Quick Check In

Back from an awesome vacation. It amazes me with all of our advances in technology, weatherman still predict the weather with the same ini mini mighty mo mentality of my childhood. The weather was FANTASTIC!!! It was nice to have a little break. Maybe I'll tell you more about it later.

Saw The Longest Yard yesterday with my lovely Kristine. It sure wasn't the most entertaining movie I've seen but it was an enjoyable viewing. I recommend this film to all Adam Sandler fans.

Gotta do some work. Work will be ending soon and I'll have a little more time to chat with you in the upcoming weeks. L8r.

TTFN

Word on the street is that our hotel on Block Island won't have internet access. Kristine & I are off to our Memorial Day Weekend getaway. Talk 2 u soon.

Quick Post

Hay Everyone,

2 things. First, I'm in a much better mood than I was in my last post. Just getting ready for my weekend at Block Island. Hopefully, every weatherman is wrong and it will be a beautiful Memorial Day weekend.

Second...Why is it true that my Ant Sara doesn't care about my music? So sad really. For those of you that do care, I have another list. I'll talk more about how these things come to be later. By the way, sorry for those of you who tried to check out my tunes the last couple of days and couldn't get the link to work. It has been corrected. Gotta go. Talk 2 u soon.

And Here I Sit

You ever just feel like your tired of everything? I just want to not be doing anything. I feel like I need a break but I don't know from what. It's not like I'm doing a ton of stuff. I am busy. I have to move in a couple weeks and then I have an engagement party the week after that. Not really a ton of stuff per say. It's just that I seem to be asking myself a lot lately, "Now why am I doing this?"

Just to clarify, that is in no way a dig in regards to being engaged. If anything, it's because of knowing that I've found the perfect person to live with for the rest of my life that I'm reevaluating the rest of my life.

Here's an example: Music. I rip every cd I find. For the last couple months I've been going to the public library and checking out music for free and ripping the cds on my computer. Saturday, I was at the Westport library, checking out there collection of tunes. It was quite impressive really. But I was looking at all of the cds and thinking to myself, "I could care less about theses cds." I shit you not.

I feel one of two things is happening. Falling in love and committing to a lifelong relationship could very well be giving me some clarity that lets me see things in a new light and understand them in a new way. Or I could just be really confused.

I just know that I'm finding there are things I don't want to do anymore and there are new things I'd like to discover and find relevance in.

One last thing before I check out today. My friend Tim reminded me that iTunes has this feature called an iMix where you can post your mixes so that people can preview them and purchase your songs. We'll see how long I feel like doing this, but here's the tunes I worked out to today.

Check ya l8r.

Happy Wednesday Everyone

Good Morning,

Wasn't sure I had anything to say today and then I saw on the front page of yahoo that they had a news story about a guy who owns to movie theatres in Kentucky who won't show the new Jane Fonda movie because of her role in opposing the Vietnam war. I guess it's worth noting that this guy used to train pilots in Vietnam or something like that.

In case I get on a rant and forget to clarify, I think the whole thing is a little silly. I mean, I totally believe that this guy has as much right to voice his opinion on Jane Fonda just as much as she had the right to vocally oppose the war. Actually, I guess vocally doesn't quite cut it. I understand there were some pictures taken with the Vietnamese and I think she did some interview things with some American soldiers that, in retrospect, don't fare very well for Jane. Basically, I think in the process of excercising her freedom of speech, she probably hurt some people. And I guess if your a veteran of that was (as my father is), you probably don't take that very lightly.

But uhhh...I mean, come on. If it's been 15 years since Jane Fonda's been in a movie, that means the Vietnam War was like, I don't know...a hundred years ago. Does anybody really care anymore? The article I read said she has appologized for taking the pictures but hasn't appologized for opposing the war, which makes sense as there were soldiers who fought in that war that opposed it while it was still going on.

Let me see if I can get to my point. I think this guy in Kentucky is stupid. He's supposed to be a businessman. I just read in Entertainment Weekly that the number of people who see a movie in the theatre has dropped significantly. This makes sense to me as I used to go to the movies all the time and now, I hardly ever go. People are starting to have entertainment systems in their homes that rival movie theatres. Plus, we have things like the internet, good televistions shows like House, 24, and Medium, and of course, reality tv to keeps us busy at home without having to make a trip to our local multiplex.

