3 posts tagged “rockies”

What are your predictions for the World Series?

As much as I love the Rockies, I can't say they're going to make a series sweep. My prediction? Colorado takes it 4 games to 2.

Game One: Rox lose - too much time off, they have to dust off and settle down from the excitement of making the World Series... plus it's in Boston

Game Two: Rox win - they come to their senses and get back in their playoff groove

Game Three: Rox win again - first home game, crowd hyped, the rockin' at Coors Field comes into play

Game Four: Rox continue their streak, Boston can't adjust to the altitude

Game Five: Rox lose - too much excitement about being on the verge of winning, over confidence, too much craziness at Coors Field

Game Six: Rox get a handle on things, settle down, and keep it from going to a game seven. Riots in Colorado. Me really hungover at work, if I even make it to work. Oh wait, I'm already taking the day off since our last night at Kazmos is that night... muahahaha!

I'm am SOOOOOOOO mad right now.

I took a half day off of work yesterday so I could sit at home and try to get tickets to Coors Field for the World Series. Tickets were going on sale at 10 a.m. so I figured taking the morning off would give me plenty of time to land some tickets.

Well, the ticket system crashed and they halted ticket sales yesterday... they didn't announce that until 12:30 p.m. Half a day shot. And of course, I was concerned with that the rest of the day so I didn't really get any work done.

Finally, around 9 or 9:30 p.m. last night they announced they would sell tickets again online today starting at noon.

I left work, came home... I figured my internet at home is faster, PLUS if everyone at the office is trying to get tickets it might boot us all out of the system for having similar IP addresses.

Well, I've already had the system timeout 4 times on me today... and now it's not even letting me back in!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF!!!!

Anyone that knows me knows how badly I want to go to the game and how much I've loved the Rockies. Here it is I probably won't be able to get tickets. Some scheister on a message board I'm on got tickets, and I know he doesn't give a fuck about them. WTF

I'm so upset right now :( :(

Instead it's gonna end up only scalpers will have tickets and only people that wipe their asses with $100 bills will be able to afford to go. SO FUCKING MAD!!

So, I left work "early" (by early I mean before 6:30 ha) so I could head over to Christy Sports and pick up the Winter Park/Mary Jane four pass my Dad so kindly got me. I can't wait to hit the mountains. I feel a little bad, just for that fact that if everything works out with Kansas, I may not be around to use all of them. I guess I could always come visit in the Spring and get my ass nice and sunburned while hitting the slopes. But anyway, I've really done a poor job of expressing how much I look forward to hitting the slopes. Granted, nothing will ever beat the days I spent in the Alps as a kid... but there still is quite no freedom like being on top a mountain enjoying the wind beat your face as you race down the mountain. I'm a little disappointed in myself in that the few trips up I made last year, I was pretty gun-shy. Guess it doesn't help that I was converted onto shorties that my brother passed to me (he got them on our last trip to the Alps as a family) since he wanted the speed and control of regular skis. I'm also a little concerned about heading to the slopes for the simple fact that last time I was up there, I found out one of my friends had died in a car wreck... I know that from now forward, anytime I'm on a snowcapped mountain top trying not to blow my knees out, I'll think of Taustin.

Anyway, enough about skiing, I can write about that once I hit the slopes... I read something in the news today that brought tears of sorrow to my eyes. While I was surfing the net over my lunch hour, I read an article on our local news station's website about an 83 year-old woman who died recently." 83? What's the big deal?" you may be thinking... however, the story is very sad. Last year, the woman was on the verge of being evicted from the mountain home her and her husband had had due to some bureaucratical bullshit... luckily, it all was settled and she was allowed to stay in the home... now, less than a year later... the woman died. I was elated when I found out she got to keep her home and it breaks my heart to know that her final time here was spent fighting bullshit. The only solace I can find is to hope that she died happy, knowing that the property was hers.

And last, my day. It went pretty well I guess, considering my work environment as a whole. Nothing blew up, although I could tell one of my supes was annoyed with me, over something I only had partial control over. Basically it was her own indecision a few months back that led to the whole thing... we had a signed contract from one of our pubs (which is all we really need) but we have to make orders internally, so we can bill the client. I had asked her if she wanted me to send it to the pub (which we don't normally do if we have a signed contract) and she was like no... yes... oh, yeah, I guess so. So, I sent it off to the pub and harassed the guy for a couple weeks to get it back to me. Well, he never did and I stopped following up on it. Today, she asked for that order and I explained what was going on, and I was told it was unacceptable for an order that old to go unsigned (which I completely understand).... but it still bothers me considering we didn't REALLY need it, and she was real meh about the whole thing to begin with. Oh well. Other than that, everything was pretty much a normal day... got a fair amount done so I can't complain.

As far as the rest of my day... well, I just now pulled my goulash out of the oven. After work I went to get the ski pass then to the grocery store... now it's 10:50, all I've eaten is a salad and some pepperoni... I've got hot food that I know will mess with my sleep so I won't eat it, and I really should be heading to bed now so I can get an optimal amount of sleep before going into work early. But, that's not gonna happen, it never does. Especially considering the only place I've been able to fall asleep lately is on the couch... I'm not real sure why. My bed is super comfy, but for some reason I just don't feel that comfortable in my bed room... it's almost as if there's some presence in there that I can sense (go ahead, call me crazy or weird... I dun givafuck) and it's not allowing me to rest properly. It's been that way for a lot of the time I've lived here, although I did get into a routine of sleeping in my bed for a few months. Now I'm back to the couch... wtf??? It's just weird because I told my friends when I moved in that I swear the place was haunted... several strange happenings occurred when I first moved in... but none of them were in the bedroom (yes, unfortunate I know!) Most of them were in the living room... yet that's where I feel the safest now. Guess it could be the fact that my mind doesn't wander when I'm watching TV (which I can't do in the bedroom cuz this place is lame and doesn't have a jack in there) and my wandering mind keeps me awake most nights in bed... so, I guess for another night, I may have to fall asleep to the boob tube, instead of boobs and lube in the bedroom. Ah, the single life.