Ramblings....

don't tase me bro!

2009-02-03T13:42:00.003-05:00

this story is awesome and at the same time typical of football goons at THE ohio state university. you know its been a good night when you try to pull a tow truck strongman style, the police bust out the taser on you AND you end the night with a shirtless mug shot/sleepover in the drunk tank. how much do you want to bet me that the idiot bengals draft this guy? cincinnati popo should be on high alert(yes even higher than now and chris henry lives here). is that marker on his chest or a prison tat? too hard to tell, but i'm betting on the latter...

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/bigten/2009-02-02-boone-arrest-osu_N.htm

i survived the blizzard of '09

2009-01-27T13:16:00.003-05:00

i'll be printing up some t-shirts with that on them to sell to all of us that make it through these two days of climatic armageddon. weathermen everywhere are down on their knees praying that this keeps up and they continue to get twenty minutes of the half hour local news shows to freak this city out. i have heard confirmed reports that some krogers in the area have actually sold out of milk. really? it's just snow. granted it's more than a dusting, but it's not so unmanageable as to not be able to continue your life.

take me for instance, i got up today and went through the normal morning routine save for brushing the snow off the car. i drove to work on the somewhat snow covered streets with little to no drama at all. i enjoyed the drive so much that upon arriving at work and realizing that i forgot my key to the building and drove back home to get it and then back to work again. AND I LIVED!

at this very moment my coworkers are downstairs clamoring about the impending doom that the drive home is going to be tonight because all the liars that do tv weather are starting up again. it's very, very annoying to all of us that can cope and not melt down at the first sign adversity or something out of the ordinary. get a grip people, we're gonna make it. i promise....

ok, what the heck was that

2009-01-21T14:49:00.005-05:00

i'm trying really hard to post stuff on here a little more often. that said, i'm also trying to not turn this into a blog full of rants and complaining. i just can't help myself with this particular mindset i've been in of late. i just heard the new U2 single, put on your boots, that was released the other day. those of you that know me well know that i think U2 is a pretty good band and i'd probably trade most of my worldly possessions to be able to just follow them around while they are and aren't on tour. not in a creepy stalker type way, but a cool hey bono and edge lets see if we can strike a friendship/be drinking buddies by me always being around you kind of way. anyways, this single was underwhelming to say the least. not on par with anything this band has put out in the last 6 years. my hope is that they're putting out the really crappy stuff first and saving the good songs for later. and this was the best song title/subject matter they could come up with? really? i mean don't get me wrong, i'd buy their album if it was nothing but polka music and power ballads, but c'mon lads you raised the bar too high to falter now. bring the good stuff...

here goes nothing....

2009-01-14T15:05:00.003-05:00

happy new year! well, happy new year two weeks ago. it's the new year somewhere right now right? it's snowing outside right now which means it's time for my yearly psa/whining session/rant. the "weathermen" have been all hyping this storm up for a day now and there's almost enough snow on the ground to cover the thickness of a piece of paper. i'm sure kroger is sold out of bread, milk and water and people are heading to their bunkers to wait out the blizzard. at this very moment people are driving their cars into each other and traffic is gridlocked on the highways. panic is abounding. weatherman means liar in every other language besides english. watching these dolts on tv blathering on about the impending doom gets me all hot and bothered, but i feel better having gotten this off my chest and making all three of you read it. you'll never have those two minutes back. you're welcome....

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2008-10-29T10:16:00.002-04:00

It's time to get all Fight Club on the crappy Bengals and their crappy product that they run out to embarrass this city every week. Project Mayhem is starting this week and I encourage everyone with in the sound of this typing to get on board with this. You have been warned....

http://www.whodeyrevolution.com/whodeyrevolution/2008/10/project-mayhem-task-1-report-mike-brown-to-the-jerk-line.html#more

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2008-10-09T08:08:00.002-04:00

It's been so long since I've posted here that it took me a minute to remeber the password. I promise that I'll post something here in the next few days that has some substance to it. Lots has been going on and the busyness of life has gotten in the way of putting stuff up here.....

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2008-07-04T11:24:00.002-04:00

bozo the clown is dead. wherever you are, poor some out for a dead homie. just in case you were wondering, cooky the cook died in 2001...

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2008-07-01T17:55:00.007-04:00

i bet you all thought that i was never going to update here again. ever. well in order to spite all of you that were thinking and saying that, here's mud in your eye. i'm back. it's been many moons and even though i have treated this blog like a red headed(yes lodwick that means you) step child that i love less than my real children here goes nothing.

alexandra is three months old now and making lots of noise and sleeping through the night(yes!!!!). she's also very good at letting us know when she isn't happy in many expressive ways. kicking, screaming, crying, ignoring us, flailing her arms, ect.

she also got to go to norris lake this past weekend and kim even let me put her in for a second. only up to her waist mind you, cause if i had had my way she would have had her baby lifevest on floating around with me drinking a beer. that's why many in the pediattic community have termed kim as the "good" parent and me as the "your baby might die in your care" parent. it's a good balance i suppose. all in all she's a great baby and we love having her be apart of all the things we do. she even slept for the entire way down and most of the way back from the lake. the time she wasn't sleeping she screamed and burgdorf got to see what it's like when two married adults argue because their baby is having a crisis. poor bastard, i still can't believe that he agreed to carpool with us. :)

here's some pictures of the babe at 98 days old:

all aboard

first reds game against the red sox,

thank you downtown aaron brown for the sweet tickets

typical woman, always trying to take the remote from it's rightful owner

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2008-05-20T18:31:00.004-04:00

i know, i know its been an eternity since i've updated here. my apologies. i've been surprised how much having a baby consumes all your free time. it's awesome and tiring at the same time.

today alexandra is 8 weeks old. it seems like only yesterday we brought her home. she's been a really great baby. she's already sleeping through the night and she's starting to make eye contact with us and smile at us. we've really had fun getting used to having her around and introducing her into our lives. here's a couple of pictures of her we took today. i'm amazed at how different she looks to me compared to the first picture i posted. enjoy.....

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2008-04-10T18:36:00.003-04:00

to prove that kim and i are really have a baby at home now and that were not bad parents, here is a picture of the wee tike. alexandra jean was born march 25th and weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 20 3/4 inches long. mom and baby are doing great here at home after 2 weeks. when i muster the energy, i'll post the little ordeal we went through to have this little child. until then, this is gonna have to do..... :)

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2008-03-23T20:37:00.004-04:00

in only a few short hours kim and i will be heading to the hospital to have a baby. she's going to be induced at 1:00am tomorrow morning(monday) and sometime after that we'll have a kid or whatever has been growing inside kim for the last nine months. and yes, you read that right, we have to be there at one in the morning. other than that everything with the yet to be seen person is status quo. on friday, the doctor said everything looked great other than the fact that kim was 10 days overdue. i'll be updating things here throughout the morning and afternoon tomorrow as much as i can, so check back here to get the down low....

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2008-03-20T08:18:00.004-04:00

so yesterday was kim and i's third wedding anniversary. for kim it has been three years of thinking and sometimes even saying aloud "holy crap, i can't believe i married this loser" and "look how my life had turned out, this isn't how i thought it would be". for me it has been three years of waking up in the morning and saying to myself "i haven't been served with papers, it's a good day". in all seriousness though, i am lucky to have her. seriously.

we thought we were going to have a little miniature person, made up of our dna, at our house by now, so we hadn't really planned to do anything to celebrate. at the last minute i had this brilliant idea that we could go to a place that would make and serve us food and beverages as well as provide us with a place to digest said items. luckily enough there's a macaroni grill right near our house that saved the day. great meal. and i even remembered to get flowers to give to her.

like i said above, we still don't have a baby yet. to celebrate our last days of doing whatever we want, we bought a new car. i wanted to get a corvette for the obvious reasons. safety for the baby being number one. in a corvette, with its big engine, i can easily out run any kidnappers that my think of trying to get her as well as the front bucket seats that will comfortably hold kim while she has that baby seat strapped to her lap. also, the corvette is sexy and it would make the other babies think she's cool and she'd be popular. but, selfishly kim decided we had to get a chevy equinox because its her dream car, so that's what we got. i cannot tell you how happy i am to be rid of that POS grand am we had. that car caused me more aggravation in the three years i knew it than i care to admit. RIP you bad, bad piece of machinery. we really like the new ride and in the end i guess it's a little more baby friendly than a corvette. barely.

i'll post more baby news after we have our appointment with the doc on friday....

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2008-02-26T14:36:00.006-05:00

i have finally solved a mystery that has riddled scientists and lay people alike the world over. for years and years many, many people have been looking in vain for proof that bat boy exists. i'm here to break it to you all right now that he absolutely does and i have the pictorial proof to prove it.

exhibit a: picture of what we think bat boy looks like

exhibit b: the picture of bat boy that i took the other night

thats right folks, sean miller, the coach of the second best basketball team in this city(exavier for those wondering) is in fact bat boy. you heard it here first. look at those two pictures and tell me i'm wrong. he's so spot on that they have to be one in the same. some of you might being saying that as a UC alum, i can't possibly be objective about this. i assure you that i have used a very scientific process to arrive at this conclusion. so look out xavier fans, you never know when he might be thirsty for some of your blood and he is most certainly rabid as well. consider this your public service announcement. ignore it at your own peril....