And here comes this event movie, starring a former celebrity noones seen for the last 15 years outside of an Atlanta Braves home game. It's got J. Lo for crying out loud and think of her what you will, puting her in a film is like printing your own money. So this businessman is going to deprive himself of profiting off the work of someone who he despises. Whooppee. I mean, read that again. Think of someone you really hate. Now imagine that that person does some work for like 6 months and then you get to make a lot of money as a result of said work. I'd do it. Fuck it. I hate them. They owe me. Here comes the money.

It's also worth mentioning that if I'm a perspective patron of such a movie, the theatre owner has now pissed me off by not providing the very service for which he has sworn to provide. I'm sure my friends will verify this that I never go back to a theatre that has pissed me off. I'm not even sure that I've passed through Kentucky in my lifetime, but this businessman has now guaranteed he will never see a penny from my pocket. And this is all for a movie I don't even want to see when it comes to HBO.

Oh Shoot. Gotta work now. Hope this all made sense. I'll check it later. Bye Bye.

Monday Monday naaaa naaaa....naa naa naaaa

Good Morning,

How's everybody doing? I had an alright weekend. Kristine was away visiting family so I was flying solo for a few days. It felt weird. It turns out that I'm lost without my Lovely. I did do a couple of things though.

I went and saw The Interpreter starring Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman. It kinda sucked. Now, I must disclose that I had a few drinks in me but the film just seemed to go on and on. It was most annoying.

Played some killer tennis on Saturday. It's only the second time since I've returned to playing and my head was in the clouds for the rest of Saturday. I did get some color but most of it has faded away.

What's also faded is my somewhat frustration with planning an engagement party. I've got most of my addresses together now and hopefully everyone will show up and I'll just have to sign a check or two. Oh, and I noticed that Ant Sara responded twice to my appology entry. While she didn't come out and say it, I've decided that 2 comments on a blog entry represents the acceptance of said appology. Thanx Sara. Can't wait to see you at the party.

I think that's about it for now. Talk 2 ya'll soon.

So Lame

Hello All,

Just wanted to let you know that I wasn't abandoning my blog entry responsibilties today. I wrote a nice little entry that was cute and lovely but when I went to post it, I was informed that blogger.com was down for the next half hour and that my post was lost. LAME!!!

Anyway, hope all is well and I'll chat soon. Have a lovely weekend.

So Much For Vacation

Hello All,

So it turns out I'm not supposed to leave. I got a few responses on my last blog letting me know I'm not allowed to take a break. My Ant Sara informs me that if I stop doing this, I need to send her a constant stream of long emails so she can keep up with my life.

So I'm back. I think I just needed something to get me past a follow up on my war blog entry. So now I can resume the daily going ons of my life.

So I have this engagement party thing going on. Last night, I started compiling addresses of my friends and families so I can hand that list off and someone can send off invites. Again...what a pain in the ass. I feel real weird about having to rate my friends to decide who gets to come to my engagement party. It's like, OK...I've know this person for a while. We've had some real good times. But wait, we haven't seen each other in a while. I don't want to waste any invites. Will they come? Are we still good friends anyway? Were we really good friends? What define's a good friend? Bla Bla Bla Bla. Then, on top of that, you need to figure out whose going to party well together and if I invite this person, then why am I not inviting that person?

People tell me that if I have a problem with the engagement party, then how will I ever deal with the wedding. Very easily. I'm going to invite everyone I remotely want to come, simple as that. I mean, as a reader of this blog, you qualify for an invite to my wedding. That includes you Colleen. By the way, are you cutting my hair this weekend? I feel an appointment coming on.

Speaking of the stress of inviting people to the engagement party, I would like to take a little space here to appologize to my Ant Sara and my Uncle Wayne. These are two fantastic people who I love dearly and unfortunately they hold it against me that I missed their wedding. Of course I had no recollection of this at all until she reminded me yesterday when I was getting her address for an engagement party invite. Ooops.

Sad thing is, I don't really remember why I didn't go. I think it had something to do with not having a car combined with needing to do something work related but I'm not a hundred percent on that. What I can tell you is that I never thought it would come back to haunt me.

So with my head in my hand and tears streaming down my face, I stand in front of the entire world and offer these 2 people my most sincerest appology. I promise to never miss any of your weddings or special engagements in the future, so help me Sara and I say Sara because she is a god to me and a very wonderful person from who you should purchase as much died yarn as you can afford. Operators are standing by.

