SEE what did I tell you, it's been under 15 minutes and so far GREAT news has hit. Tears For Fears is reuniting! There hasn't been an album featuring both Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith since 1989. I'm so excited. Most who know me know I'm a pretty big 80s fan, the music of the time was great. And people who say they hated the 80s just had unhappy childhoods and probably got skinburn too often on their slip n slide. Tears For Fears remains one of my favorite artists simply because of the depth and meaning embodied within their songs. Orzabal forsaw things to come and wrote about them in his songs, and if you look at the lyrics you can clearly see that a lot of these things have come to pass. I dedicate today Tears For Fears day and I leave you with one of my favorite TFF songs involving a line about luck :)

Head Over Heels

Head Over Heels
I wanted to be with you alone
And talk about the weather
But traditions I can trace against the child in your face
Won't escape my attention
You keep your distance with a system of touch
And gentle persuasion
I'm lost in admiration could I need you this much
Oh, you're wasting my time
You're just wasting time
Something happens and I'm head over heels
I never find out till I'm head over heels
Something happens and I'm head over heels
Ah don't take my heart
Don't break my heart
Don't don't throw it away
I made a fire and watching burn
Thought of your future
With one foot in the past now just how long will it last
No no no have you no ambition
My mother and my brothers used to breathe in clean in air
And dreaming I'm a doctor
It's hard to be a man when there's a gun in your hand
Oh I feel so...
Something happens and I'm head over heels
And this my four leaf clover
I'm on the line, one open mind
This is my four leaf clover

Ladybug landed on me and hitched a ride for a good 2 trips during work today. That means I'm lucky lately and today's going to be a good day woo.

So Rent was amazing, as expected. The guy who played Tom Collins, Marcus Paul James, was absolutely my favorite. I've listened to Rent for years but hadn't seen it yet, so tonight was my first time seeing it. Marisa knew Brian Gligor as well, the lead roletaker of Mark, so I got to meet him and a few other cast members. Tonight was really awesome, after the past few rough weeks I really enjoyed the show. It was the release I'd been needing. Now I'm off and out tonight to wherever. Think I aced my math test too. What a great day...

Just finished watching the first episode of CARNIVÀLE. I miss HBO. Period. HBO's come up with another award winning show, I can tell already. It's Not TV. It's HBO. Damn right. Here's the premise of the show:

1934. The Dust Bowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, drought and pestilence - all signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over, man will forever trade away wonder for reason.

Debuting on HBO this September, CARNIVÀLE follows a traveling carnival as it wends its way across the Dust Bowl, focusing on a mysterious young fugitive with hidden talents who is taken in by the carnival, and on the charismatic, shadowy evangelist who will ultimately cross his path. The 12-episode dramatic series takes place at a time of worldwide unrest, with evil on the rise around the globe and the Great Depression wreaking economic and social havoc here at home.

As they become aware of their abilities, Ben and Brother Justin find themselves wrenched from their lives to realize that the world they thought the knew -- this tenuous, prosaic reality shared by humankind -- is actually a chessboard upon which is played the ancient conflict between Light and Darkness, and they are key players in the battle.

So Ed Stalh (John Connor from T3, or the little boy from The Man Without A Face all grown up) is the main character in this show, and the Little Man From Another Place a la Twin Peaks as well. I watched the first episode and I was really awed by how the commercials and promotions gave a very difference impression of the show. I thought it was all about weird carnies and like voodoo tarot and card reading. It turns out the show actually has religious implications. Excellent performances by all of the cast, and you feel as if you're actually in the Dust Bowl; the locale is so bleakly portrayed. I hope the next two eps download quickly or I can find out when they're doing one of those marathon deals with the show. They probably will over my xmas break again which I'd be totally down for. I have to convince my father to get Tivo, and if he won't, I'm shelling out for it myself. Especially since my boss and cousin taught me how to "hack" Tivo muahaha. Imagine being able to record 700 hours of anything you wanted. I could have ever season of every HBO show I wanted. Amazingness. Way to go HBO, you never fail to amaze me with your shows. Now if they'd only get off their butts and release Six Feet Under Seasons 2 and 3. Then again Season 1 was only released last like February..maybe this next one will yield another. I'm an HBO whore...totally.