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2008-02-20T08:23:00.008-05:00

i've been thinking a lot lately, most of you have probably sensed that because of the overpowering burning smell that's been in the air, about the next president of the united states. to me there really doesn't seem to be a candidate that i think would make a good next "take advantage of the intern" guy or gal. i mean look at these people that have a real shot to win it.

mccain is crazy and has got to be about 112 years old. war hero or not, i don't need someone who thinks that pet rocks are still cool and would probably choose wilford brimley as his running mate.

you and i, faithful reader, are better qualified and have more political experience than obama. this guy is practically a political fetus. granted this guy is a great speaker and is very charismatic, but used car salesmen are also smooth talkers and i wouldn't vote for them. call me in four years.

and don't even get me started on clinton. this broad seems to be disliked to some degree by almost everyonein the united states, democrats and republicans alike. on a side note, she ain't exactly easy on the eyes, not that it should matter but we all know it does(mccain also suffers from this affliction). i will say this for her though, nothing would be funnier than making bill the intial first man of the united states. i wonder how he would decorate the old white house. my guess would be with numerous stripper poles and wet bars mixed in under an overall willy wonka theme. there's one thing you can always say about bubba, he keeps it classy all the time. i mean check out the library he had built after he left office:

exhibit a: the william j. clinton memorial library and adult peep show

so with all that said, this blog would like to announce that it is officially putting it's presidential endorsement with none other than stuart fleckio. mr. fleckio is beginning a grassroots campaign the likes of which have never been mounted in all the history of the earth. he hasn't announced his platform yet, but i'm betting on free fun dip, increased funding for filming the giant squid and annexing cuba as his main thrusts. i encourage you to visit his site to see what he's all about and where he stands on important issues like: home repair, marriage/engagement, and commercial energy usage. long live the king baby....

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2008-02-06T16:02:00.000-05:00

i just couldn't resist putting this up when i saw it today. i'm probably gonna get crap from dan and spark(amongst other osu fanatics i know), but it was just too good to pass up.

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2008-01-31T07:52:00.000-05:00

first off, nice suit bob. what the heck is that? this man makes millions of dollars a year coaching division one basketball, and this is the best he could come up with? wow, just wow.

secondly, uc put an absolute beat down on west virginia last night and when i say beat down, i mean annihilation. that might be the most satisfying uc basketball win in a long time for me. don't get me wrong, i appreciate all that huggins did for uc basketball while he was here and all, but he ain't here now. it was nice watching him just have to sit there and see his team take an ass whoopin' for forty minutes.

also, kim, kim, jason, and i went to see the u23d movie last friday and it was spectacular. i don't think i'm going to be able to watch "normal" 2d movies anymore. why aren't they making all movies in 3d? my only complaint about the movie was that it was so short at only an hour and thirty minutes. i could have sat there and watched five hours of u2 concert footage in 3d. it was really interesting to see the band that close up during a concert. i've been to too many u2 concerts to count, but it was a totally different perspective to see it that close. i highly recommend going to see this, even if you are only a fringe u2 fan. you won't be disappointed.

as of tomorrow, kim and i will be parents in about six weeks. we've been washing baby clothes like crazy to get ready. kim has had two baby showers thus far, so there has been plenty to wash and even more things that need to be put together. it's all a blessing though, not having to buy everything that were going to need. things are really coming together as march 14th approaches.

see you all on down the trail...

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2008-01-21T07:30:00.000-05:00

first off, how about my uc bearcats? they have been tearing the big east up for the last two weeks. granted they are only 9-9 on the season and 4-2 in the big east, but that's pretty damn good considering they were 11-19 and 2-14 respectively. this season they have already beaten syracuse, louisville, 19th rated villanova, and most recently 15th rated pittsburg. that one was especially nice considering my extreme dislike of everything and anything to do with that city.

kim and i had a really nice christmas and new years this year. it was our last one sans kid, so we tried to live it up as much as possible. we saw both of our families and extended families over the holidays and spent new years eve with kim and jason playing guitar hero and eating pizza. we also got a video camera from my parents for christmas in order to document all the baby happenings since they don't live in cincy. hopefully i'll be better at doing that than i have been at keeping this blog up to date.

i'm going to try to be better at updating things here for the four people(and glen) that read this thing. i'm sure there will be plenty to say as kim and i head down the home stretch towards our impending doom on march 14th. we've got the nursery almost all setup, thanks in large part to kims parents being so gracious as to buy our crib for us(cribs, and baby stuff in general, are crazy expensive and it's completely out of control but i'll save that for another rant). after the beginning of february, we'll know what we'll need to buy after kims various and sundry baby showers are over. hopefully it won't be much because i don't want to have to sell a kidney to finance it all.

one of these days i'll get around to a michigan post about all the happenings in the football program since they got pounded by osu. AGAIN. hopefully things are going to get better and not worse on that front.

see you all on down the trail....

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2008-01-03T15:49:00.000-05:00

i was about to write a new year's/holiday recap post, but then i came across this. i have no idea how this slipped my attention this long. you'll get the holidays post later.

couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. thaaaaaaaaa yankees suck.....

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2007-12-27T12:22:00.000-05:00

you know you've been dying to know the knowledge i'm about to drop on you. this is life knowledge. something you have to know about yourself before you die. you're all welcome for my willingness to share this insight so freely. without further ado....

CLICK HERE TO GET THIS KNOWLEDGE FOR FREE

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2007-12-17T07:41:00.000-05:00

as i sit here writing this, it's 8 days til christmas. you're welcome for the update, now do what everybody else in this town does and go to kenwood mall and drive around the parking lot. i love many things about christmas(all the family stuff, days off work, christmas eve services and the like), but this year i've been thinking about how materialistic christmas has gotten for me. and don't get me wrong, i'm right there with the rest of the consumer public buying and shopping like crazy. i'm also not advocating christmas without gifts and such, but i've just been pondering how wrapped up we all get in the busyness of the holiday. the shopping, waiting in line, listening to xmas music on all the radio stations in cincinnati, baking like there's no tomorrow, traveling here and there, sitting in traffic EVERYWHERE, and decorating EVERYTHING. none of these are bad things, they just create busyness when all done at the same time. it's almost a blur by the time all of these things get done. is that really the point? just wondering.

and by all means have a merry christmas, hanukkah, festivus, kwanzaa, or other holiday that i've forgotten to mention.

also, you all should be aware that lodwick will be in town wednesday/thursday this week. i'm taking a half day for wednesday afternoon and thursday morning. lock your doors, bar your windows, keep your children home from school. you've been warned....

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2007-11-14T16:41:00.000-05:00

30 years ago this past sunday, i was born. i'll give you all a moment to soak that in. good. to celebrate, i went to the uc game in the afternoon and watched them beat the crap out of uconn with rick, jason, and brian. kim's dad gave us the GM seats, so you can imagine how good they were. we parked on the top level of a parking garage that overlooks the campus and drank some beers to pregame. good times.

after the game, we headed over to the dubliner where kim had gotten together a whole bunch of my very best friends to celebrate. we partied late into the night, and kim even made a birthday cake that they let her bring to the bar. over the night, we probably had 20 to 30 people come through to hangout. i loved every minute of it.

kim even remembered to get me some presents as well. she got me a red sox hoodie to celebrate their big world series win and the first season of 30 rock on dvd. next to the office, that's the funniest show on tv.

overall this was one of my best bdays to date fo sho.....

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2007-11-05T13:04:00.000-05:00

my favorite saturday of the college football season was this past saturday. thats right, it was michigan v. michigan state. i enjoy watching all of the other michigan games throughout the season, but this one is by far is the best. and per the usual, michigan won the game again(their 6th in a row in the series). they let state think they had a chance to win and then went ahead and broke their spirit and ruined their season again with 2 touchdowns in the final 7 minutes. if you could put satisfaction on a plate and eat it, that game and the finish are what it would taste like. i love that coach dumbtonio(the traitor that left UC swinging in the wind last summer) had a big smile on his face when msu scored their last td and he thought they had the game won. how does that crow taste my friend? it was the same as always, the little brother tried to take on the big brother and the little guy got his ass handed to him. very good times....

oh and i found these on statesucks.com. awesome...

Top Ten Reasons Why State Sucks:
10. Only prerequisite for school admission is kindergarten
9. The quarterback drinks, smokes, and snorts his way into the starting lineup
8. Haven't seen a Big Ten title since Ronald Reagan was president
7. Birds fly upside down over E. Lansing because it ain't worth a crap
6. State fans smell so blind people can hate them too
5. Graduates are like tornadoes, they both wind up in trailer parks
4. Football players have a drug problem, they get drug up and down the field
3. Between state and Cheerios, only one belongs in a bowl
2. OJ hid out there since it was the last place you would expect to find a Heisman Trophy winner

1. One second left on the clock my ass

MSU Players Always Smoke Green and Snort White. STATE SUCKS!!!!!!

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2007-11-01T13:51:00.000-04:00

my sister had her baby on monday afternoon and kim and i were able to go and see them on monday evening. esther elizabeth was 8 pounds 11 ounces and 22 inches long. she was welcomed warmly by her big sister hannah who turned 1 in june. all is well with baby and mom. the pics are courtesy of my brother....

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2007-10-30T08:31:00.001-04:00

they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. whoever they was is right...

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2007-10-25T07:50:00.000-04:00

holy crap the sox beat the dog piss out of the rockies last night. i wasn't going to post about the red sox in the playoffs until it was over, for fear of the jinx factor, but damage...

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2007-10-23T12:28:00.000-04:00

this weekend was a ridiculously good time for me and i feel like i earned it after having to go to kim's brother's wedding last weekend. no offense to them, they are great people, but i HATE weddings. other than free food and drinks, they have no saving qualities.

on saturday, i participated in my first ever highland games. our friend kt and his wife joyce put them on every year and i've been before as a spectator but never as a combatant. it was a great day filled with food, beer, expensive/old scotch, great fellowship, and some good old fashion competition.

here are a few pics from the day:

ax throwing

bow and arrowing

caber toss

tossin' the rock

jason and i as scotsman

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2007-09-26T15:11:00.000-04:00

for the first time since 1976, the UC Bearcats are ranked in the AP football poll at #24. granted that means that they have sucked for a long time, but it also means that there is a new sheriff in clifton. brian kelly has turned that football program around in less than a year. props to BK. keep winning and i'll be at whatever bcs bowl they make it to. GO CATS!!!

michigan also righted the ship by wearing out penn state's defense and winning a key game in the race for the big 10 title. the season can still be saved by beating ohio state and michigan state to win the big 10 title. really ass long as they kick the spartans asses, i'm good....

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2007-09-24T21:22:00.000-04:00

today is kim's birthday. next time you see her be sure to mention that it's ok for a girl to turn 39(or 29 as she would lead you to believe). :) we went to dinner and i even remembered to get flowers and a card.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM !!!

