and things improve....

so baseball is over. 'nuf said.

i have been been requested to talk about the football team from that fine town in my home state, the University of Georgia Bulldogs. i am not sure why i would receive such a request, since i am not a fan of said team, but since i know out of the 3 or 4 people who read this, on is a rabid fan, i shall do so. oh, yea....i also have a grad student/ professor from there, who has always claimed to hate "american football" but who seems to have given in to it......so here goes....

the bulldogs are un-defeated, and will likely remain so....most likely playing in the SEC championship, probably winning it. (although i must confess i'd like to see alabama win....i love an underdog, which alabama certainly was, after a number of years on probation). the bad thing is, even after that, barring something insane happening, they will still not play in the national championship game, even after winning the toughest conference in the NCAA. travesty. abolish the BCS, put in a playoff of some sorts.

om a side note, my beloved UT vols will be lucky to even make the peach bowl....after being picked pre-season to win the national championship......dang it.

toady, i am told they are making some "changes" at work. o goodie. i do so love that. it won't mean the loss of anyone's job or anything....it probably means they are going to fiddle with our bonus structure, and what things we get bonuses for......they usually bonus us for performance in areas where the company is struggling....fun, fun, fun......and i will get another manager today, since mine is changing departments.....anyone seen the movie "office space"? that's where i work. seriously.

and one last note...i went on a pseudo date last night. the first one in a long time...she basically asked me out. it was interesting to say the least. and no, there will not be a second date, though she might hope for one.....anyone requiring more information than that can see me after class.

so let it be written, so let it be done.

it's that time of year....

no. not halloween. not christmas, which seems to start earlier every year now.......

baseball. the world series. when people who normally couldn't care less rush to watch each game, cheering for a team they couldn't name a single player on a week ago. my roommate is from houston, so he is all into it(he never has been, but he is now, making my point for me). i cannot for the life of me understand the excitement. i tried to play baseball. went to one tee-league practice....realized it was a waste of time, and went home, never to return. i am, by the way, "rooting" for chicago, since as i understand it, if they win tonight, and tomorrow, the whole thing ends. sounds good to me. then i can get back to concentrating on wondering just how much worse my beloved tennesee vols football team can do.

speaking of halloween....another holiday i could do without. not for any religious reason, but just because it is just yet another reason for kids to get "stuff"....candy....costumes....crappy toys at church "fall festivals"...enough already.....we have reduced every stinking holiday, christian and pagan to being an excuse to give more stuff to our kids that they don't need. i will rant more on this as christmas approaches, i am sure....by the by....my immediate family has pretty much ceased to exchange gifts, and would stop completely if we didn't feel bad about not giving the kids anything...see? it's the kids......more later...

i am tired now....not sure why. i slept until 11am today. i hate this 1230-9pm schedule.

so let it be written, so let it be done

change is good.....

so thanks to a certain dear friend, i am looking very closely at orthodox christianity. it seems to answer a lot of the questions i have long held. there is something very comforting about a system that has been in place for hundreds of years. i know i have been very unhappy in my safe little protestant world for a long time..this could be the answer i am looking for. i think i am going to seek out an orthodox church here and attend it for a while, and see what happens...more to follow on this....

i saw mr kevin max sunday night in concert. that man is a true rockstar. has a stage presence like bono......he played a great set of mostly new tunes here in town....i can forgive his sordid past if he continues to put out music like this. i also got to meet one of my musical heroes, mr andrew d prickett, of the prayer chain, the lassie foundation, cush, etc.....he's a really nice guy, and complimented me on my myspace avatar...i highly recommend meeting your heroes. let them know what they mean to you; you won't regret it.


i wish i had something witty to say, but i am tired.....maybe tomorrow.....

so let it be written, so let it be done

random thoughts

wow.....work can be fun. today i had a customer tell me he was making it his sole mission in life to see that i am terminated from my job. i wish i had that kind of free time, to make something that petty my sole mission in life. you'd think he could find a more worthy cause.....if by some cosmic coincidence he reads this....sir, i encourage you to devote your life to something of more substance. by the by, it was a simple matter of something not being delivered when HE thought it should, and this all being my fault, even though i just sell them, i don't build them...mind you, his order is not scheduled to ship until next week, but i was able to tell him it had already gone out; this was still not good enough. good grief.

breaching the ever popular topic of politics, i heard today that VP cheney may resign, and that condi rice will be made VP.....the customer who told me this also said "that will leave mr potato head leading the country all by himself." now, i am a bush supporter, but i had to laugh. that's some witty stuff..... i also hear that it is apparently likely that we will be choosing between condi and hillary in the next presidential election. i need to ask my dear friend robi, the poli-sci doctoral student some questions on this, but i truly think this will lead to a strong showing, if not a win by a third party candidate.

on a related note, i found out today i can buy a very nice island in a banana republic with a house on it for about $3million. anyone willing to go in on that with me? robi, also being an econ grad student (yes, he is apparently an over achiever) will probably advise me that this is not a good idea. but i like it a lot. i can catch fish, and the rum ship can make a monthly delivery. that's about as good as life gets.

