update:

- gatlinburg was in.fucking.sane. the stories are long, amazing, and not getting posted up here, to protect the innocent. if anyone wants any more details, ill be glad to talk about it... not on the blogosphere though.

- im alive. see point #1 as far as more details go, but this is always good news! before anyone freaks out, nothing serious happened, but there were some moments that got a little hairy.

- Super Nintendo is the greatest game console of all time. Followed by NES, PS2, then N64. The rest will most likely be forgotten, for one reason or another.

This has completely nothing to do with anything, I understand. However, it is pertinent to my interests. So dig it.

Peace up, a town.

Top 5 reasons to stop by at your local festival

No particular order on this one

1.) Its like a high school reunion, but with gambling and its much easier to avoid the creepers
2.) There is no such thing as too many bratts, metts, or italian sausages.
3.) Blackjack is a great time waster.
4.) Funnel cake.
5.) ....Honestly I can't think of a fifth reason. Let's be honest, for the most part festivals suck bunghole and the only reason people go are to enjoy the wonderful vices of life. Irony at its best....

...just don't puke in the pews!! :)

I gotta get my weight up...

Literally and figureatively.


Figuratively

As I anticipated, with the end of the school year came a sharp decline in the will to do anything involving, well, anything. That has basically included this sweet ass blog. Lo siento.

Literally

With that incredible (and admittedly, somewhat annoying) influx of having no current direction in life (the pool opens memorial day... until then, I'm basically like a big rotting stump..), I have tried to seriously focus on working out. I'm talking, NFL combine preparation working out.

It actually feels pretty good. So far this week has been more of a restore status quo kinda thing since I haven't done much since before finals week, but I have already done more cardio than I have in all of 2008 combined. With the latest 40 cent increase in Texas tea, I have seriously honest-to-god considered taking my insurance money from my car (it got totaled last summer, long story, mildly interesting, maybe for another blog post) and plunking it down for a road bike. I feel like it would kill two problems at once.

What does this entail, you ask? Well, there is the focus on both lifting and cardio as I already mentioned. Also, in an effort to keep oh I dunno, improving?, on my mind, I got a nifty little piece of freeware called Even Fit that can track all the stuff I do, from strength training, to running and biking, as well as my calorie count and resting heart rate, if need be. Being that I'm somewhat of a science nerd, and a lot of a numbers freak, "quantitative data on my own body really revs my engine" (put that on t-shirt).

I have consciously drank more water this week than I did all school year. Right now I'm chalking that one up to not having a coffee pot sitting next to me 6 hours out of the day, but the benefits are still there. I've also gone out and bought steak and tuna and stuff to grill because a.) Grilling is my only hobby in life other than video games, two) I love steak and III.) Protein is good or something, I dunno.

I figure I have until about June 6th-ish until I have a full time job, and with how long I have been at the same level (See: all school year) a lot of ground can be made if I just seriously focus on it. I'm somewhat stoked.

//And yes, that picture has nothing to do with anything. I'm more just asking if I look most like a chinese communist ruler? Stewie Griffin would be so proud...

Dunzo.

Yep, done. The most stressful thought of the next three months will be waking up in time to walk down to work, which consists of making sure kiddos don't drown in < knee-deep water.

I think I'll survive.

The agony is just steaming off my well-tanned body

In other news, I don't even like Nine Inch Nails, but I'm kinda a fan now. I guess they just decided "screw it, they're gonna pirate it anyways," so they are giving away their new album completely free. Over their own websit. In a variety of file formats. It's like a nerds wet dream. Actually, no. The wet dream would be this setting some kind of precident for future artists whose work I actually like anyways...

A big grassy ass goes out to Trent Reznor and friends.