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This past weekend I celebrated my third Quinceañera, with a few of my best friends. We had a house in Palm Dessert, where we:

Relaxed in the Pool:


Ate Ribs:


And drank beer:


Pretty much a perfect weekend. Thanks everybody!

Today I created a new group on Facebook, titled: Sudsology



This is step one in what I hope becomes a great endeavor. Some time in the near future there will be a stand-alone website where people who love beer and brewing can go and share experiences with a like-minded community. For now, however, come on over to Facebook and join our little group.

Link of the Day: Sudsology Facebook Group

OK, this is not your usual blog post. As some of you already know, I was recently laid off from my day job. Rather than look at this as something terrible, I'm choosing to look at the situation as an opportunity of sorts. I'm thinking that I'd like to take my talents and do my own thing, as it were. I have great IT (Information Technology) skills, wireless networking skills, System Development, Project Management, and QA (Quality Assurance) skills, and have over ten years of Sprint-Nextel experience. So, I think I could turn all this into some sort of money making machine.

Now, here's what I need from all of you... help me come up with a catchy name for a business. Be creative and original (IBM & AT&T are already taken). Your reward will be knowing that you helped out a friend. OK, if that's not enough I'll throw in a foot rub. But, please, nothing sensual.


Link of the Day: crappycommute.com

In the coming months I plan to entertain/bore you with tales of yore. As my teeth grow longer, so too do my stories, most of which are true.... or at least true-ish. Here are a few of the titles to get your wheels spinning:

Cabernet Olé - A comedic tale of lust and intrigue, set in California's wine country.
BB Gun Wars - The air was thick with copper and suspense. Who will survive, the BB Gun Wars?
Dandelion Wine - High school high jinx leads to homeroom hilarity.
Bus Station Bingo - Crime and punishment at the Port Authority.
A Thousand Miles from Peru to Peru - Alone on the road. Young, broke and out of luck.
Cocaine and Disneyland - A boy becomes a man at the Anaheim Hilton.
Badlands and a Minnesota Twins Pitcher - Driving all night with nary a rest stop in site.
Heads in the Hedge - A psychedelic death march. Why do these things only happen at times like this?
Graceland Tour - Taking George and Sylvia to meet the King.
Dublin to London - Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.
Lynchburg Lemonade - Yeah, yeah, the water's a constant 58 degrees. That's great! Now when do I get some whiskey?
Visiting Joel and the Bots - The Satellite of Love hosts "Famous Gnomes." Crow Rules.... sort of.
Radcliff on Trent - Bishops and Beatles and Cougars! Oh my!
Kissing the Blarney Stone - They say the locals pee on it. What the hell, it rained last night.
Mom Driving Drunk - Porcupines love Coors! I smell bacon.
Chaka, Pud and the Body Shop - Another sleepless night roaming the mean streets of West Hollywood.
Marie Hitches a Ride - It wasn't until years later, with the advent of HDTV, that I would get a chance to see a better close up of pure terror than what I saw on the face of the man in the big, red fuel truck. "Broderick! Broderick!"
Get Your Girl - They were pouring out of the apartment like ants. Mullets as far as the eye could see. But, we weren't going down without a fight. Chaka, that black guy, and me.


.....And many many more.....

Link of the Day: War Kittens!

Today's forcast: "Sprinkles of genius with a chance of Doom." --Stewie Griffin

It's another work day, and like most Americans I've managed to get zero actual work done in the first hour. But, I'm almost done with my morning coffee, so I'll start pounding on the keyboard shortly. I really need to pace myself, because I'm working two crappy jobs today. I have to work at El Charro tonight.

Hey, here's a little piece of funny/interesting regarding the ECz (El Charro). The other day I worked with a new hostess named Montana. Her first name is Montana. I really had to fight the urge to say, "isn't that a stripper name." She's all of seventeen, so saying that may have been inappropriate. I did say to her that I had a hard time calling her by her first name. She seemed to understand. I'm sure she gets a lot of that sort of stuff. Anyway, I said "well, what's your last name?" To which she replied, "Gillis." I said "oh, then I'll call you Dobie.... or maybe Gilligan, because the same actor played Dobie Gillis and Gilligan." She laughed and told me that she'd been called Dobie before. So, then I said "I'm just going to call you Bob." Bob Denver is the actor in question. She said that Bob was a new one, but that she kind of liked it. So, for the rest of the night I called her Bob and she responded as if it were her name. None of this, however is the funny/interesting thing to which I refer above. The funny thing is that it turns out my hostess is the daughter of one Brad Gillis. Who is Brad Gillis you ask? He's only the founding member of the band Night Ranger. It's pretty cool, except for the fact that now when I work with Bob I have "Sister Christian" going through my head all night, rotting my brain from the inside. I'm hoping the ear worm will die and I can go back to my usual Rick Astley songs.

Here's one of the great ones from Night Ranger. Please to enjoy:



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OK, so I've got this new website and I've created a new Blog, because there just aren't enough people out there "blogging." Now I'm playing around with changing the look and feel and uploading files and resizing and whatnot. This first post is basically the equivelant of a twelve year old boy discovering the true use of his penis for the first time. As time goes on I expect to move beyond my proverbial puberty phase of blogging, and start posting some actual pearls of "wisdom." And probably a bunch of stupid shit as well.

I've also got a new Digital SLR camera, so prepare to be bored with lots of pictures like the one above.

That's it for now. More to follow.

Cheers!