Another great weekend
Posted on March 12th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
Another great weekend of surfing…not saying that the surf was great, but it was decent enough. This has been the first weekend in a while that all I did was made sure that I went surfing.
We have been so busy with packing, moving, unpacking, the D & D gathering in Lexington, we hadn’t had time just to relax. So Saturday I woke up early and started to run some errands while Spracky got ready for the beach.
Saturday I rushed right out into the line-up and completely killed my arms, I hadn’t been out since January…I should have known better. The tide was just changing to an outgoing tide, which is better at the spot we were at. I only caught one or two rides, but it always seems worth it at the end of the day.
Sunday we made our way to the beach, due to the time change we got there a little early so we sat on the beach and relaxed while the tide started to head out. There were about six guys in the line-up when we got to the beach, but they all headed in because the high tide was making the surf a little mushed out. By the time the tide had changed I had the line-up all to myself. After I had been out for a little while one other surfer showed up down south, otherwise the the peak was all mine.
Spracky was nice enough to snap some shots of the weekend.
Dax out-
The conglomerate of Podshow shows only receive 12,000 downloads a day!
Posted on March 3rd, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
I don’t want to give these dumbasses any more attention or free press, but I am completely tired of this podcast and their incorrect statements. They wish only to try to knock down the other podcasts to make themselves seem more famous. And most unfortunate of the listeners is that they believe…even “follow blindly” to lies that come from this podcast.
It’s immature at best and shows one of the worst traits humankind possesses…jealousy.
Oh, yeah… the numbers referenced do not appear to contain the subdomains of the parent website in question…dumbasses.
It was established on the latest episode of Keith and The Girl that all the shows on Podshow combined had only 12,000 downloads per day while it was clearly expressed that Keith and The Girl had well over the amount on their own, proving that the multi-million dollar Podshow investment was and is a crock!
So tired…
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
In 2006 I had a job for only 4 months. It was a bit stressful for myself, and of course Spracky.
At the end of November I began a contract with a company which is less than 2 miles from where we live. The people I work with are great, the work isn’t that difficult, and the pay is good as well. But I am just so tired of going to work five days a week.
When I wasn’t working, everything was done around the apartment, and I usually tried to get the grocery shopping done. Now Spracky and I are lucky if we have clean closes.
Don’t get me wrong, I am only allowed to work a 40 hour work week on this contract, but that 40 hours, and the other 10 to 15 hours a week I spend getting ready for work and what not, cuts into trying to get everything done.
It’s not that I don’t want to be a contributing member of society, I just wish I could make my own hours and have more time to spend with Spracky or just getting things done.
During my time off I started to realize that there are more important things that working your ass off 60 hours a week and trying to fit into the “corporate world”. If you spend your whole life trying to be “corporate” then that defines you. I would rather define myself, and a “suit” is not me…a regular job is not me. I guess that’s why I don’t mind working as a contractor. I don’t have to fit the corporate mold because I’m not trying to work my way up some “corporate ladder”, I’m just trying to get a nice size check.
Hopefully one of these days Spracky I will win the lottery and I can buy a surf shop, that way we can travel when we want, but I can always come back and work in the surf shop.
Dax out-
Dawn & Drew Lexington Meet-up
Posted on February 11th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
Spracky and I just got back from Lexington, Kentucky, where we were having an awesome time at the Dawn & Drew Lexington Meet-up 2.0.
We have been listening to The Dawn and Drew Show for almost 2 years. Spracky found their show and pointed it out to me, once I heard the first show I was hooked. I immediately started to download their old shows.
Some devoted fans, like Spracky and myself, have the privilege of belonging to The Minion Army, which is pretty much the fan-base for The Dawn and Drew Show. And last year a group of the Minions had a meet-up in Lexington. Spracky and I couldn’t make it last year, but we definitely were going to make it to this years. One little bonus to this years meet-up was that Dawn and Drew were able to make it.
Spracky and I had only met two other people that were going to be their. By the time we left today it felt like we had known all the other people that were there for years. Each and every person that showed up was fun to hang with and I don’t think anybody had one bad moment this weekend.
