Anti-Social

Thats my game these days, or so it would seem. The past two weeks have been slowly turning me into a bitter person. Why is everyone afraid of Philadelphia? The Thanksgiving weekend wasn't enough to out weigh the blatant boredom that has been plaguing life these days. Not drinking has never hindered me like this, but it seems that if you aren't interested in getting shit-faced every night and hoping to dodge the hangover every morning, than there is very little left for you to do. I'm taking the indoor season off from teaching, not completely by choice, but I won't object to much. This means that my focus will be put on working on albums. The lack of a drumset hinders this process as well as drives me into a state of depression. It's a vicious circle. Thats all I have to rant about now. Have a great day!

The best Monday so far....

This weekend was nice, got to go up to Scranton for Finals for TOB (Marching Band). Lebanon jumped up to 14th in percussion, going in 25th, pretty nice jump I'd say. What makes this Monday the best Monday so far in my life? As some of you may know I wrote the percussion book for a group for outdoor, and they won the drum. Now, this is something that as a member of the drumline I always wanted to do, as well as Jon, Jay, and Mike. We dreamed of this, and our senior year we were very close. To be able to write a book that won is amazing, but my excitement is nothing compared to how the members of the line must feel. That being said, I think this is it for me and writing books for groups, but not teaching them. Though I am happy that the book I wrote for them was the best one out there, I do not believe I deserve credit for the win. Those kids worked very hard, and they were rewarded for such. Hats off to them for making my notes on a page something worth talking about.
On that note, this Monday, despite the rain and miserable overcast, is still the best Monday so far. Hope your Monday is good also, and if not, then I hope it goes fast!
V.

A Dirty Little Secret

These past couple of weeks have been pretty dull. Work is going well. I'm a month in and still enjoying very much what I am doing. The apartment is still standing, needs some cleaning, but its good nonetheless. Our internet service sucks. We keep having outages, and I thought it was just the router, but after plugging in direct, its the service. I will give them a call tonight or tomorrow if it's not fixed. Thats a lot of money to pay for a service we are not receiving. Let's see.... what has happened in the past couple weeks worth noting.

Oh yes, did some coding for Doug's website, and I'm working on code for another. I'm trying to really challenge myself here. A design for this other site is still in the process of being determined. Once it is agreed upon, the coding can commence, and that can open up a whole new stack of problems (problems come in stacks, like pancakes).

At the time of writing it is lunch time Thursday, which means its almost Friday, and then the weekend is here. I get to help cut down trees this weekend. Should be fun. It'll give me a chance to remember how much muscle I lack.

At work, a women, Lynne, she reads a lot. I've never seen anyone get so upset about not being able to finish a book over lunch before. Also, I've never seen anyone as happy about bagel sandwiches as she was, or just food in general. The little things I guess.

Speaking of sandwiches, I hear banjo music coming from somewhere in the office. It's a little freaky. At least I don't have dogs in my office though.

So Tuesday night, Doug and I heard cat noises, we checked in our basement, and to our surprise, there is a cat down there. Apparently the guy who is taking residence in our basement, felt it necessary to keep a cat in there. Also, it's important to note that Doug is highly allergic to cats.

Now theres a fiddle. On that note, I'm going to close this post, and get ready for what should be a relaxing end of a Thursday.

Have a good one.

Clean Sluts!

An Oxymoron.

We have all the things that normal people have. Of course it took over a month to gather them. We now have internet and cable. I believe we are paying way to much for the 4 channels that may be watched. Doug and his hockey. He's convinced its the best sport in the world ever. Poor bastard. Now that we have internet, there will probably be a lot less of Doug talking and shit. Mehh, most of you don't know the "talking" Doug.

My head is throbbing today, and not a clue why. I am enjoying my job right now. Working on a health sciences building for Temple. All you weird Temple folks out there, take solace in the fact that an unlicensed engineer is working on main electrical parts of a building that you will need to go to class in. Good luck.

I'd like to point something out that I found quiet odd, and thought people were smarter about. For you dumbass’s out there who are switching from Bucks to Temple, stop and think. You are only doing it because you don't want to be far from anyone, and you want to commute. You're a dumbass. You put the very small luxuries of being around old friends before going to a school that will actually get you somewhere in life. Good thinking. Maybe you will be a janitor or something. Keep in mind, I'm not degrading Temple by any means, its a good school, but since I know what you want to go for, and I know that we both know of two other schools which have better programs in it, what more to say, dumbass!

