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Super bummed right now cause I am not at Rainfest with my friends and Lennea is away visiting her Dad. Life sucks...

Moved back to Vernon a few weeks ago once school finished up. Moving was a bit of a pain but me and Lennea got a bunch of help from my parents and her dad, so thanks to them. I been back in Vernon for about a month now and it's been pretty good so far. Me and Lennea are renting out the suite of our house and it is much nicer and bigger than our last place, so that is awesome. Haven't been doing much since I got back other than hanging out all day. Both me and Lennea applied for a job at PRT and they hired us on the spot and told us they would call us to tell us our start date. However, they didn't end up calling us and we had to hassle them super hard for a couple weeks to tell us when we were going to start, it was a big ordeal but we finally got it sorted out and I am starting work on Monday. I am pretty choked at PRT for screwin me around like they did, totally fucked up the only real plans I had for summer, which was going to Rainfest.
My bro, Ramsay, Sean and Derrek are in Tacoma right now enjoying tons of great bands and each others company while I am sitting here writing this lame shit...weak. I couldn't go due to the fact I had no money since I didn't get to start at PRT early enough and I start on Monday which is the day I would have been coming back from Rainfest, shit just didn't work out and I am bummed. Oh well though, hopefully my buds have a good time!
Aside from lounging around with Lennea while other people are off earning dollars I have been doing some odd painting jobs for Sid so I can make a few bucks before I start work, shit is lame because the dude is a perfectionist and I definetly am not, made us sand and wash a goddam fence like 12 times, bogus.
The long weekend was pretty rad since we had some company come stay and party with us. Justen and Megan both came up from Slurrey and Grant came out from Kelowna to spend the weekend partyin with the Vernon folk. Friday night was alot of fun, went out to dinner then to D-Trax's house with a bunch of people, everyone was gettin their pre-drink on and saucy Derrek was bein saucy. After that we headed out to the club (oh yea Clayton came from Van to visit as well, he was with us) to do some dancing. I fucking suck at dancing and hate the clubs so I was out of my element and probably looked a fool but I guess it was still an enjoyable time. One the way home we got in some adventures with a dude who was on Acid and believed he was Wolverine, he got some picks with us. We also met a guy with elephantitus (however you spell it), saw cops arresting a native dude (NP), convinced some kid that Justen was an X-games gold medalist for BMX and met the hoodest white dude from Hastings that I have ever seen. NO PAPA TRAIL NIGGA! (his words not mine). Next day me, Con and Lennea had a wedding to go to which was alright, free food and drink is always a good jam. After the wedding we went to Seans place and he had a BBQ (Con is a fatty and ate burgers after eating buffet food at the wedding). Sunday we took everyone dirtbiking and that was enjoyable, Lennea rode a motocross bike for the first time and did pretty good and only came away with one bruise and a pretty savage burn.
Haven't really been doing much else since then aside from lounging, feeding ducks and playing video games. Hopefully once I get some money in my pocket I can start havin more fun and going on some trips. Sound and Fury maybe?
These blog posts always turn out longer than I think they will...I hope Rainfest is fun for my buds, bummed I couldn't be with them!

See ya
-Dan

Haven't written on this forever...

Can't really remember what has been going on since Christmas. I know there has been lots of school in there for sure. Other stuff I can remember is:
- Cam Brown visit/sleepovers
- My bro coming to vist
- Getting Easter chocolate for Lennea, getting none from her...
- Writing lots of essays
- Drawing
- Guitar playing
- Couple shows; Gaslight Anthem, Set Foot
- Video games

...that is most of the stuff (what I can remember at least). I put it off to long so it would be to difficult to go into tons of detail about all of it but I assure you that they were all good times. Aside from writing essays and getting no Easter chocolate.

Some bigger news is that me and Lennea bought a hamster. It is very cute, fat and funny. It is a black bear hamster so it looks like a mini black bear but more hamstery...We got her a ball and all that jazz and we let her run about the place but I dunno if she actually enjoys it or is just tryin to get out of the ball. We don't have a name for the hamster yet since Lennea is weak and doesn't think of anything and veto's all the rad names I come up with, so if you have any suggestions let me know (keep in mind that it is a girl).

