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So this weekend was nice, lots happened. Thursday I met some buddies at Rock Bottom, then went out to DMMC's True to the Art show. It was really good, probably the best Hip Hop show I've been to in Des Moines. Everyone had really good sets and there were 175+ people there - big for hip hop in Des Moines. Aeon Grey and Really Real had a great set. Gai Den was a little off, but still good. The Gutter Bros (Brandon J Atlas and Shaoo Zulu) were definitely decent. Rebel's Advocate (the guys whose music video I'm working on) were awesome. I recorded most of the show so hopefully video will be available on their respective sites soon.

Friday nothing really happened, just cleaning, hanging out, and Simpson's.

Then Saturday I tanned …

Man, what a weekend. Friday, the Coffins had a couples shower for Kari and I - a "stock your bar" party. Everything was a ton of fun. We had martinis, hung out, boxed, played a game, etc. Thanks to everyone that was there, especially the Coffins. Afterwards a few of us went out to Stix to play some pool and goof around. Great night. Kari's dad even walked home on chutes and ladders, haha.

Saturday we woke up, hung my new fan, did some landscaping, and then Jeff and I made beer (which should be ready about the day of my bachelor party, heh).

Sunday, we hung out at my cousins and ate frog legs. Then later we grilled and hung out with more friends at Jake's. And lastly, yesterday we hung out and boated at Saylorville lake all …

I usually don't write about movies and stuff, but this caught me off guard and not too many people know about it so here it is...

I was reading Modified Magazine yesterday, and apparently there's going to be a Fast and Furious 3. And apparently they have a bigger budget than the first 2... but they're trying not to pick any big actors for it. Which, pretty much shows that FnF is obviously more interested in cars than acting - as most of its viewers are. There is a lot of speculation that Vin Diesel may be back in it... The 2nd movie picked up where Paul Walker left off, the third is supposed to pick up where Vin Diesel left off...

"After being allowed to get away by his new undercover cop friend in the first movie, fast-driving …

This weekend was decent. I've been really sick which has been lame. Kari and I went to cedar rapids, painted a room, got a new fan, hung out with her family, etc. I also hung out with Ron Livingston's brother a bit, heh. Speaking of fame, Kari's dad met Frank Abagnale a few weeks ago, wtf.

Anyway, I'm home sick, it's lame. I told myself last night I wasn't going to stay home today, but then I woke up and hated life. I've got sooo much to do at work, it's stupid. People probably hate me there.

Maybe today I will lay in bed with my laptop and play with wikis... I really need to organize my notes, mediawiki will rule.

Throughout High School lunch, my buddies and I always goofed around in an immature fashion (imagine that). It was usually Me, Jeremy Ludin, Jeff Ballard, Boone Ebel, Kyle Wells, Luke Gochanour, Andy Mead, etc. First of all, we always mixed everything that was left at the end of a meal into some concoction. Every day there was a new name for it too like, super stinky dumpy, ultra gross jomblination, mega nasty sloppy, barfy dumpy pukey, etc... but overall we called it "Ultra Sloppy Barfy" It ruled so much. Then we'd put the tray with everything on it on top of all the other trays. Everyone would always look at us like, "omg those guys are so immature." Whatever.

Lots of things happened in our lunch room. Grub stole milk a lot and …

When I was in High School I was on the golf team. Freshman year, I spent many meets golfing with my buddies Jeremy Ludin or Josh Gooch. We've got tons of stories, but there is one in particular that I will never forget.

Josh and I were golfing with 2 kids from another school in this tournament at Golfmohr. We got to #2 which is a par 4, dog leg left with a pond starting in front of the tee box and running along the entire left side. If you really got a hold of your ball and cut the pond, the green was possible to drive.

