The Dominoes Guy knows me by Name!!!

YES! I have come and achieved what it is that I came here to do at college: be known on a first name basis by the Lebanese Dominoes franchise owner. Sure there's some benefit in obtaining a college education, but heck man, this is serious!

Instant Replay:
"Hi I have an order for pickup."
"Your phone number?"
"330, 591, 560-"
"Oh, you are Joe..right?"
"Yep, you got it."
"You want Kickers and Cheesy bread, that is your order?"
"Yep, sounds good! "
"See you in twenty minutes."

Afterwards I jumped around the pretty much empty apartment for no reason whatsoever. It's marvelous how the small things amuse me.

Dannnciinnnnnn YAAAAHHH

Life Soundtrack

OK, apparently this is the cool thing to do nowadays (mad props to T and Wes).
What you do is create a soundtrack for your life, by putting all your music on random and just filling in the song titles. Check out Ticket Taker Thompson's completely overlyprotected locked down xanga, or Wes' blog in the sidebar for more info. Here we go:

1) Opening Credits:
Pink Floyd - Mother

2) Waking Up:
Smashing Pumpkins - Set Jerry to the Ray

3) First Day At School:
Wycleff Jean - Stayin' Alive

4) Falling In Love:
Clay Aiken - Invisible

5) Breaking Up:
Elvis Presley - All Shook Up

6) Prom:
American Hi-Fi - Flavor of the Week

7) Life's OK:
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

8) Mental Breakdown:
Smash Mouth - Radio

9) Driving:
Dr. Dre - Forgot about Dre

10) Flashback:
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting Wishing

11) Getting Back Together:
Dub Pistols - Official Chemical

12) Birth of Child:
Ben Folds - Losing Lisa

13) Wedding:
Switchfoot - Innocence Again

14) Final Battle:
Coldplay - We never change

15) Death Scene:
The Fray - Little House

16) Funeral Song:
Hootie and the Blowfish - Let Her Cry (that was weird..)

17) End Credits:
Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes

Terry Tate REVISITED

OK guys, I know that recently I've been posting nothing but videos. The stress and finals might have something to do with that. This right here may be the only reason I'm still sane, Terrible Terry Tate, the office linebacker. What an amazing guy! You'll understand it best if you go from top to bottom. I've prepared them all in a chronological one stop shop for you. I recommend getting something to eat, grab a cold drink, and sit on down to 20 minutes of fabulous promotional hilarity. Yes, I'm sure some of you may have seen some of these already, but this is the whole collection. Quite awesome, no doubt. But make sure you don't watch them at work, lest you face the TRIPLE T PAIN TRAIN!!!! Enjoy.

The First: Terry Tate


The Draft: Courtney Cate


Terry and the Nike Streaker


Terry Tate: Sensitivity Training


Terry Goes on Vacation


Terry Tate Remembered: OSPN







I so should have been studying instead of posting this. Crap.

LOL Ninja jump!!!

Stevie Jobs, I hope you've watched this.

I laugh too hard at this. Maybe it's because I'm a geek, maybe it's because it's the only funny mac spoof out there.

Vaderlishous

This is a clip of James Earl Jone's personal voice overs for star wars. The beginning and the ending are the funniest. Man are they funny.

Return of the Driver License

Losing your wallet has it's perks. Like making the lady at the BMV actually smile. Apparently the only rule is you must look forward. Cool by me. I welcome your comments.

By the way...the engagement post is coming, I need to gather media. Relax.

Working Hard, Working from Home

Yes ladies and gentlemen, it's not everyday that you are able to work at your full time job from home. Yet again, thanks to Baldwin Wallace's incredibly cumbersome and overprotective network setup I was forced to find another internet solution. I had to work from home, I simply had to. Therefore, I spent my day working from the lovely office of Book and Bean located in Berea Ohio.



I enjoyed my various coffees tremendously, along with having lunch with the tremendously talented and beautiful girlfriend of mine: Sarabeth Centner. I had to use my personal phone to help a teller in Florida, but I suppose working from home is worth it, isn't it?



Check out the office..don't you wish you could work here? (And I don't mean serving coffee).

