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Ya know, it’s the simple pleasures in life that really make things worthwile… Like being able to sit on your front porch, in your oversized, Wal-mart, collapsable chair (with foot rest), watching storm clouds gathering in the distance, enjoying the coolness of the air just before the rain and the quiet of a college town in that brief span between the end of the spring semester and the beginning of summer session, thrilling to the first peal of thunder booming in the distance… and surfing the net….

Nothing like being a hopeless romantic and a geek all at the same time… :)

…that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…

So, a friend told me last night I hadn’t been blogging enought recently… so I thought I’d correct that…

First, to address my schmuckiness, since a couple of people have asked… Basically, I’m a schmuck for a lot of reasons… I don’t give my sister, whom I love and respect and of whom I’m so proud, the attention she deserves (at least in word… she knows she’s always in my thoughts and my heart)…. I’m not always honest with my friend about how I’m feeling… and specifically when I last blogged, I’m a schumck because I can feel something so deeply and so passionatly in my heart that I feel like I’m going to burst and still just let it slip through my fingers…

Maybe that makes me more of a coward than a schmuck… I dunno…

Anyway, this blog is getting really depressing… I could go on and talk about how she left yesterday without saying goodbye, but that would actually be inaccurate, ’cause she did call as she was driving, and she’ll be back in a couple weeks and promised to say a decent goodbye then… hehehe, plus, I have both her computers now… she has to come back… ;)

anyway, on a happier note, I got a call from my friend Joel last night (whom I haven’t seen in FAR too long, and only recent got back in e-mail contact with). He and his girlfriend’s vacation plans fell through, so they decided to try and visit some of the people they haven’t seen in a while instead… and so, long story short, I’m now going white water rafting with them this weekend! Should be pretty exciting! :) YAY!

And also YAY! this seems to have taken care of the last few, dragging minutes of the workday… time to head home, get some dinner with a friend or two, then catch “Bat Boy” the musical! Wheeeeeee…

Why am I such a schumck?

It’s a simple question, you’d think there would be a simple answer wouldn’t you…

Damned if I can find one tho… I just… am…

Sigh….

Soooooo tired….

Today was an excellent second day to my seventh alternative beach week… after waking up early in order to sit and wait for everyone else to wake up at their leisure (which I didn’t mind) the gang grabbed some lunch then headded to the “International Spy Museum” in DC… Lots of fun toys and touch screens… good stuff…

The spy museum was followed by dinner and some play time at Dave and Busters, at which Scott and Shane became hooked on a bastard version of Dance Dance Revolution and I pretended to shoot lots of evil security guards….

And then… MATRIXED! After dinner and play we headed to Baltimore’s Senator theater to catch the premier of The Matrix: Reloaded… yeah, still processing that one, but overall I really liked it… if nothing else there were many pretty special effects and kicking of ass….

All in all, and excellent trip… the only down part an unfortunate incident between one of our party and their parents, resulting in us finding a way to send her back home before the movie… :( On the one hand I can kinda understand her parents concern, but I really, in no way condone their apparent reaction…. I’m sorry, but if you’re kid’s in college, he/she should be allowed to make a few decisions on their own… It’s kinda like when another friend’s dad wouldn’t let her handle her own pain medication after having her wisdom teeth taken out…. Grrrrr… just thinkin’ about it pisses me off all over again…. :(

Sigh, if I weren’t so tired I could state my frustration more clearly, but sadly I can’t…. ah well… Time for sleep….

Wow, it’s hard to believe that this is my 7th alternative beachweek… It really doesn’t seem like long ago at all that Steph Timmons, Dave Conlon and I were roadtripping from C’ville to meet up with everyone else for the first one…

I think, thus far at least, this has been one of the most successfull ABWs ever… we definitely have more people than ever, which was awsome…. and I think a good time was had by all yesterday… I don’t think we broke our 26 coaster record, but that’s ok… :)

Ah well, thanks to the absurdly loud ringer on Dante’s phone, I think I may soon not be the only one up… Now on to Day 2, currently slotted to be full of some quality spy museuming and Dave and Bustering…. :) and then of course, the premier of “The Matrix: Reloaded” at Baltimore’s historic Senator theater… :)

Yay!

