Gotta post 2 days in a row...

...one more day and it'll be a habit again. Or wait, is that 3 weeks to make a habit ... crap.

Ahhhhhhhh - rambling to myself is so soothing. I hope I never get tired of listening to myself. If that ever happens, I have a strong fear that I could lose my mind-body connection and ... well, that reminds me of Dilbert.



(click on it)



That, of course, was not the episode where Dilbert loses his mind-body connection, but I didn't want to build this thing up and not deliver. Rest assured I will find my favorite Dilbert - and post him.

But until then, for me it's early to bed, early to rise to make me more healthy, wealthy, and wise. :)

I'm baaaa-aaaaaaaack

Heyooooooo!

Well... I think over the past 7 months of silence, I've lost any of you who ever checked my blog. My bad.

I'll say that once I had a guy at work tell me he found my blog, it was never the same after that ... and I tried to keep it going, but the illusion of anonymity had been shattered and I felt so... so exposed.

"...well you were posting everything on the INTERNET"

touche

Allllllllright ... so now that stuff in my life is getting interesting again, I figured it was worth giving it another stab. We'll see if my attention span can last as long this time. (One whole year's worth of blogging until June 2008! I'm quite proud of myself)

So... yeah - let's kick this thing off with a good night of sleep. Mmmmmhmmm. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Last night in the sack

Well, Hackensack, it's been real. It's been fun. And it's been real fun - but now I sit in my lone chair in my bare-1,800 sq ft of wood floor apartment, watching an MTV2 rerun of Rob & Big ... for the last time :)

Allllllllrighty - I'm gonna go pack a little more

Huaaaaa - last day in NJ tomorrow - sheesh - where'd all the time go?

Well ... I'm also looking for a new car since my poor baby is on her last leg. 183,000 miles strong. She deserves an honorable discharge

tru dat

I GOT A PLACE!!!

2 bedroom... + attic for storing shtuff
Great Barrington, MA
2 blocks from the center of town (pretty touristy being in the Berkshires)
the Housatonic river runs through the back yard
10 minutes from 2 ski slopes
minutes from hiking trails
tons of cycling cuz all the highways are 45 mph and twisty-turney
can launch a kayak from my backyard
and only 15 minutes from work in Canaan, CT

...basically SWEET! praise the Lord!

So, me and Dennis Nelson (fellow UNL grad) are gonna be roomies for the next year and many adventures will be had.

This was the landlord's winter lodge for his family but he decided to rent it out this year... so he's leaving it furnished except for the bedrooms. cozy cozy.

View from the livingroom and from the kitchen too = river :)

kitchen

This isn't our deck... but if we get in good with the first floor folks, we may just get some deck time!

Kittle is moving out of our apartment tomorrow ... and all his stuff already got picked up by the movers yesterday so, I'm living the lonely in my 1800 ft2 of bare wood floors till next wednesday when i close things up here and move up to my outdoorsey paradise!

So here's a fun update...

remember that lakehouse me and 2 of my BD friends were going to get in Connecticut? Yah - gone.

We had a signed lease with the owner of the condo, paid the sec deposity, rent, etc. - and the first roommate was supposed to move in THIS Saturday - and I just hear Monday night that the gated community "board" rejected us at the last minute because they didn't want tenants who were not related occupying a single residence. New news to the owners, the leasing agent, and to us.

snooty punks.

So, I'm running around all crazy-like trying to find a backup plan. I'm starting to look for a place in Great Barrington, MA - cuz i've heard good stuff about it ... so in the end it might look up for us.

Especially since there were so many headaches to deal with in the lakehouse situation = small rooms, long commute, community fees ...

blessing in disguise? maybe.
gotta hand it to 'em though - it's a pretty good disguise.

aallllllrrriiiiiight - cali's comin' to town

that's right, the tan-man is hoppin the redeye from cali to jersey and i'm gonna wake up at the buttcrack o' dawn to pick him up.

oh wait -
just checked the flight status and looks like they're delayed an hour "awaiting inbound aircraft." well that means more sleep for me - that is, if i ever go to bed - dang-o allergies are kickin my tail! GAH! seriously ... never had allergies like this before. and i think it all started once i went back to the braska a couple weekends ago... man. totally worth it by the way - gotta spend alllll weekend with the fam - and it was AWESOME! but i got back to the dirty jers with red red eyes, incessant sneezies, and a nose that had broken from a light jog into a full run. buh. not my favorite.

oh good news on the camera-front though - i actually found a place that fixes digital cameras! i know ... i was surprised too. but the lady took one look at it, heard the noises it made as the lense extended and said "yep - you need a new lense - that's $150." ... sure beats buying a new one for $350! (and my boss being the standup guy he is offered to pay for the repair since he was the one who had an acute case of the dropsies and, well, y'know... dropped it)

so, check this video out - it's kinda cool. these guys are from nyc and i'm bummed i won't be able to make it to their show may 29th cuz i'll be outta town for work - but it's fun seein young bands starting to make it big. i get to live vicariously through them :) ...oh yah, they're called jupiter one

in the description of the video on youtube it says the band directed the entire video themselves ... not too shabby!