Spracky and I were able to spend some time talking with Dawn and Drew, which was really odd after listening to there shows for the past two years. I know that Dawn was feeling pretty sick, as was I, but she hung out with everyone and never showed that she wasn’t feeling 100%.
I think I can speak for Spracky and say that we were both pretty stoked about the entire weekend.
Hopefully we will be able to meet up with everybody again real soon!
Dax out-
Moving day has come and gone
Posted on February 5th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
First I would like to officially say that The Registry at Windsor Parke sux!!!
With that out of the way, on to the important news…Spracky and I have moved into a house, we are just leasing, but it is soooo much better than living in an apartment. This place is huge, we are about 90% moved and there is still an echo.
It’s so nice to not have to deal with loud ass neighbors slamming their door, or yelling and screaming like they are the only people in the building.
We still have to set up some of our furniture, but we are finally getting some peace.
Dax out-
D & D Minion Kit
Posted on January 22nd, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
Yeah!!! We got our D & D Minion kits today.
Dax out-
iSwitcher
Posted on January 21st, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
This is another quick post, but I actually have a good reason, I finally got my first Mac. There is definitely a learning curve that I need to overcome.
Obviously, I am having to learn all the little short-cuts on the iMac that I utilized in XP, so that has been a challenge. So far I am really enjoying it.
It’s a gorgeous machine, with a lot of attention to detail in the design and usability that XP just didn’t seem to have without some major redesign.
Dax out-
MLK 2007 Surf Session
Posted on January 15th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
This will probably be a short post.
I got to get some surfing in yesterday and today, and Spracky got some shots.
Here is one of my favorites from today:
You can find the rest of the pictures here.
Dax out-
This doesn’t happen often, so write it down in your calendars
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
I need to make one minor retraction about a post I wrote a week or so ago.
The post was about the Delta Gamma girls from University of North Florida…and I beleive I called them ALL whores or bitches or something along those lines.
Well, I would like to retract my statement about one particular Delta Gamma, her name is Rachel Stone, she was the outgoing president of DG for Fall of 2006.
I found Rachel’s email address on the UNF website and sent her a plea for help. We had been to the apartment management and the police about these girls, after first trying to deal with the girls directly. Spracky and I have had several sleepless nights because of these girls and their “guests”.
So I wrote an account of the problems and the steps that Spracky and I have followed to try to have these girls understand that their upstairs neighbors had to work for a living…and I waited, and I was worried that I might have made things worse, but we hoped.
Rachel emailed us back within 24 hours, first apologizing for the girls’ behavior, and then expressing deep empathy for our situation. She stated that there was over 100 girls in the UNF chapter of DG and she would need some better descriptions of the girls in question, which is very understandable.
We looked all over the DG website for UNF and found a couple pictures of the one offender, but could not find or recognize the roommate.
I forwarded sed pictures and what little extra details that I could remember about these two neighbors. Rachel emailed us back verifing that the one in the pictures was the girl she immediately thought of when she received our first email.
Rachel then went on to explain that she would speak to the girls and was still extremely apologetic.
So, I would like to retract my statement with regards to Rachel Stone only.
Dax out-
Farmer Dax
Posted on January 8th, 2007 by Dax.
Categories: blog post.
When I was around 9 or 10 years old I belonged to the local 4H, and had a decent little garden in my mother’s backyard. After all of the folks at 4H had seen how great my garden was I basically abandoned it.
Spracky and I have always lived in an apartment since we have been together, but I have had the urge to do some gardening from time to time…not flowers but vegetables and herbs. I saw one of these products that allows you to grow vegetables and what not on your balacony, but the ones that I liked were a little bit out of our price range.
Well, for the holidays my inlaws got me this:
It’s pretty cool. Spracky and I drove around for almost a full day trying to find decent tomatoes, but could only find one good plant, but it still needed a little nursing.
The tomatoes hang from the top, and we have basil and rosemary on the top.
Here is a picture of our first little ‘maters:
Thanks inlaws!
Dax out-