An old band from the 80s called White Lion, I was looking for some artwork and found this video. I don't know what is more rad, the cliche head whip at the beginning or when he go back to the drum set to grab some flowers to sing a love song. Oh man this is bad... Not worth watching more than 30 seconds. I apologize for the time you will never get back after watching this because I'm sure you'll be mad.
What has been up with me lately.
January: We went to Portland OR and visited/stayed with my old friend Jeremy Russell and his GF Anna. We had a blast and they were the most excellent of hosts and hostesses. Jeremy took time off from work to show us around town and sample some of the locally-brewed beers. We also went snow skiing, which was Lisa's first time and my first time snow boarding. It was also my last. I went down 1 slope and was completely wet and possibly had a mild concussion by the time I got to the bottom. It was a humbling experience to say the least. Very fun trip, we hope to be back soon...
April: We went to NYC. It was my first time and Lisa wanted to show me what I'd been missing. Suprisingly I did not feel claustrophobic. We had dinner at the Carnagie Deli and I had a Reuben that was the size of my plate(awesome). We went to Times Square, Rocafeller Center, Central Park(saw Spike Lee), went to Ground Zero, went shopping in China Town, took a tour of the city on a double decker bus, went to the Metropolitan Museum, got to see Wicked, which is my most favorite of musicals now. My friend Joe catch the spice train from Boston and came up and stayed with us. We partied like rock stars in Greenwich Village until about 3am. We did a tour of bars and I decided to play something from the jukebox. I chose a song off the first Strokes album and one from the first Peal Jam album (I was feelin old school). It was playing some song and as soon as I put in my songs it stopped the current song and started playing my song. Well, I quickly found out that NYC and the Strokes don't mix (at least not at this bar) and I was booed by everyone in the bar. Lisa and Joe turned around and walked away leaving me to the dogs. I've uploaded pictures in my Google Web Album (link on top right of this page) and video to Youtube.
I've been really busy with work since February due to a seed program that we are rolling out to about 10 of our company-owned buying points. I had to drive to SC 2 days after we got back from NYC and I got sick due to the weather changing. We had a Passover Sader last night which lasted about 5 hours. They are very relaxing and very reflective. Today I took the dogs for a 2 hour walk around the greenway. Now, I plan on finishing this blog, cleaning up around the house, and opening a bottle of red wine as the sun sets.
For those interested, I invite you to participate in Earth Hour 2008.
Real simple: Turn everything in your house off (minus the fridge, or get crazy and unplug it too!) and go outside.
Well mah boy Edwards dropped out a few hours ago. Not that I didn't know it was coming, but we can dream. Why did I like him? I'll name a few reasons.
Taken from The Washington Times:
The Edwards plan — which would ban any new coal-fired power plant from being built in the U.S. — aims to reduce greenhouse gases 80 percent by 2050.
Mr. Edwards and Mr. Obama said they would auction off polluter permits and use the money to promote clean energy and alternative fuel research, while Mrs. Clinton said she was "intrigued" by that idea.
Mr. Edwards also pledged to spend $1 billion to make sure America builds "the most fuel-efficient, innovative cars on the planet," stressing the jobs should go to union members in towns hurt by outsourcing. He said he would create one million new "green-collar jobs," a term most Democratic presidential candidates are using on the campaign trail.
I also how he liked to put Osama and Hillary on the spot about certain issues.
That was always fun......oh, those were the days. He seemed like he connected with his speeches, but Lisa informs me that being a lawyer, which she is, speaking and appealing to people is what you have to be good at to succeed.
So what am I to do now? Well I found this article in Kiplingers and thought it was quite interesting. It tells about each candidates financial portfolio. Check out your favorite candidate or all of them.
After reading each of those, tell me this. How can any of those candidates except Barack Obama stand or rather understand the little man (ie lower and lower middle class) when they themselves aren't living near the same lifestyle or in the same financial situation as them. Granted all of them are rich by society's standard, but I can believe someone is fighting to make the US better for lower income family's more when I think this person is here in the trenches and not jet-setting around the world and making bad/wrong investments. Of particular interest was Romney's portfolio.
So I was at work the other day sitting in a coworkers office. It was her birthday and a third coworker left as I walked in. Birthday Girl was chuckling and I inquired why. "He asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I said nothing, then he said how about the backside of my hand." It struck me as strangely funny and we both enjoyed another laugh. I commented on how that was strange that he would say that because in my mind, the guy coworker didn't come around a lot so I didn't think they knew each other well.
The conversation got a bit dark when Birthday Girl said, "Yea, I've had that plenty before and don't want anymore (referring to the other side of his hand comment)." I furrowed my brow and gave a stern "HUH?" She then said, "You didn't know, we used to be married." I didn't know...
Characteristic to point out at this point: "Backhand Man" has a speaking problem that he wasn't born with.
Back to the story...
Birthday Girl went on about how Backhand Man earned his name and he had a drinking problem, but had since turned his life around and the previous comment he made was in jest. She then informed me that Backhand Man got his speech problem from a wreck he had many years ago, which I was aware of.
Now the O.Henry turn...........
Birthday Girl: Yea, he was on his way to kill me that night...
Me: /speechless
Birthday Girl: Yea, he had gotten drunk and was driving to my house to shoot me when he got in that wreck and got the speech problem as a result of the wreck.
Me: ................................and yall are friends now?!?!?!?!
B.G.: Sure, that was a long time ago and he is a better person now
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What a strange world we sometimes live in and my how weird things end up.
We didn't ask for any of these. At least we're able to recycle them.
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