Get Your 909 On...

Yes, I still blog...Just not very often...
Last night, cruised to Motor X with Janer, Doche, Ali and two little dudes from my small group.
Absolute blast. Place was sold out and packed.
Team Yamaha and James Stewart won the main event.

Stewart coming across in first...Dominated start to finish...
They brought out stunt riders before the main event and brought some crazy goodness...
Me and my little homies...They were lovin' it...
Janer, Ali and the Doche...

I took a bunch of video as well that I'll try to edit. Just got iLife 09 and apparently iMovie is way easy to use...We shall see...

Weekend Review...

Didn't watch the debate on Friday night but saw clips. Weak on both sides...Same ol' same ol'...

CNN talking heads proclaim Obama the winner...Fox News, guess what, McCain...What a shocker that one is.

Saw Righteous Kill on Friday night with Amanda, Terry and Brownman. Lame. Deniro and Pacino are way too old to be New York cops.

Great dinner on Sat. night with the Walshes, Revillas, and Weirs (almost)...Great food, great wine and tons of great conversation.

Had a great time with my small group kids this morning. Got to rock my PJs and a mo-hawk. Fun stuff.

Andy Stanley brought one of the best sermons I've ever heard today.

Fantasy team so far is doing ok for the week. Not great but good enough to hopefully win. Need some Baltimore "D" to step it up tomorrow night.

Watching David Blaine right now. Dude is crazy weird.

Becoming a Michael Crichton fan. Read one of his books last week and am tearing through another.

Headed to Sarasota tomorrow to meet with some people that are way creative and talented. Looking forward to a good meeting on Tuesday morning.

Gown time...

Green with Envy...

Check out my boys from Skeeter talkin' smack about my big win last week...Read here...

I think Spring is here???

This weekend the sun poked its head out from behind the clouds and gave the Atlanta metro area ridiculously good weather. It was taken advantage of with my best good friends, Piedmont Park, frisbee and a new book I'm reading...

Here's some pics to sum up this great weekend...

Just a glimpse of our town seen from the park...
Tremendous form Brown-Man...
The homeboys...
The Doche in all his glory...
My hot and kick arse fiancee...
Lovers....
End of the weekend...Soaking up sun, enjoying a malting adult beverage and reading...

Snow Day #2

Day 2 of snow this week in the ATL...Amanda and I went outside to have a little fun not in the sun. I kind of like snow for the mere fact of having a totally justifiable excuse to be super lazy...We're on team lurk right now...Get ready for some more blogging action as we're huddled up in the house...

Final Day in 07' at Yamaha

It was pretty slow today at the office as most of our customers are shut down for the Holidays so I got my clean on all over my desk...

I usually keep a pretty tidy area but there was entire too many folders that were dated that needed to get the boot and when I went through my desk drawers I found three staple removers. Really??? Three!!! I don't think I used one the entire year. Plus, I'm a total pen hound and I weeded through about 100 pens that I really didn't use. Then I went deep into the ol' supply closet and found a drawer organizer. Oh my gosh was I stoked on life...Doesn't take much.

Two trash bags later things were looking pretty darn good. I can't tell you how fired up I am to go into work on Wed. to kick off 08' with a bang...

So for anyone that ever wondered where I go to earn my paycheck, check it out. That's right, I'm the only person with a cubicle and a view. I feel kind of special...

Staples could probably use this in their next catalog it's so beautiful...This will most likely be a disaster in about a week...


What did you do today????

Rocky Top

I greatly apologize on my tardiness on the blog but I’ve been kind of busy with a whole bunch of stuff. I have several things that I want to write about so I need to get on the stick...

So here ya go…

Friday, late in the afternoon the boss man said “Yes or no, do you want tickets to the Tennessee game tomorrow?”

Me: “Give me a sec”…”How many?”

Boss: “Four”

A couple of phone calls and arm twisting later, it was on. Knoxville or bust to watch a team that I really don’t root for but who cares, I’ve never been to a college football game much less a SEC game.