So Josh got up to hit, tried to cut the pond, but shot his ball right into the water. He took his penalty, teed up another and hit it directly into the pond again. He took his second penalty, teed up his 3rd and final …

Haha, I'm on the Vox Vodka Website for the podcast at Buzz with Harper. It is so funny, and rules so much, haha. This is from their site:

"A Weekend Out in Chi-Town@ Buzz and Soundbar (Podcast Coming Soon)
8/17/2005

This past Saturday, Vox Vodka made a second appearance at Buzz nightclub in Rivernorth. The last time Vox dropped into Buzz, we celebrated the best of Chicago bartenders and entertainers at "Industry Night".

Saturdays bring a different crowd full of both Chicago residents & weekend warriors who come to experience the Chicago nightlife scene. CAUTION – weekenders tend to drive the cost of admission up and create very long lines (apparent by the long lines snaking around the buildings and alleys at Buzz to get …

Ok, you can comment on photos now, w00t! For some reason I had to enable comments before adding this pic. So yeah. Soon I'll add comments to videos. Maybe I should store cookies so yall dont have to retype your info everytime too...

Harper doesn't know how to make php cookies, hahaha.

This weekend was pretty laid back, we had people and dogs visit Friday and Saturday night. I worked on the Rebel's Advocate video a bit. I started organizing some storage and found GOLD. I will soon scan what I found and post it. We also grilled out at Doug's, hung out with Nick and Nicole, etc.

Yesterday after we got home from Doug's, our house seemed a little warm. About 82 degrees warm. So I went and checked things out, it seems like the turbine that blows air into the house was broken which caused the A/C to overwork all day. I also learned that I'm supposed to change my furnace filter, hahaha.

So yeah, I slept in the basement last night, luckily our house is under warranty for 10 more days. Stupid houses.

This week …

BMW sponsors this event called the Ultimate Drive where all you have to do is sign up and drive BMWs... then for every mile you drive they donate $1 to the Komen Breast Cancer Fund. So instead of working today, Nehru and I drove BMWs, haha. We got to sign a 645i. Then we drove on this 15 mile route they had plotted out. I drove the 545i and 3.0 Z4. Nehru drove the 645i, and I think a 330 after I left. We also rode along with Ron in a 325.

It's tough not to treat the streets like a closed course when you're in the cars we drove... especially when they plot out a map that looks like a road course. So needless to say, we pushed the cars pretty hard... and we each got honked at by people that we made nervous, haha. Whatever, yall …

Kari and I went to the Iowa State Fair again last night. It's still the same. Every year, we seriously do the exact same things, but whatever Kari loves it. Here's how it goes.

You have to...
· get fresh squeezed lemonade
· get a turkey leg
· get grilled corn on the cob
· see stuff made out of butter (particularly the cow)
· check out the art exhibits
· get home made root beer
· get salt water taffy
· see the varied industries
· ride the double ferris wheel
· ride the sky lift back to your car

Sometimes I get to see a couple new things. Like dominoes, International's new truck, Tiger Woods, and a clock I really want. It's amazing to me that this fair was ranked in the "top 10 places America goes to have fun" by USA …

Man, things have been crazy as usual. Last week Harper stopped by on his road trip to Colorado. We hung out a bit, Ninja got loose, and we rode the pocket bike, then he kept driving.

The plan for the weekend was to shoot a music video for a hip hop group called Rebels Advocate. So, Friday after work, we caravaned 3 car loads of people to Maywood, which is a ghetto westside suburb of Chicago. We got into town around 12:30, got to bed around 2:30, then had to wake up at 6:30 to start working on the video. It was a good time - everyone I met was really cool. A lot of people showed up, it was pretty much everyone's first video shoot, and the weather was pretty sketchy - so it made for a lot of work... but 12 hours later the video was …

So, to finish out sunday... Kari and I checked out this brewery called Humperdinks - great place. The only thing that sucked was that their 2 best beers were seasonals, heh. After dinner we swam at the hotel. I saved 2 baby bunnies that decided to jump in with us. Swimming bunnies are pretty hilarious.

