First off, happy birthday to Lars. I keep forgetting to send your present, but I will. I definitely had a great Thanksgiving. Vegas was good, and it was cool to do something different on Thanksgiving. I don’t feel like taking the time to go into all the details (for better details, check out my sister Mary’s blog @ http://casemare.blogspot.com/), but I will give you some highlights. Right when we got there, Casey had made a full thanksgiving meal. Mary blended up some white Russians and we had a nice meal and watched some football. I think New New York is my favorite casino. It has lots of fun stuff and ESPN zone. I also played some black jack at the Sahara. It was my first time playing for $$. I only lost 2 bucks overall, but I was only playing 1$ minimum. We went hiking at Red Rock Canyon, which was really cool. It did rain on Saturday though, that sucked. We got to watch a few Dirty Harry movies on TV, and that was fun. And we ate an amazing buffet dinner at Ballys Casino. Let me just say that I ate so much that it had to come out pretty soon after eating. Overall, the experience was great and I had a really good time with everyone. I hated coming back to work though. I like my job, but work sucks in general. Last night I was listening to Pinkerton on my way back home from work and I decided once again that I need to be a rock star. So I need to get a guitar and amp and start practicing. Crap, I guess that costs money. Well, maybe someday. I found out today that Koufax is playing at Frankies in Toledo on Dec 28, the day before I get to BG for Christmas, so that is disappointing. So lets run down the list so far: I will miss GnR in SD on Dec 28. Andrew WK in BG on Dec 14 and Koufax in Toledo Dec 28. I guess I will settle for seeing family and friends. On a better note, there will be a new Reggie and the Full Effect cd out in February. And I’m getting excited about all the good movies coming out by Christmas. This Saturday I am going up to LA (I know, so soon?) to visit my friend Rob that I went to grad school with at BGSU. He works for Honda as a technical writer and writes the manuals for Honda motorcycles. And speaking of motorcycles, we are going to go to a cycle show of some sort, should be interesting. I’m gonna stay overnight at Rob’s place in Redondo Beach and come back Sunday. Tonight my Tar Heels play, so root them on. Too bad the Jets blew it last night, I needed them to win so that the Chargers could be in first place by themselves. And Sam Windom emailed me the other day, it was good to hear from him. Happy birthday to Justus as well.


“I was just a stupid kid back then. I take back every word that I said” Alkaline Trio
“Sorry I'm late, I was out spoiling my liver” Alkaline Trio
“The heart of a rat, the heart of a rat” Rocket from the Crypt
“I love my mom, she’s so coooool” Silvertones
Mike-hopefully I can adjust to the 3-D controls, but either way, I’m up for poop time
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