It was to be easy...

But it never seems to work out that way. It was another chaotic night. Life goes on.

i like the part where the guy goes da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da

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MEAN F'ng PEOPLE!!!

DO NOT go to Wrestlescoop.com and look for pro wrestling news! One of their links sent me to a site that made ALL my Desktop icons, all my Favorites, and all my Start menu options be set to Hidden. I just now got it figured out after about 1 hour of silent cursing and trying to understand what had happened. I think I have it all fixed now. It's scary as hell to have an empty Desktop when it normally is covered with shortcuts and folders and files. It's also scare to have all your Favorites in your Favorites tab in IE gone. This site describes what was happening.

Death Metal Drumming

Pause

It's 9 AM on a Saturday. I am in Cedar Falls. We are visiting my in-laws. We played four games of Euchre last night and the score is tied so we will play the rubber today.

Not a lot is really new with me. Our lives kick into overdrive this week with Megan starting driver's ed. Baseball will be starting soon for Alex. The lawn will (hopefully) start to need attention (hopefully because I am okay with spring arriving) and eventually, the summer will arrive. Even though it is only mid-March, I am hoping that the snow blower will not see anymore action this month.

I looked at my brother-in-law's "Guitar World" magazine. There is a list of the "Top 100 Metallica songs" in the issue I found in his bathroom. The top ten are as follows:
Creeping Death
Master of Puppets
Seek and Destroy
Ride the Lightening
One
Battery
The Four Horsemen
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
All Nightmare Long
Fade to Black
This is from a guitar player's perspective, apparently. I would have picked "Enter Sandman" as one of their best riffs. If not "Sandman", "Sad but True" would have made my list. The 'bottom' of the list is the following:
Loverman
Cyanide
Tuesday’s Gone
Damage Case
Broken Beat and Scarred
Until It Sleeps
The Outlaw Torn
Suicide & Redemption
Wasting My Hate
2 x 4
Turn the Page
I don't believe that the three "Death Magnetic" songs "Cyanide" or "Broken Beat and Scarred" or "Suicide & Redemption" belong here. I would have pushed a couple of the covers on "Garage Inc" lower to the bottom 10 and kept the "Death Magnetic" tracks in the top 90. I wouldn't have put any original songs by the band in the bottom 10. I agree with the bottom 3 - they are not my favorites by any stretch of my mind.

My next project is going to be to create a Windows Media Player playlist.

I got Carl Palmer's DVD this week. This is a video that is on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9fkAGwJcM

Calm Before the Storm

This next week is the calm before the storm, but it's not very calm.

I am donating blood tomorrow night. I will do contract work in the evening.
Tuesday, I have no plans. I will do contract work in the evening.
Wednesday, I have no plans. I will do contract work in the evening.
Thursday, I have no plans. I will do contract work in the evening.
Friday, the relative calm ends. We are going to Cedar Falls to see my in-laws right after I get off work.
Saturday, we will return home.
Sunday, the kids have a youth rally.
Monday, drums/sax lessons.
Tuesday, Megan starts driver's ed
Wednesday, religious ed
Thursday, Megan driver's ed
Friday, not sure but I think something is going on.
Saturday, STM confirmation and the kids are serving
Sunday, Karen is helping a friend with a family meal for their daughter's confirmation
Monday starts the cycle all over again.

Sanctus Real

I get tired, frankly, of the same songs on the two major rock stations and I can't really listen to Bob and Tom on the other radio station because I get annoyed with the constant interrupting of each other. Routinely, I will turn on the Christian music radio station on my way to work. I enjoy this song during my commute.

Idea Worth Spreading

Donnas Overload

As I'm working on my contract work, I spin CDs. I found the Donnas. Wow. I forgot how much I like them.

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Life Moving Along

Lots of time being spent on contract work. Typical day is 8-4:30 at regular job and 9-12 @ night on contract work. I like doing the contract work.

This week is busy. What week isn't?

1. Monday - drums/sax
2. Tuesday - Nothing! (hard to believe!)
3. Wednes - Ash Wednesday Mass @ 6; New season of Real World @ 9!
4. Thurs - Alex's final basketball game
5. Friday - Nothing! (hard to believe!)
6. Saturday - Lunch with BSS; 5:15 Mass; relaxing
7. Sunday - Lunch with someone; relaxing
8. Monday - work 8-4:30; donate blood @ 5; contract work
9. Tuesday - work 8-4:30; contract work
10. Wednesday - work 8-4:30; contract work
11. Thursday - work 8-4:30; contract work
12. Friday - work 8-4:00; go visit in-laws in Waterloo
13. Saturday - return home; Kids serve @ 5:15 Mass
14. Sunday - Youth Rally

Dissimulated - New Favorite Drummer... and Tom Sawyer Cover

Elephant Ears / Sex Offenders . . . Related?

In other news, I tend to lean Republican. Not totally in love with every policy they have and that's okay. This is a website that lists Republican sex offenders. Read at your own risk.

305 to Go

I think that there are a lot of times in life where I relish being able to just pause.

Then I rush off to the next thing that must be done.