Going to see Rent tommorrow YEAHHHHHHHH! I'm really excited about that. I'm going with Marisa, and I'm really glad I found someone to go with. I would have ended up going to one of the Rochester shows alone. Meg and Jay didn't want to shell out the $ to go see it, but I think it's such a great show that it would be really stupid of me to pass up this chance. I mean I passed up Wesley Willis last spring semester, (ok well I was under 21 which isn't really my fault but let's just say it was) when he was in Rochester, and he died this summer. Let's not tempt fate twice eh? Tommorrow's gonna be rough, math midterm and nightmare CCNA review where they insist on giving us tests and quizzes even though the course is NOT graded or part of my college curriculum. Mmmhmm. Aha. Right guys.

I'll leave ya with one of my favorite songs ever.

Blind Melon - Change

I don’t feel the suns comin’ out today
its staying in, its gonna find another way
As I sit here in this misery, I don’t
think I’ll ever see the sun from here
And oh as I fade away, they’ll
all look at me and say, and they’ll say,
Hey look at him! I’ll never live that way
But that’s ok their just afraid of Change
When you feel your life ain’t worth living
you‘ve got to stand up and
take a look around you
then a look way up to the sky
And when your deepest thoughts
are broken, keep on dreaming boy
cause when you stop dreamin’ it’s time to die
And as we all play parts of tomorrow,
some ways will work and other ways we’ll play
But I know we all can’t stay here forever,
So I want to write my words on the face of today
and then they’ll paint it

Just had a chat with Brett. Good to hear from the old chap. He doesn't seem to be too happy out of college. As he puts it "get up, go to work. Come home, go to sleep, do it again the next day." I hear ya Brett. Was going to go to Faegan's tonight but didn't really feel upto it. A lot on my mind tonight and i'm not in the mood for drinking or really being around the inebriated tonight. Cracks me up that some people don't even remember me being out with them when they were 2 feet from me all night lololol. Ah alcohol I do drink to your health. So it's official Christine and Dena are definitely both coming up now, this should be an interesting Halloween party. If I could only get my costume together I'd be a happy happy man.

Talked to Ray tonight, glad to hear she was doing well. More drama in her life as usual. Poor girl has to learn to stop going for the guys who have girlfriends lol. She wrote a few songs about me though, THAT was really cool. No one's ever written anything about me before and they were really touching.

Time to go relax for a bit, get my mind off things. Maybe some 24 with the captivating Keifer Sutherland. GO JACK BAUER GO!

So apparently some people actually do read this, and they even check my Listen-To excerpt in my AIM info. I feel so special. Amy & Meryl you two rock lol, nice to know I count as some kind of Real World spin off in your lives lol.

So so far this weekend has been totally awesome. I was really down in the dumps the past two weeks. There was just so much horrible stuff going on then, it was like I was waiting for the clouds to lift. So many family problems, not to mention the car incident, and the death of a childhood friend. But just as always things turn out for the good again. I drank at the house Friday night, forgoing Chuck's cuz Kathy was too tired and passed out early in the morning where she went out after that lol. We all headed over to Kelly and Kat's house and had some more drinking. Chilling on the porch and some VERY interesting conversations lol. The pictures from that night are pretty hilarious. Especially when Kelly took her rats out. The facial expressions alone are priceless. Saturday I was planning on going to this Pumpkin Festival in Cortland. Chris had told us about it, and there was some beer tent where for $20 you could drink all you want for 4 hours. It was pouring when I woke up though, and I decided I'd rather just chill and do a little work. Almost ended up going to see that Lost In Translation movie today with Megan and Jim, although backed out because I was feeling a bit exhausted. Got some work done, and took a glorious nap (the effects of which are evident by my being up this late lol) and then went out to Kathy's.

