This will be my last post from the Steppes Courts residence in Falls Church. The next time I post I'll be in the new pad with the missus. Ooooooh. Big life step. ;-)
Tre excited.

Sigh. I laughed so hard at today's blog postings. Good times.
Sadly, I had to go look up who Kevin Nealon is since I had him confused with Kevin Nolan. Therefore one can understand why I thought Adam was spouting gibberish.

But, damn. we should start some more wars via the blogs, that shit was funn-nny. Kim- for some reason I don't have your phone number(s) so if you (or anyone else) wants to post 'em on their blog please do that. Or maybe IM me. You'll prolly want to do that instead. Regardless we could certainly use your help this weekend.

Time for rehearsal - just three more days and my responsibilities to this production are over.

Don't hate the player, hate the game

Rock!
Everyone is moving. Sam has moved. I am starting the moving process tomorrow. Of course, it might not take 4 days to move, but you never know. We only have about 2/3s of the day to move since we have to stop at 4pm or so to get ready for the play. We've got crazy company coming in the for weekend. Dawn's mom is coming down from Philly to help w/ the move, as well as two of Dawn's friends from NYC. So what does that say about you, Sam? Adam? Nah. I'm just play'n. Mad props to y'all.

Speaking of mad props, Adam has resurfaced on his blog only to write incomprehensible gibberish about me. But at least we know he is alive.

I got Gillian Welch's 'soul journey' on the stereo......YO.

Ahhhhh...sweet relief.
Friday the play (Godspell) opened and I felt the cast had an excellent opening night. Which they then bested on Saturday, even if there were a few gaffs here and there.

Friday night after the show everyone went across the street to Generous Georges for celebratory pizza. Even though that ended around midnight I still wasn't allowed to go to bed. I packed a quick over-night bag for the missus then threw all the old-n-busted junk in my car for the next morning's YARD SALE.

At 6 am the alarm went off and the missus and I loaded up her car, then drove over to my Mum's to retrieve more stuff as well as the missus's dryer (all this was over there because mom had a yard sale a few months back and we just left the stuff). From mom's we drove to the parking lot at work we the company yard sale was. We set up and prepared for the rush.

And what a rush it was!!! We moved a ton of stuff - clothes, books, movies, tv stands, bookcases. The one thing we didn't move was the missus' dryer. So it was left at the Salvation Army where it will find a good home (prolly in a river).

So after the yard sale we spent the afternoon trying to locate some more props for the play; specifically - glow sticks. After scouring Northern Virginia we had 67 glow sticks - enough glow sticks for each actor, for every night of performance.

Then there was performance no. 2, where the audience reacted better to the cast and the jokes. Then to cast party, of which we stayed until 2 am chatting with the cast and the most excellent music director. Then home. Then sleeping until noon – a luxury I have not be able to afford for some time.

Switching gears to COUNTDOWN TO NEW HOUSE:
T minus 5.41 days until we move into new apartment!

Oh, lordy. What a crazy crazy week. Rehearsals are lasting longer and longer as we try to put the finishing touches on things. The end is so close I can almost taste it. It must be the only thing keeping me going cuz after this week you'd think i'd be zombie-fied.
One more rehearsal and then opening night.
Huzzah. Cheers around.

One year anniversary evening was very nice. Sunday's concert was good as well. Tuesday was a crap day. Today was much better.
I will make sense again on Monday. right now just isnt' the time. It's time for bed.

This website was forwarded to me by the missus: FOUND Magazine

A quick blog of note before I scamper off to rehearsal (again):
Today makes 365 days that the missus and I have been dating. One whole year!

Yowzer, what a storm last night. I had to give up on watching Adult Swim because the storm started interfering with the DirecTV signal so I came upstairs to chat over IM. I typed one line to someone and bam! the power went out. So I watched the storm from my bedroom window while the power flicked on and off, but eventually the storm won that battle. So I had nothing to do but go to sleep.

I've been fortunate enough to have some interesting websites/articles forwarded to me. Here be the 1st, courtesy of the Billions Corporation.

