You sayin' you want a piece of me? I could drop you like a bag of dirt. You wanna piece of me? You got it!

so today is kim's birthday. she's an old lady of 27 now. what sucks is that we're both sick so we're going to have to delay her birthday dinner at germano's for a while. i feel like we've been coughing for weeks now. i did get her a pearl necklace for the special occasion though. :D

we hung out with kim, jason, rick, and becky last night at claddagh for dinner and some drinks. guinness has got to be one of God's best gifts to man.

on another note, i am about to open up a can on our neighbors for having their tv on so loud at night. i've banged on the wall, talked to them about it and last night i called the apartment people and left a message. next i call the cops and then i guess i'll just blare my tv all morning when i get up at 5:30am. turnabout is fair play right.

tomorrow we're eating lunch with kim's family at their country club. mmmm....rich white peoples food. it'll be really fun, i like her family a lot.

check out this post on jason's blog and take them up on what they're asking people to do. it'd be cool of you...

I had to take a sick day, I'm so sick of these people.

So I haven't updated in a while. Sue me.

Had lunch with Rick and Jason yesterday. Nothing beats Montgomery Inn's prime rib sandwich. It's probably the only thing they have that I still look forward to eating. Eating a restaurants food every day for over 7 years will do that to you. It was good to chat with them too. A couple of real cool dudes. Don't get to see Rick quite as much as I used to, so it's always good to catch up.

Another drama in the Bible study I lead has arisen. It's been about six months since the last one, so I guess we were due. It's getting tiresome having to deal with this crap all the time. They don't pay me enough. :) This is pretty tame compared to some of the other stuff, but it still pisses me off the same. Another step closer to officially retiring from the lead post. That's me blowing off steam, but one of these things is gonna push me over the edge and I'm just gonna walk away. There are a few people that come that keep wanting to do it. And of course I haven't felt lead by God to quit yet.

I've been running a whole bunch lately and I feel really good. Like healthy good. Did 3 miles the other day in under 27 minutes. Pretty good and I'm getting faster. I think Kim and I are going to start running some 5K's around the area. We are almost for sure doing the Mason Mini Marathon 5K in November.

Looking forward to this weekend. Jason's band is playing Friday night on Main Street. If you're reading this you should come. Oktoberfest downtown on Saturday night. Good times....

I'm not crazy. I may look weird, but I'm just like you... I'm just a regular guy.

I was about to get on here and complain about all of the little crap that has been pissing me off this week when I had what alcoholics like to call "a moment of clarity". I was watching all of the cable news shows shows last night about what's going on in new orleans, mississippi, and alabama and realized that my life is really good. To see the massive devastation down there puts everything in perspective for me. It makes the fact that I couldn't get my wireless internet to work last night seem pretty insignificant. I almost felt guilty last night for having a couch to sit on with a roof over my head while watching all these people that were at absolute rock bottom begging for someone to bring them food and water. And it's even worse that their lives may never return to normal and they will at least be living uncomfortably for the next six months or so. I've felt convicted to give some of what I have to the Red Cross relief effort down there and encourage all of you to do the same. Imagine it was you with no home, food, water, electricity, ect. I'm not going to guilt trip you, but spend some time thinking and praying about it and it will be easy to give up a night out to donate some money to those that are desperately in need of it.

On a lighter note, my parents were in town this past Sunday for the Taste of Blue Ash. It was good to see them and hang out. I'll be heading to Ann Arbor with my dad on Saturday for the first Michigan football game of the year against Northern Illinois. Look for me on TV, I'll be one of the 107,501 people there. I'm also going to get to see my grandparents that live up there. I haven't seen them since Kim and I's wedding, so it will be good to see them. Should be fun...