Whazzup?!?

Hey folks. So, once again, it's been a long time since I've posted anything and even longer since I've posted anything meaningful...if that's ever been done. What can I say? I've been busy. ;)

The last few weeks have kept me quite occupied. Work my normal 40+ at the clinic and then work a couple nights at Relion on their project. Basketball once a week with the guys. Softball one more night. Try to keep up with housework and paperwork whenever I can fine the time. Travelling/drinking/recovering on the weekends. That pretty much sums it up for me. Fortunately, the Relion project is beginning to wind down so, hopefully, I'll have some time freeing up, but I think most of that "free time" is already spoken for.

Went to SPAMJam (Hormel foods is in Austin, for those that don't know). It really was as lame as it sounds. Not even a beer tent. Honestly. How can one have a "festival" without a beer tent. You'd think these people had never been to Wisconsin. On the plus side, the fruit smoothies were delicious. The SPAM, of course, not so much.

Saw the new Batman flick. Awesome. Possibly the best Batman of the bunch, although the original, with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson is still a total classic. Of course, after you get past the Tim Burton films, the Batman series got pretty sad. Christopher Bale makes a good Batman and, since he hasn't been in a lot of other high profile roles, you can actually visualize him as Batman, rather than "Iceman" from Top Gun trying to be Batman. Plus, there's a horse that shoots fire out of its nostrils. That made the movie for me. :D Too bad Katie Holmes isn't better in the flick. Ahh, well. You can't have everything.

Started listening to a new band lately, the Dead 60s. Not bad. Modern rock stuff and pretty catchy. If you feel so inclined, check 'em out.

This weekend will be fireworks festival 2005. The wife and I will be returning home to take in fireworks shows and may very well find ourselves at various shows every night of the weekend. Only time will tell. I'm sure we'll find some time to visit sis and the ever-growing family. We'll have to check out the new Nate-pad, as well.

And what the heck is up with the Brewers? It's a simple game. You hit the ball. You throw the ball. You catch the ball. Apparently, the Brew Crew needs to go back and revisit that whole "hit the ball" thing. How many times have the Brewers' pitchers gone out and tossed 7 or 8 innings, given up a handful of hits and only a couple runs, and then earn a big, fat, loss, because the offense couldn't muster more than 2 runs. I just checked out the numbers (because I'm just that dang geeky)... The Brewers are number 8 in the majors in pitching, with a 3.84 ERA. The offense, on the other hand, ranks 26th - 5th from the bottom - with just 325 total runs. *Sigh* At least Rickie Weeks looks good.

So, yeah. That's all I got. See ya in a couple weeks...maybe...

The next sign that the apocalypse is upon us...

That's right...the Barenaked Ladies created a Holiday Album.

*Sigh*

Pictures of Grant

I've only received a couple, but you can see the little guy here and with Grandma, here.

Liz and I will be headed home this weekend to visit the family so, hopefully, there will be more pictures next week.

It's a Boy!

I got the call just this morning. Kara (the sis, for those not "in the know") had a baby boy this morning. Grant Owen was 6 lbs, 10.5 oz and 18.5 inches long. No pictures yet, but I'll get some.

Congrats to Dean and Kara! :D

All You Can Eat Chinese Eight Bucks!

Hey gang, it's time for yet another horribly belated blog post...

Memorial Day weekend was grand. Took Friday off to make it a 4 day weekend and spent the time off visiting Liz's folks in Shebagdad. Nice and relaxing. Watched National Treasure (which is a decent movie as long as you don't think too hard) and went to a Brewers game, which they somehow managed to find a way to lose, despite their starting picther going 8 and two thirds while giving up only 2 earned runs on 5 hits. But, alas, they are the Brewers.

Been busy lately. Besides my day job, I've been working on the side for the guys at Relion. Doing some ASP development for Regis Corporation. Sometimes I wonder if that multi-million dollar corporation realizes that their entire accounts payable application is in the hands of a single inexperienced goof from Wisconsin. Ahh, well. They're fault if they're too short-sighted to realize that.

I wasn't planning on playing softball this season (didn't have enough to field a team this year), but I've been invited to play ball with another team as a sub. Turns out that I'm replacing a guy that had some sort of freak injury involving throwing a ball 90+ feet and is out for the season. As luck would have it, my one-week subbing position has become a full-time gig and I'll be playing with them all season. They're a good bunch (actually, one of the teams we've been playing against for the last couple years) and they go out for beer and wings after the games so, even if we play like the Brewers, there's some solace to be had.

Been listening to some "older" music lately. (By older, I mean music over 3 years old.) Thanks to my new music service, I can bring up just about any album (well, except all the ones I want, naturally) at any time. So, the lately, I've dug up "Songs about Jane" by Maroon 5 and 311's Greatest Hits. Not as edgy as the stuff I normally listen to, but it's good stuff to listen to and just chill out with. Add a beer and you're pretty much golden.

Had my first experience in a long time being addicted to a television show (besides SportsCenter, of course). Anyone see that show, "House?" It's about a doctor who is apparently the smartest man on the planet and quite possibly also the biggest dick. Well, not quite, I guess - there was one big guy on there that was even more of a prick, but he was also not a genious so he was even less endearing. Aside from the female doctor that works on the show and is miraculously gorgeous, I'm not really sure what I like so much about the show. I imagine it's a complete mockery for most medical professionals, but I'm too ignorant to know that, so I just roll with it. Fortunately, the season ended last week so now I can reclaim and hour of my Tuesday nights, once again. I'm sure I should use that time to do housework or some such thing, but I'm certain I won't.

Babble babble babble. I'm out.