Another person joins the quarter century club

Happy Birthday Rory! Welcome to the club for us old people.

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!

September 19th is the International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and goes down as one of the wackiest "holidays" I've ever heard. Here is a pirate translator, for all those that would like to bust out with a line at work but can't think of anything! Arrrr!

Hootie Concert

Hey everyone, we just got back from seeing Hootie and the Blowfish with Better Than Ezra opening at the Ford Amphitheater. What a great concert! I was really surprised with Better Than Ezra, they played for a solid hour and sounded awesome. The lead singer is also quite funny. I was surprised to know more of their songs other than "Good", which was quite popular when the first came out. Hootie played all their most popular stuff along with a bunch of others and even some covers. Notable covers include Stone Temple Pilot's "Interstate Love Song", REM's "Losing My Religion", and Cheap Trick's "Surrender". I took some videos with my camera and phone, but I won't post them for fear of copyright infringement on youtube.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a good weekend, and make sure you've got a TV to be in front of tomorrow night (tonight, actually) for the game, Go Gators!

Day of Days

Today, is the day, of days. Third week of September, you can smell the hate, the passion, the glory.

Two years ago, in Neyland's house, a crime was commited, not a crime against just a person (Dallas Baker), or a team (Florida Gators), but a nation, the Orange and Blue Nation. Today, is the day, for retribution, to set right, what the blind wronged, to set good, what the evil made wicked, today, is the day, of the Gator.

At 8:00 pm (5:00 for those of you on the wrong side of the country), the world will be made right again, the football Gods will see justice done and the wicked orange nation purged. Tonight, Neyland's house will be consumed by an Orange and Blue fire. There's no other name so glorious, all hail, Florida, hail.

To my fellow Gators, remember, its Great, To Be, a Florida Gator, ...
and to those who are not, remember, If you're not a Gator, you're Gator Bait.

I guess I'm still a little bitter about two years ago, I hate that place.

Fish Catching Machine For Sale!

Fresh on the Market!
After all those exciting Egmont trips, we are selling our 1995 232 Mako with a 1997 225 Merc (~750 hours). We have all the service records. The boat has a Lowrance LMS-339C DF iGPS, VHF, Stereo/tape with 4 speakers and an amp. It has 2 baitwells, the standard one in the floor and you can see the other one under the leaning post(you can take it out). Flowscan. 3 extra rod holders in the bow. Rupp dual spreader outriggers. Bimini top (we dont use it). Full boat cover. There are also cusions for the front seating area that have been in the garage since we got the boat. Edson steering wheel with edson nob. The trailer is a Camp Out dual axle with torsion suspension and new (last year) surge disk brakes. Boat is lift kept and EXTREMELY clean. $25,000 Located in Bradenton, FL. Contact: LoganBeal at gmail.com or plynhky at aol.com







If you know of anyone in the market, let me know!

Thanks for the Ad spot Jae!

Netflix Members Unite

Anyone on Netflix? Lookin' for some more friends... jbailey23 - gmail.com

Calling all Erics

Hey dude, I want to know your current computer situation.

What OS are you running on your desktop? Has the jump to 64 bit architecture been worthwhile? The Athlon XPs are stupid cheap now-a-days. Any buyers remorse on the desktop or laptop? I imagine you're like me and mostly do email/web-browsing, do you find the new comp to be overkill for this?

Vegas Roomie...

So which guys are going to Vegas? I would obviously like to have three other roomies to share a room with to split the cost. So who out there is going that I could room with!?

What does everyone's Vegas trip look like?

Christina and I booked our trip last night, and our schedule is as follows:

Tampa to Las Vegas:
Departs Friday, Oct. 20 @ 7:25AM
Arrives Friday, Oct. 20 @ 10:50AM

Las Vegas to Tampa:
Departs Monday, Oct. 23 @ 4:10PM
Arrives Monday, Oct. 23 @ 11:25PM

I'm posting this because:
a.)I want to know when everyone is getting there so we can possibly car pool to the hotel (Bally's).
b.)I want to know when everyone is leaving for a possible car pool to the airport.

