2005:
Song : -Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Green Day - About this time I’m thinking I shouldn’t have picked song as one of my catagories, I guess I’m not that big of a musical person. I thought it would be easy to pick a song I related to each year but it is getting hard… I don’t like this song but I’m picking it because I remember it used to come on every day in the dining hall when I ate lunch the second half of my freshman year at Purdue, it got very annoying.
Video Game: Fable – Yes I know this released in the fall of 2004, but if you notice a trend I’m a step being on video games sometimes and I got this game at a flea market in Brookville in the summer of 2005, loved the game, even if it was short and not as fleshed out as it could have been. 2005 was sort of a down year for my video game playing.
News Story: Hurricane Katrina… say what you want about the action and recovery that happened later, but this was by far the biggest story of the year. Even more so that the Presidential election of Bush over Kerry. It also shot gas prices up like crazy… I remember buying 4 dollar gas that fall.
Personal Event: Going to Walt Disney World with my family, when I came home from college this summer I didn’t end up getting a job and with everyone home for the summer the thought was we might not get another chance for a full family vacation…. So we went to Walt Disney World, this was my third time going but I still had a great time. I remember Casey and I would stay out late, until the park closed, finding out that the best time to ride popular rides was during the firework show that closed the park, since everyone watched the fireworks and didn’t get in line. (Splash Mountain also has an awesome view of the fireworks by the way.) After staying out till the close Mom and Dad would be going to bed when we got back to the hotel by bus, and we then we would wake up later and meet them in the park before lunch. (Though this sometimes proved difficult due to Mom never hearing her phone.) Moms liked going to the Animal Kingdom to take the safari ride in the morning when the animals were more active. Also I have to note that at the Rainforest Café on this trip is where our family had the famous Dangerous Desert creation discussion.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Year in Review : Part 2
Year in Review
Note: This is the 2nd part of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2010. In this part I will cover the months of April, May, and June.
April – Easter and such
The major event in April was spending Easter with my family. I remember Mom worked to guilt Casey and I in to watching “The Easter Beagle”… not that great of a show. After that Casey and I worked on dying some Easter eggs of our own, including our attempt to produce the famous “pirate egg” (which is really just our effort every year to somehow make a black egg)
Easter morning we ate breakfast and went to Church with Grandma, Grandpa and Pam like always and then headed to Grammy’s to spend the rest of the day with Mom’s side of the family.
Derek, Erica, Anita, and Joe brought the foreign exchange student they were housing with them, and events of the day included flying kites and a trip to the woods in which there was some getting wet and throwing of sticks into the water, as well as Howie getting some photo ops in a junk pile back there.
I also really got into Xbox live this month, and enjoyed a few games of Civ Rev online with Bruce and Brock. However this would be short lived as near the end of the month I found myself packing up and moving home as the lease ran out on my apartment on the 24th, and with me being unemployed and no idea where my next job would be I moved home with my parents once again.
May – Homeward Bound
At the end of April I had packed up and moved home, so the start of this month was me settling back in at my parents. Casey’s Birthday was on the 6th, and Bruce’s wife Megan also had her birthday party around that time.
I remember going to the horse track in Andersonville I believe three times between the end of April and through May to watch my Grandpa’s horse run, but she never did very well in those races.
I guess overall May wasn’t that eventful, probably the biggest development was my group of friends getting into D&D 3.5, a game that would provide us a lot of fun over the course of the summer. With Casey moving back and being unemployed, myself being unemployed, and everyone else working Part time at Fedex or at Taco Bell we were able to get everyone together for a game session at least once a week if not twice.
A few days this month I helped my Dad in the fields but overall I was just a bum most of the month of May to be honest.
One last thing to mention was somewhere near the start of this month was the great Jack kidnapping, in which Jack the dog went missing… turns out he was picked up by someone driving by thinking he was their bosses dog who lived a few roads over, and had gotten lose. However, once their boss got home she realized Jack wasn’t her dog and set out to find the real owner…. She couldn’t find the owner and left him with a neighbor who called the pound on him.. so Jack was kidnapped.
