Lexington, KY Tonight Sara and I are driving to Kentucky to meet up with Amy and Mike and we are stopping in Rochester to pick up Kelly along the way. It's going to be a long drive but I am looking forward to it...

So if you don't hear from me for a short while, this is why. I'll be there until Wednesday. Later.

  ¶ 8/29/2003 05:02:00 PM 0 comments

  Dave Last Night Setlist DMB2003-08-28
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

1. So Much To Say
2. Anyone Seen the Bridge?
3. Pantala Naga Pampa
4. Rapunzel
5. Granny
6. Spoon
7. One Sweet World
8. Don't Drink the Water
9. Grey Street
10. Jimi Thing*
11. Sleep to Dream Her
12. Stay
13. Crash Into Me
14. I Did It
15. Crush
16. Two Step
Encore:
17. (#40)
18. Ants Marching
19. What You Are

*with Dicky Betts and Great Southern

It was definately a good show, however not as good as last years second night at Spac. We had fun nonetheless. At times it felt like the songs were real short. Grey Street and Don't Drink the Water could have lasted a while longer. The Dicky Betts part was okay. I called DDTWater and Ants Marching before they were played. I swear the keyboardist was teasing The Landlady during Two Step. The crowd was yelling for Two Step earlier in the show and I was yelling for Wilson. The Anyone Seen the Bridge jam always gives me goose bumps. I think the encore was my highlight.

Life is short but sweet for certain.
  ¶ 8/29/2003 01:27:00 PM 0 comments

  Two more drafts completed Teams did ok. The earlier draft was much harder because of the amount of teams and how many starting positions their were. I couldn't believe how far some quarterbacks slipped so I jumped on them. I'm not happy with the fact I let Vick slip past me both times, but I should acquire him soon in the Vibe Tribe league. I had the 3rd pick during the even rounds and the 10th during the odd in that league. In the Phootball league I picked 5th then 4th. I'm happy I got 1 of the 3 stud backs on each team (Tomlinson and Portis). I usually have similar teams in all leagues because of my Falcon love.


Scatterbrains

Phootball League
8 Teams
Starters (1-QB, 2-RB, 3-WR, 1-TE, 1-K, 1-DEF, 2-D)

QB
Green, Trent (6)
Warner, Kurt (7)

RB
Portis, Clinton (1)
Garner, Charlie (3)
Green, William (5)
Dunn, Warrick (9)

WR
Harrison, Marvin (2)
Price, Peerless (4)
Reed, Josh (8)

TE
Crumpler, Alge (10)
Becht, Anthony (15)

K
Akers, David (12)

DEF
Carolina (11)

D
Peppers, Julius (13)
Brooking, Keith (14)

3 bench players yet to be determined.


The Lemmings

Vibe Tribe 1
12 Teams
Starters (1-QB, 2-RB, 3-WR, 1-TE, 1-WR/TE, 2-WR/RB, 1-K, 1-DEF)

QB
Green, Trent (4)
Warner, Kurt* (6)
Hasselback, Matt (12)

RB
Tomlinson, LaDainian (1)
Dunn, Warrick (5)
Williams, Moe (8)
Duckett, TJ (9)
Westbrook, Brian (18)

WR
Burress, Plaxico (2)
Price, Peerless (3)
Muhammad, Muhshin* (11)
Warrick, Peter (15)
McCord, Quentin (16)

TE
Crumpler, Alge (7)
Lewis, Chad (14)

K
Gramatica, Martin (13)
Wilkins, Jeff (17)

DEF
Atlanta (10)

*pending trade for Mike Vick
  ¶ 8/28/2003 06:18:00 PM 0 comments

  Dave Going to go see Dave tonight...

  ¶ 8/28/2003 09:20:00 AM 0 comments

  Mars Update Mars makes its closest pass to Earth in nearly 60,000 years on August 27, brushing past at 34.6 million miles (55.8 million kilometers), measured from each planet's center. The red planet will look like a bright star, with a yellow-orange hue, in the evening through the end of September.

Mars, which moves in a noncircular orbit, reaches its closest point to the sun just as Earth laps the red planet at 5:51 a.m. EDT. Mars will not be as close until 2287. (cnn.com)  ¶ 8/27/2003 11:21:00 AM 0 comments

  Day at the Track Today our company will be spending the afternoon at the track on the rail pavilion.
For all the latest racing news and results check this out.

  ¶ 8/27/2003 10:07:00 AM 0 comments

  I hate Missionaries I really hate missionaries who walk around my town trying to push their beliefs on people.

