What it is.

Hey yall. Sorry my voice on this blog has been muted for quite some time. Life's been crazy busy for this ole bo'. Let me start by quickly rewinding to August. It was a busy, difficult time for me.

Earlier in the summer, I scheduled a trip home to MN to visit family and friends (also help facilitate my 5 year class reunion... oooold man winter here...) Due to this vacation, my bosses needed me to work more than the usualy 45-50 hours I put in... So that was stressful. On top of that, I had to say good bye to our good friend Sarah, which has been quite a challenge for me to deal with / overcome to say the least. During the middle of this already crazy month, Tom Salina invited me to move into a house he was looking to lease... this added another thing to my platter. Our future / potential landlord was overwhelmingly controlling, intense and possibly an outright liar, so this made for a very stressful decision for me to move into the house (HOWEVER, the house is effing badass... covered front porch w/ rocking chairs, hot tub, three car garage converted into a music grotto)

Anyway, that was the end of August for me... MINNESOTA was amazing. It was my first time back to my roots for the whole year, and it was good to be back (fair chance I may end up there). The highlight of my trip was seeing Cloud Cult perform twice (once at the MN State fair opening for gnarls barkley, the other time at 3am at Minnesota Orchestra Hall for a free performance, it was as epic as it sounds).

Class reunion was pretty good. Had a turnout of about 30-40 people of about 300 in my class... it is what it is.

Lately, the presidential election has dominated the majority of my thoughts... I am very concerned at how far McCain's sharade of having such shallow judgment in choosing his running mate.

I have smelled the roses and no longer have a blank-check infatuation with Obama... But I am still volunteering on his behalf because I honestly think he is what our country needs.

Recently I attended a meeting in Salem dedicated to opening a dialogue about the future of the city, and bringing together people who are interested and invested in making the city a better place. At this meeting, I connected with Ross Swartzendrubber, the man who organized last year's Mix-N-Mash festival where some of us were able to catch Plants (and Fun-House Strippers etc.) It was a damn good time.

It is looking like a really good time, happening this weekend. I know this is abrupt but I totally just ran out of steam. The text is changing colors before my eyes like a rainbow. These eyes want to take a break and close for a while. I will finish this latero. -bo