Mom eventually found out he was being held for ransom at the pound and had to bail him out, which was crazy because she was giving him away in a week. But he is living happily now where he is an inside dog and gets to sleep in bed with his owners and has a lot of other dogs to play with.
June – Walking
My Birthday was on the 1st and my family and I went to the NASCAR grill to celebrate it, as well as my Dad’s birthday the next week.
Job wise this month I was still unemployed, but I began to start thinking about getting in shape again… and well I was in pitiful shape so I began to go for walks. At first they started out as 2-3 mile trips and I would take Pepper with me and sometimes Mom, Dad, or Casey would come along as well.
However as the summer would draw on these walks would become longer and longer until they would hit the 10 mile journeys I took almost every day in July. Infact a couple times I walked to St. Paul via the rail road tracks… in which I got these pictures over the Flat Rock River.
I also remember it raining a lot…. And getting stuck in the rain on walks quite often at the start of the month… but a little rain never killed anyone.
We did also come home once from my Grandmas and see this huge turtle…
On the job front I was still unemployed, but I did help my Dad bale quite a bit of hay this month which helped keep me somewhat busy.
In entertainment… not a whole lot going on this month, Steve and I started hanging out more as he moved back home, sometimes we would go to the truckstop for some high speed unlimited bandwidth interneting, as well as doing quite a bit of late night cruising around Decatur and Shelby Counties, trying to find some of the spookiest places…. Including the famous floating horse!
Note: This is the 2nd part of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2010. In this part I will cover the months of April, May, and June.
April – Easter and such
The major event in April was spending Easter with my family. I remember Mom worked to guilt Casey and I in to watching “The Easter Beagle”… not that great of a show. After that Casey and I worked on dying some Easter eggs of our own, including our attempt to produce the famous “pirate egg” (which is really just our effort every year to somehow make a black egg)
Easter morning we ate breakfast and went to Church with Grandma, Grandpa and Pam like always and then headed to Grammy’s to spend the rest of the day with Mom’s side of the family.
Derek, Erica, Anita, and Joe brought the foreign exchange student they were housing with them, and events of the day included flying kites and a trip to the woods in which there was some getting wet and throwing of sticks into the water, as well as Howie getting some photo ops in a junk pile back there.
I also really got into Xbox live this month, and enjoyed a few games of Civ Rev online with Bruce and Brock. However this would be short lived as near the end of the month I found myself packing up and moving home as the lease ran out on my apartment on the 24th, and with me being unemployed and no idea where my next job would be I moved home with my parents once again.
May – Homeward Bound
At the end of April I had packed up and moved home, so the start of this month was me settling back in at my parents. Casey’s Birthday was on the 6th, and Bruce’s wife Megan also had her birthday party around that time.
I remember going to the horse track in Andersonville I believe three times between the end of April and through May to watch my Grandpa’s horse run, but she never did very well in those races.
I guess overall May wasn’t that eventful, probably the biggest development was my group of friends getting into D&D 3.5, a game that would provide us a lot of fun over the course of the summer. With Casey moving back and being unemployed, myself being unemployed, and everyone else working Part time at Fedex or at Taco Bell we were able to get everyone together for a game session at least once a week if not twice.
A few days this month I helped my Dad in the fields but overall I was just a bum most of the month of May to be honest.
One last thing to mention was somewhere near the start of this month was the great Jack kidnapping, in which Jack the dog went missing… turns out he was picked up by someone driving by thinking he was their bosses dog who lived a few roads over, and had gotten lose. However, once their boss got home she realized Jack wasn’t her dog and set out to find the real owner…. She couldn’t find the owner and left him with a neighbor who called the pound on him.. so Jack was kidnapped.
Mom eventually found out he was being held for ransom at the pound and had to bail him out, which was crazy because she was giving him away in a week. But he is living happily now where he is an inside dog and gets to sleep in bed with his owners and has a lot of other dogs to play with.
June – Walking
My Birthday was on the 1st and my family and I went to the NASCAR grill to celebrate it, as well as my Dad’s birthday the next week.
