Another four months have gone by since my last journal entry. I promise myself that I'll get better at this and return to updating every few weeks at the least but nowadays I just have to be in the mood to do this, ya know? This'll probably be another long entry as there's lots to cover but if I'm on track to only put out three journal entries this ( Read more... )

Once again, too much time has gone by since my last entry. This time it's been more than four months. I do often think about posting and it's something I feel guilty about keeping up on even though literally no one reads this. But I guess it's always been really just for myself anyway. It's been a long four months ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my 35th birthday! It's been a fast year. So this is my mid-30s. I'm closer to 40 than 30 as of yesterday. I've done a good job these last few days of reminding myself of how young I still am and that there's much left to do. I worry that as time goes on, that I'll resent how much time is gone. That's possible. Only time will tell. ( Read more... )

Rhythm games have been around for decades but over the last ten years, the peripheral-based guitar simulators like Rock Band and Guitar Hero have rules the streets and been quite a time-sink for my friends and family. I remember countless tunes being strung out when I first got to play the very first Guitar Hero way back in 2005. Since then, the ( Read more... )

Big entry! September has been a big month so far!

Nicole surprised me for my birthday with tickets to see Ben Folds live in concert last week. I've been a fan of his going back to high school and to be within ten feet of him performing was truly a bucket list item checked off. He played a great deal of new material I'd never heard before mixed in ( Read more... )

Last week, I had a routine 6-month dental checkup and cleaning. It went wonderfully and once again, I'm cavity and issue-free. This also marks the end of three full years of being in braces. We're all getting pretty tired of it, so I spent those appointments asking how much longer this will take. I didn't get a very solid answer. Could be six ( Read more... )

So every other Tuesday on my short work weeks, Nicole and I have begun going to the cineplex to catch a flick. Tuesdays have become a day in which local cinemas discount tickets, so it works out well. It's a very cheap way to see the latest movies, and last week we saw Jurassic World, a movie that I've been waiting for for fourteen years. I enjoyed ( Read more... )

Wow, I can't remember the last time I went longer than four entire weeks to make a journal entry. I'm slipping! Either that or it's been a quiet month. I'll go with it being a quiet month ( Read more... )

This entry is weeks late. I was waiting for photos from the family to really compile a nice entry. Here we go ( Read more... )

2015 is here! Will this year be anything like the 2015 depicted in Back to the Future Part II? We'll see! 2015 is sure to be an entertaining year. Let's put 2014 to bed. Here's my yearly rundown of my personal milestones over the last year.

In January, my brother, Ryan, and his fiancé, Kim, sent out their wedding Save-the-Date notecards only to ( Read more... )