iPhone

Just a quick post from my new iPhone. It's surprisingly easy to type on the touchscreen. Gotta run!

Awesome!

A Christmas idea for those of you who have a special feline friend.

Here...

Asheville, NC

Maddux already posted a nice write-up of our trip to Asheville, so I won't go into too much detail here.

The main reason for this post is to provide a link to pictures from our trip.  Here...

We did have a great time, even though only five of us were able to attend this year.  Asheville definitely had more going for it than I expected.  I suppose I shouldn't have been too surprised, after all, it is a college town.

If everything goes as planned, I'll be taking a few exciting trips next year as well.  Here's a list of the possibilities...

• Bristol, U.K. (and other parts of Europe)
• Guyancourt, France (maybe, or in combination with the Bristol trip)
• Las Vegas, NV

It's the "formative years" that count!

July is the month that I get to renew my licenses plates in the great state of Indiana.  For the past few years, I've been sporting the environmental plate.  However, this year I decided to go with something different.  I wasn't sure what to get.  I had considered the arts plate, but then something caught my eye...

Is that a young Lincoln with an axe tossed casually over his shoulder?  It is!  And guess what?  You can get it on your licenses plate!  See, here.  How badass is that?  In you face Kentucky and Illinois!  We celebrate the formative years around these parts.

It's only a matter of days before I can fasten this baby to Protege!

It's a start, but there's a long road ahead.

At the beginning of this summer, I started growing my Johnny Depp facial hair again.  At some point, I decided it would be awesome to have a handlebar mustache.

I really have no idea what I'm doing, and there are surprisingly (or not) few resources on the interwebs that discuss this topic.  I realize that at some point I will need to regularly use mustache wax, and I need to comb it to get the hair going in the right direction.  Other than that, I'm just winging it.  Some guy online said that he had been growing his for a year and a half!  I'm not sure I have that dedication, but I'd say things are promising.  Tonight I tried using a little wax to form some points.  I was pleasantly surprised at the results.  I believe I'll fix it up for work tomorrow.

On a side note, I'd like to thank whoever took this beautiful picture with my camera.  A picture really can say a thousand words...

Three links. Hours of fun.

OK, so maybe not hours, but definitely tens of minutes worth of enjoyment.

Link #1:

Wizard World Chicago 2008

As promised to some of you, above is the link to the pictures we took at this years Wizard World Chicago.  They're spectacular!

 

Link #2:

MANJOHN!

I created a MySpace page for our band.  I figure it's the easiest way to get our five original songs to you guys and gals.  Feel free to download them, rate them, and/or share them with your friends and neighbors.

 

Link #3:

Those of you who are in the cool kids club, and have access to the GCPA web site, can download the five songs featured above, plus a remix version of each of those songs.

Belated Spring Cleaning

My apartment was a disaster.  I own entirely too much crap.  Anyway, I decided to start cleaning things up a bit.  The true motivation coming from the fact that I have some friends stopping over this weekend, and I was freaking out about how dirty everything was. 

Throughout this cleaning process (I've spread it over a few days), I've discovered something.  I feel better.  By simply picking up all the crap laying around on the floor, on other things, on top of things on other things, it has improved my mood considerably.  This is a nice little bonus.  Will it last?  I doubt it.  I have a tendency to let things pile up.  However, the hard part is almost over.  It shouldn't be too difficult to keep things tidy once the major clean up is complete.

So, moral of the story, a clean house is the path to a clear mind.  Or, whatever.  I'm sure there's some 10,000 year old saying that basically says the same thing.

Now, if I could just get my ass in shape, we might be getting somewhere...