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May 28, 2004

This day is starting out horribly so I can't wait for things to improve. My goal was to run 5 miles in 37:30 this morning - no chance in hell, my legs wouldn't allow that at all. I did, however, make 3.5 miles in 26 minutes flat...which is right at the same pace, but wow, the sweat was dripping...dripping...dripping. I'm in serious trouble on Monday -- I'll finish in fantastic time, but my goal - wow, not so sure. So I switched over to lift biceps this morning after my run, successful...drip drip drip goes the sweat. Then..for the first time ever...the dipshits at the gym didn't unlock the faculty locker room, so - that means - no deoderant, hair spray, towel, shower, toothbrush, socks -- no nothing for Bryan. So I stood by a sink in a random bathroom washing my face and body with hand soap and drying off with my sweat-covered shirt at 7:45 this morning...I think I actually smell worse after that "shower". Luckily I have a toothbrush in my desk drawer at work. I'm barefoot at work today - I have no socks (they're in my locker) and I refuse to wear dress shoes with no socks. Great start to a day, huh? I didn't have breakfast today either - think I'll get some cheetos from the vending machine.

This Slipknot album is fricking incredible. I've had it on at work straight through since Tuesday, it's all I've listened to in my car, and I've played it on my computer as MP3's as I sleep each night - pretty much got the whole thing memorized, look for an official review next week. Duality has grown on my like a tumor, I'm obsessed with that song right now.

Back to Iowa for the weekend, sorta. And Bob - it's only my second trip of 2004 so take it easy :)

I jinxed the Flames by finally bragging about my prediction - I'll shut up about hockey until that series is over.

On KBPI this morning they replaced all the oil in a 1990 Escort with Aunt Jemimas Maple Syrup and are seeing how far they can drive it, it's pretty funny. Just thought I'd tell you.

Ok, yet again - I'm disgusted with typing right now. I also hate stupid people who don't understand how a simple spam email filter works - it's not that difficult people, especially when we send out a 4 page email discussing HOW to use it! Just read the fucking email dipshits. By the way - I'm slowly turning into that I.T. guy that everyone hates as I just give brief answers and look away becuase I'm just getting disgusted with people's sheer stupidity. I'm getting mad now, I'll stop. Have a more than plesant weekend.

May 27, 2004

First off - if any of you have the album Tool - Undertow at your disposal today and can get the MP3's to me somehow, I'd be greatly appreciative. I made an MP3 mix cd with 150 songs on it, an updated Slipknot/Stone Sour MP3 cd with every Slipknot and Stone Sour song ever released, and want to make a Tool CD but I only have Lateralus, Aenima, and Opiate for their CD's - I'd like to make a complete MP3 cd for my trip.

Bob and I went to Old C's last night for a whopping 2 beers and food. Their new italian melt sandwich....wow, amazing. Old C's rules now that you can't smoke in Broomfield bars anymore.

Paypal screwed me over, they deducted something from my bank account instead of my discover card that I had to buy for work, fuckers. Now I'm broke as hell again. Thankfully payday is tomorrow but my checks through the end of June are pretty much spent and then some. Damn weddings.

I got no sleep last night, damn phone wouldn't stop ringing - stupid drunk dialers, so I didn't get up to go to the gym this morning. I'm watching Dr. Strangelove over lunch, so I only get to work out for a short while after work then have to run 5 miles tomorrow morning. I've got a lot to do tonight...cut my hair, finish my cd making, pack, work out, take the snowboard rack off Laetitia and put on the bike racks (get's MUCH better gas mileage on the highway without the ski rack, and with gas so high, every little bit helps).

Phish broke up, the only thing I care about this is the fact that it's funny listening to KBPI rip on all the Boulder hippies who don't know what to do with life anymore.

That's all, sorry I'm so boring today. The music section I've been (not) working on lately isn't even close to ready anymore, I've decided to do a lot more with it. I'm also working on a "Reviews" section that will review books, movies, and cds...I've currently got 4 books, 2 movies, and 2 cds in there - but I'm waiting to get a lot more content before I post that. Like you really give a shit. Bye.

May 26, 2004

Jarome Iginla is a beast. Do you know how damn stupid I am for not going with my gut feeling? What was it, mid-February when, in writing on fleetmack.com - I predicted the Calgary Flames would win the Stanley Cup? Have I backed down from that since? All I needed to do was put $100 down in Vegas proving so at that time and I'd be a rich muthaphukker come a week and a half from now....there, I finally jinxed myself.

