Five Days...adventures abound

Don't worry. I haven't forgotten about you...the faithful readers of this thing called my web log. My world has been fairly busy for the last five days and it’s been a good five days.

In the summer of 2000, I celebrated roughly eight 21st birthdays in 10 days. It wore the hell out of me and was dubbed: "The Summer of Ed." Well, these past 5 days weren't quite close to the summer of Ed (especially on the booze tip), but pretty close (hi-jinks). Here are the top Six adventures from the past five days.

6. Brewers Win Game 1

We sat in the bleachers for this one. The temperature was very comfortable on this fourth night. The wind was blowing out, so we got to see 4 home runs. Now a days, they happen so many times during the season, that you'd think they aren't that exciting anymore. From centerfield, almost every homerun is majestic. It's like watching it on television with a damn wide angle. At the same time, I had to use the golf clap when my team did something right. Two things annoyed me, though: (1) annoying drunken girls who try to be the life of the party. (2) People who don't think. The annoying drunk girl was told to stop her antics a few times. Her choice comeback to the security guy was: "Get a real fuckin' Job!" The rationale behind that immature and elitist statement blows my mind...why do people see others as inconsequential pebbles in the sand? I've always tried to respect the fact that people are, well...people. People who don't think annoy me, too. I won't get into it, but why would one say: "you don't know the meaning of long!" about a foreign baseball player when he hit a homerun during his last at-bat?

5. Brewers Win Game 2

On this fifth and last night of the spree, I was at my second baseball game in two nights. The Brewers were a few runs down heading into the top of the 8th. They managed to tie the game on a 3 run homer, and then take the lead in the 9th plus a few more runs. I scored the game on paper. It is a mess...but a classic. That shit's going on my 'fridge. I'm only a 19 minute walk from the ballpark. I may or may not spontaneously decide to go to the ballpark during night games when I have nothing else to do. Chillin' alone at the ballpark is quite a peaceful thing to do...that may be my choice activity.

4. Three-One-Four Reunion

Jake, Jon and I hung out for a bit during the Second night. It could the last time the three of us will kick it for quite a while. Kickin' it featured the essence of what kept the three of us tight during the 2 years we lived together: laugh riots, hilarious discussions, and feeling at ease with everything that's going on. Those were the days, mayne...

3. Deposed like a hose

As the previously mentioned lawsuit comes to a close, I was able to front my side of the story on the first day in hopes to get this 2 year saga to a close. From the minute the opposing lawyer walked into the room, the game was on. I came into the opposing lawyer's office early to check out Jacob's deposition. As soon as the enemy lawyer walked into the conference room, he tried to separate us. The lawyers disagreed and before I knew it, the judge was on the phone. She agreed that separating us was not possible, and we were set to go. Jacob's deposition went well; I was able to hear his side of the story. However, after the 1.5 hours of questioning, he was drained and took a walk around the block. Would I feel the same pressure? While Jacob took his walk, I was up and chased every ball down. The lawyer was basically trying to find an opening to crack my case and I was solid. However for a 10 minute span, he worked an angle a bit longer than the rest. I noticed it right away and seemed apprehensive about it at first. However the questioning led him to a wall when I explained that things on my end weren't going to happen because the correct judicial process wasn't correctly followed at the time. At this point, the standard questions followed, the pressure was off, and my job was done. Things look a little gravy on this side. It looks like another pepperoni has been tossed on to the pizza.


2. 446 is Back and Live for the first time

The second day was the most hectic. While at one house during the Mifflin street block party getting ready for the rock show, I had some business to attend to. Like a bunch of thugs on a mission, Tha 446 crew swept by to pick me and The Girl up. It was a line of about 15 people walking confidently through the block party. Everyone had a swagger. We show up to the house and after solving the crisis in the form of electronic connections, we were on. About 40-60 people stopped to watch us promote the new album. Most were entertained. I felt a lot of positive energy from the street. Two guests joined us and tossed out a freestyle. I botched my own verses, Jake's verse, read CJ's verse a-okay...but the chorus sing-a-long was amazing. As Steve went on to say...it was the worst and best show in the world. I'm talking about the gargoyles.

1. Room Service Reunites

The same fourth day featured us getting the band back together. It felt good to be on stage once again in front of hordes of drunks. The First set seemed to rigid. We were rusty and the energy wasn't quite there. It felt like we were never on stage in front of people before. Sure, it had been a year since a show, but the rust took too long to shake off. However, we came out and tore into the crowd with the second set of rockers. We had the crowd eating out of our hands by the end of the night and it felt damn good. Unfortunately the crowd seemed a bit younger than I would have liked. I mean, you can tell a lot about a crowd's age then they're not sure if your cover of Styx's "Renegade" is an original or a classic rocker. The Girl came to the show and saw a different side of me. I think she kind of liked it.
PHOTO COLLECTION 1 - here are Tim's pictures.

So there you have it folks, other highlights included running into former characters from this B-Movie that is my life including a formerly close friend from Freshman Year, a girl I dated for a minimal time, an acquaintance from my dorm year who happened to be hanging out with a WWB friend, one of the guys I used to play pool against during my pool playing, unemployed days, and a few random characters from my high school.

All in all, it was an amazing couple of days...I may have a few images about this in a few days.

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