Rockin' with Indiana Yankee

Blog Shift -Going forward ONLY MUSIC!

2007-11-23T17:42:00.000-05:00

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Friday (Black Friday) 11/23/07 - 7:30PM:

Ok.....until now..I have not been sure what to use this blog site for...previously I shifted from Sports and Yankees stuff....to Video Games.

Well as of today....going foward.....I have decided to change my blogger site strictly to my love for music.

So I will start with what I have been up to lately:

About a month or two ago, my buddies Jerry and Rich have been jamming at an open mike night on the Southside...and had suggested I come up to join them..so I did. Had a cool time. Sang Everlong, and Times Like These. Didnt get to go on until really late, and with it being a work night, the thing that sucked was I had to get out of there as soon as I was done singing. Jerry still hangs up there but a couple of weeks ago, asked me if I wanted to check out the open mike/stage night sponsored by Don Stuck from X103 with his band and Acoustic Stew.

So, for the past couple of Saturday's; Jerry has been coming down to my place to jam with his Acoustic Guitar so we could work on a couple of tunes. One thing he got me really liking is a version of Thank You by Chris Cornell that I really want to do live!!! I about flipped when I heard it, and immediately started to learn it.

We have been working on that a little (i'm ready to try it at least...) along with the Acoustic versions of Everlong and Times Like These and our own acoustic arrangement of Pinball Wizard by the Who.

So we met up there and......I had a FUCKING BLAST!!! Jerry and I sitting there with our first beer, and it was not long before Stew came over and introduced himself. Big country looking dude...but a very cool dude just the same! Wound up making good friends with him that night, I think...

After Don's band rocked the house Jerry and I followed an act of three dudes..2 with acoustics and a drummer. They seemed pretty cool. The lead singer was this big dude and he seemed pretty cool. Gave me props and I returned them.

Jerry and I killed the first two songs.....did Pinball okay I guess....and I only say that because being the overly critial of my voice, vocalist that I am ...I thought I was off an octave...but still got props from people...and saw some people enjoying our jam.

So afterwards, Jerry and I are just hanging out....after a while and someother jamming on stage...Don and his band get back up and rock out some more. Some point after a while he's talking on the Mike and starts building up suspense...and asks for a volunteer to come sing a tune with the band...after building up more suspense about it, he finally says its 'RoadHouse Blues' by the Doors.

At that point, my head felt like Hiro from the TV Show "Heroes" when he freezes time. To touch on some of my bio...I have song this song about a dozen times on stage. One of my all time favortes in fact to sing live....with a band!! I have killed with this song once at the Slippery Noodle - (Long time ago) once in Nashville TN ...to name a few...

So, no sooner I hear this my hand is flying up in the air - looking like fucking Arnold Horseshack, looking for Mr Kotter to finally pick me to answer that question!

So Stew, who was up with Don see's me, points at me and says "C'mon and get your ass up here and sing it!!!" At this point I leap over three sets of chairs in the way. and get up and long story short....rocked it out. When I finish...Don turns to me and asks me if I want to do another...and if I know Black Crows Hard to Handle. At that, I am like hell yeah! Let's do it!!! I and KILLED it with them!! What a fucking rush!!! Crowd of people on the dance floor, boogie -ing to our sound!

Im not going to bore with more details...other than to say...that I was called back later again to do a few more...and hooked up with Don. He told me to email him so we can swap out song lists....and asked if I would meet up with him at their next gig to sing!!!!! WOW! Fucking sweet, right?!?!

So I just sent Don the following email.....hopefully he remembers me and answers...

--Indy

Hey Dude!

First off.....hope you and your fam had a cool Turkey day yesterday and ate and drank a lot like mine did!!!

Well...dude...let me tell ya...my buddy Jerry and I really had a f--ing killer time hanging out and jamming with you Wednesday night!

Attached is my song list you had asked me to send you. Let me just say I have such a love and passion for music that it is really hard to try to nail down a list.....hell..I could have written the damn thing for a couple of hours!!!

You will notice that my list starts of with a lot of old school VH..and I would be lying if I didnt say that wasnt on purpose! To this day, I still dig orginal, early VH sound . DLR had a hell of a voice....I was only like 7-10 yrs old when they were that hot back then with the brown sound of Eddie..and didnt see them live. Until I saw live videos with DLR dancing around acting like a total ass clown and occasionally signing (in between prancing around like he could care less about lyrics people paid to hear him sing) did I realize that DLR the voice was cool but the person was a total jag off.......

Anyways that hopefully explains why so much VH here.....but of course that certainly does not mean my interests are in just what I have listed. My interests in fact are very diverse and I like just about anything.

Looking forward to the list you said that you were going to throw back at me.....

I'm sure you are a busy dude....so hope you can get back to me before Sat so that I can try to brush up on whatever tunes you want to rock on w/ me.

Peace and Rock & Roll!

---Vince

Peter Griffin plays Duck Hunt?

2007-08-05T14:41:00.000-04:00

Here's a new one that I just came across.
Peter Griffin, meets Duck Hunt - in a Street Fighter esque type of game.
I remember Family Guy doing something like this in a episode, but this is definitely different. Wonder which came first? Must be like the whole Chicken and Egg thing....

Anyhow..

Gotta love his super gas move and how he gets the dog for laughing at him. Who ever did this should have made the dog look like Brian.

Funny.....but also makes me wonder "who comes up with this shit, anyways?"

More Screech-in detail

2007-05-27T21:46:00.001-04:00

Thanks to Casan0va for a follow up clip to yesterday's post:

Screech has a bad day

2007-05-26T11:32:00.000-04:00

OMG!

I about fell out of my chair laughing too hard at this.....and in light of recent events (to which I will be blogging about soon as I get the emotional courage to do so....) I really needed a good laugh.

Warning: a bit of foul uncensored language here... ( you may want to pause the music playlist below before playing)

XBL stuff

2007-04-19T22:36:00.000-04:00

How's" my gaming?

Tunes

2007-03-31T15:55:00.000-04:00

Effective 11-8-07 the music player I had introduced originally in this post will be moved to the top of every new post going forward.

This is so you can turn that shit off if you wish or pick one of the tunes in my playlist.

I personally got tired of scolling down to f- with it anymore...

--IY

Peter goes to the doctor

2007-03-27T22:05:00.000-04:00

I just about had a fucking heartattack watching this!!!!

WhaZZUPdate!

