacation...even though I'm about 5 minutes from home. I got to watch the end of the Pacers/Pistons game; looks like Rasheed "Smokey" Wallace was bailed out by the basketball player known as Prince with his silly guarantee of a win. It's kind of sad, but Reggie Miller had the chance to make or break the game yet again as he did in the first one. You'd think an old man like Reggie wouldn't be put in such a position by this young, deep team, but apparently nobody is ready to step up. He somehow blew a lay-up to tie the game up at the end; well, actually it was just a good play by Tayshaun Prince. He flew out of nowhere to block this easy basket and sacrificed his already frail looking body into the stands. Of course, everytime I look at this guy, I think, "Wow...the Pistons gave up the chance to take Carmelo Anthony because THIS GUY is their future?" He doesn't suck, but, come on! 'Melo or Prince? They've been sharing Rasheed's pipe way too much or something. That's not fair...Rasheed didn't show up until the middle of the season, so really, they had no excuse other then stupidity.

I then wasted my time watching that great show Curb Your Enthusiasm...it's pretty much Seinfeld only the main character isn't likeable in the least. Plus they get to curse. Other then that, it's really damn hilarious. The first episode was a plot involving a surrogate mother who changed her mind due to the main character Larry David's spiel about how having a script is like a "baby" and giving it up is the hardest thing to do. This is only one section of the plot; it revolved around racism, the penis size of white and black men and the magazine selection at the doctor's office just to name a few. Classic stuff. The next episode even revolved around a College Girls Gone Wild video tape...really, how has nobody else used this plotline? It was way overdue.

After watching an episode of Monk, which is one of those entertaining shows that I make no effort to watch consistently...sort of like E.R., I decided to go get a bite to eat and read my current book, Shadow of the Hegemon. As I walked out, I realized there was a Denny's right next door, so I just walked there and had a Lumberjack's special and a coke. Damn...that was way too much food, to be honest. I couldn't even finish it...which must be a sign that I really have changed my horrible eating habits...or at least my stomach size. I'm almost all the way through this book and I look forward to buying the next one. It's a spinoff series of books based on a minor character from Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card; sci-fi crap...but this book plays more like a game of Risk with genius mastermind children. Yes, very realistic, as you can tell by the description, but also very entertaining. I'd recommend you read Ender's Game first; a sci-fi masterpiece if you ask me...even if you don't ask me. It's usually on the top book lists.