Apparently I have a very high level of stress. Yummy. There is really only one person I care to see at the moment, but they are not here, so I will have to wait. I don't know why my stress would be high, see if you are doing something stupid, well, its your life you're screwing up, not mine, so no stress there. Matter of fact, Its one less person that I have to compete with in the job market.

This weekend, was a complete flop, and then the email this morning was icing on the cake. December couldn't come fast enough. On the upshoot, now that we have internet, I can check my email.

There is a cat in our apartment, Doug is highly allergic to cats. Do the math.

To Summarize:
- Cable and internet, we got it.
- Job is awesome.
- High Stress.
- Weekend, well....
- Cats in apartment.
- Popsicles.

I know there was no mention of popsicles, but I like popsicles.

Have a good one.

It's not sunny today in Philadelphia...

After timing out our trips to work, we ran into a slight rain shower. No big deal though. On the other hand, and really the only reason for me to be writing this post, I thought it necessary to bring attention to the fact that it is Puerto Rican Day in Philadelphia. Thats right. Domingo de fiesta if my Spanish serves me correct. Otherwise, this weekend has actually been uneventful, not to mention regressive. We are now on hiatus until October 13th form the interweb and cable. Mehh, we'll survive.
Until then, enjoy the football game, and have a good one. V.

On your mark, get set, go!

So as this week draws to a close, so does my small vacation. In reality, it hasn't been a vacation at all. At the very start of the "vacation", it was moving time, and not simple moving from dorm to dorm, or dorm to home, but moving from dorm to apartment, which requires an assload more trips and a lot more work. After about 4 days of continuous work, we had our selves a respectable looking area. Almost a week later it was practically complete. Last Sunday we expected to receive some sort of television connection, only to find that it was this Sunday upcoming. That sucked. We have been living the last two weeks on no Television or Internet. It gets rather boring. Thanks to the realtor people, we have not yet heard from the internet providers. After signing the lease on Tuesday, we have come to find that not having much to do during the week, and everybody's stupid ass fear of coming to the city leave us with little to look forward to. Everyone has some excuse as to why they cannot come down here. I suppose they are not required to visit, but they should also realize that when I am home, my time will now be solely dedicated to playing, and thus any rompus time I would otherwise expend will be no more. My back still itches, why should I scratch yours?

In other news, starting co-op in 4 days, not sure if I'm happy about it, but I know I'm excited. Those two feelings are completely separate. Philadelphia had a transformer blow up today. PECO is probably not happy about that, but a little fire extinguishing and all will be well.

I'm damn bored here as I've hinted at above. With an internet connection, I decided to look up the jazz clubs in Philly. I'm starting to switch musical phases again. It happens quite often with me. I never dislike anything I've previously enjoyed, I just take a liking to one genre more than others. It was progressive rock for a while, but now its slid into jazz. Its good too, because jazz is freely available on the radio. I am attempting to find some jazz club to attend tomorrow night so we aren't bored out of our minds, but it doesn't look like thats happening. Too bad, maybe another time.

Riding into work this afternoon I noticed how damn cold it is outside. I did wear my red sweatshirt thing, but still, its not quite time for summer to leave yet.
Looking out the windows here, I laugh ever so slightly at all those children moving into Drexel for the first time, having no idea what to expect, but yet being so damn anxious to be out on their own. Here I am 2 years later, getting ready to engineer some buildings or something intense, and just riding out the final three years of classes and final co-op. Poor children have no idea what kind of hell awaits them. Hopefully the teachers will tell them that the second year is actually their hardest year, so that it won't hit them like a brick wall.

In closing, red is still the best color ever, and I'm starting to depreciate the internet and television, which is fine, yet I know when we finally get it I will be happy to be online again, whenever I do feel like it.

I will be working tomorrow, so I will have access to the interweb.
Until then, take care, and watch out for them transformers.

It All Comes Down To This.

The final week of the term. Tensions running high. So far, two finals down, Systems & Controls, and Programming for Engineers. Tomorrow is Engineering history, ethics and codes. Friday is Thermodynamics. Once this week is over, there falls a two week break upon me. Then work will start, and money will start to come in. I am looking forward to those two weeks, and also to the work that follows, but I am not looking forward to this Thermodynamics final. No good. However, I can honestly say that after this weekend, I will be blogging more often, and hopefully with more interesting things. I will also be updating my music and application blogs at that time. The website is slowly, but surely getting to a respectable point, one page at a time.
Thats it for now, have a good one.

