Please Eat the Bananas
Wow, its been a while .... yet again. Well I suppose I should close a few dangling plot lines in the exciting 10 part serial : Bill's Blog Blues (I imagine it has the same instrumental theme song opening as Doogie Howser. Wasn't he like officially the first blogger, since he ended every episode typing a journal entry? Why in the hell do I have Doogie Howser on the brain and why in the hell can I remember the theme song so vividly, I hardly watched that show?). When we left last our hero, he had a horrible toothache with long lasting repercussions. Since then it stopped hurting. It just kind of went away, so apparently my teeth and gums are dicks. Not literally, but why would you just decide to start hurting that much and then just stop. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy it stopped, but just deciding to start doing that is a total dick move. On the beard front, I'm happy to report it has grown in quite nicely and I like how it looks. I'm safely in the neighborhood of High School Wood Shop Teacher beard status. I even bought a beard trimmer and keep it trimmed down because it goes Amish on me pretty quickly. The down side is that it has revealed all the gray hair I already have. Thats kind of a downer, but I refuse to use "Just For Men" based entirely on their annoying commercials and catchphrase "No play for Mr. Gray" (not the Clue guy either, wait, was there even a Mr. Gray in Clue?). I did go and take a crappy cell phone picture of me making a weird face, I'm not quite sure what happened there but I'm too lazy to go and take a new picture. Damn I'm weird looking (trust me, the beard IS an improvement, before it looked like my neck was trying to eat my face):
Last update I also discussed some politics. Back then I was dreaming of an Obama sweep and rush to the Presidential Elections vs John McCain. Well ....... not so much. Instead his campaign has stalled and now I'm pretty positive we're going to see a Clinton run to the election which kind of saddens me. They'll play out the string of primaries that are left, neither one really making a dent in the other eventually leading to the Democratic Convention. At the convention, when Super Delegate votes are cast, I think Clinton's wins in the key swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio will convince the Super Delegates to go with her in the cliched "Smoke Filled Room". From there, I think my support will find its way into the McCain camp. I'll listen to the debates and such and see what comes out, but at the end I think Clinton is too polarizing between the parties and the lingering Conservative hatred of Bill will make it tough to work together which I think is key right about now.
On the wedding front, we had our wedding shower a week from last Saturday and the love that poured forth was staggering. The shower itself was a lot of work but it went great. The food was good, the games were run expertly (Thanks Ranee) and everything went smooth. We had around 50 people and we were just heaped with gifts, it was pretty amazing. We're just now finally getting everything put away and in use. So now we're on a one way freight train to the wedding day. Everything seems on schedule, yet there's so much left to do. I'm sure we'll get it all licked and knocked out of the park though.
I won $5 in a Fruit Roll-Ups giveaway. I just felt that was worth mentioning. As if I needed more reasons to love Fruit Roll-Ups.
Its time for me to go a little emo now. I've been doing a lot of thinking about my life and I've decided I really need to make some changes to make it better. I've been a bit inspired by a friend doing the same thing and feel like its time to take control of my life and do what I need to do to make myself truly happy. I've spent most of my life listless and un-motivated and thus have had it re-paid me in kind as my current state in life. I've had some great things happen to me in life, but most of them have come by means of pure dumb luck and little to no actual work on my own (and most of those times in spite of me) and I can't continue to live life hoping dumb luck will strike again and bail me out. Too much wasted potential and WAY too much procrastination and laziness. So I've decided its officially on!
Thats enough of that crap. Go Tigers and Go Schotts!!!!
Last update I also discussed some politics. Back then I was dreaming of an Obama sweep and rush to the Presidential Elections vs John McCain. Well ....... not so much. Instead his campaign has stalled and now I'm pretty positive we're going to see a Clinton run to the election which kind of saddens me. They'll play out the string of primaries that are left, neither one really making a dent in the other eventually leading to the Democratic Convention. At the convention, when Super Delegate votes are cast, I think Clinton's wins in the key swing states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio will convince the Super Delegates to go with her in the cliched "Smoke Filled Room". From there, I think my support will find its way into the McCain camp. I'll listen to the debates and such and see what comes out, but at the end I think Clinton is too polarizing between the parties and the lingering Conservative hatred of Bill will make it tough to work together which I think is key right about now.
On the wedding front, we had our wedding shower a week from last Saturday and the love that poured forth was staggering. The shower itself was a lot of work but it went great. The food was good, the games were run expertly (Thanks Ranee) and everything went smooth. We had around 50 people and we were just heaped with gifts, it was pretty amazing. We're just now finally getting everything put away and in use. So now we're on a one way freight train to the wedding day. Everything seems on schedule, yet there's so much left to do. I'm sure we'll get it all licked and knocked out of the park though.
I won $5 in a Fruit Roll-Ups giveaway. I just felt that was worth mentioning. As if I needed more reasons to love Fruit Roll-Ups.
Its time for me to go a little emo now. I've been doing a lot of thinking about my life and I've decided I really need to make some changes to make it better. I've been a bit inspired by a friend doing the same thing and feel like its time to take control of my life and do what I need to do to make myself truly happy. I've spent most of my life listless and un-motivated and thus have had it re-paid me in kind as my current state in life. I've had some great things happen to me in life, but most of them have come by means of pure dumb luck and little to no actual work on my own (and most of those times in spite of me) and I can't continue to live life hoping dumb luck will strike again and bail me out. Too much wasted potential and WAY too much procrastination and laziness. So I've decided its officially on!
Thats enough of that crap. Go Tigers and Go Schotts!!!!