Today, kari and I checked out this insane electronic store called Frys. They actually had high quality stuff and a cafe inside. I was impressed. Then we went to Galleria. It sucked. I mean, it ruled, but it sucked because I found out that I ran out of money. I mean like, RAN OUT. Checking balance: $0. I wanted to spend so much money at this mall; they had great stores. The only shopping we got done was picking out the $5k in …

Man, San Antonio was pretty nuts... not nuts like off the chain, but nuts like lots happened. Kari and I drove down Friday morning (my birthday) to get to our hotel and Bre'anna's wedding rehearsal. It was obviously incredibly boring, but definitely necessary. Weddings are such a production. Especially in this mega-church. If it werent for the decorations on stage, you wouldn't know this place was a church - more like an auditorium of some sort. This was a huge huge complex. I think the place held 4,000 people. After the rehearsal was the rehearsal dinner where we ate, people gave toasts, and people cried. It was pretty funny, Chris's family had like 7 people toast, our side had 1, haha, we rule. After diner, Kari and I went out …

Man, this was a long day. Kari and I got into Dallas at 11, then met Maddie for lunch. We checked out BJs brewery then toured the HSL offices. It was pretty awesome. I was like a kid in a candy store. I got to see a couple prototypes for new shoes. One is really dope. The other is in the super early stages, so it was pretty funny. I can't really say anything about it... But if it gets invented I will laugh. Roger (the inventor of this prototype - and Heelys) rules. He's in the guinness book for being the youngest person to rollerskate, haha. Like 8 months old or something.

Anyway, there are huge heelys and soap posters everywhere, plus the entire place has hard floors so people can heel around. It was nice to finally meet …

Oy. Stupid 4am. Stupid flights. We were supposed to fly to dallas last night with a connecting flight in denver. Our flight to denver was cancelled... And I'm on my way back to the airport hoping that this 6am flight will get us to dallas by 11am.

Today will be long.

I made thumbnails for the albums in my photos section. I love working on my site, haha. Hopefully soon it will be how I want it... so I can start over and redesign the whole thing again, haha. Stupid website.

I fly to Dallas today. Kari looked into renting us a ferarri, porsche, or hummer to drive while we were there. but we found out that it would be better to make house payments instead. The cheapest "exotic" was a corvette for about $300 a day. So we're renting a malibu or something. And since we're not 25 we have to pay $35 extra a day, wtf. Somehow I got away with renting a car to drive to STL. ..maybe I got lucky.

Anyway, Texas soon, hopefully it's fun. Stupid Texas. Steers and queers... steers and queers. (no …

Man, things are crazy. Thursday was Kevi's birthday so of course we went to Drink to celebrate. Then Friday Kari's parents came into town to buy a truck. They took us to 801 Grand to celebrate my bday. It ruled so much. We ate the best.

Saturday was 515 Alive. We went down early to see Luke, Gai Den, and other hip hop acts. Then I had to come home to meet my parents so they could stay the night on their way to Texas. We hung out a bit, opened presents, etc. After I put them to bed Kari and I went back down to 515 Alive just in time to catch the end of Rukkus' set and Ming + FS. All good things.

Sunday we had a little party at the Cab for my upcoming birthday. The whole place was ours, Larry worked it, it was awesome. …

Slim Shady. I'm back. I'm back.

Since my shed is done, I put my webcam back up. Looky! I'm in my new cube! Umm, the auto refreshing popup is gone though. Maybe I will rewrite it sometime, maybe not too.

* broox punches nick and cedric in their stupid faces.

I sort of forgot to write about things going on. It's been so crazy hot that not much has happened. 2 weekends ago Zach and I tried to go soaping downtown, we hadn't gone in forever so we decided to give it a shot again. After about 10 minutes we were dying, so we just decided to walk around the city. We found some wicked sculptures. Then we decided to check out the new i235 pedestrian bridge but somehow ended up way way past it, haha. We zig zagged back through some ghetto, and finally got to the bridge. it's pretty nice, but we really couldn't figure out the point. I mean the other new ped bridges connect to schools. This one connects ghetto A to ghetto B. And the end closer to downtown Ys off into nothing. I mean it led us …