Pirates!

Hell is...

what this week seems to be turning into. So many things due and very little time, and plus our lease refuses to be created. Apparently the property manager thinks that my stress level is not up high enough. We are supposed to move in Friday, we shall see.

I have parts of things due Friday done, but I have nothing complete. Then of course, once Fridays shinanigans is over, I have large amounts of studying to do for finals week. Work couldn't come fast enough.

I'll eat my words in a few months. Watch and see.

Finished reading Choke, if you get the chance, check it out, decent book. Maybe after this hell of a two weeks is over I'll pick up Breakfast of Champions again, we'll see. No I don't mean the cereal.

Christina is very happy today, her away message keeps picking up smiling faces. This makes me happy, recently she has been a little down.

Lori is off in West Chester with Smith now, thats a good reason to go visit.

Stephanie is still around. Really hoping to see her soon. It's been a while.

I need to be getting back to my work now, maybe I'll find a spare moment (even if it's just to get away from the work for a moment) to post again.

Until then,
Do enjoy your day.

.... what we live everyday.

Schwing....

A little drawing I did.

The BIG 50....

So, this is post 50. That’s right folks, almost a year has passed since I started this blog, and now I'm finally hitting 50. The reason being, I took a 6 month sabbatical from posting to concentrate on school. It didn't help too much, but that’s my story, and I'm sticking to it. In this time, I have written over 20 new pieces of music for various reasons, started two band types, and released some songs with one, and will be releasing a concept album under the other soon enough.

I have gotten through almost all of the hardest classes of my schooling, but still have 3 weeks left, 3 long busy weeks. I've been sitting on roosterteeth.com lately, checking on that, trying to get back into the swing of things.

The roommate and I have got an apartment which we will be moving into come the 1st of September. It is going to be excellent, finally no swiping to enter your own abode. We both start our co-ops late September and will be exciting for me, though Doug seems unsure. It has been an interesting 6 months. As of now I'm preparing to say goodbye to all of those who were home for the summer, and are leaving for school again this week or next.

You know, some people feel they have lost everything, yet all they have done is lost sight of things for a few hours, or maybe even days. I would say to them, and you should know who you are by your away message this evening, stop worrying, you will be ok, they will all get over their shit, just let it go.

To wrap up this fine journal, here is a fun thing to do, props to my sister for this one, open your internet browser, and go to Google(it is important that its Google you use), type in the word "failure", and tell me what the first entry is.

You will find all you need in your mind....

Back to the grind again.

As some of you may know, I was really looking forward to going back to school. I just needed a change from the whole going to work and making money thing. Well, got back, and of course was already a week behind in one of my classes. No big deal, this happened last year as well. Unfortunatley, the absolute first class I had on Monday, I got completly lost, and then it was all downhill from there. I think I've started to get back into the swing of things though. I am starting to understand most of the stuff my classes throw at me. Of course in my Systems class (Like calc 5 in other schools, its 4th order differential equations and such) the first day back, we took a pre-quiz. I hope that sucker didn't count, because if ever I bombed a test, that was it. I looked at the first question, and immediatly had no idea what to do. I know I had done it only 9 months prior, but 9 months, you can forget a lot in 9 months. Needless to say, whe I realized that 4 minutes left in the test there was a second side, things just weren't looking good for me. Mehh, I'll deal, I have thus far. My roomate is sick again, which makes I believe four times this year. The other suite mate is also sick. So far I'm holding strong. Its probably only syphillis anyway.

What the hell is going on, its April, and yesterday it snowed as I was walking to class. That should never happen. 60 out one week, 37 the next. No wonder people are contracting syphillis like flies to poop.

I am heading home this weekend to collect some things and hang out with some people I haven't seen in a while. They know who they are. Also, I get to play on Saturday, so I am looking forward to that, and I'm still debating the homeshow, I need to see how I feel, and what else I have to counter it.

I will start writing for the group that some of you know the name of already because I told you, and others do not. I will not use the name here in case somehow someone in the group is eading this. I listened to the music several times, and I have a decent idea of how I want the first 30 seconds or so to go. For those of you who don't know, writing 30 secs of music isn't the easiest thing to do.

In a couple of weeks I will have my complete drumkit down here, and my self the bass and the guitar will be putting together some good stuff. We have come accross a few songs we would like to cover already, and they are well along in learning them. Should be fun, something It seems I will need this term.

