February 28, 2014

Today is my mom's birthday, it is also Dallan's mom's birthday as well seeing as our mothers are twin sisters and all.  It's actually kind of weird, my Dad's mom is a twin too, so he's the son of a twin and then also married a twin.  Tonight at my grandma's house we are having family dinner for my Mom and Aunt's birthday.  We are having a nice taco/fajita/nacho bar for dinner.  My group is also firing up the time machine for our commercial this afternoon.

February 27, 2014

Today I gave my mom her birthday present since her birthday is tomorrow.  I got her a nice vandal tee shirt and a nice Joe Vandal crew neck sweater that she really liked.  We had some nice Chinese food for dinner.  Although I must say I could not taste a difference between the General Tso's chicken and the Orange Chicken other than a slight bit of citrus taste in the orange. For the most part it just tasted like chicken smothered in ketchup with some sweet and sour sauce mixed in.  It sure as hell smelled like ketchup...

February 26, 2014

I had my first philosophy test today, hated it.  Seriously it is the most boring class I have ever taken.  I don't know why I signed up for that, I hate myself for doing it but oh well, that's just the way it goes I guess.  It sucks because the TA that teaches my section is not very good and I haven't been having an easy time learning in that class. I know that a lot of the kids in my class have the same feeling too.

February 25, 2014

Another recap of my weekend in Walla Walla.  Jarod may be one of the greatest cooks I have met.  He made sticky fingers that tasted exactly like they came from wingers, and he told me how to make the sauce, which is basically all that you need.  He also made the most delicious chocolate chip pancakes ever, he used sweet cream pancake mix so that was pretty neat.  I gotta say, I need to go visit my friend more often, I eat like a king when I'm over there.  We didn't really do much other than play video games, eat delicious food, listen to loud music and go to a concert but man was that fun.

February 24, 2014

I had a kick ass weekend in walla walla.  The concert was terrible though.  Well, let me re-phrase that.  The first three hours of the concert that was full of opening acts and what not completely sucked, besides maybe one of the openers.  We sat on bar stools for about three hours waiting for the act that we had came to this show to see.  The doors opened at about 8:30 and Stevie Stone came on stage at about midnight.  Stevie was effing amazing, just a kick ass act that really got the party going.  He did every song that I had hoped he would do.  My buddy and I had a list of songs we were hoping to hear and he did ever single song on that list and more.  My hearing was a bit altered that night and through much of saturday but holy catfish did I have an amazing time during Stevie's set.

February 17-21, 2014

To be completely honest I blew off journals all week long, not sure why I did but it happened.  So today I am giving you a compilation of this week.  First off I made it to Walla Walla safe and sound.  One things for sure, my pickup is not a smooth rider on the highway.  I felt every single damn bump and crack in the highway on the way here.  I got stuck behind a Volkswagen beetle that was going 30 in a 45 and causing me to get rather grumpy.  In about ten minutes from the time I am typing this I will be heading to Richland Washington for the stevie stone concert.  Another nice thing is that I got a nice one hundred dollars from my mom and dad today to get me to Walla Walla and back.  That’s pretty awesome seeing as I had enough money to do so but I really did not want to spend a dime of it if possible.  Gas in Washington is also expensive as hell, like why the hell am I paying thirty more cents per gallon.  Complete bull.  I am really glad that it stayed relatively light on the way over here since my headlights are dim as all hell and I would probably have gotten into an accident had I needed them.  My wipers also did not fail me this time as they have been doing in the past when I needed them most.  My mom sent me with so much crap for my road trip, I probably had to make three trips just to get it all into my buddies apartment.  

February 14, 2014

I was just kind of browsing the internet today and decided to read one of my favorite poems, The Charge of The Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson.  It's always been one of my favorites, the story it tells is one that is very interesting and deep.  It's not to hard to tell what is going on in the poem.  It's one of those things that I really liked and I would hang it in my locker when I was playing football in high school and read it before games sometimes, it just has that kind of effect where you can picture the brigade charging through the cannon fire and explosions and chaos happening all around, it would actually get me kind of pumped up to be honest.  

February 13, 2014

The countdown is at 8 days till I go to Walla Walla and see the Stevie Stone concert!  Definitely going to be hurting a little financially after this trip though.  The gas for the trip should be about sixty-some dollars along with twenty for my concert ticket and another x amount of dollars for food and stuff.  I'm slightly regretting buying some of the pointless shit that I got earlier this semester that has somewhat resulted in me getting into this uncomfortable financial situation.  I wont be in this situation for too long though, as far as the small amount of work that I do and birthday money, etc.  Also I found out today that one of my former football coaches from high school died yesterday.  That makes me pretty sad, he was an awesome guy and great coach and will definitely be missed by many.  RIP Coach McGinty.