2007-03-03T00:02:00.000-05:00

Havent followed up in a while....Colts SO rocked! This town was so buzzin! I got some great deals from a dude who was in a tent full of Colts Super Bowl shit on the corner of Allisonville Rd & 116th St during those ZERO f-in degrees high windy COLD ASS days we had. (actually went back a couple of different times over a 2wk period.) Got hella deals on the locker room hat, a cool throw blanket, a shooter glass and a bunch of other shit really cheap.

Gotta rant for a minute about an incident on the way to work this morning with Mrs Yankee. I got pulled over doing 70 in a 55 over on I-70 by where they are starting that damn "Stupid...(ahem) Super 70" project. On the East side of Indy. ( will get to that later...)

Ok...so this asshole cop...well wait a min.........((Deleted content 11-8-07))
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Oh quickly....because Im getting tired of typing and want to play my new game MLB 2K7 with Capt Cool, Derek Jeter from my boys!

I came across a cool music playlist site that is a work in progress and Im trying to get it on my space and hopefully here too...check it, hope you likey...hope it works below....I will try to post more soon.....you see why I dont b.c. I can go on for a while...

PEACE! God Bless our Troops! God please come down and bring peace to the world! Why cant we grow as humans and move beyond all the evil and hatred in th world...............moaybe that will be my next post........

Sad Yankee

2006-10-08T12:16:00.000-04:00

Yesterday afternoon to early evening was a death knell for myself with other Yankee fans Im sure.

Another October, another early exit from the playoffs with a team roster of overpaid billionares and a manager who's long overdue to take off that uniform.

I know there's a lot of attention to Mr Moneybags A-HOL....ahem...I mean A-ROD, and I will get to THAT later....

Like I said last October when the Angels gave the Yanks a kick in the Ass out the door that - although I love Torre, I just think his time has come to hand the reins over to someone else. I just think he looks tired and has lost not only his effectiveness to his players but his passion for the game.

These Yankees of the new century require a bit of old school. They need a manager who isnt going to sleepily reply to any kind of adversity. They need someone in the dugout whos going to punch a water cooler and then kick said water cooler around on the ground 5 or six times. That was the one thing that the Yankees teams from 96-00 had: They had Paul O'Neill. That dude wore his heart on his sleeve and his passion for winning spread to his teammates. The current roster of millionares and overpaid superstars do not have that. Giambi comes close, but I imagine his reserves himself from explosive dugout antics because it may appear to someone else a good excuse of hanging a "roid rage" moniker on the guy. Jeter is awesome and his composure and how he plays on the field earned him his captian status - and I certainly do not disupte that.

So this leaves that task to the manager. One sign that Joe is no longer cut out to be that guy is evident in the big SI story that among its other clubhouse revelations it gave us - is when Giamibi HAD to tell Torre to stop coddling AROD.

This brings me down to my point....Since their outster from last year's playoffs I said they should have brought in the one guy that has been there before: PINELLA. His fire comes straight from old school where he learned under the tutlage of one of the games greats: Billy Martin.

Pinella is the one guy who knows how to handle A-ROD and others and is the one guy who will get the Yankee ship righted. It is an absolute f-ing shame with over 200 Mil worth of so called talent, they cant f-ing win!!!

So many mistakes out of the manager in this years ALDS blunder. From the line ups to the rotation.

Lets start with the rotation. Yankee pitching outside of Wang was equally as bad as the offense. Torre' biggest problem over the last 4 years has been his reluctance to pull his starter before they blew up on the mound and put the team in too large of a hole in which to dig out. This year, it was leaving Moose in Gm 2 for as long as he did, when Moose clearly didnt have it. It also seems that Moose is another player like AROD who fails to show up in October. He was the guy who couldnt hold a lead against the Angels last year, and it was Boston the year before. And I am not gonna re-hash the Boston thing like all the stupid stories you hear when the Yanks lose and which will be repeated a thousand times over the winter while this years offseason will be over talked about.

Let talk about Johnson. The mistake was even letting this guy pitch when it came to light last week that his back was blown out. Did Torre not learn his lesson with Boomer in 2003 (or was it 2004?) Same injury to an aging pitcher. He should have NEVER even considered throwing Johnson out there. He should have been a limited bullpen option IF even that. Torre should have just shut him down and put Lidle in and hope for the best. Hell, Lidle couldnt have done much WORSE!

Look at ballclub across town who is still playing in October. With not one but TWO major pitchers in their rotation and Willie was even smart enough to shut em down and not put hope on any player who has to be at the top of his game at this point of the year who is a question mark of health. They went with lesser talented options and have gotten wins. I really want to see Wille's boys go all the way this year. Hell, I dare say Willie should have been given a shot at the Yanks. Looks like another sharp manager who also benefited from ol Billy's ways.....

So with the season on the line, who does he throw out there to pitch? Mr postseason choke himself....Jared Wright. I have NEVER like Wright. Dude totally sucks!

This offseason, in addition to Pinella becoming manager, I also would like to have another item placed on my Xmas list: OVERHAUL THE ENTIRE ROTATION! Keep Wang, dont renew Moose (he just concluded another muliyear deal didnt he?) or Wright (also just finished his deal) Option Pavano, hopefully Johnson will retire because of his back...if not just let him go...

With all that salary dump, and so what if they have to eat someones last year - they can afford it.... and go out and find good YOUNG talent. If you have to do a deal with the Angels or Dodgers for A-Rod for good young arms I hope you at LEAST get Jared Weaver out of it. Or least get something GOOD.

Ok....since I just crossed the threshold of AROD...here is my thoughts on the offense....

Rebuild it. Let AROD go. Although I love Matsui, I just think he is a liability on defense. I like Cabrrea's potential better than I like Matsui there. Im sorry I said it. The rest of the outfield is locked up with Damon and Abreu. Now for the infield...Obviously Jeter, Cano and Posada arent going anywhere...so that leaves the corners....

I think the best thing would be to send Giambi and AROD on their way. Giambi gets hurt often at the wrong times. Although he did have a HR in his first game but it always seems like he is not really seen. If we keep him, it should be a full time DH. Otherwise trade him for good young talent. Im sure the Marlins would listen to a good 2 year rental on Giambi to trade with CASH to get D-Train. That would be a start.

