The resemblance is uncanny

I came across this photo a few minutes ago and felt compelled to post it. It came from College Humor, a website devoted to collegeans that post videos, images and games submitted by loyal views of the site. In addition, the owners of the site usually come up with humorous captions for the media they recieve. Yes, I am aware that I am nearly 7 years removed from college, but it sure doesn't feel like it. Still a funny site though. If bored at work or otherwise, it's a fun site to surf for a little while.

Just though you Sawx fans would find humor at the expense of any Yankee to be in good taste. The caption with this picture said "...Also, I think Derek Jeter may resemble one of the rats of NIMH." True enough...

On another note, Tracy and Abbey made their triumphant return to Colorado yesterday and Josh, Deanna, me, Abbey's brother Brian, Abbey's sister Laura, and Abbey's mom were all there to help them out. I woke up this morning the most sore I've been in a long time, even after I started going to the gym again. Guess I'm not working hard enough at the gym :). It's that whole line about how I'm sore in places that I didn't even know I had muscles. If I hadn't been working out for the past month plus, I could have conceivably been useless yesterday. I was happy to help though, I know what a pain it can be to move, especially cross country.

The Keeney's (and their 4 cats) are doing well, and Tracy mentioned that he was glad to be out of that U-haul truck after being it it for 2,300 miles towing a 2 ton car trailer with a 2 ton car on it. I'm as surprised as anyone that one of those car trailers weighs as much as a car, EMPTY. Well I think it was awesome that they had an opportunity to go on a bit of a baseball stadium tour along the way. The only stadium I want to see a game in is Fenway. Anyhow, after helping Tracy and Abbey move in, we went to K's China for dinner and headed over the Betsy and Lee's going away party. A warm welcome back to the Keeneys and a good luck and see you in November to the Hoffmans.

To those of you Bostonian bros, Seattlean bro, and San Franciscan bros (and respective significant others), it's time to come back to Colorado. Oddly enough, if things go well in a month, next year I could be moving out of Colorado for a few years. That is depending of course on who is willing to accept me. I would be more than happy to stay in Colorado though.

Speaking of which, my learnin' classes start again on Tuesday. Fortunately this time it's not mandatory for me to attend every class. However, I will still attend as many as I can just to get a nice refresher and see if I can come up with any additional questions that didn't come up from the first time.

I will be missing a couple classes next, next week because I'm off to Hawaii for a week, for my final wedding of the year. It's my cousin's wedding and he felt that it was best if he found a central location for it since there would be relatives coming from Taiwan. It's my first trip to Hawaii and I'm looking forward to it. I have a few things that I would like to do (Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona as top priority), but wouldn't really mind just relaxing and chillin' on the beach. I will be bringing study materials with me so that I can atleast keep my mind on task. I won't study the whole time, just a little. Of course I'm going stag (making this season 0 for 4), but what can you do? I just haven't been fortunate enough to find that special girl yet; too damn introverted sometimes; check that, most of the time. Keeping my fingers crossed for the rest of this year and especially for next year since there are more weddings, it'd sure be nice to bring a date for once. However, I'm trying to just enjoy life now and hope that luck will turn my way soon.

Lastly, a shout out my friend Aspen, who is moving to San Francisco in a couple days. Congrats on the new job and I wish you the best of luck. Enjoy your time there and remember to always live in the moment.

Slacker...

Wow, can't believe it's been nearly 2 months since my last post. I'll admit that the lack of posting is partly due to just plain laziness, however, the other part is due to not having much to post about. Life has become pretty standard and nothing too exciting has happened.

Go to work, after work go to gym, after gym go home and eat, after eat watch some TV, after TV go to bed. Wake up the next morning and repeat. Sure I party a little on the weekends, but nothing overly eventful atleast not until Lee and Betsy's wedding. Great time, Betsy looked great, the service was very cool, and the reception, though a little damp was awesome on top of the mountain. Kudos to Lee and Betsy for planning a great time. I regret not eating more crab cakes.

Now, however I can throw a little more into the mix with my test coming up in a little under 2 months. This is the same test I postponed after Tracy and Abbey's wedding. I start classes again at the end of August, but need to start looking at the method of how to answer the questions again as I have nearly forgotten everything; well maybe not everything, but before I take the test I want to make sure the methods from the course are inherent so I can focus on getting the right answer rather than the steps. If I can, I'll try to keep the blog relatively updated, right now I'm having enough trouble getting into the study mode again.

I guess the other bit of big news is that I re-upped on my lease at my current apartment. I really wanted to buy my own place (tired of paying "the man"), but since I waited so long to look, there really wasn't any time to find a place I'd be happy with. So instead, I'll be here for another year and will look in the mean time for a townhome or condo. I'm still not sure what area, but probably closer to work. I was, however, able to get a good deal on the rent and after all the wheeling and dealing, was able to fanagle a 12 month lease rate ~$20/month less than what I had been paying for the past year.

Other than that, I've been looking forward to football season and am glad that the hockey lockout has ended. I will admit that I was ticked when I heard that Forsberg signed with Philly and didn't understand why Lacroix couldn't do anything especially after losing Foote. But I do understand the need to build for the future, and with Forsy's age and being somewhat injury prone (he had a concussion and broken wrist playing for Modo last year), this is probably the best move for the future of the Avalanche, hence their signing of Hejduk for 5 years.

The Av's oddest move so far has to be the signing of Brad May from the Canucks. Although he wasn't involved with Bertuzzi attacking Steve Moore directly, he had made a comment a couple weeks (or days) before that fateful game that there was a bounty on Moore's head. Why the Av's felt the need to sign the guy who possibly instigated the whole thing (May is listed as a defendant in the civil suit that Moore filed against Bertuzzi and the Canucks), who knows? I've been listening to Fan 950 a lot lately and there are a lot of ticked off Av's fans, both for losing Forsberg and for signing May.

On a baseball note, as the season draws nearer to the end (though still over 50 days left in the regular season), I've started following the Sawx games a lot more now. I'm very happy to report that they are 4.5 games up on the Spankies in the AL East (after the game tonight) and the Spankies are 4 games out of the wildcard. I'll admit that I'm not the longest running fan of the Sawx (but I did hop on the bandwagon the year before they finally won the series ;)), but they are now my favorite team by far. In fact, I went to a Rockies game for the first time in 2 years a couple weeks ago and during the 7th inning strech couldn't help but sing, "cause it's root, root, root for the Red Sox".... In addition after the game, there were some Spankie fans screaming about how the Sawx suck, I got pretty riled up. I wasn't wearing any Sox gear at the time, so who knows how they would have acted had I worn my hat or jersey. Anyhow, my friend had to tell me to calm down and let it go. Besides I didn't really have anyone to watch my back had a ruckus started. It was just interesting that I felt the way I did being a fan for a short period of time.

Well as I said, I will try to keep up with the posting (I know I've said that before, it's like saying "I'm never drinking again"), but this isn't a promise, it's more of an "I'll make a more concerted effort".