Today was a waste...
(besides poolball and Sean + I winning in Warcraft)
posted by Rob at 10:27 PM

Gym today... arms hurt.

Jeremy and MikeV rocking out at the gazebos... awesome shiznit.

Pizza Hut... really delicious.

Night time... crap.

Home... mastered beating the cpus in Warcraft. Happy Rob.
posted by Rob at 2:10 AM

Signed up for the gym today with Petryszyn.

Played some basetball... and once again MikeV and MikeP got into a fight.
It wasn't a "real fight" though, just a dumb argument about getting the ball. It was very lame. Those two idiots have the dumbest fights with each other. It's so pathetic, and when they're fighting... all they do is make fun of each other. They don't even throw a couple of punches, but it's wierd because after a while, they're friends again. Call it wierd, i just call it flat out stupid. But this always keep me and jermz entertained with thier comments on each other and so forth...

Played some frisbee at the park while some cheerleaders were having some sort of practice. Well, there weren't just some... there were soo many of them! They were everywhere... but we continued to throw the frisbee. The funniest thing was when there was this little black kid who had a comment for everything. He was really really funny, cuz we couldn't understand what he was saying. The kid said this after listening to a cheer... "Where'd they get that cheer from? The gas station?" MikeV did the best impression of the little kid, just mumbling really loud... but this was very funny.

Afterwards... did nothing like usual. Petryszyn wasn't talking for most of the day for his own personal reasons. It was really funny, because we're not used to him not talking, and the responses he gave to us when we asked him something was just hilarious.

That's it for that day...
posted by Rob at 1:37 AM

Played pooball... cancelled cuz of rain.
posted by Rob at 12:21 AM

Woke up late and wasn't able to watch the Platters at the park today. As i stayed home lying lazily on my couch, ESPN Classics were playing Game 7 of the 1994 Stanly Cup Finals game between the NY Rangers and the VAN Canucks. This was the absolute greatest Stanley Cup Game ever!! Well after that i went to Phil's house to watch wrestling.
- Phil has a fishbowl with 2 goldfish in disgusting, dirty water that looks like piss.
- The temperature in the room with his PS2 has to be around 30 degrees cuz i was freezing my ass off in there. I had to take a blanket just to feel a little better.
- Watched wrestling... i haven't watched that for a long time and i forget how humorous the whole thing is.
- Call around 10:15 and George ordered pizza at Dominoes. Just to listen to George place an order on the phone was hilarious and i couldn't help but to laugh extremely loud. Since laughing is contagious, George laughed too. The guy on the phone thought George was laughing at him. Therefore, he delivered the pizza in 50 minutes and took our breadsticks away.
- The IceBreakers Mints have the absolute coolest plastic container for any mints in the world! On one end, there's a small opnening so you can shake it and only one mint will pop out. On the other side, there's a larger opening where you can take several mints out to share with people. That's the work of a genius!
- Threw a box of tissues at George. The sharp corner hit him and he flipped out, throwing himself into the door. Apparently, that hurt much more than the box hurt so he fell to the ground. George is too dramatic.
GOODNIGHT
posted by Rob at 3:20 AM

Forgot to mention what happened at the chess tables during the carnival. Me, Jermz, and MikeV went to sit down and rest our legs. Along and about comes this 4 year old kid who claims his name is DK. Jermz then responds with "You're Donkey Kong?" The kid just laughs. MikeV said his name was TJ... but he was wrong. Anyway, me and him were playing some invisible checkers, and he seemed to have beaten me a million times, except this one time where he let me win. He was one crazy mofo... but he left a smile on all of our faces once we realized he was Sharon Taras' brother...
posted by Rob at 2:00 AM