In other news, my beautiful Kristine is visiting with her family in Long Island from today until Sunday. I actually had to pack a bag at her place to hold me over for a few days at the place I'm living until Junish. Hay Beeber! If you're reading this, clear up your schedule for Saturday. We're Going To Bridgeport!!!

Alright. My digitizing is almost done so I need to start paying attention to my work. I'm sure I'll be talking to you soon.

Takin a Little Bloggin Vacation

Good Morning,

Just wanted to check in to say I don't feel like checkin in. On my last entry, I got caught up in the moment and now feel overwhelmed by the idea of trying to live up to whatever standard I created when I wrote that. I woke up the next morning after writing it and thought, "I'm not doing any of that. Fuck the war." So now I'm just sort of living in a state of not living up to my own expectactations. I thought about deleting the last entry so there wouldn't be a record of my lost expectations but then I realized that it took so much of me to write it that it seems rediculous to throw it away.

So, you can expect that in time, I will return to letting you know about my daily ongoings. For the moment though, I'm taking a little break. See you when I see you.

A Nation At War

Good Morning Everyone,

Just sitting up here at my workplace, taking a few minutes out of my day to chat with you while listening to a little John Coltrane on my iPod.

Haven't really chatted it up with you in a few days. Still haven't figured out that fine line between life living and acounting for said life in the pages of a blog. I feel like I might have some loose ends to tie up on these pages but...well, I don't feel like doing a lot of writing about it. Let's see if I can do some summing up.

Woke up this morning and my fiance made me a nice breakfast consisting of scrambled eggs with onion, tomato, green pepper and mozarella. It was a great way to start out the morning and because of that, I now know that I'm not sure how to spell mozarella.

I think I mentioned Jon Stewart was awesome. If I find the time, I'll go into my past entries where I've mentioned him and take the "h" out of his first name as I now know it no longer belongs there.

I spend most of my time at my fiance's now, which I love very much. Still, I miss my grill, my G5 with the 23" cinedisplay, and my 60" HiDef TV. I'm looking forward to when I officially move in to Kristine's place so I can have all my stuff there.

Here's an amusing note. Because Kristine has gone over her minutes for the month on her cell phone and since she doesn't have a land line, I am without a cell for the next couple of things. This sharing lives thing has taken me to place I never imagined.

Last but not least, I have this engagement party to be thing lingering like a cloud over my head and it's giving me a bit of a headache. Since some of the key players are familiar with this blog and since I don't desire to spend a lot of time writing about the ongoing events, let me just say blaaaaaaaaa... for now and I'll keep you posted when the exciting details occur.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT

So I'd like to do something a little different today and talk about the war. Kind of and exhausting topic, the war. Just this very moment, I had to take a break from this blog entry and play the first level of Bejeweled 2 on Yahoo games so as not to fall asleep from my brain wanting to shut down.

Here's a question. Has everyone noticed that the war in Iraq is the new space program. Remember when you first heard about the space program and how exciting it was? Now, if it weren't for things like satelite radio and television, I would have no idea that they were still running missions up into space. Since I could care less about Iraqi radio or tv, I'm just so completely out of that loop. But I guess that why I'm talking about it now.

I have a good friend out west somewhere. In addition to being a cool guy, he an interesting guy to talk to as he thinks like noone else I know. I never know what he's going to say and I always find his words entertaining and inspiring. So I harp on him a bit about starting his own blog and yesterday he responded to my email by telling me that noone would care what he had to say and that it would just make him angry. He then proceeded to rant a bit about the war.

Isn't that weird? And I don't mean that specific to him. I mean...WE'RE AT WAR!!! I know, our president said that the mission was accomplished and that we're not at war anymore, but come on. We're at war. If you use the words "death" and "freedom" consistently to describe what your doin, then there's a war going on. So isn't it strange then that the majority of us who oppose this war don't feel motivated to keep shouting until it ends?

It makes me wonder about Vietnam. I grew up on all those films. I mean, did any of you think to yourself while watching Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, or hell, even Good Morning Vietnam that this would happen again? It makes me wonder about all the protester hippy types you would see in those movies and wonder if there presence was that prominent or if the clips we've seen are more like NFL highlights on SportsCenter. Certainly, the protest movement isn't felt to any degree in this time and age. Whereas I always felt Vietnam was an emotional rollercoaster, Iraq feels more like a business deal that isn't going very well.

