Minor Details

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. Well, that's not entirely true. I wrote a very profound and emotional blog on Monday night, but Myspace ate it. I clicked to post and got some weird error message. When I tried to go back, my words were lost forever. That blog could have resulted in a cure for cancer or world peace, but now I guess we'll never know.

Okay, maybe not. But here are a few minor happenings in my little world.

I'm going to Hawaii! Yaaaaaaayyyy!

That's right. Paul and I booked a seven day cruise for February. It's my big reward for finishing the MBA. That will make state #49 with only Alaska left. And with any luck, that will happen in June.

School started. And it still sucks.

Soon it will be over. I'm at the point where my general attitude is, "Ok. I'm here. What do I need to do to get this over with?" My finance professor seems cool. My capstone professor is going to be somewhat tough. He has a pretty strict policy on missing class and unfortunately, I have to travel to North Carolina for work next month. As a result, I will have to outline the chapter covered that night, find an internet article relating the chapter, and do a five minute power point presentation on it. I'm not happy about this considering this trip is work related. It's not like I'm just blowing off class.

Concerts! Concerts! Concerts!

Last week, I went to three concerts. I haven't had the time or the desire to recap them in full. Besides, Paul already did. So, I'll just give my Reader's Digest thoughts on each one.

Flyleaf at the Chameleon Club - It was really fucking loud in there. The first band was great, but I don't know who they were. Deadsy was creepy. Flyleaf was okay, but we saw everything from above and behind. We missed a lot of the facial expressions and the sound was somewhat muffled.

The Magic Numbers, Sonic Youth, Ween and the Flaming Lips at the Allentown Fair - I had never heard the Magic Numbers before, but I dig them. Sonic Youth played mostly newer stuff, but they were great. I was a little confused as to why they got such low billing. The crowd loved Ween, but I still think they're fucking weirdoes. And the Flaming Lips? Wow. Just wow. Once they started, I totally understood why they had top billing. Their show was so over the top. They shot streamers and confetti into the audience throughout the show. They had these huge five foot balloons that they released into the crowd. There were people on stage dressed as Santa Claus and Alien chicks. At the opening of the show, they had some sort of quotation about our lives being just a blip in the massive continuum of time and space and that we should make our lives epic journeys. It gave me all sorts of warm fuzzies.

Asia at Penn's Peak - This was okay, I guess. Steve Howe who is roughly 107 years old and the former guitarist of Yes played a few Yes tunes. They also covered Video Killed the Radio Star because the keyboard player also played in the Buggles. I have to say that the weirdest part of the show was intermission when I went to the bar to get another beer and ran into a former grad school classmate who is from nowhere near Jim Thorpe.

I had a few weird dreams this week

The first dream was that Madonna came to visit my neighbors. She had all these busses and limos parked on my street. And all the old people on my block seemed to know her personally. Madonna set up a giant Tilt-A-Whirl type ride across the street for the kids in the neighborhood to ride.

My other dream was that I was riding a skateboard up the hill on Hunter Street in Tamaqua at 2 am on a Tuesday morning. I ran into one of my friends who said he was going to the bar at the Citizens' Fire Company and I went along, but I don't remember that part of the dream. In the dream, I woke up at 9:50 am, extremely late for work and panicked. This panic woke me up and in the first few seconds I thought I really was late for work, even though it was only 3 am.

Well, I think that's everything going on here. Hope everyone else is doing well.