Girlscout cookies today or tomorrow. That is all.

If you have read this far, congratulations. I know this was a long post, thats what I get for not posting reguarly. I think i will give that a shot again. We shall see. I'm going to be putting time into both the guard website and the professional website as well, so we shall see how it works.

To summarize:
School floored me the first week, but hopefully it will get better.
Home this weekend.
Drumset in 2 weeks.
Homeshow is still in debate.
Weather is crazy stuff.
Girlscout cookies.
Writing music tonight.

Have a good one,

And thank you, It will be okay, I know.


P.S. - No hookers were harmed in the making of this entry. That may change later.....

Breaking News

Apparently, the old geezers here at work think that guys in college don't "date" anyone. A "date" to college guys is getting laid. We are just not able to handle any emotional attachment, apperantly its only our penis' talking, not our brain.

I must not be a college guy....

Turtles in a half shell.

The weekend was decent. It followed an excellent week. It was spring break for most schools, so I got to see many of my friends after I was doen work, of course. It was good seeing Dave, Mike (of mike and Lori), Lori, Justin, Laura, Pat, Stephanie (of course), Eric, Jason, Gabby, Hilliary, Christina, Amanda, Amanda (the other one) and some others who very few of you even know, let alone care about. I was busy every night, and it was cool. It involved some nights of playground fun, a neat little jazz club, some pool, movie watching, a rude display of women bashing, some horrific smells (yes Justin, you too), Smash Bros, Mario Kart, drunk people, and of course, food. It was missing one fellow chap though, but that will soon be made up for. Let's see in three weeks I will be removed from Bensalem, not looking forward to that, I will miss those friends I have made recently, and will still find time for them, and the friends I've had for years upon years. In three weeks I start learning again, I am looking forward to that. In two weeks there is a Dream Theater concert Doug and I will be attending. I'm curbing my enthusiasm for that until work is done. The last weekend in April is my fathers birthday, I'm glad he is alive. The first weekend of may (coinscidentaly near someones birthday =P) is Wildwood. Really looking forward to that. The birthday also (wohoo!). Then in July or something I may take a trip to New York and check out Amnityville in Long Island, and see Rent on stage. Also, in that time, I hope to see many friends and some (very limited) family. This is my plan for the next 4 months. I just keep remembering to take the time.
Hope you've enjoyed this episode of My Life.
Have a good one,

Turtle Power!

An interesting fact.

Laura's flatulance smells horrific.

I'm starting...

I have not been myself recently. Yes there is a reason. Of course, telling you now would create some problems. I will explain more tomorrow. The highlight of the day was telling Brandon I would, in fact, recreate the Holocust if he didn't stop being an asshole. He took major offense, but tried to shrug it off. Maybe he will take a two week sebatical like Jane. I will do much damage in my last week.

... To take the Time.

Holy Fuck!

My god this is weird. Not for the pro-life advisarys, nor for the week of stomach or for those who are eating.
NSFW
South Dakota Abortion Problem.

Wow.

I continue to amaze myself.

This kind of thing is so unintended, yet very satisfying to look at.

I must say, I always wanted to aspire to be a syphilis infested whore. Ahh the woes of STDs.

A Must See.

That, my friend, is what I see when I log into myspace (If I can, in fact, log in, I must be logged in to do that). Its quite amusing.

End.

The Big Four Zero.

Welcome to post 40. Hope you have enoyed the show so far. I believe from here on out this blog will be geared more toward happy things. Comedy, good shit that happens in my life and the like will be posted. Also, I will rant, and I will rant with a passion, but I will not let them be visible to ou folks until three days after I write them. Reason being, I want to reread them and if they are funny, then I will post them, if not, then schwing, deleted.

The competition yesterday was decent. The school sucked. Tiny ass hallways and they had everybody going in and out of the same hallway. It was bad. We did have a good show though. They did a good job staying together which was something we were slightly worried about. They lost focus when we got there and they were playing like shit, but the did alright. We had some major behavior problems, which, frankly, I didnt think would arise, but it did, and we took care of them. I dislike when their comments don't make any sense.
Bitches.

After the competition, my presence was requested by three different groups of people, but in the end I just ended up driving around with someone and I had fun, we talked a little, and they got tired, so I took them home. It was 4:23am before I layed in my bed. My alarm went off at 5am for work so I didnt even bother sleeping, I did close my eyes a bit though, but I am feeling decent now, and this was after working from 615am-10am at job A and then driving to job B to work from 11am-3pm, with a meeting at the end. I would have to say I'm doing well. I'm an idiot, but I'm doing well at it.

