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Halfway up Mt. Humphreys, originally uploaded by feralboy.

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Pro: The bar that somehow 7 straights and 1 gay wound up going to on Saturday night had Hoegaarden on draft. ON DRAFT, PEOPLE!

Con: I have had this damn Madonna/Abba song playing over and over again, and yet I still can’t get it out of my head. Damn you, 15-minute club remix!

This whole “blogging” thing seems to have taken off lately. My best friend, my sister, and her very good friend (and also a friend of mine growing up) have all popped up with their very own in the last few weeks. If my mom starts a blog I will officially eat a hat.

It’s great to see these blogs; Ryan’s especially. He just made a dramatic move from Philly to Providence (well, maybe it wasn’t dramatic, but people in his life made it that way. I

See if you can guess which of my friends it is.

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so meta, originally uploaded by feralboy.

So incredibly meta…, originally uploaded by Patrick58.

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Today my best friend Ryan gets one year older. Perhaps you should send him some birthday wishes?

This weekend I’m going to be heading off, along with Kim and two friends, to the Coachella Valley Music Festival thingy dealie. It’s sort of Lollapalooza on steroids, or Burning Man but less dusty, or even Bumbershoot without all the rain. I’m currently bidding on camping tickets for all of us, which will probably be a lot better than trying to negotiate the clusterfuck in and out both days. Granted, it’s still going to be a clusterfuck with all those bands, but hopefully a slightly more managable one. Plus, if we camp we actually get to bring in food and water, instead of paying $8 for a bottle of water or whatever it was that caused the Woodstock riot a few years back.

It’s a lot of bands, and there’s quite a few that I would like to see, but it sounds like it’s going to be a really, REALLY big crowd, which always makes me a little nervous. I wish there was going to be WiFi there, but there ain’t… so all my pictures will have to wait until I get home to get uploaded.

Update: Well, I didn’t win the auction for the tickets, but only because some fucking asshole bid me out of them, thinking they were tickets to the event! Um, $100 to get 4 tickets that cost $175 each? “If it seems to good to be true…” Fucker. Now the original seller is trying to sell them to me for a Buy It Now of $100. No way, not when individual camping passes are going for less than $20 each.

My sister (who came out to visit a week ago) has started to write up her trip report.

Part I
Part II

Hopefully in Part III she’ll talk about her totally hot kings full of aces that she crushed everyone with at the casino, as well as my Dropping The Hammer By Raising Pre-flop With 7-2 Offsuit (and winning!!

Also, Kim has quit smorking (today she gets her one-week chip), so as a show of solidarity, I’m giving up drinking my beloved diet soda. It’s probably for the best, as it causes all sorts of nasty throat cancer anyway, plus it’ll force me to drink more water.

Congratulations to Robn for posting this site’s 1000th comment! It just wouldn’t be any fun without y’all.

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japanese_treats, originally uploaded by feralboy.

This is what happens when you go with friends to the asian food store to buy a bunch of disgusting stuff. I am going to admit up front that I wussed out of pretty much everything (that’s my grape snapple sitting in front of me) and didn’t partake in the gross drinks with the chunks in it, the stale marshmallows with some sort of green tea in them, or the purple candle-looking layer cake thing. I did, however, try the red bag of chips in front of me, and they’re flavored with anchovies! Ewwww! I think Eric’s face pretty much says it all.

Finally, the next field trip to Vegas is planned! There’s some sort of competition going on at Heuco in a few weekends, so a bad time to just go normally, so the roomies, Kim, Eric and I are headed to sin city.