Things one must see

Received an email from the Pabst Theatre that George Carlin was going to be in town April 1st. Presale sale for tixs was supposed to be on Feb 29th. I know there is not a 29th this month for two reasons. Reason 1: several printed calendars that I have here in the apt do not have a 29th on them. Reason 2: it's not a leap year. Leap years happen on even years and since it's 2005, it won't happen. College helped me learn this one. hehe

Since the email I searched Ticketmaster for possible locations near Milwaukee to see one of the greatest comedians we have out there. He's playing in Appleton in March and Davenport, IA in April. If anyone else is willing to do the trips, let me know. Since both cities have the shows on a Friday it would be cool to hang out in either city for the weekend. If interested in hanging for the weekend, let me know.

Other fun notes: Peter Gray is moving down here very soon so that the gang will be altogether again. It's awesome. We got a few of us together Wednesday night at Bucas. Interesting place to have a tomato-based allergic person and Jewish person to have dinner. After a bit of trying to figure out what to eat, thanks to Waiken, we filled up pretty quickly and of course John had a cheese pizza. :) Some of us hit Champions after and ran into Foy there. It was good to see him again. Haven't seen him in ages.

Jen had a great time at Planet this last Friday. It was so good she doesn't remember the end of the night at the club, the ride home or anything she said after the third blue planet. So of course I teased her about it yesterday (Saturday) every chance I got. Next time you see her tell her she needs another Blue Planet. I'd like to give a salute to Brian the bartender. Love ya for making great strong drinks. ;)
A few of her friends got together for a B-day dinner at Tenuta's in Bayview. Only a few complaints about the night but the food was pretty great. It's a good place to take a date. It's a lot like Palmero Villa. The bar and few tables like when you walk into the place. Tenuta's is a lot like that but a bit bigger.

Saturday was also a morning of helping Mesa move from one place to another. It went pretty quickly which is always good. Al had plenty of help there. Two trips was all it took. Glad the heavy stuff was done before I got there. hehe Not a bad new place either. I kinda like the covered porch. Kool hardwood floors everywhere in the place.

Don't forget tonight the Oscars are on ABC @ 7pm. Tune in to see who will win the Best Picture from the Academy. I think having to choose which person gets Best Actor in a leading role is hard. Johnny Depp since he has played so many great characters and it seems he turning out to be the next Sean Penn in the Awards arena. Don Cheadle has also done great roles in several films and TV series/movies. I haven't seen all the movies that are nominated which I hope to change once the darn winter is over.

Have a good week and if it's not, have a few drinks for lunch. :D

New post but not much on what has been happening

I don't have the calendar here with all the goodies that I've been up to but I'll post something to keep you on the edge of your seat. hehe

I've had back issues for awhile so I called a friend of mine since she mentioned she went to one. Find out it's her neighbor. Not only is HE her neighbor but he's HOT! Down side, he's married and she's super nice. Ok I'm bummed; however, his hands are on me for the 30 to 60 minutes. Ok that's low but hey it's been a lonely several months. Anyway, after an "adjustment" I don't have major back pain. Just a bruise type of ache. Not a great feeling but it's 40 times better than two weeks ago.

Weekend plan? Friday night is Planet since my friend Jen's b-day is Thursday and she wants to get ripped Fri night. So I'll be working a little bit that night. Should make Sat morning a treat, which leads me to the next adventure - helping Mesa move a few blocks. I'm hoping for afternoon nap after that otherwise I better be "busy";)

So after a long hiatus of no question, here's one for you.
Question: Have you posted on any of those dating sites and met a person?

The news so far

Trip to the Field Museum. Not bad at all. Drive down wasn't so bad. Not sure what time we left here but got there around noon. I was a bit hungry so we hit the little bakery they have on the premises. Jen's folks were pretty cool to hang with but then again they pretty much always have been.

Jen and I couldn't figure out what we were going to check out and what special exhibits everybody wanted to see. Well it was girls against the guy/dad in this case. So before we did this times event we checked out the rest of the museum for free. :D

The three of us checked out Machu Picchu around 2pm. They didn't have much about or artifacts from. They are still learning about the site since it's discover. It's been about 30 years since it was discovered. Still like to make the climb to check it out. It's a ton larger than it looks in pics, models, and descriptions. Hell I'd camp there for weeks just to check out some of those buildings. Just the different tier levels almost all around the different buildings is interesting. They are still not sure what animals were there for food, tier fertilization and working around the places. Lots of Llama hang time that is for sure. Still shocks me that they would spend their "summers" up there. That is about miles of hiking just to spend about 4 months or so up there. Interesting.

