Do not eat the Loaded Baked Potato Pringles.  They taste like bacon.  Really nasty bacon.  I have tried other strange flavored Pringles and like them(such as Ketchup flavored ones), but these were horrible.  I couldn't even eat them all.  I really tried.

Lindsey is back in town....Hoorah!

This week is Mike's wedding.  I have his bachelor party and a speech to plan.  I am really stressed over both.  I am not liking this "Best Man" thing.

Short and sweet.

ashram

Well, they're not.  For the last three weeks I have gone to Taco Bell before work, and neither of the two in my town is open late nights.  WTF?  I am not a huge Taco Bell fan,  especially since ours are so ghetto and the Pepsi is always flat and watered down, but this is the only fast food restaurant in my town that is open after mindnight!  I don't know why they closed, but they need to come back! Grrr....

Lindsey is out of town this week, which leaves me missing her and bored.  I am going to the lake tomorrow with the family.  We will also be headed to the Outback Steakhouse.  After that, the rest of my week takes a turn downhill.  However, compared to the beginning of my week, it should probably be called uphill.  I guess it will be nice to end my shitty week with 3 days of laying around the house.

I just found out my favorite PSP game is now available on my cell phone.  SWEET!  I can't wait until it comes to Xbox Live Arcade as well.  Lumines in High-Def!  I amstill  kind of pissed however that verizon is just now selling the razor phones that play mp3s.  Seriously, I got mine about 1 month ago!  I thought it could play mp3s, but it couldn't. I should have waited.

ashram

Well, I've done a lot in the past week.  Wow.

Lindsey and I went to Superman last Wednesday.  Pretty good stuff.  I think they should have given Kevin Spacey(Lex Luthor) a more in depth role in the story.  The "bad guy" portion of the film wasn't that great.  Kevin Spacey did an excellent job, the story was just weak.  But, it was a cool movie none the less.  Lindsey and I were both a little bit apprehensive about it.

On Thursday we watched The Hills Have Eyes.  This was not a scary movie.  It was pretty much a gore fest, and a mindless one at that.  There were a lot of loopholes and there were a lot people doing really stupid things.  Which can get annoying in a movie.  I don't know why they can't make "scary" movies anymore.  It's frustrating.  I want something that builds tension and makes me jump.  Not something only bloody or violent.  It tends to get ridiculous and boring.

Friday we went out to Pathfinder Lake, just her and I.  We like that lake a lot because there aren't many people out there, plus there are a lot of large rocks.  We don't like the sand as much that's at Alcova Lake.  Sand gets everywhere and it sucks.  While I like sand in the water when I am walking on it, I don't like digging it out of every crevice on my body on the 30 minute ride home.  The Pathfinder water is a little bit colder, but it's just as nice when you get a prefect day like it was Friday.  We had a blast, and I was completely worn out once we got home(I am such a lard ass).  We ended up curling up and watching a Russian movie called Nightwatch.  It has some cool stuff in it, but I have to say it's really different.  It's almost overly complicated at times.  Lindsey and I have noticed this trend in foreign films, especially in the Sci-fi/fantasy genres.  I don't know if it's because of cultural differences or what, but it seems like you always have to watch them over and over to finally completely understand them.

Overall, I had a fantastic weekend.  And while in some ways it made it harder to come back to work, at least I had a weekend.  It makes being at work easier, since I have something to look forward to on the weekends.

My brother flew in for the weekend.  I only got to see him for a couple hours on Saturday, but it was good to see him.  It pisses me off so much that my little brother is so much bigger than I am.  Oh freakin well.

Well, time for a crazy week.  I am sure this holiday will be nuts at work.  It's easier if you expect it though.

ashram

This movie is a very cool dark comedy by Alfred Hitchcock.  It has to be one of my favorite original dark comedies, along with Arsenic and Old Lace.

There was a huge building fire(well, for our town) in Casper tonight.  It was in one of our historical buildings, and Lindsey and I were downtown when it happened!  It was pretty amazing to see.  The building was vacant, so that's a good thing, but they were remodeling it, so that sucks for the owners!  It was funny how everyone, including us, was hanging around outside the police barriers just gawking.

Here are some pics Linse took:

There's some more pics here:

http://www.minionstudios.net/mesidin/fire-2%26wolcott-06-22-06.zip

I went to work later and got to work some of the fire from the dispatch side, which was cool.

We went to Da Vinci Code tonight as well.  It was okay, but I was kind of disappointed in it.  I will have to read the book.

Who knows what our outing tomorrow may bring!

ashram

And I'm back.  Well, I have been back for about a week.  But I didn't work all that much, so I didn't really surf the net.