School is going to be wrapping up pretty quick. Out of my 5 classes this semester only 3 of them had finals and I have already written 2 of em. My stats test was ridiculous and I am in jeopardy of failing that class since I have failed pretty much everything, even though I study and haven't missed any tests or anything...shits weak. I also wrote a Sociology exam today, think I did pretty good on that since I busted my ass studyin the past couple days. My last exam is on Tuesday so I gotta start studying for that right after I finish writing this! I have to be honest though, I really don't see myself doing anything career-wise that has anything to do with what I am learning in school, it all seems kinda pointless to me. I have tried the school route the past 3 years doing Arts stuff (English, History, Sociology) and some Science shit and I really don't like any of it and can't see myself doing work in those fields for the rest of my life. I would really like to do something in Fine arts but I think it might be to late to start and I feel like I should finish my Arts degree first since I have already worked 3 years towards it! But then again if I do that I will be 24 by the time I finish (ugh) and at that age I think it would be better to start looking for a career rather than going back to Fine Arts school. FUCK I have no idea what do with my life, if you have any suggestions on what I should do in this situation LET ME KNOW!

Enough ranting, I will talk about some stuff that I am psyched on now. I am excited for summer. Not having to go to school and do assignments will be nice (although I will be singing a different tune once I am having to work 8 hours everyday all summer). It will be fun to move back to Vernon with Lennea and see all my old buds, summers there are always a good time so I am psyched for that. I am also pumped on the Nucks doing well in the playoffs hopefully they can go far! RICK RYPIEN IS A BEAST! The Red Sox season has also started and even though they got off to a weak start, last in the division in fact, I like keepin up on them and watching so I am psyched on the Bo Sox no matter how well they do.

I am gonna cut this off now since I gotta go pick Lennea up from work. I was going to post some pics like usual but I don't got time right now so I will do that in another post later this weekend. Thanks for reading and I look forward to seein all my Vernon family and friends soon!

- Dan

Christmas Break

Haven't written on this thing in a long time. I am watching the Canucks play right now, Sundin is making his debut and its 3-1 for the good guys. Nice.

The fall semester of school has ended since I last wrote. Things went pretty good aside from getting a C- in my chemistry class, ugh. I flew back to Vernon for the Christmas break and I was super excited to get home to see the family and just chill for a few weeks and not have to worry about school and all the other responsibilities of living on my own. It was really nice being back home, having a kitchen that is fully stocked with food all the time is really nice and having the family around to cook you dinner and drive you around is the best ever. The only bad thing about being back was that I didn't get to see Lennea for 2 weeks cause she had to work and stay back in North Van.
So I got back and pretty much just hung out and did Christmas shopping for the first week or so I was there. Saw all my friends did some fun stuff, it was all a good time. After being home for about a week Christmas rolled around which was awesome. I didn't really have much I wanted for Christmas so I had a tough time whenever my parents or Lennea asked me what I wanted. I ended up getting some pretty good loot though. My parents got me an acoustic guitar, some clothes, and a bunch of other odds and ends, Connor got me Fallout 3 and a Foxtrot book which I was hyped on, Seen Chromly stepped it up and bought me the new Spiderman game for the Ps3 which I totally didn't expect and it made my gift to him (Wildlife Zoo for PC) look like a weeeeeeeeak ass gift. Ramsay got me some loot too, a Trevor Linden action figure and some flannel which I actually wore today, minters. We went out to my granny's later in the day and had some Christmas dinner which was delicious.
Next day we had the Hutchinson family over for brunch. Karen went all out and made a crazy meal for everyone and I had a good time seeing all my family. The highlight of that get together was 100% uncle Rick rocking a leather jacket, pony tail and drinking beers he was carrying around in a grocery bag. Pretty gnarly considering it was like 11 in the morning.
A couple days after Lennea came to visit. I picked her up in Kelowna and we hung out with Jess and Ramsay for a bit. Later that night we exchanged our Christmas presents. She got me lots of awesome stuff including Dead Space for ps3, The Dark Knight, Grindhouse, a new Vans wallet, and some other smaller stuff. Thanks babe! I spent the next few days hanging with her and our friends.
On New Years we went to Togo's where Steve works and hung out there for an hour or so, so Lennea and the other party animals could start to get their drink on. After that we headed up to Silver Star where ol' Davey Kurbis was having a get together at his cabin. It was really cool to get up there and see all my old friends from high school, some of which I hadn't seen in a really long time. Kaelen baked a pumpkin in the oven for everyone. Once it got close to midnight we strolled down to the village for the countdown. When the clock struck 12 everyone cheered and started hugging, Dave Burroughs was extra stoked on the new year thanks to lots of booze. A bit after midnight some beef started between one of Connor's friends and some French dudes. A big brawl broke out and lots of cops got involved and they started pepper spraying everyone. It got pretty wild. After it all got sorted out it just started right back up again and Dave ended up getting hit by a cop and so did his girlfriend Haley. A bunch of drunken tough guy-ness ensued and people were all upset because they were drunk. It was funny to laugh at. Tyler Holm also almost got beat up cause he asked for a girls number, she spat in his face and he laughed and then her boyfriend got involved and Tyler did help the matter by saying that the whole thing was really funny and just laughed in the guys face. Good times. We hung out at Dave's cabin some more and then headed home.
The rest of the break we just hung out with friends, did some bowling and relaxed. I enjoyed it very much.
I am now back in Vancouver and the weather in miserable. Pissing rain and everything is wet and cold. Shit sucks, but my classes seem like they are going to be pretty easy. I am diggin my schedule cause I got no early morning classes and I am not taking any more bogus sciences. This friday we are going to Yuk Yuk's comedy club cause it is Lennea's 22nd birthday, what a dinosaur. That should be a fun time. Canucks won by the way 4-2, nice.
Anyways thats all for now. See ya.

