this past weekend has been a blur.it's been busy and kept me occupied.Friday night i was home alone watching the Olympic ceremonies. If you did not catch them, it was absolutely brilliant and beautiful. check out some of these pictures.(http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/2008_olympics_opening_ceremony.html)

Joe came home and invited me upstairs to drink a few beers. I was down, as Krissy went to bed after she got home from work. What went from having a few beers, turned into a night of epic proportions. Aaron and Emo Steve ended up joining in on the fun, and i do say so myself, my stomach hurt bad from laughing so damn hard. I took some photos of the madness.. I was just having fun using my camera again.

and the rest can be seen here..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryedood

Saturday, I chilled out watching some Olypmics and then Krissy and I had to drive to Navarre, Ohio. Her cousins' grandmother passed away, so they had the wake after party things at her cousins house. We got there and shot the shit with her stepdad. Ate some good food and just hung out with her family. It was a nice time.

Sunday, We then had family stuff to do at my parents house. We were celebrating my nephew's birthday. So we headed over there for a cookout. It was a good time, but i ate to much food and felt like crap for the entire rest of the night.

We, Hockey Fight!, are playing a bunch fo shows coming up. I'm pretty stoked on it. I am also stoked to go get my Black Flag tattoo. Hopefully that will happen sunday before the show.

photography

i took my camera to the show on Monday night. I havent snapped a picture with it in over a year and a half i think. I think i took 145 pics and about 40 of them were semi decent. explore for yourself...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryedood

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i realized something today...
i realized that i really miss putting photographs into photo albums.
i used to jam pack my photo albums with tons of pictures and i havent done that in over 3 years. I think i'm going to start to do that again. I always love looking at old photos in my albums. And i'm really angry that when my desktop took a shit last year, i lost a ton of photographs that were very dear to my heart. and i miss that a lot.

I also miss taking pictures of bands.
i wish i could get out more to take photographs. i think i was somewhat good at taking them.

from here on out, i am going to start printing my photos again and filling up photo albums.

day 6 of vacation

day 6 started off very rough!
waking up with a horrendous hangover and little sleep. I had to be up at 7am. My brother was meeting me at 8am to head on out to the WGC Bridgestone PGA CHampionship in Akron. I took a shower and took 4 advil's and drank 2 cups of coffee. I was still in a world of shit when my brother came.

We headed out and arrived at the golf course around 9:30am. Got in and walked around a few holes just checking out the course. This is the 3rd year i've been there, so i was familiar with the course. We followed around a few guys for a few holes. It's somewhat refreshing to see pro's miss hit shots and make some mistakes.

Around 11am we headed over to the tent where we got free food and free drinks. Which is what i was needing. I ate like a horse and drank 3 20oz bottles of water in less than 30 minutes to rehydrate myself. After we ate we followed around a few more guys, the leaders, and then headed out around 3:30.

I walked so much that day. But all that walking helped me walk off my hangover. So by noon, i was in good shape. just really tired from walking that whole course about 5 times over in the hot sun.

I came home from the golf tournament and took a nap. Joe, Krissy and Courtney and I were going to go to the tatoo parlor to get some ink done. too bad we didnt think of making an appointment. so we ended up not getting anything done.

So instead of tattoo's we went and got some food at angelo's. Had a nice meal there, although the service was not so good there either. which is odd because it usually is really good there, being a small small place. but they were pretty busy.

After dinner we all ended up going to lakewood park and sat by the water and watched the waves crash into the walls. it was very relaxing and calm. We came back and Joe and I got some beers, while we waited for some other people to get back from the weakerthans show. Krissy went to bed so we hung out up on Joe's porch til about 2:30am. I came back home around then and ended up watching Ferris Buellers Day Off til 5am.

I didnt sleep al that well last night. So i ended up sleeping on the couch because i didn't want my tossing and turning to wake up krissy. she seemed like she was in a deep sleep. so i let her be.

day 5 of vacation

day 5 of vacation started off good. woke up refreshed and was ready to have a good day. And a good day it was. Brianna stayed home from school, because i had to meet up with krissy's mom in the afternoon. so no use taking her to day care for like 4 hours.

joe decided he would take a ride with me to drop off brianna for the weekend. this way we could go and get some errands we needed to take care of done. we drove down to fairlawn and met up with krissy's mom. but before hand we ended up going into a pet store by where we meet up. joe fell in love with a little dog there. i could tell he was bummed out about it and wanted to buy that dog. i dont blame him, that dog was awesomely cute.

we dropped off brianna and then headed to get some food. we ended up going to the winking lizard by summit mall. we got sat in the most bullshit seat in the place. the very back corner of the bar area, right by the bathroom/kitchen doors. Our service was fucking bullshit. the server took forver to take our drink order, never came back to the table, and never offered us refills etc.. shit time. come to think of it, everytime i go to a winking lizard i have horrible service unless i sit directly at the bar.

after food we ended up going to our practice spot to pay the rent for the space. by that time jason had called and was done with his meeting and was ready to meet up. gave him directions to my house, and just chilled at my house for a bit before we ended up heading over to chris' house for a bar-b-q.

i ended up riding my bike over, due to me wanting to get drunk and not drive my car. and that is exactly what i did. i got epic-ly drunk. i dont think ive gotten that drunk and had a good time in a long as time. i blame it on wizard staff.** (wizard staffing is basically taking a beer can and taking the empty one to the bottom with duct tape, and repeating as you start a new beer)

** see photographic evidence at bottom of post.

i had an amazing time at chris' house. so much fun that i couldnt even ride my bike. although i did end up riding home after a rather epic conversation upon my leave. (i wont go into what i said) i didn't remember my ride home at all. i do however remember feeling like absolute garbage when i did get home. i thought i was going to puke, so i went to the bathroom and ended up laying on the floor and had to be woken up by krissy in the middle of the night.

Jason and I and our Wizard Staff's


more photographic evidence can be found here...
http://flickr.com/photos/ryedood/sets/72157606523678346/

and here...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suburban_iconoclast/sets/72157606506858370/

day 4 of vacation

yesterday was a good day.i didnt really do much. which is what i had planned on doing. i layed in bed until about 11am. which is by far the longest ive slept in a long time. usually i'm up at the butt crack of dawn everyday, no matter what. so lounging around was good.

we took brianna up to get enrolled in school. school starts august 27th.after we took her to get enrolled, we ended up going over to Lowe's and Target and then lunch at Chik-Fil-A. I am in love with their new salads there.

I've started to eat a bit more healthier as of late. its beeen good. and i'm starting to feel better. ive also been riding my bike again. which has been good. I really want to start losing this guy that I have gained. and so far its been slimming down. I'm going to start limiting myself from fast food.

After we returned from running errands we cam back and cleaned out the pool. it was pretty gross. there were bugs growing/swimming in there. So we decided to get a tarp to put over it for the time being.

After all that was done, Chris, Joe, Burrows and Zbear came over and we started watching Band of Brothers.