SB and I also went to the lovely costume party hosted by the Summers, in celebration of Allyson's birthday. I went as grapes and SB was a cowgirl. Sadly, I have no pictures of this event. I must hope that someone else posts them and I can link to their blog. Allyson apparently didn't like my costume enough to put it on her blog, but that's OK. My feelings aren't/weren't hurt. I'm a tough man. Luke said he would put the video of me the dancing grapes on his blog, but that isn't yet a truth. We shall see how fast that unravels.

Time for a break here in Astronomy of the Solar system. I think I'll get a coke.

Class is the place to Blog

Everyone loves to blog in class. Actually, I inspired my friend Ron to bring his laptop to the boredom central of the universe. Yess, here in Astronomy of the Solar system, we learn about optics and telescopes, which are refracting the light from........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. That's what would happen if I told you any more than that. Yep yep, going to Pittsburgh this weekend to help my aunt with some IT stuff, she has a couple computers she wants me to get working, so hopefully I'll be able to do some good things there. We're starting a relationship series during Youth Group, I'm pretty excited about that. Hopefully none of the kids have my blog address. Well I'm sure they'll figure it out soon enough, seeing as how it starts this weekend. I like blogging during class because it's really the only thing that I can do without looking at the computer at all. I just sit with my hands on the desk and behold, I'm communicating to you all. So my astronomy teacher just pointed to a guy and said, "Your blouse is blue". He was wearing a T-shirt. I'll end it with that.

What in the world is going on in my history class..

This class is crazy. I sit here and cross check everything my history prof with against Wikipedia, and most of the time it's correct and I sound really smart when I talk. It's really just not fair when I have a gargantuan database of articles linked to everything you could possibly want to know. It's absolutely crazy. This class is about the DEEP SAAAOUUUTH. Otherwise known as the Deep South for us "Yankee carpetbagger". It's an interesting thing, and I'm not going to lie, typing notes still makes me sound like a genius. Even though I'm just blogging here. I just learned that Cockfighting is legal in 4 states in the US, and there are also several magazines titled: Grit and Steel, The Feathered Warrior, and The Game Cock. Yikes. One trainer said, "Theys as many kindss a roostas they is dawgs. You gotsta breed them for speed and powah". When fighting time comes, the breeder puts his bird through conditioning and feeding. Each bird is weighed, tagged and put against a bird in it's weight class. Just before the fight, handlers attach gaffs (razors). A pit for fighting usually measures 20' in diameter. When the referee says, "BILL YOUR BIRDS", they peck at eachother. When the ref says get ready, they put them on the ground. When they say PIT, they release their birds and they fly at eachother and claw vicisouly. They fight until one dies, or one stops pecking. The most popular type of fight is the derby, known as the "Cock Derby". Every rooster owner pays a fee, and the victorious rooster at the end leaves a massive winning for it's owner. The owners insist that cockfighting is an honorable fighting end for a rooster, as opposed to a simple egg laying hen lifestyle. Owners even hold such things as, "Cock Conventions".

What...the heck.

A Tribute to Darth Vader

Short and funny.



This one is long but hilarious.



Hilarious...


Just wayyyy out there but still kinda funny. At least it's bleeped.

Well All is Good

Hey yall, Yes, Yes, you are reading the blog of a Systems Software Analyist I. God comes through in amazing ways, doesn't he? I've worked the full time job for 3 days now, and it is quite awesome. What is not awesome, is coming back to night classes like the one I'm sitting in right now. I spent the first 2 hours of the class coping with the fact that my computer never thought the USB mouse was unplugged from work, and therefore my touchpad didn't work. I could get everything connected except when I needed to verify my credentials, there was a little popup balloon, which of course I couldn't click. I could do everything but click a little stinkin balloon. Yikes. I am quite learning a bit. I have some goals in place for my new job, I figure if I post them I will be a bit more eager to get them closed.

Objectives to Achieve before October Next Year
1) Become MCP (Take 1 Exam towards my MCSE)
2) Add a portion to the image
3) Become comfortable with the entire packaging process from start to finish
4) Clean up SMS reports, collections, and Advertisements.
5) The Access Project (dun dun dahhhhhh)

Noone in my group wanted the Acess project. And for good reason. Jason said to me, "You won't quit if I give you the access project will you?" I said, "No". Hardly original. I should have said, "Not right away", or something funny like that. Too bad. Man it is nice to be back on the internet during my nightclass. All I did last year was surf the web, and guess what my grade was? An A of course. Talk about a sweet deal.