It was Dana's 21st birthday tonight, so I went out with the Sumner girls to Chuck's which is always a good time. Poor Dana...I wonder if she'll remember portions of her 21st lol. Half the house, either current members or past members, were at Chuck's, and a lot of other people I knew were there. Among the bunch were Amy & Meryl, and it was really good to see them. I miss hanging out with them and I'll have to make a point of trying to more this semester. If only work would lighten up a skotch I could get a lot more things done that I've been wanting to. As good as tonight was there was still a few points of glum news that I half expected, but even so didn't really care to find out the truth. As far as I know I really haven't discussed this with anyone so it's one of those "Pete keeps it on the inside" kind of deals. Maybe when Matt or Amar are up for the Halloween party I'll talk to them about it. I really can't wait for them to come. Christine had told me a day or so ago that she didn't think she'd be able to come up due to UConn's homecoming week falling on the weekend of the 25th. Today though she updated me and said screw homecoming, it was only some minor deal anyway she was missing. I'm really glad she'll be coming up. We were good friends freshman year of highschool and faded a bit after that. She's pretty bitter towards guys now, as she seems to have had some really bad experiences with a few relationships in the past couple of years. She came camping with us though over the 4th this past summer, and I think everyone who went ended up becoming better friends for it. Christine remembers that weekend and I'm sure she'd agree lololol.

Also Amar is definitely coming up, even if Matt doesn't get his act together contacting him lol. Apparently though Matt's gonna be up that Friday, maybe I'll hit the bars with them. I really can't wait to see him either. It sounds like he's doing well this fall and I really hope so, I know the past few semesters have been rough on him, and I hope it fares better lately. The party is going to be so amazing...I really hope I can pull off my costume by then; I'll be pretty upset if I can't.

Otherwise it's been the usual work and class deal every day lately. My boss is off for about a week's vacation so it'll be kinda quiet and hopefully I'll get a little work done at class and get more sleep as a result. Fixed the house's internet AGAIN, and this time it should be final so no one will come complaining it doesn't work. I should get paid for that :P Got to know Marisa a little better this week, really interesting girl. Then again if you're a girl and you even know what Family Guy is, you're awesome in my book. It was cool though that we seemed to share a lot in common and she's got a passion in her life which is quite a rarity especially. Marisa's big into dance, and has done it for years. She's in like three dance troupes on campus, and in a few shows too. I look forward to seeing one; I've been raised to appreciate dance since my mother was a big ballet dancer, and did a lot of other shows and such in NYC and Brooklyn. Way before I was born, but I've seen pictures, she was such a gorgeous dancer. I actually really enjoyed my niece's ballet recital I went to last June. Not that surprising, I've liked dance for some years now. In another world maybe I'd have learned some dance. I still want to learn ballroom dancing. Maybe one of the classes this semester or next... So it's cool that she's that dedicated to something, and dance is something you can be really passionate about. I admire people like that, and feel that there's too little of them left. It feels like we're in a day and age where people are shiftless and kinda just loaf around not really doing anything concrete in their spare time but sleep or play games. Rock on Marisa! lol

Time to go chill with Asa and catch up with him. Haven't seen enough of him lately.

So I'm writing this blog from the comfort of the Red House family room. And there's no Cat5e cable connected to my laptop :P Yeah you got it, I've gone wireless! Thanks all to my boss. My boss is seriously the coolest guy ever. Here's a little story on how I got to work where I do.

Last spring semester I had IST 35, a really interesting class with a really good teacher, Mike Wunderlich. Really smart guy. So about 1/4th into the semester I ask him if he knows of any jobs on campus. I've been here for 3 years and I knew there was no way I was getting into CMS (Computer Mediating Services) and that my knowledge was much greater than 99% of their student staff. SO he puts me in touch with Jeff Pitt, actually calls him right there from the classroom and puts me on the phone with him before class lol. So I talk with Jeff a bit, and go meet him and boom, I've got the job. I begin working, joining 2 other students, and it's a great job! I actually did so well that they fired the two other kids and kept me on this year and gave me a raise. I work right across the street from where I live, allowing me to get those precious extra minutes of sleep whenever I feel like it. I get great hours, and very fair pay. And the extras rock. It's like getting job perks in the real world almost. For instance Jeff loaned me this wireless access point till the end of the year. He might even let me keep it! I can take off of work whenever I really need to, and I work my own hours. Of course I'm not getting paid like I was this summer, but that's OK, I'll be back to that soon enough when I graduate.