I had an epiphany today, and it made me happy. I won't be talking about it for the mentioned topics above. All I can say is sometimes you let the good things in life pass you bye. My goal is to not let that happen anymore.

Whew..... Just let me catch my breath.


Sloppy Joes!

On my way...

On my way to a competition. I found out today that my group is holding 1st place with a 5pt lead. Good stuff. More later!

EDIT:

I'm home. decent night. we got raped with our score again but its ok we will be ok next week. more later.

The night is young, Its just I'm not.

I'm looking at the clock saying 12:37am. It is early. Very early. I am going to head down to philly in about 5 minutes to play on my drumkit/set. I have a bit of anger to release at the moment. Some unwanted tension building up. I need to be well rested and ready to go tomorrow. New oxford, which means nothing to any of you, yet it means a lot to me. Tonight had an overall rating of D+. It would have been a steady F if it wasn't for the ability to hang out with Doug and the like. Stephanie was "ok" the whole night, and my palm tree started bleeding. On top of that, I seem to have lost something, and cannot locate it (thus it is lost as previously stated). Kim was being a bitch majority of the night, and it never bothered me until recently. I suppose I just made excuses. I'm good at that. Wood River may not see my presence sunday for the mere fact that I have stopped caring. I couldn't give a shit and a rats ass about that place, or any of the people working there. I'm hoping tomorrow will give me the return that I seemed to have lost tonight. I'm not tired, yet I want to sleep. I'm not hungry yet I want to eat. What is my problem? I did feel bad dropping Doug off to die at mums and taking Stephanie home whilest she was "ok", but for all I know, I was probably making her "ok". Yes, "ok", I think you've got the point. But all in all, tomorrow is another day.

" Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...

Always look on the light side of life... "-MP

G'night.

Very neat.

Check this out. It is flash so beware if you are on 56k.
Katamari!!

Eggplant!

News Flash!

As not to be a complete asshole, I was informed recently that I make people go crazy.
Beware.

That is all.

VD stats.

Yes, VD. Valentines day, Venerial disease.

For the record, "The Greeting Card Association estimates that, world-wide, approximately one billion valentine cards are sent each year, making the day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year behind Christmas. The association also estimates that women purchase approximately 85 percent of all valentines."
Reference.

What's the point? Shouldn't you be nice every day of the year, not just the one?

"When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us." -Alexander Graham Bell"

Shwink.

Let the fucking week commence!

Alright, so apparently my Full circle episode attracted lots of attention. I had people texting me to ask me questions about it. Now here is my question, how the hell did you find my blog?!? I haven't talked to some of you for years. Then I thought about it and realized, I'm back to my old screen name, and its in my profile. Im a dumbass, opps. All I can really say is this... no it wasn't you, nothing will happen, false alarm, and also, I will not post about the personal life on the internet anymore. What the hell was I thinking.

Moving on.....
This past week was good. I ended up spending my nights with Stephanie, which turned out to be good, for two reasons:
1. She wanted to be home semi early most nights, which meant I also went to sleep early for lack of things to do.
2. I had fun, I didn't need to worry about pissing anyone off, or making sure everyone was happy. Stephanie played videogames, which she hogged until last night, which she let me play, we watched a movie or two, lots of friends, and she played videogames with my dad, which for the record, noone but myself has ever done. Kudos to her. We also talked a bit in there (which I tend to keep confident anyway), but I tried to keep the mood light, considering I knew her week wasn't going well, and frankly mine was quite sucky as well. I'm sure this week is not going to be the best start shes ever had either. I wish she would be happy, she certainly deserves it.

