i just spent a week out in colorado, and i had a great time. i went white-water rafting and rock-climbing, but that wasn't even the best part. the bigness of the mountains out there reminded me just how lacking my midwest hometown really was of magnificent natural beauty. i was also on the trip with dale (the artist) and he inspired me so much by his likeness to a child in the sense that his attention was captured by the awe and wonder of everything going on around him. like it was the first time he had seen it, even though as well-traveled as a man he is, it obviously wasn't.

i remembered how small i was out there.

when i get some pictures back, i'll put them up, but it was a good time, good time with people and by myself. but yesterday i returned to the mundane, energized.

i am officially the smelly kid at work. over the memorial day weekend the sales team moved into our cool new showcase office on the first floor, in fact so cool, that i wasn't allowed to go. it's okay, now i can sneak in late and undetected. but i was tucked away before, when there were people around...now i'm tucked away with NOBODY around. i consider that my cube has been turned into an "office." an office of other cubes which i choose not to use, but since i am the only one out in the open...they are all mine.

supposedly i am going to move somewhere sometime but for now, i can play my music loud and come and go with none being the wiser. at least i have my red stapler.

a couple weeks ago my company had a free health screening, i had to give blood...which is gross, they make you squeeze your fist...for those that know me, this is ironic as it's the exact thing i have trouble with when i think about that red life fluid. so they took a test tube full of my insides and spun it in a centrofuge to see what's wrong with me. the results are not surprising.

they say i don't get enough sleep, they even go as far to say as i might have sleep apnea, but i just think that's the latest craze...i think i just stay up too late and get up too early. i mean i get distacted by shiny things and somedays can't concentrate very well, i don't think i have ADD, i think i can multi-task.

so blood is made up of a lot of stuff, and they listed much of it out for me, with numbers next to them, then another column with the range to see if i'm "normal." surprisingly i am pretty normal. i have a little high blood pressure, they call it prehypertension, potentially caused by stress. again, maybe the latest buzzword in the medical industry. but this is for certain...my colon is fine, and that makes me happy, cause i know where that is.

it's been a season of music lately, i saw my friend's band vessel at subterranean on monday. i'm just glad to be able to say they're my friends, because they really play good and interesting music. i mean, yeah, i'd still support them if they sucked, i mean, lord knows my friends did. but it's real nice to say that i enjoy their stuff. big fan.

next time you should go.

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today the new star wars movie comes out, too bad i won't be able to go see it. but i will soon, i hope it's great. it's explosion will be large.

i forgot to post about this last week, but i went to go see bruce springsteen at the rosemont theater and it was one of the most incredible shows i had ever seen. second (in my book) only to the smashing pumpkins farewell concert.

i always thought of springsteen as torn jeans, bandana, singing "born in the usa", which is fine...for my dad, but this was my first concert of his, and i must say not only how impressive he is as a songwriter, but as a performer. the whole show was just him, no one else, incredible. he did this one song by just stomping his foot, playing his harmonica, and singing through a distorted microphone, the sound was amazing. anyway, i just would say that if you ever have a chance to see him in concert, especially in a solo acoustic performance (which is rare) do it, see it, go get tickets the day of, even if it's sold out, i think it'll be worth it.