I'll have 1 1/2 years of experience with them (by the way my group is calls CSG, Computer Services Group who serves the Arts and Sciences college solely), and 2 years of experience with AIG (my big internship company). I'm really optimistic for how much I can start off earning when I graduate and head out there. The other day a guy stopped in who was the first guy to ever work as workstudy student. He started out making 55k right out of college with no more experience than working a year with CSG. Yeah...I think I'll be ok lol.

Awesome...I just saw MTV news, all about POD's idea for promoting their new album. They're selling the cd, with a dvd of tons of extra footage, AND they're including the coolest PS2 game ever-Amplitude. I own both Frequency and its aforementioned sequel. It's the coolest thing ever, you run down these "tracks" within a song, like vocals, bass, drums, guitar, etc and you play notes on those tracks. Now the notes can be on the left, middle or right of the track. Thinks get even more complicated when you can go from the end of one track and create a streak by immediately starting a new one. If that isn't complicated enough, you have multipliers equal to the number of consequative streaks going. Add in a few other powerups and it's one helluva fun game. Looks like bands are finally getting the idea to entice music listeners to buy cds again. It's quality of the quantity in my opinion. Ugh time go to work on a group project...if Craig would call already...

Things like this absolutely horrify me...but I'm amazed at the resilientness and resourcefulness of children.

Yeah so this whole past week has blown major donkey chunks. Ok wait a minute that's just the anger talking. No offense to any donkeys. You're very noble, helpful, and respectful creatures. That said here's a recap of the past weeks events:

Death of a Friend: A friend of mine from elementary school who I've stayed in touch with over the years died this past week from leukemia. It seems like every time I seem to forget about death's grasping clutches another person is taken from my life. This might have been easier to take had a friend not lost her uncle this week as well. Seeing her mirroring how I was feeling kind of gave it a secondfold strength. This was last Monday for me, so it started the week on a down tone. I'm glad though, she's in a better place and she won't suffer any longer.

Class From Hell: Yeah so my professors decided to pick this week to add insult to injury. I had so much work I was up for 4 out of the 5 schoolnights until about 3-4am working on assorted projects, assignments, and reading. Ugh at least that big chunk is done with!

Who's Laughing Now?: So after a pretty bad Friday night (rainy, and not much going on), I wake up Saturday morning to find my car broken into. The small triangular window on the passenger rear door smashed in, the rear hatch lock decimated and assorted scratches all over. The object of desire? My roadside assistance kit, containing jumper cables, tire inflator, some flares and cool reflective markers. So some schmo must have though he had the motherload of a laptop. Wish I coulda been there to see that one. God DOES have a sense of humor lol...Not that bad a thing but it really put a downer on the rest of the weekend. I was pretty down in the dumps all Saturday and it really killed my Sat. night. Back to almost normal on Sunday. I mean a third of the semester hasn't even passed and already I've have my car damaged twice! Claims adjuster just called. Rather than going all the way home to Ideal Auto Body (the guys who rebuilt this car from scratch when Mom and Dad had their act of God accident about 5-6 years ago) or I could find a place here. I'd like to find a place here if at all possible. It's a pain to drive 8 hours and have to wait a few days there to get it fixed. The guy didn't even take anything else. I had EZ-Pass and change and all that in the car, but I guess he was paranoid enough to be in a hurry. So an appraisal person's gonna come and take a look at that this week. Woohoo...

At least there's some bright news. My sister is thinking of coming up to visit me for parents' weekend. That would really make my semester right now. I keep hearing from my nephew via email, and I spoke to my sister the other day. I really miss my family this semester. I thought that that wouldn't be such an issue my senior year, as I've gotten 3 years to get used to it. Guess not. They're such a part of me I can't imagine not having my parents, siblings, niece or nephew. Sometimes it really is the small things in life that matter most. Rent is coming to 'cuse! The travelling one at least. I can't wait for that. I've been really excited to see it. Our party date is set, October 25th! Red House Halloween Whorer party! Whoooooooo! About 6 of my friends want to come up. I hope they all do! It would be so awesome to have an awesome halloween. Still trying to piece together my costume. Not too easy, but maybe I can pull it off....

