All Star Break. Seems so long this year, I'm ready for more baseball. The game was pretty good. It was one of the first ASG I watched with a lot of interest. Cubs start back at it tomorrow on the road. It's nice I get a weekend off. Last weekend I was at the games and the club made some changes on how they do day of game tickets so I was working early helping with that. I haven't volunteered for stuff like that in a few years, I don't need the extra hours specifically and it's a lot more like work than the regular game, but my boss asked me to come in so I did. The new rule is if you buy a day of game ticket, either one released that day, or a standing room only ticket, you have to go immediately into the ball park, and they'll only sell one a person. This pretty much makes it impossible for scalpers to get the tickets they sell all day. That makes it pretty much awesome. I had one of the main guys try and bribe me after most of the crowds were inside, and asked why we don't just take a little money to leave him alone. I told him I had a little thing called integrity and asked him to walk across the street again. Heh.

The Blackhawks confirmed they're going to host the Red Wings in the Winter Classic outdoors playing at Wrigley. That probably means I get to work the game. It's going to be cold, fun, and probably hungover since it's New Years Day. Fun stuff.

We've been sparing a lot this week in Jitz. Mostly because Dino (the coach) is in Cali to corner one of his fighters in the fight card coming up this weekend, which by it self is pretty cool. Doing better. Most of the guys there have more experience than I do, so I almost never can submit anyone, but I can manage to improve my position a lot, and get beat on less often, so that's a step in the right direction. I can usually beat the guys with similar experience, so I'm happy with that. I was doing a lot better a few weeks ago, but then I missed a little while, about two weeks, being out of town and such and yeah that didn't help the conditioning at all.

I have a class tonight I'd usually go to, but probably not tonight. I had to drive to work which means I wanna get out early and beat traffic/find parking. It's street cleaning week so it was move my car or pay 50 ticket. Twenty dollars to park downtown in a garage is less than 50 to leave it on the street so I moved it. Now I just gotta find a place that was cleaned today so I don't have to worry about it tomorrow. My next place will hopefully have better parking/a parking spot. Speaking of new places, seems like everyone I know is moving into their own place. I'm just not there yet. It'd be nice, then again I donno, I don't think I'd be all that good at taking care of a place by myself.

I'm outta books to read again. I devoured that last series pretty quickly. I've been playing Puzzle Quest on my DS on the bus. What can I say I'm a dork. It's fun.