A Day in the Life...

So I drive up to Birch Run for another exciting day of racing. I'm not there for an hour and hooray! Races cancelled... Again. They thought it was going to rain or something, but it didn't... How depressing.

I finally get back into town and call up No Turn to see what's happenin for the night. Not really anything going down at all. He says he's probably going to catch up on some sleep by taking a nap. So I decide to turn on the Busch race at Talladega. Needless to say I caught up on some sleep too.

After watching Martin Truex Jr. whoop it up Little E style I get to studying up for my finance exam. That was eventful. I start up the practice exam and right when I finish, at the exact same time the CD I was listening to finished also. That... blew... my... mind.

"Hare Plane"

Boy, when I'm in the wonderful world of make believe I think of some trippy things. I'm sitting there listening... Well, not really listening... You all know what I mean... Anyway, I hear the prof say something about heirs. (For those of you that don't remember, this is my finance class.) So I start thinking... Heirs... Heirs... Errors... Heirs... Errors... "everybody's gotta learn sometiiime"... Heirs... Errors... Hey crazy!! (oh I had the Beck song "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" stuck in my head from the ES soundtrack all class long**) Is it coincidence that those two words sound alike? I mean, sometimes your heirs are... well... errors. That's Crazy!!

The professor for this class is sooo funny. He is THE biggest dork in the world. Finance is his life. He literally spends all his free time on the web monitoring the world of finance. He'll be like, "well just a couple hours ago Winn-Dixie went bankrupt." I'd turn to my friend Kristen and we'd just start laaaaughing. Today he made such a fool of himself. His overhead marker dies on him, so he takes a couple steps toward the trash and tosses the marker all smooth like half way across the room..... Completely misses the can by like 8 feet. I mean it wasn't even close! It just looked so silly... and I was laughing really hard... on the inside...


For some reason I've been wearing this cheeky little blue bracelet that glows in the dark. It really amuses me. I'll be walking into a room that's pitch black and be thinking "Hey my bracelet will light the way!" Well first of all it's not nearly bright enough to light up jack sh*t. Second, I get too distracted looking at this blue glowing band floating through the air that I lose track of where I'm at and walk into absolutely everything. Maybe I should take it off and throw it away before it's the end of me. It's a good thing I don't wear it on race day. Later in the night after the sun goes down I'd be making laps and all of a sudden you'd see me swerve straight into the wall. Spotter comes on the radio... "what happened there Mario Andretti?" I'd respond, "this damn glowing bracelet!"

Gotta give a quick shout out to my boy Add Em for finally watching The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. First day that comes out I am soooo buying it. And yea I want those shoes too Add Em.

By the way... First person that can tell me what the title of this blog comes from I'll give you $2. Let's say by Sunday night at midnight. You've got to be somebody I know. Post in the comment section.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

It is such a brilliant title that I decided to steal it myself.

Now if any of you have half a brain still after these crazy last weeks of classes (and you're up to date on this particular blog) you can probably guess what this is about. That's right, I finally bought the soundtrack for Eternal Sunshine. (hmmm... Any relationship to my newly obtained wealth?)

I've got to say, I really like it. Jon Brion has such a beautiful sound when he plays his music, it makes me want to stop whatever I'm doing and just sit there and groove. Although, he has a bad habit of putting in a bunch of music that is like 15-20 seconds long. I mean I know it's a soundtrack, but just when these tracks are developing into something wonderful, they just stop. (hmmm... That kind of reminds me of how some girls act that I either know or have heard about lately.)

The song by Beck on the CD is absolutely tremendous. There are several other tracks from various artists that are just alright, but they don't tickle my fancy. All in all the CD was a good buy for me, though I wouldn't recommend it for just anyone.

Datsyuk ain't got nothin on me!

Yesterday was one tremendously happy day for me, and that's really amazing seeing how I'm slowly coming up to my semi-annual exam go temporarily insane week. Surprisingly enough I have a relatively easy last week of classes and finals week. So rather then going insanely crazy like I usually do this time of year, you all will only see me be my regular crazy self.

At any rate, yesterday was awesome because I finally got my fat check from the government from paying too much income tax. And when I say fat check, I mean morbidly obese American style fat check. It was so wonderful to go to the credit union and drop it in my No Turn skinny checking account. (annnd for any non rHu members and or associates, that made no sense whatsoever.)

Now after I make my typical hour and 20 minute Tuesday stop to the wonderful world of make believe, (aka Finance 320) I found myself running a few "errands". With a freshly loaded checking account and a wish list a mile long of much "needed" playthings it can be quite a dangerous thing to go hitting up a few choice stores.

