holy hell. finally back in philly for good...again. this job has been sending on the road everywhere from west PA up to CT. good times were had ofcourse but very happy to be stationary once more.
got back back to see i've been kicked off a couple groups most likely due to my not participating on the site for several. o well, shit happens. haven't updated anything now that i think of it.

my birthday was this pass weekend. 26...go me. spent it down the shore in CHILDwood with the girlfriend and the best friend. there was a big local 98 party goin on so i got hammered with a bunch of union guys. the goal of the nite was to not get arrested. mission completed.

i decided a couple of days ago, while i was in some weird funk where my mind just kept wandering, that i plan on doin atleast 2 things a day that make me happy. hobby stuff like, readin comics, ridin my bike, playin the guitar or drawing. it seems like i keep tellin myself i don't have time for most of those things much these days and i wanna get back to a more creative me. i has been difficult to stimulate my artistic senses with this new job and new girlfriend.

so i have girlfriend now too. kinda weird when i type it out like that. meet her several months ago and just hit it off great and just felt that connection with her that i haven't really felt in a long time. so hoping i don't screw this up.

that's all i got for now. gotta get ready to hit up this bar i haven't been to with some buddies i haven't seen in a while think it's called the memphis pub or something. mmmmmmmm beer.
the agenda for next week is monster-mania in cherry hill to get a picture of me arm wrestling corey feldman, help my buddy dan move into his new house, and celebrate my uncle's 60th birthday. o, and to get drunk and bang. can't forget those 2.

craziness. just got a new job earlier this week at Janny Montgomery Scott. well, it's actually a contract job 'til August but it's familiar IT work for me and it pays pretty good. plus i'm workin downtown which is fuckin awesome. just what i wanted. they pulled me aside yesterday and asked me to head up a team of a few people to some of their other branches so i'llbetraveling for freee in the next couple of weeks. freakin sweet. not sure where i'm goin yet but still, not a bad deal.

this weekend not doin too much 'cause of my lack of funds. saturday goin to some clubwith the family where there's a strict dress code so i'm prolly just gonna where a suit. not crazy about the suit but i haven't chilled with the fam in a while so that'll be nice. Sunday a bunch of us r gonna play some baseball around Port Richmond at 230ish. if anyone wants to play just let me know. and then if we feel like it randy and i will hit up the Khyber for Destroy your Liver.

things are lookin up in the life of me. peace.

finally got my camera back and wanted to post some pics of the Medevil Times trip itook with some friends

me and reggie kickin off the festivities


our king....he was a good king


our queen would not let me gander underneath her frock


my glorious meal. no utencils, all hands and i loved it


drunk ride home with reggie and dan


i don't have any pics of our Knight mainly 'cause he was the first Knight to die. no represent.

but it was a great fuckin time and i can't wait to go again.

fuck, shit, piss!!!!!!
so i'm sick as hell right now. it all started last nite really. it's this damn stomach virus i caught while i was in iraq. it's back with a fuckin vengeance. i'm not able to hold anything down not even water.i either throw it all back uporit goes right thru me. it really fuckin sux 'cause the only hospitali can go to is the Veterans hospital allthe way in university city and even then they won't treat me 'cause they haven't approved that i got this virus while i was in the service. and even then all they will do is give me a check for some bullshit amount of money and apparently that'll cure all my ailments. i don't want a fuckin check, i want this treated and gone for the rest of my damn life. they'll only treat me if it's a life or death situation.
damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit damnit

lookslike i'll be in all day so i gotta ask a friend toget me a shit load of comic books to keep me entertain while i feel like asshole for however long this'll keep goin.

random pics of me being shocked and scared at a bar...

haven't posted anything in a couple weeks due to havin been running around the city like crazy. my uncle Raymond passed away a couple weeks ago. it hit the family pretty bad seeing that it was an unexpected death. he's had asthma for years and apparently died after a bad asthma attack triggered a heart attack. uncle Ray was the crazy uncle on my mother's side of the family. he was slightly unhinged and would say and do some whacky things. he never really fit in with the family but we all loved him. i always kinda related to that seeing that i'm the whitest puerto rican in the family... and prolly the entire world. i was in a weird place for a week not knowing how exactly how to feel after his death. thankfully booze and friends helped me thru it and helped me keep my mind off ot it. i know drowning grief and hurt in alcohol isn't the helathiest thing to do but it does help me to a point. i'm just one of those weirdo types when it comes to emotions and how to express them. it was nice to see and spend time with family who i haven't seen in years tho. hopefully we'll be able to stay in better contact now.

had a good time on the Erin Express severaal weeks ago. ended the night at Finighan's Wake a round the same time i blacked out. don't really like the place but some friends i haven't seen in awhile were there so i sucked it up. now from what i've heard from some people is that i ended up bein that obnixious drunk guy in the place, a role that i'm not proud of but have taken up on more than one occassion, and that i got kicked out 3 times. first time was due to me sneakin in thru a side door and not getting my hand stamped. so i get my hand stamped and go oback in. second times was due to me slippin. fallin on my ass and instead of gettin up right away and playin it off i just layed there and laughed at myself. the bouncers flagged me and kicked me out again. i got back in thru that side door again. i can't remember and no one else can recall y i was kicked out the last time. o well,i had fun.

