— if you can name the tour or song that the video on the led is from in the picture above, I’ll buy you ice cream —

I spent the better part of my day yesterday trying to figure what somebody else is thinking. I learned a couple things out of it, I learned that being busy is simply something that is what you make it. Or better it’s become a preference, like, I prefer to be busy so I don’t have to do things for you. Busy has become the new excuse for lazy, or better yet negligence, ignorance, and self gratifying, to be busy means you’re important, or you have all this stuff going on in your life.

I’m to blame for this too, I personally have a list that keeps me going from when I wake up till I go to bed, some of it is work, some it is home stuff, and the two are always entwined but I stay “busy”, I don’t always accomplish all of it, because there’s to much on the list, you and I want to say to that, I’m so “busy”, I think it’s just life.  Don’t get me wrong, there can be things that take up time out of your day that shouldn’t, (Work) or it’s taking time from the things that matter to you, like family, wife, kids, xbox etc.

The point is I’m getting tired of hearing how busy everybody is, myself included, whatever happen to people that are “busy” getting help from people that are not busy.  But you don’t see that any more, because everybody is to busy to help anybody.  Because of our rapid and “busy” lives, we have become more self absorbed, more inwardly focused, we’re just so busy we can’t stop and say hello to your neighbor or the little old lady that’s making conversation with the checkout person!  Doesn’t that drive you crazy!  Because we just don’t have time to make someone else feel appreciated, or like a human!  We’ve been working all day and we have to make it home to eat, shower, do laundry watch “Fringe” and go to bed.

There I said it, I’m tired of being to busy to be a good person.  What about you?

I’ve been trying a little at a time to tweak this and that, and to take a brief moment to post something.

If you’re wondering what the picture has to do with this post, It doesn’t.

Workin’ hard. I havent been able to post anything in a while, the last festival had just enough Internet to Check your email, so i get home yesterday, I get on th internet and start checking a few things, and saw that my blog needed updating so I updated, and when it was finished, it had completely changed the whole look of my site. So that’s awesome.

So I guess till I can I find some time to sit down and play with the site it’s just going to have to look like this.

Since I can remember I’ve always had a nickname, or have been called by everything other than my first name, most common is my last name, growing up playing sports you get use to hearing last names being yelled from the dugouts and sidelines, even now most of the people I know or the guys on the road I work with, we use our last names when talking about or talking to someone, it’s just easier.  But there’s also nicknames, most have to do like any nickname with a moment in time or place.  I’ve had a few, but one nickname has stuck with me for a long time other than “red” has been yeti, and the funny thing is, it’s not a nickname that people call me when they’re talking to me, I’ve never heard anybody say “Hey Yeti, what’s up?”  It’s always in the third person, like “don’t piss off the yeti”, that one is most common to new people or union hands, or “you’re looking for the red yeti”, and “there’s so much bus food because we have the yeti”.  The last one I think is more of fat joke, but it’s kinda funny that the nickname has stuck around.

Originally a lighting guy (Danny Z.) was the first to call me the name, what seems like a long time ago, and it’s just kinda stuck with me.  Some how, I’m not the type to go around and introduce myself as a the nickname, like some people I know.

I love the pictures that are above, my buddy Harry took these and sent them to me.  I just need to figure out how to get these and hang them in my office.

We just started season 2, of which season 2 is coming to a close this Thursday, I’m not sure if we’ll make it by then, but we’ll be close, she’s been wanting to watch like 4 episodes a night, I love her.

The Roadshow tour was a lot of fun, just a good group of guys on the crew, it for the most part was the same crew as last year, with some new fella’s added on for extra support in certain areas of the show, when you have such a tight nit group of guys and for the most part no bickering between departments, it just makes for an easy tour, which this was.

Now that I’m home, as you can see in the picture, one of the things I’m going to be tackling is a game I’ve been waiting for for years!  The newest Splinter Cell game is out, I’ve posted several times about my excitement about this game in the past, it’s been a rumor for ever it seems, and then it was confirmed, and kept having the release date changed due to the story changing and etc.. All I have to say is it came out just in time for birthday, Patti knowing that I’m a big fan went and got me the game.  Lets just say that I’m hooked, it’s an amazing game!!  So if don’t post anything for a couple days, it’s because I’m busy being Sam Fisher.

You really should check it out.    Click here

So Cedar Rapids catering wasn’t the best for lunch, usually when this happens we either suck it up or head to the bus and have some cereal,  but today we all decided to head out because we were hungry, so we went to this place called the “Flying Wienie”…….. it was a hotdog joint, that tasted really good, but the people working there were for sure hot dog nazi’s.  One of our guys tried to order 2 or 3 different things, and the guy working there kept telling him “no, you don’t want that”.   And the lady, that took my order kept acting like I’d been there before, like the lunch lady in school when you ask her the same question everyday and she has that really annoyed look and is very snippy, yea that was this lady.  But the food was way better than what we had for catering.

My lunch, I’m regretting the chili cheese dog a little now.

Today is the last show on this little tour I’m on, it’ll be the last time I hear people yell at the band to play free bird, and then actually hear it be played.

I’ve learned so much on this tour, as you may get from my last post, I haven’t exactly been excited about the crew out here, but it’s been a good learning experience. I don’t want to go into to much of what I’ve learned because I have to get through the day yet.