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2007-09-17T11:05:00.000-04:00

all the talk that i have abandoned this page are greatly exaggerated. alright, maybe not that exaggerated. so here goes everything interesting that has happened to kim and i since july 25th.

we still don't have all of our couch for the basement. they have delivered three pieces of the sectional and the coffee table, but they lost the fourth piece and had to remake it. they've given me about $100 bucks off so far, but believe me i'll be demanding more. they say we should have it by this saturday and for their sake i hope they do. kim is pretty pissed about the whole situation. all the "theys" in this paragraph refer to sofa express, who are on my list of companies never to do business with again along with starbucks, panera, and pottery barn. don't ask, it's a long story.

on a happier note, kim and i found out in july that we(she) are(is) pregnant. she was 14 weeks yesterday and the due date is march 14th. you should all get your affairs in order because i am about to produce offspring and the end of the world can't be that far behind.

michigan started their season 0-2 and lost to a division 1-aa team. that had never happened before in the history of college football. ever. you can imagine how the first two saturdays of september were for me. it was so nice of all my friends to call me and offer their support during those times. not a one of them called to give me crap. on a side note, does anyone know how to type sarcasm on the interweb.

the bengals lost to the browns yesterday and gave up 51 points in the process. the browns suck and this is going to turn out to be a long season i have a feeling.

the best news of the day to report is that leo(jason and kim's young lad) is going to be released from the hospital today after being born 7 weeks early. this is absolutely stellar news. i couldn't be happier for two people who have been through a lot in the past month. good times....

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2007-07-25T09:41:00.001-04:00

so kim and i finally got around to pricing and eventually buying a new couch and coffee table for the basement. when i say kim and i, i really mean me because i hate shopping and have been putting this off for quite some time. we bought that couch in the pic above, but without the lounge piece on the end(we opted for a regular end piece). this means that we'll finally be able to move the tv down there and have a nice area to entertain people(which kim loves to do). it's supposed to be delivered in the next few weeks, so hopefully they be able to get it into the basement without too much trouble. that's one more thing off the list of house stuff that we need to do. next up is landscaping for the backyard. good times....

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2007-07-18T19:46:00.000-04:00

kim and i are back from and awesome week in traverse city at her grandmas cottage. we had a great time with her parents and sister just hanging out and relaxing. there's just something about getting away from the big city and all the craziness that goes along with that. no cell phone, no internet, no places to be. just peace and quiet and a sky full of really bright stars at night. don't get me wrong, i love living in cincinnati, but getting away every once in a while is really nice.
we got to see the fireworks over the bay from a boat on the 4th and i even got out with her dad to play some golf. other than that it was taking the canoe, kayak, and paddle boat out on the lake during the day and having bonfires at night. if it wasn't 7 hours away, we'd head there more than once a summer for sure. this trip has definitely got me interested in buying some lake front property closer to us some time down the road...

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2007-06-29T07:37:00.000-04:00

for the first time ever in the history of the bible study i've been leading for almost 5 years now, nobody showed up last night. in fairness two people did show up almost 30 minutes late, but kim and i had already left. i'm not really quite sure what to make of it. is this a sign that things are coming to an end for the group? obviously when out of 10-15 people nobody shows it's got to mean something. it may not be a priority for folks anymore and i think i'm alright with that. i'll admit too though that i was a little bummed as well. people are busy during the summer and i get that, but zero. wow. maybe it's time to put a slug in this old dog and move along to the next thing.

i'll have plenty of time to evaluate it though while kim and i are in traverse city for the next 9 days on vacation. her grandma has a cottage on a lake up there, so we stay for free. it's such a peaceful, out of the way place. it's gonna be wicked relaxing. good times....

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2007-06-08T07:23:00.000-04:00

they let that tramp paris hilton out of the slam yesterday after serving only 3 of her 20 something day sentence. evidently she had a "medical" emergency. unless having an IQ under 20 qualifies as a medical event, she should still be locked up in my humble opinion. what a joke. if this was some jane doe they'd tell her to shut up and serve the rest of her well earned time. first OJ and now this, i'm about to move to jamaica.....

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2007-05-18T15:05:00.000-04:00

AL EAST STANDINGS

TEAM W-L PCT GB
Boston 28-12 .700 --
New York 18-21 .462 9.5
Tampa Bay 18-22 .450 10
Toronto 18-22 .450 10
Baltimore 18-23 .439 10.5

isn't that awesome.......

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2007-05-15T13:49:00.000-04:00

it has been dog years since i updated this sucker, so my apologies to all of you that live and die with the amount and quality of my posts. :) if that was the case you'd all certainly be dead by now, but i digress. this one could be a long one and with no real discernible order.

last friday we had our first softball game playing for crestview(jason's church). it was a spectacular time and we even won. i had a hit and a walk and even scored a run. to be honest it was really fun to just get out and run around a little bit and to do something competitive. our next game is this friday at keehner park in west chester at 6:15 if any of my droves of fans want to come out and watch.

after the game we went to roger and megans for a cookout and thats where the real adventure of the night started to unfold. after eating a few hot dogs, burgdorf and i decided to throw the baseball around a little bit. i kid you not, on the second throw he stepped in a hole and sprained his ankle really badly. i mean, it turned the size of a grapefruit badly. after about a half hour of him trying to tough it out, i took him to the jewish hospital at about 9:15pm(mark that down, it will be important later in the story). we get to the er and there's only a few people waiting and we get checked in pretty quickly, cool right, this is going to be fast. WRONG, after he get his x-ray we wait in the waiting room for about an hour(10:30pm) for an exam room to open up. when one finally does, mind you it's called a "fast track room", we wait about another hour(11:30pm) for the doc to come in, the nurse to bring crutches and some meds. after the doc comes and leaves for the first time we wait about another hour(12:30am) for her to come back and say it's not broken and that he needs to see a specialist( thanks for that doogie houser). then we wait another forty five minutes(1:15am) to get the discharge papers and leave. all the while this high school boy in the next bed over is arguing with his mom about why he should be allowed to drop out of high school. that was actually entertaining. thank goodness that they gave burg a vicodin about two hours in or he wouldn't have been able to keep me from torching that place. it was actually a pretty cool time though for he and i to sit around and shoot the bull. plus i know if the situation had been reversed, he'd have sat there all night with me. all in all it wasn't that bad i guess.

saturday night kim and i, along with justin, jenn, ryan and abby, went to burg's for fondue. wiedemann was flowing along with the cheese and chocolate fondues. good times catching up with folks that i wish that i made more of an effort to hang out with more often. really good times.

and the carpet has finally been installed in our basement. after a somewhat harrowing time getting it ordered, getting them to our house and getting them to finish it is finally done. we saved a lot of cash, but i might think twice about using this guy again. if you're not on a time table(we weren't), he has great prices but is a little flaky.

14

2007-04-23T07:41:00.000-04:00

for those of you that are unaware, i am a huge boston red sox fan. i tell you that, so i can tell you this. they(the sox) beat the dog piss out of the yankees this weekend. swept them 3-0. in the long run it probably really doesn't mean that much. it's only three wins out of a 162 game season, but damn it was fun and rewarding to watch. i'll hand it to the yankees though, they managed to keep the smug looks on their faces even in defeat. the kid they threw out there last night gave up home runs to four straight sox hitters in a row, on 10 pitches no less. now that's dedication to sucking as a pitcher right there. here's to the yanks losing the rest of their games this season. sorry burgdorf, you do know it's never too late to switch over and root for the good guys...

13

2007-04-10T07:20:00.000-04:00

what the fark is going on with the weather in this town for crying out loud? this is absolutely ridiculous. who and where do i call to complain? it's insane.

now that i've got that out of my system, kim and i had a really cool easter weekend. saturday we, along with kim and jason, went down to lexington for the spring meet at keeneland. other than the fact that the weather sucked, we had a really good time. i'm no horse handicapper, but i did pick one winner outright. and i'm pretty sure that kim is now addicted to mint julips. she says she was just drinking them to stay warm, but i'm skeptical. i'm pretty sure she's a closet alcoholic now.

sunday we went up to kim's parents place for dinner. i love a free meal(beer included) and good company and lucky for me they had both. her sister brought over their new puppy and now kim is convinced that we need one in order for our lives to be complete. we'll see....

12

2007-04-04T15:49:00.000-04:00

cincinnati's national holiday was this past monday and lucky for me i got to be a part of it. sparky was lucky enough to score come sweet tickets in the first row of the third level and we got to see the reds pound the cubs on opening day. it's awesome how people will go crazy for this team one day a year and not give a rats ass the other 161 game. granted, the reds will probably win about 70 more this season, but it was still a good time. we went to gameday cafe before and after the game for a few beers and to look at all the forty year old women trying to look twenty. it was quite humorous, kind of like a frat party full of old people.

the only thing that wasn't a good time was the fact that i almost melted my face off due to sunburn. note to self, bring sunblock next time you sit in direct sunlight for four hours at a time.

the basement waterproofing guys finally got around to showing up this morning, so that little project is underway. after that's finished, all kim and i have to do is get the basement recarpeted, buy furniture for down there, hire a landscaping company to rehab the backyard, and call scott's to come out and take care of our grass that looks like ass. i love owning a home...

11

2007-03-30T07:32:00.000-04:00

on wednesday brian, tony, kim and i got to see the sneak preview of one of the greatest movies ever made about ice skating. that's right, we saw blades of glory courtesy of some free passes i scored from montgomery inn. i've got to say that overall this was a really funny movie. will ferrell is absolutely hilarious. not to spoil anything for everyone, but two of the funniest lines were:

Q: "what do you have that all the other figure skating pairs don't?"
W.F.: "twin dongs"

and

W.F.: "it got really weird when her assistant came in, naked, with a bottle of canola oil and a monkey trained to run a video camera."

even kim laughed at both of those and throughout the entire movie. it wasn't over the top crude, but straddled the line a couple of times. also, job(will arnett) from arrested development is in it and he is a riot. i recommend seeing it with the expectation of having a lot of laughs, but not expecting the plot lines of a spielberg movie.

played golf last sunday with ian, hb, and their friend from work. we played blue ash and i shot 97. yuck. first time out this year though. it'll get better. or it won't....

