Good afternoon my friends!  Happy weekend to everyone!  :)  

So what's hoppin and boppin today? Well one of the teachers at my Mom's schookl is getting married today.  I thought the wedding was this afternoon and planned my day accordingly.  Well it so happens that the wedding is tonight and I hadn't planned for that.  So I am not sure if I will be going.  I haven't made up my mind yet.  I don't have to and I really want to watch the NASCAR All-Star Race.  Plus I have to keep track of as I am the comissioner of the family's NASCAR pool.  

I am a very brave guy.  I don't usually grow cajones but I suddenly grew them yesterday.  Politically I am conservative but I am Libertarian on Social issues despite being a Christian.  Well of course the SoCons have their panties in a wad over the ruling on Gay Marriage in California on Thursday.  Well yesterday I had the gail to post a dissenting opinion on the matter over at Mike Huckabee's blog.  Suddenly I am a heratic and I have no morals.  Ouch that hurts.  Cuts right through me like a knife.  But you knew the job was dangerous when you took it Fred (Super Chicken referance for those wondering).  At least I grew some balls and stood up for what I believe in.  

It's about one week before I am the King of the Castle.  Yeah I am a guy.  While my folks are gone I'll probably order Pizza a few times but I also want to cook some.  Is bacon hard to cook?  Will I catch the house on fire if I try?  I know already that I shouldn't fry it naked...or without a shirt on.  I just don't want to be eating Peanut Butter Sandwiches and pizza for two weeks.  I need some swankiness while I am King ya dig?       

All my other wonderful LJ friends have already done this...so I thought I might as well fill this one out...or face being a complete loser!  

I give you money and send you into the grocery store to pick up 6 items. You can only pick one thing from the following departments.. What is it?

1. Produce: Pears

2. Bakery: Cookies

3. Meat: Catfish fillets

4. Frozen: Ice Cream 

5. Dry Goods: Crunchy Peanut Butter.

6. Dairy: 2% milk 


Let's say we're heading out for a weekend getaway. You're only allowed to bring 3 articles of clothing with you (not counting undergarments). So, what's in your bag?

1. Jeans.
2. A Mickey Mouse T-shirt
3. Shoes.


If I was to listen in on one of your conversations throughout the day, what 4 phrases or words would I be most likely to hear?
I'm not that set in my habits and it's hard to pin down things that are reliable.
1.  "Same Stuff Different Day" 
2. "Are you coming over to walk with me Uncle Mayo?"
3. "What's for dinner?"
4, "Sweet!"



So, what 4 things do you find yourself doing every single day, and if you didn't get to do, you probably wouldn't be in the best mood (Aside from eating and sleeping)?

1. Exercising
2. Computering.
3. Drinking coffee
4. Chatting with a friend on the phone



You're driving down the road, and suddenly you're hit with this sense of road rage. What 3 factors probably contributed to it?

Sorry...I don't drive.  I'm legally blind and I wouldn't last one minute alive behind the wheel.


Sweet, you just scored a whole afternoon to yourself. We're talking a 3 hour block with nobody around. What 5 activities might we find you doing?

1. Doing stuff on the computer 
2. Jamming out with my favorite tunes 
3. Watching cartoons
4. doinjg my laundry 
5. listening to the radio while taking a cat nap


We're going to the zoo. But, it looks like it could start storming, so it'll have to be a quick visit. What 3 exhibits do we have to get to?


1. Zebras
2. Cat House 
3. Bears


You just scored tickets to the taping of any show that comes on TV of your choice. You can pick between 4, so what are you deciding between?

1. The Late Late Show 
2. The Daily Show 
3. Jeopardy
4. One of those DooWop specials on PBS


You're hungry for ice cream. I'll give you a triple dipper ice cream cone. What 3 flavors can I pile on for ya?

1. Mint-chocolate chip 
2. Cookie Dough
3. Peanut Butter Passion



Somebody stole your purse/wallet…in order to get it back, you have to name 5 things you know are inside to claim it. So, what's in there?

