Saturday, April 25, 2009

So, I drove by the fish shop near my house today, right? Sitting next to the front door was a portable grill with a bag charcoal and lighter fluid next to it.

Clearance sale?

- Colin -

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

When I'm out in N.Y. boy it's blunts and Phillies,
When I'm out in L.A. boy it's wraps and swishes.
Now Blood walk to this, now Crips walk to this.
Now throw it up, raise it up for that gangster s***.
Now Blood walk to this, now Crips walk to this.
Now throw it up, raise it up for that gangster s***.

- Fiddy -



Super-Deep Confessions and Questions #1


* Do people still use Live Journal?

* How do color-blind people drive? Do they see the colors on a street light? Is it shades of gray for them?

*There was this stretch during third grade where it was really popular for guys and girls at my school to make little wrist and ankle bracelets out of string.

* Remember the old guy from the New Mickey Mouse Club? Is he dead?


"I got Britney Spears first!"

* You know how there are identical truck stops on each side of a turnpike? I've always liked to think that the workers at, say, each side's McDonalds met up in the middle of the road once a month for an all-out brawl for Ex. 245 supremacy.

* Remember when it was kinda queer to wear a bike helmet as a kid?

* What's your favorite Nelly song? I always liked that Must Be The Money song. You know you enjoyed his pop-friendly rhymes and his backwards jerseys. Admit it and be free.

* I write a weekly baseball/softball column for my paper and I haven't covered a baseball or softball game going on two weeks. I like to think no one's noticed.

* Remember Orbitz soda? What were those things floating in it?


"Orbitz: The Drink With Balls."

* What's the white equivalent to the high-top fade?

* Last night, I drank two cups of coffee at 10pm to stay up and then drank two cups of Sleepy Time Extra tea at 1am to go to bed.

* I'll probably do that again tonight.


Cheers,
[Colin]

Thursday, April 16, 2009

He's gonna take you back to the past
To play the sh**** games that suck ass
He'd rather have a buffalo
Take a diarrhea dump in his ear
He'd rather eat the rotten a******
Of a road killed skunk and down it with beer
He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard...


- Angry Video Game Nerd -

It's amazing what you can get done when you're not playing video games.

Things have been so weird at my paper lately. Since it's the spring season in Northeast Ohio, constant rain has really jammed a tree branch in the spokes of the baseball and softball season. Because area fields are in a constant state of flooding, Colin doesn't have any games to cover. Because Colin doesn't have any games to cover, Colin gets paid for a day's work without doing much *actual* work.



"Excellent!"

...Not so much.

Because of my windfall of free time, I've been really digging into my back catalog of games. I'm a bit of a story nerd (It's a dark shame that dates back to my "shopping in the husky isle" days), so most of the games I haven't gotten to are crazy Japanese role-playing games of the 40-50 hour variety.

Games Colin Has Beaten In The Past Two Weeks or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Using My New HDTV

  • Suikoden V
  • Metal Gear Solid 3
  • Metal Gear Solid 4
  • Lost Odyssey
  • Resident Evil 5
  • Prince of Persia


Anyway, long story short, I finished Metal Gear Solid 4 last night (*great* game, by the way. I really want to make a post that touches on what makes that such an interesting experience...So, if my past is any indication, 2012 should be a good look-out date for that one) and realized that I don't really have anything left to play.

Let me tell ya...I got so much done today because of that.

Things Colin Did Because He Didn't Have Any Games or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Accomplishing Things

  • Created a Linked In profile
  • Dusted off my blog (twice!)
  • Re-designed my blog (twice!)
  • Made a pie crust from scratch
  • Made a Sweedish Apple pie with that pie crust
  • Did my laundry
  • Learned four new chords on my guitar
  • Mailed *two* packages
  • Bought a domain site for my *professional* resume (www.colin-harris.com)


Go me!
Wow...

I registered Diary of a Stupid Boy over a *year* ago and this is the first update I've made to it. That's what I call dedication.

Anyway, if you read through some of the ancient posts I made when I was in college, I'm just going to use this site as a way to post ideas, thoughts, criticisms and observations I make about the things I see. I get paid to write about sports for a living, but that's not what makes me tick. Hopefully, though this blog, any reader who stumbles here by accident can get an idea of what I'm actually all about.

Or most of what I write here will just be an elaborate lie.

Probably that.



Boom, baby.