Today and some weekend pictures

So today was a productive day, I joined the dragonboat team at work and had my first practice and joined the gym in Canton and am planning on going tomorrow. I hope some of the pictures someone took from dragonboat practice get sent to me so I can post them.

Speaking of pictures, here are a couple fro this past weekend semi-camping at my friend Lucas' parents farm.

The tents set up in the yard The rough camping set-up

Yes, that is us playing rockband on a sheet with a projector in the middle of no where, Westminster

... or are you just happy to see me?

So my sister's boyfriend has a little garden in his back yard (which makes me wish I had a yard instead of a 8' x 12' concrete slab) and grows some random vegetables ... including the zucchini pictured above. He also put me in touch with his friend that has season tickets to the ravens he was trying to sell. The quarter and can are just there to show the size of the zucchini. I'll probably grill it this weekend during my graduation party since there will be enough to go around.

Yeah for my first post about something random that actually happened the same day I posted it! I'll put up those pictures I said I would soon (don't know who I am talking to since I am pretty sure I am the only one that reads this)

Oh, and btw ... The Dark Knight was f'ing amazing.

About time

Well ... I know it has been a while since I posted that first post saying I was going to post a lot during the first few weeks and then maybe drop off. Hopefully this means the opposite has occurred and I dropped off early and will not start to post on a regular basis. It's just hard for me to sit down at a computer when I get home from work. I thought about posting several times (is this a repeat of my first post or what?) but didn't have the energy or desire to fire up my POS laptop and hope the keyboard worked. So on that note, let's re-cap what has happened so far in July ... with plenty of occasions forgotten I am sure.

• Went to NYC (brooklyn) to visit Vanessa (V)
• Went to a Staten Island wedding with V - I consider her my default wedding date because we always have fun together (this was also the most elaborate wedding I have been to in my life and I have been to quite a few)
• Saw Hancock with V and Wolfe (V's friend) - Still don't know what I think about it ... what kind of movie were they trying to make ... I think they got lost somewhere in the development and made half of two different movies and decided to connect them
• Did absolutely nothing to celebrate the 4th even though I was in the biggest city in the US that had a $40 million fireworks show (fireworks just don't do it for me unless I am setting them off)
• Went to Spamalot on Broadway (much funnier than Monty Python's Holy Grail I saw for the first time less than a week earlier ... British comedy is like fireworks to me, the dry wit is only funny to me when I am doing it)
• Randomly went out for drinks with Lucas and Nancy (from MD but happened to be in NYC at the same time)
• Left V to go to a "White Party" with Lucas and Nancy (for which I had to buy a white outfit that I didn't have)
• Had fun at said "White Party" on a small boat that took us around NYC till 5 AM
• Commuted back to Brooklyn only to pack up and commute back to Penn Station and catch my train back to B'more
• Worked for a few days then got sick and worked from home for the next couple days
• Went to Roy's Hawiian Fusion in Harbor East with MK (I love this place but when dinner is this expensive it can't be a frequent visit)
• Watched Happy Gilmore for the first time in years, "the price is wrong ... bitch" (one of Adam Sandler's funniest)
• Went out with Brian and Jill for one of their friend's 30th bdays this night included a rooftop deck, Saute (which has some of the best calamari I have had), Claddagh's Pub, dancing on the pool table at Claddagh's (not me), more roof deck, passing out on couch, walking home at 5:30 AM
• Had 59th Bday dinner at my mom's for my dad ... always an interesting time when you get my family together ... I swear it could be a successful TV show
• That brings us to yesterday on my dad's actual bday we went golfing, Waverly does not have enough trees to provide shade for my Irish skin (which is now red), went to Ryleigh's in Fed Hill for Shore night and had crabs, oysters, the best corn on the cob ever, calamari (not as good as Saute's), and ended up in Canton to go to Vaccaro's for desert and show my house to Aunt J and Uncle G (sister's godparents)

So that may be a lot to take in right now and maybe I'll post some pictures from the random events on there (when I get home since I don't have them here at work ... shhh! I'll get back to work now, and by that I mean start setting up my fantasy football league)

Everything has a beginning, this is mine

So ... blogging ... who would have thought I would ever willingly commit to writing anything unless forced? Anyways, I am just completely facinated with this whole blogging thing and figured I would try my hand at it. If it goes the way of everything else I have started in my life you will read a ton of new entries over the next couple weeks then you might start to think I fell of the face of the Earth because the posts will mysteriously stop with no explaination. Of course, it would be great if that doesn't turn out to be the case and this whole blogging thing could be a catalyst for all the changes I want to make in my life, but I am a realist and know this will not be the case.

Moving on to the meat and potatoes of this; why am I starting a blog and what can you expect from it? So I bought a house in Baltimore back in March (can you guess what neighborhood?) and it needed a little work, as in it should be torn down and rebuilt from scratch. I was searching on google for do-it-yourself sites on home repair and ran into someone blog about how they took off the formstone on their house and had all the brick re-pointed the brick. From here I started searching for Baltimore blogs and came across a few i liked. I started reading them on a daily basis (it's what gets me through work) and venturing out into the other blogs they were linked to. I started using google reader and was able to keep track of a lot more blogs. Basically, that's how I got into blogs and decided I wanted to start mine. Another reason is that I forget everything I do and this could be a way to keep track of stuff.

So what am I going to throw in here? Well, as Charissa (one of the first blogs I started reading, I asked her what I should do to start one) said, "the content is entirely up to you." That is what I am going to say this is going to be filled with, whatever I want. There will probably be rants about work, maybe some post about how I actually did some of the work on my house instead of leaving it to watch whatever Blockbuster sent me this week, maybe a story about how I went out and didn't drink and wasn't a complete ass hole ... who knows, anything can happen.

So this is the beginning. Lets see how this plays out. The page may be pretty bland right now, but I will make it my own over time, hopefully soon.