Johnny Rockstar

As many of you may know, Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday. In fact I can't wait to strap on the ol' gorilla costume and scare the crap out of some little kids this year. In honor of my favorite holiday here are a few pictures you need to see.

Sippy Cup's first costume

Hottest costume ever

And for the ladies...

Better than my usual puking pumpkin pic

Not Halloweeny but damn cute

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 07:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I would say I'm falling into a routine here, but every day seems to be different. The man I'm working with is working from home at the moment, so the last few days I've had a 45 minute drive to work. But I get mileage and it's a nice drive so I don't mind. Plus the view from my "office" there is wonderful. I'm back in the main building today and quite a few people said it was nice to have me back, which felt good. I'll probably be here tomorrow too, but then I'm out again. Not quite long enough at any one place to get a good routine down. Not that I'm complaining, it's fun to have a job that's different every day.

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I’m starting to get the hang of this dry county thing. Near as I can tell, if you want alcohol you have one of two choices. The first option, pay a fee to join a private club because those are the only places allowed to serve alcohol. The other option is that, because you can have it in your home, you drive an hour or so to the next county and buy liquor there. Though I've been warned to take the back roads home because the police actually set up road blocks from time to time and it's against the law to posses more than what basically equates to a case of beer, bottle liquor, etc. Who's going to drive that far to get enough alcohol for night? I thought it was strange today when I saw a small wine fridge in Wal-Mart, but what's even stranger than all that the Jack Daniel's distillery is and always has been, located in a dry country.

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Nobody says I want to spend an evening creating a spreadsheet to track my budget when I grow up. But that's what I did last night. I tried using Quicken, but it did too much and I couldn't easily get around all the junk I didn't want to use. So I spent most of yesterday evening creating a spreadsheet in excel to track my spending. As lame as it may sound, I'm really excited about it. I simply input my expenses according to category and day and then excel works its magic. It tracks how much money I've spent for each category and how much I have left or what my deficit is. Then it shows the week’s total amount spent, saved and lost. I get paid every two weeks so I made it large enough for two weeks worth of info. At the end of a pay period it gives me some the spent, saved and earned figures for both weeks combined. Then I save it one last time as a read only file and print out a single piece of 8.5x11 paper with all the information on it for my files. I wish I could spend more money just so I could record it in my spreadsheet. How cool/nerdy is that?

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 12:40 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Right now I'm sleeping on an air mattress. I have a suitcase and a box, both full of cloths and my alarm clock sitting next to the mattress. That's about it for my bedroom. In the office I have one chair, that's it. My kitchen is a little better I have a few pots and pans, silverware, cooking implements and food. It's safe to say my place is looking rather bare. I can't wait for my stuff to come down this weekend. I think I'm going through Xbox withdrawal. Fortunately I have just about every episode of Futurama on my laptop so when I get tired of reading I can watch those. Either while laying on my air mattress or sitting in my chair with my feet propped up on the kitchen trash.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 12:46 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Happy birthday to my father Lawless John! And happy wedding day to Trisha.

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Did anyone happen to watch TLC last night around... I guess it would have been 10 p.m. for you Michiganders. I was searching for some good t.v. when I came across something called 101 Removed From the Human Body. Wow, was that a good time. A few of the stranger ones were a swordfish, a frog spear, an anchor and my personal favorite, a 2x4. It was really interesting but I have to admit, I'm glad I was done with dinner.

Right after the show was over my cousin Trevor called me and handed the phone to Cal. Let's all hold hands and sing It's a Small World After All. The best part is, Trevor said he was talking to somebody who knew me and I have no clue who that person was. That probably wasn't actually the best part, but it was interesting. It happens to me a lot. I guess I have a reputation.

In other news, it's in the 80's down here today and will be for the next couple of days. Michigan was just getting to my favorite season and I up and move down here. The leaves aren't even turning yet! It's nice being able to drive with the windows down, or off as the case may be, but I can't wear my hoodies or that gray long underwear shirt that I accidentally put in with a load of reds and now it's this strange pinkish color.

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Check out the pictures of my new toy. Just something I thought I could use in the mountains.

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Good times last night, thanks for everyone that came. It's hard to beat cheap beer and cigars around a fire, especially when your dad keeps asking for your knife so he can cut another piece off of the couch and toss it in. I was a little worried things would turn into a sad goodbye party, but it didn't and I'm glad. Time to go back to packing.

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Yours truly has managed to get himself listed on Cockeyed.com's list of 840 perfectionists. I may not be able to perform the perfect burrito bite or Putting Shoes Next To Each Other Right-Side-Up perfectly, but I'm still proud of my accomplishment.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 09:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Though I hate to discuss politics on the internet for a wide variety of reasons, I feel I would be remiss if I didn't say this. While I was eating breakfast this morning at a Holiday Inn Express somewhere in Illinois, I watched some of a speech that Bush was giving. I was a little bit shocked to hear him, not once or twice but repeatedly compare extremist Muslims with Communists. Correct me if I'm wrong but after the red curtain fell, didn't most of the worlds population realize that Communism wasn't a tyrannical organization of government developed by the Devil, but rather a well meaning system that fails not because of its own inherent evil but rather the inherent evil of mankind itself and the few who become powerful using it. However, Bush's strongest quality as a leader, and despite what I think of what he does with his sway it is his strongest quality, is his ability to pander to the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately for the rest of us, the lowest common denominator is the nation’s poorest and least educated members. I hope this comparison doesn’t spark another Red Scare. His other strength and the one that helped keep his war approval ratings up for so long is to take these people and convince them that speaking out against White House policy is tantamount to un-American behavior, when in actuality, disagreeing with the government is the most American thing you can do. That's what originally set us apart from every other government at the time of its creation and hopefully the concept will come back again after the next election. I don't have any great conclusion to this, just something I had on my mind and wanted to say.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 04:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Today marked my first real business meeting. I guess I had some back at Print Makers, but this one involved a big screen, a secretary taking notes and a speaker phone. Not wanting to step on any toes or make any enemies just yet, I managed to interupted one of the managers and spit out a few ideas that didn't get picked up. Aside from that, I did manage to take three assignments. I'm not sure if I can legally say what they are so I'm not going to. You'll just have to wait for the January/Feburary issue of The Art of Growing Young. Don't look for it at your favorite newstand, it won't be there, but if you promise to be good boys and girls I'll snag a copy to show off when it comes out.

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