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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
So after being in Baltimore for a few days with some friends, and then being at work basically nonstop for a few days after that, I finally have a day of rest. And it's glorious.
My parents, who seem to go out of town every other month, are keeping that streak alive, as they left for Miami this morning for a few days.
All this traveling, by them, by me, I hardly see anyone anymore.
Which is a trend not likely to end anytime soon.
If I move to Boston, which is about 50/50 right now, it'll be by March 1. If not, I'm going to Nashville March 14-18 & May 6-11. Those two trips might just be enough for Loren, Chris, Darren & Elisabeth to convince me to move down there permanently. I'd say if I don't move to Boston next month, I'm about 75/25 moving to Nashville (especially with what I've been working on lately).
And of course if neither of those happens, I'm moving in with Josh, Che & Brit this summer. Between that and my two Nashville trips, possibly Bonnaroo, although unlikely, DC for July 4th, Pigfest sometime in July, VMF in August, my folks 3 vacations this summer, and now my likely going to New Orleans in November with the same crew I went to Baltimore with - which have I mentioned how much fun that was, and how great these people are lately? - I feel like 2008 is going to be over before it even begins.
Oh well. One thing at a time. Boston this week - oh yeah, I'm going up north this week - and the Super Bowl on Sunday. Let's get through the Patriots first, and then I can worry about the rest.
My parents, who seem to go out of town every other month, are keeping that streak alive, as they left for Miami this morning for a few days.
All this traveling, by them, by me, I hardly see anyone anymore.
Which is a trend not likely to end anytime soon.
If I move to Boston, which is about 50/50 right now, it'll be by March 1. If not, I'm going to Nashville March 14-18 & May 6-11. Those two trips might just be enough for Loren, Chris, Darren & Elisabeth to convince me to move down there permanently. I'd say if I don't move to Boston next month, I'm about 75/25 moving to Nashville (especially with what I've been working on lately).
And of course if neither of those happens, I'm moving in with Josh, Che & Brit this summer. Between that and my two Nashville trips, possibly Bonnaroo, although unlikely, DC for July 4th, Pigfest sometime in July, VMF in August, my folks 3 vacations this summer, and now my likely going to New Orleans in November with the same crew I went to Baltimore with - which have I mentioned how much fun that was, and how great these people are lately? - I feel like 2008 is going to be over before it even begins.
Oh well. One thing at a time. Boston this week - oh yeah, I'm going up north this week - and the Super Bowl on Sunday. Let's get through the Patriots first, and then I can worry about the rest.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
What a weekend.
Friday around noon Mike & Kate showed up at my place. We drove down to Baltimore, got into town around 4 o'clock. Hung out at the hotel for a few hours, waiting for people to get into town.
Then we all headed to the Green Turtle for half priced apps & $2 drafts. Somehow we still ran up a $400 tab, and left before ten. Then Max's, boardroom meetings, mysterious American Flags, moving pillars, and literal holes in the wall concluded Friday night.
Saturday morning we headed out for breakfast at around 1130. Found Kooper's Dog House, which had a Saturday brunch. Which featured $10 all you can drink Mimosas & Bloody Mary's until 2pm. Our table of 6, according to the waitress, set the record for most drinks before 2 with 33. All in all, there were about 15 people there. What started out as breakfast at 11:30 turned into all out binge drinking until around 6pm, with some people coming & going throughout the day.
Then over to Mike & Carrie's pimp apartment for a few hours, for more drinking, some game called Left Right Center, and more drinking. Went to Terry's bar afterwards, destroyed a handle of GM, played some shuffleboard, and drank more beer than imaginable, because they just kept showing up, I have no idea where they were coming from.
Went back to Mike & Carrie's afterwards for a few hours, finally got back to the hotel around 4:30, hung out in Tim's room for drunk dialing until bedtime.
Rolled out of bed Sunday morning, went back to brunch sans alcohol this time, and drove home.
Was supposed to go to Jeff's for the game for the 3rd straight week, but no one was going, and I was exhausted with a 2 day hangover, so I just stayed at home, had a few people over. Pretty much the best football game I've ever watched. So tense, but so great at the end. Definitely compares with the 49ers-Giants game of january 91. Right there with that game & SBXXV as the 3 best Giants games of my lifetime. Depending on what happens in 2 weeks, it falls in comfortably at #3 right now.
Overall, what a great weekend. Mike, Kate, Chris, Will, Aarti, Joe, Lindsey, Jay, Suellen, Kristen, Steve, Stigs, Tim, Mike, Aaron, Karen, Mike, Carrie, AP, Stella, Susan, Marty, Robeo, Ilona & anyone I missed, what a blast. See you in the summer!