The work week was mediocre at best. Most of the time I was bored out of my mind. I left early most days. I mostly went home and cleaned the house, my room and started packing for school. Very little packing though. I worked last friday (second job) on a whim really, I went in for my paycheck and was asked to work, and I laughed at Gerri, but then I figured I got nothing else to do, so why not make money. "All I do for you" my ass, look what I did for you. Not to mention coming in sunday, even though it was really bad driving.
Let's see, a few general comments, Jane can suck it, not mine, just it. I don't want STDs. Jaqui should learn to seat well. John, disembow your head from your ass, you don't have many friends. Ms. Emmitt, fuck you I'm very unlazy. Kat, don't leave your belt at my abode, people get the wrong impression.
Work this weekend was alright. Saturday Jaqui asked me to sleep over, but I laughed at her. They don't pay me enough to sleep over. Kara's last day was this saturday. I'll miss you! Paul, grow a dick. Sunday was fun I took Stephanie in, and home, I did end up talking with her Grandmother. She is nice. My boss here calls everyone 'babe', and its a guy, who always has a cigar in his hand, not always lit.
I should stop here. I'll fill in the greater details later.
Until then,

"Let's not wait till the water runs dry
We might watch our whole lives pass us by
Let's not wait till the water runs dry
We'll make the biggest mistake of our lives
Don't do it, baby" -BIIM

Peace, V!

I'm on the way home

I'm on the way home from lebanon's first show. they did well for not performing a whole show. side note: i didn't think many people read this.

Full circle?

What happens if you start to like someone you used to like before, but for obvious reasons, before you just let her go? I'm torn.

Now back to our reguarly scheduled programming...

This week has been pretty busy at work. Then when I get home, I usually put on a movie and work on some xhtml coding. I'm attempting to upgrade the guard page to xhtml, which is a pain since I used front page to create the layout, and frontpage is not xhtml valid or something to that effect, so I have come up with some new ideas, and I have the page pretty much finished, but a few things still linger, for one, the logo that will hopefully be done soon, and two the top heading bar, of which I have no design for at the moment, but will hopefully come up with one soon. I have also been reaming my javascript and css coding skills, and I am getting very literate in coding with them both, a bit of surprise from me considering I remember 5 years ago when I didn't even know how to create an html page from scratch, and now thats all I'm doing. I've been watching a lot of movies this week, primarily because it keeps me from having to finish cleaning up all the boxes and extra shit I have spralled accross my house from my recent futon adventures, and secondly, because the surround sound in my room is fully functional, and my goodness its excellent. I listened to Deep Note 3 times yesterday. If anyone has a movie they would like to watch, or if by chance they want to spend some free time over my humble abode, my door is always open. you can even check out my futon! Already had one person fall asleep on it. Well, I'm off to finish some last minute work here, then hopefully home around 230 or so. Later days.

Update.

Well, the adventure down south wasn't so terrible, we went, we saw, we returned. We evaded the racy conversations and continued on to better things with g'ma. Right now, I'm dreading having to get up for work in the morning. I need to get this project out before the guy I'm working with leaves (today was technically his last day), so I'm going in on Saturday morning at 7am.

Something is bothering me.
I noticed recently that I used to have several wonderful people in my life, and now, not so much. The main people are still there, even if they aren't there. I'm big on friendships. I, as I have stated before, put my all into my friendships, and try to be the best friend anyone could ask for. I dislike when I feel like to some people only want to be my friend when they are bored. That is kind of shallow, at least from my point of view. My friends are my life, I love them very much (in the weird non sexual way).

Anywho, just a litle insight into my mind at the moment.
Later Days.

Four Score and Seven Years.....

This weekend already started out decent. Worked on a TV that was free. Good stuff, it works fine now, with the exception of a down channel button thats a bit hard to push. Tomorrow (later today) I am going down with my pops to see my grandfather. He's in the hospital. For those of you who have heard the story with my grandparents, you know how much I am looking forward to this. Wish me luck. I'm only going so they can't gang up on pops. I'm a dick, so that will come in handy if needed, but hopefully it won't come to that. Hey Dave T., If you're reading this, what was the name of the guy you knew at LVC? I want to ask the wee ones in Lebanon if they know him. I'm off to bed to rest up for what could be a very exhusting day. Anyone want to hang out Friday night? Give me a ring a ding, I am looking for something fun to do. I'd like to hang out with Steph, haven't seen her in a while, and I'd like to watch more Friends. Something that hit me as true, but not in the context it was given.

"Once barely taking a break
Now she sleeps the days away
She helplessly stands by
It's meaningless to try
All she wants to do is cry
No one ever knew she was so sad." - DT

G'night.

If I Died Tomorrow I'd be Alright......