Now lets talk about AROD. If the Yanks were to get Pinella on the bench, MAYBE he gets through to this guy, and maybe he doesnt......I think the best option is to get him to waive his no trade option (he has done it two times before, dispite his public proclaims of wanting to stay) and get good young pitching talent for him. Rangers are still footing the bill for a large chunk of his salary so why couldnt you get a hella deal for him? With a change of scenery where his is not one of many superstars where he can once again shine with his numbers will do him good. Would probably come back and bite the Yankees in the ass over the first couple of years (his new team would probably oust the Yanks out of Rd 1 too.) But after that it would likely pay dividens.....

Which with AROD out, you could keep Sheffield and put him on 3rd. He done 3rd before and if he played 1st why wouldnt he go to 3rd? Sheff is one guy I really think deserves to stay. I really think they have kind of done him wrong and you know he probably wouldnt come back unless this kind of scenario could play out....his bat is too powerful and respected to let him go......

Oh well.....many questions....hopefully some of these will play out well over the offseason....I just hope that they finally make a change at the helm its sadly overdue.....I love ya Joe, but ya gotta go!!!!

Update

2006-07-07T01:20:00.000-04:00

Also found a couple of cool vids to share:

Jac Mac & Rad Boy:
Anyone remember this?? This was a regular short on the old TBS- Night Flight show that was on in the 80's:

Ok....here's my 7-6-06 Post.....moved it from MSN Spaces:

Well.....sadly it now appears that our little band is officially dead.

I'll just say A bunch of stupid shit has gone down over the past couple of weeks that have left me and my guitar player (GP)out of sorts with our bass player and drummer....without making a 2 hour story out of this

((CONTENT DELETED 11-30-07))....I now figure I will leave this in the past.

Yes I deleted it...if you know me and really want to know more..then ask me...

Now that I have WAY BETTER THINGS on the horizon...lets just suffice to say that we ended things because the Bass Player and Drummer were both hard druggies bringing some fucked up druggie freaks around that I wanted no business associating and certainly dont want to associate myself around that shit.PERIOD.

But you know what ...Kaysarasara..what ever...not so say that it was any less fucked up...but honestly...we played for what about a year and a half...and ..its been a year and a half since ...looking back I can now reflect and say that there were a couple of good things that came out of this, and had a chance to really jell w/ Jerry..and think it shows because we just click musically..so there!

Thats it....band has now disbanded....

Rockin' Spring Time is FINALLY here!

2006-04-15T12:55:00.000-04:00

Lets see......last post was back in Feb.....too much going on to tell all right now....but to graze topics....

Band is back in business!!!

Relocation of our jam sessions back in our bass players bass-ment (ha ha)has been completed for a a couple of weeks now....for the past 3 weeks or so we have been jammin 2 nights a week on Tu & Thurs...

This may put a little stress on things since the softball season officially starts tomorrow night at the ball park and my first night back to Umpiring starts on Wed. 2 days before I leave for a visit back home....

Yeah....'bout a month ago got word out they are having a big to do for Dad's 75th on the 23rd. So Im gonna fly in for a couple of days! Be nice to see the fam again....its been a while.....

any ho.....

Got some new video from our Thurs 4/13 jam that I need to edit soon....

Speaking of which.......a month or so ago I got a KILLER deal on the new Sonic DVD suite software that is pretty bad ass!!!! It converts my MCE 2005 ms-dvr extension crap into editable DVD. But MAN does it take forever!!! Still need to find a way I can break a portion of the edit and create a new vid with that.....Sonic wont do that unfortunately....

Oh well.....need to get back to some 360 for a little while before I have to go outside and get some yard work done......its been bugging me that I havent updated in a while.....

Going to try and share / spilt blogs between here and my new MSN Space I screwed around with for a bit about a month ago...

check it out.....

Colts Rocked Out of the Playoffs Sun Jan 16 '06

2006-01-15T22:53:00.000-05:00

Wow.....havent posted in quite some time......

Been busy playing too much 360 I guess!! Ha ha.

Things have been going good for the most part. Still hanging and jammin' with the band. We now have what seems to be a permanent drummer. Tim ( I call him T-Mac) is a pretty cool and funny motherf-er! He hosted a little get together today over for the Colts game at his house. We all brought some side dishes and he made some kick ass Shrimp and Spagetti that was pretty good. Hell....Im not a big seafood fan but I fuckin pigged out...it was pretty killer. Hell, I ate all day today (so much for being mindful of my new years resolution....) Guitar master Jerry's wife made some killer cheeze and jalaepeno dip that I couldnt stop eating! She also made some awesome garlic knots and some cake. My wife made her kick ass Strawberry / Baby Spinach leaf Salad. Its really good acutally....and not bad coming from someone who HATES Spinach = BLAH!

Well...food and company today were pretty good. Too bad the Colts game SUCKED! It certainly showed that their #1 unit hadnt played much in the past 5 weeks. Maybe sitting starters in attempt to have them avoid injury wasnt such a smart idea after all....... Not too mention the fact the the Officiating Crew really SUCKED BALLS!!!! This is bad coming from being an official myself....but those fucking guys should have been wearing BOZO the fucking CLOWN suit instead of stripes!!!!! HORRIBLE CALLS ALL AROUND!!!!

So maybe we can do it with a new RB next year...b/c you know Edge is gone.......

So anyway we all had fun.....my bandmates and our wifes....so then of course we had to drive down to the studio afterwards and hang out and jam.

This however was the first time we have played in front of our wifes. We really havent played in front of many people yet...but in front of our wifes at first seemed slightly intimidating...but it wasnt a big deal once we got going......and had fun. We played about 10 songs and did okay for the most part....

My wife brought our new Christmas present. We got each other a bad ass HP717 and she took a few pics and even got a couple of short vids.............I just wish we bought more memory....need to get a couple of 1 GB SD cards!......I have just posted a couple of pics here..... had to shrink them down from the originals b/c they were fucking HUGE!

So thats about it for now......will post more soon......

--Indy Sun 1-15-06 11:15pm

Gearing up for the XBox 360

2005-10-30T19:49:00.000-05:00

As the month of November is just around the corner ((can you believe Thanksgiving is almost here??? You know when turkey day arrives we are almost into the next year!!!))

One of my XMG brethern just gave heads up about the new Xbox.com retooling looks to be complete.

Check it out:

Put your gamertag here too.

Pretty cool. Cannot wait! Still scrapping up the $$ to pay for it.....Now if I could just only afford a game.......