February 12, 2014

I listened to an entire album called Sickology 101 from start to finish today.  The way the album is mixed and produced is awesome because all of the tracks crossfade ever so slightly making it to a point where there really is no point in the album where you hear a break in the music, there are a couple of short little interludes that aren't music I guess but they still keep the album constantly moving, and It isn't just this album that has this effect.  This album is by Tech N9ne who is a recording artist and founder/co-owner of Strange Music Inc. Almost all albums released by recording artists from Strange Music have this quality of non-stop music and tracks perfectly blending together.  It's something that I really appreciate and like about Strange Music.

February 11, 2014

Today I spent a little less time on campus than yesterday, got a decent amount of work done too.  I then proceeded to play madden for roughly three hours until my friend Jarod in Walla Walla got done with his baseball practice.  Jarod and I played Gears of War on Xbox live for about two hours so we could finish the game (we beat the whole thing on the hardest difficulty in about 18 hours).  Now we have to come up with a game to play on Xbox for the next week and a half until I make the drive to visit him for a weekend.  By the way that is next friday! I'm so damn excited to go.

February 10, 2014

I spent my whole day on campus for no reason, I could have gone home at 12:30 or at least like the early afternoon.  I had to wait for my friend to be done with class so we could study for our psychology exam which kept me on campus till around 5.  We didn't even really get any studying done but oh well.  I got about half of my math homework done so something productive came out of all that.  I really didn't want to go home then come back again to study, its just a waste of gas.

February 7, 2014

Today I am planning on going out and doing more drifting and donut-ing since we got the two or so inches of snow last night. Well until then I will probably play GTA V.  Fly around in a fighter jet blowing people up and stuff, go rob a couple liquor stores, do some street racing, a little sky diving and whatnot.  My favorite thing to do is crash into the military base and steal a tank then go terrorize the city of Los Santos by running over cars and blowing shit up.  Then I like to go back to my penthouse apartment and get drunk and look out of my windows at the amazing view, then I turn off my Xbox.  

February 6, 2014

Took my pickup out last night and tore up some parking lot, did all sorts of donuts and drifts and whatnot.  It was a grand time. I got my ticket for Stevie Stone in the Tri Cities in two weeks from Friday. I am actually really excited for this show; it’s a pretty small venue so we will be packed in right up by the stage.  Then in May after school gets out I am off to Spokane for a Tech N9ne concert and I will probably go to Snoop Dogg in Pullman for WSU springfest.  Hopefully Idaho brings in a cool act for finalsfest.  All in all I will be going to a lot of concerts this spring.

February 5, 2014

Today I found out about a concert in Richland, that was originally supposedly a 21 and older show but my friend let me know it was 18 and older so we are in! I am going to Walla Walla, Washington on the twenty first to hang out there for the weekend and go to the concert. It’s something that I am really looking forward to. I haven’t seen this guy since graduation so it’s been long overdue. Although I will have a little trouble finding his place because I don’t exactly know how to get to Walla Walla. When I do get there I don’t really know how to get around there either, so it will be an adventure to say the least.

February 4, 2014

I wanted to continue talking about what I wrote about last Thursday. So about why Tech N9ne and the Strange Music guys like Spokane so much is a pretty interesting story. They were coming to Spokane from Billings, Montana in 2006 I believe, the weather was horrible and they were all riding in a 15 passenger van towing a trailer with a bunch of their equipment. They were the lead vehicle in the convoy of tour crew rigs and the snow was beginning to get serious. All of a sudden they hit a patch of ice and the van and trailer basically started jack-knifing which sent the van into a roll. They rolled somewhere around six to eight times. Krizz Kaliko, the guy I took the picture with, actually got halfway ejected from the van and sucked back in without getting injured. The emergency crew that responded said that they were all blessed to be alive after that. Since then the fans in Spokane are people that Tech always talks about being some of his most loving and loyal fans he performs for, and always makes sure he stops there for at least two shows a year.

February 3, 2014

Ecstatic. That’s how I feel today after my Seahawks won Super Bowl Forty-Eight. It is something that I have been waiting on for quite some time now. To be completely honest though, it still doesn’t feel real. For some reason I just knew this was going to happen, frankly I expected it. I don’t know if it is as amazingly exciting for me because the game was basically won by Seattle early in the second quarter when they were already blowing out the Denver Broncos. Obviously I am so, so happy and it is so cool to see your favorite team give a complete and total ass-whooping in the biggest game of the year, but even I was hoping for one of those miraculous last second wins that make something like that so sweet. It is still so amazing to finally see this happen and the victory is oh so sweet, so here is to hoping that next year pulls off the same results and a sports dynasty emerges in the emerald city.