that's about it for today....i worked 12 hours, and came home to freshly cooked filipino eggrolls. my roommate and i have a friend from the philippines who taught us how to make them. he assured me that no filipinos were harmed in the making of said eggrolls. they are quite tasty. but now, having eaten them, and having had several cups of wonderful organic spiced black tea, i am ready for bed, so i can get up tomorrow, and do it all over again. i miss being self employed already.

o well........

so let it be written, so let it be done

here i go again

man....twice in one week. what is getting into me?

so i am back on the phones for Dell. strangely enough, out of the tens of thousands of calls we get per day, i had a business acquaintance from my summer of booking concerts end up on my phone last night. we had a nice chat, which will no doubt lead to someone somewhere at dell checking out the sale, to see if i gave my friend any un-authorized discounts.....ahhh corporate america.

i have recently become very fascinated with some new music....americana. no, not the starflyer 59 album, but the genre.....americana, alt-country, whatever the cool term is this week. you know....folks like john prine, steve earle, buddy and julie miller(and of course, the vigilantes of love are an old favorite),....also some other great song-writers...townes van zandt, van morrison, jerry jeff walker, elvis costello. this is all good and well, but i have noticed that these fine artists are all fairly...well....liberal. lot's of anti-war, anti-republican, hippie kind of stuff. i suppose this would be ok, if i weren't such a died in the wool southern baptist conservative pro-gun republican. the issue is, with these people, the words of the songs are the point, as opposed to most modern rock, where the words are just something to scream over the loud guitars. so can i listen to this wonderful music, support these extremely talented people, whose politics i so firmly disagree with? i hope so, because i surely dig the music.

speaking of me being pro-gun.....i had the opportunity to go to a pistol competition this past weekend. it was amazingly lacking in testosterone, and was just a bunch of really nice folks who love shooting guns. good solid citizens. i met several police officers (always good for a person of my checkered past), and other assorted people, and all in all had a great time. i think i may shoot in the next one.....i need another expensive hobby, because music just isn't sucking my wallet dry enough......

well....that's enough for today. i had some great ideas for new witty content, but seemed to get off onto some rant about music and politics and what not, which derailed the humour. maybe next time. until then......

so let it be written, so let it be done

a newer post.....and we shall start from here

so i am now ashamed. my sister, who claims she is not witty, has shared her blog with me. she is quite witty. i consider myself to be a fairly witty guy, but she has funny stuff. actually, we have decided that we are not funny, but our kids (we each have 2) are hysterical. her son ponders our existence and place in the universe....he's 5. my daughter, whom i consider a genius, apparently has been brainwashed by public schools to think she should worship tornados....maybe it's the bowing down thing, i am not sure. she has now been accused of being a future cult leader. o goodie. i can't wait to be on CNN.....

so i am back in nashville. i love nashville, it is a fantastic town. music, see, is one of the biggest parts of my life; and nashville has a LOT of it. last week i saw charlie peacock, along with a smokin' band put on an amazing jazz set. full horn section, hammond b3 (played by the amazing roger smith), jaco pastorious' son on bass.....wow.... later this month i will go see kevin max. yes, that kevin max. formerly of dc talk. he is now an artsy rock star, and i dig his music a lot. you should all check out his new album, coming out on northern records (one of my favorite labels). phil keaggy will be here in november. rumour has it the choir will be playing this fall. what a fine town.

people think it's all country, but i have yet to go to a country show, and have no plans to. although i am quite a big fan of some fringe country music.

o yes....why did i move here? i indeed am again working for Dell computers. they were kind enough to offer me a job again....i had to start all over, but i think it's worth it. i dang sure hope so. it's not easy moving from state to state all the time. and i should know....i have done it enough.

so here is my entry for today....decidedly un-witty. i shall have to put more into it i think. there is only so much to be witty about, when one goes to work, and comes home, watches a little TV, and goes to bed.

i think i shall post here more often. maybe then the 3 people who actually come here wouldn't feel like that are wasting their time.

so let it be written, so let it be done

(an old post, from my old blog, just to make it look like i actually post sometimes)

can i get someone to ghost write this thing for me? somehow, while i have time to have 7000 posts on a message board (www.77s.com/wbb2) i can't find time to get here. o well, i am here now, i might as well write something. my sister says she is not witty enough, and i am doubtful that tonight's update will provide her any inspiration for wittiness....

it seems i am moving back to beautiful nashvegas, tennessee. i will leave my life of leisure, being self employed (which is a lot like being unemployed, except it sounds better when you say it; it pays about the same.). i will again enter corporate america, working for the wal-mart of computer sales, Dell Inc. no really, they are a great company to work for. (dell, not hell-mart).

at least i will get to hear good music again, and hang out with the cool people. i hear there is going to be an album release party for the new kevin max CD on northern records (it's good, i have heard parts) this fall, and maybe i will go see the re-united black crowes at the fabulous ryman auditorium in october. good times will be had by all.

so that's where we are....back to music city.

i think i already told all 3 people who read this that i am moving......


so let it be written, so let it be done.