Birthday's, Bands and...Other stuff

I have been putting off updating this for way to long and now I've forgotten most of the stuff that has happened since the last time I wrote! So bear with me on this one, I'll try my best to remember everything.
So back in October my parents came down with my bro to celebrate my birthday. They bought tickets for the family and Lennea to go see David Copperfield downtown, but before they got here Lennea decided to give me the presents she got me. She got me some pretty rad stuff, I got Little Big Planet for ps3 which is tons of fun and I would suggest everyone to get it so we can play online together, and she got me some super pricey looking Armani cologne so now I always smell super good. Thanks Lennea :) A couple days after she gave me her presents was the day that my family was coming to stay, but before I could see them I had to write a Chem midterm. I was super sketched out about this test because out of all my classes at school Chem is wrecking me the hardest. I studied my ass off for the test and still pretty much knew nothing when I was writing it. Shit was haaaaaaaaaaaaard. After the test I was psyched though cause I had a sweet weekend ahead of me. I got home and shortly after my parents arrived. We greeted each other, unloaded all their gear and then I was given some birthday presents from Connor and a couple from my Grandparents. My bro got me the new Fucked Up album, a box of Capt'n Crunch and a $25 dollar gas card, all good stuff. Thanks Old Bendy. I also ratted Connor out for getting a new tattoo which Sid and Karen were non to pleased with.
After I opened the gifts we headed out to get some dinner and then went to the magic show. The show was awesome and David Cop did some mindfreak shit. I'm not gonna write about all the tricks he did cause most of them were super long and without seeing them I'm sure they would sound hella boring. Just go see the show for yourself...or get Old Bendy to fill you in.
The next day was pretty chill. We just went downtown and did some shopping. After that we came back home and my mom cooked up a big turkey dinner for us. Clayton came over and enjoyed the meal with us and helped cook and clean since Connor was way to lazy to do anything and just sat on the floor the whole time.
The next day my family left and it was back to just being me and Lennea. Things got pretty busy after that cause I had more Midterms and quizzes coming up and Jessica and Ramsay were coming to stay with us for awhile. So I was again stuck into the vicious cycle of going to school and studying while having no time to hang out, ugh.
Jessica and Ramsay got here a weekend or two after my parents left. It was good having them here. I'm always hyped to have company. We got up to the usual over the weekend, shopped it up, saw a movie, went out for dinner. It was good fun. I also ruined Ramsay at MLB and made him look like a wuss in front of his girlfriend. Burn.
On Monday Ramsay, Sean, Hunter and I all made a trip down to Tacoma to see Have Heart, Ceremony, Blacklisted and Letdown. There was a bit of mis-communication on who was going to drive but I was under the influence that Sean was going to take his car but apparently he didn't know and was a bit miffed at us for just assuming he was going to drive. To make it up for him I bought him 20 Hersey chocolate bars. I thought that would be enough but apparently (according to my bro) he is still complaining about the situation, so if you are reading this, sorry Sean and thanks for driving, the world is not going to end over it. Anyways, the show was crazy and kids were going nuts to Have Heart and Ceremony. I was singing along to HH the entire time and got headbutted in the face by some stupid green shirted kid like 3 times, so I "accidentally" elbowed him in the chops during one of the sing alongs. Yea, it was some serious pit beef. Ramsay was gettin slimey to Ceremony the entire set. I wasn't really that hyped to see Blacklisted so we headed to 7-11 in between