Not very active here

I've not been very active here... Mostly because the wife has been rather sick for a while and at work I've been working in the test department so have been away from my desk.

Tomorrow is Katie's birthday. She'll be 9... Holy Shit, where did the last 9 years go?

The weight issue:

I've decided to not even worry about my gained weight until after the holidays. I figure it this way... I just quit smoking like 80 days ago and am still not out of the woods with that. I figure in January I will address the extra weight I've gained. Besides, what's worse, Smoking a pack a day, or an extra 15 or 20 pounds.

Stuff.

Not too much going on really. Work got really busy for me. This will last until the end of the Month/Year. Then in the new Year I will probably get slow. Usually happens like that around here.

Saturday we brought the kids to see Dark Star Orchestra or DSO for short. If you like the Grateful Dead you should see this band. They will play a set that The Grateful Dead played. And when I say play a set, I mean they will pick a date that the dead played, and replay the set. Not really note for note but they will play the same songs in the same order too. And they sound spot on! They have a following too, its pretty weird. but they are really good. Anyway, Katie had a really good time. See:






And of Course Mat played Legend of Zelda on his DS through the whole concert. See:

It was good, he actually got into it for a while. He really liked the Drum Solo.

Me, Murray & Brian @ Reunion

Me, Murray & Brian @ Reunion, originally uploaded by chrismek.

Here's a picture of Me, Murray and Brian that I snagged off of Facebook. The first thing Murray said to me when He showed up was "Oh, cool, you showed up in a Purple Velvet jacket, I was worried that I was underdressed with the Corduroy jacket" It was good hanging out with Murray!

I told him I would make it out to L.A. someday soon and chill out with him. I hope I can actually do it. He's good people!

Back to work after a week off... :-(

Today is my first day back to work after having the week off. I had a tough time getting up after sleeping late the whole week, but I did make it to work. Of course I am swamped! Sometimes I feel like it's not even worth it to take time off because nobody will do my work while I'm gone and it just piles up.

Anyway, the week was good. Relaxing if nothing else. Me and wife re-arranged some furniture and my Ham Radio/Computer/Guitar/Music room is awesome now. I'm diggin it because there is som much more room in there! I need to get some pics of it now. It's almost pointless becasue I don't think that I have any before pics. If I do I will put some up here and over at Flickr.com.

I went to my 20 year high school reunion on friday night. Wife had hers too, so we went solo to our own reunions. I had a great time. I'm so glad that I went. I spent a long time talking to Murray who moved to L.A. around '92. I talked to a lot of people there and was surprised at how many people haven't really changed, except for the age. And mostly everyone looked really good. There were only a couple people that I thought " Boy, you didn't age well!" But of course I didn't sya it, only thought it. and I couldn't believe how OLD some of them looked. We're not even 40 yet and some of them looked all of 50. But mostly everyone looked really good. I just hope nobody is saying the same stuff about me! Becasue I dont' think I look that old.

I gotta say that I had great conversations with Murray V, Elaine R, Nicole S, Jenn H, Cordell J, Chris D, Andy T, Wendy H, Colleen P, Carmen B, Mike S, Traci A, Rich D and a bunch of others! I was a little disappointed that Bob wasn't there. He is way cool. I'll try to mak it to one of his shows i guess. I am really hoping they decide to do a 25 year! I'd be there!

20 Year Class Reunion

Tonight is my 20 year class reunion. After 20 years you would think that I would be excited to see everyone, but the truth is I'm not. There are a few people that I really want to see though. Like Murray. Me and Murray had Bio and gym class together. We didn't really hang out out of school, but we did while in school. He ended up going to Los Angles right after graduation and has been there since. He does stand up comedy out there and writes for the blue collar guys. I only know this because we've been emailing that past couple weeks.

then there is Bob Bundy. I went to school with Bob from Kindergarten straight through to the end. Look here:


















He's in the top right. His father was a photographer and took all the pictures for the schools. When we got to high school, I started playing guitar and he played bass. He was into Doo Wop and Rock-A-Billy. He ended up in the band The Razorbacks playing the stand up bass. You should go check them out. Anyway, the last time I saw him was at the 10 year class reunion. Everyone that was there were pretty much assholes and I don't really know why. I think they all were in a point in their lives that they felt like they had to show off how well they are doing and that got in the way of being nice. Anyway Bob was one of the only ones there that was awesome.

I am going tonight with an open mind. I will greet everyone with the same respect I would expect the receive. We'll see how it goes.

W00t! A follower

I forgot to mention! Yee haw! my first follower.. I got introduced to This Dude on Flickr.com. Here is his Flickr photostream Seems we both like taking pictures of the same kinda stuff. Anyway... I started following his blog and looks like he's doing the same! Thanks phil. Go check his shit out... He's a cool dude!

Vacation

So I'm on vacation this week. Not really doing much but I'm finding that I'm not really having lots of time to come here. What I've done so far is re-arrange my guitar/Ham Radio/Computer room. I'll post pictures when its all done. I have so much more room now that the second sofa a gone!