Wow. Yes we can.. Yes we Did!

Just taking in the Obama victory. Not since Bill Clinton ran had I and so many of those of my age been so interested in an Election. The younger generation has stepped up this election. This election, like no other in recent years has pushed to make us as electors more aware of the topics that matter most to us as a society. Many of us have turned a blind eye to the workings of the political machine mainly because we didn't matter.


Obama has been able to put forth his goals for our country in such a way as to make us understand and feel truly connected with what makes our country the strongest nation in the world. Now as I watch Mccain speak. Amid a crowd that boo'd at every mention of Obama's name, Mccain stood strong and praised Obama for a well fought election. Extending his hand to Obama to find the necessary needs to embrace our difference as a country was sincere. I always believed Mccain ultimately wants what is best for this country. If he had been able to appeal to the struggling middle class just a bit more I may have voted for him myself. I feel in the years to come Mccain will be more an ally than an enemy in the governing of this country.

So if anyone reads this please leave me a comment to this post with your feelings of this election. Democrats and republicans alike.

[image courtesy of CNN.com]

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Obama Wins. Congrats President Obama

Hello everyone. It has been quite a while since I've last blogged on here. I figured what better a time than now. As I type this with one hand the other is busily flipping through the various news stations trying to find the latest on the "Decision '08" front.


It seems once again my great state of Florida will be playing an all to familiar and pivotal role in this election. Though this year there is no Jeb Bush or hanging chads (as of yet).....

THIS JUST IN... with 81% of the precincts reporting Obama is predicted the Florida winner. I'm gonna flip around some more.

Now just in again as of 11pm OBAMA is the president!! Hail to the chief and congratulations to all on a hard fought election.

Cheers to all of us how voted for Obama and views. Lets hope this is the beginning of the rise of the hard working middle class, the beginning of a new hope for our educational system, the new beginning in gaining our independence on foreign oil. Tonight the streets run blue. A true victory for the American people.

284 electoral votes.

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Bros for Life

Think back to the days when the highest level of stress was trying to get through level 8-3 on Super Mario Brothers with your fire power intact so you could easily blast past bowser. Or sneaking out of your house to hang with the boys, hoping your parents or friends parents would hear you and your fat buddy try to roll out of your bedroom window. Hoping the cops wouldn't catch you and your friends as you all got trashed, running around drunk and stupid at the nearby elementary schools kick as playground at all hours of the night. If I only knew what stress meant back then or rather what it would mean to me now.

Gone are the days on nintendo marathons, under aged drinking and desperately trying to get a little touch and tickle with a girl who had no interest in me. Gone are the nights of drunken "philosophies of life" socials with my best friends on some dark unamed road in the bed of my buddies toyota. Simply put, gone is adolescents and capricious youth.

Now our adult days seem filled with mortgages, bills, daycare expenses, rising gas prices and trying to figure out what the hell the millage rate has to do with our property taxes. Instead of comparing sega scores we find ourselves comparing electric bills. Back road boozefests with your buddies, tends to now be downing a few beers in your recliner to help you sleep. Tinkering with the stereos in our first cars is now filled with dread of another car payment we may or may not be able to make. We used to stay up for 24 hours straight just to prove we could do it, now it happens because we sometimes can't avoid it. Now I would mow my parents lawn everyday, with a pair of scissors to avoid the stresses of my everyday job, back then I considered that work.

No time to be childish with children of our own. No time to be even slightly irresponsible with so many responsibilities weighing us down. No time to yourself with so many seeking time with you. Bullshit.

An old friend contacted me the other day. Friend is an understatement. Actually he is the guy I did all the above stuff with growing up. As many of us have, we lost touch somehow, somewhere down the line we just felt we needed each other less than we did back then. I suppose we grow into our Independence. I suppose we both just felt that we were both doing fine where ever we were in life and that's that. Bullshit. I've realized that I shouldn't ever loose touch with those who were and are important factors in my life. My buddy is having a tough go at it at the moment and I feel for him. Over the years I really only heard how good he was doing and didn't figure we had much in common anymore. My family is great, wife and kids and such, but my professional life has never been what I felt his was. Perhaps a bit envious. I now see that we are still the same inseparable goofballs we always were, just 900 miles apart. He'll get through this patch and come out fine. We just need to get back to our roots. We have to remember what made us the men we were before the we got to the point that we almost let life bring us down.