Last night i had a brush in.

I saw them eye us from a little ways away. soon as he said something to my friend i was like "NO, Not Tonight".. Thanks, No, See ya.. Whatever it took. I don't care what you believe in, or what the next guy believes in, but when it comes to trying to push your beliefs on to me I become infuriated and really pissed off. I do not stand for that.  ¶ 8/26/2003 04:39:00 PM 0 comments

  Me in 57 years

This guy just knows what's up. I don't know who he is, but I get the impression that he's been down all sorts of roads, done all sorts of crazy things, but is still somewhat sane to remember and tell stories about them.

That's pretty much my end game goal.  ¶ 8/26/2003 02:16:00 PM 0 comments

  Suck IT Man I think I popped a brain vessel last night. I was up until 3 AM hatching out some annoying code that I absolutely needed to get done to be on top of my game. I feel like a ghost. Then I get an IM from a coworker who obviously meant to send it to someone else, but must have subconsciously clicked my name because they were thinking about me...

"well he looks pretty good for coming in all night long and working on cbca and its not done"

Yeah! Thanks.. I don't know, I know everyone talks about everyone everywhere behind their back but that was sooo high school. I would just rather not know about it if you are talking behind my back. Get a clue.  ¶ 8/26/2003 09:35:00 AM 0 comments

  bOB jONES or Senaj Bob

Bob Jones.mp3
Bob Jones Reprise.mp3  ¶ 8/26/2003 12:13:00 AM 0 comments

  Inside In Mike Gordon's first solo album comes out today

  ¶ 8/26/2003 12:09:00 AM 0 comments

  Todays Case of the Mondays Is much worse than this previous Friday's case of the Fridays and that was historically one of the worst ever.

I've just got my nightmare to deal with and I'm skirting around it as much as possible (case in point).. I can't afford to skirt around this.. It needs to be done.. I'll have to be here all night. I'll have to have a clear mind. I won't, but it needs to get done.  ¶ 8/25/2003 03:30:00 PM 0 comments

  Look at Mars I can't remember if its already been mentioned but if you haven't taken the opportunity to look, MARS is visible these nights. But only for a limited time.

It's very easy to spot and you don't even have to drive out of town to see it....

Basically, it can be found up and to the right of the moon, but it does move throughout the night.

Wednesday will be the night too look, with it being the brightest or closest on this day.

I'm not a big Astronomer geek or anything, i just think its cool that this is the only time every 600 years or so that Mars comes within site to the naked eye.

Chances are you have already looked, but if not.. This is your reminder.

More on Mars-> full article

The wandering of the planets will bring Mars closer to Earth this month than at any time in nearly 60,000 years.

It will be a last-chance proposition for all alive today: Mars won't be as close again until August 28, 2287.

Just 55.67 million kilometers (34.6 million miles) of space will separate the two planets on August 27. If that doesn't sound close, Mars was five times as distant just six months ago.

Already, Mars has begun to loom large in the late evening sky, its rusty twinkle apparent in the southeast. For the next several weeks the fourth rock from the sun should shine brighter than any other celestial body -- save the moon and Venus.

  ¶ 8/25/2003 02:07:00 PM 0 comments

  This Past Weekend @ Rezi 8-22-03 The Monopole, Plattsburgh, NY

1. Bob Jones*, Bob Jones Reprise, Karibe -> Jam -> Gypsy Woman#, Waves, Runaway -> Jam -> Karibe

2. Rock Out, Jose Cuervo, Neds Tune, Doink, Tomonari##, Concussion#, Backwash -> Mr Oblivious#, Electrical Storm

#Bob Jones shot out
##Bob Jones tease
*first time played

8-23-03 Cafe Zacquor, Gloversville NY

1. Concussion, Backwash -> Tomonari, Lemmings -> Mr Oblivious, Bob Jones -> Doink#

2. Electrical Storm, Squirrelman, STP -> Urraca Mesa, Jose Cuervo##, Scatterbrains -> Runaway -> Scatterbrains

#Contained the lyrics "Bob.. Jones...Bob......DOINK!!"
##Jam featured the amazing talents of Mark Caiola who can prounce anything backwards immediately. Crowd yelled requests for words to hear backwards and Mark immediatly answered. He can not be stumped. "Izer"

Max Creek and Half Step played outside earlier
Jason Press guested with Max Creek during their encore  ¶ 8/25/2003 09:37:00 AM 0 comments

