Placed on top of that are sheets of wood, then about 1 inch thick, tough padding. A canvas is tied over the top and ropes are used to join each post. But, the rope isn't actually rope! Everyone confused yet?! It's steel wire running through hose-pipe with tape wrapped around the outside. That's why I have bruises!
So, after the mental guy had left, we put everything into a pile and left it there. Apparently, rings don't have springs anymore though! The new ones are "flexi-beam" which means there is no + in the middle! Instead, the supporting steel bars are twice as long and reach from one side of the ring to the other.
Trust me, this is even confusing to write!
So, we're either going to try and fix it and turn it into a flexi-beam, or buy a new one.
Wagner was up for getting a new one and had found someone willing to donate a ring in exchange for free tuition. So, the deal was made and
Wagner payed for all the transportation, etc out of his own pocket. Thanks for that by the way!
Atthis point, It's probably best to explain the contributing factors to the downfall of the
Killer Kowalski ring. The guy (he's huge and scary and knows Tang Soo Do) who owns the building and who Walter rents it from, i called Byrnes. Yes,
almost like
Springfields most famous 104 year old. I'm not sure if it's his first name or not, but some people have a tendency to call him Dick...
(cough)April(cough). Anyway, he rents out the ring to backyard wrestlers behind Walter's back. Backyard wrestler's (I think) are little kids who train themselves and don't know what they're doing. And they put loads of people in the ring at the same time and really strain it.
So
Wagner got this new flexi-beam ring and brought it back to the building. But, according to Mr Byrnes, it's too loud, because the backyard wrestlers stay really late and the noise is too much in the late hours of the evening. So, basically Wagner's lost cash from his own pocket and money from a student
and we still have no working ring!
Also, the school's now on a two week break. And that's the wrestling situation (or lack of it) at the moment!
I got a text (SMS) from a number that my phone didn't recognise last Sunday night (23rd March), saying:
alright ian im flying into boston tomorrow text back if you want to meet up see you soon
So, I sent back:
Yeah, sounds good. I hate to be rude, but I don't have your number on my phone. Who is this?!
It turned out it was Ben, one of my friends from school. He's off travelling with his girlfriend, Emma. They started in Boston then are going, by train, to New York, Washington, Orlando, Miami, San Antonio, San Fransisco and Los Angeles. Before flying to Sydney Australia and driving up the coast to the Great Barrier Reef, across to Ayres rock and over to Perth (If I remember correctly!). So I met up with them during their 4 night stay in Boston and was their unofficial tour guide.
I risked, with great danger, a very quick trip back to
psycho-woman church to show them the architecture. I wasn't spotted beneath me fake moustache, goatie beard, bald-head-cap and ball rooom gown and escaped back into Copley Square with no weird ushers stalking me. Or none that I knew of...
We went to the top of the Prudential tower and to a different church. Even though I'm not religious, the churches are quite impressive. And in this one (The Church Of Christ, Scientist) they had a wicked game! ou go on a computer and drag images into a frame. Then you submit your picture and it's projected up onto a big screen in front of you, with the others that have been made.
Now then, being the mature person I am and with no people around, I definitely
didn't draw stupid pictures. I definitely didn't put a picture of a little kid on a mountain background so she looked as big as the mountain. And I definitely didnt add a giraffe onto the hillside either. But, even without those immature pictures, It was great fun. Especially the picture Ben
didn't draw. A picture of the Earth with a head, arms and legs sticking out.
It was really good to see Ben again, because I'd hardly seen him since school last June. I wish him and Emma all the best and hope they keep in touch.
I was watching Boy Meets World (I love that program) and was interrupted by the door bell. It turned out to be 2 Jehova's witnesses who, when asked if they would prefer America to be bombed and for them to be killed by the explosions than Iraq to be invaded, said yes. They also explained that everyone who wasn't a Jehova's Witness was going to die. Thanks for the good news, huh?
And that's about all that's gone on! I'm going to try and get
Kevin Nash's autograph on Saturday, when he comes to Boston. And also try and get tickets for when the WWE show comes to Boston. Unless Wagner can pull some strings and get me backstage passes?! Only kidding! I'm gonna try and get some good seats so I can be seen on TV!
Louise is coming over to visit next Monday for a week, which will be cool. I've got some passes to museums and things like that so we'll probably go to them. But, she has exams soon and so she has to do some studying. Good luck to her for them!
I'd like to take this oppurtunity to say a big HA!HA! to everyone who is studying or doing any type of school work. I haven't got any until September! :oP
I'd also like to say congratulations to my wicked Dad, who retired last Friday at the ripe, young age of 51 (the old git)! And to my top-quality Mam, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say why, because there are people who read this who may not be allowed to know. I'll find out then maybe tell you!
So, all change in the Copeland family. Dad's retired, I'm off to
University in September and Peter (my bad-ass brother) has a new job starting in September after he finishes Uni
and is engaged! It's all go!