So Amanda, Nay Nay, The Doche and I headed up at about 7am on Sat. morning. The drive to Knoxville was pretty chill and we got there about 20 minutes before game time. Of course, Amanda had to patronize a local bookstore and get all oranged out. Like I just said, I’ve never been to a college football game so going to one of the biggest stadiums in the country was incredible. The amount of orange that I saw that day will be forever be engrained into my brain. It was crazy. I can’t imagine what would have happened if I went to such a big school.

The game was awesome and we had great seats. Tennessee ended up putting a spank down on Arkansas so people were pretty pumped. After the game, we headed back South. On the way back, we watched about 10 episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on my new toy…Covered in the next post…

Team Spirit

Ridiculous amounts of orange

More team spirit

Post game at a local watering hole

B-Day Bash

Last Saturday I turned 28 years of old. I guess that's pretty cool right? Kind of on that downhill slide to the big 3-0. A bunch has happened these past 12 months and I would say almost all of them are pretty darn good. I was thinking about writing about all the things that took place and ponder on them but I figured that nobody would really care...

The day itself was pretty good though. During the day, the small group gang volunteered at an extremely well run women's shelter. It was a really fulfilling and great experience. Then, as you read in the previous post, I got to watch one of the little ones in my UpStreet group get baptized...It could have ended there and it would have been perfect...But...Since there were several of us that had B-Days around the same time we all went out to celebrate together. We first headed to an awesome restaurant called Tap. Great food with an extraordinary selection of imported beers. Afterwards we hit up Cosmo/Lave for some dancin' action...Great times, great friends...

Here's a few pics from the evening...

The Amandas looking hot...

The Brown Man in all his glory

The Boys...

My lover of my soul...

Jack Daniels World BBQ Championship

This past Saturday Amanda and I headed up to Lynchburg, TN to an event that I've wanted to go to for the last four years....The Jack Daniels World BBQ Championship. This may have been one of the coolest things I have ever been to. Basically, it's all things BBQ and you have to have game to get into this thing. You either have to win a state championship or be invited. 60 teams in total...4 Categories - BBQ Sauce, Ribs, Pulled Pork and Brisket...

The food was absolutely insane. So good. Makes me want to buy a cooker and start cooking for a living. Probably not going to happen but you have to have dreams. There were several international teams there sporting their colors and bringing some good grub....

Besides for the food, the highlight of the trip was the tour of the Jack Daniels distillery. First of all, it was free and that in itself is freakin' cool. Second, we had a tour guide named Ron that was awesome. He gave a great tour of the facility that lasted for about an hour. Learned about the process from start to finish. Some interesting facts that you may have not known:
1) Built specifically on this site because of the Iron Free cave water they use
2) 77 Barrel houses around Lynchburg holding one million gallons of Jack
3) Jack builds their own barrels and torches the inside...That's where the brown color comes from
4) You can buy a single barrel of Jack for 8-10 Grand...Apparently it's a big deal...George Staight did
5) Drip raw distilled booze through charcoal - 10 ft. worth
6) Only place in county to be able to sell booze

I highly recommend this tour as well as the event. It was just cool. Lots of food and lots of cool people.

I've attached a slide show below and have all the pics right here

Children of the Corn...

So I got to experience something new this past weekend...A Corn Maize...Not just any Corn Maize but the World's Largest Corn Maize. Straight up Guinness Book of World Records style...

After work on Friday, Amanda and I met up with Amanda Jean, Rebekkah, Renee and Chris for a little dinner and headed up to Cagle's Dairy for the Corny experience...We met up with Jim and Jen and a few more Buckhead Church folks as well. I have to say that it was a pretty gnarly maze. They have hints throughout the maze that don't really help much. At first it was kind of fun but after a while, it was kind of frustrating not knowing where to go. I think it took a couple of hours to go through the entire deal. Fortunately we didn't have any encounters with Malachi. If you're in the Atlanta area, I would recommend it. It's worth the 10 bucks.

Here's a few pics of this corny experience...


The Gang...

Lots o'Corn...

So Lost...

My little Monkey Girl...No bananas baby...

