There are now over 700 pictures taken both by my mom and by Nancy on the Pig-Fest site. I think in total I took 4 pictures over the weekend and they were all of our keg in the back of the Jetta. So if you want to see pictures of the party, check them out here.

I’m still trying to recover from the cold that I caught over the weekend so not much exciting has been going on. Hopefully that will change tonight…

The drive Thursday night was alright. The party and show on Friday night was great. The party and show on Saturday was great as well. The drive yesterday sucked!

So back to Thursday night, we got into Cincinnati at the normal 3AM or so. We headed straight out to my parents to rest up. Kim left early in the morning to visit with her family. Mike and I stayed back to help out with some setup stuff for the party. Eventually my buddies Joe and Will showed up and we headed down to Liam’s place. We partied for a few hours and eventually took some cabs over to the show. We saw some of Glen Phillips and all of Broussard. His set was short but good. Afterward we headed over to Habit’s for a few more drinks. It was a good night for sure.

The next morning, we all woke up on Liam’s hardwood floor and decided it was time to head back out to my parents. After a couple of stops along the way, we were finally there and ready to party. And party we did! It was extremely hot out, but there was still a good sized crowd during the day. A late afternoon shower cooled it all down for a great set of music from Greenstreet. The cops came a time or two, but that’s to be expected. After the music was shut down, we hung out until late in the night until we could no longer keep our eyes open. It was definitely a great party!

The drive back yesterday was horrible. It seemed like it would never end. The only good thing was our record setting license plate game. You know the game where you try to see a license plate from every state. We ended up with everything but Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, North Dakota, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. We also saw Washington DC along with 4 Canadian provinces: Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. This is a combined list from both drives, although most of them were found on the drive into Cincinnati.

I’ve got another day off work tomorrow! These four day weeks are awesome, I just wish that I could do it year round. The good news is that I still have one more shortened week next week. I’m taking a half day on Friday so I can meet up with my buddy Steve Christy and then get to the airport. Back to this weekend though, we are driving overnight again back to Cincinnati, again. Our friend Mike is coming along with us to the fest. He is the lone KC’er with the dedication it takes to attend. He will come back with stories that make everyone else extremely jealous. :)

As of right now we have 129 confirmed guests from the evite and more keep pouring in. A reminder email went out so all of those slackers are finally accepting their invitations. One of those slackers is none other than Kim Hais. Sheeeesh!

Lots of my “internet friends” are coming into town tomorrow so that we can all go to the Broussard show that night and then trash Liam’s apartment after that. From there we will make an early arrival at the Paff Entertainment Complex on Saturday to help out with any last minute preparations. Once those are taken care of, the beer will start flowing!

In case you missed it in the comments from yesterday, my pictures from the weekend are up. That’s pretty much what I spent a good chunk of last night doing. I had about 250 pictures on my camera and I chopped it down to just under 100. There are some really good ones in there but unfortunately none of those are from the wedding. I also put together a panorama shot from Devou Park that is really sweet. I wish there was a better way to display it, but so far I haven’t had any luck. That’s about the only productive thing I got done last night, so much for the free night.

Pig-Fest is just around the corner and everyone seems to be getting really excited. My dad informed me that the site had almost 1400 page loads coming from 47 unique visitors to the site! The event has also been found on jambase.com, hopefully we don’t get too many random visitors. In the past couple of days I’ve also thrown together a little logo that we are going to use for some shirts and stuff. If you can’t tell it is an alteration of this years bonnaroo logo.

This weekend was a blast! We got in to Cincy really late on Thursday night, slept for a bit and then spent the next morning with Kim’s family. Soon enough it was time to start one of our busy days. I dropped Kim off to get her nails done and then killed some time. I bought tickets for the Marc Broussard show next Friday, which we’ll be at. I then went to the mall and picked up Emma’s baptism gift. I still had extra time after that so I spent an hour on UC’s campus checking out all of the new stuff they’ve built. I took some pictures, so I’ll have to get those up soon. I then picked Kim up and we headed out to my parent’s place. We visited for a bit and then got ready for the rehearsal. The time at the church went by really fast and then we headed down to the river for the rehearsal dinner. We had dinner and drinks on a three hour tour on a Celebrations Riverboat. It was a great night with awesome views of the city. Again I took some awesome pictures that I’ll post tonight or tomorrow hopefully.

