HOT DAMN! Friday was intense. during the 11th hour, problems with my home loan came up. I spent the

whole afternoon transfering funds, waiting hold to credit card people, banks and loan officers. I

think everything will work out.. if every one cashes their checks in the propper orders. After I

got that all cleared up I was spent and left work early.

I got to walk through my house again yesterday, It wasnt as pink as i remember it. Thats a good

thing! I think the lady just had alot of pink decorations that made the pink fixtures stand out even

more and made it feel like a flood of pink. I should have the keys by wednesday.

Teddys garage got cleared out as best as it could for the show. Plague: The Red Letters, went first.

I would say there was about 30 kids in the garage, moshing and having fun. The walls are padded in 3

inch foam to cot down the noise, it also acted as a foam bumber to bounce off of. it ruled. They

played a short set and xdeathstarx went on. I think it was all of maybe 15 seconds before blood was

poaring out of a gash on my cheek. I had bend down to adjust my mics volume just as kevin swung his

bass guitar. I felt the head stock go into my eye socket. It was one of those moments where you just

know that your bleeding… and i was. It added to the chaos though. Every one was going nuts. The

padded walls got knocked down, the overhead lights were ripped down. bodys were flying. I was

bleeding. it was the best show i had ever been to, let alone played. It was a good way to see Teddy

off. I wont see him again for 4 years.

After all of that, we went into thommys house and shome how i ended up wrestling with beejay. I made him tap both times. the first one he tapped because he puked. My elbows are raw from carpet burn. I miss wrestling. maybe i should train. who knows.

…after that we all (30+ of us) went bowling in murieta for free at the bowling alley that sarah works at. I couldnt roll because of my burning wrist hurt disease, so i hung out with eden and krissi. They are awesome people. We didnt get home from the bowling alley until 4:30 am. I was spent.

after i got off work last night I went to home depot with Amy, we walked around and nerded out on home improvement thing like paint and wood flooring. Im really excited about the house. I have the final walk through tonight. Escrow closes on monday.

last night was marketnight in redlands. thats always a good time. sasha came and hung out. i havent seen her in over a month.

i found out that we have a going away show for teddy tonight (he leaves for germany/iraq tomorrow). its going to be a house show with plague: the red letters and xdeathstarx. fun times.

Back in 2000 my friend Beth Call (I miss her, I need to find her) told me that I
should start a web journal, a "blog" if you will. I was against the idea of it, I
Didn’t want air my dirty laundry in a public format, and I didn’t want to have my data
being stored in someone else’s database. For years I held my stance that journals and
blogs were not for me. Now look at me, not only do I have a blog, but I wrote it
myself. Talk about being a hypocrite. I guess since this is my first post I should
make it a good one….

With every key that I type, I'm in more and more pain. I suffer from "burning wrist
hurt disease", doctors also call it carpel tunnel syndrome. Right now, I’m wearing
braces that don’t allow any wrist motion. This leaves me to do the robot when ever I
move. Doing the robot is cool, but not if you don’t have any other option of arm
movement. The fact that I work in an office typing computer code all day doesn’t help
either.

The biggest thing on my mind right now is the fact that I bought a house…err,
condo. 3 bed 2.5 bath, nice area. I move in next week… Ikea here I come. I plan on
remodeling the down stairs. The ceiling has this crappy spray on popcorn-acoustic
junk that I need so scrape off…that’s going to be fun. Then I’m going to put in
hardwood floors. It will make the place look a lot better. Right now EVERYTHING is
pink!. Pink carpet, pink tiles, pink marble fireplace, PINK TOILETS! WHAT THE HELL!!! That stuff has got to go. I have my work cut out for me. Houses are more time and money than I first realized.

DBo is back in town for a few months, and is going to move in with me once I get the keys to the house. It's going to be good times.

On top of moving, remodeling, working full time, planning a wedding (I’m getting
married February 19th), and being part of a serious band, I’m working on new updates
to notpop. I’m currently testing out a new version on the message boards, and
modifying them to fit the site. Basically notpop will get a major overhaul very
soon. Once Amy starts school, and I’m in my new house, I think I’m going to have more
time to work on it… and hurt my wrists some more in the process.