flashing neon sign

The bro came back this weekend, which was a surprise. And the bro and his GF came through with the fun birthday gifts (see lists). I got my Lego Mars Exploration Rover after all AND a Matrix Sentinel action figure.

I went running on Friday and some dumb-ass tried to race with me. I took a slightly longer route, about 6.5km. I was almost home, one traffic light to go, and I see dude running towards me. As I waited for the light to turn green, dude comes running back and waits for the light too. Before the light even turns green, dude starts to take off and I see him do a little shoulder check to see if I’m following. It was like, dude, I just ran 6.5km, I’m not going to race with you because a) you’re younger and probably fitter than me and b) you probably just started because you haven’t broken a sweat yet and my T-shirt is all wet. Running my normal pace I was able to keep up with him and the whole time he’s doing little shoulder checks to see if I’m behind him. When I was finally at my street he starts doing a little sprint to try to lose me. Yeah okay I’m done my run, you can go on playing by yourself. And I don’t need no stinkin water bottle when I go running.

Saturday I headed downtown to check out some music stores, specifically guitar stores because guitar stores carry vacuum tubes for tube guitar amps. And if they carry vacuum tubes, they may carry the tubes for my headphone amp (actually they do because I checked on the Internet). I love walking on Queen St. in the summer because the chicks let it all hang out. I love Queen St. chicks. If I hadn’t been on a tube-hunting mission I would have checked into a sidewalk café just to watch all the Queen St. chicks walking by. But I digress. I found what I was looking for at both Steve’s Music and Songbird. After spending $70 on new tubes I headed over to AF1’s loft to collect another birthday present. He got me the Blurr bag from my favorite store MEC. All in all I got a pretty good haul for my birthday this year.

Saturday night we had dinner at an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant. I think it was called “My Sushi” or something weird like that. It wasn’t a buffet but for $20 a person you can order as much as you can eat. I think they additionally charge you for the dishes you can’t finish. The waitress was kinda cute and there was a weird, kinda-attractive, lone female customer who kept giving me the eye. Weird because she had long black hair with blond streaks. Weird because she was wearing a white shirt with red cargo pants. Weird because she was giving me the eye and I just had to glance over once in a while to see if she was giving me the eye. I wasn’t too sure but she looked a little older. Sugar mommy? But I was with my family so I wasn’t going to, you know, try to pick up or be picked up by some chick. Well okay, nothing would have happened even if I wasn’t with my family and had flashing neon signs around me that said “horny, available, single guy.” So sad.