Let's see...
- Went to Guitar Center. Tested out acoustic guitars and saw one fender and one martin that i really liked. I'll probably get one soon.
- Went to Best Buy and bought a video card for my stupid cpu just so Warcraft will start werking.
- Ate a really good piece of steak for dinner. One of the best i ever had.
- Went to the carnival, watched as Mike was tricked into playing the carnival's games.
- Crazy things happened while watching the Frog Leap game.
1. We found out the odds of winning a small prize for that game is 1 out of 50.
2. We found out the odds of winning a big prize for that game is 0 out of 100.
3. Three crazy girls came up and yelled out some mumbled jumble that none of us could make any sense out of. Really funny stuff.
4. Furino comes up and while talking on the phone, he pokes me twice, and then he just walks away. Weird...
5. Petryszyn comes from no where with a bag of homemade popcorn. Then he wasted $4 on teh Frog Leap game.
6. Mike dropped the lemon in his lemonade on the floor and we watched very intensely as people would step on the fruit.
- Went to play the game where you roll 6 golf balls and try to meet a certain number... Petryszyn threw the ball too hard and hit the old lady behind the counter. Very similiar to an incident that happened an hour before when Jeremy threw the ball too hard and the old lady had to get the ball. She was very upset and yeld at us while we walked away.
- Went to Blockbuster to play some frisbee football. The game went well until we got tired.
- Sat on Jeremy's steps and MikeV told us a funny story... "This time, me and Alex Csedrik went in the make-out room with each other in teh Youth Center." The gang had some words to say about this, and MikeV didn't appreciate that. Our punishment was MikeV not telling us the rest of the story.
THE END
posted by Rob at 1:46 AM

I played some tennis against Mike Petryszyn. I think out of around 10 games we played... he won only 2, so i guess i did pretty good. Then the carnival tonight. It was pretty cool... it was extremely funny to see Phil with that giant watergun. Oh man was that hilarious. Well... goodbye
posted by Rob at 12:56 AM

Baenz throws a pitch to Torii Hunter.

Torii Hunter falls down in pain.

The managers come out knowing that something might explode within the next few seconds.

Torii gets up very mad.

Torii picks up the baseball and pegs the pitcher in the left leg.

Torii and the pitcher share fighting words as they separate.

The benches clear, but there was no brawls.

Torii gets ejected and most likely will get fined.
posted by Rob at 2:10 AM

I instant messaged some people with "roar!!!!"
The answers each person gave me tell me a little something about them...

Robish27DF: roar!!!!
JeremySissman: whoa
(Jeremy gets scared easily)

Robish27DF: roar!!!!!
romeosatan: grrrrrrr!!!!!
(george fights back at times)

Robish27DF: roar!!!!!
alkaline33333333: glassjaw - ape dos mil
alkaline33333333: holy fuck man
(kelly's has only one thing on his mind... glassjaw)

Robish27DF: roar!!!!!
KyUtEAnGeL675: lol
(marissa laughs too much)

Robish27DF: roar!!!!!
mrt103p: ya
(tar tar agrees with everything. Even when you don't ask him a question.)

Robish27DF: roar!!!!
DuDe942: -yawn-
(digney...yet again... says another stupid thing.)

Besides that... the Mount Carmel Parade was today. 17 pathetic band members marched around 2 blocks and played the same 3 songs over and over again. Ehh... total waste of my time, but i got $20. Not too shabby...
posted by Rob at 11:12 PM

Watching some Robin Williams on HBO. Stand up commedy is funny shiznit.
posted by Rob at 10:33 PM

Went to Met game today... To clear everything up:
I AM NOT A YANKEE FAN
I AM NOT A MET FAN
I DON'T LIKE ANY TEAM
I DON'T HATE ANY TEAM
I AM A BASEBALL FAN!

Good... lemme just write about the exciting Met game...