After that Jen's mom and I hit the Jackie O exhibit. She was a bit interested in it, I wanted to see some of the dresses and French speeches she had, and Jen was just so happy to check out their main gift shop. Still wish there was some photography allowed in some of the exhibits since there are not many pics available in the shops or net. Ah well.

There were some exhibits that I didn't get to see due to time restrictions. More than willing to go down again and check the diamond and other exhibits as well as the Shedd Aquarium. Planetarium would be pretty awesome as well. I think I'll leave that for a time when they really need me at work. :D

Will post more maybe tomorrow night after Lost. Sleep well all and travel safely those that are moving about the States.

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Adventures so far

Friday night was fun. Didn't dance too much due to the knees but just relaxed and had a good time. Probably won't be there for another 2 or 3 weeks unless someone calls and feels like going.

Did the Food and Froth thing at the museum. Still love hitting the museum at night for any event. Well there were a ton of people there and just couldn't wait to tap into the beer. I couldn't believe the number of people that were there. I didn't expect the event to have so many. Recommend it highly to those that love beer and willing to try new brands and flavors.

I was hungry and eager to check out the food tables strewn around the museum. I thought there would be more food places represented but alias there was not. For those that do not like beer, me, there are the non-alcholoic choices - Root Beer! Mighty tasty ones too. Stone Creek had a nice one. One place had one that looked like beer. That was pretty cool in my book. I will have to try to attend next year if I'm in town.

Music was played by a varitey of groups within the museum. Sigmund was playing in one corner of the place. He's still a bit off but hey crazy people can be fun. He was tossing bags of chips into the crowd then sample packages of beef sticks from Klements. He was actually funny and not like a complete vulgar pig (unlike his stints at Summerfest).

The only part I didn't like was the first floor. People seemed to think that the museum was a bar. I know it was for the 3 hrs the event was going on but I guess some common sense should have been applied. For example get the hell out of the walking areas. Plenty of room for folks to move about and not interrupt ones conversations if you just move in closer to the exhibits. I don't think it's too much to ask. I was passing someone and I didn't say excuse me, nor do I believe I should have, of course she said excuse me in a snottiy tone. I just said "move close to the exhibit so I can get thru." I didn't even look at her so I don't know if she even heard me. Tough beans!

Before leaving for such a fun event, I noticed the S.A.G. awards were on. Found it a big odd that the big channels were not showing the awards and doing a big deal about what folks were wearing. Nothing too exciting happened before I left. When I returned home it was still ona nd they were still passing out awards. Of course I continued to watch. Best awards given in my opinion, Tony Shaloub for comedy actor and Jerry Orbach for an actor in a Drama series (I think). Either way, two fine actors won an award from their peers and truely deserve it.

I'm also tired of the Desperate Housewives noise. I think it's mostly publicity to get more viewers to MAKE the show popular. Also can we drop having Sex and the City actors at award shows. Their time is over and repeats shouldn't be looked at for possible awards now.

Speaking of shows.....Have you been watching: Medium on Monday nights, Lost on Wednesday nights Point Pleasant on Thursday nights and Johnny Zero on Friday nights?

Weekend events

Friday night - Mad Planet

Saturday day - Studio 890 Elm Grove
Saturday night - Food and Froth

Sunday afternoon and early evening - John McCarville's for McBowl.

Join if you can in the merriment!

Great Nephew accomplishments

Found out Sunday that my cute little 7 year old nephew won first place in the box car derby. He's in the group before guys join Cub Scouts. I call it weebles but I'm sure there is another name for the group. Anywho, :P to those that don't like my slang, he did really well in the tournament that was held Saturday.

He also looked completely adorable in his weeble shirt. Freaky parts - brother has his assistant cub master shirt on. Last time I saw him in a boy scout shirt w/ all sorts of patches was eons ago. (BTW, eons is a real word so there!) That was a very weird freaky deja view sight. Also to see my cute little nephew in a cub scout style-like shirt. He looks a little like my brother but is more adorable of course, so seeing him in a shirt like that was a bit odd on the eyes.

Jake, my nephew, was so proud of his win that he wanted to tell everyone personally. He didn't want his sister, my niece, to tell anyone before he did.

Well I just wanted to report some good news. Have a fun day with someone else's kids today. :)