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Good morning everyone!

I had an excellent weekend! Even thought the Kings of Leon show got postponed until August 3rd, our Friday night out was tops. Phil and I had a blast walking around and around Minneapolis. Saturday was spent sleeping - the kids were at Phil's parent's house, so sleep was acutally possible. The whole day was dedicated to sleep! Sunday was great too! Phil let me sleep in til noon and he got up with the kids. I went grocery shopping and then I got to see my friend Krissy whom I haven't seen since she moved back to Ohio. Before I went to bed, I got to spend some one-on-one time with Phil...

Since there wasn't much activity in the Roll Call threads over the weekend, the QotD is: What did you do this weekend?

I hardly slept last night. I had too much caffeine too late in the evening, the cats were loud all night, and my son left an alarm clock set for 4:30am for some reason. I'm at work now. Gonna be a busy day.

As for the weekend, Saturday was fun. Andy had Tee Ball in the morning, and the rain held off long enough to get the game in. That night I played at the Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield. There weren't a lot of people, but the room was attentive and curious. I played a bunch of originals, and covered SFers Glenn Case and Deshead. (Once your royalties exceed the cost of postage, I'll get the checks sent out. Hehe.)

Sorry to butt in, as I've been a voyeur here vs. a participant. This is in equal parts due to how lame my posts seem to come out, and my lack of interesting 'living a real life' activities. It would be inaccurate to say that I get off on other peoples lives, but I really enjoy the humanizing aspect these posts give to people I may never meet. Still a young'un by SF standards, I've been listening over a year now and enjoy the personalities here as much as the music. But man, I hate my doofy posts!

That said, I want to congratulate myself on today, my birthday. Not because I make a big deal out of birthdays, but because it is also 9 years today that I quit smoking cigarettes. Not one puff in that time. I smoked a pack a day for 18 years and am very proud that I am no longer self-enslaved to them. However, I could not deny rumors that I may occasionally smoke something that is, um, tobacco free. And try and take away my coffee and...just don't. But if you smoke cigs, QUIT! It's worth it and gets easier every year they are gone. They are not your friends, don't believe the lies.

The weekend we (I've been with the same woman for 10? years, I hesitate to call her girlfriend as it just doesn't sound right to me for some reason) watched tooo much baseball and a couple of movies. I'm 2 miles inland from NH's tiny shore, but watched the surfers briefly after a visit to next-door Rye. There is a short stretch of coast here that is quite beautiful. It just doesn't go on and on like other parts of the world. Lazy weekend after many zipping about ones.

Well, cheers, and have a nice day, all!

QOTD: Ah, the weekend. I spent an inordinate amount of time working on preparing final exams for the math classes the Mrs. teaches. I hate the Microsoft Equation Editor, so you can imagine how much fun it was to have to use it to create most of the answer choices for three different 25-question multiple choice tests (still to come: creating a "B" version of each test, since the desks in her classroom are really close together). I was up 'til 11:30 last night working on those and then up early again today.

I also spent a big part of Saturday re-writing and polishing the handout for a project she's doing with the kids on landscape ecology (computer modeling of nature). She liked my rewrite, though: I got to hear those magic words that you only hear once or twice in a marriage: "that was so good I couldn't find anything I'd want to change."

Also this weekend: we took foster dog Ben to an appointment yesterday and he was adopted! So we're back down to one dog at our house and one dog over at my mom's house.

I loved bzl's comment to Rone in one of the other threads: "The math is complicated here, but remember: ten years from now you will be thirty-seven and eighteen-year-olds will still be eighteen. It ain't gonna get easier, is all." An observation from taking my mom to water therapy class: you'd think that by the time you get to 60 year olds vs. 75 year olds, they're pretty much all just "old people," right? But here's the thing: in 1964, those who are now 60 were rabid Beatle fans and those who are now 75 were the parents of rabid Beatle fans who hated all that sixties music. They usually play the "oldies" station at the Rec Center, but during the water therapy class, it gets turned off and the teacher plays Tony Bennett and big band stuff.

Next few days: totally nuts. I'm supposed to go record a band concert tonight, which means the 24 finale will have to live on tape 'til I get to it. There's a choir concert tomorrow morning, but I'll probably have to miss that to take my mom to her class. I'm s'posed to go in for jury duty on Wednesday, and I figure I'd better get all these math tests polished up just in case I get on a jury for a few days... oh, yeah, and I do have a song for the SF title now, I just need to record it...

