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Cheers to blowing a 7 game lead with 2 weeks to go!

see you on the golf course :)

THE METS AREN’T EVEN GOING TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

How you like them apples now?

I’m aware of the issue I’m having and will hopefully have an answer from my webhost soon.

Other than that I am going away for the weekend… so you’re on your own.

Today’s album recommendation to you comes to us from Blind Melon. Below the cover art is a short description from the wiki. All you need to know is that it’s very good, and if you haven’t heard it yet… You should check it out! I will be re-listening to the album this afternoon.

Nico is the third and final album by the band Blind Melon, released in 1996 by Capital Records. The album was released after lead singer Shannon Hoon’s death in 1995. The album was named for his daughter, Nico Blue. It features unreleased versions of previous songs (‘No Rain’ and ‘St Andrews Fall’) cover versions (‘The Pusher’ (Steppenwolf) and ‘John Sinclair’ (John Lennon)) as well as ‘unfinished’ and ‘rare’ recordings of the band and Shannon alone.

1. The Pusher
2. Hell
3. Soup
4. No Rain [Ripped Away Version]
5. Soul One
6. John Sinclair
7. All That I Need
8. Glitch
9. Life Ain’t So Shitty
10. Swallowed
11. Pull
12. St. Andrew’s Hall
13. Letters from a Porcupine

Congratulations to myself… I am now the proud owner of MY CAR!

That’s right folks.. Lock it in.. My 5 year loan for that thing is completely paid in full and now I own my car 100%.

If that’s not a reason to celebrate, I don’t know what is. Join me in spirit tonight and celebrate with me. It’s a big day!

From all your friends at work!

Today I am listening to this disc for the first time…

Live at Radio City is a live album and video by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds. This was the first live acoustic release by Matthews and Reynolds since their first album, Live at Luther College, released in 1999.

The tracks were recorded at a live acoustic rock concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on April 22, 2007. The 26-song set features 12 songs from Dave Matthews Band albums and six songs from Dave Matthews’ Some Devil album. The other songs in the set include various unreleased and cover songs. Matthews and Reynolds played the entire set together, with the exception of two solos by Reynolds—”Betrayal” and “You Are My Sanity”—and one solo performance by Matthews—”Some Devil.” This is the first time Matthews has played piano at a show, and he also plays a small piece of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” before “Out of My Hands”.

Disc one
Bartender
When the World Ends
Stay or Leave
Save Me
Crush
So Damn Lucky
Gravedigger
The Maker
Old Dirt Hill (Bring That Beat Back)
Eh Hee
Betrayal
Out of My Hands
Still Water
Don’t Drink the Water

Disc two
Oh
Cornbread
Crash into Me
Down by the River
You Are My Sanity
Sister
Lie in Our Graves
Some Devil
Grace Is Gone
Dancing Nancies

#41
Two Step

My keeper team jumped up to first after months and months and months of holding onto third.. how you like them apples??...Trading away BONDERMAN for Teixeira was the biggest move I made this summer… This is the same team i traded away players like Otsuka for Willis then moved Willis and 2 others for Soriano. Kazmir Ibanez Lincecum, a few others were all pick ups..

Key Trades for Tough Gazabees
8-5-07 Jeremy Bonderman (Det – SP) to Holebeaters for Mark Teixeira (Atl – 1B)
6-19-07 Shane Victorino (Phi – OF), Rich Hill (ChC – SP), and Dontrelle Willis (Fla – SP) to Dodger Blue for Alfonso Soriano (ChC – OF)

Here’s current lineup update (*denotes keeper)

My Keeper Team (I can keep 10)
C- *Martin
1b- *Teixeira
2b- *Utley
SS- *Rollins
3b- *Wright
OF- *Soriano, *Francoeur, Ibanez
Util- *ARamirez
BN- Hermida, Weeks, Chris Young

SP *CCSabathia, *Lackey, Lincecum, Kazmir, Wainwright
RP Putz, Saito, Valverde, Benoit

I have to keep ARAM over Lincecum figuring I will just draft pitchers higher than normal since my 10 keepers are like the shit!..
rock it

Alright, so we were going to do another hike today but at 6AM we decided that we need a day to actually catch up on sleep. We haven’t had a day like that in weeks, many weeks it seems.. so we will still hike sleeping beauty, it just won’t be today.

What should we do with Barry Bond’s 756 Home Run Ball?

Okay, so recent history has gone better when I don’t post about this… but… I still have a tiny glimmer of hope left in the season. Mets are streaking downward and we start a big series with the Brewers tonight. Let’s go Braves! Kick it up a notch!

