It was an absolutely GORGEOUS Spring day. Temperatures were in the 60's and I was going down to spend time with most of my favorite people in the world. I left Cook around 2:30, after cashing my check and doing all the neccesary car maintanence checks and what not. I was on such a natural high from the spring weather that I rocked out to Dispatch for the entire hour and a half ride, which meant screaming at the top of my lungs and driving way too fast. I only had their Silent Steeples cd ...

I'm heading down to Duluth today, and I'm pretty psyched. For those of you (and I'll assume it's many of you) who have never been to Duluth, I don't know how to describe it to you. It's an absolutely GORGEOUS town, especially lakeside (it's located at the very tip of Lake Superior). I went to college there, and it still has a special place in my heart. Many of my friends still live there, as well as my little brother, and I doubt there's a place in the entire smallish city that doesn't ho...

This was originally written as a reply to the "Rolling Stone's top 50" article, but I liked it and would like to enlighten others on the glory of Pearl Jam, if they are so interested. Reply, folks, and I'll let you know what's what! Thank you, Sean, for giving a shout out to Pearl Jam. As a major fan, it's often difficult to distance myself from the band enough to look at them objectively. But, many of my friends and other people I've "polled" who were alive in the 90's, even though they'r...

I was thinking about that adieu again, "Don't let that smile get away from you", and I got another meaning from it. Your smile is your own. It's unique. Sure, it can be similar to another's smile, but it's not a perfect copy of anyone's. And you have many different smiles, each with it's own qualities. So don't let it get away from you, and use it as often as you can. Smiling is something that every single culture in the world has in commons. A smile is a universal code for letting peop...

I was just sitting in McDonald's a few moments ago, reading a book at eating my value meal. I rode my bike 10 miles today, so I figured McDonald's wouldn't be TOO bad, because I would have eaten it anyway, probably, and I think the net calories is in the red. Anyway, a man who was vaguely familiar to me as someone I used to serve when I worked at McDonald's, years and years ago, was exiting and his final comment to his "dinner" companion was "Don't let that smile get away from you." Thi...

So, loyal readers, I know I haven't been on in a while. My computer is bastard. Long story short: it broke, and a week later I got it fixed. All bymyself. now I'm running XP and I love my computer again. I'll write later when I really have something to say.

My mom got entered into a drawing last week for a $2500.00 cash give away. She had to go back up to the casino tonight to see if her name was going to be drawn. Normally, I hate going to casinos, and my mom knows this. She asked me to come with her, and I obliged, thinking I may win enough money to buy the coveted "Ninja Gaiden". I did not...but my mom gave me the money to gamble, so it's not like I really lost out. If only someone would donate to "Chris's Ninja Gaiden Fund". Oh wait, what...

My mom got entered into a drawing last week for a $2500.00 cash give away. She had to go back up to the casino tonight to see if her name was going to be drawn. Normally, I hate going to casinos, and my mom knows this. She asked me to come with her, and I obliged, thinking I may win enough money to buy the coveted "Ninja Gaiden". I did not...but my mom gave me the money to gamble, so it's not like I really lost out. If only someone would donate to "Chris's Ninja Gaiden Fund". Oh wait, what...

I've been a fan of baseball for the past few years now. I had a minor interest in the sport as a kid, but I was one of the multitude who lost interest after the Player's Strike of a decade ago. At that point in my life, the only strike I understood occured when a batter whiffed a fastball. My interest peaked again a few years ago, when my homestate Minnesota Twins became real contenders. I know, I know...you think I'm a bandwagoner. At that point, I admit, I was. But then I got a look at t...

My Sophomore year of college, I had a Somalian roommate named Omer. He was a character, and this is but one of the many hilarious stories we have of him. Omer would always eat really weird food...being from Somalia and what not. One of the things he ate like every day for 2 months was some ground up hamburger and spices that he kept in a greasy grocery bag at the bottom of the fridge...he ate it with his fingers. And he made the most GROTESQUE eating noises of anyone I've ever met, even Pe...

My Sophomore year of college, I had a Somalian roommate named Omer. He was a character, and this is but one of the many hilarious stories we have of him. Omer would always eat really weird food...being from Somalia and what not. One of the things he ate like every day for 2 months was some ground up hamburger and spices that he kept in a greasy grocery bag at the bottom of the fridge...he ate it with his fingers. And he made the most GROTESQUE eating noises of anyone I've ever met, even Pe...

Today at work we were looking for something to do. Matt had made a list of stuff for us guys to do, because honestly, we're the only ones who really do anything around there. The woman who works the Service Counter (it is invariably a woman) is justified in not doing anything extra, because she has to stay there the whole time to answer phones and what not. But everyone else in the night shift? Worthless piles. I'd say they were worthless boxes, but even a box serves a purpose some of the tim...

Good times, people, good times. I did not accomplish the goal of getting completely ripped on Irish Night, but as many of us surely know some goals are better not acheived, and you may even have some fun in the meantime. So, yes, I drove 4 hours down to "the cities" (Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area) to hang out with friends and intake some alcohol. We started at the Dubliner, where I met up with SuspeckTed (margin2margin.joeuser.com) and some of his friends. The place was extremely pac...

I'm stayed in Woodbury with my friend Nels last night, and I got to clean up his new puppy's shit about five minutes ago! Awesome! Seriously, though, it wasn't awesome. She shit on the carpet about two minutes after Christina (Nels' fiancee) left for work, and roughly 5 minutes after I had taken her outside. And I couldn't just plead ignorance, because I'm going to put her in her kennel when I leave, and The Dump was on the carpet. So I did a perfunctory job and left a note...I think I ha...

I'm looking forward to this St. Paddy's Day. I'm not Irish, nor am I normally much of a drinker, but I plan to get totally ripped Wednesday night. I'm going to see a few friends I haven't seen in too long, and plan to weasel at least one beer each out of em. Add that to the ones I'll be buying myself, and I'll be in the clear (or fuzzy, depending on how you look at it)! Naturally, I'll have to buy some beers for other people, because that's the way karma flows. I was going to leave toni...