I'd be here a lot more often if the layout doesn't get fuxored every 3 months. This layout is a headache to use.

Anyway, things have been good for me. One of my favorite SG's came back, and perhaps if I'm lucky one or two of my other favorites might come back too. I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook for some reason. Something about that site has me more drawn to it than either here or Myspace, and there aren't really any hot nekkid tattooed girls on Facebook.

Life has kept me busy. I just found out today that a potentially $1,000,000 mistake that I made worked out. Thank god for that. I literally made one mistake that could have cost my company $1,000,000. It wasn't just me, but ultimately I am the one that is responsible. Yay!

My job keeps me stressed out all the time, but I"m really worried about the economy, just like everyone else. I have a job, but if things keep going like they are in this country, I'm scared that I'll be just like the turd floating in the toilet, that eventually I'll go down the drain like everything else. I'm so grateful right now that I have employment and I feel like I'm a very valuable asset to my company, so I'm not too worried. It is just something that is at the back of my mind.

Listening to the new Lamb of God album, Wrath, right now. Fucking awesome. I think I like it better than Sacrament. Looking forward to Guitar Hero: Metallica. It's like when you're little and Xmas is coming. That's what that feels like to me. Hope all is well with everyone.

My birthday is this Thursday. I am turning 30. It feels scary in that I am getting older, and 30 is one of those milestone birthdays that I should be at a certain point farther down the path of life. When I think about what the world expects me to be at 30, I'm not sure if I am ready for that.

Buy me something off of my wishlist My Wishlist or show me some tittays and rumps. I have no real plans for my bday other than to drink a lot. It is my birthday and I am going to have fun. I have to go to work on Friday which sucks and which means I have to finish the night earlier than I would want to.

I hope that everyone is doing well and I'll catch up with everyone soon.

Been a while since I've updated my blog. Been doing a lot of travel lately. There is a common theme in my travels. I visit a place, I eat too much, drink too much, and have a good time. In order for my blog to not become a Tolkien novel, I'll do pictures. Let's start with my trip to Cincinnati I went there on the weekend of April 25, 2008.

Two weeks after that, on the weekend of May 9, 2008, I went to Pittsburgh.

Two weeks after that, on Memorial Day weekend, I went to California. I got drunk and went to some of the "gentlemen's clubs" up in San Francisco (Roaring 20's, Little Darlings). It had been a very long time since I'd been there and the talent seems to have greatly increased. Every time I hang out with my cousin Emilio I always have a freakin' blast. I got some REAL Mexican burritos and I also brought home some pastrami burgers for my brother.

Then, 2 weeks after that was SG Gala in Toronto. I will update this section later if I get permission from participating parties to use their blogs/pics.

Alright, that's it for this blog. Next blog I will update you on my garden, its progress, and any other random happenings in my life. Thank you all for tuning in. Now I'm off to see The Incredible Hulk. Peace out yall.

I've always got random thoughts going through my head but sometimes it is hard to congeal them into one cohesive blog. At the same time I don't want to sound too whiny either, as I feel like blogging the most when I'm bothered by stuff.
Right now I'm stressing out over everything in life. Church has me stressed in a way with me having to select the music every Sunday, and also with the merging of 3 area churches that I'm involved in. There's also work that is stessing me out. On top of wanting to punch my coworker to my immediate left in the face almost daily, and on top of the workload, I'm going to be involved in a project where we're standardizing how we use our database program. I'm the person that will be the intermediate person between the folks in my department and the other department that primarily uses the program and IT. I will basically translate layman to geek and back.
That's all fine and dandy, but there are underlying currents of office politics there. Why can't people just shut the fuck up, mind their own business, and just do their jobs?

I'm grateful that I have enough money to do pretty much whatever I want comfortably. I'm not going to be renting a 5 star suite in a hotel with a 9 diamond hooker, but if I want to go buy a CD I buy it. If I want a new video game, I buy it. A slightly expensive dinner and a few rounds of drinks, no problem. I'd love to quit my job and go someplace else but there is no place else to go around here. Moving would be great but I'm sure the money situation would be tight. Life always throws stuff at you but you just have to take a step back and consider all things. Right now all the bullshit does not outweigh any benefits or happiness that I have at the moment. It certainly weighs in on everything, but it does not overshadow anything.

In more happy news, I'm going to be doing a bit of travel over the next few weeks. Going to Pittsburgh to visit my buddy there, Rick and I are going to Botcon, I should be visiting my dad soon, and I'm going to see someone I haven't seen in 3 years soon, hopefully if plans don't fall through. All my travel seems to happen all at once. I like visiting with friends. Makes me feel all happy inside.

Remember how I said I wanted a hot naked chick to jump out of a cake on my birthday? Here's an update on that. I've come to the conclusion that, after extensive research on where to get a cake and what venue I could do this in, the only place that this would be able to be pulled off would be in a strip club.

So it looks like my 30th birthday is going to be in a strip club if there is going to be a hot naked chick jumping out of a cake. I haven't contacted any strip clubs yet because I'm not sure which one I would have it in, and if anyone is legitimately going to be able to make it. The more the merrier, but if my friends can't get the time off or if they can't afford it or for whatever reason they can't make it, I'm not going to spend the cash to make this happen.

This sounds ridiculous, but I want this to become a reality. I will find whatever section of the country this can happen in and go there, the top candidate being California. The only caveat is that I'll need to be able to take video and pictures. At the very least I want to be able to take pictures.

This is going to be an epic event. I'll be turning 30. I want all my friends to be there, I want to be drunk, and I need to have fun and make this a very memorable night because if I'm not distracted by all of that, I'll be freaking out over the horror that I've reached a milestone and I'm not young anymore. I'm not looking forward to getting older but if the folks I care about are with me, then I'll be okay. Beside, are any of you going to miss a hot naked chick jumping out of a cake? You'd be a fool too.

Movies, what is going on with them? There's this movie place that I go to in Erie, Tinseltown. It is an 18 screen complex. My beef is why the hell are movies like Cloverfield, AVP-R, and Rambo are only in theaters (at least at Tinseltown) for barely a month, and then they're gone? It's not like they're shit movies like the You Got Served sequel or Superhero Movie or Meet the Spartans. Even so, just one month to go see them? Whatever happened to when movies were in the theaters for 3-4 months at a time? I know the DVD releases have been pushed way up. I'd rather have them go back to the 6 month or even a year gap between theater and home release if that means I have more of an opportunity to see them on the large screen.

I've been feeling stressed a lot lately. Shit happens at work, and with me, all it takes for my day to be ruined is my coworker saying just one thing to me. Sure I've fucked up at work, but when my coworker in the desk next to me talks to me she has a way of being condescending that just completely surpasses the fuse and just lights the bomb of anger right at the source. This week has been better as there has been a lot less jobs and "shit you have to get done right now or the world is going to end" kinds of things.

Add this to the stress that I've got to deal with concerning church and I'm just feeling completely anti-social right now. I'm stressing over calling 2 folks from church and asking them to be on a committee. I hate talking on the phone, and I hate asking people for things even more. I'd rather talk to someone face to face when I have to ask them something, but I need to know their decision before monday. If I wait until church on Sunday it'd be shitty of me to give them less than 24 hours to decide.

That's all. I realize that's some pretty ridiculous stuff to stress yourself out about, but it's just a part of life. It isn't all going to be roses and nekkid chicks and booze and pizza.