Trip Styles

What up? Okay, here's the dilly. I thought about it for weeks, planned every waking moment of my day (except when I was at work....honest Bal, I was on the phone all day)...and came up with 32 plans, which all included New Orleans. Then my friend Jeff asked me something I hadn't considered, for some reason:

"Dude, why are you going to New Orleans? I thought you liked cold weather?"

Well, slap my ass and call me susan. My vertically challenged supervisor has a damn good point. I DO like cold weather. I went to Alaska for Christmas, remember? In fact, I despise pretty much anything but cold weather. I did travel around southern europe in the middle of the summer...but I really hated the weather. I'm not the smallest guy. Hell, I'm the size of a small village. Doing long division in my head makes me sweat (yes, I can do long division in my head...I know you're jealous)...anything above 21 degrees celsius (like 70 F to you backwards americans), and I'm uncomfortable.

So, New Orleans is out. Well, the weather was a large consideration, but I also didn't wanna get murdered for my ipod. That might sound kinda prejudiced, but...fuck you, I love my ipod.

So where am I going, you ask? I decided on Denver, Nashville, and Chicago. November 10th - 19th. 3 days in each city, basically. Before you try to tell me that Nashville is in the "south" and it's warm...go look at the november averages. It might not be covered in snow like Denver or Chicago, but it's definitely not warm. So there.

I already got tickets to 2 NHL games....Colorado/Edmonton, and Nashville/Minnesota. That = cool. I was gonna go with the ghetto hostels that I usually stay in, but fuck that, not this time. Every hotel I'm staying in has a bar, and I was smart enough not to book 6AM flights this time, so I can sleep off my hangovers before I move onto a new city.

Other than the trip, what's goin on? Mikey's stag is tomorrow. Paintball is...10 hours and 45 minutes from now. I actually typed out "I can't wait to unload on Daly's face"....wow....that's wrong on so many levels. PAINTBALLS PEOPLE.

After that, it's poker, bars, debauchery, etc. If he doesn't throw up on himself, well...I'll feel cheated.

I'm the best man at the wedding, which means 3 things. First, I have to get my hair cut. That totally sucks. But I can live with it, as long as I can dye it a very light colour. Next, I have to do a speech. In case you didn't know, I have an intense fear of public speaking....so I'm totally freaking about this. Strangers, I could deal with....but I'm gonna know like 80% of the people there. Blah. At least I have a date! Third...no offence to Shannon, cuz I know it's for the best, but...I'm kinda losing my best friend. 20+ years of the stupidest shit imaginable...I'm gonna miss it. I've had 2 years to get used to him actually growing up and being a mature, upstanding guy....but god dammit, it still sucks. Not only that...Danny and Rob are gettin married in the next year...fuck, even Jess will soon. It's pretty surreal. And to think, I was THIS CLOSE to being that guy, 4 years ago. Funny how things work out.

Anyways I'm out....you caterpillar ass, salamander ass muthafuckas. Kam knows what I'm talkin about.

EDIT....I just re-read that. Danny and Rob are getting married soon...but not to each other. Just thought I'd clear that up. If it were up to Danny, that might be a possibility though. If you know Danny....you know what I'm talking bout. Creeeeepy.

Controversy!

Wow people, you amaze me. One pic of Steve Irwin gettin chased by a stingray, and I get the following:

6 comments (of which 5 bascially banished me to hell on the spot), 3 MSN messages (from people that thought it was hilarious, but didn't want the "stigma" of a positive comment attached to them) , and REMOVAL from someones top twentywhatever list.

I just have one thing to say:

Where were all of you when my main pic was making fun of a fucking RETARDED KID for the last month? It's not like I'm new to posting tasteless pictures here. But I do need some consistency people!

Geez.