Here’s a first time truth story for you.  when i was 13 or 14, i was big into BMG music service.  I would sign up at my dad’s house, refer "Jay Hall" at my mom’s address, and I’d get 5 free CDs on top of the introductory offer.  I think it worked out to 12 CDs for $45.  That’s great.  Anyway, one day I got a trial offer flyer in the mail for Playboy magazine.  It had my BMG music info on it for my mom’s house.  You had to be 18 or older to sign up for the service, so I guess they’re just allowed to send you stuff like that.  I took it in to show my friends at school how cool I was.  Dallas and Travis and everyone were trying to convince me to fill it out and send it back in.  I wouldn’t do it.  Then Dallas said he would do it, so he took it from me, but I didn’t think he had the guts to do it.  We were at that age where we just taunted eachother to do bad things.  Dallas actually did it though.  If I remember correctly, Travis had a car at that time and he drove Dallas home from school that day and they dropped it off then.

Few weeks go by I guess, my dad and I are out running errands and he says we need to stop at my mom’s for something.  I actually don’t remember how it all unfolded, but it just so happened that Dallas and Travis and I were planning on going to a concert, X-fest a week or two later.  My punishment was that I would have to leave the concert early.  Total weak sauce.  I missed Green Day, and them lighting their drums on fire, the bassist from Jimmies Chicken Shack running on stage naked during someone’s set, and another band or two I think.  I also just missed out on the bonding time with Travis and Dallas.  I didn’t even do anything…but sometimes, it’s the lack of action that we end up paying for.

 - There was this incident with an M80 one windy night where Travis held it behind his head ready to launch, i put my hands around it to block the wind, and Dallas lit it…

- When I stumble over my words or spelling of those words.

- The toilet.  I’m always amazed out how simple it is.  It dumbs it all down to 1 little lever.  Sometimes, you don’t even have to do anything at all if it has one of those lazer sensors.

- There’s a lot of innovative ideas that are born from stupidity or boredom…probably just better off youtubing "stupid idea".  That’d be far more entertaining.

- food for zoo animals?  If you can mess that up and the zoo animals can’t, you’re pretty stupid. 

well, back to work today. I didn’t do a few important things that i needed to over my break, but i got sick half way through, and still am, so that kinda made it suck. Spent my birthday waiting in line for the PS3 to come out so i could sell it on ebay. got in line at 9pm wednesday night, and at midnight thursday, Travis and I got the last 2 rain checks. So now i have to wait for the next shipment to come in, hopefully before christmas. I’m too sick to write anymore, bleh. I’ll update the list below with all i did/didn’t do though.

I want to post an update, but i’m kinda at a loss. I’ll just ramble. Christmas was fun, i was back at my mom’s a lot spending time with the family. got my cousin’s old golf clubs, thinking about trying to learn. feeling very sluggish recently. i want to work out for muscle this year, gain back the 20 pounds i lost last year, but make it a SOLID 20. not sure the best way to go about that though, so i’m just doing sit ups, pushups, and i might go get some weights to do curls. school starts back up next week. 3 classes, at $1,200 each. mellon reimburses me, but that’s going to blow a big whole in the 5k limit for the year. car transmission is dying. i hate cars. it’s alright for short trips to the grocery store for now though. i need to start thinking about replacing it. I kinda want a dodge ram. played civilization 4 a lot this weekend, kinda hard to play during the week since it takes atleast 4 hours to get through a game. great game though, certainly on par with civ2, a few things i’d like to see more/less of to say it’s better definitely, but it could very well prove to be better. really feeling down right now, for known reasons, but i’ll keep them locked up in a heart shaped box for the time being. lease is up in february for the apartment, but i’ll probably just renew it. works a drag without my friend kevin, who left for YWAM. i had 2 bottles of rolling rock beer and 2 glasses of champagne on new years. first time i ever drank. went out to some bars with my friend travis and dallas. drinking was actually a disappointment. i didn’t feel anything, didn’t feel more social, didnt feel happier, beer didn’t taste like anything, bad or good, still hate the bar scene, still hate second hand smoke, didn’t feel any different after drinking. probably won’t do it again unless i’m doing it for social reasons. ie: trying to to get a girl. i’m lame. i’m different. i’m done.