Sometimes I Suck at This

Well, I had all these plans to put out this huge post about my fun trip to Burlington, VT, since it was the only variety occurring in my life after a dry spell of routine-induced monotony. As so much time has past it almost seems sorta dumb at this point. It's just not news anymore. Anyway, I'll summarize real quick just in case your interested... The following things were awesome:

- Got to see a lot of Lara and Corey
- Got to see a UVM hockey game
- Went to the Magic Hat Brewery and tried two brand new previously untasted-by-the-public beers (for free!)
- Got to experience the quaint but fun Burlington nightlife
- Got to eat lots of delicious food (Burlingteers take their munchies very seriously)

It was cool to just walk around and check out the city, which isn't very built up, but still seems to have a good amount of stuff going on. Lots of parts of Burlington reminded me of JP, architecturally speaking as well as vibe-wise, although people were definitely nicer up there. I haven't had so many passing by strangers say "hello" and "good morning" to me in my life.

So, as I mentioned before, my computer was down for the count for a bit as I found out that not only did my power supply sizzle, but my motherboard fried in the process. After ordering each new piece one at a time, and having dad graciously put all the labor down, I am hooked back in to the internets.

The job hunt continues... nothing to report yet in that department... grr

I'm throwing a big birthday party for myself next Saturday which, if you're reading this, you've probably heard me mention. I want it to be damn good, so I'm putting lotsa effort into it. By some stroke of insanity (or loyal friendship), Matt has decided to spend a bunch of money to fly over from England so he can attend. He's bringing the girlie, Naomi, so I get to show them around the city a bit which I always enjoy doing. My friend, Steph, who I met in Spain has also amazingly decided to fly up from North Carolina to partake in the festivities. I feel pretty grateful to have friends willing to travel so far at expense to come see me. Hopefully the weather holds up and am able to show everyone a great time.

In other news, I'm completely re-addicted to downloading music. Tim sent me a coveted Invite to Oink, a private torrent tracking website that specializes in high quality music files, comics, and computer applications. It has these strict-as-hell standards about maintaining a high share ratio, so you gotta upload a lot to download a lot, which is stressful to say the least, because if you lag behind you get your account shut down. This is incredible to me since Soulseek (the greatest music downloading program ever) started crashing my computer for no known reason months back. So far I've been able to find a ridiculous amount of rare and hard-to-find stuff. Hog heaven. mmm.

Uhhh. I guess that's it.