Personal training, shopping, darts, tree

Monday, October 10th, 2005: Yesterday, woke up and we drove to Astoria for Jammie’s personal training. I got to sit around for an hour, watching her punch and sweat all over the place which was actually entertaining. Stopped by the house, then went to little India for some Indian food. Did some random shopping. I bought SHOES! Baconstrips will be proud of me, Spessa will not. I got Jammie to pick out a pair for me since I lack any fashion sense. (Well maybe I don’t lack it, I just don’t care.) We tried to visit a $5.00 psychic but she was closed for the day. Even though she had her door open and all the flashing lights on outside. We later tried to visit some other psychic but she was on vacation. Damn psychics are avoiding us.

Stopped by Blockbuster and rented a few movies. Came home and watched Crash which was excellent. Then we went on a walk. Which turned into a really long walk. Which eventually evolved into going to a bar for a couple of hours and playing darts. I’ve never played darts before so Jammie showed me how all the scoring works and I KICKED HER ASS. Well actually it was a very close game but I did manage to win, I’m sure by luck since I generally suck at everything. We each had 4 beers by the time we left but Jammie claims I had more like 5 of them because she kept switching our bottles to make me drink more. I only caught her at this once when I almost dropped a bottle, expecting it to be light when it was really heavy.

Stumbled around the corner to some restaurant. Had some really great waffles, bacon and eggs. I forget what Jammie had but I think fries were involved. Walked home which took about 20 – 30 minutes. I had some minor issues with walking and failed each time I tried to convince Jammie that I didn’t. Fell asleep soon after arriving home.

Today I plan to wander around the city, probably in search of a Barnes & Noble, while Jammie works for a half day.

8:18pm – Rode with Jammie to work, had breakfast with her at McDonald’s, then wandered around the city as planned. Got a little work done in the park at City Hall. Walked around Washington Square, visited random shops, found a book store and bought H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds (I really want to read that since I saw the movie) and some biography of Adam & Eve by Mark Twain. I’m really into the Mark Twain thing lately.

After work we headed home and as we were walking from the train to Jammie’s car, we noticed a group of kids throwing things up into a tree to try and get their shoes, which were stuck near the top of the tree, down. We decided to sit on some steps across the street and watch the action. This lasted about 30 minutes as they threw every thing imgineable into the tree, trying to make the shoes fall down.

They were taking long 1×2 boards, found in some nearby trash and throwing them up into the tree and narrowly missing hitting each other everytime a board would fall to the ground. Then they started stacking wood up against the tree and climbing up it. They stood on the edge of a deck, throwing balls into the tree, then another kid would run into the road to retrieve the ball. I’ve never witnessed so many unsafe things happening all at once! At one point, they had 3 of their shoes stuck in the tree because they kept throwing shoes up to make other shoes fall. Eventually, after 30 minutes of us watching, they got them all down and we left.

Here’s a kid throwing a shoe at the shoe in the tree	Getting a few inches of air as he throws a board into the tree	Kicking a soccer ball into the tree
Standing on a homemade ladder, reaching for the shoe with a broom		Success finally! One kid picks up the last shoe while another cheers

Went home, then out to eat at some diner in Queens. Back home to watch Billy Madison, then to see a comedy show at a place called Upright Citizens Brigade around 11pm. Picked up a friend of Jammies, then met a few more of them at the show. I finally got to meet the infamous Antonio, a friend of Jammies who I hear a lot about. The show was completely free and we sure got what we paid for! I’ve seen plenty of amatuer standup and improv, but some of these people were awful. I did enjoy it though. Overall. They had a couple of pretty good standup acts. Some organizer of the show came out and actually bragged about being associated somehow with the Carrot Top movie Chairman of the Bored. And one of the acts involved 2 girls coming out and ranting on about charity in valley girl speak. That was, by far, the suckiest part of the suckage. But really, it was all pretty entertaining and we had fun. And Jammie managed to fit a nap into the whole thing.