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I'm still in shock from how the Bears game ended up last night. If you didn't watch it, you missed one of the crazier endings I've seen in awhile. Basically, the end consisted of the Bears getting a first down by an inch, scoring a touchdown, followed by a terrible squib kickoff to the packers where an inexplicable horsecoller penalty occurred. This gave the Packers great field position and it seemed as though the game was over as they were quickly well within field goal range. The Bears managed to block a field goal, send the game to overtime, win the coin toss and then get far enough down the field to make the game winning field goal. Crazy shit! That means the Bears playoff hopes are still alive. That being said, if they play like they did last night, they won't beat the Texans let alone get anywhere in the playoffs. I'm just glad to still have something to cheer for.

Lately I've had a beef with homeless people. There are a lot of homeless people in Chicago and I try to give them a buck or two when I pass them, especially when it's cold outside. However, it so happens that a few times lately I have given a homeless man some money and for whatever reason I have doubled back by him within 20 minutes or so. Every time this has happened, the homeless man again asks me for money like I never gave him any. I always respond with something like, "I already got ya man." They never remember me and seem to ignore the comment. I always thought homeless people genuinely appreciated it when you tossed them some change. I'm starting to think otherwise now. If they can't remember you 5 minutes later, they must not have been too excited about your donation.

Yesterday, I had to go pick up the empty Christmas party kegs from the loft we rented. Let's just say it was rather awkward. Me - "yea...sorry about that shit on the wall." Them - "yea. what the fuck was that. your friends show no respect." Me - "yea...i can't believe someone did that. i didn't know the guy, but still...So, yea, where are those kegs at?" It didn't help the cleaning people we hired to come in after the party did a piss poor job. Furthermore, one of the kegs still had quite a bit of beer in it, so I had to hang around and empty it out so I could carry it down the stairs. The woman stood over me the entire time making conversation. Good times.

We asked the cleaning people to go back yesterday afternoon, but they never showed. I got an angry call from the girl. later in the afternoon. I was smart enough to pass on that call, but from the message I could tell she was even more upset at this point. I don't know where the cleaning people were and I'll be honest, now that I have all my stuff out, I don't care so much. I'm still mad about them lying to me about the elevator and bathroom. I'm also rather baffled that this whole ordeal has been such a big problem to them. If they do this on a regular basis (rent out their apartment for parties with 100+ people) I gotta think they are used to the place getting fucked up. In my opinion, they are absolutely retarded if they think they can rent out their place to 150 strangers with an excessive amount of alcohol being served and not expect some things to go wrong. We paid them a good sum to use that space. They don't get to rent it out with no strings attached. I still think things went relatively smoothly.

I took a look at my resolution post from last year. It was pretty interesting. I'll address that and my thoughts for 2009 in an upcoming post.

Merry Christmas!

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