Another project in the works....

2005-08-08T01:08:00.000-05:00

Just as I am still doing crap with my new rig that I have build....I recently started another project.....

You see....with my affinity for video games ever since I was a young lad back in the 70's, when arcade games were born and thru the 80's as a teen when they died, then made their resurgence - up thru the 90's when console gaming started to take off....Video Games is my hobby. It was also once my employment....but that story I will leave for another day........

I have grown up with and have always loved games - about as much as I love the Yankees (since I grew up with both, they are both been big factors in my life) so I have a lot of nostalgia for the ol' coin ops of yesteryear...

So that said, I have admired the MAME community for a while now and have thought it was so cool that people have made their own arcade machines. It something about the ol' coin op cabinet that facinates me in that it was its own little getaway when I was young. Hell, I remember back in high school on L.I. going up to the ol' 7-11 and spending not only my lunch hour but the next one too, when I was supposed to be in gym class! (I used to always think that was funny ,but now looking back...)

So I have wanted to get my own arcade cabinet, but could never find a viable option. I have been wanting to build my own cabinet, even bought plans on ebay and have researched several sites within the MAME community.....but lack all the good wood cutting tools necessary to do that. (a good router and/or a miter box).........

So imagine my shock & suprize when the ol' lady calls me up while driving through a nearby neighborhood and tell me she saw a Mr. Do cabinet at the end of someones driveway for heavy trash day! So long story short, I rushed right down there - knocked on the owner's door - just to be certain it was trash (and indeed it was!) and took it on home.

Now, since I now have an extra old PC since building my new one, and taking my old one and rebuilding it for the ol'lady....I took her old HP Pavillion (that I since removed the crappy HP OS...) and totally stripped it apart, motherboard and all, and tore up the plastic BS on all sides so that I was down to a bare metal frame. Put the motherboard that was a part of the HP (since it has on board video and sound) and threw in an old 40GB HD I had laying around, a256MB & 64MB PC100 memory I had laying around and a few things here and there.... and using XP, today I built what is now my arcade machine OS.

Spent most of the rest of the day fucking with the arcade machine's monitor trying to power it up so that I could also wire that monitor up to a vga cable [url]http://www.mameworld.net/massive/How-to/VGA_Adapter/vga_adapter.html[/url]. Longer story short that didnt work unfortunately. I started to wire up the vga cable but then thought let me 1st fire up the monitor itself and ....nothing.

So now I guess I will have to go with plan B......I have to get a new monitor. I have an old 15" that I used on my bench in the garage when I built the Arcade OS, but thats too damn small. My plan is to get a new flat screen for my study, then I will take the 19" one. After I strip out all the old crap out of the cabinet (old monitor, wires, non working power shit at the bottom) I figure on building a rig out of wood that I can use to suspend the monitor in the cab.

Fry's has been selling a 17" Flat TFT for 179.00. Little too much to spend right now since I have recently bought MCE '05 & a new video card....

I am also gonna call my buddy who owns a PC repair shop on the southside of Indy and see if he has any crappy looking but working VGA's laying around that he will get rid of cheap...I doubt I will have any luck...but ya never know until you try..........

But just screwing around with the new Arcade OS, I am loving how this will turn out.

I figure I will build a new control pad, since the MAME shit I have covers all sorts of controls. I figure I will need an 360 directional controller - for not only games like Ikari Warriors and Commando, but also so a stick can be played with any games.... I will also get a spinner and a trackball, and 8 gaming buttons and 2 more for 1p & 2p. Not sure if I am going to set up 2p at this time. When I build the new control board, I will insure that is not only secure but replaceable later on when I would like to spend more $$ for more controls.

The track ball is like 80-130 bucks! Then some crap I was looking at today, I found USB control hubs that going to make the PC to button hook ups easy. Thats another 130 bucks!

This shit is kinda $$, but in the long run, its gonna be sweet.

--Well its 1am and my next work week is fast approaching.......

So is the shuttle landing. Best of luck to that crew and may god be with them and bring them home safely.

-------Indy

ATI All In Wonder & Windows Media Center Edtion 2005 = What a Pain in the ASS!!!

2005-08-06T19:29:00.000-05:00

What a pain in the @$$!

I month or so ago....at the suggestion of fellow XMG'ers for my new PC that I just built (see blog..) I went with an ALL IN WONDER 9200 Video Card. Long story short it was pretty sweet. Worked beautifully on my Win XP Pro and handled all my needs especially a TV tuner (now my only source of TV in my Yankees Themed Study).

Then last week I bought Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (MCE'05) because of all of its sweet features that it adds to XP Pro. Loaded my ATI software up, and then nothing. No my TV on the PC.

Well, after 2 help tickets to ATI (the 1st one their response with the typical/ generic scripting bullshit for idiots that dont think about loading that round disc object that might just go into your PC's disc drive! After sending a reply requesting assistance from a human, I finally go my answer. They advised me that my card was not comtpatible with MCE. Only AIW series 9500 and up work with MCE'05. Damn all the luck!

So I check out my reciept from Wally World where I paid too much for the 9200 anyway...and saw it was dated 6/28. (Can my luck get any worse!) So...after a call to wally world and pleading my case to the ASM he agreed to give me a return! (finally some luck, right?)

So got my $$ back and next day bought the AIW 2006 card. Sweet features : 256MB, compatible 8X AGP for my board, and most of all - (Right on the box...) DESIGNED FOR WINDOWS XP MCE.

So threw some more ca$h on top of the $$ from my return and popped it on home.

Installed it and.........still no TV. So I figured since I spent a lot of time trying to get the 9200 to work b4 ATI told me the deal by installing and uninstalling different versions of ATI drivers and whatnot...I decided to do a reformat.

Did that and still........nothing! Damn ATI Software still will not get my tuner to load up.

EXCEPT - the MCE software DOES.

The MCE is okay...but I kind of got used to the ATI programs, and they seem to have run faster and more smoothly. Not only this, but my new purchase qualified me to get a free Remote Wonder set, only had to pay S&H just under $10 bucks. So I have already paid for this order, so now I have to get the software working. My purchase also hooks me up with 1/2 off an M$ MCE Symphony Infinity Remote set up for 30 bucks which is like 1/2 off.. not bad....

I wonder if the Windows MCE progamming does not let this thing run how it should...I dont know... but I am slighly preterbed..

