Hurley: October 2006

Well, the next two weeks are gonna be an adventure. I'm having surgery on my right eye. no biggee...but to prepare, i can't wear my contact for 2 weeks. soooo.... i'm living with one good eye and one bad one. i't s not too bad, except when something happens just off to the right of me, then i miss it! i need to get a pirate patch and wear that for the next two weeks. then i can plunder! argghh

It's halloween! Time to bust out the costumes and party! We headed over to a co-workers house for a party on Saturday Night.

Mike and Julie as a geisha and Hunter S. Thompson

K-Fed and Britney hanging out with Mr and Mrs. Johnny Cash.

Yours truly is groovy baby!

It was the Penbrook Parade, so we dressed up the KISS truck and got ready to toss some candy!

Gettin' my game face on! It's time to throw some candy!

went out last night with my friend Dave. it turned into the 2nd street bar tour. the funny part was that we werent drunk, we just had one drink at every place! started by walking up to the Firehouse restaurant, but there was an hour wait...so we headed back down to STOCKS on 2ND and ate dinner.

Headed up to Brick Haus, then walked to a new bar. I don't really know the name, but it had the "sex pistols" queen elizabeth photo out front. cool place, and they have the best men's room in town. the walls are covered in blackboard material, and there's chalk so you can leave graffiti! The wall now says "i heart Hurley".

I had never gone to French Quarter, so we stopped there for a few minuts. Then went up to Eclipse to meet up with Jilly and the KISS crew. Bounced around there for a while (FYI...you're a dead sexy man Nixon...dead sexy).

So, it turned into a cool night. We spent more time walking than drinking, so it was low-key! lots of fun.

Time to play a game. Here's my bed, covered in clean clothes. but wait...something doesnt belong here...what is it..

find it?

you sure?

here's the answer

there's two couches, three chairs, and a cat bed...WHY DOES SHE SLEEP ON THE CLEAN CLOTHES??? now there's black hairs on all my white shirts. grrr..

Headed downtown yesterday to get some fresh air and enjoy the sights.

Here's the festive cow on the Riverwalk. In Erie, we had frogs all over town... In harrisburg we have cows.

We walked to the capitol, where the fountain is bright-pink.

Yes...bright pink.

We got home and walked into the backyard. ladies and gentlemen...i present the biggest mushroom i've ever seen. I don't think i'd want this on my pizza. Its still in my backyard, i should set up a velvet rope and charge $1 to see it.

After we got back, i wanted to relax. Kinda hard to kick back and relax when Georgie takes over my lap.

We've found a new geeky obsession...i'm playing along with Who Wants to be a Millionaire on gsn.com. you can play along with the game on your computer while it's on the tv. it's even better if you're drinking wine while playing. mmm..wine...

holy crap....this is addictive. we're both yelling at the TV. the actual contestant's name is JIM. he's not the brightest bulb on the tree. He used a lifeline onthe 3rd question. crap...he's gonna lose soon. no, wait! he's making it! DAMMIT! i was doing great all the way up to the 125,000 dollar question, now i'm screwed. apparently i should have watched "tootsie", since that was the question i missed. who watched TOOTSIE??? really???? Dustin Hoffman dressed as a woman??? ugh.

(commercial break)

ok, time to try again...new game. i need to get 600,000 points so they'll put my name on the Top 10 list on TV.

here we go...the first few questions are always easy, and i feel like a certified genius.

wooo..LONDON FOG! corect! DIESEL! correct! MANICURE! correct! CROSS! correct!

LEWIS CARROLL! incorrect!

now Ellie and i are yelling at each other..she just told me the wrong answer and i clicked it...then she changed her mind! fight fight fight! this is why married couples fight...it's not about money or the house...it's because you gave the wrong answer on a gameshow. call dr. phil, here's the root of marital problems.

ok, got the next one right. FAVA BEANS AND CHIANTI! correct!

(commercial break)

What's an indian bread? NAAN! correct!

Who's Betty Shabazz's husband? MALCOLM X! correct!

What baseball hat does Magnum PI wear? TIGERS! correct!'

(i'm not gonna lie...i'm on a roll right now...we're on the big money questions now, $64,000, and this girl is killing me...she wasted two Lifelines and still guessed differently)

WHAT? it's 9pm and the game is over....now i have to go back to the drinking.

