This has been the all-time shortest week of work ever. Two days. Just yesterday and today. Monday was Memorial Day, tomorrow and Friday I'm taking off. Why? To go see Pearl Jam, TWICE! I cannot wait. Its going to rock so hard, I can't even begin to imagine it. It'll be nice to have a little break from work too. Although Memorial Day Weekend was one of said breaks as well.

Didn't do much this past weekend aside from sit on my parents couch with Keyser, watching Grey's Anatomy on my laptop and playing my guitar. Beats last years Memorial Day Weekend, which if you look back in the archives, was all about self torment about my bitch of an ex-girlfriend. This year I went out on a date, that I thought went well, but she didn't, so oh well, move onto the next girl. At least she was honest.

Alright, short entry, not much to say, except Pearl Jam, yo!

Even though I really didn't do much all weekend, except hang out at my parents house, napping on their couch and watching the third season of Scrubs on DVD. I went there Friday night and didn't leave until Sunday afternoon/early evening. For the second weekend in a row. Next weekend being Memorial Day, I'll probably be there even longer. We shall see.

So the breakdown, Friday night, nothing much to report. Saturday morning my dad and I went out to breakfast which was nice. We don't really get a chance to talk too much, and this was a good chance to. I let him in on something very secrative I've been debating on for awhile, so that was good to get out there. Not the thing I've mentioned briefly here, this is something so completely different. After breakfast I just relaxed some more and got ready for my guitar lesson. That was postponed until 4 PM, so I took two naps with the dog in between. The fact that I was so tired was mostly his fault, as he woke me up at 4:45 AM on Saturday morning. I could've killed him.

I had a good lesson, that was about an hour long. Even though only half of that consisted of actually playing, the other half, just bullshitting about life and other things in general. Have I ever mentioned how glad I am that I started playing the guitar? I remember about a year ago when I was debating seeing a psychiatrist/psychologist, and actually saw one of each, once, to absolutely no help. But playing the guitar? Its better than therapy. Its so relaxing. It allows me to focus on one thing and one thing only, and completely shut out everything else thats going on around me. If I'm angry, I'll play something angry and just strum the hell out of some chords. If I'm in a different mood, I'll play something completely different. My point? Its one of the best things I've ever done for myself, so that makes me happy.

So during the actual music portion of the lesson we broke down Stone Temple Pilots "Interstate Love Song" and worked on two different types of scales. I'm psyched to learn the STP song. I've always loved it, and it doesn't seem that complex. There are some screwy chords in the verse that'll be a bit of a pain to memorize and get the changes smooth, but thats what practice is for. Once thats done, there's one more to add to the repertoire of songs I know all the way through.

After my lesson, I had the house all to myself as my brother was at his girlfriends and my parents were at the movies. Just hung out with the dog some more, and at some point, went to sleep. Sunday morning I had to go into work for a little bit. The company that owns/runs the building, enforced a building wide shutdown of electricity form 7 AM Saturday until 7 AM Sunday, so I have to go in at like 10 on Sunday and turn everything back on. Fun times. Then I went home and went with my brother to see The Da Vinci Code. It was good, pretty faithful to the book, except for a few little changes here and there. But nothing too bad. The only thing I could complain about it, was that it moves at such a fast pace for a good two hours, and then it slows to a crawl for the last 30 minutes. Thats my only complaint really.

After that I packed up my car and headed back to my place. Grabbed dinner with my roommate, watched some TV and called it a night. And thats about it. Fun, right?

I'm gearing up for the long week ahead even though Monday is almost over. Memorial Day weekend coming up, and after that I'm taking two days off work for two Pearl Jam concerts on the 1st and 3rd of June. I can't wait!

Have a great week everyone!

Not much change going on over here. Had a decent, albeit too short weekend. I spent the bulk of it at my parents house. I went there after work on Friday, stayed until Sunday afternoon when I took my grandma home after Mother's Day brunch. Mother's Day was the usual, nothing special. I got my mom the customary gift certificate to Williams Sonoma, since she lives to cook. She usually just hoardes them, then cashes them in all at the same time for something ridiculously expensive, and then when my dad sees it and flips out at her for spending so much money, she throws it in his face that she bought it on gift cards. Funny stuff. So that was my weekend. Had a good guitar lesson, and I am currently in the process of learning a piece of the guitar solo to the Led Zeppelin classic "Stairway To Heaven." Cliched, I know, but it'll help technically, or so says my teacher, and I trust the guy.

On the other front, with that other thing (sorry, I've been watching too much Sopranos, so I'm used to speaking in code.), no progress, but I'm working on it. I'm forcing myself too!

Alright, I have the worlds biggest headache and only an hour left of work to go, so I need to find something to kill that hour! Adios everyone, I'll be in touch!

OK, so for awhile now I've been trying to get the guts to try and go for something that I really want. Just do it! You say. Easier said than done, I say. I've always had a problem with confidence and courage and going after what I really want in life. I know it all stems from some pretty bad shyness on my part and a way too big fear of rejection and/or embarassment. But I'm still trying. I'd go into the details here, but I'd rather not, just to be safe. If you're really curious, leave a comment and I'll get back to you. I guess only time will tell if I get the guts to go through with it. Maybe I should've taken that psychiatrist up on her offer of drugs to make me feel less shy last year. I wonder what those were?

Anyway, in other news, the jamming with the drummer was a mixed bag of tricks. It was cool to go and play with someone, and he was good, he was just way too weird for my tastes. And especially for my roommates tastes. I was just trying to keep up with them, so I wasn't too focused on anything else, but I think the drummer insulted my roommate one too many times. We got in the car to leave and after checking to make sure that the windows were up, he said, "Don't ever bring me back there again." Again, I'd go into it, but I'd rather not. I'll just leave it as weird, and move on.

Other than that, there really isn't much of anything to report. Just trying to get through the week and get to the weekend already.

Sorry for the long absence. I'd say work was crazy, but it was just busy enough to keep my occupied all week. It was actually a good week of work though, so thats a bonus. I feel somewhat fulfilled, something that hasn't been there for awhile, so I'll take that as a good thing and I look forward to the weekend to get in some much needed R&R. Very anti-climactic week after having something so huge and cool to look forward to last week.

Anyway, so yeah, I'm totally hooked on playing live now and I can't wait to do it again. I was scanning through Craiglist entries for musicians on Long Island on Monday and found a drummer just looking for people to jam with. Nothing serious. No delusions of getting a record deal, hearing our single on the radio or the video on MTV's TRL. Just get together, play some tunes, write some originals, play the occasional gig out around the Island. So I replied to his ad and I was shocked to get a response. So I gave him a call and set it up to get together with him, along with Rob, my roommate for tomorrow night. It was actually supposed to be last night, but it got postponed to tomorrow night, which is cool too. Friday is probably better. No work the next day, more relaxed atmosphere, all that stuff. I just hope he likes us, because I really want to get together with people and get something going, however casual it is. May need to find a bass player too, eventually. Jump off that bridge when we get to it.

The link from last week has been updated with pics, so if you haven't checked it out, you can do so right here.

Alright, thats enough for now. Have a great weekend everyone! Rock on!