10

2007-03-23T07:35:00.000-04:00

get this, this past monday was kim and i's second anniversary. i know what you're thinking, how have i tricked her into two years of marriage save the fact that i even got her to marry me in the first place? the answer my friends is that there is no explanation for this. it defies all logic and reason. the only thing that even remotely begins to shed light on it is that movie beauty and the beast, although that over sized biped walking dog/beast/dude is way better looking, dresses nicer and is more charming than i am. here's to hoping that she doesn't come to her senses in the next year, or ever for that matter.

we had a really nice dinner at the melting pot(which i highly, highly recommend) followed by a hot passionate night of laying on the couch because we had both eaten entirely too much food. i even remembered to buy her some flowers and a card this time. good times....

9

2007-03-19T20:50:00.000-04:00

this weekend was the national holiday for drinkers everywhere. that's right kids it was st. patricks day. jason and i got to the dunliner about 7am and left about 8pm. it was a long day, but we had an excellent time. we ate traditional irish breakfast with a guinness to drink of course. that guinness was followed by a few other guinness along with burger king for lunch. we stuck to the beer an hour law because the day was a marathon and not a sprint. i'm pretty sure this was the first time i've spent 13 hours straight in a bar.

the highlight of the day was the fact that nick lachey did NOT show up this year. that was a huge improvement over last year right there. HUGE.

we had several visitors throughout the day. not to name names but the list consisted of rodney, patrick, jon, kurt, sparky, megan, justin, jenn, kim, kim, glen, katie and a few others that i'm forgetting. it was a ridiculously good time. st. patty's day is one of my favorite days of the entire year by far. i'm already looking forward to next year. it's a wednesday for all you plan aheaders.

8

2007-03-08T15:16:00.000-05:00

picked up a new toy the other day at the verizon store. this little piece of electronic wonder is pretty slick. it does tons of crap that i will never utilize ever, but hey it looks cool. it has a camera, video camera, mp3 player and several other uses that i've yet to discover. i'm pretty sure that if i needed it to, it would administer cpr to save my life. maybe someday i'll figure it all out, but until then i'll just stick to using it to make calls and text/email....

7

2007-03-06T07:15:00.000-05:00

her water broke...

...and by her i mean my basement and not my wife thank God(i'm still a kid and having a kid as a kid would be messy). yup, it's true with all the melting snow and rain we've had over the past few weeks, the walls had all the moisture they could hold. it finally broke on through and starting soaking the finished and unfinished parts of our basement. i had to tear out the carpet already and bought a dehumidifier to keep down there. the major expense though is going to be the waterproofing we are going to do. the dudes will probably come out next week and take three days to dig up the entire interior perimeter of the basement to install weeping tile, drill out the footers and put in a sump pump. kim and i decided that we wanted to keep the finished room down there, so having all that done wasn't really a choice. it's going to cost us a few bucks, but in the long run i think it's the best thing to do. hopefully....

6

2007-02-08T14:17:00.000-05:00

you know what sucks? the stomach flu, that's what. i now speak from first hand knowledge as i was inflicted with this atrocity on monday and tuesday this week. at first i just thought my stomach was upset due to the fact that my worst nightmare was/is about to come to fruition in the form of even more peyton manning commercials after the colts won the super bowl sunday night. here's the written proof. congrats to justin for his teams defeat of the bears, although the bears only had 10 men on the field on offense(rex grossman was obviously playing for the colts, i can't believe he didn't win the mvp award). surprisingly, this wasn't the cause. about 3:00am monday morning i awoke with the INTENSE need to use the restroom. after 3 more of these trips within the next hour, i knew it was going to be a long night. here's the stats for the 36 hour period: 6 trip to the can to toss cookies/hurl/puke(twice had to use the bathtub b/c the explosiveness of said upchuck was way too strong for a common commode), too many trips to the potty to count for other intestinal pyrotechnics, no food, 2 quarts of gatorade, 1 pitcher of fruit punch kool aid, and a roll of toilet paper. hey, most of us are adults here, i'm not going to mince words about this ugly time in my life. :) you are all welcome for my generous sharing in this post. thank goodness it's all over...

5

2007-01-25T07:43:00.000-05:00

went to the uc game last night and watched them get pounded from the first row behind the pitt bench. they may not have won, but at least we got to yell at the pitt players and coaches all night. that was fun. it's been and will continue to be a long season as a bearcat fan, but that's what happens when you have to recruit 9 players in 6 weeks. looking forward to next year and beyond. and they still beat eggxavier, so that will always dull the pain of a .500 season...

4

2007-01-23T10:58:00.000-05:00

so the colts beat the patriots to get to the super bowl on sunday. i only care because now were going to have to be inundated with even MORE peyton manning commercials leading up to, during, and for the foreseeable future after the game. don't get me wrong, i'll probably be pulling for the colts to win b/c justin is such a big fan of them, but please nfl no more manning promotion/propaganda. this guy has to make enough scratch from his colts paycheck to not need to pimp everything that is available for sale in this country. seriously, count the number of commercials he's in the next time you sit down to watch a sporting event. granted the nfl has a limited number of players it can use to market itself, but there has to be more than one. try spreading it around a little bit for crying out loud....

bengals players arrested since january 1, 2006: 9(one more than the number of wins they had this year, that can't be good)

3

2007-01-19T18:04:00.000-05:00

if you watch the office you'll appreciate this:

THANK GOD DWIGHT IS BACK AT DUNDER-MIFFLIN.....

2

2007-01-17T07:44:00.000-05:00

so i'm back from the city of the salty lake and good Lord it was hella cold out there. the kind of cold that makes you want to move to florida cold. but then i'd just be complaining about how hot it was, so i'll just stop crying about the weather and get to the good stuff about all the fun that was had over the weekend. this trip was a ridiculously good time.

i got out there friday afternoon about 3:00pm and right away i knew this trip was gonna be interesting. i get into the cab at the airport and give the address to the cab driver for jeff's house. this dude, who spoke broken english at best, looks at me like i have a horn growing out of my forehead. he had no idea how to get there, and neither did i, but he's the cab driver for crying out loud. we made it to jeff's, but it was an interesting ride none the less. that night we pretty much hung out around the house, ate pizza, drank a few beers and told stories that made fun of someone in the room. good times.

saturday jeff, camille, their friend sonya, brian and i went to breakfast at the blue plate diner. it was a really cool old style diner with really good food. and they had a johnny cash action figure hanging on the wall, which i should have tried to purchase but didn't. after breakfast we headed back to the house and proceed to watch the office season 1 and a little bit of season 2. i love that show, it's by far the funniest show on tv right now. on par with seinfeld for situational comedy. we also played some fifa 06 soccer on ps2 with four people playing. i'm not really a soccer fan at all, but that's a pretty cool multi-player game. saturday night we went to the blue iguana for dinner. pretty good mexican food right near the giant mormon temple in downtown salt lake. after dinner, we went back to the house and drank some beers, martinis, woodford, or white russians and hung out.

sunday jeff, camille, brian, dave, justin, jenn, scott, and cheryl all went skiing again and i did absolutely nothing all day but watch football and finish the rest of the dvds for the office season 2. it was relaxing and incredibly funny. sunday evening we ate dinner at the porcupine grille and watched the pats/chargers game and sampled their microbrews. really cool place to eat and hang out. and that night we played catan for the first time. justin won, but i'd have my revenge in the very near future.

monday most people had left or were leaving by mid morning. dave and i's flight didn't take off until 3:00pm, so guess what we did. that's right more catan, and this time i was the victor. i'm not usually a board game kinda guy, but this game is exceptionally fun and challenging at the same time. take it from me, who hates almost all games of any kind that aren't of the video persuasion, try it some time. after that we flew home in time for me to hang out with kim a little bit and get ready for work on tuesday. kim was really disappointed she couldn't go, but she had a counseling seminar all weekend. she loves to ski. there's always next year babe.

this long weekend trip is always one of my favorite trips i take during the year. i'm already looking forward to next year. definately good times....

1

2007-01-04T07:54:00.000-05:00

i got tired of writing out the year and post number in my titles, so now you're just getting a number. hey, new year, new plan. your blog is either changin' or stayin' the same, there ain't no third direction to quote tommy boy.

kim and i had a really great Christmas and new years this year. we spent time at my parents and her parents on Christmas day with our families. it was really fun and good to see everyone. we also got to see kim's brother and his new fiance who were engaged right before Christmas. oh, and i got a bottle of jameson too(among other things). score.

nye we went to dinner with her friends from college and then to jason and kim's to mourn the bengals loss. what a joke, don't even get me started. i spent four hours sitting in the rain for what? ugh. atleast a steelers fan bought us some beer. michigan got absolutely hammered by usc in the rose bowl, so that was a fun way to start off the sports new year for me. ugh again.

i'm not going to list any resolutions for this year here because i think it's stupid. don't take offense to that if you like to do that, it's just not my thing. i will concede that the beginning of the year is an excellent time for personal reflection and assessment of ones life though.

i'm headed to slc here in a bit for the annual ski trip. can't wait. beer, poker, catan, woodford, pootie tang(the movie, not what all you degenerates were thinking), skiing, red iguana. it's gonna be wicked awesome. guaranteed.

happy new year to all....

two thousand six post thirty three

2006-12-13T08:28:00.000-05:00

go UC Bearcats, pound the exavier muskrats....

two thousand six post thirty two

2006-12-06T08:26:00.000-05:00

this past weekend jason, kim, kim and i embarked on a mission to find the most perfect Christmas trees on the planet(great cincinnati) for each of our palatial estates(suburban homes). one would think that this would be a fairly easy task to complete. one would be wrong. after perusing the local fish-wrap(enquirer rag of a newspaper), i found two locations that one could cut down a tree oneself for a reasonable fee. the first was in west chester(has no website) and the second was way out in goshen(has a website) which might as well be in california. the website/no website info will be valuable to our story shortly. being the lazy city dweller that i am, i figured the one in west chester is closer to me so therefore it's better. and here our story begins to unravel.

we drive clear out to wc(north of home) and when we near said "tree farm" we drive right by it. one might ask why we drove by it when we had the address and all. well upon a second pass we discover that this is not a tree farm at all, but some dudes house that grows "Christmas trees" in his BACKYARD. we pull into the driveway of said home and ring the doorbell(at the direction of a homemade sign), upon which an elderly woman answers the door and tells us the "tree farmer"(her husband) is in the backyard. we round the corner, b/c i had to see what this dude had going on in the backyard, and sure enough he has some "trees" back there. and by trees i mean oversized shrubs. these things had clearly never been trimmed or groomed in any way. they looked like what i have growing in front of my house only taller. i wouldn't have put one of these "trees" in a blind persons home. about half way out we decide to do the smart thing and turn around, go back to the truck and drive away.

from there we proceeded to a real tree farm in goshen(way east of home) and about an hour and a half later we got a tree(pictures to follow sometime). we did go to big boy for some much deserved dessert after the adventure. the moral of this little yarn i've spun is never ever trust anything you read in the enquirer, never try to buy a Christmas tree in west chester, and never go to a tree farm without a website of some sort. so the holiday season begins....

two thousand six post thirty one

2006-12-01T09:30:00.000-05:00

WHO FREAKING DEY!!!!!!