I'm now sitting here trying to figure out how I left the house this morning with a big check, and just happen to come back home with a car full of hockey equipment. Meh.. Whatever. Who's ready for some hockey?

ME!

Homework Lullabies

Ahhh the sweet soothing goodness of curling up on your bed and starting homework on a weekend.

There can't possibly be anything more mentally tiring than getting yourself to sit down and begin working on homework. Of course when done on the weekend it's 30 times worse. I've got my lab notebook due on monday and also an exam to study for that takes place that very same day. So I figure I can knock off a little bit of that work today to ease my suffering on Sunday. I spread my labs across my bed and open up my notebook and lab book. What happens next....

2 hours later I wake up to the sound of a cell phone ringing, and the voice of none other then Johnny G is on the other end. Boy was I dazed and confused on that one. (Hey! It's almost time to watch Dazed and Confused again! YAAAY!!**)

I didn't get one thing done on that stinking lab book. Hell I didn't even get 1 click of the pen in! I was out cold and it never felt better. If you've been keeping up to date you'll notice that's the second time I've failed to make any progress on this particular assignment. Yea screw lullabies for my kids as they're growing up, I'm just going to drop some homework into their cribs.


~Due to adverse weather conditions, racing for this weekend was canceled. Whoa adverse... Now that's a big word for me to be using. Take that Johnny G!!!

Frat boys, and their dark side of the moon.... *shutter*

Today I was sitting in the packaging study room putting together my lab notebook with my good friend/lab partner and we're having the time of our lives. Yea right! Anyway we should have been working hard most the afternoon but finally he's like, screw this, man lets go to the Lugnuts game. Sooo of cooourse we quit working and roll out to watch the good ole Lugnuts and drink some beers for $2 a pop. (Pop?? No.... it was beer not pop.) Of course as most of you know, when I say have some beers for me it's, have A beer.** (From now on, anytime you ever see "**" at the end of any sentence in my posts it means I'm laughing at myself and what I wrote. I'm sure that will happen an awful lot.**) Anyway, let me get going somewhere with this post.

Sadly the stadium was packed with a lot of frat boys and their pathetic rent a friends, i.e. each other. As I look around I notice all of their girl friends...... It's not a pretty sight. I mean what the crap, do they all decide to just settle because it's more important for their image to have a girlfriend? I don't know about the rest of you but to me that just puts them all even more under suspicion of being gay. (I just heard this for the first time tonight) Go Ramma Ramma Guy!

There's just NO way that I would ever be able to settle. If I'm dating a girl, it's for the long run, and I couldn't marry a girl who one day I'm thinking "she's... ok... kind of cute if I try hard enough." and then other days I'm thinking "man, this girl is... what am I thinking?" I don't know, maybe I'm just picky, but I will say this... Any of you girls out there that are lucky enough to ever get the chance to hang out with me, no worries! You can be sure that you are very cute.

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I'm driving my car today and I'm just cruisin through the gears, hit 5th.... then try to shift into 6th. Now I'm driving a Mercury Cougar, and most of you will know.... that car does not have 6 gears. How many of you out there that drive stick ever try to go one too many gears? Hell, I'm fortunate enough to have a 5 speed, but I guess I'm ready for a Corvette with its almost worthless 6th gear. Of course every time I'm going for that "6th" gear I realize I am driving waaay to fast and need to be slowing down a ton as it is. hehe

Took that exam in to get some more points.... picked up 21 percent!!! Is that insane or what??

Music.... Sweet Muuusic

Wow am I really into music right now. I need to buy an amazing stereo system so I can put it in my room.. crank it... and just sit there for hours not doing anything but groovin on the sound. (and maybe play a little minesweeper ha haaaa)

For a while it was the I Heart Huckabees soundtrack. For those of you that haven't seen this movie.... don't bother seeing it. Oh I loved it.... but remember, I'm not normal. It's so off the wall and trippy that any sane person would turn it off in the first 10 minutes. For me, though, it was spectacular. Anyway, the very next day after I watched this movie I bought the soundtrack and absolutely loved it. Just random instrumental songs with a couple songs with vocals by Jon Brion, the guy who did the music. Not very long after I picked up that CD I watched another movie that I later learned that he also did the music for, which was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Now that movie was just tremendous, and I think it would appeal to a few more people than I Heart Huckabees. But that's another soundtrack that I really need to pick up. One of the songs is sung by Beck, and it sounds really good.

