Roller Derby Date

This past weekend I made the short drive to Saraland to experience my first Roller Derby match. Even better, I had a date to share it with. I'll say this about the sport. It's not the easiest thing to pick up as a first time spectator. It took me a good half hour and to figure out the scoring system. It's also not quite as exciting as tv and movies have made it out to be. The pace for the majority of the skaters was on par with that of a snail. Over all, it was an entertaining experience but if I ever go again, there will be alcohol involved.

Congratulations to the Mississippi team for ripping the Mobile team to pieces. It was pretty ugly.

Month in Review: May 2011

As I sit in the dark, working through my worst hangover in years, I try to distract myself from the urge to yet again hover over the toilet. This sad fact I credit to my lack of resistance to peer pressure and a unpleasant new liquid enemy named 'Fireball'. These pleasantries aside, I have a couple stories from this last month that I would like to share.

My youngest brother graduated from High School. Being just over a decade since I graduated, it was the end of an era for the family. My parents had a lot to by happy about. Mainly because this was one of the final steps to finally having all the kids out of the house. To commemorated the moment, my dad insisted that we take a photo of the sons that matched one he took when I graduated. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of the old one, but I do have the new one. On a separate note, my Aunt showed up which was nice. She has recently decided to join the 21st century and get a smart phone and Jonathan (middle brother) and I spent half the graduation ceremony teaching her how to set up her email and play angry birds.

Use of one of my PTO days and Memorial day gave me a nice four day weekend. What was originally supposed to be a kayaking/camping trip in Missouri/Arkansas turned into an equally enjoyable three day trip to Lake Martin (Just north of Montgomery, AL). There's really nothing better than being in a stress free environment like a lake house with a perfect mix of old friends and open good humored strangers. It's also really nice when the scenery is like this...

I managed to get the two kayaks up to the lake for the weekend and even managed to go "fishing" a couple times. I put fishing in quotations b/c the fish were on to my game from the start and had nothing to do with me. I'm not positive, but I think I even heard a striped bass laugh at me. Anyway... here's a little video:

Last but certainly not least, my old office finally closed it's doors on the final day of the month. What may sound like a normal occurrence was anything but normal. Usually, a single person doesn't move everything out of the building and clean it IN A SINGLE DAY. That, however, was exactly the case. Of the fifteen hours I was at work, ten of them were spent moving boxes of files and the rest involved trips to a dumpster. Pictures of my o' so fun Tuesday below. The first is all the boxes moved and the second is of my old office after it's been emptied out. I actually miss that office a lot. You don't realize how great windows are until you no longer have them.