  Orleans County Census 2000 I just got trapped into reading the census for quite some time..
bottom line, there are about 2500 people in the town of clarendon (where i am) and 6000 people in the town of murray (or holley, where i go to school)

check it out --> http://orleansny.com/Census.pdf  ¶ 8/25/2003 01:40:00 AM 0 comments

  RIP Wesley Willis

Local 'outsider' rocker Wesley Willis dies

August 23, 2003, BY JIM DEROGATIS Pop Music Critic Chicago Sun Times

Wesley Willis, a longtime fixture on the Chicago rock scene and a celebrated favorite of such superstars as Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, producer Rick Rubin and punk legend Jello Biafra, died Thursday after a battle with chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Mr. Willis had undergone surgery for the disease late last year and was recovering in a hospice. The specific cause of death has not been determined, nor was his exact age known. His label, Alternative Tentacles, said he was 40.

Standing 6-foot-6 and weighing in at about 350 pounds before his debilitating illness, Mr. Willis was often seen haunting local rock clubs and walking the streets of Wicker Park talking loudly to himself, as well as hanging out with his favorite bands and enthusiastically head-butting fellow musicians and music lovers.

He was diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1989, and at times he was homeless and lived on the streets. But he was an industrious artist who peddled intricate, highly detailed drawings of Chicago street scenes done in colored felt-tip marker, and he released more than 50 albums, many of which were independently produced.

Three of his recordings appeared on Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label (a fourth is due in October), and two were released by Rubin's American Recordings, which made him a label mate of Johnny Cash and the Black Crowes. These reached an international audience and combined with the praise of rock superstars to make him an underground celebrity.

"Wesley will go down as one of the most unique songwriters and entertainment personalities in history," Biafra said Friday. "What really struck me was his sheer willpower, his unrelenting drive to succeed and overcome his horrifically poor background, child abuse, racism, chronic schizophrenia and obesity among other things. He was the most courageous person I have ever known."

Mr. Willis said he often heard voices that urged him to "do bad things," and his music and visual art helped him to "quiet the demons in my head." As a result, he became one of the most visible examples of what has been called "outsider art"--visual art or music made by untrained artists, many of whom suffer from mental illnesses.

Though he sometimes recorded with an improvisational noise-rock band called the Wesley Willis Fiasco, led by his friend Dale Meiners, most of his albums were taped on a primitive recorder and featured him rapping over the canned instrumental sounds preprogrammed into a cheap Technics keyboard. These songs usually found Mr. Willis paying homage to a rock band that he had just seen perform, and they invariably ended with the tuneless, shouted declaration, "Rock Over London! Rock on Chicago!"

While many championed Mr. Willis as a distinctive and authentic artist, some critics saw an element of exploitation in the marketing of his work, and some curious concertgoers at his shows would shout insults or attempt to goad him into acting out violently against himself or others.

Dear Friends and fellow Wesleynauts

For more information on Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
For more information on Wesley Willis  ¶ 8/25/2003 12:49:00 AM 0 comments

  www.eden.com Our new site is up  ¶ 8/21/2003 09:31:00 PM 0 comments

  Time [music - Howie Day - Ghost]

I am really struggling lately with the amount of TIME their isn't in each day and how much I want to get done. It's just not adding up right. I have all these things I want to do, I have work I want to do, I have other things I need to do and frankly there just isn't enough Time in the day. I try not to spread myself thin but I feel like last night was a rude awakening in the fact that I am and it's not good.

I think I need to cut back on the amount of time I am at the office, the amount of time I sleep, and the amount of time I just waste away doing nothing. I like to relax, but there just isn't any time for it any more.

I have to do what I need to do, not what I want to do.  ¶ 8/21/2003 02:15:00 PM 0 comments

  Keyboard. Every couple of days I turn my keyboard over and smack the shit out of it... then a bunch of particles come out... what the hell is going on here?  ¶ 8/21/2003 08:50:00 AM 0 comments

  Kubla Khan

sample of my favorite poem..

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
OR, A VISION IN A DREAM.
A FRAGMENT.

read the entire poem-->

The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,

That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.  ¶ 8/20/2003 01:52:00 AM 0 comments

  vick news Good site with Vick news.