Jason, Sparky, and I went down to the Bengals game last night and watched the boys completely dominate Baltimore. It was awesome. We took the tailgate grill downtown, cooked up some hot dogs, drank a few beers and sat in the rain. I didn't get home until 1:30am, but it was worth it. Today is going to be a long day here at the salt mine....

two thousand six post thirty

2006-11-18T08:39:00.000-05:00

GO BLUE beat buckeyes.....

RIP BO.....

two thousand six post twenty nine

2006-11-13T10:06:00.000-05:00

it happened again. that's right, i had another birthday again this year. the last one of my 20's, so i plan on being dead by the time the next one comes around. :) it was a really cool weekend of hanging out with close friends and doing all the things i like to do.

to start it off, friday night i went to chicken on the run for some beers, burgers, and fire fries. after than we proceeded to the opening game of the UC basketball season and watched them pound some crappy team from the 1st row with rick, mike and dave(mike's brother in law who has the awesome seats). as a side note, i am almost positive that they put crystal meth in the beers at UC games. good grief is that stuff potent.

on saturday, i watched the Michigan game. they pounded IU to set up the most awesome sporting event in the history of sporting events next saturday(check the countdown above). more to come on that later in the week, osu sucks. that night we went to the dubliner for some drinks with all of my favorite people in cincinnati. it ended up being me, kim, jason, kim, justin, jenn, kt, sparky, brian, rick and becky. it was awesome. all of my best friends in one place for the whole night. one of the best birthdays i've had.

sunday, jason and i went over to sparky's new place to watch the bengals game on his new tv. the tv was awesome and the game i have no comment on because i don't think i could type anything about it without having to throw up.

thanks to all who made my birthday weekend a wicked awesome time....

two thousand six post twenty eight

2006-11-01T07:54:00.000-05:00

is anybody else already tired of all the political campaign ads that are being shoved down our throats. i mean seriously, are they trying to wear me down with sheer volume. and the mud slinging seems to be at an all time high. i'll say this, if you want my vote tell me what you will do and not what the other guy/gal hasn't done or won't do. if i have to hear one more time that according to his opponent, steve chabot hates babies or that john cranley kills puppies, i don't know what i'm going to do. i might just vote for mickey mouse, at least he's run a clean campaign to this point. and don't even get me started on those automated phone calls that call to pimp a certain candidate. anyone who sits there and listens to that entire propaganda call ought to have to turn in their driver’s license because obviously they should not be aloud to drive for lack of common sense. what i'm going to do, and i encourage you to do, is find some unbiased information on each candidate/issue and vote your conscience. and you absolutely, unequivocally should vote. people have died to give you that right.

two thousand six post twenty seven

2006-10-18T09:31:00.000-04:00

Michigan has won both of it's games since my last post to run their record to 7-0. It's their best start since 1997, which is coincidentally the last time they won the national championship. Could this be an indicator of how this season will end? Hope is still alive.

They pounded michigan state two Saturdays ago 31-13. Evidently the spartans have decided to mail another season in they came from ahead and lost to the Fighting Irish. It was almost as if they didn't care who won the game, with their fair catching punts on the 4 yard line and running kickoffs out of the endzone to the 9 yard line. Not that I'm upset at their buffoonery, it's always entertaining to watch their travelling circus. I wish Michigan had scored more points.

This past Saturday, Michigan escaped Happy Valley with a 17-10 win over Penn State. They had control of the game the entire way until JoePa sprung a screen pass in the 4th quarter and scored a long one on a then disinterested Michigan defense. The game was never in any real danger as Penn State was in their 3rd string quarterback after the 1st and 2nd string cats decided they could no longer take the pounding and took themselves out of the game.

It's looking more and more like Michigan will be heading to Columbus on November 18th for an epic showdown with the Buckeyes. All they need to do is beat Iowa, Northwestern, Indiana, and Ball State. The toughest test will be this Saturday when the Hawkeyes come to town. Kim and I will be making the trip to see the game with her brother and his girlfriend. GO BLUE!!!!

Oh and add Tampa Bay to the We Dey list. That was pathetic...

two thousand six post twenty six

2006-10-04T07:32:00.000-04:00

Michigan won again this past Saturday. They beat Minnesota 28-14. Not a really impressive win, but a win none the less. Chad Henne looks like he might finally be putting it all together now. He threw 3 TD passes in the first half and the defense took it from there. Kim and I will be heading up to Ann Arbor this Saturday to hopefully watch the Wolverines hang 50 on the spartans. There's nobody I enjoy watching Michigan kick the crap out of more than michigan state. Period. End of story.

As a side note, it looks like the Patriots dey. Man that was a brutal beat down. Like watching an old lady get mugged, but the mugging lasted 3 and a half hours.

LOST starts up again tonight. Kim's going to need a cigarette at about 10:01 EST tonight. In all fairness, I enjoy the show too. Should be interesting to see how this season progresses...

two thousand six post twenty five

2006-09-27T07:30:00.000-04:00

Michigan won again on Saturday putting them at 4-0. Wisconsin was in the game through most of the first half, but the Wolverines turned it on in the second half and put them away 27-13. This one wasn't as sweet as watching them pound Notre Dame last week, but a win is a win. After a 7-5 season and a 2-2 start last year, they're all big wins.

Oh yeah and WHO DEY...

two thousand six post twenty four

2006-09-20T07:46:00.000-04:00

So Michigan kicked the crap out of Notre Dame this weekend past to the tune of 47-21. It was awesome. I don't dislike ND as much as some other schools Michigan plays on a regular basis, i.e. michigan state, but it was still sweet to see them pound the Irish into submission. My dad and I watched it in HD which made it all that much better.

In addition to all that, the Bengals are rolling too. I hope they break Pittsburg in half this Sunday. After what happened last January, this game ought to be pretty damn interesting. Here's to Ben Roethlisberger's right arm falling off.

Late...

two thousand six post twenty three

2006-08-23T07:41:00.000-04:00

Countdown To Michigan Football 2006

two thousand six post twenty two

2006-07-24T18:47:00.000-04:00

my little brother, well he isn't so little anymore, got married this past weekend. it was a really good time and a beautiful wedding. i'm still trying to figure out how he tricked her into it. prolly the same was i got kim i suppose. it was good to see family from all over and i feel like my brother and i grew closer over the weekend. it was an honor to be his best man. good times...

two thousand six post twenty one

2006-07-06T11:21:00.000-04:00

this will rock your face off. just be sure not to open it in a work type environment or in the presence of small, impressionable children. it has a little, slightly offensive language in it. alas the comedy far outweighs that. enjoy.....

video goodness

two thousand six post twenty

2006-06-26T18:48:00.000-04:00

i know what you're thinking, how did kim get five studs into one place for a photo opportunity? well, my friend luke got married two weekends ago in chicago. i've known all these guys more than half of my life and it was good to see all of them. we don't all get together in one place very often, so it was a really good time. that town is still trying to figure out what hit it....

two thousand six post nineteen

2006-06-21T21:28:00.000-04:00

yesterday afternoon this little person came into the world to my sister and her husband after 14 hours of labor. her name is hannah jane and she weighed in at a robust 7 pounds 10 ounces. she's awesome.

two thousand six post eighteen

2006-06-19T21:36:00.000-04:00

just cause....

two thousand six post seventeen

2006-05-30T08:32:00.000-04:00

so i've got to get this off my chest. i'm a murderer/cold blooded killer/taker of life. pick your descriptor. thats right, i ran over a chipmunk yesterday with a golf cart at shaker run. it was a total accident. he/she/it was standing in the middle of the cart path and zigged when i thought it was going to zag, so i clipped him with the rear passenger side tire and abruptly ended his life. here's a picture of him:

i'm pretty sure the odds of that actaully being him in that pic aren't that good, but you get the idea. i really did(and still do a little bit) feel bad. it wasn't my intention to run over him. i thought he would vacate the cart path before i got to him. granted i didn't really slow down or hit the brakes, but i blame mostly him for being too proud to move and trying to stare me down. r.i.p. my furry little friend that i never really got to know. in his honor i have made a $16 donation to peta.

in other fun news, i was able to encounter my first sobriety check point in blue ash on sunday night. kim and i went down to the taste of cincinnati with kim, jason, glen, katie, nate and his girlfriend(whose name i can't for the life of me remember, but she's really cool). i had three beers over the course of the evening that started about 8:00pm and ended at 11:00pm. in my judgement that wasn't even nearly enough to impair me from being able to operate a motor vehicle. i'm very careful about how much i'm going to drink if i know i'm going to drive. i had a friend in grade school whose father was killed by a drunk driver and that had a major impact on my life and still does to this day. so as we pull through the check point the officer comes over and asks me to roll down my window to which i complied. he immediately said he could smell beer/that i was slurring my speech, and asked me to get out of the car. he then shoves be into the side of the car and tries to put the handcuffs on me. i resisted a little as i was in pain from being shoved into the car and he drew his nightstick and hit me in the lower back and legs repeatedly until i fell to the ground and he then arrested me. those last four sentances are a complete fabrication(take a deep breath mom). i actually stopped to get gas and noticed that there was a check point down the road and had kim drive just to be safe. we didn't even get stopped, but i wasn't sure exactly how much it takes to blow over a .08 and wasn't interested in finding out if a beer an hour was. i want to reiterate that i in no way advocate drinking and driving and if kim or i had any question as to my ability to drive home i would have had her drive. the situation just made me take pause to think about it.