Also, check in at the hotel isn't until 3PM, so we're stuck with bags for 4 hours... oh well, I'd rather get my money's worth and be there for the whole day as opposed to getting there late.
Update: Bally's has a check-in counter at the airport, and a shuttle to the hotel from the airport. Should be no problems even if we can't get a ride from the hosts or others.

To Jae -- Do you have a schedule for the trip, or are we just playing it by ear when we're all there?

SoS as voted by the good 'ole US of A

To those who seem to take issue with who we play. Read 'em and weep. :P

website is finally up

www.offthechartexcursions.com lets hear some comments! its about 95% done.


btw...Happy Birthday to me!
Thanks to those who remembered (Rory, and Deb T)

FSU vs UM game

Congrats to the least bad team. What a waste of 3 hours of my life. It was worth hearing the commentary by Bobby B. "They probably have the best defense in the country if it not us." I think he sounds just like Paula Dean on Food TV.

A W is a W, good job Florida State.

CRIKEY!

So Steve Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter) was killed today!! He took a stingray barb to the chest while filming a documentary called "Ocean's Deadliest." He reportedly swam over top of a poisonous stingray when it rammed it's barb into his chest and put a hole in his heart. All those crocs and he gets taken out by a stingray...quite a bit of irony in this story. Anyway...R.I.P. mate.

Google Video Magic Trick

Beerfest!

Just saw Beerfest, and it's up there as the funniest movie of the year (for people our age). If you haven't seen this movie yet, go see it now for a good laugh. It's unbelievable how many of the drinking games in this movie are common knowledge to us. Viking master is in this movie!!! That alone made me laugh out loud.

Another one bites the dust!

Most of you prolly have not heard yet but Jared High proposed to Meghan Miller over the weekend. I feel old!

pictures...

here's pics of my new apartment! come visit me jenny!!!

Weekend in St. Augustine

Hey everyone,
I just got back from a weekend vacation to St. Augustine. How long has it been since you've been there?!? I haven't been there since I was a little kid, so it was fun to see the sights over again. Friday night we went to a comedy club and saw a pretty good show, but I don't have any pictures. The following pictures are from Saturday and Sunday, and I'll leave some captions.


Saturday morning we saw City Hall and the Lightner Museum. Pretty nice courtyard.


Next up was St. George Street in the old town, we did some shopping and general sightseeing.


Then we went to the beach to the north, toward Jacksonville. It was extremely shelly.

After the beach we had dinner at Harry's, and here's a picture of Christina with, if you didn't notice, a much svelter version of me. (I'm down 15 pounds so far)





Later that night we went on the "Ghosts and Gravestones" tour, which was surprisingly entertaining. The actors were all really good, and the stories they told were interesting because they were all historically accurate. This is a pic of the gallows behind the old jail.



Sunday morning we went to the Castillo De San Marcos, aka "the fort". This was where I made absolutely sure my scalp and forehead were burnt. The first picture was taken inside the powder magazine, where they kept all the gunpowder. it's pretty tight in there because they built the walls to be extremely thick to guard enemy fire from causing an accidental explosion.

To finish off the trip we went to St. Augustine's beach, which was much nicer than the first beach. I thought the 3 foot drop in the sand at the water was pretty interesting. The people in the picture are right at the cliff.




Well I think I have sufficiently slowed Jae's site down to a crawl with all these pictures, so I think I'm good to stop here. No one has really posted much in a while, so what has everyone else been up to?
PS to Nick: Sorry I missed the football draft, this post explains why. I am pretty happy with the team the computers picked for me, I think I still have a pretty good chance!

Link just for Josh

This is the best article I have read in a long time.

http://www.vibe.com/news/news_headlines/2006/08/osama_bin_laden_lusts_for_whitney_talks_of_killing_bobby_brown/

My New Toy

Yes, it's true! In January I got a new desktop to replace the old laptop as my main PC, and now I've replaced the laptop with a shiny new MacBook. The new lappy is a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB of RAM (currently 512 MB, more RAM installed tomorrow), 60 GB hard drive, and a DVD+/- R/RW Superdrive. It came with a program called Parallels for free which, if you haven't heard, allows you to run XP along-side OS X without restarting the computer. That will be up and running in the near future. Once all of the networking is set up and I add the hard drive that I bought in the recent woot-off as network attached storage, I will have a pretty impressive setup. Comments welcome.