Wing bowl, dreaming, pulling, jumping

I am listening to the Wing Bowl on my Iphone.  The Wing Bowl has become a Philadelphia tradition now going on it’s 18th year.  It is basically a wing eating contest but it has blown up to unbelievable levels of popularity.  The event is filled with fat men, hot “Wingettes” and a stadium full of drunken spectators (at 6am). 

When I lived in PA I actually talked Ali into going into a Wing Bowl.  It was unforgettable for sure.  I’ll never forget as we sat in the upper deck watching a drunk stumble up the steps with beer in hand.  As he approached he put his index and middle finger in a V shape, held it up to his mouth and flicked his tongue between them in a rather disturbing manner.  It’s needless to say Ali was less than thrilled to be there.

It’s cool to be able to listen to the event again, it sounds just as I remembered.

Last night I had a weird dream.  I was back at the main Sovereign building in Wyomissing.  Well I was and I wasn’t.  It was at that location but when I was inside the building it was very old inside.  I saw my old buddy Brad there, he was showing me around the place.

We went to the top floor of the building.  I saw a huge drainage pipe coming out of the main network room.  I recalled that I installed the original pipe when I used to work there.  I noticed that it looked like the pipe had some work done to it, including some shoddy sections that looked like they were just wrapped in tape. 

I pointed to the taped area and said “Just taped??? I can’t believe that held.”  “Yep it held up” Brad said.  I commented that it had to be a hell of a mess when the pipe broke with all of the computer equipment below.  Brad just shook his head and said “Oh yea, it was terrible.”

At one point I found myself in a deep dark room in the building.  I saw an ancient looking “laptop” on a desk.  It was actually more like one of the old “luggable” Compaq systems.  I turned it on expecting it to not work.  To my surprise it fired up, booted very slowly and connected to the Sovereign network.  Wow.

Finally I wound up out in the parking lot by Brad’s vehicle, a Range Rover.  He opened the rear side door.  Inside was his son Luke and another young girl who I think was Bubba the Love Sponge’s step daughter Julia.  Brad also had his two dogs in the Range Rover, they looked like twins except they were different colors one was dark gray and one was light brown.  The gray one seemed to like me, Brad said his name was Shadow.

Dream over.

Yesterday after work I got the urge to go out and do some 300 exercises.  I have a YouTube feud going on with this weird British guy, the one that endangered his kid with the pull up stunt.  I have been trolling him on YouTube after I saw his original silly pink haired pull up routine. (hence my Pinky nickname for him)

Anyway I thought I would see how long it would take me to do 25 pull ups and 50 box jumps, video it and post it to Pinky as a video response.  I lugged the camera outside and went to work.  I struggled more than I would have liked.  I obviously am not in prime 300 form or anywhere close to it.  I completed the two exercises in right around 8 minutes.

After I finished I realized that I should have thrown the push ups and clean & press into the routine as well.  Oh well, guess I’ll add those next time. Here is the latest proof of my waning sanity.

Ali is going away to a concert tonight.  I am anticipating yet another busy weekend.  For the first time in several years we are not having a Super Bowl get together at our place.  I sort of thought of it late and by the time we asked a few people they had other plans.  Oh well, Ali and I will have our own little event.  We will be making vegetarian pigs in a blanket.