Fact of the matter brother, were still healthy and alive. Its up to us at this moment in time to live our lives how we want. We have to do what we got to do and keep on keeping on. We're to old to be continually dumped on by others. We're to smart to be continually taken advantage of. But were too young to give up and give in. Your still my brother from another mother and I can't help but feel your pain. I'm sorry I didn't do my part to enjoy with you the success you've had. I missed the buddy boat on that and I apologize. So in closing to anyone reading this, don't take life for granted. Don't pretend to know how somebody is doing without talking to them and most importantly don't loose touch. Don't loose touch with those important to you, don't loose touch with memories and don't loose touch of what is really important in life.

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Riding The Waves

An old wise man once told me, "Life is like the ocean. One wave after another of good bad and everything in between. Its the waves you decide to ride and for how long that makes the difference.". I've come to realize that the decision as to what waves to take are the easiest. By easiest I mean they are often the things forced upon us that we really have very little control over resisting. The pull, the gravity of some waves are often to strong to resist be it out of lack in confidence of a better set on the horizon or the fear of no waves left in our personal oceans. Not wanting to be set a drift in a motionless sea of dread we decide to take what rolls our way and ride it the best we can.

As I get older and look back at some of the waves I've taken and feel the spray of the same old ones I'm still riding I find myself looking around... over the crest of the white capped spray to the following waves rolling and crashing behind. Could the next wave be my wave? If I jump off of this same tired wave, feeling the current below me as it nears the shore offering me less and less an enjoyable ride everyday, will I have the energy to paddle back to the new waves? Have to many of the waves of my life to date waterlogged me to a point of withering defeat?

Paddling back out in to the deep unfamiliar waters seems a scary but exhilarating proposition at this point of my life. Will those watching me from the shore understand my desire for a new ride, for a rebirth of sorts to the person I was and want to be again? If I decide to ditch this current comfortable but unsatisfying wave will I be swallowed up and drug down to the reef below by the next wave? I don't know. The not knowing, the uncertainties of life have always been the things that tied me to the familiar. I'm beginning to adjust my way of thinking. Maybe its because I just celebrated my aging on this planet another year. Maybe its that, after too many years of settling, too many years of watching my life and opportunities pass me by that I need to stop fearing the unknown and embrace the uncertainties of life. I've played the same wave game for long enough. I know every curl before it folds out in front of me. The water on this wave is no longer refreshing to my spirit.

So? What now? I suppose its time to tighten my trunks, plug my nose, find a low spot and head out to deeper waters. Uncertainty be damned. Cowabunga fellow wave riders may our next waves be the ones.

rest here

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The Chase, 1st Annual After Party

On behalf of "The Chase" I would like to thank all our fans who attended out "1st Annual After Party". Nearly 200 hundred people attended and we are thankful to each and every one of you.

Due to the higher than expected turn out we are considering hosting more of these BYOB events in the future. The crowd was amazing, the women were hot and the music was slamming. We appreciate that after an entire day of enjoying the SugarFest festivities you all wanted more fun. Without the fans and those just enjoying to party none of this would be worth doing.

For myself. It was my first show playing rhythm guitar with the band and thank you all for making it an amazing first gig for me. Be sure to check out our website for future dates and be sure to come party with us.

Visit us at www.thechasemusic.com

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Cubs Can't Phigure out the Phillies

The Chicago Cubs have the wheels rolling on the losing streak train and pulled into station #2. Hamel's great control and change up kept the Cubs guessing and set the tone for this game. For the second night in a row and unfortunately not only the second time this season that the Cubs starter couldn't get the job done early. Lily gave up 5 in less than 5 innings.

The Cubs offense never got going. Soriano went 1-4 and is only batting .176 for the season. In all the Cubs managed only 3 hits to Philadelphia's 11.

It's early though so Cub fans don't fret just yet. The Cubs will try to avoid a sweep tomorrow. Game time is 12:35 central time and televised on Chicago Sports Net.

Standings:

TEAM	W	L	%	GB
St. Louis	9	3	.750	-
Milwaukee	7	4	.636	1.5
Chicago	6	4	.600	2.0
Cincinnati	6	5	.545	2.5
Pittsburgh	4	6	.400	4.0
Houston	3	8	.273	5.5

Streaks: L1

Last 10: 6-4

Home: 3-3 Road: 3-1

Runs Scored: 52
Runs Against: 48

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Oh yes... They deserve every penny... @#!?@

"Parade Magazine" has put out there annual "What People Earn" edition for 2007.

