As most of you know, Chicago has 3 seasons

+ Hot ass humid summer
+ Cold ass below zero windchill winter
+ m’fck’ng road construction

I take it we’ve moved into the latter season. Took me 40 minutes to go 12 miles.

I will NOT die here, I refuse…

Of course I can just salt them when I get back to work ~ but they go cold in 5 minutes. Who wants to eat cold fries??

Goddamn you McDonalds! *fist in the air*

**edit**
OH ALSO
What’s up with the 184th year of the Monopoly promotion/contest??????!??!? I mean, c’mon, is McDonald’s marketing department really THAT out of ideas that they have to keep bringing this back?? Does anyone really save those little peices??
I remember when this contest STARTED. First year of it was about ‘93 or ‘94 - I was working at McD’s at the time and a bunch of us would steal sleeves of fry cartons and sleeves of medium cups (all empty, mind you) and sit on the floor of our friend’s apartment and peel those damn things off until our fingers bled. NOT an exaggeration!!!
We DID win a lot of the $50 cash prizes and a few various odds and ends. Not to mention the amount of free food! If I remember right, I gave an envelope of free tickets to my Mom and her friends at work and they ate free lunch for like… 6 months straight.
But man, how many more rounds of this can we see?? Christ.

I’m not lovin it.

Oh yea ~ and I ordered a McChicken ~ WHO PUTS ONIONS ON A MCCHICKEN.

My lunch is ruined now, thanks Ronald.

New Mudvayne video came out today for “Forget to Remember”

Mudvayne - “Forget to Remember”

I love it, great video. And goddayum ~ I’m gonna try to keep the comments to myself ~ but I must say that Chad is looking good these days. And that is a HUGE understatement.
Ryan finally shaved his head again, good to see.

I got my tickets yesterday to the Congress Theatre show Nov. 22nd. Sevendust opening.

Can’t express how excited I am!!!

My fall theme is up, hope everyone likes it. I wasn’t sure about the blue at first, but it’s really growing on me.

I also updated my Photo Galleries with a bunch of new pictures in each one. Check it out.
Made some other minor layout changes as well..

Off to work for me. It’s FRIDAY! What a long week, couldn’t have come at a better time.
And I leave for vacation in FIVE DAYS!!

Have a good weekend!

30 Seconds To Mars is a captivating, imaginative band from Southern California. Their widescreen sound is adrenalised and nuanced, balancing huge guitars with anthemic vocal lines and organic synthesizers with electronic underpinnings.
True to their name… simply imagine a rock concert in space.

( i did not write that )

30 seconds to mars has been around since 2001 - I remember when their first album came out in ‘02 - Jason had it and brought it up to the studio ~ he use to rave about that cd and play it ~ but unfortunately I never paid much attention. All I knew is that it was fronted by actor Jared Leto and that he was a pretty talented guy.
2nd album - ” A Beautiful Lie ” is now in stores (as of the end of August) and I’m HOOKED.
I may be a little late to this band and their music, but I’m thoroughly impressed with this album and am really interested in seeing them play live.

Ok, I’m long overdue to change my theme again. I’m going to start hunting around tonight for a new banner and go from there.

Suggestions? Advice? Donations?

Next step…. finish my personal site!

This has been a very very odd couple of months for me, in retrospect. SO much has happened - so many ups and downs.

I have this theory that has been proving very true lately. See, around your 10-years out of high school timeframe, you and/or others become very nostalgic. Maybe not so much yourself (i.e. MYself) but I see it in others - only because I have been contacted by at LEAST 8-10 people that I haven’t talked to in close to 10 years. All in the past couple of months. And it creates a very odd feeling. A mixture of:
+relief that these people are still alive and ok
+happiness and anticipation wondering if you will become friends again and be as close as you once were
+sadness and nostalgia at all the old times and fun things you use to do together
+and somewhere in there is a twinge of discontent with these people being thrown back into your life.

Don’t get me wrong, I love hearing from old friends. But part of me feels pressured and expected to be friends with these people again. Some I would love to be.. Some.. not so much. I am happy with the friends I have and where my life is most of the time. These people re-appearing disrupts me to no end. I think part of it is that these are people who have known me for a VERY long time - and people who know the TRUE me, very very well. And honestly, since high school/college, I don’t have many people around me who know me very well. And it’s a vulnerable feeling I suppose. One I don’t like to subject myself to often.

So be aware of the 10-year situation. Everyone wondering “are you going to the reunion?” “do you still talk to so-and-so?”. It can be an upsetting experience if you let it get to you.
So far, I’m pretty happy with the people who have popped back up into my life - some are the individuals who had the most affect on my life and development growing up.

And wouldn’t you know it, they allllll seem to find me through myspace.
Fuckin myspace. I’m gonna be on a commerical someday for them.

On a lighter note, I had an interesting night on Saturday. Long story short - Went to the bars.. got hammered.. got cut off by the bartender.. puked in greg’s truck.. woke up near the bathroom on the floor sunday.. and don’t remember any of it.
Good times.
I’m an idiot.

Here are some pics (*removed 2008)…………….. and i’m out… Have a good week everyone!!