Just like when the Avs got booted from the playoffs and I didn't say anything about it, I'll bet you're shocked I'm not going to discuss the new Slipknot album today. I'm waiting for it to sink in. It's like when you do something amazing the first time and you're just like "Holy shit, that is unreal. Amazing. I can't believe it!" But then, after time, it wears off. I'm not going to let myself get too excited about this album until I listen to it 20 or so times to make sure I'm just not overhyping the extreme incredible greatness of this as-of-now masterpiece...that's all....

Being sick last week just murdered my running and I'm really pissed off about it. My goal of a 47 minute 10K is close to a myth now, it's funny what one week of not running, exercising, or eating normal can do to a person. For cripes sake, I still only weight 169lbs - ridiculous - that's about 7 under normal. I did successfully run 4 miles in under 32 minutes today - so that's right at pace of a 49 minute 10K and I do have upwards of a week to make up my lost ground. I'm just pissed because I could run what I did this morning a month ago and it took more effort today due to my loss of strength this past week. I think my plan will be this -- take tomorrow off, no running at all. Friday morning I will run 5 miles in 37:30 or less (as a goal). 37:30 for 5 miles puts me on pace for a 46:30 10K. Then Saturday morning I'll be in Carroll, elevation difference is huge so it'll be very easy to run there - I'll do 3 miles in 22 minutes...then take Saturday rest of the day and Sunday all day off - then by race time at 7:06a.m. on Monday -- hopefully I can beat 47 minutes....it's a longshot, but I'm going to do it...and if I don't...at least I tried my hardest. Also if I don't, I'll do another 10K in a month or so at 47 minutes when I don't have to take a week off for being sick. Man being sick pissed me off.

Have I bored you yet? Thought so. Johnny Cash is MP3 today, new pic of the day is up, new Wil$on picture is up - no links, you can click on the left yourself.

May 25, 2004

I'm really busy today, don't have time to update - maybe later - maybe. Go buy Vol. 3 - The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot - it is released today, first new album in 3 years - should be great - read a review by the Des Moines Register if you'd like.

May 24, 2004

Happy Monday to you all, I had the most unproductive weekend in the history of weekends. I was still getting over being sick so no activeness for me. Friday night I rented Runaway Jury -- pretty good movie I guess, nothing special, but I think John Cusak is pretty cool, I'd rate it a 7.5 out of 10. Every time I'm flipping through channels, I see the E! Channel, I never stop as it's always playing The E True Hollywood Story of either Kate Hudson, Demi Moore, TLC, or someone else I could care less about...but once in awhile, it says Wild On... While this show is really stupid since they replaced Brooke Burke as the hostess 2 years ago, for some reason I always check the info on it to see if for some reason they might possibly be showing an episode from over 2 years ago - they were! I got to watch Brooke Burke! Sure enough, when that was over, I got to flipping channels again - checking the info on Conan and Killborne, and Craig Killborne had Brooke as a guest! Man, what a night. And I thought staying home alone on weekend nights watching TV by myself would suck, how wrong I was!

My current email address only has 2 weeks of existance left. Javascript will be my spam savior.

Saturday I went and played OTL softball with John and his friends. I sucked at it but it's a cool game, can't believe I'd never heard of it. Even though I suck, there's never anything wrong with hanging out in the park all day. Went out for a short while afterwards then came home and slept until nooner yesterday. Talk about a wasted day yesterday - I watched Mars Attacks and Pee Wee's Big Adventure on Showtime or Starz or something, tried to do laundry, tried to eat a chipotle burrito -- none of which were successful. Was supposed to go to some party for employees of the Fillmore, I really didn't feel like it though. Yup, over the past 6 days my couch and I have re-become best friends.

Heading back to good 'ol Iowa on Friday night, heading straight to Mule's place, going to the wedding & reception, and driving straight back to the good 'ol land that's actually green this year instead of dead! My 10K time is going to be horrible due to my sickness...I'm still going to shoot for 47 minutes, but after taking a week off from running due to illness, my confidence is crushed. I just can't wait to be paying $2.30/gallon (interstate prices) for my 1500 mile trip in 3 days. I need to find a last minute flight. Happy Monday!

