I feel good today, really good. The sun is out, it feels perfect out. One of those days that is warm, but no humidity and I just feel it, feel it good. I’m lucky to be alive and feeling this way. It’s Friday, end of the work week, time for fun and being with friends. I’ve got that new Strokes song in my head, it’s eating me alive, crazy monster. I knew you would like that scrub comment Mary, just knew it. Jebra, that Darkness video was awesome, thanks for the link. For those of you who didn’t read Justin’s rant on emokid, check it here, it's toward the end. I finally got to the gym last night. Tracey had a bad migraine, so I took care of her most of the night and watched a great bball game (Lakers/Spurs). Right now I’m rockin out to some Narcissus, I’m ashamed it took me so long to get to them, my bad guys. I had starbucks for breakfast, good shizit. I miss my niece. I’m disgusted with politics. And not just political politics, but politics in general. Politics are one of the main reasons I don’t want to get my PHD. What would my PHD be in? Not sure, doesn’t matter at the moment. Work sucks today, boring. Season two of Strangers with Candy is now out, I need both, eventually. It was actually supposed to rain today, and it did get dark for a bit, but now the sun has made a triumphant return, as has my good attitude. I will leave you today with some funny things, enjoy.

“Finally, after being on hold forever, I was connected to a complete and total Social Infant.” Jay, on his trials with TicketMaster (one of several evil empires, which include Clear Channel, the NY Yankees and N. Korea)

Here’s a good joke someone sent me:
A bus carrying only ugly people crashes into an oncoming truck, and everyone inside dies. They then get to meet their maker, and because of the grief they have experienced; he decides to grant them one wish each, before they enter Paradise.

They're all lined up, and God asks the first one what their wish is "I want to be gorgeous," and so God snaps His fingers, and it is done.

The second one in line hears this and says "I want to be gorgeous too." Another snap of His fingers and the wish is granted. This goes on for a while but when God is halfway down the line, the last guy in line starts laughing.

When there are only ten people left, this guy is rolling on the floor, laughing his fanny off.
Finally, God reaches this guy and asks him what his wish will be.
The guy calms down and says:.......................... "Make 'em all ugly again".

And here is a post by Conrad (who was in Ghoti Hook) from Decapolis.com about a cell phone issue he has, it’s funny:

I recently got a new cell phone to get better reception. I had a Sprint phone I was pretty happy with, but was told that Nextel gets better reception. Little did I know at the time that I signed up for Nextel service that Nextel was run by demons.

For the first bill I received I was over charged $280. So I had to call up, stay on hold for forty days and forty nights, and get the problem solved. The next bill I receive I was overbilled $100. I call again, stay on hold for months and finally talk to someone. I have 500 daytime minutes but apparently in demon math 500 means 200. So the customer service demon fixes it and promises that it won’t happen again. Now what do you think happened this month? I get the bill, and lo and behold, over billed by $100. Again, the inflated demon math.

Thinking that other companies bill you correctly without having to call three months in a row, being over billed by close to $500, being on the phone for two hours total, I figured I would get some sort of discount for my troubles.

Apparently not. Nextel believes that along with the bill you should be required to spend your time haggling over it.

Each time I call I am greeted with a recording saying “Customers come first.” Come first for what, the slaughter? Customers come first in gouging? Customers come first for Nextel to abuse?

I kept wondering to myself, how can they expect to exploit me each month? I researched it a little more and found out that in fact Nextel stands for certain words in their mission statement…

NEXTEL = Need to EXploit Totally Everyone aLive

After he tells me that his manager won’t give me any credits, he proceeds to tell me that they will come to my house to kill my children. I then told him I don’t have any children. He then said, they’ll wait till they’re born and then kill them. He also then said that everyone at Nextel loves the X-box controllers and are friends with zombies. Then he goes off on how rap music is so much better than all other genres of music and that all those other genres should be banned. I was about to interrupt but he continued on by saying that everyone at Nextel thinks the Lord of the Rings movie sucks and that everyone one who watched it should be ground up into little pieces and fed to swine. And then those swine should be ground up into little pieces and fed to wombats. He said while they are overbilling customers they watch Freddie Prinze Jr. movies while punching senior citizens in the face.

I give Nextel a 2 out of 10 in customer service. But for those of you at Nextel that’s a 5 out of 10 in your inflated demon math.

