Dirty Money

Dirty Money is from Gainesville.  They played a show in the shed at OAF on Friday night.  It was a small turnout, but a lot of fun nonetheless.  

Good tunes, and good dudes.  I talked to most of the members before and after the show around the bonfire, and they all seemed like solid people.  Give 'em a listen.  

2008: Year in Review

+Spending New Year's Eve in Amsterdam w/ my best friend of 16 years

+Raging throughout a couple countries in Europe w/ the same kid, and a whole bunch of other randos

-all the time we spent in airports because of the Europe excursion
+Continued to fuck around and not do shit while working at Pita Pit
+Got a girlfriend
-Things went sour with said girlfriend in under 2 months
+Turned 21

+Enjoyed the perks of being 21
-Spent way too much money at BackBooth because of being 21
+Josh Call always hooking me up on my vodka crans
-Not getting to spend 4th of July on the lake in Noblesville, like I always do
+Playing water polo with Call to Preserve and other assorted friends for a couple hours on 4th of July
-Housing problems Autumn and I faced, because of our own procrastination
-Being homeless for a little over a month
-Developing an intense drinking habit while coping with not knowing wtf the next day would hold for me
+Jeff Larchar being an amazing friend and letting me squat at his house for a month
+Deciding to move to Tallahasse
+Finding a roommate quickly, that was also a rad person

+Everyone's hospitality in Tally
-Not being able to find a job
+Six Five Sam moving to Tally, FINALLY
+Avoiding 99% of the drama in Tally
+Spending XMas in Noblesville
+Having one of the best winter breaks, while really doing nothing


So, by that tally system, my year was twice as positive, as it was negative. Rad! So thanks to everyone that helped that out. Hopefully I get my shit together with school in 2009.

Jeeps Are Fun!

So, I went to Southern Indiana today with my friend Connor

We met up with a group from the Jeep forums he posts on.  Riding trails in a Jeep is a shit-ton of fun.  Also, it made for some pretty good photo ops.

More at www.Flickr.com/Photos/Its_OTK

Also, my Dad likes to make ridiculous expressions when I put my camera in his face.  This has no relevance to offroading, I just think this picture is funny.

Is it weird?

That I'm stoked on this:


Seriously though, it feels like it's 20 below here. Which means it feels like it's 73 degrees colder than Tallahassee, and 91 degrees colder than central Florida.

Now it feels like Christmas to me.

Home for the Holidaze

So, I'm leaving Tallahassee tomorrow.  My parents are picking me up and we're driving up to see my sister.  She lives here: 

Edit, here:   Even though my sister keeps telling me that Huntsville isn't that bad, I'm glad we're only staying for a night.

Then finally, my return to 

Way stoked.  I should return to Florida around the 3rd.  

I'm coming back from Tally, Tally

I'm about to head home for Thanksgiving.  I hate the drive, it seems to take forever.  Thankfully I have two kids riding in my car this time.  Very much unlike the time I came up to meet my roommate, and the day I moved up here.  S0, hopefully the ride won't be completely void of conversation.

It'll be good to see everyone.  I'll be spending the week in the 321.  Then Friday night i'm heading to Orlando.  I better get mass hangouts.  Also:

I am overly stoked about this.  Fuck the haters.

Mecca Bar's Last Party

This past Saturday was the last day Mecca was allowed to be open.  Due to a landlord that could be described as nothing other than, a "hater."

Mecca was the first place my roommate took me the night I moved up here.  Since then, I've spent a good majority of my nights sitting at this backyard bar, drinking cheap keg beer, singing along to songs with the whole bar, watching kids get too drunk to remember the night, and everything else that goes along with living in a college town.

Saturday was a beautiful day.  It was in the low 60's and sunny all afternoon.  The perfect kind of weather to be outside and play drinking games.

Petey was especially loving the weather.

As the afternoon ran it's course, so did the booze.  Which prompted numerous kids to scale the house and hang out on the roof.

The same booze that prompted the kids to get on the roof, also didn't help much with them thinking of how to get down.  So, despite the ladder, two guys took the manly route down.

More people showed up.  More kegs were purchased.  More alcohol was consumed.

Seeing as I started drinking around 3 in the afternoon this day, I wasn't thinking too much about documenting the night by the time the sun went down.  So I put my camera back in the car so I wouldn't have to worry about it.

Even though I was only around for the last 3 weeks of Mecca, I still had a lot of fun hanging out there.  I also met the majority of the people I now know at this bar.

RIP Mecca Bar