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It's been a while since I updated. Been occupied other places lately, I s'pose. That in question, not a lot of neat-o stuff has been happening. Though a lot of "familial" drama has. I don't know if I've mentioned it here before (don't think I have), but my nephew is in some major trouble. He faces some pretty major jail time if he's convicted of this, and I won't say what, and he's been offered a plea bargain for a lighter sentence of course, but he's not wanting to accept. His court date is next month and it's not looking all that bright. To top things off, he's been hanging out with my sister's (his mom) ex-husband, who seems to be getting him into drugs and all that bullshit. He's a bad influence and you'd think my nephew has given up considering how much he seems to not care about living responsibly now. Hasn't had a job since this mess has all started and his mom is paying for all the lawyer and court fees and he's not even trying to help her out.. I don't know. He seems to have hope that he can win his case though so it's wary to me. But the other day he and his mom's current significant other got into a fight and he got punched in the nose, at least to the point where it's bleeding. Haven't seen it personally but I don't think anything was broken. So he got pissed and either he or his mom's ex (not his dad BTW) punched out his mom's SO's car windows. All of them. My sister seems to think they did it with their hands, but isn't positive. Anyway, all this is draining. I try to stay out of this drama bullshit but I guess people need ears to be lent to them. I guess that's what I'm doing here. Maybe all of this will be turn out all right in the end.

In better news I was able to make it to Edgefest 2006 in Little Rock Friday afternoon. It was such a great show. I missed the first two bands cuz it took me forever to find the place (blasted directions), but the main attractions I was able to make it to. Got to finally meet Limestoneandrust and some of his friends so that was cool. I wish more SG members could've made it to the show but such is life. Trapt was the first band we saw. They put on a better performance than I'd have thought but it was still lame. They didn't work the crowd up much at all and I can't say I was that into it myself. Not a big fan of them anyway but I'm always into live music even if I don't normally listen to them during my leisure time. Put me off a bit with the vocalist's pseudo-philosphizing but at least it showed there was at least meaning behind some of their material. Shinedown was up next which put on a great performance. They played a "Simple Man" cover which was just beautiful. That'd probably be my favorite Skynyrd Song, if not maybe for "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe." Shinedown really hyped up everybody and set the mood for the rest of the evening. Anthrax blew the place up though. I was totally caught by surprise by how super they were. I'm not too familiar with them but I know I now wanna be. Reminded me halfway through that I forgot to tell one of my friends who's pretty big into Anthrax that they were coming. Fuck. Oh well though. And last but not least Rob Zombie came on stage after what seemed like an eternity. Definitely one of the best performances I've seen. I definitely hope to see him again sometime. Played a good 45 minute set with countless gaps hoping to hype the crows up more. Couple of "encore" songs if you can call them that which was pretty neat. Overall it was ecstatic. Hope to make it to next year's--hopefully it'll be just as good a line-up.

After the show I realized I didn't remember where I parked. lol. So I took 20 minutes trying to find it and then headed back 2:30 hours to Jonesboro to wake up 5 hours later to go to work! It was great. I was sore as hell from all the standing and my foot was too cuz I don't have cruise controll--and you never realize how much you miss it until you don't have it, trust me. I had a good time but I was pretty exhausted. I also saw my friend Tim and his wife there, rather unexpectedly. Didn't think they were going but they'd moved down to Searcy again last week so they figured why not. Nice surprise though.

Anyway, that's pretty much all for now. Bye!