campfire anthems____________________________burning away

things come and things go.  i’m a firm believer that nothing  in life stays the same, and that isn’t a bad thing.  if people never changed they would develop into a mundane person living a stagnant life.  i’ve done a lot of changing over the past months and am actually very excited about what the future holds for me.  now here’s the thing.  as excited as i am, i no longer have the desire to share it with you.

::side note - i just reread that last sentence and yes, i realize how cold that sounds::

this website has helped me have an escape. its helped me vent.  its been a great release.  i know that though it i have learned a great deal about myself and for that i am most appreciative.  its been a little over a year now since that first post, and now i get to share with you my last.

i’d like to thank you for riding along with me for the journey that is my life.  i’m not shutting the site down, mainly because i have reference to this site on my business cards.  even though i’m a different person than i was during the stages of campfire anthems, i have nothing i’m ashamed of and nothing to hide about my past.  i’m not sorry for anything i ever wrote or posted.

so as i start a new chapter of my life and begin to turn the page of time, i bid you adieu and offer my thanks.  its been a fun ride, but as any fun ride goes, you eventually have to get off and walk away.

sometimes this is how i feel about twitter.  this video is sort of longer, but well worth the 4 minutes and 27 seconds of life you will never get back.  maybe you feel like this too.

i think that we all have little oddities that bring us pleasure.  driving in the car last night on the way home from wal-mart, i discovered an interesting anomaly about myself.  i was waiting a red light in the turn lane and had my turn indicator blinker on, seeing as how i am a considerate driver.  ::side note:: i hate people that drive and don’t use their blinkers.  they just stop and turn.  how inconsiderate do you have to be to do this?  how hard is it to shift the turn indicator blinker lever into the up or down position?

i digress.  so i’m sitting in the turn lane with my blinker on.  i have the radio on at a reasonable volume level.  loud enough to hear clearly, but low enough to hear the “click, click, click” of the blinker droning in the background.  now, i can’t tell you which song was on the radio at this exact point in time but the clicking of the blinker perfectly matched in sync with the tempo of the song.

i was overwhelmed with joy about this.  in all my years of driving and riding in cars, i don’t think this has ever happened before.  i mean, i’ve thought about how satisfying it would be if that did ever happen, but i didn’t know just how much pleasure i could actually get from it.

i know.  now you think i’m a whack job.  don’t worry, though, here’s your chance to join me.  what is something out of the ordinary that brings you pleasure?  i know that’s a dangerous question to ask on the internet, but just try not to make it grossly inappropriate.  that’s your own business.

but seriously, if you have a valid answer, comment away!

attention: official contest question!!!

if you were in a band, what would you name it? there may be a sweet prize for the person who comes up with the best name.

ready…go!

karma.  that’s all there is to it.  i don’t know if you have heard yet, but over the weekend a fishing boat went missing that had several nfl players on board.  now when i open with the word karma, i do not mean that any of the people on board the vessel did anything to deserve being lost at sea.  what i mean is, i believe that the manufacturer of the sea worthy ship did something that doomed its fate from its inception.  everglades boats said that their boat is “unsinkable.”  i will never get on a boat than any man has dubbed unsinkable.  that’s just asking for trouble.  i seem to recall another time in history when a ship was claimed to not even be sinkable by god himself, and we all know the fate of the titanic.

click here to read the full article and learn more about this piece of news

i know that today is the second day of the month, but i didn’t have access to this graphic over the weekend.  as usual, this can be downloaded in the large file format above under the wallpapers tab.

i wasn’t going to blog today, but then i came across this article.  now i’m not one of those metro guys that would ever get a pedicure in the first place, but would anyone actually get one in which fish eat the dead skin off of your feet and hands?  that’s terrible.

go read this article now and see if you aren’t as disgusted as i am.

you could have probably guessed this but i’m going to say it anyways. i’m no mechanic. i think the most i’ve ever done to a car was install audio components and change an air filter. so when my check engine light came on last wednesday, i knew it was time to take it by the family mechanic.

i just got the call and they said something about part of the car’s computer (they used fancy letters and lingo) has gone bad. apparently its pretty important. it regulates some things, including (possibly) the exhaust manifold??? does that sound right?

regardless, i’m soon to be down $200, which gets me thinking. How much of that cost is parts and how much is labor? honestly, i don’t think i even want to know the answer. so let me ask you, what was the last thing you had to fix on your vehicle and how much did it run you?

hurry!

i’ve always tried to keep things pretty legit on this site.  sure, sometimes things aren’t all that politically correct or i might dive into a gray area of something and give my opinion, but i’ve never been crude.  well, today that all changes.  i don’t really feel too bad about it, though, because even this guy is guilty of it.

before i travel down that path and hang my head low for all to see i really want to say that i never thought i’d ever be talking about such a topic in an open and public forum.  so without any further procrastination…

i hate sitting on a toilet seat that is warm.  i just experienced this in the office.  its not because there is something nice and refreshing about a cold toilet seat, it just means that there has been a significant period of time that no one else has been on it.  i mean, come on, the things that go through your head when you sit on a warm seat can be terrifying.  you wonder who the last person was that used the thing for something foul.  then you begin to think about all the people around the office, and what kind of gross things that could wrong with them.  at least with a cold seat the mind steers clear of these notions.

so now i have to ask.  am i the only one that has an issue with warm seat syndrome?  are there any other freaks out there like me?  or maybe, are my concerns valid/normal?

i found a really cool band yesterday and i thought i’d share them with you.  they aren’t new, so you may have heard these guys before, but i never had.  their name is delta spirit.  i purchased their album last night and upon further review i honestly can’t compare them to anyone else.  they are a bluesy, folky, acoustic guitar and piano driven band that sounds like something straight out of “oh brother where art thou?“.

if you’re looking for something different you should totally check these guys out.  and since i started playing downtown on friday nights (sometimes), i’m totally going to learn a couple of their songs to perform.  may the spirit be with you.