May 21, 2004

I was home sick for 2 days. Daytime TV is horrible. I watched a lot of Family Feud with Al from the Tool Time show. I slept about 20 hours a day. I shed my entire skin layer from my Vegas sunburn all over my bed. I scanned every letter, card, tax document, and bank statement I've gotten in the past 4 years and backed them up on cd. I bought $30 worth of over-the-counter drugs to keep me sane, and I lost a TON of ground on my 47 minute goal for Bolder Boulder. I'm fucking pissed about that, you have no idea. My throat feels like hell and I'm having extreme trouble breathing, so I don't think I'll be able to run until at least Monday. My couch and I are going to stay closely acquainted this weekend.

I hate computers, I really do. I'm getting sick of these damn things. Everything about them, from hardware, to software, to windows, to stupid end-users, to spam, to pop-ups, to resolution settings on scanners, to random blue screens, to upgrades....I hate computers. I wish I knew nothing about them. I need to win powerball.

I hate John Elway. If for not being an inspiration to Eli Manning to be a bitch and hold out on the team who drafts you (note to all prospective NFL players - a team drafts YOU...you do not get to draft A TEAM!) Now I have nothing against John Elway's ability to play football - the reason I'm pissed at him right now are his damn commercials. If you don't live in Denver, you probably don't realize that John Elway is to Denver what George W. is to USA - he basically runs the place. He owns like every damn car dealership in this city, and his commercials right now are driving me insane. The ghostbusters song - that's his commercials, but they say "Who ya gonna call? JOHN ELWAY!" Oh man, I'm going to go postal.

I think I'm feeling drunk-like due to all the over-the-counter medication in my body right now. Currently I'm on a double-dose of Day-Quill, single dose of Tylenol Sore Throat max strength, 2 advils, and 2 tylenol cold sever congestion pills. I may have overdone it this morning. Yesterday I ate a jar of salsa and chips, that was my food for the day. I didn't eat on Burrito day at all. This morning I weighed in at a pathetic 166.8 lbs......3.2 below my goal for June 10th - but that's not the way I wanted to reach my goal and I'm sure I'll gain 10lbs in a week here when I'm healthy again. Damn, that's like 15lbs lighter than I was a month ago. Weak. I need food.

OOOOO!!! I drove by the best restaurant in Denver the other day that closed down - the Streetside Eatery - and it's re-opening under new ownership soon! That made my day! Giddy up! Ok, no more typey today. Have a splendid weekend as I sit at home and watch to see who my predicted Calgary Flames will play in the Cup finals. Adios.

May 19, 2004

I woke up and figured if I moved around, ate something, drank something, and drove to work - that I'd feel good by this time. It turns out, I was wrong. I'm going to bed and hopefully my throat won't feel like someone jumped down it while wearing Craig from Slipknot's mask. Have a nice day.

May 18, 2004

So the bridge that collapsed by where I work and killed 3 over the weekend, they now say there was a 911 call in telling officials that it looked like it was going to collapse - an hour before it happened - it could have been put off limits and closed off. That's shitty. That whole story is just highly disturbing, obviously because it's very close to here, and because it killed a family of 3, the parents and a 2 year old.

This spam epidemic is getting out of control, expect me to have a changed email address by the end of the week, I can't take this shit anymore. Seriously, did I need to get 90 spams since I left work at 5 last night? Yeah - didn't think so. I just set up a "Catch All Alias" on my email server, that may help get all non-existent fleetmack email accounts to forward to a hoaxed non-existent account.....I hope. Either way, expect bryan@fleetmack.com to be out the door shortly....VERY shortly.

I watched the Flames roll all over the Shark Tank last night, we're just one win away from making my Western Conference predictions all be correct with the exception of the Avs/Sharks series. Man I'm smart, too bad I'm shitty when I bet on stuff like this.

I'm so damn tired today, I had to stay up late last night to watch Slipknot play on Jay Leno. They played Duality, I really am a fan of that song...I can't believe we're just 7 days from the release of Vol 3. The Subliminal Verses. Wow, first Slipknot album in 3 years. That's what's great, you got dipshits like Jay-Z and DMX coming out with 7 albums a year and it's like 1 or 3 good songs per album. If you take 3+ years to release (and 4 to record) a new album, it's going to be solid. Solid.

Speaking of Jay Leno last night - wow - Rodney Dangerfield looks like he could be on his way out shortly, that guy was just out of it. That's shitty because I love that guy to death. Unfortunately, it'll be loving him to his own death shortly I think.

I don't want to type anymore.

May 17, 2004

Congrats on the engagement Bucktros Bucktros Buck!!!