The Soul to Soul Tour

Charlie, Carrie, Amanda and I went to Tim and Faith on Sat. night. Great show. It's actually kind of sick how good looking they are...Special guest stars Angie Aparo and Kenny Rogers...


She was looking for me in the crowd...

The "Gambler" had to throw down for a song...

Homeboy Tim is a rock star...Is having a man crush cool?

Some chick I met during the show....

Lasers, Fireworks, Music and Friends

This past weekend turned out to be freakin' outstanding. I knew I was going to be busy and hanging with a bunch of my buds but for some reason I didn't think it was going to be so fun.

Friday night, Amanda and I cruised to Stone Mountain to see the laser show. Besides for some corny "The South will Rise Again" type stuff, it was pretty cool. Lasers and fireworks combined are always a good thing. The music selection was decent although they did play a Toby Keith patriotic ballad. All in all....Cool stuff....

Saturday, a bunch of us headed up to Northpoint for the annual singles event Gig on the Grass. Basically, it's an outdoor concert on a huge lawn area. We brought our grub and a few blankets to enjoy the show. They had a great playlist ranging from 80's Power Ballads, Country, Top 40 and of course "Sweet Home Alabama". I would say that there were about 15 of us in the group but saw a whole bunch more people that we knew. Great times.

What else you ask.....Well on Sunday after Church my buddy Christopher called and said he and his wife were going to be in the Highlands for Summer Fest. I had nothing going on so I met him and Karen down there along with her friends. Basically, Summer Fest is a bunch of people selling art and other knick knack stuff along the streets with a bunch of food vendors and a free concert. Marc Broussard was the headliner for the evening and him and his crew tore it up. If you haven't heard Marc B I highly suggest you invest 99 cents and get a few songs.

Wow, big weekend I tell ya. Great music, cool lasers, great times with good friends....What more can a guy ask for....?????

The Three Leaders of the South etched into the thing they call Stone Mountain
Firework Fun.....Mr. Charlie along with ElaineAmanda and Cary getting their dance on....
Pretty cool stage for a "church" event....One of many pictures I have of Jim with this face.....
Cold chillin' waiting for the show to begin
Say cheeeeeesssseeee!!!!!!!!

A Georgia Treasure

I'd have to say that it has been a fun filled action packed weekend. It's not quite done but I wanted to post something before I left the house again. The highlight, or at least something totally new for me this weekend was the hiking trip a bunch of us took to Amicalola Falls.

Nestled just away just an hour from Atlanta is a majestic state park filled with trees, wild life, streams and a couple of waterfalls. I think we had a total of about 12 people there. A couple of my buds along with some peeps I haven't met before. We got up there around 11 and got our hike on for a few hours. The hike to the top of the falls is pretty gnarly. It's a huge set of stairs that they built so people could hike up. It took about 40 minutes or so to get up and then we chilled up there for a while before we took the long route back down.

When we got back down we had a little quiet reflection time and prayer session. It was a great way to say thanks to the man upstairs for this great place He has blessed us with.

All in all a great day with a bunch of cool folks....

Here's some pics with even more right here

Here's the treasure they call Amicalola

425 Steps to the Summit....After a 175 to base camp....Oxygen please

Before we scaled the mighty falls we had to take the advice and get our stretch on....

The View from the Top...

The Park Ranger let me hold her owl, his name was Owl "Capone"....

A Good Friday Indeed

Had yesterday off for Good Friday and had a great day.

A buddy and I played 18 at a local course. Besides for rather cold and windy conditions it was decent. Both of us didn't play great the front nine but found our mojo on the back. Good times.

Then another bachelor party....My bro Jim and me met up with some other dudes for our friend Chris's bachelor party. We headed down to the Brave's game for a showdown with the Mets. Once again, besides for it being extremely cold, we had a blast. We didn't watch much of the game as we spent most of our time at the Chop House and the 755 Club. All in all, it was a good time.

In about a month or so, these bachelors that I've been hangin' around with the last couple weekends will finally tie the knot. I'm stoked for both of them.....

Foooouuuuurrr......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God Bless....

Suckin' down chili dogs at the Chop House....

The Groom to be looking "Loc Style"
Have a great Easter everyone....