Well, next year you will see me The Regular Guy on that list for I have bought my Florida Lottery ticket tonight and have all the confidence in the world that I will win this weekend. So Oprah, look out lady.

I guess you, and by you I mean us less than uber rich people out there, can't help but be a bit envious of the incomes some of these people rake in. There's Oprah, a women who has amassed her fortune simply by talking about crap that doesn't really matter to crowds of yentas and helps to further dilute our brain cells and free thinking abilities by forcing other people who force their views on you such as number 4 on the list Dr. Phil. We also have Tiger Woods, so he's the greatest golfer to play the game, has a super hot lady and is only in his 30's so freakin' what. I shoot in the low hundreds, have a hot lady and I'm in my 30's. Where the hell is my green jacket? How about Trouble? This is the dog of the former Leona Helmsley. Actually this dog deserves every penny it gets. You know how many years that dog had to pretend she liked licking that leathery makeup covered face. Well anyway below is a list and how much these hard working doctors, humanitarians, teachers and dedicated soldiers made. Oh wait... that's right sorry my mind slipped into my little "what should be state" for a second.

Oprah Winfrey: $260 million
Tiger Woods: $115 million
Steven Spielberg: $110 million
Dr. Phil McGraw: $90 million
50 Cent: $33 million
Gisele Bundchen: $33 million
Miley Cyrus: $18.2 million
Mary-Kate Olsen: $17 million
Ryan Seacrest: $12 million
Trouble (Leona Helmsley’s dog): $12 million
Eli Manning: $11.5 million
Katherine Heigl: $11 million
Jeff Foxworthy: $10 million
Jessica Alba: $9 million
Mariska Hargitay: $7 million
Carrie Underwood: $7 million
Scarlett Johansson: $5 million

Source... US Weekly

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Use Firefox... Its in the stars

"To the Moon IE!" Well its further than the moon, much further. How much further I have no clue but pretty damn far.

Leave it to the super geeks to take the fiery debate of web browsers beyond the forums and bulletin boards. In fact, the argument is now being tabled out of this universe. The above is variable star V838 Monocerotis of the constellation Monoceros. Again I have no idea how to better explain to you where in the hell you would have to focus your porch mounted Hubble telescopes to find this but its there. Some Hubble loving, Star Trek fantasizing, parents basement dwelling guy had the spare time in his social schedule to find the striking similarities between this wad of stars and the FireFox logo. And now I have found the time in my bustling social schedule to blog about it....... "Mom how about some pizza rolls down here for Christ sake."

For those of you who haven't tried Firefox give it a try. It loads and caches far more efficiently than Internet Explorer and in my opinion is even better than Apple's Safari.

Get it here FireFox

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Cubs Streak Ends @ 5

Friday night the Chicago Cubs (6-4) saw their winning streak snapped at 5 by the Philadelphia Phillies. We also saw Fukudome's first start at center field.

Lee and Ramirez went yard in back to back fashion in the first. Lee is off to a good start this season. His power is on pace with his National League batting championship season in '05 when he hit 46 yard balls. Soriano add a solo blast in the 5th. But this was not enough to over come a poor outing by Big Z Carlos Zambrano.

"He didn't really throw the ball all that well," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said of the right-hander, who was able to get out of a first-inning jam. "He wasn't overpowering tonight."

"I was feeling OK," Zambrano said. "Something was wrong with my fastball today."

Zambrano gave up 5 runs while striking out six and walking one.

Up next: Lilly (0-1) faces Hamels (1-1) on a game that will be televised on WGN at 7:05 est.

For the complete box check out cubs.com.

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"Rock of Love" for Daisy

Her name is Daisy De La Hoya, and yes she is related to Boxer Oscar De La Hoya. She's his niece actually. Apparently she used to be in some goth glam band or something but that doesn't really matter now does it.

Basically she was one of the hottest women on this season. But if you think that all "Rock of Love" is about is stripper types and what not showing their undying affection for Bret Michaels... well your right. But who am I to judge? Don't we all want to find a meaningful, trusting, life long heart felt relationship with our hottest groupie?

Of the two who remain Bret would be a fool not to pick Daisy. The few weeks it lasts would probably be quite a few couple of weeks for Bret.

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