Time to go cook some Italian goodness!

This weekend rocked majorly. So much fun.

Been really busy the past week or so, not too much time to update. I'll try to now briefly since I took a nap at 5 that ended up being till 10pm, and there's no way I could sleep right now lol. Classes are pretty awesome, thanks to those of you who inquired during the past few weeks. It's going to be a rough semester all right. I work every weekday at the same job I had last semester. In Sci-Tech I work for Computer Services Group, NOT CMS (which sucks ass and 99% of its employees have never touched a computer). They actually fired the two other students who worked their last semester and hired me on full time with a raise! Woo for being a homewrecker. I've got a lot more responsibility this semester and they've even given me my own office. Rock on! It's nice 'cause I get to work with a bunch of Macs now I'd usually never have a chance to work with otherwise. This is what I've got on my desk:

-2 desktop PC's
-2 PC Laptops
-G3 Mac desktop
-G3 Mac laptop
-g4 Mac laptop

Ahhh the wonderful sense of having 7 computers at your desk and never needing any more ;P Work is fun, I get along really well with everyone, especially the two new university employees Lisa and Dick. They're both pretty cool and everyone has a similar sense of humor as me. Everyone's a republic and middle or moderate conservative, so we share a lot of similar values as well. Nice to have someone on my own wing to talk politics with. Not to mention Jeff, my manager, is a sports fan too. Yay for jobs that are more fun than they are work. So I work there every day spankin' early in the morning, the time which fluctuates. Usually I work, go to class, then head back to work till the end of their work day. A bit taxing and tiring but when the paychecks start coming in I'll be very happy. I'm living a lot more thrifty this semester which I'm proud of.

Ok yeah I did buy a digital camera this past week, but I needed it for a class this semester anyways so it was a school-related purchase :) I swear! lol Classes are hard, oh yeah, and I've gotten a crapload of work already and shoveled through a lot uptil now. Anyone who's still NOT in school, you suck big time and I hope your deodorant fails to work tommorrow. Every semester I think it's the hardest I've ever worked in my life and then the next semester Life smacks me and wakes me up to a new world of work. Oh well. I never expected an easy senior year, and I'm sure as hell not getting one. The house is great though and we're having an art show this Saturday. Going to be a big deal too. Mix of an art show, open-house, and sale all in one. Got my animations all ready to premiere for the first time publicly, and not just to friends, at the show. Contemplating buying the Creature Speakers to rock the body rock the body. These things are amazing in sound for their small size. Looking for a cool way to hook up my Ipod to speakers apart from my stereo so I can use it for other things.

Other than that not much new news, except that our first Red House party is going to be October 25th, officially the first Halloween party of the 2003 year on campus. Hell yeah to that, hopefully it will be even better than last year, a pretty tough contender to beat.

Here's the pics I've got up so far of The Red House and College Fall 2003

Peace in the Middle East and rain on my house!

Those bastards. This was my idea last semester! I have the whole proposal written up. Maybe I should sue!

Listening To: Tindersticks - Tiny Tears (God I love this song...)

God tonight was rough. Shit went down tonight and my heart definitely troubles me this evening. It seems like every time I do the right thing in my life I'm always the one who either ends up getting hurt, or feeling much worse off than I would be if I just had stayed out of it. Sometimes it's so easy to do the right thing, but so many times it's so hard to, yet only because of the results. It's only a week into college and my spirits are low. Yeah college is fun, but I keep on feeling like there's more to this, or there should be for me. Guess I'm just kind of sad tonight, the world can be such a great place sometimes, and others it can really just appall you.

Talked to my nephew online today for a bit. My niece's birthday on Thursday, and her party is tommorrow. I feel guilty for not being there for her, or his birthday for the 4th year in a row. I hope I can make that upto them somehow. He understands, but she's only 6 and the concept of college isn't as clear to her. Maybe one day I'll travel when I work, but I could never settle overseas or too far away. My family means so much to me, and with every passing month it's so much clearer. I left for my senior year of college and Mom was still upset the night before and that day. It's like you get into your little arguements with your parents, which are nothing compared to some of the disagreements we've had in the past. This is like the holy time of no war lol. We get along pretty well, and they still grate my nerves sometimes, but I know how much they care and that it's not right to be difficult for the sake of being so. Then one day your mother or father will say something to you, and you realize how much they really do care about you.

