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It’s Frickin’ Burning Up In Here Mr. Bigglesworth

I guess I forgot to make an entry last Friday, as you know it was a pretty busy week. Last Thursday night we saw Tanner play again, this time at Old Shawnee Days. Tanner and band had a much longer set to play and filled it with old songs, new ones and a bunch of covers. It was a fun show and I finally got to record something again.

Friday at work must have flown by and then from there we headed to Doni & Phil’s. We brought over a frozen pizza and a couple six packs of beer. We were Gabe’s babysitters for the night. If you didn’t already know, Gabe is their newly adopted pit bull. While enjoying our wonderful dinner and drinks we watched White Chicks which was actually entertaining at times. I wouldn’t go out of your way to see it, but if it’s on TBS one day you might enjoy it. We also fell asleep on their couch watching Caddyshack. Who would have thought that they would be out past midnight?

Saturday we walked down to Panera on the plaza and then came home to take care of some stuff. Kim watched recorded Oprahs while I worked on the new PC (aka Skinnyboy). Phil had it named FatboyII to go along with his Fat Boy Phil enterprise. As of today I have Windows XP SP2 installed as well as apache. I still have to install php and mysql and then I’ll have to move everything over. The two machines are communicating well except for this one small issue. While on Skinnyboy I can see my old machine (aka Ringo) but when I try to view the shared files I’m told that I don’t have permission to access Ringo or something like that. I may edit this later with the real error message. Anyone have any ideas? I have not spent too much time on this though, but I’m curious if I upgraded Ringo to XP from 2000 if it would then work. Anyway, back to our exciting day. From there we made dinner and Mike came over after a little bit. We had wanted to play cornhole all weekend but could never get together enough people to play, and the weather never really cooperated. So instead we did a “Power Hour” which involves a shot of beer every minute for an hour. I think Mike and I each finished off just over six beers in this short amount of time. I never actually did one of these while in college so I guess it was about time that I did, but I don’t plan to do it again. :)

Sunday we went to the driving range and hit some balls. I think we are actually getting better at this goofy game, but we’ll have to see about that the next time we go out to play nine holes. From there we did our standard trip to the grocery and followed it up with another trip to Doni & Phil’s. Mike was there watching Gabe, so him and I switched out the legs on their set of cornhole boards. We also put our set of boards in our car and took them back to our place. As we were carrying them back to our apartment a girl said something to the effect of, “That’s a really fun game.” We got to talking with her and she recently moved into our old apartment #3. Sounds like we may have found someone to join in our cornhole games!

Today I took the Jetta into VW to get a recall service performed. Kim had setup for me to get a rental car, but the guy said it would only take 10 minutes to install a new switch, so I just waited. Sure enough the car was back to me within 10 minutes. It now makes a much quieter clicking noise for the blinkers. All was going well until I got in here at work. I quickly realized that something was wrong, the damn air conditioning is not on. It must be 90 degrees in my office right now and we are still here. Someone mentioned leaving at 10AM if it isn’t fixed, so we’ll see what happens.

We Have Cornholes!

It’s so nice to be able to say that today is Tuesday. We are that much closer to another weekend. As for this weekend, here is a recap.

Friday started off well with some drinks at our apartment with Joel and Amanda. Mike decided to skip the show on Friday since it was his buddy’s last couple of days in town. We took a cab over to the Beaumont and attempted to get in to the show. As I mentioned last week, I was taking my gear hoping to tape the show. Beaumont has historically been one of the most difficult places for me to get my gear into, even though I only tape bands that officially allow fan recordings. Anyway, the bouncer immediately tells me no. I ask him to find someone with the band, and a guy from pipeline productions comes over and says no as well. I told them all that according to Better Than Ezra’s website they are completely okay with it and ask to speak with someone from the band. We stand and wait at the entrance for probably 45 minutes. Kim finally asks the first guy if he ever heard anything. The guy turns into an even bigger asshole and starts going on about how he already said no. I calmly exchange a few words with him and decide to give up. Luckily our friend Courtney had her car in Westport, so I stashed my gear in her car and we all headed in to the show. Pomeroy was good as always and they even busted out a few tunes that I had never heard before. You might remember Better Than Ezra from their big hit “Good” back in 95. I believe this was the second song in their set. I recognized a couple of other songs they played within the hour or so of their set I watched. I was not really impressed by them though, maybe it was the struggle I had to get in the venue or maybe it was the suddenly chilly temperature outside. Regardless we all headed inside of the Beaumont for a couple more drinks and then headed home. Despite all the crap that happened I still had a good time and I think everyone else did as well.