And whats the deal with blogs becoming more pictures than words recently? I like to read peoples blogs and look at pictures. Hmm. I'm going to fix the way my archives work, I saw Sarabeth's new archive and want it. Ta ta for now.

Stress...and a map

Sooo it's weird waiting to see if you got the job you've always wanted. One of the guys I work with was fired my first "part-time" day at Ohio Savings Bank, and some of the members of my team encouraged me to apply for the job. It has been a painful two weeks since I gave thought to my options:

1) Dropping out of school and working full time
2) Staying in school part time and working full time
3) Staying in school full time and working full time
4) Staying in school full time and working part time (like i am now).

I went with #3, and applied for the job: Software Systems Engineer II. The guys in my group thought I would be a good candidate seeing as how I had learned the OSB environment from my internship, and I learn very quickly. Now comes the stressful part of waiting, especially because I KNOW that there are other people in IT applying for this position. Granted, I also know that my skill levels are equal or close to equal with theirs, but it is still a pretty nerve racking wait. I mean, this is the kind of job that you go to college to get, and here it is, potentially being offered to me right now. I want the job really bad, there's no point in trying to beat around the facts. I have to trust that whatever happens is God's will for my life. Makes me feel better just even typing that right there.

Now for some fun. This is where the 100 most recent people who looked at my blog are from (including one from Romania not pictured). "Shhh...this is Spy stuff...." - The Marx Brothers

Ever see V for Vendetta?

If you have seen V for Vendetta, you must see this. Outstandinginly hilarious.

Wicked Beats with GW

No doubt. Straight up the GW DIZZLE!

The Great thing about being a Vampire

The great thing about being a vampire is that you get to stay up forever all night. At least that's what it feels like when I'm on vacation. I recently reset my brain clock for the vacation by staying up till about 5, then sleeping till 1. Boy did that feel great. I’m getting ready for yet another year of school, which of course goes hand in hand with staying up late, so I thought I should condition myself. It’s gonna be a crazy semester folks, 18 credit hours, 20 hours of work, A Cappella Fellas practices and gigs, helping with my church’s youth group and staying involved with the college and careers class. Think I’m running myself thin? Nonsense. This here is the man of mental steel. Fast as a ninja cut like a razor blade sofast..otherdjs say dammm if rhyme was a drug I’d sell it by the gram. And I sure when Vanilla ice wrote those lyrics he was thinking about that giant hoover dam which provides 4 billion kilowatt hours a year to California, Nevada and Arizona. What a tribute.


I just found this picture of my dad. It was too good not to post.

Sailing/Wrecking on the Intern's Sea/Reef

Oh yes, not everyone has a manager who is as savvy and friendly as mine. Some call him Saint Linden. I however refrain from such oddities however refer to his as master splinter. Take for example my amigo and pal Chris who sits opposite corner from me. The last time he saw his manager was when he came in and barked at him for not filling out a time sheet. Before that he hadn't seen him in person for almost a week when he did the exact same thing afore mentioned. What is this intern's current task at hand? Planning an IT wide picnic. Put that on your resume.

Then there is the female intern who is sitting behind me and hopefully not reading over my shoulder named Kate. Some believe I have the hots for her (LUKE AND HANNAH) because I called her "this intern girl-friend that I have at work". The reason I originally specified that she is a female is because I have very few female friends that I keep in touch with on a regular basis outside of church folk. In fact there's pretty much zero. Also note the use of the dash, separating friend and girl. Very much different than "girlfriend". There is a point at the end of all this senseless babbling: Sarabeth Centner is the only woman for me and I love her tremendously. Now, back to the stupidity!