So now I am waiting on a reponse from ATI on this new help ticket that I had to submit......

To be continued.......

All in Wonderful

2005-06-29T23:17:00.000-05:00

Gotta give props to a couple of XMG buds: MuteflY,Baitfish ......http://www.xboxmaturegamers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=147201#147201....... for getting me hooked on my new ATI All in Wonder Card (AIWc)still learning some of the features with the ATI software and I am having a blast with them. I really wasnt going to shop for one right away...but my old 5500 looked like it started to take a shit on my when I tried running video on it, as video was looking green...

Since my new rig was born, & simultaneously my Yankees Tribute Room was transformed - I am now exclusively using my 19"Monitor as my TV. The AIWc TV software is so bas ass! Since I just bought/installed it on Sunday, I have been learning features while screwing around with it the past 3 nights. Tonight, I just learned how to make the TV transparent through any other windows open and still able to function within seperate windows while watching TV. Too cool for school man!

The wife is on a trip to Savannah GA with her best friend. They are going to a cooking class from that Paula southern lady on the Food Network and the wife is pretty stoked. Not the the wife needs classes. Not to brag, but my ol' lady can fuckin' cook! When I say she can f-ing cook, I aint kiddin' brother. It's cool that my friends are all envious of that. I laughed when one buddy said one day ....."your lucky Yankee....my wife can't cook worth a shit!".((Hmmm....cant imagine why they are now divorced, and she has seemingly shacked up curiously not too long after she left him.....))

Oh well....look...I'm jabbering over here....getting late....gonna go check out some San Andreas X for a while and probably crash on the couch tonight.......trying to keep up on this more often......but you know how that goes....im trying.....

My B.M.F.rig was Born today!

2005-06-25T19:32:00.000-05:00

After pulling an all nighter last night (after work my F/T job..) I FINALLY got my new rig built!!!!!. My first complete build from the ground up, and dont think I did too bad. I built a custom 3.2GB P4 with 280GB of storage.

Not too bad considering I have upgraded from a 1.8GB with 512MB, and a total of 120GB of storage. I built this with a mixture of some parts from my old PC, and new purchases. I still have to get video but since I have already spent some decent bank on this new set up already I had frugal on this (for now)...As you can imagine...the old lady has not been happy with all the $$ spent....but expected it, and besides a lot of the bank that I have spent came from my umpiring money.

I didnt spend on new video but I did score a decent deals on other items. Like on RAM - FRY's had a 1GB stick that was on a 2 day sale for 89.99 and I get to send in for a 20.00 rebate for that. Not bad, considering their next sale started the next day and the cost went up 10.00, and 512 was 69.99.

Since FRY's finally put a store in Indy 2 weeks ago, I have been a frequent customer! They have had some kick @$$ deals out there and I couldnt pass them up! The only thing I didnt pick up there was the case itself. I got a BETTER one from a small computer store that I have been friends with the owner for years. He cut me a deal for 20.00 bucks off on it! And it is pretty sweet! Now that this is built....I have been thinking about getting a stencil set and putting a small "BMF" logo on it! B/C it is beautiful!

I had some slightly frustrating moments during the build -- like the prob I thought I had with all my power hook ups for all the CRAP I got stuffed in there:

420W POWER SUPPLY Hook ups:
6 Fans
a Triple venting Fan that goes in one of the 5 1/4 bays
HP Lightscribe DVDRW+ drive
52X CDRW
80 GB HD -reformatted from my old rig
200GB HD -that I once again scored another deal @ Fry's for 69.99
2 HD FansAudigy Platnimum Drive

at that point I passed out at about 6 am or so...(did I mention that I might have had some assistance from my tasty beverage of the evening; Crown & Pepsi....)..........but when I woke back up around 9:30, and after a cup of coffee I backed out all my hook ups and started over, and figured it out.

Plus the fan on my Processor has a light on it, and is Xbox green and a neon blue fan on the side access in the center that matches the embedded fan in the front of the system. It looks really sharp if I do say so myself. Will post a pic soon.

Been a while......

2005-05-29T21:49:00.000-05:00

Things have been kinda busy for me lately......

First off...thanks to Reighvin over @XMG for reminding me that I never did say how my NCAA pool went.....It went great I guess, except I didnt win!!! Who-da thought that with Duke & Arizona that I wouldnt even make the final four?!?! Oh well....guess I will have to wait until I start a Super Bowl pool to see if I can get lucky. ((Damn thats a long time to wait....)

What else......oh yeah....I never did finish my last post......long story short...got good seats, right in front of the visitors bullpen, and was literally 5 feet from Shilling. We tried to talk to him, but he was obviously in game mode especially with the Red Sux pitching coach with him that day its understandable. He was there to do a job, and was in game mode. Besides, its not like he played in the Bronx and no big loss to me. I just thought it was cool and a once in a lifetime oppty to see him (being a future hall of famer, a co-MVP of the World Series) in Indpls, let alone I was so close I could have spit on him!!! (but refrained...)

Beside, being the diehard Yankees fan that I am, if I did talk to him I would problably tell him that I wished him bad luck everytime he got up against my boys!!! As we were watching him lose that game in Indy, I was saying (much to the chagrin of all the Red Sux bandwagon riders that were surrounding where we were sitting that day...) that if he plays like that against the Yanks -they are going to smoke him!((funny thing here, is less than a week later, he played against them and got is ass kicked!! =0) ))

So whats new???? Just working. My F/T job, and I am umpiring a couple of nights a week. I work for two different association. I work a couple of days a week for NSA (National Softball Assoc) umpiring at a sportspark. This is Men, women or Co-ed Class C-E Softball, better known as the "Beer Leagues"(because it usually involves drunk assholes!) To make this slighly worse, it is on the southside of Indpls where one often encounters Rednecks (or as I like to call them "billy's" which is short for "Hillbilly's) so you can imagine what I deal with there.......(I will get into this in another post @ a later date....)

So what else? Leaving tomorrow for three days to go to KC. I know, most people I have shared this with are like, "your leaving for the holiday weekend on Monday?" This is b/c my wife has a planned business trip there to visit a vendor of her's. We figured since her company is paying for the room, and our gas (@ .$40 a mile) why not take advantage of this? The biggest part of the trip that I am looking forward to is the Yankees are playing the Royals on Tues, and we got tickets!!! (Whoo Hoo!!!) The tix are not too far from the visitor dugout and I am planning to try to get a couple of my heroes to sign a ball or two (praying that I can). I figure that if I show them my tattoo on my arm (the Yanks bat & the Hat in a baseball logo) they will see that I am not a bandwagon rider , but a "lifer" of a Yankees fan -THEY HAVE TO!!!

