Earlier this week, I found out that one of my favorite bands, “The Avalances”
was playing at the Red Jacket on Friday.  “Oh my Gosh!  I’ve gotta get all
my friends together to partake in this grand musical concert.”  So, I squandered
up my friends “Lee”, John, Eric and Bill.  Part of the core gaming group
that gets together at either my or Bill’s parents house.

Anyway, most of the group meets at my house and we pile into my Saturn for a quick trip to “The Jacket“. 
We sit back and have a good time with some cheap drinks only to hear those
dreaded words, “The Avalanches will not be playing tonight.” 

NNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!  You people have no idea how much I’ve been waiting
for this.  How much I’ve been anticipating this!  How much effort into making
sure that my butt was inside the Red Jacket
so that I can get primo stage viewing for the only concert that I’ve ever
took an active role in organizing a group to go see!  Gahhhh!

Thankfully, I was with friends.  Not just any friends, but friends that
I KNOW that I will have a good time with…no matter where we are.  So, we
decided to go see “Signs“, the new M. Night Shyamalan
flick. (What’s cool is that he is a major character in the film.)  We showed
up 5 minutes before it started.  Which is very interesting, because a large
portion of the movie was about what type of person are you:

• Someone who believes that luck is just luck or
• Someone who believes that everything happens for a reason.

I, myself, am a person who believes that everything happens for a reason.  Now, I don’t know why the Avalanches
show was cancelled, but I admit that I had a GREAT time tonight.  And I also
believe that everything worked out so that we could see the very last showing
of “Signs” at Cinemark that night.

Now I don’t know if my belief is “The Truth”
or whatnot, but I do know that it gives me hope.  When things aren’t looking
so well, it’s good to believe that there’s some reason that it’s happening. 
Besides, I don’t think anyone knows “The Truth“,
therefore, you’re just making it up from your perspective.  Might as well
make up something that will forward you.  And believing that everything happens
for a reason does keep hope alive for me.

With that logic…you’re reading this for a reason.

Know why?  I don’t.  I just have faith that you are.

Sometimes, there are those days where the World just seems to come at you with no rhyme or reason and you have no idea why.  Well, this wasn’t one of those days. 

This was one of those days where the World came at me, but it was all because of my own doing.  Since this is Tax Free weekend, George and I went out to do some shopping and lunch Friday morning.  By the time I finally got into work, it was about 2:30.  I had some MAJOR catch-up to play in addition to finding someone to go see Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with me.  Thankfully, Nortel (Greatest place to work, eva.) understands that there are people like me that don’t adhere to a normal sleeping schedule, or even a normal working schedule for that matter, and as long as I’m a good and prosperous worker (which I have confirmed with my bosses), I have certain liberties.  Yea me!

After a while of searching for someone to go with, I decided to take George as my “Man-date” (Just two guys going to see a play together.  No funny business.), and we both really enjoyed the play.  Due to popularity, they’ve extended it for another week.  Go see it!  (I think Lee’s planning a group watching next week, so talk to him.)

Then, we were onto Part 2 of the evening.  An inebriated watching of Strangeheart at The Magnolia.  A movie, along the same lines as Rocky Horror, where audience participation is, not just allowed, but encouraged.  So is drinking.  Which a number of us did.  George and I were accompanied by a slew of people I knew would make this a great evening:  Lee, Carolyn, Allison, Peck, Audra and Joe.  I brought my homemade “Gatorade” (Read:  Midori Sour).  Matt Peck had some tasty Buttermint Schnapps that he was passing around.  By the time, it got to me a 3^rd time, I decided to take a huge swig of it, only to find that he replaced it with pure Gin.  I nearly spewed it on Carolyn, who was sitting in front of me.  (I’ll get you for that Peck.)

Anyway, back to the movie.  There are the typical lines that you’re supposed to shout out at opportune times, but I found that our own improvisational lines, belted out mainly by Lee and a few others that were “taken by the spirits”, had the entire theatre in an uproar and were much mo’ betta.  Afterwards, a few of us went to Café Brazil for some after movie/drinking food.  I was dragging myself around until I finally got my French Toast and I was hit with my 3^rd or 4^th wind or something.