"i dont know which point it broke, it happened to fast"  ¶ 8/19/2003 11:00:00 PM 0 comments

  Superman

Vick on the injury making him gun-shy:
“Once I come back from this injury, I will be 100 percent. I will come back and I won’t play scared. I will be the same Michael Vick that I was last week and that I was last year against Green Bay. I won’t hold anything back. Right now I have to let myself heal and hopefully things will work out. Nothing will change about me. I won’t play timid. I won’t play scared. I promise you."

read more

  ¶ 8/19/2003 04:30:00 PM 0 comments

  Tha Fibula

Dr. Andrew Bishop: “The ankle is made up of three bones, basically the talus, the tibia and fibula. The bone that Mike broke was the fibula. What happens is external rotation injury of the foot basically gets planted and the foot rotates out. We can’t tell exactly how much damage there was to the ligament. We think it is minimal because the break is very clean, it is not displaced at all and the bones are perfectly lined up. If there was substantial ligament damage then the talus and the fibula would shift over laterally and that would require a surgical intervention. We don’t know for certain – no MRI or test will tell you – how much damage there is (in the ligaments). If there is significant damage then we would expect the two bones in the next 10 days to two weeks to migrate laterally. We will follow this very carefully and very closely to be sure that doesn’t happen. If it does then it would change our treatment plan. It would require surgery. I don’t think that is going to happen, but we don’t know. Only time will tell. The plan right now is to simply treat him with a cast, follow it along with X-rays, at the appropriate time place him in a removable-type cast and then start some rehab. Typically it takes six weeks for a bone to heal; uncomplicated bone healing is about six weeks. That just means the bone is healed, it does not necessarily mean that everything else is like it should be. We don’t know. It maybe as little as six weeks that he will be back playing football full speed, but we don’t know. We’ll just have to wait and see.”
  ¶ 8/19/2003 11:40:00 AM 0 comments

  The Big Blackout Check out the following Satellite images. The put it in perspective exactly how dark it got in some areas.

20 Hours Before the Blackout

7 Hours After

Neat.  ¶ 8/18/2003 09:38:00 AM 0 comments

  The Power Seems to be fully restored. Hopefully it will stay that way and there won't be any more problems but eventually it's bound to fail again, unless we spend a quatrillion dollars to renovate the whole system.

  ¶ 8/18/2003 09:17:00 AM 0 comments

  lets focus falcons fans okay.
we have to remain positive about this. it's not the end of the world. VICK, as in MIKE will be out 4-6 weeks.. he will be back. doug johnson is good. and in the long term this will allow him to spend a year working on his pocket passing. he wont be able to run. he still will some. he will still be fast. hes MIKE VICK. he is SUPERMAN. this and that are things we already know.
Let's think long term about this and imagine how much better he will be next season. Don't get me wrong we are gunning for SUPER BOWL here and watch when VICK comes back and takes over a team thats doing (hopefully somewhere around .500 thats good enough for me) leads them to consistent victories, there will be bang-ups, there will be loses at the last second (we are too used to that) and the team will carry on. we have a sick running game, a sick defense, receivers, etc.. this team is going to rock. vick will be back. and we will win. if we make it to the playoffs we can go from there. the bucs will be tough, the saints are no joke. but we will survive.
I'm ready. I'll be their week one watching the game from upstate NY, watching to see the TUNA go down. Then watching us destroy the saints, then whoever is next. Shit, the BUCS. Whatever. I'm not worried and I don't want you to be worried. Let's be with MIKE and HELP him get through this.
IMAGINE HOW TOUGH THIS IS FOR HIM THEN MULTIPLY WHAT YOU ARE THINKING TIMES TEN. Bling. Vick has a lot of pressure on him. This will allow the NFL and its FANS to see how great the FALCONS truly are without VICK. Then Vick will be back. Keep thinking Super Bowl cause it's still within our hopes.
  ¶ 8/17/2003 01:15:00 PM 0 comments

  Update The Falcons updated the condition of Mike Vick early Sunday afternoon, saying he will likely miss 4-6 weeks of action. Vick left Saturday's game against the Ravens with a fractured right fibula.

Driving back to Saratoga in a few minutes  ¶ 8/17/2003 01:01:00 PM 0 comments

  in other news At least I can say I've seen MARS now.  ¶ 8/16/2003 11:12:00 PM 0 comments

  FUCK



I am going to cry.  ¶ 8/16/2003 09:38:00 PM 0 comments

  Hey there. I'm at home. it's late. im tired so im not going to write anything, but im fascinated by these numbers..

