lost weekend

i guess this kind of piggy backs on my post about adulthood a while back, but although i got a lot of good things done this weekend, i sort of feel like i didn't fully take advantage of it.

the wife and kid went to the burgh this weekend, so i was all alone.

i spent saturday trying to improve the shit pile we call a yard. between several trips to lowes (bought fertilizer and seed, got home to do math and realized i didn't need a fertilizer bag big enough to cover 15,000 sq. ft so i returned it, then went back for some new hoses to water) and borrowing an aerator/spreader from a coworker and then borrowing my neighbor's tractor, i well, aerated, seeded, fertilized and watered. i planned on going out to the book store, dinner or a movie but was stuck home after i learned that watering my whole yard takes well over 2 hours. shit.

today, i ran a bunch of errands. but did manage to get some slack activities in this morning...coffee, paper, comics. then, i borrowed my neighbor to use his bronco to get large anniversary presents that i couldn't cram into my passat. he wanted to knock out an errand at the same time, so after we got back, i then had to go back out to complete my other errands. then some football watching, then curb, a little work and ricky gervais new show, extras.

now i look at the time and fuck me if i didn't get any video game time in this weekend.

my company is sending me to nyc to attend part of Advertising Week. should be fun. except for the annoying cunts i have to travel with. of the 4 ladies that i'm stuck in the car with, one is loud and obnoxious (which i can't stand), one is obnoxiously self centered (which is the only one i get along with), one will bitch and moan about it being too hot/cold (i swear that i only ever hear her complain about something) and the other is nice enough, but tries a little too hard.

i'll try to take some pix while i'm up there, just to prove i was there. but not of the account service seminar. insiders only.