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Why is Columbus Day a holiday? So what if the guy never knew about the western hemisphere. People were already living here. It’s not like he discovered something nobody knew about.

I don’t know if I mentioned it on here before or not, but my brother-in-law Matt is living with us now while he goes to school. It was the wife’s idea. I didn’t really want him living here, but I agreed to help the kid out. I thought we should charge him rent, but the wife didn’t want to. Charging him rent wasn’t about the money for me. It was more about teaching the kid some responsibility. I never lived anywhere rent free. As soon as I graduated high school my Mom was charging me rent. Matt pretty much is a lazy ass. All he does is sleep and play video games.

The main thing I hate is that I don’t get as much “Me” time. He stays up late and always seems to be on my computers or hogging the TV. I noticed he was up until 3:00 this morning on my computer, so of course he didn’t go to school today. Everybody says you should go to college right after high school, but I am not sure I agree with that. Some kids aren’t ready for college right after high school. I took a couple years off after high school. I moved in with a buddy, and partied my ass off. Once I got that out of my system I was ready to concentrate on school and did quite well. I think Matt should have taken some time off until he was ready for college, but we will see. I think the only reason he is going is because his family wants him to, and that is not a ticket for success. You have to go to school because YOU want to be there. I doubt he makes it a year, but we will see.

I am debating whether I should buy one of these or not. This site has some nice looking skins.

It’s been a while since I have had the time to sit down and blog. Here are a few things I was planning on blogging about, but never got around to them this past week.

It’s sad to see on of my favorite podcasts Net@Nite might be ending. I hope Leo and Amber can find something to do together. I always looked forward to Net@Nite every week.

Dashboard Confessional have a cover of “El Scorcho” on their MySpace page. Great song. it’s been a while since I have listened to Pinkerton. It makes me miss 1996.
I loved the September 30th User Friendly comic. So simple, yet so funny. Brings back memories of playing around with calculators back in elementary school.
And last, but not least cats in sinks.

So if you follow me on twitter you would know about the hail we got Wednesday night. It’s been pretty crazy around here and I haven’t had time to blog about it. That was the biggest hail I have ever seen. Most if it was golf ball, but there were a few that we close to baseball size. Of course our cars weren’t in the garage. There was $1000 worth of damage to each of our cars. I don’t think my 10 year old truck is worth fixing. It has many other dings and scratches in it. It’s my baby. It only has 43,000 miles on it. It’s in super good shape, but for $1000 I think I can live with a few more dings in it. Our Jeep on the other hand is only three years old. I will be bring that it to get it fixed.

We were on the roof yesterday looking for damage up there. I didn’t find much. Just some dents on the roof vent. While I was up there, the neighbor had an adjuster looking at his roof. The adjuster said my neighbor had enough damage to get his roof replaced and that I should call my insurance agent. Our adjuster will be here sometime next week. It wouldn’t be a bad deal to get our shingles replaced. They are 14 years old and will need replacement in the not to distant future. It would be nice to get it done for free.

Damn you Amber Mac. I just wasted the last hour playing Asteroids online with other people. It’s actually not really Asteroids. You don’t blow up asteroids, you blow up each other. There is just something cool about blowing up some body else. I was totally getting schooled by this Chris kid. Then somebody else joined in and we teamed up against him. Fun stuff, but man what a time waster.

Over the weekend I order meself a Jobby Roger. I thought it would be a good sticker to be the first on my MacBook. I got them in the mail yesterday. I just put in on today and lo and behold it is Talk Like A Pirate Day. I didn’t even know.

Oh, I can’t talk, or type like a pirate very well. I will just be sporting my Jobby Roger.

Well, today is the day. Motion City Soundtrack’s new album comes out today. I am heading to buy it after this post. Here is the first video off the album for the Song “Broken Heart”.

They recently played what I think is their second video for “This is for Real” on their Webisode 7.

Now I am off to buy the album.

Another old video off of Motion City Soundtrack’s first album.

“Hold me down” is one of Motion City Soundtracks slower songs. I like the video because it almost looks like they recorded it on a frozen lake in Minnesota. I don’t think they did though because of the Mountians in the background.