I say this all saddened tonight, as the Yanks are just getting ready to end tonights Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN game in which the got beat buy the Red Sux again! Figures David Wells who has sucked ass in his last two starts, finally plays good and its against the Yanks. Have two hand it to him though....After giving up homers to Jeter & Shef in the 1st tonight, he shut em down in typical Wells fashion...curves and a variety of off speed pitches....

Lets just hope Kevin Brown has a good game on Tuesday in KC. I will try to update after I get back......

L8R

-----Indy

New Media Campaign to get uber geeks sucked into.....

2005-04-10T22:55:00.000-05:00

Colony

Here is Micro$oft's latest marketing campaign...

Remember the "Ilovebees" bullshit....well this one's a little more intreaguing.....from what I can gather... I am assuming that this is their latest way to get Xbox fans and Techies interested in the new Xbox.

There is a countdown clock on their site: http://www.ourcolony.net which I have now added as a link on the left here...I think the countdown is going to end on a day in May that they plan to unveil the new version of Xbox.

On the main page, it has a symbol not unlike the one on the power button on the current version of Xbox. And its got a little bit of style in that it kind of moves with your mouse like a watery ....I dont know....

Anyhow, this site is set up so that you must have groups of peeps to sign up together and answer a bunch of cryptic clues the site give you ....for what I dont know.....maybe exclusive info on the new Xbox...(previously said to be called neXtBoX, Xbox 2, XBox 360....who cares...I just want to know what day I can go to EB and buy it!!!!

They are supposed to be releasing three different versions of their newest machine.....a basic one w/o a Hard Drive (HD), a version with an HD, and later on after launch a version that will be part PC.....

I personally just want the HD version. Cant wait until EB starts taking preorders, b/c not only do I want to make sure that I am getting one on launch day, but also b/c I will use them as a kind of no term , long term layaway. (the system is rumored to be about 400.00 bucks!!!! It will probably be coming out in November this year. Supposedly a year before the Next Playstation. If history repeats itself, this could put Xbox in position of being the dominant console of the next generation.

Case in point...... one of the main reasons the PS2 so so popular and has a larger installed base, is b/c they came out something like 18 months before Xbox hit the street (and Gamecube for that matter). With so much of an advantage being then only next generation console on the market, they should be able to be THE dominant game manufactuer of the next-gen consoles. HOPEFULLY the new system will be backwards compatible. If not, I can deal with that....I have a shit load of old systems and games, spanning back to the old Atari 2600 days......

Birthdays......SUCK

2005-04-02T15:48:00.000-05:00

Another year, another gray hair........

Well, who would have thought I would get to my mid thrity's....

Getting old sucks.

Oh well...cant do shit about it, can ya? It not like sci-fi where you can turn the clock back a few years, and try to do shit over again....boy do I wish.

Let's see....what would I do if I could go back in time?

I would have to go back and pick the numbers for the last BIG lottery jackpot that has gone unclaimed. Anything after that would take care of itself.

So many other scenarios you could think of. ((Sigh)) If only......

But reality is not what could have been, but what can you do, right?

Just some random thoughts.....

Yankee Killer Coming to Indy

2005-03-27T22:41:00.000-05:00

[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2021946[/url]

Just checking out ESPN and found out tonight that Curt Shilling is going to be starting his season off with a minor league game start with Pawtucket, who just happen to be playing their season opener against my local AAA team - the Indianapolis Indians.

Interesting. Since I have loved baseball all my life, I think it would be cool to go down to Victory Field (Home of the AAA Indy Indians)and see a future HOF'er go a few innings. Its a 2:00 game here, and not sure if I want to use up vacation time or not.......all depends on if my buddy wants to go with me, cause I know the wife will be bored.

On one hand I think it would be pretty cool see him b/c as I said he is a future HOF'er. I am sure I will try to get a pic and an autograph as the dugouts are easy to access players. Unless they want to be jerks and ignore you which some do --like Drew Henson, yeah and where are you now big shot? Out of baseball and riding the bench as Jerry Jones poster boy for failures and "possible" future QB's! I got news for ya pal....as long as Big Tuna is coach I think their will be more of a possiblity of a pig flying, than him letting you behind center in a game that counts!

Anyway...it is real easy to access players there. I have gone to Victory Field a few times to catch them playing the Columbus Clippers a few times one time when they were playing the Columbus Clippers, I got several Clippers to sign a ball for me like Ted Lilly (since traded and starting for the Blue Jays, courtesy of the Roger Clemems trade) and a few others......

BUT I have mixed feelings about being nice to the guy that helped kick the crap out of my beloved team last year in the ALCS. Especially with the non stop talk about how the Yanks got smoked in 3 straight, blah blah fucking blah. New season, and hopefully another 80+ years until they get another one from us!!!! Besides.......and mark me down for this: THE YANKESS WILL WHIP THE CRAP OUT OF EVERYONE THIS SEASON. I will get into this more in a later post....

Back to my whole story here....I do have mixed feelings but since he is bound for the HOF, it would be cool to get a celeb pic and that will prevail.

Weekend is here!! Whoo Hooo!

2005-03-26T01:26:00.000-05:00

Man! What a week....LONG fucking week......

Sucks that Duke lost ...Oh well, at least Arizona won....Im starting to think that my teams are not going to last to the championship game. Oh well....Ez come...and all that shit....

Some People......

2005-03-23T00:31:00.000-05:00

You know....... some ppl are just really weak.....

In my last post,
I talked about my NCAA pool that I started, right? Well, from the day that I
proposed the terms and conditions to my "Elite 8" fellow coaches that I got to
go in to this pool with me everyone agreed. Even after the time we drafted (by
pulling strips of paper from my hat in supervised and predetermined order)
anyone who didnt agree, should be in right?

Now Granted......I had a sweet fucking draw. Pure dumb fucking luck, s'all I can tell ya, b/c it NEVER happens. I have
done this with other ppl over the past three years and I dont think I made it past the 2nd round with more than 3 teams IF that... But I had to laugh,
after our draft, one dude came up to me and actually tried to say that he thought we should redo and change it so that we first had a "random" draw with
just number one picks first, THEN have another draft with the remaining teams......WTF??? That would be like placing a Superbowl bet in Vegas,
then the day before the game, your starting QB goes down and you wanting your $$ back! Just didnt think it was cool....if it were me with a shitty set of teams
that I picked, like I have had happen in the past... you just eat your shit sandwich and chaulk up the lost cash for what it is...a gamble....