Twenty things learned or confirmed in Las Vegas:
1) 15 is definitely not a prime number
2) When Cameron lies and tells girls that Mack is on the Atkins diet, Mack flips out and lists 200 reasons why he thinks the Atkins diet is a hoax. Everyone laughs at how pissed Mack is for no reason and the girls think he's a confused deranged psychopath..
3) If you stay at the same hotel as a Roy Jones Jr. (who rolled Craps next to Andy) fight on said fight weekend, expect the topless pool to be at capacity a half hour before it opens.
4) Cocktail waitress Bridgette is officially in the top-5 hottest non-famous girls on Earth. She is my new imaginary girlfriend - I know this becuase I asked her if she would be and she said "I think that'd be a win-win situation for the both of us." She likes to snowboard and her turn-ons include me and everything I like.
5) No matter how much money you win at Blackjack, you can always find a way to spend it all at the strip club, or better yet, strip clubs
6) It's acceptable to eat 2 meals in 3 days if you substitute 25 pina coladas in the place for each missed meal.
7) Bar tabs time-stamped at 10:37 a .m. are never as high as you'd expect them, even though drinks are somewhere near $8/ea.
8) Even in Las Vegas, we're somehow the center of the party everywhere we go. I don't understand how we manage to do this or why people find us so interesting.
9) Topless pools are all they're cracked up to be.
10) The silent movies at the Burger Bar right between Mandalay Bay and the Luxor are the funniest television you can watch
11) Talking in elevators is the best thing. Especially when you decide 10 minutes after arrival that "CL" somehow stands for "Hooker Carcass", then every time you're on an elevator for 4 days, the first thing you say out loud as the door closes is "Hooker Carcass". People will, in fact, look at you strangely.
12) Sam makes lots of karate and wants to bury all cab drivers in the desert.
13) ....is an unlucky number, there is not a floor numbered after Vegas learned or confirmed list item #13, however - 13 is a prime number.
14) Mandalay Bay, providing the addition of a top-scale strip club, is the official happiest place on Earth as they give me lots of money, free drinks, lots of women, and little sleep.
15) When you walk into your hotel room at 8am drunk as hell alone to find all your friends passed out, no matter what position they're sleeping in, it's next to the funniest thing since 15 not being a prime number.
16) When you get a "buy one night get one free" room deal for four nights at a 5 star hotel hosting one of the top 2 biggest boxing matches of the year, you feel really damn cool.
17) Sun tan lotion is not overrated, I should have used more.
18) The favorite moment of Andy's life was him watching me puke my brains out in the bushes after successfully bench pressing 315lbs for the first time ever. About 3 minutes later he deemed something else the favorite moment of his life. I felt used.
19) I can't wait to not go back to Vegas for hopefully a long time
20) Police are much more friendly to you if you're friendly back to them, even when they want to arrest you very badly and it's 5am when you're alone with a nearly-dead cell phone battery and don't know your room number and have no proof you're actually staying in the hotel. I lucked out there.

Pictures are up, enjoy and have a great week.

May 12, 2004

TGIBD (thank God it's burrito day). I say that because today is like a Friday for me, time to kick off a lovely 4 1/2 day weekend in Sin City, aka, Las Vegas. This'll be the last update until Monday so enjoy...

Last night was preparation for the weekend, as I watched the Flames smoke the Sharks 4-1 (did anyone see Donovon's goal? Wow!), I was able to do laundry, clean house, pack, etc. I did a great job of packing, I was seriously impressed. This is the first time I ever packed fully the night before. Usually I am late for work and just throw a bunch of random crap in a bag at 7:30am. Yup, exciting story huh?

Had to go take out a hefty sum of money at the ATM last night for gambling and to reimburse Smith for the Mandalay bill. My bank account is virtually dry right now and this kinda had me bummed. Not kinda, it just flat-out had me upset and depressed. I thought, "Why am I always so broke? I've got a good job and rent isn't that high. (even though it's ridiculous to what I could be paying in KC or Des Moines)" So I was upset for awhile, really upset. After thinking for literally hours about how I could possibly be this flat broke, I realized something. Take the past 24 months, 2 years ago I was $7K in credit card debt and owned nothing. I have no car payment. I now have no debt, hhave bought brand new couches, new oversized queen bed, big screen HDTV, all housing supplies, dvd player, mp3 player, all sorts of computer stuff, home furnishings, etc. I've bought all this all while taking 3 trips to KC, 3 trips to Minneapolis, 2 trips to Vegas, 1 trip to San Diego, 1 trip to Oregon, countless trips to Iowa (probably 15?), not to mention buying 2 snowboards and all the gear, along with all my snowboarding gear (and passes for 3 years!) and all my hiking/camping stuff. I drive 60 miles round-trip to work every day, that adds up in the gas category. I pay $1000ish/year for car insurance. On top of that I've maxed out my 403B (401K for non-profit orgs) and my Roth IRA. And yet even on top of all this, I have a perfect credit rating. Yeah, after I realized this, I saw that I've basically forfeitted the down-payment of a house or any savings to be living life to its fullest the past 2 years and to invest/prepare for the future, and it's worth every penny. Sorry, I wasn't trying to sound cocky this paragraph, I just really needed to write that down to re-assure myself that it's ok to have no money. I was still a little upset about it this morning. �comprende?