Friday around noon Mike & Kate showed up at my place. We drove down to Baltimore, got into town around 4 o'clock. Hung out at the hotel for a few hours, waiting for people to get into town.
Then we all headed to the Green Turtle for half priced apps & $2 drafts. Somehow we still ran up a $400 tab, and left before ten. Then Max's, boardroom meetings, mysterious American Flags, moving pillars, and literal holes in the wall concluded Friday night.
Saturday morning we headed out for breakfast at around 1130. Found Kooper's Dog House, which had a Saturday brunch. Which featured $10 all you can drink Mimosas & Bloody Mary's until 2pm. Our table of 6, according to the waitress, set the record for most drinks before 2 with 33. All in all, there were about 15 people there. What started out as breakfast at 11:30 turned into all out binge drinking until around 6pm, with some people coming & going throughout the day.
Then over to Mike & Carrie's pimp apartment for a few hours, for more drinking, some game called Left Right Center, and more drinking. Went to Terry's bar afterwards, destroyed a handle of GM, played some shuffleboard, and drank more beer than imaginable, because they just kept showing up, I have no idea where they were coming from.
Went back to Mike & Carrie's afterwards for a few hours, finally got back to the hotel around 4:30, hung out in Tim's room for drunk dialing until bedtime.
Rolled out of bed Sunday morning, went back to brunch sans alcohol this time, and drove home.
Was supposed to go to Jeff's for the game for the 3rd straight week, but no one was going, and I was exhausted with a 2 day hangover, so I just stayed at home, had a few people over. Pretty much the best football game I've ever watched. So tense, but so great at the end. Definitely compares with the 49ers-Giants game of january 91. Right there with that game & SBXXV as the 3 best Giants games of my lifetime. Depending on what happens in 2 weeks, it falls in comfortably at #3 right now.
Overall, what a great weekend. Mike, Kate, Chris, Will, Aarti, Joe, Lindsey, Jay, Suellen, Kristen, Steve, Stigs, Tim, Mike, Aaron, Karen, Mike, Carrie, AP, Stella, Susan, Marty, Robeo, Ilona & anyone I missed, what a blast. See you in the summer!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
It's the weekend! Not really, but because the man is holding me down from working tonight, my extended weekend starts real early. Actually like 48 hours ago early. Somehow I'm ending up getting 6 days off. Sweetness.
Tomorrow morning my friends Kate & Mike will show up at my doorstep, and we'll drive down to Baltimore. There we'll be meeting like 30 people. There's folks from Boston, New York City, New Jersey, Lake Erie, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, DC, North Carolina, Michigan, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Chicago & San Fran flying in for this weekend.
Why? No reason. Just a weekend to hang out. These are probably the best group of people anyone could ever meet. Our group is so diverse that it's surprising how well it meshes. But it meshes phenomenally.
And on a sadder note, this will be the first major gathering I'll be attending since Jordan passed away last June. There have been two since then (Red Rocks & Pigfest), but I was unable to attend either. As I'm sure will be the case everytime I see these people for the rest of my lives, he will be on everyones minds at some point this weekend.
Time to drink. See you next week!
Tomorrow morning my friends Kate & Mike will show up at my doorstep, and we'll drive down to Baltimore. There we'll be meeting like 30 people. There's folks from Boston, New York City, New Jersey, Lake Erie, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, DC, North Carolina, Michigan, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Chicago & San Fran flying in for this weekend.
Why? No reason. Just a weekend to hang out. These are probably the best group of people anyone could ever meet. Our group is so diverse that it's surprising how well it meshes. But it meshes phenomenally.
And on a sadder note, this will be the first major gathering I'll be attending since Jordan passed away last June. There have been two since then (Red Rocks & Pigfest), but I was unable to attend either. As I'm sure will be the case everytime I see these people for the rest of my lives, he will be on everyones minds at some point this weekend.
Time to drink. See you next week!
Monday, January 14, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Days like today - days where something happens that if I'm still alive 60 years from now, I'll remember as vividly as when it happened - don't come very often. And when they do, they usually do more bad than good.
Today was definitely a more bad than good day. But in the long run, it'll be more good, because it'd rid me of something I needed to rid myself of.
It's just draining. Luckily I get to see everyone in one week in Baltimore. I need 4 days of binge drinking with the best people in the world to get my mind off this one.
Today was definitely a more bad than good day. But in the long run, it'll be more good, because it'd rid me of something I needed to rid myself of.
It's just draining. Luckily I get to see everyone in one week in Baltimore. I need 4 days of binge drinking with the best people in the world to get my mind off this one.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
I've got the itch to move again. Only this time it's not just hearsay. I really neeeeeed to get out of my house.