Speaking of Beck, the current CD that I'm listening to a lot right now is his new album Guero. I like a lot of the songs that are on it, though it doesn't even compare to his last album Sea Change. It's good music to have playing in the background when you're just kind of chillin.

Today I finally had a chance to listen to the new Coldplay single. Man oh man oh MAN oh man I can't wait until June when that album is released. However, I'm a little worried, because it sounded a LOT like one of their old songs Clocks. The vocals were very different of course, but right away when that music starts you think, "what the hell? Is this a remix CD??" I still thought it was spectacular, but I'm holding my breath praying that they put a little more effort into the rest of the songs on the CD. Hmmm... that reminds me..... Creed really sucks. I'm glad that band is long gone. Anyway, if you want to hear the new single, check it out in the Coldplayer at coldplay.com.

Totally off subject, I got an exam back in my packaging design class today. After getting my first 100% of my college career on the first exam, on this one I pull off an impressive 62%. I start flipping through it to see what the crap, and I seriously think the professor was drinking when she graded it. One answer I was asked to list the things included in the.... I think it was the fair packaging act. So I list the 5 things and get no credit because supposedly I was wrong. Then underneath she writes what the answer is suppose to be. She lists the exact 5 things that I listed in my answer. What the hell??? Am I in the bizarro world or something??? Needless to say she's going to get an ear full and I best be getting a bunch of points in the end.

Alright.... I've had enough. I guess I better give a shout out to Add Em down in Tennessee before he decides to just ignore me when he comes up to Michigan next. Hey wait a minute! He would do that no matter what!

Racing - Auto City Speedway - Week 1

Lets see here I think 13th, 14th.... maybe 15th. I'm not sure, I lost track after the 7th or 8th car passed by me. The 30 lap feature saw me starting 14th after fighting a badly tight racecar (tight - doesn't want to turn and pushes up the racetrack) during qualifying. We got the car dialed in nicely for the heat race and I was ready to rock for the Feature.

At the start of the feature for about the first 3 or 4 laps I was bad fast. From the 14th slot I quickly jumped up to about 9th. I'm just about ready to start picking my way through the rest of the field when the car starts fading on me. I could hold my own and keep anyone from passing me, but I was slowly losing the cars in front of me. I hold on for a while, make it through a couple wrecks that happen up ahead until about lap 18 or 20. All of a sudden it was like someone flipped a switch and my car was absolute junk. I'd dive into the corners and the whole car would jump sideways on me. I just barely hang on for the remaining laps and limp away with a bad finish. I pull off the track and into my pit stall and we discover the root of my handling woes. Somehow I ran something over on the track putting a hole in my right rear tire. Throughout the race I was slowly losing air out of that tire, which of course is a baad thing when it comes to trying to make it through the turns. Oh well, we'll be ready for em next week.

On a lighter note, Jay (my uncle) won his feature event, starting off his final season of his loooong long racing career in the best way possible.

Hang on... cause you're in for a wild ride.

I decided that I should probably explain the title of the blog before people start thinking things that simply are just not true. First of all, the title is in no way some crazy metaphor of me and the way that I feel. I am by no means suicidal and am in no way shape or form anything resembling a monkey. Although some tripped out looney darwinism...ist may try to argue otherwise.

The suicidal monkey comes from the brilliantly simple video game Spy vs. Spy. In the game each spy has many different wacky weapons in which to use against the opposing spy, and the suicidal monkey is one of those weapons. You use it like a grenade, and toss it towards your foe. Just a cheeky little wind up toy monkey banging its cymbals together hopping wildly toward the nearest being it so happens to see first. When it gets close enough KABOOM!!!! It explodes like a stick of dynamite, severely injuring the poor unsuspecting soul.

There's only one way to counter an attack from a suicidal monkey..... And that is by throwing out a banana of course. You've got to love that random insanity that can only come from MAD magazine.

Anyway, in the video game that is life always remember.... carry many spare bananas cause you never know when you may encounter the Suicidal Monkey.

The time has come, the walrus said...

So it has.... Time for the world to hear of the random thoughts, incidences, and adventures that arise during my crazy life. Ye be warned though, it may not be pretty, and at times you may be left with thoughts like "what kind of drugs is this kid on?" The truth is no kinds of drugs, and as crazy as it might seem to some of you, I have never taken a drug in my life. Not because they're illegal, not because society deems them unacceptable, but because I am so scared that I will like them.

Seriously though, enjoy the randomness but always remember not to take anything too seriously. If you get offended... get over it. If you go through life worrying about every little thing that somebody says.... well then your life will just plain suck.