This collection of entries is from August 13, 2003.
Carol has a company outing to see the Schaumburg Flyers tonight, se we went to socialize and watch some baseball. Before the game, the Flyers have tents set up for companies to use for their parties. We had some great Bar-B-Q pork with Famous Dave's sauce. Yummm.
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Well, I was at a baseball game tonight, but I had purchased a new Sony Walkman that has a TV band, so I listened to the show from my seat (trust me - it was more entertaining than watching the ball game). The twist for tonight is that the Eviction Voting (which is usually done in the house sometime on Tuesday) was done live on the show (with houseguests going into the Diary Room and casting their votes). Nathan was voted out 5-0. Then came the Head of Household competition - the "Steel Cage Match". It's a little convoluted, but basically it's an endurance challenge - stand in a cage with your housemates and be the last one standing. No food, no drink, no sleep. This started around 10 minutes before the hour (that would be about 6:50 BBT - Big Brother Time, which would be Pacific Time). The show ends, so to follow the competition, you had to go online and watch the live feeds.
Update: What did you miss? Well, around 10:17 BBT Jun finally can't take it anymore and asks Jack for his shirt which she wraps around her waist to cover her butt as she pulls down her pants to pee. Yes, she peed live on the web. At around 11:17 BBT Alison borrows Jacks shirt and pees as well. Ew. Just a few minutes later, Robert leaves the cage, says he has a migraine, goes inside and starts swearing about Jack being ready to fall and in general being his normal pissy self (if you ever watched the live feeds, you know what I'm talking about). At 11:35 BBT Jun leaves the cage. Not sure why. Now comes a lot of negotiating and strategizing with those people left in the cage. At 1:19AM BBT Jack leaves the cage, followed just 4 minutes later by Jee, and one minute later Alison leaves. Erika is the last in the cage and wins HOH.
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7am and I'm awake from trying to catchup on my sleep. 7am. I'm hearing something that sounds like pounding. It's coming from the house behind us. They're having their roof replaced.
At 7am in the morning.
Crap.
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This is happening all over the neighborhood. A siding/roofing company came through a month or so ago to do "free inspections" on everyone's roof and siding to check for hail damage from one of the storms that came through about 2 months ago. The came and inspected our stuff, said there was damage, and had us call our insurance company to have a claim inspector come out and confirm the damage so this company could do the repairs. Guess what? Our insurance company told us that our roof is in exceptionally good shape and didn't need any work (of course pissing off the roofing company). It's obvious that this roofing company was able to get a lot of business from this cold calling judging by the amount of new roofs and new siding I'm seeing in the neighborhood.
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