So my goal is to work out at least 2 time while I'm in Vegas, then work out on Sunday when I get back. It's Wednesday morning and I've run 13 miles this week and gotten every major muscle group worked out for at least 45 minutes each (except back). I'm pretty proud of that, but upset at the same time because my goal was to run 15 miles this week before Vegas, missed it by 2, I was just too damn tired this morning to run 4, had to stop at 2 :o( But hey, I'll take 13 miles of running by 7am on Wednesday any week of the year! I ate tuna helper for breakfast at 5:30 this morning -- recommendation - don't ever do that. It tastes great when eating it, but when you go running 45 minutes later, wow, not good.

The Onion's tips to survive your work commute, funny :)

Normally, "Jean" doesn't crack me up. So I'm reading this article and right when the twist (diagnosis) kicked in I just burst out laughing harder than I have in a long time. Does that mean I'm going to hell? It's just the onion, I mean come on, it's made up news and she's not even real! Funny.

Hey Kelly double-O (no, that's not you O'Byrne) -- you still reading this site? If so email me, we need to discuss the "Ask Kelly" page we discussed last year, or whatever it was we discussed, I have a bad memory these days. Damn you for not being on MSN anymore!

The Wil$on picture today is spectacular. It's almost as if you'd expect to see Jack Nichelson at Home Team Pizza in Ames, did that itch your curiosity? Speaking of the man, how about someone writing a new Wil$on story sometime soon? I'm about ready to if someone else doesn't, trust me, I have the material, but I dont' want to have to write every other one. Sully? Hart? Smith? Is anyone listening? Remember the Wil$on fiction contest? Oh man that ruled, what did I give as a prize for that? That guy did a great job - check it. I was thinking one day of a Wil$on impersonation contest -- here's what I wrote like a year ago or so - maybe I should do that?

Hmmm, new MP3 shall be up today. I'm feeling violent today.......I'm going to go with the most sick and twisted lyrics I know of today for the MP3..... OOOO!! I know which one to use! New pic of the day to celebrate the trip - have a great weekend! Don't forget to sign the guestbook and keep the forums alive while I'm gone! Pic of the day is from memories of Vegas past.

Oh - one last though, my email address will be changing next week for good, and bryan @ fleetmack.com will no longer work...I'll send a mass BCC email to everyone, be on the lookout.

May 11, 2004

Step 1: Find out what newsletters, bills, etc. get sent to my current email address
Step 2: Pick a new email address
Step 3: Create alias so all email to old email address gets trashed and return notice gets sent to sender
Step 4: Encode new email address in php tags so robots cannot find address
Step 5: Receive no more spam ever
Step 6: Slice the head off anyone who gives my email address to a webstie like "evite" or one of those "enter 10 email addresses of your friends to see your class reunion list!" or stupid shit like that which is really a email harvester.

Man I hate stupid people - it's stupid people that give out my email address to places like that that results in me getting over 140 spams a day. Idiots.

I watched The Last Samurai last night, it was ok. Nothing special by any means. Tom Cruise just doesn't play that part well at all, and normally I think he's a fantastic actor, one of my favorites.

Tampa got their shit smoked last night. I am seriously a genius at this though, seriously, just read the past news and tell me I didn't pick Flyers/Flames in the finals months ago - we'll see what happens.

Got my Smith Voodoo's last night, they're sick as hell, you should all be jealous. Got 'em on sale as they were a discontinued color. Did you know I like blue? Yeah I know, like 95% of all my clothes are blue, I need to broaden my horizons sometimes I think. Ah well.

So tonight I have quite the list of things to get done so I can leave for Sin City tomorrow immediately following work. And no, I don't plan on hitting the clubs or any of that "pirates of the caribbean bullshit" (swingers reference)...I'm there for 2 reasons 1) gambling 2) pool at mandalay. That's it, that's all I give a damn about. Well, that and partying my ass off with Smith and the Chi-town boys.