Tuesday night we headed out to Mechanicsburg for the Halloween parade!

Riding in the Kiss-Terra

Hanging out with a small cow.

take a step...throw a lollipop...take a step...throw a lollipop...repeat for a mile and a half.

In the immortal words of the Baha Men...who let the dogs out?

Forget it..I'm not walking anymore...i'm a famous DJ, i'm riding. haha

Today, i mourn the loss of a close friend. They haven't been doing well for the last few months...and i knew this day was coming. But it finally happened today. Tim walked into my office and told me the news an hour ago. I'm still speechless. My friend and i have been working together since 1998 in Rochester, and now they're gone.

Yes my friends...today i must bury my friend...my headphones are dead.

Yes, i lost teh little vinyl carrying bad years ago...and i replaced the cord 3 times...but these were still MY headphones...

Let us quietly bow our heads and remember the joy that these headphones have brought me. They were there on my final night in Rochester, as Kobe and I broadcasted live at Gotham City in our pajamas. They were with me in Wilkes-Barre and Philly. They have smelled the warm salt air in Panama City, FL...and even tasted the sweet success of Star in Erie. They lived a full life...and i feel blessed that they have caressed my ears with such sweet music for all these years.

More importantly, now i have to buy another pair of them...and it's a week til payday! dammit!

Looking forward to the weekend, because i'm headed north for a friend's birthday party. We're headed out in the limo for a night of fun in wilkes-barre. Its always fun to go back there. In case you didn't know, i lived in Wilkes-Barre for 2 years (1998-2000) while i worked at 97BHT. I barely ever get back to visit. I'm lucky if i get back once or twice a year. It's really a shame, because i love it up there. Yeah, i know W-B is kinda grimy and run-down, but it's a fun place too..and i've got a bunch of friends there.

Of course, i'll have to drive past my old house (83 dana st!) and see how it looks. God, i miss that place. not that it was really special, but the rent was great! Where else can you rent a 2 bedroom place with a dining room, living room and off-street parking for $375 a month???? That even included heat! Actually, it included too much heat. It had these old radiators that whistled and creaked all winter...and you couldn't turn them off! So i left the windows open in the living room all winter. The place was still hot inside.

I also had the TURKEY HILL on the corner to keep me safe. You see...downtown WB is a little sketchy..haha. The really scary part of town was up the road about a mile, but there was a turkey hill in between that place and my house. I figured that a would-be robber would hold-up the Turkey Hill instead of breaking into my house. That place got robbed every month, yet i never had a problem. see? i wasn't kidding! Turkey Hill kept my 'hood safe.

Is there anything wierder that searching through your colelge alumni on myspace? No..

i was scrolling thru the Mansfield U alumni pages today, and i'm amazed how many people i know, sorta.. i mean....i recognize a batch of faces...but i don't know why. I figured i'd remember almost everyone, since mansfield is such a small college. but no..

i see people and i say "oh..i remember seeing them in the dining hall..." or "i think i had Biology with him my sophomore year". But i have no idea why i remember their faces. it's been 8 years since college, but i still remember some of these people's faces.

I'll keep staring at them, and eventaully i'll figure out why i remember them.

It took almost 4 months, but we're back at it again. We haven't worked on the house in months! I guess we got it nice enough to live in, then gave up on improvements. So after a long sabbatical, we pulled out the drop cloths and rollers and started painting tonight. yeah...oodles of fun.

We've got this huge basement that's just screaming out for paint and a little work. Once it's done, we'll have about double the space we do now.

The stairwell was an ugly mustard yellow. So we threw on a coat of "Innocence" to brighten things up. Sounds like such a pretty color, doesn't it? It's just glorified off-white. Not eggshell..not IVORY....it's INNOCENCE. I bet OFF WHITE doesn't cost 20 bucks a gallon..but INNOCENCE does.

We'll do another coat tomorrow... Then i've gotta do something about that god-awful 1970's wood paneling. Whoever built this house must have owned stock in the "cheesy wood paneling" company. Wow..it's everywhere. Luckily, it paints nicely.

Oh...yeah..i'm wearing a bandana. Have you ever tried to get paint out of your hair?? forget about style, i'm covering my 'fro.