By the way, let me say that when my friend sent me his email, I didn't get through it all the way at first. I read a little bit yesterday and then finished it today. I think yesterday I got as far as "There were no weapons of mass destruction found." I mean, Jesus Christ. It was the foundation of us going to war and now whenever I hear that, I have this mental voice inside my head that says, "Yeah yeah, we know. We know." How fucking weird is that?

I've figured out some things that have allowed my brain to mentally check out of the whole thing. First of all, I'm not going. There's no draft and even if there was, I fall outside the age bracket. Boy, I never thought I'd be thrilled to say that. Still, I used to believe that given my age and a body not fit for war would keep me out of our government's desired war fighting demographic. Yeah, no. If you signed up in World War I and you still have a little time left on your service, you may very well get a call. Good Lord.

Here's anothing thing that's allowed me to check out. More than half of our country decided to keep the president who started this war in office. I mean, Wow. What can you do about that? That means, for every one of me, there are another 1.something people out there who think I'm wrong. Where do you go from there? It's very odd to be in the minority and yet, so absolutely certain that the majority are out of there minds. To be fair, I will say that I'm certain the majority looks at me in the same way and thanks god that there's fewer of us silly people than them.

So, I sadfully admit there's a large part of me that says, "Well fine. I guess this whole war thing is your problem then since I can't fight and I don't seem to matter in the grande scheme of things." (Because if I could fight, I wouldn't care if I was outnumbered 20:1. I'd fight every one of ya before my ass woke up in Iraq.) But that's really the wrong attitude, isn't it? We live in the land of democracy where each indiviual person matters and we're supposed to express our opinions for the greater good of our society, even when they conflict with the majority. I mean, I'm guessing. I wasn't the brightest student in my school, but I'm pretty sure that's what I was taught. Everyone of us matters.

So what does this all mean? To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm not about to turn this blog into a political forum because I myself am immensely bored by politics. I will say this though. The one thing that really struck a chord in me in my friend's email was when he listed the GI's who were killed the other day as a result of the war. They are:

Charles Cooper Jr. 19 years old from Jamestown NY
Darren Deblanc. 20 years old from Evansville Indiana
William Edens 29 years old from Columbia MO.
Timothy Kiser 37 from Teham California
Eric Morris 31 from Sparks Nevada
Robert Murray 21 from Westfield Indiana
Ricky Rockholt 28 from Winston Oregon
Joseph Tremblay 23 from New Windsor NY

I think I'm going to ask my friend, Mr. X if he will continue to send me those names so I can update them here. It will be my way of reminding the world of the significance of our occupation in Iraq.

I mean, I guess if you want to, you can throw your two cents in in the comments section. I have a friend or two that support the current administration so that might make for an interesting read. I think the other thing that I'll do is if any of you have a blog and you have an entry regarding the current administration or the war, let me know and I'll link to it. I think I'll skip on linking to news sites regarding the war. There's 20 million of them. You can find them on your own.

There you go. I'm now exhausted but I feel a little relieved. I got out some deep thoughts. Oh...Actually, I guess I should mention as I may not have been clear about this, that I think the war is pointless and unnecessary and I think it's a shame that we have young men and women who are dying because they believe they are making this USA a safer place to live in.

So there ya go. That's a bit of life according to Dave. One last note. It took me a year to write this and the last thing I feel like doing is proofreading this write now. I'll probably do it later but I just wanted to let you know that I like keeping my entries in good spelling order and fairly ok grammer order. If you read something not grammatically correct, 9 times out of 10, that's is how I would have said it out loud. So now I will finish my game of Bejeweled 2, eat some lunch and then get some work done.

See ya l8r.

A Lovely May Monday Morning

Good Morning Friends,

Just wanted to say all is well. My mind was a little full yesterday but now the skies have cleared and the world is a sunny place. I need to get to work but I just figured after yesterday post, I needed to clarify that the world has stopped spinning a little to fast for me to comprehend. Chat wicha l8r.

Sunday Evening

Sitting on a comfy chair in Stamford decompressing and watching So I Married An Axe Murderer. Very tired. Just looking to recover. Can't wait for the hour long Simpsons with Ray Romano and the start of all new Family Guys. Jon Stewart is the funniest guy ever. Talk 2 u l8r.