2007 National League Standings
EAST W L PCT GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK L10
NY Mets 84 67 .556 – 40-34 44-33 737 678 Won 1 4-6
Philadelphia 82 70 .539 2.5 43-32 39-38 841 785 Lost 1 7-3
Atlanta 79 73 .520 5.5 41-36 38-37 770 696 Won 4 6-4
Washington 68 84 .447 16.5 39-38 29-46 621 730 Lost 1 5-5
Florida 65 87 .428 19.5 32-42 33-45 736 833 Lost 4 4-6

2007 National League Wild Card Standings
NATIONAL W L Pct GB HOME ROAD RS RA STRK L10
San Diego 84 67 .556 – 46-31 38-36 676 600 Won 6 7-3
Philadelphia 82 70 .539 2.5 43-32 39-38 841 785 Lost 1 7-3
Colorado 80 72 .526 4.5 47-30 33-42 789 721 Won 4 6-4
LA Dodgers 79 73 .520 5.5 41-34 38-39 692 659 Lost 4 4-6
Atlanta 79 73 .520 5.5 41-36 38-37 770 696 Won 4 6-4
Milwaukee 78 73 .517 6 47-27 31-46 741 724 Lost 1 6-4

On the other side of the coin, the Yankees are only 1.5 games back from the Red Sox.

A short while ago in a not too far away land lived a barcode with many hands. A barcode unafriad to tell secrets but keen to thoughtless provacation. A barcode unlike no other but alike many others. This barcode lived a happy life always passing with high ANSI standard quality. Til one day along came a shadow and reverted the barcode back to the dark ages. The barcode was not pleased yet now had to find a new way to live with his ghost. The analysts prayed and the supervisors strayed away from this barcode til Kyle and his men with merry young hats deciphered its prey and determined its fate. Then Justus with his swinging bat flew down the trapezee door and onto the barcodes path. The barcode smiled with a jeer and let out all his fears. Tiny did the barcode seem, yet large did the problem involve. Rejected was the review and the state did declare. Barcodes we are not aware, shadows and ghosts must exist in this place. The barcode without a face hallowed into this place with a ghost behind his mask. Run and hide form the ghost barcode. Run and scream and shout at children who are not aware of the history of the barcode. Scan young wizard and read my barcodes existence. Range in all your defects and let them reign supremeless. Hide young barcode, hide and cry and seek a new life. Go and be returned to your keeper Kyle and let him give you life from under the pile. Let him remove your mask. Let him remove your shadow. Til one day the barcode may live without its ghost and exist in a perfect scan.

Cake Time, originally uploaded by twobs.

Time for another cake to celebrate patrick getting married on friday

Upon further review today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD) is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (“Ol’ Chumbucket”) and Mark Summers (“Cap’n Slappy”), of the United States, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with “Hello”, but with “Ahoy, me hearty!” The date was selected because it was the birthday of Summers’s ex-wife and consequently would be easy for him to remember.

For more information…
The Original Talk Like A Pirate Day Web site
WIKI ITLAPD
FLICKR ITLAPD

Why is everyone in the office walking around and talking like Pirates? Any ideas? I am a little concerned, a little confused, and a little scared….

Help me.

This morning I will be listening to The Crane Wife by The Decemberists. It’s one of my newlyish favorite albums.. I’ve already gotten to the end of it and I think I will just listen to it on repeat until further notice for the day.

The Crane Wife is an album by The Decemberists, released in 2006. It was produced by Tucker Martine and Chris Walla, and is the band’s first album on the Capitol Records label. The album was inspired by a Japanese folk tale, and centers on two song cycles, The Crane Wife and The Island, the latter of which was inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. National Public Radio listeners voted The Crane Wife the best album of 2006.

1 The Crane Wife 3
2 The Island
3 Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
4 O Valencia!
5 The Perfect Crime #2
6 When the War Came
7 Shankill Butchers
8 Summersong
9 The Crane Wife 1 & 2
10 Sons & Daughters

The Crane Wife is an old Japanese tale. While there are many variations of the tale, a common version is that a poor man finds an injured crane on his doorstep (or outside with an arrow in it), takes it in and nurses it back to health. After he releases the crane, a woman appears at his doorstep with whom he falls in love and marries. Because they need money, his wife offers to weave wondrous clothes out of silk that they can sell at the market, but only if he agrees never to watch her making them. They begin to sell them and live a comfortable life, but he soon makes her weave them more and more. Oblivious to his wife’s diminishing health, his greed increases. He eventually peeks in to see what she is doing to make the silk she weaves so desirable. He is shocked to discover that at the loom is a crane plucking feathers from her own body and weaving them into the loom. The crane, seeing him, flies away and never returns.

Band leader Colin Meloy found a version of this story and decided to write music based on it.