No, I'm not suicidal. Yes I know I will die. Moving on.... The weekend turned out much better than expected. Friday was just cool. I've been in a nasty mood recenlty, and I'm not sure why. I'll figure it out soon, hopefully, I think school will cheer me up (yeah never heard that before I'm sure). Saturday practice was excellent. Then when I got home and the snow started throwing its 4 inch temper tantrum, I stayed in, but did get to talk to an old friend I haven't seen in a very long time. She's cute. She lives in the city and works at the marathon grill (Doug, remember that place we walked by on Market street and there was some crazy party we walked up to, but decided at once to go away from, she works there). I'll have to see her while I'm down in the city, shes so funny. She's also very pretty, I don't remmeber her looking that good. Shes also 4 foot nothing, meh, she wears it well. Sunday, I caulked the wagon and floated to work (a little Oregon Trail lingo there), where I was told the raise I was evaluated for was null and void because they put the wrong date down. Justin Popped in, that was nice. APparently I was jealous because Stephanie got a hug and I didn't. I was all broke up, let me tell you. Then I relaxed with Justion and Stephanie after work, and went home to sleep for today. Now I'm here, and rearing to go and get through this week, 1 down 10 more to go. Overall weekend rating: C+. Ahhh, the sound of sweet jelly in the trees.

Alrighty then....

Welcome to the first day of classes, or in my case the midterm of my tenure at this job.
In just 10 weeks I will be leaving again! Claiming my rightful space under Doug.
"Drumset in Dorm"

This weekend was interesting. Let's see, Friday night I went to see that movie about gay cowboys. God that sucked. No I'm not gay, I'm just confortable enough with my sexuality to watch a gay softcore porn, which is what it turned out to be. Went to bed at 3am. Saturday, got up at 615am, and started my trek to Lebanon. Got through almost the entire show now, and well into part threes drill. Good stuff, got home about 630pm or so. Went to see Jen Smith, and give her that weird "it feels alive" thingy. She liked it. Then, called Stephanie (per her orders), and picked her up. Then she came over and we argued over which movie to watch, and the final consensus was that we'd both fall asleep so it didn't really matter what movie we watched. Instead, I put in Friends, and fell asleep before the first episode was over, I woke up to my alarm at 10am Sunday morning with a Stephanie Jeanne lying next to me, sleeping ever so diligintly. Sunday consisted of Working with the staff from retardville. Here's something I noticed: I worked with Lisa in the back. She did better than Jane did. Somethings wrong there. Jane, do work when you clock in, I know you have potential. I talked to Maria a bit before she left, and well, MAria doesn't like Jane, so Jane was facing unemployment right before Maria left. Fortunatly, Gerri and I told her that would be mean, you can't just fire her for no reason, now I find I may put my foot in my mouth. We should have let her get fired, but then again, I have some morals. Funny enough, Jane probably has no idea about this conversation, and I'd like to keep it that way. Something else I noticed: People like to talk shit behind everyones back. Shut the hell up, the people you were talkng about are decent people. I could understand if they were assholes, but they are decent people. I am getting a might angry, about this double faced shit everyone pulls. I guess I really am the only one there who won't talk shit behind you're back. I'll tell you exactly how I feel to your face, its not about me being arrogant or asinine or a prick, but more so of me being respectful. You want to know how someone feels about you, you should be able to just walk up and ask, not have to hear fourth hand from everyone else at work. I think Justin, Kara, and a few very select others are like myself, and do not talk about others behind their backs. After work Sunday, I went to Trenton to go bowling. That was fun, I did decent. Then we went home, went out to dinner at edington house, and I went home, played some Prince of Persia, and went to bed, WITH my new alarm clock set.
Now I'm here. I'll Post more later, and probably a piece of music, and an update on the Application thread. Keep you're eyes peeled!

"Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream...."
- Beatles

What the floggernut!?

Things rushing in my mind at the moment.

-I've done stupid, sneaky, messed up, shitfaced, dumbassed, prickish, asinine things in my day, but never have I ever hit a women. I've only known one person who hit women, and I took him out, that fat bastard, when he gets out, he'll try to find me, crazy fucker. Who the fuck must you thinik you are to break the respect boundary and hit a women.

-My chin itches.

-It's only 4 hours away, but yet something will change.

-Wood river has had enough of me.

-This bozo doll is deflating.

-'m feeling a bit irate. I feel like a women coming on her period. Everything agitates me.

-A recording studio, I'm a little excited.

-My hand is swollen, and I can't get my watch on. Damn.

-Missed you there, everyone was asking for you.

-Thomas the wonder-weasel? Yeah, I can't wait either. You just like my drippings. *slurp

-Fuck I'm dumb, I left my arch. drawing of the third floor bathroom in the scanner. I hope it's still there in the morning.