BLACKOUT BY THE NUMBERS
• In three minutes, 21 power plants shut down, including 10 nuclear plants
• 9,300 square miles in the U.S. and Canada were without power
• 9,500 police officers were out in New York overnight, up from the usual 1,000 to 2,000
• Seven airports grounded planes
• 800 elevator rescues; 80,000 calls to 911; a record 5,000 emergency medical service calls; 60 serious blazes and 11 burglaries in New York City
• More than 100 miners at a nickel mine were stranded underground in Ontario
• Nearly 1 million lose water in Cleveland
• About 50 million live in the affected region from New York north to Toronto and west to Detroit
• The temperature was 92 degrees Fahrenheit in New York City  ¶ 8/16/2003 02:17:00 AM 0 comments

  The Outage.. No one is really sure why it happened. Canada says it was a plant in Niagra Falls where the problem originated from. Who knows. The latest



Freaky stuff, have a great day.  ¶ 8/15/2003 09:57:00 AM 0 comments

  Power Outage Weird. Almost everyone in the Northeast just lost power. What happened?  ¶ 8/14/2003 04:43:00 PM 0 comments

  Mountain Lions I got my first live fantasy nfl draft completed last night.. This league has an extremely large bench size for some reason. Here's who I selected.

Vick, Michael (QB-Atl)*
Brooks, Aaron (QB-NO)
Garner, Charlie (RB-Oak)
Green, William (RB-Cle)
Dunn, Warrick (RB-Atl)
Faulk, Kevin (RB-NE)
Johnson, Larry (RB-KC)
Price, Peerless (WR-Atl)
Boston, David (WR-SD)
Chrebet, Wayne (WR-NYJ)
Reed, Josh (WR-Buf)
Randle El, Antwaan (WR-Pit)
Johnson, Andre (WR-Hou)
Crumpler, Alge (TE-Atl)
Wycheck, Frank (TE-Ten)
Vinatieri, Adam (K-NE)
Hollis, Mike (K-NYG)
Atlanta (DEF-Atl)
Brooking, Keith (DL-Atl)
Sapp, Warren (DL-TB)
Spikes, Takeo (DL-Buf)

*first pick in the draft  ¶ 8/14/2003 08:46:00 AM 0 comments

  I feel like junk I think I need the day to sort out my thoughts.  ¶ 8/13/2003 08:22:00 AM 0 comments

  I don't like you. Should I
a) pretend I do
b) ignore you
c) smile and nod  ¶ 8/12/2003 10:21:00 AM 0 comments

  oh, it... yeah... i think ill work on some of that later tonight... i have some other shit to do first...  ¶ 8/11/2003 11:17:00 PM 0 comments

  when will the olsen twins go away? seems like they have been here forever.. maybe i should lower the amount of days that stay  ¶ 8/11/2003 11:16:00 PM 0 comments

  without "communications" Today at work we changed our company name.

"We are evolving. Evolution is an exciting thing and it’s an exciting time for Eden. We’re all working at break-neck pace to grow, expand, and whether you know it or not, conquer! However, the descriptor, “communications”, relays neither the image nor the product basket for which we need to be known – especially as we move forward." James

So that be it. Effective pronto.



Ready?  ¶ 8/11/2003 10:33:00 PM 0 comments

  I hate the dentist My God... getting your teeth cleaned was never supposed to HURT.. was it? Not only that but after the lady treated me like a child asking what I ate during the day. JUST TELL ME TO CUT OUT SUGARS.. GEEEEZZ.. My god, now I have to go back to that awful place. I hate the dentist.  ¶ 8/11/2003 10:04:00 AM 0 comments

    ¶ 8/10/2003 09:17:00 PM 0 comments

  I am Whatever you say I am, because I am whatever I say I am.  ¶ 8/08/2003 05:56:00 PM 0 comments

  CHECK THIS OUT IMMEDIATELY MY IT montage  ¶ 8/08/2003 03:12:00 AM 0 comments

  coffee shit yeah.. best kind of coffee is the free cup i just got from the gas station next door.

i do like the home made version the best, however i cant stand starpuke   ¶ 8/07/2003 11:09:00 PM 0 comments

    ¶ 8/07/2003 09:36:00 PM 0 comments

    ¶ 8/07/2003 10:48:00 AM 0 comments

  yeah. i know. so like, it's in progress. Seriously. It's huge. I should have it done in the next few days. I am taking a break from it now. I'll most likely put it on it's own page. but I'll throw a huge chunk on here for you.  ¶ 8/06/2003 11:32:00 PM 0 comments

  I know I know I know... I will write it up.. as soon as I get home from work. It needs to happen before it could potentially slip any farther from my mind... so... sooon..   ¶ 8/06/2003 03:25:00 PM 0 comments

  13 hours ago i left the northern tip of maine... my gosh its such a long drive.. ill write more later. but be warned.  ¶ 8/04/2003 08:23:00 PM 0 comments