Sanity's just another dream away

Alright, a quick hitter.

1- Well today was Exhibit A on why living in Wisconsin blows four months of the year.

Three weeks ago I was golfing.

This morning I got stuck in an intersection outside my place because I was going slightly up hill in eight inches of unplowed snow. My little Toyota didn't stand a chance. I had to put the car in reverse, find the first driveway I could roll up, put the car in drive and slingshot my way through what I hoped would be an open intersection.

A block later I skidded my way halfway into a major intersection and was nearly killed by a jeep going 45 mph.

Then I broke two traffic laws when I went through a red light and made an illegal turn because at the moment no one was coming and I had enough momentum to move.

So then I finally get to work and notice a distinct lack of vehicles in the parking lot. I tried to slow down and make the turn (I was again driving on an unplowed road) and I couldn't. No way could I have gone in reverse so I just kept on driving and hoped to do better the second time around.

When I finally made it in, there were five of the 25 SP employees around. Apparently some of us got calls that there wasn't any school today. A simple email to the staff wouldn't have sufficed?

Meh. Whatever.

Like I said, the weather in this state blows.

2 - You reap what you sow. As much as I hate referring to anything biblical, I think it holds true. Treat people with kindness and respect and good things will come about. Treat people carelessly and it's going to come back to bite you in the ass.

When it does, don't expect a motherfucking pity-party from me.

3 - Monday night made me a believer in the Packers D. Clay Matthews Jr is a freaking stud. Raji had his best game as a pro. Brad Jones looked like a potential impact player. Three stud starters in the front seven from one draft alone? Possible.

4 - I'd love for someone to give me a reason why people can't be open and honest in a relationship. Whether it's 17 years of marriage, four months of dating or someone you've only been seeing casually, recent evidence suggests that people would rather be shut-off or lie than just say what's on their minds.

It wasn't a good weekend for a few of the King boys in this regard.

5 - I should be in danger of getting burned out on Orianthi, but I don't see that happening any time soon.

Suffocated is probably the best song I've heard this year.



I love it. Lyrics, riffs, vocals. Yea it's straight forward but what it does it does well.

Second favorite tune on the album is Drive Away. It's got some blues guitar going on and it's a mellow change up from some of her other good tunes.

Here's an acoustic version I'm digging:



There are two or three songs I'm not in love with, but top to bottom this is the best thing I've heard all year. If you pick it up and want to go straight to the goods, here's how I'm ranking the songs.

1 - Suffocated

2 - Drive Away
3 - Bad News
4 - According to You


5 - Feels like Home
6 - Think like a Man

7 - Highly Strung



8 - God Only Knows
9 - Untogether
10 - Believe


11 - What's it gonna be

The top four are basically awesome, with Suffocated a strong candidate to make my all-time list. Five, six and seven are definitely solid. Highly Strung is a good instrumental. After that the album falls off a cliff but only What's it Gonna Be is unlistenable.

6 - Am I the only person who didn't find Arrested Development to be remotely entertaining?

I ask because I recently read a list of the top 20 shows of the decade and I hated the top two, The Wire and AD. The Wire is coma inducing and Arrested Development was the equivalent of watching three retarded chimps picking feces out of each other's hair.

But if you say you didn't enjoy AD it's like you insulted someone's mother. I've never seen a group get so defensive as I have when said I didn't think it was a funny show.

7 - Another reason my stay in Wausau was dope: my power bill in the winter. I lived in an upper, a nice one, when I was over there. I didn't turn the heat on once that winter. My power bill was around $24 every month. They actually credited me because I used such little electricity.

Over here my bill is five times as much. What the fuck is going on?

8 - Last weekend was absolutely awful. Maybe one of the worst I'd had in years. On Sunday I was looking forward to getting back to work.

This weekend is gonna be different. No traveling, no hosting guests. Doing nothing will never seem so relaxing.

9 - Your word of the day is 'somnambulant'. My text editor doesn't like it but Merriam's does. So does Strung Out when they wrote a song I love.



10 - 2:40 in the morning. G'night folks.