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Hey asshole... it's not Monday anymore.

"IF YOU'RE GOING TO HEAVEN" If you're going to heaven And you think you know the way Please show me the right direction And I'll follow you I won't let you get away When your heart is sad and heavy You hide your face behind your hands If you take a chance and let me I'll come with you I will always be your man I don't need your attention Don't need your pity or your grief I'm not a slave to your affection I'm a slave to your belief So if you're going heaven Say you won't leave me behind ‘Cause without you I'm as helpless As a little child I need you by my side I don't need your attention Don't need your pity or your grief I'm not a slave to your affection I'm a slave to your belief If you're going to heaven And you're sure you know the way Please show me the right direction And I'll follow you I won't let you get away ____________________ I don't recall if I mentioned it or not, but Mike's car ate my Buried in Your Black Heart CD. That completely sucks.

Now, it is official (as of this morning).

Sleepy.

Schwingen

Buhtah...

Attention: 9/16 San Marcos TX - Lucy's w/7m3 9/21 Beaumont TX - Wild Bills w/7m3 9/22 San Antonio TX - Jack's Patio w/7m3 9/23 Austin TX - Poodie's Hilltop 9/24 Odessa TX - Dos Amigos (Vallejo playing on this date also, before BB) w/7m3 9/25 College Station TX - Times Square w/7m3 9/28 Phoenix AZ - Mason Jar w/7m3 9/29 San Diego CA - Cane's w/7m3 10/1 Santa Anna CA - The Galaxy w/7m3 10/2 Los Angeles - Key Club w/7m3 10/3 Concord CA - Bourbon Street w/7m3 10/4 Sacramento CA - Big Shots w/7m3 10/6 Las Vegas NV - Fiesta Station (casino) w/7m3 10/24 Dallas TX - Freakers Ball w/Velvet Revolver 10/29 Houston - radio show- Buzz pre party 10/30 Houston – Buzzfest – afternoon slot 10/30 Austin - LaZona Rosa–Headlining-late evening slot Following dates are BB, Local H & Finger 11 11/2 New York NY - Irving Plaza 11/3 Millvale PA (Pittsburgh) - Mr. Smalls 11/5 Madison WI - Barrymore Theatre 11/6 Appleton WI - Checkered Flag 11/9 Milwaukee WI - The Rave Bar 11/12 Cleveland OH - The Odeon 11/13 Detroit MI - St. Andrews Hall 11/14 Chicago IL - House of Blues 11/18 Orlando FL - House of Blues 11/19 St. Petersburg FL - The State Theatre 11/23 Norfolk VA - The Norv

Cypresswood Golf Club raised their rates and got rid of the included lunch. Bitches. It's a good thing there are so many OTHER courses in Houston metro.

Let me go on the record as saying first the I am very disappointed in the 1Ds Mark II specs... more of a modernization patch than an evolutionary upgrade. Now the new Nikon flagship (D2x) is a worthy improvement over the D1x, as was the 1D Mark II over the 1D, but this is cheese. It's almost as if they added some minor improvements and bumped the res just enough to maintain "braggin' rights". This is not the camera the professional shooters were hoping would be announced.

Insult to injury. My check card dropped out of the messy pocket last night somewhere downtown. I mean, no immediate worries as the card number has been deactivated, but the thing is this... Minutemaid Park refunded like 85 bones tot eh card yesterday and it didn't clear before the number was axed hence I may be out some moolah. Sux0r. Leaving for the LAN soon.

I was dup'd! Well, sorta. The flyer I had for discount tickets was only valid for the Oct. 1 game... *that's* the game that is the Rockies vs. Astros. Last night was the Brewers. When I arrived at the Park to purchase tickets, the game was completely sold out save some nose bleeds that were actually pretty good. After the game, we lingered downtown for a bit, but I think everyone was pretty tired. I'm old. Anyhoo, I can't find my Battlefield 1942 CD's anywhere in the house. I need 'em to play Desert Combat today at Wideout's Hideout. Arrrrgh!

life on top

Back in H-Town... again. The trip was pretty uneventful sans the eye to eye face time with the CEO. I am looking forward to tonights Astros game (vs. the Colorado Rockies). I think there are eight of us attacking the Park. Tomorrow is the shindig at Wideout's Hideout. I am so pleased to be running like buhtah now with the 6800 in the box. I stole these quotes off of Greg's blog... stuff to read while you sip coffee: - I had just dozed off into a stupor when I heard what I thought was myself talking to myself. I didn't pay much attention to it, as I knew practically everything I would have to say to myself, and wasn't particularly interested. - I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. - I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. - I take it for granted that I am growing older, although, except for a slight arteriosclerosis and an inability to hear, I would never know it. - If there is one thing that I resent (and there is), it is to be told that I resent being told anything. It drives me crazy. - If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge. - It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - One evening I had been working late in my laboratory fooling round with some gin and other chemicals. - But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this. - Sand is also a good place on which to write, "I love you," as it would be difficult to get into court after several years have passed. - Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. - The only cure for a real hangover is death. - The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him - "The work can wait," I said, quoting our business motto. - There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. - Thus in our whole body, there are perhaps (six times seven is forty-two, five times eight is forty, put down naught and carry your four, eight times nine is seventy-two and four is seventy-six, put down six and carry your seven and then, adding, six, four, three, one, six, naught, naught, naught, naught), oh, about a billion or so of these red corpuscles alone, not counting overhead and breakage. - When I was a child I was of an affectionate disposition, but not enough to get arrested. - A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down -- very important traits in times like these. - A lot of people say: "I'm no good in the morning until I've had my coffee." I'm no good in the morning even after I've had my coffee. - A man's whole life could be changed by such a fortuitous slip of the rubber... - An electron was a particle of negative electricity (one which knows when to say "No") - Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. - Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs. - Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. - Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. - Drawing on my fine command of the English language,...I said nothing. - Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. - Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous... - I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists. - I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle. - I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

Homeboy hookup via a friend of a friend got me a GPU overnighted from Cali. Unpackaged. Installed. Equation epiphany... GeForce 6800 GT 256 = Holy farking shite!









Buhtah.

I have a "non-smoking" room that smells like monkey ass and is full of ashtrays. Rock on. I caught the final table of the World Series of Poker tonight over a few beers with my boss. The guy that won dominated. Jay Leno, in his set tonight, mentioned Playboy's new "Women of McDonald's" issue. I can't say that I've ever seen a woman at McDonald's I'd like to see naked. The lobby of my hotel reaks of Chlorine. Busy day mañana. I miss my wife. Ivan is going to fuck up the coast. Doom 3 cripples my system. I learned today that the "Ultra" detail mode of gameplay is designed for a 512MB video card. Email SPAM sucks. I wish I could weild my guitar better. Howard Berg is a pretty cool guy. The male platypus has a poisonous spur located on his hind legs that is hollow and can pump enough poison to kill small shit like dogs and other platypi. The duck-billed platypus lays eggs and suckles its young. It lives in burrows that can be around 50 feet long and finds food in the rivers using electrical impulses. What a cool creature. Sleep.

Well, it seems that consumer USA has made my video card upgrade choice for me. Everyone is sold out of the models I'm considering... everyone. Online. Local. You name it, you can't find 'em in stock. Scheisse! Here is a happier note... one of my musical inspirations working his mojo. I know, slow server. Please right click and save as if you are interested (10MB). Mr. Forsyth himself... singing his famous "panty melter". Dave has nothing on him. Sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp. Mmmmn. Coffee. Back to work!