this just in, gas prices still suck and now really hot weather sucks too....

two thousand six post sixteen

2006-05-24T07:14:00.000-04:00

so i lost my gas cap the other day, no big deal right? it should be pretty cheap to replace a little piece of plastic that doesn't really do anything essential to the cars operation right? wrong. the dealership wanted $25 for the part. now i realize that $25 isn't that much money, but it's the principle of them gouging me for a part they manufactured for $2.50. so i of course told them to go pound sand and bought one online for $9.00. the nerve of the cats is unbelievable. first, they do everything they can to rape you on the price of the car, then they kill you to have the standard maintenance done, and now this. i'm about to start walking everywhere.

what's worse than that you ask? well, carson palmer's career is over now. he's done, he'll never get on the field for the bengals again. mark it down people. that's right, he's on the cover of sports illustrated this week and that means he's now subject to the curse of the cover. that cover is witchcraft and know he's never going to be the same. who does p.r. for the bengals? how did this happen? they were so close to turning it around. oh well, we can always think back to last year as the bengals glory days of our lifetime. here's the link if you don't believe in the curse yet......

two thousand six post fifteen

2006-05-12T07:58:00.000-04:00

i'm not even going to bother with coming up with a reason for not blogging that much lately. you're all welcome for that. :) last night at small group we spent a fair amount of time discussing the tension that exists in the church today and why that tension happens in the first place. basically what we came up with was that all this tension is caused by the fact that we as a human race always have to complicate everything to the nth degree. when the new testament church was starting it was layed out pretty simply in the Bible by Jesus. ever since that point we have been steadily moving away from those simple/straight forward ideas into the religous mire that the current worldwide church as a whole is in. a great example of this is all the to do that is being made by some Christians/churches about the davinci code movie that is coming out. if for one second we believe that this movie is outside of God's control and won't eventually serve to bring Him glory in some way that we may never understand then we are misunderstanding why the universe was created in the first place(to bring God glory. period.). if you can't already tell this sort of "lets rally the christians around a stupid movie and try to get people to not go" movement bothers me to a degree. focus on the big picture people and trust that God will work out the small stuff that we get our panties all in a bunch about. enough ranting....

comments?

two thousand six post fourteen

2006-04-25T07:20:00.000-04:00

in the past two weeks i have bought the following lawn equipment that has been the thorn in my new home owning side. A lawn mower, edger, weed wacker, shovel, several bottles of weed killer, a bottle of turf builder, and a garden hose. and i feel like this is just the beginning. dandelions are my new enemy, i hate them(and yes i'm using the word hate to describe these little yellow bastards). yard work is my new war. getting this lawn into shape is gonna take some work, but i suppose it has to be done. the joys of home ownership right? if anyone knows a good landscaper, drop me a comment as we need to have some work done in our backyard. latah...

oh, and this just in, gas prices suck...

two thousand six post thirteen

2006-04-06T14:39:00.000-04:00

wow so much has happened for kim and i since the last time i posted. so here goes....

we got our house and moved in on march 25th. we've been there almost two weeks and we really love it. it's so much better than living in the apartment. no noisy neighbors is so awesome. we got our new washer and dryer delivered the other day, so now kim can do the laundry whenever she likes. and when i say kim, i really mean me. it's feels really good to finally be done with that process. it was long and tiring but worth every minute.

as a reward for all the hard work that went into finding, negotiating, and moving into the house i went ahead and bought myself a new tv.
here's a pic:
it's a sony WEGA 42" widescreen digital-cable-ready rear-projection LCD HDTV. it should be arriving on saturday. i'm counting down the days like a kid waiting for christmas. i've been waiting to buy this bad boy for what seems like eons. i'm not usually one to buy big ticket entertainment items, so hopefully this doesn't start a trend of me burning through all of kim and i's money buying all the electronics i can get my hands on. no promises.

i've also been busy with overhauling the bible study that brian and i lead. we met and decided that we wanted to make some wholesale changes with how the group runs. we want to focus more on trasparency, outreach, and prayer. we're still going to study the Bible of course, just with more time for each of those things as well. things are going well so far, so pray for continuation of that. also, there's just been alot of spiritual warfare kind of stuff going on with several people that i know. please pray that each of these situations would be resolved and healed. i'm not gonna name any names, God'll know what you're praying about.

peace out to all the homies that read this ditty. see you on down the road....

two thousand six post twelve

2006-03-14T19:14:00.000-05:00

so i've been really horrible at updating for the last two weeks. it's been an incredibly busy and crazy time. so here goes.

We have put a house under contract in deer park and are waiting for the small repairs to be finished before we close. hopefully we'll be closing next monday and moving that weekend. if you're reading this and live in cincinnati, then yes you are expected to help us move on the 25th.
now all we need to do is buy a washer and dryer as well as a lawn mower and some storage shelving for the basement. those will be the start of some larger purchases to come.

here's a pic of the new crib:

tonight we had to drop almost $600 bones on kim's car for new brake pads and rotors. what a racket. next time i'm just going to figure out how to do it myself. :)

we'll be heading to the newly opened dubliner for st. pattys day on friday. it's gonna be wicked awesome. i'm taking the day off to go eat at gaslight and hang out at the D for the rest of the day. for a night cap we'll be heading to justin and jenn's to celebrate his birthday which is the following day. i'm looking forward to that entire day. it's gonna kick ass and take names. come and join in the fun.

on a down note, pray for leo's family and friends as he passed away sunday night. even if you don't know them or his story, just offer one up for them during a very sad time....

two thousand six post eleven

2006-02-27T07:17:00.000-05:00

pretty decent weekend all in all. here are the gory details in all their glory...

friday revisited the age old tradition of getting a whole bunch of dudes in one place with beer, three ps2's wired together, and two poker tables at burgdorfs. i've got to say that it was a pretty good night for me just for the fact that i won two of the three poker touneys i played in and got to drink wiedemann in front of a room full of beer snobs.

saturday kim and i went to cafe istanbul with brian, jenn, and justin for some good old turkish grub. it was actually a really good meal. some topics of conversation were their dogs diahrea issues, using your classroom trash can as a toilet to make a point and all the reasons that evansville and troy are so similar and therefore both white trash towns. very entertaining. for a night cap we went to krogers for some graeter's ice cream and went back to brian's place to hang out for a little bit.

yesterday i played organized basketball for the first time in monthes. held up pretty well, but man am i sore today. running on a tredmill just isn't the same....

two thousand six post ten

2006-02-21T07:27:00.000-05:00

so jason and i were doing what we normally do on friday afternoons this past friday. namely sitting in our surrogate hangout bar(until the dubliner reopens of course), the village tavern, having a few guinness and eating stale pretzels. now there's a certain shall we say famous person that also frequents this bar on fridays. by famous i mean he's been on tons of tv shows and most people would recognize him pretty easily. he's none other than daniel von bargen, aka kruger from seinfeld, commandant edwin spangler from malcolm in the middle, etc., etc. here's another listing of his appearences. now why would i mention this to you all at this point after we have been seeing him at said bar on fridays for over a month now? well on this past friday we're sitting there and he's at the end of the bar. for some reason they play law and order from 4:00pm to 5:00pm on fridays. guess who's playing a pretty significant role on this particular episode? yep you guessed it none other than dvb himself. it's kind of surreal sitting in the same room with a person who's watching themselves on a tv. the bartender made light of it and the seven or eight of us in the bar had a good laugh and went about our drinking business. pretty awesome....

two thousand six post nine

2006-02-13T09:58:00.000-05:00

had one of the best bar food dinners i've had in sometime at bar louie in newport on saturday night. highly recommend that place. they have tater tots people! yes that's right tater tots!! and they're awesome. hadn't had those puppies since grade school. good times.

awesome website jason found. clicky fun times. i'd describe it to you, but it defies description.

kim and i will officially be starting our house hunt with tony tomorrow. here's to hoping we find something we like without too much pain and suffering. i'm not really that worried about it as we start. my brother-in-law is going to handle to financing for us, so i'm sure we're going to get a pretty sweet deal on that end. it really comes down to finding something we like, where we like it and in our price range. no big deal right.....

two thousand six post eight

2006-02-03T07:34:00.000-05:00

totally and unequivocally awesome. clicky...

chuck norris goodness

two thousand six post seven

2006-01-25T17:43:00.000-05:00

thanks to paul you all get to read these facts about my simple little life...