The wedding was okay.  I will never, ever, ever again say yes when someone asks me to video tape their wedding.  It was so much pressure.  My arms were cramping and shaking from holding one of the three cameras I was using still, I was so nervous.  For three days after that my shoulders were sore.  I know, I'm a wuss, but honestly, you only get married once, right(hopefully, I guess)?  And it was even more pressure because it was family. Lindsey thinks I can get over this nervous stuff.  I think it will take intensive therapy sessions.  Maybe torture.  Otherwise, the week out of town was really boring.  The 14 hour trip both ways in the car with the family still sucked.  The fast food restaraunts made me want to puke.  Except I now have a craving for Wendy's ice tea. Nightly.  I didn't really hang out with anyone because they were all working.  So I sat around bored a lot.  Weddings suck.  Family reunions suck.  The two questions I got the most:

1. When are you and Lindsey going to get married?

2.  What are you doing with your life?

I am working on my 4th week without pop.  I am really proud of myself, if only for the fact that I have been able to stick with it.  Unlike everything else I try to do to better myself.  Lindsey seems unimpressed and would rather tease me.

Work extremely sucked tonight.  We were short handed by 1 person, so I got to do two jobs.  Plus, I was in charge as the senior person as well.  You think I was pissed the last post. That was nothing compared to this.  I wanted to tear my hair out then just leave.  Just get up and walk out.

On lighter news, Lindsey inspired me to finish inking the first page of my comic, and I finished on Friday!  Now I just have to add some text and shading and page 1 is complete!  Thanks, buddy!  That's really exciting for me.  Now I just need it to be the weekend again so I can work on it more.

Happy Father's Day late, all the dads out there.

ashram

hrm....thinking now...I forgot to wish my dad happy father's day.  I was alseep when he came yesterday.

I watched the complete LOTR trilogy this weekend.  I love those movies, but damn is it hard to watch them straight through.  It took me 3 days because of interruptions.

My jaw is sore from being clenched so hard.  Work has been nuts tonight, and I haven't been this completely pissed off at the police officers and public than I have tonight.  I need to take a break and step away from the console it's getting so bad.  I feel like getting violent.  I don't want to talk to any of them. The last two days have been nuts.  We've had stabbings, rapes, tornado sightings, gobs upon gobs of fights, property damages, burgs, accidents with injury, and lots of other weirder shit.  I thought of this horrible joke last night at work, but it was so awful, I don't feel I can share it with anyone.  I was really embarrassed I even though of it.

I get to leave on Wenesday for my "vacation".  We will drive down that morning and reach Kansas City sometime around 9-10pm.  My idea of a good time would be to not talk to anyone for the 3 days after we arrive at least.  I just want it to be quiet.  I will sit back and play my video games and sleep the shit out of the rest of the week.

I have been having odd dreams that keep waking me up lately.  Most I can't remember, but last week I had a dream that people I knew, like my close friends and family, where comitting suicide right in front of me.  It creeped me out.  I am definitely not getting a good night's rest of late.

I really am ready to get away.

ashram

My brother left today.  It was short and sweet because I left for work at the same time he was leaving for the airport.  I basically just said see you later; I am sorry we only hung out for 15 minutes since I had to work so much.  I am sure there were tears later since my mom went to the airport with him.  Bleh.

Only one more full night after tonight.  I am just about worked out.  Even 5 days in a row is getting to be too much for me these days. 

I am a little bit excited about going down to the wedding. Well, not the wedding part, but getting out of town, taking a road trip, and trying to relax for a week will be nice.  I am going to miss Lindsey like crazy, though.  I made a little suprise up for her to open while I am gone.

ashram

Well, my brother flies out tomorrow.  I have spent zippo time with him, but oh well.  I am sure he was more interested in hanging with his girlfriend and that's understandable.  We had a BBQ-ish thing for his birthday today.  I made it for about 1 hour before I had to head to work.

I finally got in touch with Lindsey today.  Things are going to shit for her between work and her home situation.  But, I have to say it was incredibly good to hear her voice and talk to her.  She doesn't know how much it means. 

She is reading Pride & Prejudice.  We both love that movie.  I am a big fan of the BBC mini-series as well, even though it's British and old.  I haven't read the book yet, but I will after she's finished.  I probably should have read it years ago when my sister was around reading all of those Jane Austin books.  Oh, well.  It's more fun now that I have her to talk about it with.

Lindsey is talking about getting an apartment, but she can't afford it, which sucks.  I, myself, will be facing moving out sometime before January, and then moving again next summer.  So, I have to figure out what the heck I am going to do about that. 

ashram

Your Personality Is Like Heroin

You're capable of the highest highs and the lowest lows. Addicted to feeling good, you'll do almost anything to avoid pain. People seek you out, even though you can be quite moody. They're hooked on you!

I was suprised, but they frickin' nailed it with just a 5 question poll. Well, not a drug habit, but my personality.

This will be long.

What a week.  I have been completely exhausted.  I seriously slept probably 20-30 hours between Thursday night and Saturday morning.  I spent the rest of my time wandering around my house, doing a little cleaning, and watching movies.  

