These four walls

Its seems all my social time is compacted into the weekends now. Friday was the Swift Motersports car show at Sailfest. Man was I glad we went on Friday and not the next day, when an 89 old man freaked out and drove through the crowed hitting 27 people right in front of the Swift booth! Eeek!

Of course the Ortiz – Shamrock fight seemed like a letdown after all the hype. Shamrock was down in just a minute and a half – I was hoping it would last longer. Anyone who talks that much shit shouldn’t have got off that easy!

I know my blog hasn’t been that interesting lately, but it’s hard to observe and photograph amusing things to post when you never leave the house! I guess I shouldn’t complain, I’m actually getting a lot of writing done, so you’ll just have to wait for more interesting stuff until I’m liberated from my office!

Of course my neighborhood is still a source of amusement – or annoyance depending on the moment. There are at least two major construction projects going on behind my house. It was interesting when the roofing project began. The guys were throwing large heavy objects off the roof (3 floors up!) and into the dumpster, and every time they did it a thunderous clap of sound resulted. Now anyone who knows me, knows I’m a bit highstrung, you might even say jumpy. Well I’m glad they are done stripping the roof because lost as I was in concentration, every time they tossed something off that roof I jumped a foot. Heart failure here I come… Yesterday took the cake. They usually listen to the Wolf, a classic rock station. One of the guys likes to sing along but yesterday they were experiencing some technical difficulties and the radio cut out in the middle of “Roxaaane….” and the resulting construction worker falsetto finishing the song on his own was absolutely hysterical. Amusing from the burly construction worker point of view, he chooses to sing only the really warbly parts of the songs, like the “whoa – oh – oh – a” part of “With or Without You” by U2 this morning.

Just to return to an old topic. I just want to know how it is that the constructions workers can listen to the Wolf crystal clear, less then 100 m from my window, but can I listen to it? That would be a no… And, it’s not because my stereo sucks, I think I’m just the anti-radio repelling the good radio waves with my mere presence.