Sunday, February 25, 2007
ah, winter in the midwest
As the snow melted with temperatures in the mid 40's throughout the week, it was a nice feeling to head to work in the morning with the temperature above zero. And then just like that, we could be getting up to a possible 20 inches or so of snow by the end of the weekend. Driving around Friday night in the weather, I'm thankful I was stuck drving in that horrible blizzard that crippled Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, etc. a couple years back, becuase this is nothing compared to that. And this is the second thundersnow of the season, as I did see lightning and hear thunder behind the snow earlier tonight. I thnk Wisconsin is about to be destroyed. Just ask Lewis Black...
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
damn the sound man!
So I went to see The J Davis Trio down in DeKalb last night, since they're awesome and I love them. Unfortunately, the fates conspired against me. Picked up Tori from the dorms and had Portillo's for dinner - eat your heart out Jake ;) - and hung out with some of the old Upstaging crew, which was all good, but then things took a turn.
We got to The House, and the show started 30 minutes late, which really isn't all that bad. The first band had a good keyboard player, and that's really all I can say there. The second band could at least play their instruments (same keys player in both bands...), but made a travesty of a mix of reggae and rap, the extremely white singer with complete fake carribean accent. All summed up in a pop culture statement, the two opening bands were like Dyson's, they never lost suc(k)tion.
So then JDT has everyting set up at a quarter after midnight, which was good since I was still driving back to Madison once the show was done. Unfortunately, the sound guy took another 35 minutes to set up mic's, putting their start time around 12:50. I only stayed for three songs, since it had been snowing and I didn't know what condition the roads would be in, not to mention it was pretty late with a two hour drive ahead.
So I was pretty pissed that I went down there to only see three songs from the band I wanted to see, but checking the band's website this afternoon found that they're playing here in a month at the Memorial Union, and I'll stay as late as I need to this time.
One more good thing, my Airport Express station showed up today! iTunes playing over the stereo wirelessly. Yes.
We got to The House, and the show started 30 minutes late, which really isn't all that bad. The first band had a good keyboard player, and that's really all I can say there. The second band could at least play their instruments (same keys player in both bands...), but made a travesty of a mix of reggae and rap, the extremely white singer with complete fake carribean accent. All summed up in a pop culture statement, the two opening bands were like Dyson's, they never lost suc(k)tion.
So then JDT has everyting set up at a quarter after midnight, which was good since I was still driving back to Madison once the show was done. Unfortunately, the sound guy took another 35 minutes to set up mic's, putting their start time around 12:50. I only stayed for three songs, since it had been snowing and I didn't know what condition the roads would be in, not to mention it was pretty late with a two hour drive ahead.
So I was pretty pissed that I went down there to only see three songs from the band I wanted to see, but checking the band's website this afternoon found that they're playing here in a month at the Memorial Union, and I'll stay as late as I need to this time.
One more good thing, my Airport Express station showed up today! iTunes playing over the stereo wirelessly. Yes.
Friday, February 9, 2007
Sunday, February 4, 2007
tournaments and taxes
So I'm watching the big game right now, and have to ask a question of the masses: does anyone else think that the ref is getting a little too into the signals for penalties? Maybe he's just excited to be there...
Anyway, on to what I came to post about. Yesterday I headed back down to Illinois to be in closer proximity to Sterling, where I participated in a sport shot bowling tournament with my buddy Matt, who found out about it being in much closer proximity to Sterling than I am. For those who don't really follow, bowling, which would be most anyone reading this, the "sport shot" is a very difficult oil pattern on the lane, which affects how the ball moves for higher averaging bowlers. While the field was small at this tounament - only 17 people total - I did well enough to make the cut to the top 8 after the four qualifying games, and wound up making 3rd place, and along with a couple side contests I'd put in for, made back $16 more than I paid to get in. Had a chance to take 2nd, but just barely missed a couple of spares which put me down a few pins. But I was quite pleased with my level of play, and look forward to finding more tournaments to enter.
I guess after a few years away from competitive bowling, I'm now itching to get back into it, though I do want to work on my game a bit more first.
In other news, I'm not looking forward to doing my taxes this year at all. Six months working two jobs in Illinois, six in Wisconsin, blech. I suppose I might pick up some software to deal with it all soon.
Anyway, on to what I came to post about. Yesterday I headed back down to Illinois to be in closer proximity to Sterling, where I participated in a sport shot bowling tournament with my buddy Matt, who found out about it being in much closer proximity to Sterling than I am. For those who don't really follow, bowling, which would be most anyone reading this, the "sport shot" is a very difficult oil pattern on the lane, which affects how the ball moves for higher averaging bowlers. While the field was small at this tounament - only 17 people total - I did well enough to make the cut to the top 8 after the four qualifying games, and wound up making 3rd place, and along with a couple side contests I'd put in for, made back $16 more than I paid to get in. Had a chance to take 2nd, but just barely missed a couple of spares which put me down a few pins. But I was quite pleased with my level of play, and look forward to finding more tournaments to enter.
I guess after a few years away from competitive bowling, I'm now itching to get back into it, though I do want to work on my game a bit more first.
In other news, I'm not looking forward to doing my taxes this year at all. Six months working two jobs in Illinois, six in Wisconsin, blech. I suppose I might pick up some software to deal with it all soon.
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