Lately I have been enjoying Curb Your Enthusiasm(I think it was swosei who recommended this to me quite a while ago) Season 1 and Samurai Jack Season 3.  I found Curb Your Enthusiasm to be quite enjoyable.  Awkward, uncomfortable, yet hillariously so.  I think Lindsey would enjoy it as well.  There is a conversation between Larry and his wife that was very, very funny because Lindsey and I have had almost that same conversation.  I like how she makes him do stuff all the time he doesn't want to.  Like when he leaves his anniversary watch inside at the party where they have basically just been thrown out of, and she makes him go back and ask for the watch.  Oh, man, can I relate to that.  I would be so uncomfortable I would be like, "Well, the watch is gone....that's too bad."

I got my room and the living room mostly clean.  Headway at least.

My brother showed up and suprised my mom today.  My dad picked him up from the airport around 10am.  I guess my mother cried when he showed up.  I was asleep for all of it.  He actually came back for his girlfriend's highschool graduation, which was okay.  He looked pretty sharp in his Marine dress uniform.  I hope he didn't take anything stupid to the graduation, so the Secret Service doesn't give him a hard time(the Vice President is the speaker for the graduation).  Last time the Vice President was in town, my brother was playing in the football game that "Dick" attended.  My brother had his hand cuffs taken away from him in the locker room by the Secret Service.  If you knew my brother, you wouldn't question why he had handcuffs in his pocket at a football game he was playing in.

Lindsey has been AWOL since I saw her on Monday.  I know she went out of town Friday and will be gone for a few days.  But, she could freakin' call.  All I can think of is that I pissed her off.  I have been calling and leaving message for the entire week, and now I am getting pissed off.  I am not trying to keep tabs or shit like that.  I just want to fucking talk to my best friend.  It seems like everyone is that way right now.  I try calling my friend Mike: no answer.  I try calling my cousin Josh: no answer.  I've already covered Lindsey.  I've left voicemails for people, sent e-mails, instant messages.  WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE?  This shit is getting old.  Am I in some fucking twilight zone where the only people who can call me is my job?  It's driving me nuts. I might as well throw my cell phone away for all the good it's done me.  One might think, hey the glass is half-full, cheer up, you are at least saving money on your cell phone bill.  No, I think I am losing money because I am getting 10 fucking calls a month, and that's work telling me to come in and lose my overtime money to the government.  A lot of good those 300+ minutes are doing me now.

My next day off is Thursday, which seems like an eternity from now.  Then the Wednesday after that, I leave for Kansas City to see my cousin Jackie get married.  Apparently, I may be video taping the wedding, which should make things interesting.  I am a little bit nervous about that.

Alright, I am done.  For now at least.  Four more days left in my work week and lots more to bitch about.  Be prepared.

ashram

Oh, and I gave up drinking pop on Thursday.  It's just not good for you, and since I haven't been exercising like I should; I figured I could do this.  Lindsey is cutting back herself.  I can't do that because I have no self control in this area.  If there is a 12 pack of soda in the house, I will drink it all in one night.  Again, I have no self control.  I have been doing good though.  I even drank lemonade when we went out to dinner today.  Three days is the longest I have gone; EVER, I think.  However, I have been very, very grumpy and on edge.  I don't know if that's any different than usual, but I think it's worse(and getting worse).  Look out everybody.

Well, Linse and I spent our one day together this week at the Disturbed concert(which she forgot about, so we didn't hang out before hand so she could "get ready").  It was pretty badass, although my voice and my ears still hurt.  Lindsey says my voice sounds neat when it's all throaty and husky.  While it is painful, it does sound kind of cool while I am talking on the radio at work tongiht.  It sound more tough, and I in turn have more confidence.

The opening acts were okay, but Disturbed rocked.  It's cool that we got such a big group in our little town.  Rob Zombie is apparently coming in July, so that's awesome too.  I love Disturbed's lead singer.  His voice is so unique and he is bald.  I have a fascination with bald men of late.  I want to be a good looking bald guy.  I don't know where this desire to emulate them comes from, but I have been obsessed lately(Lindsey won't let me shave my head! ).  I just think these guys look very charismatic and hot(in a masculine emulation sort of way).  Like the dude on Deal or No Deal, Howie Mandel.  That guy looks awesome bald.

There we go: David Draiman(Disturbed lead singer), J Allard(M$ Xbox Devo Team), Howie Mandel(Comedian/Deal or No Deal Host).

I can't explain it, but there it is.

ashram

I will definitely bring ear plugs next time.  I am all for loud music, but this sucked.

This movie is the best disaster movie ever made.  I saw it for the first time two days ago and was blown away.  Honestly, I did not expect it to be so cool because it is so old.  Dude, people fall out of the building on fire.  I was shocked.  The fire effects were all really very good as well.