Halloween Plans and Civil Duties

Halloween weekend...good times to be part of the apartment life because you don't get harassed by kids, etc. Should I leave some candy out?

I don't have any plans tonight but I'm heading off to Dallas tomorrow to celebrate my mom's birthday. All of my other siblings will be out of town so I thought I'd garner up a few heaven points and eat with her tomorrow and see my nephew in the process.

I met my neighbor for lunch downtown yesterday and afterwards we went and hit the booths for early voting. After I left work I called my father and explained that voting this time may have been one of the toughest choices I've had to make during my short-lived voting life. Usually I'm one to keep my views to myself but my neighbor and I had a little giggle after voting because we basically cancelled each other's vote out. Well, at least I don't have to defend myself from voicing opinion (not that I do) cause I did vote, jackass.

I'm for a system where some form of intelligence exam or test is needed before you can procreate or vote. For the most part people are sheep and if you need any evidence please pick up 'Our Dumb World' published by The Onion.

Bickering aside, I'm ready for a chill weekend and I hope you have the same.

My prediction for the Sat. matchup - Texas 27, Tech 31. Enjoy the box in Lubbock Dad and Sis. I'll be there next year.

Me, My Date and a Post

Why do I keep punishing myself? I got home yesterday, cleaned up a few things then turned on World Series Game 5. A couple hours later it begins raining in Philly and they postpone the game to resume tomorrow. BTW, I picked Philly in 5. Should've bet that!

No, I don't own a Lambo but I had fun last night with my rental, in the F-Dub no less.

Morris sent me a couple links last week regarding the Dallas band Sorta's last show. Too bad I only got to see them a couple times, mucho taliente. Here. Here. Go pick up their cd. I'll review it after I get my mitts on a copy.

Enjoy your week.

My Bling Arrives Today

My new piece of candy, the T-Mobile G1, is in-transit to mi casa. I preordered this sucka late last month and can't wait to get my hands on it. Most of the early reviews hate on the hardware part of the phone but that's not why I got it. The OS is Android, an open-source (Linux-esque) format for cell geeks and developers. Hopefully lots of cool applications will result of this phone coming out.

That's about all I have good going for me. This last weekend (including my day off Friday) I was sick. I got a lot of rest but the weather was beautiful and I would've preferred to be outside.

Congrats to Tech on the win this last Saturday and to Texas remaining in its #1 spot. Can both teams please lose in their head-to-head matchup?

Halloween Much?

I thought about getting something similiar for my dog Mary's costume this year. Pretty great! No? Okay then.

This week has been pretty painless thus far and I'm off tomorrow so I'm contemplating on what I should do with my spare time. Sleep? Play a round of golf? Write some tunes with the robot drummer?

Speaking of tunes, a couple of my younger co-workers have introduced me to a couple bands that I should know about by now (my closer brethren know I don't listen to the radio so how should I know any better?).

Two pretty freakin' solid albums are The Shins - 'Wincing the Night Away' and Death Cab for Cutie's 'Plans'. The latter is not as 'emo' as their other records but I can say I'll use it as a reference album while recording. It's polished and the songs run together very smoothly. Check 'em out!

Blogs/Sites to pay attention to

I thought I'd list off several of my favorite blogs and websites that I read daily.

The Stashdauber - Ken is a writer and long-time Fort Worthian. I get many show dates (concerts/good grubb) from his site.

Sports Sturm - Bob Sturm from 1310AM The Ticket is a blog mainstay. I'm sort of the resident pot-stirrer over there. Sturm knows his sports and you can easily tell he puts a lot of thought and research to his blog.

LoneStarBall - Adam Morris writes about the Texas Rangers on a daily basis and goes into some sabermetric stats that I've never even heard of. Nonetheless, necessary reading for any baseball fan.

Websites:

Cellular - EngadgetMobile, BoyGeniusReport and TMONews are my favories. These sites are for all the cell phone geeks out there.

Check out GearSlutz and Harmony Central for music gear reviews, forums and all musician jackassery.

More to come later...

A Slight Reprieve

A couple brave individuals that read this rubbish requested that I get back to posting more often so here goes. Unfortunately, it's been hard these last couple months to get online, especially with the holidays approaching. Working for a retailer only adds fuel to the fire.

A few random thoughts:

I'm thinking that OU will beat Texas in the Red River Shootout tomorrow by a couple touchdowns. I think OU's offense against the Texas defense is the key matchup but ultimately, Bradford and crew will prevail.

I had lunch today with my father and realized that today might have been the first time he was truly interested in what I do for a living. I don't feel hurt or any disdain about the observation, I just picked up on it. Lately I've been thinking what little my job adds to the world, but I'm pretty happy with everything so who gives a damn?

Have a great weekend. If you're downtown tomorrow, I'll be at the Flying Saucer celebrating Octoberfest and enjoying many adult beverages. Prost!