TRAVEL PLANS
I finally got my marching orders and for the month of July, I will be spending most of my weekends with the Indy Racing League. I'll be doing what I normally do for them (pit note reporting and the like) at the races in Kansas, Nashville and Michigan events. It's exciting for me, because I'll get to see the friends from the IRL again, and I've never been to any of those tracks or cities, so it will be a new experiece all the way around. Hopefully, this is the start of finally getting into racing. Don't get me wrong. I never thought working in newspapers wasn't right for me, and who knows, maybe I can get a newspaper job that deals with racing.

Speaking of orders, I talked to an old friend of mine from Tech. He's a captain in the Air Force and he's heading back to the desert as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. If you get a spare moment. Please include Mark LaDrew in your good thoughs. He'll be there for almost two months. I've got a number of friends in the military, but Mark is the only one I know who is actually taking part in the War.

Other than that...I'm really looking forward to the football games coming out for the PS2. I'll probably get a cable modem soon, so I can play some people I know online. ... The Cube also has some games I really want to try. ... World Cup Final should be really good. Brazil is fun to watch. Germany is very disciplined. I think the Soccer Samba Kings take back the Cup... I finally got on my bike the other day. Didn't go far, just around Charleston Way. But I needed to ride it. Maybe I'll take it out to the Civic Center in a couple of days...

Check out those links below this... there pretty funny, except the educational one. It's well... educational.

Everything's coming up LEGO!
If you like make yourself as a South Park Character, click here, perhaps you'd like to be like this! Or, if you'd prefer something more educational, you should read this.

Taking the day off today, but not sure what I'll do. I need to get on my bike... I need to do laundry.... I have a lot of errands to do... Not a lot of time.

STRESS? I DON'T NEED NO STEENKIN' STRESS

I've survived three days without Chris in the office. I hope he enjoys his vacation, because after this he's gonna work like a dog! Things are going really well, except I am missing two of my friends' weddings today. Celena and Anthony get married this evening in Greenville and then Roy and Michelle are getting married in Charlotte. I wish I could have gone to either of them, but couldn't. I'll be sending them some gifts in the near future.

I'm loving my Gamecube. The games I bought are pretty fun, but my new obsession is ISSPE soccer for the PS2 (it's actually a Playstation One game) which I bought from a guy on sportsreviewers.com It's starting to take over my life. I play it pretty much every day, but that does not mean I will send my Cube to Marcus or Geoffrey.

I really need to get back on the bike. I'm probably too chicken to ride on some of the trails by myself (If no one knows where I am, that could be bad) but I should go ride. Marcus, get a bike... we'll start easy! Oh yeah... TEXAS won the national title, so I don't have to do a special section. WAY TO GO TEASIPS!...

Well that's all for today.. check bad later for some thoughts for the day.

TWO CONSOLE FAMILY
Well I did it. I traded in the original playstation, all my PSX games and selected Dreamcast games that I never played anymore and got a Gamecube, three games and a memory card to be named later for about $90. I got Super Monkey Ball (really fun game), Waverace Blue (Another cool game), and Super Smash Brothers Melee (I played it in the store and it was fun).

On another note, I think I broke my printer.... Ugh... So another headache with stupid technology. (UPDATE: I called Tech Support, who for $25 told me that my print cartride broke... get a new one.

GAMECUBE IN MY FUTURE?

I made an appearance at Corbett's tonight and hung out with Jake and Stella. Stella told me I could trade in my original playstation, some games and get a discount on a Gamecube? I think I'm gonna get one too and maybe a couple of games... Other than that things are about the same for me. I'm still living the World Cup hours, and watched the U.S.-Mexico match with some friends at home. I'm really looking forward to Friday when the U.S. and England both play.

Some more jobs have come to light... I don't know if I will pursue them, but it's good to know people think about me when they hear about openings.

SEE YA UIGUI COMMENTS.... HELLO ENETATION

It didn't work anyways, so the UIGUI comments are history.... hello enatation. Not as a cool as the other one, but they work dammit... hahahaha.... Geoffrey, they work... they really do.

EVERYONE NEEDS A DAY LIKE THIS...

I really didn't feel like working today, and it's a good thing that I was on "Assign" duty because I've never felt so useless in a long time.
If you haven't figured me out last two weeks, I've been living the World Cup lifestyle. That means I watched the U.S.-Poland soccer game at 7:25 a.m. on Friday morning.

As for the match all I can say is thank you South Korea. If not for Portugal being so undisciplined, they would have likeley settled for a draw, knocking the U.S. out of the second round. After that I lived the life of a bum. I watched some TV, took a nap, surfed the Internet and I went to AMS to watch the Southern All Stars Pro Trucks and double points races.

Oh yeah, I did work a little. I think I have a good idea for a behind-the-scenes story about AMS, maybe I'll work on it for later this summer. Tonight was just a little too hectic with all kinds of stuff going on at the track. That's about all the work I did today.

Comments don't work. I don't think they ever will. I have no other options short of moving my site and hosting my own comments somewhere else. (sorry G)

Thought for the day...
"It seemed obvious to me that popular culture is an important part of all our lives and it should have some kind of reflection in the books we are reading."
-- Nick Hornby (one of my favorite authors)

HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE

Just when I thought my year of covering races was over, I get a big surprise over the weekend. The media relations director of the Indy Racing League asked me if I would be willing to help out at a few more races later this summer. Of course I said I would try to come to as many as I can (After all this would be doing something I love, not just something I am good at) Hopefully it will lead to something else down the line (Maybe even full time).

I'm still hunting for a new comment script, but it looks like the only option I have is to move my whole site over to a new provider with PHP and FTP and start over. While it may cost some money to do so, at least everything would work.

Anyways, it's been a while since I did a thought for the day, so here's one for all of us:

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier that others.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

THREE MINUTES....

I've decided to try to find a new comment script and there's a good one out there. The catch is they only allow 25 users to sign up every six hours. So far, I've missed every opening by that's right, you guess it three minutes.... What's a guy to do?!?!?!?!?!.

YEAH, IT'S ANOTHER INFREQUENT JOURNAL ENTRY

So I don't update this all the time. And with all apologies to Jack Frost, I got promises to keep and many World Cup matches to watch before I sleep.

Things have been status quo since I got back from vacation last week. Geez, has it been that long!

Funny thing about vacations, I sort of forgot what the daily grind was like and how frustrating it can be sometimes. Fortunately, I'm running away again on Thursday. Headed home to Texas for the weekend and hopefully I can forget about life for a while.

I just hope I survive another day flying solo. Because last night certainly sucked. But enough shop talk.

Yes, I know the comment script is dead again... I may have to change it to something else... you can just e-mail your thoughts to me. That way I know you'll still care.