Job wise this month I was still unemployed, but I began to start thinking about getting in shape again… and well I was in pitiful shape so I began to go for walks. At first they started out as 2-3 mile trips and I would take Pepper with me and sometimes Mom, Dad, or Casey would come along as well.
However as the summer would draw on these walks would become longer and longer until they would hit the 10 mile journeys I took almost every day in July. Infact a couple times I walked to St. Paul via the rail road tracks… in which I got these pictures over the Flat Rock River.
I also remember it raining a lot…. And getting stuck in the rain on walks quite often at the start of the month… but a little rain never killed anyone.
We did also come home once from my Grandmas and see this huge turtle…
On the job front I was still unemployed, but I did help my Dad bale quite a bit of hay this month which helped keep me somewhat busy.
In entertainment… not a whole lot going on this month, Steve and I started hanging out more as he moved back home, sometimes we would go to the truckstop for some high speed unlimited bandwidth interneting, as well as doing quite a bit of late night cruising around Decatur and Shelby Counties, trying to find some of the spookiest places…. Including the famous floating horse!
Monday, December 13, 2010
15 Characters
*Taken from Facebook
Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen fictional characters (television, films, plays, books) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes -- they can be in order or not. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what characters my friends choose.
Kamina - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Don Quixote – Man of LaMancha
Jurgis Rudkus – The Jungle – by Upton Sinclar
Walter White – Breaking Bad
Mad Max – mad max trilogy
Ratigan – The Great Mouse Detective
Dr. Who - Dr. Who Television Series
Indiana Jones
Willy Wonka – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1900 – The legend of 1900
Beatrix Kiddo – Kill Bill
Allen Quartermain - King Solomon’s Mine / Allen Quartermain
Marve – Sin City
Dwight – The Office
Ghazghkull – Warhammer 40k universe
*Sadly couldn't find a decent pick for Jarigus or Quartermain
Honorable mention goes to Toph from "Avatar the Last Airbender"
Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen fictional characters (television, films, plays, books) who've influenced you and that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes -- they can be in order or not. Tag at least fifteen friends, including me, because I'm interested in seeing what characters my friends choose.
Kamina - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Don Quixote – Man of LaMancha
Jurgis Rudkus – The Jungle – by Upton Sinclar
Walter White – Breaking Bad
Mad Max – mad max trilogy
Ratigan – The Great Mouse Detective
Dr. Who - Dr. Who Television Series
Indiana Jones
Willy Wonka – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
1900 – The legend of 1900
Beatrix Kiddo – Kill Bill
Allen Quartermain - King Solomon’s Mine / Allen Quartermain
Marve – Sin City
Dwight – The Office
Ghazghkull – Warhammer 40k universe
*Sadly couldn't find a decent pick for Jarigus or Quartermain
Honorable mention goes to Toph from "Avatar the Last Airbender"
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Decade 2004
2004:
Song : Hotel California – Eagles- So totally not a song of this year for most people, but for me… totally. In the spring of 2004 I bought a Eagles Greatest hits CD, and this song ended up being the official driving song for me and my friends. Every time I hear this song I think of driving down 421 with Steve, Bruce and Farrell after school singing along holding out hands out of the windows of the car, good times.
Video Game: Hobowars – I thought about Warcraft 3 as I became totally addicted to it my Freshman year of school when I got high speed internet and could play online, Then there was Halo 2… the best title for the Xbox but I’m going with Hobowars.com a game I started playing this year and would be addicted to for the next 4-5 years. I spend so much time on that game and met some interesting people through that game.
News Story: Presidential Election – Bush edges out Kerry again, in a very ugly and close campaign. I remember this campaign being a lot more vicious than any of the others I have witnessed with a ton of anti-Bush hate going against a rally around the country and the Iraq war as the big matchup.
