Well, slacking as always. I have just been so busy and haven’t had time for what used to be all my normal internet activities. At least I remember from time to time.

The OAR shows at Bogart’s are right around the corner, and everyone at our place is so excited, not to mention all of those who are coming in for the shows and staying with us. Hopefully we can get some noise complaints that weekend. :)

Me and the guys, minus Callsen, have decided to follow the OAR tour during our spring break. It should be a ton of fun and hopefully very economical. I think Joe Vedder will be joining us on this little tour. Watch out Windsor we are also going to be spending a day with you…

I think I have re-qualified for my scholarship and should be getting paid back for all the quarters that were missed. Thanks a ton mom!

Everything else has been going fine. School, I’m doing well and should still be on track for graduation in June. Well as long as my last quarter works out, apparently I got my schedule in the mail and one of the classes I want to take is full. WTF is that about, where is this seniority shit we always hear about. Work, well it is pretty non-existent. I have no time to get there, and thus my funds have been very limited. I always survive somehow though, much thanks to mom again though! :)

I need to start my job search. I hope to do that next week. Finalize my resume again, and then start shipping it out. Hopefully I don’t have interviews until after I decide to shave my beard. I guess that will be a deciding factor in it all.

Back to work, for the little more time that I’m here. Take care everyone…

Another month goes by, and I get older and older. :) The only thing now is that I could possibly look like an old man now with my bald (aka shaved) head. You see, my roomies and I along with Lenny all started a bet towards the beginning of the year where we couldn’t cut our hair. If you did, you had to buy a case and the remaining “players” would drink all that beer. This would go all the way until the last person got a full case for themselves. We’ll, of course, Liam dropped out first. :) Then my hair started getting mullet like, and I was getting a little sick of it, but wanted to stay in the bet. Somehow, everyone else convinced me that if I were to bic my head, then I wouldn’t loose the bet. So we did that this past weekend in Champaign. Oh yeah speaking of Champaign, what a damn good time that was. The first night was pretty boring, but we made it fun by inventing yet another drinking game. This one was like the basketball game horse, but it involved launching beer cans across the room and into the hotel room trash can. Quite a fun game, and we even have some of it on tape. Actually we have a lot of good stuff on tape, including parts of the DMB show (the real reason we were in Champaign), along with some Hotel Cart Racing (think of jackass with the hotel baggage carts), etc. The show was really good, although no beer was sold. I got a pretty decent recording of the show, even though my seats were higher than I originally expected. Liam used Delaney’s video camera and got busted over and over. Although he did get a pretty sweet looking version of Grey Street on tape. I was a big fan of the Halloween tease, I just wish I could have heard the entire song. If anyone is into setlists like I am, check this one out.

So, it’s about Christmas time. I really need to start my shopping, but I always find better things to do. It isn’t that I don’t like to shop, I don’t like to shop around this time. Just the other week, Nick, Jessica, and I went to the mall just to eat Chick-fil-A, and there was a robbery of a jewelry store. Just what the mall needs during this time more craziness. I’ll get around to doing this sometime soon though!

School is over for the quarter. Another quarter down, and just 2 more to go. I think I did pretty good this quarter. I kicked the shit out of Symbolic Logic, and ended up getting the highest grade on the Automata final. I think those should turn out to be my best grades. Got a B in Linear Algebra and a C in Data Encoding. Only big mystery left is what we are gonna get in Senior Design. I hope it is good enough for me to get like a solid 3.2 or something. I’ll just have to wait and see. Now that school is about over, I guess I should start looking for jobs. The only thing is, I really don’t know what I want to do. Do I want to stay here in Cincinnati, or go elsewhere? Should I try out something like web design, or stick with C/Java programming? I guess those are something things to think about over break…

Well I’m gonna get back to doing some programming type work! Have a great holiday season everyone, and of course a drunken New Year!!!

Dammit, once again. Anyways, the holidays were busy. All my friends were back in town and I was constantly doing something, even though I didn’t have the money for it. Here are some highlights…

Lutz’s annual Christmas party: I skipped a huge VACO show to go to this, but I had to. ALL my friends from highschool showed up and we partied like we used to. My ex-girlfriend Stephanie also made an appearance there, and it was good to see her again. By the end, I was glad to be there at the party. There will be more shows to see this year, but only one party like that. It is rough growing up, cause your friends seem to change, but I think in the end my high school friends will be the best friends that I ever will have. We are still a really close group of about 10 guys. The only people that can compete are the incredible people I have met through the OAR message board. :)

Christmas: I did the same thing I do every year, Paff side for Christmas Eve and Busch side for Christmas. It is always great to see family members that you don’t see very often. I found that my step-cousin (I guess that’s what she is) had another baby, so that makes 2 and I still don’t have one. I got tons of blank cd’s which I desperately needed, and tons of clothes as well. My mom and I may go shopping for a digital camera as like a joint Christmas/Birthday present. That would be super cool!

New Years: “That’s the day we drink with hats on.” – Lewis Black. What a truly great party day it is. In good tradition, I got hammered and had a ball. Nouch really to say about it. Duckfood was considering playing for the party, but I’m glad we didn’t…

That sums up all the BIG things that happened recently. I just started another co-op quarter, and I am now doing more with code than I was before. It is going good so far. I talked to Amanda today, and we had a really great conversation. I hope that this leads to some kind of friendship for the both of us. We both knew more than anyone else about each other, and maybe we still do. It is just pointless to waste all that. That’s about it for now. Happy new year to you all, I hope it is a great one…