Today the first 3500 peepz who came got a cool Mike Piazza t-shirt. So everyone wanted Piazza to do good cuz it'll just be a good story-line to follow. Well that didn't matter, the struggling Mets fell behind with poor pitching from Shawn Estes. Meanwhile, the Philies had their ace on the mound, Vincente Padilla. By the 5th inning, the Philies had a 3-0, and added some more heavy hitting the next inning to take a 6-1 lead.
The game was far from over. The Philies have such an awful bullpen, they needed Padilla to pitch as long as he could, which was a mistake. Alfonzo hit a solo HR to get the score to 6-2. The Mets weren't done. During the 8th inning (where the Mets seem to score a lot of their runs) they scored another pair of runs. Philies were unable to come back with more insurance runs, so to the bottom of the 9th the Mets went. With men on first and second, Cedeno hit a single to score in a run and left a runner on third. Then Mesa threw a wild pitch the the tieing run scored. Mets then blew many other chances to win the game.
Top of the 12th, Philies had the heart of their lineup to the plate... Burrell, Rolen, and Lee. Burrell (4-7, 7 BBs and about 7 RBIs in the last 3 games against the Mets) was walked in 4 straight pitches. Any play where Burrell doesn't hit the ball out of the park is a victory in the Met's eyes. Rolen then gets a single. With 0 outs, Lee hits one that land in center/right field and drives Burrell home with ended up being the Game Winning Run.
This was a very intense game that had many events... players colliding with each other, wild pitches, arguments with the umpires, and awful decisions by managers. This was the longest baseball game i went to. Cool.
posted by Rob at 1:19 AM

In a chat room is very funny...
The dumb people shall have their rights protected, therefore you will not be given their complete sn...

TheDr******2: Toretto why are smart (Sounds like a MikeP comment)
HuR*****07: robish is rite (I love it when i'm right. Cuz he said this... he's far from dumb)
AI*****e08: HE LIVES IN A CARBORD MANSION (Another genius thing to say)
Man****8: who likes to eat sticks of butter? (are you kidding me?)

Yea... well besides this, i played poolball today. Also, played some basketball. Fun stuff.
posted by Rob at 11:51 PM

Pre-Emptive Stryke had an interesting jamming session today. We went over only a few of our old stuff, and everything went pretty smoothly. Then we were trying out Mike's new song when Kelly told us all he had to take a crap.
Kelly's bad bathroom experience...
George has a small, broken down bathroom in his basement, and that's where Kelly bolted to. Kelly soon discovered that taking a crap would be more difficult than he ever imagined. First off, Kelly opened the bathroom door and it fell onto poor, innocent Kelly. Still having the incredible urge to go to the bathroom, Kelly warned us he would still go with the door open. Kelly then closed the wooden window and closed the broken door. The rest of us tried to play another new song when we heard an awful crash. We checked and saw the wooden door half way in the bathroom and half way out. We asked if we should help him with the door, but he yelled out that whoever did would see more than they would ever want to see of Kelly. We left him alone for a couple more minutes until we heard him yelling, "I NEED TOILET PAPER!" Apparently, Kelly did not look before he did his business and found himself without any toilet paper. So Mike had to be brave and walked with caution next to the broken door that Kelly was holding close to retrieve the TP that Kelly needed. After everything was over, Kelly left us with the nasty stench of Kelly's doo doo.
posted by Rob at 9:36 PM

Poolball (7.10.02)

*Web Gems*

Jeremy - was standing in the middle of the ladder waiting for the ball to find his way. Joe answered his call by smashing the ball directly into HR territory. With less than a second to react, Jeremy stuck out his arm and hit the ball to prevent a definate HR.

Sean - Playing right field against Petryszyn, he knew his only strategy was to hit the long bombs over the upper deck. Petryszyn proved Sean right as he hit a towering bomb toward the upper deck. Sean was prepared for this and climbed the deck without fear. With complete extension of his arms, he managed to tip the ball to fair territory. He jumped down off the deck and amazingly caught the ball with ease.