Bron and Melo sucked, but that's ok, they're 18 and 19, what do you expect? It'a chill day here, I'm not feeling well, I've been sneezing a lot and feeling crappy. I think it's the change in temp here, which is not much, but it's colder at night, whatever. I did play bbal the other day in OB and did pretty well. My last game I had this anoying kid guarding me, just real hyper and swinging his arms everywhere. I hit the game winning fadeaway shot right in his face, take that scrub and get off me. I did the stare down thing after I hit the shot. I wanted to leave my hand in the air as well, but I didn't, it felt good either way, silly kid. Maybe we'll catch Matrix tonight, don't know, I don't have any urgency to see it now, but will eventually. Tracey's birthday is in ten days, what am I going to do? Ah, no worries, got it under control. With the risk of upsetting others by mentioning the movie Old School, the band that was playing during the wedding reception towards the beginning of the movie is an actual cover band from LA and are supposed to be awsome and funny in concert. Why am I mentioning this, cause they are playing in SD next month and I want to catch them, just for fun. Besides Will Ferrell, that's my favorite part of that movie. I want to add two more things to my christmas list:

The Indianna Jones Triology DVD set
Piebald tshirt (Large), located here

Thanks for showing up BGSU, thanks for making me grumpy. At least I have Bron Bron to watch tonight and feel better. I'd like to catch the Matrix Revolutions, but Bron Bron is on, like I said. Revolutions is not getting very good reviews, which sucks, we shall see. I think we'll catch Elf this weekend though. Go Bron Bron!

i must have been high...on the Lord, that is.
~Wayne Everett

Back from Ohio, somehow back alive, and to seeing the stars and moon at night. It appears the fires are under control here in SD, which is very good. It’s nice to be able to breathe again. Our time at Kevin’s wedding was good overall. Woke up Thursday morning at 4am, that sucked. We flew all day, got to Columbus at around 4pm Eastern time, drove to Dayton in our rental Mazda and arrived for the rehersal for the wedding. The church was awesome, I was really into it, very gothic, stained glass, very Castle Vania. Right away we got to see our new niece, Hannah, and she was perfect and sweet. We did the rehersal, went to Spagetti Warehouse for dinner and caught up with Tracey’s family. From there, Ryan rode with me back to cinci so we could go to Sonic and get milkshakes on the way back. Got back to Cinci, and got to watch Bron Bron play some ball. King James rocks it dude, he’s awesome, for an 18 yer old, at least. Friday Ryan and I got up at 6:30am, after only like 4 hours of sleep, to drive to Dayton so we could play golf with Kevin, the soon to be married man. Golf was really fun, I played horrible, as you would expect, we had some cigars while playing, always nice, then headed to Skyline Chilli for lunch, so good. We then got cleaned up, went to the church and got dressed.

Wedding was at 7pm, we rocked that deal out, very short ceremony (thanks Kevin and Emily) and then did the picture thing, and went to the reception. The DJ had a sweet Mullet and I took some pictures of it, I’ll have them up sometime on our picture site. I was so tired all night. After the reception, everyone in Tracey’s family who was in town came over to our hotel room (that we were sharing with Tracey’s parents) and hung out till 3:30amish, I actually fell asleep on the floor for awhile cause I was so tired. We woke up, went to Bob Evans with everyone, then Ryan and I somehow fangled our way to go up to BG and catch Tracey’s Cousin playing hockey (he plays for Miami of OH) at BGSU. Tracey is correct, we mainly wanted to get breadsticks and DQ, which we did. The game was fun, ended in a tie. Then we made the long trip back to Cincinnati, but we made it. I also stopped in to see Jay for a sec, called Lars, and got to see my parents and brothers for a few as well, a good run. But glad to be back.

On to other things. BGSU is on ESPN tonight, I might play some ball and I had a frustrating day at work yesterday, but it ended positive cause I solved a problem that I had spent all day fighting, so I felt good. Those into the Lassie need to go to their website and get a free demo MP3 of a new song, http://www.lassiefoundation.com. Tomorrow Bron Bron is on again, cheers to that. Here is a first look at the beginning of my Christmas list (in no particular order):

Strangers w/ Candy first season DVD set.
Tenacious D-The Complete Masterworks DVD
Scarface special edition DVD
The new Hippos CD (has keyboards on the cover, not sure what it is called, 11/11/03 release date)
Gift certificate from Tower Records
Any Curb Your Enthusiasm DVD’s, if they are out at all
A new (bigger) IPOD, yeah, I said it
An electric guitar and amp
Big Lebowski Poster (asked for it last year)