Saturday seems like so long ago, I am struggling to remember what exactly we did. I do know that we headed up to the pool at Woodside with Mike. We met up with Doni and Susan and “laid out” for a couple of hours. Mike and I quickly grew tired of that and had to come up with something else to do. After watching him, Kim and Susan take some dives off the diving board we decided to move on from the pool. After quickly cleaning up we decided to head out to the Great American Barbecue. This appeared to be similar to the American Royal but we quickly learned that it was on a much smaller scale. It probably didn’t help that we got there at 5PM on the last night of the competition. One of the reason we decided to go was that Tanner Walle was playing later in the night. We hung around for a few hours until his set and managed to entertain ourselves mostly eating, drinking and watching the mechanical bull. Tanner’s set was short but sweet. We got to hear a few new tunes as well as a great new cover of “Super Bon Bon.” Hopefully we’ll make it to see him this Thursday, which appears to be his last show in the area for quite some time.

Sunday we decided to have a little barbecue of our own with some corn on the cob we had picked up while down at the City Market earlier in the day. Mike came over with some chicken to help out. We also tuned in to the end of the Indy 500, which ended under a unimpressive yellow flag. For the rest of the afternoon we just chilled out until it was dinner time. At that point we headed over to Westport again to Thai Place, one of Kim’s favorite restaurants. I was not all that impressed, but maybe it was just the dish that I ordered. We then picked up a couple of movies and headed home. My choice at the store was Spanglish, which I assumed would be funny since Adam Sandler was in it. We put this on first, and boy was I disappointed. I tried to stay awake but was less than amused by the movie. However Kim seemed to enjoy it and watched the whole thing. Talk about a role reversal!

We spent most of yesterday over at Doni & Phil’s. Phil and his buddy Chris Martin were smoking some ribs for the better part of the day. We stopped off at Home Depot and bought all the supplies we needed to make 2 sets of cornhole boards. Mike came over and helped out with the construction. When we left we had the boards completely built and had put on three coats of paint. I would say that they are just about done. Well besides the fact that the first design we came up for the folding legs doesn’t seem to be working so well. The second design is working much better, so we will have to convert the first set into the second set design. The only thing left for me to do is buy some bags online, which I hope to do today. If everything goes as planned next Monday’s blog entry will be all about how much cornhole we played over the weekend!

Ahhhhhh, Finally A Long Weekend

Where the hell did today go? Feels like I just got into the office a few minutes ago, and I’ll be out of here in just over 2 hours. I guess I’ve been busy all day learning some stuff since I’ll be filling in for my boss next week while he is on vacation. Woohoo! :|

We have a great concert lined up for tonight! Better Than Ezra and Pomeroy under the stars in Westport. I should be recording the show too, something that I haven’t done in a long time. I hope I still remember how all of my gear works. Anyway, we are heading up there with at least Joel, Amanda and Mike. I’m sure some others will be up at the show as well. It should be a great night!

As for the rest of the weekend, we’ll probably spend some time lounging around a pool. We might also take some time to build those cornhole boards I keep talking about. We should have ordered some bags online so we would have them for this weekend, but we forgot. Guess we can take a couple days to get the boards ready though, and start playing next weekend! Have a great holiday weekend…

Mr. A-Z

Not much at all has been going on here. Last night was my last night of hockey for a few weeks. They are melting the ice to do repairs to the boards and stuff. I’m not sure how many days a week I’m going to play once they reopen. I’ve been thinking about playing less now that it is summer, but we’ll see.

I’m about to book our flights to New Orleans for The Rock Boat. I’m so excited, I finally get a chance to visit the city of New Orleans. I’m sure it will not be a disappointment. I wish we could spend a couple of days there, but we will really only get one full day there. My vacation days are just about all accounted for, and this is with no days off after September. I figure I should save at least one date for the end of the year.

With the lack of exciting things to write about, I’ve added a new song of the moment, download “Wordplay.” This one is from Mr. Jason Mraz. I haven’t really listened to any of his music by choice in quite some time. I really figured that his follow up to Waiting For My Rocket To Come would have come much sooner. There was that live release that was put out, but I never listened to it all that much. Finally though, Mr. A-Z will be out on July 26th.

Best Thing AOL Has Done?

DMB played a show last night at Roseland Ballroom in NYC to kick off the release of their CD today. I guess the whole thing was broadcast over the net by AOL but I had to miss it because of my hockey game. Well good news, the entire show can be watched on demand. I couldn’t get the site to work in Firefox, but it is working fine in IE.

Dream Girl, Stand Up

I forgot to mention this earlier, but DMB’s new CD has leaked and I’ve added another track to the song of the moment pages. Be sure  to download “Dream Girl.” Enjoy!