Sean/Rob - Again, Petryszyn was up to bat, and Sean (with one foot on the deck ready to climb it to rob Petryszyn) was ready to try and repeat his "god-like" play. Surprisingly, Petryszyn didn't hit the ball soaring over the deck, but he hit a bullet to low right field. Sean tried to react quickly, but was unable to stop the ball, but miraculously, the ball with the edge of the pool and popped straight up. As Sean leaned into the pool, not expecting the ball to pop straight up in the air, he smacked the ball to Rob while falling into the pool. Rob, who was slipping on the ramp in the pool, struggled to catch the ball. He was able to reach out and tip the ball straight up in the air, and after he retained his balance, easily caught the ball.

*Bloopers*

Joe - Running for a foul ball hit by Rob. He wasn't able to catch the ball, but he was running so hard, he didn't stop until another 10 more paces. Joe, being the tall kid he's known to be, didn't see the birdcage hanging from the low tree and smacked his head right into the cage. Poor Joe, but Joe didn't weep. There's no crying in poolball.

Mike/Jeremy - helped Rob out with 2 HRs as both of these intense fielders fought for fly balls. Their lack of communication caused a routine fly ball catch to become a major error and a HR for Rob.

*Highlight*

MikeV - with one more inning to go and still scoreless in HRs, tricked the whole defense with his strategy. He yelled out "I'm going to be the first one to strike out on fouls." Everyone believed him and edged closer to Mike to make an easy foul ball catch. Mike, with 3 fouls against him, executed his plan perfectly and shot the ball directly into right field for his first HR of the day!
posted by Rob at 2:17 PM

A rude awakening from Jeremy this afternoon around 2pm.
Going to play some P-Ball
posted by Rob at 2:29 PM

Went swimming in the scorching 92 degrees weather. Played some poolball, then some water football. Me and MikeV owned Jermz and weak Petryszyn! Afterwards we watched the HR derby. Bruno's was good, but all that football made me really really tired. I'm just sitting here right now with no intention to move any time soon. If i move, i would be spending too much energy that i want to, therefore, motion is not an option for my agenda. Well, i'm just gonna sit here for a couple of more hours then off to dreamland i go.
posted by Rob at 12:13 AM

Went to Vivenzio's house and played some All-Star Baseball 2003. Afterwards, just jammed with Jerms. He played the guitar and i played the keyboard. Then we walked to Petryszyn's house and played more All-Star Baseball. Then we attempted to play man hunt, but that didn't work out too well. Then we played UNO. This was when MikeP started acting insane. No, that word doesn't suffice to the way he acted at this time. Maybe... crazy, out of his mind, wacky, completely stupid, idiotic, and just plain dumb will explain a portion of his actions. He wouldn't speak english, but he wasn't speaking another real language. I think he was speaking "Michael Petrysyn", whatever the hell that is. He would say things like, "You hair smeller" as a diss. Anyway, no one won the game, because we were obviously playing the game completely wrong. So after a lot of frustration for 1.5 hours, we gave up. But then we played some hardcore Pictionary! Even though my team always lost, i think we should've won if we didn't have to land exactly on the freakin "finish" spot.
posted by Rob at 1:30 AM

There's nothing good on tv.

Going to a buffet place with my family.

posted by Rob at 12:34 PM

7.04.02

Game Two of the Double Header on Opening Day...

Results...
1st-Rob, MikeP
3rd-MikeV
4th-Sean
5th-Jeremy

In this game we used a foreign beach ball that MikeV brought. Since Sean busted the one we used earlier, we had to go with our last resort. There were complaints from all directions in this game... complaints about the ball, the lack of energy, Petryszyn hitting the most HRs, and other senseless arguments. Surprisingly MikeP hit the most HRs. Maybe this was because he was the most fresh out of everyone, or maybe it's becuase he finally found his HR swing. After this game ended, everyone was fed up with poolball at the time being.


