I'm All Alone...

Hey peeps,

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Liz and I kept busy, but it was nice not to have to travel. Friday night, we took off with a couple of Liz's co-workers toward the cities. Irish Fest was going on and Gaelic Storm was playing so we decided to head up there for the night.

What a sad excuse for a festival. How many hundreds of thousands of people live in the cities? Yet all they could muster for the festival was a few tents of overpriced Irish merchandise (of dubious origin) and a few food stands. There was, of course, one tiny stage on which they had bands playing slightly below average to truly heinous music all night. Fortunately, the band that played before Gaelic Storm was good and, of course, Storm was excellent. In the end, I suppose we got what we expected out of the trip - we went to see Gaelic Storm and they were fantabulous. What more could we ask for?

Saturday was quite low-key. Liz and I stayed in Rochester and visited the farmer's market and a nursery. As usual, Liz couldn't help herself and bought some plants.

And yesterday, my wife left me. :-( We got some yard work done in the morning but Liz flew out, headed for Austin, around 5:30. She'll be gone all week - getting back in on Saturday.

Certainly, I would have drowned my sorrows in plenty of Rum had it not been for Nate and an excellent game of excessively bloody Insta-Gib Capture the Flag in Unreal Tournament. Ah, good times.

So Nate and I were discussing it last night and now I'm bound and determined to get a game of cards going at some point. I brought it up a while back but, due to my extreme laziness, I've done nothing about it. I plan to send out e-mails soon to see if anyone would be interested in playing (most likely Sheephead at www.yahoo.com, but Texas Hold 'Em is a possibility, as well) and when they'd like to play.

Well, like I said before, I got some yard work done this weekend. I mowed the lawn yesterday and decided to put down some fertilizer. I was very careful to check the weather report to make sure we weren't going to get any rain for a few days. What did the weather say? No rain until Wednesday. Perfect. So I spent an hour or so putting fertilizer on the yard yesterday and guess what I woke up to this morning...a nice, cozy thunderstorm. Huzzah! Go weatherman! I want a job where I only need to be right about things about half the time. Go weatherman! You're the fortune-teller voodoo man of the new era!

I suppose I could ramble on forever (my wife usually says that I do), but I'm going to stop now. I need to go check on the state of flooding in the street.

Later, y'all,
Corey