A couple short stories

So it's been a while since I rapped at you guys, as brought to my attention by meg, so I'll just rapid fire through some of the better stories that i've come across in the past few weeks.

First, there was the guy at alley cats that tried hustling me at chess for a cup of coffee. He could've been a lot more subtle about it all since i could tell the moment he sat down that he was actually really good at chess. And no, i didn't bite.

Next, my mom won a family membership to the fort collins club for three months, so i've been going there a lot, and i have to say, i don't mind if guys are naked in the locker room, it's easy enough to avoid them, but then there's some guys who really, uh... as they say... put the penis on a pedestal. These guys seem to go out of their way being naked. They'll get out of the sauna or something... go get a drink... comb their hair... sing and dance in the hallway, all before they put a towel on. Come on guys. Does it take that long, or take too much effort to just put on a towel like the rest of us... geez.

Then, we had some adventures in cooking last night. Edward and i. I was looking through my chinese cookbook, and i was gonna make some orange chicken or something, but then edward suggested eggrolls, so we went and got all the shit and put it together from scratch, and then it came to frying them. It said that oil was supposed to be at 375, so i didn't know how that translated into the low-high scale, so i just tried high. It worked out ok... it cooked them faster than the human torch could, but it took us a few eggrolls to figure that all out. Once we got a hang of it, they turned out really freaking well. That is until i spilled a bunch of the oil on the burner and started a fire, then set off the smoke alarms. The smoke was really bad, and the smell was even worse, but we got most of it cleared out.

So what did we do with the eggrolls that were bad? We chucked them at the dumpster from our balcony of course! No one made it in, but i did nail the car right next to it. Booyah!

After everything settled down, matt and i went over to blockbuster to get a movie. Now the back story is... we used edwards xbox to watch movies in the living room before he took it back to l.a. over break, and there just so happened to be a movie that i had rented in the disc drive when he took it. So when we went over to blockbuster, even though there's no late fees, i didn't want to rent on my account so they wouldn't see. Matt tried giving his phone number and everything, but the guy ended up saying that he should just start a new account. To save him from the paper work, i just go hand my card to the guy and say "oh, i forgot i had this, it's been a while." I was just trying to keep it cool, but then he says "yeah, it looks like you've been here in the past two weeks." "yeah....." No more cool. He didn't say anything about the movie at least, but it still kinda burst my bubble bobble.