To top off my good fortune in this draft, I supplemented by doing a gameday( before the first game's tip off, of course..) trade: I had Kansas & LSU,
and gave my trade partner his choice of giving me Arizona or Gonzaga and told
him I would take a slightly lower pick, his choice; Mississippi St. (Im sure
they arent going to get past Duke anyway, but you never know --- See
Connecicut...)So far, I am looking more brilliant than any Indiana Pro Sports
team GM has done with a trade in YEARS!!!!

Not saying Im going to win
this thing...I still have my doubts...you never know.....we'll see as the
tourney starts back up on Thursday...

Thats another thing, and I will leave this as an open question to end this rambling story of nonsense....Why
doesnt the Tourney need a 4 day rest anyway? (they are not a bunch of
pussies...one or two at the most days to travel I would think would be
sufficient)

Indy 9:05pm (Indy Time)

2005-03-23T00:14:00.000-05:00

IndianaYankeeLogo_w/ XBL Headset

2005 March Madness

2005-03-19T13:00:00.000-05:00

WHEW! Did I dodge a couple of bullets!!

Because I am not seriously interested/involved with college basketball, I started a different kind of NCAA pool at the office. Instead of brackets, I got 8 people to put in 20.00 a piece, and we randomly drew 8 teams a piece (8X8 =64) and simply put, you ride with those 8 teams throughout the tourney until someone is left with the winning team. 140.00 to the winner and 20.00 to the runner up (this way, that person at least breaks even for being in the final game).

Originally, these were my teams (and yeah, I got lucky and had some kick @$$ picks:

Duke
Kentucky
Kansas
Florida
Wisconsin
LSU
UCLA
Montana

I say I dodge a bullet b/c I wound up trading Kansas (i dont know...I just had a bad feeling about holding on to them) for Arizona and LSU for Mississippi St. ((you just KNOW that my buddy I traded with is kicking himself in the @$$ right about now!!

Who knew Kansas would get beat?! Like I said, I just had a bad feeling.......but I am not complaining.....I still have 6 teams in......and I could use the extra 140.00 ((hopefully --fingers crossed))

Whats new?

2004-12-10T20:03:00.000-05:00

Not a damn thing!!!

Acutally...not too much......

Spent Thanksgiving w/ my wife's family in Arkansas. I know...weird place but we have a timeshare, and my wife has a sister who's family lives in Texas, and that is a 1/2 way point for us to meet. Had a pretty cool time, as I really like hanging out with my brother in law from Texas. Really cool dude, and we have a blast when we get to hang....Even though I HATE long drives (this was about 10-12 hrs one way) this trip wasnt too bad.... the only thing that sucked was the night we got there, after hanging with "the fam" for a while, we started to go to bed about 1 am....shortly afterwards my wife got some really bad pains...long story short we had to rush her to the emergency room at 2am!! Turns out she had kindney stones. Now I can sympathize with that, as I had a bout with them in July 2003. PAINFUL!!!!!! The thing that pissed me off, was first off we were in bumfuck Egypt out there...and of course I dont know where the fuck I am. With her in pain, my stress level was up worrying about her -- and the phone at the resort had all sorts of numbers -like Front desk, and most notably -EMERGENCY. So I am calling all of them trying to get info on a nearby hospital, and NO ONE WOULD ANSWER ANY PHONE~! What the fuck?!?! Granted it was late, but especially with no hospital out in the fucking mountains for 30 miles, you would think that they would have SOMETHING or SOMEONE available in case of an emergency! Longer story short, I called the local Barney Fife, and she gave me directions to the hospital - 27 miles away! Luckily she passed one that night, and got to come home and passed another the next day. When I had mine, I wound up with a 3 1/2 day stay in the hospital...

So ...not too much else happening right now. THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY! Plan on getting a little but under the influence tonight and later play some XBOX.

L8R........

Week Two-"The Throwdown in Motown!"

2004-11-23T22:11:00.000-05:00

Granted I am in Indiana, and a Pacers fan but first off...its OBVIOUS that Stern went after Artest. The suspensions were expected, s/b manditory in fact, but a bit harsh! I do not think previous incidents s/b weighed into this, it should stand on its own. Granted none of the atheletes involved should have went into the stands, but HAD THERE BEEN SUFFICENT, COMPETANT SECURITY, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!!!! Security personnel should have been surrounding the perimeter of the court the moment things started to get out of control!

Lets disscect this for a moment:
First Artest fouls Wallace. Wallace thinks its a hard foul (although I seem to remember him fouling J.O *A LOT* harder in last seasons Eastern Conf Finals) and proceeds to grab Artest w/ two hands in the neck region. Then while a small crowd of people try to break this up, Artest visably tries to stay out of trouble by lounging on the scorers table. Now this act in itself speaks "wise ass" and seems to be asking for trouble. So while he is doing this Wallace throws his headband at him -- this seems to be some idiot in the stands a couple of rows back que to throw a beverage container at Artest and hits him in the head. So now Artest goes after the guy for retribution. Now hold the phone for a minute.....If someone hits ME in the head with something, I would go after that jerk too, and kick his ASS!! Maybe not the smartest thing, but that is human nature. Without going further, I think the main thing to look at here is WHERE THE HELL WAS SECURITY? DURING ALL OF THIS!?! When the foul occured, the first thing in place should be security surrounding the perimeter of the court facing the fans. If that happened, you are looking at a security person catching this idiot throwing something, and they could have immediately taken him down - isolated incident, end of story. This would have prevented players from going into the stands, and more importantly -- fans from coming on to the court. The guy that got in Artest's face and got his grill popped, deserved that and more!!! What if that guy had a knife on him?!?! We would be talking about something totally different now, wouldnt we??
The big problem with this, and I know the NBA will not want to hear this, is THE COURTSIDE SEATS FOR FANS NEEDS TO BE MOVED BACK. Sorry NBA that you will lose some $$ that these rich people sit in, but look at other sports....What other sport do you know of where the fans are so close, unrestrained to the action?? This goes deeper than Artest people......now this has total screwed the Pacers season. As a season ticket holder, if these suspensions stand, I hope I am not alone and will demand my money back, as this is not the team that I paid to see!!!!

