…to Jessica and Jeff (my sister and brother-in-law). Congrats on six years! I believe September 27th was my grandma and grandpa’s anniversary, as well – so congrats to you two, up There, too.

Photos from a recent birthday boy’s photo shoot.

Photos from my photo shoot with the McFarlings:

…why hast thou forsaken me?

60°? Seriously? 60°.

My fiance, Tracy, is graduating from UW-Milwaukee with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, this Sunday. I am so proud of her. Congrats on all of your hard work and your new (or at least newly upgraded) job. :*

Why do we need the rain, anyway?

I just tried this on a bottle of 1888 Bock (yes, I know I could have twisted it off). It was quick and simple. Purely genius!

You can call me lame if everybody but me has known about these guys for awhile, now, but I just learned about movie reviews on Spill.com today. They’re awesome. No, seriously, the site’s concept, execution, and humor are really friggin’ cool.

Back before my ’staff of writers (read: fraternity brothers)’ were off getting married and whatnot, I had envisioned something along the Spill.com lines. That was all a pipe dream, of course, but Korey, Cyrus, Leon, and Carlyle make it happen.

Kudos

For the last five years, or so, I’ve been getting my taxes done by a guy named Jim Rawson – the owner of Tri-Quality Services in Brookfield. As a divorced father and owner of a small business, I am greatly impressed by how much he knows and how easy he is to work with. If you are looking for somebody to do your taxes, I highly recommend him.

Tri-Quality Services
Located at the corner of Calhoun and Capitol in Brookfield
262-255-5665

When you buy tickets from Ticketmaster, they charge you convenience charges up the yin-yang. But what I really don’t get is that they charge you $2.50 extra if you want to print your tickets on your own computer BUT it’s free if you want them shipped via the U.S. Postal Service.

I’m glad I get most of my tickets free.

My contract with Verizon was just about up, so they gave me a sweet deal on a BlackBerry. I got the Storm. It’s pretty close to an iPhone. So far, I love it.

If you notice that my site comes online and then goes offline again, that’s because I am still in the process of configuring this web server. I decided to switch from the memory drain that is Apache2 to NginX. About 99% of you won’t know what that means… but I’ll just explain it as, “my site might be down for a little while, here and there.”

Now go take on the day.

My daughter always says, “when my birthday comes… can I have __insert_toy_here__?”

Well, when my birthday comes, can I have this? Magnetic PhotoShop Photo Board

This song is stuck in my head like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth.

I did it. Or should I say, “they did it.” In the past, I never would have considered purchasing a season ticket package with the Milwaukee Brewers. But, since they made the playoffs last year, over a dozen of my friends are getting the same nine-game package, and BJS said that he’d split a third seat with me that my fiance and/or the kids could use, I decided to go in on the sweet Brewer’s action.

This should be pretty fun. Don’t let me down, Brewers!

For the last three years or so, when I get out of bed, sometimes, I look like I have scoliosis. My hips and lower back hurt like a sonuvabitch and I can hardly walk.

Listening to “Redman – I Don’t Kare” (can’t find it on ProjP or SeeqPod)

Getting old sucks.

My all-time favorite account executive passed away last night due to cancer. While it hurts us all that he is no longer with us, I am glad that he is no longer suffering. Lung cancer is a hellish way to die.

Rest in Peace, Jack. We all miss you.

I just received the Lambda Chi Alpha Centennial Edition history and roll call in the mail. Sweet!

And my buddy Claude, who most of you who have read this site know, just did some artwork for the cover of the latest edition of the Cross and Crescent magazine.