Going to bed, I knew that my biological clock was going to keep waking me up, telling me that it’s time to go to work, but thankfully, I was able to press the internal Snooze button and get my 8 hours of sleep from 5AM – 1PM. J

–Snoopy Kiss is glad that he’s not a giant.  Because then the only movies he would be able to see is at the drive in theatre.  And then, I’d probably crush some cars.

Thankfully, there’s lots of things in this world that makes me happy. One of which is helping Lee to update his site so that it has all of the articles from our old Radio Possibility site up and getting the dates correct. I’ve been ever-expanding my knowledge of PHP and MySQL through this website and my work at Nortel. My new banner makes me happy too.

What do I have to write about? Today? Nothing. It’s just been a good day. Lots of things are wacked righ now (like the Saturn dealership having my car for many hours and them not being done with it), but it just feels like a good day. One of those days where you’ve got it handled. One of those days where you’ve got tickets to Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat and then are going to hang out with some friends aftewards to go see Strangeheart. You might have a sense of what I’m talking about. I dunno.

I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new play-thing, the Treo 600. My existing Treo has taken a beating and is ready to be replaced. And as much as the flippy top looks cool and has that Star Trek feel to it, it gets annoying after a while. Yeah! New Technology!

–wondering where all the Cowboys have gone.Mr. Falgout

Some hobbies are expensive.  Some cheap.  Others, like swing dancing are cheap, but if you really want to go crazy with it, they can get really expensive.  But now that I think about it, I’m sure you can say the same thing about every hobby.  So, nevermind.

My latest expense, justified towards redeveloping the growth of the world economy, was my trip to Vancouver for the Lindy Exchange.  As some of my close friends know, one of my deep dark secrets is that I have a Canadian Fetish.  I don’t know why.  I just seem to be drawn to them.  I call it “Eh-dar”.  (Speaking of that, look at what I found!)

In any case, while I was there, I had some really amazing dances.  All too many to single out.  (Mostly because I’m afraid that I’d forget someone.  I’m also really bad with names.  So, chances are, if I danced with you, told you “Thank You.”, I probably enjoyed it.)  While I was at it, I finally purchased new clothing!  Something I don’t believe I’ve done in about 6 months. (Check out the Gallery for pictures of the city and of the dance.)

Unfortunately, there weren’t too many quotes at the exchange, but I updated the quote page, with other mindless ramblings.

In other news, my Pool of Pudding Pictures have become quite the rave.  I’m getting calls from managers really high above me asking for the password to get in.

–Just a boy looking for your love.P.S.  I love my friends.  They’re insane.  But not insane like this.

You know, I really wish that I could say that I had full control of the God and Goddess party yesterday, but I’ll have to admit…there was no holding it back.  “It turned that knob to 11.”  Oh yeah, when I woke up, there was an octopus in my sink.  That’s how you know it was a good party.  We also did have a cop come by, but thankfully the God of Bad Instructions waved to him with his beer bottle and he waved back and drove off.

The party went till about 2PM, the next day as some of the hard-core partiers (read:  People too tired/drunk to drive home) went to the Original Pancake House for doilies and good grub. 

I’ll also have to admit that this was one of the most fun parties to invite people to.  How often do you actually get to be the God or Goddess of your choice for a night?  We even had prizes which I bought, but never gave out.  Two of the un-official winners were Jenna as the “Goddess of One Night Stands” who had a table, night clock, and other items attached to her.  And Lee, The “God of Arrested Development” whose favorite X-mas gift in recent years was a K’Nex rollercoaster which he proudly wore on his head and was even functional!

The party was also paid a visit by Cleopatria, The Goddess of Water, The Goddess of Fire (completely unplanned), the Goddess of Fashion and the Goddess of Fashion Faux Pas (I kid you not, also, completely unplanned).  George Lucas’ Goddess of Marketing, The God of Turn Tables, The God of All Things Shiny (your truly), The Goddess of Unfinished Projects (who went quite well with the God of Unfinished Party Decorating, as I was late on the preparations), The Goddess of All Things Naughty, God’s Gift to Women, Goddess of Common Sense (who should also win a prize for spending 3 hours hot gluing about 300 pennies to her already shiny dress), The God of Turntables who kept spinning his live mix till about 3AM and too many other deities to name.