This so called, "female friend" is the clueless brunt of Chris' (my co-hort in crime) and my remote trickery. We have amused ourselves with numerous activities such as closer her Internet Explorer 3 times in a row. This is the clutch part, because she will ask us, "Are you guys having problems with Internet?" (Note the lack of the indefinite article "the" Internet). Now comes the hard part where we have to avoid laughing. We hold back, and occasionally inform her that we are fine and instruct her to run a full virus scan, because viruses are bad. Closing her Outlook, and opening 32 notepads on her desktop is a classic. My elderly friend (that's 60+ year for those of you political people out there) Mark put it in a different light: "What's the use of flipping a blind man the bird?"

But not this intern. Oh no. This intern is learning hand over fist about the IT world, building virtual machines, remote process execution (thanks Kate), Server Management Systems administrator tactics and tips, wise scripting and SQL database querying. If you understood what I said and could carry on a conversation about each of those items, my hat is off to you. In fact, today the main server that our group uses burnt through a RAID controller, (aka it's down) so we can't to 80% of our work. Right now I'm testing Vista Beta am very excited for it's release. Will I buy it right away? Heck no. I'll wait a few months a least, most benchmarks are showing way underscoring XP for gaming as well as high end applications. Plus mucho $ unless you
have a UAkron ID.

This has been another intern lunch hour broadcast, thank you for tuning in.

Greetings!

Do you know about the people that record a voice mail greeting over and over and over again until they get it right? I am one of those people and this is my story. I recorded my voice mail greeting on this Monday. It was the day where everybody called off because it was the day between July 4 and the weekend. So I sat alone in my cube with not a sound on the entire floor with the exception of my Mr. Coffee 4 cup pot.

It was now I decided would be a good time to record my greeting, because I could do it over as many times as I wanted without being embarrassed. Herein lies the problem, my brain doesn't function at 100% before I have coffee in the morning. So I picked up the phone with confidence and slumbery gusto preparing in my mind what I was to say to all the callers who wish to talk to the ever important intern Joe. I recorded the message, then listened to it. It had cut off the first 3 seconds of my message, so it didn't sound very professional. It proceeded to cut off every one of my messages making them all sound very stupid. After the 15th try I hung up the phone and said whatever.

It was today that I discovered my blunder. I received a voice mail and called the lady back, and when she answered she told me how my voice mail message was...askew. Apparently what was going on while I was recording the voice mail greeting before was that I was appending to the previous message, instead of deleting it completely like I thought I was. I immediately listened to my own voice mail greeting in horror as I heard the following:

"Hi you've reached the desk of Joseph Clarke please lmeave me ah....crap.[Beep] Hi you've reached the Desk of Joseph Clarke, please leave me a message after the tone. Right, and if there's no tone? [BEEP] Hi you've reached the desk of Joseph clarke if you would like to leave me a messagenoo, they already know they're leaving a message you dumm-[Beep] Hi this is Joe Clarke's voicemail, please leave a message after the answering....(sigh)...[BEEP] Hi this is Joe Clarke, please do leave a message...that's retarded [BEEP] Hi this is Joee....Hi...delaying still? Hmmm we'll see [BEEP] Hi..Hi..This is Joe Clarke, please leave me a message and I'll get back to you..[CLICK]"

Just awful. But don't take my word for it.

Sweetest Dunk Ever

The funniest part is at 0:37 he says, "Get a medic!"

Blogging from the Office

Hey guys, this is Joe coming at ya live from Ohio Savings Bank, the corporate office. I'm on lunch break and thought of all you people just itching to read my next blog (yeah right). Anyway I thought I could tell you all a bit about how my summer is going thus far. I've been living at my friend Aaron's house with his family, because his dad drives into cleveland the same days I do, and works the exact same hours. To make matters even better, his building is just as close to his parking garage as mine, so that's a prety tight little conicidence. The job? Wow. It's pretty awesome, I never thought I would have as much fun or learn as much as I have here in the past few weeks. As I type this I'm upgrading 2 computers in Florida. Kinda cool huh? It's like these guys know everything about computers there is to know, especially from a management side. Working here has totally changed my view on computers, because I used to think like HOLY COW A NEW COMPUTER YESSS, and now it's just referred to as a box. A tool. One of the weaker links, that the important thing is really the software on the PC. I guess that's the mentality you adopt when you manage 5000+ machines. The intern flak isn't as bad as you'd think, although they were a bit upset when I brought in my own coffee maker. Especially when they saw that the pot was only a 4 cup caraffe. They haven't made me get them coffee yet, although they always talk about it; kinda like a lame mother who always threatens to ground their child and never does. I've been having a great summer, seeing my wonderful girlfriend Sarabeth almost daily, playing guitar, staying in a workout schedule, and what would a summer be without late nights of BF2? I know not. Speaking of which, the other day Chris and I had scores of 83 and 79, and the highest on the other team was 7. Wow. That's basically what my summer has been so far. In 2 weeks I leave for West Virginia with the Youth Group, for camping, white water rafting, rapelling, spelunking and a high ropes course. It's gonna be awesome. Sorry I haven't blogged more, but when 12 hours of your day constitutes work you don't have too much free time. I'll try to keep it up!