Ceremony and their set. We ended up staying in 7-11 for about 45 mins looking at all the wild chocolate bars that the USA has. Once we got back we only saw about 1 and a half Blacklisted songs. Didn't look like we missed much though as it looked like the band didn't even care they were playing a show, all of them just stood on stage and put in little to no effort. Boooooooooooring, that band's old stuff is cool but I dunno how people are into the new jams, ugh. I forgot to mention this but on the way to Tacoma we stopped at Taco Bell and me and Hunter both got a Big Box meal. The thing was massive and you got all sorts of food. I couldn't even finish mine. So on the way home, Sean and Ramsay were feeling left out and we decided to stop there again. They both got the Big Box and me and Hunter also got some more food, I got a chulupa and Hunter got a couple burritos. Good stuff. The rest of the trip home was pretty chill and we got to Hunter's place around 2am. Hunter then gave us the worst directions ever on how to get back to the Highway and we ended up getting lost for another hour and didn't end up getting to my place until 3:30 in the morning. Damn you Hunter. Hunter also has the sweetest diet ever, we picked the kid up around 4pm and dropped him off at around 2am and in that period he ate, 2 chocolate bars, an ice cream bar, 3 burritos, a taco, a crunchwrap supreme, a few Arizona ice tea's, and the other stuff that the big box meal came with. Mmm Mmm! The next day I missed my morning class since I was hella tired but managed to man up and make my other 2 classes that day. I stayed late after school too cause I had a math midterm the next morning and couldn't really study with Ramsay and Jess there. I did as much as I could and just went for the test in the morning. Probably wasn't the best choice as I only got 65% on the test, weak. The rest of the week I had 2 more tests I had to write, one in Chem and one Bio one. I got them all back now and did pretty dece on them. The only one I really fucked up on was that Chem midterm I talked about back in the beginning of this blog. I got about 55% on that one. OUCH. My marks have been on the steady decline since the midterms were written. I'll have to step it up once finals start.
After the week ended I was hyped cause I got to fly home for the weekend to visit my family for my dad's 50th birthday party. I got there on Saturday and was expecting the party to be a little family get together but when I got in the house it was all decked out with balloons, banners, pictues and all sorts of other stuff. My mom also spent the entire day making loads of food for the evening. Later in the night people started showing up and everyone brought even more food. There was probably about 30-40 people there and it was alot of fun. Talking and catching up with family was a good time and hanging with friends (some of Connor and I's friends came to the party) was a fun time as well. We pretty much just hung out around the food all night and munched. The highlight of night was def when me and my Uncle Rick jammed out in the spare bedroom for awhile. He played drums while I was on the bass. Rick is the sweetest dude ever and has a rad beard. He was also gettin the munchies during the party if you know what I mean...(smokin weeed). The next night we went to a super metal show at MoeJoes. The bands that were playing were Toxic Holocaust, Kingdom of Sorrow and 3 Inches of Blood. It was actually pretty fun cause there was some gnar metal mosh going on and it was funny to watch all the drunk people losing their minds. The Vernon ski team was LOVING it, but even they couldn't step up to the undeniable stomp of King Cobra. Dude is haaard. On the last day in Vernon we went on a family hike up to Cougar Canyon which was kinda weird, but ended up being quite a bit of fun. Connor took a couple of funny spills and got out-hiked hard cause he doesn't have enough NP. That night I flew back to Van and Lennea was nice to pick me up from the Airport.

