Yup, did it again.
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“You can’t be greater than Elvis, change things as much as the Beatles, or be as original as Led Zeppelin. All you can do is rip them off.” Billy Corgan
As a musician, I’ve heard a lot of music – sometimes however I’m pleasantly surprised when I’m turned onto an artist that I consider to be overexposed and over-rated.
Led Zeppelin has never been a favorite band of mine – possibly stemming from the years, years and years that I spent in pool halls. How many times can I hear the same recordings over and over and over again and not get sick of them?
Well, a friend yesterday recommended some of the “not obvious” LZ songs and I found one that really struck me – I may have to go dig around and find all the live recordings because this one really hit me.
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“It doesn’t get better, it doesn’t get worse, but it sure gets different!” David Lee Roth
I’m coming to a settling point now. Finally.
Thanks for everyone’s patience (you know who you are) while I somewhat got my shit together.
Things are at a point now where I’m not diving off a bridge, or climbing up from a chasm.
Four of my tests are behind me – I got what I wanted in Chemistry, an A in music (yes, if there was a curve, I’d be the one who jacked it up), not sure about the Phys Ed nor the History, but I’m confident that I got what I wanted there. The government test got pushed back another week, so that’s ahead down a road yet. The study sheet is long, but the class is notoriously easy.
Everything else has been relatively quiet.
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“I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, only 2″ taller” Stephen Wright
Inbetwixt my studying, I did manage to get to the tattoo studio with a buddy of mine, he got his first tattoo – I got mine touched up. I’m a lot happier with it now – her messed up leg was bugging me.
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“The break time is always our busiest time.” Rachel Anderson
Ahh – taking a break from studying. I must have been a fireman or a police officer in a previous life – yes, my tests are still this week, but the scheduling is no longer horrific.
Music is tomorrow (no sweat)
History is Wed (study material is prepped for final cram)
Friday is Phys Ed (should be no problem – prepping study material for final cram)
Saturday is Chemisty (err….this may be tricky)Govt got moved to next week (yay!)
Everything else is flowing like molten chocolate, so I’ll catch up on this silly little blog later.
Later skaters!
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“No matter how carefully you plan your goals, they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.” W. Clement Stone
As one modern philosopher once said “Today was a good day” – O’Shea Jackson.
I did something that I don’t normally do – it totally went the wrong way, didn’t end like I expected, but still I’m happy with the decision. Well done my boy, well done.
In other news, I took the initiative to attempt to fix the outside spigots that have been leaking. I made one worse and now I have the water turned off for the entire house. The plumber is coming in the morning to fix them. *sigh*
Home ownership is somewhat fun some times, then incredibly painful other times.
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“If only there were a longer time between epiphany and epitaph” David Glaser
I’m being a good boy. I’m sticking around the house rather than going out. I need to plow through a few Netflix discs and practice some guitar…..I already finished most of my homework, enough that I’m satisfied.
I had to update because it’s been a pretty roller-coaster couple of days. While those closest to me have been riding the front and back cars, and I myself have been solidly in the middle, the days have definitely spun me for a loop (or loop-de-loop or loop-loop-de-loop). There have been a few things that have struck me recently (much like an epiphany) but that I have not quite yet acted on yet.
I’ve heard recently something that resonated with me, it was said, “I’d rather regret the things I did do, rather than the things I didn’t do”. Which of course I think is totally applicable except for that incident of public nudity on a baseball diamond and possibly the charge of illegal animal husbandry. Regardless, life is short. Extremely short when you look at the long term survival rate of any one human being. (At some point, EVERYONE has a zero survival rate)
A lot of decisions in my life have been so logic based that I ended up not doing whatever it was because the end result wasn’t something I was entirely comfortable with. These days, I’m finding that to be a pretty limiting decision making process. Always the “what ifs?” held me back. What if? What if? What if?Henceforth (yes – I said “henceforth”), I’m going to attempt to head into directions that I haven’t been, do some things I haven’t done, try something I haven’t tried, talk like I haven’t talked, act like I haven’t acted. I’ve come a long way, but there’s a long way to go (and a short time to get there, I’m eastbound just to watch ole bandit run)
In reality based news, the probate hearing was yesterday. Long story short, it’s probably a good thing I didn’t have some oddly colored hair – because it could have been disastrous. It’s good to act like a completely sane responsible human – some of the time. Ha! Tequila (again) is not my friend – but I’ll know better next time. I still managed to get up, go to school – unfortunately dehydration meant my calves were cramping up so I couldn’t do much. My hair has freedom now – I’m not sure where I should go with it. Most sane people say, “Do what YOU want to with it”. I was going to waffle on it, but I know what I’m going to do now.
Life is short – remember?
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“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework” Bill Cosby
Sorry to have neglected my poor excuse for a blog….
Time has kind of slipped away from me as of late. The tests that I took last week (100, 97, 72.5) kinda took their toll, and I’m having to revamp my study schedule since I don’t feel like I’m doing due diligence in my studies.
I signed up for a site that I probably shouldn’t have, so I’ve been killing a lot of time there instead of doing what I’m supposed to.
In other news, the blue would not come out of my hair. I shaved my head, but there’s still some patches of blue. It’s probably healthy enough at the roots that if I need to (in a pinch) I can dye it black or brown and it will look ok. I miss my green hair. 🙁
Sorry – no pictures until it looks halfway decent.
Managed to get out to the Octoberfest in Addison with Ross and family, and had a great time. Got to sneak behind some people unknowingly while they were taking pictures and include myself – which was fun. Also got to try my “term life insurance” line on some guy who decided to (try) to give me crap about my blue hair.