It was a truly divine party, that I was proud to host; because there were so many cool people there.  About 10% I met at that day.  And another 10% I met the day before. 🙂  Pics are up! (Unfortunately, I didn’t take too many pics myself, and will get other people’s pics up as soon as I can.)

Oh yeah, and for those interested, I have the Pool of Pudding Pictures up.  Although, due to the “Nature of the pictures” they’re password protected, so shoot me an email if you want in.  BEWARE!  Not safe for work.  (That means you too mom.)  If you want some of the videos, let me know.  This was one of those parties, that I had no idea what I was getting into.  How often do you get to see 60 gallons of pudding with people wrestling in it?

Yeah…that’s what I thought.

They say that God/life will never throw anything at you more than what you can handle.  I agree to that; however, in this past week, I think that I’ve thrown about as much as my body could handle.

The weekend before, I went to Salt Lake City for a Lindy Exchange.  That was a hella lot of fun, even though the cops came in and busted us for holding a dance past 2AM.  It was pretty upsetting as Salt Lake City is trying to be seen as a “normal” city, but still doesn’t allow organized dances past 2AM.  As an outcry, I’ve created http://freenate.lastcoolnameleft.com where we hope to raise money for the Free Nate Foundation.  (Nate being the person who organized the SLC Lindy Exchange, and is going to court, because of it.)

As for this few days, here’s a lowdown:

• Parents came to town and brought my two nephews, Evan and Charles.  It was interesting to have the little rug rats running around the house to see what a real family would be like, but I can definitely see that I’m not ready for parenthood.
  
• To spend some quality time together before she headed back to Baltimore, Melissa stayed at my place for about a week.
  
• The Master shower drain pan started to leak and my preciouuusss (read: House) started to leak and have all sorts of water problems.
  
• Earlene Falgout, my grandmother passed away after a lengthy battle with Lung Cancer.  She was almost 90.  May she rest in peace.
  
• Falgout Family Food Festival!!!!  W00t!  If you missed out on it, make sure not to do that next time.  There was more seafood and other food that we didn’t know what to do with it all.  Thankfully, I’ve got a big stomach and appetite.
  
• And of course, Melissa’s departure from Dallas.

I took a sick day today, to let my body recuperate from all of the stress and it’s feeling much better, but my tummy’s rumbly.  I think that there’s been a lot of loss for me recently; however, I’m quite proud of how I’m handling myself and not losing focus that life does go on and that these types of things happen.

BTW, if you’re a Matrix Fan, I HIGHLY recommend watching Animatrix.  “The Final Flight of the Orisis” kick MUCH holy arse.

Carry on,

-Me.

So, I’ve realized that I haven’t posted here in a while, and I think that’s because I usually spend a lot of time working on getting all sorts of links in with my stories, which takes a considerable amount of time.  However, since I want this to be more of an online journal and less of a online link-fest, I’m now resolving myself to posting more often but less links.  Except for really cool ones.

As I’m sure most of you know two weekends ago was the Dallas Lindy Exchange.  I was one of the team leads and had a freggin’ blast.  It wasn’t until the Saturday night dance that I finally got my groove on, but once I did, I was ready to jet.  Lots, and lots of pictures and even three different albums!  (Thanks Greg and Jerry!)

Every year, Waxahachie (sp?) is blessed with two special events.  One of which is the Hallowween Fright show, and the other is Scarborough Faire.  This is a grand Renaisance Festival from April 12th to June 1st.  I went once and I’m determined to make it to every one from now on.  Gene, Becky and I herded on over there at the bright hour of 9AM.  (yeah, I know it’s not early, but for me, that’s harsh on a Sunday)  Mine eyes did feast upon many beautiful costumes and I also had a slight revelation:  Not all breasts look good squashed together in very tight costumes.  I did end up running into a number of people like the security guard for my building at Nortel, an old friend from Landmark of 4 years ago, and Erin Finn and Teel Flemming.  (You might remember these two from a Mardi Gras, and Food and Spirits Party from a while back.  They’re cool peeps.  Just trust me.)

Now, the pictures are uploaded and I’m ready to crash.Good night everybody!  (Good night Tommy!)