Dear Hurricane Irene,

Thanks for not doing too much damage and flooding outside the house.  But can you do something about getting our electricity back?

Sincerely,
rickybobby

P.S.  I don't know how you got in the house, but we've put everything back in place.

Quick Roadtrip

This past Friday, my good friend Erin (also known as The Best Imitation of Myself) and I trekked down to sunny Florida with a truck full of her furniture and stuffs!  Yep.  She's getting married to a naval aviator in about three weeks and will be moving down to the panhandle of Florida shortly thereafter to be with her future husband.
    We left about an hour before sunrise on Friday and headed south.  It was supposed to be a 14-16 hour ride with stops built in, but it somehow turned to a 21 hour journey.  Yes, it was a long time to be in a vehicle, however, it was not a tiresome trip.  I thoroughly enjoyed being with my friend and talking about all sorts of interesting stuffs.  Stuffs can be found in our trip minutes.  I just learned what trip minutes are.  It's basically a play by play of a roadtrip in written form.  When she was driving, I was taking minutes.  When I was driving, she was taking the notes.  Can't wait to look back for a good chuckle.
     We got there past midnight Central Time, met up with John and made mojitos!  Then I passed out on the air mattress.  The next day, we moved everything in the truck to inside the house.  John and I assembled the furnitures Erin and I picked up at the Charlotte IKEA with engineering precision.  The moving and the assembling and the thunderstorming took about 3 hours and we finished.  Then we made more mojitos.  Cheers!
     After gathering up our lives, we headed to a popular watering and eating hole called McGuire's Irish Pub.  Out of my entire weekend, the only recognizable picture I took was this.

Holy Crap DELICIOUS!

This concoction has 6 shots of something or other.  I think it's some rite of passage to consume one of these.  Whatever...I passaged it.  Thanks John and Erin!

   

"You'll Be Smittened!"

Please do yourself a favor and click and watch the video.  It will make your day as it did mine.
     Fun weekend.  I bought two rather large pieces of stretched canvas in order to begin my painting projects.  The more I think about doing them, the more stoked I'm becoming.  To be continued...
     Oh, got to see Band of Horses play at a sold out show.  Kings of Leon cancelled the rest of their tour leaving Band of Horses no where to go.  So they decided to find a local venue in the last minute and give us an amazing show.  I'm kinda glad Kings cancelled.  I wasn't going to pay to watch them, but definitely pay for Band of Horses.  They rocked and I'm a little deaf in my right ear!  I'll attach a little clip I took with my iPod.  Enjoy!