Cedar Point with CAB

My Apologies

My apologies for not blogging, I'm crazy like a goon. 9 hour days with 2 hours of driving makes Joe tired and not want to blog. Blah.

Gianormous Blog

Apparently a picture is worth a thousand words, so I've saved myself a lot of typing.

Everyone leaving.


The mess.


The gross.


The friends. (hah, bet you thought gross was talking about Kevin and Chris).


Yikes. Are you sad yet?


Robby: "It's amazing how much crap I brought"
Me: "Amen"


My stuff.


Saturday my dad loading a stove. Go dad go. (Should I have been helping? No? Duh, he's got it)


Me and my beautiful girl at church on Sunday.

Reprieve from finals

Sarabeth and I went to Pizza Hut for a little break from mass testing. I had just finished my History final, and SB had just finished her SPSS final (which i'm guessing was really hard because the computer ate her numbers during the test). We needed to get out!


Plus I went to Pinnacle Woods paintball store because recently I've been getting really excited about paintball for some reason, even though I know I don't have any money to play over the summer. Pity. Watch for a suprise in the mail.

OH and by the way..I put a stat counter in my blog..so I KNOW you people haven't been commenting...grrrrrr

Today is a good day

I'm enjoying the learning of Linux today, as well as US History 1. Blah. My exam schedule looks like this: On Friday I will be moving into my home for the summer, my good friend Aaron's house. That's Jim Aaron and myself at a 3-Man Beginner tournament, May 17, 2002.
And this is Aaron himself (several years back of course). But don't let that gaping face fool ya, Aaron has been one of my closest buddies since highschool. Nobody be messin with Aaron. Plus now he's a lot bigger than me, so it's more like he would have to beat people up messing with skinny Joe.

Speaking of beatings, check out this hilarious video I found in my paintball folder while reminiscing. "The Sensless Beating of Aaron" If you watch closely you can see Jim accidentally hit josh's left arm with the bat. He was the only one actually hurt during the filming.



Anyway, his dad Bryon goes north to downtown Cleveland every morning, and I will be car pooling with him and another guy (oddly enough also named Brian, but the spelling of Brian number 2 I'm not so sure of). I will be going downtown every day to
for my sweet internship, IT job. (Mad props to the wicked sick IT connections provided by Luke Andrews). I really hope that I can be of significant help and learn a lot. All I can say is, I'm so ready for finals to be over and to start work. The best part about work, is that when you go home you (usually) don't have to think or worry about work. You get paid to do that. That and no homework are really what I'm looking forward to. Jiggawhat.

Sweet Revenge...

So for those of you who know about my recent experience (shhh, some people still don't know). Here is my way of striking revenge. It went like this:

"Campus Security how can I help you?"
"There is a car parked illegally behind the dumpster in the Findley hall parking lot."
"OK, we're sending someone over."
"Great."

So I thought they were just going to give a ticket and leave. Haha, I was wayy wrong and boy did it make me happy.

And cue the towtruck...



Say hello to "not your best week."

Disgusting

Thank God that this semester is almost over..I just can't take my roommate's disgusting nature any more. I just have to vent my frustrations publicly or my mind will implode. This will have a direct affect on SB. For her sake people, leave a comment in agreement of the filth.

Lego Remix

Looks pretty close to me!

Memory Lane...Chinese Boys

That's right people, a different Backstreet Boys song. And if you didn't see it before, you're going to love it now. I'm sure you won't be offended, as long as you love me..

