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Ok so you heard it here first. Melanie was given a promotion and we are moving to California! Sacramento to be exact. Its a great city thats only one hour away from San francisco in one direction and one hour away from Tahoe in the other. We went out there two weekends ago to check it out and see what we thought about the place. Its actually very nice. Melanie likened it to Houston as far as the vibe. We are looking to move in an area called “midtown”. Its pretty much a house, house, bar, house, coffee shop, house area. I guess I’ll finally get my money’s worth out of my new bike. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing once I get out there, but its exciting to start over. I guess I could really do anything. I’m shooting for video game tester or ass cushion tester.

Im writing today because I know im starting to get sick. I can feel that flemmy junk in the back of my throat . You know. The kind of flem that no matter how much you “ahem” or make that “mmmmmMMGH” sound like someone cut in front of you in line at a McDonnalds, it never goes away. So this morning I was trying to decide which pill to take to make myself feel better before this weekend. We didn’t really have anything that matched my needs, so I grabbed the closest medications I could find. These were my choices.
- Tylenol Allergy & Sinus - I really didnt have any of these symptoms, but my wife pops these like candy so they were in abundance, and I guess I could make a case for one of these because surely it could help in someway right? I remembered though that the last time I took these that I felt the same way I did when I had that Quad Venti Mocha Breve at Starbucks. Yeah, not gonna do that again.
- Mystery Nyquil - I spent about a good five minutes contemplating this one. I was trying to remember if the green gelcaps meant nighttime or daytime. Since I had to go to work I couldn’t take the nighttime and be sleepy all day. I decided that since it said “nyquil” that it probably meant “ny”ghttime and I shouldn’t take it.
- Benedryl - There wasn’t really a good reason to even think about using these because I had no Benedryl required symptoms, but we have so many because of my GVH (uhh..sorry… graft vs host disease), they’re so pink and pretty and it is totally like being drunk when you take about 3. I actually broke out in a full body rash once after being bit by a couple of fire ants. It was so bad that I had to be taken to the hospital. I took 4 benedryls and was still itchy, but flying high. I asked the doctor what else I could do and he said not to take any more Benedryl because I could start halucinating. umm.. so where’s the drawback? I would also like to point out that no one really takes these unless something bad has happened like an alergic reaction or rash right? So why do they put them in a virtually unopenable package? Your itchyness and pain becomes more unbareable as your frustration over getting these pills out grows. I compare it to the same feeling that comes over you when you have to pee really bad and it intensifies the closer you get to the toilet and you almost piss yourself unzipping your pants. I actually had to use plyers once to open that damn blister pack.
- Marinol - Ok. Now were just looking for something to do now.
I actually just settled on taking regular Tylenol. I know, I know. Kinda anticlimatic. Hopefully though, that will work and I will be able to perform this weekend without any hitches. And if it doesn’t look at all the wonderful choices I have.

So, since Tommy has joined the band, we haven’t really taken any new photos for the website. After Eric quit, Noah removed him from the main pictures and that was that. The intention to add new pics has always been there but we just haven’t followed through. Now that we are playing the Fox and Hound on New Year’s, we were asked to do some flyers to advertise the event. It seemed like a good excuse to finally get some pictures taken.
I tried to think of a good idea for a shoot. The last serious one we did, we went out into the street and took a couple of silouette shots and some at my kitchen table. This time I wanted to do something different and something that hadfn’t been done before. If you haven’t noticed by the other posts, I have a thing with dumb pictures. A couple of years ago at my little sister’s graduation, I was standing by a cop car and my older sister took a pic of me standing by it, and because my hands were behind my back, it looks like I was being arrested. I thought it would be funny if we re-created the shot with the rest of the guys as used it as the new band photots.
In my head I tried to think of how we could do this. My next door neighbor has a white ford that could easily pass as a cop car once you photoshopped some decals on it, so I figured we could pose around it and.. tada!
But as luck would have it, we had a rehearsal last night at Ben’s house. His living room was all deco’d for Christmas and so playing in there was out of the question. So we set up in his garage and practiced in there. Around 9:15, the neighbor directly behind him knocked on the door wearing his pajamas and very upsetly asked us to stop rehearsing. Being the good neighbor that Ben is he said OK. We started to pack up and Ben raised the garage door only to see a police cruiser parked in front of the house. As the officer walked up, he informed us that he had recieved a complaint about the music. Tommy asked him if it was true that legally we could play until 10. The officer replied, ” Yeah, I didn’t come here to make you stop. I just have to inform you that someone complained.” We all started laughing and then it hit me. This was the perfect opportunity to get those pictures taken.
With the help of the officer and Crystal’s little sister’s boyfriend Chris, we were able to get our pictures done. He was refreshingly nice and very obliging. We asked him to be in some but he didn’t want to. I wasn’t quite sure if it was a legal “thing” or if he just thought we were stupid. It was a good rehearsal and the bonus was the picture opportunity that seemed to just fall into our laps.

That is really the question. Now I realize that before I go into this I have many friends who enjoy myspace and I do not judge other lest i be judged and I have many issues…so thi is in no way bashing anyone, its just how I personally feel…Recently my little brother, not the little little one just the little one, started a myspace page. He kept going on and on about how cool it is. I’ve never really had a problem with any medium of this sort (friendster and the like) but for some reason I can’t quite pin down what it is about myspace that rubs me the wrong way.
I have always felt that if I needed to post something or put pictures up, that I have my own webpage to do it on, and if you are my friend you’re gonna know about it. Plus if I want to talk shit about someone I can do that as well knowing that I have some anonymity to do so. And maybe thats it.. I think I like the anonymity that this page allows me. I do have the desire to contact old friends and catch up, but I have never wanted MY info out there for others to contact me. I hope that doesn’t sound pretentious, but if I really want to talk to someone I will let you know. hahahaha
Anyway, back to myspace. So when I first started looking around via our Band’s myspace page, I noticed three things.
1) Man there are alot of people out here that I would love to talk to.
2) Man there are alot of people out here that I would hate to talk to.
3) Man there are alot of douchebags out here posing with a guitar.
Most of the people that I saw and knew, I have their phone numbers if I wanted to talk to them, so I really didn’t see that as a pro for joining. There were actually a couple of pepople that I hadn’t seen since high school and to be able to email them would be great., but I would have to join and become one of the many douchebags posing with a guitar…
I actuallly posted an earlier blog on the phenomenon of self-portraits and how I can’t stand the horrible pics people take of themselves to make them look attractive or cool. And then the horrible fake bios of yourself very reminscient of resumes for jobs where you list things you’ve seen on other resumes that you thought were good. Plus the whole idea of trying to get more and more friends on your list is a little silly to me. Really? You do have 12,375 friends? And Diddy is one of them? Really?
So to steal and idea from Adam, I would like to create a new website called “yourspace” where you can sign up, but only others can write about you and post pictures of you. much like this..

Zac

27 years old
2 back surgeries and infested with cancer
bio: likes dumb video games, stupid music that only he and walter may think is good, playing bass in a mediocre band, thinks he can sing, lazy, finds humor in things like terri schiavo and drowning babies, asshole, self important, immature, not very good in bed, cries and poops alot.

Its harsh I know, but I believe honesty is the path to redemption.