Four jobs I’ve had in my life
corporate accountant
cashier in housewares at elder beerman
busboy at bob evans
paperboy

Four movies I can watch over and over
fight club
the usual suspects
dumb and dumber
pulp fiction

Four places I have lived
troy, ohio
blue ash
clifton
the dubliner(most people would argue i was there enough to get mail)

Four TV shows I love to watch
lost
scrubs
myth busters
the simpsons

Four places I have been on vacation
ocho rios, jamaica
holden beach, north carolina
hong kong
destin, florida

Four of my favourite dishes
my wife kim's crockpot chicken
pizza
pulled pork from pit to plate
prime rib

Four websites I visit daily
fark
espn
bearcatnews
enquirer

Four places I would rather be right now
the dubliner of old
ann arbor on michigan v. ohio state saturday
beach in jamaica
sleeping

Four bloggers I am tagging
anyone who reads this, especially wilkey and wilcoxon

two thousand six post six

2006-01-20T07:46:00.000-05:00

exxxxaivier beat UC last night. again. this is getting old. the dubliner is closed. the world, my friends, is coming to an end. i'm officially calling it, the sky is falling.

on a better note, we picked a new bar for happy hour on fridays. it's called the village tavern. its in montgomery and it'll have to do til march 1 when the dubliner re-opens. agreed that their webpage is pretty horrible, i have no idea whats up with those pics on the front page, but the beer is cheap and it's not crowded. i'm really going to miss the dubliner in its original state. we were up there wednesday night and it was a weird feeling. not matter how good it is when they reopen that place, it'll never be the same...

two thousand six post five

2006-01-17T07:20:00.000-05:00

spent the long weekend in salt lake city at my friend jeff's house with justin, brian, scott and tony. we watched football, played playstation, drank home brew and knob creek, played poker, smoked pipes, banditos and cigars, sampled some micro-brewed beer and jager at rooster's(twice) and i slept while they skied. good times. it was everything you'd expect from a weekend with no females around.

more bible study drama, but this time i started it so it's not as bad. ;o the thing that pisses me off in a group is when other people are goofing around when someone is talking/sharing their ideas and opinions to the group. if somebody opens their mouth to share their thoughts, it's my belief that everyone in the room should give them their undivided attention. i let a few people in the group know that thursday night in a pretty direct way and they certainly weren't happy about it. i understand that they're embarrassed about being called out in front of the group and i apologized for the tone that was used, in front of the whole group, but they evidently weren't satisfied with that and each emailed me to let me know about it. i guess i'm just not sorry that i asked them to be respectful of other people. i haven't decided if i'm going to respond to their emails or not. definitely not for a few days because i'm still irritated with the entire situation and how things happened. another nail in the proverbial coffin i suppose.

on a big, big downer note, the dubliner is CLOSING. i'm pretty sure my heart stopped when i found out yesterday. it's going to re-open in march under new management, but for me it'll never be the same. i think we're going to head over there this wed. night(the last night it's open), to have a few beers in it's memory. bad times.

two thousand six post four

2006-01-10T15:42:00.000-05:00

it was an interesting weekend to say the least. did the normal hangout stuff, i.e. played xbox 360 with jason, paul and brian, went to outback for dinner, watched the bengals take it in the proverbial ass when palmer went down, ect.

the most interesting thing was the yelling match i got into with our neighbor about the volume of his tv when i wanna go to bed. this has been a recurring thing since the time they moved in and sunday night it came to a head with me pounding on the wall and him coming to our door to tell me he didn't like that. it actually turned out pretty well b/c i went to apologize and we agreed to compromise about it. the weird thing is that i think God want that to happen b/c it helped me have a big realization about how angry i've allowed little things to make me. i didn't sleep a wink that night and spent most of the time laying in bed contemplating my anger and how unrighteous it was and has been. to get some questions answered i went to the best place i could think of, the Bible. i've spent a lot of time reading eph. 4:20-28 and psalms 4 and thinking about the meaning of those passages and how they relate to my life. i feel good about being able to recognize an error in my ways and begin to work on getting a handle on it. food for thought....

two thousand six post three

2006-01-06T10:17:00.000-05:00

paypal finally came correct and gave me back the $400 bucks someone hijacked from my account last week. sounds like found money to me that kim need not know about. :) it really wasn't that painful of a process to get it back other than the dude from there customer service trying to dumb down the technical part of how he thought the money was taken. i guess that's why your doing a job that will be farmed out to india next year bill gates. just get my money back for me and save me and the rest of the world the oxygen if you don't mind. end rant.

awesome Bible study last night over the end of James 4 and the beginning of James 5. read it and give it some thought. it was pretty convicting for me and i know i need that. it talks about the way we are all boasting that we know more than God when we make decisions and do things that don't involve going to Him first.

going to the dubliner for happy hour today. much fun. you should come.

i think i'm getting sick. again. dammit. argh...

two thousand six post two

2006-01-04T07:29:00.000-05:00

so i dropped the seinfeld quotes idea from the titles of my posts mostly because i got tired of looking for them everytime i wanted to update. yeah, i'm lazy like that. save the fact that i ran about 2 miles last night and am going to try with a vengeance to get back to my routine of running at least 6-8 miles a week. my metabolism seems to have slowed a bit since the good old days of 22.

kim and i are going to start looking for more permanent housing this week. a daunting task that scares me a little bit because i know almost nothing about finding a house. it seems like there are a million different variables that go into finding what we want. i think she's more freaked out about it than i am, but i'm trusting that things will work out how God wants them to work out. they always do. hopefully it won't be too much of a pain in the arse to go through the process.

heading out to salt lake city next weekend to see jeff. should be fun...

two thousand six post one

2006-01-02T21:04:00.000-05:00

so i haven't updated this thing in about an internet eon so here goes....

spent time at my parents, kim's parents, kim's grandma's, and my grandparents over the holiday spread over 4 cities and about 600 miles. got my 30 gig ipod from kim along with a new electric shaver that's self cleaning. gave kim her new digital camera for christmas. spent a good amount of time at the dubliner with jason, paul, lodwick and brian. went to a new year's eve party at burgdorfs pad. ate new year's eve dinner at trio with kim's friends from college. won $100 bucks playing poker over the last 5 days. ate dinner at the cheesecake factory with my parents and sister for my moms birthday. watched michigan get robbed by some second rate good old boy officials from the sun belt conference in the alamo bowl. had my first taste of some 18 year old jameson scotch which deserves a blog of it's own.

also my freind justin started up a little ditty of his own. give him some clicking love over there...

it's more like a full-body dry heave set to music.

2005-12-13T15:29:00.000-05:00

so i bought kim's christmas present yesterday and she is DYING to know what it is. i put it on here, but i'm sure she's scouring the internet trying to find any hints on the world wide web and she might come across this little ditty.

had a really cool weekend up in cleveland with jason, justin, ian, jeff and a bunch of other people i didn't know that well. the U2 concert was totally awesome per the usual. every time i see this band it's a little better than the last. i had already seen one show on this tour and this show wasn't even close to the same as the last. phenominal. if you ever have the chance, go see them no matter what the cost. it will be worth it. i guarantee it. sat in the best seats i've sat in at one of their shows. good, good times. had some of the best southern fried chicken and corn bread i've ever had at fat fish blue beforehand and some excellent guinness at the hairy buffalo after.

gonna get civilized on friday night b/c kim is making me go see phantom of the opera downtown. to be completely honest, i am not looking forward to it at all. guess i'll just have to suck it up and make it through. she's been trying to convince me that it will be alright, but i'm skeptical. :)

I don't judge a man by the length of his hair. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.

2005-12-08T12:10:00.000-05:00

i told him to stop back-talking me. he thinks because he has a beard now he can say anything he wants....

You kept making all the stops? Well, people kept ringing the bell!

2005-12-08T09:49:00.000-05:00

THE WHITE DEATH IS ON THE WAY PEOPLE, RUN FOR THE HILLS. BUY ALL THE MILK, BREAD AND WATER YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. the way this city reacts to the mere POSSIBILITY of 2-5 inches of snow dumbfounds me. it's like they've announced a nuke is on the way and there's nothing we can do about it but sit here and wait for it to hit. the local news does nothing but create hysteria about it, so they can all eat a collective d&*k. that concludes this rant.

bought my ticket to salt lake in january yesterday. it's gonna be a wicked awesome trip of hanging out with some real cool dudes. haven't had a guys trip in a while, so i'm looking forward to it. i think it's going to end up being me, tony, brian, wilkey, braje, and of course lodwick whose crib we're going to crash.

the U2 concert is in cleveland this weekend, so Jason and I bought scalped tickets and are driving up there saturday to see the show and burn that junk pile of a city to the ground. they always put on such a good show, so i'm definately looking forward to it. seeing a concert with people that appreciate music rules.

Going to see the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe tomorrow night. I haven't been excited about a movie since old school, so this flick will be great i hope. and by the way, this movie has christian overtones in it if you didn't know already. i can't believe how big of an issue this has become in the news. main stream media continues to show how stupid it is day after day after day.

kramer's at a fantasy camp? his whole life is a fantasy camp.

2005-11-17T11:41:00.000-05:00

so kim and i are officially on the lost bandwagon. we borrowed the first season on dvd from kim and jason. so far, we have watched 4 of the 6 dvd's since last saturday night. we'll probably end up staying in tomorrow night to finish it up. quality show. kim loves it.

we ran the rib run last sunday morning in 28:55 for a 5k. pretty good consindering it felt like it was uphill more than half the time. after that we went up to my parents house for my birthday lunch. all my siblings were there, so it was really fun. we don't all get together too often. my sister is pregnant again, so prayers for that. they lost their first try, so they're cautiously happy right now.

oh, i shaved my head on tuesday. not bald, but buzzed. i like it so much better because there's no maintenance in the morning. it's amazing how much less time it takes to get ready for the day when you have no hair.

big osu vs. michigan tilt this saturday at 1:00pm on abc. be somewhere to watch it. i'm thinking about joining my dad and going to the game. it makes for a long day driving up to and back from ann arbor the same day, but it's always such a cool sporting event to go to. i'd say i've been to about 5 of them in mu life and it's always awesome. GO BLUE!!!!

jerk store would have smoked that guy

2005-11-11T14:22:00.000-05:00

happy birthday to me. come to the dubliner tonight so you can buy me a beer...

vote

2005-11-08T06:56:00.000-05:00

don't forget to vote today you knuckle heads....

let me see if i can get a look from these femininas...

2005-11-07T15:26:00.000-05:00

so i got my first birthday present from kim last night. she bought me this sweet pipe bag from the tinder box. this means i can stop using my converted shaving kit to pipe bag bag. i hated that thing, but it was all i had. i'm moving up in the pipe world.

pretty low key weekend. kim and i went to "game night" at andy and tara's apartment on friday night. we played catchphrase and it actually didn't suck. if you know me at all, you know how much i hate board games, so that's pretty high praise from me.

went over to jason's on saturday afternoon and kicked his ass up and down the street at medal of honor. mind you i have never played that game and he owns it. i was pretty proud of myself in a sixteen year old kind of way.

kim and i are going to run the montgomery inn rib run this next sunday morning. you all should join us. good cause and i get to see if i can run my boss and his daughter into the ground. should be a pretty good time. then we're going up to my parents for my birthday dinner.

...that is one magic loogie...

2005-11-04T09:43:00.000-05:00

going to the dubliner today. i love that place and i am now in possession of a $30.00 gift certificate to there. my sister in law and her husband got it for me for my birthday. what good people they are. gonna try not to spend the whole thing today. ;)

we had a really good bible study last night covering james 1. we talked a lot about wisdom, knowledge, trials and temptation. as the readers of this little ditty know, i've been going through a rough spot with leading the study. last night was confirmation that this study is still on target and that God is still good. not that God needed to prove that He is still good, but it's always nice to be reminded in my feeble little mind...

pulp can move baby!

