Seems Mother Nature finally took a break from the Parkay/butter debate and noticed that its supposed to be Fall. FINALLY we’re out of the 90s and expecting some much needed rain later today.
Windows are open.
Gonna chillax on the couch and read and try The Event…see if it’s gonna keep my interest. (PS3 owners…you can download the first HD eppy for free)
Laundry is done…which including the usual darks….whites…towels…iPod shuffle….d’oh! She’s airing out as we speak.
Ok…”song” for now…gonna take a while to build this post back up to its former glory…
(and it’s 3:30am…I have insomnia and haf to have the dogs at the vet at 8….oi!)
So I star a lot of things in Google Reader….esp. during the workday (cause I’m like working really hard and stuff) so I can check it out later…Problem is — later sometimes turns into ‘too late’…
Still running…although I took the last week off cause allergies or some kind of funk was kicking my butt. Doing better now and ran 2 miles this morn’. Average 3 or so miles a run….2-3 times a week.
Got promoted at work. I’m now an “IS Specialist”……yeah, I don’t know, either. Apparently it means you fumble around in the proverbial dark for almost a year and then get a raise. I’m OK with that.
Only other big thing I can think of at the moment was last weekend’s inaugural Hopscotch Music Festival here in Raleigh. Awesome time, it was. I volunteered on Thursday night (which consisted of hanging out in front of Kings Barcade checking wristbands…other bars at the really good shows so we were pretty dead and ended up shooting the shit all night with the part time doorman/part time stand up comedian.) and was able to get in free to shows for the rest of the weekend.
Saw a lot of good bands and lots of good people watching. (hipsters are so sneeringly interesting!)
harlem killed!
Favorite show? Harlem. Their main show was Friday night but they also played one of the day parties at Slim’s….which is where I caught them. So good!
My homegrown favorite, The Love Language opened for Public Enemy on Saturday and were also oh so good.
Hmmmm….what else?
New toys? iPhone and an iPad. Love them both. Especially the iPad. Didn’t think I’d enjoy reading books on something like this but once I saw that it tells you how many pages are left in a chapter…I was sold. It’s the little things.
Reading? Actually going old school at the moment with a library book (and I’ll really be set when they come out with the Apple version of the book loaning/downloading/whatever software)….Ape House by Sara Gruen. Surprisingly loved “Water For Elephants” so thought I’d give it a shot. I don’t expect it to be as good as Water (and from reviews….that seems like a smart move)….but it involves sign lanuaging bonobos and who can resist monkeys with mad skills?
I’m really ready for the Fall TV season to begin. I got rid of cable (I know, right) almost a year ago…and although I’ve been fine using my PS3/Play On Software and Netflix…I’m ready for some new Glee and Modern Family!
New Music….just picked up the new SuperChunk (!?) and The Drums (gah….been available digitally since June and the CD just came out what? last week?…no wonder indy stores are having such a hard time! Love them both….but gonna leave ya with some Harlem.
Till I decide whether it’s worth it to plunk down duckets on storage….we’ll be going ghetto with YouTube…which is kinda appropriate for Harlem, no?…(yeah…they are from Austin and the actual Harlem probably hasn’t been a ghetto since Willis and Arnold left….but whatever)
What's up y'all? Just stopping by to see what youz peeps have been up to. Kinda sad yet fun to swing by and check in with all you hardcorers.
Not much my way. The gray is slowly taking over the beard and the head as I truck on towards the big 4-0…. See evidence to your right ——>
Ran a 5K at the beginning of the month! Didn't die…and didn't let some powerwalkin' bitty beat me! Was talked into by a friend after drinks on Xmas night….turned out to be fun! I'm still running a few times a week and plan on running another at the end of April.
The ann-e-muls are doing fab….and still putting up with me. Got a new cam recently (Nikon D-3000) and have been torturing them whenever possible.
Saw The Connells at Xmas and heading to see Arctic Monkeys next week (in Raleigh?!) Hoping for some Sharon Jones in Chapel Hill in May and Phoenix in Cary in June…woot!
Still working the same jobby job…but moved over to the IT dept (and brought all my video conferencing and A/V crap with me). I'm trying to wrap my brain dead brain around the networking concepts. Ain't easy to teach this lazy dog….anything. Heading to Cisco 'boot camp' at the beginning of May….a week long crash course in all things networky…Not all that exciting…but it gives me more knowledge…and we all know As your body grows bigger, your mind grows flowered…it's great to learn cause knowledge is power!
However….me and Jimme…we gots the same aspirations and stuff.
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