Today we pack and load up the Fescort.

Tomorrow we pack some more and I work 2-10.

Sunday we load up the Chevy, eat breakfast with Chuck's dad and partner, buy shoes, and drive to Council Bluffs.

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Rock Island, IL
January 30--The Big Wu

Lincoln, NE
February 28--Yonder Mountain String Band
March 1--Galactic

I saw on Jambase that Dexter Grove is going to be playing in Lincoln, NE the weekend after my birthday next month. Does anyone have an opinion or info about them you'd like to share? I saw on their website the expression "acid folk music". I started downloading a few mp3s from their site but it's goin to take hours for that to finish. Also they're ( Read more... )

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Chuck and I made this icon of Abe together last night. He finally figured out how to transfer the pictures from our digital camera from our other computer to this one. I'll post pictures from this past Christmas later.

Chuck went out last night with Chad (his friend since forever) and about twenty other people. Chad live with us during my sophomore year at Iowa State. He is moving to Phoenix this week. We were wondering if the climate change would speed up his metabolism. Maybe not; it actually reached the low 40s here today. Chuck got home around 5AM. No one ( Read more... )

Chuck's mom went ahead and gave us $2000 to help us with our move in a few weeks. Although Patty didn't have to give us the money, Chuck and I consider this as Chuck and Abe's inheritance from his grandparents. You'll remember that his grandfather passed away last fall (his grandmother died Nov. 2002). Chuck was their only grandchild and Abe their ( Read more... )

One weekend someone left their paperback copy of 'Mystic River' at work. I got through about half of it before they took it home. Chuck's out renting the movie now. Earlier I was reading a magazine I rented from the library that had a snippet about Sean Penn. Inside my head alarms of *spoiler!* are going off, but do I stop reading? No. And now I'm ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about how my experience as a Clintonian is ending soon, and what I've learned here. Although I bitch about my MICL a lot in my journal, I think I've learned the most from her. Mainly, I've figured out that she possesses many traits that I'd like to steer clear of. I don't want to give up on life at an early age, or abuse ( Read more... )