Personal Event: I have a lot of choices for this one, went to Toronto with the music department, went to the state finals as the captain of the Social Studies academic team, graduated high school, started school at Purdue… but I’m going with my Spring break trip. I went to Brown county with Steve and Farrell for 3 days. We rented a family cabin at the park and had a great time with and plenty of inside jokes were born. The “Bitch Game” hit its hayday, a smoke alarm got set off, it snowed, a song was written, and there was a linen fight… great times!
Song : Hotel California – Eagles- So totally not a song of this year for most people, but for me… totally. In the spring of 2004 I bought a Eagles Greatest hits CD, and this song ended up being the official driving song for me and my friends. Every time I hear this song I think of driving down 421 with Steve, Bruce and Farrell after school singing along holding out hands out of the windows of the car, good times.
Video Game: Hobowars – I thought about Warcraft 3 as I became totally addicted to it my Freshman year of school when I got high speed internet and could play online, Then there was Halo 2… the best title for the Xbox but I’m going with Hobowars.com a game I started playing this year and would be addicted to for the next 4-5 years. I spend so much time on that game and met some interesting people through that game.
News Story: Presidential Election – Bush edges out Kerry again, in a very ugly and close campaign. I remember this campaign being a lot more vicious than any of the others I have witnessed with a ton of anti-Bush hate going against a rally around the country and the Iraq war as the big matchup.
Personal Event: I have a lot of choices for this one, went to Toronto with the music department, went to the state finals as the captain of the Social Studies academic team, graduated high school, started school at Purdue… but I’m going with my Spring break trip. I went to Brown county with Steve and Farrell for 3 days. We rented a family cabin at the park and had a great time with and plenty of inside jokes were born. The “Bitch Game” hit its hayday, a smoke alarm got set off, it snowed, a song was written, and there was a linen fight… great times!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Decade: 2003
2003:
Song Hey Ya – Outkast – A cool little rap/pop song that reminds me of this year, it was huge and played all of the time and I liked it then as I do now. It’s just simply one of those songs that bring back memories of this year.
Video Game: Eternal Darkness – This came out in 2002, but if I remember correctly this game took its rounds among my circle of friends this year, honestly this is probably my favorite GameCube title of all time. The Sanity meter was an awesome feature and it had an interesting story.
News Story: The Iraq war, my views on this have changed a little over time, I remember at the start I fully supported going in and removing Saddam. (I actually still support the removing of him) But my political views have become more libertarian since then and I see little use in staying over in Iraq as long as we have… currently the war is officially over… but we still have troops there. The rebuilding effort, I wasn’t much behind.
Personal Event: I had a hard time picking this one as nothing of note jumped out at me at first, but this was the summer I went to Hoosier Boys State, which was this summer camp thing that was supposed to teach us about politics and be an honor to go to. I was selected to go for my school, to this event, it was a weeklong thing held at Indiana State University. However, simply put this sucked… They made us march out every morning at like 5:30 am and salute the flag. It was very “text book” government and ignored any real issues in the system. I was disappointed as someone who likes politics in the overall production.
On the other hand later that summer I went on this awesome 4-H trip to the State Fair, where I stayed a week with other 4-Her’s doing fun events and helping out at the State Fair. I wish I knew what it was called. I also got to go to my first concert while at this event… even though it was Kelly Clarkson. It was defiantly a lot more fun that Boys State.
Song Hey Ya – Outkast – A cool little rap/pop song that reminds me of this year, it was huge and played all of the time and I liked it then as I do now. It’s just simply one of those songs that bring back memories of this year.
Video Game: Eternal Darkness – This came out in 2002, but if I remember correctly this game took its rounds among my circle of friends this year, honestly this is probably my favorite GameCube title of all time. The Sanity meter was an awesome feature and it had an interesting story.
News Story: The Iraq war, my views on this have changed a little over time, I remember at the start I fully supported going in and removing Saddam. (I actually still support the removing of him) But my political views have become more libertarian since then and I see little use in staying over in Iraq as long as we have… currently the war is officially over… but we still have troops there. The rebuilding effort, I wasn’t much behind.