Lloyd - thanks for the Family Feud PMOY voice mail! That Asian is the current playmate, she's ok - no Carmella though, Carmella=WOW!! Hell, she just earned herself a spot up by the date at the top. She could be entering the world of the Top 5 (currently my official top 5 contains Laetitia Casta, Brooke Burke, and Krista Allen.......Summer Altice and Tara Dakides are close, but I can't enter them into "official top 5 status")

Have a nice day.

May 10, 2004

In the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris looks outside and says something to the effect of "How do you expect me to be in school on a day like today?" As he looks out the window, you see the sun shining in the blue sky. I always thought "It never looks like this outside at 7:30 a.m." I was wrong, that is the exact day it is outside today. It was like that all weekend, in fact, just perfect weather. I layed low pretty much all weekend. Saturday I just chilled out and got a lot of stuff done, went running, etc. I went to see the movie Godsend with Rikelle Saturday night. I had no clue what it was about when I arrived, I just wanted to see it because it had De Niro in it, and he's my favorite actor. Let me just say this - that was a scary ass movie! Some girls sitting by us left becuase they were so scared. I'd put it in the top two scariest movies I've seen in the theatre before. I thought at the end there was going to be a sequel, but Riki talked me out of thinking that.

Yesterday I was productive by definition. I got the apartment cleaned, laundry done, sheets changed, ran 3 miles, got shopping done, cooked, started on a new book, did some writing, scanned some pictures (see below), cleaned Laetitia, threw away a bunch of junk, etc. It was great, I love being productive. On top of all that, I got to watch my pre-playoff-Stanley-Cup-champion-prediction Calgary Flames take game 1 of the Western Conference finals, and watched the Survivor finale. Too bad Boston Rob didn't win, but he still made out like a rock star. Seriously, he is getting married to one of the hottest women on earth, he won a car, his fiance won $1 million and a car - wow, lucky guy.

Who subscribes to Playboy? For the first time ever, the Playmate of the Year is who I wanted to win! From the moment I got that April 2003 issue with Carmella Decesare in it I knew she had to win. But she had the deck stacked against her as she has 2 qualities that Playboy doesn't seem to like in women that I love. 1) Brunette 2) Small Breasts I was honestly shocked she won, but hats off to Playboy on that one, nice work guys!

Ryan gave me his pictures from our Long's climb last year a few months ago, I finally scanned them this weekend and added them to the Long's Peak Pictures Page. I recommend checking them out - they're MUCH better than my pictures, he knows how to take pictures very well, I do not. I'll put one up as the picture of the day as well.

I'm leaving for Vegas on Wednesday to meet up with Smith and the rest of the Chi-Town clan. We'll be staying at the Mandalay Bay through Saturday. Hopefully I won't lose too much bank but we'll just have to see. I raised over $100 on ebay, and earned some money a few other ways for the trip (no, I'm not a male prostitute). Looking forward to giving it to some random Asian card dealer for no reason whatsoever. I wish I had gone 2 months ago and bet on the Flames, they would have made me serious money, and you all know, if you're loyal readers, I've been picking them forever. Shit that pisses me off. On that note - have a great week! New stuff is around, including MP3.

May 07, 2004

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCHWEERS!!! WU WU WU WU WU WU WU WU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ON SUNDAY TIFFANY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in and out of the office today back and forth to commencement and hopefully some graduation parties over lunch or something, we'll see we'll see. I chilled out last night, didn't run or go to the gym all day, but I did go to Flatirons Crossing and lost my keys. Getting my watch band fixed, found some sunglasses I want to buy - Smith Voodoo Deja Blue. Anyone have a discount on those? I'm looking on ebay. I refuse to pay $110 for sunglasses as I'm sure I can find them for $60-$70 someplace, we'll see. But if anyone has a connection, please let me know.

I watched Survivor last night, that's sweet how Boston Rob is screwing everyone over, he rules and he won a car and his girlfriend is hot. Too bad he's got that stupid Boston accent that nobody on Earth can stand. Remember yesterday when I bitched about people watching the Friends finale who never watched the show? Apparently I hate myself becuase I ended up watching it. Wow, haven't seen that show more than 3 or 5 times in the past few years, it's gone downhill, not very funny last night at all, AND they broke a foosball table?! Who the hell in their right mind would do something like that? Sheesh. Other than that, cleaned up my room, shaved, went to bed. Man I'm exciting sometimes huh?