I should totally be studying...

But here I am typing so you guys can see what a cool weekend I had. First of all, Friday night was guys night. We (Chad Billy Joe Luke) played Monopoly and got womped by Chad and the oranges (does no one listen to me? I didn't give them to him). Also, Chad set a personal record by staying up until at least 2:30 AM watching the Star Wars movies, lets give it up for manliness!



So then guys night sorta continued into guys morning, where Joe Luke and Jason worked at Camelot, configuring the new server, firewall and workstations.


After the hard network work, the A Cappella fellas met up at the Medina County Performing Arts Center for a rousing performance of 2 songs. We did them well and people really enjoyed us! How fun was that?


Then today, I rode a Ferrari. Let me just say, holy crap. Amazing. We went 150 MPH and it was el crazy. I was in Toledo helping Chris shoot some video for his marketing class commercial, and happened to get to ride with his uncle who happens to race cars for his hobby. The F-430 does zero-to-sixty in 4 seconds with a top speed of 196 MPH. Hubba hubba.

Then Youth group, and the end of the day. Whew! Now if I could just get through my tests this week, I'd be golden. I hate this time change..what a rip...

My Ebay Stuff for Sale!

Check my "Stuff for sale" link in the bar. I gots 4 things for sale. Anyone want one? The descriptions are half the fun.

Some of my favorite "Worst Predictions Ever"

"We will bury you."
Nikita Krushchev, Soviet Premier, predicting Soviet communism will win over U.S. capitalism, 1958.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-"
Last words of Gen. John Sedgwick, spoken as he looked out over the parapet at enemy lines during the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864.

"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote."
Grover Cleveland, U.S. President, 1905.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, 1904.

"A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere."
New York Times, 1936.

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927.

"Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever."
Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1889 (Edison often ridiculed the arguments of competitor George Westinghouse for AC power).

"But what... is it good for?"
IBM executive Robert Lloyd, speaking in 1968 microprocessor, the heart of today’s computers.

It's the campus WHAT? Crusade for Christ

My friend Drew knows the guy in the red hoodie, he was on a summer project with him. Pretty good parody if you ask me.

If you haven't seen the original, you can see it here , SNL's Chronicles of Narnia.

Lego like Crazy

So I was on the verge of selling all of my legos on eBay, however Luke stopped me at the last second and said, "WAIT! My future children! They want those!" So Luke now has my very nicely kept sets of legos. This right here? This is an indoor soccer arena, brought to you by the lego people. Click the link for pictures of this amazing and undoubtedly very time comsuming structure.
Crazy Legos

Music doth soothe the savage beast

Sooo I had a cool experience the other day. Robby was kind of annoying me, so I put in some Jack Johnson and he fell asleep. Mere conicidence? Lets just say that I have a new reason to enjoy Jack Johnson.

Random Post: Chuck Norris

Heck Yes, it's Chuck. And what a man. Here's a memorable quote from this killer machine:
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." -Chuck Norris

Here's one about him:
Guns don't kill people...Chuck Norris kills people.

Professor Muscutariu: You must understand him

This is a post which will let you the readers understand who my night class professor is. His name is Ioan (John) Muscutariu. In his classes, you will hear many interesting variants of the English language. As he is from Romania, he will probably never speak perfect english. These are some examples of what this yields:
"When I talk, you pay me attention"
"You did good job on quiz? I give you chocolate"
"Yohn, how you say? (Jon??) Yes, Jon. Here your paper."
"Please question. You ask me question any time."
"There are an eagle..."
"When you look at sky"
[Writes on board] "Earse is our planet"
"We are not in sowsa hemisfeer"
"Ansheeen Astro Nomers....very rich imagination!"
"I lost our Earth! I lost our sun! I am very powerful man, yes?"

The funniest part is that I've created and posted this all during the class. Shame on me. But hey, what's a guy going to do in a 4 hour night class?

Late night BF2

Luke, I told you not to play on the slidey rope when they were setting the concrete!!


Luke, I told you not to use the slidey rope without your athletic supporter!

Stereophonics

I've talked to a lot of guys who burned out of blogging...

I wonder if that's where I'm headed. We'll see. I'm still really enjoying it for the most part.