The next morning I dropped Kim off to get her hair done and then headed back to my parent’s to relax for awhile. That was interrupted when I was alerted that Kim forgot her shoes, so I drove back down to where she was and gave them to her. After that I was running behind so I had to shower and get ready really fast. I made it to the church ten minutes before the ceremony started, but others were still arriving so it was ok. The wedding was nice and short. Afterward it was off to the Glendale Lyceum for the reception. This ended up being one of my favorite receptions to date, mostly because they had a live band instead of the standard DJ. The bands name is The Mistics and they were awesome!

Sunday was Emma’s baptism. The ceremony itself was much longer than I remembered or thought it would be, but maybe that’s because I haven’t been to one of these in a long time. There were two other babies being baptized at the same time so maybe that had something to do with it. My only job while there was to light the baptismal candle, which I did successfully. So far so good. :) From there we went over to my Uncle Andy’s house for the after party. It was nice seeing everyone again even though we had to leave just a short time after we got there. I think almost everyone that was there will be at Pig-Fest this coming weekend though…

Friday night we headed over to O’Dowd’s on the plaza for happy hour. Amanda was already there with a few of her co-workers and we decided to crash their party and drink a few beers on their company tab. From there we had a group of people over to our place to play some late night cornhole. I pretty much stunk and could hardly hit the board. It must have been all of the half & half’s I was drinking. I think everyone left and I was in bed before midnight. It was a week of recovery for me from the camping trip.

Saturday we ran some errands and then headed out to Overland Park for Stephanie Reynold’s wedding. If you don’t remember from before, the Reynolds are old family friends of ours from our Huntsville, AL days. My parents couldn’t make it out for the wedding, so we were the only representatives of the Paff family. The wedding started early at 2 PM and we stayed at the reception until close to 10 PM. It was a long day but really nice and fun. We thought about heading down to the Brooksider to meet up with some folks, but decided to just head home and crash.

Sunday we started the day with Chipotle and then Mike and I hit up the Jones store sale while Kim and Christie went out to some flea markets and such. Kim was searching for some home decor items as was Christie. Mike wanted to pick up some $9 polo shirts and I needed to get another dress shirt for this coming weekend. I also found the black backgrounds for my poster frames that I’ve been searching for. The cheap frame I got from Walgreen’s is not going to work, so I’ll have to find some others elsewhere. I am definitely making progress in my effort to decorate the office. From there we all headed over to Susan’s new house for some Church’s Chicken and HBO viewing. After that it was bed time. The weekend flew by but it was nice to spend it in Kansas City for once.

Crazy weekend number one was a ton of fun! The drive in, however, was not. We got stuck in traffic leaving Kansas City and again just before St. Louis. One nice thing is that they are finally making repairs to I-70 across Missouri. Oh yeah, and the highway speed limit in Indiana was bumped up to 70 MPH. That leaves Illinois as the only state between here and Ohio with 65 MPH speed limits (well Ohio is 65 too). We finally got to Kim’s family’s house around 3:30 AM and crashed before 4.

Saturday morning came early, but that is to be expected. We hung out with Kim’s family for awhile and then were off to my family’s house. My dad and I replaced the back brake pads on the Jetta. We still aren’t sure why the back pads wore out way before the front pads, anyone? From there we all got ready and then it was off to my cousin Karen’s wedding. The mass was fairly quick although late in the day. The reception was excellent! The food was great, the facility was really nice and the attendees were in good spirits. I forgot to bring my camera along with me, but that’s ok since my mother was there to get everything on film.

Sunday we woke up and headed back to the westside of town to meet up with Kim’s family and head over to Indianapolis. It was her youngest brother’s birthday and he wanted to ride go-carts. They found a track just outside of Indianapolis, so a group of us headed there and rode the go-carts for 2 hours. What a tiring way to spend the day. I’ve got blisters on my hands, my leg hurts and I know Kim is a little beat up as well. I definitely give a little credit to NASCAR drivers now. After our punishment was over, Kim and I headed back to KC and got in around 10. We actually shared driving duties last night since we both were tired from the weekend.