-The dark prince's chain is cool, I like it.

-Today I was actually happy I can read lips. People don't expect you to be able to WATCH a conversation. Saw some Interesting shit tonight though.

-Friends is a good show, I can relate to some of their circumstances, and yet they always end on a happy funny note. Maybe I will start doing the same.

-Living with doug was good, we were always there to lighten each others moods, not that we aren't now, its just not as immediate. I could always count on going to sleep happy, whether it be a witty comment, or laughable joke. I could always count on "Always look on the bright side of life" every morning. A close friend you are, and I thank you.

-I'll touch on it later, when I can actually think about it.

Thats it for now. one more thing though, when you go back and read this later, which is afterall what it is for, read below:
Tom,
Remember, life is good, no matter how bad it seems, you're alive. If you're an open book, noone wants to know you, if you're a closed book, noone cares about you, but if you are the book that opens to the table of contents, you make friends.
Good Luck,
Tom

"I won't change to fit your plan, Take me as I am." - D. Theater

Top Ten List #2

You know its a holiday at wood river if...
10. All of the staff is smiling and in a good mood, even Tim.

9. Lauren is not PMSing, well, not THAT much.

8. Paul shows up to work in street clothes after requesting off, and not getting paid to kiss the manager on duties ass.

7. There is wine.

6. The residents drink the wine like its water.

5. Its slow enough I can cut my finger and bleed all over the bread pudding, and then wash and wrap the wound before tending to my sidework, and still get done before most people.

4. I'm asked to stay an extra half hour to sign a raise sheet and a performance evaluation, ON A HOLIDAY!

3. Gary breaks his angel like charisma, and tells everyone to pretend to do sidework, but instead go home on time.

2. Paul hugs gary.......over and over and over again.

The number one reason you know it's a holiday at Wood River........


1. It's slow enough to toss oranges in the salad bar from spoon to spoon, like a game, and be finished before most people(not that it was done, but it COULD be).


No wood river employees were harmed in the making of this list.

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'." - C. Rock

The Party = Over.

Welcome to 2006 everyone. Hope everyones turn of the year was splendid, I know mine was. Fun people, games, and of course, we played music, improvised actually. Nothing beats live music. It made me miss playing with our group, but I believe a gig is being set for february, around Valentines day or so. We get studio time (finally!) this month! Come to think of it, I forgot to tell Doug, I was excited, just slipped my mind (whoa, tangent). Fun had by all on New Years though, I hope.
Let's see, my mind is whirling today, probably because I'm tired.

Well, first off, I had a small party gathering type of sorts here on new years, and it wasfun, at least I had fun, we cooked homemade cheese steaks (both beef and chicken), fries and pizza rolls, and ordered chicken wings. Soda, no beer. Had a max of 19 people, and a miniumum of 8 throughout the night. Yeah I broke that down into statistics, and I'm not sure why. I did miss a few persons though, for one, Jen Smith, and my cousin Ryan didn't come either. We went through 28 beef steaks, 14 chicken steaks, 19 rolls, about 120 chicken wings and 2.5 cases of soda. Two botles of sparkling shit, cookies, brownies, candy, nuts, and taco dip. The first person went to sleep at 430am, and I ended up hitting the hay around 7am. Woke up at 1pm and slugged around all night, until I took stephanie home, which leads to another thought, but I'll touch on that later! Then, we put the downstairs back together, and vegged in front of the tv and ate ice cream all night, until about 230am when we decided to sleep again. Today consisted alot of talking on the radio and cleaning. Now I think i will check out some of these movies my parents got. I also think i'm going to try to post a quote at the end ofevery post, let's see how it goes. It may be how I'm feeling, something funny I heard, something bothering me, an insight into life, or simply just something I have playing at the time.

It's funny, you look back on your life, and realize, hindsight is once again 20/20, but more importantly, for having foresight way below 20/20, you didn't do so bad. Some more input there, I thought I'd add. Well, I'm sure I'll post more today or at the latest tomorrow, but my mind seems to have slowed quite a bit. I'll be posting another wood river top ten list tonight I believe. Also, please post in my comment space here how your new years went down, I'm interested. Go!
Until then, Happy holidays.

"Cause baby you’re not alone
The pain in your heart is strong
Baby let me hold you in my arms
Let me be your protector from harm
’Cause no one should be alone."
- BIIM