I think my life is going to change radically for the better in the near future of my life.

You know those moments where you interrupt each other on IM, or conversations go 2 different ways? Some are quite funny without the continued speak.
[21:04] Jessica Patchen: how will i get in?
[21:04] elgwhoppo: sausage
I wonder how Kevin's break is going. I'm pretty sure he said he was going to see his niece. His NIECE. HE IS AN UNCLE. And he's a couple months older than me. Absolutely crazy.

The Following friends of mine are married (ages in parentheses)
-Josh, Julie (20, 20)
The Following friends of mine are engaged
- Josh, Angel (20, 20)
The following friends of mine aren't married or engaged:
Aaron, Wes, Jake, Chris, Matt.
*Disclaimer-when I say friends, I mean from my MCA buds circle. Don't take offense.

It's just crazy. My friend luke was married at 20. She was still in college, and they are still happily living together in a great house.

i decided to paste the lyrics from my currently playing song, because they're quite interesting. Feel free to skip them if you are shallow and don't look for meaning in words.

You asked me so where have you been
Let me think now let me see
I stood once where Hitlers feet
had stood when he made his speech
In Nuremburg in thirty eight
When he tried to build the perfect race
He said black man ain't gonna run
Alongside our perfect sons

There was Dallas too, the library
The place they ended Kennedy
We stood where Oswald took his shot
In my opinion there's a bigger plot
Costners back and to the left
The picket fence the better bet
Paris came and summer went
The tunnel's now a flower bed

The famous turf that made Jeff Hurst
The vodka stops to quench my thirst
The Golden Gate stroke Alcatraz
And the fat man failed to get us passes
Jimmys corner in Raging Bull
De Niros jokes and bottled pills
Elvis tales from Mr Woodward
Any Richard Burton if you could

Tourists stare at tourist stops
One more picture one more God
Another top up for a change
It makes you think, it makes you sane
Talking more about yourself
There's a mirror too, have a check
Cheques are always passing through
Some depart but a lot come too

Restaurant talk or pick your teeth
You bite your tongue or chew your meat
Sleep or drink or drink to sleep
And one more week and we will meet
We'll talk of what we haven't done
Since we departed back a month
We argue why we have to shout
All in all it's nice to be out.

I really like how it all comes back to the relationship.
He tells her of his travels in the world, how deep down he misses her, comes back, fights with her and realizes it's been nice to be out.
Every song when you get down to it pretty much is about relationships.


I don't want to get married. Actually, I take that back, I don't want to think about it. I just want to chill. Who needs to think about something that heavy now, GOSH!?? I want to be free of such a heavy topic!

Virginia trip is nearing, can't wait.

The Girls Came Over, and now BREAK!

So yesterday I got to meet one of Sarabeth's friends Kristine, and it was pretty cool because she is the first of SB's old friends that I have met! Holy cow...Hmmm...maybe she's hiding me from them...But seriously, it was cool to meet you Kristine.





Now for the question....to dye the roots, or cut it??!! GAH!! I need help with that one!

Now it's time for SPRING BREAK! Freakin yes!!

Now for a completely random statement. Through the concrete walls I just heard one of my neighbors try to sing the McDonald's "I'm Lovin it" slogan, and fail miserably. Wow. I gotta get outta here.

Wrong, or Funny?

So I'm having a hard time deciding if this is funny or just wrong. Scaring kids can be funny, but this takes it to a new level. Click the picture to see what I'm talking about. Volume is a must, you gotta hear this kid.

Video, Bowling, Sunday, Lunch, Superbowl Partay

So the weekend started off with the BNYC video. My name is Joe, and I'll be your tour guide.

Luke, don't you have like a 24" monitor somewhere?


Luke was like, "Excuse me love of my life, but I do need to access my computer and hate to ask you to move, but would you mind?"

So then it was late...


And then came bowling, Sarabeth bowled a 201! Holy smokes!


She beat us so bad it was enough to make four grown men cry.



mmm bacon cheddar burger....



Lucas enjoying a large bite of hamburg


The funny part about the superbowl party is the cleanup. Billy is too tall for the Ghostbusters vacuum, and Julie, well, laughter is an understatement.