So yea...I'm pretty sure that is all that happened over the past few weeks...I can't really remember anything else right now, maybe I'll remember later. I'm back at school now but I'm kinda having trouble with it because I just don't feel motivated. I'm really burnt out on school right now. I been at it for a bunch of years now and since I didn't really have a plan when I started I still have a ways to go before I get my degree. I am also kinda bummed on my switch from Arts to Sciences. The Science stuff definetly has a brighter light at the end of the tunnel but I really hate all the classes I am in. I also don't see myself wanting to do something in the Science field once I'm done school. I would switch back into the Arts but I have already done that and didn't like it which is why I switched in the first place! Ugh I'm in a bad spot school wise right now. I have been looking into a 2-d animation program at Vanarts so maybe I will do that next year, art has always been more fun for me than writing and I dont know why I didn't pursue a career in art earlier. It's only a 1 year program and I get a diploma at the end of it, so I figure it's worth a shot to take it. Still have alot to figure out before I jump into a whole different school though. Hopefully things will work out!

Anyways, thanks for reading. I hope I didn't but you to sleep!

-Dan

Fuck Bj Upton

I am mainly writing this as a way of putting off studying for my chemistry midterm. I was gettin' super pissed off cause I wasn't understanding some of the stuff I should so I decided to take a breather.

I wrote my first midterm last week, and I am kinda weary about how I did on it. When I started writing it I thought it was a breeze and ripped through the first few questions with relative ease, after that was a multiple choice section that I was kindy sketchy about, I knew the answers to probably about 3/4 of the questions but the teacher worded the questions very oddly so it was hard to choose the right answer, even if you knew the shit that the question was asking...if that makes sense. So I finished the test feeling pretty good and had a bunch of time to look over my test, which is a good thing because upon rechecking it I found that the first question was asking something completly different from what I answered (if you want to know, the question was to draw the molecular make up of a trans fat, I had drawn an unsaturated fat). I had no idea what the actual answer was and tried to make it up but I doubt I will get any marks on it which sucks since the question was outta 10. After that fiasco I scoped the rest of my answers and started to get sketched out about it cause when I reread the questions I started 2nd guessing some of my answers which is never good. I didn't change to many cause you always gotta go with your gut but I will still be weary until I get my test back. Also, I had no idea what the trans fat drawing was supposed to look like so when I got home from writing the test I checked the text to see and it wasn't even in the book! I checked my notes as well and there was nothing and seeing since I haven't missed any classes I don't know how I was supposed to know the answer to that question...weird.

After my midterm was done I had the rest of the day to hang out, which I did. That evening a show was going on downtown Van. Vanguard was playing with Slingshot, Life in Hand and Bodyguard, so I was planning on heading to that. Before the show Hoontaar (Hunter) invited me to Bo Khang with him and some others and that place rules so there was no way I was gonna turn him down. I made my way down there and a big group of us went to the restaurant and enjoyed an excellent (although expensive) meal and then rolled to the show.

Bodyguard was setting up when we got there (we missed some other band that I can't remember) so I took some time to say hi to a bunch of friends that were already there. It was kinda weird at the show since all the people that I knew dispersed into groups with like 3 people I didn't know so I was kinda left without anyone to talk to or trying to join a group of people that I didn't know. It was kinda a bummer but whatever. Bodyguard played a good thrashy set, some people were moshin to them and gettin into it, which I liked cause usually people don't feel this band. Life in Hand set up after them and I was excited to see them since I hadn't really listened to them before and a bunch of people had hyped them up to me. They played a rad set, lots of energy and they sounded real good. Vanguard played 3rd and people really got into them, kids were moshin'. I missed a couple of their songs cause I was waiting outside/walking to meet Lennea who had just got off her shift at Red Robin. When we got back we watched a couple more songs before they finished. I forgot to mention but the show was at The Sweatshop, which is a skatepark in the basement of a skateshop so in between sets we could watch kids skate the mini ramp they had down there. Dylan tried to get me to try it but I declined since I suck at skating and would just make a fool of myself and probably get hurt, not worth it. Slingshot took awhile to set up so me and Lennea mingled around and talked to some people while we were waiting. Mike Jakes and Shane told us a pretty wild story that involved a friend of Shane's, Amsterdam and a couple dead girls. You can ask about it if you want the full story (it's worth it). After the story Slingshot started playing and I decided to sit this one out and not sing-along due to the fact that the Bo Khang was not sittin stellar in my gut so I just found a place to stand and watch. The guys played pretty much all their material including a few new songs which sounded awesome and a cover. It was a good set and everyone was happy. After the show me and Lennea headed home pretty quick as it was getting late and Lennea hadn't eaten anything all day.