posted by Rob at 12:58 AM

Went to Jeremy's today and first we played some b-ball. Then after that we played an intense game of Hide and Seek. The only problem is that Jeremy's dog, Shadow, ruined the game. The person who had to find the others would always call on Shadow and tell him to find where everyone else was. I think this was a form of cheating, but it was still mucho fun. After this we watched some cop program and then went to the park and played football. Me, Mike, Mike, and Jermz had some interesting conversations with Coughlin and WooWoo. They are two really messed up kids. We were very dissapointed that we didn't videotape them, but there's always tomorrow!
posted by Rob at 12:53 AM

Check out Jeremy's kick ass blog at www.magichobgobblin.blogspot.com
posted by Rob at 1:21 AM

Carucci throws football at Vivenzio.
MikeV - "You jerkyhead."
posted by Rob at 5:18 PM

Game 1 continued...
Rob - started off with a bang hitting 5 HRs in the first 2 innings, but struggled the rest of his way with a total of 9 HRs in 7 innings. To compensate for his lack of HRs, Rob played spectacular defense with 15 caught balls. Rob is the most dangerous when playing left/right field because of his "heads up" plays and his mighty quickness to catch the foul balls.
MikeV - Mike struggled on offense like usual, and was shaky on defense as well. Even though Mike had many caught balls he made a few, but costly, errors. *Errors* Rob hit a tricky fly ball to left field where Mike calmly waited for it to drop. As the wet and slippery ball came close to Mike, he reached out and tried to grab it. Since Mike's hands were also slippery and wet, the ball just slipped right through his arms and a HR was tallied for Rob. Another fly ball into foul territory and Mike was on his horses to catch this one. While running, Mike grabbed the ball between his hands, but then he knocked the ball free from himself with his knee and the ball dropped which could've been 2 outs. Instead is counted for 0 outs.
Odie - hit a lot of good, solid hit. The problem... they were hit to the wrong people. Rob stole about 4 HRs, and MikeV stole quite a few. His defense wasn't any better either. Odie was unfamiliar with the "curve" the ball has when it is hit. *Errors* Rob hit a smashing line drive right to Odie. With his quick reflexes, he quickly got into his "catching" position. The hard hit ball found its way through Odie's arms, and into HR territory. Sean yelled at Odie because of this error, but Odie defended himself by saying the ball was hit too hard. With Odie on the diving board and Sean in right field, Rob knew exactly where not to drive the ball to, but accidentally hit it there anyway. Sean jumped in too quick, but still managed to tip the ball straight up in the air. While in the deep end, Sean hit the ball in the air again. The ball bounced off of a lot of things, maybe the deck and maybe the edge of the pool. While all of this was going on, Odie was simply watching everything without trying one bit to catch the ball. The ball ended up landed next to Odie, and that was Sean's last straw to keep cool at Odie.
posted by Rob at 1:48 PM

OPENING DAY FOR POOLBALL!!!
July 4th... 2:30
The Players:
Mike V.
Jeremy Sissman
Sean Sissman
Odie
Rob Eng
Mike Petryszyn

Game 1...
Sean - Ended up in first after the first game with a 0.5 lead over his little brother Jeremy. *Web Gem* Sean pitched a perfect ball to MikeV. He got the bat way under the ball and it flew high in the sky. Like all poolball members know, catching a high fly ball is no easy task. It's difficult figuring out the timing and the altitude of the ball, plus the wind factor, and it's easy to get fooled. Sean backed his way to the deep end until his head was buried deep into the water, with both his arms flailing in the air. Amazingly the ball found it's way between Sean's arms and that was the ending of MikeV's at bat.
Jeremy - Jeremy had a strong first game, hitting a lot of bombs off of pitcher Rob. Jeremy's a power hitter, and shows off his muscle by smacking the ball over the fielders' heads and onto the upper deck portion. Jeremy's offense is pretty much the only way he can rack up the points, since the ball usually strays away from his spectacular defense. Call it unlucky, or just call it smart because a ball hit to Jeremy usually ends up in 2 outs.
posted by Rob at 2:16 AM