this past saturday, for my friend hojo's b-day, a bunch of us rented a busand took it to mid-evil times in north jersey. it was my first time goin and i had a fuckin ball. people dressed up as kings, gueens, wenches and knights putting on a show for us as we eat food with our hands 'cause utensils weren't used back in mid-evil days. the place waas huge and people were seated in sections and each section had their own knight to root for. our knight was the black and white knight. in the final battles our knight was the first to die at the hands of the jerk-wad green knight. we were all hopin that if we clapped loud enough our knight would come back to life just like tinkerbell did in peter pan, but to no avail. so everytime the green knight or did something we got an "over-rated" chant goin. we got a couple chants goin. after my first 52oz mug of ale i got a "rufio" chant goin for no reason at all. great fuckin time.in the end the lost prince returned and killed the green knight so it was a happy ending. as soon as i get my camera back from my friend christine i'llpost some pics up.

in the next coming weeks i have a couple beef and beers to attend. haven't been to one in a long damn time. and hopefully i'll get a call back for an interview for sunoco corp. they're in need of experienced IT guys at their office downtown at one penn center.. gotta a friend of a friend who works there and was told mine was one of the better resumes. so here's hopin. papa needs a brand new job.

looks like i'll be goin on the northeast Erin Express bus this saturday. should be good times. never did the bus/shuttle hoppin bar to bar thing so i'm psyched about it. then sunday i'm goin downtown to watch the St Patty's Day parade with some buddies i haven't seen in years. we used to watch the parade every year and get wrecked from random booze we'd bring that could easily be concealed. my one buddy, Callahan, would get 2 jars and soak cherries in rum and the other in vodka for 2 months prior just for the parade. great stuff. i think if u soak 'em in everclear u can light 'em of fire. hmmmmmmm.

well between playing baseball this weekend and riding my bmx around yesterday, which i haven't done in a while, i was sore as all hell. kinda sucked 'cause i got invited to see Bon Jovi last nite. so i had to sit down for most of the show. that was the biggest show i've ever been to. i'm used to little small venues and shows in the back of dive bars. the girl who brought me along kept thinkin that i wasn't havin a good time and even tho i really only knew about 4 or 5 Jovi songs, i told her that i was just really sore and that i'm not used to watchin a show from the nose bleed section. jersey girls.

so we finally get some good snow on the ground and i wanna go sledding with some friends really bad. problem is the i fucked up my shoulder yesterday working out and it hurts like a bastard. i haven't been sledding in 5 years but i risk further injury and i have no insurance. decisions decisions decisions.

sick again....damnit. apparently i keep getting sick 'cause as soon as i feel a little bit better i go out to the bar or play a game of football and not give my body the chance to fully recover and relapse. so the next couple of days i will stay inside going crazy with boredom probably re-writing my resume (still haven't found a job) and catching up on my comic book reading. basically i won't being seeing sunshine until i'm 100%. i have every trade of 100 Bullets, Y-The Last Man, the last 3 Preacher books and the X-men Messiah Complex story arc to get thru.all good reads from what i'm told. i've missed so much being in the military.
i did get one job offer ...but it's in Seattle. which i hear is a cool place to work from what i hear but i just don't feel like moving again. if things don't pan out towards the end of the year tho i may have to reconcider it.

gonna try to do a random quote after every entry. used to do it in my livejournal days.
"If God gives u Aids, make LemonAids."

since a bunch of my plans fell thru today leaving my utterly bored i decided mess around on the SG site 'cause it's been a while since i was last on here. damn i wanna beer anyways, i still don't have a job. got a call from the SEPTA human resources office to get some more info from me so that's promising. if they hire me i'd be doin stupid comuter stuff for them at their downtown office. still, a job is a job and so far they are the only onesi've heard from.i'm trying to get a job atlockheed& martin 'cause they pay very freakin welland it's acompany i could progress in, plus they'll let me go to school while i work for 'em, plus plus i'll be able to travel around the world on assignments at some point. just to get my foot in the door i even applied to a couple of their shittier IT nerd jobs. poop.

well last weekend, a beautiful weekend, iofcourse got sick and wasn't able to do much. missedouton the football game with the guys which i heard was fun and i also missed the philly roller derby bout that i swore to my friend jenn i would go to. she's on one of the teams that played, the heavey metal hookers i think, and ended up winning her match. so i felt like an ass for not showing up.

the seattle trip will prolly happen sometime during the first week in april, pysched about it. like visiting new places.

random note: i have a sombrero that i stole from a bar in florida and randy and i decided to make it the shit hat.. explanaton, we have a bathroom upstares and a toilet in the basement. when u use the one in the basement u have to don the shit hat. here is myself demonstrating..



tomorrow randy is done his alcohol strike and will go out bar hopping. i as his best friend and roommate am obliged to join him. we got a poker gmae to go to in fishtown around 6 or 7 then we're swinging by the manhattan room at girard and frankform ave. to catch our buddy tj's band play real quick and then we're heading into the city. not sure where we're starting but good times should ensue.

random note #2: i just talked to my friend danOwar and he thought pheobe cates' name was actually pheobe gates. il aughed at him.