My newfound hobby.

Well school started again and MAN did I miss a lot of people. I'm sure glad I've got to see a lot of old faces as well as make some new friends. Good times.

Lately, I've been doing a lot of dancing and scat-ing. Particularly outside, in parking lots and near chinese resutraunts. Its a good hobby and I enjoy it a whole bunch. Typically I am joined by Rollo, Ted and Ashley (a new face). (This is my new hobby BTW).

More to come later.

Crock gone!

Summer's Over

The start of the fall semester usually signifies the end of my summer. All in all, its been a good one. From hockey, to good friends, to SUYM - I've had a great time. Sure the chips go down sometimes (and in my case, stay that way for a while) but I guess once you hit the bottom, ya gotta get right back up.

I saw some people lately I haven't seen in a while. Heading off the list is none other than Karen Hall. Karen graduated with my sister and while she was in high school absolutely stunned me with her ability to sing. She held the lead roles in the high school plays from as far back as I can remember. Well, I ended up bumping into her at Wal*Mart the other day and I've got to tell you she's absolutely gorgeous. She caught me completely off guard that all I could muster was a "Hey Karen." and continued to trot on by towards the milk. It was nice seeing her again, even though we never really said much to each other during our time at Cal High. Everyone is growing up so quickly...

I also got to go to a cool party held by Molly & Mike. They had a lot of people I didn't see in a LONG time. Drew, Elliot, Josh, Tim, Marcus, Ricki, Dave, Jay.... soooo many names. It was awesome to hang out with them all again one last time before school starts. Thats what I'm talkin about.

Lastly I guess I've got some apologizing to do. Anne, Ted, Steph & the rest of the crew. I'm sorry I didn't go out with you guys. You all know I'd never want to do anything to hurt any of you. I love you guys more than you realize. :-) So, I'm sorry...

I'm sorry.

Further down the spiral.

So my weekend was pretty crappy. Ended up goin out with 3 ladies, 2 of which I never met before. Well turns out that after I buy all three of them drinks, the two of them aren't the least bit interested in even spending some time talking to me. (The other girl is one of my good friends, Stephanie who I consistently have an awesome time whenever we go out.) I mean these two girls were real ice queens. So my buddy & I end up just leavin halfway thru the night, despite the good time I was havin with Steph.

Couple that with Ted dropping me on my head after he picks me up and holds me upside-down for a while. Not only did this hurt my head, but it also gave me a really bad hip pointer and smashed my cell phone. The phone got fixed but the hip got worse.

I tried running my usual mile & wind sprints at rotary on sunday when the hip injury caused me IMMENSE pain in my quadricep. I got thru the mile just fine, but the sprints caused me to limp home. I never had so much pain in my leg before. So, I came home and relaxed for the rest of the day.

Later that day, I watched the Rugrats movie - which usually isn't so bad except the Nicktoons channel played it 3 times that night. Usually I'd just get up and change the channel but in a world where remotes are unheard of and injuries plague me, I figured that my best chance to get out of this weekend alive was to just endure the movie, again, and go to sleep.

Today I wasted an entire day at a customer's house trying to find a pipe that he insisted came out on the RIGHT side of the house when I told him it came out on the left. Always listening to the customer, I went with his advice until I explained to him that the pipe was NOWHERE to be found and that it would be more productive to let me try to dig where I thought the pipe was.

BINGO.

Pipe was where I told him it was from the beginning. I'm gonna eventually stop taking things on the chin.

Lastly, I've re-focused my efforts towards writing enough songs to release my album. (Those of you close to me have been expecting this from me since EARLY 2003, so I apologize.) I've made good use of the weekend to successfully orchestrate two songs and begin work on a third. I've got lyrics and music ready to go for recording. These two new songs have a sort of "Nine Inch Nails" overtone, so they're a bit different than "Pirate Crock" and "Underground Hoes". Please be patient and if you'd like to hear a demo, let me know!

Later on.

Air Brakes.

*Screeching halt*

When you're in free fall, there are no air brakes. That's pretty much what today felt like. I was introduced to a really cool dude who just happened to be the boyfriend of the girl I wrote about a few entries ago. Yeah, didn't see that one coming...

Boy you can imagine how red my face was when he introduced himself. Needless to say I apologized for assuming the wrong thing, and he was a real class act. At least he understood. The LAST thing I want to do is ruin a relationship for ANYBODY.

When I think back about it, its probably my fault for reading into the situation too much. (I used too much oversight, hindsight or overbite :-P) So there we have it - all of my questions were answered!

I hung out with my extremely good friend, Erin, the other day. She's one of my best friends from as far back as I can remember. It was awesome seeing her again. Since she goes to Waynesburg College, its not often we get to hang out.

We were supposed to hang out again today, but she never called back. I also have an unbelievable headache I can't seem to shake. I got it while at work today when I caught some glare from the sun in my eye while in the dump truck. I was using the air brakes to slow myself down the hill, when the sun got me good in my left eye. Man, I took today on the chin...

All-in-all, I think I had better just slow down some more - put on the air brakes and just sit back and let life come at me. I made myself a promise a long time ago regarding life, though I had hoped it wouldn't come true... We'll see where these next few days go before I reveal the promise...

-Air Brakes-