Back in the Day

One of my coworkers and I were talking about people we'd dated back in the day. It was an interesting talk and got me thinking about some things. We were also talking about high school in general, and I came to a strange realization. Both Shawn and I married the women that were in our senior pictures. Shawn took a much more direct route than I did in that he just married Chloe straight out without any breaks in their relationship. As for Sy and I, it was a little more convoluted but it all worked out in the end. Weird how that happened. Let this be a warning to the rest of you, be careful who you are photographed with. Maybe if you kids are really nice, I'll post those pictures somewhere and you can marvel at our stunning good looks and fashion sense. If nothing else, it gives me a chance to embarass myself, which is always a good thing.

High school. What a weird time for all of us I imagine. In all honesty though, I wouldn't change anything about my past. It's made me who I am today, for good or bad, and I fear that I wouldn't know some of you as well as I do if things were different. All of you were there for me when I needed you most, regardless of when that was, and I must thank you for that and apologize for my not necessarily being there when you needed me. I love you all and thank you.

Fat and Stupid is no way to go through life

This whole working out thing is too much like work. I'm so much better at being fat and lazy. People keep telling me that once I get into a groove with it, I'll feel crappy if I miss a day. They lie, I'm certain of it. It's kind of like when women who go through a pregnancy tell all their friends it's not that bad.

I noticed in reading my posts that I haven't told any of you about my current life. Some of you are fairly up to date, while others are coming in after a long absence. Let's start with the basics.

I am 27 years old and as I mentioned before am in abysmal physical condition. I have been happily married for almost six years now to my lovely wife, Sytil. We do not have any children currently, though Sy might say that she has one, me. We have a couple of cats and rent a little one bedroom house in the lovely town of Bozeman, MT. Sy is currently in her last year or so of her PhD program at MSU in Optical Physics. I am slowly but surely working towards my bachelor's degree in Sociology. I am also working full time for the MSU PD as a 911 dispatcher and, for the most part, like my job. Many of you probably find it more than a little ironic that I work for the police, but it pays the bills and pays for my school.

I don't really have any profound words of wisdom for all of you tonight. I will let you know that I have the weekends off from work and I don't have the net at home so I won't be blogging on the weekends. If I think of anything else later tonight I'll let you know.

I did work out this morning. I weighed in and that lying dirty scale said 247. I forced myself to do a half hour on the Elliptical Runner, then I had to run to class. Hope to get into the gym for a bit this morning after class

Crazy

Crazy for feeling so lonely. Good song. I'm amazed/ecstatic about the response that this blog received on its first day of existence. Heard from some people that I hadn't heard from in awhile, which was nice and it confirmed my idea that this blog would be the best way to get into contact with people. Thank all of you for checking this space out. On to the real purpose of any blog, taling about one's self.

I've decided that there's definitely something about heavy metal that just makes you feel alive while listening to it. It makes you want to jump around, break stuff, and in general make a nuisance of yourself. Maybe that's why I love it so much. Though it definitely has its place. I go through times where it's all I listen to, and other times I just don't feel it, and I'll switch to some old school blues or something a little more mellow. But let's be honest, if any of you have been to a heavy metal concert, you leave feeling like you'll live forever. All the adrenaline and endorphins running through your system, it's pretty intense.

For those of you that don't know, I've worked concert security for the last couple of years just as a part time job for spending cash and I've had a chance to see some pretty awesome concerts. Here's a quick top ten best concerts that I've worked:
1. Nickleback with Puddle of Mudd opening
2. Kid Rock with Puddle of Mudd opening
3. Perfect Circle with Mars Volta opening
4. Van Halen
5. Fleetwood Mac
6. John Mayer with Maroon 5 opening
7. Jewel (acoustic only show)
8. Van's Warp Tour (10 stages, 12 hours of music)
9. Los Lobos with Quetzal opening
10. String Cheese Incident twice (hippies are amusing)

I'm sure I'm forgetting some that should be on the list. Here's one for example:
They Might Be Giants Monmouth College
This is probably my favorite concert. It's the first concert I worked security for. I didn't get paid, but I did get to meet the band, escort them back and forth from their hotel to the show, and got to set up the stage and the venue. What made it so great was that Sytil was there and was vaguely in charge of the event. Plus, we saw the concert for free and had a great time. Dave and his girlfriend came down and ended up spending the night and it's just a nice memory.

Enough about concerts. I had a brilliant idea. I am going to use this blog as a motivator and well as an informer. (Snow sucked) I am planning on doing a sprint triathlon in WA in August and I need your help. This triathlon involves a half mile swim, a 14.6 mile bike, and a 3.6 mile run. It's nothing like the IronMan, but it gives me a fitness goal to shoot for. I only hope to complete this course, not necessarily compete. Right now I swim like a rock, can bike for only a couple of miles without killing myself and can run across the street without getting out of breath, so I've got a ways to go. The reason I picked this goal is because I'm weighing about 245-250 and I needed some sort of goal to shoot for. The motivating factor will be your feedback hopefully. I'm going to start putting my weight and amount of time I worked out at the end of every blog and if nothing else it will let me keep track of such things. My hope is that you will give me a hard time if I start slacking in my workouts and give positive feedback if I've been a good boy. Kind of like a large group of personal trainers/drill sergeants that just happen to be my friends. We'll have to see if it works, since I can't seem to motivate myself to just go to the gym.

I promise that not all of my blogs will be this long. Just needed a starting point and the feedback I receive will dictate where this blog goes. Good night to you all.

What to say?

How do you like the pretentious title of my blog? At one time I thought I'd have a collection of my poetry published, and collected nothingness was going to be the title of it. Now that I've had the chance to read back through my poetry, I realize that most of it should be burned and none of it should ever see the light of day again.

The question I must ask is, was high school really that bad? Was I really that miserable and depressed? Maybe I was, but judging from my poetry I should have eaten a pistol by now or some other ugly suicide should have befallen me. Personally, I'm glad I'm still here. You can make your own call on that.

Well, I think that this blog thing might work out. We'll have to see.