Personal Event: I had a hard time picking this one as nothing of note jumped out at me at first, but this was the summer I went to Hoosier Boys State, which was this summer camp thing that was supposed to teach us about politics and be an honor to go to. I was selected to go for my school, to this event, it was a weeklong thing held at Indiana State University. However, simply put this sucked… They made us march out every morning at like 5:30 am and salute the flag. It was very “text book” government and ignored any real issues in the system. I was disappointed as someone who likes politics in the overall production.
On the other hand later that summer I went on this awesome 4-H trip to the State Fair, where I stayed a week with other 4-Her’s doing fun events and helping out at the State Fair. I wish I knew what it was called. I also got to go to my first concert while at this event… even though it was Kelly Clarkson. It was defiantly a lot more fun that Boys State.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Year in Review: Part 1
Year in Review
Note: This is a start of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2010. In this part I will cover the months of January, February, and March.
January - The beginning…
So I started out New Year’s this year partying up in Indy with Megan and Emily, ok well it wasn’t that crazy of a party but we had a good time, watched the ball drop and all of that jazz that goes along with the New Year.
After that start however, the main story was certainly me becoming unemployed. I knew it was happening; the management company I worked for lost their contract over the hotel I was working as the Operations Manager of on December 31st of 2009. I ended up being with them until January 15th… and then I journeyed into unemployment.
To be honest I wasn’t upset about this, it actually made me happy at the time, I had been working 6 days a week or 10+ hour days for the last 4 months or so. Things had been stressful because the hotel wasn’t doing that well and it was obvious changes had to be in the works. So I was fully relieved to be out of this and ready to get some rest and then find out what the next chapter in my life had in store.
Who knew that this would lead to a 10 month journey into unemployment? I didn’t at the time but it was a risk I was taking, and to be honest… I don’t regret it looking back.
The rest of January wasn’t that eventful, got some rest, and got to start catching up with Friends I hadn’t been able to see much since moving out of Decatur County and working as many hours as I was at the hotel. I started going and visiting with my parents a lot as well.
Oh the Colts played in the Super Bowl and lost…..
February – Being Free on Unemployment
I started getting unemployment this month and found I was making a decent amount of money, enough to cover rent, my car payment, and food / entertainment. Of course my crazy frugality helped out in this case… I was still well into my challenge of not heating my apartment all winter, in fact that was pretty much an easy success at this point as I had made it through most of the worst part of the year. Though I did find I was spending more money on food/entertainment since I wasn’t doing anything all day. I also succeeded in exercising again at the end of January/Start of February for all of about two weeks or so.
I remember one day this month I took my Grandma to the doctor to get stitches out of her hand that was an interesting day visiting her.
On Groundhogs day I celebrated it with Casey, Steve and some of their friends on Franklin College’s campus. It was a good time had by all, I love celebrating silly holidays! We ate Chinese at the Blue Turtle and then played some poker… of which I lost as usual.
Also in February my Grandma White had to come home early from Florida to attend a funeral, so Dad, Pam and I went up to get her from the airport, we made signs and everything to make her feel like a VIP. This was the first time she had flown alone since she flew out to meet my Grandpa in Alaska over 40 years ago.
Finally in February I went to a Sick Puppy / Chevelle Concert at the Murat with Bruce, his wife Megan, and once of his friends from work. It was a great concert, and the first one I saw at the Murat. I fully admit I went to see the Sick Puppies and they were awesome but Chevelle totally commanded the show and put on the best performance. Janus the opening band however, not impressed. I took Howie and he got his picture on the stage and with Emma the bass player with the Sick Puppies but sadly it came out blurry!
March – Adventures!
March was Spring Break for my parents and I ended up spending that week down at my parent’s house sitting / taking care of Pepper and Kong. I ate dinner with my grandparents most of that week. It was funny because the corn stove went out and neither I nor my Grandpa could get it restarted, but I didn’t care since it wasn’t that cold, I mean I was living without heat all winter, but he was really worried.
On March 6th Megan and I took Howie for a photo Op with a Giant Pink elephant holding a martini glass, I will hopefully get a picture up of this… because really the picture will do much better than a description.