Charles

Happy Birthday Paco! And congrats on nine years of not smoking. I myself gave up the pack-a-day habit in '93.


...you didn't give up drinking, did you? 'Cause we gotta get together for beers one of these days.

happy blurthz, paco. I just picked up smoking last year! While learning about the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=decadenc ... ">Decadent movement</a> I decided I liked how they did things, and then bought a pack of cloves. Since then (spring `05) I have bought perhaps four or five packs of cigarettes or cloves, generally American Spirit Organics or Djarum Specials, respectively. I have perhaps one or two on the days I smoke, though I don't believe I had any this weekend. I tend to have like a half-dozen on nights I perform, though. I must be diligent to not become hooked, and if nothing else my lack of money ought to take care of that.

This weekend. I did a radio show Friday night, then played some video games with a friend (mario kart and dr. robotnik's mean bean machine). Saturday I played more video games (star wars: knights of the old republic) and meant to go to the radio station, but did not. Sunday... same story, except I woke up to hear there was a sniper attack downtown that killed three people. Today however I must get it in gear, soon, and go to the radio station, because I have to plan out the Album Preview for this week, which is a feature wherein we play an album in its entirety nightly.

happy birthday and congrats, paco!

marcus, i don't think cloves are addictive like regular cigarettes, but i think they are also way worse for you than regular, lung-wise. do take the filtered ones, at least! and don't overdo it.
-bill

I played a gig on Friday for the local Bikers. The Hells Angels weren't in full force because apparently they had an "event" down island and weren't due up here til Sat, but there was still about 100 of them out.


As it was, we played to a near empty hall all night... except for their rides, which were parked around the stage... the bathrooms strangely enough, were at full capacity all night though. Weird...


One of the bikes ($30,000) was raffled off...it was cool seeing the look on the dude's face that one it... I think he soiled himself.
We got paid decent though... $180 for the night each is pretty good, plus tons of beer. My fuckin bicep on my right arm started to ache though... I REALLY need to play more so I can actually perform drums for 4 hours without pain. I USED to be able to play like that everyday...but that's because I WAS playing like that every day!!

Then, for some reason my wife, her best friend and I stayed up til 6 am drinking, talking and listening to Funkedelic. We haven't gone that hard in about 9 years...I remember why now... took two days to recover! I think I won't repeat that experiment...

Took the kids to Shrek 3 Sat night... I wasn't that impressed, but the kids and Dana liked it, so.. I was probably just too tired to get into it.

Had an excellent jam Sunday afternoon. We played over a span of 6 hours! good times...
Last night I wrote about 5 replies to Rone's thread but I couldn't' do it without being mean and blunt... so I decided to not bother until today... oddly, it still came out mean and blunt, so fuck it. Post it up, get a reaction I suppose. ( I meant him, not me, but it goes both ways).

I went to bed early last night.

Today, it's back to work mode. Trying to build a crew model that will outline how many workers we'll need this summer for each operation, coloured by the fact we're installing a new processing line which is predicted to reduce the crew size, and the difficulty of labour...but I'm skeptical.

Looking forward to the heroes finale tonight.

I have finally made my 2,000th post on SF.

P.S. congrats Paco!!


That's outstanding. not the birthday part...the quitting part!!


My wife has been quit for 2 months now. As you know, maybe the hardest thing a human will ever do is quit smoking after being a pack a day user for a long stretch. For her is was 23 years as a smoker (started at 12!!!) She wants a smoke everyday...and knows to be successful she can't. Do you still get cravings? Did you say that already... ?


so AWESOME FOR YOU MAN!!! Stellar! You must have a mind of steel! hahah!


Oh...happy birthday too!

Hey, just wanted to say, good to hear from MK. I was listening to the news last night and they're going "Moscow, Idaho" and "sniper" and I will admit to wondering whether Kellis had finally gone off the deep end... I read a while back that Al Pacino switched to clove cigarettes after many years as a smoker to try to preserve his voice.

My first underage girlfriend was from Kansas... no, wait, make that second... uhh, anyway, yeah, Kansas dads will kill you just as dead...

Smoke free for 55 years, 14 days...

Charles (KA)

jimtyrrell wrote:I hardly slept last night. I had too much caffeine too late in the evening, the cats were loud all night, and my son left an alarm clock set for 4:30am for some reason. I'm at work now. Gonna be a busy day.

I hardly ever sleep any night.

A lot of times it's because I've had too much caffine

A lot of times it's because my cats are loud all night.

