my moral standing is lying down

As I'm sure several of you have experienced today -- Sean the Stampede must be insanely bored over in Nashville. He randomly texted me and as I happened to have been in Nashville on business for a week a few years ago, I told him about a bar I went to where they had amateur boxing. Wise? Maybe not.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I cannot for the life of me remember the stupid name of this bar. I've tried to look it up online but still can't find it! It certainly may have closed by now -- who knows how long bars last in Nashville?

In any case, I came across a bar that could be it -- Bar Nashville -- so I sent him the address.

At the very least -- the internets say that they offer 3 beers for the price of one on Friday nights!

Maybe that wasn't the best thing to tell him....

Most of the costume stuff is done. Some minor things left to do. And the hats. Those are slightly more than minor, but I find myself unable to care too much at this point. So, I guess if you see Kindom Hearts Heartless mushrooms going around with what looks like colored pillows on their heads, that's us.

These are some really good images of what we're supposed to look like:
Rare Truffle (Liz)
White Mushroom (me)
Black Fungus (Angelica)
Original (Maryann)

I'm probably going to be up really late tonight, and we're leaving around 7am from my house tomorrow.

And yes, I'm babbling again.

*sigh* I really don't want to pack for both Otakon and Nashville. T_T;

I spoke with Raquel this morning and she's definitely able to come. She actually got approval for her leave request while I was on the phone with her. She doesn't have the money for the flight costs right now, so I said I could lend it to her and she could pay me back. $250 isn't that much when you know you can trust the other person to pay you back. ^^ Besides, I know where she lives. So I just booked her flight -- lucky her; she has two non-stop flights from LGA! She's going to get home earlier on Friday night than I will! =Þ

bishsticks, if you'd like to meet up for dinner or such, let me know ~ maybe there's a shopping center we can meet up in, or whatever ~ so I can take that into account for renting a car. =D

I forgot to mention that I dropped my camera late last week (that day that I took a pic of my green shoes). At first it would... stutter, for lack of a better word, whenever the optical zoom extended or retracted. Since last night, however, the LCD screen won't turn on at all and it keeps clicking like a broken record after extending most of the way. So, I've been trying to get Liz to call or visit a camera repair shop for the past several days to get an estimate on the cost of repairing it. She's going to take it somewhere today for a free estimate.

Otherwise, I've already bought a new camera on ebay. There were only three Sony cameras (I really like Sony cameras) that fit my requirements of size/comfort/gadgetry/cost. I ended up getting the W5 -- I think the only difference between the W5 and the one Angelica has (which is the W1, I think) is that it has 32mb internal memory, but you know, I don't know how much of a good thing that is -- I wouldn't be able to take that 32mb memory "card" out of the camera to put it in another one, etc. =( On the other hand, it still takes the Memory Stick™ instead of the Memory Stick Duo™ (heehee, Duo), so I can use my current memory card with it. I really like the T33, except for the size of it (a bit too tall), the fact that it has no finger rest (so I'm sure to drop it), it doesn't have selectable focus (which is really weird), and that you have to use Memory Stick PRO Duo™ in order to record with audio. (What a weird camera.) And! The T33 has a lithium-ion battery, I believe, which although very nice, cannot be replaced with emergency AA batteries! So yeah.

Friday night was cool -- Angelica's birthday, we went to my house, then Uno's, then to play pool. I really love playing pool with friends, but Angelica and I have to make a date to go play pool together sometime 'cause I get so aggravated having to wait my turn. Besides, there's more of a tension between two people 'cause there's a bit more competition going on. ^^ It was me, Liz, Will, Maryann, Raquel, and of course, Angelica. It was pretty cool that Raquel was able to come and hang out. We all had a really nice time.

I was able to update everyone (who didn't already know, namely Will and Raquel) on my new job and training at Nashville. I was also able to ask Raquel in person about coming to Nashville with me. She said she actually might come for a few days 'cause there's a law school down there that she wanted to visit, but she wasn't sure if it's really in Nashville, or if she was misremembering. So it would be really awesome if she actually does!

Saturday -- woke up around noon? The construction guys continued to work on the garage/room. They "painted" the outside of the garage -- the part that frames the new facade, and "holds up" the porch. It's a nice dark grey to match the other greys in the walkway and steps. Went shopping for a new entry door for the house. Doors are fricking expensive! What the hell?! Didn't do much else.

Oh, wait. I did! I watched more episodes of Wild Striker (up to 33, I believe), which is pretty entertaining now. I'm enjoying it very much, although it will never be as awesome as Whistle!, which I've been getting strong urges to watch over. Heh heh. Maybe I can convince Liz to watch it, then I can watch some episodes over while she's watching. =D

Sunday -- went to work at GCS. Barely any business, but I got quite a bit of pricing done. You know, it really bugs me that the record-keeping has almost completely gone to shit while I've been gone. It's really not difficult and it doesn't exactly take up a huge amount of time. I swear, I don't know how Fay managed to own a successful store for over 20 years if this is how she runs her business. It's really ridiculous, I'm surprised the IRS hasn't audited her and found wild inconsistencies. x_x; And how does it NOT piss her and/or Yvette off?! It's their business! Don't they care if their own records are correct or not?! alsjfklsjfs! I suspect it will be a freaking pleasure (in regards to this sort of thing anyway) to work for Russell, a former accountant.