I had a really upsetting dream the other night. My father was dying, I don't know of what, but in that weird dream way you just know it's something horrible and there's nothing you can do to stop it, let alone delay it any. Later that day I was reminded of a conversation my brother and I had during our vacation 2 weeks ago. Dad's 64, and despite his excellent health my parents aren't getting any younger. He said something to the effect of "We're going to have to take care of Dad very soon." My sister as well shares the sentiment. I will never put my parents in any kind of home. It is against every moral I've built in my life. You don't desert your family. Very little scares me in life, but death does. Not my death, I'm not afraid of dying at all. I was when I was little. I could remember getting really upset at like 8, 9 or 10 right before the school year started thinking about it. I think I thought I was going to die like in a week or something lol. I don't fear death, but I fear who it will take from me in the coming years. It really is rough to come in at the tail end of siblings. I've known one grandparent out of four, and she passed away in 1993. I think that even definitely opened my eyes to just how powerful death is at stealing away those you love. Looking back at how old I was and what it was like to have her live with us for abour a year and a half slowly withering away. I pray no one I know ever gets cancer, and that they do find some way to stop it one day. Cancer, Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and MS are the saddest things ever to witness. I know people who have each, and it racks my heart to see them sometimes. Even my uncle Tony who had a stroke and whose mental capacity is a faint shimmer of what he once was. Faith really is an amazing thing. Everything can scream the opposite at you, and despite that you believe in a reason, in something to the contrary. Maybe it's because Chris's father passed away this past year, and Jay's mother as well. Two men I really respect for their strength during those times. Just thinking about the first Six Feet Under episode is enough to mist my eyes. One of my housemates, Lauren, her boyfriend Edward, his father also recently just passed away. It's like I don't want to think about it, but it's kind of placed in front of you repeatedly.

Saw some dogs today at the pet store. Reminded me of Buttons a little. I can't believe it's been like 5 or 6 years now since he's been god. I don't think there's a week that goes by where I don't recall some memory with him. What an awesome dog. Screw Dick's Sporting Goods for their crappy collection of baseball gloves. I was hoping to buy a new one so I could preserve my old one. The thing is like a relic now. Over 16 years I've played with that glove. BBI, Babe Ruth League, and the All-Star league. I really miss those days.

Well my head hurts way too much and today has become a day to deal with rather than live, so I'm off to bed. Hopefully no troubling dreams cuz my plate's full enough lately. God bless all of you who try to do the right thing in your lives~My heart is with you.

Ok well this is going to probably be a long post since I haven't updated in awhile. I went on vacation a week ago, right after I finished up work. The guys at work took me out to lunch and that was awesome as usual. It's been such an experience working at AIG, and I really feel like one of the team in the office/company, and part of a family in the LAN group. I got an amazing letter of reccomendation from Tim, my boss. Like a bar of gold when I get out of school. He even is trying to arrange for me to work over winter break so I can make some cash! W00t!

Anyways that Friday night Matt, Jesse, Kevin, Amar and myself headed out to Hoboken (35 cents for the Garden State tok-en!) to do the bar scene and end our summer off. That was a pretty wild night. I owed Jesse a few drinks and Kevin too, so they both got trashed as Matt and Amar owed them similarly. Good night until Amar got sick and Kevin too. Kevin took it much better and after some hurling at a gas station in Hoboken, (yes we never even made it out before the rawrfing began), Amar and Kevin went at it. After stopping like 3x for Amar and Kevin of course. Wow...what a sight. And Kevin says he's only been drunk like twice hehehe. Glad to be a condoner of that! Got Kev some bagels and he was much better but Amar I must say had a ROUGH ROUGH night hehehe. Poor kid was going at it the whole ride home. And then we got pulled over. Cop saw that Amar didn't have his seat-belt on-kind of hard to have that when your head is in a bag. So he pulled us over, with Kevin asleep and Amar hurling organs. Does the whole routine, looks around in the car with his flashlight. Checks Amar's and Jesse's licenses, and then goes to Amar's side. Amar is still retching and the mone moment was when Amar spit up and the cop looked at him and just said "Aw that's just disgusting," and walked away briskly. Meanwhile Jesse was getting harassed by the woman cop who none of us even knew was there lol. She asked him what he was doing, he said "Standing right here because he told me to," to which she replied "Good answer."

