My 25th year has been one of my best so far.
This can most easily measured by my accomplishments:
I started grad school. Go Huskies!
I found Amanda!
I bought a house!
Sure, I've done a heck of a lot more than that, but these are some big milestones and I'm looking forward to hitting more of them when I start year 26 on Sunday. Happy birthday to me!
Although I didn't get a personal invite to join the taping in NYC, I still gotta give props to Ryan Scion, Saba and Zia for putting together a great video for the song "Escaping Arkham" off the new Common Market EP.
Anyone connecting Arkham to NYC's financial district? It makes the video a whole lot more relevant...
Despite the circumstances of a tough class, buying a home and the usual 9 to 5, I persevered and earned another A this quarter! Yay!
This keeps my cumulative GPA at a steady 4.0.
A wise man once said, "The only thing better than excellence is perfection."
That wise man is me.
"Actually we've got a nice little Saturday planned. We're going to Home Depot to pick out some wallpaper, then maybe we'll hit Bed, Bath and Beyond... I don't know! I don't know if we'll have enough time!" - Frank the Tank, Old School
We're taking a break from the home improvements. With my birthday on March 29, it's a perfect time to throw the
Inaugural party at the Oakes Tree!
It's a birthday/housewarming party! It's a celebration, bitches! Come one, come all!
Date: Saturday, March 28
Time: After 4 p.m. (We're heading to the bars on 6th Ave. later)
Place: The Oakes Tree at 1002 N. Oakes St.; on the corner of N. 10th and Oakes St.
Keg: Yes!
If you plan to spend the night (encouraged), please bring your own air mattress! We only have so many...
I've learned through some recent reader feedback that you all want to know more about other readers on the blog, if that makes sense. So, I'm turning the spotlight off of me (yes, believe it).
This inaugural post of the "W(ho)TF is on WIB?" is all about the CastleMonkey himself, the master of programming, the salt and the lime in your margarita... Al.
Name/alias: Al Castle - I usually leave blog comments as Smug Monkey and go by CastleMonkey on many chat services.
You can find me online at: Everything you want to know about me can be found on my PeoplePond page. http://www.peoplepond.com/
I know Paolo from: Paolo and I originally met in 2004(?) where he worked as an editor for PRWeb and I was hired on as the chief information officer. The close knit family of the PRWeb staff had us often in the same room where our similar sense of humor had at least us laughing.
One other blog everyone should read is: Flipflops In The Rain - She's entertaining, sometimes posts great art, creative and an engaging writer.
One movie everyone should see is: The Princess Bride, it has a little bit of everything.
If I could only eat one type of food for the rest of my life, it would be: Italian. It's more diverse than Mexican food and I don't eat enough of the good stuff.
My guiltiest pleasure is:
It's Sunday morning at 10 a.m. If I'm not still sleeping, I'm: Unfortunately, I work nearly constantly. Occasionally I'll head over to my parents and have breakfast with them.
When I die, I believe I will go: About six feet into the earth and become worm food. I think I want a tree planted above my body instead of just rotting. Energy just continues to take different forms, so the energy that I encompass will go on and become grass, bugs, other people, etc. As to my "spirit" or essence I'm hoping that I can haunt that crap out of everyone on my list.
When I was a kid, I actually owned: The original Transformers. Like all of them. (And I still have them, in my garage.)
Quickfire Round:
Facebook or Twitter? Twitter
Electric or Acoustic? Acoustic
White Meat or Dark Meat? White Meat
Early Bird or Night Owl? Night (Al.)
Snorer or Sleeptalker? Snorer
Black or Cream and Sugar? Lots of cream even more sugar
Seattle or San Francisco? San Francisco
Casket or Cremation? Undecided, maybe both.
Jennifer or Angelina? Angelina
Lastly, everyone should know that I: I tease my friends constantly and my facial expressions fail to represent my actual mental process which continues to confuse even my closest of friends.