Bottom line, I think that Stern went overboard on the suspension. My reasoning: a previous precedent. I was reading in the paper today, that a couple of years a go Vernon Maxwell got a 10 game suspension for going into the stands and hitting a fan. If this was a precedent, then why did O'Neal get 30 games for hitting some asswipe that came on the court!!! Also how does this justify Artest getting 73 games?!?! Stern was quoted as saying that he took previous incidents under consideration of this.....that is a bunch of bullshit!!! Thats double jeapordy! He already paid his due for those incidents....this should stand solely on its own!!!

Day One

2004-11-16T01:25:00.000-05:00

Thought I would give this a try.......definately something new for me....

let's see........what should I talk about......

Ok.....how about what happened last Saturday night (11/13/04)

Earlier in the week -- matter of fact, it was Tuesday 11/9 --the day HALO 2 came out...my buddy Donnie calls me while I was home (took the day off to enjoy the new release) and we start talking about the new game. He tells me that we were looking to get together Saturday night to LAN up some HALO 2. We usually get 4 Xbox/ 4 TV's going. So he goes on to say that this is planned, however the location was undecided. Now I should mention that I have hosted the last two Halo LAN's -- and the last one kind of pissed me off and left a bad taste in my mouth b/c several people backed out at the last minute and we had a poor showing. This was after I (like all good hosts should) spend some good $$ to provide food and drink for my guests. I should also mention that the food was my wife's kick ass cooking (not bragging, she is THAT damn good)
So anyways, with him saying he was unsure of where the location was, he was basically seeing if I would play host again. So I told him I would think about hosting....Finally on Thursday, I decided that I would do it.

Now I should explain, when I host these Halo LAN's, beside providing food & drinks, I provide: 48" Big Screen, 27" TV & 19" TV (dont think it is too much to ask that someone brings ONE TV, is it?) and the last 3 times I have set these up, I set them up in my 2 car garage. This way we have plenty of room to set up the tvs all back to back.

So people 7 showed up. Mike brought his brother Jason, Donnie brought his younger bro Charlie and Bill who I just found out left his wife and is living with him (no not homos, just a buddy helping a buddy out) my buddy Cory, and John. Mike's friend Karl showed up, but he left like 2 minutes later he left (when I went in to take a piss) not sure why, but they said he was pissed (probably b/c of Mike -- more on that later)....

We start playing, and b/c I am host -- I am setting up the games. We play for a couple of hours and I notice that Donnie who is usually pretty good, has some pretty crappy low and even negative scores (more later) but I am too busy having fun to really care.....

So sometime later, something starts to fuck up, I set up an all swords game, but when the game loads up -- it winds up being all sniper rifles. So I have the guys on my xbox quit, and while this happens Mike starts fucking around and next thing I know he takes control of the setups. Now, not that I am being a baby about this, but you have to understand -- first of all ....I fucking cannot stand Mike. He is one of those guys that has to win any video game he plays at all costs. He's the kind of guy who has "done everything before you, has done it better than you, and knows more than you can ever know" and the last few times he has come over here, he has gotten me to the point where I was going to take a hammer or a fucking bat to his skull!!! Even though he has about a 150lb weight difference on me. The first time, he made a comment about my wife that I did not care for, nor care to repeat. He's lucky I didnt fuck him up then. The thing that gets me the most, is the last 3 times I have had this here, he tries to act like he is in charge -- in my home! Fuck that. I am tired of it. The last get together, I told Donnie to tell him not to come, only to have a kind hearted last minute repreive.

Now Donnie and Mike have been buddies for a long time. Now the funny thing, When Donnie and I had our conversation on the 9th, he mentioned (word for word) that Mike would rather kill babies than lose at a video game. The ironic thing is that Donnie is JUST AS BAD! Case in point, you know how I mentioned before that his scores were low and negative? Its b/c he was being a fucking sore loser b/c he was getting beat and wasnt doing good in the new game. He was in a corner blowing him self up! WTF?!?!

So anyways, I give him a couple of games and he was setting up boring 10 kill matches that were going too quick, and when I finally asked him to give me back control, he started acting like a dick -- so then when I finally told him "house rules" he acted like a fucking two year old and turned off his Xbox and started packing up. When he started doing this, so did Donnie (like a fucking lemming). So then I said "what, so now your both going to act like a fucking two year old, and pack up and go home b/c your not getting your way?!?!?" Donnie pipes up and starts bitching saying that I "only wanted to play one weapon games". "Bullshit" I told him. We started off the first game with Rockets, and then the f'd up game with the snipers (that we quit) and then I tried to start a all Swords game, what the fuck are you talking about?" To this, he knew I was right and shut up. Hell those were the only ones I set up that way. We played tons of other games and I was both trying to make sure we all got to experience all the new maps, weapons, and gametypes - and thought I did that well. The last thing I said to them was "nice fucking gratitude....Im kind enough to host this, spend my money for nothing in return for a bunch of ungrateful fucks!" and then stormed out for a few.

Asshole (Mike) left and so did Donnie. But I give Donnie credit. He came back like 10 minutes later and apologized to me, saying that he was lacking sleep, and stuff. Now dont get me wrong....Donnie is good people. That guy will go out of his way for you. He has help us out on more than one occasion. So I really dont have any hard feelings, as far as I'm concerned he and I are cool.

But I have to tell you.. I am DONE hosting, and I am done LAN -ing with these guys. I have XBox live, and if I want that experience, all I have to do is log on. Matter of fact, when those guys left -- I was just me, Cory & John. They helped me get my TV's back in the house, and we jumped on Xbox Live on the big screen and had MORE FUN with that! What's also cool, is Cory now has high speed and just signed up for XBL.

Matter of fact, Donnie's wife emailed my wife today, and was trying to get feelers from her on where we were at with this shituation. (I spelled it that way on purpose). My wife basically told her that we are done with Mike, and we are done with Xbox parties. Apparantly, word got quickly back to Mike, b/c he tried calling me a couple of hours ago. (God I love caller ID!) Why would I want to talk to him? Didnt answer it.... Wonder what he had to say? Didnt leave a message on the machine...oh well, no big loss....

Was I wrong? Should I have handled this differently? Maybe......but I really dont give a shit.

What do you think?