So, besides working and enjoying the married life, I feel that I’ve spent my entire summer with the Donatos from Big Brother 8. After an extremely long summer they were able to stand together until today, the final day of Big Brother 8. They’ve accomplished this feat against all odds. They had no clue they’d be in the house together. At times it was very tough for them on a personal level. Dick was well Evel, and Danielle was well a whiney brat. Danielle had barely talked to her dad Dick for 5 out of the previous 7 years. The majority of the house hated the both of them, yet they were unable to get either of them out. The Donatos dominated competitions they needed to win and finessed people at the right time when it was needed. True, I don’t agree with many of the things Dick did in the house. He was flat out mean at times. I wouldn’t play that way. If I had played with someone like that, I’m sure that none of his actions would have bothered me. I would have found it kinda funny I think. Then again who knows, I can say that easily from the outside. Despite the fact that these two have made it to the final 2 and how much the general public and other big brotherologists probably do not appreciate that, I am happy for them. The two of them made for great TV at times and deserve the cash. I can’t say for sure which one I think will win. If I had to guess, I’d think Danielle will get the votes cause the jury house hates Dick but who knows…. The finale is tonight on CBS at 9pm and after that, that’s that. It will be very interesting to see how the houseguests react to Eric playing for America. Next year will mark a new year. I am still a few years away from desiring to apply. Til next year….

so i’ve finally gone through the tracks (i had the whole thing recorded)... I slapped the music together about a week before the wedding and gave my buddy a dvd’s worth of music (19 hours) with some of the songs in a special request folder—turned out being that these request folders basically took up the entire time we had—so I know i did my part pretty hastily.. he added a few tracks here and there to the overal mix, and i basically gave him free reign on how he was going to order the music…...and at the end he did his turntable thing for 2 hours so that was cool too, but im not going to even try and figure out how much stuff he sampled…. either way, if anyone is interested here is the complete playlist from our wedding this past july.. there was only a few songs from the pre-ceremony disc I weren’t sure on the song titles…. if anyone is interested in having a copy of any of these tracks (each disc is a track) let me know and I will upload it… his DJ mix’s at the end are freakin cool too

Disc 1 (Pre-Ceremony)
Miles Davis – Summertime
Medeski Martin & Wood
Tom Waits – Grapefruit Moon
Ryan Adams – Damn Sam
Benevento Russo Duo
Medeski Martin & Wood
Frank Zappa – Peaches En Regalia
Benevento Russo Duo
Not sure (vinyl)
Booker T. & The Mg’s – Green Onions
Not sure (vinyl) has horns
Joe Henry – Stop
Medeski Martin & Wood

Disc 2 (After Ceremony)
Neil Young – Heart of Gold
Maurizio – Right on Time
Jim Croce – Time in a Bottle
The Doors – Hello, I Love You
Erin Mckeown – Slung-Lo
The Beatles – Love Me Do
Smashing Pumpkins – Today
Fleetwood Mac – Everywhere
Lez Zepplin – Whole Lotta Love
Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson
Grateful Dead – Sugar Magnolia
John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
The Format – Time Bomb
King of Leon – On Call
Jack Johnson – Upside Down
Ben Harper – By My Side
The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
The Charlie Daniels Band – The Devil Went Down To Georgia
moe. – In a Big Country
The Beach Boys – Kokomo
G. Love And Special Sauce – Baby Got Sauce
Led Zeppelin – Hey Hey What Can I Do
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Hey, Tonight

Disc 3
M. Ward – Chinese Translation
Journey – Don’t Stop Believing
Andrew Bird – Measuring Cups
The Format – Dog Problems
The Beatles – In My Life
Albert Hammond, Jr. – Cartoon Music For Superheroes
Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night
Crosby Stills Nash & Young – Teach Your Children
Jim Croce – Operator
Jimi Hendrix – Angel
moe. – Okayalright
Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Put A Spell On You
Starship – Sara
Dave Matthews – So Damn Lucky
Heart – Crazy On You
Gene Chandler – Duke Of Earl
Jake Armerding – Little Boy Blue
Grateful Dead – Brown-Eyed Woman

Disc 4
Led Zepplin – Over The Hills and Far Away
The Beatles – When I’m 64
CCR - Hey Tonight
RHCP - Soul to Squeeze
Ben Harper – Steal My Kisses
Bob Dylan – Sara
Bob Seger – Night Moves
Bob Marley – Natural Mystic
Paul Simon – Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes
Keller Williams – Best Feeling
Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely
Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime
Led Zepplin – Thank You
Camille Yarbrough – Take Yo Praise
Hot Chocolate – You Sexy Thing
Black 47 – Funky Ceili (Kay-Lee) Bridie’s Song
Lionel Richie – Dancing on the Ceiling

Disc 5
Billy Idol – Dancing With Myself
Tommy Tutone – 867-5309
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
Lipps Inc – Funkytown
Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancing
Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby
Damien Marley – Beautiful
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
Dee Lite – Groove Is In The Heart
The Troggs – Wild Thing
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Black Eyed Peas – My Humps
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
George Wesley – Timekeeper

Disc 6
DJ Andris – 1:19:48

Disc 7
DJ Andris – 44:26

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Driving. Unshowered.