and everything's coming up roooooooooses!

for the third saturday night in a row, i've had free entertainment. week one was minor league hockey. always fun. week two was the last night on possibly the last tour ever for the rolling stones. this week was... wait for it...

BODOG FIGHT!

the ultimate in redneck entertainment. woot. okay, it's fun for more than rednecks, for sure, but i was in the audience and i'll tell ya two things. one, very, very, vEry hot men in that audience. oh, dear god. mwah! thank you! two, i highly suspect a small margin of them would pass the cultural prerequisite in my world.

body by Atlas, brain by Mattel.

still, shit, cool fights. saw the MMA debut (mixed martial arts) of Roger Gracie, the next in the long line of Gracies to hit the fight circuit. dude took out his opponent, who outweighed him by fifty-five pounds, in three minutes. the arm bar move, i'm told, caused a submission. apparently you can rip an arm out of its socket with that one. yowch!

hey, i dig violence. violence in controlled arenas is just cool as shit. i highly endorse violent movies, violent games, and violent sports. we're primal beasts and getting a little primal every now and then never hurt anyone. cool as hell.

if i get into the kind of shape i want, i think a martial art or boxing might be a cool thing to do. and surfing is a must-do, too, but it's just fun, not primal, even though Hawaiians have been doing it for five milleniums.

i took photos of the Bodog fight, so i'll post some of those soon. i'd never, ever pay that kind of money to see it. nuh-uh, just not my kinda thing. love to see it, but no. i've seen amateur boxing, and i'd love to see more of it, actually. not on tv, no. live is cool. anyhow, i suspect our tickets tonight would've been some of the $135 seats. nuts, huh?

i could get used to this free shit. anyhow. makes me think my luck might be starting to change. the year's nigh over, too, so i won't comment on the coinkydink there.

and something else nice happened to me tonight, but i'll keep that to myself for now. gives me warm fuzzies. good in this weather. i'll share later.

tomorrow, must get some food. but since i'm supposed to be hanging with someone on monday, i'll leave granville island and the cheese shop (tee hee! been too long) for then. i'll do a local run for chicken thighs and do me some Thai green curry, but i'm gonna be wild and crazy and get lemon grass. i've never cooked with it before. 'bout time!

so, we still have snow. worse, i'm getting used to it. all this walking and the stairs, though... i'm losing weight already! i can see it in my face, and i've gone down one belt loop. whoop, there it ain't! and it's great, i've barely been exercising. my low back's feeling awesome today, too, for the first time in a while. yep. things is looking up.

gotta do me some stairs tomorrow. grunt. grumble. slack then sleep time now, tho. but: giggle! i'm glad things seem to be shifting a little on my end. bout friggin' time!