I hope our pool opens up this weekend. I feel like sitting by it all weekend. I'm skipping Kinetics this weekend since I leave for Vegas 4 days later. I decided which mountains I'm climbing this year -- a total of eleven 14ers - some duplicates, but here goes, in no order and I will be doing some on the same days, if they're together with no space between them, that means I'm climbing them on the same day:

Grays Peak    (14,270 - easy)
Torrey's Peak    (14,267 - easy)

Long's Peak (14,255 - very difficult)

Sneffels Peak    (14,150 - very difficult)

Quandray Peak    (14,265 - easy)
Mt. Lincoln    (14,286 - easy)
Mt. Democrat    (14,148 - easy)
Mt. Bross    (14,172 - easy)

Mount of the Holy Cross    (14,005 - moderate)

Snowmass Mountain (14,092 - very difficult)

Mount Evans    (14,264 - easy)

I need to set up a schedule so I do these, I will be pissed if I don't do all these. Man I can't wait to get to climbing again!

New MP3 is up for you, new Wil$on picture, and yup - new picture of the day. Have a splendid weekend.

By the way, the guestbook is sorta fixed but when it got h4xed, I lost about 5 signers or so, so don't take it personal if your entry is missing. Adios.

May 06, 2004

Damn, didn't win powerball. I guess I'll have to work until at least next Monday huh? I can't wait to win powerball so I never have to work again. I think my days will be filled with running, watching Family Guy, and building houses out of decks of cards. I've always wanted to do that.

I was at work early this morning helping out at the 50th Class Reunion Breakfast. It's commencement week here at Mines, so I'm all dressed up in a suit for a few days, pretty cool huh? Just thought I'd share that with ya. It's fun to break out the suit and tie once in awhile, it cost about $250-$300 so I'm glad I didn't just have to use it for job fairs and interviews!

Bob and Carrie came over last night and Bob cooked for us, wow - delish. We had some shrimp and scallops over some penne pasta. Carrie made delicioius margaritas to help us celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Yup, sure did.

I'm a bum, I'm too lazy to even update the picture of the day and/or Wil$on picture anymore, it takes all of 20 seconds and I just have no urge to do it. This summer air just wants me outside on a patio or hiking or something all day every day.

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto Domo Domo che che che

Something that confuses me is when people who don't watch shows regularly (I'm speaking about 'Friends' here) but just HAVE to see the final episode. What's so special about it? I've maybe seen 25-30 episodes of that show, so basically, if I watch reruns at the same pace now, I get new episodes for the next 50 years. Why watch the last one now when there's still like 200 I haven't seen? At this pace, I'll be ready for tonight's episode when I'm 10 years into retirement. I base those numbers on nothing but grossly exaggerated over-estimations.

I love this song. Goodbye.

May 05, 2004

It's Cinco de Mayo and the hockey season is officially over for us Avalanche fans, but that's not important right now...

My entire body hurts, each in its own way. I sweated more than I did when I took a Bikram Yoga class. Chimaira was the first band, no more than 30 seconds into their first song, my shirt was goner. I broke a bracelet and a watch band, but still have the watch. I almost lost my coveted Slipknot hat, but recovered it. My legs are sore from jumping so much. My knees are sore from being thrown to the ground numerous times. My elbows are sore from hitting people with them. My back is bruised badly from people hitting me. My arms are sore from holding them up and throwing them into people. My ears are ringing. My eyelids are incredibly heavy. My feet are covered in blisters from my Chuck Taylor's and jumping around in them. Yes, I am in pain, but wow, what a fucking spectacular concert. Double encore, I couldn't have been happier with the encores. They actually played Iowa -- obviously not the 14 minute version, but I had no idea they'd play that! The second encore was outrageous, opening with the full "Everyone get on the ground" version of Spit It Out - where about 5000 people are on their knees and simultaneously jump up into one enormous mosh pit. They played Wait and Bleed as a sing along, then closed it all off with Surfacing. They played Purity, shit, I bet they played an 18 song set. Insane, seriously insane. You've never seen such an enormous mosh pit, I swear to you it was at least half the venue. Now it takes a lot to piss me off and especially at a Slipknot concert, you have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt that they're there to have a good time....but.....

One little, and I mean little (probably 4'10" or so) girl kept crowd surfing and would have to push her way back to the front. Fine, I can live with that. I dealt with it all through Fear Factory, but one thing bugs me. When people who have no intention of getting in the pits shove other people into the pits and I saw this chick doing it, as I said, she had been pissing me off the whole show, my adrenaline was just insanely rushing. During Purity I saw her shoving other girls into the mosh pit that didn't want to be in there, so I took her and flung her right into the middle of it, she just got fucking creamed, it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life.

