It has been over 7 years since my last livejournal entry ( Read more... )

About 5 years removed from the end of my brief professional basketball career, I agreed to play in a men's league at a fitness center in Carver with some of my former Umass buddies and intramural teammates.

Encouraged to show up at 5:30 p.m. for a "shoot around," before our 6 p.m. game, I chose to leave Bridgewater a few minutes after 5:30 and ( Read more... )

What these silly businesses fail to understand is that it is 10 times more expensive to gain a new customer than it is to retain an existing one.  That my friends is a fact ( Read more... )

I admit, I do not go on here very often, but whenever I do there are less and less remaining friends.  I feel like Tom Hank's character from The Green Mile as I watch them slowly disintegrate with lines across their names.  I think facebook & twitter are probably to blame, although my facebook friend total continues to wane as well.  People are ( Read more... )

"FUCK,"  I shouted.

"What's wrong,"  Sharon asked with genuine concern, as she looked at the ferocious look on my face from the passengers seat.  
I had just now realized that didn't have my Eyeore card protector, which was in my car as I drove Sharon's 2008 Honda Civic from the parking lot of the Grand Balisimo Hotel.
"I forgot my donkey."
"Oh no,"   ( Read more... )

After losing $10,177.12 in August, I thought to myself, "what can I do to turn this around,  I'm obviously doing something wrong."
The thing about poker is you can be the thirteenth worst player in the universe and as long if you playing in a game with the dozen players that are worse than you, you are a winning player.
I'm a smart kid and have ( Read more... )

I caught Dicky Barrett's sunglasses ( Read more... )

Close only counts in horseshoes, handgranades, and government work and so alas I did not qualify for the 2009 WSOP Main Event.  I will not bore you with all the painful details of my many near misses.  I will however go into great detail about the terrible luck I had when I was in Las Vegas.  I requested the days off from work again this year and ( Read more... )

After work on Thursday I dropped Silver Beast off at the shop and Enterprise came and picked me up in a black PT Cruiser which I drove to the bank and then to Foxwoods.
The bank transaction was somewhat funny.  I calmly and casually handed the teller a withdrawal slip for $10,000.00.
This to the dismay of Momma and Daddy Large who clearly objected to ( Read more... )

Adventures of Silver Beast-The First Episode

"You bought it at Silko Honda,"  the Toyota salesman asked Charlie, "how did you like them over there?"
Charlie thought back to his most recent encounter with his Honda dealership.  He thought back to how he had brought in his blue 2006 Honda Civic for a factory recall and oil change on a Wednesday at the ( Read more... )