If you have ever met my dog, you know she loves food or anything resembling food! So, yesterday I just finished off a box of Cheez-It's and of course, Ginger had to play with the box to eat any last crumb. After she took the plastic bag out of it, and licked it clean, she thought the box still might have some crumbs in it. In her mission to salvage anything remaining, she put her head inside of the box and it got stuck!! She started thrashing her head around in hopes the box would come off and walking around frantic into ever wall in the living room! Being the mean mom I am, I sat on the couch watching her for a little while for my own amusement, then ran to grab the camera. I was only able to get a couple shots before she got the box off, but it was hilarious!

A few months ago I heard that Taproot was coming to the Detroit area at a really cheap price. Since there are some fellow rockers at my job at Chimes, I emailed them all and organized this concert. Unfortunately my buddy Andy didnt know whether the Pistons would be home that day and he had to give up his tickets.

Anyway in place of Andy, I brought my friend John as well as wrath ,my boss John and Matt's buddy Dan.

The opening bands werent that great. I think one band's name was Dirty Americans. So mostly me and my friends just bullshitted and talked. John totally stood out as an older dude, but thats because he wore slacks and a dress shirt. Come on John? Wheres your Distrurbed t-shirt?

I also saw my barber in the crowd and it was totally random because Matt was making fun of my "Jim Carey in Dumb and Dumber" hair cut.

During those two bands I freaking was downing these huge missles that contained Fosters and those totally got me toasted for Taproot.

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so i decided to head up to wolf lake again with my good buddy chad from kzoo. all ive been thinking about is throwing a frisby in waist high warm water for the past two weeks with an ice cold beverage in the other hand.... so i couldnt pass it up! well long story short just as we get on M10 (i believe) headed to wolf lake, just west of 131, we notice a van pull over smoking a little from the hood. im on the phone with and contemplainting whether we should pull over or not.. so finally we pull over and run over to the driver.. shes just getting out of the van with her daughter still strapped in the smoking-about to be ingulf in 15 foot flames, van. we look under the car and see gooey black stuff dropping from the engine bay to the ground on fire. so we immediately get them to the other side of the road to safety.. we than flag down the next group of cars pulling boats.. the one guy grabs his fire extingusiher and we try to put it out from under the car.. but it didnt phase the . . . Read More..

We had a very busy winter in 2006 because Susan and I planned things to do every weekend. One fun thing we did was take a trip with Cynthia and Susan down to Maryland to meet up with some friends to go skiing. Nothing too interesting happened on the drive there. But toward the end I was freaked out by Susan's driving because there were many winding dirt roads and she was driving with a lead foot. I commented a whole bunch about how I was fearing my life! I think I like being in control in those types of situations.



Anyway, we got to this beautiful mansion tucked away in this really nice neighborhood. Most of the people there were from Maryland and we all just played games and drank the whole night. One game was beer pong which I didnt participate, but we think that either that game (drinking out of random cups) or the hot tub and skiing attributed to Susan getting sick after the trip. That night was pretty crazy. One crazy thing that happened while everyone was . . . Read More..

My grandpa decided he wanted to do some traveling while his health is stable and he decided to go out west. I asked him if I could tag along for a couple of weeks and then fly home from my friend's house in Calgary. Taking this trip is truly a once and a lifetime opportunity for me. My grandpa is the out west professional. He has been driving back and forth since the 1930's and all of his children have been out there with him. Now was my chance to take a really sweet trip with him.

We left on a Thursday and made it all the way up to just north of the Mackinac bridge on the first days drive. We were trying to make it to my cousin Jimmy's wedding in Minnepolis the following day. We ate at the big boy that night and slept in a hotel right next door. Great conversations we have had thus far.

It was a long hike across the Upper Penninsula and across Wisconsin and I did a lot of work on the home page of memorycrawler.

Once we arrived to our hotel, my parents greeted us at the . . . Read More..