The Hijacked US Goverment

Time for an eggs & bacon breakfest

Wow, it's been a while since the last update. And still I don't have much to say. I've been at rehearsal every night this evening and have been crashing to meet a deadline at work so that is what has kept me away. Wed night was a treat however - we got to rehearse in the space where the performance will be. Until then we've been rehearsing at this church. While the church was generous enough to let us rehearse there, it is by no means a worthy substitute. It's either damp and humid or hot and humid (no happy medium), it's too small, swallows sound, lacks parking and has very uncomfortable seats. The seats at our performance space are much comfortable. A good, comfortable seat is very important since, as a stage manager, I do a lot of sitting.

In other news, Adam has finally paid down his credit card balence. Congrats!

I got my new sneakers (or kicks, as today's youth like to call 'em) in the mail on Monday. They are suede, which I'm told you are not to get wet. Well, that lastedd all of three days. Tonight it was raining to beat the band and I walked the missus to her car w/ the umbrella so she not get wet, then walked back to my car. By then, shoes = soaked. Whatever.

Listening to a lot of Mogwai lately. Currently playing "Happy Songs for Happy People"...

ah, Sunday evening. today was certainly the most low-key of all days. woke up early to discover that I've spent all the money my budget will allow, which translates into no cd player for jason's car. Which is a shame because I really wanted to help restart America's economy (and have a cd player in my car). So after that sad realization, I went over to the missus to help her clean her apartment. Once I got home I piddled around for a bit - some IM, some email, some gaming, finished watching the Outlaw Star DVD that was loaned to me.

I developed a wicked headache at some point in the afternoon. Watching Outlaw Star didn't get rid of it, neither did coffee. So I went to Wendy's and got me some dinner. That seemed to help it.

I watched Independence Day on the tele tonight. For certain reasons (lack of acting, direction, rational plot development) I don't like the movie. However I do like watching Jeff Goldblum interact w/ his fellow actors. If they made a buddy movie with him and a paper bag I bet I would still like it. Good man.

I've got Prefuse 73's "one word extinguisher" on the cd player...

A very fine Fourth of July was had by the missus and me. We hit the party at Raf's, where we ate hot dogs and drank beer and chatted it up with both strangers and friends for about 5 hours. Then we all headed down to the Iwa Jima memorial to watch the fireworks. Afterwards we returned to Raf's for more celebrating. Hightlights of the evening included Raf inviting his old man neighbor/landlord and his even older wife over to party with us. The landlord did come over for a beer and exclaimed, "Raf, how did you get so may hot girls to show up at your party?" Classic! Another highlight was my current roommate, Jenny, and I calling Sam (former roommate of Raf) over in San Diego to tell him that we were in his old house. Yes, we were a bit drunk. The phone got passed around so a few people could say hello.

After much sleeping in, I finally got up around noon. I helped the missus move a bookshelf to her studio then we went cardboard dumpster diving for boxes to move with. Good times!

Huzzah for the long weekend. 4th of July weekend has officially started - and I couldn't be more pleased. Even though it was a short work week I'm spent. A combination of rehearsal (no surprise there) and a towering deadline at work. Also I ended having many a late night. There was a fight with the missus about wedding ideas as well as watching one too many Outlaw Star episodes on the DVDs that Bryce lent me. But enough about concerns and worries.

Very excited about Raf's 4th of July party tomorrow. He promised that I could eat my weight in hotdogs, which I may just try. The missus and I were originally scheduled to leave town for the weekend. She'd made arrangements for us to house-sit in Allentown PA. One of her relatives - who has a pool and a grill - said we could come up and swim while they are away. However, what was not said was that we could start inviting people down from NYC which the missus was doing. So we 86'ed the idea. Mostly because of the no-permission issue but also because we could really use a weekend of r-n-r.

My package from Amazon finally arrived. So I finally have a legitimate copy of the Broken Social Scene's "you forgot it in people", as well as the recent Four Tet and Prefuse 73 cds. Gibberish, I know. But, hey, who says that downloading music from the internet doesn't spur records sale.

I'm having trouble remembering what I did for the 4th of July last year. I wasn't dating the missus just yet; I think I attended a house party in Del Ray, Alexandria, ate a lot of watermelon and drank even more beer (11 to be exact) then went home and threw it all up. Sam, maybe you can help me out - did I do the 4th of July with you last year? Or were you scouting places to live in SD? Everyone have a safe and pleasant 4th of July. And if you see any terrorist kick 'em square in the balls! Do it for Uncle Sam...