Stuff

1) I like watermelon and you should too.

2) June 28, today, is the all important National Handshake Day.

3) Apparently I'm worth $1,967,100 according to Human for Sale.com which I found through Ben who found it through Marie.

Weekend

Went to Charlotte on Friday for Katie and Joel's wedding which was on Saturday. Friday night I checked into my nice $35/night second floor room at the Courtyard in South Park. Saturday morning brought the wedding at 11:30 at Covenant Presbyterian Church on East Morehead St. The church is beautiful and has awesome, large stained glass windows. The wedding went off without a hitch and then we all went to the reception at the Morehead Inn. I think everyone had a great time at the reception eating good food, catching up with old friends, and gettin' jiggy wit it (or at least trying to). After the wedding I went back to the hotel and changed clothes and then drove around uptown and the south end looking at all of the new building going on. Charlotte has some impressive infill projects that are inspiring for my future endeavors. For dinner I got takeout from Moe's on East Blvd and as I was leaving I saw Sarah, Carter, and another guy walking to Outback. I woke up this morning and watched the implosion of the old convention center in Uptown on tv. I then drove through downtown Greenville on the way home on the urging of dad and Susanna, and it was worth the side trip. Downtown Greenville, while not as big as CLT, has a lot going on as well. Main Street is beautifully tree lined and at the end is a great park with a water fall right in the middle of town. After Greenville I head back down 85 and stopped at the Greasy V and had lunch in the Explorer at the drive up.

Go here to see pics from this weekend on my moblog.

Musical Baton

Katie passed me the baton so here's my leg of the relay.

Total volume of music files on my computer:
7.29 gb on my tablet, I think my 20 gb ipod has 11 gigs or so. My external hard drive has all of my music but that's at my dad's office with my desktop that's getting fixed.

Last CD I bought:
Some CDRs. I usually buy singles on itunes now.

Song playing right now:
Some piano player on Regis and Kelly

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me (I had to think about this a lot because, as most of you know, I don't pay attention to lyrics that much and they just blend into the music):

"Linus and Lucy" by Unknown, played this in one of our marching shows in high school and I still remember the drum parts, good times. Pretty much any song we played in band means a lot.

"Here I am Lord" we sang it at my Eagle Scout ceremony and it's just a cool song

"Run Around" by Blues Traveler. Montreat.

"Freak a Leak" by Petey Pablo. A rap song following up two churchy things. It was always on last summer on one of the XM stations in Mark's Accord when we drove around ATL.

"Why Georgia" by John Mayer. I would always listen to that song on the way back to Tech from Carrollton.

I'm sure I'll think of some more and may post those too. I now pass the baton to Melissa who is sure to have at least one Jackson Browne song on her list.

Edited to add another song:
"3x5" by John Mayer. An amazing song that got me out of a big rut of looking at things from a technical and photographic perspective. Kind of hard to explain but made me want to experience things instead of capture them.

Yo

I'm bored so I figured I'd update since nobody is around to talk to online or do stuff with in person. I helped dad install some new computers for one of his clients on Monday, and then helped mom in her classroom for the umpteenth time this summer today. This weekend I'll be in Charlotte for Katie and Joel's wedding. I'll be driving up on Friday and will be staying in my less than half price per night room at the Courtyard in South Park thanks to Priceline and Biddingfortravel.com. Regular price on the room is $80/night but I got it for $35/night so I'm pretty pleased with my first Priceline experience.

"So much to say"

So I've been a blogging slacker for the last month. I finally am motivated to update thanks to my friend JLew's brief update. Below you'll find a list of what I've done over the last month accompanied with pics from the major events.

Disclaimer: If you have dialup like me I appologize for the length of the post and the number of pics. I've resized and reduced the quality of the pics I posted so hopefully they won't take too long to download.

May 13: DCRP graduation at the Friday Center followed by dinner at the Angus Barn

2005 DCRP Graduating Class

Some friends from school: Jen, Jeff, Austin, Me


May 15: UNC graduation at Kenan Stadium, grad students got to sit on the field. Susanna and I broke up.

Post Graduation: Emily, Mom, Me, Dad

Susanna and me post graduation


May 17-19: Camping and fishing on the Outer Banks with my dad. I got to drive the Explorer on the beach! Too bad I didn't catch anything. We also drove to my grandmother's farm in Chocowinity, NC.

Our campsite

Gotta follow the rules

About to test the 4wd

Didn't get stuck

Another non-stuck shot

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Bodie Island Lighthouse

Sunset over Pamlico Sound

I should work for Ford

Some fishing and reading

Dad looking over the Pamilco River on a free ferry

The Explorer rides the ferry too

Overgrown driveway at the farm

The old farmhouse

The tobacco barn


May 20-21: Packing and cleaning E4


May 22: Drove home to Carrollton
May 23: Drove back to Elon to my grandparents'
May 24: Interview with KB Home in Raleigh; saw The Incredibles with Susanna
May 25: Interview with CAHEC in Raleigh
May 26: Drove back to Carrollton
May 28: Sat 3rd row on the 3rd base line at the Braves game



May 31-June 3: Helped mom move into her new classroom
June 4: Kris' farewell dinner in Douglasville
June 7: Phone Interview with Wachovia Capital Markets
June 9: Road trip with Josh to Montreat to join the CPC Youth Group. We drove along the Blue Ridge Pkwy and down a Forest Service road...good times.

Sitting on top of Black Balsam Knob off the Blue Ridge Pkwy. It was awesome because I could only hear nature, no annoying cars or airplanes; an all too rare occurance.

That's Cold Mtn in the distance. That black blob could be a UFO.

Josh admiring the scenery

A trout hatchery near Brevard, NC

Anderson Auditorium before Thursday night worship

Josh and his mom before worship

CPC Youth

The view from the Neale House porch at Montreat

June 11: Road trip back to Carrollton, we went through Cashiers and Highlands and had some awesome BBQ. Who wants to buy me a house up there?
June 13: Second phone interview with WCM. Helped Shaun move a couch to his new condo.

Looking west from the Shaun's condo on the 21st floor

Looking down into the parking circle


June 14: Did a lot of yard work and implemented the Brian Oxford Kudzu Eradication Program. Updated the blog.