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So I haven’t blogged since I got back from Bismarck. Classes went good in Bismarck. They were boring, but informative. They were better than last time I had to go. Mostly because the PowerPoint presentations were better.

I am starting to get spring fever. The snow is melting like crazy. It still is a little cold to do much outside, but so tempting. Yesterday we worked on a few projects around the house, and today was catch up on TiVo and Internet day. I am almost caught up already, and am tempted to get on the roof and take down the Christmas lights, but it’s only 34º and might be a little cold.

Tomorrow I have to go back to work. It’s kinda weird missing a week of work and not having to take any vacation.

First day of classes are done. After class we hung out in the bar in the hotel. I very seldom drink, so it didn’t take much to get drunk.

it’s kinda nice having this big hotel room myself. The internet is also great here. I am able to keep up on everything.

Oh well, off to grab a bite to eat before I spend all day in class.

fun.

Well, I am off to Bismarck now, so to keep you entertained here are a couple of cool videos I found.

The first one is a live acoustic set of three songs from Bad Religion. I have been a Bad Religion fan for well…ever, and I am a sucker of acoustic versions of songs.

Another band that I have loved forever is Screeching Weasel. This video is from the lead singer, Ben Weasel’s latest solo album.

The final video is from Rivers Cuomo, Weezer’s frontman. His solo album wasn’t as good as I was hoping, but this video is from one of the better songs.

Happy viewing!

Yesterday I heard Rhinestone Cowboy from Glen Campbell on the radio at work and actually liked it. Not because it was a great song, but because it reminded me of seeing Soul Asylum cover that song a couple summers ago. Seeing Soul Asylum was awesome. Dave Pirner looked like he was having so much fun up on stage. It looked like he would be doing that even if he wasn’t getting paid. They haven’t had a hit song in quite some time, but it didn’t look like they cared. They were there to put on a show for the couple hundred people that were there. I thought their last album was one of their bests. I was rooting for it to get big, but it didn’t get any airplay. I always root for fellow Minnesotans, but I am not really a Prince fan.

I watch tons on online videos/podcasts. For the last few months I have been using HappyFish to download my videos, but now have switched to Miro. Miro use to be the Democracy Player. I tried it out when it was the Democracy Player. I liked it, but it wasn’t quite there for me. Over the weekend I tried out Miro. I love it now. It’s pretty much my iTunes for video now. The best part is they have a Revision3 version that already has all the Revision3 shows in it. Since I watch most of the Revision3 stuff that’s the version I grabbed.

It’s kind of nice that I don’t have to work this week, but the sucky part is that I have to go to Bismarck for three days for continuing education classes. It’s something I have to do every three years. It’s not fun. It’s pretty boring, but what do you do?

I wont be able to keep up with twitter because cell phones have to be turned off in the classes, but I am hoping the hotel has good internet service. You never know in North Dakota.

So if my blog goes quiet, or the comics stop coming, you know it because the lack of the internets.

So today was the second day of spring right?

That is a pictures I took out the window at work. Our snow was almost gone, and we got at least six more inches today. It’s some wet and heavy stuff too. It was probably the hardest shoveling snow of the season.

Oh well, it is spring right? It should be melting soon.

So I went to the Boys Like Girls concert in town last night. It was at The Venue, which use to be a cool place to see concerts. My wife was kind of sick, so she didn’t feel like dealing with the crowd on the floor, so we went up to the balcony. We have been up on the balcony in the past and you can get a pretty good view up there. Well, no more. They use to have just a little VIP section up on the balcony with nice plush booths for people to sit in. I have no problem if people want to pay extra to sit there, but now basically the whole front section of the balcony is VIP. Pretty much every place where you can see the stage is VIP now. So we were stuck behind the people that were in the plush booths standing up so we couldn’t see, while the whole side section of that balcony that doesn’t have the plush booth and didn’t use to be VIP sat pretty much empty. So we were standing where we couldn’t see shit staring at a spot in the balcony where 20 or 30 people could stand and actually see.

The whole place is a mess now. When we were entering the place they only had one door open. The one where you had to cut through the line of people buying tickets just to enter the place.

Leaving the place was also a mess. There were cops all over the place making sure the kids didn’t do anything wrong, but yet people parked all over hell and were blocking all but one was out of the parking lot.

The Venue use to be my favorite place in town to see a concert, but now I don’t think I would go back. The new management really fucked the place up.

The music that I like isn’t always the most popular. Rarely do band I like get any radio play. Boys Like Girls is a band that I have liked for years. They are starting to get quite a bit of radio play around here. Today they are playing in Fargo for the second time. This will be my third time seeing them and they still only have one album that came out two years ago. It’s a great album though. My favorite song on the album is Thunder. You can listen to it here.

I finally got around to finding a WordPress plugin to make it easier to blog from my phone. This is the first blog post from my phone.