Archive for January, 2006

I Look Like Sean Connery

January 30, 2006 at 1:06 AM · Filed under Entertainment, Photography, Technology

Title: I Look Like Sean Connery
I Look Like Sean Connery
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I ran my picture through some face recognition software and found that I look 67 percent like Sean Connery.

Jealous?

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Shining Shoes

January 30, 2006 at 12:46 AM · Filed under Personal

I bought a new pair of shoes today at the Nordstrom in Circle Centre Mall. I have to say that I like buying shoes from men in suits. Anyway, I purchased some black shoe polish with the new kicks and cleaned up two old pairs. They look so good now! Wow and stuff!

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Weekend Company

January 24, 2006 at 12:06 AM · Filed under Food, Friends, Indianapolis

I had a really good weekend.

My friend Matt (pictured below) from Davenport, Iowa, came to visit and we had a very good time out and about in the city.

Title: Matt
Matt
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After Matt arrived Friday night, we headed over to McNiven’s on Massachusetts Avenue. Unfortunately, the place was a bit packed and the receptionist said it would be at least 30 minutes before we could have a table. Well, “fuck that,” I thought, so we went over to Bazbeaux’s across the street and had a delicious pepperoni and sausage pizza. Yum! We did end up back at McNiven’s for some drinks, afterwards, and then came back home.

On Saturday, we started out at Thai Spice in Greenwood since Matt had never eaten Thai food. He ended up enjoying it, too. After eating, we went downtown and bummed around for a few hours. We walked around some of the interesting parts of downtown and checked out a good part of White River State Park. Wow! There was so much there I hadn’t seen — and I live here.

Matt also had never eaten good sushi. He told me that he tried it once in Davenport and hated it, but he maintained an open mind while here. We had a wonderful dinner at the sushi bar at Sakura on Keystone Avenue. We both ordered box dinners, but with plenty of nigiri and maki.

After dinner, we were planning to go out with Tony and Jason, but everyone seemed tired so we just decided to watch movies upstairs until we went to sleep.

Sunday was nothing more than breakfast and goodbyes. Oh, I love biscuits and gravy! Sop it up!

I had a good time with Matt and hope he comes again sometime soon.

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Birthday Presents

January 18, 2006 at 12:09 AM · Filed under Entertainment

My sister Lisa and her husband Jim bought me a gift certificate to Amazon. Excellent! All of the stuff I bought arrived today, which makes me a happy boy.

Books

DVDs

I haven’t really read or watched anything yet, but I will probably do so this weekend.

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Happenings

January 17, 2006 at 10:06 PM · Filed under Food, Friends, Personal, Work

Title: Stupid Matt
Stupid Matt
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I need to document a few things that have happened and are happening here soon.

  • My friend Auri invited me to dinner Friday night. We ate at Brugge Brasserie in Broad Ripple, which is a restaurant owned by Abe Benrubi. He’s from here in Indianapolis, you know, so, of course, he’s going to open a Belgian-style eatery in a trendy part of town. We ate pomme frites and mussels, and I had a nice glass of Kiona Riesling, too.
  • I went to Wasabi on 82nd Street with my roommate, Tony, this past Saturday. Sushi is such Good Times™ for me, but I couldn’t deal with the salmon roe. I gagged while trying to eat it. Sorry, but it just didn’t work out.
  • I recently watched Me and You and Everyone We Know with my roommates. Everyone liked it. It was a bit quirky at the beginning, but turned out to be a really excellent film, worthy of DVD ownership.
  • I have a new boss at work and so far things are good. We haven’t had much of a manager for the last 10 months, so I think we’re going to be much more organized. It’s certainly done wonders for my attitude, lately.
  • My friend Matt B. is coming from Davenport, Iowa, this weekend to visit. I’m looking forward to spending time with him.

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Happy Birthday to Me

January 10, 2006 at 10:40 PM · Filed under Personal

God, I’m awful at keeping up with this blog, lately. I think a lot of the problem is that I’m not at all comfortable blogging at work. I hate people looking at my screen, so I just don’t do it. And when I get home I’m often not motivated to type anything (or do a lot of things I should). I’ll have to work on that problem.