Also In March, Bruce had really wanted to go Geo-Caching so we did. We found I believe 4 of the 7 things we were looking for; it was a fun afternoon driving around Decatur and Shelby counties looking for hidden caches. Now our GPS wasn’t the handled kind, only the in car kind so we didn’t have the best equipment but we both agreed we had a fun time and should do it again. (Howie even got some good photo ops in) However, we never really got around to doing it.
The next week Bruce, Steve, Casey and I packed up the Soul to take Howie to Daniel Boone’s grave. I had been there before with my Dad in 2007 when we went on the Bourbon Trail. Actually we had planned on going to some distilleries when we were down there, but poor time management failed us on that. But we did all have a good time, Saw Daniel Boone’s grave, found a geo-cache there, saw that Frankfort has a side of town that is 1/3 liquor stores, 1/3 auto repair and 1/3 bait shops. Just wish we could have went on a Bourbon tour.
Finally one last event for the Month would be Chantel’s 21st birthday party, which I may have had a little much to drink but it was another fun event this year.
Note: This is a start of a four part series, the object being to give a quick review of my experiences in the year 2010. In this part I will cover the months of January, February, and March.
January - The beginning…
So I started out New Year’s this year partying up in Indy with Megan and Emily, ok well it wasn’t that crazy of a party but we had a good time, watched the ball drop and all of that jazz that goes along with the New Year.
After that start however, the main story was certainly me becoming unemployed. I knew it was happening; the management company I worked for lost their contract over the hotel I was working as the Operations Manager of on December 31st of 2009. I ended up being with them until January 15th… and then I journeyed into unemployment.
To be honest I wasn’t upset about this, it actually made me happy at the time, I had been working 6 days a week or 10+ hour days for the last 4 months or so. Things had been stressful because the hotel wasn’t doing that well and it was obvious changes had to be in the works. So I was fully relieved to be out of this and ready to get some rest and then find out what the next chapter in my life had in store.
Who knew that this would lead to a 10 month journey into unemployment? I didn’t at the time but it was a risk I was taking, and to be honest… I don’t regret it looking back.
The rest of January wasn’t that eventful, got some rest, and got to start catching up with Friends I hadn’t been able to see much since moving out of Decatur County and working as many hours as I was at the hotel. I started going and visiting with my parents a lot as well.
Oh the Colts played in the Super Bowl and lost…..
February – Being Free on Unemployment
I started getting unemployment this month and found I was making a decent amount of money, enough to cover rent, my car payment, and food / entertainment. Of course my crazy frugality helped out in this case… I was still well into my challenge of not heating my apartment all winter, in fact that was pretty much an easy success at this point as I had made it through most of the worst part of the year. Though I did find I was spending more money on food/entertainment since I wasn’t doing anything all day. I also succeeded in exercising again at the end of January/Start of February for all of about two weeks or so.
I remember one day this month I took my Grandma to the doctor to get stitches out of her hand that was an interesting day visiting her.
On Groundhogs day I celebrated it with Casey, Steve and some of their friends on Franklin College’s campus. It was a good time had by all, I love celebrating silly holidays! We ate Chinese at the Blue Turtle and then played some poker… of which I lost as usual.
Also in February my Grandma White had to come home early from Florida to attend a funeral, so Dad, Pam and I went up to get her from the airport, we made signs and everything to make her feel like a VIP. This was the first time she had flown alone since she flew out to meet my Grandpa in Alaska over 40 years ago.
Finally in February I went to a Sick Puppy / Chevelle Concert at the Murat with Bruce, his wife Megan, and once of his friends from work. It was a great concert, and the first one I saw at the Murat. I fully admit I went to see the Sick Puppies and they were awesome but Chevelle totally commanded the show and put on the best performance. Janus the opening band however, not impressed. I took Howie and he got his picture on the stage and with Emma the bass player with the Sick Puppies but sadly it came out blurry!
March – Adventures!
March was Spring Break for my parents and I ended up spending that week down at my parent’s house sitting / taking care of Pepper and Kong. I ate dinner with my grandparents most of that week. It was funny because the corn stove went out and neither I nor my Grandpa could get it restarted, but I didn’t care since it wasn’t that cold, I mean I was living without heat all winter, but he was really worried.