2005-10-31T10:07:00.000-05:00

today is halloween. man i miss the days of dressing up and getting free candy. just because i'm adult, does that mean i no longer like free candy? i'm about to dress up in the old spiderman outfit tonight and get some free treats. after 20 years i should still be able to get into that thing.

spent the weekend at burgdorf's parents farm in mount vernon, indiana this weekend. i think the total count was 15 people. a good trip. we shot clay pigeons, rode the atv, ate noble roman's pizza, had a hayride and bonfire. good times. also learned that spending a weekend with a big group that mostly includes people that are in a bible study that you lead can be very tiring. it sucks when you let one person affect the fun that you're having, but i let it happen near the end of the trip. this person has been the most challenging person i have dealt with in all the studies i have led almost from when they started coming. it's been two years now and it's really starting to wear on my nerves and want to lead a group that this person attends. i guess i need to learn more patience and grace. although it didn't ruin the trip by any means. i suppose it gave me some good perspective about my future as it pertains to leading that study. ;) live, learn and grow....

she's a sentence finisher, it's like dating mad-libs.

2005-10-20T17:34:00.000-04:00

***EDIT***

paul will also be at the dubliner tomorrow. there are you happy now? :)

***EDIT***

so my laptop has crapped out. just won't boot up at all. i haven't decided if i'm going to get it fixed or just share kim's laptop between the two of us. it's at least 3 years old, so maybe it has reached it's useful lifespan. we'll see.

went to kurt's wedding on saturday which meant i had to watch on of michigan's greatest comebacks ever on a little tiny personal tv, while trying to keep from getting caught. awesome game. suhweet.

we got to see my parents, brother, and his fiance this past weekend up at my parents house. we ate lunch and watched the bengals crush the titans. great times. we ate montgomery inn ribs to boot. they were all very happy about that.

jason and i are reclaiming the dubliner tomorrow after a few weeks off. and then kim and i are going to finally get to having her birthday dinner at germano's. what? it's only been a month since her birthday. :) it's not THAT long. should be an excellent meal...

"Good luck with all that!"

2005-10-14T10:35:00.000-04:00

i bought the new david crowder cd the other day and it's awesome. understand that i listen to almost no "christian" music at all and this cd in phenomenal. i highly recommend going out and buying it. very, very good.

we had a cookout for bible study last night. it was good times. just hanging out and shooting the breeze is something i don't get to do often. it was truly relaxing. hanging out at brad and jen's tonight with a few folks. should be fun. more wedding type stuff to go to tomorrow. this one has a full catholic mass. yipee. i'm not crapping on other people's religion, but damn their weddings take FOREVER. plus these things just eat up entire saturdays. enough whining. go blue and go bengals...

"So are you still master of your domain?"

2005-10-12T20:01:00.000-04:00

still coughing a little bit. all of you can just back off with your western voodoo medicine doctor talk. i'm not gonna pay some quack to tell me i have a cold. the red sox and michigan lost this weekend so that's a bummer. but kim and i got to have dinner with brian for his birthday. just the three of us. it was really cool. i wanted him to know how much of a friend he's been to me over the years, so it worked out pretty good. his birthday was just the excuse i needed.

we've been going to tons of weddings of late. not my favorite thing, but hey it's a free meal right.

sometimes you see things happening around you that make you realize that this Earth is an ugly place on occassion. i've been thinking about that for the past few days. i really hate it, but i think it helps me have an appreciation for how good heaven will be. pray for my friend jeff, he's going through a tough time right now and could use it. he's such a good dude and it pisses me off when bad things happen to good people.

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!

2005-09-24T16:04:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-09-14T14:34:00.000-04:00

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.

2005-09-01T08:48:00.000-04:00

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...

Oh yeah, I've been known to drink a beer or two, but then again, I've been known to do a lot of things.

2005-08-22T14:09:00.000-04:00

Kim and I had a pretty cool weekend all in all. Other than the fact that I had to work at the ATP on Saturday morning counting Montgomery Inn's piles of money. That's all the whining you're going to hear from me about that. Promise.

On Friday Jason, Paul, Kim, Wilkey and I went to the Dubliner for happy hour. It's probably my favorite place to hang out in all of Cincinnati. Laid back and a very cool atmosphere. After that we headed to Dave and Busters to see some of Jason's former students and their improv troop. It was actually really funny and it only cost $5.00.

Saturday we went to Kim's kick off party for all the teachers at her school. It was nice to see all the people she works with again and just hang out. They had free food to boot. After that we headed to the Back Porch to hang out on their huge outdoor balcony with some of Kim's co-workers. First time I had ever been there and it was pretty cool. Kind of far from town, but worth the trip every once in a while.

Sunday we went to church, more about that in a second, and then to the Red's game with Kim and Jason. They beat the living crap out of the Diamondbacks. I'm pretty sure it's the most homeruns in a game that I've ever seen in person. Thanks to her dad for giving us the company tickets. After that we headed to the Comet to see the best blue grass band in the area. They play at this rinky dink little bar every Sunday and they're awesome. Musically talented like you wouldn't believe. It's worth the drive from where ever you're reading this to see them.

The service at Northstar this week was one of the most interesting/cool services I've been to in a while. They somehow convinced 3 people who weren't Christians to get up on stage and be interviewed about their perceptions of the church and God. The reasoning behind it was to give us a different perspective about how to effectively witness to people. It was really cool, except for those few people that felt the need during the Q&A part to say how angry they were. It's no wonder a lot of people hate Christians. Some of us go out of our way to keep our faith as our own little club. I've been wrestling with that part of my faith for the past few weeks. I do a really bad job at sharing my faith with others and shy away from talking about it even with friends who I know are not saved. The guy who facilitated it, Jim Henderson, was really good. Lots to think about.

I don't have a good apartment for an intervention. The furniture, it's very non-confrontational.

2005-08-16T14:54:00.000-04:00

So do not under any circumstance go to the Silver Spring House. Ever. We went there Friday night with 6 people at 7:30pm to get some grub. Now I completely understand that it's going to be busy at that time and I had no problem when they said the wait was 45 minutes. However, I do have a beef when a table set for 10 sits empty for 30 minutes and then a fat woman is sat there and she proceeds to wait an additional 30 minutes for the rest of her party to show. After waiting about 40 minutes longer than the 45 minutes I was told the wait would be, I told them to take their table and stick it. I requested to speak to the manager before we left and was told that your whole party doesn't need to be there to be seated. Which is fine, I think it's stupid but whatever. Then I was told that just because 6-8 parties of 4 that came in after us were seated before us because it's and I quote "inconvenient" to turn a 4 person table sideways to seat 6 at it. That's when I almost lost it, but held it together enough to inform the idiot manager that we're the paying customer and you should go out of your way to accommodate us. Anyways we went to the Macaroni Grill and had an excellent meal.

Kim went to the funeral of one of the Marines that died in Iraq a few weeks ago yesterday. She knew him from marching band at Miami. They were pretty good friends while they were there, so it's been a tough couple of days since she found out he was killed last weekend. It should make everyone one of us take pause and think about the sacrifice he made to ensure the freedom we all enjoy. He died so we can live the way we are accustomed to. Take a minute today to pray for his family and all those who are serving our country in the Armed Forces around the world.

I guess I just wasn't ready for the responsibilities of a pretend-marriage.

2005-08-11T08:03:00.000-04:00

So here's a mega update from the last weeks activities, trials, tribulations, and the like...

Last Friday we play poker at Jason's house which was awesome because I've been wanting to play for a while. We had 6 guys which was just right. Good time was had by all and I even won some money. Kim was out of town at a "Mom and Me weekend" with her girl group from college. I swear I'm not making that name up, that's actually what they called it. Pretty funny if you ask me. Chicks, what can you do. Can't kill 'em and they can't pee standing up.

Saturday I played PS2 all day. That's it. That's the list. Period.

Sunday we went to church and I heard one of the best and most challenging talks I've heard in a while. It was about evangelism and sharing your faith with other people even when you're not comfortable doing it. What really hit home with me is the urgency I should have to do this and the fact that I am badly lacking it. Lots to think and pray about. After that we went to a BBQ at one of Kim's friends house up in Lebanon. Good Lord that's a haul and a half from our place. Good times though. Food was excellent, and it's always good for me to get to know the people she cares about better.

Monday we got slaughtered again at sand volleyball. Second week in a row. Wiener Boy Ian has yet to live up to the lofty expectations of it's fans. No matter though, the whole team is really cool people, so we always have a good time. We stayed after the game to practice as punishment. :)

Tuesday I went to the Coldplay concert at Riverbend with my brother, Rick, and Jason. We had a really good time and it was a great show. Rick had to sit by a really big girl who shared his seat with him, but other than that no shenanigans whatsoever. We classed up the night by going to McDonald's for dinner. Let me just warn you now, NEVER, EVER, under any circumstance get the Powerade from there. It was awful. And when I say awful, I mean my own pee would have been more fulfilling to drink. So ends the public service portion of this entry.

Last night Kim and I had our friends David and Emily over for dinner. Emily is due for their first kid in about 2 weeks, so she looks ready to pop. I always enjoy my conversations with David because he has been a friend of mine for quite some time. We've done a bunch of ministry stuff together, so it always good to catch up with him.

Bible study hang out night tonight. It has been an interesting few weeks of study. During the summer, the attendance seems to trail off a bit and I'm trying not to let that bother but it does. The way I look at it is if you're committed to the group, then you're committed to the group the whole year and not just the 9 months that aren't Summer. I guess I just want everybody in the group to care about it as much as I do. But in leading it, I guess that is an unfair expectation for me to have of the people who come to it. It doesn't make me want to stop doing it though because I know the 6-8 people who come every week are really committed to it and care about it a lot. I know people can't make it every week and some have reasons to miss for the summer, but 10 people who can't come on a regular basis c'mon. Enough whining about that, just gotta give it over to God and let it go....