1. Photo ID 
2. Credit Card 
3. Various gift cards
4.  $50
5. My Team Huckabee '08 membership card (I'll always keep it in my wallet as a badge of honor!)



You are at a job fair, and asked in what areas you are interested in pursuing a career. Let's pretend you have every talent and ability to be whatever you wanted and it was all lucrative enough to live happily and comfortably on. What 4 careers would be fun for you?



1.  Radio DJ
2. The next Jack Wagner (Ya know the voice of Disneyland all those years) 
3. Music Preservationist
4. Fundraiser for Charities



If you could go back and talk to the old you, when you were in high school, and inform yourself of 5 things, what would you say?

1. You idiot...be more aggressive with the gals.  Don't assume they are already taken. 
2. Hey man try Political Science
3. Tread very lightly with these DooWop friends.  Once your musical tastes expand past their comfort zone they'll drop you like yesterdays garbage.
4. Hey man I know how you feel now about cell phones but go ahead and get one.  It'll help you out in a pinch and give you an extra sense of comofrt in some upcoming situations 
5. Be careful with the State.  You're better off doing College with loans like everyone else.  The red tape and hoops you will have to jump through to do anything with them will be a nightmare you don't want to relive.

Good morning!  

Long time no see, huh?  Well here's what's been going on:

The Sock Hop was nothing short of a complete success!  It was not wityhout its very interesting moment.  so the nice person coming to help me out he forgets to tell me he was bringing a laptop.  and he also did not tell me he wasn't going to bring much music with him...so I burn some CD's.  Well he sets up and we discover that his CD player is malfunctioning.  Ack!  But he pulls out his Laptop.  It's thirty minutes until showtime and I make a suggestion.  We go screaming out of the place and to my house to pick up my external hard drive.  We end up at the Fellowship Hall about 15 minutes late...but we explained why we were leaving.  So we plug in and go...but the stupid laptop doesn't read the hard drive.  Well luckily for us everything I needed was on those CD's and we bought ourselves enough time where I didn't run out of music before the end of the night.  Phew!  I was a little worse for wear for a little while...especially as I was coming down with a sinus infection.  Perserverence won the day!  While not the biggest fundraiser for the Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett, we ended up pulling in about $500 after cost which is much more than usual!  How awesome is that?  

So I am just getting over my sinus infection about a few days ago and I am cleaning and I think a higher power had me find a few certain items.  I found CD-R's of about 100 or so old airchecks from my days back with the DooWop radio station.  So what did I do?  Well my instincts told me to listen.  

Backstory - For five years I was an Internet DJ with a station called the DooWop Café.  I was their youngest active club member and DJ.  I was a very popular because of my age and because of the hard work I put towards my overall presentation on the air there.  Eventually time and age brought things to an end.  The founder of the club was diagnosed with Cancer and became incapacitated (she ended up passing away a few months afterwards).  She was nice and was lax with rules as to what we could and couldn't play.  Enter in the owner of the radio server who wanted to be much more strict  In the five years my musical tastes had expanded past the comfort zone of some of these people and I was verbally beaten to a pulp for trying to make a musical argument on the air that DooWop and 50's music had influenced music that came afterwards.  I was made an example of in front of the staff and it caused a revolt of sorts.  The situation got out of hand quickly (I couldn't control it the repercussions) and following a very heated phone call with the husband of the founder I said "Screw It" and left because all this rigamorall wasn't worth it.  Therefore things came to a sudden and bitter end. 

Two years later I find these airchecks and pictures (the picture you see above is me speaking to them at one of our annaul meetings in 2005...sadly our last since after the founder past away things haven't been the same there) from my five years and nostalgia set in.  After much thought I decided to come out of hiding.  I had no idea if they even wanted to see my face around there anymore.   I am becoming used to taking leaps of faith and after hours of bantering whether I should step my foot inside that place again I did.  Based on what I can see I was missed terribly by several people.  I was welcomed back with open arms based on my initial indications.  You do not realize how good this makes my heart feel after the ordeal that took place.  Will I DJ for them again?  I don't know.  I am not going to push it.  I will participate and listen for a while before even going in that direction.