Don’t worry, this’ll all be interesting when I’m dead.

Additional picture of me in my new Tally Hall shirt-shirt.

arrisburg. My city. You didn’t know? John Harris, an old ancestor of mine founded that town. So… it’s kind of mine. Man! I had no idea I’d be downtown in the middle of it all. But I had a nice time. They played a half hour or 45 minute set and then since they were the last band of the day (huge all-week, all-day event) they hung out afterwords with the leftover fans and played acoustically for us and took some requests. The pictures are not in chronological order…

There was some lady that worked at the hotel who loved them! Got some good pics of her. She said of all the bands in the last 3 days, they were the 2nd best she’s seen.

Enjoy!

guess no one wants to fess up to the CD thing in the last post. Oh well, it’s ok by me. I’m running low on them anyway. It’s good to have one back so I can eventually get it in the hands of someone who might actually appreciate it.

I’ve been sick the past week with an infection on my tonsil. I think it began to swell from the demolition in the attic. 50+ years of dirt and dust filling up the entire room. Yes, I had a ventilation mask on but only for the worst parts. That stuff probably flies around for long after before it settles. So, after days of suffering from the pain due to each bite of food taken, each gulp of liquid, each swallow of saliva, I finally broke down and saw my doctor. He’s worried that it’s only one tonsil that is affected. It may mean an abcess. So I’m on antibiotics for 10 days. If the condition persists, he will try steroids. If that fails, I’m going to have to get surgery to drain the thing and/or remove the tonsils. He knows that’s a last resort though because I am not covered by insurance. I’m 3 days into the antibiotics and it definitely feels like it’s working.

Speaking of the house, the attic is totally gutted and all ready for the new drywall. Dan worked extrememly hard to get 50 sheets of drywall up two flights. Minor damage on the walls, but they should be easily fixed. The livingroom will now forever be known as the front room. The dining room is now the middle room (aka the livingroom aka The Chocolate Milk Room). This is because the TV is now in the middle room. It was too heavy to hang on the brick fireplace. That brick wall was not attached well and just might have pulled the thing down. It’s ok though, because the new couch suits the middle room paint color better. It’s pretty much done. I still have to put real white over some primer white areas and put a dark brown border around the tops of the walls. It’s called The Chocolate Milk Room because of that brown suede I talked about. It looks real nice. The whole surround sound thing will work better in that room anyway.

The carpet is on its way. A new carpet color really changes a house/room. For 25 years I’ve known this dark brown shag. In a couple weeks, I will have a forrest green color. It’ll look great in the front room but I’m worried about the chocolate milk room. I don’t think it will be that great but not bad enough to want to change anything. Then I’m done for awhile. We’ll still have to get the drywall actually hung in the attic (oh and we have insulation ready for up there, too) but I’m done with the money. I just gotta wait until I have a job before I start spending any more. There’s still the front porch and the roof to take care of before moving on to the other rooms.

For those who may be interested… a guy I know, Joel Perlish, is about to venture out on a double-cross country motorcycle trip. He’ll be keeping a diary of words and pictures along the way. He’s got quite a story of biking trips throughout his life which you can read about on his site. He’s kept near-record daily running streaks. Every couple years or so he battles a new monster and this time, it’s this 10,000+ mile trip. His main site is www.joelperlish.com — But for his journal which will have it’s first entry THIS SUNDAY, you can go directly to that link here: http://www.joelperlish.com/motorcycle_journal.htm. You may know I’m the webmaster for the site and will be updating the journal for him. We both hope you enjoy it.

Tomorrow, I’m headed off on my own road trip. To Harrisburg! Tally Hall will be playing there and this will officially be the furthest I’ve ever travelled to see a band play. It’s no 10,000 miles (only about 103 miles) but it’s long enough.

ould someone be kind enough to tell me why I found a copy of my “To whom it may concern…” CD in between my doors this evening?

ello? Hi there. MAN! I just had the weirdest telemarketing call ever. It was Citibank telling me about some protection program and as usual I politely said I wouldn’t be interested and promptly received their “rebuttal” script. Again, no thank you. Another rebuttal. “Still not interested, thanks.” Another rebuttal. “Definitely still not interested.” Another rebuttal. I started to laugh and said “Boy they really give you a large script!” Without hesitation, another rebuttal. I realized this person is spitting out lines and pausing to let me decline and then moving on to the next line of the rebuttal speech. This literally happened around 10 times before I said “Ok, I’m gonna hang up now.” Another rebuttal. “Have a nice day… byebye” Another rebu— I hung up in mid rebuttal.

That was crazy.

So like, what’s up? As for me… the house is still being worked on. The middle room which will become the living room is all painted and the TV will be going in there as opposed to on the brick wall, which just might topple over if I hung it on the brick. Yeah. The carpet is about to be replaced within a couple weeks, too. The attic is all gutted and all the new drywall is sitting in my front room downstairs awaiting the tremendous task of taking all 40 sheets up to the attic, one by one. School is ok. I haven’t been able to enjoy it so much lately because I’m in the middle of a long bout with insomnia. I will not be able to get to sleep and then I am dazed throughout the class, only to come home and oversleep the next day. It’s all messed up. It’s so hot, too. I haven’t felt anything but mixed up, confused, and overwhelmed the past couple weeks with all this going on. I was able to keep it all tight in my mind for quite awhile but it’s all getting jumbled around. This is why I haven’t been posting at all. Nothing really interesting to say. Just whining.

I did that small job for Visual Sound a couple months ago and from it, was offered a customer service rep position. Wtf? Didn’t accept… but I might seek it out in a couple months if I can’t get a designing job.

Woe. WWTHD?