So we had a holiday to celebrate freedom and stuff. Mine went okay. I bought some patio furniture and torches Thursday night in preparation for the party Friday. (I’ve come to the conclusion that Summer is too expensive. I’ve spent over $400 in the last couple weeks on things related to “Summer Fun”–camping equipment, patio furniture, beer, meat, summer clothes, beer…).
The party went pretty well, although I passed out earlier than expected (9:30pm or so). I guess that’s what happens when you start drinking at 3pm and 6 hours later have consumed 6 beers, 3 shots of captain (and coke), and a shot of bourbon. Maybe if I had started with the liquor…how’s that saying go? “beer before liquor, never sicker…liquor before beer, in the clear” or was it “beer before liquor, get drunk quicker…liquor before beer, shed a tear” or maybe “red sky at night, never sicker…” I can never remember how those go.
Saturday night I went bowling with Amy, Laura, and Ryan. I had forgotten how much I suck at bowling. I think I have a learning disabilty. I was on bowling leagues (2) for about 9 months. Previous to that I was on a Summer league. I still suck. I’ve been playing chess since highschool, going to clubs, reading chess books, even have had a few lessons from a strong player. I still suck. I’ve gotten drunk to the point of being sick more times than I can count and yet I still haven’t learned where my limit is. Come to think of it, I’m having a hard time thinking of anything I’ve actually learned in the past year or two.
Sunday afternoon I went out to buy some camping trip in preparation for the float trip, then finally went off to go do some reading at Kaldi’s. I’m about 1/3 of the way through A Brief History of Time. I think I’m coming to the conclusion that, while fascinating, I will never understand certain ideas such as particles sometimes acting as particles and sometimes acting as waves with wave functions and probabilities of position/velocity rather than actually having a definite position/velocity. Just because we can’t measure the particle’s exact position without disturbing its velocity, how does that mean it doesn’t have a definite position? Because when we shoot it at a couple slits in a piece of cardboard it goes through both of them at the same time? And what’s up with that anyway? Or how you can add time to the 3 dimensions of space and get something called space-time which really is no different than space, only with an extra spatial dimension. How is time the same as space? I thought time was money. I think my wallet is collapsing in on itself and as Penrose showed, it must end in a singularity where the warping of time-money is infinite.
As I read over this entry, I realize it may come across somewhat negatively to the reader, and so I want to make it clear that I did, in fact, have a rather enjoyable weekend.
Update Mon Jul 7 13:41:26 CDT 2003:
Adam pointed out that the correct adage is “beer before liquor, give it to me quicker, liquor before beer, yes give it here.”
Tags: Personal
July 12th, 2003 at 11:01 am
Actually, Adam the saying goes like this:
“Liquor before beer, in the clear, beer before liquor, even sicker.” How’s that for a nursery rhyme?
-Laura
October 10th, 2004 at 10:22 pm
I heard it as such:
“Beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer, have no fear”
August 10th, 2005 at 6:24 am
I liked the one from Will & Grace, “Beer before Wine, makes you feel fine, Wine before Beer, makes you feel queer.”