Anyone ever seen the Lizard man before? Wow, that guy is messed up. He put a condom in his nose and pulled it out his mouth. He had a guy throw 3 metal darts into his back from about 3 feet away. He drilled a hole in his face. What a frickin' freak!

Fantastic concert, wow, fantastic concert. Slipknot is truly the best live performance band on Earth.

May 04, 2004

Hi Shonda and Lila! How 'bout them Red Wings? Ok, normally I wouldn't rub this in, but Kirk Maltby is such a cockhead in the first place (always been my #1 most hated NHL player but now Bertuzzi is getting close). From the second he upset that net intentionally when Ignila should have scored, the score should have been 1-0. So the game really didn't need overtime. Anywho, I can't rub it in, even if we make it to the next round I'm sticking with my pre-playoffs pick for Stanley Cup champions - the Calgary Flames. People mocked me for picking them, but check it - they've beat the #1 and #3 seeds with no home ice yet. Wow. I shouldn't mock you Red Wing fans until I see the outcome of tonight and after that -- hopefully -- Thursday night.

Slipknot/Chimaira tonight. Wow. I'm going to bring my MP3 player and record the show from my pocket, not sure if that'll work or not, but it's worth a shot, isn't it?

I've been working on this stupid 2 paragraph for hours now, I'm way too busy....nothing new today...

May 03, 2004

First off, I realize this was a really shitty and stupid thing to do, but I got so much pesci-damn spam over the weekend and didn't feel like sorting it, so I just deleted all my email I got since 5pm Friday night. If - for fucks sake - I've gotten 3 spams since I started typing this sentence. If you sent me something since then, you need to re-send. I'm going to be killing this email account in a week or so and creating a new one, and I'll be hiding the address from robots using php this time, that's the smart approach. Plus, some cockhead hacked my guestbook, I'll fix it later.

What a weekend, it was like my boy Blue, glorious. Friday, Mr. Matthew Renze, Ms. Aja Zyla, Ms. Rikelle Timmons, Mr. Andrew Lescovek, Ms. Lindsay McDowell, Mr. Matt AjasFriendFromGrandJunction, and Mr. Bryan Mack hit up the PCL, pictures of that will be posted when the disposable camera gets developed (yup, the digi-cam had a dead battery that night). Saturday, since Kinetics was cancelled, Rikelle made us all breakfast then Ms. LisaAjasFriend and Mr. TimLisasBoyfriend joined the same group of people at Jackson's Hole up here in Westy for the Avs game. We won and had a blast - woo hoo! After that, it was off to Chris' bachelor party, which started at the Oasis Cabaret and from there moved up to a cabin between Bailey and Fairplay in the mountains. Let's just say that there's not much memory and wasn't much sleep from that night. However Chris and I got up on Sunday morning and spotted over 25 deer and a whole pack of Long Horned sheep -- that was pretty sweet. Yesterday I spent resting and recovering while cooking and watching my Family Guy DVDs all day long, it was wonderful. Laetitia rolled over 160K miles this weekend as well. It was great to see Aja and Matthew this weeked. Pictures from Saturday are up as of now, but Friday pix won't be up for a few days.

I'm not going to jinx the Avs by even talking about them. If you don't know the story, go to nhl.com and read about it, if we win tomorrow night, you'll be sure to hear about us all over the place.

Unfortunately, yet fortunately, I cannot watch tomorrow night's game as Lindsay and I will be attending the Slipknot show. I've heard they're a somewhat ok band, so I decided I'd splurge and spend the $26 to see them. I made roughly $100 or so from last week's ebay auctions. I think I'm going to try to sell another $100 or so then donate plasma a couple of times to go to the Vegas fund. That'd give me around $250 for that particular fund. Vegas is just 10 days away. Oh man, nice, I really can't afford this trip, but I really don't care at the same time. You're only 25 for 366 days (leap year is this year) so you may as well live it up before you're in your late 20s. �comprende?

I've got some stuff to do now. Have a lovely week, cheer for the Avs, and if you're in Denver, do NOT miss the show tomorrow night, it's the only thing probably on earth I'd rather do than watch a game 6 Avs playoff game. I'll put up Duality as the MP3 today, it's ok I guess. I hope the rest of the album will be better than this song though.