My birthday was this past Sunday on the 8th. I’m now a whopping 29 years old, which reminds me that I need to update my age in the right column of this blog layout. I’ll get to it eventually. Anyway, festivies started Saturday night with me and the roommates hitting Thai Spice in the Greenwood area. While getting ready, I decided to shave off the chin pubes, with the afttermath shown below.

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Shaved Chin
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I kept the soul patch, initially, as seen above, but removed it at the suggestion of a friend. I find it a bit strange to see my chin again; it certainly feels naked, to be honest, but I’m going to go ahead and grow back the goatee. It’ll take a copule of weeks, but I’ll have it before I know it.

Okay, so, yeah, we had thai food for dinner and came back home. We partook in a certain something-something and then proceeded to watch some movies: a recorded version of Tony’s play, Catch, as performed by a gay theatre troupe in Sacramento, California, followed by Napoleon Dynamite and Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion, to cap off the evening. Laughed a lot.

On Sunday, on my actual birthday, I met up with my family for lunch. We gathered down in Edinburgh, Indiana, so that my sister Lisa could join us. It is half way between Indianapolis and Louisville, making it convenient for everyone. After eating, we did a slight bit of shopping at the outlet mall right there and then came home.

I spent most of the rest of my birthday in my bedroom. And I liked it.

So, next year is the big three-oh and I can’t fucking wait. <sarcasm>

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Blonde Joke

January 4, 2006 at 9:42 PM · Filed under Humor

This one is a screamer!

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Bastard!

January 4, 2006 at 8:57 PM · Filed under Personal

Some bastard stole the temporary license plate off my Scion sometime in the last couple of days. I noticed it was missing when I was on my way to lunch today.

So, I was in my car and sent off a query to Google SMS on my phone to get the number of the dealership. I called them up and they were able to immediately replace it, thankfully. Whew!

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A Meme to Start the New Year

January 3, 2006 at 6:08 PM · Filed under Personal

I have no better way to ring in the New Year than post a meme.

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Matt
Birthday: January 8, 1977
Birthplace: Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
Current Location: Guaranty Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Dark Brown / Black
Height: 5′10″
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: English, German, etc.
The Shoes You Wore Today: Kenneth Cole Reactions
Your Weakness: Laziness
Your Fears: Being a failure.
Your Perfect Pizza: Simple
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: I think I’d like to move out of Indiana.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: BRB
Thoughts First Waking Up: “I’d really like to go back to sleep.”
Your Best Physical Feature: Probably my incredibly huge face.
Your Bedtime: Usually not before midnight.
Your Most Missed Memory: I can’t remember.
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
MacDonalds or Burger King: Neither, please.
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Neither, please.
Chocolate or Vanilla: The answer is always chocolate.
Cappuccino or Coffee: Neither, please.
Do you Smoke: Cigars every couple of months.
Do you Swear: All the fucking time.
Do you Sing: I sing along with music in the car.
Do you Shower Daily: Rarely do I not.
Have you Been in Love: Oh, yes.
Do you want to go to College: I’ve been there.
Do you want to get Married: Sure.
Do you belive in yourself: Yes, I’m pretty sure I do exist.
Do you get Motion Sickness: I don’t think I ever have.
Do you think you are Attractive: Most of the time I feel that I am.
Are you a Health Freak: Not at all.
Do you get along with your Parents: I do pretty well.
Do you play an Instrument: I used to play the clarinet when I was in school.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Yes.
In the past month have you Smoked: Not a cigarette, if that is what you mean.
In the past month have you been on Drugs: No comment.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: Yes, sort of.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Yes.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: Not a whole box.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: No, but I hope to do so very soon.
In the past month have you been on Stage: No.
In the past month have you been Dumped: No.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No.
Ever been Drunk: Yes.
Ever been called a Tease: Yes.
Ever been Beaten up: Yes.
Ever Shoplifted: No.
How do you want to Die: Quickly and preferrably unconscious.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: Your boss.
What country would you most like to Visit: Somewhere outside of North America.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Green, Blue
Favourite Hair Color: Dark
Short or Long Hair: Keep it short, baby!
Height: Close to mine.
Weight: Smaller than mine.
Best Clothing Style: Current, but not pretentious.
Number of Drugs I have taken: 1
Number of CDs I own: I don’t know.
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 9412
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Enjoy.

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