Recent Journeys
I've been doing well lately. Still plugging away at work. I paid off my hearing aid bill, so got that knocked out of the way. Dwindling down my personal expenses to a possible pair of concerts while I work on knocking out the rest of my bills so I can focus on buying a home.
The first concert is this weekend. Journey, Forienger, and Night Ranger will be playing in Atlanta. It will be my third time seeing Journey, though my first since they got Arnel Pineda as thier lead singer. Should be fun! I've never seen either of the other bands before but I jumped at the chance to see Foreigner, another band that I like. Night Ranger should be good too but I haven't heard much of thier stuff. I just know that Jack Blades wrote a lot of hits for other bands.
A few months earlier I attempted to see the Journey Tribute band Frontiers. They were supposed to have been playing in Augusta, a city in Georgia 88 miles away from me (a 2 hour drive). I went all the way up there only to discover that the venue was closed. There was a used bookstore in the area so I poked around in there and bought a Genesis and Nightwish album (which turned out to be dirty, and won't play). At go-time the venue was still closed, so I drove back to go to work; I was able to salvage the vacation day I had taken by flexing back on the clock, as I was only an hour late. I've decided from this experience not to see any club-playing bands unless if they are performing in my city.
The second concert I'm looking at is Dream Theater in October. The meet & greet is nicely priced, but I dunno if I want to spring for it. Autographs would be cool...I still want to see them perform though.
Not much else going on really. PR's fallen apart for real now so my weekends have been more open than usual. I've also been putting in more hours at work lately; we've fallen behind at around the same time we were dealing with an insane amount of volume. Some of the jobs the various departments have been needing to do have been neglected because of it, so it's pretty bad...but we're starting to calm down now. Had a bunch of new hires. I've still been good with sleep; no problems. I've been drinking those relaxant drinks less but have taken to energy drinks again, as I sometimes am really sluggish upon waking. Mom keeps saying I need to cut them out of my diet since family has a sudden "history" of heart disease. I can't tell if she's just paranoid or what but she's been going off on my energy drinks for a while. I know they aren't particularly healthy to rely on but the good thing is that I haven't been needing to rely on them as much as I used to. Coffee is supposed to be healthier for the same kick of energy but I still can't bring myself to drink the stuff. Had a can of energy coffee by accident and it actually made me retch.
The epic battle between pop tart cat and waffle cat, NES style.
At first glance these criminals and their crimes appear to be incredibly stupid but on closer observation they were secretly brilliant.
Also, Guess who turned 30 this month?
The first concert is this weekend. Journey, Forienger, and Night Ranger will be playing in Atlanta. It will be my third time seeing Journey, though my first since they got Arnel Pineda as thier lead singer. Should be fun! I've never seen either of the other bands before but I jumped at the chance to see Foreigner, another band that I like. Night Ranger should be good too but I haven't heard much of thier stuff. I just know that Jack Blades wrote a lot of hits for other bands.
A few months earlier I attempted to see the Journey Tribute band Frontiers. They were supposed to have been playing in Augusta, a city in Georgia 88 miles away from me (a 2 hour drive). I went all the way up there only to discover that the venue was closed. There was a used bookstore in the area so I poked around in there and bought a Genesis and Nightwish album (which turned out to be dirty, and won't play). At go-time the venue was still closed, so I drove back to go to work; I was able to salvage the vacation day I had taken by flexing back on the clock, as I was only an hour late. I've decided from this experience not to see any club-playing bands unless if they are performing in my city.
The second concert I'm looking at is Dream Theater in October. The meet & greet is nicely priced, but I dunno if I want to spring for it. Autographs would be cool...I still want to see them perform though.
Not much else going on really. PR's fallen apart for real now so my weekends have been more open than usual. I've also been putting in more hours at work lately; we've fallen behind at around the same time we were dealing with an insane amount of volume. Some of the jobs the various departments have been needing to do have been neglected because of it, so it's pretty bad...but we're starting to calm down now. Had a bunch of new hires. I've still been good with sleep; no problems. I've been drinking those relaxant drinks less but have taken to energy drinks again, as I sometimes am really sluggish upon waking. Mom keeps saying I need to cut them out of my diet since family has a sudden "history" of heart disease. I can't tell if she's just paranoid or what but she's been going off on my energy drinks for a while. I know they aren't particularly healthy to rely on but the good thing is that I haven't been needing to rely on them as much as I used to. Coffee is supposed to be healthier for the same kick of energy but I still can't bring myself to drink the stuff. Had a can of energy coffee by accident and it actually made me retch.
The epic battle between pop tart cat and waffle cat, NES style.
At first glance these criminals and their crimes appear to be incredibly stupid but on closer observation they were secretly brilliant.
Also, Guess who turned 30 this month?
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