Only question is where to?
Nashville is still my #1 choice, and the more I think about it, the more I realize how stupid I am for not having jumped down there two years ago. Plus, a lifetime in the same neighborhood as Chris & Loren and Darren & Elisabeth can't be a bad thing, can it?
Baltimore always sits in the background, if for no other reason than everytime I'm there, I have a blast, and I could easily get a job working with Terry.
I can't believe I'm admitting this, but I really miss New England. It probably has less to do with the area and more to do with the people, but having James, Rich & Scott still live together 7 years later, and me bailing on them 3 years ago still eats me alive. I miss those guys a lot, and think I would have a lot of fun working at Fenway with James, except I don't really want to cook.
Brooklyn's always calling my name, but that's probably a bit out of my price range right now.
And of course, I could just do what I'm planning on doing, which is move in with Che & Josh sometime this summer somewhere around here.
The only thing that scares me about that, the easiest possibility, is that once I sign that lease, I feel like I'm signing my life to NJ, which isn't necessarily something I want to do.
Really, the only thing keeping me in NJ is my family. And besides immediate family, who I'll always see regardless, all the people in my family that I hang out with now live in Nashville or San Fran. And I'm not moving to Cali.
Only question is where to?
Nashville is still my #1 choice, and the more I think about it, the more I realize how stupid I am for not having jumped down there two years ago. Plus, a lifetime in the same neighborhood as Chris & Loren and Darren & Elisabeth can't be a bad thing, can it?
Baltimore always sits in the background, if for no other reason than everytime I'm there, I have a blast, and I could easily get a job working with Terry.
I can't believe I'm admitting this, but I really miss New England. It probably has less to do with the area and more to do with the people, but having James, Rich & Scott still live together 7 years later, and me bailing on them 3 years ago still eats me alive. I miss those guys a lot, and think I would have a lot of fun working at Fenway with James, except I don't really want to cook.
Brooklyn's always calling my name, but that's probably a bit out of my price range right now.
And of course, I could just do what I'm planning on doing, which is move in with Che & Josh sometime this summer somewhere around here.
The only thing that scares me about that, the easiest possibility, is that once I sign that lease, I feel like I'm signing my life to NJ, which isn't necessarily something I want to do.
Really, the only thing keeping me in NJ is my family. And besides immediate family, who I'll always see regardless, all the people in my family that I hang out with now live in Nashville or San Fran. And I'm not moving to Cali.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Despite what I've led myself to believe, this site actually does get read. Or at least, Che reads it. Therefore, I write on...
But not too much writing tonight. My computer crapped out a bit ago, and I finally got my harddrive replaced the other day. I lost everything, though. One thing I did have was my Ipod. After much research (and bothering Aaron at work), I found a way to transfer from my ipod to my computer, which technically isn't legal (shh...). Excellent.
Only problem is now I have thousands of songs that were on my ipod all in folders called "F00, F01, F02, etc." And when you open those folders, there aren't song titles labeling the tracks. Nope. Each song is called some variation of "AAAA, AAAB, AAAC, etc." So I'm going through and manually renaming every single track. Which means I have to listen to it and figure out what song it is, and then I have to move it into a folder with songs on the same album from the same band. Because if you know me, you know I'm OCD about my music collection, and only done perfectly will do.
The one plus that's come from this is I have to listen to everything on my Ipod (which according to ITunes is 23 days worth of music). I've rediscovered some stuff, namely Joseph Arthur's "Redemption's Son" album, that I have completely forgotten about. That's pretty sweet.
OK, back to work.
But not too much writing tonight. My computer crapped out a bit ago, and I finally got my harddrive replaced the other day. I lost everything, though. One thing I did have was my Ipod. After much research (and bothering Aaron at work), I found a way to transfer from my ipod to my computer, which technically isn't legal (shh...). Excellent.
Only problem is now I have thousands of songs that were on my ipod all in folders called "F00, F01, F02, etc." And when you open those folders, there aren't song titles labeling the tracks. Nope. Each song is called some variation of "AAAA, AAAB, AAAC, etc." So I'm going through and manually renaming every single track. Which means I have to listen to it and figure out what song it is, and then I have to move it into a folder with songs on the same album from the same band. Because if you know me, you know I'm OCD about my music collection, and only done perfectly will do.
The one plus that's come from this is I have to listen to everything on my Ipod (which according to ITunes is 23 days worth of music). I've rediscovered some stuff, namely Joseph Arthur's "Redemption's Son" album, that I have completely forgotten about. That's pretty sweet.
OK, back to work.
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