Showing posts with label world cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world cup. Show all posts

Thursday, June 24, 2010

12 - June 24, 2010


Initial Impressions
Christopher Setterlund

June 24, 2010

1.      To all of the girls checking me out at the gym, think of me as the NFL, you need 2 years of college before I am interested.  Been waiting a while to bust that one out.
2.      Something is starting to come over me, I might actually be turning into a soccer fan.  Maybe not looney like the ones who’d kill a player for a mistake, but a normal fan none the less.
3.      Imagine, the U.S. winning its group in the World Cup for the first time since 1930 while Italy and France go home.  There might not be a title coming but I’ll bet it will be a great ride.
4.      To all of those who watch The Office, I feel like I am Jim.  My life is eerily following the show.  I feel like I am here right now: The Office: Season 2 Episode 22 - Casino Night
Where it goes from there is all up to whoever is writing my life.
5.      Honestly, some guys at the gym just don’t realize how much of a tool they are.  Some white trash guy today with his gold chains on making a point to shout out his rap music as he walks around the gym.  Wow he needed a dumbbell upside his head.
6.      Okay there has been a lot of debate about this on WEEI but here are the facts.  It is Papelbon with an ‘N,’ not Papelbom, damn you idiots can’t you read the back of his jersey? 
7.      It’s not everyday that you see a turtle in your yard.  He was coming up the driveway as I was leaving, so I snapped a few shots of him and then carried him out back since that was where he was heading.  Haven’t seen him since, hope I didn’t get him eaten by a hawk or something.
8.      When I say my life is like a Seinfeld episode it is for things like this.  Go to Subway for dinner, pull into the lot and there are two girls fighting.  One fat one yelling she owed her money from the bar across the street, the skinny one trying to get into some apartment.  Some old white-haired guy tried to break it up, all we needed was a ‘Jerry, Jerry!’ chant.  Dinner and a show, the cops came but I don’t know what the ending was.
9.      Dr. Tim answers your questions: “What’s the difference between cooking with salted or unsalted butter?”  A: “One has salt, the other doesn’t.”  Thanks Dr. Tim.
10.  You ever look up and realize you have sort of gone off the tracks?  Been a hectic month or so and I just realized this fact.  It’s all about focus, someone I know says that ‘if you want to get to where you want to, you have to be selfish.’  Amen.
11.  Getting stir crazy not traveling the past few weeks, next week comes Gloucester Part II, along with probably Ipswich and one other spot.  Can’t freakin’ wait!
12.  The washing machine I use is a liar, it took about 20 minutes for it to count 5 minutes.  Liar!  Maybe it’s evil?  Or like if Forrest Gump was a washing machine?  ‘I am not a smart machine, but I know what clean is.’  Whatever.
13.  Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson.  I was one that was able to keep his personal oddities separate from his musical genius.  No matter what people think of him there is no denying that he is one of the greatest musical talents to ever live.  He was also a huge part of my childhood, rest in peace MJ.
Quote of the Day: “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience.” - Anonymous
Photo of the Day: A turtle in the driveway.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

11 - June 20, 2010


Initial Impressions
Christopher Setterlund

June 20, 2010

1.      So I spent nearly 72 hours without television in my new place, tried everything possible to get the cable to work.  Turns out that I had the TV hooked into a cable outlet that had no power, that made me feel really smart.
2.      I find it humorous that a 50-something man from Haiti who speaks almost no English, and a 50-something man from Brazil who speaks almost no English can somehow carry on hours of conversation.  What the hell do they say?  No. Yes. Busy. No good.  Stimulating.
3.      Am starting to believe that mosquitoes plan their days around when I will be getting in and out of my car at my new place.  They come out of nowhere when I hit the car, maybe there are alarms going off at their nests with me on a big screen.
4.      Today I was trying to get the Italy/New Zealand World Cup game on TV at work.  Messed around with the remote but got no picture on the screen.  Finally figured it out and got a picture, it was the On Demand porn section.  Being guys of course we checked out all the titles, but I stopped short of ordering when I realized even though they agreed the guys would point the finger at me as the trigger man.
5.      It is incredible that we have reached the point where all of the 80’s movies and television are being remade. Transformers, A-Team, Karate Kid, Smurfs, Fraggle Rock, Thundercats, GI Joe, and now Pac Man.  Feel like I am 8 years old again, but the Mannequin remake, uh we can do without that.
6.      Which would you rather have to deal with pollen or humidity?  Man I’d settle for 60 degrees and pollen rather than clear air 85 and sticky.
7.      You need to exercise great patience and be willing to wait for something you really want.
8.      I know that the beaches become free again sometime after 5, but when do these gate keepers arrive in the morning?  I mean if I got there before them there’s nothing they could do, right?  I am going to go to the beach at 6am and see who’s there.
9.      So I woke up after the disappointing end to the Celtics Game 7 and suddenly realized the Red Sox have the 3rd best record in baseball.  Guess the stories of them being dead and buried were false.
10.  Heard Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ today, just have to wonder how you follow up a song that ends up being one of the most famous ever?  Should you just retire, or make inferior music and damage your rep?
11.  Wishing a Happy Father’s Day to my Dad, Jack, my Grampa, Sully, and my stepdad, Serpa. 
Maui Quote of the Day: - being asked if he wanted some Italian bread for a sub – “Do I look Italian? F*ck the French!”
Do You Remember?:  Odd 1980’s Cereals – OJ’s Cereal, Rocky Road Cereal, Circus Fun, Ice Cream Cones, Nintendo Cereal
Photo of the Day: Wellfleet Harbor