Hit with the Christmas Spirit

Of all things to be fended off with, I think this one takes the cake.

The incident began in Del Paso Heights when Donald Kercell, 49, became drunk and then got angry, Sgt. Norm Leong said.
Kercell grabbed a knife at about 5:45 p.m. and went outside of a residence in the 3600 block of Dayton Street to confront neighbors, police said.

Leong said Kercell swung the knife and went after some people, adding that some of those being chased suffered minor injuries.
A bystander picked up a 2-foot-long candy cane decoration, smacked Kercell with it and disarmed him, Leong said.

As if it probably isn't bad enough for this guy that he's being arrested for some drunken impulse decision, he was beaten down with a big plastic holiday treat. I think the only thing that could possibly be worse is if it were a part of a nativity scene instead. Guess the three gifts given were gold, frankenscence, and whoop-ass.

Just an update

Lots of exciting things for me in this post, not so much anything profound though.

Jess and I found an apartment downtown together, and will be moving in at the end of August. Now I just need to pack some things and get rid of some others.

My passport came. HOORAY!!! I was hoping I wouldn't have to be freaking out with the trip to Greece coming up in about 7 weeks. It's here, and I did a little dance to celebrate its arrival.

This weekend might bring about two great parts of summer: small town festivals, and movies. Possible happenings for Friday are going to Riverfest in Watertown to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, which would be quite a bit of fun/nostalgia. Saturday could include going to the drive in theatre in Jefferson to see the double feature of The Simpsons Movie and the new Die Hard flick.

I'll also probably do some packing and disc golfing while I'm at it. In the meantime, I'm just waiting for laundry to get done while watching some baseball.

music music omg music

So I finally remembered to get on to emusic before my month ran out this time.
New music =
camper van beethoven, (self titled)
the twilight singers, "blackberry belle"
radio 4, "gotham!"
my robot friend, "dial 0"
someone still loves you boris yeltzin. "broom"

In addition to that, I got on isohunt and picked up battles "mirrored", and black rebel motorcycle club "baby 81". So I'll be busy listening to new things for a while. And it might take a long while, because I can't stop listening to the Battles album. They're amazing. And I know I picked up this record after it's been out a while, I've just been lazy about grabbing music the last few months.

In other news - seeing as it's been a while since my last pst - jess and I are looking for apartments together. Pretty sure we'll head in the downtown region, but there are a few other possibilities. While I'm slightly irked being as far away from work as we might be, I'd much rather be able to do things downtown without always looking for parking. And I think it'll get me on the bike a lot more. I ride it a fair amount now, but all the trails meet downtown, which is a huge spur to get out and go.

Work has been going well, and soon I'll no longer be the new kid on the block in project management. One of the other guys is moving over to marketing, so we're pulling in someone to replace him, plus another PM position was approved, so there'll be two new people coming in the next month or so. We're also going to be regionalizing. Actual regionalization, unlike the pseudo-regionalization we have right now for some of the PM's who've been there a while. Last I heard I'll probably be one of two in the northeast. things should be more set in stone tomorrow after our meeting.

pictures up soon?

I have to play around with my camera to get some pictures from it onto the computer, but I got some really cool shots of frozen trees on the shore of lake mendota on sunday. I also got a wet foot from slipping off a rock I was standing on and into the lake up to mid-calf. Better than all of me in the lake, but still unpleasant considering it was about 30 degrees outside. Anyway, I'll try to put something up once I get the transfer taken care of.

New job is going well, reaching the end of the major training, and will start picking up my own projects probably by the end of this week. I'm excited and nervous about it, but I'm sure the nervousness will pass pretty quickly once I start doing this stuff everyday.

Now for some food...

as mom would say, "NO"

So if anyone's been listening to the news at all in the last few months, the USA has been requesting that Iran suspend uranium enrichment studies in order to begin talking about their nuclear program, and Iran's request is that the US also put it's nuclear program on hold, to put the discussions on even ground. Why, then, do I feel that this is not the best way to move toward those discussions? Almost looks as if we'r preparing for them not to suspsend their actions.