Brief correction to my last post. “Mostly sleep”? Um… Yeah… Not so much… I think I finally fell asleep around 3:30 or so… And then, as I have the last couple times I’ve drank, my body decided I should wake up at 6:00AM… yeah, thanks Mr. Biological Clock Man… :PPPPPPPPPP

So yeah, this is prolly a bad idea… ah well, too tired and too intoximicated to really care all that much…

I had a fun night tonight… more or less… The original plan was to have dinner with some friend, play some violent video games, then hit the bar to celebrate my friend’s new job… Well, after the video game portion, we found that a couple of the friends who originally said they would join us were opting to stay in and watch a movie… So, we decided to serenade those two lovely ladies, then head to the bar…

Well, after the serenade (the song I always call “Wise men say”, but I guess it’s really “Falling in love”) the plans were again altered to hanging out, playing asshole, and getting, for all intents and purposes, piss drunk….

Normally, this isn’t such a bad thing unless one of the lovely ladies you’re serenading happend to be your current crush, and, honestly, most intense crush you’ve had in a long, long time…

So yeah, needless to say, much imbibing of alcohol occured, many things were shared, including the fact that I have (or at least had at one point) a crush on her (well, I think Dante phrased it more as “wanted to hook up with”… ‘course, that is really only one small side of the feelings I find myself having for her, but ah well)…

Anyway, it was sort of fun… and somewhat liberating I guess… quite depressing in the sense that her reactions to, well, pretty much anything involving me an intimacy were more along the “ewww” lines that I would have hoped… but somehow still fun… more or less… if you squint….

Ah well, time for some sleep and some very confused wallowing in self pity and despair…. but mostly sleep…

See… told you this was a bad idea…. :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

Since it is Mother’s Day, I felt it only appropriate to dedicate today’s blog to my mom…

What can I say about my mother…. Does she try my patience at time? Yeah… Does she embarass the hell out of me on occassion? Of course… Does that effect the love I feel in my heart for her one bit? Naaaahhhh…. :)

My mother is an amazing woman… All my life she’s been there to support me, to encourage me, and to love me unconditionally… Her caring, her guidance, and her love have made me the man I am today…

I know my mom will probably never read this, but hopefully she knows just how special and unique she is, and how much her children love her…

Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

… not for me of course, I’ve pretty much given up on that… Ok, no I haven’t… anyone that truly knows me knows that, in matters of the heart, I am (unfortunately?) a hopeless romantic and an eternal optimist… giving up on love just isn’t in my nature…. period…

But I’ve gotten off topic. The point of this post is to congratulate my dear friend Stephanie Timmons! I found out this morning that she’s engaged to, what appears to be, an incredibly sweet and romantic guy. (I have yet to meet this “Chad”, so he hasn’t received my official stamp of approval yet :))

Steph, darlin’, I have no idea if you read this, but I wish you all the best! Goodness knows you deserve it… :)

Sigh, finding out something like that is kinda like watching a romantic comedy… you definitely get that good, happy, mushy, “awwwww :)” kinda feeling inside… but you also get just a bit of that “dammit, why can’t I find someone who’ll love me like that”… Ah well, one of these days… I have faith…

Oh, and as long as we’re talking about things that make you go “awwwww… :)”, I happened upon this post this morning on Wil Wheaton dot Net…. and yes, you know I’m a complete dork when I use a Wil Wheaton blog as an example of what love should be… :)

…hmmm, let’s see…

486 pictures X 1000 words…

hehe, You get the picture… :) (no pun intended)

As some of you may have noticed from the main page, a beta version of my new photo album is now up and running…. You can check it out here:

Photo Album
It’s still in test mode, but it should be pretty stable… I basically copied the one I hacked together for the FYP website… :)Hopefully this one will stay a little more up to date than my old one… :)

Sigh, scanning all these old photos has made me realize a couple of things…

First, a part of me really misses “the good old days”… It just seems there are so many more happy memories from back then than there are from recently… I’m not saying I’m not happy these days, or anything like that… I guess I just miss the crazy, fun filled days of my youth…. :)

Second, there are huge chunks of my life that I personally seem to have failed to document… either that, or I was just extremely delusional for a while… :) Soooo, to ease my paranioa about being even more insane than I know I am, I’d really appreaciate it if anyone out there who had photos with me in them, or of things you know I was involved in, please send me a copy, or, if you have them up on SnapFish or something like that, send me a link to them…

THANKS! :)