Quick beard-status

The beard continues to grow. I've noticed the 'stache is beginning to reach to my lips and it's feeling a bit weird. Awkward food stuck up there too one time, luckily I was hungry later on in the day and it actually came in handy... mmm.. turkey. I apologize for the lack of posts, this week has been killer. Working twelve-thirteen hours days plus 3-4 hours for commute = at its worst, an 18 hour work day. Up at 4ish to catch the early train to get to work by 630ish, leave work by 8, back to the house by 10. Literally a wish for this to not be my life forever. Oh well - FIGHT, ME. 

Day #11

Day #14

Getting fat as a snail also due to lack of exercise/movement/energy/time. Life. On a happier note, thanksgiving is right around the corner! CANNOT WAIT to get to NC to partake in some feasting on my momma's delicious food. Literally will be 3 days of stuffing my face until I can't breathe. MmmmmMMm.

Day... ACB

Normally I would say it's as dark as the inside of an overgrown snail's shell when I get out of work. But due to a new sign that they've constructed right outside my building it is as bright as if the sun were 2 feet away and shining directly into your face. I kid you not this thing glows like an enormous neon glow stick. It hurts the eyes to look at. Your retinas literally are singed every time you look at this thing. Just stare at the pic, you'll see what I mean.

Rough week, I'll continue the driving post at some point later on.

KBYE!

Movember Begins - Crazy Drivers Continue - Rochester Madness

Movember Log:

Day 1 - Clean shaven.. oh I shaved in both directions, with and against the grain, just to ensure I wasn't cheating & at the optimal smoothness.

 Day 4 - The end of the week, the stubble is just amassing (although u can't really tell cause my beard is blonde as a snail who has been in the sun for a hundred days).

Day 7 - The beard has become self-aware..

 That last one was a little terminator humor for ya... guys should know what i'm talkin bout. Ha. Ha.

Now getting back to my previous post on kinds of driving, I believe I was about to describe number 2 on the list, Passive.

2. Passive - I think we're all pretty much entirely familiar with passive driving (unless you're a monster truck driver... or even just a regular truck driver really). This is straight up however you drive on any given day when your mood is between raging hot death and tranquilized like a druggy. Generally this type of driving is preferred  by all and it helps to maintain civility on the road. People often can't differentiate between passive driving, oblivious driving and old people driving so I'll take a moment to describe the subtle differences. For one thing.. you have to be old to drive like an old person. There is literally no way to fake driving like someone who's old. They're unpredictable in a very predictable way.. which makes copy-catting their moves and techniques neigh impossible. You'd probably have to be somewhere between drunk, blind, high, and experiencing extreme pain for your driving to come even close to theirs. Some signs of old people driving.. swerving (drunk), turning onto the road with little regard for other cars (blind), the ability drive & have it appear as if everything is under control, while either not looking or while leaning very close to the windshield (high), switching lanes when no lanes are present, driving in multiple lanes at once, or accelerating and decelerating on a whim (extreme pain). They might not all make sense to you just now, but you'll notice it at some point when you are stuck in front of or behind an old person. Oblivious driving is more to do with your emotional state of mind at the time than anything else, it's pretty much the young persons "old people driving". Back to passive driving... as I was saying before, generally the best kind of driving except on occasions when it ins't conducive for the situation. For example, most traffic jams/rubber necking is caused by passive drivers... they are so calm and collected that upon seeing a wreck or some kind of flashing lights they become absorbed in whats going on and not on how fast they're going. This can lead to more accidents and severe delays for you and the rest of the entire world. My example of passive driving would be when I'm cruising home and rocking out to some Adele (she's a peach - almost a gem) at the top o my lungs.

I've described a lot about Old drivers but I will go more into that on my #5 post since there still is much that could be said.

Ooohh Rochester.... instead of taking 3 hours to provide for you a blow by blow (literally) account of the weekend, I'll sum it up with some carefully chosen pictures (not of the weekend) with some captions.

The long road to Rochester NY

Filling up the tank

 

Up the wazz

SEE FRIENDS!!!