Saturday Lennea went to Abbotsford to hang with her family so I just hung out at home all day solo. I pretty much did nothing but laze around and watch the UFC and baseball. I actually started to feel super gross so I decided to go for a run and get some exercise. I actually surprised myself on the run and went for way longer than I thought I would be able to. I paid for it when I got home though and felt super sick and had to lay down for like an hour.
Sunday was pretty much heart break central for me since the Red Sox lost in game 7 after having the crazy comeback in game 5 and narrowly winning game 6. I fucking hate Tampa Bay, especially BJ Upton and Evan Longoria, seriously fuck those dudes. Also, I can't stand all these douchebags that are cheering on Tampa and talking like they have been pulling for them all season cause they are the "underdogs." Give me a break, the team has had no support all season and even when they were 1st in the division they couldn't sell out at their home field. Now all of a sudden that they are playing good in the post season they just have all these band wagoner fans that had no idea who 1 player on the team was before the beginning of the series with the Red Sox. Seriously, go watch soccer you band wagon fucks. Anyways, I never thought I would cheer for an NL team but I hope Philly wipes the grin off all you idiot Tampa "fans."
Next year Sox will win it.

Pretty much that sums up everything exciting that has happened in between updates. I guess I should get back to studying now, ugh. Wish me luck on my chem midterm.

-Dan

October Spawned A Monster

So the Through the Noise tour which I was waiting on for awhile now just rolled though Van a few days ago and I must say it was pretty goddam wild. For those of you that don't know the tour is currently making its way across Canada and the lineup is stacked! Grave Maker, Outbreak, Shai Hulud and Bane are all on the roster so if you dont make it out to one of the stops you are really missing out! (Misery Signals and Comeback Kid are on the lineup as well...if you are into that kinda thing.) The Vancouver show was at a venue called the Plaza, which is more of a club than a venue for a hardcore show but I guess since it was a big tour the promoters wanted it at a big popular venue. Me and Lennea headed to the show and had to wait in a real long line to get in. Once we got to the front we had to shell out 22 bucks to get in, which is pretty pricey if you ask me but whatever, I get to see some rad bands. Once we got inside, Grave Maker set up pretty quickly. Their set was hog wild. Dudes were mashin' hard and the guys had alot of energy on stage which was alot of fun to watch. That band is quickly becoming one of the bigger sets in hardcore. I figure I should put this in now, but Grave Maker got in a pretty hefty van accident on their way to one of the stops after their Kelowna show and probably won't be on the rest of the tour, and if they do make it back to play some of the later shows then they are some tough mofo's. If you want more info on it I'm sure you can read about it on their myspace (http://www.myspace.com/gravemaker). Hope all the guys can make a speedy recovery!
Back to the show. After Grave Maker played Outbreak set up, I was super jacked on seeing them as they are one of my more liked bands and they definetly delivered a fun set. Lots of kids singing along and having fun. Although they didn't have their regular guitarist and the guy filling in didn't rep the solos as hard which was kind of a bummer. Shai Hulud played 3rd and alot of the Vancouver kids weren't into it which is kind of odd to me. Hulud has been around for a long time and lots of bands that came up after them were influenced alot by them and I don't think Hulud gets the credit they deserve. Granted, their latest album was kinda meh...but their old shit with Chad and Geert on the mic is minters. That shit is some of the stuff that got me into hardcore back when I was in grade 8 and it is definetly still a good jam. If you disagree, stop reading now.
The 4th band to play was Bane and they were the band that I was most jacked on seeing, no doubt about it. I've been listening to Bane for a long ass time (back before I even knew what hardcore was and I just considered them an ill punk band) but I had never gotten a chance to see them before. So I was super jacked on that. They played the craziest set of the night by far. Kids were going off, singing along and stage diving everywhere. They closed their set out by playing "Can we start again" and right at the beginning of the song I was up on stage attempting to get the mic, but I got mobbed by tons of kids in the process and fell off the stage with everyone ontop of me while I was still holding the mic. The mic chord got wrapped around my legs and I was on the ground with a bunch of kids on me and more kids stage diving on top of them which was pretty scary. Eventually everyone got off of me and some people were trying to help me up but I couldn't even stand cause the mic chord was still around my ankles and people were pulling on it trying to find where the mic went. It was pretty sketchy laying on the ground trying to get a mic chord unwrapped from my ankles while kids were stage diving and moshing all around me but I finally got that shit off me and continued to enjoy the last bit of the song. After Bane finished me and Lennea decided to head back home. I kinda wanted to stay for Comeback Kid cause I do enjoy Turn it Around and I'm sure they would have played a bunch of songs from that album but I didn't wanna wait through Misery Signals, so we just packed it in.