Edit: I just realized that I had an error when attempting to download files that prevented everyone from doing so. I have fixed that and you should be able to download files without a problem. Please leave comments if you come across anything else.

Pricematching

The Widespread show was a great time. They played for what seemed like 4 hours, taking the stage before 8 and ending close to 12. I’m sure with breaks and such it was a 3 hour show, but still that is a long one. I was surprised at how old the band was, and how young parts of the crowd was, but those guys really know how to play. I would definitely consider seeing them again, although I think I was a little spoiled last night in our 3rd row seats.

I’m off to Best Buy to try and get some money back on the router I picked up last night. Soon enough we’ll have wireless in the apartment and hopefully a router that won’t shut the site down so frequently. Wish me luck!

Widespread Fog In The Morning; Panic At Night

Nothing exciting from last night, I guess it was sort of a getting back to normal day. However, tonight we do have plans to go out. We have excellent seats for the Widespread Panic show at Starlight thanks to my buddy Jonathan. It might be a little cold tonight, but I’m very excited to be going to this venue for the first time even if I’m not too familiar with the band.

As for the rest of this week, I’m sure I’ll be busy with the home network and the new turtle tank. Best Buy has the linksys WRT54G for $69 with $30 in rebates. I plan to pick one up tonight and then I’ll start using it tomorrow. The nice thing is that Best Buy has a price matching policy that I’m going to use to get $22 back after buying the router since Radio Shack has the same router advertised for $49 on sale. The problem with Radio Shack is that they are not offering the same rebates. I would just take the Radio Shack ad in tonight, but then my receipt would show the price matching and I would risk not getting the rebates. If this all works out, I’ll get the router for around $17! Scandalous, I know. :)

The other thing I have to work on is a 55 gallon tank that I brought back from my parents. The turtles are currently in a 20 gallon tank, so this will almost triple the size of their tank. First I’m going to clean it, repair it and then get it setup for the turtles. This will definitely take some time though, good thing Kim has another exam to study for.

Stinky And The Rugburns

As I mentioned yesterday we went out and saw Mr. Poltz last night. Kim was out at happy hour after work with Amanda and convinced her to come along for the show. We arrived and met up with Steve Christy and some others. Steve told me how Poltz had recently given up drinking and we debated the impact it would have on the show. If you have never seen or heard Poltz before he is a very interesting but hilarious guy. As it turns out he is the same exact way without all the alcohol. In fact I think this was the longest show I have ever seen him play (about 3 hours). A guy named “Stinky” who plays in Steve’s band “The Rugburns” joined him onstage playing a cardboard box with drum sticks. I didn’t think a cardboard box could sound good, but it really did. I loved the show and couldn’t get enough but the girls were fading off towards the end of the night. I did not record it since they have started recording and selling their own shows every night. Steve bought a copy so hopefully I’ll get it from him sometime.

Will Hoge is playing out in Lawrence tonight, but somehow I don’t think we are going to make it. I may have to work on heading out on my own, we’ll see.

Only Pope I’ve Known

First Mitch Hedberg and now the pope?? One of my buddies from the message board said it best actually:

So if heaven exists, we have Johnny Cochrane, Frank Perdue, Mitch Hedberg, Terri Schiavo and the Pope all in line at the Pearly Gates.

Mitch must be laughing his ass off right now.

This is the first time in my life that the pope has died, and so far I’ve learned so much about the process of his burial and electing a new pope. I was stuck to the TV for a few hours on Saturday as the news of his death was hitting all the networks, but I’m getting ahead of myself…

Friday night we met up with Amanda and a couple of her coworkers over at Brio to celebrate her promotion. Joel showed up a bit later and from there we headed to The Hurricane for the Shaking Tree show. Steve Christy, his brother and a few friends showed up as well. They didn’t get to play for very long, but I think it was one of their better sounding performances. We got out of there as soon as the dj’s were starting up and headed to Harpo’s to finish off the night…

Saturday we woke up and had lunch at Chipotle! Doni met up with us, and then the girls went out shopping for San Diego clothes. And then as I mentioned earlier, I was glued to the TV for a couple of hours, but eventually I found my way up to the Brooksider. Phil, Todd and Chris Martin were all up there getting ready to watch the basketball games. The girls met up with us a little later, and I believe we left after the first game. Not much else too exciting for Saturday…

Sunday, I dropped the girls off at the airport and they were on their way to San Diego! I spent the rest of the day working on my computer and walking around the plaza and parks around our street. It was such a beautiful day! I believe we set a record high 82 degrees yesterday and it was nothing but sun. Today is supposed to be just as nice, but unfortunately I’m stuck here at work. Only for today and tomorrow, then it is time for me to head to San Diego as well!