In a strange coincidence...somebody had set the alarm on the clock in my hotel room to 3:40am Saturday night / Sunday Morning! (Bastards) (St. Augustine, the oldes municipal in North America.)

I too am at work.

It was a busy day. (WAS)

Thanks and thanks people!

Jim, we will definitely have a beer. There's no reason that we who live in a smaller state can't meet at least once even if we (meaning you) go "well, that was weird!", it'd be good fun!

Leaf - The cravings dwindle each year so I can't remember the last one. I dreamt in the last year that I was smoking, and feeling guilty, and when I woke up I was actually sniffing for smoke. But not upset to find out I hadn't actually been doing it. Good job for your wife! In some ways the weeks after quitting are the hardest as you break the routines up. Maybe tell her to think of why she quit, and all the shitful things about smoking, when she gets the urge. Green aples help some people too!

Marcus, I thought of you when I saw that news story the other day. Wacky shit, huh? If you can get away with occasional smoking, that's great. If it was one of those things where I could just smoke as an option like, say, going bowling for a while or whatever, I'd be all over it. I certainly shouldn't be telling someone what to do or not to do, but that smoking is some serious business.

And a tip o' the cap to the king!

Today I listened to these albums, on vinyl.
AC/DC - Highway To Hell"
Adam and the Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier
Human Sexual Response - Fig.14
Minor Threat - Out Of Step
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

A little Mastodon and James Brown on CD. Too much from me here, gotta go have a Sam Adams Summer Ale. Cheers and positive vibes for all!

Happy Birthday mister Stinko! I hope you continue to post in the Roll Call. Your posts so far have been far from "doofy"

Happy Birthday Charlie! And congrats on your 9 years of not smoking "cigs"

Well, I'm having a good day.
I can't believe I'm going on to Nur Ein round 3.
I honestly was depressed about my song.
I thought it rocked, but the chorus was rough and didn't flow.
I don't know why I take things like this so seriously.
My elimination will come, but not today.
I had the most amazing luck playing poker over the weekend.
It's a good thing I have a good poker face.
I was being dealt insane hands
It's just small time cards with friends, but DAMN!
If it was for big money, I'd have been getting dealt crap.
I was born without the good luck gene.
Surfed Sat and Sun morning, so my energy was rejuvenated.
Jammed Sat with the boys and my friends new girlfriend.
She played drums and she is AWESOME!
She's kind of big and sexy like Xena The Warrior Princess.
She plays like Vinnie Paul.
I'm pretty sure she can kick my ass
I'm positive I'd love that.
Anyway, life is good.
Live, Love, Rock!
Chris

I've spent all day today on the computer basically. I had to mow my yard when I first got up but then I went online. I have today and tomorrow off from work so I have alot of freetime for the first time in a couple weeks. I hardly know what to do with all the dead space.

I actually started a new game on rpgmaker (if anyone knows what that is). I'm planning to make it a sort of Suikoden-esque game. IF I can find enough motivation and actually work on it for several months it'll be a nice full 10 hour game. I have a pattern of starting alot of projects and finishing few.

I should have been working on my SF song that's due tomorrow, but after putting it off for so long and just having no energy today I didn't. Like I said in the prefight thread I've had no energy at all since I started my new job.

Probably the only reason I came to the Daily Roll Call thread to post for the first time is my boredom of being online for about four and a half hours straight now. heh.

By the way Heather, I noticed your request for people to add you on myspace... so I did!

Got up, went to work (at the T. Rex museum, the dinosaur not the band unfortunately). Happy birthday. This weekend, though, I found THIS:



So good.

Any beer called Skull splitter has to be good.

on Saturday Heather. Redmon. wrote:I am currently working on a google map to show our journey last night. It was quite an adventure! 8)

So I made the Google map and then Phil took it a bunch of steps further. He plugged my map in to Google Earth, then made a super awesome video out of it! Please check it out!

The Hell Yeahs vs. The Twin Cities

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Any beer called Skull splitter has to be good.

It's got honey and shit in it, which normally I hate, but man it was awesome. Then it was on to the cheap stuff : (.

Heather. Redmon. wrote:

on Saturday Heather. Redmon. wrote:I am currently working on a google map to show our journey last night. It was quite an adventure! 8)

So I made the Google map and then Phil took it a bunch of steps further. He plugged my map in to Google Earth, then made a super awesome video out of it! Please check it out!

The Hell Yeahs vs. The Twin Cities

Heather and Phil, that was AwEsOmE! You two are THE funny.

i just want to say heather looks cute in her new avatar.

don't get yer panties in a wad dad.......