gotjenkins.com

so i’m thinking it’s time for ‘the wall’ to come down. it’s been visible and accessible for years – since way before the rest of the website – and i don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that the rest of the site was originally an extension of that piece… quite different from now, where the wall is merely an extension of the rest of the website.

i haven’t updated it in aeons, and i read through it yesterday only to find that i no longer necessarily agree with a lot of what is posted there and that some of the stuff [probably the stuff I put on there, as opposed to the stuff that Jason put on there - it originally was a joint project ]

so anyway, i think i’m going to scrap it, maybe move it to the archives/old versions section, and replace it with something else. i have an ever growing list of things that someone should NEVER do, so i might compile that and put it up… i dont know. we’ll see, i guess.

random tangent: i found an email address for a girl that i used to be good friends with, but the email address was from years ago and i wasn’t really sure that she still used it or that it even was active anymore. i emailed her, just for shits and giggles, and it really is her. she replied, and i replied back a few days later…

it really makes me kind of happy because i don’t have enough good friends to just lose contact with one for no real reason. she moved to florida about 5 years ago and i haven’t really talked to her since, so being able to track her down after all this time is, in my opinion, pretty cool.

so remember my massive credit card debt? yeah, i’ve cut it in half since i’ve started this new job. i split the one big credit card (14.9% interest) to two smaller credit cards (5.9% and 7.9%) and i’ve been able to completely pay off the 7.9…. now i can start working on the 5.9. i can actually start doing responsible stuff now – you know, saving money, preparing for my future, all that business.

speaking of responsible stuff, lunch is about up, i guess i should go back to work…

‘i’m tired of elephants and clowns / i want to run away and join the office’

that’s a cool ass line from Mike Doughty’s ‘American Car.’

although, in all fairness, MD’s new CD, Haughty Melodic, is pretty fantastic and full of subtle lyrical greatness all around. overall, i dig the cd alot. Mike went a little more glossy/pop on this record… it’s got a solid rock sound, and it’s full of Mike’s typical lyrical moments of brilliance.

ANYWAY. enough about that.

so I’m back from my several month sabbatacle. i wasn’t really planning on not posting anything for that long, it just kind of happened. it was one of those deals where i had plenty to say but didn’t really have the time or motivation to sit down and say it.

i’ve been fairly busy the last few weeks. memorial day weekend i worked a day and then did the usual memorial day stuff. the next week i went to a wedding with laura in rural missouri (interstate travel – we went from missouri to missourah), and then the next week went to indiana for DMB. when everything is said and done, i think i worked one full week the entire month of june.

and i must say – whether or not you are a dmb fan or you like stand up, the shows this year have been great. 6.1, 6.12, and 6.13 all rank damn near the top of the pile of dmb shows that i’ve seen. robert randolph guested on 6.13, and it was the highest energy i’ve ever seen. it was unreal. it’s just unfortunate that there doesn’t appear to be any kind of video from the shows. you might not like the sets they’re playing, but there’s no denying that the band has never played like this before.

oh, and lauren lavoie: if you still read my site, i’ve emailed you twice now – do you not have time to reply, or is my email being filtered out by a spamfilter? personally, i think it might be microsoft playing big brother, but that’s just me…

i’ve got to vent about people and work and life in general, and i feel like a slacker for not posting as much as i should be/would like to be, so hopefully i’ll find my way back here again soon…