Haha!

I'm going fishing up north.  See ya Monday.  Don't you dare try calling as I won't have reception/the want to talk to you....

How Do You Drown a Blonde?

Everytime I visit this I eventually break into tears from laughing. Oh, and for those of you keeping score- I am alone with nobody to do my typical 'fake laugh at your incredibly un-funny joke.' No, my friends, this is high comedy....

Here ya go.....

Widget (and not the world watcher)

I forgot that I need for you to know that I writing this blog from my new Blogger widget on the dashboard of my Mac.  I'm becoming such an Apple geek.  I love it.

Oh, and if you have a blog that doesn't have an rss feed then I'm going to need you to go ahead and get that done, so I can moniter your blog from my RSS scrolling widget....

Like River Phoenix From the Ashes....

Well, my friends, the time has finally arrived. I will no longer have an excuse to not blog, at least a computer excuse that is. I sold the keyboard just so I could be more connected with the likes of you turds. Please welcome a new Mac Mini to the Rowles household. Pretty exciting if you ask me. For you spec geeks: 1.5GHZ single core processor with the Intel chip set, 1 gig of ram on the motherboard upgradable to 2 gigs, 60 gig hard drive and the ever famous Superdrive DVDRW. $700. Brand new.

Its been a busy couple of months. I didn't say exciting, just busy. Work has kept me very occupied and at times wanting to pursue a career in shoveling manure out of a burning vat of acid, but I'm plugging away and hopefully in at year, if things go as planned I will chugging beers with fellow store managers at the manager retreat. GC is sending me off to LA for a manager in training workshop for a couple of days in mid-June (Bradley, I truly hope my schedule allows us a romantic evening together). Other than that for the most part I'm just stressed out of my mind. All I can think about is work and my numbers. I can't tell if I want my own store for the pay or just to get the heck out of commissioned sales. It kills me. However, a light does exist at the end of the tunnel, or should I say weekend. Jessie and I are headed up to the cabin to finally relax and get some much needed walleye in our lives. As King David and Jeff Buckley once said, "Hallelujah."

And hallelujah is right.

Now admit it...you miss me....

Soon, my friends, we will see a new era of Marty and Jessie on the interwebthingy. Maybe. We just need to get the super fast internet and then life could be better for you. I wish I could say more, but I'm in Chicago and we're about to go to Magnificent Mile and Jessie will be in shopper's paradise. Maybe I'll buy Nomar jersey at half price. Welp, check back eventually...maybe I'll be better....

Making One Bread

Sonnet XLVIII

Two happy lovers make one bread,
a single moon drop in the grass.
Walking, they cast two shadows that flow together;
waking, they leave one sun empty in their bed.

Of all the possible truths, they chose the day;
they held it, not with ropes but with an aroma.
They did not shred the peace; they did not shatter words;
their happiness is a transparent tower.

The air and wine accompany the lovers.
The night delights them with its joyous petals.
They have a right to all the carnations.

Two happy lovers, without an ending, with no death,
they are born, they die, many times while they live:
they have the eternal life of the Natural.

— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets (Cien sonetos de amor)

I love you, honey. Happy anniversery.

Finally

*No more broken delete key, no more moniter that is coming unhinged from the keyboard, no more getting a billion popups, no more having to deal with fifteen error messages saying that IE doesn't work, no more bumping the computer the wrong way brings it to a deadly hault, no more Windows 98....

*More producing music on my computer, more listening to music on my computer, more producing and listening to said music through this, you may see it as a disadvantage having 56k (and really I'm just trying my best to cope with it) but I see it as an advantage because now while the page is loading I just spin in my chair and play this, my chair is actually a computer chair, i guess to simply sum it up I don't want to vomit all over myself whenever I log onto the internet. Yeah, I got a new computer, reformatted my old hard drive and my life is no longer in shambles. Thanks Drew.

*I've never done one of these. I think they're stupid.

36 things you might not know about me...

1. what color is your underwear right now? Its obvious some horny high school kid wrote this to his crush pretending it was a chain quiz, but simply just wanted to know what color her underwear is. Well sonny, the jokes on you because I don't wear underwear.
2. What are you listening to right now? Amos Lee
3. What are the last 2 digits in your phone number? 84 (God, I miss you Randy...cash money, homey...cash money....)
4. What was the last thing you ate? Probably Cooler Ranch Doritos
5. If you were a crayon what color would you be? As Jessie would say, "This question's gay."
6. How is the weather right now? It's my day off, I don't go outside.
7. Last person you talked to on the phone? Drew
8. Whats the first thing you notice about the opposite sex? 'She's not as hot as Jessie'
9. Favorite Food? Tacos
10. Do you drink? Only when I'm alone
11. Do you smoke? Absolutely
12. Ever get so drunk you dont remember? Once again this is the horny teenager trying to get some dirt on her....
13. Hair color? Brown
14. Eye color? Brown
15. Favorite TV Show? Laguna Beach...I need my fix....
16. Favorite Month? May
17. Have you ever cried for no reason? I have some emo in me.
18. Last Movie you Watched? Left Side! Strong Side! Left Side! Strong Side! Ahhhh!!
19. Favorite Day of the Year? This Sunday
20. Are you too shy to ask someone out? Poor kid....
21. Hugs or Kisses? Either one as long as they don't have almonds
22. Chocolate or Vanilla? Nothing clever comes to mind....
23. What books are you reading? Z's been letting me borrow Term Limits by Vince Flynn. That was about a month ago....
24. Piercings/Tattoos? I had my eyebrow pierced on a trip to Texas. Two months later I realized I wasn't "alternative" enough to have it. And Jessie's dad nearly castrated me.
25. Favorite movie? Left Side! Strong Side! Left Side! Strong Side! Ahhh!....Actually I don't know if that really is, I just wanted to be clever.
26. Any pets? Hank and Wally.
27. AIM? debussy100.
28. Butter, Plain or Salted popcorn? That's none of your business and as a matter of fact a pretty rude question.
29. dogs or cats? Hank and Wally
30. Favorite Flower? Lady Slipper...and you thought I'd be sarcastic on this one....
31. Have you ever fired a gun? Yes. At camp as a kid.
32. Do you like to travel by plane as opposed to car? 33. Right handed or left handed? You sick bastard.
34. How many pillows do you sleep with? 2
35. Who are you missing right now? 1. Jessie 2. Drew. I don't work with either of them.
36. Who famous do you think is gorgeous/handsome? I'm not going to answer a question with such awkward grammer. For those of you keeping track that is the second post I have mentioned Amos Lee and Holly Williams in the same post. I refuse to branch out. Oh, and yes, Drew did get three mentions in this blog. I owed him big, besides I know he'll comment.

*Thanks. I now feel much worse then when I started this post. That took way to much of my life away.