Costumes

Partying, dranks, general organized CHaos

Tha BAAAAAHs

Walking home: Intox'ed for sure

Punched.

Penn State?

Safe ride home.. lost gum.

Justifiable anger towards me

Sleep.. recovery

Forgiveness

Repeat... minus all the punches/cops/anger

Drive home to blizzardy hell

Thus ends another weekend I shan't be forgetting any time soon. Life returns to normal... and so will the strombole be returning to his normal home on the east coast, in a few short days. He's just COMIN IN. Theme-ing his weekend in Boston as follows:

Pass Me on a Double Yellow... OH REALLY.

First off... DAMN YOU WALMART. Been out and about looking for a heaty blanket because the house i'm living in gets to be -31239123 degrees at night. It's basically like there are no windows at all. I get out of the shower in the morning and the steam is just radiating off my bod, and then about 5 minutes later my hair is nearly an icicle. It is literally frigid. So cold right now that my fingers are going numb. Well anyway today I went to Wal-Mart (Target yesterday) and was planning on making it an in and out mission. But of course as soon as I walk into the store BAM, 'ween candy up the wazz. Now normally i'd be like 'f that crap, way too expensive for my taste buds', but of course they had to put up some damn '50% off Halloween Candy' signs. So naturally I have to browse for some deals. And i'm figuring that nothing in the entire store could be that expensive and of course they have NO PRICES on them whatsoever. Well guess what... everything is still friggin expensive. I bought a bag of candy that was $20 bucks, so it cost me $10! I was expecting $2.50 or something.... it was terrible. I know ten isn't a lot, but I mean.. I would not have gone for it at all. Obviously couldn't back out of the transaction because when I realized how much it was as the lady scanned it, the line was a billion people long behind me and people were already yelling a bit (wtf, is this the speedy chexout or what!). So now I have a 20lb, $10 bag of candy to eat. Fat as can be in t-minus 1 week. FAIL.

Secondly, I'm about to rant HARD on the wonderful dummys share the road with me. Let me just say that I don't consider myself a perfect driver. I don't always make the smart move when it comes to driving, but on the whole, I like to think I do a pretty decent job of respecting the road, other people, and my sweet little bullpup (mah car). Now I've had some time to think and I've decided that there are generally 5 different kinds of driving (not drivers, but ways of driving... anyone can drive these ways (even the last one)). They are as follows: Aggressive,  Passive, Oblivious, Dumb and Old driving. Lets run through them one at a time:

1. Aggressive: This is the kinda guy who passed me on the road today. I don't usually drive slow, in fact most of the time I'm gunnin' it around town doing 7 or 8 mph over minimum. When I see someone riding my ass and I'm going above the speed limit already I have 1 of 2 moves that I usually pull. One is to slow down to the speed limit and just start laughing. The other is to just accelerate to a good 20 or 30 mph over the limit and cruise away. So when this guy was riding my ass today I decided to employ technique #1, I just slowed down to a crawl (I knew there was a traffic light which usually has a bunch of traffic just over the hill). After decelerating to the max, this guy proceeds to pass me on a double yellow lined road. Now I've been in a hurry before so I know what it's like to want the guy in front to go faster, but never would I ever pass someone like that (or tailgate them like he was to me), it's just a bad move for a ton of reasons. So as this dude passes me I'm like whaaat, but then I laugh cause I know he's about to hit a butt ton of traffic, which of course he does! So I basically pull up behind him as close as could be and just keep inching and inching, throw on the high beams too of course. The dude then pops out of the lane again but this time on the right and flies down the shoulder and through a motha flippin red light!! It was nuts. Like for reallz with you and your absurd driving?! Dude must have been preggers & birthing. Just don't enjoy being that kind of driver or being pursued by one. I usually only hit aggressive mode when someone does something really stupid, but even then I usually just curse really loud in an absurd kinda voice which proceeds to make me laugh which then turns into me shrugging it off. A wish for people to chill out in this econ, it would reduce the # of accidents. FOR REAL.

I'll continue my next couple posts with some descriptions of encounters with these other types of driving (and perhaps my experiences driving that way).