Got home, got about 3 hours of sleep, then got up to pack the cars for LBI. Ahhh LBI- Long Beach Island to you none NJ natives. The best beach I know, and I'm happy to get there whenever I can. We rented a house with my sister's family, and a gorgeous one at that. It was great to spend a week with my sister and her kids. I really miss them all schoolyear-long and even now during break I rarely get to see them. It's like I'm almost a father sometimes, weird, but quite enoyable. The island wasn't as busy as usual, but we came up with plenty of reasons as to why. It was still hoppin' down at Beach Haven at Schooner's Wharf. (Kind of the big bustling area with stores, huge miniature golf course, and the water slides etc.) Matt and Andrew came down that Thursday and we went to the Ketch and then onto Joe Pops. Interesting night again. Good drink prices, $.50! Woo! Got back this past Saturday, the 16th, and took care of some packing that day. Sunday I went to church with the 'rents and continued packing. Same for today. Dad goes in for surgery tommorrow so I'm going to probably stick around until Wed afternoon/night or Thursday more likely to go back to Syracuse. Can't wait to get back. The Red House is going to rock this year, and it's going to be a good year...I know it.

In other news my car was in the shop again. To the tune of $620...gah...Damn you Dave's Friendly Texaco, Damn you. At least the AC that was fixed a month ago is still fixed and not leaking etc. Tires are OK too, so there's an upside to it :) Time to grab a bite and see what's up for tonight.

I may have posted this before but it's back up for your enjoyment because it's seriously the funniest thing I've ever seen. Don't stop there though I suggest you watch most of them including the original. You can find them at JediMaster.Net

HERE IT IS! LEAKED EPISODE III SCRIPT!

If you really take that seriously I'll beat you, really I will.

FACT:

Online piracy crime is erupting like a flaming cancer, spreading its growling, fiery malignancy across the groin of the technology world (a.k.a, the internet) and is suffocating cash-starved entertainers. Rock and roll musician Lars Metallica has gone public saying that illegal downloading has cost him so much money that he has had to lower the quality of his music due to lack of funds.

Holy crap Jim McGreevey finally did something worthwhile. Watch your asses sleep-deprived drivers. If you get into a sleep or drowsy related accident you could be fined upto $100,000 (froma measley maximum $200) and spend upto 10 years in prison! Finally our retarded governer does something better. Read the article here. At least Christine Todd-Whitman did a good deal of things for this state. The only other thing I like of McGreevey's is his new car inspection policy. If your car is 2000 or later, you only have to get it inspected ever 4 years. Not a bad idea.

This post on IMDB is the funniest US vs UK argument I've seen in awhile. All sparked over American Wedding lol. Take a look here.

This was too funny. Anne Coulter has the sharpest political whit I've seen in a long time.

"Another tape-recorded message from Saddam Hussein surfaced this week, making it the third audiotape he has released in the past month. If we're really serious about finding this guy, maybe we should start searching Iraq's recording studios."

"In other terror news, the government issued a warning to the airlines this week about terrorist attacks on commercial aircraft being planned before the end of the summer. Al-Qaida has apparently sized up the new security measures put into place by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta and has discovered some areas of vulnerability. Among the weaknesses the terrorists hope to exploit is the fact that airlines are prohibited from looking for Arab terrorists."

"Uday Hussein didn't need a phony study to comprehend Bush's lack of "nuance." The London Sunday Telegraph recently reported that, soon after the war began, Uday was deeply depressed. According to the former director of Iraqi television quoted in the Telegraph, the last words he heard Uday speak were these: 'This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end.'"

Quite the intelligent women eh? Saw her this past year speak live at our school. One of the best political Q&A sessions I've ever been to. Only wish I had her book then so she could have signed it.