For those who know what I’m talking about:
Grimm approved my petition, and I will have all my needed classes. Only I cant get my original times I wanted. I have to take a friday night lab for 4 hours, now. Its not that bad cause I’d be driving to Eastpointe fridays anyway.
Still havent received my test results yet, but now if I failed it I can still register my classes for this semester.
Well, not exactly. I have labor day weekend, before I return to Wayne, but Lauren started today. We took a mini vacation over the weekend. Its not easy planning a big vacation when you both work 40+ hours. We took a trip to Frankenmuth. Well first we went to Saginaw. The hotel was awesome. We got a poolside suite for $80. Not much in Saginaw so we took advantage of the exercise room, pool, atrium, whirlpool and HBO.
The next day we drove to Frankenmuth. I was probably 12 the last time I was there. We visited all the shops and bought plenty of things. There was a shop with all these old photo prints from Michigan. I bought an 11 x 14 print of Old Main from what looks to be the 50’s.
Next we went to the Cheese Haus and tried a bunch of cheeses. We brought home a few spreads: Strawberry Cheese, Cheddar w/horseraddish and Swiss Almond. The Chocolate Cheese was disgusting. Once we hit the north-most point, we stopped into the St. Julian Winery for lots of free tasting. Lauren bought a chardonay and a merlot and I bought a peach spumante. We headed back south on the other side of the road, stopped at the Kandy Shop and Country Haus. For dinner, we ate at the Frankenmuth Brewery. Had an amazing Wheat Ale. Potato Pancakes, Mac and (Bavarian) Cheese… all delicious.
I think this will be a yearly trip. Im thinking of returning for Oktoberfest this year.
When I got home last night, I asked mom how Jamie and Dad were. They left Wednesday to visit my aunt, uncle and cousins in Florida. Before the storm hit (for the midwesters who dont pay any attention: Hurricane Katrina), Becky took Jamie to the beach in the morning, then they boarded up the houses and prepared for the storm. Most stores were already closed down, so it took a while to get all the necessary supplies. They lost power in the evening, so no AC or fans in a boarded-up house. They should be able to leave on Sunday as planned.
Here’s some behind-the-scenes footage to new new Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It goes behind the set for the underwater scene. The source is in Spanish, but you’re smart folks. If not, have Google translate it.
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With Neil being on his 2005 tour, Gorilla Mask has decided to share one of the greatest SNL skits of all time — Will Farrell as Neil Diamond.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Yeah, well, we were driving down this dark road, and I hit a kid. So, we got out, and sure enough he was dead. So, we just took off. Pretty fast. And two hours later, I wrote “Sweet Caroline”.
Sweet Caroline.
Good times never seemed so good.Thank you.
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Time to clock out.
Its Wednesday, so all you dodgeball users out there prepare for a few check-ins from me. Right now I’m leaving work for the Beanery, then off to Royal Oak with the usual gang.
Every once in a while my site gets a massive amount of traffic, when I post about some humiliating story about a celebrity. A few weeks ago, that post was Fergie of the Black-Eyed Peas and her ‘sweat spot.’ About a year ago, I owed all my traffic to Ashlee Simpson and her lip-synching saga on SNL. I must have got a thousand unique visits over a week on that story. With Ashlee wanting to return to SNL, I may once again have that chance.
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From DownloadSquad:
Wordpress developer Matt Mullenweg has announced plans to start a hosted Wordpress service via Wordpress.com. This will effectively position them against Typepad, although Brad Hill notes they’ll also need to distinguish themselves from the growing number of web hosts offering Wordpress as a one-click install (Dreamhost, Bluehost, etc.).
I wouldn’t mind some of my LiveJournal friends switching over to Wordpress. This could be their oppritunity.
Wordpress is the software used on ParallelJohnny.com and No-Good-Reason.net to publish, organize and manage blog entries.
I can’t believe what I’m reading. This past weekend a rave sounding something similar to Detroit’s own Fuse-In was stopped by the Utah National Guard…
Read the rest on No Good Reason
Name six songs that you are currently digging … it doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they’re any good but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and then list the six artists and the songs. Then tag six other people to see what they’re listening to.
Now I tag:
Brian
Cam
Lindsay (WR)
Ken P.
Erin (blah blah, matty nay, blah blah graham colton…hahaha, sorry)
I didn’t check if you’ve been tagged before or not, but who cares.
Things I Want