Mike Petryszyn - "SHUT YOUR IDIOTS YOU MORONS!"
posted by Rob at 12:56 AM

Robish27DF: did u see the fireworks
alkaline33333333: nooooo
alkaline33333333: its no the 4th
Robish27DF: yea, but the fireworks were today in this crazy town
alkaline33333333: wtf
posted by Rob at 11:09 PM

I just remembered a cool thing from yesterday about the Get Up Kids that i forgot to post. First off, the keyboard player was wearing this awesome Adidas hat plus a cool Harry Potter shirt. The other thing is during the second song, he cut either his ring finger or his index finger. It wasn't just a regular cut, it was pretty bad. He put a piece of towelling over the wound, and taped it up real good. Matt Pryor asked out loud, "How the hell do you hurt yourself playing the keyboard." He was hardcore, cuz he kept playing the keyboard and at the end he stage dived into the center of the crowd. Crazy stuff...
posted by Rob at 1:43 PM

7.02.02 - Roseland Ballroom, NYC.
Hot Rod Circuit
Superchunk
Get Up Kids

Me,Kelly,Jermz,and Mike had no problem getting to NYC via train, path, and subway. Once in NYC, we ate at McDonald's on Broadway Ave. Me,Jermz,and Kelly couldn't find the bathroom there (that's because it was hidden). Well, after we released our wastes, we found our ws to the Roseland Ballroom. After waiting on a line for 20 minutes, we found out that we were in the wrong line and would have to go to the end of the other line to get in. Luckily, that line was empty. We got in, and for the first time being in this place, it surprised me. It was a large place, with a big stage, dozens of lights, huge-ass speakers, and a giant floor.
Hot Rod Circuit - were the first band. We sat down in the back on a couch where we listened and watched the mediocre band play. I only really liked one song they played, and besides that they were a waste of time. Once they finished, the only good thing to think about was, "only one more band until the get up kids."
Superchunk - the lame describes how bad they were. When you think you couldn't get worse than hot rod circuit, well superchunk filled in the spot very well. They were bad, and what made it worse is they played for 50 minutes! To top that off, their last song was a cover song off of Destiny Child's, "Say My Name." It was the worst version in the entire galaxy. But they left and that meant... it's time for the Get Up Kids!
The Get Up Kids - The headlining band... awesome stuff. They played a lot of awesome stuff. Songs that i can remember: Valentine, 10 Minutes, Overdue, Holiday, High as the Moon, Don't Hate Me, I'm a Loner Dottie, a Rebel... and a lot more. They finished thier set, but the fans weren't going anywhere! After waiting 5 minutes with occasions of cheers and applause, The Get Up Kids were back. They played "Out Of Reach" and ended the show indefinately with "Walking on a Wire". The Get Up Kids once again were amazing, and i hope the Kansas City group will come back to the tri-state area in the near future.

Funny story while my mom was driving us all home. For MikeV's dad's birthday a couple years back, he bought him a card that was written in spanish, a trophy with "World's Greatest Dad" written on it. To top off this very thoughtful birthday gift, he bought him a "Ways to become a better father" book. What was he thinking!!!! If i was his father, i would think of this gift as a major insult to his methods of parenting. The trophy would make me conclude that MikeV's a very confused boy. And the spanish card would just make me think that MikeV's a total wacko. Well, everyone made fun of this for more than half the car ride back, besides talking about rap and hockey. MikeV didn't appreciate much of the suggestions we were giving him, but it was fun. Goodnight...

Mike Sweeney is a baseball God again.
posted by Rob at 1:36 AM

Poolball... called off due to Joe's stomach pains
posted by Rob at 1:20 AM

First day of Poolball season!!!!
Players:
Mike
Rob
Jermz
Joe
Sean

"...and the home of the brave."
PLAYBALL!!!
posted by Rob at 2:02 PM

Rob: You were born in the Bronx right?
George: Damnit! No i wasn't.
Rob: That's why you're all ghetto.
George: Mike was born in the Bronx, that's why he's gay ghetto.
posted by Rob at 1:55 PM