It's pumpkin day

On the rare occasion that I'm not completely spacing out during my forty minute commute home from work, I notice random things that amuse me, today was one of those days.  Now everyone is pretty desensitized to the twenty-somethings that plaster "East County" stickers all over their vehicles, but today I witnessed some old school E.C. pride.  An older looking man sporting a 70's license plate, the old blue and yellow ones, that read SANTEE.  Instant laughter. I made an attempt to capture the moment on my camera phone, but I couldn't get close enough.

Also, today was The "Second Annual Waste Time At Work and Carve Pumpkins Extravaganza!"  It's really not even fair to call this thing a competition.  They give us two hours to carve, yet some people insist only putting twenty minutes into it. Needless to say, I won first place (a full day off with pay)  for the second year in a row.

Harden!

Such a great weekend. Lily's Halloween party was so much fun this year, mostly because everyone dressed up. My Metapod costume turned out a lot better than I expected it to, but it's time to retire it... for now. I've got another pretty sweet costume planned for Dallas' on Friday... it's gonna be epic. 

Has anyone else noticed how low gas prices have gotten? I fully expect them to sky rocket again after the elections, but for now it's pretty sweet.

NFL week eight

These are my picks from my work football pool. 

Oakland @ Baltimore

Arizona @ Carolina

Tampa Bay @ Dallas

Washington @ Detroit

Buffalo @ Miami

St. Louis @ New England

San Diego @ New Orleans

Kansas City @ New York Jets

Atlanta @ Philadelphia 

Cleveland @ Jacksonville 

New York Giants @ Pittsburgh 

Seattle @ San Francisco

Indianapolis @ Tennessee 

Home Sweet East County

Just when I thought it couldn't get any more East County than drinking PBR in a Santee backyard, I find myself at The Flinn (a country western theme dive bar deep in the heart of Lakeside). After you drive for about ten minutes down a vacant dirt road, you begin to see dozens of lifted white trucks on both sides of the street...and you're there. Log cabin style shack, cow skull above the door frame, and all the Coors Light you can handle. "Holy crap. Is this for real?" 

It makes for a good story but NEVER AGAIN!

Fall Classic

The Phillies beat the Rays 3-2 in game one of the World Series. It's nice to finally have an evenly matched series. Game two is tomorrow.

Also, my halloween costume is almost finished. 

Fear Before

The new Fear Before (the march of flames) album leaked today and it’s amazing. It’s refreshing to know that creative bands still exist. The music industry is saturated with stale bands that insist on making the same crappy record four or five times but, I guess people keep buying it so...

Anyways, it’s damn good so go buy it or at the very least, torrent it.

Also, the World Series starts tomorrow so I guess this is as good a time as any to make my predictions. I’ve got the Rays in seven and expect this to be one of the best in recent years.

Hello

Well alright, I guess it's about time I joined the rest of the twenty-first century and got my very own blog. Excited? I knew you would be. I'm not entirely sure what people post in these things but I guess I'll figure it out as I go. In the mean time, I should let you know that I'm attempting to grow a mustache (this is much harder for me than it should be). Here's the first of many photo updates of my progress.