On March 6th Megan and I took Howie for a photo Op with a Giant Pink elephant holding a martini glass, I will hopefully get a picture up of this… because really the picture will do much better than a description.
Also In March, Bruce had really wanted to go Geo-Caching so we did. We found I believe 4 of the 7 things we were looking for; it was a fun afternoon driving around Decatur and Shelby counties looking for hidden caches. Now our GPS wasn’t the handled kind, only the in car kind so we didn’t have the best equipment but we both agreed we had a fun time and should do it again. (Howie even got some good photo ops in) However, we never really got around to doing it.
The next week Bruce, Steve, Casey and I packed up the Soul to take Howie to Daniel Boone’s grave. I had been there before with my Dad in 2007 when we went on the Bourbon Trail. Actually we had planned on going to some distilleries when we were down there, but poor time management failed us on that. But we did all have a good time, Saw Daniel Boone’s grave, found a geo-cache there, saw that Frankfort has a side of town that is 1/3 liquor stores, 1/3 auto repair and 1/3 bait shops. Just wish we could have went on a Bourbon tour.
Finally one last event for the Month would be Chantel’s 21st birthday party, which I may have had a little much to drink but it was another fun event this year.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Decade: 2002
2002
Song: Hot in Herre – Nelly… ugh crazy right? I’m not sure what was going on to make me pick this song but I was looking through a list of top songs of 2002 because honestly I have nothing that jumps to mind for this year. I just remember this song being popular and then it being made fun of for a long time afterward, but seriously take a look at a list of 2002 singles… some good songs, but nothing memorable for me at least.
Video Game: Halo – yes I know Halo came out in 2001, but none of my friends had an Xbox at the time… it wasn’t until 2002 that I got to experience this super hit. I remember going over to my friend Steve’s to play through the campaign mode. It wouldn’t be until Christmas 2003 that I would get an Xbox of my own, and of course a copy of Halo.
News Story: DC Sniper, two guys in Washington D.C. kill 10 random people of a course of a couple months that is a pretty huge news story for this year.
Personal Event: I was having a hard time thinking of something for this year but I decided to go with a school music department trip to Walt Disney World. I was in the Choir and got to go down to Disney world over spring break. I had been before, but it was still fun/exciting. We rode buses down and back and stayed at the music resort. I wish I had some pictures to post here but I don’t believe I currently have any of those. I remember that we were divided up into groups, but my group ended up just being me and another kid named Peter Maddux most of the time since we didn’t mess around wasting time and resting, we pretty much just wanted to get from place to place to experience as much as we could.
Song: Hot in Herre – Nelly… ugh crazy right? I’m not sure what was going on to make me pick this song but I was looking through a list of top songs of 2002 because honestly I have nothing that jumps to mind for this year. I just remember this song being popular and then it being made fun of for a long time afterward, but seriously take a look at a list of 2002 singles… some good songs, but nothing memorable for me at least.
Video Game: Halo – yes I know Halo came out in 2001, but none of my friends had an Xbox at the time… it wasn’t until 2002 that I got to experience this super hit. I remember going over to my friend Steve’s to play through the campaign mode. It wouldn’t be until Christmas 2003 that I would get an Xbox of my own, and of course a copy of Halo.
News Story: DC Sniper, two guys in Washington D.C. kill 10 random people of a course of a couple months that is a pretty huge news story for this year.
Personal Event: I was having a hard time thinking of something for this year but I decided to go with a school music department trip to Walt Disney World. I was in the Choir and got to go down to Disney world over spring break. I had been before, but it was still fun/exciting. We rode buses down and back and stayed at the music resort. I wish I had some pictures to post here but I don’t believe I currently have any of those. I remember that we were divided up into groups, but my group ended up just being me and another kid named Peter Maddux most of the time since we didn’t mess around wasting time and resting, we pretty much just wanted to get from place to place to experience as much as we could.
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