Today starts the never ending summer of traveling…

This weekend my cousin Karen is getting married back in Cincinnati. We are going to drive back after work today so we should hopefully get into town around 3 or 4 in the morning. Yay! :| At least we have a Busch wedding to look forward to! I learned at a young age that a Busch wedding is not something to mess around with. I believe I was 18 years old when my Uncle Andy (my mom’s youngest brother, the baby of nine children) got married. Being that he is my godfather, I was asked to be in his wedding. The wedding went fine, and then came the bus ride from the church to the reception. This is where things took a turn and my Uncles decided to feed me with lots of beer. I barely remember being introduced into the reception but I do remember having a ton of fun. That is until I ended up outside of the reception hall, seated on a tree stub, puking my brains out. Hey, at least I made it outside, right?

The weekend after this I am flying to Chicago where I am meeting up with some friends. From there we are going up to Alpine Valley Music Theatre in Wisconsin. O.A.R. is opening for DMB for two nights, which is a guaranteed good time. All I need to do now is get some tickets for the shows…

The weekend after that we will actually be in KC but we have another wedding to attend. The Reynold’s are family friends of ours from our time in Huntsville, AL. My mom has kept in touch with them throughout the years, and when I moved out here we realized that they weren’t far away in Overland Park, KS. Anyway, their daughter Stephanie is getting married so Kim and I will be joining in the festivities. Hopefully my mom and dad can make it out too!

After that we have to go back to Cincinnati again, this time for yet another wedding. Kim’s friend from high school (Julie) is getting married and Kim is in the wedding. The nice thing is that we will actually be taking a full day off of work for this trip since the rehearsal is on Friday.

The weekend after that brings us back to Cincinnati a third time. This is of course for Pig-Fest. Enough said!

And one more trip the weekend after that for me. I’m heading up to Chicago once again for O.A.R.’s Feeling Better Than Everfine Festival. I’m sure this will be another kick ass weekend, just as it always has been.

After that I am taking at least a month off with no traveling. I should be very busy, but at least I’ll be having a blast doing it all!

If you couldn’t tell from the past two days of entries, it’s been a little boring around here. Kim has been up in North Dakota for the past couple of days, and I’ve been fairly busy at work I guess. Did you know that North Dakota is no colder than it is here? I just figured that it would be like highs in the 70s since it’s three states above Missouri, but Kim told me that it was in the 90s yesterday. That’s crazy.

In good news we have officially accepted our new Little Brother and Little Sister, and their mother has accepted us too! The only thing we have to go on are these bios that the case manager writes up about each of them. I’m sure that he or she also wrote up some sort of bio about both us as well. This is what I know about Dominique, he is a 13 year old african american male. He is soft-spoken, outgoing and friendly. He is struggling in school, but enjoyed playing the drums in band before his mother made him quit. He also enjoys sports but is not on any teams. His sister, Bianca, is 10 years old and is also outgoing and kind. She enjoys school and likes to learn, although she has been in trouble for talking too much. She is into girl things like helping to cook, and she really loves to shop. These biographies go on and on about their mother, their younger twin sisters, their home and neighborhood, etc. The really hard part about these is that they use abbreviations in place of everyones name, although I’m not really sure why. Here is an example:

APF is in Kansas City area. P states CL sees APF very little, once every few months, but CL claims he sees APF more often, at least once a month. There has been no response to APF letter at this point.

I’m really curious to see what my bio looks like. It looks as if we’ll meet up with them at their house sometime during the week of July 25th and then we are supposed to see them at least once a week for at least a year but it doesn’t have to stop.

Today I also got word that Greenstreet is definitely in for Pig-Fest! I guess I better come up with a name for this inaguaral event. What do you think about pigfestapallooza? Or maybe pigfestaroo?

The Pig-Fest evite was sent out last week sometime. I’m sure most of you already knew, but just incase you didn’t, there it is. I now have confirmation that American Cherry will be back once again to provide some evening entertainment! I may also be working out a deal with a band called Greenstreet from up around Detroit. It appears as if they really want to come down and play the fest, and I think they would match up fairly well with American Cherry. We’ll see how that all works out, but perhaps we’ll have the first inaugural edpaffjr.com Music Showcase at Pig-Fest!

I’ve been messing with Red Hat Linux on the computer Phil donated to me. I’m up to the point where apache is running and I have an active internet connection to it. Lately I’ve been messing with Samba, which should allow me to network Windows and Linux together. I’ve just about got that working now. From here I just need to get a ftp server running and then setup the programs I need to drive my site. Hopefully before too long the site will be off of my PC and on this “dedicated server.” I’ve also been working on a redesign of the site for this new and improved version.

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