Saturday night I was supposed to go see Horizons and Ill Intent play but I totally pulled a weak ass move and stayed home to watch the Red Sox game. I thought it would be done by the time Horizons/Ill Intent played but it ended up going into extra innings and being hella long, and I couldn't just walk away and turn my back on my team! So if any of the Horizons dudes are reading this....which I highly doubt, I am sorry for not making it out. The Red Sox ended up losing by the way, total bummer.

In other news, I have been studying pretty hard lately since I have midterms next week. Hopefully I can manage to do fairly well on them. Also, my birthday is coming up in a couple weeks which I am psyched on since my family is coming down and me and Lennea are going with them to David Copperfield, its gonna be all magical n' shit. Wicked. Halloween is also coming up which is gonna be rad (I hope) so you people from Vernon should plan a trip to Van so we can all party together!

Anyways, that's all for now. October has been good so far and after my midterms it only gets better!

- Dan Slay the Rays!

ps. everyone should scope this band, im hyped on them latley. http://www.myspace.com/badfuckingmouth

Octobrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Ok so the shittiest thing just happened...I spent like the last hour of my life writing a blog and I accidentally clicked a link and it went to that page and erased everything I had written. I'm choked right now that I have to redo this, ARGH. Anyways, this will probably be quite a bit shorter than it was going to be originally but oh well.
So I haven't been doing much lately other than study tons and going to school. I had a math final today which was sketchy. I have to have at least a B- in the class to move onto the 2nd half of the class which should be easy but I SUCK at math so I'm sketchin. Lennea is super bummed on my always studyin too cause we never get to hang out anymore which bums me out also :( The study factor has also been hampering my gaming and comic book reading which is seriously weak. Hopefully things will slow down soon...which I know they won't cause midterms are comin up, ugh. I hate school, it's so shitty.
In other shitty news my bank account got hacked and some skid jacked nearly 1000 bucks from me and I had to go through a big ordeal with the bank to cancel my card and get my money back. Things are squared away now but it pisses me off that some fucker just got a grand from me and gets away with it. Some people are super shitty and I hope they die.
One thing I am hyped on is the fact that it is now October. It is by far my favorite month out of the year. It has evvvvvverything that is great. First of all, the weather is amazing and I can wear a T-shirt and short combo or a hoody and pants and be comfortable while wearing either, minters. The MLB playoffs have also just started which I love because I get to watch the Bo Sox do their thing. They are going to win it again easily this year (even though they are losing to the LA Angels right now) and if you dont think they are...bring it up with Ramsay and he'll fight you. The NHL season also starts in October and I'm psyched on that cause I have missed hockey over the summer, hopefully the Canucks can do good this season with all the changes they have made, I am planning on making it to a game or 2 this year so if anyone would wanna join let me know. October is also rad because it has my birthday on the 23rd, so feel free to send me some gifts. Halloween is at the end of the month which is the 2nd best holiday of the year (1st is obviously christmas) and im excited for that cause I want free candy and to party. Anyways, for those reasons, October is the best month of the year and if you don't agree take a long hard look at this picture.
In my original post which got deleted because I clicked the link above and went to the pic I had a big write up here about NHL 09 and MLB 08 The Show. It talked about how rad both games are, I discussed my characters I made in the Be A Pro modes, and I pretty much spent a bunch of time hyping both games but I really don't want to write it all out again cause it is not really important and super nerdy, but I will say that the main reason I wrote it was to hype it up so my friends would get the game and get PS3 online and play against me (Ramsay and Kyle) so yea, you 2 should get on that ASAP.

JASON BAY JUST HIT A HOMERUN!! 2-1 RED SOX!!

Anyways, I didn't have much to say this time because I haven't been doing much other than playing a bit of video games, studying tons, going to school and trying my best to spend time with Lennea that doesn't involve me doing school work in one room and her hanging out in another. So yea, hopefully shit will slow down soon and I can have some more free time to do stuff outside of the house. Also, I am planning on taking a trip to Vernon sometime soon, so Cam and Ramsay get ready to hang! Thats about it for now and thanks for reading even though this blog wasn't the most exciting.

GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX! GO SOX!

- Dan