After a good string of posts, I seemed to have reverted to my old habit of the rare update. Summerfest came and went. We missed Petty, Phantom Planet was pretty cool (besides possibly being the only ones in the crowd old enough to drink legally), and I wish we could've caught more of Rusted Root. Spent a beautiful day by Lake Michigan and introduced another friend to the Safehouse, an activity that is inherently part of every Milwaukee visit. The food sucked but it's still one of the coolest restaurants ever. Overall, it was a good 4th of July weekend.
This past weekend, I spent the evening on a boat on Lake Minnetonka with a group of friends and an open bar. My friend's parents threw him a graduation/birthday party by renting out this boat for 4 hours and allowing a group of recent college grads to go nuts. And we did. The weather was beautiful, the beer was cold, and the Zeppelin was blaring. The night proceeded with a stop at Maynard's and a limo ride back to Uptown. The rest of the details are mucky.
Right now I'm without a cell phone. Coincidentally, it broke the night that I just described. It really wasn't a surprise that it broke given that the hinge of this flip phone was loosely hanging by a thread for the past month. If you own a Samsung Verizon camera phone with a swivel head that rotates 180-degrees and is connected by a small neck-like piece, I hope you have insurance on it. These "customer service" reps at Verizon don't have much sympathy for broken phones so because I'm "not eligible" for the promo prices yet I either have to pay the full retail price on a new phone (about $180 for the bare bones model) or find a used one somewhere. Next time I'M getting the insurance!
Besides music festivals and the 4th, July is great for another thing: the start of NFL training camp. This is the time when football fans start to get that itch for football season and have an unquenchable thirst for any news related to their favorite team. It's a time filled with arm-chair quarterback analysis and hypothesis. Who is going to emerge and be make a needed impact on a weak defense? What rookie is going to make plays? Can the offensive line gel with the holes it has filled? These are all questions I ask about the Pack these days. It's definitely going to be an interesting year and my anticipation for opening day mounts daily. Along with all of this speculation and excitement for the regular season comes the buzz and research of prepping for fantasy football drafts. Last year I was in two leagues, this year it might be three. No wonder women think men are ridiculous when it coms to this stuff.
Time to wrap up. I'm checking out a premiere of Wedding Crashers tonight. Hope it's as funny as it has the potential to be.
CURRENT LISTENING: Black Eyed Peas feat. Q-Tip, Mos Def, and John Legend - Feel It
LAST MOVIE SEEN: Spanglish
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2 comments:
You lost your cell phone? oh, couldn't tell, you still blow ass at returning msgs.
sorry for using a 'big word' that I really dont know the meaning of. 'Ubiquitous' was incorrectly used in my opening paragraph. I apologize.
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