i nearly forgot i had this thing....here it is almost 2006...i turn 48 next month...that's pushing 50 for those out there that didn't pass math....whatever...didn't someone say "every year above the ground is a good one"?..... 2005 was a weird year....i got hospitalized for pneumonia....gave up drugs....started taking drugs again....gave 'em up again, mostly cuz i want to detox so i can get a different job...my gig at the state bores the crap out of me...spent a lot of time swapping guitar...

i, like millions of other people, commute back and forth, to and fro, 5 days a week, to a job that i'd quit in a heartbeat if i could, but this isn't about that....this is about the commute itself, 25 miles one way, with people who tailgate, and speed, and zip in and out, and basically endanger me and everyone else on the road just because they're too selfish and rude to have even the most basic of good manners....usually, i'm pretty zen about it, but sometimes it just gets to me, and this mo...

...until Christmas, and I have to work a 12 hour day that day, and I'd like to whine about it, but I won't....we at our house decided to celebrate the Event this past Saturday, and we had snow, and it was good.....Charles got his long-awaited Ninteno Game Cube with Zelda Disk, and has not been seen since...Scott got the Asian-theme comforter he was wanting, and some CDs...... We are playing at the church for 3 Christmas eve services, all acoustic stuff...I am still not sure whether or not I'l...

today is 120803....1 day after Pearl Harbour Day, which is the anniversary of a day that pretty much sucked for a lot of people in Hawaii....naughty, bad Japan....didn't your mama teach you that it's not nice to sucker punch part of the U.S. pacific fleet?....guess those big ol' bombs showed you a thing or two, huh?....betcha won't do that again...... last nite was the last ExTreme at church for this calendar year...i really like playing at this function the best of all the stuff that happens...